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Meeting the Past in the Present Fellowship
To study reasons why people immigrated to the United States
First day in Dublin, Ireland
Famine Memorial in Dublin, Ireland
A link to a website that describes the Famine Memorial.http://www.ddda.ie/index.jsp?n=640&p=112
Aboard the Jeanie Johnston ship in Dublin, Ireland
A link to the Jeanie Johnston website. http://www.jeaniejohnston.ie
Our tour guide was Paul McCarthy and he was very knowledgeable about the ship. He quoted letters from people who immigrated and spoke about the great grandson of the little boy, NIcholas Reilly, born on the ship and depicted with his mother in the last picture.
" this little square-rigged barque was known far and wide as a charmed ship—the only coffin ship, in fact, to keep all of her passengers alive. And with each of her eleven successful trips to North America, the reputation of this vessel continued to grow. Soon it was said around the world that to sail aboard the Jeanie Johnston was to survive despite crushing odds." -excerpt from All Standing by Kathryn Miles.
Irish History and Culture
Cobh Heritage Center in Cobh, Ireland
Merseyside Maritime Museum, Liverpool, England
Ballinstadt Immigrant Museum, Hamburg, Germany
History of Poland
Jewish Quarter, Budapest, Hungary
Culture of Hungary
New York & the Lower East Side Tenement Museum, New York, NY
A link to an interactive map showing immigration settlement in the USA.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/03/10/us/20090310-immigration-explorer.html?exampleUserLabel=nytimes&exampleSessionId=1236784038906&_r=0
Click here to view a video presentation about the trip.
A youtube link to the same video.
Download a student created iBook about immigration.
immigration_experience.ibooks
File Type: ibooks
9/11 Memorial in New York


This page shows several cake tops that you can use on or around your wedding cake. There are several themes you might enjoy incorporating into your plan for a unique and personalized wedding cake. Some of these are collectible and some just fun.
There are also heirloom toasting glasses for the bride and groom.
Porcelain bride and groom cake topper in original box. Does not appear to have been used or removed from box. Box not pristine, is scratched. Plastic box contains: plastic base, columns and partially open top. Blond figurines are approximately 6" tall.
Wilton inscription on the bottom of the box gives the name of this cake top as "Caring Embrace Wedding Ornament". 2003 Wilton Industries.
Porcelain bride and groom cake topper attached to a wooden base with a plaque with "A. Belcari" attached. Does not appear to have been used. The piece is in excellent condition. The back base of the figures is stamped "1985 DEAR.ARNART"
The coloring is off white with touches of pink on the flowers on the cap and bouquet, the lace on the sleeves and completely around the train. The groom has reddish hair, the bride is blonde.
Sand colored. Height 10.5" High 3" Wide. Staining on bottom from two labels that are no longer attached.
Boyds Bears & Friends. Grenville and Beatrice. 14E/2876. Dated 1995.
Bride and groom under and arch of green leaves and off white and mauve roses and two nesting doves. The center says, "TRUE LOVE", and has two gold hearts. Back is also stamped: "1995 TBC".
Overall height is 6.25" and width is 5.25" approximately.
Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse Wedding with Two Photo Frames Attached. WAC19-314.
Overall length 10.5". Height 6.5". Three section back. Photo holder each end. Plastic stained glass flower decoration in center in pink, blue, green. Mickey is dressed in grey slacks with white pin stripes, darker grey jacket, grey top hat, white shoes with black toes. Cumberband and bow tie are violet. Minnie is in white. Bouquet is red, yellow and violet with a grey ribbon. The triptych with vines of roses in the bouquet colors.
Bottom is marked "The Disney Store, Inc., Glendale CA 91203-2671, USA. There is an electronic price tag with the words..MADE IN CHINA.
White love birds nesting atop white wedding bells under a white bow tree. Very romantic cake topper for your wedding cake.
Overall measurements are approximate: height 10", width 9", depth 5.5". Made in USA.
Cake top is in excellent condition. Box is useable but is taped in several places and plastic is dented. Back cardboard is bent.
White rose champagne flutes. 2 open roses, one smaller than the other and one small bud. They stand on a 2.5" sturdy base and substantial stem making them easy and safer to hold than thin stems. They stand about 9.25 high. The top of the porcelain part is made to look like petals holding the clear glass flute.
A beautiful set to compliment your wedding table and will become an heirloom for other members of your family.
Flutes are not marked. The box says MADE IN CHINA.
If you are considering these as a gift, you will have to repackaged into a gift box.
$25. for the pair, plus $7. Shipping and Handling.


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Q: Reflection of waves on the basis of particle theory As it is an established fact now that light shows dual nature, can we explain the phenomena of reflection of light considering it to be particle.
If it can be done, then I have a question:

How can we explain the law of reflection, i.e., angle of incidence = angle of reflection, when we consider a photon to be colliding with a surface and reflecting back?

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National Training Centre Poprad () is a football stadium in Poprad, Slovakia. It serves as home stadium for football club FK Poprad and Slovak national football youth teams. NTC is also used by football teams for camps and international matches. The stadium has an all-seated capacity of 5,700.

Image gallery

References

External links
 http://www.ntcpoprad.sk

Poprad
Sports venues completed in 2014
Sport in Poprad
Football venues in Slovakia
2014 establishments in Slovakia
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package jadx.tests.integration.inner;

import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;

import jadx.api.CommentsLevel;
import jadx.core.dex.nodes.ClassNode;
import jadx.core.dex.nodes.MethodNode;
import jadx.core.utils.ListUtils;
import jadx.tests.api.SmaliTest;

import static jadx.tests.api.utils.assertj.JadxAssertions.assertThat;

public class TestAnonymousClass14 extends SmaliTest {
	// @formatter:off
	/*
		public class OuterCls implements Runnable {

			class TestCls {
				private TestCls() {
					new ArrayList();
				}
			}

			public void makeAnonymousCls() {
				use(new Thread(this) {
				/ * class inner.OuterCls.AnonymousClass1 * /

					public void someMethod() {
					}
				});
			}

			public void makeTestCls() {
				new TestCls();
			}

			public void run() {
			}

			public void use(Thread thread) {
			}
		}
	 */
	// @formatter:on

	@Test
	public void test() {
		getArgs().setCommentsLevel(CommentsLevel.WARN);
		ClassNode outerCls = getClassNodeFromSmaliFiles("OuterCls");
		assertThat(outerCls).code()
				.doesNotContain("synthetic", "AnonymousClass1")
				.describedAs("only one constructor").containsOne("private TestCls(")
				.describedAs("constructor without args").containsOne("private TestCls() {");

		MethodNode makeTestClsMth = outerCls.searchMethodByShortName("makeTestCls");
		assertThat(makeTestClsMth).isNotNull();

		ClassNode testCls = searchCls(outerCls.getInnerClasses(), "TestCls");
		MethodNode ctrMth = ListUtils.filterOnlyOne(testCls.getMethods(),
				m -> m.isConstructor() && !m.getAccessFlags().isSynthetic());
		assertThat(ctrMth).isNotNull();
		assertThat(ctrMth.getUseIn()).hasSize(1);
		assertThat(ctrMth.getUseIn().get(0)).isEqualTo(makeTestClsMth);

		assertThat(outerCls).checkCodeAnnotationFor("new TestCls();", 4, ctrMth);
	}
}

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My move continues to be complicated, and snafus have been piling on top of snafus. But the end is nigh, and tonight, in what has turned out to be an absurdly major milestone, I will be sleeping in my own bed for the first time in a month. Yay!
Much as I like my new-to-me couch, it is distinctly not a restful place to sleep. Between that and several other things, I've been basically exhausted all week. If I owe you correspondence, expect to hear from me soon --- I expect getting a decent night's sleep to make a big difference.


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WANDA SYKES is an Emmy winning stand up comic, writer, actress and producer who has been entertaining audiences for over twenty years. She has ranked among Entertainment Weekly's "25 Funniest People in America" and her peers have called her "one of the funniest stand-up comics" in the field.
In 2020, Wanda received Emmy nominations for both her role as real-life comic 'Moms Mabley' in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and for her voice work as 'Gladys Murphy' in Crank Yankers, a role she originated in 2004. Wanda's guest-starring role on ABC's Black-ish also brought her two back-to-back Emmy nominations for "Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series" in 2017 and 2018. Her fifth and latest standup special, Wanda Sykes: Not Normal, is currently streaming on Netflix and was nominated for two 2019 Primetime Emmy Awards; "Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Special" and "Outstanding Writing for a Variety, Music or Comedy Special." The special also received a Broadcast Critic Award nomination.
Wanda can currently be seen in the Netflix's comedy The Upshaws, which she is writing, c–showruning and starring in. The Upshaws centers on a working-class African American family in Indiana struggling to make it work and make it right without any blueprints. The show was recently picked up for a second season with 16 episodes. She recently produced and was a part of the Apple TV+ 5-part documentary series Visible; Out on Television, about how the LGBTQ movement has shaped the history of the medium. Each hour-long episode explores themes of homophobia, the evolution of the LGBTQ character, and coming out in the television industry. Wanda spent five years on the CBS sitcom The New Adventures of Old Christine co-starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus as well as HBO's critically acclaimed The Chris Rock Show (the latter of which earned her two Emmy nominations and one win). She has appeared in Broad City, House of Lies, Curb Your Enthusiasm, and many more hit television shows. Other TV credits include Fox's Wanda at Large which she wrote, produced and starred in, Wanda Does It on Comedy Central, and Crank Yankers. Wanda even starred on her own late-night talk show on Fox, The Wanda Sykes Show.
In 2017, Wanda was seen in the feature comedy Snatched, opposite Amy Schumer and Goldie Hawn. She was also seen in Evan Almighty (sequel to Bruce Almighty), in which she co-starred with Steve Carell, the cult-hit Monster-In-Law with Jane Fonda and Jennifer Lopez, My Super Ex-Girlfriend, Pootie Tang, Nutty Professor 2; The Klumps, Down to Earth and many more.
Wanda has had four comedy specials prior to Not Normal; 2016's What Happened…Ms. Sykes? which premiered on Epix, 2009's Wanda Sykes: I'ma Be Me on HBO, nominated for two Emmys, HBO's 2006 comedy special Wanda Sykes: Sick & Tired, nominated for a 2007 Emmy for "Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Special," and her first, 2003's Wanda Sykes: Tongue Untied, which premiered on Comedy Central. Her stand up has tackled everything from politics and marriage to racial profiling and parenting.
In 2012, Wanda joined forces with veteran producer Page Hurwitz to form Push It Productions, a production company dedicated to creating quality, comedy-based programming for network and cable television outlets. The company's diverse slate of projects includes sketch comedy, concerts, reality talk/variety, and competition formats. In just its first year, Push It made a first look production deal with NBC, had a new series on OWN (Herlarious, which was the recipient of a 2014 Gracie Award), and the company currently has shows in development with NickMom (Comedy Camp) and Comcast. Push It Productions produced the 8th and 9th seasons of NBC's Last Comic Standing and the second season of Talk Show The Game Show, which premiered on TruTV in February 2018. They also helmed the second season of Face Value, hosted by Deon Cole, which returned to BET in spring 2018.
Push It received two Primetime Emmy nominations in 2020 for "Outstanding Variety Special" for Tiffany Haddish: Black Mitzvah and for "Outstanding Directing for a Variety Series" for Tiffany Haddish Presents: They Ready."
Wanda can be heard in many animated feature films and television shows, such as Fox's Ice Ace: Collision Course (reprising her role as 'Granny' from Ice Age: Continental Drift) Dreamworks' Over the Hedge and Paramount's The Barnyard, as well as children's shows Vampirina and Doc McStuffins.
Wanda's first book, Yeah, I Said It, published by Simon and Schuster, hit bookstores in September 2004. Yeah, I Said It is a hilarious collection of essays touching on life, family and the current events of the time.
Wanda was born in Portsmouth, Virginia and raised in Maryland. She graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree from Hampton University. Her stand up career began at a Coors Light Super talent Showcase in Washington, D.C. where she performed for the first time in front of a live audience.
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https://twitter.com/SVCCork/status/980159456045600768 When we glance back at years past there is always a moment that defines them in the public consciousness. A moment that 'convulsed' the country, and that was often a catalyst for an epic change of direction. In Ireland, over the past century, many of those moments have been focussed - almost to the [...]
2018-04-10T12:22:36+00:00	April 10th, 2018|Categories: Opinion|Tags: Asking For it, Belfast trial, children, consent, Cork Sexual Violence Centre, Education, Louise O'Neill, Mary Crilly, Paddy Jackson, parenting, protests, Rape, Richard Bruton, schools, Sexual assault, sexual offences, Stuart Olding, teaching|
Rape figures are up – but could that be good news?
The latest crime figures from the CSO have shown a marked rise in recorded rapes and sexual assaults. In 2015, 536 rapes were reported throughout the State. That's an increase of just over 12pc on 2014. The number of sexual assaults went up by 15pc in the same period, with a shocking 2,361 offences reported throughout [...]
2018-12-01T09:54:19+00:00	April 4th, 2016|Categories: Opinion|Tags: consent, Cork Sexual Violence Centre, crime, Garda Síochána, Louise O'Neill, magnus meyer hustveit, Mary Crilly, niamh nic dhomhnaill, Rape, Rape Crisis Centre, reporting, Sexual assault|
Boning up on pop feminism
I spent almost three years of my life researching gender quotas, and there were times I thought I'd never want to see the word feminism again. But over the past few months I've been rehabilitated, and I'm back to reading again with a bang. As part of my (over-enthusiastic) purchasing for International Women's Day, I bought [...]
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My enthusiasm for women and feminism is lifted every year by the sense of solidarity on two dates - Women's Christmas, and International Women's Day. This year I spent Women's Christmas speaking with Cork Simon's Colette O'Brien and Karen Songhurst at the Cork Simon Women's Christmas Lunch. And in time-honoured tradition my mother and sister-in-law [...]
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Q: Control the VerticalOffset of a webbrowser in windows phone I am using the webbrowser to show some string with a appbar-button. When I click the button, the webbrowser will NavigateTo another string. Everything goes well except that once the webbrowser is scrolled down(When the user is reading the end of a article), when the button clicked, the webbrowser is still at the bottom, the user has to scroll the webbrowser up.
So, before the new article is loaded, I want to set the verticaloffset of the webbrowser to zero. But there is no scrollviewer in the webbrowser, so I can't use the ScrollToVerticalOffset method.
would anyone know how to Control the VerticalOffset of a webbrowser?
Thanks.

A: You can do this via InvokeScript, which allows you to invoke JavaScript within your page. If you add the following JavaScript function:
function setVerticalScrollPosition(position) {
  document.body.scrollTop = position;
}

Then invoke the following (C#)
this.webBrowser.InvokeScript("setVerticalScrollPosition", this.vScrollPos.Text);

Your browser control should scroll (courtesy of this blog post)


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I love a cheap beer as much as the next guy, but I sincerely hope you had the Hobbs and the Northern Golden strictly for artistic purposes, the only beer I can think of that is worse than those two off the top of my head is Mountain Crest. Great photos though, keep 'em coming.


I've recently been thinking that boards should be paying more attention to their own succession planning – as a way of ensuring "new freshness, new ideas and new energy." This thoughtful article from the Newsletter of the Canadian Federation of Friends of Museums lays out why boards must take responsibility for their own turnover, and why this should include regular frank discussions with board members about their intentions and aspirations. It's one of the best pieces I've seen about the role and importance of the Nominating Committee – a frequently overlooked and under-rated board function.
I pledge to raise this issue with the boards I'm on.
Reviewing this checklist won't necessarily make you decide to leave – but it could help you pay more attention to refreshing your energy if you want to stay.
The announcement by Dáirine Ní Mheadhra & John Hess, Artistic Directors of Queen of Puddings that they are closing after twenty years of developing and producing new Canadian chamber opera was carefully considered and beautifully communicated. "We want to conclude in a year like this, which is full of artistic pleasure, highlights, and fulfilment of our goals, with continued financial stability due to a deficit-free track record. The end of our current season in August 2013 feels like a very natural artistic ebbing point, and thus feels like the right moment to close the company." I didn't see everything they produced, but Ana Sokolovic's opera Svadba-Wedding was one of the few shows that moved me so much on opening night that I bought tickets and returned a week later. I wish them all the best.


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PHOENIX in Europe
Innovation and Digitalisation
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Homepage › Press › Latest › Press releases
PHOENIX group reaffirms its position as a leading healthcare provider in Europe
Total operating performance and revenue increased again
Profit for the period clearly improved compared with the first nine months of 2014/15
Growth exceeds European market as a whole
Positive outlook for fiscal year 2015/16 confirmed
Mannheim 17.12.2015
The PHOENIX group underlined its position as a leading healthcare provider in Europe in the first three quarters of the fiscal year 2015/16. The company's overall performance in the European market continued developing very positively. Total operating performance, including revenue as well as handled volume for service charge, rose by 5.2 per cent to EUR 21.2 billion. Adjusted for exchange rate effects, this growth amounted to 4.6 per cent. Revenue rose by 3.9 per cent to EUR 17.4 billion. This primarily relates to an increase in revenue in Germany, where the pharmaceutical wholesale market experienced considerable growth. The PHOENIX group also recorded higher revenues in the majority of its foreign markets.
The company's gross income increased by EUR 107.7 million to EUR 1.7 billion, which corresponds to a rise in the gross income margin from 9.3 to 9.6 per cent and is largely due to an improved cost-of-sales ratio. Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortisation (EBITDA) rose in the first three quarters of 2015/16 to EUR 340.1 million. In addition, the profit for the period increased clearly from EUR 127.4 million to EUR 149.7 million. "With the development over the last nine months, the PHOENIX group has reaffirmed its position as a leading healthcare provider in Europe. Thanks to these results, our outlook for the further course of the fiscal year is positive", says Oliver Windholz, Chief Executive Officer of the PHOENIX group.
Further optimisation of the capital structure and financial result
The financial result improved by EUR 24.2 million in comparison with the corresponding period of the previous year to EUR –37.8 million, primarily as a result of the repayment in 2014 of the high-yield bond issued in 2010 as well as the lower average net debt. At the same time, profit before tax increased by EUR 28.6 million to EUR 217.5 million.
Equity rose from EUR 2.4 billion as of 31 October 2014 to EUR 2.7 billion, resulting in an increase in equity ratio of 35.0 per cent.
Forecast for the fiscal year 2015/16 confirmed
For the fiscal year 2015/16, the PHOENIX group expects to further expand its market position in Europe through organic growth and acquisitions and thereby continue to increase revenue above the level of growth on the European pharmaceutical markets.
Key figures of the PHOENIX group in comparison with the previous year's period
1st to 3rd quarter
2014/15 in EUR k
Total operating performance1 20.190.714 21.239.323
Revenue 16.728.438 17.372.699
Total income 1.669.740 1.775.597
EBITDA 332.000 340.066
Financial result –62.054 –37.833
Profit before tax 188.935 217.515
Profit for the period 127.380 149.650
¹ Total operating performance = revenue + handled volume (handling for service charge).
Equity (in EUR k) 2.375.180 2.672.594
Equity ratio (in %) 32,3 35,0
Net debt (in EUR k) 1.529.661 1.492.275
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The SAA is now an approved charity in the Giveline program. Giveline allows customers to purchase gifts and gift cards online while making a donation to the organization of their choice. Every purchase made generates a gift—on average 16%, with no cost to the recipient non-profit organization. As you will see when you visit the Giveline website, you may choose books, music, electronics, movies, great holiday gift items for family and friends, as well as useful items for home and garden—over one million items. Think of SAA as you shop with Giveline!


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24th Street Townhomes is a 11 unit, two building, 3-story "for sale" townhouse development in downtown Denver, Colorado. The site is approximately 1/2 acre in size, located at the southwest corner of Glenarm and 24th Street. Unit features include connected at grade garages, partial roof top decks, extensive daylighting, fireplaces and spacious kitchens. Sitework included extensive collaboration with the City and County of Denver on creative solutions to storm water drainage retention / detention requirements. 24th Street Townhomes is located 1/2 block from the Light Rail line on Welton Street, which serves downtown Denver.


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Pharyngula discusses a new study on whale development. Not being a developmental biologist, I can't address the specifics, but I just want to point out one important point that is emerging from the field of evolutionary developmental biology.
In the whale study, as with this slightly older study of bat development, the massive changes between the ancestral species and the highly derived modern species are readily visible and appear massive. One might easily ask how such massive changes could happen. What was added to produce the bat's wing? What went away that made the whale's legs disappear? Decades ago, even if we had fossils to demonstrate that such transitions had in fact taken place, we had no idea how a shrewlike ancestor could have turned into whale or a bat.
It turns out that those questions which seemed quite reasonable not long ago were built on faulty premises. Small changes in gene expression, not the addition or deletion of genes themselves, are sufficient to produce dramatic changes in the adult morphology. What seem like unbridgeable gaps between modern whales or modern bats and the ancestral mammal turn out to be very small gaps when you make the changes at the right stage in development.
If you haven't read Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo by Sean B. Carroll, you really should. This is a new field in biology, and it's opening up amazing new opportunities.


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Chatbot Messaging or Just Messaging – What's the Difference?
Over the last decade, messaging has become an intrinsic part of our communication – we are not only messaging friends and family anymore, but also brands.
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Now that the hospitality industry is warming up to the idea of guest messaging, chatbots are appearing. So, what is then the difference between messaging and chatbot messaging?
What is guest messaging?
Guest messaging allows guests to directly message their hotel when they have a question, or when they need something. They can do this through the messaging platform of their choice, like a webchat, SMS, WhatsApp, WeChat, Facebook Messenger, etc. Guest Messaging is two-way communication, which means that hotels too can reach out to their guests and share valuable information with them.
Introducing guest messaging in your property is a logical step considering that messaging apps are the most downloaded apps. Recently and since the global pandemic, messaging has become even more popular with a global increase of 45% in messaging use.
Guests are used to communicating through these platforms and have been reaching out to brands this way for a while now. Studies have shown that about 65% of consumers prefer the option to message businesses.
However, many hoteliers have been hesitant towards messaging because they are unsure of how to implement and manage these new technologies. Most concerns revolve around a shortage of resources to deal with this new influx of messages, how to respond to them instantly like messaging requires and a reluctance to let employees use a phone during working hours. With chatbots popping into the market, this will soon change.
What is chatbot messaging?
Messaging means your guests are in direct contact with an agent, while with chatbot messaging your guests will receive real-time answers from a bot. Does this mean there is no human contact involved anymore? Not at all. Your bot will answer the more simple and easy to answer questions and when it cannot respond, the guest will be referred to an agent. This means that this new influx of messages will not put any restraints on your resources. By not having to respond to these same, but essential, questions, their time will be freed up so they can focus on more important and complex tasks. With no extra effort, a hotel can now offer 24-hour service, 365 days a year.
The first chatbots launched into the world might have communicated like a robot, however, with the help of AI bots have evolved a lot and can now converse with a human tone of voice. Guests won't mind being helped by a chatbot, rather than a human agent. In a study, results showed that more than 50% of the clients prefer to be helped faster by a chatbot when it comes to simple queries than having to wait for their answers.
How can AI help with chatbot messaging?
The most advanced bots use artificial intelligence to understand complicated requests. AI is a branch of computer science developing computer systems capable of performing tasks that usually require human intelligence. By using AI and machine learning, chatbots can improve and personalize their answers. So, instead of using static response templates to answer, a chatbot will use AI to search for establishment information on OTAs and use this to respond to guests. There is no need anymore to manually fill in response templates, like with Messaging.
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This January, join the Pipeline PlayLab Class of 2015 at the Red Room, a prohibition-era cabaret, for a night of short plays, each set in a different time and place. In the span of just 90 minutes you'll jump aboard a sinking ship, perch on a mountaintop, sip cocktails in 1950s Hollywood, ponder life and death with two aging cowboys, and that's just half of it.
Through a year-long series of monthly meetings, the Pipeline PlayLab serves as a workshop for playwrights to build new plays with constructive feedback from other playwrights, directors, and the artistic staff of Pipeline. The program culminates in a night of fully staged short plays in January (the Matchstick Series) and a full length play reading festival in July (the Bonfire Series).
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6 of the Wackiest Buildings in the World
If you want to see examples of big, bold, weird architecture, here are six notably out-there buildings to visit around the world.
27 Apr 2020 • 5 min read
We know there are questions around travel amid the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. Read our note here.
Big, bold, weird architecture sometimes pays off — especially when it comes to tourism. One of the most famous buildings in the world, the Guggenheim Museum in New York City, receives over one million visitors per year, and they come as much for the building itself as they do the art it holds inside. Designed by famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright and opened in 1939, the curved building is iconic for its beauty and design achievement.
It's far from alone, though, when it comes to interesting and astonishing architecture. If you want to see other examples of fantastically out-there buildings, here are six more notable sites to visit around the world.
Casa Batlló, Barcelona, Spain
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You'll find the designs of architect Antoni Gaudí all over the city of Barcelona. While there are numerous incredible examples that could make this list, Casa Batlló is a clear standout. This former residence sits at 43 Passeig de Gràcia surrounded by gorgeous buildings on either side, famous in their own right. You'll know Casa Batlló when you see it, though. Gaudí decorated the front of the house with a kaleidoscopic paint motif in blues, greens, and purples. Curving balconies eerily mimic the appearance of skulls while bones hold each floor aloft.
The inside of the house might be even more intriguing. Gaudi designed the entire building to feel like an underwater seascape, employing a sea-inspired color palette and wavy ceilings throughout the house. Light floods the house thanks to a smartly-designed lightwell. The pièce de résistance of the building might be the roof, however. Visitors can step out to colorful chimneys, a dragonlike roofline and panoramic skyline views.
Krzywy Domek, Sopot, Poland
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You may not trust your senses when you first come upon Krzywy Domek. The name is Polish for "Crooked House," and it's an appropriate one. This building bends and twists to distort the idea of what a building should look like. Walls warp in and out, bulging in some areas and appearing to collapse in others. A roof of blue and green shingles tops the structure, looking suspiciously like the back of a dragon.
The end result? Something that looks like it came straight out of a fairytale. That makes sense, too, as the building designers wanted to pay homage to a famous Polish children's illustrator Jan Marcin Szancer. Inside the building, you'll find a shopping center complete with bars, stores, and restaurants. Our advice: Stick to the outside of the building for the best selfies.
Atomium, Brussels, Belgium
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At first glance, you might think the Atomium is nothing more than an impressively large piece of beautiful sculpture. But what appears to be a giant atom molecule is indeed a functioning (albeit strange-looking) building. The city erected the Atomium in 1958 for Brussel's World Fair as a tribute to the power of science and, in particular, nuclear power. Reception for the building was so favorable, though, that city officials decided to keep it open long after the fair ended.
Today it's one of the most visited tourist attractions in the city. Visitors can enter the building's nine silver spheres and travel through the connecting tubes. In one of the spheres, you'll find a restaurant offering Belgian fine dining — the panoramic views of the city might be as spectacular as the food.
Kansas City Public Library, Kansas City, USA
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Book lovers, rejoice. There's a building made just for you sitting in the heart of Kansas City, Missouri. Even better? It's a part of the city library. Visit the Central Library on West 10th Street and stroll across to the parking garage for a pretty incredible sight — what looks more like a giant bookshelf than a place for parked cars, with book spines measuring 25 feet high and nine feet wide.
You'll find classics like "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" and "Fahrenheit 451" among the 22 titles represented. Residents call the structure the "community bookshelf." That's because it was the community's input on the beautification of the parking garage that eventually led to the book-spine idea. It makes for a pretty spectacular photo background for any book lover visiting the area.
Cayan Tower, Dubai, UAE
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Known for its jaw-dropping architecture, Dubai is home to famous buildings like Burj Al Arab and the Jumeirah Beach Hotel. But there is nothing quite like this helical skyscraper towering 75 stories above the skyline. The luxury residential building — imagine waking up to panoramic views like these each morning — opened in 2012 as the world's tallest twisted skyscraper (later superseded by Shanghai Tower).
The tower rotates a full 90 degrees from top to bottom, and to achieve this, the architects designed each floor to rotate 1.2 degrees around a cylindrical elevator and service core. Soon it may not even be the most striking building in Dubai's skyline — a 80-story rotating tower that constantly changes shape is planned for construction in 2020.
The Piano House, Huainan, China
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Looking for the visual equivalent of "music to your ears?" Then head to Huainan, China, where you'll find this impressive instrument-shaped building. Opened in 2007, the building is an accurate 50:1 scale of a grand piano and a violin, made entirely of transparent and black glass.
Architectural students at Hefei University of Technology designed the building in the hopes it would bring more tourism to the region. And it seems to be working. In addition to an influx of tourists, the site has become a popular place for wedding photos. Inside the building, accessed by elevators in the violin portion, there are concert halls and rehearsal spaces for musicians. There are also displays of different government-planned projects aimed at — you guessed it — promoting additional tourism in the region.
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Among my papers on Lebanon are an introduction to the geology of Lebanon, The Geology of Lebanon, which is still the best short summary of what is a very poorly known area. This is currently only available on the web. Similarly, my paper on the Lithostratigraphy of Lebanon, is posted here in pdf format as the original seems impossible to get hold of otherwise.
Other publications on Lebanon are listed on the main geology page but inserted here as well for completeness.
WALLEY, C. D., 2001. The Lebanon passive margin and the evolution of the Levantine Neo-Tethys: In P. A. Ziegler, W. Cavazza, A. H. Robertson and S. D. Crasquin-Soleau (eds.), Peri-Tethyan Rift–wrench basins and passive margins IGCP 369 results. Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris. Peri-Tethys Mémoire 6.


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House price rises slowed significantly during 2016 and experts are warning that this sluggish growth is likely to continue this year with uncertainty about Britain's withdrawal from the European Union. Meanwhile, changes to stamp duty in 2015 are continuing to have an impact on the very highest end of the property market where the cost of buying a home has increased dramatically. Furthermore, higher rate duty charges on second homes came in in April 2016 and it is expected that these will have a further depressing effect on prices. And for those needing to move for space reasons there is a clear trend to improving their home rather than moving.
So what will happen to prices this year?
The latest national figures for house prices are for October 2016. Released by the Office for National Statistics, these show that UK prices rose 6.9 per cent in the year to October which was the lowest overall rise since the end of 2015 with the average UK house now costing £217,000.
Growth has slowed across all housing sectors with virtually every index now suggesting that the slowdown will continue throughout 2017. The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) has forecast just a 3 per cent rise in prices this year while Countrywide, the UK's largest estate agent, releasing even worse predictions. It believes that Brexit, higher inflation and rising fuel prices will mean that house values will rise by just 1 per cent this year.
At the top end of the market, prices have been held back by the stamp duty changes and the uncertainty caused by Britain's decision to leave the EU. While many estate agents have said that they have seen an increase in interest in UK property from foreign buyers because of the weak pound, many developers have said that sales of the most expensive new builds have been falling. Some developers have even resorted to changing some of their most expensive homes into flats to try and sell them.
Savills has reported that by the end of 2016, property in the most expensive parts of London had fallen by 9 per cent but that this fall was now likely to stabilise thanks to foreign buyers.
Stamp duty changes have also had a significant effect on the buy-to-let market with sales booming in advance of the change and then slumping immediately afterwards. HMRC figures show that in March 2016, there was a 77 per cent rise in the number of buy-to-let sales with 29,300 mortgages for landlords approved. But since the changes to stamp duty, sales have fallen with the numbers now just half of those recorded during 2015.
The withdrawal of mortgage interest tax relief and more rigorous affordability checks by the banks are likely to bring further downward pressure to the buy-to-let market this year.
After years of declines, the number of new homes built in the UK rose by 4 per cent last year. Taking into account both house conversions and demolition of older properties, about 190,000 homes were added to England's housing stock during 2016 – the highest number since the financial crisis of 2009. But some analysts are warning that economic uncertainty mean that the figure is almost certain to be lower this year.
While the average price rise of 6 per cent looks relatively healthy, that figure masks disparities across the country. Most of the growth has been in London, the South East and East of the UK with stagnant or falling prices across much of the rest of the country. Some agents are predicting that while the market in the South East may be depressed through 2017, other areas could return to growth. Rics says that it thinks that the North West, West Midlands and East Anglia will outperform the rest of Britain in the year ahead.


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Queen Elizabeth Under Medical Supervision Amidst Doctor's Concerns
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Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II
The Queen remains under medical supervision this morning amidst concerns for the health of the 96-year old monarch, Buckingham Palace said on Thursday.
A Buckingham Palace spokesperson said: 'Following further evaluation this morning, the Queen's doctors are concerned for her Majesty's health and have recommended she remain under medical supervision. The Queen remains comfortable and at Balmoral."
She appointed Liz Truss as Prime Minister of the country and later pulled out of a virtual meeting with senior government ministers.
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Enveloping lounge chairs and lightweight office chairs from Arper feature on Dezeen Showroom
In Design Posted October 15, 2021
Italian brand Arper has presented a selection of contemporary lounge chairs for the home and office on Dezeen Showroom, including a semi-spherical bowl chair and minimalist armchairs designed for the circular economy.
Launched earlier this year, Barcelona design studio Altherr Désile Park created Arper's first solid wood lounge chair called Kata, which is informed by artisanal woven straw chairs.
The chair adopts circular economic principles in that the production, distribution and various components of the chair are designed to minimise environmental impact and increase the product's lifespan.
The Kata chair is sustainably designed with a FSC-certified wood frame and upholstery made from post-consumer plastic waste
Oak and black locust FSC-certified wood is used for the frame, which is topped with a water-based varnish.
The frame is upholstered in a 3D-knitted cover that forms both the seat and backrest in a unified piece. The knitted cover is made from polyester that has been sourced from post-consumer plastic waste – the equivalent of one kilogram of PET bottles – which is then recycled and woven into yarn.
At the end of its lifespan, the chair can be entirely disassembled and recycled.
Each component of the Mixu chair can be easily disassembled, repaired or replaced
Similarly, Arper's Mixu chair, designed by global architecture firm Gensler, also takes a sustainable approach and was created to "offer interior designers a degree of authorship and a sense of the human touch."
Made from FSC-certified wood and post-industrial recycled plastic, the chair is composed of three elements – a seat, backrest and base – which are held together without the use of glue or staples to ensure it can be easily dismantled, recycled or responsibly disposed of. This also makes it easy to replace various parts.
The commitment to sustainable principles is further demonstrated through the product's distribution, in which the chair is shipped in its disassembled state to reduce its volume and carbon footprint.
The Kinesit Met office chair is lightweight and minimal and features adjustable lumbar support
Design studio Lievore Altherr Molina has given the Kinesit Met office chair a contemporary update with a host of new textures and materials.
The lightweight office chair, which was originally launched in 2014, is now available in a refreshed palette of warm, cool and neutral tones that can be mixed and matched, with different colours used for the seat and backrest.
With a minimal and elegant silhouette, the chair is suited for home offices or comfortable work environments. It features adjustable lumbar support concealed within the thin backrest's frame and comes in a low or medium-back option.
The Aston seating range is distinguished by its deep profile and plush upholstered cushions
French designer Jean-Marie Massaud has evolved his Aston seating range to include new club chair models. Originally designed in 2006, the updated variations retain the same shape as their predecessor but offer a more relaxed feel and are tailored towards lounge settings instead of boardrooms.
The Aston Club features a deep inclined seat with ample space and a wraparound headrest designed to enclose its sitter in comfort and enhance privacy. It is also available with an optional footrest.
The Aston Club Low Back also provides generous comfort but takes a more compact form and has no headrest. Both chairs are available with four-star bases that can be finished in painted aluminium, no-VOC paint or polished.
Like Arper's other products, the chair's internal frame is composed of post-industrial recycled waste and can be easily disassembled and recycled.
Arper has released Bardi's Bowl Chair in two Rubelli fabrics that resemble Bo Bardi's work
Originally designed in 1951, Arper has reissued Bardi's Bowl Chair – created by modernist architect Lina Bo Bardi – as a nod to her recent Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement in memoriam.
The brand collaborated with Venetian textile company Rubelli to create a limited and numbered edition of 500 pieces, releasing the chair in two Rubelli fabrics that resemble Bo Bardi's work.
The Lollipop fabric echoes typical 1950s prints featuring geometric patterns of red and mustard yellow brushstrokes, while the Eureka fabric has a similar colour palette but features a woven textured design.
Established in 1989, Arper is a family-run company that produces chairs, tables and furnishings
Arper is an Italian family-run company founded by Luigi Feltrin and his sons Claudio and Mauro in 1989.
The company produces furniture intended for communities, work and the home. Its products range from chairs, stools, sofas and benches to tables, accessories and acoustic panels.
The brand regularly collaborates with renowned architects and designers to create its products, as well as materials and finishing companies such as Kvadrat and Camira.
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The Myth of The Trade Secret Troll
by James Pooley
Why We Need a Federal Civil Claim for Trade Secret Misappropriation
Guest Post by James Pooley, former Deputy Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organization. Pooley makes his full argument in a forthcoming George Mason Law Review article available here.
Trade secret theft has been a federal crime since 1996, covered by the Economic Espionage Act ("EEA"). But civil misappropriation claims remain limited to state court filings under common law or local variants of the Uniform Trade Secrets Act ("UTSA"). Calls for federal jurisdiction have grown with the increasing importance of information as a business asset and with the emergence of technology that makes theft of these assets almost infinitely easier. Recent examples involving international actors have galvanized the business community to request a straightforward solution: amend the EEA to provide a federal option for private claims.
Several bills were introduced in the 113th Congress to accomplish this, and to authorize provisional remedies for seizure of relevant property to prevent secret technology from being transferred out of the jurisdiction. The 2014 legislation was not acted on before Congress adjourned. A revised version is pending now, the Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2015 ("DTSA"), reflected in identical House (H.R.3326) and Senate (S.1890) bills.
The approach of the DTSA is fairly simple: use existing language of the EEA where appropriate, such as the definition of a trade secret, and where other language is required to define the civil aspects, such as misappropriation and damages, use language taken from the UTSA. Indeed, the only meaningful departure from the UTSA is to add a section allowing ex parte seizures of the misappropriated property. But even that portion draws from established provisions of the Lanham Act, tightened up considerably from the 2014 bills in order to discourage abuse.
The DTSA has received virtually unanimous support from industry, and also enjoys unusually bipartisan political sponsorship, with 65 cosponsors in the House (45 Republican and 20 Democrat) and ten in the Senate (six Republican and four Democrat). The only organized opposition has come from a group of law professors who published an "open letter" in 2014 criticizing the previous draft legislation, and who have recently released another letter describing their concerns. Mainly, they argue that we don't need federal legislation because state laws are uniform enough; that the seizure provisions are too broad; and that the DTSA would limit labor mobility by approving the so-called "inevitable disclosure doctrine."
As I will explain below, on each of these points the professors are wrong, misled by incorrect assumptions or unjustified speculation. Indeed, in a recent journal article two of them have predicted that the legislation would unleash a never-seen-before class of commercial predator, the "trade secret troll," who they claim would "roam free in a confused and unsettled environment, threatening or initiating lawsuits for the sole purpose of exacting settlement payments, just like patent trolls."
This apocalyptic scenario is not only fanciful; it is absurd. While patents are exclusive rights that operate against the world, trade secrets provide no exclusivity and depend on a confidential relationship. The image of a "trade secret troll" may help draw attention to a political argument, but it is a myth, and deserves no serious consideration.
The reality of this legislation is simple and compelling. Giving trade secret owners the option to sue in federal court would fill a critical gap in effective enforcement of private rights against cross-border misappropriation that in the digital age has become too stealthy and quick to be dealt with predictably in state courts. The bills would accomplish this by effecting only very modest changes, relying heavily on existing laws and rules. The seizure provisions in particular are so narrowly drawn that only the most clearly aggrieved plaintiffs would risk invoking the procedure. Having no pre-emptive effect, the federal law would leave in place all relevant state laws and policies, including those relating to mobility of labor.
U.S. trade secret law emerged in the nineteenth century to accommodate the shift from agrarian and cottage production to larger-scale industry, in which the secrets of production would have to be shared with workers or with business partners. Court decisions sought to enforce the confidence placed in those who were given access to valuable information about machines, recipes and processes. At the core of every case was a confidential relationship. Protecting this trust, the courts explained, was a simple matter of enforcing morality in the marketplace.
The common law origins of trade secrets – in contrast to the federal patent statute – meant that the majority of cases were heard in state court. Even when a federal court took diversity or supplemental jurisdiction over a trade secret dispute, it applied the law of the state in which it sat. And at first there was little variation, with most states looking to the Restatement of Torts § 757 as a guide. But as industrial development continued through the middle of the twentieth century, legal foundations shifted, and the reporters of the Second Restatement dropped the subject completely.
Meanwhile, a school of thought had developed among commentators that trade secret law should be abolished altogether because it was inconsistent with, and therefore preempted by, federal patent law. This argument was famously rejected by the U.S. Supreme Court in Kewanee Oil Co. v. Bicron Corp., 416 U.S. 470 (1974). Two important public interests, the Court explained, were served by trade secret law: the "maintenance of standards of commercial ethics and the encouragement of invention." Without guaranteed secrecy, businesses would be left to expensive self-help security measures that would disadvantage smaller competitors and discourage dissemination of information through sharing. And as a practical matter, there was no conflict between the two systems because they operate so differently: patent law is strong, providing an exclusive right "against the world;" while trade secret rights are "far weaker," because they do not protect against reverse engineering or independent development.
With the Second Restatement's decision not to treat the issue, some were concerned that trade secret law would become too fractured and inconsistent for companies which had been increasingly doing business across state lines. Therefore, in 1979 the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws issued the first of two versions of the UTSA, proposing harmonized rules on establishing and enforcing trade secret rights. Measured by adoption rates, the UTSA has been a great success, with 47 of the 50 states so far embracing it (New York is the leading holdout). However, measured by its objective of uniformity, the law has been a disappointment. Unlike the UCC, the UTSA has frequently been enacted with customized features.
A few examples will help illustrate the scope of the problem. California dropped the language requiring that a trade secret be not "readily ascertainable," with the result that the defendant is required to specially plead that circumstance as an affirmative defense. Illinois also eliminated the "readily ascertainable" language, and it prohibits royalty injunction orders, sets a different limitations period and allows permanent injunctions. Idaho requires that computer programs carry a "copyright or other proprietary or confidential marking" to qualify for protection. Georgia limits protection of customer lists to physical embodiments, in effect allowing employees to appropriate such information in (human) memory. South Carolina's version of the UTSA requires a court hearing an injunction request to consider "average rate of business growth" in determining a head start period, and prescribes very particular rules for discovery of trade secret information, even for local discovery in aid of an action pending in another jurisdiction.
When Congress considered the EEA in 1996, there was some discussion of adding a civil right of action, but this was deemed impractical in view of the need for swift legislative action. In the years since its enactment, the EEA has had a mixed record of success. As reported by one veteran prosecutor, the average of about eight prosecutions per year is a "languid pace" that probably has done little to create a deterrent effect. In part this may be due to a reluctance of victims to bring cases to the prosecutor, either because of a loss of control or Fifth Amendment effects on civil claims, or it may be due to a lack of resources or interest within the various offices of the U.S. Attorneys, who have discretion whether to accept qualifying cases.
Calls for a federal trade secret law with a private right of action had already begun before the EEA was passed. After it became law, a number of scholars noted the anomaly and suggested that, because the national economy had become primarily knowledge-based, and because even with the UTSA state law was far from uniform, a federal civil law should be enacted. More recent commentary, while continuing to emphasize the drawbacks of variations in state law, also has pointed out the economic advantages of federalization, particularly for small businesses, which rely more heavily on secrecy than on patenting, as well as the procedural advantages for trade secret owners, including national service of process.
The highly-publicized cyberattacks of recent years have exposed not only the precarious security of personal financial and health information, but also the vulnerability of American corporate secrets. Thirty years ago information security consisted mainly of guarding the photocopier and watching who went in and out the front door. Now, with the Internet connected to millions of smartphones, and with electronic storage devices the size of a coin, information assets (which account for over 80% of the value of U.S. public companies) can be moved quickly and silently across state and international borders. In that context, existing procedures at the state level seem impossibly quaint. If a case in Illinois requires testimony of a witness in California, the plaintiff has to petition its home court to authorize a deposition, and then file an action in California based on the Illinois order, to secure the required subpoena. During the weeks or months of this process, the witness could easily have left the country, with the secrets in her pocket.
In other words, the time-critical nature of interstate and international misappropriation of valuable digitized data requires an immediate and sophisticated response mechanism, and neither state law nor the EEA criminal framework provides a satisfactory solution. Federal courts, however, can provide the necessary resource. First, they will be operating under a single, national standard for trade secret misappropriation and a transparent set of procedural rules, offering predictability and ease of use. Second, they will provide nationwide service of process and a unified approach to discovery, enabling quick action by trade secret owners even when confronted with actors in multiple jurisdictions. Third, as a result of their extensive experience with complex cross-border litigation involving intellectual property, they will be able to resolve ex parte matters fairly and jurisdictional issues quickly and efficiently. Fourth, their generally more predictable discovery procedures will serve the legitimate needs of trade secret plaintiffs, who typically must develop most of the facts to prove their case through defendants and third parties.
In this context, the objections raised by the law professors are not convincing. First, it is not fair to describe existing state law as "coherent," "robust and uniform," so that U.S. businesses already enjoy "a high level of predictability." The rhetoric does not obscure the reality of a patchwork of differing standards and rules – in some ways more divergent than before enactment of the UTSA – that necessarily creates friction and inefficiency for companies with interstate operations.
Second, while admitting that the current language on ex parte seizure is "more limited in scope" than the 2014 legislation (for example, only property "necessary to prevent the propagation or dissemination of the trade secret" can be seized), the professors think this tightening is not enough and that the provision "may still result in significant harm." No evidence is provided, but only speculation that mere invocation of the procedure might cause small businesses to "capitulate," and that the "chilling effect on innovation and job growth . . . could be profound." Again, the reality could hardly be more different. The DTSA is loaded with limitations making seizure very difficult to achieve, and with liabilities making it prohibitively expensive to be wrong in asking for it. In the unusual case where the plaintiff has no substantial basis for the claim, the defendant will simply file an opposition, the seizure will be dissolved, and the plaintiff will pay for the harm. Surely the benefits of the DTSA are worth that occasional risk.
Third, the professors assert that new language, added to the DTSA to ensure that mobility of labor is respected, embraces the so-called "inevitable disclosure doctrine," which they view as the equivalent of a judge-made noncompetition agreement. In fact, that "doctrine" is nothing more than a method of analysis under the common-sense UTSA provision allowing injunctions against "threatened misappropriation." This method has been applied thoughtfully in a majority of jurisdictions, resulting in a wide range of conditional remedies, and has only rarely been applied in a way that stops anyone from taking a new job.
The DTSA is sorely needed to fill a gap in remedies available to U.S. businesses that now operate in an information-based, globalized economy. This is one of those instances where federal structures are required to address a critical set of interstate and international problems. The DTSA has been carefully constructed to deter and punish abuse. Using well-established definitions and norms, it provides a choice to file a familiar claim in an effective forum. And there is absolutely no danger that enacting this statute will generate some new form of "troll" behavior to this point unknown in trade secret law.
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Religious communities in Tokyo adopt new worship styles to tackle COVID-19
Churches and mosques are adopting new measures when conducting weekly religious ceremonies so as to prevent the spread among worshippers of the new virus that causes COVID-19.
Some religious institutions have decided to close their doors and broadcast services over the internet, while others are conducting services for small groups only.
The Catholic Archdiocese of Tokyo has suspended Sunday public masses through the rest of March, deciding instead to livestream them. "It is an unusual measure, but we made the decision to prevent the spread of the coronavirus," said an official.
The decision was made because many parishioners are of advanced age and so are considered some of the most vulnerable to the pneumonia-causing virus, first identified in China. It also decided that it would have been hard to limit the size of congregations, as tourists also attend mass.
"Let us pray for the coronavirus to stop spreading," said a priest, as Sunday mass at Sekiguchi Church in Bunkyo Ward, Tokyo, livestreamed on YouTube with only nuns in attendance. "Amen," parishioners typed in response.
"I was surprised because canceling mass is unprecedented, but I am thankful that I can participate in this fashion," said Kuniko Yoshioka, 60, who watched it on her computer at home.
Muslim religious institutions are taking similar precautions to prevent large gatherings of worshippers. The Japan Muslim Association said all public Friday prayer services at a mosque in Shinagawa Ward in the capital would be canceled, and that it has not been decided when they will resume.
At Otsuka Mosque in the Toshima Ward of Tokyo last Friday, worship continued but in small groups with attendees wearing masks.
Usually around 300 people attend Friday prayers, but the mosque decided to hold multiple services from Feb. 28 to reduce the numbers gathering at any one time. Last Friday, prayers were held in groups of around 50 people.
Announcements were made before the prayers calling for the faithful to greet each other with elbow bumps instead of hugging or shaking hands.
"I suspect few people oppose infectious disease control measures, since we are used to washing our hands and feet to purify our bodies before prayers," said Haroon Qureshi, the mosque's secretary general.
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