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A $29 Billion US Troll-Tax or Just Another Statistical Smokescreen?
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In the past few days, there has been a disproportionate level of attention given to a somewhat academic study of the costs imposed upon the US economy by purported patent 'trolls', or 'non-practicing entities' (NPEs).
The study, conducted by Boston University law researchers James Bessen and Michael Meurer, is entitled The Direct Costs from NPE Disputes, and a working draft is available from SSRN.
As it has been presented in the technology media (see, e.g., US patent trolling costs $29b: study and Patent trolling cost the US $29 BILLION in 2011), the study shows that patent trolls impose a huge burden on innovation, and that this is further proof of our 'broken' patent system. This is great headline fodder (or click bait), but does it really add up?
Reading the full paper by Bessen and Meurer raises, for us at least, a number of issues, concerns and questions which are (unsurprisingly) absent from the bulk of the media coverage. Here are just a few…
If it is indeed true that patent trolls exact a $29 billion 'tax' on the US economy, then this is certainly cause for alarm. But does this figure really pass the 'smell test', or is it just too implausible to take seriously? If it is wrong, then this study is adding to the hysteria around purported problems with the patent system without due cause. When the figures in the study are stacked up against the total number of technology companies operating in the US, and the total R&D expenditure, it is frankly difficult to believe that the results are a true reflection of reality.
The raw data for the study comes from RPX Corporation, a 'patent aggregator' which offers 'defensive buying, acquisition syndication, patent intelligence and advisory services'. Basically, RPX acquires patents (just like a 'troll'), but with the stated intent of using them to remove trolls from the market, and to assist the victims of trolls. Companies pay to become RPX 'members' for not-insubstantial fees. The survey data used in the study is from RPX clients, or other associated firms, and the broader litigation data is from RPX's own database, selected and compiled according to its own criteria. While the study's authors are keen to point out that RPX had no say in how they used the data, or presented their research, they are nonetheless completely dependent on information that is unlikely to be free from selection bias.
There is no differentiation in the study (because there is no differentiation in RPX's data) between different kinds of NPE. RPX uses the term to encompass patent assertion entities (i.e. organisations whose primary business model is to acquire and assert patents in order to obtain settlement and license fees) as well as individual inventors, universities, and non-competing entities (i.e. operating companies asserting patents well outside the area in which they make products and compete). Not all of these entities are patent 'trolls'. Indeed, it may be that the true 'trolls', i.e. those entities which make absolutely no contribution to innovation within the economy, are in a minority.
The statistical methods employed in the study are opaque, and lacking in any sensible or meaningful assessment of error or confidence. For all we can determine from the published data, the number '$29 billion' could mean 'anywhere between $100 million and $100 billion'. Or it could mean something else entirely. People who perform these kinds of analyses need to start to understand a simple fact: if you cannot establish the 'error bars' on your results, they are meaningless to a statistically-informed reader, and worse than meaningless to the lay person, who may treat them as accurate and precise.
Tags: Economics, Innovation policy, Patents and society, Trolls
Undefended Appeal from Opposition Decision a Fait Accompli
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Scott v Icon Plastics Pty Ltd [2012] FCA 428 (27 April 2012)
Patent Opposition - Appeal to the Federal Court of Australia - outcome when neither the original opponent nor the Commissioner of Patents appears and no evidence before the court
We reported back in November 2011 on the success of Icon Plastics Pty Ltd in opposing the grant of a patent to Laurence Clifford Scott, on the basis that Scott was not entitled to the patent, because he was neither the inventor nor a legitimate assignee of the inventor. According to Icon, the invention disclosed and claimed in the application was actually devised by Icon General Manager Royston Douglas Bull ('Bull'), had been misappropriated by Scott, and wrongfully made the subject of the application in Scott's name. (See 'Stolen' Invention Restored to Rightful Owner.)
Scott appealed the opposition decision to the Federal Court. However, Icon Plastics declined to participate in the court proceedings, agreeing to submit to the court's judgement (except with respect to any award of costs).
As in similar previous cases, the court was unable to uphold any ground of opposition in the absence of any relevant evidence having actually been adduced during the proceedings.
Therefore the appeal has been allowed, and the patent has proceeded to grant in Scott's name.
Tags: Appeal, Australia, Opposition
Who's Upset With the Patent System?
If you read articles and opinions from various online sources, or take notice of some of the recent coverage of patent-related topics in the mainstream media, you might think that criticism of the patent system is rife in the community. However, this is almost certainly not the case!
There is a strong selection bias in the main sources of news and commentary about patents. In part, this is because there will always be a certain level of public curiosity about any kind of legal dispute involving household names such as Apple, Samsung, Microsoft, Google, Motorola and Nokia. And because these are all 'tech' companies, much of that curiosity is served by the technology media, with contributions by individuals and groups with a particular interest in the relevant technologies. By its very nature, much of this discourse takes place online, where it is channelled via social media and other mechanisms directly to those with similar interests.
On the Internet, it is all too easy for any of us to become so caught up in our own little microcosm of views, interests and opinions that we lose sight of the wider picture. Nobody should be surprised that, for example, the Whirlpool forums are full of people with opinions about whether or not Apple should be awarded an injunction against Samsung's products – or vice versa. But if you were to go out onto the streets and start asking randomly-selected people for their views on the subject, many would not even be aware that it is an ongoing issue. Very little of the online coverage of the 'smartphone wars' is making it into the print or broadcast media, where it might be encountered by people who do not have an existing particular interest.
Tags: Business processes, Computer programs, Patents and society
Imagining a 'World Without Patents'…
It is actually not that easy to imagine a world without patents. At least, not if you really try. If you are the kind of person who is generally opposed to patents, or who thinks that the patent system is fundamentally 'broken', you might suppose that you can easily imagine a world without patents. And you might imagine it as some kind of utopia: no software patents, no 'business method' patents, no gene patents, no patent trolls, no 'FRAND abuse', no Apple v Samsung v Oracle v Google v Motorola v Microsoft v HTC v …
But this is not really imagining a world without patents. This is just a world without some of the messier consequences of patents. If you really want to imagine a world without patents – or, indeed, any other form of intellectual property rights – you have to try to imagine all of the other consequences of this hypothetical scenario.
First you need to ask yourself, what kind of scenario are you actually trying to imagine? Do you want to visualise what the world might have been like if there never were patents? Or do you want to imagine what would happen if all patents were to be abolished overnight? The second scenario is more practical, in the sense that it is at least theoretically possible (although astronomically unlikely). However, the first is more interesting, in the sense that it encourages one to imagine completely different models for innovation and technological advancement which may have developed in the absence of patents.
Tags: History, Law reform, Patents and society, Venice
Australian Patent Office Discretion in Opposition Proceedings
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Alcon Research, Ltd v Sylentis S.A.U. [2012] APO 55 (29 May 2012)
BHP Billiton Worsley Alumina Pty Ltd v Alcoa of Australia Limited [2012] APO 60 (13 June 2012)
Gallus Ferd, Ruesch AG v Strork Prints B.V. [2012] APO 46 (2 May 2012)
Neste Oil Oyj v BP International Limited [2012] APO 20 (1 February 2012)
BP International Limited v Neste Oil Oyj [2012] APO 40 (28 March 2012)
Patent Office practice and procedure – Regulation 5.10 – extensions of time and other conduct of opposition proceedings – exercise of discretion – satisfactory explanations – significance of evidence and public interest in oppositions being considered on merit
Regulation 5.10 of the Australian Patents Regulations 1991 gives wide-ranging discretionary powers to the Patent Office for directing the conduct of opposition proceedings. In particular, the regulations provide for time limits – such as those applying to the service of evidence – to be extended, and for parties to apply to serve additional evidence in appropriate circumstances.
A number of recent decisions by delegates of the Commissioner or Patents highlight the factors which the Office will currently take into account when deciding whether or not to exercise discretion in favour of a party to an opposition. The major considerations are:
whether the party requesting the exercise of discretion, e.g. to extend a time period, or to allow service of further evidence, has provided an adequate explanation of its reasons for requiring the indulgence; and
whether there is a probability that the exercise of the discretion as requested will have a significant impact on the outcome of the opposition.
It is not necessary that the party provide a 'full and frank' disclosure of all of the circumstances leading to the requirement for the exercise of discretion. Nor is it necessary to establish any particular likelihood that the exercise would be determinative of the outcome of the opposition.
Nonetheless, any party seeking a favourable hearing from the Patent Office in an application relating to the conduct of opposition proceedings would be well-advised to make sure they have both of the above points well covered. This advice is illustrated by the following recent examples.
Tags: Australia, Extensions of time, Opposition, Patent Office
Generic ABILIFY (Aripiprazole) Ban to be Reviewed
Generic Health Pty Ltd v Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co Ltd [2012] FCA 412 (23 April 2012)
Practice and procedure – interlocutory injunction – whether application for leave to appeal should be referred to a Full Court
Generic Health Pty Ltd will have the opportunity to appeal the decision of a single judge of the Federal Court of Australia granting a preliminary injunction preventing it from launching a generic version of the antipsychotic drug ABILIFY (see Australian Federal Court Blocks Generic ABILIFY (Aripiprazole)).
In general, any decision of a single judge of the Federal Court can be challenged by appeal to the Full Court – a panel of three judges. In the case of a final ruling, i.e. after a full trial, any party to the proceedings automatically has the right to appeal. However, a Full Court review of a preliminary judgement requires permission, i.e. 'leave' to appeal.
As a result, appealing a preliminary injunction is generally a two-step process – first the appellant must obtain leave to take the matter to a Full Bench of the court and then, if leave is granted, it is still necessary for the appeal proper to be heard.
In this case, Justice Katzmann has granted a request by Generic Health for its application for leave to be heard by a Full Bench of the court, and for the appeal itself to be heard either simultaneously, or immediately following the leave hearing. Regular readers of this blog may recall that Justice Foster made a similar ruling in favour of Samsung last year (see Samsung Over First Hurdle in Bid To Overturn Apple Injunction).
Tags: Appeal, Federal Court practice, Interlocutory injunction, Pharmaceuticals
Samsung Seeks Technical Knock-Out of Apple Patents
Samsung has filed an application with the Federal Court of Australia, under the Administrative Decisions (Judicial Review) Act 1977, for a review of decisions by the Australian Patent Office to grant four of the patents currently being asserted against it by Apple in the ongoing Australian litigation.
The application, and details the patents in question, have been reported in the past days by both iTnews and ZDNet.
If Samsung's application is successful, it could see the four patents, all of which relate to touch-screen functionality (including the famous 'slide-to-unlock' patent), declared null and void by the Federal Court.
In our opinion, however, Samsung's prospects of success are at best even, and probably somewhat less than that. There are, as we shall explain, a number of hurdles which Samsung must leap in order to prevail, and should it fall at any one of them then its whole case will fail.
Tags: Apple-v-Samsung, Double patenting, Judicial review
'Professional' Provisionals – Now More Important Than Ever
Anybody filing a provisional patent application now, and waiting the full 12 months before filing complete (non-provisional) applications in Australia and/or the United States, may be subject to revised patent laws in both countries.
Most of the substantive provisions of the Australian Raising the Bar Act commence on 15 April 2013, while the new 'first-inventor-to-file' provisions on the America Invents Act commence on 13 March 2013. Both reforms have potentially significant impact on applications filed after these dates, even if these claim the benefit of provisional applications filed prior to commencement of the amendments.
In particular, as a result of the reforms, even though they have not yet fully commenced, it is now effectively imperative that any priority document, including a provisional application, provide full support for the invention as it is ultimately claimed in the complete, non-provisional, application.
'…any provisional application filed now, and forming the basis for a complete application filed in 12 months time, will be completely worthless for priority purposes in Australia and the US unless it supports the invention across the full scope of the ultimate claims…'
The notion that a provisional application can provide a lower standard of disclosure, without prejudice to the applicant, was never really true. But is is now more crucial than ever that this myth be dispelled.
There are a number of people 'out there' – principally serial inventors, inventor advocates and invention promotion companies – who are keen to tell you (often for a price) that you do not need a patent attorney to assist in the preparation and filing of a provisional patent application. This, they say, is something any inventor can do for themselves, in order to obtain 'meaningful' protection for an invention at a low initial cost.
Sorry, but this is simply not true. If you do not really know what you are doing, your provisional application may be worthless. Indeed, it may be worse than worthless, if it provides you with a false sense of security that your invention is protected.
No doubt cynical readers will be thinking that this is exactly what you would expect a self-serving patent attorney to say. Maybe so. But after reading this article we hope you will at least be in a position to make an informed decision.
Tags: Australia, Priority claim, Provisional applications, US
'Gene Patents': Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics
The adage that 'there are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics' has been variously attributed, most famously by Mark Twain to 19th-century British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli. However, it is not very important who said it first, or why, more than 100 years ago. Its continuing currency stems from the underlying truth that any argument, no matter how weak, can be bolstered by an array of suitably impressive numbers.
Unless you are a statistician, qualified by years of study and experience to assess the validity of the empirical and mathematical processes used to obtain the numbers, it is healthy to take your statistics with a good dose of scepticism. After all, over 99.9% of statistics are made up on the spot!
However, the level of scepticism not only varies from person-to-person, but also depends upon the topic at hand. The persuasive power of statistics among non-experts is clearly influenced by confirmation bias – the tendency to favour information that supports a person's pre-existing beliefs.
It is perhaps no coincidence that the 'damned lies' adage is commonly attributed to a politician. Of all people, politicians are perhaps the most adept at quoting facts and figures to support their positions, while denouncing those of their rivals as unfounded, inaccurate, or based upon dubious research.
A couple of weeks ago we wrote about a new push by political opponents of so-called 'gene patents' to introduce legislation in the Australian parliament to ban the patenting of genetic materials, including human genes (see Gene Patent Opponents Take the Fight Back to Australian Parliament). An argument in favour of such a ban runs along the following lines:
every person is made up of 23,000 genes;
they determine everything about you, including your susceptibility to disease;
4,000 of these genes have been patented by organisations hoping to profit through exclusive research on them;
this means each gene is effectively owned by the patent holder;
if you can just get a patent for just discovering the presence of a gene, then you really block everyone else from being able to work on that gene;
corporations can take out patents over human genes and thereby monopolise those genes;
if an organisation can monopolise a gene, that means the world's scientists can't collaborate and swap their results; and
this could potentially delay a cure for cancer or the invention of a vaccine.
Every one of the above statements is copied directly from either the Lateline report, or the subsequent interview with anti-gene-patent proponents Senator Bill Heffernan and Mellissa Parke MP. It all seems quite reasonable, except for the fact that most of these statements fall into one of the three categories of lies.
Tags: Australia, Genetic technology, Patent law, Patentable subject matter
Apple Not 'The Developer for the World' Says Hypocritical Cook
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As presented in Walter Isaacson's biography, it seems that Steve Jobs did not require a rational justification to 'go thermonuclear war' against Google and Android. As we wrote back in October last year, Jobs was willing to 'spend my last dying breath if I need to, and I will spend every penny of Apple's $40 billion in the bank, to right this wrong.' To him, the battle over smartphone technology was not about business or money. Isaacson reports Jobs telling former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, 'I don't want your money. If you offer me $5 billion, I won't want it. I've got plenty of money. I want you to stop using our ideas in Android, that's all I want.'
Jobs had built Apple into the world's biggest tech company, and so he could really do no wrong in the eye's of Apple shareholders and aficionados. But the fact is that starting a global thermonuclear war, or spending every cent of the company's money in pursuit of a principle, is not good business. That path leads ultimately to shareholder revolt!
Jobs' successor, Tim Cook, has therefore inherited a potential ticking time-bomb. Apple had some early wins in the patent disputes which it started, but as the various court proceedings drag out over months – and those months will become years, unless there is a settlement – the company is finding itself increasingly mired in suits, countersuits, side issues and appeals.
It should therefore some as no surprise that Cook is trying to recast the battle as one which has a rational business foundation, and in which Apple is on the side of goodness and light. The cost and distraction of all these law suits must now be justified to observers and shareholders as something more than the result of one person's outrage.
So, when questioned about the ongoing IP disputes, Cook has taken to responding that, while he would prefer to settle, Apple will not be the world's developer. At Apple's quarterly conference call on 24 April 2012 (as reported by CNET) Cook said 'I would highly prefer to settle than to battle. But it's important that Apple not become the developer for the world. We need people to invent their own stuff.'
Tags: Android, Apple-v-Samsung, FRAND, Smartphone wars
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Report: Saudi Student Used Handgun in Pensacola Attack
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Reports indicate that the Saudi Arabian student who opened fire at Naval Air Station Pensacola used a handgun to carry out his attack.
Breitbart News reported that the attack occurred Friday morning when the gunman opened fire, killing three innocents and causing numerous others to be transported to the hospital for injuries.
The Washington Post reports that the gunman was "a military pilot from Saudi Arabia training in the United States." The U.S. Naval Institute reports that the attacker used a handgun to carry out his heinous act.
Escambia Sheriff David Morgan noted the use of handgun and the courageous actions of two Escambia County Sheriff's officers who took action to stop the attack and were wounded. Morgan said, "We have two officers of the Escambia County Sheriff's office in the initial response that negated the threat, they're now in a local hospital. We expect them to fully recover."
On December 6, Crime Prevention Research Center's John Lott reported that Naval Air Station Pensacola is a gun-free zone.
Another shooting in a gun-free zone: Two murdered, at least 11 hospitalized, in shooting at Naval Air Station Pensacola in Florida https://t.co/XdL8EgdzFP#2A @NRA @everytown
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Port of Antwerp to collaborate more closely with Enabel
Today, Wednesday 14 November, a collaboration agreement was signed in the port of Antwerp between on the one hand Antwerp Port Authority and its consultancy and investment subsidiary Port of Antwerp International (PAI) and on the other Enabel, the Belgian development agency. The aim of the agreement is to combine forces with a view to further sustainable development for ports in developing countries.
Crucial role for ports in development collaboration
Finding and supporting suitable growth centres in particular countries now plays an increasingly important role in the vision for Belgian development collaboration. Ports as essential links in the supply chain play a vital part here, acting as engines of economic development. Ports can be made more efficient by providing advice and training, and by making improvements to facilities. This in turn boosts the country's supply chain, with a positive effect on national performance and competitiveness, as well as helping to create employment.
"I am very pleased to be able to sign this collaboration agreement," declared Enabel CEO Jean Van Wetter. "Shipping transport is an important factor in international development. The port of Antwerp and Belgian development aid both concentrate a large part of their efforts on Africa. The annual volume of freight carried between West Africa and the port of Antwerp amounts to 15 million tonnes. 13 out of Enabel's 14 partner countries are located in Africa, and many of these have coasts with major ports. Making their port management more efficient, both on the import and on the export side, is therefore crucial for future-oriented, sustainable development."
Closer collaboration
The agreement was signed in Port House by Jacques Vandermeiren, CEO of Antwerp Port Authority, Kristof Waterschoot, Managing Director of PAI, and Jean Van Wetter, CEO of Enabel. The aim of the agreement is to combine the forces of all three organisations so as to permit closer collaboration with a view to sustainable development of ports in developing countries.
Earlier this year the World Ports Sustainability Programme (WPSP) Charter was signed, based on the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) defined by the United Nations.
Jacques Vandermeiren, CEO of Antwerp Port Authority, explained: "As engines of economic growth and development all over the world, ports are an important lever for achieving these SDGs. The port of Antwerp for its part is a major hub in the global supply chain and a leader in creating added value, and as such it aims to play a pioneering role here. The entire port community has therefore made a commitment to sustainable growth and development. The signature of this collaboration agreement will enable us to put these SDGs into practice."
Importance of Africa
The port of Antwerp has the highest number of direct services to West Africa, out of all the ports in North-West Europe.
"Africa is a very important region for us," declared Kristof Waterschoot, Managing Director of PAI. "Not only because of our market leader position but also because of the collaboration that we already have with various African ports. One good example of this is our collaboration with Benin aimed at modernising the port of Cotonou. In this case we have assumed temporary responsibility for the entire management of the port. This closer collaboration with Enabel will make it possible for us to provide further support for existing projects and to set up new agreements for potential collaboration arrangements. In this way we can transfer our expertise to ports in developing countries, ultimately enabling them to further develop themselves in a sustainable way."
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Behind the lies of Holocaust denial (TED talk)
"There are facts, there are opinions, and there are lies," says historian Deborah Lipstadt, telling the remarkable story of her research into Holocaust deniers — and their deliberate distortion of history. Lipstadt encourages us all to go on the offensive against those who assault the truth and facts. "Truth is not relative," she says.
Bessie's Indiscretion
(Here is a short story I wrote fourteen years ago in memory of my great-aunt Bessie. I have re-published it to give some background to the London Jewish walks I will be recommencing, starting on March 6th)
It was significant that Bessie's birthday this year fell on Passover, as her story was as much a triumph over adversity as her forbears' celebrated release from bondage. As was customary, the extended family were gathered, a pyramid of generations, with Bessie at the apex and a multitude of tiny ones, crammed at opposite ends of a table that grew healthily each year. It was also customary to invite a stranger to the seder table and this year Bessie had intrigued us with an elderly gentleman, apparently a friend from the day centre, who was sitting politely and quietly to her left, next to Sadie, my mother. I was there as family scribe. To me she had entrusted her many secrets and to me she had given the responsibility to tell them, well all bar one, anyway.
Beyond Reasonable Doubt
Satanist abuse is 'rife' in the UK but so too are high-level cover-ups…
On 6 October 2017 Wiltshire Police published their report regarding Operation Conifer, the investigation into allegations of child sexual abuse and satanist ritual abuse (SRA) against the former UK Prime Minister, Sir Edward Heath.
Bible Expert's Surprising Findings About Jews and Judaism Revealed in the New Testament
It's well known that Christianity sprang from a Jewish context. While there may be controversy about Jesus' Judaism vs. the traditional Judaism of the Sanhedrin, the ruling body of Judaism in the first century, there's no doubt that Jesus, his family, and followers were practicing Jews, as recorded in the New Testament. Biblical scholar Lawrence H. Schiffman, Judge Abraham Lieberman Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies and Director of the Global Network for Advanced Research in Jewish Studies at New York University (NYU), takes this understanding to a new level. He identifies citations in the New Testament that others have glossed over without recognizing their unique significance. On March 26-27, 2015, at a conference at NYU, "Integrating Christianity and Judaism into the Study of the Ancient World," Professor Schiffman delivered a talk titled "The New Testament as a Source for the History of the Jews and Judaism."
Bold!
Do you find that everywhere you go, your steps are dogged by a ranting mob who accuse you of crimes against the state? Perhaps you preach a different, less upsetting Gospel?
Britain is No Longer a Christian Country!
It's official! Well, that is, according to the report released by former senior judge, Baroness Butler-Sloss. The thin end of the wedge is getting thicker...
Britain's Muslim Population to be 26 Million by 2051
Few themes in the Bible are repeated more than this: When a nation turns their back on God, that nation begins a downward spiral, heading finally to its destruction. It is not a comfortable subject to think about. And yet, the Lord tells us, "Now when these things begin to happen, look up… because your redemption draws near." However, to ignore the subject of unrepentant nations falling into chaos is not, I believe, an accurate read of the way God wants us to respond.
Britannia, oil and Jews
Since World War I, pragmatism has ruled British Mid-East policy
The relationship between the UK and the Jewish people has been a series of peaks and troughs, with the latter sadly pre-eminent. Nearly every peak, though welcome, was inspired by selfish interests.
British Museum Promotes Antisemitism.
"Hey Average Joe, did you see this map?
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"Look where Israel ought to be it says Palestine. And it says it was called Palestine 4000 years ago! It's as if the Jews never lived there. Can that be right?"
"Well gee,"
replied Average Joe,
"It must be right. After all it is in the Ancient Egypt section of the British Museum!"
Once again Britain shows her antisemitic sentiment.
I had the opportunity to visit the British Museum in May. Loved the Egypt exhibit. We had spent four days in Egypt in 2009. Sadly the last safe year for tourists. Egypt is an extraordinary country with thousands of years of history-glorious history. We saw the Pyramids and the Sphinx and rode on camels! Think about the ingenuity of the people who built these monuments, only with manpower, no machines. We visited The Temple of Karnac and the Valley of the Kings in Luxor. We went into the crypts. Filled with marvelous murals that speak to religious beliefs. We walked through the Egyptian Museum-in Egypt!
And then the Egypt Exhibit in the British Museum.
And the map jumped out at me. "Palestine"?
How could that be?
So I wrote to the museum to express my concern
Brits still two-faced over Balfour
Astonishingly, the British Foreign Office is still continuing to undermine the Balfour Declaration, the centenary of which falls in a couple of weeks' time.
In a speech at the UN Security Council a few days ago Jonathan Allen, the UK's Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN, said the following:
"From the outset, I would like to make clear, as we approach the centenary of the Balfour Declaration next month, that the UK understands and respects the sensitivities many have about the Declaration and the events that have taken place in the region since 1917.
"The UK is proud to have played a role in helping to make a Jewish homeland a reality. And we continue to support the principle of such a homeland and the modern state of Israel.
"Just as we fully support the modern state of Israel as a Jewish homeland, we also fully support the objective of a viable and sovereign Palestinian state. The occupation is a continued impediment to securing the political rights of the non-Jewish communities in Palestine. And let us remember, there are two halves of Balfour, the second half of which has not been fulfilled. There is therefore unfinished business" (my emphasis).


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The public prosecutor's office in Magdeburg sees no evidence of criminal investigations against four LKA officials from Saxony-Anhalt. The Ministry of the Interior announced on Friday that two civil servants had been suspended and two others had been transferred to office work after chat messages appeared in which National Socialism was played down. The prosecutor stated that Süddeutsche Zeitungthat the processes are already statute-barred. According to the Ministry of the Interior, disciplinary proceedings are underway against all four suspects, including two bodyguards of Prime Minister Reiner Haseloff (CDU), according to media reports, on suspicion of violating their duty to comply with the constitution.
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anti-Obama story.) There is some variation in the Obama smack-downs, but all of the others hammer home the exact same arguments using the exact same verbiage; each is pretty much interchangeable with the other, and might well have been penned by a single source.
….On the other hand, MSNBC has only one story covered by all three programs: the obligatory anti-Romney segments, which do not have the uniformity in commentary that FOX has with its anti-Obama segments. (And the truth is that grouping Maddow's commentary with Shultz's or O'Donnell's is a huge stretch. Shultz and O'Donnell's Romney rants seem more akin to the FOX anti-Obama screeds, politics aside.) Past that there is very little overlap at MSNBC. Whereas FOX's shows have the appearance of a concerted and strategized effort, the hosts of MSNBC are all over the map.
But liberals? Well, over the past few years we've decided that we're willing to yell into the camera too if that's what it takes to compete, but by God no one tells us what to say. That's just too humiliating. However, I suspect that this is at least part of the reason that conservative memes find their way into the mainstream media more often and more forcefully than liberal memes. They just repeat theirs more vigorously. Pretty good strategy, huh?
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Last month, we covered the first two of four primary goals when it comes to the chiropractic management of neck pain (#1 – Pain Management and #2 – Structural realignment). This month, we will conclude this discussion with #3 – Functional Restoration and #4 – Prevention.
3) FUNCTIONAL RESTORATION: Restoring function basically allows the patient to return to their pre-injury activities of daily living, which is the ultimate goal when managing all conditions! In order for this to happen, it is necessary to have the first two goals accomplished, and the primary "tool" that we use to accomplish this goal is exercise training. There are several options to determine which exercise is most needed. A physical performance test can be done, which consists of a series of exercise-like maneuvers that we measure with an instrument that measures degrees (for range of motion), count repetitions (when testing for strength), or count time – usually in seconds (when testing for endurance, balance, and aerobic capacity). We then can compare you to the "norms" that have been published to see if you need help in a particular area. This also establishes a "baseline" or starting point to compare a month later after you've performed the proper exercises designed to improve that "failed test." The three primary goals of exercises include stretching, strengthening, and restoring coordination.
STRETCH: A very effective exercise is performed by bending the head to the right, reaching over with the right hand, and gently pulling on the head until a good stretch is felt on the left side of the neck. Reaching down with the opposite (left) arm (as if there's a dollar bill on the ground and you just can't quite reach it) enhances the stretch. While stretching, tuck in your chin, drop your head forwards and backwards, and turn your head a little from side to side to feel for different tight muscle fibers. Continue this stretch for 10-20 seconds or long enough to feel that you've accomplished a good stretch. Then, repeat this on the opposite side. This can be done sitting or standing, and most importantly, do this multiple times a day, especially when you feel tight – like at work, for example. There are other stretches but this actually combines four different exercises into one, so it's often enough!
STRENGTHENING: Place your hand against the side of your head and push your head into your hand using about 10-20% maximum effort (not much pressure!). First, allow your head "to win" by moving your head further until a tight stretch is felt. Second, let your hand "win" by moving the head to the opposite direction while maintaining pressure against your hand. Allow the head to bend ALL THE WAY to the end-range and repeat three times in each direction.
COORDINATION: Motor control, balance, and coordination are further enhanced by balancing on one foot with eyes open AND closed. Stand near a wall to avoid falling!
4. PREVENTION: Keep exercising and eat right! Consider joining a health club, working out with a friend, riding a bike, walking, and/or swimming. You choose!


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Cresciuto nel Lech Poznań, esordisce con i kolejorz il 21 maggio 2005, disputando i minuti finali della gara vinta 3-0 contro il Górnik Łęczna. Nella stagione successiva entra a far parte regolarmente della prima squadra, disputando quindici gare e debuttando a livello internazionale in Coppa Intertoto, nella gara vinta dal Lech 2-0 contro il Karvan.

GKS Belchatow
Trovando meno spazio nella stagione successiva la dirigenza decide di cederlo in prestito al GKS Belchatow. L'esperienza non è delle migliori, e si conclude con appena tre presenze. Ciononostante la società decide di riscattarlo, ma nei successivi due anni e mezzo totalizza solo otto presenze.

Warta Poznan
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Nel mercato invernale del 2013 passa in prestito al Miedz Legnica, ma a fine stagione torna al Warta, nel frattempo sceso in II Liga. L'anno successivo, nonostante un ottavo posto conquistato, il Warta non ottiene la licenza per proseguire e viene nuovamente retrocesso. Ciononostante Marciniak decide di restare, e partecipa alla cavalcata dei poznaniani dal quarto livello alla I Liga, raggiunta nel 2018. Marciniak è protagonista nell'anno della promozione con 29 presenze e 1 gol. Anche in I Liga Marciniak riesce a ritagliarsi un ruolo importante, segnando anche una rete nella stagione che si conclude con l'undicesimo posto per il Warta.

Il ritorno al Lech
Dopo 181 presenze complessive, 9 gol e due promozioni Marciniak lascia il Warta Poznań il 21 febbraio 2020, per fare ritorno al Lech Poznań. Con i kolejorz gioca nella squadra riserve, militante in II Liga.

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Prince William calls for 'evil' animal traffickers and poachers to be jailed
The Duke of Cambridge made his impassioned plea at the first meeting of the United for Wildlife Joint Taskforce
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The Duke of Cambridge has urged law enforcement agencies around the world to put those behind the "evil crime" of wildlife trafficking behind bars.
Prince William made his impassioned plea at the first meeting of the United for Wildlife Joint Taskforce, bringing together global influencers from the worlds of finance and transport to combat the illegal trade in animal products around the world.
William praised those in the field of wildlife preservation battling against the scourge of organised crime worth hundreds of billions of pounds every year, but admitted "what we are dealing with remains deeply worrying".
The programme, run by The Royal Foundation of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, consists of seven conservation organisations uniting to prevent the trafficking of animals and sale of poaching products.
The Duke said there had been great strides in the worldwide battle including 52 law investigations, 10 trafficker arrests and the seizure of £375million worth of illegal animal products this year, but warned "we are barely scratching the surface of what we can achieve".
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The event at the Royal Geological Society in Kensington, south west London, was chaired by Lord William Hague, also chair of the financial task force.
The enterprise works to bring together and spread awareness and education at large global banks and their partners to highlight techniques used by organised crime syndicates laundering money from illegal wildlife trafficking.
He said: "Our motivation in doing this work is that we are going to play our part, we are going to do everything we can possibly can to prevent the extinction of some of the world's most iconic species by poaching or by criminal networks.
"It has taken a lot of hard work – and real commitment – to get to the point where you are all sitting here together today.
"And we should all feel proud that we're starting to see an impact.
"But it's just that. The start.
"For although we have made progress, we are barely scratching the surface of what we can achieve."
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Lord Hague praised William for his vision in bringing the partners together, saying: "That's what brought us together initially at your invitation, Sir.
"A little over four years ago when there was eight or nine of us meeting in a room and you asked us to assess whether something could be done in the transportation sector above and beyond what law enforcement and national governments were attempting to do at the time to deal with this problem, to mitigate this problem, to make it harder for the traffickers and for the criminal networks."
As President of United for Wildlife, The Duke of Cambridge has brought together more than 40 leaders from airlines, shipping firms, port operators, customs, NGOs and charities to work collectively to combat illegal wildlife trafficking, through a 'Transportation Taskforce' under the chairmanship of Lord Hague of Richmond.
In March 2016 the United for Wildlife 'Buckingham Palace Declaration', was signed, establishing a system to share information on illegal wildlife trade as a priority action for the group.
Since the system's launch more than 50,000 employees from the global transport industry have received training to help tackle the illegal wildlife trade based on information from the system.
Then last October William and Lord Hague persuaded giants from the financial sector to join the fight against the illegal wildlife trade.
Comprising of representatives from 30 global banks, experts on illegal wildlife trade and financial organisations such as Standard Chartered, HSBC, RBS, Bank of America Merrill Lynch and JP Morgan, the signatories committed to contributing to the global fight against international wildlife trafficking, signing up to the Mansion House Declaration.
Prince William speaks to the United States Ambassador to Britain Robert Wood Johnson (Image: Getty Images)
Lord Hague added: "Now we have four years on, I think what we can fairly say is that the most extensive collaboration on this issue anywhere in the world, ever in the world, now adding to 117 companies who have signed the Buckingham Palace declaration and the transport sector 35 companies that have signed or signing today the Mansion House declaration in financial services, bringing together the force multiplication of so many companies in these different sectors."
The Transport Taskforce was formed in 2014 to engage the transport sector in identifying and developing relevant and targeted solutions to wildlife trafficking, including increasing awareness, reporting and enforcement.
Then, in 2018, the financial sector was brought together to form the Financial Taskforce which is committed to sharing resources and intelligence in a bid to disrupt the illegal income generated by trafficking.
The meeting today was the first time the two groups have come together to examine what more the 150 members - including US special agencies, African wildlife protection agencies and large banks such as Standard Chartered - can do to work together to combat illegal wildlife trade.
United for Wildlife is a programme run by The Royal Foundation, working to bring together conservation organisations, law enforcement, governments and global corporations.
Lord Hague added: "We have seen arrests and seizures as a result of our work so we know this can work but now of course we have to really carry it through to success.
"The crisis isn't alleviating, it isn't getting any smaller, we face the threat of extinction to a million species on the planet, much of that through habitat lost and climate change but some of that due to excessive and outrageous poaching.
"Our objective is very clear, it is to map out and bring down some of the major trafficking networks and while at the same time improve the training and awareness of people throughout our companies, tens of thousands of employees at different companies have already been trained in how to spot the illegal wildlife trade as a result of our collaboration and sharing of our expertise."
In his speech, the Duke of Cambridge said hearing about the successes of the task force had been "incredibly reaffirming".
He added: "So let today be a catalyst for our renewed ambition.
"The scale of what we are dealing with remains deeply worrying.
"In the last four months there have been nine significant seizures in South East Asian countries alone involving tonnes of pangolin scales, rhino horns and ivory.
"We should count all of these seizures as successes in the fight against this crime.
"But for every container that is intercepted, or every suspicious payment that is flagged, hundreds more go undetected.
"And when containers are found, too often the real perpetrators slip away.
"It is only through continued, committed partnership between transport companies, the financial sector, and law enforcement – who I know are represented in the room today – that we will bring these criminals to justice through successful prosecutions.
"You are all experts in your field.
"You have the knowledge and tools to do something about this problem.
"And you are here collectively because you also believe in your organisation's power to make a difference.
"I have stood at meetings like this many times over the years, where we have all discussed how important we think it is to end the illegal wildlife trade, and all shared our fears for the future.
"But we must, we must ensure these words become action. We must start to see the people behind this evil crime behind bars.
"So let's make moments like today count.
"When we all meet again, I look forward to hearing about even more progress.
"It is possible – we all know this. It just takes sustained effort, focus and collaboration."
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America's first female president is kidnapped while on an official visit to Sweden. Alongside the FBI, the Swedish police are up against an enemy far more powerful than they imagine. From Walter Presents, in Swedish with English subtitles.
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Ingvar and the Swedish police are preparing for a State Visit by the American President, Helen Tyler. But the excitement of having the newly-elected president in Stockholm is short-lived, as Helen Tyler mysteriously disappears.
The police allocate all of their resources to the search for the American president. Inger Johanne realizes that her past is catching up with her when Ingvar is assigned to be the Swedish contact for her FBI mentor, Warren Schifford.
Inger Johanne has to steel herself in order to bear working with Warren. The culture clash between the Swedish police and the FBI is becoming more and more evident as the search for the president leads to a dead bodyguard, Hunter Russell.
Leaks from the Swedish police prove to be from someone on the Task Force. Ingvar and Inger Johanne realize they cannot trust anyone but each other. Their private lives are put to the test as Warren worms his way into Inger Johanne's life.
Swedish police are still searching for a mole within their own ranks. The puzzle pieces slowly begin falling into place and Inger Johanne gets an idea that makes her decide to take matters into her own hands.
Warren has a hard time getting the rest of the FBI to listen to his theory about the president's disappearance. Inger Johanne ends up in a very conflicted situation when Helen Tyler does not want to be found by the outside world.
Ingvar is forced to cooperate with Warren to find Inger Johanne and Helen Tyler. Inger Johanne begins to understand what is behind the president's disappearance and realizes that there are very dangerous forces still looking for them.
In the season finale, the Swedish police and the FBI now know where Helen Tyler is, but will they get there in time? The President's daughter, Zoe, finds out about a secret that causes her to act in haste.
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Maxine Waters Put the Screws to Mark Zuckerberg at Today's Congressional Hearings
She made it clear the Facebook chief has some explaining to do
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Mark Zuckerberg was hauled before the House Financial Services Committee this morning, ostensibly to discuss Facebook's foray into cryptocurrency, Libra. But, as soon as Los Angeles Congresswoman Maxine Waters, who chairs the committee, took the mic, she made it clear that Mark Zuckerberg had some explaining to do, and Libra was just the beginning.
"Perhaps you believe you're above the law," she posed to the Facebook chief in her opening statement, "It appears you are trying to aggressively expand the size of your company and are willing to step on or over anyone—including your competitors, women, people of color, your own users, even our democracy—to get what you want."
Waters brought up a litany of grievances with how the company has comported itself, well beyond her concerns about the launch of a new global currency that could, in theory, someday compete with the U.S. Dollar. She touched on everything from user privacy issues, Russian election meddling, and allowing the circulation of "fake news" and political propaganda, to how Facebook's ad targeting has been used to facilitate housing discrimination and the lack of diversity in the company's executive suite.
"Given the company's size and reach, it should be clear why we have serious concerns," Waters said, going on to raise the idea that regulators might make moves to break up the tech behemoth–an idea that's also been on presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren's lips of late.
Through much of the proceeding, C-SPAN cameras captured Zuckerberg appearing to squirm and make faces of concern.
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— Marcus Gilmer (@marcusgilmer) October 23, 2019
As Politico notes, Facebook has been under political pressure on a number of fronts. Recently, controversy has been kicked up over what many have characterized as a misleading anti-Joe Biden attack ad released on the platform by the Trump campaign, a chatbot dispatched by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to spread anti-Arab messaging, the revelation of record-breaking lobbying expenditures by the company, and growing calls for the FTC to intervene.
A number of news reports have found that Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, have been in touch with the campaign of Pete Buttigieg, including suggesting names for staff roles on the campaign team. The pair attended Harvard at the same time and share some mutual friends, and, as Wired put it, "[m]ost significantly, they share a persona: the confident, disruption-peddling wonder-kid with a modern startup mentality." Whatever their personal relationship may be, a representative of the Buttigieg campaign points out that the candidate has been critical of Facebook's corporate activities and has reiterated the need to hold the company accountable.
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PP 2004-02 - New requirements in filing 2005 personal property tax returns - December 29 , 2004
The purpose of this information release is to explain the new reporting requirements for the 2005 forms 920 and 945 and to introduce a new extension request form exclusively for new taxpayers.
Recent practices have given cause for tax representatives and statutory agents to change to or report their own mailing addresses in place of the taxpayer's mailing address. This practice results in not only the preliminary assessment certificate but also the tax bill(s) to be sent to the tax representative or statutory agent instead of the taxpayer. The Department of Taxation has encountered numerous instances where the taxpayer address has been changed to that of a tax representative or statutory agent and the taxpayer has then changed to a different tax representative or statutory agent after filing the tax return. Given that circumstance, when the Department issues the preliminary assessment certificate it results in the certificate being returned to the Department, and the subsequent bill(s) being returned to the county treasurers, as undeliverable by the post office. Beginning with the 2005 personal property tax returns all taxpayer information, including mailing address and telephone number, is required to be submitted in the taxpayer information section of the return. Preliminary assessment certificates and tax bills associated with the current return may still be sent to the tax representative or statutory agent of the taxpayer by checking a box on the front of the tax return and completing the necessary information for the desired destination of the assessments and bills. In addition to completing the necessary mailing information to have the assessments and bills sent to someone other than the taxpayer, the taxpayer must include with its tax return at the time of filing a letter of authorization on the taxpayer's stationery signed by a company officer, owner or partner. Failure to supply the taxpayer's mailing address as required will constitute an incomplete return, resulting in processing delays that could cause the return to be rejected and possibly have a penalty levied against the reported taxable value if an acceptable return is not filed by the due date or as extended.
R.C. 5711.05 requires the signature of a corporate officer, partner or owner of the business entity in the declaration section of the tax return being filed. The Department will not accept any personal property tax return signed by a tax representative or statutory agent. Failure to have the return properly signed could result in processing delays that could cause the return to be rejected and possibly have a penalty levied against the reported taxable value if an acceptable return is not filed by the due date or as extended.
Also beginning with the 2005 tax year, the taxpayer is required to include the federal employer identification number (FEIN) or social security number (SSN) on the tax return. The Personal Property Tax Division is moving towards an identification system utilizing those numbers instead of an account number unique to personal property. Failure to supply this information, again, could result in the rejection and possible penalizing of the reported taxable value if an acceptable return is not filed by the due date or as extended.
R.C. 5711.13 requires taxpayers having tangible personal property located in more than one Ohio county to file the inter-county return, form 945, with the Tax Commissioner. Effective with the 2005 tax year the Personal Property Tax Division will forward to the appropriate county auditor's office for assessment any inter-county return received by the Division that contains reportable tangible personal property values in only one Ohio county. This also includes consolidated returns where the parent and subsidiary companies both report tangible personal property values in only one Ohio county. (For further information on consolidated returns see County Auditor Bulletin 248). The taxpayer will receive notification that the return has been forwarded to the appropriate county auditor for assessment and will have 10 days from the county's receipt date to pay at least one-half of any taxes due to the appropriate county treasurer. Failure to make that payment within the 10 day period could result in a late filing penalty being assessed at the county level on the reported values.
Form 993NT is now available on the Department's web site (www.tax.ohio.gov). This new form is to be used exclusively for requesting an extension of time to file a new taxpayer return, either form 920NT or 945. Form 993A, Inter-County Extension Request, will no longer be accepted by the Department as a new taxpayer extension request. Submission of form 993NT is still made to either the appropriate county auditor or to the Tax Commissioner's office by regular and certified mail and by faxing. In addition to those methods, form 993NT may also be e-mailed to the Department at extensions@tax.state.oh.us. Using the Word fill-in form, complete the request, save it to your computer and attach it to your e-mail with "993NT extension request" in the subject line. When the extension request has been e-mailed to the Department the new taxpayer extension confirmation will be e-mailed back to the sender of the original request.
If you have any questions regarding this matter, please call 1-614-466-8123 (Ohio Relay Services for the Hearing or Speech Impaired: 1-800-750-0750).


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We Came As Romans cover Swift's Trouble
By Bruce Henne ( Metal Hammer ) published 15 October 14
Watch video for punk rock version of Taylor Swift hit
We Came As Romans have released a video for their cover version of Taylor Swift's I Knew You Were Trouble.
The melodic metalcore outfit's cover of the track appears on Pop Goes Punk Volume 6, alongside punk rock takes on songs by Ellie Goulding, Miley Cyrus, Iggy Azalea and more.
We Came As Romans singer Dave Stephens says: "We chose to cover Taylor Swift's Trouble because we all like the song and had a vision of how to make it our own style.
"Beyond that, it's a cry for attention. We hope Taylor Swift will notice us now since we're all in love with her."
Available on November 17 via Fearless Records, Pop Goes Punk Volume 6 features contributions from Youth In Revolt, August Burns Red, Palisades, Knuckle Puck and others.
The We Came As Romans single is available on iTunes or as an instant download with each album pre-order.
Punk Goes Pop Volume 6 tracklist
Tyler Carter – Ain't It Fun (original by Paramore) 2. August Burns Red – Wrecking Ball (original by Miley Cryus) 3. We Came As Romans – I Knew You Were Trouble (original by Taylor Swift) 4. Upon A Burning Body (Feat. Ice-T) – Turn Down For What (original by DJ Snake & Lil Jon) 5. Set It Off "Problem – (original by Ariana Grande Feat. Iggy Azalea) 6. Crown The Empire – Burn (original by Ellie Goulding) 7. Oceans Ate Alaska – Drunk In Love (original by Beyonce Feat. Jay Z) 8. Youth In Revolt – Royals (original by Lorde) 9. Volumes – Hold On, We're Going Home (original by Drake) 10. Knuckle Puck – Chocolate (original by The 1975) 11. Slaves – Sweater Weather (original by The Neighborhood) 12. State Champs – Stay The Night (original by Zedd Feat. Haley Williams) 13. Palisades – Happy (original by Pharrell Williams)
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Every Time I Die split gets messier as bassist Steve Micciche breaks his silence


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Bush supporters just want to help
Fear as the driving political belief
Public opinion & Presidential law-breaking -- A fe...
The President's law-breaking
Republicans speak out forcefully for the rule of law
The Administration's "very bad people" defense
Ten Worst Americans
FISA Court rejected Bush surveillance applications?
The idiotic and revealing Civil War analogy
What the NSA scandal is really about
Sam Alito and Deference to Executive Power
The Anonymous Liberal has an excellent post up documenting the efforts by the Bush Administration to pack the Supreme Court not with conservatives on social issues (about which Bush seems to care very little), but instead, with those who believe in virtually absolute judicial deference to Executive Power (about which Bush cares very much). And the importance of this issue in the upcoming Supreme Court confirmation hearings of Samuel Alito is self-evident:
Following 9/11, the Bush administration repeatedly pushed the envelope of executive power, and may well have crossed a number of lines. In the months and years to come, the legality of these decisions will be adjudicated in the federal courts. Bush knows that his legacy will, in large part, be measured by whether his decisions are vindicated or condemned as executive overreaching. Bush does have a litmus test for judicial nominees, and it has nothing to do with abortion.
Bush's Supreme Court (and lower court) nominees are characterized by their slavish, uncritical deference to assertions of power by the Executive Branch, especially in times of ostensible "war." Indeed, as AL points out, now-Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts was selected by the White House to be the Supreme Court nominee while he was in the middle of hearing arguments in the case of Hamdan v. Rumsfeld (.pdf), in which Roberts decided in favor of the Administration's position and allowed the use of "military tribunals" at Guantanamo.
In opposing Roberts' nomination, the People for the American Way emphasized Roberts' deference to executive power at least as much as his restrictive view of privacy rights:
In his limited time as a federal appeals court judge, Roberts has shown enormous deference to the executive branch, with a broad and expansive view of presidential power that threatens the system of checks and balances.
When it comes to worshiping at the altar of unchecked executive power, Sam Alito is even more zealous than Roberts. Even conservative Bush ally and Roberts admirer Norm Ornstein of the American Enterprise Institute has warned that Alito is far more deferential to Executive power than Roberts is. As Steve Clemons of The Washington Note put it: Ornstein's Op-Ed shows that Alito "is a spear-carrier for expansive Executive Branch authority and looks at both Congress and the Judiciary as junior players in government."
Whereas Roberts replaced Executive Branch defender William Rehnquist, Alito is nominated to replace the much more Executive-scrutinizing Sandra Day O'Connor, which will alter the balance of the Court fundamentally, and certainly with regard to issues of Executive branch power.
It is therefore not hyperbole to warn that Alito's ascension to the Court could very well mean the disappearance of the last chance for some limitation to be placed on the dangerous powers which the Bush Administration is claiming for itself. Particularly now that Bush's Yoo Theory of Unlimited Executive Power is being extended literally to encompass the Executive power of law-breaking, it is difficult to imagine anything more important at stake in Alito's hearings.
AL quotes an article by Slate's Dahila Lithwick concerning exactly what is stake in the Alito nomination hearings. The article was written prior to the NSA eavesdropping revelations but has obvious applicability to it:
I think we will, all of us, be very sorry. Not just the edgy civil libertarians or the ACLU types, and not just Jose Padilla, or his attorneys, but everyone who believes there is a place for therule of law even in the midst of a war, especially when that war threatens to go on forever.
It's hard to imagine a worse combination than an Administration which claims the right to unlimited "wartime" power (including law-breaking) and a Supreme Court comprised of a majority which subscribes to John Yoo's authoritarian theories of presidential powers. But if Sam Alito takes Justice O'Connor's seat on the Supreme Court, that's exactly what we're going to have.
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Jetlag Productions was an American animation studio that, like the similar studio Golden Films, has created a number of animated films based on different, popular children's stories, while creating a few original productions. Produced mainly for the American market, the films were animated in Japan by KKC&D Asia and Animal Ya among South Korean companies. They were later released directly to VHS through the GoodTimes Home Video distribution company. Years later, with the introduction of DVD, a newer department of the same company, GoodTimes Home Entertainment, distributed the films in that format. The films in Jetlag's catalog were dubbed into many different languages and were distributed by international departments of the GoodTimes corporation. Since 2005, the Gaiam company has held the copyrights to Jetlag Productions' animated films, following GoodTimes Entertainment's bankruptcy.

History
Jetlag Productions started out as a small animation company, assisting in the productions of such series as The New Adventures of He-Man and Heroes on Hot Wheels in 1990, and Conan the Adventurer in 1992, until it was approached by Joe, Ken, and Stan Cayre (known artistically as the Cayre Brothers) of GoodTimes Entertainment.  The company then replaced Golden Films as GoodTimes' provider of budget animated productions, when the contract with that company expired. Under the name of their new establishment, the Cayre Brothers produced Children's Classics, a series of animated films that were very similar to those from Golden Films in style. Beginning their releases in 1994, Jetlag Productions produced a total of seventeen different animated films, thirteen adaptations of existing material, and four original features. All seventeen films were around 45 minutes in length, and were released as direct-to-video VHS features, under the "GoodTimes" name by GoodTimes Home Video. Their last release was The Hunchback of Notre Dame, which was released on April 30, 1996, just before GoodTimes turned to a new company, Blye Migicovsky Productions, for their new line of animation releases. Jetlag Productions' films were revived on DVD under a "Collectible Classics" label in 2002 by GoodTimes Entertainment. The new releases were widely available until GoodTimes filed for bankruptcy in 2005 and all assets were transferred to Gaiam.

Title listing

Fairy tale and short story adaptations
Cinderella (1994), based on Charles Perrault's fairy tale and also on The Brothers Grimm's 1697 and 1812 fairy tale
Jungle Book (1995), based on the "Mowgli" stories from Rudyard Kipling's 1894 short story collection
Little Red Riding Hood (1995), based on Charles Perrault's fairy tale and also on the Brothers Grimm's 1697 and 1812 fairy tale
The Nutcracker (1995), based on E. T. A. Hoffmann's 1816 short story
Sleeping Beauty (1995), based on Charles Perrault's fairy tale and also on the Brothers Grimm's 1697 and 1812 fairy tale
Snow White (1995), based on The Brothers Grimm's 1812 fairy tale

Myths and legends adaptations
Pocahontas (1994), also known as The Adventures of Pocahontas: Indian Princess, based on the life of Pocahontas
Hercules (1995), based on the legendary hero from Greek mythology

Literary novel adaptations
A Christmas Carol (1994), based on Charles Dickens's 1843 novella
Alice in Wonderland (1995), based on Lewis Carroll's 1865 novel
Black Beauty (1995), based on Anna Sewell's 1877 novel
Heidi (1995), based on Johanna Spyri's 1880 novel
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996), based on Victor Hugo's 1831 novel

Original works
Happy, the Littlest Bunny (1994), written by Larry Hartstein
Leo the Lion: King of the Jungle (1994), written by George Bloom
Curly, the Littlest Puppy (1995), written by Larry Hartstein
Magic Gift of the Snowman (1995), written by Larry Hartstain

TV series
The New Adventures of He-Man (1990)
Heroes on Hot Wheels (1990)
Conan the Adventurer (1992)

Music
Unlike its predecessor Golden Films, Jetlag Productions did not rely on familiar classical compositions as the soundtrack to their films (the only exception would be Heidi, which featured a variation of Edvard Grieg's "Morning Mood").  Instead, a variety of original compositions were created from scratch, produced by Andrew Dimitroff.

Original songs
As a general rule that went unbroken in all of their seventeen animated films, each film featured three original songs performed by a variety of singers. Jetlag Productions' successor for GoodTimes Entertainment, Blye Migicovsky Productions, continued this trend in their films. The instrumental bases to these original songs were sometimes used as part of the soundtrack outside the main musical numbers, as was the case in Hercules (1995) and Little Red Riding Hood (1995), among others. Though these musical numbers were placed into the films in often formulaic patterns, there were a few exceptions: A Christmas Carol (1994) was the only film to not feature an opening musical number, while Hercules (1995) was unusual in that it ended with an instrumental version of "Son of Zeus" rather than a vocal version. Though the vast majority of the songs were performed by off-screen voices, Snow White (1995)'s "Hip Hip Hooray", Magic Gift of the Snowman (1995)'s "Sleep and Dream", Cinderella (1994)'s "(It's the) Chance of a Lifetime", and Leo the Lion: King of the Jungle (1994)'s "Out on My Own" were sung by actual characters within the films; Cinderella (1994)'s "When Love Has Gone Away" was the only duet performed by characters from the film, sung by Cinderella and the prince, respectively.

Musicians
The credits attributed to the different composers and writers of the original soundtrack were listed in a formulaic manner in all seventeen animated productions, and were thus never associated with their actual compositions or performances.  Among these credits, the following artists were credited as:
Music producer: Andrew Dimitroff
Composers: Nick Carr, Ray Crossley and Andrew Dimitroff
Lyricist: Joellyn Cooperman

Credited musicians
Ray Crossley
Andrew Dimitroff
Milcho Leviev
Mel Steinberg
Leslie Woodbury

Uncredited vocalist performers
Kathleen Barr (as the singing voice of Tooey in Leo the Lion: King of the Jungle (1994), performing "Out on My Own")
Garry Chalk (as the voice of Leo in Leo the Lion: King of the Jungle (1994), performing "I'm a Really Nice Guy")
Wendy K. Hamilton-Caddey (for songs such as "A Little Bit of Magic," "The Season of Love," "Keep Christmas in Your Heart", and "Land of Pocahontas", among others)

External links

Anime-influenced Western animation
American animation studios
Companies established in the 1990s


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Home News 'A Book About Portlaoise' does exactly what it says on the cover
'A Book About Portlaoise' does exactly what it says on the cover
LaoisToday Reporter
A Book About Portlaoise is comprehensive and ambitious in its reach.
It's diverse subject matter ranges from a description of life in Maryborough in the 1700s, through the history of businesses and their owners on Main Street; to a detailed survey of local music in the 20th century, its pages are teeming with generations of townies, many dead and gone, many still with us; some famous, some forgotten, except by loved ones.
As well as page after page of interesting facts drawn from four centuries, there are intriguing chapters entitled The Golden Croft, Kings, Queens and the Missing Ancestor and The Methodists and Me.
That's quite a mouthful and sure no wonder then that author, historian, critic, musician and retired school principal, John Dunne can justifiably claim that his latest tome is the most detailed book ever written about what locals affectionately call, The Town.
The book will be launched by the award-winning Midlands 103 broadcaster Ann Marie Kelly this Thursday evening, March 7 in Dunamaise Arts Centre.
"I'm delighted that Ann-Marie is 'doing the honours'", says John, "it's hard to believe that it's exactly twenty years ago that she and I worked together on the production of my play I'll Fly Away which was premiered in the Dunamaise."
The evening will also include John's new visual and musical evocation of 'Vanished Portlaoise' featuring 150 images, many of which have never been shown in public.
Anyone who has seen his previous historical presentations won't need to be told how effectively and movingly his work captures the spirit of old Portlaoise.
Everyone is welcome to embark on this latest journey through the town's past and, afterwards, enjoy a chat and a beverage.
No long speeches guaranteed, insists John, the former Heath NS Principal.
A Book about Portlaoise is, in every sense, 'a townie production' and John is quick to point out the extent of local involvement: "In these days of rampant globalisation, we should, as much as we can, support locally-owned businesses.
"They have been very good to me. Martin Connolly's Print Central couldn't have been more helpful, and I was really touched by the unsolicited generosity of All Books and Declan Kelly at the Parish Centre.
"I got such assistance with my research that it would be impossible to list all the people I interviewed personally, not to mention those I knew and didn't know who responded to my queries on social media".
A Book About Portlaoise will be published at €20 in a hardback limited edition.
So, to get what is likely to become a treasured collector's item, and enjoy a trip down memory lane, get along to the Dunamaise Arts Centre, Church Street, this Thursday evening at 7pm.
As John himself puts it, "The whole town is invited."
Following the launch, the book will be available in All Books, Lyster Square who have kindly offered to donate all profits from the sale of the book to St. Vincent de Paul.
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2012 OLYMPICS: And For My Fellow Trekkies... Captain Jean-Luc Picard Runs A Leg Of The Torch Relay!
British Actor Patrick Stewart participates in the 2012 Olympic Torch Relay.
British actor Sir Patrick Stewart takes his turn on the Olympic torch relay, praising the celebratory crowds. Stewart, best known as Star Trek's Captain Jean-Luc Picard, said carrying the torch through well wishers in Croydon was an experience he will 'never forget', adding that it was better than any movie premiere.


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Boomtown Urbanization and Rural-Urban Transformation in Mining and Conflict Regions in Angola, the DRC and Zambia
Challenging the Levels: The Catholic Church as a Multi-Level Actor in the Transition to a Climate-Compatible Society
Simulating Urban Shrinkage in Detroit via Agent-Based Modeling
Human Rights and Precautionary Principle: Limits to Geoengineering, SRM, and IPCC Scenarios
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Yamashita, H.
Kyoi, S.
Mori, K.
Does Information about Personal Emissions of Carbon Dioxide Improve Individual Environmental Friendliness? A Survey Experiment
Hideki Yamashita
Shinsuke Kyoi
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Koichiro Mori
Center for Risk Research, Faculty of Economics, Shiga University, Shiga 522-8522, Japan
Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
Faculty of Economics, Shiga University, Shiga 522-8522, Japan
Academic Editor: Felix Ekardt
Sustainability 2021, 13(4), 2284; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13042284
Received: 7 January 2021 / Revised: 9 February 2021 / Accepted: 14 February 2021 / Published: 20 February 2021
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Climate Change and Human Reaction: Transformation, Governance, Ethics, Law)
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The purpose of this study is to identify factors that can change the environmental friendliness of individuals in the context of climate change issues in terms of values, beliefs, controllability, concern, attitude, intention, and behavior through a survey experiment, and to test the hypothesis that providing information about the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions attributable to an individual with its threshold value motivates him/her to reduce that amount using statistical analyses (the Mann–Whitney test) and multivariate regressions (the ordered logit model). It is crucial to change the behavior of individuals as well as organizations to reduce the emissions of CO2 for solving climate change issues, because the aggregate amount of individual CO2 emissions is too large to ignore. We conducted a survey experiment to detect factors affecting the environmental friendliness of individuals. Subjects of the experiment were 102 students at Shiga University in Japan. They were randomly provided with communication opportunities, information about individual or group CO2 emissions, and information about their threshold value. The finding is that provision of information about the amount of individual and group CO2 emissions may be able to improve that person's environmental friendliness in terms of values, beliefs, concern, attitude, intention, and behavior. View Full-Text
Keywords: polycentric approach; climate change; survey experiment; environmental friendliness; individual CO2 emissions; threshold value polycentric approach; climate change; survey experiment; environmental friendliness; individual CO2 emissions; threshold value
Yamashita, H.; Kyoi, S.; Mori, K. Does Information about Personal Emissions of Carbon Dioxide Improve Individual Environmental Friendliness? A Survey Experiment. Sustainability 2021, 13, 2284. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13042284
Yamashita H, Kyoi S, Mori K. Does Information about Personal Emissions of Carbon Dioxide Improve Individual Environmental Friendliness? A Survey Experiment. Sustainability. 2021; 13(4):2284. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13042284
Yamashita, Hideki, Shinsuke Kyoi, and Koichiro Mori. 2021. "Does Information about Personal Emissions of Carbon Dioxide Improve Individual Environmental Friendliness? A Survey Experiment" Sustainability 13, no. 4: 2284. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13042284
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Every individual loves to reside in a space he can freely call his own. This is why many of us work hard to buy our dream homes. Yet, some of us still commit mistakes which put us to expensive and money-wasting situations. Here are some of them along with some tips on how you can avoid committing them.
A great number of would-be home owners are renters. The lack of adequate planning when moving out and buying a house are interconnected to each other. Sometimes, renters forget to read the terms and agreements of their lease contracts putting them into double expenses of having to pay remaining months of the lease and having to produce down payment for the house they purchased. As a suggestion, you should wait for the contract to expire, consume all your advances, and prepare for your down payment.
You may have offered the home seller the best deal he or she could ever have. However, the seller could be hesitant to ink deals if you are not pre-approved for a housing loan. A letter from a financial institution like lending companies, banks, and mortgage firms stating that you are pre-approved for a home loan will strengthen the seller's confidence that you will be able to make the payment. As a recommendation, you should apply for home loans before embarking on house hunting.
Hidden costs are termed as such but they don't always mean that they are actually hidden from you by sellers, agents, or brokers. These costs are those you commonly forget of such as those relevant to appraisal, home inspection, home staging, repairs and fixes, and property tax settlements. If you are to hire professionals, you should also anticipate the payment of professional service charges.
Love at first sight may be true for building personal and intimate relationships but not at all with a house, so as first impressions. The exterior may be beautiful but the inside is full of damages you have to see yet. Buying a house should not be coupled with impulsiveness. The first house you see may be impressive but there could be more impressive choices out there. As a tip, have three to five options on your list. Perform careful selection weighing out the pros and cons of each house until you trim down to your final option.
Buying a house revolves on cash and credit. While it is important that you have enough money for the beginning expenses, be concerned of your credit ratings too. As important as getting pre-approved for a loan, your credit score is your passport to get this pre-approval. A housing loan will be your backup to get that dream house for you and your family. Experts advice that to maintain good credit ratings, pay debts and other financial obligations on time.
If you want to avoid these mistakes, you can always ask the expert help of your local real estate agent.