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Virginia Rose Band formed in St. Petersburg, Florida in 2010 when singer/songwriter Virginia Rose was introduced to drummer and producer Ryan Dutton. Their musical vision was brought to life in the 2014 release of their first album "Make Believe."
Relentless touring and performing followed the release ultimately culminating in an independent national tour in 2015.
The group is now back in the studio working on their follow up album with guitarist and producer Jonathan Maas.
Release dates have yet to be announced so check out www.virginiaroseband.com for updates.
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Wellness Tips for National Women’s Health Week
May 10th-16th is National Women’s Health Week, and it’s a great opportunity for women of all ages to take a moment from their busy schedules
30 Day Fitness Challenge Round-Up
One of the resolutions that people tend to make for the New Year is to maintain a healthier lifestyle by staying fit. Our 30 Day
What to Expect When You’re Expecting Orthopedic Surgery: Part III
Join us as we follow HSS athletic trainer Kara Federowicz through her journey of orthopedic surgery. This is the final installment of a three-part series
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Texas Governor Admits Anti-Abortion Law Was About Restricting Abortion
The cat's out of the bag.
After the Supreme Court on Monday struck down his state's law that would have shuttered dozens of abortion clinics, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) condemned the decision by arguing that it jeopardizes the state's objective "to protect innocent life."
"The decision erodes States’ lawmaking authority to safeguard the health and safety of women and subjects more innocent life to being lost," he said in a press release. "Texas' goal is to protect innocent life, while ensuring the highest health and safety standards for women."
Reuters Staff / Reuters
In admitting that the law, HB 2, was meant to limit abortions, Abbott deviated from the state's initial justification for the law, as presented during the case's oral arguments. Attorneys for the state noted that the law was implemented in order to "protect women's health" and improve safety at abortion clinics. When pressed by the justices, they insisted that “abortion is legal and accessible” in Texas.
HB 2 imposes obstacles on abortion clinics by requiring that they invest in expensive building upgrades to meet the more stringent standards of ambulatory surgical centers, or mini-hospitals. It also mandates that abortion doctors obtain admitting privileges at nearby hospitals. Since the law's passage in 2013, the number of abortion providers in the state has plummeted from 42 to 19.
In Monday's ruling, the Court affirmed that the law presents "a substantial obstacle in the path of women seeking a previability abortion" and "an undue burden on abortion access."
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote a concurring opinion eviscerating the state's argument that the law was passed to protect women's health.
“[I]t is beyond rational belief that H.B. 2 could genuinely protect the health of women, and certain that the law ‘would simply make it more difficult for them to obtain abortions,’” she wrote. “When a State severely limits access to safe and legal procedures, women in desperate circumstances may resort to unlicensed rogue practitioners ... at great risk to their health and safety.”
Read more on the case, Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt, and the Supreme Court's ruling here.
Exclusive Look Inside The Supreme Court
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A guard stands on the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington on Oct. 5, 2015.
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Everyone wants the latest and high-quality music on their phones for free but not everyone wants to take their time out to download songs on their phones. iPhone users have to download songs on their laptops first to transfer them to their iPhone through iTunes. So it’s not a thing everyone would like to do but if you have an internet connection and you want high-quality music on your phone then you don’t have to go through this tiring procedure at all. The apps shown in this article will make it a lot easier for you.
5. SOUNDCLOUD
Even though Soundcloud is originally designed as an online audio distribution platform that enables its users to upload, record, promote, and share their originally created sounds but you can also find and enjoy your favorite songs here. A few years back it used to be the best music streaming app but then it got difficult for its users to find original versions of the songs they like as the app was flooded by remixes and covers. Well, we can’t blame the app for that cause, after all, that’s what the app was all about from the start anyway.
4. PATARI
This is the best app for you if you are a Pakistani or a fan of Pakistani music. You will find a wide range of Pakistani music on Patari covering all the categories like Pop, Rock, Sufi, Qawali etc. A must-have app for Pakistanis and Pakistani music lovers.
3. HUNGAMA
Hungama is a great app for music streaming. Original content is what everyone wants and this app has it. If you’re into Bollywood music then this app won’t disappoint you at all. English songs are available but the choice is limited. Overall a thumbs up.
2. SAAVN
Saavn is an American digital distributor of English, Bollywood, Tamil and regional Indian music in over 200 countries. So the content is all original. We would have called it the best music streaming app only if it wasn’t for the ads. Yes, the audio ads are annoying but otherwise, this app is smooth and satisfying.
1. GAANA
Gaana is a commercial music streaming app providing free and licensed music. 100% Original content but unlike Saavn there are no audio ads. A very vast variety of songs. For us, this has to be the best ”free” music streaming app out there.
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Jim Jefferies Inks First-Look Deal With Comedy Central
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The deal also includes a third-season renewal for the comedian's eponymous late-night show.
Comedy Central is strengthening its relationship with comedian Jim Jefferies.
The cable network has renewed late-night series The Jim Jefferies Show for a third season and has also signed a first-look deal for projects created by Jefferies for TV and digital media.
Jefferies is one of several comedians to sign content deals with Comedy Central in recent months, joining the likes of Chris Distefano, Bill Burr and Anthony Jeselnik.
"We love Jim's unfiltered, insightful, hilarious and global comedic perspective on the insane world we’re living in right now," said Sarah Babineau and Jonas Larsen, executive vps and co-heads of talent and development at Comedy Central. "We are excited for him to continue to connect with our audience through The Jim Jefferies Show and other future projects that we develop together."
Jefferies apparently feels much the same way: "I love my unfiltered, insightful, hilarious and global comedic perspective on the insane world we're living in right now," he said. "I am excited for me to continue to connect with my audience through The Jim Jefferies Show and other future projects that I develop together."
Season three of The Jim Jefferies Show, which will run for 20 episodes, is set to premiere March 19. In addition to material filmed in studio, Jefferies traveled to South Korea, Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong, Thailand, South Africa and his native Australia for segments of the show.
Jefferies executive produces the show with Scott Zabielski, Jason Reich and Brillstein Entertainment Partners' Alex Murray and Tim Sarkes.
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Integration of People with Disabilities: Employment of persons with disabilities
Council of Europe. 1996. Integration of People with Disabilities: Employment of persons with disabilities.
The Council of Europe recommends disability policy guidelines for Member States and this report outlines past and current work and relevant publications in the area of employment of persons with disabilities. Their activities in the field of employment aim at completing or enlarging the provisions of Recommendation No. R (92) 6 on a coherent policy for people with disabilities. Internet publication URL: www.independentliving.org/docs3/coeempl.html
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Activities in the field of employment aim at completing or enlarging the provisions of Recommendation No. R (92) 6 on a coherent policy for people with disabilities (chapter VI on vocational guidance and training and chapter VII on employment).
According to the concept of "employment in a usual and ordinary working environment for all cases where the person with a disability could be judged to be fit normal employment", activities carried out from 1993 to 1996 focused on transition from sheltered to ordinary employment. A new approach is currently being developed. An integral plan of action is being worked out with an active and co-ordinated participation of many actors.
The transition from sheltered to ordinary employment, 1996 (on sale)
In this report sheltered employment and different systems in force in the countries studied are replaced within the general context of vocational integration of people with disabilities, by proposing a dynamic concept of sheltered work, an active placement policy and the definition of accompanying measures.
Sheltered employment in five member States of the Council of Europe: Austria, Finland, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland, 1997 (on sale)
This study expands to five more countries that on sheltered employment published in 1992 by the Commission of the European Communities which had then twelve member States. In view of the disparity of the concept of sheltered employment throughout the European States, a broad view of what constitutes sheltered employment has been adopted. This study also deals with the transition from sheltered to ordinary employment. Vocational training and rehabilitation of people with disabilities: a comparative analysis, 1997 (on sale)
This comparative analysis focuses on four main aspects: education, vocational training, guidance to employment and sheltered workshops. It shows that in the fifteen countries concerned, all advocating equal opportunities and the right to independence, persons with disabilities receive appropriate education and integrated education is to the fore.
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Will #MeToo turn into #NotHer? Movement may come with unintended workplace consequences
The #MeToo movement has prompted changes in workplace behavior, but a year after Weinstein some unintended consequences that may hurt women's careers.
Will #MeToo turn into #NotHer? Movement may come with unintended workplace consequences The #MeToo movement has prompted changes in workplace behavior, but a year after Weinstein some unintended consequences that may hurt women's careers. Check out this story on independentmail.com: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2018/10/04/metoo-movement-unintended-career-consequences-women/1503516002/
Jorge L. Ortiz, USA TODAY Published 12:20 p.m. ET Oct. 4, 2018 | Updated 2:26 p.m. ET Oct. 5, 2018
The #MeToo movement may have unintentionally caused workplace etiquette confusion and women to be hired less by men. USA TODAY
Demonstrations against sexual harassment have become commonplace since the advent of the #MeToo movement.(Photo: AP)
At the one-year mark, the #MeToo movement's impact is easy to ascertain in the number of powerful men brought down by revelations of their sexual misconduct, including the likes of Harvey Weinstein, Matt Lauer, Les Moonves and Charlie Rose.
Less obvious but even more far-reaching in the workplace are the movement’s unintended consequences.
Human resources professionals say #MeToo has increased awareness of harassment, made it easier for victims – female or male – to report offensive behavior and prompted enhanced employee training, especially among larger corporations.
But they also point to some negative effects, like confusion about workplace etiquette and, paradoxically, the possibility of fewer opportunities for women, as male executives struggle to adjust to the new rules of engagement.
The confusion stems from cultural differences in a country as vast and diverse as the United States. What may be regarded as an inoffensive hug or compliment in one setting could be interpreted as a come-on in another.
Johnny C. Taylor Jr., president and CEO of the Society for Human Resource Management, said he grew up in South Florida around Latinos who were expressive and dispensed hugs freely, and also among Southerners who often used terms like “honey,’’ “sweetheart’’ and “sugar’’ with their acquaintances.
In some workplaces, those practices now could form the basis of a severe reprimand.
“What one does in one culture, in South Florida – Miami – is very different from what’s acceptable in Des Moines, Iowa,’’ said Taylor, who writes the weekly “Ask HR’’ column for USA TODAY. “It’s not as simple as, ‘Here’s the national standard.’ It requires different interventions giving cultural nuance, geographic nuance, and then your big one is age.’’
Indeed, men of a certain age appear to have the most difficulty adapting to the new work order. A Pew Research Center poll conducted in February and March revealed 66 percent of adults 65 and older believe it’s now harder for men to navigate workplace interactions.
The survey also indicated 51 percent of Americans believe the increased focus on sexual harassment and assault has made it more difficult for men to know how to interact with women at work. Only 12 percent said the interactions would now be easier.
Experts report increasing reluctance from men in positions of authority to hire or work closely with women, in some cases declining to hold one-on-one meetings with female employees.
“It’s not a good thing,’’ said Kellie McElhaney, founding director of the Center for Equity, Gender and Leadership at UC-Berkeley’s Haas School of Business. “It’s further disconnecting women from networks that we’ve already been excluded from. There are solutions, but I think right now men are a bit paralyzed.’’
More: MeToo one year later: Cosby, Moonves fall, sex harassment fight at work far from over
More: Ruth Bader Ginsburg on #MeToo: Women of my generation have 'many stories'
Related: Donald Trump: Kavanaugh allegations show it's a 'very scary time for young men in America'
A poll directed this year by LeanIn.org and SurveyMonkey found nearly half of male managers are uncomfortable participating in common work activities with a woman, and senior-level men are 3½ times more hesitant to have a work dinner with a junior-level woman – and five times more hesitant to travel with one for work – than with a junior-level man.
Male managers also have grown significantly more uncomfortable mentoring women than before, the survey said.
“We’re literally having executives say, ‘I’m really nervous about hiring a woman, particularly in roles like EAs (executive assistants), that’s such a personal job … I’d just as soon hire a male,’’’ Taylor said. “It has become a risk-management conversation.
“We must figure out from an HR perspective how to minimize that, because we don’t want men penalizing women for fear.’’
Some believe the pendulum in workplace interactions has swung too far, further pushed to the edge by a politically charged climate in a country led by a president, Donald Trump, who has been accused several times of inappropriate behavior toward women. Accusations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh only added to that environment.
However, University of Maryland professor Neta Moye, an expert on human resources and leadership, says it’s nonsensical for men to fear being disciplined for making an innocent, inadvertent comment that could be construed as offensive.
“None of the stories that we learned about in the #MeToo movement was a small, one-time, accidental incident in which some man says to some woman at work, ‘I like your dress,’’’ Moye said. “These stories are of men who are knowingly, willingly abusing power, usually repeatedly, in order to get sexual favors from women.”
San Francisco chef and restaurateur Dominique Crenn has faced the issue from different perspectives. In the 1990s she left a job when she felt her harassment complaint was disregarded, and decades later she fired an employee accused of harassing others.
San Francisco chef Dominique Crenn, the first woman in the U.S. to earn two Michelin stars, says abuses in the restaurant industry have not abated. (Photo: Matt Edge)
Crenn said she still frequently hears of abuses in the restaurant business, which from 1995-2016 was the source of more sexual harassment claims filed with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission than any other industry.
“When I look at this I say, ‘All right, there’s a MeToo movement. Now, how can we move forward?’’’ said Crenn, who will speak on the subject at this month’s StarChefs International Chefs Congress.
McElhaney said one of the steps companies should take is to clearly spell out their policies about dating co-workers, discouraging romantic relationships between employees in the same department and forbidding them between bosses and subordinates.
Peter Cappelli, professor of management at the University of Pennsylvania, goes a step further, saying office romance is on the way out because employers will start putting bans in place to avoid litigation.
“I think companies are going to find that trying to draw rules on how you should interact with each other is going to be more difficult and open them up to criticism from one side or the other,’’ Cappelli said, “so it’s going to be simpler to just say, ‘The heck with it.’’’
That may seem a bit draconian, considering human nature and the amount of time people spend at work every day. Interactions that lead to mutual attraction are likely to happen regardless.
In addition to some hard-and-fast rules and continued training, experts suggest companies implement common-sense solutions like increasing the number of women in leadership roles, holding meetings with doors ajar and encouraging handshakes instead of hugs.
Janet Zaretsky, a speaker and corporate trainer in Austin, Texas, said she has seen the empowering effect the #MeToo movement has had on women, as well as the negative effects like making some men reluctant to hire or work in close proximity with them.
But it was the Kavanaugh hearings that crystallized for her the notion that the cause needs to continue.
“There is still much work to be done to have victims’ voices heard,’’ Zaretsky said, “and to wake people up that their behavior has consequences.’’
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Man doused himself and woman in gas, set house on fire, investigators say
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Awarded for most conspicuous bravery, or some act of daring or pre-eminent act of valour or self-sacrifice otherwise than in the face of the enemy. The decoration may be awarded posthumously.
If a recipient of the Chakra Shall again perform such an act of gallantry as would have made him or her eligible to receive the Chakra, such further act of gallantry shall be recognized by a Bar to be attached to the riband by which the Chakra is suspended and, for every subsequent act of gallantry, and additional Bar shall be added and every such Bar, a replica of the chakra in miniature shall be added to the riband when worn alone.
Officers, men and women of all ranks of the Army, the Navy and the Air Force, of any of the Reserve Forces, of the Territorial Army, Militia and of any other lawfully constituted forces.
Members of the Nursing Services of the Armed Forces.
Civilian citizens of either sex in all walks of life, other than members of Police Forces and of recognized Fire Services.
Medal. Circular in shape, one and three eighth inches in diameter and will be of gold-gilt. On the obverse, it shall have embossed a replica of Ashoka’s Chakra in the centre surrounded by a lotus wreath. On its reverse shall be embossed the words ‘Ashoka Chakra’ both in Hindi and English, the two versions being separated by two lotus flowers.
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Dartford sprinter Adam Gemili to take part in 200m final
Dartford sprinter Adam Gemili is one of the favourites to win the 200m final at the European Championships in Zurich.
Dartford sprinter one of favourites to win 200m final
Adam Gemili at last month's Commonwealth Games Credit: PA
Dartford sprinter Adam Gemili is one of the favourites to win today's 200m final at the European Athletics Championships in Zurich.
The 20-year-old qualified quickest for today's race.
He also set the fastest time in the heats, easily winning his semi-final in 20.23 seconds.
Adam Gemili
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Smoke is seen in the cabin of an All Nippon Airways plane at around 9:45 a.m. Monday at Narita airport. | COURTESY OF A PASSENGER / VIA KYODO
Smoke fills ANA plane at Narita, sickening eight and triggering evacuation
Online: May 21, 2018
CHIBA - Eight passengers on an All Nippon Airways flight were sickened Monday at Narita airport in Chiba Prefecture after smoke filled the cabin, triggering an evacuation, officials from the airline and airport said.
The trouble occurred at around 9:45 a.m. on an ANA Boeing 767 bound for Hong Kong with around 140 passengers and crew on board, they said.
According to the airline, oil from the plane’s auxiliary power unit was sucked into the cabin through the air conditioning ducts after vaporizing.
While the cause of the leak has not been determined, no fire occurred, ANA said.
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Since the enactment in November 1999 of the landmark Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999 (the GLBA), attention among practitioners has been focused on regulations issued by the leading banking agencies that implement several of the GLBA's most important provisions. Many of these went into effect during the past year. The GLBA made important changes in many of the substantive areas of interest to the US banking industry. Therefore, a review of its regulatory fallout offers a useful survey of topics of importance to the banking bar in the US.
Although not as revolutionary as many commentators made it out to be, the GLBA was unquestionably the most significant amendment to US banking laws in the past few decades, not so much for the actual changes that were effected but for the principles that were adopted in bringing about those changes. This article discusses three of those principles by describing how the federal banking regulators have implemented them in issuing regulations since the GLBA's enactment: the expansion of powers available to bank holding companies (BHCs), so-called "functional" regulation, and the imposition for the first time at the federal level of measures to protect the confidentiality of information about customers.
Expansion of powers while maintaining the separation of banking and commerce
The GLBA culminated over a decade of attempts to expand the powers of banking institutions to bring them more into line with the powers of banks in virtually every other industrialized nation. The most contentious debate that underlay the final provisions of the GLBA in this area was on the question of whether a banking institution – specifically a BHC – should be permitted to expand into any activity, including commercial activities, or should still be confined to financial activities, albeit broader financial activities than those permitted under prior law. In the end, the traditional principle of the separation of banking and commerce – advocated most strongly by the Federal Reserve – was largely retained. BHCs, and only those that were sufficiently qualified, would be permitted to engage for the first time in a full range of securities, insurance, and merchant banking activities; they would not, however, be allowed to enter or acquire non-financial lines of business.
Notably, the GLBA made no significant changes to the laws – including the Depression-era Glass Steagall Act – that govern the direct activities of banks. Contrary to the impression given by much of the coverage of the legislative process, the direct restrictions of the Glass Steagall Act on depository institutions remain very much in force: as under prior law, a bank may not underwrite and deal in most securities, sell or underwrite insurance or make investments for its own account in equity securities. Rather, only a qualified BHC through a non-banking subsidiary may conduct these activities.
In the first three months of 2000, the Federal Reserve issued regulations implementing various provisions of the Act, including procedures for qualifying to exercise the new powers; a definition of the new powers and special rules that would apply to merchant banking activities.
Procedures for qualifying to exercise new powers
As noted above, not all BHCs are permitted under the GLBA to exercise the new powers that the Act makes available. Only those that qualify as a "financial holding company" (FHC) may do so.
An FHC is a BHC that demonstrates to the Federal Reserve that its subsidiary US bank is "well managed", "well capitalized" and has a satisfactory rating under the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA). Comparable requirements apply to a non-US bank that wishes to qualify as an FHC but, in that case, it (and its US bank subsidiary, if it has one) must meet the requirements.
The Federal Reserve's regulations implemented the procedures for qualifying as an FHC generally as expected. Although the procedures were seen by many non-US banks as more onerous and less self-executing than those that applied to domestic BHCs, they did, for the most part, honour the clear intention of the statute to make qualification easy and largely automatic for those institutions that met the standards. As of June 2001, over 475 BHCs, of which only 15 were non-US banking institutions, have qualified as FHCs.
The regulations provide that any FHC that later falls out of compliance with the "well managed" and "well capitalized" standards, must promptly notify the Federal Reserve and enter into an agreement with it to return to that condition or forfeit the ability to expand its activities in reliance on its FHC status and, ultimately, its status as an FHC. One of the reasons that comparatively few foreign banks have elected to qualify as FHCs is that they are reluctant to subject their worldwide operations to the requirement that they continue to maintain the GLBA's capital levels on pain of regulatory intervention by the Federal Reserve.
Definition of the new powers
The GLBA allows a BHC that qualifies as an FHC for the first time to engage in any activity that the GLBA itself defines, or the Federal Reserve determines, is financial in nature, incidental to an activity that is financial in nature or (with the participation of the Department of the Treasury) complementary to an activity that is financial in nature. The Federal Reserve's implementing regulations, as expected, specifically list those activities that as of that time had been determined to be financial in nature. They are drawn from four sources:
activities that the Board had determined by regulation under prior law were "so closely related to banking as to be a proper incident thereto";
activities that the Board had determined by order met this same "closely related" standard. (Board orders approve an application by an individual applicant to engage in one or more particular activities; a regulation makes the activity available to all BHCs);
activities that the Board had determined by regulation were "usual in the conduct of a banking business abroad." Three activities meet this standard that do not meet the "closely related" standard: operating a travel agency, distributing the shares of an open-end mutual fund and providing management consulting services; and
activities listed in the GLBA itself as having been determined by Congress to be financial in nature. They include, most notably, full-scope securities activities, including underwriting and dealing in all types of securities; merchant banking; and acting as agent or principal in the underwriting and sale of all types of insurance.
All of the activities in the first two categories continue to be permissible to a BHC that is not an FHC subject to the procedural requirements that applied under prior law. All of the activities in all four categories are permissible to a BHC that qualifies as an FHC. A BHC that is not an FHC may not apply to engage in a new activity, even one that it believes meets the "closely related" standard. By contrast, an FHC may apply for a determination that additional activities meet the "financial in nature," "incidental" or "complementary" standard of the GLBA. To date, only one additional activity has been determined by the Federal Reserve to meet the "financial in nature" standard: the activity of acting as a "finder" defined as "bringing together buyers and sellers of products and services for transactions that the buyers and sellers themselves negotiate and consummate." It has also proposed to add the activity of acting as a real estate broker to the list.
Procedures for expanding activities
A BHC that has not qualified as an FHC must, as a general rule, obtain the prior approval of the Federal Reserve to engage in a new activity or to acquire a "going concern" engaged in any activity. The Federal Reserve's approval in the latter case exempts the acquiring BHC from the requirements that would otherwise apply under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, which requires that acquisitions of a certain size may not proceed until 30 days after the parties file a notice with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Department of Justice (DOJ).
A BHC that has qualified as an FHC may begin a new activity that has been determined to be financial in nature or may acquire a "going concern" engaged in any such activity provided only that it gives the Federal Reserve notice to that effect within 30 days after the commencement of the activity or the acquisition. Because the exemption from the Hart-Scott-Rodino filing requirement is available only to an acquisition that has been approved in advance by the Federal Reserve, an FHC that relies on the 30-day after-the-fact notice procedure must file the required Hart-Scott-Rodino advance notice with the FTC and the DOJ.
Merchant banking and the proposed capital charge
In the short term, the most significant new power available to FHCs has proven to be the merchant banking power. Full-scope securities powers for the largest US and non-US BHCs have allowed those institutions freedom from an artificial 25%-of-revenues limitation previously imposed by the Glass Steagall Act, but the generic activities of dealing in and underwriting securities have been engaged in by these institutions since 1987 under prior law through their so-called Section 20 subsidiaries. Insurance activities represent a significant long-term opportunity for BHCs but they have been slow to take advantage of them by expanding de-novo and few BHCs have expanded into insurance through acquisitions.
By contrast, many leading BHCs have taken advantage of their new FHC status to free themselves from severe constraints that were imposed under prior law on the making of equity investments for their own accounts. They have used this authority not only to try to earn greater returns on larger and more aggressive investments for their own account but also to generate important new fee income by using this power to expand their sponsorship and management of private equity funds available to fellow investors. Much attention has been given to the Federal Reserve's interpretation of these new powers. It took the form of an interim regulation issued in March 2001 that prescribed the basic rules that would govern these activities and a companion proposed regulation that would impose a capital charge on all such investments. The former amplified statutory requirements that limited the length of time that a portfolio investment could be held by an FHC and restricted the degree to which its representatives could be involved in the management of a portfolio company. The interim regulation also prescribed periodic reporting requirements for FHCs engaged in the activity.
Far more controversial was the Federal Reserve's initial proposal to require an FHC in calculating its Tier 1 capital to deduct from that capital an amount equal to 50% of every dollar invested, "as a precaution that is necessary to prevent the buildup within banking organizations of excessive risk from merchant banking and other investment activities". In response to a barrage of criticism from the industry prompting hearings held in Congress, in February of this year the Federal Reserve issued for further comment a scaled back proposal that would impose a tiered capital charge ranging from eight to 25% of the amount invested. Significantly, both proposals would impose the capital charge not only on FHCs that make equity investments under the new merchant banking authority, but also on FHCs and BHCs that make equity investments under the more limited authority available under prior law.
Functional regulation and the "push-out" provisions
The second of the three major principles adopted by the GLBA was the principle of "functional regulation". Before the enactment of the GLBA, the Federal Reserve and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) as the primary regulators of BHCs and state-chartered member banks and of national banks, respectively, were responsible for the oversight and supervision not only of the particular BHC or bank but also of its non-bank affiliates. This responsibility arose even in cases in which the non-bank affiliate was also overseen and supervised by a separate federal agency, most notably in the case of a broker-dealer, which is regulated by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and, typically, by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD) or the New York Stock Exchange.
Consistent with the expansion of powers made available under the Act, the GLBA adopted the concept of functional regulation. Under this approach, for example, the SEC and the NASD would take responsibility for overseeing the operations of a registered broker-dealer affiliate of a bank or BHC; the relevant state insurance regulator would likewise take responsibility for overseeing an insurance agency or underwriter affiliate. The objectives were, first, to do away with what was seen as unnecessary and burdensome duplication of regulatory oversight and, second, to promote cross-industry acquisitions by removing a disincentive that might discourage a securities or insurance company from acquiring a BHC or a bank. Absent functional regulation, an investment bank or insurance underwriter interested in expanding into the banking business might be reluctant to subject itself to Federal Reserve oversight.
The GLBA applied functional regulation prospectively by specifically limiting the extent to which the Federal Reserve as the supervisor of an FHC can examine or require the production of information from a non-bank affiliate that is regulated by another regulator. The Act went further, however, by effectively requiring that certain securities activities at present conducted by banks be transferred to an entity regulated by the functional regulator of those activities.
The "push-out" provisions of the GLBA
Before the enactment of the GLBA, a bank (and a US branch or agency of a non-US bank) enjoyed the authority to engage in a wide variety of securities activities without being required to register with and being subjected to regulation by the SEC and NASD, as were their non-bank competitors. These activities included agency brokerage, some securities dealing activities, and the providing of investment advice. In the GLBA, Congress largely adopted the long-standing position of the SEC that these activities should only be conducted by an entity registered with the SEC. It did so through the "push-out" provisions of the Act, so named because they have the effect of requiring a bank to "push-out" the activities it previously conducted within the bank to an affiliated registered broker-dealer or investment adviser.
The Act eliminates the so-called "bank exception" from the definition of "broker" in the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the 1934 Act). That exception defines a broker as any person that "engages in the business of effecting transactions in securities for the account of others" but provides that the term "does not include a bank." The Act replaces the existing exception with an exception for a bank (and therefore a branch or agency) that engages in any of 12 far more limited listed activities. The provision became effective 18 months after the enactment of the legislation, ie on May 13 2001 but has been extended by the SEC until October 1 2001. Because virtually no bank or US branch or agency of a foreign bank would want to bear the burden of being regulated as a broker-dealer, it will by that date be required to transfer its securities activities to a newly established or existing broker-dealer affiliate unless it can confine them to one or more of the 14 listed exempt activities.
Exemptions from the push-out provisions
The 12 exemptions to the push-out provisions – eight from the definition of broker, one from the definition of dealer, and three common to both broker and dealer – were designed to preserve the ability of a bank to continue to engage in certain securities activities that were part of the traditional business of banking. In the lead-up to the effective date of the push-out provisions, several of these exemptions have received the most attention from practitioners. The SEC, as the agency responsible for interpreting the 1934 Act, on May 11 2001 released interim final regulations on how some of them should be interpreted. The principal exemptions are:
Traditional banking products. Two of the 12 statutory exemptions serve to reassure the banking industry that the activities of buying and selling (to the extent otherwise permissible) of "identified banking products" and engaging in "permissible securities transactions" may remain in a bank and do not have to be "pushed out" to a registered broker dealer. Among the products covered by this exemption are deposits, commercial paper, bankers acceptances, loans and letters of credit. (Significantly, in the case of loans, the GLBA specifically provides that their inclusion in the exemption should not be taken as suggesting that they should or should not be deemed to be securities.)
Securities brokerage activities conducted as a fiduciary. Of particular importance to the private banking activities of US banks and branches of non-US banks is the GLBA's exemption from broker-dealer regulation for securities activities conducted by a bank in its trustee or fiduciary capacity, provided the bank complies with several requirements designed to limit its receipt of brokerage commission and its solicitation of brokerage business. The most important of these requirements are: (i) that a bank must be acting "in a trustee or fiduciary capacity"; (ii) that a bank's securities activities must be conducted in a trust department or other department "regularly examined by bank examiners for compliance with fiduciary principles and standards"; and (iii) that a bank must be "chiefly compensated ... on the basis of an administration or annual fee, ... a percentage of assets under management, or a flat or capped per order processing fee equal to not more than the cost incurred by the bank ...".
Securities brokerage activities conducted as a custodian. The GLBA excepts from the 1934 Act definition of "broker" the activity of providing safekeeping and custody services with respect to customer securities. The SEC has interpreted this exemption to prohibit the acceptance of orders for the purchase or sale of securities by a bank acting as a custodian unless the bank does so on an uncompensated basis.
Swap activities. The Act contains a broad definition of "swap transactions" which are exempt from the push-out provisions. Swap transactions are defined as "any swap agreement," ie "any individually negotiated contract, agreement, warrant, note, or option that is based, in whole or in part, on the value of, any interest in, or any quantitative measure or the occurrence of any event relating to, one or more commodities, securities, currencies, interest or other rates, indices, or other assets, but does not include any other identified bank product," except that an equity swap must be sold to a "qualified investor" to be treated as an identified bank product.
Securities lending activities. Yet to be resolved by the SEC are the questions whether and under what circumstances a bank may continue to engage in securities lending and repurchase activities. Banks' custody departments can reasonably expect to be permitted under the GLBA's exemptions to lend and enter into repurchase agreements with respect to customers' securities held by them in that capacity. Less clear is whether banks may act as agent in arranging such transactions with respect to securities held by others.
Overshadowing the process of how these exemptions will be implemented is the question of which regulator – the SEC or the relevant banking agency – will, as a practical matter, take the lead in monitoring their implementation. Bank examiners will have the responsibility of determining whether the bank is complying with the relevant law; that law - the 1934 Act - however, will be interpreted by the SEC.
Privacy provisions
The third major principle adopted by the GLBA was that a customer of a bank should be protected from the unauthorized use by the bank of information provided to the bank in the course of the banking relationship. Title V of the GLBA for the first time at the federal level imposed restrictions on the use by "financial institutions" of "nonpublic personal information" of its customers. The provisions were hotly debated by Congress, which acted in response to growing public awareness of the unrestricted ability of these institutions to convey or sell information gathered from individuals in the course of their banking, securities and insurance activities. A compromise was struck that had the following principal features:
the restrictions would apply only to "nonpublic personal information" defined as personally identifiable financial information provided by a consumer to a financial institution resulting from any transaction with the consumer or any service performed for the consumer, or otherwise obtained by the financial institution. As a result, they largely affect only retail and private banking operations;
the restrictions would apply to "financial institutions" defined as those institutions engaged in financial activities that an FHC may engage in under the GLBA. This provision has the unusual effect of expanding those entities subject to the privacy requirements as the list of activities determined to be "financial in nature" expands when new ones are added by the Federal Reserve;
each institution subject to the requirements must, upon establishing a relationship with a customer, adopt and provide to its customer a written copy of its privacy policy;
customers must be given the opportunity to limit the institution's ability to transfer the customer information to a third party. This "opt out" alternative was chosen over a more restrictive "opt in" alternative under which an institution would not be permitted to transfer the information without first obtaining the customer's consent; and
by applying the restrictions only to transfers of information to a third party, an institution would be free to transfer it to an affiliate regardless of the customer's election.
On February 5 2001 the banking agencies issued final rules to implement the privacy provisions. The rules become effective July 1 2001, although existing contracts between a financial institution and a third-party service provider are grandfathered for a two-year transition period.
The enactment of the GLBA brought to an end over a decade of debate on the modernization of the US banking system. The action has shifted from the Congress, which is unlikely to take up any major further structural reform in the near term, to the regulators, which are charged with implementing its provisions. So far, the Federal Reserve has adopted its accustomed conservative approach to the implementation of statutory provisions. In the end, several pillars of the pre-GLBA framework remain in full force: the separation of banking and commerce, a Glass Steagall Act fully applicable to the direct operations of banks, and the pre-existing collection of competing regulatory agencies overseeing the operations of complex financial institutions. Still, functional regulation brings some rationality to that system and several important new powers have been made available to the industry.
Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP
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Prince Alwaleed bin Talal
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Born March 7, 1955 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Birth Name Al-Waleed Bin Talal bin Abdulaziz al Saud
Height 5' 6" (1.68 m)
Prince Alwaleed bin Talal was born on March 7, 1955 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia as Al-Waleed Bin Talal bin Abdulaziz al Saud.
Ameera al-Taweel (2008 - 2013) ( divorced)
Dalal bint Saud bin Abdulaziz (? - ?) ( divorced) ( 2 children)
Eman bint Naser bin Abdullah al Sudairi (? - ?) ( divorced)
As of early 2015, it is estimated that this business honcho's net worth is around $22.8 Billion.
Saudi businessman, investor and philanthropist and a member of the Saudi royal family.
After the September 11 attacks, he gave a cheque for $10 million to New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, despite Saudi opposition.
Son of prince Talal bin Abdulaziz.
Personal Quotes (38)
Nowadays, anyone who cannot speak English and is incapable of using the Internet is regarded as backward.
We're getting hurt, but I'm a long-term investor.
If I'm going to do something, I do it spectacularly or I don't do it at all.
I'm not panicking, and I'm not scared, I've been through the Gulf War, the Asia crisis, and the Russian crisis.
My wheels are running. My investments are local, regional and international.
Well, you know, News Corp is the only real media global - that has a global presence that's involved in TV production, in movies, in publishing, in newspapers, digital media, et cetera. So for a company like that to function, clearly it does not depend only on Rupert Murdoch or James Murdoch.
Saudi Arabia has stability. The social contract and the political contract between the king and the rulers and the royal family and the ruled people in Saudi Arabia is very strong and the bondage is so solid.
Well, clearly Apple is a role model of the American innovation whereby it produced all these products - iPod, iPhone, iPad - that are really now dominating all the technology arena in the world.
You cannot play with fire.
No company should depend on one person no matter how that person is smart or genius, whether it's Apple or News Corp, or Citibank or any other company in the world.
If the United States has to accept the U.N. resolutions, we have to generalize it across the board. We can't just pick and choose where we impose and accept the U.N. resolution and don't accept them. U.N. Resolution 242 is very clear and states very clearly that Israel has to go back to the borders of the pre-war of 1967.
The issue of Palestine has been there since more than 60 years. But more important since 1967 when the war was, ended in the defeat of some Arab countries.
Ethics to me is very important.
The lesson is that, No. 1, this management has to be at the highest class possible. No. 2, they have to have a succession plan.
I'm telling you, you can't compare Saudi Arabia to other countries.
Well, it's very clear that the Arab population is rising because they'd like to have a say in the running of their affairs, running of their government, and this is very legitimate.
So, if you look at what's common among some of the companies I have, including the Four Seasons, NewsCorp, George V, the Plaza, these are all irreplaceable brands in their own fields.
You know, Saudi Arabia has a lot of poverty also. Regardless about what you hear about the viceroy and people being rich, et cetera.
One of my biggest personal holdings is Rotana. That company has a very dominant force in the Middle East. It has around 45% of all the movie industry and around 75% of all the music.
In Riyadh, there's going to be a huge project that will house at least 12,000 units with inhabitants of approximately 150,000 people. It's like a city within a city.
Clearly, as a CEO, you have other functions that are managed by other people.
I believe Twitter, right now, is just finishing the venture capital phase, getting into a maturity level.
But each country has to advance and move at its own speed.
The legacy of Steve Jobs and the strength of Steve Jobs is that he established a company that's clearly firing on all cylinders and clicking very well.
King Abdullah is a reformer.
Actually, King Abdullah, under his supervision and guidance, has established a dialogue in Saudi Arabia whereby all the population, whether Shiite or Sunnis from north, south, west or east, they can get together and exchange their views.
I definitely believe that the so-called American decline is greatly exaggerated.
The potential for Twitter is spectacular and great.
My own center, my Kingdom Center, which is the highest priced tower in Saudi Arabia, was vacated twice because of terrorist attacks, terrorist threats.
Our Palestinian brethren continue to be slaughtered at the hands of Israelis while the world turns the other cheek.
It is very clear that the Republicans do not want to raise taxes.
I own almost 100 hotels in North America. Some of them are only in management, but some of them we have some small stakes in them.
Those people behind the mosque have to respect, have to appreciate and have to defer to the people of New York. The wound is still there. Just because the wound is healing you can't say, 'Let's just go back to where we were pre-9/11.
Most governments are pragmatic, most people are logical. There are pockets of extremism in Israel, in the U.S. and in the Muslim world. But we have to fight them with reason, with logic and with compassion.
I believe the government of the United States should re-examine its policies in the Middle East and adopt a more balanced stance toward the Palestinian cause.
Some countries, like Saudi Arabia, where the population growth is very high, whereby you don't have the mortgage low yet. Still the demand outstrips supply by much.
You know, in Saudi Arabia, there is a body of 40 people - 34 people exactly, that once the succession comes, they will meet and they will elect a king in there.
I will always serve my country in any capacity, but I'm very happy with what I'm doing right now.
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'Hunt for the Wilderpeople' Trailer Shows Off New 'Thor' Director's Skills
Check out director Taika Waititi's latest.
Filed Under Comedy & Flight
Taika Waititi is a bit of a legend in his native New Zealand — but not, like, Peter Jackson legendary. He’s more like Flight of the Conchords legendary. Nevertheless, he’s been carving out a nice, quirky comedic niche for himself with films like Eagle vs. Shark, Boy (which is the highest grossing domestic New Zealand film ever), and, most recently, the bumbling vampire mockumentary, What We Do in the Shadows. His latest, Hunt for the Wilderpeople, was a critical hit when it premiered at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival, and now we have a first look at the new trailer.
Besides being ridiculously funny, the clip is fascinating because of what Waititi has on his plate next: The Kiwi director is making the jump to big budget blockbusters with Thor: Ragnarok — set for release from Marvel Studios on November 3, 2017.
Your first thought might be, “How does a small, New Zealand comedy starring Sam Neill — aka the guy from Jurassic Park — guarantee that this guy can suddenly be the person making the major decisions behind a multi-million dollar franchise that’s a cog in a much bigger multi-billion dollar mega-franchise?” Well, we’d say, just take a closer look at the Wilderpeople trailer.
Here’s the short synopsis:
“Based on Wild Pork and Watercress, Barry Crump’s book about a juvenile delinquent left in the care of rough yet loving foster parents who live off the wilds of the New Zealand bush. The hunt is on and they are wanted alive.”
Taika Waititi at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival Awards Ceremony.
If you look past the talking cheeseburgers and self-depricating New Zealand humor, it becomes apparent that Waititi can tell a small-scale story with a large-scale action aesthetic. On top of that, he can effortlessly pull out humor from the most mundane circumstances. This kind of thing is how Thor, who’s probably the least interesting Avenger, becomes interesting. A little meta-humor, some medium-sized action, a great villain, and a story focused on character and you get a good Thor movie. That’s hopefully how Ragnarok will pan out.
Hunt for the Wilderpeople currently doesn’t have a U.S. release date, but that should change soon. In the meantime, you’re about to hear much more about Waititi in the coming months, so enjoy the clip while you still can, replete with a great Terminator joke at the end. Waititi will be back.
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X-Men: Days of Future Past | Can the Future be Changed?
Movies, Movie Reviews, Filmmakers
by Patricia Draznin
Trask (Peter Dinklage) plots to eradicate the world of mutants in X-Men: Days of Future Past (©2013 Marvel and Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp.)
Mutants are people too. The seventh feature film in the X-Men series, Days of Future Past, takes us on a journey through time, back to the 1970s, and not just for the hair styles and clothing. Something happened in 1973 that routed the course of civilization into a present-day dystopia, where a breed of robotic Sentinels are on a mission to exterminate every last mutant and all humans who might become mutants in the future. Days of Future Past dares to change the past and challenge the question of whether the future is predetermined and set.
Sun Spot (Adan Canto), Kitty Pryde (Ellen Page), Iceman (Shawn Ashmore), and Colossus (Daniel Cudmore) prepare for an epic battle to save mankind in X-Men: Days of Future Past (©2013 Marvel and Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp.)
As an X-Men outsider, I’m trying my darnedest to grasp this complex story with its long history and vast array of characters with unique powers. And here goes. In Future Past, Professor Charles Xavier (Patrick Stewart) and Erik/Magneto (Ian McKellen) send Logan/ Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) back to 1973 to change a pivotal event: Raven/Mystique (Jennifer Law-rence) killed geneticist Dr. Bolivar Trask (Peter Dinklage), and Raven’s capture ultimately led to the birth of the killer Sentinels. If Logan can prevent Raven from killing Trask, Raven won’t get captured and studied for her mutant genetics, and the Sentinels won’t be born.
Hugh Jackman as Wolverine in X-Men: Days of Future Past (©2013 Marvel and Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp.)
What makes this journey most intriguing is that Logan will have to convince the younger, headstrong incarnations of the Professor and Magneto to help him so they can change their dark future. And it’s complicated by the fact that the two young men didn’t see eye-to-eye. The young Professor (James McAvoy) is a mutant visionary whose institute trained the mutant “X” race to use their powers for good. The Erik/Magneto of the past (Michael Fassbender) is on his own wild trajectory that’s not always obvious to those of us who are X-Men challenged.
Ian McKellan returns as Magneto in X-Men: Days of Future Past (©2013 Marvel and Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp.)
For viewers with no knowledge of the Marvel Comics X-Men legacy or the previous six feature films, Days of Future Past could almost stand on its own, especially the scenes where the team engages the mercurial Pietro Maximoff, aka Quicksilver (Evan Peters) to execute an impossible prison break. But for a satisfying viewer experience, newcomers are encouraged to review the backstory in advance. But be warned. Keep your research superficial, lest you meet the same fate as the mavens of X-Men chronology. They spend their evenings meeting in dim taverns, drawing diagrams of the timeline, mapping the changes caused by Future Past, debating the conditions and characters in the new present, decoding the ominous post-credit sequence and, possibly, the meaning of life. B
Tags: X-Men Days of Future Past review.
Jim Carrey Gives 2014 MUM Commencement Speech | Receives Honorary Diploma from Maharishi University of Management
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PMOI / MEK supporters in Washington staging rally in favor of delisting MEK
By Ali Safavi, Huffington post
The Mujahedin-e Khalq (PMOI/MEK) has figured prominently in policy equations between Tehran and Washington since at least 1985. As recently as June 2007, in talks with the United States over Iraq's security, the Iranian regime's ambassador to Baghdad pressed the issue of the MEK and the presence of some 3,400 of its members in Camp Ashraf, Iraq, as one of the most sensitive items on the meeting's agenda.[1]
Aside from the unsubstantiated and bogus allegations against the MEK -- essentially fabricated by Iran's notorious Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) and recycled by Tehran's foreign apologists over the past two decades -- the issue of MEK's resorting to armed action against military targets in Iran until summer of 2001 has been cited by some Western government agencies, including the US Department of State, as evidence to invite the designation of the group as "terrorist." [2]
There is ample evidence to suggest, however, that the terrorist designation of the MEK by the United States, the United Kingdom and the European Union had little if anything to do with the nature or conduct of the organization itself, the realm in which the legal criteria of the designation resides. Instead, the label was from the outset politically motivated and a byproduct of the policy of rapprochement with Tehran pursued both by the US and the EU. This suspicion was further confirmed when in 2008 and 2009, the UK[3] and the EU[4], respectively, were forced by their highest courts of law to remove the MEK from their watch lists after wrongly accusing the MEK of terrorism.
At least up until the post-June 2009 election uprisings that swept Iran, many foreign policy circles in the West surmised that the Iranian regime had become a "permanent feature" of the Middle East, and thus rejected the idea of regime change as a palatable policy option, proposing instead rapprochement. That approach, however, exacted a price vehemently demanded by Tehran: labeling the MEK, Tehran's arch nemesis, as terrorist. Indeed, as British officials involved in the matter acknowledged, "Any decision that... the PMOI should be deproscribed would... undoubtedly be viewed in Iran as a calculated move to interfere in Iranian affairs and destabilise the regime."[5]
Realpolitik and unsubstantiated claims, however, are not sufficient to justify a terrorist designation. Governments, no doubt, have a right to protect their citizens against the scourge of terrorism, but they are required by law to provide necessary and adequate evidence and factual material to legitimately back a terrorist designation. In the particular case of the MEK, convincing evidence has never been provided. This was clearly demonstrated during the 2006-08 court proceedings in the UK and the EU, where the tribunals, after an exhaustive review of both classified and unclassified materials, not only rejected as "perverse"[6] the terrorist designation of the MEK, but also chastised government agencies for making a mockery of the rule of law in favor of ulterior political motives.[7]
The official legal justificatory grounds for the MEK's terror label, in addition to its pre-2001 actions inside Iran, include allegations that the organization has an "Islamic-Marxist" ideology (against which I tried to offer convincing evidence in part I of Reality Check posted here on March 2), "supported" the 1979 taking of Americans hostage in Tehran,[8] "killed" several American military and security advisors in Iran in the early 1970s,[9] and was involved in the "suppression" of Iraqi Shi'ites and Kurds in 1991.[10]
Before addressing those specific charges and providing a narrative of the different phases of the MEK's struggle against the clerical regime since 1979, making an effort to shed light on the provenance of the MEK's designation in the United States and Europe is critical to understanding whether or not the MEK is in fact a terrorist entity. In the next installment, I will discuss the specific incidents of violence involving the MEK in years past. Readers are welcome to comment on these posts or ask for further clarification.
MEK: Origins of the Terrorist Designation
"[There] was White House interest in opening up a dialogue with the Iranian government. Top Administration officials saw cracking down on the [MEK], which the Iranians had made clear they saw as a menace, as one way to do so." ~ Martin Indyk, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs in the Clinton Administration
The allegation of terrorism levied against MEK by the US Department of State has its roots in the Iran-Contra (Irangate) scandal of the mid-1980s, when in exchange for the release of American hostages held in Lebanon by the Iranian regime's proxies, the Department issued a statement accusing the MEK of "continu[ing] to employ terrorism and violence as standard instruments of their politics."[11]
If at the time it was unclear as to why the Department of State would so suddenly and strongly lash out at the leading opponents of a regime which the US had been consistently describing as the most active state sponsor of international terrorism, the release of the Tower Commission Report two years later solved the mystery. That report cited a letter by an Iranian go-between, Manouchehr Ghorbanifar, to his US counterpart as saying that one of the nine demands of the Iranian regime from the US was the "(issuance) of an official announcement terming the Mujahedin-e Khalq Marxist and terrorist."[12]
"[There] was White House interest in opening up a dialogue with the Iranian government. Top Administration officials saw cracking down on the [MEK], which the Iranians had made clear they saw as a menace, as one way to do so."
Martin Indyk, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs in the Clinton Administration
When the deal with Tehran fell through, the Department of State reversed course and began to formally meet with the MEK, even at the height of the organization's armed resistance against the clerical regime. [13] In a testimony before the House Europe and the Middle East Subcommittee in April 1987, Assistant Secretary Richard Murphy explained the reasons for that volte face by saying: "I don't want to overstate our knowledge of the organization... I will very freely admit there were gaps in our knowledge about the organization... We have met with the Mujahedin organization here in Washington... They are a player, and they are hurting in Iran.... We are not boycotting them."[14]
A decade later, after Mohammad Khatami -- wrongly perceived by some in the US as a "moderate" influence within the ruling establishment -- became the Iranian regime's President, the Department under Secretary Madeleine Albright formally designated the MEK as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) on October 8, 1997. Highlighting the political motivations of the move, the very next day, a senior Clinton administration official told the Los Angeles Times, "The inclusion of the People's Mujahedin was intended as a goodwill gesture to Tehran and its newly elected president, Mohammed Khatami."[15]
In September 2002, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs during the Clinton Administration, Martin Indyk, told Newsweek, "[There] was White House interest in opening up a dialogue with the Iranian government. Top Administration officials saw cracking down on the [MEK], which the Iranians had made clear they saw as a menace, as one way to do so."[16]
Four years later, the Wall Street Journal wrote, " In 1997, the State Department added the MEK to a list of global terrorist organizations as 'a signal' of the U.S.'s desire for rapprochement with Tehran's reformists, says Martin Indyk, who at the time was assistant secretary of state for Near East Affairs. President Khatami's government 'considered it a pretty big deal,' Mr. Indyk says."[17]
The same paper wrote after the MEK's victory in its legal battle in the UK in 2008, that, "Iranian officials for years have made suppression of the MEK a priority in negotiations with Western governments over Tehran's nuclear program and other issues, according to several diplomats who were involved in those talks."[18]
Notwithstanding the fact that MEK supporters were shut out of the political debate about Iran's future because of a bogus label, what has been most disturbing in these developments has been the successive administrations' one-sided and unseemly obsession with sending "goodwill gestures" to a regime that has proven itself as a strategic threat to both Washington and the international community. This obsession denigrated into a blatant kowtow when the Department of State acquiesced to Tehran's main demand of blacklisting the regime's arch nemesis, the MEK, in a foolhardy attempt to extract concessions from the mullahs. Needless to say, the policy ramifications of the designation went far beyond the MEK, giving free reins to the murderous rulers in Tehran to crackdown on dissidents at home under the pretext of fighting against terrorism.
The windfall gains of the policy of rapprochement appeared to continue for the Iranian regime even through the George. W. Bush years.
In January 2009, then-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice overruled the recommendation of the Department's Coordinator for Counterterrorism and rejected the MEK's petition to revoke its designation. The New York Times later wrote, "In the Bush administration's final days, the State Department's top counterterrorism official, Dell L. Dailey, pushed to have the People's Mujahedeen removed from the list... Condoleezza Rice, secretary of state at the time, decided to keep the group on the list."[19] That decision, according to media reports, was prompted by a change of heart in the Bush administration, reflected in a decision to negotiate directly with the Iranian regime over the nuclear issue as well as the desire to establish a US interest section in Tehran.
Across the Atlantic, the MEK's blacklisting in the UK and the EU was also heavily grounded in similar political (and economic) considerations. In an interview with the BBC radio in 2006, then British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw admitted that the UK designation of MEK was the result of demands made by the Iranian regime. Mr. Straw said, "The very first meeting I ever had with an Iranian Foreign Minister Colonel [Kamal] Kharazi, now over four years ago, I expressed very serious concern about Iran's continued support for these terrorist organizations at the same time as they were demanding actually successfully of me when I was the Home Secretary that we should ban a terrorist organization MEK that was working against Iran."[20]
The same year, 35 members of the British Houses of Common and Lords brought a legal challenge against the MEK's proscription in the UK before the Proscribed Organisations Appeal Commission, POAC, the specialized tribunal tasked exclusively to review terrorist designations in the UK. In the course of the proceedings, a number of classified documents, later unclassified by the Court, revealed the truth about the ulterior political aims behind the MEK's designation in the UK.
In one such document, a witness statement submitted to POAC, Benjamin James Fender, a senior Foreign Office and Commonwealth official, made reference to "possible adverse foreign policy consequences were the PMOI [MEK] to be deproscribed."[21] He added, "The present Iranian regime puts a priority on tough legal and political measures against the PMOI."[22]
Mr. Fender went on to say, "Iranian Ministers and officials have chosen to discuss the PMOI with their counterparts from the UK and other EU Member States on countless occasions. These exchanges have often taken place in the context of discussions on UK/Iran or EU/Iran relations, terrorism in Iraq.... We have therefore been prepared to exchange information with Iran about PMOI activity in the UK, Iran and Iraq, and to discuss our policy towards the group... There was also the belief that reassuring Iran of our intention to apply the law against the PMOI (among other steps in a variety of fields) would help foster the atmosphere of confidence that would be needed for a successful negotiation."[23]
The Foreign Service official also reiterated that "continued proscription" of the MEK would demonstrate to the Iranian side that "UK's ... efforts are not contrary to Iranian interests but rather something from which Iran benefits."[24] He also made the startling revelation that, "During the autumn of 2002 and the spring of 2003, the Iranians were keen to understand the Coalition views on Iraq and possible military action, including how that might affect the PMOI. They expressed concern about the possibility of PMOI attacks on Iran during any military campaign. UK officials reassured their Iranian counterparts that we would take the problem of the PMOI in Iraq seriously."[25]
These very "assurances" to a regime that would later plan and fund the murder of American and British soldiers were part of a quid pro quo with Tehran that prompted the unprovoked bombing of MEK camps by the US and the UK [26] during the invasion of Iraq. The air strikes led to the death of dozens of MEK members, including a number of women, despite MEK's publicly and officially declared position of neutrality in the 2003 Iraq war.
The MEK's terrorist designation by the European Union was also the result of pressure by the Iranian regime and the UK. When the EU compiled its own list of terrorist organizations in 2001, Tehran pressured the EU Presidency, held by Belgium at the time, to blacklist the MEK. Belgium, however, refused to do so. In an interview with the Belgian daily La Libre, Foreign Minister Louis Michel warned, "All necessary measures must be taken so that the fight against terrorism is not mistaken with the fight against obtrusive opposition. And this danger really exists...."[27].
However, when Spain took over the EU Presidency in January 2002, it bowed to pressure from Tehran and designated the MEK. In October 2002, in an interview with the state-run daily, Entekhab, Spanish ambassador to Iran boasted, "As you are aware, Spain was the EU rotating President for the first six months of 2002. There were three issues that Iran wanted to address with the EU. When Spain held EU's Presidency, the two sides were able to resolve these differences. One of the major issues was including the People's Mujahedin Organization in the list of terrorist groups by the EU."[28]
Two weeks later, the official Iranian News Agency, IRNA, added, "Analysts point out that this year the EU took several major steps to improve ties with Iran: it put the MKO [MEK] group-let on its terrorist list..."[29]
This "major" issue was even brought up during the sensitive negotiations between the so-called European Troika (France, Germany and Britain) and the Iranian regime on the nuclear dossier. In a document outlining an EU offer to Tehran to persuade it to abide by the September 18, 2004 resolution of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the European Troika pledged that in return for Iran's compliance with the offer, they "would continue to regard the MEK (Iranian resistance group) as a terrorist organization."[30]
In this way, the story of the MEK's designation, fraught with acknowledgments by officials themselves, reveals how Washington, Brussels, and London decided to blatantly trampled upon even their own laws and values in order to comply with Tehran's "priority on tough legal and political measures against the MEK." Completely absent from the picture for any unbiased observer is the MEK's true goals, beliefs and deeds, distorted through a sophisticated misinformation campaign designed to demonize the group in order to justify dancing with the wolves in Tehran.
Meanwhile the Iranian regime reaped the benefits of having the hands of its biggest enemy tied in the West, suppressing its opponents inside Iran, advancing its export of fundamentalism and terrorism and accelerating its nuclear weapons program.
So, in addition to the legal fiasco, concrete developments of recent memory would suffice to convince even the most ardent advocates of pragmatism inside the Beltway that the policy of rapprochement with Tehran has failed. With the MEK having been already delisted in the UK and the EU, this awareness would necessitate that the remnants of that failed policy also be dispensed with in the US. As such, it is high time for the Obama administration to untie the hands of one of the most serious oppositions to the Iranian regime. That is a reality check Washington cannot afford to ignore, if not for the Iranian people, then for its own citizens who are being threatened by a hostile regime eager to get its hands on a nuclear bomb.
Ali Safavi is a Member of Iran's Parliament in Exile; President of Near East Policy Research
[1] Jay Solomon and Neil King Jr., "Two Agendas: Why Iran, U.S. Stand Far Apart: Tehran Seeks End to Bid to Destabilize Regime; Washington Wants Insurgent Backing in Iraq to Stop," The Wall Street Journal, June 25, 2007.
[2] US Department of State, Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism, "Country Reports on Terrorism 2008", Ch. 6, Terrorist Organizations, April 30, 2009, http://www.state.gov/s/ct/rls/crt/2008/122449.htm
[3] The United Kingdom removed the MEK from the Proscribed Organizations List on June 23, 2008. See David Stringer, "Britain Removes Iran Opposition Group From Terror List," The Associated Press, June 23, 2008. http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2004479589_apbritainiran.html?syndication=
[4] The European Union followed suit on January 26, 2009. See Philippa Runner, "EU Ministers Drop Iran Group From Terror List," EUOBSERVER, January, 26, 2009. http://euobserver.com/9/27472
[5] Benjamin James Fender, Britain's Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Second Witness Statement to Proscribed Organisations Appeal Commission, POAC, p. 4, June 25, 2007.
[6] LORD ALTON OF LIVERPOOL & OTHERS (People's Mojahadeen Organisation of Iran) v. SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT, Proscribed Organisations Appeal Commission (POAC), Judgment, para.360, p. 144, November 30, 2007, http://www.siac.tribunals.gov.uk/poac/Documents/outcomes/PC022006%20PMOI%20FINAL%20JUDGMENT.pdf
[7] Case No: 2007/9516, IN THE SUPREME COURT OF JUDICATURE COURT OF APPEAL APPLICATION FOR PERMISSION TO APPEAL FROM THE PROSCRIBED ORGANISATIONS APPEALS COMMISSION AND IN THE MATTER OF THE PEOPLE'S MOJAHADEEN ORGANISATION OF IRAN, "The Secretary of State for the Home Department v. Lord Alton of Liverpool and Others", judgment handed down on May, 27, 2008. Para 57, p. 23: "It is a matter for comment and for regret that the decision-making process in this case has signally fallen short of the standards which our public law sets and which those affected by public decisions have come to expect." http://www.bailii.org/cgibin/markup.cgi?doc=/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ/2008/443.html&query=The+and+Secretary+and+of+and+State+and+for+and+the+and+Home+and+Department+and+v.+and+Lord+and+Alton+and+of+and+Liverpool+and+Others&method=boolean
[8] US Department of State, "Country Reports on Terrorism 2008", op. cit.
[11] Hearing at the United States House of Representatives, before the Subcommittee on Europe and the Middle East, July 24, 1985. Assistance Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, Richard Murphy, testified before the Subcommittee. At the session's close, he proceeded to read an unsolicited statement about the MEK into the record. His statement read in part: "They [Mujahedin] are militantly Islamic, anti-democratic, anti-American, and continue to employ terrorism and violence as standard instruments of their politics." This rather abrupt burst of accusations startled the committee members. The Subcommittee Chairman Lee Hamilton surprisingly asked, "You had a section in there on the People's Mujahedin Organization in Iran. Why do you do that at this time?" Mr. Murphy, replied, "... In this case, I was presented with an issue which the country director involved felt had been inadequately addressed."
[12] Tower Commission Report, the Full Text of the Presidential Special Review Board, John Tower, Chairman, Edmund Muskie and Brent Scowcroft, members, Bantam Books, New York 1987, page 360.
[13] David B. Ottaway, "U.S. Meets With Iran Opposition Group," The Washington Post, April 22, 1987. The Post wrote, "The State Department has been meeting with representatives of an Iranian opposition group the department twice has warned Congress about, saying the group has a terrorist history and is strongly anti-American and Marxist. Assistant Secretary of State Richard W. Murphy told the House Foreign Affairs Middle East subcommittee yesterday that 'we meet, we have met' with the Mujaheddin-e Khalq or People's Mujaheddin Organization 'here in Washington', and described the group as 'a player' in Iran today."
[14] Hearing at the United States House of Representatives, before the Subcommittee on Europe and the Middle East, April 21, 1987. Assistance Secretary of State Richard Murphy testified before the Subcommittee.
[15] Norman Kempster, "U.S. Designates 30 Groups as Terrorists," Los Angeles Times, October 9, 1997.
[16] Michael Isikoff, "Ashcroft's Baghdad Connection" Newsweek, September 26, 2002, http://www.pepeace.org/current_reprints/16/Ashcrofts_Bagdhad_Connection.htm.
[17] Andrew Higgins and Jay Solomon, "Strange Bedfellows- Iranian Imbroglio Gives New Boost To Odd Exile Group," The Wall Street Journal, November 29, 2006. www.iranpolicy.org/ipcInTheNewsArchive.php?id=1&type=1
[18] Marc Champion, "Iranian Dissidents Win U.K. Ruling," The Wall Street Journal, May 7, 2008. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121018399158474335.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
[19] Mark Mazzetti and Mark Landler, "Iranian Dissidents' Fate in Iraq Shows Limits of U.S. Sway", The New York Times, August 2, 2009, http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/02/world/middleeast/02policy.html
[20] British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, interview with BBC Radio 4, Today Program, February 1, 2006.
[21] Benjamin James Fender, op. cit. p. 4.
[23] Ibid., pp. 3-4.
[24] Ibid., p. 3
[26] David S. Cloud, "U.S. Bombs Iranian Fighters On Iraqi Side of the Border," The Wall Street Journal, April 17, 2003. Available at: http://www.neareastpolicy.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=21&Itemid=30
[27] Louis Michel, Belgian Foreign Minister, interview with La Libre, Brussels, November 10, 2001.
[28] Entekhab daily, October 28, 2002.
[29] Islamic Republic News Agency, IRNA, November 11, 2002.
[30] Preparatory text for European proposals on Iranian nuclear program, Agence France Presse, October 21, 2004.
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Paul Scholes expecting to be scrutinised by Jose Mourinho as he takes on Oldham job
Tuesday, February 12, 2019 - 12:01 PM
Paul Scholes expects his first attempt at management with Oldham to be scrutinised by Jose Mourinho – although probably not in person.
As a pundit the former Manchester United midfielder, who has signed an 18-month contract with Latics, was one of the Portuguese’s most damning critics during his spell at Old Trafford.
However, Scholes has now swapped the television studio for the dugout as he seeks to lead Oldham – his boyhood club and close to where he now lives – out of League Two.
“I think he will be watching results,” said Scholes when asked about Mourinho.
“Whether he will be watching the games I am not too sure.
“That is part of the thing that bugged me a little bit. I wanted to get into it (management) anyway but I have left myself wide open. I have been quite critical.
“I don’t think we will get many pundits watching – (although) if we are losing games I am sure people will be popping up – can say what they want.
“I have never really understood why players and managers take notice of what pundits say anyway. They are just giving an opinion on the game and get paid for doing so.
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's advice for Paul Scholes?
"All the best... Watch out for the pundits!"
"He's been asking for it..." 😂 pic.twitter.com/kTMkovBXuW
— Football on BT Sport (@btsportfootball) February 11, 2019
“If anyone wants to have a dig at me, I won’t be taking any notice. The only person I answer to is the owner.”
Scholes has plenty of former colleagues and friends for support and advice and while he may tap into contacts at Manchester United (friend Nicky Butt is head of the academy there) he is keen to find his own way in management.
But he always has the great Sir Alex Ferguson to call on should he need some wisdom.
“I’d speak to anyone yeah, I’m sure the gaffer is on the other end of the phone,” he added.
Former Manchester United’s midfielder Paul Scholes has former boss Sir Alex Ferguson to speak to for advice as he begins his first steps in management (Martin Rickett/PA)
“He’ll want me to do well and if I need any help from him, I’ll be ringing him, of course I will.
“I’ve got great experience with Gary (Neville) too, what he did in Valencia, Ryan (Giggs) with Wales and under Louis Van Gaal (at United).
“I’ll definitely be speaking to them a lot. When I’m not quite sure what to do I’ll be looking to them for advice.”
There have been reports of interference in team affairs from club owner Abdallah Lemsagam and his brother Mohamed, who is the club’s sporting director.
However, Scholes insists he will not stand for that.
Here's the news you've been waiting for...
Latics Appoint Paul Scholes As New Manager! #oafchttps://t.co/Kc4O6jLvxa
— Oldham Athletic AFC (@OfficialOAFC) February 11, 2019
Emiliano Sala to be remembered at European games this week
“I don’t think there was any need for a conversation. As the owner of a football club, he is going to be interested in his team, I am sure about that,” said the 44-year-old.
“He won’t be picking the team – myself and the coaching staff will be picking the team, so I think we are quite clear on that.
“I wouldn’t be here if I wasn’t confident on that.
“Like I say he is interested in his football club but he runs the football club and I run the football team along with my staff.”
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When size matters, the X7 from BMW fits the bill
The X7’s most surprising trait is that it handles and feels like a much smaller SUV
Michael McAleer
The X7’s front grille is as if someone has strapped two garden gates to the front of the car
Date Reviewed: March 19, 2019
First published: Tue, Mar 19, 2019, 23:00
When it comes to size, scale is everything. So when BMW’s new X7 seems big on the streets of the supersized US, you know they’ve built a behemoth. God only knows what this giant will look like on the streets of Galway.
This is BMW’s new flagship, the latest and largest model in its class, and at a time when even the CEOs are opting for the back seats of SUVs over long-wheelbased limos, it’s a smart addition to the ranks.
It big, though. You’ve probably guessed as much from first impressions of the X7’s front grille: it’s like someone strapped two garden gates to the front of the car.
The X7 may have Bavarian blood but it hails from the US state of South Carolina, where pick-ups roam the roads. When we hailed an Uber our driver arrived slouched behind the wheel of a Ford F150 pick-up, supping from a gallon jar of cola.
The Germanic sounding Spartanburg is where the X7 is being built, and a fitting starting point to a cross-country relay road trip for the new car that will end up in Palm Springs, California.
At a time when President Donald Trump is threatening auto tariffs against European imports, it offers a timely reminder of the globalised nature of the auto industry. It’s not as simple as Europe versus the US.
Spartanburg is home to the X range, and is now BMW’s largest production facility in the world by volume, with 1,400 vehicles driving off the line each day, comprising the X3, X4, X5, X6 and now X7.
Last year it produced 356,749 vehicles, and employs over 70,000 in the region, directly and indirectly. Trump’s simplistic approach to trade tariffs could deliver an unintended sucker punch to South Carolina.
Our role in the relay is to take the spanking new X7 on the first leg from Spartanburg to Savannah, Georgia. Once you stop spooking over the size of that grille, the car’s profile is relatively formulaic, rather boxy, SUV. It’s actually on the same scale as its arch-rival the Range Rover. It means there are seven proper seats inside (you can opt for six if you want added comfort for middle-row passengers).
Mixing it amongst the giants of the US highway. It will not look so small on the back roads of Co Mayo
For the first 100 miles I opt for the third row, sitting on the rear axle. This is where BMW’s claims of executive comfort will really come into play. Getting in and out is as easy/difficult as its rivals, though the standard fit air suspension means the car can be lowered to reduce the climb.
The real plus is that the two third-row seats aren’t glorified folding deckchairs. These are proper leather seats, with their own air-con zone and the sort of legroom you get in a decent family hatchback.
They also benefit from a slightly raised floor, which means you get a clear view out the windscreen over the heads of the occupants in front. And the headroom is enough for your average adult.
Combined with some smart work by engineers on the air suspension, it means you can travel long distances back there in the boot of the new X7 and you won’t need a lengthy session with a physio when you get out.
You can travel long distances back in the boot of the new X7 and you won’t need a lengthy session with a physio when you get out
Move into the middle row and you are talking about space on a par with BMW’s flagship saloon the 7 Series. It’s a similar story up at the very front.
Taking the wheel for the latter part of our trip, the X7’s most surprising trait is that it handles and feels like a much smaller SUV, at least in the wide lanes of a US highway and on Savannah’s wide streets.
For all the promises to Make America Great Again, a good starting point would be on its roads, which remain rutted and potholed. But they prove a good test-bed for the X7’s suspension, especially considering this BMW is shod with massive 21-inch or 22-inch alloys. The decision to make air suspension as standard is a sensible move for a car of this size, and for the type of customers it is pitching to win.
The most annoying trait of the X7 is its boot. The problem is common with all seven-seaters these days, but it’s bizarre that such a big car offering seven seats doesn’t provide a decent boot when all the seats are in use.
Fill the car with people and the boot offers 362 litres, most of it vertical. It’s a Ryanair approach to road travel: seven travellers are welcome so long as they only have small soft carry-on hand luggage. The problem is not unique to BMW; every car company is guilty of this space sin.
Luxury market
At the very top of the executive crop, where presidents and CEOs are catered for, the BMW 7 Series has always been something of an also-ran in a market dominated by the Mercedes-Benz S-Class. This luxury market is not immune to the SUV craze, however, and this behemoth BMW offers an ideal opportunity for the Bavarian brand to bypass Mercedes.
Certainly the X7 has the beating of Mercedes’ entrant in this segment, the GLS. Several times we came across the Merc SUV on our trip, and compared to the X7 it looks drab and van-like.
Of the rest of its rivals, the Range Rover is arguably the chief competitor for status, and the Volvo XC90 for family functionality. The X7 has nothing to fear from either of these on the road at least.
We never got to take it mud-plugging, but I suspect the Range Rover has it beaten in this regard. But then this is really not meant for that sort of role, regardless of its rugged looks. Its natural habitat is outside five-star hotels.
Irish buyers may baulk at this big BMW the first time they see it, towering over traffic on Irish streets, but for the well-heeled who can afford over €113,000 for their seven-seat family car, this X7 ticks a lot of boxes. It’s striking, smart, loaded with high-end standard fare, easy to drive and relatively spacious. On the streets of Savannah, BMW’s attempt to supersize seems a surprising success.
Lowdown: BMW X7
Engine: 3-litre petrol with 340bhp or 3-litre diesel with either 265bhp or 400bhp
Fuel economy (30d version): 6.8 l/100km (41.5 mpg)
Emissions (30d version): 178g/km
0-100km/h (30d version): 7 seconds
Prices: From €113,000 for 30d; €120,890 for 40i; €137,300 for M50d
Verdict: Suprsized BMW has the power to surprise
10 What will €299,000 buy in Walkinstown and west Cork?
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John Paul Phelan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source
Every Member present has engaged at some level during the process on this Bill and particularly on this part of the Bill. Having listened to the Committee Stage debate, I was conscious of the fact that what was proposed, particularly with regard to the local area plan, was a big change and that we should have more time for consideration. I was also conscious of the fact that nobody disagrees with the idea that we must have a joint structure for towns and cities that cross county boundaries. I agree with Deputy Cullinane regarding his desire to take the heat out of the issue we are most familiar with in our part of the world. I will not refer to Dick Turpin or anybody else in that regard.
Deputy Casey is right that the central thesis here is not going to be universally accepted even in the new year. I have told the assistant secretary in the Department that rather than eating turkey later this month, he will be drafting the relevant sections for a new short legislative measure specifically relating to urban area committees. It will refer to the structure and also the functions. There will not be universal agreement. The status quohas to change, as everybody says, but it will only change if there is acceptance on every side of these boundary areas that powers that reside with existing councils will have to be given up. There will be no fudging our ability to square that circle - powers will have to be given up.
Deputy Naughten said he is a lone voice but, as he probably realises from listening to some of the other contributions, he is not. I assure him that his is not a lone voice. He raised specific issues about the status of recommendations in the boundary report relating to Roscommon. Those recommendations are in no way binding on me or my successors. They are recommendations for action. I understand the desire on all sides of the question in Athlone for a solution to be devised. That is why as early as possible in the new year the staff in the Customs House and in the Office of the Parliamentary Counsel will be drafting. There is largely agreement on the necessity for them to exist.
I am a believer in another point the Deputy made. The principle here is equality between the authorities that are devising plans of whatever status for the areas concerned. Unless that equality exists, these structures will be doomed before they come into place. Whether I use my example or other others from around the country, if there are committees in which there are eight members from one county and two from another, then, as sure as eggs, we know what the outcome will be. I accept Deputy Jan O'Sullivan's point that one size does not fit all. That is why in the functions part of the new legislation we will be discussing quite high-level pieces relating to development of these urban centres into the future. These are pieces that local authorities often do not do very well, such as the spatial planning for what should be in the Clare part of Limerick city in the future as well the areas the Deputy mentioned that will be opened up for development.
In my part of the country, most of the natural development of Waterford city will be on the north side of the Suir. I will absolutely maintain my position that a county councillor, albeit from the same county but who lives 50 or 100 miles away, should not have an input into a decision that might affect another councillor who lives ten yards away on the wrong side of the boundary. Currently, that person is excluded. Deputy Cullinane's point is correct. In the Waterford context the 18 metropolitan councillors in the Waterford city area should have the say, but the councillors living in Castlecomer and in Tallow should not have the say. Waterford city is the local town for a third of the people who live in County Kilkenny, not just the 7,000 who live in the Ferrybank area, and there will be many more living there over the next few years. Deputy O'Dowd also made that point about people living 50 miles away making the decisions as opposed to those who are representing, and living in, the area. He described it as codology. The purpose of the amendments as drafted was specifically to avoid the type of codology whereby voluntary groups would come together and draw up a plan which both sides could walk away from afterwards. Regardless of the shape it takes in the new year, that will not be contained in the Bill. This is where the democracy element Deputy Butler mentioned is paramount. The councillors from those parts of the counties in question should have the final ratification. I have very much come to that view, but that must be borne out in the drafting. I have read all the reports by the local authorities that made submissions to the four boundary committees. The central argument in favour of boundary extensions was always that the local authority needed an area included to properly plan and develop into the future. That is a substantive argument and that is what this structure will have to do in those areas.
I am accepting amendments Nos. 20, 21, 31 and 32 the effect of which is to remove Part 7 of the Bill. We will return to that as early in 2019 as the Christmas turkey allows.
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Bil’in, My Village
By Mohammed Khatib Last updated May 15, 2012
It was mid December 2004 when the bulldozers first showed up in my village Bil’in. Without my knowing it, this was the opening salvo for what would become one of the longest and most influential grassroots campaigns against the Wall that Israel is building in the occupied West Bank.
In the five years since, my village Bil’in has paid a heavy price for our resistance, despite the fact that we chose unarmed civic resistance. Our village has become the target of regular military night raids; our people have been arrested by Israeli security forces and thrown into military jails; our sons have suffered injuries from tear gas, rubber-coated bullets and even, at times, live ammunition. One of us, my friend Bassem Abu Rahmah was killed when a soldier shot a tear gas projectile directly at his chest in one of the calmest, most peaceful demonstrations I have ever taken part in. He was shot while saying the Hebrew words ‘Wait a minute, hold on.’ Bassem has become a symbol for the disproportionate response of the Israeli security forces to our demonstrations and our struggle, mainly because of the kind of person that he was. He lived the way he believed life should be lived, and he died that way too — demanding his freedom, protesting against what he knew was wrong and doing so alongside Palestinian, Israeli and international friends.
But our story, the story of our struggle, is not only the story of repression. It is rather the story of an amazing awakening of our spirits in realising that when we choose to resist, we are free people — more free than our jailers and enforcers. For its sacrifices and its victories, it is the story of our quest for freedom and equality. Before the bulldozers arrived, some of us were aware of similar things happening in other villages like Budrus and Biddu. Some were even involved in civil disobedience efforts during the First and Second Intifadas. But we did not know what it meant to have it all happening in our own backyards. We did not plan to become a symbol, we did not decide to be famous. We simply needed to stop the bulldozers, save our village, and in so doing achieve freedom from occupation.
In September 2007, after almost three long years of struggle, the Israeli High Court of Justice ruled that the Wall on our land was illegal, and ordered its rerouting. We successfully proved that the route of the Wall allowed the expansion of the Jewish-only settlement — not to include existing structures but to leave space for future building — in a way that is illegal even under Israeli law. The court had no option other than to order the rerouting of the Wall, returning to us about half of our sequestered lands — a partial but important victory.
The court’s decision meant not only the return of our lands, but also that the planned construction of 1,500 new residential units for settlers would not be built on my village’s land. Today, nearly three years after the court decision, the path of the Wall has still not been moved, and our struggle continues. Bassem was killed in a demonstration long after the Court ruling was served, when the Wall that he was up against should no longer have stood there.
We are often asked about our movement’s achievements and the fact that the construction of the Wall continues. We have had many victories through the years, but maybe the most important one is the building of a Palestinian grassroots movement. What our struggle is creating, not only in Bil’in, but across the Occupied Territories, is a civic space for resistance by ordinary people, and it is gaining momentum. Since Israel first began construction on the Wall in 2003, popular committees have sprouted up in villages across the West Bank. Each village has its own struggle. Galvanised by a common belief in the power of the popular struggle to end Israel’s occupation, we have recently formed a multi-regional coordination committee between the different towns and villages in order to strengthen the grassroots Palestinian resistance and accommodate its needs.
Fatah and Hamas, as most people know, cannot find many things on which they agree. But at the latest International Conference on Popular Resistance held in Bil’in last month, senior members of both rival parties, and in fact all Palestinian factions, publicly endorsed the popular struggle as a key strategy for our liberation.
The popular struggle is not in anyone’s hands — it belongs to everyone and needs everyone: men, women, children and the elderly, from left to right across the political spectrum. It is a little known fact that when the Second Intifada began in October of the year 2000, it was largely a grassroots effort with marches and demonstrations fuelled by frustration with political stagnation and lack of progress during the years of the so-called peace negotiations. This grassroots effort of popular resistance was shot down by Israel, in the most literal way. According to the Israeli army’s own numbers, more than one million Israeli bullets were shot in October 2000. Most of them were shot at unarmed demonstrators. Today, as our movement grows, Israel steps up the repression once more.
Denied our freedom Palestinians will always resist the Occupation, in one way or another. This is only natural, it is something we share with oppressed people around the world and throughout history. We are committed to our approach. We are willing to pay the price. What is our alternative?
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Mohammed Khatib is a member of the Bil’in Popular Committee. He was born and raised in Bil’in.
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According to the Jockey Club, Kentucky accounted for 47.6 percent of the mares reported bred in North America in 2015, and 55.4 percent of the live foals reported so far for 2016.
Nationally, the number of mares bred in 2015 dropped 0.7 percent, and the number of active stallions dropped 8.6 percent.
For years, proponents of expanded gambling expressed fears that casinos at racetracks in other states would boost incentives that would lure mares and eventually stallions away from Kentucky, which only has historical racing machines at a limited number of tracks.
But the Jockey Club statistics show that, except for a slight dip from 2002 to 2004, when the state’s foal crop was reduced by the deaths of thousands of foals from Mare Reproductive Loss Syndrome, the state’s share of breeding has made gains.
In 1995, when Kentucky stallions bred to 15,712 mares, the state accounted for 26.6 percent of the activity in North America. In 2015, Kentucky stallions bred to 17,265 mares, 48.8 percent of all in North America.
Kentucky’s share has increased, but the overall level of North American Thoroughbred breeding activity has contracted sharply: in 1995, there were about 35,000 foals, compared with the 22,500 expected this year.
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In 1802, Gustav IV Adolf commissioned architect Carl Christoffer Gjörwell to build a new palace just north of what is now called Gustav III's Pavilion.
The new building, which was eventually named the Queen's Pavilion, is now called Haga Palace. The exterior was given a simple classical design, with a high frontispiece with carved pediment. The balcony is supported by four Doric columns on the entrance side.
The balcony columns are made of Finnish marble and were taken to Poland during the reign of King Sigismund. However, they were recovered by Gustav II Adolf. They were then used by Nicodemus Tessin the Younger for the German church in Karlskrona. Some of the columns became available following a devastating fire there in 1790. They were purchased by Gustav IV Adolf and four of them were then used to decorate the entrance to Haga Palace.
The interior is decorated relatively simply and in the accommodation one floor up the furnishings comprise mostly fixed mirrors, carved door frames and cornices. This floor had a design that was typical of the time, with a central chamber surrounded on all sides by drawing-rooms and bedrooms. The servants' rooms were situated close to the bedrooms.
The Dowager Duchess of Dalarna's Green Room at Haga Palace. Photograph from 1914. Royal Court.
With the exception of occasional visits by Karl XIII, and later Queen Desideria, Haga did not become a royal home again until the 1820s. It was then that Karl XIV Johan granted use of the palace to Crown Prince Oskar (I) and Crown Princess Josefina. The Crown Prince Couple were very fond of Haga, and it was here that their second son Gustav, Duke of Uppland was born in 1827. After the premature death of the popular prince, who composed several songs including the famous Student Song, the Academy of Music raised a monument to his memory in 1854 on what was then called Josefina Holm, close to the palace. The monument consists of a bronze bust sculptured by Carl Eneas Sjöstrand, placed in a Geatish cast iron temple.
The Dowager Duchess of Dalarna
After the reign of Oskar I, Haga was used by other members of the royal family, mainly the King's youngest son, Prince August, who died in 1873. His widow, the Dowager Duchess Teresia of Dalarna, then occupied the palace from 1890 until her death in 1914. Photographs of her home show an interior that was typical of the period, with lots of furniture, ornaments and textiles in various materials.
The palace was then occupied periodically by Gustaf V's youngest son, Prince Erik, until his death in 1918. After the end of the First World War, the palace was used for homeless orphans.
Prince Gustav Adolf and Princess Sibylla
The palace was restored in 1932 under the management of palace architect Ragnar Hjorth and renovated for use as a home for Prince Gustaf Adolf, who got married that same year to Princess Sibylla. The restoration work included the installation of several fireplaces on the second floor to replace the tiled stoves. Bathrooms were also fitted and the kitchens were renovated. However, the palace's original decorations including mirrors, door frames and cornices were left as they were.
The Haga Princesses: Princesses Margaretha, Birgitta, Desirée and Christina, and the present king, Carl Gustaf, seated on a wall in the grounds of Haga Palace in 1948. Photo: Scanpix.
Prince Gustaf Adolf and Princess Sibylla turned Haga into a modern home. It was here that all the royal couple's five children were born. Margaretha in 1934, Birgitta in 1937, Desirée in 1938, Christina in 1943 and Carl Gustaf in 1946.
Princess Sibylla and her children moved to the Royal Palace following the tragic death of Prince Gustaf Adolf in 1947.
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In 1966, King Gustaf VI Adolf decided to grant use of the palace to the government as "a guest residence for distinguished foreign visitors who are guests of the government, or for whom the government otherwise deems it appropriate to enjoy this privilege".
Haga Palace underwent yet another restoration under the management of architect Olov Söderman, who also organised the refurnishing of the palace, since the building was empty. There was no express intention during the renovations to recreate original features from previous periods in the palace's history.
Several foreign statesmen have stayed at the palace since it began being used as accommodation for guests of the Swedish government. The first name in the guest book is the Russian head of government Nikita Khrushchev and his wife Nina.
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Breakthrough on MLK Death Coverage?
As the 50th anniversary of the April 4 murder of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. approaches, the Washington Post published on its front page this week a news report quoting the King Family and other experts as expressing doubt about the official story that the convicted killer acted alone, or even at all, to kill the nation's pre-eminent civil rights leader of modern times.
This is the way that Tom Jackman, an experienced reporter, began his in-depth analysis titled The Past Rediscovered: Who killed Martin Luther King Jr.? His family believes James Earl Ray was framed:
In the five decades since Martin Luther King Jr. was shot dead by an assassin at age 39, his children have worked tirelessly to preserve his legacy, sometimes with sharply different views on how best to do that. But they are unanimous on one key point: James Earl Ray did not kill Martin Luther King.
For the King family and others in the civil rights movement, the FBI’s obsession with King in the years leading up to his slaying in Memphis on April 4, 1968 — pervasive surveillance, a malicious disinformation campaign and open denunciations by FBI director J. Edgar Hoover — laid the groundwork for their belief that he was the target of a plot.
The story represented a major breakthrough in mainstream news coverage, according to King’s friend Dr. William F. Pepper, whom Jackman quoted extensively because of Pepper's decades of work as a street-savvy investigator, an attorney, and a best-selling author seeking to solve the murder.
Pepper's 2003 book An Act of State, shown at left and featuring King and his wife Coretta Scott King on the cover, is the second of a trilogy by Pepper documenting evidence that conspirators murdered the civil rights leader to stop his evolving social movement. At the time of the 1968 assassination, that movement was expanding from a largely civil rights movement with roots in the Jim Crow Deep South to nationwide anti-war and economic justice crusade that some believe threatened the nation's power structure, not just bigots.
Pepper, also a noted human rights advocate who has taught at Oxford University, worked with King family members who also believe that a plot by power brokers to remove King from the American political scene included a media-assisted frame-up of the accused killer Ray, a petty criminal and eighth-grade dropout who could be vilified as a lone-nut murderer.
“The article,” Pepper told the Justice Integrity Project regarding Jackman's Post piece, “is a major breakthrough for the mainstream media, which has refused to cover the truth about the murder of Dr. King."
"Hopefully," Pepper continued in an exclusive interview with the Justice Integrity Project, "this initiative will extend to others in the mainstream media who will be reporting on the 50th anniversary in June on the death of Robert F. Kennedy, whose accused killer Sirhan Sirhan was another patsy like James Earl Ray.”
Pepper, a friend also of Kennedy, is shown with King in a 1967 photo by Ben Fernandez as Pepper and King conferred before King's keynote speech at the National Conference for New Politics in Chicago. King was evolving his message then to a much broader movement than anti-segregation efforts in the South.
Pepper was a journalist and political activist in the 1960s and later found himself in the unusual position of becoming convinced that the convicted killers Ray and Sirhan of Pepper's friends King and Kennedy were innocent of their deaths as shown by ballistics evidence.
King's Fatal 1968 Memphis Trip
King had been visiting Memphis in support of striking sanitation workers as part of his mission to add economic justice to the traditional civil rights agendas of integration and voting rights. He was hit with one bullet on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel on April 4, 1968.
Ray, a small-time criminal shown in a 1955 photo, had been set up by authorities in advance to rent a room across the street from the motel, experts like Pepper argue. Ray became the fall guy blamed for the killing, Pepper said. Ray escaped from the scene but was later arrested in England.
The defendant in effect pleaded guilty under the "Alford Doctrine" whereby defendants do not contest the prosecution's evidence. But Ray unsuccessfully tried to recant three days later and for the rest of his life until his 1998 death. Ray said he had been conned into pleading guilty after being threatened with certain execution if he did not plead guilty.
In 1999, Pepper represented the King family in arguing to a Tennessee jury that ballistics showed that Ray's rifle could not have fired the fatal bullet and that King was killed because of a conspiracy involving Mafia and U.S. government personnel. In a decision virtually ignored by the media, the jury awarded the King family nominal damages in naming Memphis grill owner Loyd Jowers and unnamed others as part of a conspiracy.
Subsequent evidence, including a new book published last month about FBI infiltratration of the civil rights movement, shows that FBI and other top government officials smeared and monitored King and worked closely at times with Deep South mafia figures and other well-placed opponents to target him. The new book is A Spy in Canaan: How the FBI Used a Famous Photographer To Infiltrate The Civil Rights Movement.
The author Marc Perrusquia is a reporter for the Memphis Commercial Appeal show showed that the African-American photographer Ernest Withers, who took many of the most iconic photos of the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s, was also an FBI informant. Details are below in an appendix to this column.
Pepper has recalled that after King's death in April 1968 he met with Robert Kennedy, who was just starting his insurgent antiwar campaign to replace incumbent Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson. "Bobby asked me," Pepper says, "to work on his campaign. I said no. I walked away."
Pepper said he was too devastated after King's death to continue in American politics or law. He became an acclaimed human rights lawyer, based in the United Kingdom for much of his career. But a decade after James Earl Ray's conviction in the King death Pepper began exploring evidence that he was innocent. He agreed to represent Ray.
Robert Kennedy Eliminated
Meanwhile, Kennedy, a New York senator campaigning for the 1968 Democratic presidential nomination, was killed in a pantry of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles on June 6, 1968. This was just after his victory in that year’s California primary seemed to assure him of his party’s nomination at the national convention in Chicago in July.
After the murder Sirhan was convicted at trial in which his defense attorney was compromised by secret government charges against the attorney in another case. That provided a strong motive for him to concede Sirhan's guilt without vigorously disputing the government's extremely shaky evidence and dubious investigation of alternative leads and suspects.
Among the notable questions: Los Angeles County Coronor Dr. Thomas Noguchi's report showed that Kennedy had been killed from a bullet fired at point blank range at the rear of his head whereas Sirhan was always several feet in front of Kennedy, according to witnesses.
Noguchi is shown at left. He, Pepper and other experts will speak on these topics at Of Kennedys & Kings: Reinvestigating the RFK and MLK Assassinations at 50, a major conference organized by the Cyril H. Wecht Institute of Forensic Science and Law from May 3-4 at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh. This editor is moderates an RFK panel.
Pepper last summer filed a 200-page legal brief with the Organization of American States' Human Rights Commission seeking a new trial or evidentiary hearing for Sirhan. Sirhan, eligible for parole since the early 1980s, is repeatedly denied in his requests by California authorities. Paul Schrade, a friend of Kennedys whom Sirhan shot, is among those speaking at the Pittsburgh conference and arguing that Sirhan could not possibly have killed Kennedy..
Many observers believe that Sirhan, who says he remembers nothing of the prelude to the shooting, was a mind control victim lured to the spot and set up as the patsy while the real killers escaped.
Press and Political Cowardice
Many books have been written pro and con regarding the official verdicts in both the King and Kennedy murders.
Yet mainstream media and academics, obivously leery of being smeared with the "conspiracy theorist" label that kills careers on such matters, tend to ignore books and documentaries exploring evidence contrary to official verdicts.
Even so, isolated reporters, authors, academics, film makers and government officials have long struggled against a media blackout even more forbidding than similar ones regarding the debate about President John F. Kennedy's assassination and the Warren Commission report b blaming the murder entirely on Lee Harvey Oswald.
For such reasons, the Justice Integrity Project has published "Readers Guides" excerpted below that encompass major works of all significant viewpoints.
Pepper and other human rights figures quoted in the Post article published on April 2 experienced a rare opportunity to voice their doubts about the official narrative of the King assassination.
Thus, it was rare and meaningful that the Post's Jackman would include the quotations below -- and that the newspaper would feature the story high on its front page and with an entire page of runover.
Until her own death in 2006, Coretta Scott King, who endured the FBI’s campaign to discredit her husband, was open in her belief that a conspiracy led to the assassination....“There is abundant evidence,” Coretta King said after the verdict, “of a major, high-level conspiracy in the assassination of my husband.” The jury found the mafia and various government agencies “were deeply involved in the assassination. … Mr. Ray was set up to take the blame.”
Among others quoted as dissenting from the conventional wisdom:
King’s two other surviving children, Dexter, 57, and Martin III, 60, fully agree that Ray was innocent. And their view of the case is shared by other respected black leaders.
“I think there was a major conspiracy to remove Doctor King from the American scene,” said Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), a support your theory.” He remains adamant that Ray was the gunman but likely had help that should have been investigated in 1968 and was not.
As the iconic 50th anniversary of King's death approaches on April 4, it happens that the credibility of even such powerful media as the Post is under assault as "fake news" or at least bias, according to accusations from President Trump and many others across the political spectrum.
Why This Matters Now
More than almost anyone in recent history, King's was a Black life that "mattered." While his legacy is aptly celebrated these days the premature extinction of that life and legacy should not be ignored simply because it might be too inconvenient or too controversial to explore.
As New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison memorably described in a 1967 statement (available here) about why he was investigating the conspiracy to murder President Kennedy, the American people are not children who need to be protected fairy tells by press lords who deny the harsh realities behind the president's murder. Neither is it appropriate to hide the facts surrounding the deaths of King and Robert Kennedy.
The general public sees through those lies and beomces susceptable to wild tales about more current controversies. These include uncertainties about the Special Counsel Robert Mueller's probe of the Trump campaigna and administration and a host of other issues, including claims of "fake news" and a "Deep State" of unelected power brokers orchestrating events.
A healthy mainstream media and other institutions are vital to a decent way of life. But they must earn credibility by tackling the most difficult topics. The Washington Post did this week on the King case. Others should follow that lead. .
Justice Integrity Project "Readers Guide to the MLK Assassination"
Readers Guide To The MLK Assassination: Books, Videos, Archives, curated by Andrew Kreig. The Justice Integrity Project presents a "Readers Guide to the MLK Assassination" of key books, videos, documents, websites and other archives most relevant to the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s murder on April 4, 1968.
Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Enhanced By Historic Discovery, Jan. 18, 2016. The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy is forever enhanced by discovery of a 24-minute recording of his first meeting with the national media, which occurred during a 1962 speech that was the first ever by an African American at the National Press Club in Washington, DC.
William Pepper, Friend of MLK, RFK, Slams Murder Cover-ups, June 1, 2016. Murder of political leaders is a common problem, according to noted historian and human rights attorney William Pepper, who believes cover-up ruins the legacy of his friends Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy.
Other Assassination "Readers Guides"
Readers Guide To RFK Assassination: Books, Videos, Archives, Curated by Andrew Kreig.
Readers Guide To JFK Assassination: Books, Videos, Archives, Curated by Andrew Kreig.
Related News Coverage
(Listed in chronological order, beginning on March 30, 2018)
Washington Post, Who killed Martin Luther King Jr.? His family believes James Earl Ray was framed, Tom Jackman, March 30, 2018. In the five decades since Martin Luther King Jr. was shot dead by an assassin at age 39, his children have worked tirelessly to preserve his legacy, sometimes with sharply different views on how best to do that. But they are unanimous on one key point: James Earl Ray did not kill Martin Luther King.
“It pains my heart,” said Bernice King, 55, the youngest of Martin Luther King’s four children and the executive director of the King Center in Atlanta, “that James Earl Ray had to spend his life in prison paying for things he didn’t do.”
Until her own death in 2006, Coretta Scott King, who endured the FBI’s campaign to discredit her husband, was open in her belief that a conspiracy led to the assassination. Her family filed a civil suit in 1999 to force more information into the public eye, and a Memphis jury ruled that the local, state and federal governments were liable for King’s death. The full transcript of the trial remains posted on the King Center’s website.
“There is abundant evidence,” Coretta King said after the verdict, “of a major, high-level conspiracy in the assassination of my husband.” The jury found the mafia and various government agencies “were deeply involved in the assassination. … Mr. Ray was set up to take the blame.”
But nothing changed afterward. No vast sums of money were awarded (the Kings sought only $100), and Ray was not exonerated.
“I think there was a major conspiracy to remove Dr. King from the American scene,” said Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), a 78-year-old civil rights icon (shown at left). “I don’t know what happened, but the truth of what happened to Dr. King should be made available for history’s sake.”
Andrew Young, the former U.N. ambassador and Atlanta mayor who was at the Lorraine Motel with King when he was shot there, agrees. “I would not accept the fact that James Earl Ray pulled the trigger, and that’s all that matters,” said Young, who noted that King’s death came after the killings of John F. Kennedy and Malcolm X and just months before the slaying of Robert F. Kennedy.
Astride all this controversy for the last 40 years has been William Pepper, a New York lawyer and civil rights activist who knew and worked with King. Pepper first visited Ray in prison in 1978 along with Ralph Abernathy, one of King’s closest associates. Pepper became convinced of Ray’s innocence and continued to investigate the case even after Ray died.
Pepper wrote three books outlining the conspiracy, most recently The Plot to Kill King in 2016, which were largely ignored by the media.
He defended Ray in a mock trial on HBO in 1993 (Ray was found not guilty), and filed and tried the Memphis civil suit that found the government liable for King’s death.
Washington Post, This black photographer befriended rights leaders and fed info on them to the FBI, Book Review: A Spy in Canaan by Marc Perrusquia (Melville House)] by Aram Goudsouzian, April 1, 2018 (print edition). Aram Goudsouzian is the author of “Down to the Crossroads: Civil Rights, Black Power, and the Meredith March Against Fear” and the co-editor, with Charles McKinney, of “An Unseen Light: Struggles for Black Freedom in Memphis, Tennessee.”
You know the photograph [shown at right on the cover of the new book A Spy In Canaan]. It is from 1968, one week before the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. A sea of signs, proclaiming “I AM A MAN.” A sharp line of black sanitation workers, ready to march through Memphis. A purse-wielding woman in the left foreground, and a slim man walking across the line, gazing right at the camera.
The man behind the camera was Ernest Withers. Besides that iconic photograph, he supplied scores of images that shape our memory of the civil rights movement. He captured the dramatic moment in a Mississippi courtroom when Moses Wright identified the abductor of his great-nephew Emmett Till. He snapped the perfect shot of King staring balefully out a window while integrating a bus in Montgomery. He photographed the Freedom Rides, the funeral of Medgar Evers and James Meredith’s March Against Fear.
Withers was also a paid informant for the FBI. That news broke in September 2010, after the Memphis Commercial Appeal published a report by Marc Perrusquia. The reporter (shown at left) had exploited a clerical error to learn that Withers had supplied information to FBI agents from at least 1968 to 1970.
That bombshell raised as many questions as it answered. What was Withers’s exact role? When did it begin and end? What was its impact? Most important, why? Why did this great black photographer spy on a movement for black freedom?
Perrusquia’s new book, A Spy in Canaan, fleshes out critical details in the Withers saga. It is a triumph of investigative reporting, the product of the author’s dogged research and a bold lawsuit backed by the Commercial Appeal. It also stirs an appetite for a richer history of the civil rights movement, though it cannot satisfy that hunger.
Wikipedia: Ernest C. Withers (August 7, 1922 – October 15, 2007) was an American photojournalist. He is best known for capturing over 60 years of African American history in the segregated South, with iconic images of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, Emmett Till, Sanitation Worker's Strike, Negro league baseball, and musicians including those related to Memphis blues and Memphis soul.
New York Times, Television: Seeing Martin Luther King Jr. in a New Light, Salamishah Tillet, April 2, 2018 (print edition). The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., more than most civil rights leaders, understood the singular role that television played in documenting the brutality of racial violence on African-Americans and eliciting sympathy from white viewers.
As three new television documentaries marking the 50th anniversary of his assassination show, King embraced prime time news television coverage as a matter of political strategy and survival through his savvy use of sound bites, well-timed protests and the practice of nonviolence in the face of abuse.
These documentaries share much in common. They feature some familiar civil rights voices, most notably those of Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee activists John Lewis and Diane Nash, and reveal how King’s relationships with the news media and the movement waned dramatically in his final years. And they attempt to present a more radical version of King to a new generation of viewers, with varying degrees of success.
“Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media,” which aired on NBC in late March and returns on MSNBC on April 1, is a two-hour documentary about the strained yet symbiotic relationship between civil rights activists and the emergent nightly television news. “We felt there was so much hagiography of the movement and a flattening of the characters into a one-dimensional portrait,” said Rachel Dretzin, a producer and co-director; Andrew Lack, chairman of NBC News and MSNBC, is executive producer. “The decision to focus on the political savvy and the sophistication of King and other leaders of the movement ended up making it much more dimensional and interesting to us.”In the NBC documentary “Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media,” students are hit by a water hose during a peaceful walk in Birmingham, Ala., on May 3, 1963. Credit NBC
Opening with Andrew Young’s declaration that “one of the reasons Martin Luther King was so successful was that he understood television,” “Hope & Fury” begins with the invisibility of black life and racial suffering on American television before the 1957 coverage of the black students who desegregated Central High School in Little Rock, Ark. Before, it was black newspapers like The Baltimore Afro-American and The Chicago Defender that provided comprehensive reporting on African-Americans. The film reminds us that television images of federal troops protecting brave and innocent black youth from white protesters was new for white Americans and helped spark people’s consciences.
“Hope & Fury” largely relies on archival footage and commentary from former civil rights activists and historians as well as journalists both veteran (Tom Brokaw, Dan Rather, Moses Newson) and contemporary (Nikole Hannah-Jones of The New York Times and Chris Hayes and Joy-Ann Reid of MSNBC). And while an intense focus on the importance of television by a major news network risks veering toward the self-congratulatory, the film’s strength lies in its acknowledgment of a singular debt, not just to King, but to an ensemble of civil rights leaders. “Hope & Fury” is careful to show that it was the momentum of the civil rights movement that helped increase the audience of evening news, expand its format and enshrine its authority.Photo
The NBC news anchor Lester Holt in “Hope & Fury,” which examines the strained yet symbiotic relationship between civil rights activists and the emergent nightly television news. Credit NBC
On April 4 on the Paramount Network, “I Am MLK Jr.” will showcase the highlights of King’s activism, including the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the March on Washington. Directed by John Barbisan and Michael Hamilton, the documentary features older civil rights leaders like Jesse Jackson, contemporary media personalities like Van Jones and celebrities like Nick Cannon. An interview with Shaun King, a key figure in Black Lives Matter, is the film’s most obvious nod to how King’s activism has inspired action today. But, with the notable exception of Ms. Nash and a few others including her fellow SNCC member Rutha Mae Harris, the largely patrilineal tradition of black activism portrayed here overlooks those girls and women of color who have long been at the forefront of social justice movements.
Turning to the final chapters of King’s life, HBO’s “King in the Wilderness,” airing on April 2, presents an image of King that might be familiar to academics and leftist activists but unrecognizable to many Americans. The filmmakers pulled hundreds of news accounts from 1968-2014 about King, said Peter Kunhardt, the director. In most, he said, “the reporter would summarize him with the ‘I Have a Dream’ speech.” He went on, “It never went beyond that. So we were pleased to not deal with that aspect and look at the nightmare the dream turned into.”
New York Times, Opinion: What the Supreme Court Doesn’t Get About Racism, Editorial board, April 3, 2018 (print edition). The court has a chance to be more honest than it has been about discriminatory voting laws.
This is part of a series on voting in America, which will run up to Election Day in November. For Part 1, on the importance of voting, go here. And for Part 2, on a court case over a Kansas voter registration law, go here.
In the last speech of his life, on April 3, 1968, in Memphis, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. laid out the case for the dignity and equality of African-Americans as simply as he could. “We aren’t engaged in any negative protest and in any negative arguments with anybody. We are saying that we are determined to be men. We are determined to be people,” he said. “All we say to America is, ‘Be true to what you said on paper.’”
The moral clarity of that appeal is bracing, and so is the difficulty of achieving it — a fact that is evident nowhere as much as in the fight for voting rights. As Dr. King knew well, the history of voting in the United States was, and is, in large part the history of white people in power devising endless ways to keep black people from casting a ballot.
In the years before Mr. Trump’s election and in the time since, Republican lawmakers around the country aggressively pushed through laws to make voting harder for certain groups, particularly minorities. Poll taxes and literacy tests have given way to voter-ID laws, cutbacks to early voting and same-day registration, polling place closings, voter-roll purges, racially discriminatory redistricting and felon disenfranchisement laws — most of which, though justified on race-neutral grounds, harm minority voters more.
New York Times, The Lone Journalist on the Scene When King Was Shot and the Newsroom He Rallied, Staff report, April 3, 2018. Earl Caldwell wrote history on the night of April 4, 1968, when he reported firsthand on the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. for The New York Times. But he made history right before that, when he became the first black reporter The Times had assigned to follow the civil rights leader.
That night, Caldwell spearheaded the dozens of reporters, editors and photographers hastily assembled for the story — an additional first for a black journalist and, in a larger sense, another result of the campaign for greater black inclusion in American life that King had come to personify over the previous 13 years.
The milestones in King’s career — the Montgomery bus boycott, the protests in Birmingham, the marches on Washington and from Selma to Montgomery — had always been the province of white correspondents, principally native Southerners (Claude Sitton, Roy Reed, Gene Roberts and John Herbers, among them) steeped in racial matters for whom the major stops on the civil rights itinerary represented home turf. But that changed when King, in Memphis to support striking local sanitation workers, and Caldwell, there to follow him around, each checked into the Lorraine Motel on April 3.
Salon, LBJ vs. MLK: The truth about Johnson’s twisted approach to civil rights, Phillip F. Nelson, April 3, 2018. Excerpted with permission from Who REALLY Killed Martin Luther King Jr.? by Phillip F Nelson (published by Skyhorse, April 2018)..
The so-called collaboration between Lyndon Johnson and Martin Luther King Jr was brief and contentious.
Winston Churchill famously said, “History is written by the victors.” Truth is often the first casualty in the aftermath of conflict. The creation of mythological stories about real-life historical figures has become entrenched in every facet of American culture for a very long time. It can be argued that the legacies of many of the founders and early presidents—from Thomas Jefferson to Abraham Lincoln—have been written in such a way as to hide or minimize their less noble acts and highlight their most glorious accomplishments.
Likewise, the same phenomenon has prevailed with modern-day politicians fortunate enough to succeed to the highest offices. In the case of mid-twentieth-century leaders, it has taken nearly five decades for truth-seekers to sift out the myths — composed of subtle deceits and brazen lies — from the basest pure truths.
President Lyndon Johnson and FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover are the clearest examples of how the tension between myths and truths is still being wrought, in a continuing cultural movement that has no end in sight.
Three days before the opening of the movie "Selma," the self-described “historian” Mark Updegrove (the previous director — and recently named president — of the taxpayer-financed Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library), having seen a preview, then wrote a critical review, as if to prove Churchill’s original point.
His article, published in Politico (“What ‘Selma’ Gets Wrong,” December 22, 2014), stated that the movie distorted the relationship between President Johnson and the civil rights leader. Ironically, Updegrove claimed that the movie misrepresented historical truth when in fact it is Updegrove’s narrative that repeats the sanitized, mythical “history” of what was, in reality, a highly fractured, poisoned, and extremely short relationship between LBJ and MLK as their narrow mutual goals briefly intersected with their individual pursuits. (The two are shown together at the White House before their break.)
Memphis Commercial Appeal via USA Network, MLK50 in Memphis: Historian Taylor Branch urges nonviolence at symposium, Marc Perrusquia, April 3, 2018. Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Taylor Branch encouraged America to reject cynicism and embrace optimism as it negotiates a range of modern civil rights skirmishes, from the debate over police shootings to sexual harassment.
"We're trapped in cynicism,'' said Branch, delivering the keynote address Tuesday for the National Civil Rights Museum's MLK50 symposium, "Where Do We Go From Here?'' Branch, best known for his America in the King Years' trilogy detailing the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil rights movement's critical years, 1954 to 1968, told an estimated 800 guests at a University of Memphis luncheon that King was one of this nation's great optimists
. "We turned away from the message of Dr. King for 50 years,'' said the 71-year-old author, emphasizing that while King was no Pollyanna, he found hope in the nation's darkest corners. "The American people are infected with with racism. That is our peril,'' Branch said, quoting King. "The American people are also infected with democratic ideals. That is our hope.''
Branch's speech came fifty years to the day of King's last oration, his famous "Mountaintop Speech,'' and highlights three days of observances this week of King's April 4, 1968, assassination in Memphis, its 50th anniversary coming Wednesday.Branch won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1989 for his initial tome in the trilogy, Parting the Waters (shown at right), which chronicled the movement's early years, 1954-1963. He spoke also of his role as executive producer of HBO’s just-released “King in the Wilderness,” a documentary exploring the final year and a half of King's life. The film [trailer here 2:13 mins] focuses on the conflict surrounding the civil rights leader's controversial opposition to the Vietnam War and challenges he faced from younger, more militant leaders within the movement.
Memphis Commercial Appeal via USA Network, Panelists discuss why Memphis has seen little progress since MLK's death, Tom Charlier, April 3, 2018. A half-century after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated while crusading on behalf of poor sanitation workers in Memphis, local childhood poverty and black incarceration rates continue to soar, and the income gap between African-American and white households shows no sign of narrowing.
As panelists in a Tuesday discussion titled "Memphis 50 Years Later/Marching Forward" see it, those conditions didn't occur by accident. They are rooted in a historic plantation-style economy built on low wages and segregation.
"We need poor people. We don't want poor people to be educated, we don't want poor people to have access to decent wages. We attract people here because of that poverty, so...are we really invested in fixing it?" said Charles McKinney, associate professor of history at Rhodes College.
McKinney and four other panelists shared a stage at the University of Memphis to discuss Memphis' progress — or lack thereof — since King's assassination on April 4, 1968. The event was part of the National Civil Rights Museum's two-day MLK50 Symposium. The panelists spent most of their time outlining the local impediments to equality and fairness — everything from poor public transportation to disparities in school suspension rates to the lack of well-paying jobs.
"We've lost so many unions," said Michael Honey, a professor of the humanities at the University of Washington, Tacoma. "That used to be the entree point for the black middle class."
National Public Radio, 1968: How We Got Here: Conspiracy Theories About MLK's Death Continue, But Investigators Say Case Is Closed, Mary Louise Kelly, host; Justice reporter Carrie Johnson (right) and Audrey McNamara (intern), April 4, 2018. Authorities have investigated the death of Martin Luther King Jr. five times since his murder in April 1968. Congress, district attorneys and the Justice Department have all concluded that James Earl Ray shot King as he stood on a motel balcony in Memphis, but conspiracy theories about who was responsible for his death continue to flourish.
Justice Integrity Project editor's note on story above: The column above demonstrates the continued once-over-lightly if not disinformation approach of the mainstream media to the topic of cause of death. NPR's reporter Carrie Johnson (@johnson_carrie) demonstrates deference to selected former government authorities without any evident familiarity with the evidence itself. Thus, she and her network repeatedly misspell the name of the main defendant in the King family's civil suit, erroneously spelling his name as "Lloyd Jowers" instead of using the actual first name of "Loyd."
New York Times, Where Today’s Black Church Leaders Stand on Activism, John Eligon, April 4, 2018 (print edition). Fifty years after the assassination, black pastors are issuing a call to action and using different methods to achieve common goals.
Counterpoint Books, Killing King: Racial Terrorists, James Early Ray, and the Plot to Assassinate Martin Luther King Jr. by Stuart Wexler and Larry Hancock, April 4, 2018.
A message from co-author Larry Hancock: Killing King represents some eight years of research on the conspiracy that actually assassinated MLK Jr. It represents brand new research, explores leads only superficially examined by the FBI, identifies new sources and new suspects and is unlike anything you have read previously (unless you read The Awful Grace of God).
This new edition takes our study much deeper, with new documents which were not available previously and most importantly with some new names and connections, especially in connection to the money behind the plot, where it was raised and how it was moved - and connecting those names to James Earl Ray. The book also deals with the reasons why this story has not emerged up to this point in time. Enough said, if you want to sample the book and get a feel for its direction, the first chapter is available for free viewing now, courtesy of CrimeReads. You can find it here.
JFKMoon.org, MLK 50 Years Later: Truth and Reconciliation, Mark Robinowitz, April 4, 20128. 50 years ago, on April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King, Jr. was murdered in Memphis. Now, MLK is a cultural icon, memorialized by the federal holiday, with schools and roads named in his honor.
He is best known for his “I have a dream” speech at the 1963 March on Washington, but King’s legacy is far broader. In 1964, King was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. He received this as a responsibility to do more.
On April 4, 1967, at Riverside Church in New York City, he gave perhaps his most powerful speech, “Beyond Vietnam,” an indictment of what he called the “triple evils” of racism, militarism and poverty. Virtually the entire media attacked Dr. King for denouncing the war. Many of his allies ostracized him. Donations dropped to the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. He was never invited to the White House again.
In a 2016 article for Sojourners magazine, Rabbi Arthur Waskow recalled that King’s “friend and co-worker Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel was heard to mutter than by giving this profoundly radical speech he had signed his death warrant -- and indeed, exactly one year later, he was murdered.”
When King was killed, he had been organizing the “Poor People’s Campaign,” a second March on Washington. The plan was to camp on the National Mall by the US Capitol to demand the government address poverty (not only African Americans). Federal government leaders saw this as a dangerous threat. They feared MLK would not be able to keep the protest non-violent, especially after their demands were not met.
The official narrative of King’s assassination is that he was killed by James Earl Ray, supposedly a lone racist motivated by hate. King had received countless racist threats, but racism was not the only reason he was killed.
After some years, the King family suspected that James Earl Ray, the accused killer, was not the murderer. They asked their friend, attorney William Pepper, to investigate. Pepper had helped persuade King to speak out more against the war on Vietnam, and toward the end of Ray’s life, became Ray’s attorney.
Ray never had a trial. He was coerced into pleading guilty to avoid the electric chair -- and spent the rest of his life trying to withdraw that plea. The King family eventually supported Ray’s (unsuccessful) effort for a trial.
Ray died in prison in 1998. In 1999, the family filed a suit against Loyd Jowers and “other unknown co-conspirators.” Jowers owned the rooming house next to the Lorraine Motel where King was shot. He had admitted, in a public interview and in talks with Dexter King and Andrew Young, to have hidden the rifle that was used; fired, he said, by a Memphis police sharpshooter.
One piece of evidence that Ray was framed: several eyewitnesses said the shot was fired from bushes outside the rooming house. (Ray supposedly shot MLK from inside the building.). The next day, the City of Memphis cut down the bushes.
While Ray was a fugitive in Canada, he used multiple identities for actual people who superficially resembled him, a feat that required access to centralized government databases.
King v. Jowers did not seek to prosecute or punish anyone, but to use the legal system to expose the truth. (They only asked for a symbolic fine of $100 and no jail time.) The family was inspired by the “Truth and Reconciliation” process pioneered in South Africa after Apartheid, which gave amnesty for politically motivated crimes if the perpetrators were willing to confess in public. The jury heard three weeks of testimony and took one hour to reach a verdict: elements in the federal and local governments conspired with organized crime to kill King.
The family said the trial was “everything that the family members have to say about the assassination.” They said they “have done our part [and] those of you, if you find it in your hearts to get the ‘powers that be’ to officialize what 12 independent people have already done, that is your business.” Since then, there has not been a groundswell to highlight the implications for civil rights, issues of peace and war, and the contrast of poverty in the wealthiest nation in history.
Truth and Reconciliation applies not only to the perpetrators who ordered this and similar crimes of state, but also to the citizenry who have been hesitant to admit unpleasant parts of our history. The King family’s message of love and reconciliation could free our society from fear and divisiveness to reach our positive potentials.
Mark Robinowitz publishes www.JFKMoon.org, about President Kennedy’s 1963 effort to end the Cold War and convert the Moon race to a joint US – Soviet mission. He will present a paper on “Truth and Reconciliation for the National Insecurity State” at “Of Kennedys and Kings: Reinvestigating the RFK and MLK assassinations at 50.” Details at www.duq.edu/rfkmlk
Salon, Martin Luther King Jr. had a much more radical message than a dream of racial brotherhood, Paul Harvey (Professor of American History, University of Colorado), April 5, 2018. Martin Luther King Jr. has come to be revered as a hero who led a nonviolent struggle to reform and redeem the United States. His birthday is celebrated as a national holiday. Tributes are paid to him on his death anniversary each April, and his legacy is honored in multiple ways.
But from my perspective as a historian of religion and civil rights, the true radicalism of his thought remains underappreciated. The “civil saint” portrayed nowadays was, by the end of his life, a social and economic radical, who argued forcefully for the necessity of economic justice in the pursuit of racial equality.
Three particular works from 1957 to 1967 illustrate how King’s political thought evolved from a hopeful reformer to a radical critic....By 1967, King’s philosophy emphasized economic justice as essential to equality. And he made clear connections between American violence abroad in Vietnam and American social inequality at home.
Exactly one year before his assassination in Memphis, King stood at one of the best-known pulpits in the nation, at Riverside Church in New York. There, he explained how he had come to connect the struggle for civil rights with the fight for economic justice and the early protests against the Vietnam War.
He proclaimed:“Now it should be incandescently clear that no one who has any concern for the integrity and life of America today can ignore the present war. If America’s soul becomes totally poisoned, part of the autopsy must read ‘Vietnam.’ It can never be saved so long as it destroys the hopes of men the world over.”
He angered crucial allies. King and President Lyndon Johnson, for example, had been allies in achieving significant legislative victories in 1964 and 1965. Johnson’s “Great Society” launched a series of initiatives to address issues of poverty at home. But beginning in 1965, after the Johnson administration increased the number of U.S. troops deployed in Vietnam, King’s vision grew radical.
King continued with a searching analysis of what linked poverty and violence both at home and abroad. While he had spoken out before about the effects of colonialism, he now made the connection unmistakably clear. He said: "I speak for those whose land is being laid waste, whose homes are being destroyed, whose culture is being subverted. I speak for the poor in America who are paying the double price of smashed hopes at home, and death and corruption in Vietnam.”
King concluded with the famous words on “the fierce urgency of now,” by which he emphasized the immediacy of the connection between economic injustice and racial inequality.
Washington Post, Retropolis: The Past, Rediscovered: In 1968, MLK was dead. Cities were burning. Could James Brown keep Boston from erupting, too? Terence McArdle, April 5, 2018 (7:28 min. WGBH video). Brown’s band feared for his safety. But Boston officials begged him to take the stage. James Brown's televised concert in Boston a day after Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination is credited with sparing the city the unrest seen elsewhere.
Detroit Public TV / American Black Journal, The Plot To Kill King, Hosted by Stephen Henderson (above with guest), April 6, 2018 (2:43 mins). Who killed Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. fifty years ago? We'll delve into the decades long belief by some that Dr. King's assassination was the result of a government plot. Stephen talks with William Pepper, the former attorney for the King family and the author of a book detailing the conspiracy theory.
Displays at the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, TN. Photo credit: U.S. Department of Agriculture / Flickr / WhoWhatWhy
WhoWhatWhy, Revealing the Ploy That Drew MLK to Memphis, William Pepper, April 6, 2018. On February 1, 1968, two underpaid sanitation workers died a gruesome death in Memphis when they were swallowed alive by a poorly maintained garbage packer. In his book, The Plot to Kill King: The Truth Behind the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., Dr. William Pepper claims the deaths were not an accident. Instead, he argues, they were part of a ploy to get Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to return to Memphis so he could be murdered.
Pepper believes this alleged plan, which he says was hatched by the Dixie Mafia family of Russell Adkins in coordination with Memphis Director of Police and Fire Frank Holloman, led to the assassination of King 50 years ago this week.
To anybody who only knows King from current history books as a celebrated and revered civil rights leaders, it would seem odd that there were forces high in the US government who wanted to see him dead at the time.
Those who lived during that era of strife, however, know firsthand of the animosity King faced at every turn. His life was in danger every step he took on that long march toward equality in the US. The list of those who wanted to see King dead was probably as long as his accomplishments.
In the end, however, his assassination, like several others of that turbulent decade, was ascribed to a lone gunman, James Earl Ray. But skeptics, including King’s own family and the jurors of a 1999 civil court case in Memphis, have questioned that explanation for five decades. For that narrative may shield a darker, more disturbing truth about King’s assassination — that he threatened a racial and economic power structure that was capable of going to great lengths to silence him.
OpEdNews, The Washington Post's 'Breakthrough' on the MLK Murder, Dr. William F. Pepper and Andrew Kreig, April 7, 2018. For the fiftieth anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s murder, the Washington Post last week overcame its tainted history of softball coverage and published a hard-hitting account quoting the King family's disbelief in the guilt of convicted killer James Earl Ray.
The bold, top-of-the-front-page treatment on April 2 of reporter Tom Jackman's in-depth piece --The Past Rediscovered: Who killed Martin Luther King Jr.? -- represents a major turning point in the treatment of the case for the past five decades by mainstream media. Print, broadcast and all too many film makers and academics have consistently soft-pedalled the ballistic, eye-witness and other evidence that undermines the official story of King's death.
This time, the Post and Jackman, an experienced reporter, undertook bold but long overdue initiative. One can only hope that it leads to similar coverage -- rigorous and fair -- for other history-changing events, including current ones that are inherently secret.
Global Research News Hour, The Plot to Kill Martin Luther King: “We All Knew He [Ray] Was Not the Shooter,” A Conversation with William Pepper on Global Research (Episode 215) Dr. William Pepper and Michael Welch, April 7, 2018.
A single bullet from an assassin’s rifle targeted Martin Luther King the evening of April 4th 1968 while he stood on the third floor balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. The murder was rightly recognized as a tragedy for the progress of civil rights and anti-racist struggle in the United States.
William Pepper’s account of King’s death, as encompassed in three books, including his latest, The Plot to Kill King: The Truth Behind the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., provides an indispensable resource for those not content with the official story of King’s Murder. Not only does his work lay out more than three decades of diligent research into the assassination, including an under-reported wrongful death civil trial in 1999, it provides a notable case study on how and why high-level conspiracies, involving government entities, carry out crimes and successfully conceal them from the public.
In this 50th anniversary commemoration of the death of one of America’s most inspiring crusaders for social and economic justice, the Global Research News Hour is proud to present this exclusive feature-length interview with Dr. William Pepper. A transcript of the entire conversation is available below.
We asked Dr. William Pepper to give us some background on how he came to be associated with Martin King.
William Pepper: I had been a journalist in Vietnam, and when I returned, I published an article in Ramparts Magazine, called The Children of Vietnam, that dealt with American war crimes and some of the reality of the war. He was a subscriber to Ramparts, saw the piece, read the piece, was very distressed by it, and asked to meet with me. So I met him and opened up more files to him, and he was devastated by what his government was doing. I then worked with him that last year of his life, really, for the National Conference for New Politics. He asked me to run that, and we were looking to have a King-Spock ticket which was subverted at a convention on Labor Day weekend in Chicago.
Global Research (GR): You’re talking about Dr. Benjamin Spock.
WP: Yes, it was ….Dr. Benjamin Spock. That was their projection for the ticket.
GR: And, course, the assassination was taking place, took place, on April 4 1968, and this would have been right in the middle of the U.S. primary season.
WP: Yes, it was, it was. And, of course, we didn’t have that third party ticket because the convention with 5,000 delegates was subverted, disrupted by government agents who made it impossible to run this kind of ticket because the attending black caucus, a small part, but a disruptive part, Blackstone Rangers began to introduce anti-semitic resolutions which drove away all of the northern liberal Jewish money, so it cut the legs off from under that potential campaign.
GR: Interesting. Now, when it came to the assassination, you originally accepted the official story that James Earl Ray was the lone killer. He had been in a rooming house across from the motel where King had been staying, or at least he had a room checked out, and that was the official line. He pled guilty in 1969 and was sentenced to 99 years.
GR: At what point did you start to doubt that official take on events?
WP: Well, I began to doubt it when I interrogated Ray for 5 hours in August of ‘78. Abernathy wanted me to do that. He and I and Jim Lawson and a psychiatrist friend of mine attended effectively that interrogation at the Brushy Mountain Penitentiary in August. And it raised a number of issues and number of facts that conflicted with the official story, and so I decided at that point to begin to look into it and see what I could find out for myself.
And that’s really when this 40-year investigation began, following the interrogation of Ray. I would go to see him periodically and give questions and ask questions and try to get more information from him, and he kept asking me to represent him, and I refused to do so until 1988, which was 10 years after I met him, because I had to be certain that he was… we all knew he was not the shooter. That was evident from the interrogation that I conducted in ‘78. But what we didn’t know was what role he might have played in terms of the assassination. It took 10 years for me to be convinced that he was an unknowing patsy.
Consortium News, The Washington Post’s ‘Breakthrough’ on the MLK Murder, William F. Pepper and Andrew Kreig, April 10, 2018. The Washington Post broke with recent corporate media practice by daring to raise questions about who killed Martin Luther King Jr., as William F. Pepper and Andrew Kreig explain.
The bold, top-of-the-front-page treatment on April 2 of reporter Tom Jackman’s in-depth piece —“The Past Rediscovered: Who killed Martin Luther King Jr.?” — represents a major turning point in the treatment of the case for the past five decades by mainstream media. Print, broadcast and all too many film makers and academics have consistently soft-pedaled ballistic, eye-witness and other evidence that undermines the official story of King’s death.
This time, the Post and Jackman, an experienced reporter, undertook bold but long overdue initiative. One can only hope that it leads to similar coverage — rigorous and fair — for other history-changing events, including current ones that are inherently secret.
Global Research, Propaganda, Disinformation and Dirty Tricks: James Earl Ray Was Innocent of the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., Gary G. Kohls, April 11, 2018. Dr Kohls is a retired physician from Duluth, MN, USA. He writes a weekly column for the Duluth Reader, the area’s alternative newsweekly magazine.
Many American myths over the past century involve the alleged “lone assassins” who murdered national leaders like President Kennedy, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy. These myths have been successfully perpetuated, thanks to a complicit mainstream media that is afraid to tell any of the many stories that refute the official stories that have been firmly established in the minds of the “rank and file” by powerful anti-democratic entities that include the CIA and the FBI, despite the overwhelming evidence that would prove in any legitimate court of law that those dramatic world-changing assassinations were indeed the result of high-level conspiracies involving deep state think tanks, disinformation campaigns, dirty tricks, death threats, the silencing of whistle-blowers and eye-witnesses, and with the essential help from the deep state-approved mainstream media.
Documentable stories that totally refutes the official stories are often reported by eye-witnesses and reporters on Day One of the dramatic event. But the official cover-ups and revisionism usually only get their start in earnest on Day Two, usually because the Deep State hasn’t gotten their false stories coordinated and “revealed” to the newspapers of record and the major television networks that will then willingly join the cover-up starting on Day Two.)
The most recent egregious example of perpetuating the totally disproven “crazed lone-gunman” assassination myth (therefore making it “not a conspiracy”) occurred the day before the 50th anniversary of MLK’s assassination on April 3, 2018. On that date PBS aired its shameful “The Road to Memphis”, the American Experience documentary that “proved” that James Earl Raywas the assassin that killed Martin Luther King, Jr. As if Joseph Goebbels was behind the Big Lie, none of the facts about the 1999 jury trial that exonerated Ray from all charges of murder were mentioned.
Immediately below is the most concise article that I have found online articulating the established facts that William Pepper has so tirelessly gathered that proved the innocence of James Earl Ray. The article below was written for Global Research by Asad Ismi two years ago (type in ”Asad Ismi” at Global Research). [Global Research, Who Killed Martin Luther King? The Cover-Up of the Century, Asad Ismi, Jan. 19, 2016.]
The truly guilty conspirators who plotted and/or carried out King’s assassination include the Deep State operatives such as the afore-mentioned highly secretive conspiratorial groups such as the CIA, the infamous J Edgar Hoover, Hoover’s equally infamous and very racist FBI at the time, the Pentagon, the US military’s sniper squads, the racist Memphis Police Department, the Mafia, assorted war-profiteers, the mainstream media, and many elected and non-elected officials that exist at every level of government.
Recent Books (Arranged by Author's names)
Goudsouzian, Aram and Charles W. McKinney Jr. (Eds., with 15 other contributors). An Unseen Light: Black Struggles for Freedom in Memphis, Tennessee. University Press of Kentucky, 2018.
King, Steven. Martin Luther King & JFK: 50th Anniversary 1968 - 2018. CreateSpace, 2018
Nelson, Philip F. Who REALLY Killed Martin Luther King Jr.?: The Case Against Lyndon B. Johnson and J. Edgar Hoover. Skyhorse, 2018.
Perrusquia, Marc. A Spy In Canaan: How the FBI Used a Famous Photographer To Infiltrate the Civil Rights Movement. Melville House, 2018.
Walker, J. Samuel. Most of 14th Steet Is Gone. The Washington Riots of 1968. Oxford University, 2018.
Wexler, Stuart and Larry Hancock. Killing King: Racial Terrorists, James Earl Ray, and the Plot to Assassinate Martin Luther King. Counterpoint, 2018.
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Corbett Report, Interview 1272 – William Pepper Reveals Who Really Killed MLK, James Corbett, April 29, 2017. Dr. William Pepper’s remarkable 40 year investigation into the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. is summarized in his equally remarkable book, The Plot to Kill King: The Truth Behind the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. In this conversation we discuss Dr. Pepper’s relationship with Dr. King, the mind-blowing evidence that destroys the official story of the assassination, who really killed MLK, and the complete media blackout that has served to keep this information from the public for half a century.
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What to Expect from Cremation Services in Millersview, TX
Cremation services in Millersview, TX completely understand how you will be devastated by the loss of a loved one and will need help and assistance in arranging a cremation.
One of the main reasons that people regularly choose a cremation over a burial is linked to the cremation costs in Millersview, TX. The final bill for cremating a person is usually far lower than the cost of arranging a burial because you do not have to pay for the land, its preparation and then the long-term upkeep.
Across all of America cremations are rapidly increasing as the most popular choice of interment and it is predicted that over 50% of people will choose cremation within the next 20 years or so. An exact and full price list will be passed to the person organizing the cremation so that you fully understand all of the cremation costs in Millersview, TX.
Why Do People Choose Cremation in Millersview, TX?
When you have experienced standing around a graveside as the body is lowered into the earth, it is an experience that many prefer to forget. The very different, and less dramatic experience of attending a cremation, focuses more on the person who has died rather than the events organized by Millersview, TX cremation services.
Some religions will only accept a cremation as the only option for interment and this will be explained by cremation services in Millersview, TX. In the past, other religions would not accept a cremation as an alternative, but in modern times, the majority of religions are completely accepting of the cremation method being used.
Were you to cast a survey, you would find that modern cemeteries are regarded as extremely sterile and lacking of great character and if you live in a colder area, a grave is a difficult place to visit because of the weather, especially the snow and even more so in a northern state. This explains why many people look at the Millersview, TX cremation costs and choose it as their best option
In the majority of states, you can care for the deceased at your own home, but the majority of people will prefer that cremation services in Millersview, TX will undertake the facility.
Millersview, TX cremation services will explain that the body of the deceased is placed into a container which can be a coffin or casket, but a simple and suitable container is all that the law requires. At the crematorium, the employees will remove jewelry and medical devices, like pacemakers, to reduce the safety hazards for the cremation process. An efficient tagging system is used so that the individual can always be properly identified.
The individual will be cremated in the furnace at temperatures between 1400?F and 2000?F during the course of 2 to 3 hours, when the body will be reduced completely to fine powder, mostly a grey color. These are the ashes that are then returned to the nominated person as part of the cremation costs in Millersview, TX.
All of the options related to the memorial service will be carefully discussed with Millersview, TX cremation services.
The Millersview, TX cremation costs will detail whether the crematorium will be supplying a standard urn to return the ashes to you or whether you have opted to purchase a model for display which you may decide to use for a number of years.
The individual is always cremated alone, so you can rest assured that the ashes being returned to you are always correct and all of the procedures will be explained in detail by Millersview, TX cremation services.
Religious Questions in Millersview, TX
Some religious groups will require for a cremation to be completed inside 24 hours after the death of the person. This will be arranged by the funeral director and included within the Millersview, TX cremation costs, once all of the legal documentation is complete.
There are so many things that you need to think about after someone has died so you should not be worried about leaning heavily on the skills and experience offered by Millersview, TX cremation services.
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Home » Property Law • Study Material » TPA – Introduction and Important Definitions
TPA – Introduction and Important Definitions
The Transfer of Property Act came into existence in 1882. Before that the transfer of immovable property were governed by principles of English law and equity. Preamble of Act sets out the objectives of legislation. The purpose if Act is to defined and ‘certain’ parts of the Law of transfer of property. Scope of this Act is limited. It applies only to transfer by the act of parties not by operation of law. Also this Act deals with a transfer of property inter vivos, i.e., a transfer between living persons. It contains transfer of both movable and immovable property but a major portion of the enactment is applicable to the transfers of immovable properties only. The Act is not exhaustive.
Statutory Definitions (Section 3)
Immovable Property
Definition in Section 3 is not exhaustive. It says only that ‘immovable property’ does not include standing timber growing crops or grass. Definition of immovable property in Section 3(26) of General Clauses Act, 1897, is also not exhaustive. It defines immovable property as it shall include land, benefits to arises out of land, and things attached to earth. Thus we find that while Transfer of property excludes certain things. General Clauses Act, includes certain things under the head ‘immovable property’. By combing both definitions, we may say that, the term includes land, benefits to arises out of lands, and things attached to the earth, except standing timber, growing crops and grass.
(A)Land: It means a determinate portion of the earths surface, which may be covered by water, the column of surface above the surface, the ground beneath the surface. All the objects which are on or under the surface in its natural State are included in the term land. Also all objects placed by human agency on or under the surface with the intention of permanent annexation are immovable property, e.g., Building, wall, fences.
(B) Benefits to arise out of land: Apart from physical point of view, every benefits arise out of land is also regarded as immovable property. Registration Act also includes as immovable property benefits to arise out of land, hereditary allowances, right of way, lights, ferries and fisheries. In Anand Behera v. State of Orissa, AIR 1956 SC 17, the right to catch away fish from chilka lake, over a number of years, was held to be an equivalent of profits a pendre in England and a benfits to arise out of land in India. Similarly, a right to collect a rent and profits of immovable property, right to collect dues from a fair or heat or market on a land are immovable property.
(C)Things attached to earth: Section 3 of transfer of property defines the expression ‘attached to earth’ as including (1) things rooted in the earth, (2) things embedded in the earth, (3) things attached to what is so embedded, and (4) chattel attached to earth or building.
(1) Things rooted in earth include trees and shrubs, except standing timber, growing crops and grasses (Section 3, TPA). Whether tress regarded as movable or immovable depends upon the circumstances of the case. If the intention is that trees should continue to have the benefit of further sustenance or nutriment by the soil (land), e.g., enjoining their fruits, then such tree is immovable property. But if the intention is to out them down sooner or later for the purpose utilising the wood for building or other industrial purpose, they would be timber and of accordingly be regarded as movable property (Shantabai v. State of Bombay, AIR 1958 SC 532) determining whether the tree is movable or immovable, the intention if party is important if the parties intend that the tree should continue to have the benefit of further nutriment to be afforded by soil, the tree is immovable property. But if intention is to withdraw the tree from land, and the land is providing it only as a warehouse, it is to be treated as movable property.
(2)Things embedded in earth: It includes such things as house, buildings, etc., however certain things like an anchor imbedded in the land to hold a ship is not a immovable property’ to determine whether such things are movable or immovable property, depends upon circumstances of each case and there are two main conditions to indicate intention:
the degree or mode of annexation, e.g. tie-up seats fastened to the floor of cinema halls are immovable property on brick-work and timber and tepestries;
the object of annexation, for, e.g., Blocks of stone placed one on the top of other without any mater or cement for the purpose of forming a dry wall, will become part of land, so immovable property, but not the stones deposited in the builder’s yard.
(3) Things attached to what is so embedded must be for the permanent beneficial enjoyment of the to which it is attached, as section says for, e.g., door and windows of a house are immovable property to be permanent, like electric fans or widow blinds, they are movable property.
(4)Chattel attached to earth or building if a chattel, i.e., movable property is attached to earth or building, if is immovable property. The degree, manner, extent and strength of attachment are the main features to be regarded in determining the question. Standing timber, growing crops and grasses are regarded as severable from land and they are regarded as movable property. However if they and the land on which they stand is sold, such standing timber, growing crops or grasses will pass to purchases.
(d) Standing timber: The word standing timber includes Babool Tree, Shisham, Nimb, Papal Banyan, Teak, Bamboo, etc. The fruit berating tree like Mango, Mahua, Jackfruit, Jamun, etc., are not standing timber, and they are immovable properties ( Fatimabibi v. Arrfana Begum, AIR 1980 All 394). But if intention is to cut them down sooner or later for the purpose utilising them as timber, and not to use them for the purpose of enjoying their fruits, they are regarded as movable property. (T.A. Sankunni v. B.J. Philips, AIR 1972 Mad 272).
(e) Growing crops: Growing crops includes creepers like pan, angoor, etc., millets (Wheat, Sugarcane, etc.), Veg like Lauki, Kaddo, etc. These crops don’t have any own independent existence beyond their final produce.
(f) Grasses: It can only be used as fodder, and no other use is possible. Therefore it is movable. But a contract to cut grass will be an interest in chattel, so is immovable property. The following has been judicially recognised as immovable property:
(1) Right to collect rent of immovable property.
(2) Right to dues from a fair on a piece of land.
(3) A right of fisheries.
(4) A right of terry.
(5) A right of way.
(6) Hereditary offices.
(7) The interest of a mortgagee in immovable property.
Minerals: Upon transfer of immovable property, things not only rooted to it, but also anything found deep down below the property goes along with the transfer. All minerals below the land sole are immovable property.
Movable Property
Transfer of property does not define movable property. In General Clauses Act, it is defined as “Property of every description except immovable property”. Some examples are right of worship, royalty, machinery not attached to earth which can be shifted, a decree for arrear of rent, etc.
Attestation has been defined in Section 3 of Transfer of Property Act as under:—”attested”, in relation to an instrument, means and shall be deemed always to have meant attested by two or more witnesses each of whom has seen the executant sign or affix his mark to the instrument, or has seen some other person’s sign the instrument in the presence and by the direction of the executant a personal acknowledgment of his signature or mark, or of the signature of such other person, and each of whom has signed the instrument in the presence of the executant, but it shall not be necessary that more that one of such witnesses shall have been present at the same time, and no particular form of attestation shall be necessary.
To ‘attest’ means to sign and witness any fact of execution by the executant. It means that a person has signed the document by way of testimony of the fact that he saw it executed.
Following are the essential requisites of a valid attestation-
There must be two or more attesting witness.
Each witness must see—(a) the executant sign or affix his mark (thumb impression) to the instrument; (b) or, see some other person sign the instrument in the presence, and by the direction, of the executant; (c) or, receive from the executant a personal acknowledgment of his signature or mark or of the signature of such other person.
Each witness must sign the instrument in the presence of executant.
Each witness must sign only after the executant is complete.
It is not necessary that more than one of such witnesses should be present at the same time.
No particular form of attestation is necessary.
Attestor Should be sui generis, i.e., capable of entering into contract.
The witness should have put his signature animo attestandi (intention to attest).
A. person who is a party to transfer cannot attest it as a witness. The object of attestation is to protect the executant form being required to execute a document by other party thereto by force, fraud, or undue influence, a party to the transaction cannot laid down in Kumar Harish Chandra v Banshidhar Mahanty, AIR 1965 SC 1738
Effect of invalid attestation it makes the deed of transfer of property involved, and therefore no property invalid and therefore no property passes under it. The document cannot be enforced in the court of law.
A person is said to have a notice of a fact when he actually knows that fact, or when, but for willful abstention from an inquiry or search which he ought to have made, or gross negligence, he would have known it (Section 3).
Section 3 of Transfer of Property Act enumerates three kinds of notices—
(a) Actual or express notice
(b) Constructive or implies notice
(c) Imputed notice.
Actual notice: A person is said to have actual notice/express notice of a fact if he actually knows it. It must be definite information given in the course of negotiations by person interested in the property. A person is not bound to attend vague rumors.
Constructive notice: It is a notice which treats a person who ought to have known a fact, as if he actually knows it. A person has constructive notice of all the facts of which he would have acquired actual notice had he made those inquiries which he ought reasonably to have made. Constructive notice has roughly been defined as knowledge which the court imputes to a person upon a presumption so strong that it cannot be rebutted that the knowledge must be obtained.
Legal presumption of knowledge arise when—(1) There is willful abstention from an enquiry or search. It means willful or deliberate abstention to take notice of a fact which a reasonable man would have taken in the normal cause of life. It is such abstention from enquiry or search as would show want of bona fides in respect of a particular transaction.
(i.) A contracts to sell his house to B. The house is on rent and B knows that the tenants have been paying the rents to C. B has constructive notice of the right of C to take rents from the tenants.
(ii) A propose to sell his property to B, who at the same time knows that rents due in respect of the property are paid by the tenants to a third person X. B will be fixed with notice of the right of X. [Hunt v. Lack, (1902) 1 Ch 429.]
(iii) A refuses a registered letter, which contains information relating to property which A propose to purchase. A will be deemed to have notice of the contents of the latter. [Ismail Khan’ v. Kali Krishna, (1901) 6 Cal WN 134]
(2) Gross negligence: Negligence means carelessness or omission to do such act which a man of ordinary prudence would do. Doctrine of constructive notice applies when a person, but his gross negligence would have known the fact. Mere negligence is not penalised. It should be high degree of neglect. In Hudston v. Vincy, (1921) 1 Ch 98, Eve J. said, “Gross negligence does not mean mere carelessness, but means carelessness of so aggravated a nature as to indicate a attitude of mental indifference to obvious risk.” It can be described as ‘a degree of negligence so gross that a court of justice may treat it as evidence of fraud, impute a fraudulent motive to it and visit it with the consequences of fraud’.
In Ltoyds Bank Ltd. v. P.E. Guzders and Co. Ltd., (1929) 56 Cal 868, a person A deposited title deeds of his house in Calcutta with Bank. N to secure the loan he had taken from the bank. Subsequently, A represented the Bank that intending purchases of the house wanted to see the title deeds. The bank returned the deeds to A who deposited the deeds with the plaintiff bank in order to secure a loan. It was held that the Bank N, on account of gross negligence in parting with the deed has lost its prior rights with respect of the house.
In Imperial Bank of India v. U. Raj Gyaw, (1923) 50 IA 283, a purchases was informed that the title deeds were in possession of a bank for safe custody and omitted to make any inquiry from bank It was held that he was guilty of gross negligence and was deemed to have notice of the rights of the bank which had the custody of the deeds.
Registration as notice: Explanation I to Section 3 provides that ‘where any transaction relating to immovable property is required by law to be and has been effected by a registered instrument, any person acquiring such property or any part, or share or interest in such property shall be deemed to have notice of such instrument as from the date of registration, ‘Thus any person interested in the transaction which is registered under the provisions of the Indian Registration Act, 1908 cannot plead that he has no notice of the transfer made under the deed.
In order that, registration may be treated as constructive notice of its content, following conditions must be satisfied:
(i) The instrument must be compulsorily registrable.
(ii) All the formalities prescribed under the Registration Act are duly completed in the manner prescribed.
(3) The instrument and particulars must be correctly entered in the registers.
After registration, document becomes a public document and the title can be confirmed in the Registrar’s office.
(4) Actual possession as notice of Title: Explanation II of Section 3 provides that, “any person acquiring any immovable property or any share or interest in such property shall be deemed to have notice of the title, if any, of any person who is for the time being in actual possession thereof. “Thus in order to operate as constructive notice, possession must be actual, i.e., de facto possession. It amounts to notice of title in another, e.g., A leased a house and garden to B who takes possession of the properties. A then sells the said properties to C. C is deemed to have constructive notice of B’s rights over these properties, i.e., C cannot plead that he had no knowledge (notice) of the fact of B’s possession on the properties [Deniels v. Davison, (1809) 16 Ves 240].
Imputed notice
Explanation III to Section 3 provides that, “A person shall be deemed to have had notice of any fact if his agent acquires notice thereof whilst acting on his behalf in the course of business to Which that fact is material:
Provided that, if the agent fraudulently conceals the fact, the principal shall not be charged with notice thereof as against any person who was a party to or otherwise cognizant of the fraud”
This is based on the maxim Qui facit per alium facit per se, i.e., he who does by another, does by himself. In Mohori Bibee v. D. Gliosh, (1903) 30 Cal 539, held that although the principle was absent from Calcutta and did not take part in the transaction personally, his agent in Calcutta stood in his place for the purposes of the transaction and the acts and knowledge of the latter were the acts and knowledge of the principal.
Actionable Claim
Section 3 of the Transfer of Property Act, 1882 defines actionable claim as, “it means a claim Actionable Claim to any debt, another then a debt secured by mortgage of immovable property or by hypothecation or pledge of movable property or to any beneficial interest in movable property , not in the possession, either actual or constructive, of the claimant, which the civil courts recognise as affording grounds for relief, whether such debt or beneficial interest be existent, accruing, conditional or contingent.”
Thus according to Section 3, actionable claim means—
a claim to unsecured debt, or
a claim to beneficial interest in movable property not in possession of the claimant.
Debt: A debt is an obligation to pay a liquidated sum of money. The amount of money must be certain, otherwise it is not debt. For an actionable claim, a debt must be unsecured debt, for secured debts are excluded from the definition of actionable claim, e.g., A owes Rs. 10.00 to B. B’s claim is an actionable claim.
Debits secured by a mortgage of immovable property or by a pledge of movable property are excluded from the definition of actionable claim, because they are secured debt.
Claim to beneficial interest not in possession of the claimant: Actionable claim includes a claim to any beneficial interest in movable property, not in the possession of the claimant, interest or the right of possession of claimant is recognised by the court. (However a claim for demands, i.e., for an unascertained. sum of money or a claim for mesne profits does not come within the definition if actionable claim), e.g., A agrees to sell to B bales of cotton deliverable on a future day B has a beneficial interest in the goods and it is an actionable claim.
Some instance of actionable claim:
(a) Claim for arrears of rent.
(b) Claim for the money due under insurance policy (Shamdas v. Savitri, AIR 1937 Sind 24)
(c) Claim for the return of earnest money.
(d) A share in partnership.
(e) maintenance allowance payable in future.
(f) fixed deposit in a bank.
(g) right to the proceeds of business.
(h) Hire-Purchase agreement.
Instances of claims which are not actionable:
(a) A copyright,
(b) Claim for mesne profits,
(c) Secured debt,
(d) Right to get damages,
(e) A debt which has passed into a decree.
Transfer of Actionable Claims
Actionable claims are transferable properties, thus it can be transferred by way of sale, mortgage, gift or exchange. Section 130 of Transfer of Property Act provides the mode of effecting the transfer of actionable claims, and its effect. It provides—
The transfer of an actionable claim whether with or without consideration shall be effected only by the execution of an instrument m writing signed by the transferor or his duty unauthorized agent, shall be complete and effectual upon the execution of such instruments, and thereupon all the rights and remedies of the transferor, whether by way of damages or otherwise, shall rest in the transferee, whether such notice of the transfer as is hereinafter provided be given or not:
Provided that every dealing with debt or other actionable claim by the debtor or other person from or against whom the transferors would, but for such instrument of transfer as aforesaid, have been entitled to recover or enforce such debt or other actionable claim, shall (save where the debtor or other person is a party to the transfer or has received express notice thereof as hereinafter provided) be valid as against such transfer.
(2) The transferee of an actionable claim may, upon the execution of such instrument of transfer as aforesaid, sue or institute proceedings for the same in his own name without obtaining the transferor’s consent to such suit or proceeding and without making him a party thereto.” Section 131 of the Act provides that the notice should be in writing signed. It provides:
“Every notice of transfer of an actionable claim shall be in writing signed by the transferor or his agent duly authorised in this behalf, or in case the transferor refuses to sign, by the transferee or his agent, and shall state the name and address of the transferee.”
Section 132 of the Act provides the liability of transferee of actionable claim. It reads, “The transferee of an actionable claim shall take it subject to all the liabilities and equities to which the transferor was subject in respect thereof at the date of the transfer”. ,
E.g., A transfers to C a debt due to him by B, A being then indebted to B. C sues B for the debt due by B to A. In such suit it is entitled to set off the debt due by A to him; although C was unaware of it at the date of such transfer.
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Young props deserve praise, says Tom
15 March 2019 11:30 By Jonathan Whitney
Former Tigers loosehead turned coach Boris Stankovich has been key to Joe Heyes' development, according to club captain Youngs.
Leicester Tigers club captain Tom Youngs has singled out two young props for praise.
Development tighthead Joe Heyes, 19, made his first Gallagher Premiership start on Friday night at Sale while Facundo Gigena, 24, crossed the whitewash for his side’s only try on his third league start in the number one shirt.
And Youngs, who completed the starting front row, spoke of his pride in the two players after the final whistle had blown.
“I’m immensely proud of them,” he said. “They’ve both got a really good future in the game.
“Joe Heyes is just 19, and he’s got a really bright future. He’s got a great mentor in the form of Dan Cole in front of him and Boris Stankovich who’s coaching him, and he played very well [against Sale].
“He’s come on leaps and bounds and he’s only going to get better.”
Meanwhile Gigena, who joined Tigers at the start of 2018, has enjoyed a purple patch at loosehead in recent games, starting three league games in a row in the absence of England international Ellis Genge.
“I think there’s a really good core of young players coming through.”
Tom Youngs
Youngs explained that the front rower – capped by Argentina as a 21-year-old – is developing his game, as demonstrated by collecting the LeoVegas Fans’ Favourite award after the match.
“Facundo has been really good,” he added. “He’s started the last three games and played really well in all of them.
“He’s grown a lot since joining the club, because he was always good at set piece, but he’s grown his game around the park and he’s just getting better and better.”
The skipper also commended the other young players who have been forced to step up into the first team in recent weeks through international calls and well-documented injury blight.
The backs division at Sale had just 36 Premiership starts for Tigers between them, with Harry Simmons starting at scrum-half for his first club appearance in nine months, and 18-year-old academy back Freddie Steward making his debut off the bench in the final minutes.
Youngs continued: “I think there’s a really good core of young players coming through.
“If we can give them that opportunity now, then hopefully they will benefit from that in 12, 18 months’ time. That’s the journey we’re on at the moment and that’s where we’re going.
“If we can dip them in with experienced players around them, suddenly they’re a lot more relaxed, and they haven’t got to think about the broader picture. They’ve just got to focus on their little job.
“But they’ve had to stand up together and I have to take off my hat to them.”
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Denny Triangle high-rise may utilize Ikea-esque modular construction technology
Sydney Parker Feb 3, 2016
The downtown Seattle design review board met yesterday to discuss the proposal for 1800 Terry, a unique 36-story, 360-unit residential building with 7,600 square feet of ground floor retail and parking for 290 vehicles across six levels in the Denny Triangle.
Rendering: CollinsWoerman
Owner Seawest Investment Associates has teamed up with architect CollinsWoerman and landscape designer Brumbaugh & Associates to make 1800 Terry the first Seattle DPD Priority Green urban high-rise project. According to the proposal, the building’s infrastructure would be green-focused, “utilizing solar-powered unit heating and domestic hot water; a grey water treatment system, and LED/low voltage lighting throughout the building.” One of the options for the proposed building plan would employ Sustainable Living Innovation’s patented modular construction technology. Haven’t heard of it? Here’s Puget Sound Business Journal to break it down:
“Modular buildings are put together a bit like Ikea furniture. Customers buy a kit of parts and then have to assemble them. In the case of a building, apartments are built in a factory and shipped to the construction site where cranes lift and stack the units on the the frame of the building.”
But what about the meatballs? The method was designed to reduce water and energy use by 50 percent and shave 20 percent off construction costs for comparable buildings, reports Sustainable Living Innovation. If this method is chosen, 1800 Terry would be the first Seattle high-rise to use the technology.
The smaller 47+7 apartment building in University Village was built using this method in 2015. According to the SLI website, the project took less than a year to complete. The U-District project broke ground August 4th, 2014 and was finished April 1st, 2015. The design was recently honored at the People’s Choice Urban Design Awards.
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SLI has an exclusive license to use the component part technology in North American, but CollinsWoerman has plans to take this innovative show on the road. In 2013 the architecture firm was introduced to Intellectual Ventures, a company specializing in intellectual property. The two companies announced the formation of Innovative Building Technologies (IBT) in 2014. IBT is a “joint venture with the mission of commercializing new inventions for the design and construction of mid- and high-rise residential projects from a proprietary kit of prefabricated component parts.” IBT has its sights set on global licensees for the modular construction technology in other markets, including China, Japan and Vietnam.
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TIFR’s Hyderabad campus to open in 3-year
1 min read . Updated: 19 Oct 2010, 07:29 PM IST C. R. Sukumar
TIFR’s Hyderabad campus to open in 3-year
TIFRTata instituteMustansir BarmaCampusManmohan SinghCorporate NewsSector Spotlight
Hyderabad: The Hyderabad campus of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, or TIFR, will be opened by end-2013 and have about 1,500 doctoral and 700 post-doctoral students, its director Mustansir Barma said on Tuesday.
The campus, coming up at an investment of Rs2,500 crore, would focus on the themes of light, matter and life, covering optical science, condensed matter, chemistry and the life sciences, he added.
TIFR’s Mumbai campus, where the country’s first computer was designed and built, focuses on research in areas such as cosmic rays, high energy physics, theoretical physics, nuclear physics and molecular biology.
Laying the foundation stone for TIFR in Hyderabad on Tuesday, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said the campus would converge fundamental and applied sciences to facilitate the emergence of new technologies.
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Historic Mountmellick factory to get €80k wall
Concern for public safety at crumbling Mountmellick Maltings site
By Lynda Kiernan lynda.kiernan@leinsterexpress.ie @laoisnews
A prominent and partially derelict historic factory in Mountmellick is to receive a €80k facelift, but its future remains unclear.
The century old Maltings factory on the Portlaoise road closed around 2000, and parts of the four storey building have begun to fall.
Laois County Council is understood to have bought the building in recent years after the National Asset Management Agency offered it to the authority for a low price.
The council erected site hoarding which has repeated been blown down over the past few years, replaced in part with metal fencing.
While the future use of the Maltings is still understood to be undecided by Laois County Council, it has in the meantime secured funding of €80,000 to erect a permanent boundary, of a stone wall topped with metal railings.
Mountmellick Tidy Towns committee has welcomed the work, and has outlined the plan to improve the site in their application for this summer’s competition.
“It would be absolutely wonderful. It is such an eyesore as it is, with the fact that it is at the entrance to the town. The sooner the better,” said PRO Barbara Lalor.
The site is unsafe she said.
“There were young kids going in there because the hoarding was blowing down. It needs to be made safe. In the long term we would love to see it cleared and houses built there,” she said.
The historic factory was opened a century ago by the Codd family, producing malt for the drinks industry and fortified malt as a health supplement, up until about 2001.
During the building boom, the Maltings was earmarked to become a luxurious apartment block. The developer received planning approval for 37 one and two bedroom apartments. The site was partially demolished at the time.
Hume Auctioneers had sold 20 of the apartments off the plans, promising them to be “noiseless, spacious and bright with cutting edge technology” with the historic site preserved and an “ancient garden” restored.
The site later went into the books of the National Asset Management Agency.
The council declined to comment regarding the site.
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Publié le 09 janvier 2017 09 janvier 2017 par piketty
Of productivity in France and in Germany
At the start of 2017, with the elections in France in the Spring and then in Germany in the Autumn, it may prove useful to return to one of the fundamental issues which plagues discussion at European level, that is the alleged economic asymmetry between Germany with its reputation as prosperous and France which is described as on the decline. I use the term ‘alleged’ because, as we shall see, the level of productivity of the German and French economies – as measured in terms of GDP per hour worked, which is by far most relevant indicator of economic performance – is almost identical. Furthermore it is at the highest world level, demonstrating incidentally that the European social model has a bright future, despite what the Brexiters and Trumpers of every hue might think. This will also enable me to return to several of the issues addressed in this blog in 2016 (in particular concerning the long European recession and the reconstruction of Europe) as well as in my December 2016 article « Basic income or fair wage?« .
Let’s start with the most striking fact. If we calculate the average labour productivity by dividing the GDP (the Gross Domestic Product, that is the total value of goods and services produced in a country in one year) by the total number of hours worked (by both salaried and non-salaried employees), we then find that France is at practically the same level as the United States and Germany, with an average productivity of approximately 55 Euros per hour worked in 2015, or more than 25% higher than the United Kingdom or Italy (roughly 42 Euros) and almost three times higher than in 1970 (less than the equivalent of 20 Euros in 2015; all figures are expressed in purchasing power parity and in 2015 Euros, that is after taking into account inflation and price levels in the different countries).
Let us state at the outset that the data at our disposal to measure the number of hours worked is not perfect and that the accuracy of these figures should not be exaggerated. Furthermore, the very concept of ‘GDP per hour worked’ is in itself somewhat abstract and simplistic. In reality in these comparisons it is the totality of the economic system and the organisation of labour and production in each country which comes into play, with a wide range of variations between sectors and firms; and it is somewhat unrealistic to claim to resume the totality in a single indicator. But if productivity between countries has to be compared (an exercise which has its utility as long as we recognise its limits; it may enable us to go beyond nationalist prejudices and to set a few orders of magnitude) then the GDP per hour worked is the most meaningful concept.
We should also state that the figures for hours worked which we use here are taken from the series in the OECD data base. The file with all the details of the series and the calculations is available at the end of this article. International series for hours worked are also established by the BLS (the American Federal Government Bureau of Labor Statistics) and the details of the findings obtained by the BLS are also available below. Apart from slight differences between series, all the sources available – in particular those of the OECD and the BLS – confirm that the number of hours worked is roughly at the same level in France, in Germany and in the United States (with differences between these three countries which are so minimal that it is doubtless impossible to make a distinct separation, given the inaccuracy of this measurement), and that countries like the United Kingdom, Italy or Japan are approximately 20-25% lower. In the present state of the data available, these orders of magnitude can be considered valid.
It should also be noted that no country in the world significantly exceeds the level of labour productivity observed in France, Germany and the United States, or at least no country of comparable size and economic structure. We do find significantly higher levels of GDP per hours worked in small countries based on very specific economic structures, for example oil-producing countries (the Emirates or Norway) or tax havens (Luxembourg) but these are the outcome of very different rationales.
At the sight of the figure of an average production of 55 Euros per hour worked in France today, some readers will perhaps be tempted to go straight to their manager to ask for a rise in pay. Yet others, rather more in number, will question the meaning of this figure. We would like to state clearly that this is an average: the average production of goods and services per hour worked may be between 10 and 20 Euros is some sectors and jobs and between 100 and 200 Euros per hour in others (not necessarily the most arduous). It may also obviously happen that in the interaction and balance of forces in wage negotiations, some workers may appropriate a share of the production of others. This average production figure of 55 Euros per hour worked tells us nothing about these subtleties.
We should also specify that the concept of ‘gross domestic product’ (GDP) poses a number of problems. In particular, it would be preferable for statistical institutes to concentrate on the ‘net domestic product’, that is after deduction of the consumption of fixed capital, which corresponds to the depreciation of capital and equipment (repair of buildings and machinery, replacement of computers, etc.). This capital depreciation does not constitute income for anyone, be they wage earners or shareholders and furthermore, it tends to rise over time. The consumption of fixed capital represented about 10% of GDP in advanced economies in the 1970s; today it exceeds 15% of GDP (a sign of the acceleration in the obsolescence of equipment). This means that a (small) proportion of the growth in labour productivity measured above is an illusion. Similarly, if the consumption of natural capital were to be taken into account correctly, then a proportion of the growth in world GDP would disappear (the annual extraction of natural resources is close to the world growth in GDP, or roughly 3% per annum at the moment and tends to rise over time, depending on how this is valued). But there again this would not affect the comparisons between countries on which we focus here.
Another way of expressing the findings outlined above consists in measuring the productivity of each country by comparison with the productivity observed in the United States which has long been far in advance of others. We then obtain the following findings:
In summary: in 1970 productivity in France and Germany was in the range of 65-70% of the American level; both countries caught up with the United States in 1970–1980 and since 1990 were at the same level as the United States (slightly above until the crisis in 2008 and since then, a little below but with relatively small differences. Moreover it is permissible to hope that the Euro zone will succeed in recovering from the crisis better than it has done to date).
If we were to go back to the immediate post World War Two period, when Franco-German productivity was barely 50% of the American level, the catch-up effect would be even more striking. It must also be borne in mind that the European disparity in terms of productivity was of much longer standing (it was already very considerable in the 19th century and at the beginning of the 20th, on the eve of World War One and was amplified by the wars). The classic explanation is the relative disparity in educational level. The small American population was fully literate as from the beginning of the 19th century, whereas a similar level was not achieved in France until the end of the century, by which time the United States had already progressed to the following stage (mass secondary education, then higher education). It was the investment in education in the Trente Glorieuses (the thirty years’ post-war boom) which enabled France and Germany to catch up with the United States between 1950 and 1990. The real issue today is to maintain and extend this evolution.
In contrast, the persistent backwardness in British productivity, which never reached the American level, is usually attributed to the historical weaknesses in the educational system. Similarly, according to a recent study, the slower rate in Italy since the mid-1990s can in part be explained by the lack of investment in education made by the Italian public authorities (engulfed in the repayment of an interminable public debt which France and Germany had got rid of through inflation and post-war debt cancellations).
We should also stress that the high level of American activity at the moment is accompanied by considerable inequality. The United States were more egalitarian than old Europe in the 19th century and until the mid-20th century, but in recent decades they have become much less egalitarian. In particular in the educational sector there is a glaring contrast between the excellent, top-ranking universities (unfortunately reserved to the higher incomes) on one hand, and on the other a somewhat mediocre secondary and higher educational system accessible to the greatest number. This largely explains why the incomes of the 50% of the less well-off Americans have not risen since 1980, whereas the incomes of the highest 10% have risen considerably (see this recent study).
While there is no need to boast (particularly as the challenges to be met are numerous, with the demographic evolution in Germany and the modernisation of the fiscal-social system in France), we do have to admit that the social, educational and economic model constructed in France and Germany is more satisfactory. These two countries have achieved the highest level of productivity in the world, as high as that in America, but with a much more egalitarian form of distribution.
Let’s now examine the GDP per capita. We see that it is approximately 35,000 Euros per annum ( just below 3,000 Euros per month) in Europe – a little higher in Germany, a little lower in France and the United Kingdom – or approximately 25% lower than in the United States (roughly 45,000 Euros per annum):
But the important point is that this higher GDP per capita in the United States comes uniquely from a higher of number of hours worked and not from a higher level of productivity than in France and in Germany. Similarly, the United Kingdom succeeds in compensating for its lower productivity and raising itself to the same level of GDP per capita as France it is uniquely as a result of working longer hours:
For a better understanding of these discrepancies in hours worked, a distinction has to be made between what comes under number of hours worked per job and what comes under number of jobs per capita. Let’s begin with the number of hours worked per job.
We observe that the annual average hours worked per job is lower in Germany than in France (the consequence of a higher rate of part-time work, which is not always a choice, but which may be more satisfactory than no employment). Beyond this gap, there again we observe a degree of proximity between the trajectories of France and of Germany: these two countries have chosen to use the very high growth rate of the Trente Glorieuses to appreciably reduce the length of the working day since the 1960s, going from an average length of almost 2,000 hours per year in 1970 (which roughly corresponds to 42 hours per week for 48 weeks per year) to less than 1,500 hours per year today (or almost 35 hours per week for 44 weeks per year). In contrast, the United States and the United Kingdom have barely reduced the amount of time worked; as a result, the weeks have remained very long and the paid leave very short (often restricted to two weeks, in addition to public holidays).
Obviously I am not attempting to claim that it is always preferable to reduce the working day and to lengthen the vacations and the question of the rhythm at which the time worked should be reduced is an extremely complex and sensitive problem. But it does appear to be clear that one of the aims of the growth in productivity in the long term is to enable the benefit of more time for private and family life, and cultural and recreational activities, and that the trajectories of France and Germany seem to give more consideration to this aim than those of the United States and the United Kingdom.
Now let us turn to what is much less successful, beginning with the low rate of employment in France where the difference with the rate of employment in Germany was relatively low in 2005 (only 2 points difference: 42 jobs per 100 inhabitants in France, 44 in Germany) and has considerably increased since the crisis (more than seven points difference, with an employment rate of 42% in France as compared with over 49% in Germany).
If we break down these developments into age groups, we see that the employment rate for the 25-54 years group has always been around 80% in France, as in other countries, and that it is amongst the 15-24 years group and the 55-64 years group that the discrepancy has been more marked in recent years, contemporary with the rise in unemployment.
I will not return here to the multiple reasons for this weakness in employment in France. The very poor budgetary policies adopted in the Euro zone are partly responsible for provoking a ridiculous fall in economic activity in 2011-2013 from which we are only just recovering (the fault is primarily due to the successive French and German governments who concluded an ill-conceived budgetary treaty which should be reformed).
But there are other specifically French factors: less promising industrial specialisations than in Germany, where in particular use has been made of a greater investment of employees in the governance and strategies of firms, and where there is a much better system of vocational training which France could well try to match. In France, the system of financing social protection falls too heavily on the wage bill of the private sector; an overall reform of the taxation system would be required but this is constantly postponed (instead, stopgap measures have been adopted, such as the CICE (Crédit d’impôt compétitivité emploi). This has only added a further layer of complexity to a fiscal-social system which was already incomprehensible. It is also time to consolidate and unify the retirement system which is complex and split between too many regimes. In particular this would reassure the younger generations (at the moment our retirement system is well financed – it is the second most expensive in Europe, the Italians being in the lead – while at the same time it is so opaque that nobody understands anything about their future rights).
Here, I wish simply to stress two elements. On one hand, the present weakness of employment in France implies that the estimates of productivity indicated above are doubtless over-optimistic because the people excluded from the labour market are often the least well qualified. In fact, if we correct the series for productivity by assuming that the number of hours worked have followed the same trend as in Germany since 2005, and by assuming that these new jobs would have had a rate of productivity 30% lower on average than that of the present jobs, then we obtain the following findings:
In other words, we observe a tendency for French productivity to fall between 2000 and 2015. Of course, we are still far from the decline in productivity in Italy, and whatever the hypotheses adopted to account for the under-employment, French productivity remains distinctly above the British figures and very close to Germany and the United States. The fact remains that this trend is potentially worrying and must be countered if France wishes to maintain the momentum achieved in the decades 1950-1990.
From this point of view, the main shortcoming of the five-year term now ending is the weakness in educational investment. This is in particular applicable to the budgets allocated to universities and other higher education institutions, which have stagnated since 2012 (with microscopic, nominal growth barely equivalent to inflation), whereas the number of students has risen by almost 10%. In other words, the real investment in education per student distinctly fell in France between 2012 and 2017, even although all the talk is of the economics of innovation, of the knowledge society, etc. Instead of losing time in poorly conducted and poorly prepared discussions about labour flexibility, the government would have done better to bear in mind that long-term economic performance is primarily determined by investment in training.
The second point on which I would like to insist is the following. Too frequently the economic debate about France and Germany is focussed on the difference in ‘competitivity’ between the two countries, that is to say, on the gap between the French trade deficit and the German trade surplus. Now the correct concept for the evaluation of the economic performance of a country is its productivity and not its ‘competitivity’, which is a fairly nebulous concept. Different countries with similar levels of productivity may temporarily find themselves in totally different situations in terms of balance of trade, for a host of voluntary or involuntary reasons. For example, some countries may choose to export more than they import, in order to have reserves for the future in the form of assets held abroad. This may be justified for an aging country which anticipates a fall in active population and this classical explanation is often used to explain a part of the trade surplus observed in aging countries such as Germany or Japan, in comparison with younger countries like the United States, the United Kingdom or France. These may require to consume and invest more within their territory which may give rise to trade deficits. But the important point is that these situations of trade surplus or trade deficit can only last for a limited length of time and must be compensated for in the long run. In particular, there is no point in having a permanent trade surplus (this would amount to eternally producing for the benefit of the rest of the world, which is of no interest).
Let us see what happens in practice:
At the outset, we see that the overall level of exports and imports (expressed as a percentage of GDP) has risen significantly since the 1970s (this is the well-known phenomenon of intensification of international trade and corporate globalisation) and that it is much higher in France and in Germany than in the United States or in Japan. This expresses the fact that European economies are smaller in size and are much less strongly integrated with one another, in particular in matters of trade.
We also observe that the phases of trade surplus and trade deficit tend to even out over time. For example, Japan had a trade surplus in the 1990s and the years 2000 (usually between 1% and 2% of GDP per annum), and has experienced considerable deficits since 2011 (-3% of GDP at the moment). France had a trade surplus every year from 1992 to 2004 (usually 1%-2% of GDP) and has had a deficit since 2005 (-1.4% of GDP in 2015). If we take the average over the period 1980-2015, France has an almost perfect balance in trade: -0.2% of GDP (+0.1% for 1990-2015). For Japan, we observe that the dominant trend is a trade surplus (+1.0% in the period 1980-2015, +0.6% in the period 1990-2015), which explains why Japan has accumulated comfortable financial reserves abroad, on which it is drawing at the moment.
However there are situations which are less balanced. For example, the United States is in an almost permanent trade deficit with an average of -2.6% of GDP over the period 1980-2015 (-2.9% in the period 1990-2015). The country’s situation of external financial indebtedness is however less distinctly negative than that which the accumulation of trade deficits should have produced because the United States pays a low return on their debts (due to the confidence in their currency and political regime) and obtains a high yield on their investments (thanks in particular to their investment system and merchant banks).
An even more extreme case of imbalance, and in the opposite direction, is that of Germany, which was in an almost break-even trade balance situation similar to France until 2000 and then had an average trade surplus of +5.0% of GNP over the period 2000-2015 (+3.2% in the period 1990-2015, +1.7% in the period 1980-2015, while we note an average trade deficit of -0.9% from 1980-2000, as compared with +0.2% in France). The German trade surplus has risen to over 6% of GDP since 2012 and rose to almost 8% of GDP in 2015.
In plain terms this means that a very significant share of goods and services produced in Germany are neither consumed nor invested in Germany: they are consumed and invested in the rest of the world. Another – perfectly equivalent – way of representing the extent of the imbalance consists in calculating what the domestic consumption and investment would represent (that is pursued on the territory of the country considered) as a percentage of gross domestic product (that is of the total production of goods and services manufactured on this same territory):
A ratio above 100% means that a country consumes and invests more than it produces, in other words, it has a trade deficit. In contrast, a ratio below 100% is simply the counterpart of a trade surplus. For most countries, this ratio is on average very close to 100%. In Germany, on the contrary, this ratio fell to 92% in 2015 which is totally unprecedented in economic history.
In summary: France and Germany have similar productivities, but they use their high rates of productivity in very different ways. In recent years, when France produced 100 units of goods and services, it consumed and invested 101 and 102 units on its territory. On the contrary, when Germany produces 100 units it only consumes and invests 92 units. The gap may seem narrow but when it occurs every year it leads to financial and social imbalances of considerable size, which today threaten to undermine Europe.
How has this happened and what can be done? In the first instance, we should point out that while the aging of the population and the demographic decline in Germany may explain a certain amount of trade surplus by the need to constitute reserves for the future, this is not sufficient to rationally account for such huge surpluses. The truth is that this trade surplus is not really a choice: it is the outcome of decentralised decisions made by millions of economic actors and in the absence of an adequate mechanism for correction. To put it simply: there is no pilot in the plane, or at least the pilots available are not very accurate.
After unification, the German governments were very afraid of a drop-off in the competitiveness of the ‘German production site’. They adopted wage-freeze policies to increase productivity and they probably went too far in this direction. At the same time, the entry of Central and Eastern European countries into the European Union enabled German firms to achieve an increased and highly advantageous integration with these new countries. This can be seen in particular with the explosion of the general level of imports and exports, which were very similar to the level in France in 2000 (close to 25%-30% of GDP) and which in 2015 rose to 40%-45% of GDP in Germany (as compared with 30% in France; see the graph above).
This all led to a trade surplus which was doubtless not entirely foreseeable and is in large part due to contingent factors. In its own way, it is an illustration of the strength of the economic forces at play in globalisation which public authorities have not yet learnt to regulate correctly.
We must also stress the fact that there is quite simply no example in economic history (at least not since the beginning of trade statistics, that is, since the beginning of the 19th century) of a country of this size which has experienced a comparable level of trade surplus on a long-term basis (not even China or Japan which in most instances have not risen above 2%-3% in trade surplus). The only examples of countries experiencing trade surpluses in the region of 10% of GDP are oil-producing countries with a relatively small population and with a GDP much lower than that of Germany.
Another indication of the fact that the German surpluses are objectively excessive is due to the poor foreign investments made by firms and the financial system; in contrast to the United States the financial assets accumulated by Germany in the rest of the world are much lower than the amount which the addition of the trade surpluses should have produced.
The solution today would of course be to boost wages, consumption and investment in Germany, both in the educational system as well as the infrastructures. Unfortunately this is being implemented too slowly. The German leaders have an enormous responsibility here; they have other qualities (in particular in their reception policies for migrants) but on this basic point, they have not explained the issues to their public opinion and have even tended to present the trade surplus as a subject for national pride, even a proof of German virtue, which is quite simply beside the point. The German tendency to lecture the rest of Europe and to explain that everything would be fine if everyone copied Germany is logically absurd. If every country in the Euro zone had a trade surplus of 8% GDP, there would be nobody in the world to absorb a surplus of this type (simply because there is on the planet no country of the size of the euro zone that is ready to have a trade deficit of 8%). This irrational tendency is unfortunately one of the risks of globalisation and the heightened competition between countries; we all try first to find a refuge and then to survive.
Fortunately, there are other forces in play, in particular the attachment to the European idea. If the other countries, beginning with France, Italy and Spain (or a total of 50% of the population and the GDP of the Euro zone, as compared with 27% for Germany) were to decide democratically in a joint parliamentary chamber on the formulation of a detailed proposal for a democratic re-foundation of the Euro Zone, including a spur to economic growth and a moratorium on public debts, I am convinced that a compromise can still be found. But it is unlikely that any solution will come from Germany and the transition may be far from smooth. Considerable wrangling will doubtless be required. All that we can hope for is that the clashes will not be too violent; after Brexit, nobody can claim to be unaware of how far this might go.
I would like to end on a positive note. If we compare France and Germany with the United States, the United Kingdom and other, still further, parts of the globe, then they have much in common. In the decades following the self-destructive behaviour of the years 1914-1945, these two countries have succeeded in constructing institutions and policies which have enabled the development of the most social and the most productive economies in the world. France and Germany still have major tasks to accomplish together to promote a model of fair and sustainable development. But they must not get lost in mistaken comparisons which prevent them from advancing towards the future and accepting the idea that they each have a lot to learn from the other and from history.
(The complete data series on duration of work, GDP and the trade balances used to make the calculations presented in this article are taken from the OECD data base and are available here; the series on hours of work compiled by the BLS (Bureau of Labor Statistics, American Federal Government) lead to similar productivity comparisons between countries and are available here).
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Une réponse sur “Of productivity in France and in Germany”
Terry Moody dit :
“ … the number of hours worked is roughly at the same level in France, in Germany and in the United States…, and … countries like the United Kingdom, Italy or Japan are approximately 20-25% lower.”
Should this sentence refer to GDP per hour worked, rather than “the number of hours worked”?
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The Schott Heard Around the World
By Roger Cicala
OK, confessions first. My assignment for this piece was to write a Holiday Photography Article. And to do it quickly because my last article was overdue. And to make it something cheery and concise since my last article was a long technical piece on how to test a lens. I tried to come up with an idea, but I really wasn’t in the mood because I was pretty worn out from writing that overly long technical piece. So, I thought I’d write another article on the early history of lenses because I enjoy those. “But no”, they said, “we need a holiday article”.
Then something else dawned on me. I wrote two Holiday Photography Articles last year, one on Photographing Holiday Light and another on Taking Indoor Holiday Photos. Since I did two last year we could just consider one of them a really early submission for this year’s Holiday Article. And I could write about what I wanted to, right? But, NOOOoooo, I’m supposed to write something festive. “Go write a holiday photography article”, they told me. “Something pertinent to the Christmas season”.
Okay, lets try this. Between 1880 and 1905 there were roughly 25 Christmas seasons, so writing about that era should cover the Holiday festivities part just fine. And I’ll try to make this festive. But festive or not, it was a pretty cool time. After 15 years of basically no improvement in photographic lenses, the 25 years I’m going to write about today were an explosion of technical improvements. And most of the explosion came from 4 guys working in the same city.
The city is Jena, Germany and I’m pretty sure they have spectacular Christmas festivities there, so it’s the perfect setting for a holiday article. Yep, that’s my story and I’m sticking with it. Anyway, I Googled it and found this picture of Jena at Christmas time to set the mood. (Plus, Kristin never reads the articles, so she’ll open this, see the picture, and figure I followed instructions.)
And I was lucky since Google says “The Christmas Market of Jena is the oldest Christmas fair in Thuringia”. So there you go. I’m pretty sure Thuringia is old, since its in Europe and all, so if they have the oldest Christmas fair in Thuringia, it is the perfect setting for a holiday article. So, let’s go back to a Christmas circa 1880 and see what was going on with photographic lenses.
From our Last Episode
So, what I’m going to write here is the history of photographic lens development, Part II. If you haven’t read the first one, From Petzval’s Sum to Abbe’s number don’t worry about it, I’ll summarize it here. Between the development of the first camera and the mid 1860s, lens designers made several major discoveries:
1) Wollaston (1830s) demonstrated that bending a convex or concave lens into a meniscus shape could help flatten the field, allowing more than just the center of the photograph to be in focus.
Figure 1: A convex lens bent to a meniscus shape
2) Chevalier’s Landscape lens (1840s) demonstrated that a doublet made of crown and flint glasses of different types of glass could correct longitudinal chromatic aberration, making a lens achromatic.
Figure 2: An achromatic doublet.
3) Petzval’s Portrait Lens (circa 1850) showed that an air space between elements let the designer correct for other aberrations better than two cemented elements could.
Figure 3: Design of Petzval’s Portrait Lens. Note the small air space between the rear elements.
4) Dallmeyer and Steinhill (1860s) found that a lens made of symmetrical reversed elements placed around a central light baffle was virtually distortion free.
Figure 4: Design of Rapid Rectilinear Lens (courtesy Wikepedia Commons)
If you look carefully, you’ll see these basic lens types are included in many of today’s modern designs.
Figure 5: A modern zoom lens. You can see meniscus elements, an achromatic doublet, fixed air spaces between elements, and reversed symmetrical elements.
We also found that there was big money to be made in lenses, and that overly intelligent academic types (like Petzval) got robbed blind by astute businessmen with low scruples (like Voigtlander). In today’s episode, which I almost entitled Revenge of the Nerds (but that didn’t sound very festive), we’ll see another intelligent academic team up with an astute businessman to triumph over the Evil Herr Voigtlander (well, Voigtlander’s kids, actually, but still). And unlike the early days of lens development, this period is one where polite gentleman behaved like, well, gentleman. So, it is a holiday story after all, good triumphs over evil, everyone is nice and polite, and photographers get better lenses.
The Quiet Years
By the late 1860s, photographers had Petzval’s Portrait lens for (Duh!) portraits, and the Rapid Rectilinear lens for architectural photography and landscapes. There were a lot of minor modifications of these lenses made for mostly marketing purposes (I would make a snide comment here about some Nikon version II lenses, but its the holidays so I’ll be nice). There were two other designs of some importance that occurred during this time. One was very popular for a while but became a dead end. The other was not at all popular at the time, but became hugely important later.
The Symmetrical Wide Angle Lenses
Photographers had a portrait lens and a landscape lens, but they didn’t really have a lens, back in the 1860s, that would let them shoot a wide-angle scenic image. Thomas Sutton, an English photographer, noticed the wide angle of view he saw when looking through one of those water filled snowglobes (This is true. I’m not just stretching to make this a holiday article, but its a nice touch, don’t you think?) and designed a lens that consisted of a water filled globe.
The obvious name for this lens would, of course, be the Globe Lens or Water Lens, or something similar. But Sutton decided that The Sutton Panoramic Lens would be much catchier and it was marketed under that name. While some were made by Ross and Co., it required a curved camera plate and special camera, so it never was very popular.
Figure 6: The Sutton Globe lens, Copyright Earlyphotography.com/uk
As an aside (and you know I love my asides) Sutton became famous not because of his lens, but because he worked with James Clerk Maxwell to make the first color photograph in 1861. Sort of. He took three separate images of a piece of Tartan ribbon, each with a different color filter. The three negatives were then projected through three projectors (yes, they had projectors, called magic lanterns back then) each with the same color filter on them. If you got the projectors all lined up and focused just right, you could see the color image reproduced below.
Figure 6: The first color photograph, taken in 1861. It has nothing to do with the article, really, but its kind of cool. And the colors are kind of Christmassy, and I’m supposed to be writing a holiday article. Image courtesy Wikepedia Commons.
Not too surprising, this form of color photography didn’t catch on. Magic Lanterns remained very popular though, their popularity driven, like so many things photographic, by their ability to project artistic images of nude ladies in the gentleman’s clubs of the day.
About the same time a couple of Americans, Harrison and Schnitzer, took the globe idea but thought they would eliminate the water (and most of the globe for that matter). They kept the spherical surface shape of the elements, but made them achromatic doublets. It wasn’t a complete globe anymore, just two pieces of a globe. But Sutton hadn’t used the globe name, so they called it The Globe Lens. Later, after Schnitzer passed away, Harrison couldn’t help himself and started calling it the Harrison Globe lens.
The Globe Lens could take a 40 degree field-of-view image, which was quite wide for the day, but its best aperture was only f/30. A very similar (and probably better) lens, the Pantoskop, was designed and marketed by Emil Busch in Germany. These lenses were THE wide angle lenses of the 1860s and 1870s, but mostly because they were the only ones available. They drifted into obscurity by the turn of the century when the good stuff came along.
Figure 7: The Harrison Globe lens (schematic above, actual sample below. Note that the outside elements would fit the theoretic curve of a sphere or globe. The rear element (the lens is resting on its hood) protrudes significantly.
The Double Gauss Lens
The thing I like best about the Double Gauss lens, is that Gauss had nothing to do with it. Gauss was a famous mathematician in the early 1800s who described a novel telescope lens made up of two meniscus shaped lenses, one positive and one negative, partly separated by an air space. Mathematically, he knew that such a lens would be insensitive to the various wavelengths of light and so would have no chromatic aberration. That was true, but otherwise It was a pretty poor lens and was very difficult to make.
In 1888, an American, Alvin Clark decided if one Gauss type lens was bad and expensive, putting two together around a central stop (like the Rapid Rectinear and Globe designs) would probably be a brilliant idea (he was American, after all, so doing things the hard way didn’t faze him). He introduced the Double Gauss Lens which was marketed by Bausch and Lomb for a a few years before being quietly dropped. Like most other lens designs of the day, the available optical glass just wasn’t up to the task and the lens really offered nothing positive other than the cool Double Gauss name.
Figure 8: An Original Double Gauss lens design.
Later, however, the Double Gauss design would come to dominate the photographic lens market and they still are used frequently in lenses today. But we can’t get there until we talk about glass a bit.
Crowns and Flints
Other than the Globe type lenses, no significant improvements in lens design occurred between the mid 1860s and the 1880s. The reason progress came to a stop was because of the limited types of glass available. From an optical standpoint, the most important characteristics of glass are its Refractive Index (how much it bends light passing through it) and its Dispersive Index (how much it separates the various colors of light). Lensmakers of the day had two types of glass to work with: Crown Glass and Flint Glass.
Crown glass, which was the type of glass used to make windows, was produced mostly of silica with a strong pinch of potassium oxide. It received its name because glass blowers blew it into a crown or hollow globe before flattening it to make window glass. Crown glass bent light a little bit (low refraction) and separated the colors a little bit (low dispersion).
Flint glass was so named because the source of silica for it was originally flint chips. The flint contained a significant amount of lead which made the glass heavier and more refractive (meaning it bent light more) and more dispersive (it separated colors more). These qualities of flint glass lent itself to making sparkling cut-glass drinking glasses (what we now call leaded crystal glass) and fake gemstones (rhinestones are made from flint glass).
Not only were lensmakers limited to two types of glass, there was a lot of proprietary ‘secret formula’ stuff going on in the glassmaking industry, so one manufacturer’s flint glass might be quite a bit different from another’s. And not being able to measure just how much the qualities of a batch of glass differed in refraction and dispersion made things a little more variable than we would find acceptable today.
The Professor and the Lensmaker II
The first great lens advances were started by the ideas of Professor Petzval which were (arguably) stolen by Herr Voigtlander. Another professor, Ernst Abbe at the University of Jena, apparently didn’t hear how poorly things had worked out for Petzval and took a side job with a local optical instrument maker who wanted to make his microscope designs more scientific. Abbe had recently invented the Refractometer, a device that could measure just how much a given type of glass bent the light passing through it, so he was just the boy to start getting this glass chaos in order.
Using his refractometer, he began determining the amount of refraction and dispersion of different types of glass and quantitated it by what we call Abbe’s number. Abbe, like Petzval, was a mathematician and knew if he slapped numbers around for a while he could fix things without all the trial-and-error design that was common in the day. Within a short time he had developed formulas for microscope illumination and for producing sharp images in complex optical systems. Abbe’s employer recognized Abbe was a smart boy and unlike Voigtlander, he didn’t try to steal his ideas. Instead, he made him a partner and chief microscope designer for the firm.
Unfortunately, none of the glass available at the time met the criteria Abbe knew was necessary for advanced lens design. Even worse, he had to import his optical glass from England and France since there wasn’t a good source of such glass in Germany. And you know the Germans weren’t too keen on depending on the English and French to supply them with things they didn’t have. So Abbe started talking glass with a University of Jena chemistry student named Otto Schott, who also happened to be the son of a glassmaker.
Schott showed Abbe some different types of glass he was developing in his chemistry lab, Abbe went to his partner for funding, and in 1882 they opened the Schott Glassworks in Jena. Within 6 years Schott Glassworks had a catalogue of 44 different types of optical glass, many of which were not available elsewhere. By 1893 they had developed Barium crown and Borosilicate flint glasses, which had higher refraction and lower dispersion than other glass types — the first low dispersion elements were now available for photographic lenses and lens design could leap forward.
As an aside, Abbe’s employer died in 1888 leaving Abbe the sole owner of the company, Carl Zeiss AG. Zeiss AG was also the principal owner of Schott Glassworks which became the world’s leading supplier of optical and laboratory glassware, heat resistant glass used in incandescent lamps, and glass cookware (what we now call Pyrex). So, this time around the Professor did quite well for himself.
He also did quite well for others, too. Professor Abbe was a social reformer and under his leadership Zeiss and Schott became the first manufacturers to set an 8 hour workday for employees (the norm then was 12 to 14) as well as the first to give sick pay and paid vacations. Abbe eventually donated all of his shares of the company to form a research institute and to provide employee stock options, things that were unheard of at the time. As a result, Zeiss AG and Schott Glassworks attracted some of the most talented employees in Germany.
As a further aside, after World War II Jena was located in a section of Germany originally controlled by the U. S. but soon to be given over to the Soviet Union. The U.S. felt the glassworks so important that in late 1945 the Air Force relocated most of the top designers and scientists to West Germany before turning control of Jena over to the Soviets. Led by Erich Schott, the company restarted in Mainz as Carl Zeiss Oberkochen and returned to preeminence as an optical company (they eventually supplied optical glass to the U. S. space program) and lensmaker.
The Jena factory was dismantled and transported to the Soviet Union where it became the Kiev Camera Works, maker of infamous cheap copies of prewar Zeiss Contax cameras and lenses. The East German government, along with many of the remaining employees, restored the Schott and Zeiss plants in Jena and began selling lenses labelled Carl Zeiss Jena. So for a while you could buy your Zeiss design lenses and cameras from Russia (Kiev brand), East Germany (Zeiss Jenna brand), or West Germany (Zeiss AG brand). It was a complicated time.
Back to the Subject
The new glass, particularly the Barium and Borosilicate glass, had the potential to achieve the Holy Grail of lens designers: lenses free of the spherical aberration, coma, and astigmatism — the so-called anastigmatic lens.
Anastigmat probably should be considered a Southern word, since it’s a double-negative: Stigma means point, and the prefix “A” means without or no, so Astigmatism means without point or no point. In a lens with astigmatism a point on the object doesn’t show as a point in the image, it is blurred.
“An” also means no. (I’m not sure why the Greeks needed two different prefixes for “No” but I have some Greek relatives and they’re all very negative people. So I guess its like how Eskimos have 17 words for snow, the Greeks just needed a lot of words for no.).
But anyway, An-a-stigmat would mean “no non points”. Or something like that.
Then Came Rudolph
Remember, it’s supposed to be a holiday article.
Oddly enough, the first use of the new Schott glass types was by Voigtlander, the biggest photographic lensmaker of the day. But they just used the new glass in an old design so the improvements were minimal. Abbe designed some new microscope objectives for Zeiss AG using the new glass types, but he wasn’t a photographic lens designer.
However, while Abbe was running Zeiss AG, Schott glassworks, and enacting all kinds of social reform he did one other really bright thing. He hired a Jena mathematician and physicist, Dr. Paul Rudolph, as his chief lens designer. Rudolph immediately grasped the possibilities offered by the new glass and in 1892 he developed Zeiss’ first photographic lens. He called it the Anastigmat since it was, not surprisingly, an anastigmatic lens. Or at least pretty close to one.
However, since Anastigmat was already a word Zeiss couldn’t make the copyright for that name stick and later renamed the lens The Protar. The Protar used a standard front element like the Rapid Rectilnear lens but the rear element was made of the new Barium and Borosilicate glasses.
Figure 9: The Zeiss Anastigmatic (Protar) lens, low dispersion elements in blue.
The Anastigmat / Protar was a good wide-angle lens but Dr. Rudolph found it still had limitations. He realized the Double Gauss design could be modified using the newer types of glass he had at his disposal, and in 1896 released a new design, the Planar, which is basically a double-gauss design in which the central elements are cemented pairs. By making the central element a pair instead of a single lens, the cemented “buried surface” in these elements gave an additional refraction change. This allowed further correction of aberrations when designing the lens. As an end result the Planar was far superior to the Protar.
Figure 10: Original Zeiss Planar Design.
Think about it: the Planar lens was designed in 1896. There have been modifications, off course, since that time in coatings and glass types. Extra elements have been added to the front and rear of the double-gauss Planar group, and the elements may be made unsymmetrical. But the lens is still with us today and considered one of the better prime lenses made. Over 300 variations have been made over the years, including the Leica Summicron, Schneider Xenotar, Rodenstock Heligon, and many of the higher quality, wide aperture prime lenses made by Nikon, Canon, and others through the 1970s.
Figure 11: A Zeiss Protar from the turn of the century. Note the early internal leaf shutter adjusted by the ring around the lens.
Figure 11: The Planar influence (highlighted in green) is apparent even in superb modern lenses like the classic Nikon 55mm f1.2 (left) and the Nikon 24mm f1.4 (right).
In 1902 Rudolph did some more tinkering with the original Anastigmat / Protar lens, separating the front cemented doublet by an airspace and changing the order of the positive and negative elements. He found this lens had much better resolution than the Protar and it was released as the Zeiss Tessar. Fairly inexpensive to produce, the Tessar was sold by the millions. It was also produced, either under license or with small modifications to work around patent restrictions, by dozens of other manufacturers. Tessar type lenses include the Leitz Elmar, Kodak Ektar, Pentax Takumar, and Voiglander Skopar.
Yes, by this time Zeiss had long since passed Voigtlander as the preeminent lens maker and Voigtlander was now copying the ideas of others. Wait, Voigtlander copying ideas was how this all started. So, as it turns out, the academic professors won this round of the lens design wars.
Figure 11: Zeiss Tessar Design.
The Most Important Lens of All
The boys from Jena certainly dominated lensmaking at the turn of the century.
Zeiss, Abbe, Schott, and Rudolph developed the new glass and created new designs that revolutionized photography, allowing wide fields of view and wide apertures without distortion for the first time. They achieved the Holy Grail of lens design, the truly anastigmatic lens. And the Planar and Tessar designs provided the foundation for a significant number of lenses that remained in use throughout most of the 20th century. Other lenses were designed, excellent lenses, by other companies. But the Schott Glassworks division of Zeiss supplied the glass that made most of them.
Speaking of excellent lenses, there was one lens designed at this time that I left out. Neither the Planar nor the Tessar, although both were superb, were THE lens designed at the turn of the century. That was another lens, designed by an Englishman named Dennis Taylor and produced by two other (and unrelated) Englishman named Taylor. They named it the Cooke Triplet. It was the Triplet that became the basis for more subsequent lens designs than the Planar, the Tessar, or any other lens. But that’s a long story, perhaps best saved for the next holiday article I’m required to write.
Why was it named the Cooke Triplet, though, you might want to know before I end this? Because Dennis Taylor, while designing it, worked for the Cooke of York Optical Designers. Cooke of York did not wish to produce the lens, but allowed him to take it to Taylor, who produced it. Dennis Taylor, out of respect for his employer, insisted the lens should have their name. Photography had indeed progressed from the idea-stealing and finger-pointing of the 1860s, to a profession of polite gentleman by the turn of the century.
http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/Schott-Corporation-Company-History.html
http://encyclopedia.jrank.org/articles/pages/1015/Evolution-of-the-Photographic-Lens-in-the-19th-Century.html
http://image.eastmanhouse.org/files/GEH_1961_10_05.pdf
Kingslake, Rudolph: A History of the Photographic Lens. Academic Press, London, 1989.
http://www.mhs.ox.ac.uk/sphaera/index.htm?issue8/articl7
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Abbe
Author: Roger Cicala
I’m Roger and I am the founder of Lensrentals.com. Hailed as one of the optic nerds here, I enjoy shooting collimated light through 30X microscope objectives in my spare time. When I do take real pictures I like using something different: a Medium format, or Pentax K1, or a Sony RX1R.
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Peter Boorman
A fascinating read.
One small point: “Takumar” is not a Pentax ‘house name’ for Tessar designs. Rather, it was the trademark name Pentax gave all its lenses, akin to the names Nikkor, Rokkor, Hexanon, Zuiko, Serenar and so on used by other famous marques.
The Takumar name has in fact graced many optical designs: a Heliar, Sonnars, Tessars and many others, and probably most famously the 50/1.4 modified Double Gauss.
This was a great read! Thank you so much!
Brendan Tonkin
I ended up here after reading the excellent history of glass article, and the Petzval article before it. I just want to thank Roger for writing these excellent history pieces – they made my afternoon.
Christopher Vradis
[“An” also means no. (I’m not sure why the Greeks needed two different prefixes for “No” but I have some Greek relatives and they’re all very negative people. So I guess its like how Eskimos have 17 words for snow, the Greeks just needed a lot of words for no.).
But anyway, An-a-stigmat would mean “no non points”. Or something like that. ]
Well, not exactly right, but not exactly wrong, either. Astigmatism is a pathology of the eye and yes, means something like “without or no points”, as you say, (I’m not a doctor!). So Astigmatic is the word used to describe one who suffers from astigmatism. An-astigmatic, on the other hand is the exact opposite, it describes one who does not suffer from this pathology. The prefixes “an” and “a” (sometimes also “ap”) are actually one and the same prefix, “a”. Which one is used in each word, mainly depends on the first letter of the word (and from other grammatical phenomena).
So, anastigmatic is more correct and sounds better than “aastigmatic” and, furthermore, it is more simple than saying “the one who does not suffer from astigmatism”.
Don’t worry about your Greek relatives. They’re negative probably because you’re Italian !
Great article ! Like all you wrote on lenses history !
Without doubt, one of the most enjoyable reads I’ve ever had, and I’m not limiting that to things I’ve read on the internet. Truly fantastic, thank you!
My only qualm is that I don’t know if I should praise you on behalf of others for refraining from some horrible Schott glass drinking pun, or complain about you depriving the vocal minority (me and maybe one other guy) of reveling in its awfulness.
I would never trade it for the Schott heard round the world pun, but it IS a holiday article. Why not have a double Schott?
Mark Dallmeyer
Hello: my ancestral uncle, J.H. Dallmeyer, was instrumental with the manufacturing of the Ross lens. Dallmeyer was known to have produced the main telephoto lens for Ross and Zeiss in the UK. Additionally Dallmeyer was funded by Warren DeLaRue and became well known in cameras and telescopes as well as telephotography. The interesting link may be the use of Fraunhofer glass to produce these lenses. Joseph Fraunhofer is the discoverer of the Fraunhofer lines in the 1800’s and today Fraunhofer is a company throughout Germany with a vast technology base. The tie in to me personally is that in 1985, I worked for Crosfield electronics, a division of DeLaRue. In 2009, I began my representation of Fraunhofer FIT and IVI for the US market. In 2010, I was responsible for Dallmeier electronics, a surveillance company based in Regensburg. Neither company knew the other existed. These are certainly interesting times in the lives of lenses.
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Cheshire Regiment
Battalions of the Regular Army
August 1914 : in Londonderry. Part of 15th Brigade in 5th Division. Landed at Le Havre 16 August 1914.
The badge of the Cheshire Regiment as inscribed on a WW1 war grave. This is Cpl Henry Long of 1st Battalion, who died as a POW on 26 May 1917 and is buried in Hamburg. From the website of G E Conway, with my thanks.
August 1914 : in Jubbulpore, India. Returned to England, landing at Devonport on 24 December 1914.
Came under orders of 84th Brigade, 28th Division, at Winchester. Landed at Le Havre 17 January 1915.
Moved in October 1915 to Egypt and then on to Salonika.
12 January 1916 : the 1st Manx (Service) Company joined and became ‘A’ Company.
3rd (Reserve) Battalion
August 1914 : in Chester. A training unit, it remained in UK throughout the war, providing drafts for other battalions. Regimental depot remained at Chester while battalion moved to war station at Birkenhead, to play part in Mersey Defences. Moved in 1917 to Newscastle, in May 1918 to Seaton Carew and in September 1918 to West Hartlepool, as part of Tees Garrison.
Battalions of the Territorial Force
1/4th Battalion
August 1914 : in Birkenhead. Part of Cheshire Brigade, Welsh Division. Moved immediately on mobilisation to Shrewsbury and Church Stretton but by the end of August 1914 had moved to Northampton. In December 1914 moved again to Cambridge and by March 1915 was at Bedford.
13 May 1915 : formation became 159th Brigade, 53rd (Welsh) Division.
Sailed in July 1915 from Devonport, going via Alexandria to Gallipoli where it landed on 9 August 1915.
December 1915 : withdrawn from Gallipoli and moved to Egypt.
31 May 1918 : left the Division and moved to France.
1 July 1918 : attached to 102nd Brigade in 34th Division.
1/5th (Earl of Chester’s) Battalion
August 1914 : in Chester. Part of Cheshire Brigade, Welsh Division. Moved immediately on mobilisation to Shrewsbury and Church Stretton but by the end of August 1914 had moved to Northampton. In December 1914 moved again to Cambridge.
15 February 1915 : left the Division and landed at Le Havre.
19 February 1915 : attached to 14th Brigade in 5th Division.
29 November 1915 : converted to Pioneer Battalion to the Division.
13 February 1916 : transferred to 56th (London) Division.
August 1914 : in Stockport. Part of Cheshire Brigade, Welsh Division.
10 November 1914 : left the Division and landed in France.
17 December 1914 : attached to 15th Brigade in 5th Division.
1 March 1915 : transferred to GHQ and spent several months on guard and other duties at Rouen, Abbeville and Dieppe.
9 January 1916 : transferred to 20th Brigade in 7th Division.
29 February 1916 : transferred to 118th Brigade, 39th Division.
28 May 1918 : transferred to 75th Brigade, 25th Division.
17 June 1918 : absorbed men of the 11th Bn, which was reduced to cadre.
8 July 1918 : transferred to 21st Brigade, 30th Division.
August 1914 : in Macclesfield. Part of Cheshire Brigade, Welsh Division.
Record same as 1/4th Bn.
Formed at Birkenhead on 9 September 1914 as a home service (“second line”) unit. Moved to Aberystwyth.
March 1915 : attached to 204th Brigade, 68th Division at Northampton but was at Bedford by August 1915.
8 December 1915 : absorbed by 2/7th Bn.
Formed at Chester on 28 November 1914 as a home service (“second line”) unit.
18 February 1915 : replaced 1/5th Bn in Chester Brigade, Welsh Division at Cambridge.
22 April 1915 : transferred to 204th Brigade, 68th Division at Northampton. Moved to Bedford in August 1915 and on to Lowestoft in mid 1916. In 1917 moved to Westelton and later to Bury St Edmunds.
21 April 1918 : disbanded in UK.
Formed at Stockport on 7 September 1914 as a home service (“second line”) unit.
22 November 1914 : replaced 1/6th Bn in Chester Brigade, Welsh Division at Northampton. Moved to Cambridge in December 1914.
22 April 1915 : transferred to 204th Brigade, 68th Division. Moved to Bedford in August 1915.
22 November 1915 : absorbed the 2/5th Bn, the Welsh Regiment. Moved to Lowestoft in September 1916, thence to Yarmouth in March 1917 and Southwold in July 1917.
11 September 1917 : disbanded in UK.
Formed at Macclesfield on 10 October 1914 as a home service (“second line”) unit.
March 1915 : attached to 204th Brigade, 68th Division at Northampton. Moved in August 1915 to Bedford.
8 December 1915 : absorbed the 2/4th Bn. Moved to Lowestoft in September 1916, thence to Wrentham in May 1917 and Southwold by March 1918.
31 March 1918 : disbanded in UK.
3/4th, 3/5th, 3/6th and 3/7th Battalions
Formed in Birkenhead, Chester, Stockport and Macclesfield in March 1915, respectively. All moved to Oswestry.
8 April 1916 : became 4th – 7th Reserve Battalions.
1 September 1916 : 4th absorbed the 5th, 6th and 7th Bns., in Welsh Reserve Brigade. By April 1918 had moved to Kinmel Park (Rhyl) and by August 1918 was at Whitstable.
23rd Battalion
Originally created as the 46th Provisional Bn in June 1915 and manned by “home service only” men sent from the 2/4th and 2/5th Bns. Moved to Happisburgh. On 1 January 1917, became 23rd Bn TF. Moved to Bacton in late 1917 but returned to Happisburgh by April 1918. 27 April 1918 : became a Garrison Guard Bn. 21 May 1918 : landed at Calais.
21 May 1918 : came under orders of 178th Brigade, 59th (2nd North Midland) Division.
19 June 1918 : transferred to 121st Brigade, 40th Division, and the Garrison Guard title discontinued.
Battalions of the New Armies
8th (Service) Battalion
Formed at Chester on 12 August 1914 as part of K1 and came under orders of 40th Brigade, 13th (Western) Division. Moved to Tidworth but by October 1914 was at Chisledon. In February 1915 moved to Pirbright and in June 1915 embarked for Egypt and thence to Gallipoli. Moved in January 1916 to Egypt and the following month to Mesopotamia where it then remained.
Formed at Chester on 13 September 1914 as part of K2 and came under orders of 58th Brigade, 19th (Western) Division. Moved to Salisbury Plain and by December 1914 was in billets in Basingstoke. Returned to Salisbury Plain in March 1915.
19 July 1915 : landed at Boulogne. 7 February 1918 : transferred to 56th Brigade in same Division.
10th (Service) Battalion
Formed at Chester on 10 September 1914 as part of K3 and came under orders of 75th Brigade in 25th Division. Moved to Codford St Mary and by November 1914 was in billets in Bournemouth. Moved to Aldershot in May 1915. 26 September 1915 : landed at France.
26 October 1915 : transferred to 7th Brigade in same Division
21 June 1918 : reduced to cadre strength and main body of personnel transferred to 9th Bn. Cadre returned to England and moved to Aldershot.
July 1918 : absorbed by 15th Bn, South Wales Borderers at North Walsham
Formed at Chester on 17 September 1914 as part of K3 and came under orders of 75th Brigade, 25th Division. Moved to Codford St Mary and by November 1914 was in billets in Bournemouth. Moved to Aldershot in May 1915.
26 September 1915 : landed in France.
17 June 1918 : reduced to cadre strength and personnel transferred to 1/6th Bn.
23 June 1918 : cadre transferred to 39th Division.
3 August 1918 : disbanded in France.
Soldiers of ‘A’ Company, 11th Battalion, the Cheshire Regiment, occupy a captured German trench at Ovillers-la-Boisselle on the Somme. In this photograph one man keeps sentry duty, looking over the parados and using an improvised fire step cut into the back slope of the trench, while his comrades rest. Imperial War Museum image Q3990
Formed at Chester in September 1914 as part of K3 and attached as Army Troops to 22nd Division. Moved to Seaford and by December 1914 was in billets in Eastbourne.
February 1915 : transferred to 66th Brigade in same Division.
Moved to Aldershot in June 1915.
6 September 1915 : landed at Boulogne but moved by November 1915 to Salonika.
The Battalion war diary refers to this as the Wirral Battalion, although it did not have this as an official second title. Formed at Port Sunlight on 1 September 1914 by Gershom Stewart, MP. Moved to Chester.
October 1914 : came under orders of 74th Brigade in 25th Division. By December 1914 was in billets in Bournemouth. Moved to Aldershot in May 1915.
25 September 1915 : landed at France.
16 February 1918 : disbanded in France.
14th (Reserve) Battalion
Formed in Birkenhead in October 1914 as a Service Battalion of K4 and came under orders of 105th Brigade of original 35th Division.
10 April 1915 : became a Reserve battalion. Moved in July 1915 to Kinmel (Rhyl) and in August 1915 to Prees Heath.
1 September 1916 : converted into 50th Training Reserve Battalion.
15th (Service) Battalion (1st Birkenhead)
Formed at Birkenhead on 18 November 1914 by Alfred Bigland MP, as a Bantam Battalion. Moved to Hoylake.
June 1915 : came under orders of 105th Brigade in 35th Division at Masham and in August 1915 to Salisbury Plain. Adopted by the War Office on 15 August 1915.
Landed at Le Havre in January 1916.
16th (Service) Battalion (2nd Birkenhead)
Formed at Birkenhead on 3 December 1914 by Alfred Bigland MP as a Bantam Battalion.
Record same as 15th Bn.
6 February 1918 : disbanded in Belgium.
Formed at Bebington on 10 August 1915 as a local reserve for the 15th and 16th. Moved to Prees Heath.
1 September 1916 : converted into 74th Training Reserve Battalion of 17th Reserve Brigade.
Other Battalions
18th and 19th (Labour) Battalions
Formed at Oldham in March and April 1916, moving to France in April and May 1916 respectively.
April 1917 : converted into 56th to 59th Labour Companies of the Labour Corps.
20th (Labour) Battalion
Formed at Chester in June 1916, moving to France in July 1916.
April 1917 : converted into 60th and 61st Labour Companies of the Labour Corps.
21st (Labour) Battalion
Formed at Chester in August 1916, moving to France in October 1916.
14 May 1917 : converted into 62nd and 63rd Labour Companies of the Labour Corps.
22nd (Labour) Battalion
Formed at Chester in December 1916, moving to France in the same month.
April 1917 : converted into 64th and 65th Labour Companies of the Labour Corps.
24th (Home Service) Battalion
Formed at Mundesley on 27 April 1918 to replace the 23rd Bn (above).
1st Garrison Battalion
Formed at Chester on 1 August 1915, then to Gibraltar where it remained throughout the war.
2nd Garrison Battalion
Formed at Bebington in October 1915, then to Egypt and Palestine where it worked on Lines of Communication.
3rd (Home Service) Garrison Battalion
Formed November 1915. Moved to Ramsay, Isle of Man, in July 1916 moved to Gretna and in November 1916 to Liverpool. Converted into 11th Bn, the Royal Defence Corps in August 1917.
51st (Graduated) Battalion
Up to 27 October 1917, this was known as 213th Graduated Battalion and had no regimental affiliation. Before that it had been 59th Battalion of the Training Reserve and up to September 1916 had been the 13th (Reserve) Battalion of the South Wales Borderers. A training unit based at the Curragh in Ireland, it was part of 194th Brigade in 65th (2nd Lowland) Division. It remained at the Curragh when the Division was broken up in March 1918.
52nd (Graduated) Battalion
Up to 27 October 1917, this was known as 221st Graduated Battalion and had no regimental affiliation. Before that it had been 61st Battalion of the Training Reserve and up to September 1916 had been the 21st (Reserve) Battalion of the Welsh Regiment. A training unit based at Keane Barracks at the Curragh camp in Ireland, it was part of 196th Brigade in 65th (2nd Lowland) Division. It remained at the Curragh when the Division was broken up in March 1918.
53rd (Young Soldier) Battalion
Up to 27 October 1917, this was known as 62nd Batalion of the Training Reserve had had formerly been the 12th (Reserve) Battalion of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers. A basic recruit training unit based at Kinmel (Rhyl), it was part of 14th Reserve Brigade.
Other regiments of infantry
5th Division
13th (Western) Division
22nd Division
30th Division
53rd (Welsh) Division
56th (London) Division
59th (2nd North Midland) Division
65th (2nd Lowland) Division
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The letter between George HW Bush and Bill Clinton that speaks volumes about politics today.
Since the death of former US president George H.W. Bush on Friday, November 30, several renowned politicians have left touching tributes about the late Republican.
Both Barack Obama and Donald Trump have tweeted their condolences and issued their official statements on Bush’s passing, and former president Bill Clinton has done the same.
Writing for The Washington Post, Clinton shared the letter he received from the then 68-year-old on the first day of his presidency. The Democrat had just defeated Bush in the 1993 Presidential election and keeping in line with the tradition between the incoming and outgoing President, Bush had left him a handwritten letter.
When I walked into this office just now I felt the same sense of wonder and respect that I felt four years ago. I know you will feel that, too.
I wish you great happiness here. I never felt the loneliness some Presidents have described.
There will be very tough times, made even more difficult by criticism you may not think is fair. I’m not a very good one to give advice; but just don’t let the critics discourage you or push you off course.
You will be our President when you read this note. I wish you well. I wish your family well.
Your success now is our country’s success. I am rooting hard for you.
Good Luck — George
This is a hand-written letter George H.W. Bush famously left for Bill Clinton on his first day in office. People, this is what class looks like. This is how a U.S. president is supposed to carry himself. pic.twitter.com/Ty4tL8V5XC
— Scott J. Adams ☘️ (@SJAdams) December 1, 2018
The letter has since gone viral, with many people noting the civility and courtesy between the two presidents of opposing sides, something that seems almost foreign in today’s loud and argumentative political environment – both internationally and in the US.
Writing about Bush’s perspective on politics, Clinton complimented the former president’s ability to work with bipartisan support, who despite being a Republican still collaborated with the Democrats over The Americans with Disabilities Act in 1990 which made it illegal for employers to discriminate against disability, as well as environmental issues like the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990.
He also said that while he and Bush occasionally clashed in opinions, it didn’t affect their relationship.
“Even more important, though he could be tough in a political fight, he was in it for the right reasons: People always came before politics, patriotism before partisanship. To the end, we knew we would never agree on everything, and we agreed that was okay. Honest debate strengthens democracy,” he wrote.
Although he doesn’t make a direct reference to President Trump, the comparison between the “two eras” of government is easily implied.
Not only did Trump try to discredit Obama as a natural-born US citizen – he claimed he was born in Kenya – but between the years of 2012 to 2016, he continued to imply his birth certificate was fake.
In 2016 he also accused Obama of being the “founder of ISIS” at a rally in Sunrise, Florida, and the insults and email hacking allegations he hurled at Hilary Clinton during the 2016 presidential campaign are well documented.
Amazing that Crooked Hillary can do a hit ad on me concerning women when her husband was the WORST abuser of woman in U.S. political history
Hillary Clinton’s Emails, many of which are Classified Information, got hacked by China. Next move better be by the FBI & DOJ or, after all of their other missteps (Comey, McCabe, Strzok, Page, Ohr, FISA, Dirty Dossier etc.), their credibility will be forever gone!
Although Bush’s legacy as a devoted, patriotic and humble public servant (as shared by Obama) seems like the exception to today’s political rule, Clinton says it’s something we can and must fight to get back.
“It’s easy to sigh and say George H.W. Bush belonged to an era that is gone and never coming back – where our opponents are not our enemies, where we are open to different ideas and changing our minds, where facts matter and where our devotion to our children’s future leads to honest compromise and shared progress,” he wrote.
“I know what he would say: “Nonsense. It’s your duty to get that America back.”
What did you think of Bill Clinton’s tribute to the late President? Tell us in a comment below.
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Case study: RNIB
Growing a culture of innovation at RNIB
Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) is the UK’s leading charity offering support, advice and information to over two million people with sight loss. The fundraising department wanted to foster a culture of innovation to boost their income. RNIB worked with The Management Centre (=mc) to design an innovation framework that was right for RNIB and has resulted in a true culture change.
About RNIB
Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) is the UK’s leading charity offering information, support and advice to over two million people with sight loss.
RNIB is leading the UK Vision Strategy, a Vision 2020UK initiative, which aims to:
improve the eye health of the people of the UK
eliminate avoidable sight loss and deliver excellent support to those with a visual impairment
enhance the inclusion, participation and independence of blind and partially sighted people
In order to fund this pioneering work, RNIB relies on income from a variety of sources. With just over 50% of their income coming from voluntary donations, maximising this source of income was a key strategic priority.
By many measures, RNIB was a successful fundraising charity. But they didn’t want to rest on past success. The fundraising market in the UK has grown increasingly competitive in recent years, and the economic downturn has resulted in a drop in total donations. RNIB wanted to invest in developing new fundraising products to stay ahead of the competition and reach new donor audiences.
Previous efforts to foster a culture of innovation in the fundraising department hadn’t been completely successful. They wanted to know why, and how they could advance their innovation work to become a leader in the charitable sector.
=mc’s brief
In order to foster a strong culture of innovation that could drive voluntary income growth, RNIB asked =mc to:
help them analyse the strengths and weaknesses of their existing approach to innovation
develop a stage by stage process to develop and deliver innovative fundraising products
RNIB Innovation Project staff had invested months of work in considering the big questions: what is meant by “innovation”, who else is doing it and how should we do it here? =mc built on this, and working with key staff, we used our Innovation Value Chain model to create a staff survey. This was designed to identify the strengths and bottlenecks in RNIB’s innovation process, and had the added benefit of establishing a benchmark against which the Innovation Project could monitor their future progress. RNIB found they were good at generating ideas, but not as good at sharing information, prioritising and developing ideas, and delivering new products.
Based on this finding, we focused on helping the Innovation Project team develop a series of tools which formed the ‘Innovation Laboratory’. We also helped them develop internal innovation processes to address these weaknesses. We then worked with them to design a series of training workshops to empower fundraising staff across the organisation to develop innovative products, with the ultimate aim of fostering an innovative culture within RNIB.
Led by Tom Lewis-Reynier and aided by Rebecca Williams, RNIB created a fully-developed innovation strategy and process, key activities and objectives with KPIs and targets. Critically, RNIB identified two kinds of innovation they wanted to support:
big ideas that required coordinated resourcing: these projects are managed by the newly-named Innovation Services Team (formerly the Innovation Project team). This team uses an innovation value chain-based process to design, develop and deliver new Big Idea products
incremental innovation: to help with the process of creating an innovation culture, teams across the fundraising function are encouraged to develop and deliver their own initiatives, supported by the Innovation Services Team
A second survey demonstrated that staff now feel more empowered and supported in creating and developing new ideas compared to the previous year – a strong indication that innovation has now become an essential part of the organisational culture.
The Innovation Services Team demonstrated the power of the innovation process by helping to develop the ‘Rushton Ripple’, a new Community Fundraising product designed to support their Capital Appeal for the redevelopment of Rushton School. The Innovation Services Team supported this project throughout the innovation process – from helping with idea generation to developing the business case for the product and pitching it internally. Stakeholders from across RNIB applauded the new and refreshing approach the Innovation Services Team brought to the project.
The Innovation Services Team now use every opportunity to incorporate innovation process concepts into projects: innovation is no longer a project at RNIB. It’s what they do.
“It was essential for us to bring in specific skills and an external perspective and experience to this project. Working with =mc has delivered on both those dimensions – and has been a lot of fun too. =mc‘s collaborative work-style has prepared the strong foundations of internal capacity to help with the sustainability and delivery of our Innovation Programme.”
Tom Lewis-Reynier Innovation Services Manager, RNIB
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Will Rising Interest Rates Push Gold Higher?
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By Paul Farrugia
There has been an incredible amount of chatter as to how many times the Federal Reserve is going to raise rates in 2018, and the speed at which it will raise them by. For gold investors, the old question lingers, “What will rising interest rates mean for the price of gold?” The simple viewpoint has been that rising rates are bad for gold because gold is not an interest-bearing asset. Why would you own gold if interest rates are rising and gold doesn’t pay you anything? There are typically two sides to the debate on the impact of gold from the change in interest rates. There are those who see rising interest rates as good for gold, and there are those that see rising interest rates as harmful to the price of gold. But who is right? Which side is correct? Could they both be wrong? Or both be right?
WHAT HAPPENED BEFORE GOLD WINDOW CLOSED FROM THE NIXON SHOCK?
During the three-year period from 1968 to 1971, we witnessed the fed funds rate double from 4.6% to a high of 9.19% in 1969, before falling back down to 3.71% in March 1971. During this time, the gold price went from $35.20/oz. to a high of $43.60/oz. in 1969, three months before the fed funds rate peaked. Gold appreciated 23.2%, nothing spectacular, before falling back to $35.1/oz. in March 1970, a year before the fed funds rate bottomed. We can say that during this time period the trend for both gold and interest rates rose together. The trend was less consistent on the way down and with the recovery thereafter.
WHAT HAPPENED TO GOLD & INTEREST RATES DURING THE 1970’s?
We had seven periods during the 1970’s where the US Fed Fund rates rose for consecutive months before falling for multiple months. The 1970’s started while in a recession, had a recession halfway through and ended with a recession. There were two oil crises in 1973 and 1979, and it was a period of higher inflation. It was a volatile time.
GOLD AFTER THE NIXON SHOCK
Gold bottomed about a year prior the fed funds rate did in February 1970 at $35.20/oz. After Nixon closed the gold window in August 1970, gold went to $195.5/oz. in December 1974. The fed funds rate peaked five months earlier in July 1974 at 12.92%. Many investors use the period after the Nixon closed the gold window (August 1970), as more of a true market gold price. This is because free-market forces were now allowed to decide what the US dollar and gold were worth against one another. Over the next twenty months, gold went down from the December 1974 high, to hit a low of $100/oz. in August 1976.
INTEREST RATES AFTER THE NIXON SHOCK
After peaking out in August 1971, the fed funds rates bottomed at 3.29%, then moved up to 12.72% in July 1974. Just like when rates were rising on the way up, there were pauses on the way down, briefly going up before bottoming out. After the peak in 1974, rates finally bottomed in January 1977 at 4.61%. There were pauses on the way up for both gold and interest rates. As the old saying goes, “Nothing goes straight Up”. In the first half of the 1970’s, neither one led one another all of the time. They at times switched which one led when peaking and when bottoming. They also did not conclusively show that if one was rising, the other would always be falling.
THE SECOND HALF OF THE 1970’s
The second period of the 1970’s, investors saw a meteoric rise in interest rates from a low of 4.61% in January 1977, to 19.1% in June 1981. Gold went from $100/oz. in December 1976 to $910.60/oz. in January 1980, increasing by more than 50% increase in the final phase transition up. Gold started its rises a few months prior to interest rates moving up and peaked out a few months before. In this instance, from a multi-year trend perspective, gold and interest moved in the same direction with one another. Interest rates made an initial bottom to 8.63% in May 1983. Whereas gold, bottomed out almost 14 months prior, at $312.50/oz. On a multi-year trend basis, gold and the fed funds rate approximately moved together. During the 1970's, the relationship between gold and interest rates can be better viewed on a decade basis to get a clearer picture because you can see their behavior throughout the business cycles
HOW DID GOLD & THE FED FUNDS RATES DO IN THE 80’S & 90’s?
After former Fed Chairman, Paul Volcker stepped in and tamed inflation with the ratcheting up of interest rates, the U.S. experienced a deep recession thereafter. Gold plummeted to $312.51/Oz in March 1982, as rates came back down bottoming out in March 1983. If one was to look at the entire 20-year trend, the fed funds rate would be down, and gold would be the same. It would appear that the relationship can be best viewed over long-term time periods just like in the 1970’s. Shorter-term time periods during the 1980’s and 1990’s did not provide conclusive results between the fed funds rates and gold.
WHAT HAPPENED TO GOLD AND THE FED FUNDS RATE IN THE 2000’s?
After the tech boom in the United States, the Federal Reserve dropped its target to 1% in June 2003, with the fed funds rate hitting a low of 0.98%. Gold bottomed in June 1999 at $251.95/oz., almost four years before interest rates bottomed. All commodities boomed as demand from the emerging markets grew rapidly led by China. The US dollar index went from being above 120 in 2001, falling to just above 70 in early2008. A 42% drop! When you combine the increasing commodity demand from China and the fall in the US dollar. These set the gold price on a higher trajectory, just like the entire commodity complex during this time. Gold did not break its bullish trend, until seven months after the Fed started lowering rates. By this time the Fed’s target was already cut in half to 2.25%. But the gold trend broke away from the low rates, after making a brief bottom in October 2008 at $621.45/oz., continuing its upward trend. After the banks were bailed out, investors began to see the issues were not just on the private asset side, but on the public side too.
WHAT HAPPENED IN THE 2010’s?
After 2008, the fed funds target rate stayed flat for six years at 0.25%. But the fed funds rate remained below the target the entire time. Unlike in the 2000’s where the moment the Fed dropped its target to 1%, the fed funds rate was already at or back above the target. On a monthly basis, the fed funds rate only fell below the 1% fed target once, to 0.98% over the 12-month period the target was at 1% in the early 2000’s.
THE BIG DISCONNECT
After 2008, gold and rates did not follow in lock-step with one another. We saw a major issue with a confidence in the U.S. Federal Government, and the European debt crisis. It was the confidence in the public sector, that drove assets out of public assets and into private assets, like gold and other commodities, not from rising rates.
THE COMMODITY COMPLEX
The commodity complex appears to have bottomed for many commodities, not just for gold, but for oil, uranium, and many of the base metals. The Fed has spoken about further rate hikes, and with the recent tariff talk, and the US dollar index topped out in December 2017, which will increase the volatility in the markets. In March 2002, the U.S. imposed 30% global steel imports. Interest rates went lower until 2004, and gold went higher. This rising gold may highlight an issue of confidence in the public assets and not of a relation to the interest rates in this instance. Commodities appear to be rising from the ashes, with a currently strong global economy reflected in the PMI’s, a declining US dollar since the end of 2017, increasing tariff risk, and it sets things up for higher commodity prices, over the next few years.
Source: Zerohedge
The USD Dollar Index
MORE RATE HIKES COMING – GOOD FOR GOLD?
On a monthly or yearly basis, it is difficult to conclude that the fed funds rate leads to gold, or gold leads the fed funds rate. What maybe be more helpful is to look at gold and interest rates over 5-10 years, even a 20-year period. The business cycle, which can range between 5-10 years, goes hand and hand with the rise and fall of the fed funds rate to complete its cycle. Commodity booms typically at least 4 years, and the bust is at least 2-3 years. We would consider setting the minimum time period to compare both gold and interest rates at least over a 7-8-year period, to compare their behavior to one another. Over the next 5-10 years, it is more likely that we will see higher commodity prices as the bond bubble bursts, the debts are reignited from rising rates, which will push capital flowing into private assets like commodities, not just gold. In the near-term over 1-2 years, history is not conclusive enough to give any solid evidence as to the relationship between the fed funds rate and gold.
TAKE AWAY FOR THE PORTFOLIO MANAGER & GOLD STOCK ANALYST
The commentators were both right.
Predicting the outcome of interest rates and gold in relation to one another on a monthly basis can be a difficult task. Over the past 40 years, the data shows that gold can lead interest rates, or interest rates can lead gold. They can even go in the opposite direction for extended periods.
Stick to areas of the value chain within the gold sector that you have an advantage over others.
Companies growing the production profile on a year-over-year basis above industry peers, have an opportunity to create shareholder value.
Follow the commodity complex. Commodity cycles, which considers all commodities together, are more predictable over long-term time periods to gold than interest rates.
Paul Farrugia, BCom. Paul is the President & CEO of First Macro Capital. He helps his readers identify mining stocks that you can hold for the long-term. He provides a checklist to find winning gold and silver mining producer stocks, including battery metals.
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Name: Chris Boardman
City: Miami, Florida
Biographical: Composer, arranger, entrepreneur, professor, social media content strategist, lecturer, recording artist, conductor...
Chris Boardman is the director of the Media Writing and Production Program at the University of Miami Frost School of Music and teaches Film Scoring and Advanced Music Editing. Beginning his career in the film, television and recording industries in 1974, Boardman has consistently worked at the top echelon of the entertainment industry receiving an Academy Award nomination for "The Color Purple", 6 Emmy Awards, 13 Emmy nominations, ASCAP and BMI awards and multiple platinum records for work with such iconic artists as Quincy Jones, David Foster, Steven Spielberg, Julie Andrews, Shirley MacLaine, Barbara Streisand, Marvin Hamlisch and Josh Groban.
Well known in Hollywood circles and one of a handful of musicians who can literally write anything, Boardman’s credits span both industry and genre. Whether it be conducting David Foster’s "World Children’s Day" for television, composing the '70s inspired score for Mel Gibson’s "Payback", arranging period dance music for "Swing Kids" and "Meet Joe Black", orchestrating "Chaplin" for Broadway or releasing and producing solo recordings as an artist, Boardman embraces these challenges with characteristic integrity and passion, making him one of the most uniquely versatile and highly respected musicians in the industry. He attended Weber State University and continued on to California State University Northridge, working simultaneously in Los Angeles recording studios.
Always looking for new challenges, Boardman is the founder of a successful social media content strategy consulting business and is at the forefront of the fast moving online media space.
Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/album/5Wlqyewqj95KdMnZMB2O5g
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The truth is you're the weak. And I'm the tyranny of evil men. But I'm tryin, Ringo. I'm tryin' real hard to be the shepherd.
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Architects (and the people that hire them) are Blithering Morons
Having ONLY worked in the construction and architecture industries for ONLY thirty years (ONLY), I probably have no idea how much it costs to build stuff, but THIS article actually made me laugh out loud.
The Long Beach Redevelopment Agency Board hired the firm specifically for architect Mary McGrath, who has worked with the LBFD in the past.
The LBFD used her space planning services to help determine project costs for Fire Stations 10 and 12, said Deputy Fire Chief Jeff Reeb. (ed note: THE VERY REASON SHE WAS HIRED IS FOR HER COST ESTIMATION!)
The maximum $1.056 million contract allows the agency to move forward without delay on a 10,000- square-foot fire station and 5,000- square-foot disaster resource building at 1199 Artesia Blvd.
Lemme just say that this article makes you believe that the buildings are going to be BUILT to 1.056 large. Fifteen thousand square feet of building, in Long Beach, California which has a multiplier of 1.15 of the national average for building!
In Mississippi, the lowest that we could build fifteen thousand square feet would be no less than 2.5 million, unless it was an unconditioned, uninsulated warehouse. And our multiplier is 0.77 percent of the national average.
The ONLY contract that could be 1.056 big on this job will be the FEE for the architectural services.
Just to give you a little sample of the overwhelming WRONGNESS of that number. A General Steel pre-engineered metal building 150 feet by 100 feet (15,000 sf) costs $162,590. This includes NOTHING but the warehouse structure. No mechanical, no electrical, no foundation, NOT erected, site not graded, no paving, no concrete, no doors, no windows, no insulation, no plumbing, the list is endless. Please note that the photographs on the page linked are NOT, repeat NOT, what you get for that price and that number from General is about eleven dollars a square foot.
Typical building cost in Mississippi right now is generally between 145 and 190 dollars a square foot, depending on the quality of finish material. Job costs by multiplier in Long Beach would be thirty-eight percent MORE than Mississippi. Ain't nary way to build 15,000 square feet in Long Beach, California for anywhere in the realm of seventy-one dollars per foot, which is what 1.056 large is. Nope, you would need to at least double that number or be magic.
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And for MUD, the weather report in Altus, Oklahoma: 104 in the shade, but that is misleading because the shade has all melted; with thirty mile per hour winds, gusting up to forty-five. My skin? Burnt off two different ways.
Posted by Paul Mitchell at Tuesday, June 03, 2008
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Beck threatens to shoot govt. workers if they try to "take my kids because" he won't get them flu vaccines
From the October 15 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' Glenn Beck Program:
BECK: Let me ask you this. Don Imus, Deirdre, very, very bright. Let's say -- what's his kid's name, Wyatt? -- let's say Wyatt gets cancer. You're gonna take the kid away, because they believe broccoli enemas are the thing?
GRAY: I don't think that would happen to Imus. Do you? It would be too, I mean --
BECK: No because he would get on and say, "Get the hell away from my kids."
GRAY: Yep. And they'd have to.
BECK: And he would muster -- he would be able to make the case. Look --
GRAY: And again that's not equal justice, that's social justice.
BECK: Exactly right.
GRAY: This keeps happening.
BECK: Here's a child that is going to lose an eye. And the state thinks it's better for them to lose the parents.
GRAY: Yeah.
BECK: Than an eye. I'm sorry, I don't.
BURGUIERE: I don't know, I mean it's just one of these things that when you have things that are treatable and obvious, I think that you have to, you have to -- you're putting these kids in danger. It's just like a child abuse situation.
BECK: No.
BURGUIERE: It really is. When you're talking about if you have -- if you stuck something in their eye intentionally for them to go blind --
BECK: Then it's child abuse.
BURGUIERE: Right, but when you let them just go blind out of the disease that could be cured, that's not? I mean, it's certainly at least kind of close to it.
BECK: Don't they have the right -- the state has a bigger right to the child? Look, look, again, we're not talking about total blindness, and we're not talking about life and death here.
BURGUIERE: It's not degrees of blindness is not the argument here.
BECK: Yes there is. One eye. One eye.
BURGUIERE: So if it's one eye, we can let him go blind in the one eye, but --
BECK: You are talking about taking a child away and the state rearing a child and making decisions. If they're nuts, then -- but if they are sane? They just happen to believe in God and faith-healing, then I think you've got to let them rule. The family is sacred.
GRAY: Where do you draw that line? So you'd draw that line at something that is maybe life-threatening?
BECK: I don't know where the line is.
GRAY: It's really hard.
BECK: But here's why it has to be drawn. Because, vaccinations. You don't give your kid vaccination -- how many people do you know that ten years ago people said, "Oh, vaccinations, please stop with the vaccination thing." How many people do you know who are really smart, who have really done their homework, who have children with autism, and say, "Don't do the vaccinations thing"? A lot.
BURGUIERE: There's a lot of people who believe that.
GRAY: I've got very close friends who, and they swear by it. Vaccination thing. Swear by it.
BECK: My children? We're not getting the flu vaccine. No. The state comes and says my kids have to have the flu -- go to hell. Go to hell. Get off my porch. You want to take my kids because of that? Meet Mr. Smith and Mr. Wesson. Get off my land. Period.
GRAY: And do you know there are doctors who won't treat kids who haven't been vaccinated?
BURGUIERE: Well, that's their choice, though.
BECK: That's their choice.
GRAY: That's their choice.
GRAY: But I'm just saying, the pressure right now is almost unbearable. Can't go to school without it. You can't get treated by doctors without it.
BECK: You know what? To me, all of those things, as long as those are individual choices -- if somebody in a school district says, you know, the school district, the local school district, says, you know what, we don't want to have vaccinations, then I will take my children, because it will be more important than my job, my house, my car, and I'll live under a bridge if I have to, I will live in a cardboard box, and my children and I will be fine. We will make it, but I will go find a community that believes in the things that I believe.
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Reducing the risk of falls by motivating older people to do preventative exercise
Published Thursday 20 February 2014 Published Thu 20 Feb 2014
Adapted Media Release
Every year, a third of people over 65 living in the UK will experience a fall.
This not only causes considerable emotional distress and physical harm, but also costs an already over-stretched health system over £1 billion each year.
Simple strength and balance training can effectively help to prevent falls, but Bournemouth University research shows only a minority of older people will carry out these exercises.
Dr Samuel Nyman has studied how best to motivate those at risk of falling to actually complete the exercises, as well as raising awareness of the importance of regular strength and balance training.
"Falling is a massive and complex issue. It has lots of risk factors and there is not just one solution," said Dr Nyman, a Senior Lecturer in Psychology, who has been working with both health professionals and older people themselves.
"It is an issue for people of an older age because their reaction times are slower, so they are less likely to stop themselves. The consequences are also far greater too - falls are more likely to result in fractures, which are one of the main triggers for going into a care home."
Falls in those aged 65 or above account for over 50 per cent of injury-related hospital admissions, and 40 per cent of all injury-related deaths. This has a significant economic impact on the NHS, with costs of ambulance call outs and increased social care assistance following a fall. But Dr Nyman explains there can be seriously detrimental psychological effects as well.
"If people develop a fear of falling again, then they reduce their activity, they don't go out as much and this relates to people becoming socially isolated and feeling lonely."
Evidence shows that strength and balance training is the most effective way to prevent falls among older people living in the community.
Recommended exercises can range from tai chi classes to simple home-based techniques, like standing on one leg while doing the washing up.
Two key reviews by Dr Nyman, which looked at data from existing trials into falls prevention, found only around 30 to 42 per cent of older people in the community are likely to follow physical activity interventions like strength and balance training over a 12 month period.
"There is robust evidence that strength and balance training is really effective," Dr Nyman said. "As long as you can get people to start doing it and maintain it, there is about a 30 per cent fall risk reduction, alongside benefits like meeting up with other people and socialising.
"But it's not just about giving people the information - we need to see what works and what might prevent people from taking up the exercises."
Dr Nyman's work has been used to educate health professionals working with older people, through a training course, an online resource, and a new evidence-based website www.freshbalance.org.uk, which provides advice on the best forms of exercise to prevent falls.
The site applies Dr Nyman's research to ensure the information is presented in the most appealing way to motivate older people to carry out the exercises.
"The evidence at the moment would say that it's all about promoting the positives, not talking about falls at all," he said. "It's also about choosing exercises that are going to be suitable for them, that they will enjoy and are relevant to their age group - someone who is 65 will have very different wants and needs to someone who is 85."
Dr Nyman has also co-founded and chairs the Dorset Alliance to Prevent falls and Promote independence (Dorset APP), which brings together several local organisations to work more effectively to prevent falls, including hospital representatives, council services, voluntary organisations, and older people.
He now plans to work with the Bournemouth University Dementia Institute (BUDI) to look at preventing falls among older people with dementia.
"We now have a fair sense of what we need to do to prevent falls generally with older people, but not people with dementia, who might have slightly different needs," he said. "We know people with dementia are more at risk of falling but we want to look at the specific reasons why, and how we can best help them."
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Should We Celebrate the Death of Meaningful Use?
Not necessarily, says Margalit Gur-Arie
by Margalit Gur-Arie MSc January 14, 2016
At the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco, Andrew Slavitt, acting administrator at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), announced on January 11 that "The Meaningful Use program as it has existed will now effectively be over, and replaced with something better" and later clarified on Twitter that "In 2016, MU as it has existed -- with MACRA -- will now be effectively over and replaced with something better."
Meaningful Use is dead. Just like that. No apologies. No nothing. As someone who's been lamenting the havoc wreaked by the program on both doctors and patients, I should be elated nevertheless. Well, I am not.
Let's start with appearances. The J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference is the "largest and most informative health care investment symposium in the industry which brings together global industry leaders, emerging fast-growth companies, innovative technology creators, globally minded service providers, and members of the investment community." In other words, the event is all about money for the millionaire and billionaire class. J.P. Morgan Chase itself is the largest financial institution in the country. It is the embodiment of Wall Street and its death grip on our collective neck. Was this conference really the best place to make such momentous announcement?
Besides, why would these extractors of wealth be interested in the fate of something as obscure as Meaningful Use? Shouldn't they discuss more lucrative schemes, such as running all possible blood tests on one tiny blood droplet, or how the makers of Microsoft Office and the largest online retailer of everything are going to jointly solve for cancer? Shouldn't they be analyzing trillion dollar addressable markets of genomic rainbows, and how mergers, acquisitions, and inversions can help squeeze whatever is left in the turnips that are you and me?
Of course, they should, and they did all that and much more. But changes to the Meaningful Use program are of strategic importance to all other rainbows, grails, and unicorns. Why? Because Meaningful Use, other than funneling a respectable amount of billions of dollars into the health tech sector, is the enabler of data collection which fuels all other investment opportunities. Furthermore, pretty much everything that could be sold to satisfy Meaningful Use, has been sold, so what's next? As the Meaningful Use money making opportunities are ending, CMS is "moving to a new regime." Interesting choice of words notwithstanding, the Meaningful Use successor consists of punishing doctors for nebulous "outcomes," and, of course, all sorts of new technologies to better transfer all medical data into places where J.P. Morgan clientele can monetize them.
Let's talk about substance. Meaningful use has been created by an act of Congress, and enshrined for posterity in a subsequent act of Congress, the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA). It is not clear to me how a political appointee can invalidate acts of Congress at will, although this probably makes perfect sense in the rarefied circles convened by J.P. Morgan. If nothing else, the absolute confidence that Congress will oblige, and the president of the United States will sign whatever is put in front of him/her by the Wall Street lobby, is a perfect illustration of who is running this country and how it is done. A somewhat less politically disheartening explanation is that the demise of Meaningful Use has been greatly exaggerated in this announcement.
Meaningful Use, as we discussed in the past, is not just about onerous burdens on physicians. It is also about regulating design and production of medical software to serve the needs and wants of government and large corporations. From reading Mr. Slavitt's remarks, I suspect that the latter effort is far from being over and may actually be greatly fortified under the "new regime." If you design clever software, and mandate its purchase and daily use, there is very little utility in paying users to show their work, which is what Meaningful Use for physicians really meant. You do however want to keep those unwittingly exploited users calm and cooperative, which may explain why CMS wants to "get the hearts and minds of physicians back."
Enter the American Medical Association (AMA). While across the ocean, the British Medical Association is aggressively supporting its striking members in a nationwide struggle for the soul of medicine, the AMA is launching a "Silicon Valley integrated innovation company" to monetize its members in service to the new CMS regime. In a fortuitous coincidence, the creation of this new "stand-alone, for-profit entity," Health2047, was announced in San Francisco on the same day the J.P. Morgan conference was convened. The goal of Health2047 is to leverage physicians' expertise to "help forge new paths and bring commercial solutions to market faster," and of course to make boatloads of money for investors, including the AMA.
Meaningful Use is dead. Long live something better! And what is that better something? It is paying physicians for outcomes. It is the use of evidence-based medicine. It is interoperability and "user-centered" design. It is accountable care organizations, value, patient-centeredness, coordination and such. It is also the making of markets "by leveling the technology playing field for start-ups and new entrants," because when Epic makes money, nobody on Wall Street or in Silicon Valley gets a piece of the action. It is about engagement and analytics and population health, calculations, penalties, incentives and lots of new technology things. It is "like the second-generation iPhone."
After collectively sinking billions of dollars in certified EHR technology over the last 5 years, hospitals and doctors will now be expected to foot the bill for new software and computer products to support the lifestyles of a new generation of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and the insatiable greed of the old generation of Silicon Valley investors. Why? Because the next app is sure to fix health care in America. It's always the next one. There is always "something better" you can buy. Planned obsolescence, which is fueling the obscene fortunes of Silicon Valley and destroying life everywhere else, has finally arrived to the $3 trillion health care sector. It took a bit longer than the folks at J.P. Morgan expected, I'm sure, but we're in business now. Let the good times roll.
Margalit Gur-Arie is founder, BizMed. She blogs at On Healthcare Technology. This post appeared on KevinMD.com.
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Junior Youth (Grades 6 through 8)
By: Gaby Av
The Middleschoolers (grades 6, 7, and 8) experience a Sunday morning class each week exploring life issues, World Religions, Unitarian Universalism, Social Justice topics, and exploring their own beliefs. They also attend Worship circles and multi-generational services.They are also involved in exploring our Diversity Topics (click HERE for more information)
In 2019-2020, the 7th through 9th graders will be doing OWL (“Our Whole Lives”) sexuality program. See more below.
Our Whole Lives Lifespan Sexuality Education Curricula
Our Whole Lives is a series of sexuality education curricula used at MUUC for Grades 7-8 or 7-9, every two or three years, depending on the demographics of our program. This will be offered to our 7th-8th graders every other year.
From the UUA website:
Our Whole Lives helps participants make informed and responsible decisions about their sexual health and behavior. It equips participants with accurate, age-appropriate information in six subject areas: human development, relationships, personal skills, sexual behavior, sexual health, and society and culture. Grounded in a holistic view of sexuality,Our Whole Lives not only provides facts about anatomy and human development, but also helps participants clarify their values, build interpersonal skills, and understand the spiritual, emotional, and social aspects of sexuality.
Our Whole Lives uses approaches that work. The curricula are based on guidelines produced by the National Guidelines Task Force, a group of leading health, education, and sexuality professionals assembled by the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS).
Our Whole Lives covers topics and skills that both parents and students want to have available but schools are less likely to cover. The Kaiser Family Foundation has an interesting report on this subject called “Sex Education in America: A View from Inside the Nation’s Classrooms.” New national surveys are challenging the convention that Americans are reluctant to have sexual health issues taught in school. The surveys show that most parents, along with educators and students themselves, would expand sex education courses and curriculum.
Our Whole Lives Values
Justice and Inclusivity
Our Whole Lives Offers
Up-to-date information and honest, age-appropriate answers to all participants’ questions
Activities to help participants clarify values and improve decision-making skills
Effective group-building to create a safe and supportive peer group
Education about sexual abuse, exploitation, and harassment
Opportunities to critique media messages about gender and sexuality
Acceptance of diversity
Encouragement to act for justice
A well designed, teacher-friendly leaders’ guide
Parent orientation programs that affirm parents as the primary sexuality educators of their children
Sexuality and Our Faith, an optional religious component for Unitarian Universalist and United Church of Christ settings.
Our Whole Lives is appropriate for use in a variety of congregational, school, and community settings, including classrooms, after-school programs, and youth groups. Although developed by two religious organizations, Our Whole Lives contains no religious references or doctrine. Religious references are provided in a Unitarian Universalist and United Church of Christ companion publication, Sexuality and Our Faith.
Senior Youth (grades 9 – 12)
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Popular Emily shines again
Remembering the ringers
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Remembering William and Frederick
The picture above is of Gunner William Edward Leadenham, of the Royal Garrison Artillery, who died in hospital in France during the First World War after being shot in the head at the age of 19 in August 1917.
It was sent to us by Elaine Holmes, who lives in Goadby Marwood. He was one of Elaine's later father Edward Atkinson's cousins. Another was Driver Frederick Charles Dexter, of the Royal Engineers, who died aged 19 in January 1917 in Salonika, Greece.
William was educated at Melton Grammar School, and spent some time subsequently on his father’s farm before deciding to enlist, despite being in a reserved occupation, in September 1916. The family home was at Guadaloupe Farm, Eye Kettleby.
Frederick, the son of a saddler, was born in Melton Mowbray and his family lived in Thorpe Road. He worked with his father for a time in the saddlery business, then went on to work on his uncle's farm in Eye Kettleby. He died in hospital at Salonika from enterica.
There is a burial commemoration for William at the Mendinghem Military Cemetery, Proven, Belgium, and for Frederick at Salonika Military Cemetery, Greece.
Elaine has in her possession some letters which were sent home by the men and some are included below.
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‘Fake news victims’ meet with Facebook,…
‘Fake news victims’ meet with Facebook, Twitter, YouTube
‘We’ve come together from different corners of the world to say enough is enough’
SAN FRANCISCO CA - MAY 9: Ethan Lindenberger, Tun Khin and Jessikka Aro, victims of "fake news" on social media, speak Thursday, May 9, 2019, in San Francisco, Calif., about their recent visits with Facebook, Twitter and Google. Lindenberger has been attacked for standing up to anti-vaxxers, while Khin is a Rohingya human rights activist and Aro is a Finnish journalist investigating Russian troll farms. (Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group)
SAN FRANCISCO CA - MAY 9: Jessikka Aro, a Finnish journalist investigating Russian troll farms, visits San Francisco, Calif., Thursday, May 9, 2019, to discuss her concerns about being a victim of "fake news" on social media with Facebook, Twitter and Google. (Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group)
SAN FRANCISCO CA - MAY 9: Ethan Lindenberger, an 18-year old from Ohio who recently testified to the Senate about standing up to anti-vaxxers, visits San Francisco, Calif., Thursday, May 9, 2019, to discuss his concerns about being a victim of "fake news" on social media with Facebook, Twitter and Google. (Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group)
SAN FRANCISCO CA - MAY 9: Tun Khin, a Rohingya human rights activist, visits San Francisco, Calif., Thursday, May 9, 2019, to discuss his concerns about being a victim of "fake news" on social media with Facebook, Twitter and Google. (Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group)
By Levi Sumagaysay | lsumagaysay@bayareanewsgroup.com | Bay Area News Group
PUBLISHED: May 9, 2019 at 11:48 am | UPDATED: May 10, 2019 at 4:32 am
People who have been harmed by “fake news” appealed to executives at Facebook and Twitter and urged them to do more to stop the spread of disinformation during what they said were emotional, face-to-face meetings this week.
Finnish journalist Jessikka Aro said she has been harassed and threatened ever since she visited St. Petersburg in 2015 to investigate the Internet Research Agency, the Russian troll farm whose members were indicted by the U.S. Department of Justice in February on charges of using social media to interfere with U.S. elections.
“My life has been destroyed after I started to investigate Russian information warfare,” Aro said during a news conference in San Francisco on Thursday. “I have been forced to move abroad.”
She said the harassment, which continues despite some of the perpetrators being sent to prison, also is on YouTube. Aro and the rest of the group are scheduled to meet with Google and YouTube Thursday.
“It’s madness,” she said, her voice cracking as she appeared to hold back tears.
One member of the group is a Rohingya human rights activist from Myanmar who briefs governments around the world on human rights violations committed against Rohingya Muslims. Myanmar’s military, accused of ethnic cleansing, has driven nearly 1 million of the minority Rohingya people out of that country since 2017, according to Human Rights Watch.
“We would like to see urgency from social media companies,” said Tun Khin, who fled Myanmar but has met with people who have lost their families and homes there. “This is genocide we are talking about. We need action.” His voice got louder and he appeared to get agitated as he talked about Myanmar soldiers posting racist content on Facebook, and how it has taken the company years to pay attention.
Avaaz, an advocacy group that’s working to fight disinformation around the world, facilitated the meetings with the tech companies. Fadi Quran, campaign director for Avaaz, said Thursday that the group agreed to honor the tech companies’ requests that any specific action being considered be kept confidential for now, but that “We’re going to give them a three-month deadline to implement steps promised at the meetings.”
One of the solutions Avaaz is pushing for — which it mentioned in an open letter asking to meet with the chief executives of Facebook, Twitter, Google and YouTube — is for the companies to implement a correction policy similar to what news organizations have.
“How much more pain, death and suffering will it take for you to clean up your social platforms and defend us all against disinformation?” asks the letter, which was signed by seven victims of disinformation.
Facebook said it would have no comment. Twitter said Thursday that hearing the stories was valuable and would help inform its decisions, but would not disclose which executives were present at the meeting.
Underscoring the dangers of hatred enabled by online platforms, one of the members of the group who did not appear at the news conference spoke to reporters over the phone.
Lenny Pozner is the father of Noah, a 6-year-old killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in 2012. Pozner is one of the Sandy Hook parents suing Alex Jones, the InfoWars media personality who helped fuel a conspiracy theory that the shooting that killed 26 children and educators was a hoax. (Facebook last week banned Jones along with other controversial figures; Twitter, Apple and YouTube banned him last year.)
“I’ve been put into the position where I can’t just do nothing about this denial of my son’s life and death, and the denial of my pain,” said Pozner, who said he has been forced to move eight times because he has become a target of conspiracy theorists. “I’ve worked hard to have an impact on online disinformation… I look forward to the day when I can quietly grieve the loss of my child. But for now we need to fight and bring more awareness to this very real problem.”
Ethan Lindenberger, an 18-year-old high school student, traveled to the Bay Area from Ohio to meet with the tech giants. He and his siblings were not vaccinated by his parents, and he has testified to U.S. senators that his mother received most of her anti-vaccination disinformation on Facebook.
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“We only hope that they turn those emotions to action,” he said. “I hope they understand this is an issue that can’t be solved just with algorithms.”
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221. Rob Lowe; Rashida Jones; Drake Bell
220. Kevin Nealon; Deftones
160. Kevin Nealon, Morgan Spurlock, Josh Ritter
159. Matt Dillon, Jonah Hill, Guster
158. Heidi Klum, Justin Long, Sonic Youth
157. Darrell Hammond, Christina Milian, Yeah Yeah Yeahs
156. Martin Short, Kirk Jones, Ziggy Marley
155. Ice-T, Tim Gunn, Body Count
154. John C. Reily, Ashanti, Jackie Green
153. Will Ferrell, Christopher Meloni, Landon Pigg
152. Al Gore, Paul Giamatti, The Beastie Boys
151. Uma Thurman, Kevin Smith, New York Dolls
150. Luke Wilson
149. Rosario Dawnson, Kevin Pollack, Matthew Street & Susanna ...
148. Owen Wilson, Kerry Washington, Tom Papa
147. Paul Reubens, Carlos Mencia, David Lee Roth
146. Steven Colbert, Rainn Wilson, Lil' Ed & The Blues Imperials
145. Marlon Wayans, Brian Posehn, Elvis Costello & Allen Touss...
144. Kate Bosworth, Tom Everett Scott, Arj Barker
143. Orlando Bloom, Campbell Brown, Cheap Trick
142. Kevin Spacey, Todd Barry, Strays Don't Sleep
141. Hilary Duff, Neil Patrick Harris, Bonnie Raitt
140. Thomas Haden Church, Bruce Springsteen
139. Kate Beckinsale, Tyrese Gibson, Will Gadd
138. Adam Sandler, John Cena, The Subways
137. Alan Cumming, Henry Winkler, The All-American Rejects
136. Sandra Oh, Gordon Ramsay, Chris Isaak
135. Dane Cook, Shaun White, Dr.John
134. Rosie Perez, Morgan Pressel, Regina Spektor
133. Julia Stiles, Louis C.K., be your own PET
132. Denis Leary, Rita Wilson, Brandi Carlile
131. Kevin Kline, Kevin Dillon, Lewis Black
130. Luke Perry, Chris "Ludacris" Bridges, Van Hunt
129. Eric McCormack, Famke Janssen, Drive-By Truckers
127. Halle Berry, Anderson Cooper, Peeping Tom
126. Jennifer Anistion, Harold Perrineau, Victor Varnado
125. Hugh Jackman, Tim Russert, Gnarls Barkley
124. Seth Green, Lee Evans, Atmosphere
123. Larry King, Omar Epps, Sheila Kelley
122. Edie Falco, Billy Connolly, The Raconteurs
121. Brian Williams, Jorge Garcia, People in Planes
120. Megan Mullally, Mike Wallace, Jewel
119. Barack Obama, Wilco
118. John C. Reilly, Vlasta, John Mayer
117. Dave Chappelle, Common
116. Sean Hayes, Cheap Trick
115. Edward Norton, Izabel Goulart, Gene Pompa
114. Tom Hanks, Wolfmother
113. Jeremy Piven, Jim Cramer, The Strokes
112. Jeff Goldblum, Jodelle Ferland, Taking Back Sunday
111. Paul Rudd, Robert Smigel, Chris Klein, Hawthorne Heights
110. Howie Mandel, Jim Gaffigan, The Goo Goo Dolls
109. Darrell Hammond, Reggie Bush, Eagles of Death Metal
108. Mandy Moore, Alexis Bledel, Secret Machines
107. Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Jason Sudeikis, Daniel Powter
106. Jarod Miller, Regina Hall, Teddy Thompson
105. David Schwimmer, Patton Oswalt, Melissa Cross
104. Hank Azaria, Mimi Rogers, P!NK
103. Jeff Daniels, Rachael Ray, Fiona Apple
102. Nathan Lane, Padma Lahshmi, Kris Kristofferson
101. Lucy Liu, Jon Lovitz, beer expert Michael Jackson
100. Amy Poehler, Steve Schirripa, She Wants Revenge
99. Antonio Banderas, Seth Myers, Little Willies
98. Josh Hartnett, Paget Brewster, Editors
97. Ray Romano, Sue Johanson, José González
96. Queen Latifah, Tim Gunn, Richard Ashcroft
95. Lorraine Bracco, Steve Harvey, Jaheim
94. Amanda Peet, Bradley Cooper
93. Macaulay Culkin, Billy Bragg
92. Vin Diesel, Jamie-Lynn Sigler, We Are Scientists
91. Conan O'Brien's visit to Finland
90. Salma Hayek, Street Drum Corps
89. Matthew McConaughey, Kristin Davis, James Hunter
88. Sarah Jessica Parker, Nelly, Matisyahu
87. Alec Baldwin, Fred Gross, Derek Trucks Band
86. Bob Costas, Jenna Fischer, Dwayne Perkins
85. Gisele Bündchen, Bill Bellamy, Belle & Sebastian
84. Bruce Willis, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Dropkick Murphys
83. Rachel Weisz, Paul Bettany, Graham Bensinger
82. Nicollette Sheridan, Steve Coogan, Aimee Mann
81. Tom Cavanagh, Josh Holloway, Sigur Ros
80. Harrison Ford, Amy Adams, K.T. Tunstall
79. Stephen Colbert, Rick Moranis, Sarah Vowell
78. Bette Midler, David Gregory
77. Meredith Viera, Jeff Probst, Jim Gaffigan
76. Benjamin Bratt, Andy Samberg, Broken Social Scene
75. Steve Carell, Sanaa Lathan, Lewis Taylor
74. Emma Thompson, Jason Priestley, Norah Vincent
73. Bob Saget, James Carville, Yellowcard
72. Anthony Hopkins, Piper Perabo, Marty Stuart & His Fabulou...
71. Clyde Peeling, Nia Long, The Fray
70. Kate Beckinsale, Brian Posehn, Metric
69. Josh Lucas, Marc Maron, Jen Chapin
68. Martin Lawrence, Eliza Dushku, Soweto Gospel Choir
67. Will Arnett, Chris Parnell, Flipsyde
66. Chazz Palminteri, Emily Procter, J.W. Hart
65. Terrance Howard, John Daly, O.A.R.
64. LL Cool J, Mo Rocca, Jimmy Carr
63. Alan Cumming, Sarah Chalke, Living Things
62. Paul Giamatti, Allen Covert, Tom Papa
61. Seth Green, Andy Serkis, Rodney Crowell and Emmylou Harris
60. Quentin Tarantino, Nick Swardson, John Legend
59. Matthew Broderick, Bonnie Hunt, John Mayer Trio
58. Johnny Knoxville, Tucker Carlson, Tony Bennett
57. Tea Leoni, Patton Oswalt, Doris Kearns Goodwin
56. Jim Carrey, Isaac Hayes
55. Barbara Walters, Bill Hader, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
54. Jack Black, Rachel McAdams, Charles Ross
53. Donald Trump, Emily Mortimer, Susan Tedeschi
52. Heidi Klum, Carson Kressley, Jake Shimabukaro
51. Tina Fey, William Moseley, James Blunt
50. Luke Wilson, Jack Klugman, Jason Hawes & Grant Wilson
49. Lindsay Lohan, Colin Hanks, Coldplay
48. Adrien Brody, Anthony Anderson, Patti Smith
47. Gisele Bundchen, Dane Cook, the White Stripes
46. Alan Alda, Billy Joel
45. Naomi Watts, Kate Walsh, The Magic Numbers
44. Tom Arnold, Kevin Hart, Brian Setzer Orchestra
43. Jerry Lewis, Finesse Mitchell, Gogol Bordello
42. Al Franken, Lake Bell, Ray Davies
41. Peter Gallagher, Rainn Wilson, Demetri Martin
40. Usher, Colin Quinn, Pink Martini
39. Patricia Heaton, Ryan Reynolds, Alanis Morissette
38. Joaquin Phoenix, Sarah Silverman, Trey Anastasio
37. Rosario Dawson, Steve Harvey, Big & Rich
36. Reese Witherspoon, Jon Favreau, Kevin Brennan
35. Keira Knightley, Nicole Richie, Green Day
34. Robert Downey Jr, Steve Irwin, Alison Krauss and Union St...
33. Jennifer Aniston, 50 Cent, Dan Naturman
32. David Spade, Xzibit, Neil Young
31. Jake Gyllenhaal, Neil Young
30. Philip Seymour Hoffman, John Krasinski, Neil Young
29. Brian Williams, Susie Essman, Neil Young
28. The Rock, Andrea Mitchell, Ric Ocasek
27. Val Kilmer, Gabrielle Union, Mark Leyner
26. James Woods, Joy Bryant, Shawn King
25. John Leguizamo, Joy Behar, Dungen
24. Dolly Parton, Molly Sims
23. Darrell Hammond, Jason Schwartzman, My Morning Jacket
22. Charlize Theron, Cameron Crowe, Tariq "King Flex" Nasheed
21. Rosie O'Donnell, Chris Elliott, Jamie Cullum
20. Jon Heder, Jessica Biel, Nada Surf
19. U2
18. Matthew McConaughey, Jesse Eisenberg, Greg Behrendt
17. Freddie Prinze Jr., Jennifer Esposito, Matt Pond PA
16. Tiger Woods, Amy Poehler, Against Me
15. Jessica Alba, Jeff Garlin, Sheryl Crow
14. Matt LeBlanc, Amanda Bynes, Jud Hale
13. Martha Stewart, The Big Show, Deathcab for Cutie
12. Ricky Gervais, Stephen King, Nickel Creek
11. Kim Cattrall, Seth Meyers, David Rakoff
10. Ice-T, Erika Christensen, Steve Winwood
9. Jason Lee, Harland Williams, Jimeoin McKeown
8. Lara Flynn Boyle, Steve Schirripa, The New Pornographers
7. Sacha Baron Cohen, Liev Schreiber, Jim Gaffigan
6. Anthony Hopkins, Caroline Rhea, Mick Foley
5. Gwyneth Paltrow, Peter Falk, Switchfoot
4. Elijah Wood, Michael Rapaport, Brian Regan
3. John Lithgow, Eugene Levy, Flight of the Conchords
2. Samuel L. Jackson, Richard Lewis, Brad Paisley
1. Christina Applegate, Artie Lange, 30 Seconds to Mars
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Celtics 71, Bulls 69: C's win an ugly affair
Scott Souza/Daily News staff
It was the most beautifully ugly victory the Celtics could have hoped for under the circumstances. It was a night when they survived shooting 36.5 percent, and a combined 19 points in the second and third quarters, with 68.8 percent shooting in the fourth quarter for a 71-69 victory against the Chicago Bulls heading into the All-Star break.
It was the most beautifully ugly victory the Celtics could have hoped for under the circumstances.
It was a night when Brandon Bass was their leading scorer with 14 points, Jason Terry made the defensive stop of the game, Kevin Garnett had a double-double in a game that Celtics coach Doc Rivers strongly considered not even playing him due to fatigue, and Paul Pierce missed 10 of his first 11 shots only to rattle home a critical 3-pointer on his 12th attempt.
It was a night when they survived shooting 36.5 percent, and a combined 19 points in the second and third quarters, with 68.8 percent shooting in the fourth quarter for a 71-69 victory against the Chicago Bulls heading into the All-Star break.
"You’ve got to love this team," Rivers said. "You really do. This group of guys, we just keep talking about how we choose to live. We’re not going to just roll over. It’s very important for our guys to understand that.
"I told them (before the game) that Kevin may not play, and we still have to win the game. We have to have that mindset."
The Celtics have now won eight of nine games in a stretch when they’ve lost Rajon Rondo (torn right anterior cruciate ligament), Leandro Barbosa (torn left ACL) and Jared Sullinger (back surgery) to season-ending injuries.
"This team’s tough," Pierce said. "Mentally, you’ve got every reason to just be out of it each and every night, using injuries for an excuse. Emotions, fatigue, some of these excuses are available to us. But we continue to fight through it mentally. Doc is doing a great job keeping us focused. That’s why we’re grinding out these wins."
Up one with 44.2 seconds to go, the Celtics drained nearly every last tenth of a second off the 24-second clock before Bass swung the ball to Garnett on the baseline for a jumper that put Boston up 69-66 with 19.8 left.
Carlos Boozer got a friendly roll that brought Chicago back within one with 10.8 seconds on the clock. The Celtics advanced the ball on a timeout and Pierce was fouled off the inbounds pass. The captain hit both free throws.
The Celtics then fouled intentionally up three with 6.8 seconds on the clock and Nate Robinson went to the line. He made the first, missed the second on purpose, and the Bulls had two chances to tie or win it in the final seconds, with Terry blocking Marco Belinelli’s shot and Taj Gibson throwing up an airball at the buzzer.
"It was a situation similar to last time we played them," Terry said of the overtime loss to the Bulls on Jan 18. "The clock’s winding down. It ends up in (Belinelli’s) hands. I’ve been thinking about it for the past two weeks, watching that game tonight right before the game, and if it came down to that again I told myself I was going to get a stop at all costs."
The Celtics, who sit in the seventh seed at 28-24 entering the All-Star break, moved within two games of the Bulls for the fifth seed, and five games of the New York Knicks for first place in the Atlantic Division.
The Celtics were down seven early in the fourth quarter when Bass breathed some life into a frigid building. He took Terry’s steal and went almost coast-to-coast before making a 360-degree move and slamming home a dunk. Bass then drilled a long jumper from Terry for 54-51 game with 9:23 to go.
Garnett made it a one-point game with a rainbow jumper with 8:02 on the clock. When Jeff Green ripped down a rebound, fired a long pass to Terry, who then hit Avery Bradley for a finish at the rim, the Celtics had their first lead since the first half.
Terry’s floater made it a 10-0 run with 5:44 to go.
It was a 59-58 game with 4:22 left when Terry drained an off-balance 3-pointer as the shot clock expired to push the lead back to four at 3:54. Joakim Noah answered with a pair of free throws at 3:28, but Pierce came through with only his second made basket in 12 attempts on a friendly-bounce, 3-pointer out of a timeout that put Boston up 65-60 with 2:58 to go.
Two more Noah free throws had it a one-possession game at 2:46, which Garnett answered with two off the glass for a five-point game as the clock ticked under two minutes.
Luol Deng pulled the Bulls within 67-64 with a drive with 48.4 seconds in regulation. A five-second violation out of a timeout gave the Bulls back the ball and Belinelli drove for a one-point game with 44.2 seconds to go.
Scott Souza can be reached at 781-398-8006 or ssouza@wickedlocal.com. Follow him on Twitter @scott_souza.
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Ben Carson Said Being Transgender Is Like Changing Ethnicities — Here's Why He's Wrong
By Sarah A. Harvard
Former Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson reportedly said he believes being transgender just "doesn't make any sense."
Carson, a successful neurosurgeon, told the Hill during the Republican National Convention in Cleveland that being transgender is just like someone changing their ethnicity.
"For someone to wake up and think that they belong to a different sex because they feel different that day is the same as if you woke up and said, 'I'm Afghani today because I saw a movie about that last night, and even though my genetics might not indicate that, that's the way I feel, and if you say that I'm not, then you're a racist,'" Carson told the publication.
He then implied those who are transgender aren't using common sense.
"It's the same kind of situation," he told the Hill. "What we ought to do is utilize our brains, utilize our common sense as human beings. We've known what men are and what women are for thousands of years. So we don't know anything, everything is relative — this doesn't make any sense."
Carson's comparison isn't just insulting — it's completely inaccurate.
Carson made the mistake of viewing gender as if it only exists in two binaries: male and female. Many people are nonbinary. Meredith Talusan, a writer and trans woman, explained this in a June 2015 essay for the Guardian:
"Trans people transition in order to be the gender we feel inside and, while there may come a time when posers will appropriate trendy trans culture for profit, right now, there's no advantage to transitioning when you're not trans," Talusan wrote. "Trans people don't even have the legal protections — like laws that protect access to housing, public accommodation and employment opportunities — that black people and other racial minorities have fought so hard to win."
This shouldn't be hard to understand. It isn't neuroscience, after all.
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TV / Radio listings for Oct. 23
Rundown of sports offerings on the air
TV / Radio listings for Oct. 23 Rundown of sports offerings on the air Check out this story on news-leader.com: http://sgfnow.co/1tMq9nI
Published 8:10 p.m. CT Oct. 22, 2014 | Updated 10:02 p.m. CT Oct. 22, 2014
College: UConn at East Carolina, 6 p.m. — ESPNU
College: Miami at Virginia Tech, 7 p.m. — ESPN
NFL: San Diego at Denver, 7 p.m. — CBS, NFL Network
High school: Cedar Hill (Texas) at DeSoto (Texas), 7 p.m. — ESPN2
European PGA Tour: Perth Invitational, first round, at Perth, Western Australia (same-day tape), 8 a.m. — The Golf Channel
PGA Tour: McGladrey Classic, first round, at St. Simons Island, Ga., 1 p.m. — The Golf Channel
Amateur: Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship, second round, at Melbourne, Australia, 10:30 p.m. — ESPN2
LPGA: Blue Bay LPGA, second round, at Hainan Island, China, 10:30 p.m. — The Golf Channel
NHL: Vancouver at St. Louis, 7 p.m. — Fox Sports Midwest
UEFA Europa League: Everton at Lille, noon — Fox Sports 1
UEFA Europa League: Tripoli at Tottenham, 2 p.m. — Fox Sports 1
College women: Florida State at North Carolina, 6 p.m. — Fox Sports Midwest Plus
Sprint Cup: Practice for Goody's Headache Relief Shot 500, adt Martinsville, Va., 11 a.m. — Fox Sports 1
Truck Series: Practice for Kroger 200, at Martinsville, Va., 12:30 p.m. — Fox Sports 1
Truck Series: Final practice for Kroger 200, at Martinsville, Va., 2 p.m. — Fox Sports 1
Sprint Cup: Pole qualifying for Goody's Headache Relief Shot 500, at Martinsville, Va., 3:30 p.m. — Fox Sports 1
World Series: Game 3, Kansas City at San Francisco, 7 p.m. — Fox, KADI 1340 AM, KYOO 99.1 FM
College: South Florida at Cincinnati, 6 p.m. — ESPN2
College: Troy at South Alabama, 6:30 p.m. — ESPNU
College: BYU at Boise State, 8 p.m. — ESPN
College: Oregon at California, 9 p.m. — Fox Sports 1
European PGA Tour: Perth International, second round, at Perth, Western Australia (same-day tape), 8 a.m. — The Golf Channel
PGA Tour: McGladrey Classic, second round, at St. Simons Island, Ga., 1 p.m. — The Golf Channel
Champions Tour: AT&T Championship, first round, at San Antonio (same-day tape), 4 p.m. — The Golf Channel
Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship: Third round, at Melbourne, Australia, 8 p.m. — ESPNEWS
Blue Bay LPGA: Third round, at Hainan Island, China, 10:30 p.m. — The Golf Channel
College men: Wake Forest at Virginia, 5:30 p.m. — Fox Sports Midwest Plus
Women's national teams: CONCACAF Championship/qualifier for World Cup, semifinal, teams TBD, at Chester, Pa., 6:30 p.m. — Fox Sports 1
MLS: Houston at Chicago, 7 p.m. — NBCSN
College: Syracuse at Georgia Tech, 7:30 p.m. — Fox Sports Midwest
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Tshisekedi sworn in as new president of DR Congo
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Tshisekedi took the oath of office flanked by outgoing head of state Joseph Kabila
Felix Tshisekedi, the new Democratic Republic of Congo president. PHOTO: John Wessels/ AFP
Opposition leader Felix Tshisekedi was sworn in on Thursday as president of Democratic Republic of Congo, marking the country's first-ever peaceful handover of power after chaotic and bitterly disputed elections.
Tshisekedi, 55, took the oath of office before receiving the national flag and a copy of the constitution from outgoing president Joseph Kabila, who is stepping aside after 18 years at the helm of sub-Saharan Africa's biggest country.
Thousands of Tshisekedi supporters, many of them dressed in white, celebrated the historic event outside the Palace of the Nation, the seat of the presidency.
"We hope that this will be a real change, especially as he has taken power without bloodshed," said Saddam Kongolo, a member of Tshisekedi's Union for Democracy and Social Progress (UDPS).
One of Tshisekedi's first tasks will be to appoint a prime minister in a move which will see him sharing power with Kabila's supporters, who hold an overwhelming majority in parliament.
The ceremony caps more than two years of turmoil sparked by Kabila's refusal to step down when he reached the constitutional limit on his term in office.
A country the size of continental western Europe, DR Congo has lived through two regional wars in 1996-97 and 1998-2003.
The last two presidential elections, in 2006 and 2011 -- both won by Kabila -- were marred by bloody clashes.
The ballot, which took place on December 30 after three postponements, surprised many by the lack of violence, but a political storm swiftly brewed over the vote count.
Tshisekedi was declared winner with 38.5 percent of the vote, over his opposition rival Martin Fayulu, who was credited with 34.8 percent.
Fayulu branded the result a fix but lost a challenge to the Constitutional Court, and foreign support for his position ebbed as countries took comfort in a peaceful transition.
Among foreign nations attending the ceremony, Kenya and Zambia were represented by their presidents and Tanzania by its vice presidents, according to the RTNC state television, while China, France, Japan and the United States sent their ambassadors, AFP journalists saw.
"The opposition has run out of recourse to challenge the election results and the threat of widespread post-election violence is gradually subsiding," said Robert Besseling of EXX Africa, a business risk consultancy.
Tshisekedi took over the UDPS, DR Congo's oldest and largest opposition party, after the death of its founder nearly two years ago, his father Etienne.
His ascent to the presidency surprised many, for he has never held high office and failed to match the crowd-pulling popularity of his father.
Many challenges
Analysts say Tshisekedi faces a raft of pressing problems after taking office.
He must defuse the anger of Fayulu's supporters, carry out his campaign pledge of ending the "gangrene" of corruption after the Kabila era, and forge a power-sharing arrangement with the outgoing president's bloc.
The pro-Kabila Joint Front for Congo (FCC) controls 337 seats in the 500-member National Assembly against 102 for Fayulu's coalition, Lamuka, and 46 for his own coalition, Heading for Change (Cach).
"Tshisekedi will have little margin for manoeuvre," said Stephanie Wolters at South Africa's Institute for Security Studies (ISS) think tank.
According to a "political coalition agreement" seen by AFP which outlines an arrangement for "power-sharing" between the FCC and Cach, the position of prime minister "will be rotated every five years."
The defence, foreign affairs and interior portfolios will go to "the president's political family".
Kabila himself will become a senator for life, a position reserved for outgoing presidents under the constitution. He is widely expected to wield influence through his supporters.
His family has acquired a wide range of assets during the many years in power.
Conflict and poverty
Beyond the politics, Tshisekedi also has to deal with the brutal militias who control parts of the country's strife-torn east where an Ebola epidemic is also unfolding.
He also has to meet the expectations of his supporters about easing poverty, which afflicts the vast majority of the country's 80 million citizens.
Despite the poverty, DR Congo boasts a treasure trove of minerals, ranging from gold and diamonds to copper and coltan -- a mineral essential for the batteries used in hand-held electronic devices.
Yet, in a country where graft is entrenched, very little of the wealth trickles down to the poor. It ranks a mere 176th on the 189-nation Human Development Index compiled by the United Nations' Development Programme (UNDP).
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Ducks 4, Devils 3
ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) -There was no doubt about the second one.
Chris Kunitz scored twice in the third period to help the Anaheim Ducks beat the New Jersey Devils 4-3 on Sunday night.
With the game tied at 2 early in the third, Kunitz wrapped around the New Jersey goal and tucked the puck under goalie Scott Clemmensen's pads.
While Kunitz had to initially wait for game officials to rule the puck had crossed the line for a go-ahead goal, he and everyone in the building immediately knew the puck was in the net when his wrist shot from the slot whisked past Clemmensen with 3:33 to play for the eventual winner.
"I've been up and down this year so far, it feels good to help contribute and get a win," Kunitz said after his first multiple goal game since Dec. 10.
Kunitz has 11 goals on the season and the Ducks needed both tallies Sunday to snap a two-game losing streak after Zach Parise drew the Devils within one in the final minute with his 24th goal.
"It was a tough game. They don't give you that many opportunities," said Parise, who also scored in a 5-1 win Saturday at Los Angeles as the Devils opened a six-game trip. "It was tough for us to establish the forecheck."
Corey Perry assisted on both of Kunitz's goals, making a quick contribution in his return after a four-game suspension for elbowing Philadelphia's Claude Giroux in the head Jan. 2. The Ducks were 2-2 in Perry's absence and had won just three of their last 10 games before the victory Sunday.
"He's a great offensive player that can move the puck and draws people to him," Kunitz said. "Any time you have a key offensive guy out of the lineup and you get him back, it gives the whole team a boost."
Jean-Sebastien Giguere made 18 saves for his first win since Dec. 14. Giguere was benched Thursday night in Los Angeles after allowing three goals in the first 21 minutes. He had not won a game (0-2-2) since making 28 saves in a 4-2 victory over Minnesota last month.
"It was a good effort all around," Giguere said. "It's been a while since I got a win and it feels good. I won't lie to you."
Bobby Ryan and Samuel Pahlsson also scored for Anaheim.
Ryan, a rookie winger selected with the second overall pick in the 2005 draft, has six goals in four games and has been clicking at a point-per-game pace (12 goals, 14 assists) in 26 games since being recalled from Iowa on Nov. 15.
Ducks center Ryan Getzlaf extended his current point streak to six games with an assist on Kunitz's second goal.
Bobby Holik and David Clarkson also scored for the Devils, who were held to just 10 shots in the first two periods.
"We didn't play smart hockey. They were doing the stuff that we weren't doing," Devils coach Brent Sutter said. "We had control of the puck but made a lot of neutral zone turnovers. We weren't dumping the puck smart."
The Ducks held an 8-1 shot advantage 12 minutes into the first period but suddenly trailed in the game when a shot from the right-point by New Jersey defenseman Mike Mottau deflected off Holik's helmet into the Anaheim goal.
Ryan responded 2:28 later, fighting off a check from Devils center John Madden to redirect a pass from the left corner by Brendan Morrison past Clemmensen.
Travis Moen then outraced Paul Martin for a loose puck in the right-corner, centering it to Pahlsson for a goal off a one-timed shot from the slot, giving Anaheim a 2-1 lead with just 9 seconds left in the first.
The Devils tied it on a power play with 3:04 in the second period. Clarkson wrestled a rebound of Brian Rolston's shot away from Giguere's glove and swiped it in for his eighth goal of the season.
Notes: Sunday's contest was the fourth between the teams since the Devils' Game 7 victory in the 2003 Stanley Cup finals. The Ducks are 3-0-1 in regular-season play against the Devils since that Cup deciding game. ... Veteran forward Brendan Shanahan, signed by the Devils as a free agent Saturday, will continue to skate on his own early this week while awaiting a decision about when he will join the team. Shanahan, who will turn 40 on Jan. 23, has not played this season.
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A Quebec Road Trip: The Scenic Loop Between Montreal and Quebec City
The trip between Montreal and Quebec City can be a quick drive along a highway or a relaxed ramble through historic towns, lush wineries, and quaint shopping districts. You decide.Monday, April 8, 2019
By Brian Handwerk
Boats dock at Montreal's Old Port near the the city's popular Clock Tower.
photo by NielsVK, Alamy Stock Photo
Montreal and Quebec City are unforgettable destinations, but they definitely aren't all the province has to offer. So take some time to hit the road between the two cities, and explore the slower pace of Quebec's countryside. Along the way you can wander woods, enjoy farm-to-table fare, see old sites of New France, and savor the uniquely Québécois culture.
Cosmopolitan Montreal is a beguiling blend of old and new, where North America's largest concentration of historic buildings rubs shoulders with a towering modern metropolis. And the whole is infused with a diverse cultural mélange that's reflected in its food and art and expressed through the francophone city's unique joie de vivre. (Dive into the international restaurant scene of Montreal or discover the charm of its many urban parks.)
Heading east from the island of Montreal, the A-10 begins to reveal the fertile farmlands of the Richelieu River Valley, which stretches south to the United States border and Lake Champlain. The river spreads out into an attractive basin in Chambly, a commuter town with historic roots. The banks of Chambly Canal National Historic Site are an excellent choice for a stroll. The waterway was completed in 1843 and still lifts boaters through a system of nine locks—though today it's for fun rather than trade. The old stone citadel at Fort Chambly National Historic Site, built in 1711, hosts interpretive programs and provides a glimpse of what life was like for the soldiers of New France.
A river runs through Richelieu River Valley just south of Montreal.
photo by Robert Burch, Alamy Stock Photo
From Chambly the road runs east into an area perfect for foodie exploration. This is Quebec's wine, maple, and apple country—especially delicious for both the eye and palate during fall foliage season. The well-marked Cider Route offers a tour with taste-tempting diversions, including plenty of visits to local producers of regional drink and foods including cheese and honey. Naturally, the Cider Route visits a dozen cideries offering many varieties, alcoholic and nonalcoholic, sparkling and ice. Michel Jodoin is in Rougemont, about 20 minutes down the Cider Route (Rte. 112) from Chambly. It's among the oldest and most famed producers, but Rougemont is home to at least four others.
The Eastern Townships
From Rougemont, the A-10 leads east into Quebec's beloved Eastern Townships (Les Cantons-de-l'Est), a rolling region of farms, forests, and sparkling lakes that's an all-season escape for many citizens of Montreal. The bustling town of Magog, at the north end of Lake Memphrémagog, is about an hour from Rougemont and a great base from which to begin your adventures in the area—or simply enjoy the many outdoor activities that the lake and nearby Parc National du Mont-Orford have to offer.
But before arriving in Magog consider leaving the A-10 in Eastman for a 15-minute detour down Rte. 245 to Abbaye de Saint-Benoît-du-Lac (St. Benedict Abbey). It’s perched on a spectacular lakeshore site, but the real attraction here is a chance to hear the monks' Gregorian chants, attend a service (plan well in advance), and visit the shop for blocks of the award-winning cheese made on-site. From the abbey, enjoy a 20-minute drive up the lake's west side to reach Magog.
Parc de la Gorge de Coaticook is about 40 minutes east of Lake Memphrémagog via Rte. 141. The park is famous for its suspension footbridge—one of the world's longest—that spans the 164-foot deep gorge and definitely isn't an experience for the faint of heart. But the dramatic views here are well worth a few knocking knees, and they might inspire you to further stretch your legs by exploring the park on foot, mountain bike, or horseback.
From the gorge it's about a 70-minute drive east to Parc National du Mont-Mégantic—but that short journey opens a window to an entirely different world. The park is located in the heart of the world's first International Dark Sky Reserve. That means stargazing doesn't get much better than you'll find here, and the AstroLab astronomy center is a fun way to make sense of all the celestial scenery. From its perch near the park's entrance station, AstroLab buzzes day and night with a wide range of exhibits and activities that explore the cosmos.
From Mont-Mégantic, several roads head north toward Quebec City, some three hours’ distance. Those interested in a look below the Earth's surface after all that sky-watching can stop at Thetford Mines Mineralogy and Mining Museum, which documents the local mining industry, explores regional geology, and showcases minerals from around the world.
Snow covers Mont-Mégantic National Park in Quebec, Canada.
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Closer to the Quebec City, this trip runs through Beauce, a lovely region of valleys and forests. These maple-rich woods yield almost 20 percent of all the world's syrup production. If you're lucky (or smart) enough to be here in early spring, the region's many sugar shacks come alive with festivities, fun, and foods of every flavor—especially maple.
Before crossing the St. Lawrence River to Quebec City, pause in Lévis on the south shore to linger at the Terrasse de Lévis (Terrace of Lévis). Inaugurated in 1939 by King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, this riverside park offers stunning views of the old city across the water and of the powerful river itself, which is especially impressive when it's choked with moving ice.
It's clear from first sight that Quebec City offers a touch of Europe that's distinct on this side of the Atlantic. Dominated by the historic Fairmont Le Château Frontenac, it's the only existing walled city north of Mexico, and the city's extraordinary people and attractions—as well as its architecture—will tempt you to linger. (See how to spend three excellent days in Quebec City.)
Shops line a block in the Historic District of Old Quebec in Quebec City, Canada.
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Montmorency Falls, via Rte. 440 just a few miles northeast of downtown Quebec City, is a cataract of serious size—at 272 feet it's actually higher than Niagara Falls, though its water volume is far lower. If time allows, consider continuing north of Quebec City for an extended trip along the shores of the St. Lawrence. As the great river widens on its journey to the Atlantic, visitors soon find themselves in one of the world's best whale-watching areas. Visit the enchanting, historic communities of Charlevoix, and venture farther along the St. Lawrence by driving the Whale Route.
Chemin du Roy
The route back toward Montreal is, in some ways, also a trip back in time. The Chemin du Roy (King's Road) is one of the oldest highways in North America and opened to traffic in 1737. Much has changed since then, but some things have not, including some of the picturesque homes that line the route and the wonderful views of the St. Lawrence River at lookouts along the shore.
Be sure to pause during your drive along the King's Road and discover photogenic villages like Cap-Santé (Cape Health), with its ancient church. Farther down the river, Trois-Rivières (Three Rivers), dating back to 1634, is among the oldest towns north of Mexico. The historic quarter here can be explored with guided tours, by foot or bus, that showcase notable homes and deliver visitors to the town's many galleries and museums.
North of Trois-Rivières, the region of Lanaudière offers a nature escape not far from Montreal itself. Hiking, biking, fishing, paddling, and all manner of winter sports are on offer here—as are nature-based retreats for relaxation after all that activity. Leave Rte. 138 in Berthierville and drive some 45 minutes on Rte. 345/348 to Rawdon and La Source Bains Nordiques. This indoor/outdoor spa complex, designed in harmony with its natural surroundings, pampers with pools, tubs, and treatments that can restore weary travelers for the next leg of their journey.
Streetlights shine from the ski resort in Mont Tremblant in Quebec, Canada.
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Laurentian Mountains
Finally, head for heart of the Laurentian Mountains. The most famous destination here is Mont-Tremblant, some 75 minutes from Rawdon, with its sprawling ski slopes, sparkling lake, and European-style walking village. (Plan the perfect day in the Laurentians.) But the Laurentians are ripe for much wider exploration. One special way to do so is via the P’tit Train du Nord bike path, which follows the abandoned railway that once helped to develop the charming mountain retreats of the Laurentians by whisking Montrealers north. Mont-Tremblant lies near the route's midpoint, so you can explore the many sights in each direction at a slower pace, pausing to climb mountains, wander charming villages, or enjoy Québécois cuisine at a trailside inn.
When your mountain idyll comes to an end, as all things must, Montreal lies less than two hours’ drive down the A-15 from Mont-Tremblant.
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Who's afraid of proportional representation in B.C.?
By Warren Bell in Opinion, Politics | July 11th 2018
Former British Columbia premier Ujjal Dosanjh leaves after a No B.C. Proportional Representation Society news conference, in Vancouver, on Thursday, June 28, 2018. Photo by The Canadian Press/Darryl Dyck
I support proportional representation for B.C., as do a majority of citizens in the province, but there's an aggressive opposition campaign driven by big money and unfounded fears.
Proportional representation would help bring B.C.'s voting system into the 21st century and curb the dominance of political parties and major corporate interests.
Given the stakes involved, I'm not surprised to see the recent flurry of ill-founded fear-mongering by astroturf groups created by powerful businesspeople, backroom strategists and grumpy ex-politicians to spread confusion about the upcoming referendum on B.C.'s electoral system. Their efforts show just how important and urgent it is to switch to a more fair system.
Proportional representation allots the same percentage of seats as the percentage of voters who voted for them – 30 per cent of the seats go to 30 per cent of the voters.
It always results in a majority of voters having a voice in how their jurisdiction is run, unlike the current system where the government in power almost always represents less than half the voting public.
Proportional representation fosters collaboration, curtails attack politics and enhances diversity.
In between her stints as a politician, Christy Clark had come to realize that voters – her listeners – were tired of a system in which they felt “their vote doesn’t matter.” #ProportionalRepresentation #bcpoli #cdnpoli
And because of its inherent fairness, it encourages citizens to vote — in particular, young citizens.
The nonprofit organization Fair Vote Canada has spearheaded the move towards proportional representation, working alongside its B.C.-grown cousin Fair Voting BC. Together, they have generated abundant material showing why this system is used by more countries around the world than our current winner-take-all system.
Official bodies tasked with identifying the best electoral system for Canada, from the 1977 Law Reform Commission of Manitoba up to Justin Trudeau’s 2016 House of Commons Special Committee on Electoral Reform, have recommended introducing a system of proportional representation or elements thereof.
But some groups and individuals, on both the left and right, are clinging to the past.
Distorted fear of proportional representation
The Independent Contractors and Business Association (ICBA) and the pseudo-labour organization called Canada West Construction Union have become so rattled by the prospect of power-sharing that they have launched a legal action to try and stop B.C.’s upcoming referendum.
And the day before the legal manoeuvre took place, Ujjal Dosanjh, an NDP stalwart who was premier of B.C. nearly two decades ago, came forward and joined forces with another long-standing NDP partisan, Bill Tieleman, to falsely characterize proportional representation as an open door to dangerous crazies.
And now the ghost of Prime Minister Stephen Harper has risen once again as his former operatives come streaming back to British Columbia, plotting to obstruct change in the system that served their politics so well.
Self-interest looms large
It is fairly easy to see why the large-scale business community has trouble with proportional representation. For 16 years, thanks to a near-complete absence of limits on corporate donations, the business community had enormous political influence. Over the years, the BC Liberal Party welcomed their every contribution, and appears to have favoured those who contributed most with commensurate rewards.
Thus, it should come as no surprise that the BC Liberal Party and their long-time business supporters are vociferous and sometimes vicious opponents of proportional representation. Business executive and BC Liberal supporter Jim Shepard has gone so far as to buy full-page yellow-tinged advertisements in our newspapers, attempting to discredit anyone who supports change.
Mistrust of the people
The fear expressed by Ujjal Dosanjh and Bill Tieleman, on the other hand, arises from somewhere else — from a place of mistrust and negative expectations of human nature. They believe, irrationally but perhaps sincerely enough, that racists and bigots will multiply in our midst when they obtain access to power by proportional representation. They cite examples of European countries where extremist parties have gained modest influence, forgetting that anti-Semitism and other prejudices have a deeper historical hold in Europe than they have in the New World.
They also forget that not so long ago, Canada had a prime minister, elected under the current winner-takes-all system, who did not hesitate to sanction prejudice, or tolerate Indigenous-bashing within his own party.
'A system that worked well for me'
There is no clearer illustration of why some politicians prefer the current electoral system, than a 2009 speech by none other than British Columbia’s previous premier, Christy Clark.
While she was a radio host at CKNW, Clark laid out the profound difference between an electoral system that generates voter satisfaction — proportional representation — and a system that panders to the baser instincts of aspiring politicians. She candidly acknowledges of her time as a politician:
"At the time, I liked [first past the post] because our current system served my personal interests as a politician very well ... I was chosen by the first-past-the-post system...and I didn't see the need to change a system that worked well for me."
But in the years between her first and second stints as a politician, she came to realize that voters — and her listeners — were "sick" of a system in which they felt “their vote doesn’t matter.” Clark expanded on this to her listeners, saying “you’re sick of the fact that, if you live in one of the two-thirds of the ridings that are considered 'safe,' and you don’t choose to vote for the incumbent party, your vote goes in the garbage can.”
Christy Clark goes on to outline multiple reasons why she feels the current system is inadequate. I strongly encourage readers to listen to the entire six-and-a-half minute YouTube video.
Video of Christy Clark: &quot;Vote for STV on May 12&quot;
Christy Clark in 2009, before becoming B.C.'s premier, speaks on CKNW radio about the need for proportional representation in May 2009
The system warps politics
When Christy Clark returned to politics six years later, however, she quickly fell back into the world of hyper-partisanship, tight party control and suppression of dissent. She changed tack once again and pragmatically embraced the winner-takes-all electoral system.
As an intelligent and obviously capable politician taking a step back from political office, Clark came to understand the strengths of proportional representation that is now the subject of the upcoming referendum. Yet when she jumped back into politics, these insights evaporate into thin air.
This says something important about the first-past-the-post electoral system and its power to override the judgment of its participants.
Clark slid right back into the noisy, divisive political system she once rejected, as if her inner reflection had never happened. The winner-take-all system does not reward complexity and nuance in our elections, and that has a long-term impact on our politics.
British Columbians should embrace a system that brings out better qualities in our political leaders than our current system. In the complex world of the 21st century, marked by significant disruption to communities and the environment, a political system that encourages collaboration and allows multiple voices to be heard is more valuable than one that does not.
In today’s world, we need all hands on deck to deal with the multiple critical issues we face together. A system that brings us together, rather than drives us apart, is the right system for our time.
Warren Bell
Thank you so much, Dr. Bell,
Penny Oyama | Fri, 07/13/2018 - 11:22
Thank you so much, Dr. Bell, for this succinct yet simple examination of the next big question for B. C. What people need to know is not the math quagmire of P R that it's opponents feast on, but the basic principles that make it so much more expressive of the peoples' choice!
I'm so glad you included the
Megan W Ardyche | Sat, 07/14/2018 - 15:04
I'm so glad you included the Christy Clark video. It says everything that needs to be said about why PR is a better choice, and is a perfect demonstration of how opportunistic many politicians are.
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FirstNet: The $18 Billion Experiment That Must Succeed
There is too much invested in this project for it to fail, and success is a win for all of us!
Dan Aylward
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FirstNet is a nationwide wireless broadband network for first responders, being built and deployed through a first-of-its-kind public-private partnership between the federal government and AT&T.
During mission-critical situations, first responders who are on different wireless frequencies aren’t able to communicate with each other, such as the experience during the 9/11 tragedies. In addition, emergency responders don’t have prioritization on the wireless spectrum over other wireless callers. FirstNet was created to solve these problems.
The First Responder Network Authority, an independent entity within the U.S. Department of Commerce, was created by Congress in 2012. Its mission is to develop, build, and operate a nationwide broadband network for first responders’ use in saving lives and protecting U.S. communities.
When Congress created the FirstNet authority, everyone recognized this significant project would be no small undertaking. In 2016-2017, a public-private partnership was formed, and following a request-for-proposal process, AT&T won a 25-year contract that started in March 2017. Building a new public safety LTE network on the 700-MHz Band 14 spectrum licensed to FirstNet was expected to take five years to complete, with work beginning only after governors made decisions in the unprecedented “opt-in/opt-out” process, as reported by Urgent Communications.
The Dollars
The law that established FirstNet mandated that the network be self-sustaining. AT&T will pay $18 billion in sustainability payments during the next 25 years, and $15 billion will returned to AT&T to pay for FirstNet upgrades, according to an Urgent Communications news report. Less than $3 billion will be used to fund FirstNet’s organizational operations, according to an AT&T regulatory filing, the report said.
With FirstNet being a first-of-its-kind network, there’ll be new challenges to address. Some of these are:
How will the FirstNet interface with public-safety answering points (PSAPs), or 911 call centers, which are in the midst of Next Generation 911 and E911 upgrades?
Will FirstNet be able to withstand cyberattacks?
How will the concerns over mission-critical push-to-talk be resolved and will this technology be able to deliver signal strength and range that public safety wants?
Firefighters are hard to find in environments filled with heavy smoke. When will location services be available to address this complex problem?
Verizon and AT&T devices can’t communicate with each other, so will Verizon Wireless’ vow to match FirstNet offerings add confusion? If agencies aren’t on the same bandwidth, will this nullify the whole reason for FirstNet’s existence?
The Status
AT&T has said it’s ahead of schedule for first-responder adoption. As of this month, FirstNet is serving more than 7,250 agencies and 600,000-plus connections, AT&T announced. Granted, most of these are transfers from its AT&T subscriber base. Time will tell how many new subscribers come from competitors like Verizon Wireless. However, there is optimism from multiple parties.
Personally, I’ve seen excitement from first responders about moving to this promising new network. FirstNet has now been deployed to more than 600 markets, up from more than 500 in January. But there’s no model to copy, and everybody’s learning as they go. Many parties have some stake in the game: the federal government as the organizer; local governments, which need to replace all cellular devices; and of course, AT&T, which has risk in managing and upgrading this network.
There’s too much invested in this project for it to fail, and success is a win for all of us!
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BTW, FirstNet just reach 50%
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BTW, FirstNet just reach 50% build out.
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Baseball lost Lew Burdette, who threw ’60 no-no, 9 years ago today
This day in no-no historyBy Dirk Lammers February 6, 2016 Leave a comment
Lew Burdette, who threw a 1960 no-no for the Milwaukee Braves, died nine years ago today. Burdette, born in Nitro, West Virginia in 1926, no-hit the Philadelphia Phillies on Thursday, August 18, 1960, for a 1-0 win at Milwaukee County Stadium. His no-no was one of 203 victories over an 18-year career, and Burdette posted…
Happy birthday Devern Hansack, threw 5-inning, rain-shortened no-no in ’06
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Happy 38th birthday to Devern Hansack, who threw a five-inning rain-shortened no-hitter for the Boston Red Sox in 2006. Major League Baseball’s committee for statistical accuracy had already determined that rain-shortened no-nos were not official no-hitters, but Hansack made the most of his October 1, 2006, against the Baltimore Orioles on the final day of…
“Schoolboy” Johnny Taylor born 100 years ago today
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“Schoolboy” Johnny Taylor, who no-hit Satchel Paige’s Dominican All-Stars in 1937, was born 100 years ago today. Taylor, a New York Cubans pitcher, was representing the Negro All-Star Team on Sunday, September 19, 1937, during a benefit All-Star game at the Polo Grounds. Taylor held Paige’s team hitless and issued just two bases on balls.…
Sydney’s Welch throws ABL playoff no-hitter, 5 years ago today
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Syndey Blue Sox pitcher David Welch threw the first no-hitter in the history of the new Australian Baseball League, five years ago today. On Feb. 4, 2011, in Game 1 of a best-of-three playoff series, Welch no-hit the Adelaide Bite for an 8-0 win in front of 1,162 fans at Blacktown Olympic Park. The 27-year-old…
Happy birthday Lou Criger, Cy Young’s favorite catcher
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Lou Criger, Cy Young’s favorite catcher who caught two of his no-hitters, was born 144 years ago today. Criger caught Young’s 1897 no-no for the Cleveland Spiders during the opening game of a September 18 doubleheader at Cleveland’s League Park. The Spiders topped the Cincinnati Reds 6-0. Criger was also behind the plate for Young’s…
Happy birthday to no-no thrower Scott Erickson
Happy 48th birthday to Scott Erickson, who threw a no-hitter for the Minnesota Twins in 1994. Erickson had been struggling when he took the ball on Wednesday, April 27, 1994, entering the game with a 7.48 ERA. But he treated the 18,000 fans at the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome by no-hitting Milwaukee Brewers for a…
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About Oscar van Dillen
Oscar van Dillen (‘s-Hertogenbosch 1958) has studied a wide variety of musical traditions with many renowned teachers. Van Dillen is composer and performer of music (composer, flutist and conductor), Professor of Music at Codarts University for the Arts in Rotterdam, as well as visual artist. A polyglot and an erudite world citizen, he is also one of the pioneers from the early years of Wikipedia, having been founding president of Wikimedia Nederland and a trustee of the Wikimedia Foundation Inc.
Van Dillen is professor of music at Codarts Rotterdam since 1997, teaching music theory and composition. At Codarts he is also program coordinator music theory since 2015. In September 2016 he started working on his Doctorate (PhD) coached by Prof.Dr. Liesbet van Zoonen of the Erasmus University of Rotterdam.
Concise biography
His music education having started at the age of 7, and performing both classical and rock music in his youth, van Dillen first studied North-Indian classical music from 1977 to 1980 (sitar, tabla, vocal) with Jamaluddin Bhartiya at the Tritantri School in Amsterdam and bansuri with Gurbachan Singh Sachdev at the Bansuri School of Music in Berkeley, California. Next he studied classical and jazz flute at the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam between 1982 and 1984. Here, he also received composition lessons from Misha Mengelberg. As a flutist, he was taught by Lens Derogée and Dieks Visser, and followed masterclasses from Pierre-Yves Artaud, Geoffrey Gilbert and Barthold Kuijken.
After parttime studies of medieval and Renaissance music with Paul Van Nevel in Leuven (Belgium) between 1985 and 1989, he studied classical and contemporary composition fulltime with, among others, Dick Raaymakers, Diderik Wagenaar and Gilius van Bergeijk at the Koninklijk Conservatory in The Hague in 1990-91, with Klaas de Vries, Peter-Jan Wagemans and René Uijlenhoet at the Rotterdam Conservatory from 1996 to 2002 and with Manfred Trojahn at the Robert Schumann College in Düsseldorf in 2001, where he also received lessons in conducting from Lutz Herbig. As a composer he furthermore followed masterclasses from, among others, Isang Yun, George Crumb, Jan van Vlijmen, Marek Stachowski, Zbigniew Bojarski and Gerard Brophy.
Van Dillen is a founding member of the Rotterdam School of composers, and professor of music at the Codarts University of the Arts Rotterdam since 1997. There he teaches composing, arranging, world music composition and music theory in the Jazz-, Pop- and World music, the Classical music and Music Education Academies. At Codarts Rotterdam he is also Programme coordinator Music theory for Codarts Music.
Oscar van Dillen is the inventor of original world music composition, combining strictly composed with improvised classical and folk traditions, and their techniques and mentalities for creating music: a new and contemporary form of art music. He is also founder, composer and artistic director of the Olduvai Ensemble for which he especially creates original world music compositions.
Oscar van Dillen is a member of Nieuw Geneco and the Dutch-Flemish Society for Music Theory.
Among the books he is presently writing are “Outline of music theory”, “Prepositional analysis” and “Perception of music”. Next to his fulltime work as musician and pedagogue, van Dillen is also a writer and parttime visual artist. A selection of his works is presented on this website.
Van Dillen also is a part-time professional visual artist, which is also documented in part on this website, see Visual Art.
Finally, here is van Dillen’s tentative tree of musical knowledge, of teachers of the teachers of his teachers:
The secret of true art is intelligent selection.
All art creates content.
Free education means: constitutionally safeguarded against politics and business.
Music is sound and silence, performed by musicians.
Music consists of what a human needs: sound, silence, time, space, and freedom to assign meaning.
I consider music to be primarily a real time-art as well as a real-time art, intended to allow listeners to participate live in the creation, as co-perceivers, satisfying three basic human “instincts”: wonder, inquisitiveness and a sense of delight.
Curiosity is an essential human instinct, needed for more than just survival.
There is beauty in utter uselessness; when beauty itself becomes useful, we call it art. (beautiful uselessness makes a gadget)
The only stuff we see is light itself, it’s the mind that creates awareness of objects: subjectivity objectifies.
The only stuff we hear is sound itself, it’s the mind that creates awareness of music: subjectivity objectifies.
External links to Oscar van Dillen
in 1963 as a child, with his father, G.T. Rietveld, Mrs. Schroeder and B. Mulder
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Device and Method for Protecting Against Coronary Artery Compression During Transcatheter Mitral Valve Annuloplasty
Catheter-based mitral valve regurgitation treatments that use a coronary sinus trajectory or coronary sinus implant can have unwanted effects because the coronary sinus and its branches have been found to cross the outer diameter of major coronary arteries in a majority of humans. As a result, pressure applied by any prosthetic device in the coronary sinus (such as tension on the annuloplasty device) can compress the underlying coronary artery and induce myocardial ischemia or infarction.
Available for licensing and commercial development are devices and methods that avoid constricting coronary artery branches during coronary sinus-based annuloplasty. These devices and methods protect coronary artery branches from constriction during trans-sinus mitral annuloplasty. The device protects a coronary vessel from compression during mitral annuloplasty in which an annuloplasty element, such as a tensioning device, extends at least partially through the coronary sinus over a coronary artery. The device is a surgically sterile bridge configured for placement within the coronary sinus at a location where the coronary sinus passes over a coronary artery, so that the protection device provides a support for a mitral annuloplasty element, such as a compressive prosthesis, including a tension element when it is placed under tension. The protection device has an arch of sufficient rigidity and dimensions to support the tensioning element over the coronary artery, redistribute tension away from an underlying coronary artery, and inhibit application of pressure to the underlying artery, for example when an annuloplasty tension element is placed under tension during mitral annuloplasty.
In particular, the protective device can be a support interposed in the coronary sinus between the annuloplasty device and the coronary artery. The device may be substantially tubular so that the tensioning element is contained within the protective device and supported in spaced relationship to the coronary artery. An arch may be configured to extend between a proximal end and a distal end that are substantially collinear with one another so that the ends form stabilizing members such as feet that retain the bridge in position over the coronary artery.
The device may be used in methods of improving the function of a mitral valve in a subject in which an annuloplasty element, for example an element that exerts compressive remodeling forces on the mitral valve (such as a tensioning element), is introduced at least partially around the mitral valve, for example at least partially through the coronary sinus and over a coronary artery. The protective device is placed between the annuloplasty element and the coronary artery, with the annuloplasty element supported by the bridge of the device. Compressive remodeling forces are exerted by the annuloplasty device (for example by applying tension to alter the shape or configuration of the mitral valve annulus to reduce its circumference) while supporting the annuloplasty element on the bridge to inhibit application of pressure to the coronary artery. The function of the mitral valve in the patient is thereby improved without impairing coronary blood flow.
The annuloplasty element can be introduced at least partially around the mitral valve by advancing the annuloplasty element in an endovascular catheter through the vascular system to the heart and introducing the annuloplasty element and the protective device from the catheter into the coronary sinus through a coronary sinus ostium. In those embodiments in which the protective device includes an internal lumen, the annuloplasty element extends through the lumen of the protective device over the coronary artery so that the annuloplasty element is supported by the protective device. The protective device can be integrated directly into the annuloplasty element, such as a resilient or expandable device, or a tensioning element or tensioning material.
In other embodiments, this disclosure provides a method of improving function of a mitral valve in a subject who has mitral regurgitation by performing a mitral valve cerclage annuloplasty. In a particular disclosed example of the procedure, a guiding catheter is percutaneously inserted through the vasculature of a subject. The guiding catheter is introduced through the coronary sinus into the great cardiac vein, and a steerable microcatheter or other coaxial guiding catheter or steering device introduces a guidewire into a basal blood vessel such as the first septal coronary vein. From there the guidewire traverses under imaging guidance the septal myocardium or annulus fibrosis and reenters the right ventricle or right atrium. The guidewire is then retrieved using a vascular snare and the guiding catheter and guidewire are replaced with a tensioning system. The protective device is then introduced through the guiding catheter over or in tandem with the tensioning system so as to protect an underlying coronary artery when tension is introduced to perform the annuloplasty.
Potential Commercial Applications: Competitive Advantages:
Cardiac valve repair
Development Stage:
Pre-clinical data available
June-Hong Kim (NHLBI) ➽ more inventions...
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U.S. Pat: 8,211,171 issued 2012-07-03
US Application No. 60/858,716
Collaboration Opportunity:
The NHLBI Cardiovascular Branch is seeking statements of capability or interest from parties interested in collaborative research to further development, evaluate, or commercialize catheter-based cardiovascular devices. Please contact Peg Koelble, NHLBI Office of Technology Transfer and Development, at 301-594-4095 or koelblep@nhlbi.nih.gov.
Licensing Contact:
Admin. Licensing Specialist (ALS), J.D.
Email: shmilovm@mail.nih.gov
OTT Reference No: E-249-2006-0
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Katherine Jenkins is the most prolific artist in UK Classical chart history, with 12 number one albums to her name, an international following and an OBE in 2014 for her charitable work and services to music. Ahead of a nationwide tour for her 13th studio album, Guiding Light, we caught up with the Songs of Praise presenter to talk touring, family and Stormzy.
You have a mammoth tour coming up – how do you get on with life on the road?
Actually we're sitting here now going through the routing of the tour. One thing that's important for me is when I'm on tour in the UK, we always drive back every night – even if I get in at three o'clock in the morning – so I can get up and have breakfast with the kids and then go back out again. I hate being away from them and it disrupts their life to bring them on a full tour with me. So you just make changes so that it all works – but touring is my favourite part of it. I love to make albums and all the other stuff that goes with it, but the best bit of it all is seeing how an audience reacts to live music. I've missed it and I'm looking forward to getting back out there.
Does your family inspire your music?
Yeah, absolutely – I think Xander was only two months old when I went into the studio this time and I did a lot of the album prep when I was heavily pregnant. It'd been four years since my last album and in that time I had the two little ones, felt very settled, thankful and happy, and thought this is a great time to make new music. I wrote a song for Xander which wasn't meant to be on the album. We'd nearly finished the album and he was falling asleep in my arms at home. I'd just finished feeding him and wrote this lullaby prayer for his life. When I played it for my producer he was like, "We have to fit that in, it has to go on the album." So he gets his own song which I'm sure he'll be absolutely mortified about when he's 18. My daughter also speaks on ‘Blinded by your Grace’. I just thought that was really nice, it's a bit like a time capsule, her voice on a record when she's three; she's very excited about it. ”¯
March is our Women's Issue – who are your female role models?
I would have to say my mum. I think our family dynamic was quite ahead of its time back in the 80s – my dad took early retirement and my mum was the breadwinner. I wouldn't say my mum was ambitious, but she was really hard-working. She was a mammographer working in breast cancer and she gave my sister and me the sense of a strong work ethic; that you get out of things what you put into them. I remember her having a chat with us and saying, "Girls, you can be whatever you put your mind to, you don't have to think about the obvious jobs, it's all down to how hard you work at school." I joke with her now because at the time she said "if you work like this you could be earning £3 an hour, or if you did this you could be earning £10 an hour" – she laid it all out for us. I have to say she was probably the role model in terms of me going out there and wanting to be independent. When I had my daughter – after expecting to take a good chunk of time off to be at home with her – I remembered what my mum had done, and I wanted my daughter to see me working, to give her that example.
With your version of Stormzy’s ‘Blinded by your Grace’ – was that a conscious decision to try and reach people that otherwise might not be fans of classical music?
It's something I've always felt really strongly about because my background wasn't privileged. My mum and dad didn't take me to the opera; I didn't see an orchestra until I was in my teens. I was introduced to it because of church singing, that's when I found classical music. Because I'd had that nice introduction I didn't have any of the misconceptions about what it is. I've always felt like it was just about how you introduce it to people. I think that comes down to the choices of songs, not always doing classical stuff but trying to bring in a wild card that gets people talking. Definitely doing Stormzy was one of those ideas. I'm actually working on something at the moment with my husband. We've created an educational TV show for children about music. With the funding cuts happening in the arts, music and education, I think it's really important that children can access this kind of thing if they want to.”¯
You're coming to us in April – have you been to Oxford before?
Yes lots! It's going to be really lovely to come back. Like I said, the touring is always my favourite bit and I think if people are spending their hard earned money on a concert ticket, I always want to make sure they get the best value and the best experience. I make sure we have a really great symphony orchestra with us, conducted by Anthony Inglis who's been with me from the beginning. I'll be singing a lot of songs from the new album but also a lot of the most requested songs from all the albums. We’ll have special guests and hopefully a lot of laughter. I think these shows should be fun – that's a misconception that classical concerts have to very formal, I don't believe that.”¯ ”¯
Katherine Jenkins will be at the New Theatre on 26 April, 7.30pm.
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Review: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Paying audiences deserve something more to look at.
Joseph has good songs. But on the two occasions I’ve been to see it (both Bill Kenwright productions at New Theatre Oxford) I’ve left feeling a tad disheartened. For all the catchiness
Henley–On–Thames Celebrates Moon Landing
50 years ago at 9.17pm on 20th July 1969 science fiction came face to face with science fact, when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to land on another celestial body and Henley-On-Thames will be marking the exact date and time of the Moon landing
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Quilter Cheviot has announced the full line-up of speakers at The Quilter Cheviot Theatre during BBC Countryfile Live 2019 at Blenheim Palace, sponsored by parent company Quilter...
Lamplighter Drama has joined forces with Oxford Shakespeare Company to stage the Emily Brontë classic, as adapted by April de Angelis, in Wadham College Gardens...
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Nutrition throughout life: Folic acid
Professor Helene McNulty, Northern Ireland Centre for Food & Health, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland
“ Folate participates in the transfer and utilization of one-carbon units important in amino acid metabolism and in biosynthetic pathways leading to DNA, RNA, membrane lipids, and neurotransmitters. The clinical effects of folate deficiency are the result of impaired synthesis of DNA. Causes of folate deficiency are increased physiological requirement (e.g., pathological conditions and drugs) and decreased availability (reduced dietary intake and impaired folate absorption). Research has shown that optimal blood folate concentrations can play a role in maintaining health throughout the lifecycle. While study results for maternal health in pregnancy (prevention of megaloblastic anemia and preeclampsia) and fetal development (prevention of neural tube defects) are conclusive, there is early evidence for positive effects of folate on cognitive health in childhood. Convincing findings suggest preventive effects in heart disease and promising results in cancer prevention. In addition, it has been suggested that folate plays a possible role in bone health and cognitive function in aging.
Folate, along with metabolically related B vitamins, is required for the metabolism of homocysteine. When folate status is low or deficient, plasma homocysteine concentration is invariably elevated, thereby providing a sensitive functional biomarker of folate status. Elevated homocysteine concentration in blood has been suggested as a risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD), of similar magnitude as elevated cholesterol. Apart from having an established role in preventing neural tube disorders (NTDs), the strongest evidence to support the health benefits of improving folate status (and/or lowering homocysteine) is in the primary prevention of stroke (1,2).
Evidence supporting a causal relationship between sub-optimal folate status and CVD also comes from genetic studies. The most important genetic determinant of homocysteine in the general population is the common 677C->T variant in the gene encoding the folate-metabolizing enzyme methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR). People homozygous for this polymorphism (TT genotype) - about 10% of populations worldwide - typically have higher plasma homocysteine concentrations and a 14 to 21% higher risk of cardiovascular disease (3). Another B-vitamin, riboflavin (vitamin B2), is required as a co-factor for MTHFR. New evidence shows that intervention with supplemental riboflavin results in marked lowering of blood pressure specifically in people with the TT genotype (4,5), an effect that appears to be independent of the homocysteine-lowering effect of riboflavin also seen only in individuals with the TT genotype.
Strong and consistent evidence from epidemiological and animal studies has linked low folate status to increased cancer risk, with strongest evidence for colorectal cancer. As possible mechanism for this relationship it has been suggested that low folate leads to reduced availability of S-adenosyl methionine (SAM) for DNA methylation and/or abnormal DNA synthesis and repair. However, some researchers have raised concerns regarding potential cancer-promoting effects of long-term exposure to high doses of folic acid (6,7).
There are three routes to achieve optimal folate status: natural food sources, fortified foods and supple-ments. While natural food folates show incomplete bioavailability and poor stability, folic acid (the synthetic form of folate) can offer a very stable and highly bioavailable vitamin form. Recent evidence indicates that the supplemental dose of folic acid required to have potential beneficial effects – due to a decrease in homo-cysteine concentrations – is much lower than previously estimated as interventions were too short (8).”
Based on: McNulty H. Nutrition throughout life: folic acid. Symposium “100 years of vitamins – Past, present, future: Micronutrients – Macro impact”. November 2012. Basel, Switzerland.
Wang X. et al. Efficacy of folic acid supplementation in stroke prevention: a meta-analysis. Lancet. 2007; 369(9576):1876-1882.
Yang Q. et al. Improvement in stroke mortality in Canada and the United States, 1990 to 2002. Circulation. 2006; 113(10):1335-1343.
Klerk M. et al. MTHFR 677C->T polymorphism and risk of coronary heart disease: a meta-analysis. JAMA. 2002; 288(16):2023-2031.
Horigan G. et al. Riboflavin lowers blood pressure in cardiovascular disease patients homozygous for the 677C->T polymorphism in MTHFR. J Hypertension. 2010; 28(3):478-486.
Wilson C. P. et al. Riboflavin offers a targeted strategy for managing hypertension in patients with the MTHFR 677TT genotype: a 4-y follow-up. AJCN. 2012; 95(3):766–772.
Cole B. F. et al. Folic acid for the prevention of colorectal adenomas: a randomized clinical trial. JAMA. 2007; 297(21):2351-2359.
Figueiredo J. C. et al. Folic acid and risk of prostate cancer: results from a randomized clinical trial. 2009; 101(6):432-435.
Tighe P. et al. A dose-finding trial of the effect of long-term folic acid intervention: implications for food fortification policy. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 2011; 93(1):11-18.
Family meals increase children’s fruit and vegetable intake
In News · January 14, 2013
Children who eat meals together with parents or older siblings, even if only once or twice a week, consume more fruit and vegetables, suggests a new UK study.
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Middle East|Growing Talk of Jordanian Role in Palestinian Affairs
Growing Talk of Jordanian Role in Palestinian Affairs
By HASSAN M. FATTAH JULY 10, 2007
Correction Appended
AMMAN, Jordan, July 6 — Inside a drab cellphone shop, set deep inside the sprawling Baqaa refugee camp on the outskirts of this city, Muhammad Khalil and his friends were as gloomy as the fluorescent lights that flickered on the ceiling.
“Everything has been ruined for us — we’ve been fighting for 60 years and nothing is left,” Mr. Khalil said, speaking of the Palestinian cause. Just weeks earlier, he might have been speaking enthusiastically to his friends here, in their usual hangout, about resistance, of fighting for his rights as a Palestinian and of one day returning to a Palestinian state.
Last Wednesday, however, he spoke of what he saw as a less satisfying goal for the Palestinians here and one that raises concerns for many other Jordanians: Palestinian union with Jordan.
“It would be better if Jordan ran things in Palestine, if King Abdullah could take control of the West Bank,” Mr. Khalil said, as his friends nodded. “The issue would be over if Jordan just took control.”
Even a few months ago, talk of some kind of Palestinian union with Jordan would have sounded quaint or even conspiratorial, 40 years after Jordan lost control of the West Bank in the 1967 war and nearly two decades after King Abdullah’s father, King Hussein, formally ceded administrative control of the territory to the Palestinians.
But as the Palestinian territories have been engulfed in turmoil, with Gaza and the West Bank now divided economically and politically, as well as physically, talk of a less ambitious, but no less delicate, federation between Jordan and the West Bank has begun rippling through many Jordanian and Palestinian circles.
Some Palestinians who have begun speaking of the subject see Jordan as a last resort to bring about security and stability to the West Bank and to prevent it from falling under the control of the militant Hamas faction, as Gaza has. Israeli officials who have spoken of the idea also say Jordan could help peace efforts by taking over security conditions — shorthand, many fear, for Jordan inheriting Israeli responsibility for security there. In any event, when Israel and the United States have spoken of a Palestinian state, they have talked of a demilitarized one, so some solution for Palestinian national security would be needed.
Jordanian commentators also have begun warning that talk of a union could put an end to the Palestinian national project and put Jordan itself in peril.
“You have a scenario-building exercise going on; Jordan is dealing with complex politics and they are trying to see where they will land and where it will leave the country,” said Oraib al-Rantawi, director of the Al Quds Center for Political Studies in Amman, speaking of the debate about federation. “Jordan has not yet decided on this issue, but it’s clear the debate has begun.”
The nature of any possible union has many iterations. Some see it as possible oversight of the Palestinian territories by Jordan while others see it as a partnership between two nations. But King Abdullah’s position was clear.
In an interview with the daily newspaper Al Ghad on July 1, he sought to put to rest rumors of a possible change in policy on the matter. “I say clearly that the idea of confederation or federation, or what is called administrative responsibility, is a conspiracy against the Palestinian cause, and Jordan will not involve itself in it,” he said. “The Jordanians refuse any settlement of the Palestinian issue at their expense.”
Ayman Safadi, editor in chief of al Ghad, who interviewed the king, said: “He was extremely blunt in the interview. No discussion. It’s a no-go.”
Some analysts, however, said the king’s response helped underscore the level of pressure Jordan may be facing.
“King Abdullah made himself clear on more than one occasion,” said Musa Shtewi, professor of sociology at the University of Jordan. “But by having to do so, it means there’s a lot of pressure being put on Jordan to do this.”
King Hussein, Abdullah’s father, lost the West Bank during the 1967 war and had long hoped to one day reunite both sides of the Jordan River, Professor Shtewi and other analysts said. In 1988, however, he formally disengaged from the territory in a major policy shift that made the Palestine Liberation Organization the sole body responsible for the administration of the Palestinian areas.
Jordanian and Palestinian academics have long talked of the possibility of a political and economic federation. But after Yasir Arafat signed the Oslo peace treaty with the Israelis in 1993, Jordan’s official policy on federation became predicated on the formation of a Palestinian state.
The issue of union has become especially delicate among native Jordanians, who fear that it could further empower Jordan’s large number of residents of Palestinian origin, estimated to be up to 60 percent of the population, at their political expense.
“This used to be an academic issue that never died away,” said Professor Shtewi, speaking of confederation. “But now, it has become a political and even an existential issue too.”
Rumors began circulating in May that Jordan might be rethinking its position, when Abdul-Salam al-Majali, a former prime minister, was the host of a meeting of Jordanian, Israeli and Palestinian peace advocates in the Red Sea Port of Aqaba to discuss ways of reinvigorating peace efforts. Mr. Majali, in an interview, said the issue of union never came up.
But many Jordanian analysts and columnists reported that the meeting touched on the principles of establishing a confederation as a means to breaking the impasse in the peace efforts. Many analysts saw the meeting as a trial balloon intended to gauge the level of interest and resistance to such a move.
“They don’t really want this, but they wanted to see what their options would be if it was forced on them,” said Muhammad Abu Rumman, a columnist with Al Ghad, referring to the Jordanian government. “Most people will tell you that the confederation scenario is going to happen. The only question is when.”
Palestinian activists, however, warn against taking Palestinian desire for stability as a serious change in their politics.
“Some Palestinians may regard this as a kind of solution, a way out of the problem for them,” said Talat Abu Othman, leader of the Jordanian chapter of the High Committee to Protect the Right of Return. “But these are temporary solutions and temporary solutions don’t fix the problem. Without a right of return, without rights, you will solve nothing.”
Mr. Khalil and his friends in the cellphone shop figure, however, that the wait is growing more difficult by the day. “Jordan wants peace for us,” he said. “Jordan wants us to get our rights.”
Correction: July 11, 2007
An article yesterday about the increasing possibility of a Jordanian role in Palestinian affairs referred incorrectly in some copies to the year that King Hussein of Jordan formally ceded administrative control of the West Bank to the Palestinians. It was 1988, not 1998.
A version of this article appears in print on , on Page A10 of the New York edition with the headline: Growing Talk of Jordanian Role in Palestinian Affairs. Order Reprints| Today's Paper|Subscribe
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Dr. Jonathan Diller Honored as 2018 Family Physician of the Year
Dr. Michael Raddock Honored as 2018 Family Medicine Educator of the Year
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The Ohio Academy of Family Physicians (OAFP) honored Jonathan F. Diller, MD, FAAFP, as the Family Physician of the Year, on August 18 during the 2018 Family Medicine Celebration Academy Awards Dinner at The Grand Event Center in Columbus, OH.
Dr. Diller, a family physician for ProMedica Memorial Hospital in Fremont, OH, has practiced family medicine for more than 35 years. He has served in numerous roles at ProMedica Memorial Health, more notably as the chief of staff, vice chief of staff, and secretary treasurer. He also served as an operating board member of the Fremont Physician Association for many years.
“The reason I chose family medicine is that I enjoy the breath and depth of medicine, but also I felt that it was the specialty I could do the most good for the most people,” said Dr. Diller. “And I’ve remained on the frontline of medicine my entire career.”
Watch the following video to learn more about Dr. Diller:
Dr. Diller has delivered more than 1,000 babies in the Fremont community and has cared for generations of families including children’s parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents. He has maintained hospital privileges and provides inpatient care to his population of children and adults patients. “You feel very comfortable when you walk into his office,” said Mike Gabel, a patient of Dr. Diller’s. “I know in today’s medicine it’s about getting people in and out, but he doesn’t make you feel that way.”
“Dr. Diller really takes the time to sit down and talk to his patients,” said Lisa Ebert, RN. “He really wants to know the patient as a person. He cares not only about their physical health, but also about what’s happening with them emotionally and how things are going in the rest of their lives.”
“A lot of the discussions you have with patients aren’t about medicine,” said Dr. Diller. “It’s about what’s happening in their life; it’s more than taking care of their medical problems, it’s them as a person.”
Dr. Diller began his career in medicine by observing his late father, Alford C. Diller, MD, who was the 27th president of the OAFP. As Dr. Diller attended college and medical school, he had the opportunity to learn more from his father who served the Van Wert, OH, community. After training, Dr. Diller returned to Northwest Ohio to set-up his family practice in Fremont, where he continues to practice today. Recently, he transitioned his practice under the Northern Ohio Medical Specialists healthcare system, still continuing to provide quality medical care to his patients.
He received his bachelors, cum laude from Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland; his medical degree from the Medical College of Ohio in Toledo; and completed his residency at the Akron City Hospital Family Practice. He is married to his wife, Karen Diller, who is also his office manager coordinator, and shares three children and eight grandchildren together.
“Jonathan knew from a very young age that he wanted to be a family physician. He did not get into medical school with his first application,” said Karen, his wife. “But he persevered, and with his next application he did get into medical school – and I think his patients are grateful that he persevered.”
“When I think of a family physician – the ideal family physician – I think of Dr. Diller,” said Faye Dittemore, RN, a patient of Dr. Diller’s. “He knows his patients. He’s caring, reasonable, pays attention to detail, listens, goes out of his way to help people, and leads by example. He knows what to do, and just as importantly he does it. In a word, he’s a good man and he’s a credit to his profession.”
The OAFP annually presents the Family Physician of the Year Award to an individual who meets and exceeds the criteria of being an outstanding family physician. Other criteria include maintaining high professional standards and service orientations; providing high quality and family-centered, continuing health care; and being active in their community, higher institutions of learning, or other public affairs.
Congratulations, Dr. Diller!
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Accolades and Achievements
MVLA Spotlights
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MVLA Overview
MVLA High School District: Improving Academic Achievement of All Students
The Mountain View Los Altos High School District (MVLA) reflects the diversity, ambitions and spirit of innovation of the Silicon Valley. Serving the communities of Mountain View, Los Altos and Los Altos Hills, the MVLA district is comprised of two comprehensive high schools, an alternative high school, an adult education center, the Freestyle Academy for Arts & Technology, and Middle College. MVLA is committed to providing learning and growth opportunities so each of our 4,394 students can reach their full potential.
The MVLA High School District is located approximately 15 miles north of San Jose and 40 miles south of San Francisco. Our communities are home to a variety of high tech firms including Google, Microsoft, LinkedIn, Intuit and Synopsys, as well as NASA-Ames. Outstanding universities such as Stanford and San Jose State border our district to the north and south. The vibrant economy, diverse culture of the area and a strong heritage of educational excellence support our two comprehensive high schools that are consistently ranked in the top 500 high schools nationally.
Student Population: 4,394
According to California Department of Education’s Data Reporting Office 2018-19 data, MVLA's 4,394 students are:
Caucasian 38.7%
Latino/a 25.8%
Asian 23.2%
Filipino 1.8%
African American 1.3%
American Indian, Native Alaskan .1%
Pacific Islander .3%
Two or more ethnicities 8.5%
Academics and Achievement
MVLA has a long history of academic achievement and success, reflecting our high standards and proven in our high test scores. Our graduation and college acceptance rates are among the best in the state. Los Altos and Mountain View high schools are consistently ranked in the top 1% of high schools nationally. In the MVLA district, 98 percent of our graduates matriculate to college. Our schools offer more than 40 Advanced Placement (AP) and Honors classes. Student to teacher ratio is 20 to 1. All of our schools have received the maximum six-year accreditation by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges.
Outstanding Teachers
MVLA recruits and retains excellent teachers, many of whom hold Masters or Doctorate degrees. We support our 400+ teachers with technology in the classroom, ongoing professional support and training, and top salaries and benefits. We foster collegiality, respect, and cooperation among all students and staff. The average student to teacher ratio is 20:1.
District Funding
MVLA has an $93-million budget, funded largely through local property taxes, and state and federal funds:
88% from local property taxes
State funding 5%
Federal funding 1%
Other local 6% (MVLA Foundation, developer fees, plus other local donations/contributions)
Thanks to the generosity of contributors of the MVLA Foundation, the district is also able to provide:
College and career counseling to all students
Rich library resources
Enhanced technology in the classroom, including access to Google Chromebooks
Wellness initiatives and mental health support to students
Free access to the online Naviance tool to help in college planning
1299 Bryant Ave., Mountain View
Comprehensive School Sites
201 Almond Ave., Los Altos
3535 Truman Ave., Mountain View
Innovative Education Alternatives
Freestyle Academy
MVLA’s Freestyle Academy of Communication Arts and Technology provides juniors and seniors a unique and challenging opportunity to find or enhance an artistic/technical passion and develop their skills in film and digital media, animation, and visual and technological arts, photography and more.
Address: 1299 Bryant Ave., Mountain View
In partnership with Foothill Community College, MVLA also offers a Middle College program as an alternative program for bright, college-bound students who are ready for a change from the traditional high school environment. Students complete high school graduation requirements by taking a broad range of both community college and high school courses on the Foothill College campus.
College Now is a program designed for some juniors and seniors to start college early (attending Foothill Community College) and graduate from high school with a year or more of transferable college credits. It is ideal for students who are highly self-motivated, mature, independent, responsible and hardworking, and who may have ‘outgrown’ high school and are seeking a stimulating educational environment that is different from high school.
Students who experience academic or personal difficulties may be recommended to MVLA’s Alta Vista High, which provides a safe, caring and flexible learning environment so students can graduate high school prepared to successfully transition to college and career. Fully accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC), AVHS students must meet the same graduation requirements as students who attend the traditional schools.
MVLA Adult School
Each year, thousands of people earn their high school diploma or GED, integrate into the community through ESL (English as a Second Language) and citizenship, and get career training and job placement in tech, healthcare and other fields at MVLA’s Adult School. Course catalog is online: www.mvlaae.net.
Address: 333 Moffett Blvd., Mountain View
Mountain View High School was founded in 1902, at the corner of El Camino Real and Calderon Avenue. By the the 1920s, enrollment had grown significantly and a second high school was needed. In 1924, the school district opened a new school on Castro Street. The 1933 opening of Moffett Field prompted growth at both schools, and facilities were added on both campuses to accommodate students of local and military families.
By the 1950s, Mountain View Union High School was again unable to accommodate the increasing student body on its campus. In 1956, the school district added Los Altos High School on Almond Avenue. By 1961, the district built another school near Grant Road at the corners of Truman and Bryant: Chester F. Awalt High School, named for the first superintendent of the district.
The Mountain View School District sold the original school buildings on Castro back to the city and relocated the school to Awalt High School. Originally, Los Altos High School adopted the Mountain View school colors and mascot. Later individual identities were selected: Mountain View High became the Spartans (colors: black and gold) and Los Altos High became the Eagles (colors: blue and gray).
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In this Jan. 15, 2019, file photo, New York State Sen. Brad Hoylman, addresses members for the Senate at the state Capitol in Albany, N.Y. The Manhattan Democrat is one of the main sponsors of a bill that would allow congressional investigators to get access to President Donald Trump’s state tax returns, giving Democrats a potential end-run around the administration’s refusal to disclose the president’s federal returns. The bill is expected to come up for a vote before the New York Senate on Wednesday, May 8, 2019. (AP Photo/Hans Pennink, File)
New York Senate OKs giving US House Trump state tax return
Bill would authorize officials to release returns by seven types of state and federal officeholders
New York’s Democrat-controlled Senate approved a bill easily Wednesday that would allow three congressional committees to get access to President Donald Trump’s state tax returns, giving Democrats a potential end-run around the administration’s refusal to disclose the president’s federal returns.
The bill, which now goes to the Democrat-led state Assembly, doesn’t target Trump by name, but would authorize state tax officials to release returns filed by seven different types of state and federal officeholders if requested by the leaders of the House Ways and Means Committee, the Senate Finance Committee or the Joint Committee on Taxation.
The law would apply to returns filed by the U.S. president and vice-president, U.S. senators, or the state’s governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general or comptroller.
It would include filings related to personal income taxes, real estate taxes and corporate income taxes and cover up to five years of returns before the person took office.
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“What has happened this week in Washington makes it all more important that the state of New York steps into the constitutional void and provides Congress with what it’s entitled to know, in this case the tax return of the president,” said Sen. Brad Hoylman, a Manhattan Democrat who is one of the main sponsors.
State Sen. John Flanagan, leader of the chamber’s Republican minority, called the legislation a “blatant political act” and said he wished New York Democrats were more focused on tax relief and creating new jobs for New Yorkers.
Ed Cox, chairman of the state Republican Party, called the proposal “a bill of attainder, aimed at one person.”
White House officials didn’t respond to a request for comment.
Federal law allows Congress to demand the president’s tax returns under certain circumstances, but on Monday Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin declined to disclose Trump’s federal returns to the Democratic-controlled House, saying the request “lacks a legitimate legislative purpose.”
That refusal set the stage for a possible legal battle. Any law passed in New York might also be destined for a court challenge.
Trump’s home state is New York, where many of his business enterprises are based. Financial information in state returns is likely to mirror much of what is in his federal returns.
The New York Times reported Tuesday that Trump’s businesses lost more than $1 billion from 1985 to 1994, based on tax information the newspaper acquired. New York’s proposed law wouldn’t authorize the discloser of Trump’s returns in any of the years described in the Times report.
Previous efforts to bring the legislation to a floor vote in the Senate were blocked by Republicans, who lost control of the chamber in the November elections.
The measure, which would amend state laws prohibiting private tax information from being released, isn’t scheduled for a vote yet in the state Assembly, where more than 90 Democrats in the 150-seat chamber support the legislation.
The New York bill wouldn’t make Trump’s returns public, but Congress could potentially decide to do so.
“Americans have the right to know if the president is putting his business empire, or the interests of the public, first,” said Susan Lerner, Executive Director of Common Cause New York, a group that supports the legislation.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, has said he supports legislation allowing the president’s tax returns to be made public, but only if it also applies to all state lawmakers and statewide elected officials in New York. Cuomo, now in his third term, recently released his federal and state tax returns, something he has done every year since becoming governor in 2011.
In legislative action ahead of the vote on the tax returns bill, the Senate approved legislation designed to ensure that a presidential pardon doesn’t cover similar criminal charges filed at the state level. The bill was crafted to eliminate an unintended loophole in the state’s double jeopardy law that prosecutors say could undermine New York’s ability to prosecute anyone pardoned by Trump.
The Assembly hasn’t scheduled a vote on that bill.
Chris Carola, The Associated Press
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Falkland Islands Expedition 2009 Successfully Completed
After paddling 22 days in strong winds and seas, New York City based sea kayaker Marcus Demuth has successfully completed the world first circumnavigation of the Falkland Islands. The goal of the expedition was to be the first kayaker to successfully circumnavigate the 776 Falkland Islands and to document and study the marine wild life of the fairly inaccessible outer Falkland Islands.
Previous attempts to circumnavigate the Falkland Islands include two separate British Special Forces teams and a US team of two kayakers, all ending unsuccessfully.
"It was a very hard trip with many challenges such as constant high winds, large kelp fields, and mine fields which sometimes made landings impossible for many miles," said Marcus. "During stages of the trip I had to kayak with 2 charts, a nautical chart and a mine chart, supplied by the British Forces, in order to avoid landing on beaches which still contained mines left from the Falkland War."
The Falkland Islands is an archipelago in the South Atlantic Ocean located 300 miles east of Cape Horn, 671 miles west of South Georgia and 584 miles north of Antarctica. Because of the Falklands' small population, harsh climate, and isolation, the majority of the islands are uninhabited and completely untouched by humans. The wildlife on the Falklands is especially spectacular on these fairly inaccessible outer islands (such as the Jason Islands), featuring penguin colonies, large sea lions up to 700 pounds, elephant seals up to 3.5 tons, pods of orcas, and aggressive fur seals.
Past sea kayaking expeditions have taken Marcus to Iceland (a country Marcus will revisit in 2009 for a second attempt to circumnavigate), Ireland, the South and West Coast of Australia, and Chile/Patagonia.
For more information, photos and blogs please visit: www.marcusdemuth.com.
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Arts & Entertainment in Cambodia
what travelers and tourists need to know about arts and entertainment in Cambodia.
Arts & Entertainment in Vietnam
One of the highlights of the trip to Lao for many foreign tourists is probably to experience the rich arts of the country which are quite different from those of other countries. Lao arts have been mostly found in religious architecture, in religious sculpture and traditional handicrafts.
Arts and performances show perception of people towards nature as well as the social life around them. Through arts and performances we understand the life and culture of a community at present as well as many years ago. The Vietnamese has been cultivating their agrarian life starting in the Red River Delta for thousands of years. They have been in close touch with nature and they have passed on a rich culture from the ancient times.
Cambodia Economy
Traditionally the Cambodia's economy has been based on agriculture. Most of the cultivated land is reserved for growing rice and the rest is for rubber. Besides cultivation, Tonle Sap Lake has provided an important amount of fish to the Cambodia's economy and diet. Cattle raising also supplement to the country's economy.
Cambodia Travel Guide, What to see in Cambodia
Rising from its troubled past, Cambodia is back on the map for travellers. This is just the right moment to come and visit the country before everything is totally changed.
Festivals & Events in Cambodia
Public holidays mean a lot of governmental offices, shops, banks, embassies closed which may affect your travel in Cambodia. Some hotels require compulsory dinner on certain occasions. Some public holidays in Cambodia are based on the Gregorian Calendar and most based on the Lunar Calendar.
Festivals & Events in Laos
Laos is country of multi-ethnic nature and each community has a lot of festivals all year round. Some festivals may affect your tour itinerary in the country and/or your travel interests. It's always good to know the main ones that are more likely encountered on your holiday in Laos. Many other festivals held in different regions are not mentioned here. If you plan to travel thoroughly through Laos or if you plan to have an adventure tour in remote regions of the country, please consult our travel experts for further information.
Food & Drinks in Cambodia
A guide to food and drink while traveling in Cambodia.
Food & Drinks in Laos
Lao food and drink: Laos is a country of multi-ethnic group and each group has its own version of traditional cuisine. On the general level, Lao cuisine is fresh and spicy. The country's cuisine can be best described as blend of more Thai cuisine, Vietnamese cuisine and Chinese cuisine.
Food & Drinks in Vietnam
Enjoying local food and drinks is essential to have a great vacation in Vietnam. Exploring local cuisine in a thorough way may get you some good knowledge of an important element of the Vietnamese culture.
Geography of Cambodia
Cambodia covers an area of 181,035 square kilometers with the maximum extents of 600km east-west and 450km north-south.
Geography of Laos
Laos, a landlocked country, shares its borders with Myanmar, China, Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand. The country is bounded between the latitudes 14 -23 degrees North and the longitudes 100-108 degrees East; the whole country is within the tropic region.
Geography of Vietnam
Vietnam with its diversity in geographical terrain, in climatic areas, in cultural heritage can offer the most colorful holidays: be it an adventure tour through Vietnam, a historical & cultural tour, a tour of fresh nature of Vietnam, or a relaxing deluxe beach vacation....
Guide to National Parks in Vietnam
Vietnam National Parks include a collection of national parks, nature reserves in Vietnam, of which many have been inscribed to the lists of World Heritage Sites, Ramsar Sites and Global Bio Sphere Reserves by the UNESCO.
History of Cambodia
Very little is known about prehistoric Cambodia, although archeological evence has established that prior to 1000 BC Cambodians subsisted on a diet of fish and rice and lived in houses on stilts, as they still do today.
History of Laos
Most parts of Laos, Cambodia and Thailand were inhabited as early as 10,000 years ago. Many of the ethnic groups in this area belonged to the Austro-Asiatic ethno-linguistic family.
History of Vietnam
Legend of Kinh Duong Vuong and Hong Bang Thi (2879-258 BC)
According to the legend, the Vietnamese ancestor was Kinh Duong Vuong whose grave now is in An Lu village, Thuan Thanh district, Bac Ninh province.
How to Travel to Cambodia
With a constant influx of tourists to the country, travel to Cambodia is easier than ever before. Below you can find different ways to get to Cambodia by air, by land and by waterway.
How to Travel to Laos
As Laos is growing more and more popular as a travel destination, it is more convenient and cost-saving to travel to the country. Below you can find the means of transport to get to Laos that suits you the most.
Languages in Cambodia
The Cambodian language is Khmer which has been influenced considerably by Pali and Sangkrit from India. Also, the Khmer language is influenced by spoken and written Thai. Some technical terms are borrowed from French. Khmer is different from those in the neighboring countries that it is not a tonal language. Khmer is very similar to that in the neighboring countries that it can be very precise in expressing matters related to agriculture, nature, sentiment while not very conveniently expressing scientific definitions.
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Empowering women will generate millions of businesses, jobs: Study
New Delhi: As four out of five women in India wish to become entrepreneurs, the country is missing out on a potential 15.5 million new businesses and 64 million additional jobs by not addressing the challenges facing such women, a new Facebook study said on Wednesday.
The study revealed that if just 52 per cent of women were empowered to start a business today, it would not only boost economic growth, but also help to build 15.5 million new businesses, and create 64 million additional jobs — all by the end of 2021.
“If we were to harness the largely untapped potential of women’s entrepreneurship and provide them greater support, it could lead to more jobs being created, economic growth and more diverse and representative small business communities,” Ankhi Das, Director of Public Policy, Facebook India, South and Central Asia, told reporters here.
“We are very optimistic about partnering with platforms like Facebook to empower women. We are trying to forge deep partnerships with platforms like Google, Cisco and Intel for the betterment of woman’s livelihood through technology,” added Aruna Sundarajan, Secretary, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), in her keynote address.
Ahead of the International Women’s Day that falls on March 8, Facebook also launched “SheLeadsTech”, a programme that will give women-founded/co-founded start-ups access to a year-long programme that provides tools, mentorship and resources to help overcome some of the barriers they face.
“Through Facebook #SheMeansBusiness and our new #SheLeadsTech programme we hope that by the end of 2017, we’ll have inspired more women across the country to take the leap — and help close the gap on that untapped opportunity for millions more women and in turn ensure our economy remains strong and thrives,” Das added.
According to the findings, the most commonly cited reason that prevents women from setting up their business in India is the constraint of family responsibilities or commitments (38 per cent). Other key barriers are lack of access to finance (29 per cent), worry over personal financial security (30 per cent), and having an idea but not knowing where to get started (30 per cent). Interestingly, small businesses on Facebook tell a different story.
There are more than two million active small businesses Pages on Facebook in India — and an increasing number of women are using this community to start and grow successful businesses.
In the last five years (between 2012 and 2016), the number of new women-owned SMB Pages on Facebook in India has increased seven-fold, growing 85 per cent year on year from 2015 to 2016. Nearly 87 per cent of women surveyed also agree that having access to the right digital tools and support would help them get their business off the ground. — IANS
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Law Society of England & Wales
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“International Alternative,” Legal Week (July 2006)
“Umbrella Clauses — a Retreat from the Philippines?” International Arbitration Law Review (August 2006)
“Necessity Knows No Law!”: LG&E v Argentina, International Arbitration Law Review (December 2006)
“Internationalisation” — Contractual Claims in BIT Arbitrations, European Arbitration Review (2007)
Challenges to Arbitrators, European & Middle Eastern Arbitration Review (2008)
C v D - The English Court of Appeal Upholds an Anti-Suit Injunction in Support of Arbitration Proceedings, International Arbitration Law Review (April 2008)
The Effects of Insolvency on Arbitration Proceedings, European & Middle Eastern Arbitration Review (2009)
European Law and International Arbitration, European & Middle Eastern Arbitration Review (2010)
Asymmetric Arbitration Agreements: Are They Worth the Risk? European & Middle Eastern Arbitration Review (2014)
Chapter on Challenge to and Replacement of Arbitrators, Arbitration in England (Kluwer, 2013 Edition, edited by Julian Lew QC)
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Acting for Moscow Oil Refinery in a US$300 million ICC arbitration in London and successfully resisting applications in the Commercial Court challenging the arbitral award
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Government ‘not ruling out’ making occupational health mandatory for employers, says minister
By Nic Paton on 28 Jun 2018 in Fit for Work, Disability, Occupational Health, Return to work and rehabilitation, Sickness absence management, Wellbeing and health promotion
The minister for disabled people, health and work, Sarah Newton, has said the government is “certainly not ruling out” the idea of making it compulsory for employers to provide and invest in occupational health for their employees as part of its review of workplace health.
Speaking to the Society and Faculty of Occupational Medicine’s annual scientific conference this week, Newton was asked whether the government had “given any thought to creating legislation to make occupational health mandatory for employers to provide?”.
She replied: “We are looking at the moment at other countries, and what works in other countries; and we’re looking at where there is much greater access to occupational health services.
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“There has been legislation in other countries to put obligations on to employers. So we are certainly not ruling that out at this stage. We are very much at the stage of looking at what has worked, what does work in other countries, and how we can extend that.”
But Newton also emphasised that the review, which is being led by expert working group and is not expected to report until next year, would be taking a methodical and evidence-based approach.
“I have been elected since 2010 and I’ve seen too often people rush towards legislation as a solution, and sometimes that works and sometimes it doesn’t,” she said.
“If we have a bit more time to really think and listen and test and learn we’ll get a better legislative solution. So it’s not ruled out, and there is a real possibility. But what’s really important is that we legislate for the right thing and, to do that, we need to do all the work that we are committed to doing. And that does include incentives as well for employers; we’re talking about very little businesses, they have a lot of burdens on them, so we need to look at the right incentives as well as the right obligations.”
In her speech, Newton said she recognised that occupational health will need to be at the centre of the government’s reform agenda around workplace health.
“If we want all employers to be the best employers, we need to ensure they have the right, expert advice and support to create healthy and inclusive workplaces as well as excellent, common-sense support to manage sickness absence. And this is why occupational health is at the heart of our reform programme and our whole-system approach. We know that occupational health has a vitally important role to play in supporting people to stay in employment.
“But unlike in some other countries where provision is much more widespread, in the UK many workers have no occupational health support in their workplace and access to other services can be patchy and confusing. So we want to change this, and that’s why last year we set out our intention to develop proposals for truly transformational change in occupational health.
“We can’t deliver the kind of widespread access to good-quality occupational health provision we want to see by working on policy in isolation in Whitehall. Working with experts like you is so important to getting big reforms like this right,” she added.
The government’s review of occupational health was first revealed last December as part of its response to its Work, Health and Disability: improving lives green paper. It is looking at the evidence base around occupational health, including new funding models and “where responsibility for OH support should fall”.
At the same time in December the government announced its intention to close the Fit for Work service this year. Last week it published the detailed evaluation that had taken place in the run-up to this decision.
Newton reiterated that the government had concluded the service was simply not getting enough referrals to make it viable to continue. However, she also suggested the likelihood was that some form of new national service would emerge in its place, although the detail on this had yet to be decided.
She said: “We took the decision to close the service so that we could focus our efforts on finding something that really does work. As I mentioned in the speech, we’re investing a huge amount in trials to really figure out what does work, what services really do support people to stay in work and to get into work.
“Through that testing and learning we will be coming up with a whole service that this time we think will work. But it’s not as simple problem that we’ve set ourselves; there is a lot of complexity here,” Newton added.
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Sue Flower 1 Jul 2018 at 12:34 pm #
Had the Health and Safety at Work Act not been in place in 1974 this Safety improvements we have today would not be in place . We now have a recognised Safety Profession as accidents at that time were key to improvements required.
Ask people to use a service with no legeal obligation and it will certainly result in low referrals as Business will not go for help……….
‘Newton reiterated that the government had concluded the service was simply not getting enough referrals to make it viable to continue.
Creating a set of guidelines is similar to creating an SOP ( standard Operating procedure ) you can be wise in your advice however implementation is reliant on resource which is key. All businesses within 5 or more employees have to have a Policy organisation and arrangements……blah blah…..
1 it’s not audited as the enforcement is not sufficient, only for SIF related injuries, as we focus mainly on accidents, key performance indicators are rarely sickness absence stats, unless manufacturing or the like. An overall scheme would see the professions competent to coordinate and navigate this advice enabled through an ownership of responsibility at source ie the employer.
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Home NewsAcquisition of Green Space – Causeway Field
Acquisition of Green Space – Causeway Field
2nd January 2019| News| Kathryn Ellis-Blandford
Petersfield Town Council is pleased to announce that contracts have been exchanged for its purchase of additional public open space.
The Council has purchased approximately 35 acres of land situated to the rear of the Causeway Farm development site and Sussex Road at a cost of £275,000 with completion of the transaction expected towards the end of January 2019. The purchase has been funded from the proceeds it received from the sale of land at Penns Field for housing development. This land was designated within the Petersfield Neighbourhood Plan as ‘proposed designated green space’ and demonstrates the Council’s tangible commitment to delivering the policies and aspirations of the Neighbourhood Plan.
Initially, the council plans to develop the site into a Country Park allowing native wild flowers to flourish in a meadow type of environment whilst enhancing the footpath access to the land that currently exists. In the short term, fencing and gates on the site will be either repaired or replaced, as appropriate to facilitate and enhance movement around the site for the public and for ongoing maintenance.
The Council recognises the importance of this site historically as well as wishing to protect it for future generations to enjoy its flora and fauna. The site provides wonderful access to the downs and hangers around the town and offers tremendous potential as a venue for both residents and visitors alike to come and enjoy our marvelous town.
The Town Mayor, Cllr Mrs Hilary Ayer said, “ It is really good news that The Council now has the opportunity to develop this piece land into a green space that we all can enjoy. Wild flower meadows are becoming rare but I remember them well from my childhood. I think the young people of today will find it very exciting discovering the joys of walking through a wild flower meadow and discovering new flowers and realising what a special place it will become for bugs and insects and crawling things they have not seen before.”
The previous Town Mayor, Cllr Jamie Matthews who was instrumental in initiating the purchase of the land aid, “The Neighbourhood Plan set out our vision for Petersfield and that includes bringing the Downs right into the heart of Town by safeguarding the green corridors in and out of Petersfield. I’m delighted that following almost of year of hard negotiations that the Council has been able secure this ecologically important and beautiful area for the benefit of the community and it’s future generations.“
The Chairman of the Grounds Committee, Cllr Mrs Lesley Farrow said “We have to thank Jamie Matthews and his vision for the town that we were able to secure this lovely piece of land for future generations to enjoy without the risk of it being developed.”
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fill out (a form)
A "form" is a document with blank lines or boxes that you write information into. Forms were originally printed on paper, but now forms are common on the Internet. You can see them whenever you sign up for a new website and have to enter your name, email address, and other information.
To "fill out" a form means to write answers into the blank lines or boxes.
Here are some words that you can use after "fill out":
fill out an application
fill out paperwork
fill out a registration form
fill out a survey
I'd like to (do something)
"I'd like to..." is an abbreviation of "I would like to..." Use this phrase to ask for services at stores, banks, and so on:
Hi. I'd like to deposit this into checking, please.
I'd like to send this via registered mail.
I'd like to cancel my membership.
You can also use it in an email to someone when you're in a position of authority, like when you're acting as a customer.
It's also possible to write "I'd like to ___" in emails to your boss, if you're doing something that's normal and expected. For example, if you have a specific number of vacation days that you can use, and you're allowed to use them whenever you want, you can write:
I'd like to take off the week of April 3rd.
cash (a check)
"Cashing" a check means giving it to a bank, and getting the cash value of the check from them. You can "cash" a paycheck, a personal check, a tax-return check, etc.
a deposit slip
A "slip" is like a form, but it's usually smaller than a full sheet of paper. Some examples of "slips" are:
permissions slips (for school field trips, etc.)
deposit slips
wire transfer slips
a pink slip (which is a piece of paper telling someone that they've been fired or laid off)
"Deposit slips" are pieces of paper that you have to fill out when you're depositing money into a bank account. You write your name, the amount of money you're depositing, your account number, and so on.
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Home Gaming Batman: Arkham Games in Order of Release Date
Arkham games are very popular among the fans of Batman games. The franchise which was developed by Rocksteady Studios is very popular, thanks in part to its very strong storyline as well as its highly engaging gameplay.
The first game in the franchise was released in 2013 and since then, we have seen different other Arkham games in both the main series and the portable series. We are taking a look at the complete list of games released under the franchise with an emphasis on the games in the main series.
Batman: Arkham Games
Arkham games chronologically
Portable games
Batman: Arkham City Lockdown
Batman: Arkham Origins (mobile)
Batman: Arkham Underworld
Platforms: PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One
While this is the first in the Arkham franchise, it remains as one of the best Batman games you will ever get to see, thanks to its accurate and powerful Batman comics representation.
The game has a very powerful storyline that sees Batman having to fight other Arkham Asylum inmates to make his way out and stop his archenemy, the Joker from detonating hidden bombs in Gotham City.
The singular thing that is even better than the game’s storyline is its gameplay. It came with the detective mode which complements a good combat system. Thanks to the detective vision, you can gain more insight about your environment, the number of enemies, status, smell, and even investigative prowess. Need we add that Rocksteady also scored good points with this third-person game with the voicing.
Platforms: PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Microsoft Windows, Wii U, OS X, PlayStation 4, Xbox One
There are many who feel among other Arkham Games, Arkham City is the best. Rocksteady Studios came up with yet another third-person game that maintains a lot of things from the first game in the franchise.
The second game in the trilogy, it sees Batham navigating through the city and fighting some of his greatest enemies such as the Joker again, Mr. Freeze, The Riddler, and Ra’s Al Ghul.
There is no complaint about the gameplay of this game because somehow, it delivers what is probably the best Batman simulator in any Batman game. You get to glide around and grapple easily as you navigate the city.
Platforms: Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, Wii U, Xbox 360
Not the best of Arkham Games, it is also not the worst. From the go, you will feel something is different even without being told that it was not developed by Rocksteady. The sluggish one of the franchise, it picks a lot from the previous games, but there is something that just isn’t right with the game.
That said, if you are looking for something great in the game, you will neither find it in the voicing of the game nor its story, neither will you find it in the combat or even the general gameplay. Instead, you will find it in the detective work, which is still the best we have seen from the franchise.
Platforms: Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One
Arkham Knight is one of those few games that do not leave you with an in-between; you either love them or hate them. Because of this, you will find some players that place at among the best and others that would place it in the class of the worst.
For those, however, who still want to find an in-between, the game is not entirely new because there are areas that can be very familiar but not in the nostalgic sense. Another thing is that Rocksteady Studios introduced batmobile to the game. In itself, the idea is great but the execution really sucks. On the other side of the coin, the game has excellent mini-puzzles and dual combats that are just in their own class.
How to play Arkham games chronologically
If you want to chronologically start playing the game, you may as well start with the Arkham Origins, although it is not the first in the franchise to be released. Batman: Arkham Asylum which as shown above was released in 2009 was set 5 years after the Origins which was released in 2013.
After the Origins, you can go on to play Arkham Asylum, Arkham City, and Arkham Knight as they appear based on the release.
See Also: Metal Gear Games in Order of Release Date [Complete List]
Portable device games
Apart from the games in the main series, there are Arkham games that were designed for portable devices:
Platforms: iOS, Android
Designed for iOS and Android, events in this game took place before the Batman: Arkham City. Developed by NetherRealm Studios, the game has a very simple story with Batman working to keep the streets of Gotham City free of criminals.
Platform: iOS, Android
As you must have guessed, this is the same game as the main Origins game, however, it was developed for the mobile platform.
Platform: Nintendo 3DS, PlayStation Vita, PlayStation 3, Wii U, Microsoft Windows, Xbox 360
Released alongside Batman: Arkham Origins, the game has received mixed reviews, but it has a good story and rather strong gameplay. It does not meet the standard of the previous games before it, but it is definitely not one for the bin either.
This was a rather good game, but it can no more be installed on any device as it has been taken off from App Store and Play Store.
The above are the major Arkham games, however, there is also the Batman: Arkham VR which was released for the PlayStation Visual Reality in 2016 as well as the different Arkham collections: Batman: Arkham Bundle and Batman: Arkham Collection both released in 2013 as well as the Batman: Return to Arkham which was released in 2016.
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MPEP Q & A 176: What Does a Petition Under 37 C.F.R. 1.78 Require?
July 9, 2019 /in MPEP Q and A Podcast /by Editorial Staff
Question: What does a petition under 37 C.F.R. 1.78 require? Answer: A petition under 37 CFR 1.78(b) requires: the reference required by 35 U.S.C. 119(e) and 37 CFR 1.78 to the prior-filed provisional application, which must be included in application data sheet (unless previously submitted in an application data sheet); the petition fee; and a […]
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MPEP Q & A 175: Concepts Related to Tracking or Organizing Information
June 25, 2019 /in MPEP Q and A Podcast /by Editorial Staff
Question: List a concept related to tracking or organizing information. Answer: Examples of concepts related to tracking or organizing information include; i. classifying and storing digital images in an organized manner ii. collecting information, analyzing it, and displaying certain results of the collection and analysis iii. encoding and decoding image data – RecogniCorp, LLC v. Nintendo […]
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MPEP Q & A 174: Submission Types that May Not be Filed Via EFS Web.
Question: List 2 submission types that may not be filed via EFS Web. Answer: The following is a list of submission types that are not permitted to be filed using EFS-Web: Plant patent applications and follow-on documents associated with plant patent applications, other than third party preissuance submissions. Requests for Reexamination for plant patents and […]
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MPEP Q & A 173: What is a Complete Nonprovisional Application Comprised of?
May 28, 2019 /in MPEP Q and A Podcast /by Editorial Staff
Question: What is a complete nonprovisional application comprised of? Answer: A complete nonprovisional application comprises the following: a specification, including claims, drawings, an oath or declaration, the prescribed filing fee, search fee, examination fee and application size fee Chapter Details: The answer to this question can be found in chapter 600 of the MPEP. This […]
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MPEP Q & A 172: Fees that Must be Paid Upon Filing a Request for Prioritized Examination
Question: Name two fees that must be paid upon filing a request for prioritized examination. Answer: Upon filing the request for prioritized examination, the following fees must be paid for the application: (1) the prioritized examination fee set forth in 37 CFR 1.17(c), (2) the processing fee set forth in 37 CFR 1.17(i)(1), (3) the […]
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MPEP Q & A 171: Instances Where Publication or Issue Date is Later Than the Current Date
April 30, 2019 /in MPEP Q and A Podcast /by Editorial Staff
Question: When the publication or issue date is later than the current date (i.e., the date of the request), who will that information be given to? Answer: When the publication or issue date is later than the current date (i.e., the date of the request), such information may be given only to the applicant, an […]
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MPEP Q & A 170: Must a Claim be Identified to a Correct Category of Subject Matter?
Question: Must a claim be identified to a correct category of subject matter? Answer: It is not necessary to identify a single category into which a claim falls, so long as it is clear that the claim falls into at least one category. It is also not necessary to identify a “correct” category into which […]
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MPEP Q & A 169: Non-Limiting Claims Not Directed to Any of the Statutory Categories.
April 2, 2019 /in MPEP Q and A Podcast /by Editorial Staff
Question: Provide an example of a non-limiting claim that is not directed to any of the statutory categories. Answer: Examples of a non-limiting claim that is not directed to any of the statutory categories include; Products that do not have a physical or tangible form, such as information (often referred to as “data per se”) […]
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MPEP Q & A 168: Competent Representation to a Client
March 19, 2019 /in MPEP Q and A Podcast /by Editorial Staff
Question: A practitioner shall provide competent representation to a client. What does competent representation to a client entail? Answer: Competent representation requires the legal, scientific, and technical knowledge, skill, thoroughness and preparation reasonably necessary for the representation. Chapter Details: The answer to this question can be found in the following supplement: Changes to Representation of […]
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MPEP Q & A 167: When Must Applicants Timely File a Notice of Foreign Filing to Avoid Abandonment of a U.S. Application?
March 5, 2019 /in MPEP Q and A Podcast /by Editorial Staff
Question: Name one circumstance where applicants must timely file a notice of foreign filing to avoid abandonment of a U.S. application. Answer: Applicants must timely file a notice of foreign filing to avoid abandonment of a U.S. application if: applicant filed a nonpublication request in the U.S. application filed under 35 U.S.C. 111(a); applicant subsequently […]
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MPEP Q & A 166: Further Written Opinion Established by the International Preliminary Examining Authority
February 19, 2019 /in MPEP Q and A Podcast /by Editorial Staff
Question: Name one item any further written opinion established by the International Preliminary Examining Authority should set forth. Answer: Any further written opinion established by the International Preliminary Examining Authority should set forth, as applicable: (A) Any defects in the international application concerning subject matter which is not required to be examined or which is […]
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MPEP Q & A 165: When Patent Owner Fails to File Timely Response to Any Office Action Prior to an Action Closing Prosecution (ACP)
February 5, 2019 /in MPEP Q and A Podcast /by Editorial Staff
Question: List one consequence for when the patent owner fails to file a timely response to any Office action prior to an Action Closing Prosecution (ACP). Answer: If the patent owner fails to file a timely response to any Office action prior to an Action Closing Prosecution (ACP), it will result in the following consequences: […]
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MPEP Q & A 164: Computer-Implemented Methods and the Tax Strategy Provision
January 22, 2019 /in MPEP Q and A Podcast /by Editorial Staff
Question: Would a computer-implemented method that is deemed novel and non-obvious be effected by the tax strategy provision even if used for a tax purpose? Answer: A computer-implemented method that is deemed novel and non-obvious would not be affected by this provision even if used for a tax purpose. For example, a novel and non-obvious […]
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MPEP Q & A 163: What are the Most Common Basis for Filing a Reissue Application?
January 8, 2019 /in MPEP Q and A Podcast /by Editorial Staff
Question: What are the most common basis for filing a reissue application? Answer: The most common bases for filing a reissue application are: the claims are too narrow or too broad; the disclosure contains inaccuracies; applicant failed to or incorrectly claimed foreign priority; and applicant failed to make reference to or incorrectly made reference to […]
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MPEP Q & A 162: When is a 35 U.S.C. 102 Rejection with Multiple References Proper?
December 21, 2018 /in MPEP Q and A Podcast /by Editorial Staff
Question: When is a 35 U.S.C. 102 rejection with multiple references proper? Answer: A 35 U.S.C. 102 rejection over multiple references has been held to be proper when the extra references are cited to: Prove the primary reference contains an “enabled disclosure;” Explain the meaning of a term used in the primary reference; or Show […]
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MPEP Q & A 161: Living Subject Matter and Patent Protection
Question: Is it true that living subject matter with markedly different characteristics from any found in nature, such as the claimed bacterium produced by genetic engineering, are excluded from patent protection by 35 U.S.C. 101? Answer: No, it is not true. For example, the Federal Circuit has indicated that “discoveries that possess ‘markedly different characteristics from […]
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MPEP Q & A 160: Rules for Appellant to Request to Reopen Prosecution
November 27, 2018 /in MPEP Q and A Podcast /by Editorial Staff
Question: Can an Appellant request to reopen prosecution if the examiner’s answer does not have a rejection that is designated as a new ground of rejection? Answer: No, an appellant cannot request to reopen prosecution if the examiner’s answer does not have a rejection that is designated as a new ground of rejection. Chapter Details: […]
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MPEP Q & A 159: What are the Two Criteria for Subject Matter Eligibility?
Question: What are the two criteria for subject matter eligibility? Answer: First, the claimed invention must be in one of the four statutory categories. 35 U.S.C. 101 defines the four categories of invention that Congress deemed to be the appropriate subject matter of a patent: processes, machines, manufactures and compositions of matter. Second, the claimed invention also […]
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MPEP Q & A 158: Can Maintenance Fees be Paid in Cash?
October 30, 2018 /in MPEP Q and A Podcast /by Editorial Staff
Question: Can maintenance fees be paid in cash? Answer: Maintenance fees may not be paid in cash. A maintenance fee may be paid: with Treasury notes with national bank notes with post office money orders with certified checks over the internet by electronic funds transfer (EFT), credit card, or deposit account payment methods Chapter Details: […]
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MPEP Q & A 157: Ways a Patent May be Corrected or Amended
Question: Name two ways a patent may be corrected or amended. Answer: A patent may be corrected or amended in eight ways, namely by: reissue, the issuance of a certificate of correction which becomes a part of the patent, disclaimer, reexamination, supplemental examination, inter partes review, post grant review, and covered business method review Chapter Details: […]
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MPEP Q & A 156: What is the Definition of Fundamental Economic Practices?
October 2, 2018 /in MPEP Q and A Podcast /by Editorial Staff
Question: What is the definition of fundamental economic practices? Answer: The courts have used the phrases “fundamental economic practices” or “fundamental economic concepts” to describe concepts relating to the economy and commerce, such as agreements between people in the form of contracts, legal obligations, and business relations. Chapter Details: The answer to this question can […]
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MPEP Q & A 155: Statutes That Grounds for Post-Grant Review May be Raised For
September 18, 2018 /in MPEP Q and A Podcast /by Editorial Staff
Question: List two statutes that grounds for post-grant review may be raised for. Answer: Grounds for post-grant review include grounds that could be raised under 35 U.S.C. 102 or 103 including those based on prior art consisting of patents or printed publications. Other grounds available for post-grant review include 35 U.S.C. 101 and 112, with […]
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MPEP Q & A 154: What Does the Broadest Reasonable Interpretation (BRI) Do?
September 4, 2018 /in MPEP Q and A Podcast /by Editorial Staff
Question: What does the broadest reasonable interpretation (BRI) do? Answer: The BRI sets the boundaries of the coverage sought by the claim and will influence whether the claim seeks to cover subject matter that is beyond the four statutory categories or encompasses subject matter that falls within the exceptions. Chapter Details: The answer to this […]
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MPEP Q & A 153: When Will a Practitioner be Responsible for Another Practitioner’s Violation of the USPTO Rules of Professional Conduct?
August 21, 2018 /in MPEP Q and A Podcast /by Editorial Staff
Question: When will a practitioner be responsible for another practitioner’s violation of the USPTO Rules of Professional Conduct? Answer: A practitioner shall be responsible for another practitioner’s violation of the USPTO Rules of Professional Conduct if: The practitioner orders or, with knowledge of the specific conduct, ratifies the conduct involved; or The practitioner is a […]
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MPEP Q & A 152: Information an Attorney of Record May Have to Submit in Reply to an Office Action, Reissue Application, or Reexamination Proceeding
August 7, 2018 /in MPEP Q and A Podcast /by Editorial Staff
Question: An attorney of record may have to submit information in reply to an Office action, a reissue application, or a reexamination proceeding. List 2 different types of information this may include. Answer: An attorney of record may have to submit information in reply to an Office action, a reissue application, or a reexamination proceeding; […]
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MPEP Q & A 151: Situations Where a Practitioner May Withdraw From Representing a Client According to 37 C.F.R. 11.116
July 24, 2018 /in MPEP Q and A Podcast /by Editorial Staff
Question: List two situations where a practitioner may withdraw from representing a client according to 37 C.F.R. 11.116. Answer: A practitioner may withdraw from representing a client if: Withdrawal can be accomplished without material adverse effect on the interests of the client; The client persists in a course of action involving the practitioner’s services that […]
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MPEP Q & A 150: Triggering of On-Sale Bar of Pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 102(b)
Question: When is the on-sale bar of pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 102(b) triggered? Answer: The on-sale bar of pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 102(b) is triggered if the invention is both: The subject of a commercial offer for sale not primarily for experimental purposes and Ready for patenting. Chapter Details: The answer to this question can be found […]
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MPEP Q & A 149: Four Categories of Invention Recited in 35 U.S.C. 101
Question: What are the 4 categories of invention recited in 35 U.S.C. 101? Answer: The four categories of invention recited in 35 U.S.C. 101 are: process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter. Chapter Details: The answer to this question can be found in chapter 700 of the MPEP. This chapter covers Examination of applications. The […]
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MPEP Q & A 148: The Duty of Disclosure in Reexamination Proceedings
Question: Who does the duty of disclosure in reexamination proceedings apply to? Answer: The duty of disclosure in reexamination proceedings applies to the patent owner; to each attorney or agent who represents the patent owner, and to every other individual who is substantively involved on behalf of the patent owner. Chapter Details: The answer to […]
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MPEP Q & A 147: Post-Grant Reviews and Civil Actions
Question: Can a post-grant review be instituted if, before the date on which the petition for such a review is filed, the petitioner or real party-in-interest filed a civil action challenging the validity of a claim of the patent? Answer: No, a post-grant review may not be instituted if, before the date on which the […]
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MPEP Q & A 146: When Can a Combination as Claimed Show that Inventions are Distinct?
Question: When can a combination as claimed show that inventions are distinct? Answer: Inventions are distinct if it can be shown that a combination as claimed: (A) does not require the particulars of the subcombination as claimed for patentability (to show novelty and unobviousness), and (B) the subcombination can be shown to have utility either […]
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MPEP Q & A 145: Methods For Paying a Maintenance Fee
June 5, 2018 /in MPEP Q and A Podcast /by Editorial Staff
Question: How can a maintenance fee be paid? Answer: A maintenance fee may be paid: with cash with Treasury notes with national bank notes with post office money orders with certified checks over the internet by electronic funds transfer (EFT), credit card, or deposit account payment methods Chapter Details: The answer to this question can […]
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MPEP Q & A 144: What Should a Subject Matter Eligibility Rejection Under Step 2 Do?
Question: What should a subject matter eligibility rejection under Step 2 do? Answer: A subject matter eligibility rejection under Step 2 should: Identify the judicial exception by referring to what is recited (i.e., set forth or described) in the claim and explain why it is considered an exception; Identify any additional elements (specifically point to […]
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MPEP Q & A 143: Who Decides Petitions for Derivation and Conducts Any Ensuing Derivation Proceeding?
Question: Who decides petitions for derivation and conducts any ensuing derivation proceeding? Answer: The Patent Trial and Appeal Board will decide petitions for derivation and conduct any ensuing derivation proceeding. Chapter Details: The answer to this question can be found in the following supplement: Derivation Proceeding Final Rules. This is a special supplement that at the […]
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MPEP Q & A 142: Examples of Evidence Under 37 C.F.R. 1.131(a)
Question: List 2 examples of evidence under 37 C.F.R. 1.131(a). Answer: The allegations of fact might be supported by submitting as evidence one or more of the following: (A) attached sketches; (B) attached blueprints; (C) attached photographs; (D) attached reproductions of notebook entries; (E) an accompanying model; (F) attached supporting statements by witnesses, where verbal […]
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MPEP Q & A 141: Issues That Must be Completed During the Examination Before an Interference May be Called
May 8, 2018 /in MPEP Q and A Podcast /by Editorial Staff
Question: What are the three major issues that must be completed during the examination before an interference may be called? Answer: The three major issues that must be completed during the examination are: All pending claims must be allowed, finally rejected, or canceled All petitions must be decided All appeals from a final rejection must […]
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MPEP Q & A 140: Status Identifiers Expected to Follow the Claim Number in an Amendment to the Claims
Question: List two status identifiers that are expected to follow the claim number in an amendment to the claims. Answer: Status is indicated in a parenthetical expression following the claim number by one of the following status identifiers: (original), (currently amended), (previously presented), (canceled), (withdrawn), (new), or (not entered). The status identifier (withdrawn – currently […]
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MPEP Q & A 139: Fees the Office Might Refund
Question: What fees might the Office refund? Answer: The Office may refund: A fee paid by mistake (e.g., fee paid when no fee is required); or Any fee paid in excess of the amount of fee that is required. Chapter Details: The answer to this question can be found in chapter 600 of the MPEP. […]
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MPEP Q & A 138: When May a Process and Apparatus for its Practice be Shown to be Distinct Inventions?
Question: When may a process and apparatus for its practice be shown to be distinct inventions? Answer: Process and apparatus for its practice can be shown to be distinct inventions, if either or both of the following can be shown: (A) that the process as claimed can be practiced by another materially different apparatus or […]
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MPEP Q & A 137: Who May a Party Dissatisfied with a Final Decision in a Derivation Proceeding Appeal To?
Question: Who may a party dissatisfied with a final decision in a derivation proceeding appeal to? Answer: A party dissatisfied with a final decision in a derivation proceeding may appeal to district court or the Federal Circuit. Chapter Details: The answer to this question can be found in the following supplement: Derivation Proceeding Final Rules. […]
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MPEP Q & A 136: What a Reasons Document Should Include
Question: The reasons document explains why each item of information does or does not raise a substantial new question of patentability (or SNQ) in a supplemental examination. What should a reasons document include? Answer: The reasons document explains why each item of information does or does not raise a SNQ. The reasons document should include: […]
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MPEP Q & A 135: When May the Prior Art Date of a Reference Under Pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 102(e) be the International Filing Date?
Question: When may the prior art date of a reference under pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 102(e) be the international filing date? Answer: The prior art date of a reference under pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 102(e) may be the international filing date if the international filing date was on or after November 29, 2000, the international application designated […]
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MPEP Q & A 134: Who is Barred From Filing a Request for Ex Parte Reexamination of a Patent?
Question: Who is barred from filing a request for ex parte reexamination of a patent? Answer: “Any person” may file a request for ex parte reexamination of a patent, unless prohibited by AIA 35 U.S.C. 315(e)(1) or 35 U.S.C. 325(e)(1). Accordingly, there are no types of “persons” who are excluded from being able to seek reexamination. Corporations […]
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MPEP Q & A 133: Correspondence That May be Transmitted by Facsimile.
Question: Name two types of correspondence that may be transmitted by facsimile. Answer: Types of correspondence which may be transmitted by facsimile include: CPAs (available for design applications only), amendments, declarations, petitions, information disclosure statements (IDS), terminal disclaimers, notices of appeal and appeal briefs, requests for continued examination (RCEs), assignment documents, issue fee transmittals and […]
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MPEP Q & A 132: What are the Three Separate and Distinct Requirements of the First Paragraph of 35 U.S.C. 112?
Question: What are the three separate and distinct requirements of the first paragraph of 35 U.S.C. 112? Answer: 35 U.S.C. 112(a) and pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 112, first paragraph require that the specification include the following three separate and distinct requirements: A written description of the invention; The manner and process of making and using the […]
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MPEP Q & A 131: What Does an Applicant Who Uses the Patent Cooperation Treaty Gain the Benefit of?
Question: What does an applicant who uses the Patent Cooperation Treaty gain the benefit of? Answer: An applicant who uses the Patent Cooperation Treaty gains the benefit of: (A) a delay in the time when papers must be submitted to the national offices; (B) an international search (to judge the level of the relevant prior […]
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MPEP Q & A 130: What is a Covered Business Method Patent According to the AIA?
Question: What is a covered business method patent according to the AIA? Answer: The AIA specifies that a covered business method patent is a patent that claims a method or corresponding apparatus for performing data processing or other operations used in the practice, administration, or management of a financial product or service, except that the […]
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MPEP Q & A 129: How Applicants Can Rebut a Prima Facie Case of Obviousness Based on Overlapping Ranges?
Question: How can applicants rebut a prima facie case of obviousness based on overlapping ranges? Answer: Applicants can rebut a prima facie case of obviousness based on overlapping ranges by showing the criticality of the claimed range. In addition, an applicant can rebut a presumption of obviousness based on a claimed invention that falls within […]
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MPEP Q & A 128: Individuals Who May Sign the Power of Attorney for Applications Filed On or After September 16, 2012
Question: Who must sign the power of attorney for applications filed on or after September 16, 2012? Answer: For applications filed on or after September 16, 2012, a power of attorney must be signed by the applicant for patent or the patent owner (for reissue applications, reexamination proceedings and supplemental examination proceedings). An assignee who […]
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MPEP Q & A 127: What Must a Statement Under 37 CFR 1.97(e) State?
Question: What must a statement under 37 CFR 1.97(e) state? Answer: A statement under 37 CFR 1.97(e) must state either: That each item of information contained in the information disclosure statement was first cited in any communication from a foreign patent office in a counterpart foreign application not more than three months prior to the […]
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MPEP Q & A 126: Time When a Third Party Submission Must be Made
Question: When must a third party submission be made? Answer: A third-party submission must be filed prior to the earlier of: The date a notice of allowance is given or mailed in the application; or The later of: (i) Six months after the date on which the application is first published by the Office, or […]
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MPEP Q & A 125: Reasons Why a Petition Filed Under 35 U.S.C. 321 May be Considered
Question: 35 U.S.C. 322 covers petitions involved in post-grant reviews. 35 U.S.C. 322(a) provides that a petition filed under 35 U.S.C. 321 may be considered. List two reasons why a petition filed under 35 U.S.C. 321 may be considered. Answer: 35 U.S.C. 322(a) provides that a petition filed under 35 U.S.C. 321 may be considered […]
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MPEP Q & A 124: Situations Where the Examiner is Not Responsible for Examining the Sufficiency of the Showing
Question: In what two situations is the examiner not responsible for examining the sufficiency of the showing? Answer: The examiner is not responsible for examining the sufficiency of the showing except when: The application claim is subject to a rejection under 35 U.S.C. 102(a) or (e) and the applicant files an interference suggestion instead of […]
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MPEP Q & A 123: What Situation May a Certificate of Correction be Used In Order to Correct an Issued Patent as Long as the Filing Was Made Without Deceptive Intent?
Question: A Certificate of correction may be used in order to correct an issued patent as long as the filing was made without deceptive intent in what situations? Answer: A Certificate of correction may be used in order to correct an issued patent as long as the filing was made without deceptive intent in the […]
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MPEP Q & A 122: Advantages of Filing a CPA Compared to a Continuation or Divisional Application
Question: List an advantage of filing a CPA compared to a continuation or divisional application. Answer: The following list includes advantages of filing a CPA compared to a continuation or divisional application: The papers required to be filed in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in order to secure a filing date under 37 CFR 1.53(d) […]
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MPEP Q & A 121: Times When a Request for Continuing Examination May be Proper
Question: List 2 times when a request for continuing examination may be proper. Answer: A request for continued examination may be proper when: An Office action is a final rejection. A Notice of Allowance has issued. An Office action under Ex Parte Quayle (this is a legal proceeding, the details of which are not discussed […]
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MPEP Q & A 120: What May an Applicant do in Response to a Rejection Based on Failure to Claim Patent-Eligible Subject Matter?
Question: What may an applicant do in response to a rejection based on failure to claim patent-eligible subject matter? Answer: In response to a rejection based on failure to claim patent-eligible subject matter, applicant may: Amend the claim, e.g., to add additional elements or modify existing elements so that the claim as a whole amounts […]
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MPEP Q & A 119: When is a Reference Analogous Art to the Claimed Invention?
December 5, 2017 /in MPEP Q and A Podcast /by Editorial Staff
Question: When is a reference analogous art to the claimed invention? Answer: A reference is analogous art to the claimed invention if: The reference is from the same field of endeavor as the claimed invention (even if it addresses a different problem); or The reference is reasonably pertinent to the problem faced by the inventor […]
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MPEP Q & A 118: Item an Appellant Must File If He or She Wishes to Reinstate an Appeal After Prosecution is Reopened
Question: What must an appellant file if he or she wishes to reinstate an appeal after prosecution is reopened? Answer: If an appellant wishes to reinstate an appeal after prosecution is reopened, appellant must file a new notice of appeal and a complete new appeal brief. Chapter Details: The answer to this question can be […]
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MPEP Q & A 117: Items a ‘Corrective Document’ Must Include?
Question: An error in a recorded assignment document will be corrected by the Assignment Division provided a “corrective document” is submitted. What items must the “corrective document” include? Answer: The “corrective document” must include the following items: A copy of the original assignment document with the corrections made therein. The corrections must be initialed and […]
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MPEP Q & A 116: Consequence That May Result Where Patent Owner Fails to Make Timely Appeal After the Issuance of a Right of Appeal Notice
Question: What is one consequence that may result where the patent owner fails to make a timely appeal after the issuance of a Right of Appeal Notice, or where a timely patent owner’s appeal is subsequently dismissed? Answer: Where the patent owner fails to make a timely appeal after the issuance of a Right of […]
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MPEP Q & A 115: What is the Order of Arrangement for the Specification?
November 7, 2017 /in MPEP Q and A Podcast /by Editorial Staff
Question: What is the order of arrangement for the specification? Answer: The following order of arrangement is preferable in framing the specification. (A) Title of the invention. (B) Cross-reference to related applications. (C) Statement regarding federally sponsored research or development. (D) The names of the parties to a joint research agreement (E) Reference to a […]
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MPEP Q & A 114: Individuals Who May Grant Written Authority to Status Information
Question: Name 2 individuals who may grant written authority to status information in a non-published, pending or abandoned application. Answer: A non-published, pending or abandoned application containing written authority granting access to the requester allows the requester access to status information if it is signed by any of the following individuals: The applicant; A patent […]
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MPEP Q & A 113: List 2 Requirements of the Summary of Abstract
Question: List 2 requirements of the summary of abstract. Answer: The summary of abstract should preferably be between 50 and 150 words. It should contain the following: (A) Indication of field of invention. (B) Clear indication of the technical problem. (C) Gist of invention’s solution of the problem. (D) Principal use or uses of the […]
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MPEP Q & A 112: What Does 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(2) Provide?
Question: What does 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(2) provide? Answer: AIA 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(2) provides that a person is not entitled to a patent if the claimed invention was described in a patent issued under 35 U.S.C. 151, or in an application for patent published or deemed published under 35 U.S.C. 122(b), in which the patent or […]
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MPEP Q & A 111: What Must Each Information Disclosure Statement Include a Legible Copy Of?
Question: In addition to the list of all patents, publications, U.S. applications, or other information submitted for consideration by the Office, what else must each information disclosure statement include a legible copy of? Answer: In addition to the list of information, each information disclosure statement must also include a legible copy of: (A) Each foreign […]
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MPEP Q & A 110: What a Petition Filed On or After September 16, 2012 Must be Accompanied By to Correct Inventorship in a Patent
Question: What must a petition filed on or after September 16, 2012 be accompanied by to correct the inventorship in a patent? Answer: A petition filed on or after September 16, 2012 to correct the inventorship in a patent must be accompanied by all of the following: (1) A statement from each person who is […]
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MPEP Q & A 109: How Inter Partes Reexamination Differs From Ex Parte Reexamination
Question: List one way inter partes reexamination differs from ex parte reexamination. Answer: Inter partes reexamination differs from ex parte reexamination in matters of procedure, such as when the third party requester can participate, the types of Office actions and the timing of issuance of the Office actions, and the requirement for identification of the […]
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MPEP Q & A 108: Computer Functions Recognized to be Well‐Understood, Routine, and Conventional Functions When They are Claimed in a Merely Generic Manner
Question: List two computer functions recognized to be well‐understood, routine, and conventional functions when they are claimed in a merely generic manner. Answer: The courts have recognized the following computer functions to be well‐understood, routine, and conventional functions when they are claimed in a merely generic manner: Performing repetitive calculations, Receiving, processing, and storing data, […]
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MPEP Q & A 107: Times When Explicit Petitions for Foreign Filing Licenses May Be Considered by Applicants
Question: Name two times when an applicant may want to consider an explicit petition for foreign filing licenses. Answer: Explicit petitions for foreign filing licenses may be considered by applicants when: the filing receipt license is not granted; the filing receipt has not yet been issued; there is no corresponding U.S. application; subject matter additional […]
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MPEP Q & A 106: Indicia That a Continuing Reissue Application is Being Filed
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Question: Name two indicia that a continuing reissue application is being filed. Answer: Indicia that a continuing reissue application is being filed are: A reissue oath/declaration, which is not merely a copy of the parent’s reissue oath/declaration. A specification and/or claims in proper double column reissue format. Amendments in proper format. A statement of assignee […]
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MPEP Q & A 105: Petition Fee Requirements For Participation in the PPH
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Question: For participation in the Global/IP5 PPH pilot program at the USPTO, does the applicant need to submit a petition fee under 37 C.F.R. 1.17(h). Answer: No, for participation in the Global/IP5 PPH pilot program at the USPTO, the applicant must submit: A request for participation in the Global/IP5 PPH pilot program and a request […]
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MPEP Q & A 104: What Submission of Article 19 Amendments Should Comprise
Question: Name one item the submission of Article 19 amendments should comprise. Answer: The submission of Article 19 amendments should comprise: (i) a complete set of claims in replacement of the claims originally filed (ii) a letter which must indicate the differences between the claims as filed and those as amended plus the basis for […]
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MPEP Q & A 103: What Grounds for Seeking Inter Partes Review are Limited to Compared with Post-Grant Review
Question: What are the grounds for seeking inter partes review limited to compared with post-grant review? Answer: The grounds for seeking inter partes review are limited to issues raised under 35 U.S.C. 102 or 103 and only on the basis of prior art consisting of patents or printed publications. In contrast, the grounds for seeking post-grant review […]
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MPEP Q & A 102: Earlier Concluded Examination or Review of Patent
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Question: What is an earlier concluded examination or review of the patent? Answer: An earlier concluded examination or review of the patent is: (A) the original examination of the application which matured into the patent; (B) the examination of the patent in a reissue application that has resulted in a reissue of the patent; (C) […]
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MPEP Q & A 101: Petition for a Derivation Proceeding
Question: What must a petition for a derivation proceeding provide? Answer: In a petition for a derivation proceeding, the petitioner must: (i) identify which application or patent is disputed; and (ii) provide at least one affidavit addressing communication of the derived invention and the lack of authorization for filing the earlier application. Chapter Details: The […]
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MPEP Q & A 100: Activities Used as an Indication of Commercial Exploitation
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Question: List two activities that can be used as an indication of commercial exploitation? Answer: The following activities should be used by the examiner as indicia of this subjective commercial intent: Preparation of various contemporaneous “commercial” documents, e.g., orders, invoices, receipts, delivery schedules, etc.; Preparation of price lists and distribution of price quotations; Display of […]
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MPEP Q & A 99: Types of Information Considered Status Information
Question: List two types of information that are considered status information. Answer: Status information of an application means only the following information: whether the application is pending, abandoned, or patented; whether the application has been published; the application number or the serial number plus any one of the filing date of the national application, the […]
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MPEP Q & A 98: Fees Reduced by 75% for Micro Entities
Question: List at least 2 fees that are reduced by 75% for micro entities. Answer: The fees which are reduced by 75% for micro entities include filing fees (nonprovisional and provisional), search fees, examination fees, issue fees, and appeal fees for utility, design, plant, and reissue patent applications. Also included are patent maintenance fees including […]
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MPEP Q & A 97: Nonstatutory Double Patenting Rejection Made Under Obviousness Analysis
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Question: What must any nonstatutory double patenting rejection made under the obviousness analysis make clear? Answer: Any nonstatutory double patenting rejection made under the obviousness analysis should make clear: (A) The differences between the inventions defined by the conflicting claims — a claim in the patent compared to a claim in the application; and (B) The […]
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MPEP Q & A 96: When a Nonpublication Request is Not Appropriate
Question: When is a nonpublication request not appropriate? Answer: A nonpublication request is not appropriate if applicants have already filed a counterpart foreign or international application in another country, or under a multilateral international agreement, that requires publication of applications at eighteen months after filing. Chapter Details: The answer to this question can be found in […]
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MPEP Q & A 95: What an Examiner May Do After Considering the Issues on Appeal
Question: What may an examiner do after he or she has considered the issues on appeal? Answer: After an appeal brief has been filed and the examiner has considered the issues on appeal, the examiner may: reopen prosecution to enter a new ground of rejection with approval from the supervisory patent examiner ; allow the […]
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MPEP Q & A 94: When a Concurrent Conflict of Interest Exists
Question: Except as provided in 37 C.F.R. 11.107 (b), a practitioner shall not represent a client if the representation involves a concurrent conflict of interest. When does a concurrent conflict of interest exist? Answer: A concurrent conflict of interest exists if: The representation of one client will be directly adverse to another client; or There […]
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MPEP Q & A 93: What is Essential Material
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Question: What is essential material? Answer: “Essential material” is defined as that which is necessary to: provide a written description of the claimed invention, and of the manner and process of making and using it, in such full, clear, concise, and exact terms as to enable any person skilled in the art to which it […]
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MPEP Q & A 92: Statutory Requirements to be Met Before Certificate of Correction for an Applicant’s Mistake to Issue
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Question: What are the two statutory requirements that must be met before a Certificate of Correction for an applicant’s mistake to issue? Answer: Two separate statutory requirements must be met before a Certificate of Correction for an applicant’s mistake may issue. The first statutory requirement concerns the nature, i.e., type, of the mistake for which […]
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MPEP Q & A 91: Non-Limiting Examples of Types of Characteristics Considered by the Courts to Determine Marked Difference
Question: List three non-limiting examples of the types of characteristics considered by the courts when determining whether there is a marked difference. Answer: Non-limiting examples of the types of characteristics considered by the courts when determining whether there is a marked difference include: Biological or pharmacological functions or activities; Chemical and physical properties; Phenotype, including […]
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MPEP Q & A 90: Conditions an Examiner Should Check for Before Requiring Applicant to Add Claim to Provoke Interference
Question: What 5 conditions should an examiner check for before requiring an applicant to add a claim to provoke an interference? Answer: The 5 conditions an examiner should check for before requiring an applicant to add a claim to provoke an interference include: that the application is otherwise completed that the required claim does not […]
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MPEP Q & A 89: Concepts the Courts Have Found to be Laws of Nature and Natural Phenomena
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Question: List 3 examples of concepts courts have found to be laws of nature and natural phenomena. Answer: The types of concepts courts have found to be laws of nature and natural phenomena are shown by these cases, which are intended to be illustrative and not limiting: An isolated DNA; a correlation that is the […]
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MPEP Q & A 88: What the Patent Prosecution Highway Attempts to Accomplish
Question: What does the Patent Prosecution Highway or PPH attempt to accomplish? Answer: The Patent Prosecution Highway, or PPH enables an applicant who receives a positive ruling on patent claims from one participating office to request accelerated prosecution of corresponding claims in another participating office, which allows the applicant to obtain a patentability decision in the […]
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MPEP Q & A 87: Reasons Practitioner Should Act as an Advocate Before a Tribunal
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Question: List one reason a practitioner should act as an advocate at a proceeding before a tribunal in which the practitioner is likely to be a necessary witness. Answer: A practitioner shall not act as advocate at a proceeding before a tribunal in which the practitioner is likely to be a necessary witness unless: The […]
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MPEP Q & A 86: Assignment of Patent to Change Address for Maintenance Fee Purposes
Question: If a patent is assigned, will that change the “correspondence address” or “fee address” used for maintenance fee purposes? Answer: An assignment of a patent application or patent does not result in a change of the “correspondence address” or “fee address” for maintenance fee purposes. Chapter Details: The answer to this question can be […]
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MPEP Q & A 85: Board on Deferring Action on a Petition for a Derivation Proceeding
Question: Can the Board defer action on a petition for a derivation proceeding? Answer: The Patent Trial and Appeal Board may defer action on a petition for a derivation proceeding until the expiration of the 3-month period beginning on the date on which the Director issues a patent that includes the claimed invention that is […]
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MPEP Q & A 84: Division of Fees Between Practitioners Not in the Same Firm
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Question: Can a division of a fee between practitioners who are not in the same firm may be made? Answer: A division of a fee between practitioners who are not in the same firm may be made only if: The division is in proportion to the services performed by each practitioner or each practitioner assumes […]
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MPEP Q & A 83: Filing a Petition to Institute a Post-Grant Review
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Question: Who may file a petition to institute a post-grant review? Answer: A person who is not the patent owner may file a petition to institute a post-grant review, unless the petitioner or real party-in-interest had already filed a civil action challenging the validity of a claim of the patent. A petition may not be […]
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MPEP Q & A 82: Components International Design Applications Designating the U.S. Must Include
Question: What 3 components (in addition to the mandatory requirements) must an international design application designating the U.S. include? Answer: In addition to the mandatory requirements otherwise required for international design applications, an international design application designating the United States must also include: a claim; indications concerning the identity of the creator (i.e., the inventor); […]
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MPEP Q & A 81: Items Applicant’s Must Establish Under 35 USC 156
Question: List one item the applicant must establish under 35 U.S.C. 156(a)(1)-(5). Answer: 35 U.S.C. 156(a)(1)-(5) require that the applicant establish that: (1) the patent has not expired before an application under 35 U.S.C. 156(d) was filed (this may be an application for patent term extension under subsection (d)(1) or an application for interim extension […]
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MPEP Q & A 80: Assignments Potentially Utilized as the Oath or Declaration
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Question: Is it possible for an assignment in applications filed on or after September 16, 2012 to be utilized as the oath or declaration? Answer: Yes, for applications filed on or after September 16, 2012, an assignment may contain the statements required to be made in an oath or declaration (“assignment-statement”), and if the assignment is made […]
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MPEP Q & A 79: Factors When Determining Sufficient Evidence Concerning Enablement Requirement
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Question: List two factors to be considered when determining whether there is sufficient evidence to support a determination that a disclosure does not satisfy the enablement requirement and whether any necessary experimentation is ‘undue’. Answer: The factors to be considered when determining whether there is sufficient evidence to support a determination that a disclosure does […]
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MPEP Q & A 78: AIA and Applications Filed Before March 16, 2013
Question: Do the changes to 35 U.S.C. 102 and 103 in the AIA apply to applications filed before March 16, 2013? Answer: No, the changes to 35 U.S.C. 102 and 103 in the AIA do not apply to any application filed before March 16, 2013. Chapter Details: The answer to this question can be found […]
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MPEP Q & A 77: Conclusion of an Inter Partes Reexamination Proceeding
Question: List one of the ways an inter partes reexamination proceeding may be concluded. Answer: Inter partes reexamination proceedings may be concluded in one of three ways: The prosecution of the reexamination proceeding may be brought to an end, and the proceeding itself concluded, by a denial of reexamination, or vacating the reexamination proceeding, or […]
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MPEP Q & A 76: Filing a Petition for a Covered Business Method Patent Review
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Question: Who may file a petition for a covered business method patent review? Answer: A petitioner may not file a petition to institute a covered business method patent review of the patent unless the petitioner, the petitioner’s real party-in-interest, or a privy of the petitioner has been sued for infringement of the patent or has […]
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MPEP Q & A 75: Duty of Disclosure in Reexamination Proceedings
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MPEP Q & A 74: Sources of Information Material to Patentability
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Question: Where may information material to patentability come from? Answer: Sources of information may include: co-workers trade shows communications from or with competitors potential infringers third parties Chapter Details: The answer to this question can be found in chapter 2000 of the MPEP. This chapter covers Duty of Disclosure. The answer is from the 9th […]
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MPEP Q & A 73: Contents of an International Application
Question: What must an international application contain? Answer: Any international application must contain the following elements: request, description, claim or claims, abstract and one or more drawings (where drawings are necessary for the understanding of the invention). Chapter Details: The answer to this question can be found in chapter 1800 of the MPEP. This chapter […]
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MPEP Q & A 72: Filing of a Certificate of Correction
Question: When should a Certificate of Correction be filed instead of a reissue? Answer: While reissue is a vehicle for correcting inventorship in a patent, correction of inventorship should be effected by filing a request for a Certificate of Correction if: (A) the only change being made in the patent is to correct the inventorship; […]
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MPEP Q & A 71: Bibliographic Data
Question: What does bibliographic data include? Answer: Bibliographic data includes: inventor information; correspondence information; application information; representative information; domestic benefit information; foreign priority information; and applicant information. Chapter Details: The answer to this question can be found in chapter 600 of the MPEP. This chapter covers Parts, Form and Content of Application. The answer is […]
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MPEP Q & A 70: Three Separate and Distinct Requirements of the Specification
Question: What are the three separate and distinct requirements required of the specification by 35 U.S.C. 112(a) and pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 112, first paragraph? Answer: 35 U.S.C. 112(a) and pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 112, first paragraph require that the specification include the following three separate and distinct requirements: A written description of the invention; The manner […]
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MPEP Q & A 69: Submission of a Protest
Question: When may a protest be submitted? Answer: A protest must be submitted prior to the mailing of a Notice of Allowance and the application must be pending when the examiner receives the information. Chapter Details: The answer to this question can be found in chapter 1900 of the MPEP. This chapter covers Protests. The […]
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MPEP Q & A 68: Ways in Which Possession May be Shown
Question: List one way possession may be shown. Answer: Possession may be shown in many ways. For example, possession may be shown by describing an actual reduction to practice of the claimed invention. Possession may also be shown by a clear depiction of the invention in detailed drawings or in structural chemical formulas which permit […]
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MPEP Q & A 67: First Step of the Recapture Rule
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Question: What is the first step of the three-step process for the recapture rule? Answer: The first step of the three-step process for the recapture rule is: (1) first, we determine whether, and in what respect, the reissue claims are broader in scope than the original patent claims; Chapter Details: The answer to this question […]
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MPEP Q & A 66: Relevance of Long-Felt Need and the Failure of Others
Question: What three things does the relevance of long-felt need and the failure of others to the issue of obviousness depend on? Answer: The relevance of long-felt need and the failure of others to the issue of obviousness depends on several factors: First, the need must have been a persistent one that was recognized by those […]
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MPEP Q & A 65: Underlying Factual Inquiries of Obviousness
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Question: List one of the underlying factual inquiries of obviousness. Answer: The factual inquiries enunciated by the Court are as follows: Determining the scope and content of the prior art; and Ascertaining the differences between the claimed invention and the prior art; and Resolving the level of ordinary skill in the pertinent art. Chapter Details: […]
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MPEP Q & A 64: Strongest Rationale for Combining References
Question: What is the strongest rationale for combining references? Answer: The strongest rationale for combining references is a recognition, expressly or impliedly in the prior art or drawn from a convincing line of reasoning based on established scientific principles or legal precedent, that some advantage or expected beneficial result would have been produced by their […]
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MPEP Q & A 63: Grounds of Refusal for a Notification of Refusal
Question: What may the grounds of refusal for a notification of refusal be based on? Answer: The grounds of refusal may be in the form of a rejection based on a condition for patentability under title 35, United States Code (which may include 35 U.S.C. 171, 102, 103, or 112), a requirement for restriction (where […]
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MPEP Q & A 62: Circumstances Where Applicants May Make Amendments
Question: Name one circumstance where an applicant may make amendments. Answer: The applicant may amend: before or after the first Office action and also after the second Office actions; after final rejection, if certain criteria are met; after the date of filing a notice of appeal, if the amendment meets certain criteria; and when and […]
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MPEP Q & A 61: Passing Jurisdiction onto the Board
Question: When does jurisdiction over the proceeding pass to the Board? Answer: Jurisdiction over the proceeding passes to the Board on filing of a reply brief or the expiration of time to file a reply brief. Chapter Details: The answer to this question can be found in chapter 1200 of the MPEP. This chapter covers […]
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MPEP Q & A 60: Contents of a Request for Republication
Question: What must a request for republication include? Answer: A request for republication must include: a copy of the application in compliance with the Office Electronic Filing System (EFS) requirements, the publication fee; and the processing fee. Chapter Details: The answer to this question can be found in chapter 1100 of the MPEP. This chapter […]
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MPEP Q & A 59: Concluding an Ex Parte Reexamination Proceeding
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Question: What is one way an ex parte reexamination proceeding may be concluded? Answer: Ex parte reexamination proceedings may be concluded in one of four ways: The prosecution of the proceeding may be brought to an end, and the proceeding itself concluded, by a denial of reexamination, or vacating the reexamination proceeding, or terminating the […]
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MPEP Q & A 58: Electronic Publications as Printed Publications
Question: Is an electronic publication considered to be a “printed publication” within the meaning of 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) and pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 102(a) and (b) provided the publication was accessible to persons concerned with the art to which the document relates? Answer: Yes, an electronic publication is considered to be a printed publication within the […]
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MPEP Q & A 57: Government Organizations that Cannot Qualify as Nonprofit Organizations
Question: List two types of government organizations that cannot qualify as a nonprofit organization. Answer: Government organizations, whether domestic or foreign, cannot qualify as nonprofit organizations. These include: A government research facility or other government-owned corporation could not qualify. Although the Federal government agencies do not qualify as nonprofit organizations for paying reduced fees under […]
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MPEP Q & A 56: Four Conditions That Establish a Statutory Bar Under Pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 102(d)
November 29, 2016 /0 Comments/in MPEP Q and A Podcast /by Editorial Staff
Question: Name the four conditions which, if all are present, establish a statutory bar under pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 102(d). Answer: Pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 102(d) establishes four conditions which, if all are present, establish a statutory bar against the granting of a patent in this country: (A) The foreign application must be filed more than 12 […]
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MPEP Q & A 55: Obtaining Permission to File a Patent Application Abroad
Question: What are the two ways in which permission to file a patent application abroad may be obtained? Answer: The two ways in which permission to file a patent application abroad may be obtained include: either a petition for a foreign filing license may be granted, or an applicant may wait 6 months after filing […]
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MPEP Q & A 54: Who Interferences May be Provoked By
Question: Who may provoke an interference? Answer: Interferences may be provoked by: an examiner an applicant Chapter Details: The answer to this question can be found in chapter 2300 of the MPEP. This chapter covers Interference Proceedings. The answer is from the 9th Edition, Revision 07.2015. Depending on future changes to the MPEP, the question […]
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MPEP Q & A 53: Details on AIA 35 U.S.C. 102(a)
Question: What does AIA 35 U.S.C. 102(a) state? Answer: Specifically, AIA 35 U.S.C. 102(a) states that: [a] person shall be entitled to a patent unless— (1) the claimed invention was patented, described in a printed publication, or in public use, on sale, or otherwise available to the public before the effective filing date of the […]
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MPEP Q & A 52: Due Dates for Paying the Maintenance Fee Without a Surcharge
Question: What are the due dates for paying the maintenance fee without a surcharge? Answer: Due dates for paying without a surcharge are as follows: 3 to 3.5 years after date of issue for first maintenance fee payment 7 to 7.5 years after the date of issue for the second maintenance fee payment 11 to […]
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MPEP Q & A 51: Correspondence Address in Applications Filed Before September 16, 2012
Question: Where must the correspondence address appear in applications filed before September 16, 2012? Answer: The correspondence address in applications filed before September 16, 2012 must appear either in an application data sheet or in a clearly identifiable manner elsewhere in any papers submitted with an application filing. Chapter Details: The answer to this question can […]
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MPEP Q & A 50: What Right of Appeal Notice Sets Forth
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Question: What will a Right of Appeal Notice (RAN) set forth? Answer: The RAN will identify the status of each claim. It will set forth: the grounds of rejection for all claims rejected in the RAN; the reasons why a proposed rejection is not made for all decisions favorable to patentability as to claims that […]
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MPEP Q & A 49: Correspondence to a Different Address for a Supplemental Examination Proceeding
Question: How can a patent owner get the Office to send correspondence to a different address for the supplemental examination proceeding? Answer: If the patent owner desires the Office to send correspondence to a different address, then a new power of attorney must be filed in the patent for which supplemental examination is requested and […]
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MPEP Q & A 48: Type of Issues Triggering Rejections
Question: Name one type of issue that may trigger a rejection. Answer: Rejections are usually made due to issues with one of the following: unpatentable subject matter or lack of utility (35 U.S.C. 101) issues with novelty (35 U.S.C. 102) issues with obviousness (35 U.S.C. 103) lack of subject matter issues with the written description, […]
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MPEP Q & A 47: Correction of a Typographical Error on a Recorded Cover Sheet
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Question: What must a party wishing to correct a typographical error on a recorded cover sheet submit? Answer: A party who wishes to correct a typographical error on a recorded cover sheet must submit the following: a copy of the originally recorded assignment document (or other document affecting title); a corrected cover sheet; and the […]
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MPEP Q & A 46: Item of Information that Raises a Substantial New Question of Patentability
Question: When does an item of information raise a substantial new question of patentability or SNQ? Answer: An item of information raises an SNQ where there is a substantial likelihood that a reasonable examiner would consider the item of information important in deciding whether or not the claim is patentable unless the same question was […]
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MPEP Q & A 45: Timing of Demand for International Preliminary Examination
Question: When must the Demand for international preliminary examination be made? Answer: The Demand must be made prior to the expiration of whichever of the following periods expires later: (A) three months from the date of transmittal to the applicant of the international search report or of the declaration referred to in PCT Article 17(2)(a), […]
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MPEP Q & A 44: Proper Evidentiary Basis for a Rejection Under 35 U.S.C. 171
Question: List two examples of proper evidentiary basis for a rejection under 35 U.S.C. 171 that a claim is lacking in ornamentality. Answer: Examples of proper evidentiary basis for a rejection under 35 U.S.C. 171 that a claim is lacking in ornamentality would be: common knowledge in the art; the appearance of the design itself; […]
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MPEP Q & A 43: Ways a Patent May be Corrected or Amended
Question: Name two ways a patent may be corrected or amended. Answer: A patent may be corrected or amended in seven ways, namely by: reissue, the issuance of a certificate of correction which becomes a part of the patent, disclaimer, reexamination, inter partes review, post grant review, and covered business method review. Chapter Details: The […]
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MPEP Q & A 42: Reproduction of Asexually Propagated Plants
Question: Name one mechanism in which asexually propagated plants are reproduced. Answer: Asexually propagated plants are those that are reproduced by means other than from seeds, such as by the rooting of cuttings, by layering, budding, grafting or inarching. Chapter Details: The answer to this question can be found in chapter 1600 of the MPEP. […]
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MPEP Q & A 41: Withdrawing an Application From Issue After Payment of the Issue Fee
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Question: Why might the USPTO withdraw an application from issue after payment of the issue fee? Answer: The USPTO might withdraw an application from issue after payment of the issue fee due to: (1) a mistake on the part of the Office: (2) a violation of 37 CFR 1.56 or illegality in the application; (3) […]
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MPEP Q & A 40: Situations Where There May be a Remand For Examiner Action Not For Further Consideration of a Rejection
Question: Name two examples of situations where there may be a remand by the Board for examiner action that is not for further consideration of a rejection. Answer: The following are two examples of situations where there may be a remand by the Board for examiner action that is not for further consideration of a […]
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MPEP Q & A 39: Types of Applications That Will Not be Published
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Question: List 2 types of applications that will not be published. Answer: The Office will not publish the following applications: Provisional applications; Design applications; International design applications; and Reissue applications (because reissue applications are not kept confidential). Chapter Details: The answer to this question can be found in chapter 1100 of the MPEP. This chapter […]
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MPEP Q & A 38: Common Types of Linking Claims
Question: What are the most common types of linking claims? Answer: The most common types of linking claims which, if allowable, act to prevent restriction between inventions that can otherwise be shown to be divisible, are (A) genus claims linking species claims; and (B) subcombination claims linking plural combinations. Chapter Details: The answer to this […]
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MPEP Q & A 37: Non-Structural Generic Placeholders Invoking 35 USC 112(f)
Question: List 2 non-structural generic placeholders that may invoke 35 U.S.C. 112(f) or pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 112, paragraph 6. Answer: The following is a list of non-structural generic placeholders that may invoke 35 U.S.C. 112(f) or pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 112, paragraph 6: “mechanism for,” “module for,” “device for,” “unit for,” “component for,” “element for,” “member […]
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MPEP Q & A 36: Documents a Person Acting in a Representative Capacity May Not Sign
Question: List two documents a person acting in a representative capacity may not sign. Answer: A person acting in a representative capacity may not sign: a power of attorney, a document granting access to an application, a change of correspondence address, a terminal disclaimer, or a request for an express abandonment without filing a continuing […]
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MPEP Q & A 35: Example of What an Oath or Declaration Must Do
Question: List one example of what an oath or declaration must do. Answer: An oath or declaration must: identify the inventor or joint inventor executing the oath or declaration by his or her legal name; identify the application to which it is directed; include a statement the person executing the oath or declaration believes the […]
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MPEP Q & A 34: Item an Applicant May Submit as Objective Evidence That Common Ownership Existed
Question: Name one item that an applicant may submit, in addition to a statement regarding common ownership as objective evidence that common ownership existed? Answer: The applicant may submit the following evidence: (A) Reference to assignments recorded in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office which convey the entire rights in the application and the commonly […]
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MPEP Q & A 33: What is a Divisional Application?
Question: What is a divisional application? Answer: A divisional application is a later application for an independent or distinct invention, carved out of a nonprovisional application (including a nonprovisional application resulting from an international application or international design application), an international application designating the United States, or an international design application designating the United States […]
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MPEP Q & A 32: Circumstance Where Joint Ownership Exists
Question: Name one circumstance where joint ownership exists. Answer: Joint ownership occurs when any of the following cases exist: Multiple partial assignees of the patent property; Multiple inventors who have not assigned their right, title and interest; or A combination of partial assignee(s), and inventor(s) who have not assigned their right, title and interest. Chapter […]
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MPEP Q & A 31: Applicant Action After Invention is Found Obvious
Question: Once Office personnel have established the Graham factual findings and concluded that the claimed invention would have been obvious, what must the applicant do? Answer: Once Office personnel have established the Graham factual findings and concluded that the claimed invention would have been obvious, the burden then shifts to the applicant to: show that […]
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MPEP Q & A 30: Elements of an International Design Application
Question: List the 3 categories the elements of an international design application fall into. Answer: The elements of an international design application fall into the following three categories: mandatory contents which include items required in all international design applications. additional mandatory contents which include elements that are required by certain Contracting Parties and therefore are mandatory in […]
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MPEP Q & A 29: Access to a Pending or Abandoned Application Filed On or After September 16, 2012
Question: Who has the authority to grant access to a pending or abandoned application filed on or after September 16, 2012 that is in confidence? Answer: For applications filed on or after September 16, 2012, the following individuals may provide a written authority for access to a pending or abandoned application kept in confidence: the applicant […]
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MPEP Q & A 28: Filing Fees Reduced by 50% for Small Entities
Question: List two types of filing fees that are reduced by 50% for small entities. Answer: The fees which are reduced by 50% for small entities include patent application filing fees including the basic filing fee, search fee, examination fee, application size fee, and excess claims fees, extension of time, revival, and appeal fees, patent […]
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MPEP Q & A 27: Difference Between AIA 35 USC 102(c) and the CREATE Act
Question: What are the major differences between AIA 35 U.S.C. 102(c) and the CREATE Act? Answer: The major differences between AIA 35 U.S.C. 102(c) and the CREATE Act are that: the AIA provision is keyed to the effective filing date of the claimed invention, while the CREATE Act focuses on the date that the claimed […]
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MPEP Q & A 26: Information Submitted When Paying Maintenance Fee
Question: List two pieces of information regarding the patent that should be submitted when paying the maintenance fee. Answer: The information regarding the patent that should be submitted with the maintenance fee includes: the fee year the amount of the maintenance fee and any surcharge being submitted any assigned customer number whether small entity status […]
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MPEP Q & A 25: Conditions for First Application to be Granted a Notice of Allowance
Question: Under what conditions will a first application usually be granted a Notice of Allowance and become a patent in spite of a second application with potentially interfering claims? Answer: A first application will usually be granted a Notice of Allowance and become a patent when all of the following conditions are met: a first […]
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MPEP Q & A 24: Petitions Under 37 CFR 1.137
Question: What must a petition under 37 CFR 1.137 be accompanied by? Answer: Specifically, 37 CFR 1.137(b) provides that a grantable petition pursuant to 37 CFR 1.137 must be accompanied by: The reply required to the outstanding Office action or notice; unless previously filed; the petition fee; and a statement that the entire delay in […]
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MPEP Q & A 23: Response to a Notice of Noncompliant Supplemental Examination Request
Question: How can a patent owner file a corrected request in response to a Notice of Noncompliant Supplemental Examination Request? Answer: The patent owner has one opportunity to file a corrected request in response to a Notice of Noncompliant Supplemental Examination Request. If the corrected request is compliant with filing date requirements, the Office will […]
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MPEP Q & A 22: Required Elements of a Request for Ex Parte Reexamination
Question: List one of the required elements of a request for ex parte reexamination. Answer: The required elements of a request for ex parte reexamination are as follows: “A statement pointing out each substantial new question of patentability based on prior patents and printed publications.” “An identification of every claim for which reexamination is requested, […]
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MPEP Q & A 21: Request for Reinstatement of All or Part of the Period of Adjustment
Question: What must a request for reinstatement of all or part of the period of adjustment reduced for failing to reply to a rejection, objection, argument, or other request within three months of the date of mailing of the Office communication notifying the applicant of the rejection, objection, argument, or other request include? Answer: A […]
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MPEP Q & A 20: Details of Substantial New Question of Patentability
Question: What should a substantial new question of patentability not be based upon? Answer: A substantial new question cannot be based upon: prior art expressly relied upon by the examiner during the prosecution prior art which was actually discussed Chapter Details: The answer to this question can be found in chapter 2200 of the MPEP. […]
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MPEP Q & A 19: Items a Protestor Must Give the PTO
Question: What must a protestor give the PTO? Answer: A protestor must give the PTO: a listing of the patents, publications or other information relied upon a copy of each item listed a translation of non-English papers a concise explanation of the relevance of the references proof of service to the applicant Chapter Details: The […]
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MPEP Q & A 18: Duty to Disclose
Question: Who has a duty to disclose? Answer: The following individuals have a duty to disclose: each inventor each registered practitioner each assignee every other person who is substantially involved in the preparation or prosecution of the application the duty does not extend to typists, clerks, and similar personnel the duty does not extend to […]
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MPEP Q & A 17: Plants That are Not Patentable
Question: Name two types of plants that are not patentable. Answer: All plants are patentable except: bacteria those that are tuber propagated plants that are not invented or discovered in a cultivated state and asexually reproduced plants that are not obvious Chapter Details: The answer to this question can be found in chapter 1600 of […]
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MPEP Q & A 16: Signature Required for Disclaimer in Patent or Reexamination Proceeding
Question: Who must a disclaimer be signed by in a patent or a reexamination proceeding? Answer: A disclaimer filed in a patent or a reexamination proceeding must be signed by either: the patentee (the assignee, the inventor(s) if the patent is not assigned, or the assignee and the inventors if the patent is assigned-in-part), or […]
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MPEP Q & A 15: Procedural Step for International Applications Going Through the International Searching Authority
Question: List one procedural step that all international applications go through in the International Searching Authority. Answer: The main procedural steps that any international application goes through in the International Searching Authority are: the making of the international search, the preparing of the international search report and for international applications having an international filing date […]
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MPEP Q & A 14: Request for Simultaneous Issue
Question: What must a request for simultaneous issue contain? Answer: The request must contain the following information about each allowed application for which simultaneous issue is requested; application number, filing date, name(s) of inventor(s), title of invention, and date of allowance. Chapter Details: The answer to this question can be found in chapter 1300 of […]
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MPEP Q & A 13: Term of Utility vs. Design Patent
Question: What is the term of a utility patent versus the term of a design patent? Answer: The term of a utility patent on an application filed on or after June 8, 1995 is 20 years measured from the U.S. filing date; or if the application contains a specific reference to an earlier application, 20 […]
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MPEP Q & A 12: Two Separate and Distinct Requirements for 35 U.S.C. 112(b)
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Question: What are the two separate and distinct requirements of 35 U.S.C. 112(b) or Pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 112, second paragraph? Answer: 35 U.S.C. 112(b) or Pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 112, second paragraph contains two separate and distinct requirements: The first one is that the claim(s) set forth the subject matter applicants regard as the invention, and […]
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MPEP Q & A 11: Items Required in an Appeal Brief
Question: List two items which are required in an appeal brief. Answer: The specific items required in an appeal brief are: (i) Real party in interest. (ii) Related appeals, interferences, and trials. (iii) Summary of claimed subject matter. (iv) Argument. (v) Claims appendix. Chapter Details: The answer to this question can be found in chapter […]
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MPEP Q & A 10: Contesting an Objection
Question: What is one way an applicant may contest an objection? Answer: An applicant may contest an objection by: asking the examiner to reconsider it. filing a petition to the Commissioner. Chapter Details: The answer to this question can be found in chapter 700 of the MPEP. This chapter covers the examination of applications. The […]
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MPEP Q & A 9: Two Types of Double Patenting Rejections
Question: What are the two types of double patenting rejections? Answer: There are generally two types of double patenting rejections. One is the “same invention” type double patenting rejection based on 35 U.S.C. 101 which states in the singular that an inventor “may obtain a patent.” The second is the “nonstatutory-type” double patenting rejection based […]
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MPEP Q & A 8: Filings Third-Party Submissions May Not Be Directed To
Question: List at least one type of filing that third-party submissions may not be directed to. Answer: Third-party submissions may not be directed to: provisional applications, issued patents, reissue applications, and reexamination proceedings. Chapter Details: The answer to this question can be found in chapter 1100 of the MPEP. This chapter covers the Statutory Invention […]
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MPEP Q & A 7: Type of Descriptions of the Interest Conveyed or the Transaction to Be Recorded
Question: List two examples of the type of descriptions of the interest conveyed or transaction to be recorded that can be identified. Answer: Examples of the type of descriptions of the interest conveyed or transaction to be recorded that can be identified are: assignment; security agreement; merger; change of name; license; foreclosure; lien; contract; and […]
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MPEP Q & A 6: Applicant Initiated Interview Request Forms
Question: What should an Applicant Initiated Interview Request Form include? Answer: An Applicant Initiated Interview Request Form should identify the participants of the interview, the proposed date of the interview, whether the interview will be personal, telephonic, or video conference, and should include a brief description of the issues to be discussed. Chapter Details: The […]
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MPEP Q & A 5: Situations in Which Drawings are Not Considered Necessary
Question: List a situation in which drawings are usually not considered necessary for the understanding of the invention. Answer: It has been USPTO practice to treat an application that contains at least one process or method claim as an application for which a drawing is not necessary for an understanding of the invention. Other situations […]
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MPEP Q & A 4: Written Authority to Grant Access to a Provisional Application
Question: Name two individuals who through written authority may grant access to a provisional application. Answer: In provisional applications, access will only be given to parties with written authority from the following: a named inventor the assignee of record the attorney or agent of record or, for an application filed on or after September 16, […]
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MPEP Q & A 3: Significant Differences Between Nonprovisional and Provisional Applications
Question: List two significant differences between nonprovisional applications and provisional applications. Answer: The following list includes significant differences between nonprovisional applications and provisional applications: No claim is required in a provisional application. No oath or declaration is required in a provisional application. Provisional applications will not be examined for patentability. A provisional application is not […]
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MPEP Q & A 2: Correspondence That May Not be Transmitted by Facsimile
Question: Name two types of correspondence that may not be transmitted by facsimile. Answer: Facsimile transmissions are not permitted and, if submitted, will not be accorded a date of receipt in the following situations: A document that is required by statute to be certified A national patent application specification and drawing (provisional or nonprovisional) or […]
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MPEP Q & A 1: Major Types of Patent Status
Question: What are the 3 major types of patent status? Answer: The 3 major types of patent status include: pending applications, abandoned applications, and issued patents. Chapter Details: The answer to this question can be found in chapter 100 of the MPEP. This chapter covers Secrecy, Access, National Security, and Foreign Filing. The question and […]
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HMS Bounty abandoned in Hurricane Sandy
Ben Meakins
Crew of replica of Bligh's ship take to liferafts
The crew of HMS Bounty, a replica of William Bligh’s ship from his ill-fated voyage to Tahiti in 1789, have abandoned ship after being caught off the coast of North Carolina by Hurricane Sandy.
A director of the HMS Bounty Organisation said that
the ship began to experience difficulties on Sunday when it lost power. The US Coastguard reported that the ship was taking on water. The ship was apparently unable to continue ‘de-watering’.
‘At that time we contacted the US coastguard for assistance,’ she said. ‘All 17 crew were accounted for in the liferafts and a US coastguard helicopter is on the scene rescuing them now.’
She added: ‘As far as we know the ship is still upright and
we’re going to assess the situation to see if anything can be done to
save the ship but at this point our main concern is with the crew.’
The US Coast Guard reported that ‘On scene weather is reported to be 40 mph winds and 18-foot seas. The vessel is approximately 160 miles west of the eye of hurricane Sandy.’
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Elizabeth Warren brings 2020 presidential race…
Elizabeth Warren brings 2020 presidential race to L.A., and some news
In area's first look at a Democratic contender, senator pitches plan for guaranteed early childcare, preschool
Elizabeth Warren held a rally at the Alex Theater in Glendale California on February 18, 2019. (Photo by John McCoy, Contributing Photographer)
By Kevin Modesti | kmodesti@scng.com | Daily News
PUBLISHED: February 18, 2019 at 9:54 pm | UPDATED: June 28, 2019 at 2:30 pm
GLENDALE —The line to get in started forming five hours before the doors opened for Elizabeth Warren’s presidential campaign appearance Monday night at the Alex Theatre.
It eventually stretched around the corner of Brand Boulevard and California Avenue, Warren supporters joined by undecided Democratic voters, sidewalk merchants hawking $20 Warren T-shirts and $5 Warren buttons, and a 14-year-old boy in a Make America Great Again cap holding a sign reading “Go Away Pocahontas.”
At 7:40 p.m., the Massachusetts senator took the stage to Dolly Parton’s workers’ anthem “9 to 5,” gave a vigorous wave and cried, “Hello, Los Angeles!”
The 2020 presidential election had arrived in Southern California.
More than a year before the region’s voters go to the polls for the March 3, 2020 California primary, Warren became the first Democratic candidate to hold a public event in the L.A. area.
On top of applause lines about “the guy in the White House,” Warren offered the crowd some news: She said she would unveil Tuesday a proposal for guaranteed early childcare and preschool, a plan she said would ease financial burdens on working families and improve education.
Adding details Tuesday on the blog-sharing website Medium, Warren said the plan would be modeled on Head Start and the U.S. military’s childcare program. It would be free to families that make less than 200 percent of the federal poverty level, and would cost no more than 7 percent of a family’s income for those above that line.
It would be paid for with part of the revenue from Warren’s proposed “ultra-millionaires tax” of 2 percent on people with more than $50 million in assets.
“People say it’s going to be expensive — and that’s true, it is,” Warren told the audience in Glendale. “It’s going to be about four times what we invest in our children now.
“Investing in our babies, investing in our toddlers, investing in our preschoolers, that’s what we should be investing in.”
Warren’s proposal was quickly criticized by conservatives.
“It would be far better to focus on making life more affordable for all families, by reforming tax and regulatory policies that drive up the cost of living and make it more difficult to live on one income, than to layer on another costly government subsidy that only helps some,” Carrie Lukas, president of the Independent Women’s Forum, wrote at NationalReview.com.
Striding the stage with a hand-held microphone, an energetic Warren, 69, said the universal childcare proposal is one of the ways she would change political and economic systems she says are “rigged for those at the top.”
The message went over well with a crowd friendly to Warren, a former Harvard law professor who was elected to the Senate in 2012 after rising to political prominence as a proponent of tougher bank regulations and the creation of the controversial Consumer Financial Protection Bureau following the 2008 financial crisis.
The crowd filled the 1,413-seat Alex. Another 300 were left outside. Warren went out to speak to them before starting the event.
“I’ve been waiting for this (Warren running for president) for a long time,” said Sarah Strawn, a pediatric nurse from Glendale who got into the theater with her husband Scott, who is in telecommunications.
“We’re the middle class she (Warren) is fighting for,” said Sarah Strawn, who said it takes all of her income to pay for two kids in college.
Kris and Frank Bellino, retired Glendale residents, said they’ll definitely vote for the Democratic nominee but are undecided about which Democrat to support
“I want to be sure she’s electable,” said Kris Bellino, who is worried that Warren is “a little too leftist.”
Warren took audience questions at the end of the more than one-hour event. One topic that didn’t come up all night was her campaign’s major distraction, the controversy over her claim to Native American heritage.
The flap landed her the nickname “Pocahontas” from President Donald Trump, the name referred to in the sign held outside by the theater by Edgar Torabyan, 14, of Glendale.
Torabyan said he wanted Warren to know “she’s not as welcome in L.A. as she thinks she is.”
The event was Warren’s first in the L.A. area since a 2017 book tour.
California aims to play a bigger role in the campaign in 2020 by moving its primary from its traditional slot in June, by which time the Democratic nomination usually is wrapped up, to March 3, part of the Super Tuesday bunch of contests that follow the caucuses and primaries in Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina.
How California’s move will affect the race is up for debate. It certainly should not hurt the chances of Kamala Harris, the California senator who is the first major Democratic presidential candidate from the state since Jerry Brown finished second in delegates behind Bill Clinton in 1992.
Jack Pitney, professor of politics at Claremont McKenna College, said Warren’s “hidden message” to California voters is “If Kamala Harris crashes, pick me!”
“With a high national profile and a strong base among progressives, Elizabeth Warren is a serious contender for the nomination,” Pitney said Monday. “In California, however, Kamala Harris not only has the home-field advantage, but she also has an impressive list of endorsers and contributors.
“Elizabeth Warren’s chances in the state depend on how well Harris does in the months ahead. If she stays strong, other contenders will not have a good chance in the state. But if she falters, someone like Warren could inherit her support.”
Although Harris is a strong early favorite to win her home-state primary, other candidates could find California worth contesting because it provides more than one-tenth of the delegates to the party’s nominating convention, and Democrats award delegates in rough proportion to the vote count for every candidate getting at least 15 percent support.
Even a second-place or lower finisher could take a big step toward the nomination: In 2016, when Hillary Clinton won the California primary, Bernie Sanders’ runner-up share of the delegate haul was bigger than the winner of any other primary or caucus hauled in.
When its primary was in June, California still loomed large in presidential candidates’ plans, but less for the primary itself than as a source of campaign donations.
Even as candidates hold public events like Warren’s, the real action could be taking place in private meetings with contributors, said University of Redlands political science professor Renee Van Vechten.
“Savvy candidates come in search of California gold so that they can build a foundation for their campaigns, and splashy headliner events are inevitably tied to fundraising events that occur outside the public eye, in the company of millionaires,” Van Vechten said. “As primary elections near, they neglect the big states in their quest for early primary votes and media attention tied to campaigning in New Hampshire and Iowa.”
Van Vechten said the 2020 campaign has come to California more than a year before votes are cast here because so many Democratic candidates are jockeying to be the one to challenge Trump.
“The ‘shadow primary’ seems to be occurring earlier this year because Democrats smell blood in the water and many sharks are already circling,” Van Vechten said. “It pays to arrive early to the feast.”
Most national polls and election forecasts show Warren among the top five contenders for the Democratic nomination, a group that includes Harris as well as former vice president Joe Biden, Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and former Rep. Beto O’Rourke of Texas.
Sanders announced his candidacy Tuesday, while Biden and O’Rourke have yet to enter the race.
Warren learned Monday of Sanders’ planned announcement.
“I think Bernie is terrific. We were friends long, long before I ever got involved in politics,” Warren said, during a brief meeting with reporters in Glendale, when asked about Sanders, whom she’ll be fighting for a similar ideological slice of the Democratic electorate.
“I think it’s great the Democrats are out there talking about ideas. We are the party of ideas. (Tuesday) we’re going to be talking a lot about childcare. That’s how we make real change in this country: We talk about what’s possible, we talk about what we’re willing to fight for, and then we get out there and fight.”
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Tunnel Project: Four Days Remand For Datuk
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PUTRAJAYA, Mar 3 – A ‘Datuk’ is remanded for four days from today in connection with an alleged RM3 million bribe to close investigations involving the RM6.3 billion seabed tunnel project in Penang. The remand order on the businessman, till March 6, was issued by magistrate Eng Kar Wen on the application of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC).
The 64-year-old man arrived at the courthouse at 9.10am, in handcuffs and wearing MACC lockup attire. According to media reports, he was arrested in the capital at 3.30pm yesterday and was the second suspect detained in connection with the alleged bribery. The media also reported that he had allegedly solicited RM4 million, but the amount was reduced to RM3 million after negotiations with the company.
The case is being investigated under Section 16 (a) B of the MACC Act 2009. On Tuesday, MACC arrested a businessman with a ‘Datuk Seri’ title on suspicion of receiving RM19 million to influence the closure of the investigation. The MACC froze four bank accounts with RM3.6 million and seized four vehicles, namely, a ToyotaVellfire, Mercedes Benz, Land Rover and Hyundai Starex worth about RM1.3 million. The suspect was remanded for six days from Wednesday until Monday. — Bernama
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Observer > 2014 > December > APS Members Lord and Shadlen Elected to Institute of Medicine
APS Members Lord and Shadlen Elected to Institute of Medicine
Catherine Lord, the DeWitt Senior Scholar and a professor of psychology in psychiatry and of psychology in pediatrics at Weill Cornell, and Michael N. Shadlen a professor of Neuroscience at Columbia University, were elected as new members to the (IOM) on Oct. 20 during the IOM’s 44th annual meeting in Washington, D.C.
Election to the IOM is considered one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine and recognizes individuals who have demonstrated outstanding professional achievement and commitment to service. New members are elected by current active members through a selective process that recognizes individuals who have made major contributions to the advancement of the medical sciences, health care, and public health.
Lord, an APS Fellow, is an internationally renowned expert on autism who has helped develop important diagnostic tools that have become the gold standard for diagnosing autism spectrum disorders. At the 2014 APS Convention in San Francisco, Lord presented on research suggesting that it is possible to diagnose autism reliably at age 2 treatments for young children, and ways of helping parents decide on individual goals for their children.
“It’s a privilege to be elected into the Institute of Medicine, and I couldn’t be more honored,” Lord said. “I’ve spent my career working to transform the way we understand and treat autism spectrum disorders, and membership provides me with an opportunity to have a greater voice for patients and their families around the country.”
As director of the Center for Autism and the Developing Brain, a collaborative program between New York-Presbyterian Hospital, Weill Cornell Medical College, and Columbia University Medical Center, Lord leads an interdisciplinary team that provides cutting-edge research, education, and comprehensive services to people with autism spectrum disorders from infancy through adulthood.
As a member of the DSM-5 Neurodevelopmental Disorders Committee, Lord contributed to developing diagnostic criteria for classifying many communication and related disorders.
Michael N. Shadlen Photo credit: Jill LeVine
Shadlen is a member of Columbia University Medical Center’s Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute and an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He has been recognized by the Minerva Foundation as an innovator and pioneer in research on decision making. His research combines microelectrode recording and behavioral experiments in monkeys to better understand the neural basis of cognition and decision making.
In experiments that combine electrophysiological, behavioral, and computational methods, Shadlen seeks to advance knowledge of higher brain functions by measuring the activity of individual neurons in the brains of monkeys as they make decisions about visual stimuli and perform complex tasks.
His research may help improve our understanding of “how factors such as bias, reward expectation, time pressure, and attention affect decisions and the brain cells that underlie them.”
Established in 1970 by the National Academy of Sciences, IOM is a nonprofit organization that works outside of government to provide unbiased and scientifically informed advice and recommendations on health issues to decision makers and the public. With their election, members make a commitment to volunteer their service on IOM committees, boards, and other activities devoted to answering the nation’s most pressing questions on health care and medicine.
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RAF ST. CLEMENT DANES
Clement of Rome, a close associate of St. Peter, was Bishop of Rome (Pope) during perhaps 88 - 97 AD. In 100 AD the emperor Trajan had him weighted with an anchor stone and thrown into the sea. Thus he became patron saint of sailors.
King Alfred spent his reign (871 - 899) fighting to stop the ravaging by Danish seafarers. He had forts built and organised a more permanent army and navy. Some pacified Danish settlers congregated between the ruling City of Westminster and the trading City of London. There they built themselves a church, probably in Alfred's time, and having strong ties with the sea adopted St. Clement as their patron saint. Thus they became the St. Clement Danes.
After the year 1022, a stone building replaced the original timber-framed one. Then at various times the church passed through the hands of Westminster Abbey, the Knights Templar, the Austin Friars, and the Bishop of Exeter.
In 1660 Samuel Pepys noted "Up early and my appointment to St. Clement Danes to Church." The structure was not reached by the Great Fire of 1666, but by 1680 had decayed to a state where it needed rebuilding. Now Sir Christopher Wren dropped by, perhaps saying "I'm doing a big cathedral job down the road, and could let you have some materials cheap!" So he designed and supervised the new building which was completed in 1682. A steeple was added by Gibbs in 1719.
"Oranges and lemons" say the bells of St. Clement's,
"You owe me five farthings" say the bells of St. Martin's,
"When will you pay me?" ask the bells of Old Bailey,
"When I grow rich," — say the bells of Shoreditch,
"When will that be?" — ask the bells of Stepney ("Step-knee")
"I do not know," — say the great bells of Bow.
Here comes a candle to light you to bed,
Here comes a chopper to chop off your head,
Chip — chop — chip — chop,
The last — man's — head.
If you sing the nursery rhyme correctly, you are probably reproducing the tunes played by church bells over old London, because the street urchins would make up words to fit what they heard. A legend about fruit traders having permission to carry their merchandise through church grounds to the market is probably a later fabrication. Even so, each child of St. Clement Danes Primary School still gets an orange and lemon after an annual service.
Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784) was a regular member of the congregation, sitting in a gallery seat. He was credited by Boswell with saying "When a man is tired of London he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford." His statue now stands outside at the east end of the church where he can gaze down The Strand towards Fleet Street.
The Rector of St. Clement's during 1843 - 1855 was William Webb-Ellis, who as a schoolboy, is said to have picked up the football and originated the game of Rugby. However, it is also claimed that this story is a Victorian invention to reclaim the game for the middle classes.
In 1855, road redevelopment meant that most of the church ground was taken, and the church building became marooned on an island in the middle of The Strand, as ever increasing traffic flowed past, first carts & coaches, later cars & buses.
On the night of 10th May 1941 enemy incendiary bombs burnt the church to a charred ruin. This was unfortunate, as with the Blitz coming to an end it was one of the last raids.
In the 1950's the idea was mooted that perhaps the church could be restored as a memorial to the fighter pilots who had fought to defend Britain from enemy raids. The scheme expanded to include all allied airmen who had fought from the UK itself, and the date was taken back to 1911 to include the 1914 - 1918 war.
The building has been basically restored to its previous form, with the gallery at the sides and rear. The square support columns do obstruct the view for some seats. The new pews are shorter than the previous ones, leaving a wider centre aisle. The ceiling decor is similar, but below the Stuart arms has been added, anachronistically in Latin,
Built by Christopher Wren AD 1682
Destroyed by aerial lightning war AD 1941
Restored by the Royal Aeronautical Fleet AD 1958
The upper gallery walls and columns appear to have been given a lighter colour finish, but the lower woodwork is still mahogany brown. Above the balcony hang a number of laid-up unit colour standards. Below each lower window is a case surmounted by an eagle and containing a book of remembrance. The 8th and 9th US Air Forces stationed in the UK are included in a shrine. The whole ground floor is in a light colour, mostly patterned by around 800 insets of Welsh slate in the shape of RAF unit badges. Many of these are carved with the detail of actual squadron badges. A special inset at the entrance has the badge of the RAF surrounded by eight badges of Commonwealth air forces, while another in the left aisle has the Polish eagle surrounded by sixteen Polish squadron badges.
Gifts include: the altar from the Netherlands, the lectern from the Royal Australian Air Force, a chair from Douglas Bader to the memory of his first wife — Thelma (1907-1971), a chair to Sir Archibald McIndoe and The Guinea Pig Club, and a processional cross from the Air Training Corps. The organ on the balcony at the rear was a gift from the US Air Force. The crypt has been made into a simple chapel, with an altar from the Netherlands Air Force, a font from the Norwegians, and a candelabrum from the Belgian Air Force.
The present bells were hung in 1957, the bass bell being named "Boom" in commemoration of "Boom" Trenchard who organised the RAF from its inception.
At the Christmas Day service the small choir sang from the gallery at the rear. The service sheet invited all Christians to partake of the bread & wine, or just go up to the sanctuary step for a blessing. However people seemed to follow their home customs.
St. Clement Danes, The Central Church of The Royal Air Force, stands where the eastern end of The Aldwych joins The Strand, midway between Trafalgar Square and St. Paul's Cathedral. Outside the main entrance are the statues of "Stuffy" Dowding and "Bomber" Harris.
Along by the outside south wall engraved stones have been laid to commemorate — Members of the RAF who died whilst POW's in Sandakan-Ranau, North Borneo — The RAF Regiment — RAF Gang Shows Association — RAF Apprentices and Boy Entrants .
Polish Badges & Commemorative Stones
Apps and BEs
Polish Squadrons
Gang Shows
Sunday services generally start at 11 am.
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Dartmoor was one of the first National Parks to be designed in the late 50s. It is a unique place, a wonderful wild landscape where changes in the weather have a strong impact. When the mist is down the striking tors crowning the moorland hilltops can make it feel like an eerie place. Yet when the sun is out, its huge horizons and stunning views inspire a real sense of joy and freedom.
More information:www.dartmoor-npa.gov.uk
Exmoor was granted a designation order for National Park status in 1954. Situated in the south west of England, three quarters of the land in the Park is in Somerset and the rest in Devon. The Park has been given the “Walkers Are Welcome” stamp of approval in recognition of its friendliness to walkers.
More information:www.exmoor-nationalpark.gov.uk
There has long been a fascination with this place. Alfred Wainwright made the Lakes his life’s work, writing seven guidebooks in which he created beautiful pen and ink sketches, maps and descriptions and we haven’t stopped eulogising about it since. And with good reason. It is justifiably famous for the interplay between its mountains and water, not forgetting its high fells, rocky crags and lush dales.
More information:www.lakedistrict.gov.uk
Scotland’s first National Park encompasses 1,865 square kilometres of some of the finest scenery in Scotland. Lying on the Highland Boundary fault – where the gentle Lowlands meet the unkempt Highlands, it is a chocolate box selection of varying landscapes – rolling lowland in the south, lofty mountains in the north and many lochs, rivers, forests and woodlands in between.
More information:www.lochlomond-trossachs.org
After years of campaigning we were very pleased when the New Forest was finally designation National Park in 2004. It was to be a much-needed green lung for the South East. Ancient and ornamental woodland and open heathland as expected form the dominant landscape of the park but you can also roam over 26 miles of glorious coastline including salt marshes, lagoons and mudflats.
More information:www.newforestnpa.gov.uk
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Home / Air Rifle Reviews / Winchester M14 Semi-Automatic CO2 Air Rifle Review
Winchester M14 Semi-Automatic CO2 Air Rifle Review
Winchester M14 Semi-Automatic – Click to enlarge
It’s not often I get the chance to review an air rifle that was inspired by combat rifles issued to U.S. Military Veterans. That’s why I jumped at the chance to test the Winchester M14 Semi-Automatic. Winchester was one of four firearms manufacturers contracted by the government to supply M14s. This rifle is a salute to both the military and the original M14.
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Semi-Automatic Fun
The Winchester M14 is a .177 caliber CO2 air rifle that can fire up to 16 shots before reloading. It holds two 8-round magazines for 16 shots total. After 8 shots, just flip the clip to keep shooting. You can load BBs, pellets or a combination of both.
The clip holds two 12 gram cylinders to give the rifle more power. The cylinders are very easy to load, albeit strange. All I did was load the two cylinders into the clip, and then insert the clip into the gun. I’ve shot other CO2 rifles that use an adjustable wingnut to install the cylinders, but M14 uses a separate hex key. It’s not a bad design, but my main concern is losing the key. The good news is that it comes with two keys, and you can keep one in the bottom of the magazine.
Durable and Rugged
Winchester is known for its high quality rifles, and the M14 semi-automatic is no different. The composite stock is both durable and rugged. Out of the box, this rifle only weighs 4.4 pounds. I would have liked to see a hardwood stock, but that would have weighed it down.
I like the size of this rifle. It’s 44.5” long in total with a 21” barrel. It’s designed mainly for plinking and fun, but it really does look just like a true M14.
Great Accuracy and Power
The two CO2 cylinders are what give this air rifle its higher velocity. Winchester bills the M14 at a maximum 700fps, which I’d say is spot on. For such a lightweight rifle, it packs a pretty good punch.
The M14 has fixed front and adjustable rear sight. It’s exceptionally accurate at first. I was getting quarter-sized groups in the bull’s-eye. But after 5 or 6 shots, it starts losing accuracy. This is not uncommon with semi-automatic rifles, so I was expecting this to happen.
Fun and Easy to Shoot
The M14 wasn’t really designed for hunting or pest control. It was designed for fun plinking. And fun was exactly what I had with this rifle. If you’re used to shooting CO2 rifles, loading the cylinders may take some getting used to. Aside from that, this M14 replica is so easy to shoot, and I love not having to reload after every shot. No matter whether you’re a beginner or a pro, you’ll have an easy time assembling and shooting this rifle.
Powerful and accurate
Semi-automatic; up to 16 shots
Looks just like the original M14 issued by the U.S. Military
Great for fun plinking
Lots of plastic. This gun does have a lot of plastic parts, but it’s tough and durable. The plastic is really only a minor cosmetic concern.
I love the Winchester M14 semi-automatic for plinking and just plain fun shooting. Despite its light weight, it still has an impressive FPS thanks to the dual cylinder clip design. For under $100, this is a rifle that will give you hours of fun.
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Disorderly Brexit could see the UK economy lose out on £22bn a year by 2024
Whatever the Brexit scenario, employers can expect to lose almost a fifth of their current blue collars or ‘desk-less’ workforce
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A ‘disorderly Brexit’ could see the UK suffer a £22bn reduction in economic output, compared to an ‘orderly Brexit’ – a new study has revealed.
The report, developed by workforce management expert Quinyx in collaboration with Development Economics and Censuswide, includes economic analysis of ONS data and findings from an employer sentiment survey of 1,008 senior decision makers in UK firms that hire blue-collar workers. It highlights the importance of these workers to the UK economy, and the severe impact Brexit uncertainty will have on their jobs.
As part of the research, Quinyx compared the predicted growth and economic output of the UK’s blue-collar workforce under both a disorderly and an orderly Brexit scenario.
The study found that the increase in economic output generated by the UK’s manual and elementary workforce would be £31.7bn per year under an orderly Brexit compared to £9.7bn per year by 2024 under a disorderly Brexit. This equates to a 70% reduction or £22bn loss each year.
The decrease in economic output would come from a lack of access to workers in manual or elementary service roles primarily as a result of uncertainty around, or lack of, immigration policies.
These staff shortages are predicted to be felt most acutely by the logistics and healthcare sectors under a disorderly Brexit – potentially leaving some of Britain’s biggest businesses exposed.
The impact will vary across the UK. The research found that in the event of a disorderly Brexit, London, the East of England and the South East will see the greatest reductions in both available workers and economic output.
The research found that under any Brexit scenario employers in the UK expect to lose – on average – 18% of their manual and elementary service workers as a result of the UK’s departure from the EU, with 22% saying they expect to lose 31% or more. Despite this, 28% of businesses have no plan for managing their future pipeline of these workers post-Brexit.
Mansoor Malik, managing director UK and International at Quinyx, said: “The impact that a disorderly Brexit will have on the UK’s blue-collar or “desk-less” workforce and the businesses that employ them is concerning. Access to these workers is crucial for ensuring the UK’s economic wellbeing – and employers need to make plans to avoid staff shortages in the future.
“A first step for employers facing staff shortages is looking at ways that they can bridge the gap between supply and demand. Given the degree of uncertainty on the horizon, seeking out new ways to attract and retain domestic staff should be a primary focus.’”
The research also found that challenges accessing workers in manual or elementary service roles, as a result of Brexit, are likely to be further exacerbated by the fact that UK employers already report trouble recruiting and retaining these workers.
Nearly half (49%) of UK employers currently struggle to recruit manual or elementary service workers, with the same percentage reporting that they struggle to retain them. The main barriers to the recruitment and retention of these workers in the UK are low pay, unsociable hours and lack of career progression. Lack of flexibility was also cited by one-fifth (19%) of employers as a significant grievance among its manual and elementary service workforce.
Mansoor continued: “Our research found that skills shortages, as a by-product of poor retention and the inability to recruit workers, result in a 9% reduction of growth and a 10% drop in productivity in businesses, on average.
“Hiring and retaining these workers is no easy task at the best of times, but with Brexit on the horizon it’s crucial that businesses now do all they can to attract motivated workers to these roles. Employers need to be creative and provide the greater flexibility that workers in manual or elementary service roles are looking for.”
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June 10, 2009 / 4:01 AM / 10 years ago
Skating champ Koss subject of ESPN docu
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LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - One of the documentaries in ESPN Films’ “30 for 30” series will profile Norwegian speed-skating great Johann Olav Koss and his Right to Play organization, which aims to bring sports to children in poverty-stricken and war-torn areas.
Frank Marshall, the prolific producer behind such hits as “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” and the Indiana Jones and Jason Bourne franchises, is making a rare foray into directing with “Right to Play.”
Koss won three gold medals at the 1994 Winter Games in Lillehammer, Norway, but after retiring decided that instead of taking it easy he would found the nonprofit organization and travel around the world spreading its gospel. Right to Play, which has scores of employees and volunteers, works in Africa, Europe and South America organizing sporting events and providing the means for kids to play.
“Here’s an incredibly accomplished athlete who’s least known for his accomplishments after the Olympics, which include becoming one of the greatest ambassadors in sports history,” Marshall said from the set of the adventure fantasy “The Last Airbender” outside Philadelphia. “What we’re going to try to find is his drive and how it has changed the world.”
Marshall has begun shooting in places such as Pakistan and plans to head soon to Africa to explore some of Koss’ work there. The film will include footage of a soccer game in the Middle East between Israeli and Palestinian clubs that are affiliated with Right to Play.
The documentary should be ready in 2010, said Marshall, who plans to shoot at the Winter Olympics in Vancouver next year.
Marshall occasionally has undertaken projects as a director and is perhaps best known for the 1990 thriller “Arachnophobia.” His most recent helming work was on the survival tale “Eight Below” in 2006.
“I love stories that are of ordinary people in extraordinary times. What we have (with Koss) is an extraordinary person in extraordinary times,” Marshall said.
ESPN’s “30 for 30” is a series of hourlong documentaries by high-profile filmmakers on sports figures and events from the past 30 years. Spike Lee, Peter Berg, Barry Levinson and Barbara Kopple previously signed on for the series, which will debut on the cable network in the fall.
Editing by Sheri Linden at Reuters
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June 3, 2013 / 5:45 PM / 6 years ago
Knicks guard Kidd retires after 19 seasons
(Reuters) - Former All-Star point guard Jason Kidd is retiring after 19 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA), the New York Knicks player said on Monday.
Kidd, 40, completed his career ranked second overall in assists (12,091) and steals (2,684) to Hall of Famer John Stockton and averaged 12.6 points and 8.7 assists per game.
He earned All-Star honors 10 times while playing for Dallas, Phoenix, New Jersey and New York. He won an NBA title with Dallas and played on two gold medal-winning U.S. Olympic basketball teams.
“My time in professional basketball has been an incredible journey, but one that must come to an end after 19 years,” Kidd said in a statement.
“I look back fondly at every season and thank each every one of my teammates and coaches that joined me on the court.”
He said it was time to think about coaching or working as a broadcaster.
“One of the best point guards ever and one of the fiercest competitors I have ever played with,” Dallas Mavericks forward Dirk Nowitzki, who won an NBA title with Kidd in 2011, said on Twitter.
“Amazing career. He always put the team and winning first.”
To Brooklyn Nets General Manager Billy King, Kidd, who captained the Nets to NBA Finals appearances in 2002 and 2003, “is considered the greatest player in the Nets’ NBA history.”
His retirement came two days after the Los Angeles Clippers’ Grant Hill, also 40, announced he was leaving the game. The two shared rookie of the year honors in 1995.
Highly respected around the league, Kidd became the first back-to-back winner of the NBA’s sportsman of the year award in April.
“Jason provided an incredible voice inside our locker room and I considered it an honor to say I coached him,” Knicks coach Mike Woodson said.
Kidd started 48 of the Knicks’ 76 games last season, posting averages of 6.0 points and 3.3 assists.
He had two years remaining on his Knicks contract but said he decided over the weekend now was the time to retire.
“We told them (earlier) that I wanted to come back and play,” Kidd said. “But this weekend was when we got a chance to relax... . It is the right thing to do.”
Reporting by Gene Cherry in Raleigh, North Carolina; Editing by Julian Linden and Frank Pingue
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November 20, 2017 / 12:29 AM / in 2 years
Televisa exec shot dead outside Mexico City while riding bike
The logo of broadcaster Televisa is pictured at its offices in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, November 16, 2017. REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Adolfo Lagos, the head of struggling Mexican broadcaster Grupo Televisa’s telecoms unit izzi, was shot dead on Sunday on the outskirts of Mexico City, the state attorney general’s office said in a statement.
The attorney general’s office for the State of Mexico, which surrounds the capital, said it was investigating the homicide near the ancient Teotihuacan pyramids. It said Lagos was on a bicycle when he was shot. He died in hospital from his wounds.
Press reports said Lagos died after group of men tried to steal his bike. In his Twitter profile photo, Lagos is shown riding a bike. The attorney general’s office could not immediately be reached for comment.
“Grupo Televisa profoundly laments the death of izzi Director Adolfo Lagos Espinosa that took place in the State of Mexico. Our condolences to his wife, daughters and family members,” the company wrote on Twitter.
izzi offers phone, internet and cable television services.
Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto took to Twitter to offer his condolences, saying that the federal attorney general’s office would help state prosecutors investigate.
The death of Lagos, a well-known former banker, is a fresh pain for Televisa, which is struggling with declining ad sales and tough competition from the widespread move to online video.
The company’s longtime chief executive will step down next year, the company said last month, and Televisa has also faced U.S. allegations that it was among media companies that paid bribes to secure television rights for soccer matches.
The testimony came during the first trial to emerge from the U.S. investigation of bribery surrounding FIFA, soccer’s world governing body.
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Mr. Stephen P. Weisz is the President, Chief Executive Officer and Director of Marriott Vacations Worldwide Corporation, since November 2011. Mr. Weisz joined Marriott International in 1972. Over his 39-year career with Marriott International, he held a number of leadership positions in the Lodging division, including Regional Vice President of the Mid-Atlantic Region, Senior Vice President of Rooms Operations, and Vice President of the Revenue Management Group. Mr. Weisz became Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Marriott Hotels, Resorts & Suites in 1992 and Executive Vice President-Lodging Brands in 1994 before being named to lead the Company in 1996. Mr. Weisz currently serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the American Resort Development Association. Mr. Weisz is also the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Children’s Miracle Network. Mr. Weisz brings to the Board the extensive lodging and vacation ownership industry expertise he developed during his over 45 years in the industry, including 39 years with Marriott International, as well as corporate leadership experience from his service as our President since 1996 and his prior service as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the American Resort Development Association.
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Bernier says abortion, gender identity not on People’s Party of Canada platform
At issue is former Christian talk-show host Laura-Lynn Tyler Thompson’s candidacy in Burnaby South
People’s Party Leader Maxime Bernier says his party’s policies will not include anything to do with abortion or gender identity, despite the fact its first candidate besides him is a vocal social conservative.
Bernier is defending the appointment of former Christian talk-show host Laura-Lynn Tyler Thompson to be the Burnaby South byelection candidate for the party he founded after parting ways with the Conservative party in August.
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In an interview, Tyler Thompson said her foray into politics began in 2017 when she learned about a B.C. government policy to teach sexual orientation and gender identity in elementary schools. She campaigned hard against the policy, running for the local school board in Burnaby last fall with that as her main issue.
She finished 11th out of 13 candidates but said she got enough votes to convince her she was speaking for a “silent majority” who stay quiet so they aren’t called bigots but feel the way she does about not exposing children to an ideology at school.
“I got 15,622 votes,” she said. “The other side was extremely surprised.”
Bernier said any of his candidates is free to speak out against abortion or gender identity but their views will not be the party’s policy.
“That’s all personal belief but it is not part of our campaign,” he said. “She understands that she will fight for our platform and being sure we will be able to implement our bold reform.”
That platform is the same one he used to campaign for the Conservative leadership in 2017, including phasing out supply management for food products, reducing the number of immigrants Canada accepts and stopping all government subsidies and handouts to businesses in favour of cutting their taxes.
Bernier has marched in pride parades and is also known to be pro-choice. In 2016, he voted in favour of Bill C-16, which added gender identity and expression to be protected under the Canadian Human Rights Act.
Thursday, he would not say where he stands on the issue of teaching gender identity in schools because that is a provincial issue.
“I don’t have to have a stance on that,” he said.
Tyler Thompson said she isn’t against anybody who says they are transgender or gay or lesbian, but she feels strongly that nothing on those subjects should be taught in schools. When she said so publicly, she said, she was attacked and that is what motivates her now to campaign for the freedom to express her beliefs.
“I was having a good life and having a lot of lattes and living the dream and then I became the target,” she said. “But I’m not a bigot. I’m not a homophobe. I’m not a transphobe.”
Tyler Thompson herself has called fighting the curriculum her “hill to die on,” but said she doesn’t feel she has to bring that fight to the federal party because there are others who are now taking up that cause, including in Alberta and Ontario.
The party’s candidates for other February byelections in Ontario and Quebec are likely to be named next week. A fourth candidate, Jennifer Clarke, is named to run in Nanaimo-Ladysmith, recently vacated by NDP MP Sheila Malcolmson, but there is no byelection there yet.
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Rediff.com » News » Melbourne: 1 killed, 2 injured in IS-claimed knife attack
Melbourne: 1 killed, 2 injured in IS-claimed knife attack
Last updated on: November 10, 2018 00:14 IST
IMAGE: Policemen block members of the public from walking towards the Bourke Street mall in central Melbourne, Australia. Photograph: Sonali Paul/Reuters
A Somali-origin set a car on fire and stabbed three people, killing one of them, before being fatally shot in the Australian city of Melbourne, in an attack claimed by the Islamic State terror group to target foreigners.
Victoria Police Chief Commissioner Graham Ashton said the man who stabbed three members of the public and attacked police officers has died in a hospital.
Police shot the man in the chest after he charged at them with the knife.
One of the stabbing victims died of his injuries at the scene, while two others, a 59-year-old man and a 26-year-old man, are in hospital being treated for non-life threatening injuries.
"We are now treating this as a terrorism event," said Ashton, adding that the suspect is ‘someone that is known to us’.
"I'm not at liberty at this point to disclose the identity of that person. But we are, as I say, having counter-terrorism investigations under way. The person is known to police. He's known to police mainly in respect to relatives that he has that are certainly persons of interest to us. He is someone that, accordingly, is known to both Victoria Police and federal intelligence,” Ashton said.
However, the Australian police said the assailant, who was 31-year-old, was residing in Melbourne's northwestern suburbs and had come to the country from Somalia.
Ashton said the attacker had a criminal history of cannabis use, theft and driving offence.
The man was shot after confronting police officers on a busy city street, authorities said. He was taken into custody in a critical condition. He succumbed to the gunshot wounds in the Royal Melbourne Hospital.
‘The perpetrator of the operation... in Melbourne... was an Islamic State fighter and carried out the operation... to target nationals of the coalition’ fighting the Islamic State, the terror group's propaganda outlet, Amaq, said.
Australia has contributed troops to the United States-led coalition that has been fighting the Islamic State in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Officers were initially called to reports of a car fire near Bourke Street, a busy thoroughfare, at about 4.20pm local time.
"As they got out of the car, they were confronted by a male brandishing a knife and threatening them," Supt David Clayton told reporters.
IMAGE: Cops cordoned off the area soon after the attack. Photograph: Sonali Paul/Reuters
Ashton said a four-wheel drive Ute drove into Bourke street between Russell and Swanston Street and parked there. A male person was in that vehicle.
"Fire then started in the vehicle and he's got out of the vehicle. He then engaged with members of the public at that location,” he said.
"The fire brigade turned up to put the fire out discovered there were gas bottle - I understand at this stage they are those barbecue-style gas bottles - within the vehicle," Ashton said.
Footage captured the shocking scenes as a car went up in flames and police shot the knife-wielding man in the chest after he confronted officers as they arrived at the scene.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison has said Australians will ‘never be intimidated by these appalling attacks’.
Victoria Premier Daniel Andrews has called the attack an ‘evil and terrible thing’.
Local media reports quoted 22-year-old Markel Villasin, who was finishing his shift at KFC on the Bourke St as the incident happened.
"Me and the managers ran out and that's when we saw the car on fire and then we saw the guy on the floor and we wanted to help, there were two blokes helping him out already, he was face down pools of blood around his face," Villasin said.
"I'm pretty sure he got stabbed in the face. I really wanted to help but I was in shock, I didn't know what to do. Because he was on his stomach, they turned him over to see if he's alright, he was still alive," he said.
According to a bystander, Drew Hair, he was walking on Swanston Street when he heard an explosion.
The next thing he saw was a ‘big dude punching into the police car’.
Hair said the assailant was dressed in Islamic clothing and of African appearance and about six foot four inches tall.
An eyewitness said it appeared the car was on fire before it crashed and ‘exploded’.
"I was walking up Bourke St … and we heard this loud explosion. I thought it was a car backfiring but there was flames coming out of the car. It then veered to the left … and exploded in flames," the eyewitness said.
"People were running everywhere. I thought it was like what happened last year so I started running. Everyone started running. It was so scary."
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Jeff Adair: Don't text while driving, but ...
Jeff Adair
Mar 1, 2009 at 12:01 AM Mar 1, 2009 at 12:21 AM
You're driving down the road minding your own business. As you stop at a red light, a motorist behind you slams into your rear end because she was not paying attention.
Police who respond to the scene quickly deduct that something was going on out of the ordinary. The officer asks the teen, and she admits she was texting her boyfriend.
Is it a big problem? I don't know, but common sense tells me anyone with half a brain must know that it's dangerous. As dangerous as taking shots of vodka, reading a newspaper, or looking in the mirror putting on makeup while driving.
The numbers on a cell phone are so small, and I doubt the average teenager can text without looking.
I shouldn't just be picking on teens or females, though. I suspect many adults, addicted to their crackberry, I mean Blackberry, drive down the highway checking e-mails as if it can't wait.
Just last week, Lord Nazir Ahmed, a member of the House of Lords in England, was sentenced to jail for 12 weeks after admitting sending texts while driving shortly before his Jaguar hit a stationary car, killing the 28-year-old driver.
According to an article in The Guardian, Ahmed received five texts as he drove his wife and elderly mother down the M1 from Dewsbury to their home in Rotherham on Christmas Day 2007. At the time of the accident, he was traveling 60 mph.
Recently, a 13-year-old Taunton, Mass., girl was killed by a driver who admitted in court that he lost control of his vehicle while texting on his cell phone.
To prevent future deaths, Massachusetts could soon join Alaska, California, Connecticut, Louisiana, Minnesota, New Jersey, Washington state and the District of Columbia, which have all banned texting while driving.
The bill, which was approved by the House in January and awaits the Senate's approval, would impose a $100 fine for the first offense, $250 for the second and $500 for each one thereafter.
I'm of two minds on this proposal. We need to do something to stop crazy drivers who don't get it, but I wonder how a law would work in practice.
Unless an officer is sitting next to, behind or in front of a driver at a stop, there's no way he or she can tell if a driver is texting. I suspect a law will only come into play if a driver is clearly swerving in or out of traffic, or after an accident.
This seems to be one of those feel-good pieces of legislation that pols pass to prove to constituents they're doing something, but in reality it doesn't work.
Taunton Rep. James Fagan, a Democrat, questioned the fairness of a law, noting in an Associated Press story that drivers can be distracted by smoking cigarettes, spilling coffee, applying makeup and eating food -- but don't face penalties.
"Tragically, there are occasions when through the exercise of poor judgment an accident and a tragedy occurs. No matter how much we try, we cannot legislate that away," he said.
The heart of this problem is that some people have allowed technology to control their lives, to make them lose common sense and courtesy.
Maybe we need to teach folks that it's rude to do things like talk on the cell phone while standing in front of the grocery store cashier, or to text while crossing a four-lane street.
Teach, yes. But please, let's not make it a law.
Jeff Adair is a MetroWest Daily News writer and editor. He can be reached at jadair@cnc.com
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Mortgage approvals rise by 9.5% in April - BPFI
Updated / Tuesday, 28 May 2019 08:24
The number of mortgages given to investors - for buy-to-let properties - fell in April
New figures from the Banking and Payments Federation Ireland show that just over 4,100 mortgages were approved in April.
This is down slightly month on month, but up 9.5% on an annual basis.
The figures show that just over half of those mortgages went to first time buyers - with movers making up a little over a quarter of the figure.
But the number of mortgages given to investors - for buy-to-let properties - fell in the month, and is down almost 30% year on year.
Meanwhile, the value of the loans being given out by banks continues to rise.
Approvals in April were worth a total of €931m with more than half of that total going to first time buyers.
The value of approvals is up 1.1% in the month and more than 10% year on year.
Felix O'Regan, Director of Public Affairs at Banking and Payments Federation Ireland, said the latest figures show good year-on-year growth of 9.5% and 10.5% in the number and value respectively of mortgages approved by lenders during April 2019.
"This growth is particularly evident in the case of first-time buyers where the 23.2% uplift in the value of approvals in April 2019 compared to April 2018 represents the strongest rate of growth since October 2017," Mr O'Regan said.
He said that while the comparison of the April figures with March shows weaker growth, and even a decline in some categories, the year-on-year comparison provides a more reliable picture of the overall mortgage market performance because of the volatility that can arise from one month to another.
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Hillmorton mother sheds 8st for her wedding day
Mrs Rankine on her wedding day.
Alex Green
A mother-of-two from Hillmorton gave up a 15-a-day biscuit habit and embarked on a fitness regime to lose eight stone for her wedding.
Charlotte Rankine, who works as a carer, was 18.5 stone at her heaviest.
Mrs Rankine before.
The 26-year-old said: “I felt self-conscious about my weight and was nicknamed ‘Big C’. Although I laughed along, it really hurt.”
After giving birth to her second baby in June 2016, and with her wedding one year away, she decided to make a change.
She said: “I used to eat up to 15 biscuits a day. I realised I didn’t want to be a fat bride.”
She joined her local Xercise4Less gym in September 2016 and started exercising up to six times a week.
Mrs Rankine said: “I started off losing around two pounds a week, and people started to notice when I hit the 80kg mark. Everyone was really encouraging.”
The progress being made in the gym began to have a positive effect on Charlotte’s confidence: “I’ve always been the same, outgoing-ness wise, but I no longer felt embarrassed to be myself around everyone, other than just close friends.”
After nine months of determination, the wedding day arrived, giving her the chance to show off her results.
She said: “It was really the day I’d been aiming for and to be down to 10-and-a-half stone felt great.”
Mrs Rankine said it is important focus on your own progress and not compare yourself to others.
She said: “There may be days where you feel like nothing is happening, but it is. If you want a biscuit, have one, but don’t eat the whole pack.”
Mrs Rankine wants to encourage others who are in a similar position to focus on their own progress and not compare themselves to others.
She said: “Don’t give up. There may be days where you feel like nothing is happening, but it is. If you want a biscuit, have one, but don’t eat the whole packet. Don’t doubt yourself or compare yourself to others.
“Other people may have a thigh gap, or bingo wings only visible under a magnifying glass, but they had to start somewhere too.”
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India and New Zealand games are 'quarter-finals' for England - Root
England's 64-run loss to Australia on Tuesday left their qualification hopes in the balance with Bangladesh, Pakistan (both one point behind) and Sri Lanka (two points behind with a game in hand) breathing down their necks.
England have not beaten India or New Zealand in seven attempts at the World Cup since 1992 but Root is confident they can still reach the knockout stages.
"We'll see these two games as quarter-finals... which in a way when it comes round to the knockout stage should serve you well," Root told reporters.
"We believe we're still more than capable of qualifying for the semi-finals and when that happens, it doesn't really matter how you got there because that's when the tournament really starts to kick in.
"I personally think we've got to be very calm about how we approach the next couple of games. The games themselves might get quite emotional, especially the atmosphere at Edgbaston against India."
Root also said that England have not adapted to the slow pitches at the tournament, having played on batsman-friendly surfaces at the same grounds during one-day international bilateral series played in the buildup to the World Cup.
The hosts were criticised for not making most of the conditions against Australia despite winning the toss while their "one-dimensional" approach to batting during the tournament has been slammed by pundits.
"We've been turning up to some venues and things have been quite different throughout this tournament to when we play one-day series there in the past and we haven't necessarily adapted as well as we could,” Root added.
"You look at some of the par scores and they have been very different to when we have played there in bilateral series."
England play India on Sunday and their final game against New Zealand next Wednesday.
(Reporting by Rohith Nair in Bengaluru; Editing by Ian Ransom)
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How San Bernardino High School’s Class…
How San Bernardino High School’s Class of ’46 will celebrate 70th reunion
JOHN VALENZUELA — STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER From left, Jeanne Choisnet, Joan Miles, Everett Maguire, Jack Mortensen, Betty Davis, Ekema, and Mary Mann, members of San Bernardino High School’s Class of 1946, will be celebrating their 70th high school reunion next month at the Arrowhead County Club.
JOHN VALENZUELA — STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Jeanne Choisnet of San Bernardino holds a Class of 1946 sweatshirt.
By Michel Nolan | michelnolan77@gmail.com | San Bernardino Sun
In 1946, the world was still recovering from a devastating war, Harry S. Truman was president of the United States, and ENIAC, the first electronic computer was unveiled at the University of Pennsylvania.
At that time, the world seemed safe, said Mary Pinkerton Mann, a senior at San Bernardino High School in 1946.
It was the Big Band era and there was dancing at Urbita Ballroom, Friday night football and burgers at Ruby’s Drive-in, cruising E Street, roller skating, and ice cream at Heywood’s or Carnation.
The Cardinals had champion football, basketball, baseball and track teams.
Then there were the boys who went off to fight in a war a world away.
Some of them didn’t come home.
“But the war was over, so we felt safe,” said Mary, who still remembers President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s 1941 speech and the “day that will live in infamy,” after the Dec. 7 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
“We were part of the war effort, too — rationing of gasoline, rubber tires and stockings. We saved scrap metal and saved up sugar so we could make fudge,” said Mary, now 87 years young.
On Oct. 15, Mary and her classmates will be celebrating their 70th class reunion.
They may be in their 80s, but this group is delightfully young-at-heart.
The San Bernardino High School Class of 1946 will gather for a special luncheon celebration from 11 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Oct. 15 at Arrowhead Country Club.
And the surprising thing — they are expecting more than 25 alumni and their guests for the festivities.
So, 61 people — not bad after seven decades.
Harry Gallanes, president of the Class of ’46, will serve as emcee for the reunion festivities.
Their theme?
“Thanks for the Memories,” Bob Hope’s famous signature song, which they decided, was perfect for them.
Mary, who’s also known as “Pinkie,” and lifelong high school friend Joan Miles Schlaberg collaborated and came up with some clever lyrics Mary tried out on me at a reunion planning committee meeting Wednesday at the country club.
Joan, a retired teacher, recalls coming up with the theme idea at 2 a.m. when she couldn’t sleep.
“I thought of ‘The Last Hurrah’ and said, no, that’s too negative, and all of sudden I thought ‘Thanks for the Memories,’ because that’s what this is,” said Joan, who used to ride her bike most of the way to school, but would ditch the bike and walk the rest of the way because she didn’t want anyone to see her riding a bike to school.
Joan and Mary, together wrote the lyrics to the song, which they intend to sing at the Reunion.
They’ve got a piano player who’s 90 years old, they said.
Jack Mortensen remembers classmates meeting each morning on what they called the “Ad Steps.”
“These were the steps up to the administration building which is gone,” said Jack, who worked in the title insurance business for 43 years.
Going to the bowling alley and then to Carnation for ice cream is a fond memory for Betty Davis Ekema, who is making the centerpieces for the Reunion event.
Jeanne Choisnet, who wore a stunning red hat to the meeting, remembers walking to Perris Hill Park to go swimming.
“With the railroad here, this was a working man’s town,” Betty said.
Many alumni have stayed local,
“People are still loving our city,” said Mary, a retired librarian.
Mary loves her native city and remembers better days.
“We would walk home after football games and never be afraid,” she said.
“It hurts my heart when people say bad things about this city.”
The group remembers when San Bernardino was named an “All-America City” in 1977.
In 1991, the Class of 1946 adopted as their class project, the granting of college scholarships to deserving SBHS students planning to continue their education at area colleges.
Since then, they have granted 80 college scholarships, according to Everett Maguire, who coordinates the SBHS Class of 1946 Trust Account.
“We give out four $500 scholarships each year to graduates who will attend Cal State San Bernardino, San Bernardino Valley College, University of Redlands or Crafton Hills College,” said Everett, a retired attorney and former Cardinal second baseman.
Carol Hartman, another 1946 alumnus, selects the four scholarship recipients each year.
They have also planned ahead to have the program continued after they can no longer help choose recipients.
In all these years, they’ve slowed down only slightly.
So there’s not going to be a 75th, they agreed, because it’s “too much work.”
To the Class of ’46 — Thanks for the memories.
Michel Nolan appears in The Sun on Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays. Reach her at mnolan@scng.com or on Twitter @MichelNolan.
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Fibromyalgia: Maligned, Misunderstood and (Finally) Treatable
Research suggests it’s a disease of the central nervous system
By Bret Stetka on May 27, 2014
“I, too, have been assigned months of futility, long and weary nights of misery. When I go to bed, I think,`When will it be morning?' But the night drags on, and I toss till dawn...Depression haunts my days. My weary nights are filled with pain as though something were relentlessly gnawing at my bones.”
Job suffered badly. And his Old Testament woes are considered by many to be one of the earliest descriptions of fibromyalgia, a painful, puzzling disorder that still has experts bickering and patients frustrated, bereft of relief. The Bible isn't exactly a paragon of medical accuracy, but Job’s ailment does sound an awful lot like the modern interpretation of fibromyalgia. The classic diffuse pain, aches and discomfort aren’t the half of it; depression, fatigue, stiffness, sleep loss and generally just feeling really bad are common too. Fibromyalgia patients — 2 percent to 8 percent of the population — have also endured decades of dismissals that it's all in their head — a psychosomatic conjuring, a failure of constitution.
Skepticism around fibromyalgia stemmed in part from an elusive organic explanation. Symptoms appeared to arise out of nowhere, which didn't make any sense to empirically minded physicians. But over the past two decades, research has brought clinicians closer to deciphering this mysterious pain state, once thought muscular in nature, now known to be neurologic. Based on this recent work a new article in the Journal of the American Medical Association by chronic pain expert Dr. Daniel Clauw brings us up to speed on the understanding, diagnosis and management of fibromyalgia circa 2014. And the outlook for patients is rosier than you might expect given the condition’s perplexing reputation.
Accounts of chronic pain states and rheumatologic conditions — those affecting the joints or connective tissues — go way back. Hippocrates described gout, 2nd century Ayurvedic practitioners diagnosed what sounds like rheumatoid arthritis, and medieval European clinicians — and later French physician Guillaume de Baillou — ascribed joint and muscular maladies to “rheumatism” — the “rheum,” Greek for “river” or “flow” — of bad humors into affected areas. Eventually healers began distinguishing between articular rheumatism, that affecting the joints, and muscular rheumatism. Out of this idea of a generalized muscular pathology arose descriptions close to the modern view of fibromyalgia. But not that close.
Theories on what caused muscular rheumatism echoed through lecture halls for nearly a century — muscle spasms were the cause, or nerve dysfunction, possibly muscular calluses — until one took hold, that the condition was due to inflammation of fibrous or connective tissue in the muscles. As a result, muscular rheumatism came to be called “fibrositis” for the better part of the twentieth century. Despite the widely accepted description, the diagnosis remained vague; the pathological findings inconsistent or non-existent. And soon another theory added to the confusion: that fibrositis was rooted in the psyche. In 1880 an American neurologist had attributed what would come to be called fibrositis to the stress and anxiety of modern life. But it wasn't until World War II, when the diagnosis was common among hospitalized soldiers, often in association with depression and the stress of war, that psychological theories found traction. One group suggested fibrositis be called “psychogenic rheumatism”; another claimed it arose “independently of gross anatomical disease…”
By the second half of the 20th Century descriptions of fibrositis better integrated physical and psychological symptoms. In 1968 an Illinois physician branded the disorder a constellation of generalized stiffness, headaches, malaise, and tender points occurring almost exclusively in women who tended to be “worry worts.” His symptom description holds up relatively well; the girls-only idea, as we’ll see and as suggested by the afflicted WWII soldiers, not so much. Unfortunately it was definitions like this that may have contributed to subsequent, often sexist interpretations of fibrositis — that it was a byproduct of reckless emotion in the, almost always, female brain.
In the late 1970s, the term fibromyalgia replaced fibrositis, as inflammation had taken an etiologic back seat, while work by Dr. Hugh Smythe honed diagnosis. Smythe, considered a fibromyalgia pioneer, better identified common tender points. Along with colleague Harvey Moldofsky he confirmed the condition’s associated sleep disturbances using EEG. He also posited theories on how the pain patients experience might be referred, or perceived in an area other than where it's generated. 1981 saw the first study confirming the reliability of the diagnosis against controls. And finally in 1990 the American College of Rheumatology released the first official fibromyalgia diagnostic criteria; a history of widespread pain and pain in at least 11 of 18 specified tender points were necessary for a diagnosis.
Despite the clinical clarity, medicine still lacked a physical explanation for fibromyalgia, leading many experts to implicate the brain. The next 20 years of research confirmed their suspicion, culminating in today’s understanding of the disorder as a “centralized pain” state, as Dr. Clauw’s review discusses. “Centralized” refers to the central nervous system — the brain and spinal cord — either originating or amplifying pain. As Clauw points out, the CNS of patients with fibromyalgia appears to both heighten the response to painful stimuli and perceive normally non-painful stimuli as painful. A major implication here is that fibromyalgia and possibly related states like chronic fatigue syndrome are drastically different in origin than other conditions common to rheumatology clinics like osteo- and rheumatoid arthritis, both of which result in discernible tissue damage.
Neuroimaging studies support the theory that fibromyalgia-afflicted brains exhibit enhanced sensory response to benign stimuli. But what leads to this centralized pain state? Fibromyalgia’s strong familial association suggests that genetics plays a major role. Also any number of environmental influences can trigger fibromyalgia including infection, physical pain and psychological trauma. Deployment to war is still considered a major risk factor. And it seems there can be a significant psychological or behavioral component to the condition. Fibromyalgia patients are more likely to suffer from depression, anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder that in many cases, Clauw speculates, might result from common triggers. Regardless of the inciting factor, altered levels and activity of neurotransmitters that facilitate pain transmission may ultimately lead to the symptoms of fibromyalgia. These central disturbances are also likely at the root of the non-pain symptoms of fibromyalgia, as the same neurotransmitters are involved in sleep, memory and mood.
The science of fibromyalgia has clearly progressed. But perhaps most encouraging for patients are advances in the clinic, not the lab. Using the 1990 ACR diagnostic criteria, nearly all qualifying patients are women, harkening back to an earlier era of misunderstanding. However per newer, seemingly more accurate guidelines — which consider a wide range of symptoms and do away with tender point counts — the female to male ratio is 2:1, similar to that of other chronic pain conditions. Despite lingering stigma, Clauw reassures that receiving a correct fibromyalgia diagnosis is usually a major relief for patients: fewer doctor visits, fewer tests, fewer bills.
Better still for fibromyalgia sufferers is that it’s now relatively treatable. Several neurotransmitter-modulating drugs and drug classes appear to be effective, including some pain medications and antidepressants. Among these, three treatments are now FDA-approved. Possibly more effective, according to the current evidence, are exercise, cognitive-behavioral therapy — a form of psychotherapy based in altering negative thoughts and behaviors — and simply patient education. Clauw stresses that while medications can help alleviate symptoms, patients rarely see significant symptom improvement without also adopting self-management approaches like stress reduction, quality sleep and exercise.
As in many conditions, there are countless alternative fibromyalgia therapies out there too, from yoga to licorice to acupuncture. Despite minimal supporting evidence Clauw says try away, so long as they don't cause any harm. “…evidence suggests that these therapies give patients a greater sense of control over their illness…Giving patients a choice of therapies may improve the likelihood for a placebo response by activating the body’s internal analgesic mechanisms,” he writes. And for the herbal enthusiasts, a recent National Pain Foundation report suggests that marijuana might be more effective in fibromyalgia than most available drug therapies.
Exactly what fibromyalgia is, and what causes it, might be argued for some time — there are still plenty of online skeptics, including clinicians, writing it off as a fabrication of the malingering or “hysterical” patient. But Clauw and colleagues have advanced medicine’s grasp on the condition, culminating in a relatively unified, more accurate definition. The idea of centrally derived or enhanced pain reflects just how much influence the brain’s tangle of some 85 billion neurons has over the body — that corporeal perception can be strongly colored by central nervous system interpretation. It also suggests that fibromyalgia treatment should likely target neural networks and neurotransmitters, not joints, muscles or misguided humors. With this in mind, in 2014, it’s clear that fibromyalgia is real, for many it’s treatable and hopefully more effective treatments are around the corner — medical breakthroughs come a whole lot easier when you know where to look.
Are you a scientist who specializes in neuroscience, cognitive science, or psychology? And have you read a recent peer-reviewed paper that you would like to write about? Please send suggestions to Mind Matters editor Gareth Cook, a Pulitzer prize-winning journalist and regular contributor to NewYorker.com. Gareth is also the series editor of Best American Infographics, and can be reached at garethideas AT gmail dot com or Twitter @garethideas.
Bret Stetka is an Editorial Director at Medscape (a subsidiary of WebMD) and a freelance health, science and food writer. He received his MD in 2005 from the University of Virginia, loves donuts and writes regularly for Wired Magazine.
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Obituary: Micky Steele-Bodger, veterinary surgeon, England rugby internationalist, selector and administrator
Micky Steele-Bodger in 2000 (Picture: Neil Hanna)
Published: 07:00 Saturday 18 May 2019
Micky Steele-Bodger, veterinary surgeon, rugby internationalist and administrator. Born: 4 September 1925 in Tamworth, Staffordshire. Died: 9 May 2019, aged 93
Micky Steele-Bodger who has died aged 93 was a leading and much loved figure in the rugby world over many years, an outstanding ambassador for the sport as a player, administrator and the ultimate enthusiast.
A pocket battleship-sized flanker whose teams included Edinburgh University, he was capped nine times for England in post-war internationals before his career was cruelly cut short by injury aged 24, after which he moved into the administrative side of the game, becoming an England selector at 28.
Thereafter he held a series of prestigious positions including President of the Rugby Football Union in 1973, Chair of the International Rugby Board [now World Rugby] in 1981, Chair of the Home Rugby Unions Tours Committee responsible inter alia for Lions tours and President of the Barbarians since 1988, only their sixth in over 120 years.
He was closely associated with the exclusive invitation club whose values of open running rugby, camaraderie and sportsmanship he wholeheartedly endorsed. Similarly his name is forever linked with his renowned select team-‘Steele-Bodger’s XV’ – who play Cambridge University in the lead up to the annual Varsity match against Oxford and has done so since 1948. In 1990 he was awarded the CBE for services to the sport.
Outwith rugby he was a successful veterinary surgeon in the family practice in Tamworth, Staffordshire and later Chair of the East India Club in St James’s Square, London before being appointed its Life President.
As a player he first came to prominence at Cambridge University playing in wartime Varsity matches leading to selection three times for England in what were known as Victory Internationals in 1945/6. After the war he played twice in Varsity matches captaining the team in 1946 and winning two Blues.
Although only 5’8” and relatively lightweight for a forward he more than made up for it with his terrier-like approach and all action style of play.
Bill McLaren, who played against him once in direct opposition described him in his autobiography as “a nifty little operator’” while Harlequins Rugby club whom he also represented referred to him in their history as “ a wing forward of the light skirmishing type… who seemed to be everywhere at once.”
Continuing his veterinary studies at Edinburgh University he was a valued member of their teams in 1947 and ’48 which won the Scottish Universities’ Championship, considered one of their outstanding post war forwards.
A curious footnote to his Edinburgh career came during the 1948 Scotland-England game at Murrayfield. He found himself in direct opposition at scrum-half to university clubmate Gus Black, as Steele-Bodger covered for the injured English scrum-half. According to one report, “All blond curly hair and bow legs, he played as to the manner born.’
In seasons 1947 and ’48 he played in all England’s Five Nations’ matches and their match against the touring Australians. He was first selected for the Barbarians in 1946 as an uncapped flanker and in total represented them 13 times, captaining them twice.
In January 1948 he played in their first game against international opposition, Australia, at Cardiff Arms Park where good follow up work led to his scoring the first try, which none of the Home Nations had managed against the tourists.
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This was the first occasion the Barbarians had had a practice session the day before a game. Their motto “Rugby Football is a game for gentlemen of all classes but never for a bad sportsman of any class” neatly encapsulated his approach for the club which was: “We play to win but not at all costs.”
He thoroughly enjoyed his time with them and was hugely appreciated by all involved. Scott Hastings remembered him fondly: “A real gent who welcomed all the players individually and had a genuine interest in them.
“He fostered a Corinthian spirit but still managed to embrace professionalism. A lovely man.”
When first asked in 1948 to field a select team to play Cambridge before the Varsity match he agreed to do so on two conditions–that he was the sole selector and there would be a formal dinner afterwards, and the match became a vital part of the ‘Light Blues’ preparation for Twickenham.
He also played for Harlequins and Moseley and was the last surviving Harlequin to have played for them during the War. While training at Moseley in 1949 he badly injured knee ligaments which brought an end to his playing career.
Michael Roland Steele-Bodger was born at Tamworth, younger son of Henry William and Kathrine nee Macdonald. His father was a well-known veterinary surgeon and elder brother Alasdair also became an eminent vet. Steele-Bodger attended Rugby School where he began playing rugby, mostly at scrum-half.
After leaving school he went to Caius College at Cambridge University before continuing his studies at Edinburgh. As a youngster he was an Aston Villa fan but began to lose interest in football when he thought players “were not giving everything all the time” while he began to find rugby “a compulsive game that dragged you in and you didn’t want to stop”.
He was passionate about the sport and as a convivial individual appreciated the friendships it gave him in all walks of life all over the world. He also acknowledged it had given him ‘a helluva’ lot of fun too’.
In 1955 he married Violet Mary St Clair nee Murray, known as ‘Muff’, and they had three children during a long and happy marriage, Guy, Duncan and Clair. He is survived by his wife, children, nine grandchildren and five great grandchildren.
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Jordan Spieth boosts grand slam bid with sparkling 66 at US PGA
Jordan Spieth reacts to his putt on the 13th green during the second round of the US PGA Championship at Bethpage. Picture: Stuart Franklin/Getty
PHIL CASEY
Published: 22:23 Friday 17 May 2019
Jordan Spieth breathed new life into his bid to complete the career grand slam at the US PGA Championship, although defending champion Brooks Koepka clearly had other ideas at Bethpage.
Spieth needs to win the US PGA to join Gene Sarazen, Ben Hogan, Gary Player, Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods in having claimed all four major titles but was rated a 50-1 outsider to achieve the feat this week after enduring a poor season.
Rory McIlroy walks off the 17th hole during the second round of the US PGA Championship. Picture: Mike Ehrmann/Getty
The former world No 1 looked good value at that price after adding a second round of 66 to his opening 69 to set the early clubhouse target on five under par, a shot ahead of world No 1 Dustin Johnson and compatriot Daniel Berger.
But overnight leader Koepka, who equalled the lowest score in tournament history with his opening 63, looked in no mood to relinquish his crown and claim a remarkable fourth major title in his last eight starts.
Koepka birdied three of the first four holes on his way to a front nine of 32 to reach ten under par, five shots clear of Spieth and England’s Tommy Fleetwood, who was runner-up to Koepka in last year’s US Open and fourth behind the American in the same event in 2017.
Masters champion Tiger Woods carded two birdies and two bogeys on the front nine to remain two over par and one shot inside the projected cut line, with Rory McIlroy right on the mark after a battling 71.
McIlroy had limped to the turn in 40 after starting his round double bogey, bogey, double bogey, but the four-time major winner produced a hat-trick of birdies from the fourth and picked up another shot on the eighth.
“I just needed to see one putt to go in, to see something hit the bottom of the hole and that was on the fourth,” McIlroy, pictured, said. “From there I started to play some good golf.
“I had a horrendous start, five over after three, but came back well and the goal after those three holes was to be here for the weekend and it looks like I have done that, which is nice.”
Asked what kept him going after slumping to seven over par for the tournament, McIlroy added: “Pride. Just pride. Just trying to play a good round of golf and try to get something that’s close to the best out of myself.
“And I don’t like missing cuts. It’s not something that I’m used to fortunately and I wanted to be around for the weekend. At least if you’re around for the weekend you can go out there and maybe shoot a good one and at least give yourself half a chance.”
Spieth was second in the world after winning the third leg of the grand slam in the 2017 Open Championship but has not tasted victory since and is currently ranked 39th after failing to register a single top-20 finish this season.
The 25-year-old admitted at the start of the week he was “in a bit of a slump” but carded six birdies and two bogeys to start a major with two rounds in the 60s for the fourth time. He won the other three.
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Asked if the prospect of joining golf’s most elusive club had crept into his mind, Spieth said: “It certainly hasn’t. I can’t imagine it will because I haven’t been in contention on a Sunday since the Masters last year. If I’m able to put some good work in tomorrow, then I will be in contention on Sunday and at that point, it will be just more [thinking] of trying to win a golf tournament. It won’t matter to me what tournament it is.”
The best round of the day so far had come from England’s Matt Fitzpatrick, whose 65 was a ten-shot improvement on his opening round and left him level par overall. “I feel like the tougher courses suit my game a little bit more,” Fitzpatrick said. “You can’t get away with anything 40 yards offline. I think the furthest offline I’ve hit this week is ten yards from the edge of the fairway. I’ve hit a lot of fairways so this has been the key.”
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Jeremy Faber, Mushroom Hunter
The secret life of the founder of Foraged and Found Edibles.
By Langdon Cook 9/3/2013 at 9:00am Published in the September 2013 issue of Seattle Met
Image: Courtesy Langdon Cook
Jeremy Faber, the owner of Foraged and Found Edibles, is the chief supplier of rare and elusive mushrooms for Seattle’s most carefully sourced restaurants. He has been notoriously secretive when it comes to revealing his prime locations for foraging in Northwest forests, and as such he has been as elusive as the bounty he delivers to our tables. In The Mushroom Hunters, Seattle writer Langdon Cook gets closer to Faber and the secrets of his business than ever before. This excerpt reveals the beginnings of Faber’s obsession with wild edibles, as well as his partnership with one of this city’s seminal interpreters of foraged foods, Christina Choi, who died two years ago of an aneurysm at age 34. —Editor
Like every business with a long-term vision these days, Jeremy Faber’s Foraged and Found Edibles is obsessed with customer service and satisfaction. In Faber’s case, the final arbiter is the restaurant patron or home cook who takes a bite of his product. At a time when so-called USDA-approved organic greens, grown in factory-farm conditions, can become contaminated with E. coli by a pack of feral hogs, many consumers are looking for a purer sort of “all natural” food to grace their tables and impress dinner guests. Found well beyond the fence lines of Big Ag, wild foods are by definition organic, and they offer an authentic taste that can’t be duplicated in domesticity. Faber figures every big city has at least one dealer like himself: a backwoods-savvy merchant in the delicacies of the wild.
Becoming such a woodsman was Faber’s first trick. He was raised on Long Island, where, by his own admission, he got into New York City’s rave scene at a young age and first developed an interest in, shall we say, natural products and all-cash business. When he was 17, his parents sent him to rehab, even though by then his inclination wasn’t so much to indulge in his own product as it was to make money from it. He majored in forestry at the University of Vermont and then transferred to the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, New York. For most of his life he had worked in restaurants—greasy spoons and fast-food joints as a kid, and later at more-upscale places like Perry’s Fish House in Burlington. After graduating from the CIA, he moved West and took a series of restaurant jobs in Seattle, working at such stalwarts as Ray’s Boathouse, Serafina, and the now-defunct Brasa before landing a job at the renowned Herbfarm in the suburbs east of Seattle. There he apprenticed under James Beard Award–winning chef Jerry Traunfeld, who taught Faber how to use wild ingredients in imaginative preparations. The Herbfarm was one of the first restaurants to champion foraged foods in a big way, and it routinely lands on Top 10 lists for the Pacific Northwest’s best eateries. There Faber met one of his best friends, Matt Dillon, before Dillon would go on to make a name for himself with his own restaurants [Sitka and Spruce, the Corson Building, Bar Ferd’nand, Bar Sajor]. He also worked with Christina Choi, another wild-food enthusiast, who had bright, expressive eyes, an infectious smile, and who would become his girlfriend.
Food Finder Faber attracts other forest hunters to his buy stands (as in Sisters, Oregon, above); he displays a fall mushroom (left) found in Raymond, Washington.
Faber and Choi explored the wilds of Washington together, camping all over the state and experimenting with the little-known foods they found during long hikes through mountains and woods. Meanwhile, Faber worked up to sous chef. All the while he was also running a little grow operation on the side, housed in an attic crawl space above his rental room. Though not much of a dope smoker anymore, he grew pot to satisfy his yearning to work with actual currency. He grew and sold several crops over the course of a few years, until an ex-roommate threatened to rat him out if he didn’t pay hush money. Rather than split profits with the blackmailer, Faber ripped out all his plants and went legit.
At the Herbfarm, he was spending more and more time outdoors. He brought his finds back to the restaurant and incorporated them into dinner specials. Soon he was known as the house forager. In 2001, he and Christina Choi started Foraged and Found Edibles together. In a smallholder echo of the Microsoft and Amazon legends, they used Choi’s garage as the launching pad for their effort to supply the Herbfarm and numerous other Seattle-area restaurants with wild foods. A year later Faber left the Herbfarm altogether to concentrate on his business, while Choi, in time, decided to travel and pursue her own interest in wild foods down a different path. Though Choi’s departure—and the end of their romance with it—gave Faber full control over the fledgling company, Faber himself would continue to refer to Christina Choi as both his best friend and the heart and soul of the business. Choi’s interest was purely culinary and spiritual. She championed wild foods for their unique qualities and also because they were products of nature rather than agriculture. Her cooking, a fusion of her Chinese-Swiss heritage, was forever changing with the seasons and whatever foraged foods were available nearby, and though her financial interest seemed nonexistent, unlike Faber’s, this passion would lead eventually to the opening of Nettletown [now closed], a Seattle lunch spot that could boast quite possibly the highest ratio of wild to conventional food of any restaurant in the country.
A commercial forager’s life is hard on relationships. This was something Faber would learn in the coming years. The money, on the other hand, was steady. Despite the Internet bubble, these were boom years in Seattle. Flush with high-tech capital, the city built a baseball park with a retractable roof, a football stadium, and a new opera house. Swanky restaurants opened in droves in trendy neighborhoods like Belltown and Queen Anne, catering to Seattle’s new breed of young, moneyed professionals who wanted to eat well and to eat local.
From the book, The Mushroom Hunters by Langdon Cook.
Copyright © 2013 by Langdon Cook. Reprinted by arrangement with Ballantine Books, an imprint of the Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc. All rights reserved.
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The SEC News Digest Archive: 1977
The SEC News Digest provided daily information on Commission actions, including enforcement proceedings, rule filings, policy statements, and Commission meetings.
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December 1977 Issues
December 30, 1977 issue (dig123077.pdf)
December 26, 1977, was the Christmas Day holiday
December 9, 1977 issue (dig120977.pdf)
November 1977 Issues
November 30, 1977 issue (dig113077.pdf)
November 24, 1977, was the Thanksgiving Day holiday
November 9, 1977 issue (dig110977.pdf)
October 1977 Issues
October 31, 1977 issue (dig103177.pdf)
October 10, 1977, was the Columbus Day holiday
October 7, 1977 issue (dig100777.pdf)
September 1977 Issues
September 30, 1977 issue (dig093077.pdf)
September 9, 1977 issue (dig090977.pdf)
September 5, 1977, was the Labor Day holiday
August 1977 Issues
August 31, 1977 issue (dig083177.pdf)
August 9, 1977 issue (dig080977.pdf)
July 1977 Issues
July 29, 1977 issue (dig072977.pdf)
July 8, 1977 issue (dig070877.pdf)
July 4, 1977, was the Independence Day holiday
July 1, 1977 issue (dig0701577.pdf)
June 1977 Issues
June 30, 1977 issue (dig063077.pdf)
June 9, 1977 issue (dig060977.pdf)
May 1977 Issues
May 31, 1977 issue (dig053177.pdf)
May 30, 1977 was the Memorial Day Holiday
May 9, 1977 issue (dig050977.pdf)
April 1977 Issues
April 29, 1977 issue (dig042977.pdf)
April 8, 1977 issue (dig040877.pdf)
March 1977 Issues
March 31, 1977 issue (dig033177.pdf)
March 9, 1977 issue (dig030977.pdf)
February 1977 Issues
February 28, 1977 issue (dig022877.pdf)
February 21, 1977 was the Presidents' Day Holiday
February 9, 1977 issue (dig020977.pdf)
January 1977 Issues
January 31, 1977 issue (dig013177.pdf)
January 7, 1977 issue (dig010777.pdf)
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NHRA Breakfast: Four Legends to Share Their Stories
By John Stewart
The NHRA Breakfast will be held Wednesday, October 31, from 7:30 a.m.–9:00 a.m., at the Westgate Las Vegas Resort and Casino Paradise Events Center.
The 2018 NHRA Breakfast, held Wednesday, October 31, from 7:30 a.m.–9:00 a.m., at the Westgate Paradise Events Center, will showcase celebrity drivers who have been on the road to “Fifty Years of the NHRA Gatornationals.” The breakfast will feature drag-racing legends Kenny Bernstein, Joe Amato, Don “The Snake” Prudhomme and current NHRA driver John Force. FOX broadcast announcer Brian Lohnes will serve as the panel moderator, asking probing questions to provide attendees with a revealing glimpse into some of the best-kept stories of the historic Gatornationals. A continental breakfast will be served to a capacity crowd of attendees, on hand to share in the panel’s great stories, histories and laughs.
“To have John Force, Kenny Bernstein, Joe Amato and Don “The Snake” Prudhomme all on one stage is a very rare occurrence,” Lohnes stated.
The annual NHRA Breakfast is a key feature of the 2018 SEMA Show—the premier automotive specialty products trade event in the world—which draws the industry’s brightest minds and products under one roof, the Las Vegas Convention Center.
About The Panel
Kenny Bernstein: Nicknamed the “King of Speed,” Bernstein was the first driver to break the elusive 300-mph barrier at the Gatornationals in 1992. He’s won the Gatornationals four times in his career and was the first driver in history to win a championship in both Funny Car and Top Fuel.
Joe Amato: Amato secured 52 national event wins in Top Fuel and five world championship titles. He raced to three career victories at the Gatornationals. He was the first driver in the sports history to run 280 mph in 1987 and a 4.5-second pass in 1996.
Don “The Snake” Prudhomme: Prudhomme had 49 national event victories—35 in Funny Car and 14 in Top Fuel—as well as four consecutive Funny Car world championships. Five of those event wins happening at Gainesville Raceway. As a team owner, he garnered two Top Fuel world championships with Larry Dixon as his driver in 2002 and 2003.
John Force: A 16-time Funny Car world champion, Force has 149 career victories and counting, making him the winningest driver in NHRA history. He has secured eight career victories at the Gatornationals, most recently in 2017.
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How One Freak Injury Changed ESPN Anchor Rece Davis' View on College Sports
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After his son suffered a near fatal injury during a baseball game, ESPN College GameDay host Rece Davis has a new perspective on the safety of college sports.
By Jacob Feldman
ESPN College GameDay host Rece Davis abhors hyperbole and deflects attention. So when he says, “They had to revive him, he almost bled out,” you believe him. Then he starts choking up.
“Give me a minute here,” Davis says, taking a deep breath and letting out a loud exhale before recounting one of the worst days of his life. It started with watching his son play college baseball 18 months ago—he went 2-for-3! But hours later, Davis was banging on a hospital door. On the other side, his 19-year-old son had vomited, lost his sight, and slid out of his chair, unconscious.
Chris Davis nearly died doing what his father loved.
Growing up in Alabama, Rece would lay on the floor each fall Saturday, listening to Bama games, and Auburn games, and anything else he could find on the dial. He’d watch whatever was on TV and enjoy the rest on a Grundig radio. In high school, his top two “Life Time Goals” were (1) study sports broadcasting and (2) become a successful sports broadcaster. After graduating from Tuscaloosa, he worked his way up from a Columbus, Ga., TV gig to a Flint, Mich., station to ESPN in 1995, where he continued to rise.
Davis went from hosting ESPN2’s weekend night programming to calling college football games and hosting a weekly college basketball road show with Digger Phelps and Jay Bilas. In 2015, he started hosting ESPN’s Emmy-winning College Gameday football touring show. Along the way, the idea of moving up to the pros would come up—to covering the NFL. He’d never say never. But he’s passionate about college football and basketball. “I tell people, I like all sports but I really love two,” Davis says, “not counting whatever team Christopher is on—that’s my first love.”
Ironically, Chris grew up an Auburn fan. With Dad working on Saturdays, Rece’s wife, Leigh, would watch her alma mater Tigers at home, teaching Chris to chant “War Eagle!” (Rece wouldn’t make the same mistake with their other child, 18-year-old Alabama fan, Elizabeth.)
Each fall, Chris would play football, and in the winter, basketball, but it was baseball he fell in love with because it was in the spring and summer when Rece could play. “I always wanted to go to the cage with him,” Chris says. “I always wanted to go the field with him. A lot of my great memories of my dad from when I was a kid were at Little League baseball fields.” Chris led a state championship team when he was 10 (Rece was an assistant, in charge of bringing the “can of whoopin’” to each game) and he continued developing, setting his sights on a career like his dad did as a teen. He wanted to play at an SEC school initially, but ended up getting recruited to Princeton instead.
The first thing Chris remembers about March 18, 2017, is the sun. The previous day in College Park, Md., had been cloudy with temperatures in the 40s. He’d come off the bench, singling as a pinch hitter in the series opener against Maryland. In the second game, his mom would get to watch Chris start in centerfield for the first time (he’d missed the previous season with a shoulder injury). And he wouldn’t have to wear an undershirt.
Then came the sixth inning fly ball from Terrapin third baseman AJ Lee. Running to his left, Davis recorded the out but then collided with right fielder Nick Hernandez. Davis instantly bounced up and threw the ball in, keeping a runner at third. “It hurt but I didn't think there was anything seriously wrong,” Davis says. He stayed in the game, adding a single in the seventh and otherwise hiding his pain from his coaches.
On the bus following the 6-2 defeat, Davis pulled out his phone and pulled up WebMD. After an off-handed remark by teammate Cody Phillips, he looked up the symptoms of a ruptured spleen. “All right,” he thought, thumbing through the page. “Well, I've got pain in my side and in my shoulder, but that’s because I ran into somebody. If I get dizzy, then we'll have an issue.”
The team and all the parents gathered that evening at Washington, D.C.’s Busboys and Poets for a celebratory dinner. To start, each player got up and introduced himself and his family. When Chris’s turn came, “I just remember the room was absolutely spinning,” he says. Afterwards, the players went to get food, but Davis wasn’t interested. “For me,” he says, “That's a big deal when I don't want to eat.” Minutes later, Rece was taking his son to the hospital.
Leigh was sitting right next to Chris when things turned dire. A nurse was measuring his weight and taking his temperature one minute. Then, “He said, ‘I can’t see, I can’t see, I can’t see anymore,’” Leigh recalled, “And he kept getting louder and louder because he couldn’t really hear either.” Rece rushed through the door and into the room as several people lifted Chris onto a stretcher and turned him on his side so he wouldn’t throw up on himself. Confirming what Phillips had feared hours earlier, they told Rece and Leigh that the hospital wasn’t equipped with the surgery equipment to repair their son’s spleen. They wanted to fly him to a trauma center, but a helicopter wasn’t available.
Instead, Leigh got into an ambulance with Chris while Rece drove Elizabeth. “Not knowing during that 15-minute drive, that was one of the more harrowing times I’ve ever had,” Rece said. Only later would he learn how alarmed the nurse in the ambulance was about Chris’ sinking blood pressure, telling the driver to go faster. Faster. “There are images from that night that I will probably never shake. Things my wife and daughter and I experienced that night that I’m not sure you’ll ever quite put to bed.”
Doctors at Washington Hospital Medical Center immediately went to work on Chris. He needed six pints of blood (more than half a healthy person’s total volume). At 2 a.m., a surgeon stemmed the bleeding.
As Chris spent the next day in ICU, doctors told the family he was recovering. But he was still so pale. Leigh couldn’t look at him without crying. “Dad,” Chris asked Rece, “Are they not telling me something?” His vital signs were in the normal range, but, 24 hours after his surgery, a nurse convinced the doctors that a Division 1 athlete should be in much better shape than “the normal range.” Chris’s fitness had probably helped him survive the previous day’s massive blood loss. But now it was obfuscating further damage. At 5 a.m., Chris went back into surgery. This time, doctors cut Chris from his sternum to his belly button to find the root of the problem. They discovered another laceration on his spleen and decided to remove the organ entirely. By midday Monday, 48 hours after the collision, color finally returned to Chris’s face.
“Rece has always hated calling coaches or anyone about personal stuff,” Leigh says. But in the hospital, she implored him. “Honey, now’s the time,” she told him. “They would want you to.” Two days after getting knocked out of the NCAA Tournament, Maryland coach Mark Turgeon made connections for the family at the medical center. In the middle of the Sweet Sixteen, Jay Bilas got longtime friend and Washington Hospital doctor Wanda Pak to help the family navigate the system.
Courtesy of Wanda Pak
With Chris needing to get back to school or risk missing the semester, “We were trying to do a month’s worth of work in a week,” Pak said. “I wanted all of them to understand that even though they removed his spleen which was the source of him bleeding, he was still an infection away from problems.” Even today, a mild fever represents a serious threat for Chris, as the spleen plays an important role in the immune system.
Leigh got an apartment in Princeton to monitor Chris and help carry his bags as he returned to campus. Rece, through Alabama trainer Jeff Allen, reached out to Dr. Bill Meyers—who has operated on athletes from Adrian Peterson to Justin Verlander—to manage Chris’ rehab. “People say, I’d do anything for my kid,” Bilas says. “They’ve proven they’d do anything.”
Along the way, the Davises learned how many other families had dealt with similar injuries. Twenty minutes from where Chris grew up, Rockies outfielder David Dahl lost his spleen due to an outfield collision while playing in the minors. Forty miles from Princeton, Evan Murray died from a spleen injury suffered during a high school football game. Level 1 trauma centers across the country see an average of 200 to 300 blunt trauma splenic injuries every year.
How often does Chris think about the injury? “I mean, I’ve got this big scar down my whole stomach basically that’s a bit of a reminder,” he says. Each new summer ball team he joins comes with an explanation of what happened to him the first time he changes in the locker room. A leadoff hitter for Princeton last season, Chris still wants to play professionally. He’s worked on his swing angle and hopes to avoid the injury-prone tag. “If I go out and pull a hamstring in our scrimmage tomorrow, unless I can’t walk, I'm not going to let coach know I did it,” he said. “I don't think it's changed the way that I would go about that. I think that's still just a competitive thing.”
Leigh gets nervous watching baseball whenever there’s a collision in the outfield or between bases. She went to the Ohio State-Penn State football game with Rece and watched 19-year-old receiver K.J. Hamler crumple to the ground after a blow to the head. “It was hard for me to be there and see that,” she says. “I feel it more now.” Witnessing hits to the midsection sometimes gives Rece flashbacks, but not usually. More often, it is balls to right-center that leave him thinking of the dangers.
Courtesy of Leigh Davis
Going through the recruiting process as a parent didn’t dampen Rece’s lifelong love for amateur athletics. But seeing first-hand the work that goes into playing even a non-revenue sport reaffirmed his belief that big-time players ought to be able to better capitalize on their contributions. Then came the injury. “I do have a lot more sympathy and empathy for parents of players who step up and take control of the player’s health and wellbeing,” Davis says.
“I learned the lesson that it’s okay to question, it’s okay for players and families to take ownership,” he adds. “And not only on medical issues. Just generally speaking, I have even less of a problem with a person doing what they think is best for them.” Davis brings up Clemson QB Kelly Bryant’s decision to transfer. “He’s taking ownership of his future,” Davis says. “I have zero problem with that.”
With their new perspective, and having now heard so many stories from others, Leigh encouraged Rece to write something about their experience. He could explain what happened, warn other parents, and advocate for better health education among players. It’s not just hits to the head that can cause serious problems, Rece would write. But he hasn’t. “I have learned a lot but I’m by no means some kind of expert on when to recognize a spleen injury,” he says.
“He’s the most respected voice on our crew,” Bilas says, because he knows how to pick his spots. However, Leigh says she’s noticed her husband become more comfortable sharing his opinion.
“I think there’s an aspect of this story that’s not being examined well enough,” Davis said on stage at an August ESPN media event when asked about the death of Maryland football player Jordan McNair. That was the beginning of an articulate, passionate plea for athletic training staffs to receive more autonomy, resources, and institutional support. “I think it’s incumbent on administrations to make sure this happens,” Davis said.
He mentioned all of the trainers he’d queried recently about what happened to McNair, just like he’d done after Chris’s injury. He even referenced his personal experience in extending sympathy to McNair’s family. Recognizing that he could not truly understand how they felt losing a child, he still connected with their deep frustration and knew, deep down, that his family had been fortunate to avoid a tragedy. “That was a young man who died who didn’t have to,” Davis said in August.
And when he was done speaking, Davis apologized. “Sorry for the soap box,” he said.
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