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IT is considered innovative by default, but this does not mean that every IT company drives innovation.
To sustain a large retail business, our IT specialists continually look to improve processes by being creative and inventive. The employees are provided with all the support they need because METRO SYSTEMS sees innovation as a key strategic direction and one of the essential keys to success in staying competitive.
Each innovation starts with an idea. We open an open environment, favourable and creative, we encourage the employees in taking the responsibility for their contribution with ideas and results, we organize creative workshops that generate ideas. Within METRO SYSTEMS România, the process between generating an idea and the actual innovation, followed by prototypes, implementation and launch will be accompanied by innovation experts in order to facilitate the application of the appropriate methodology. This is why innovation, success and agility perfectly go together.
METRO SYSTEMS Romania believes that employees are the ideal ambassadors of innovation. With this in mind, creativity and originality have become important attributes for candidates looking to join us. Once a candidate has joined the company, our HR department will offer the space and tools for these skills to be nurtured and developed further. The people and environment allow easy transformation from ideas to innovations.
We have an innovation room where teams can go to brainstorm, explore new ideas and find creative solutions for our business and clients.
We have an innovation workgroup which aims to promote innovative ideas inside METRO SYSTEMS Romania.
Our innovation platform "Call for innovation" allows METRO SYSTEMS Romania employees to share their ideas and also contemplate the ideas of others.
Our employees celebrated the Innovation Day organized by MSYS RO, another successful action dedicated to the process of bringing new ideas. Four exciting events bringing different sides of innovation were prepared with this occasion: Innovation Exhibit, Call for Smile - the most Creative Smile in MSYS RO, Arduino and Raspberry Pi Workshop, Creativity Games in the Agile Room.
Innovation Exhibit - a journey into the innovations that you are using daily and about innovators and technologies that shaped the world.
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Arduino and Raspberry Pi Workshop - For those who already submitted ideas on our Call for Innovation platform a full day Arduino and Raspberry Pi workshop took place. The prototypes are displayed in MindPlay Room, so everybody can interact with them.
Creativity Games in the Agile Room – the slogan was: be creative, curios and have fun discovering the room by visiting the 4 organized activities inside: Build Origami, Solve Brain Games, Play with Lego, Watch a 3D Printer in action.


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Jon B. Just Wants Us To "Understand"
There's a reason nostalgia for 90s R&B has endured, namely because it birthed a body of music that's simply too damn good to ignore. A legacy that continues to fill seats across the country at shows featuring acts like 112, Dru Hill, Xscape and more. From soulful bands to soaring singers, it's an era that proudly offered a little of something for everyone, including the golden voiced Jon B.
From production for Michael Jackson to writing for artists like Toni Braxton, Jon carefully built his craft before proving he could pen hits of his with the release of his platinum selling debut, Bonafide. Not showing any signs of a sophomore curse, just two years later he would go double platinum with the 1997 release of Cool Relax. Since then he's enjoyed more than two decades in the industry, and he's not slowing down, recently teaming up with Donell Jones for a sultry single called "Understand."
Back on the road, during a stop at Houston's popular Arena Theater the "Don't Say" singer sat down for what we promised would be a (relatively painless) interview. Warm and relaxed, he shared laughs while getting candid about everything from his legacy and his refusal to go pop, to what it was like recording "Are You Still Down" with the late Tupac Shakur.
On stage he's a professional, working with the stage crew to ensure that the night ahead will go smoothly. After soundcheck he's warm and relaxed, sharing laughs while getting candid about everything from his legacy and his refusal to go pop, to what it was like to record "Are You Still Down" with the late Tupac Shakur.
Behind the scenes:
I write and produce all of my own music. A lot of the songs that you know and love, I wrote those songs. I love to collaborate with other producers though, I like to have more than one sound on an album. If I didn't have a voice or a calling to be a writer I don't really think I'd have the same impact with people.
Collaborating for "Understand:"
Recently, I just finished working with Donell Jones and it was a pleasure to work with someone who has influenced me creatively. There are certain elements that you can't help but be influenced by. Donell's been a heavyweight in R&B for years so the fact that he even wanted to do the record with me was a blessing. It was an opportunity that reminded me of when me and Pac got together. Same kind of energy.
Tupac's creative process in the studio for "Are You Still Down"
He was a great guy in the studio. A lot of people see the videos and they think he was a hostile person to be around, when it was the exact opposite. He was very much down for whatever he supported, he was down to a default. If you're going to be productive you want to be apart of something that's moving on the way up. Everybody in the room that night, they were pumped for us that night. Pac was one of those guys, if you were there and you felt some type of way he would pick up on that energy and call you out like, "Hey man, what's up?" He would pull you out of your element.
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As with all permanent structures built within or around the home, there comes a degree of rule and regulation needed to be adheard too.
3) Within 2mtrs of a boundry the maximum height cannot exceed 2.5mtrs.
5) Where no more than 50% of the existing land around the 'original house' is already covered by garden buildings.
6) Within the curtlage of a listed building planning permission must be sought.
7) In Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty, National Parks, World Heritage Sites, the maximum area to be covered by an outdoor structure, more than 20mtrs from the original house must be limited to an area not exceeding 10sq mtrs. However, any buildings at the side of the property, within these nominated areas, will require planning permission.
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Safe injection site still not safe
Tom Blickman
Ignoring all the scientific evidence, Canada Health Minister Tony Clement will move to close Canada's only sanctioned safe-injection site, announcing it will appeal a British Colombia court ruling that Vancouver's Insite should stay open because reducing the risk of drug overdoses is a vital health service.
In his ruling, Justice Ian Pitfield upheld arguments that Insite provided vital health services to addicts by reducing the possibility of drug overdoses, curbing the risk of transmitting infectious diseases and giving users access to counselling that may lead to abstinence. (Read the B.C. Supreme Court's judgment on Insite)
As a result, Insite's injection-drug users have the right to protection from drug laws under Section 7 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms that guarantees everyone "life, liberty and security of the person," the judge found.
Thomas Kerr, director of the urban health research program at the BC Centre of Excellence in HIV/AIDS, cited the more than 25 peer-reviewed scientific papers that have found, among other things, that the injection site reduces public disorder, overdoses and disease while connecting the users of illegal drugs with avenues for treatment.
Insite has been operating since 2003. Several studies have shown that the facility is effective, with the most recent report being released by a government-appointed expert panel just last month. An expert panel appointed by Canada's national health agency recently concluded that Vancouver's supervised injection site is saving money and lives, increasing access to health care and treatment, and improving public order - all without increasing crime.
Leading nurses, researchers and public health experts implore the Canadian Prime minister not to jeopardize a proven life-saving facility:
Although Clement approves of many of the services offered at Insite, including needle exchanges and condom distribution, and does not want it closed entirely, he wants to shut down the supervised injections.
The federal government argued that there was no constitutional issue at stake because the addicts chose to become drug users; it's their fault they are addicts, and therefore it's irrelevant whether the government chooses to close a clinic that might save their lives. Yet the government acknowledged in court that addiction is an illness. An absurdity, according an editorial in The Globe and Mail.
Meanwhile, Toronto public-health officials say they are going ahead with a long-promised study of the feasibility of safe drug-use sites in the city, even as the federal government says it will appeal a B.C. court ruling that allows Vancouver's controversial safe-injection site to stay open.
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Whilst reviewing the CPU statistics of a system that i knew was CPU bound i found the numbers were not adding up and i was not seeing the code i expected to see as a top CPU consumer so i decided to going digging.
Only shows as one thread in sys.dm_exec_requests because sys.dm_exec_requests does not show blocking tasks and parallel threads appear self blocking. If you want to see all active threads including blocked you should use sys.dm_os_waiting_tasks but there is no cpu time there….
Any cpu time shown is only relevant to the coordinator thread not the sum of all the related parallel threads.
I also used my favourite tool sp_whoisactive written by Adam Machanic but it did not help me either so i e-mailed Adam and had an enlightening mail exchange. The bottom line was that it is not possible to get an accurate value for CPU if a query has gone parallel! Below is an extract from the mail exchange with Adam reproduced with his permission.
Correct. It is not possible to get an accurate value for CPU if a query has gone parallel. The best you can get is the number of context switches (which Who is Active provides in @get_task_info = 2 mode). This is not the same thing, but it is correlated: a context switch means that the process was using CPU time, and was switched off of the CPU. What you don't know is whether it used its entire quantum each time, or only 1/2 of the quantum, or whatever. So it's not exactly a simple translation. But it's a lot better than nothing.
Adam did continue on to talk about a potential method to expose a more accurate cpu value through Who is Active's delta mode and shortly after he delivered!
Adam announced the accurate CPU time deltas in this post. To get the CPU delta's you need to be running version 11 and the parameter you need are documented here.
It is impossible to get a run time cumulative value of CPU for a spid that has gone parallel and it is vital you remember this when your looking at your DMV's otherwise you could be barking up the wrong tree.
sp_whoisactive can give you a runtime delta of CPU time for a parallel query which will enable you to spot CPU sapping parallel queries.
I hope you find this information useful and i would also like to say a big thank you to Adam Machanic.
What is that SPID doing?
This is certainly not a new topic but something that i felt was worth revisiting and reminding people about, especially because i find many people are not aware of the ability to extract the statement within a stored procedure being executed.
So, prior to SQL 2000 SP3, when we want to know what code a SPID is executing we have to use DBCC INPUTBUFFER (). The problem with this command is that its restricted to the first 256 characters and only returns the outermost statement executing. That means that if we have stored procedure 1 calling stored procedure 2 the input buffer will only tell us about stored procedure 1 and it may even get truncated!
I clearly remember reading the SP3 readme and thinking Christmas has come early as i found the entry about a new function being introduced called ::fn_get_sql. I've got to say right now this is the best present yet! It has made trouble shooting so much easier. Why? Well read on.
Running the code below will now show you the inner most statement executing and we now get up to 4000 characters. In the case of a stored procedure you see the whole procedure.
The part that really got me? When it returns the code of a stored procedure you could be left wondering what statement within the stored procedure is executing. Fear not! They have that covered to. All you have to do is run the modified code below and the exact statement causing you a problem is identified.
So, now i've reminded you of this really useful tool its time for a few "Battle Tips".
1) Make sure in query analyser your "maximum characters per column" is set to 4000. Otherwise you are only going to get 256….
2) If SQL generates a "zero cost plan" it will not put it in cache because its not worth it. As its not in cache ::fn_get_sql won't return any information.
3) This one comes with a health warning….. If for some reason you need SQL to cache the zero cost plans so that ::fn_get_sql will always work then you can enable trace flag 2861. I would recommend you do not use this in production as the overhead is substantial and profiler should be used instead but some people might find it beneficial on a dev box.


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Turning Points: The Judas Kiss and Wildean Imprisonment
By John Cooper
The Judas Kiss, coming to the BAM Harvey Theater May 11—Jun 12, marks a historic return to BAM of the Irish poet, dramatist, and wit Oscar Wilde. This is not, of course, a return of Wilde the playwright, whose works have been staged several times at BAM over the years. It is a return in the sense of the reappearance of Wilde on stage.
No one has appeared as Oscar Wilde at BAM since Wilde himself spoke 134 years ago on a nationwide lecture tour. It is a fitting parallel because Wilde was actually playing a part—masquerading as the poster boy for Gilbert and Sullivan's Patience, a comic opera poking fun at the aesthetic movement.
A lot has changed since Wilde lectured at BAM on that cold February evening in 1882, not least the venue. Back then, Oscar Wilde took to the platform of the original Leopold Eidlitz building on Montague Street, where he was greeted by a large and mostly positive audience. It was a somewhat stuffy talk on what he termed the English Renaissance in Art—a movement that had existed ever since Oscar had dreamed it up on the boat to America a few weeks earlier.
Excerpt from the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Feb 3, 1882
Source: Oscar Wilde in America
Wilde's pose as the "apostle of the beautiful" led to much ridicule from the public and press alike. But Oscar took it all in stride. He confirmed as much to his audience during the Brooklyn lecture, when he told of being recruited by the English art critic, John Ruskin, to build roads for a small village. "The scoffers used to come down and stand on the bank and jeer us," he said, "but we didn't mind it much then, and we don't mind it at all now."
It is evident from this, as he told a reporter in a dressing room interview at BAM, that Wilde was savoring his public speaking engagements. But, he added, he hated the traveling. Railroads, he opined, consisted of those that are intolerable and others that are simply unbearable. If this sounds like a carefree Wilde, it was—he was young and successful. But the fates were gathering back in Britain, where many turning points in Oscar Wilde's future were about to reveal themselves.
The first of these were the traditional milestones of marriage, family, and career, which Wilde soon abandoned for a more subversive approach—one closer to his true artistic nature. He described the life of an artist as "a long and lovely suicide" and so eventually after reaching the heights of fame, Wilde found himself drawn to the role of the most visible victim of Victorian morality: the homosexual.
In De Profundis, Oscar Wilde's long prison letter to his lover, Lord Alfred Douglas, he wrote "the two great turning points in my life were when my father sent me to Oxford, and when society sent me to prison." Certainly, these were major events in Wilde's life. But, of the two, his prison sentence with hard labor for homosexual offenses caused the most lasting upheaval. It was a tragic period diametrically opposed in mood and over a decade removed from Wilde's college life and lecture tour, but its effects still resonate.
At BAM we see such an example. In The Judas Kiss they are the wounds revealed at the broken heart of two conversations that Rupert Everett, as Wilde, conducts with his inner circle. They are the turning points in Wilde's life that form the bookends to his imprisonment for homosexual offenses in 1895. The play is aptly styled for its drama. The conceit in the title—the betrayal kiss of Judas—is a metaphor for the eventual arrest of Wilde. The biblical allusion is not misplaced. Wilde often saw himself as a Christ-like figure, susceptible to the "red rose-leaf lips" of Bosie—the pet name for the young Alfred Douglas—the passion of the crossroads of Wilde's life.
Tom Colley, Charlie Rowe and Rupert Everett in The Judas Kiss. Photo: Cylla von Tiedemann
But playwright David Hare realizes that Wilde's analysis of turning points is too simplistic, or, for the play's purpose, too impersonal. He intuits that great movements of life often crystallize in small moments of love. So in place of any deus ex machina in Wilde's downfall, the play focuses on human turmoil. The first act depicts one of the most wrenching episodes in Wilde's story—his decision to face trial rather than flee justice. It becomes a dialogue in the shape of an internecine love triangle between Wilde, Douglas, and Robert Ross (Wilde's former lover and later literary executor) unraveling under the stresses of opportunity, influence, fatalism, hubris, and defiance. People are still analyzing Wilde's motives.
It also marks the end of the beginning for Wilde, and the second act is well-crafted enough to defy cliche—marking, alternately, the beginning of the end. It is set after Wilde's release from prison where we witness his attempted reconciliation with Douglas. It is a moment into which Wilde channeled all hope of salvation only to be abandoned for a second time. The gambit of turning points ends here for Wilde, for he reaches the point of no return. He is left to face life as an outcast—often in extremis, occasionally in excess, but always in exile.
Two years later, Oscar Wilde died in an obscure Paris hotel at the age of 46. He died not knowing that his life would be reappraised. Not knowing that his lifestyle would be rehabilitated. Not knowing that, on the stage at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, a lost soul of the Gay Nineties would be re-embodied by a star of modern gay culture. The Judas Kiss is not just a vehicle at the endpoint, it is a road map identifying the start of that journey.
The US premiere of David Hare's play The Judas Kiss is at the BAM Harvey from May 11—Jun 12.
John Cooper is a historian, scholar and writer who has spent 30 years in the study of Oscar Wilde. He is a member of the Oscar Wilde Society in London and former manager of the Victorian Society in America. Online, he is a blogger and creator of the noncommercial archive Oscar Wilde in America.
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Season review: Kane Linnett
cowboys.com.au
Mon 20 Oct 2014, 01:00 PM
Linnett again formed a strong combination with great mate Antonio Winterstein on the left side of the Cowboys' attack and defence as he turned in another 20-plus games season for the club in 2014.
The duo scored a total of 27 tries with Linnett grabbing four in the final six weeks as NQ charged to the finals.
His offloads count of 30 was the highest amongst all Cowboys and he was fourth in linebreaks with 10.
A powerful straight line runner who loves spearing into holes off Johnathan Thurston, Linnett had 10 100m-plus matches during the home and away runs, highlighted by 163 metres in the round 25 golden point win against the Sharks.
After playing every minute of every game in 2013, the 25-year-old only missed one match this year (round seven against Manly).
WHAT'S IN STORE IN 2015:
Linnett has proved to be outstanding value for the Cowboys – in his three years, he's played 74 matches and only missed three.
Another three games next year will take the centre to 100 for his career.
Representative football with NSW Country will still be high on his agenda to add to his World Cup cap for Scotland.
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Asymmetric justice
Asymmetric justice occurs when punishment for failures is proportionally greater than rewards for equal-magnitude successes (or vice-versa). The term was first coined by Zvi.
Asymmetric justice results in the "IBM option," where employees will prefer low-risk but low-upside moves. In other words, risk aversion.
Similarly, in the opticratic world of scientific peer review, Crispy Chicken writes:
Most science is bad, not actively lying. The reason why it's "bad" is because the authors present their data in a way to make their results appealing, but this kind of presentation goal specifically selects against giving reviewers anything to sink their teeth into. Most reviews are pretty negative—but without concrete things to be negative about, the person actually deciding whether the paper gets in (who is not a reviewer, by the way) can't fairly pay them much heed.
Some onlookers believe that institutions today are broadly risk-averse as a result of functional asymmetric justice stemming from modern litigation practices.
N.N.T. takes the opposite tack, emphasizing a type of asymmetric justice in which catastrophic failures in the wake of tail risks are excused, or go unpunished, because they were "unforseeable" or "acts of God." Financial bail-outs, for instance, effectively subsidize riskier behavior by raising the floor of possible disaster. Similarly, a short-termist approach to reward in many corporate settings leads to functional asymmetric justice whereby an executive leaps from company to company, making short-term, CV-boosting profits at tremendous (as-of-yet hidden) long-term cost to the org. The delayed effects of his poor stewardship allow him to stay ahead of the problems his short-termist optimizing causes, receiving better and better pay (and prestige) as he goes.
Asymmetric justice is related to the Knobe Effect, whereby more intentionality is attributed to individuals whose actions have negative consequences, than those whose actions have positive ones:
In a study published in 2003, Knobe presented passers-by in a Manhattan park with the following scenario. The CEO of a company is sitting in his office when his Vice President of R&D comes in and says, 'We are thinking of starting a new programme. It will help us increase profits, but it will also harm the environment.' The CEO responds that he doesn't care about harming the environment and just wants to make as much profit as possible. The programme is carried out, profits are made and the environment is harmed.
Did the CEO intentionally harm the environment? The vast majority of people Knobe quizzed—82 per cent—said he did. But what if the scenario is changed such that the word 'harm' is replaced with 'help'? In this case the CEO doesn't care about helping the environment, and still just wants to make a profit—and his actions result in both outcomes. Now faced with the question 'Did the CEO intentionally help the environment?', just 23 per cent of Knobe's participants said 'yes' (Knobe, 2003a).
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I am so pleased today to be able to take a presence here together with HE Sam Rainsy and Lok Chumteav in this very happy meeting with all of our workers and students who are staying legally for work and study in Malaysia. I thank HE Sam Rainsy the initiative to have such a meeting while we are staying in Kuala Lumpur. I appreciate his thought and preparation to take the opportunity that we are all present here. HE Sam Rainsy proposed the idea and sent me an SMS while I was in Jakarta. I think it is a good chance that we can be present together in this auspicious time to meet with our people working in Malaysia at a time that the Khmer New Year just passed recently.
I am so happy to come here once again to present diploma to 1,026 graduates of the Svay Rieng University. I am so glad that we are meeting in a good environment and in the month of January, the month that we liberated our land from the genocidal regime of Pol Pot. This month, for me, also noted with many events. Firstly, I got married in January; secondly, we liberated the country and thirdly, my premiership started in this month too. I also have my eldest grandson's birthday in this month. We also have this graduation and diploma presenting ceremony in January. I was in Tbong Khom to preside over the provincial infrastructural development.
Today, I am so pleased to be able to join with our people to put into official use the 338 MW hydropower station of Russei Jrum Kraom – the biggest hydropower station we ever built so far. We used to put into official use the power station of only dozens of MW power. Today, we have a 338 MW power generation station which, for us, is a big scale of power station. As for China, on their Yangtze River, they built one of tens of thousands of MW. In 2018, we hope to have another hydropower station ready and it will produce up to 400 MW.
Imams of Islam, Excellencies and Lok Chumteavs, HE Governors of Tay Ninh and Binh Phuoc provinces of Vietnam, who have taken their precious time to attend today's ceremony. My wife and I also convey our deep respect to elderly, uncles, aunts and compatriots. Today, we are so happy to be able to join with all of you – people and Buddhist monks and compatriots in the groundbreaking ceremony to build the administrative building and needed infrastructures of the provincial city of (the newly established province of) Tbong Khmom. As we are passing the year 2014 to 2015, and the forthcoming celebration of the 36th anniversary of the victory on 7 January 1979-2015, please allow me to wish you all the four Buddhist wishes.
In addition to the prepared text, Samdech Techo made the following comments on source of corruption, bon how accurate information and transparency help make bribe free and clean investment, corruption as one of the oldest diseases in the world, and appreciating any first coming investors.
The central office of the Anti-Corruption Unit is formerly the command headquarters of the armed force since the French time. I would remind you that from this command headquarters, war was made under the French colony and later the war between 1970 and 1975. Later than that this place was also used for war matter. Now we have used this place as command centre against corruption. If delegates have time, maybe it is a good idea how we make war command centre into central office of Anti-Corruption Unit.
I am so happy to return for the graduation ceremony for 2,501 students of the Norton University. The University's rector Chan Sokheang has made a report already relating to the progress made by the University. All I could recall is that the University was the one that actively takes part in the implementation of the Royal Government's policy on issue of private investment in the field of education. I remember that in 1997, I came for the inauguration of the university itself. I am quite encouraged by the fact that in time that the country was still in war, the rector, who was then a single man, dared to invest in establishing this university.


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Dean Becker tries to use failed IPR filed by Unified Patents to gin up interest in for Sisvel patent that's for sale
Patent broker Ocean Tomo's Board of Advisors Vice Chairman Dean Becker is using a failed inter partes review (IPR) challenge of a patent owned by Societa Italiana Per Lo Sviluppo dell'Elettronica S.p.A. (SISVEL), filed by Unified Patents as evidence of the validity and value of a patent he is trying to sell. The former chairman [...]
By thepatentinvestor| 2017-06-29T13:20:09-07:00	June 29th, 2017|Patent Investing, Patent sale, Patent Trolling, PTAB|0 Comments
Marathon, Spherix seen as primed for capital raises after recent run-ups in their share prices
Marathon Patent Group (MARA), the patent licensing company run by CEO Doug Croxall, and Spherix Inc. (SPEX), the patent licensing company run by CEO Anthony Hayes, probably should consider raising capital after their shares soared over the past week and a half. Shares of Marathon more than tripled to 50.9 cents on Monday, June 26 [...]
By thepatentinvestor| 2017-06-29T07:52:06-07:00	June 28th, 2017|Financing, Patent Investing|0 Comments
VirnetX says 'unforeseen circumstances' led to one month delay in PICA's $20M investment
VirnetX Holding Corp. (VHC), the patent licensing company that announced $20 million investment from Japan's Public Intelligence Technology Associates (PICA) earlier this month, said the closing date of the the investment has been extend for a month due to "unforeseen circumstances." The Zephyr Cove, Nevada-based company made the disclosure in a filing with the Securities [...]
By thepatentinvestor| 2017-06-28T18:58:28-07:00	June 28th, 2017|Asia, Financing, licensing agreement, Patent Investing|0 Comments
Dominion partners with Beijing East IP to expand licensing of Kodak portfolio in China
Dominion Harbor Enterprises (DHE) has partnered with Beijing East IP Law Firm, the top intellectual property firm in China run by Dr. Lulin Gao, to further expand the licensing opportunities of the Kodak portfolio across an expanding Chinese market. Dominion's Monument Peak Ventures (MPV), acquired the portfolio from Intellectual Ventures in February 2017 and has [...]
By thepatentinvestor| 2017-06-28T11:13:09-07:00	June 28th, 2017|Asia, China, Patent Investing|0 Comments
(Update1) Acacia alums at Longhorn IP win licensing agreements with Western Digital and SanDisk
Longhorn IP, the patent licensing company founded by former Acacia Research Corp.(ACTG) executives Chris Dubuc and Khaled Fekih-Romdhane, said on Tuesday, June 27 that its Lone Star Silicon Innovations LLC subsidiary has reached an agreement with Western Digital Corp. and SanDisk LLC. Plano, Texas based Longhorn IP didn't disclose the terms of the agreement. The [...]
By thepatentinvestor| 2017-06-28T13:50:23-07:00	June 28th, 2017|licensing agreement, litigation, Patent Investing|0 Comments
Finjan files to raise another $13M in public offering underwritten by B. Riley & Co.
Finjan Holdings Inc. (FNJN), the cybersecurity and patent licensing company run by CEO Phil Hartstein, said it is planning to raise about $13 million from an underwritten public offering of common shares. East Palo Alto, California-based Finjan said in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission it is issuing 3.6 million shares of common [...]
Acacia's Saint Lawrence unit reaches licensing agreement with China's ZTE, terms not disclosed
Acacia Research Corp. (ACTG), the patent licensing company run by Executive Chairman Louis Graziadio III, said its subsidiaries Saint Lawrence Communications LLC and Saint Lawrence Communications GmbH have entered into a patent license agreement with ZTE Corp. Newport Beach, California-based Acacia officials didn't provide any information on how much ZTE agreed to pay for the [...]
By thepatentinvestor| 2017-06-26T12:09:58-07:00	June 26th, 2017|Europe, licensing agreement, Patent Investing|0 Comments
Senator Chris Coons' STRONGER patent reform bill seen as antidote to anti-patent troll legislation
Sen. Chris Coons, a Democrat from Delaware, introduced new patent-owner friendly legislation designed to rebalance the U.S. patent system by restoring injunctive relief and getting rid of the gamesmanship in the inter partes review and post-grant review processes before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. The new bill is called the Support Technology & Research [...]
By thepatentinvestor| 2017-06-22T06:47:21-07:00	June 22nd, 2017|Patent Investing, PTAB, Supreme Court, USPTO|0 Comments
Spherix acquires Hoth Therapeutics, becoming latest licensing company to acquire product company
Spherix Inc. (SPEX), which turned over its enforcement actions to Equitable IP Holdings Corp., acquired Hoth Therapeutics, a developmental stage company focused on treatments for atopic dermatitis such as eczema. The Bethesda, Maryland-based company didn't say how much it paid but in acquiring Hoth Therapeutics Spherix became the latest patent licensing company to use its [...]
By thepatentinvestor| 2017-06-21T17:04:57-07:00	June 21st, 2017|drug patents, Patent Investing, Product|0 Comments
(Update1) Finjan raises $15.3M in preferred stock for possible patent acquisitions and share buybacks
Finjan Holdings Inc. (FNJN), the cybersecurity licensing company run by CEO Phil Hartstein, said it secured a $15.3 million Series A-1 preferred stock financing in a private placement transaction led by Soryn HLDR Vehicle II LLC. The East Palo Alto-based company said in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission it plans to use [...]


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Bianca Quan
b.quan@cornwalls.com.au
Legal Expertise
Bianca has extensive experience in commercial litigation, practising predominantly in the areas of insolvency, banking and finance litigation and property-related disputes.
Her experience includes acting for major banks and financial institutions in asset and debt recoveries, and the enforcement of mortgages and other securities.
Bianca also has expertise in acting for insolvency practitioners, directors, and secured and unsecured creditors regarding the administration of insolvent estates, including providing advice and conducting litigation across all jurisdictions.
a bank in a claim for possession of multiple properties from a corporate borrower and debt over $1m where an advance was made to a company in liquidation, involving negotiations with the liquidator and advice under the Corporations Act regarding the liquidator's liability, realisation of water shares, and a subsequent guarantee claim;
a trustee in bankruptcy in a Federal Court application for declaratory relief against a bankrupt and orders for possession of property vesting in the trustee;
a second-tier lender in a complex Supreme Court claim involving issues of fraud, indefeasibility of mortgage, incorporation of loan terms, subrogation and restitution;
a finance company in ongoing litigation regarding the validity of an instrument presented pursuant to the Bills of Exchange Act 1909; and
a first mortgagee in a dispute with a second ranking mortgagee as to entitlement to sale proceeds, and the application of a priority agreement; and a financial institution to oppose an application to prevent the sale of vacant land by that entity as mortgagee in possession; issues includes the limitation of actions and a failure by the borrower to properly prosecute the claim.
Finalist – Outstanding Female Award, Women in Insolvency and Restructuring Victoria (WIRV) 2020 Awards
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Registering Foreign Judgments
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Overhaul of Insolvency Laws – Part 2: The impact on creditors
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Questionable caveats – cunning or ill-conceived?
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Collateral use of Disclosed Documents: Permitted?
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Law Institute of Victoria
Women in Insolvency and Reconstruction Victoria
Victoria Women Lawyers
Bachelor of Laws (Hons), University of Melbourne
Bachelor of Arts, University of Melbourne
Jurisdictions Admitted to Practise
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Let me guess, you have been playing New York Times crossword and got stuck on the clue Common North American hawk. Well, you have come to the right place to find the answer to this clue.
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159 Johanna small crossover in golden yellow, is a nice bag for everyday use in the perfect size with great details. Inside it is divided into two compartments, and the big one has a small side pocket which closes with a zipper. The bag closes with a flap, with an exclusive two-colored buckle in silver and gold. The detachable and adjustable strap provides unlimited possibilities for the bag, as it can be worn on the shoulder and cross over.


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Sharon Osbourne Addresses Split With Ozzy, References Beyonce's 'Lemonade'
The daytime talk show co-host is sharing her side of the story after the news broke over the weekend of her break up from her longtime husband
By Samantha Schnurr	• Published at 11:00 am on May 10, 2016
Sharon Osbourne is sharing her side of the story.
While she was a no-show on "The Talk" Monday, the 63-year-old daytime co-host returned to the set Tuesday to answer the questions nearly everyone has been asking about her unexpected breakup with her husband of 33 years, Ozzy Osbourne.
"I've have missed you all," she told her fellow co-hosts at the start of the show while sipping on some lemonade. Cue the Beyonce allusion!
"I've been avoiding looking at any pictures, reading anything. I know what's going on. I don't need to read about it and see about it because it's like putting salt on a wound. I don't need to," she said.
Just three days after E! News confirmed the couple's split, Osbourne says she is "doing great."
"I honestly cannot thank people enough for backing me, for saying they love me. Everybody here at my home supporting me, sending me messages of love," she said emotionally. "I honestly, honestly am empowered and have found this inner strength. OK — what's next? I can handle this." [[238904721,C]]
Before moving on to other topics in the show, Osbourne also took a moment to answer additional questions from the ladies at the table. She revealed that Ozzy has returned and she is out of their house currently.
"It's right for me," she said. "I have no idea what I am going to be doing for the rest of my life. I don't know where I am going, who I'm going with and I just neeed time to think and really think about myself and what I really want for the rest of my life because this is really like getting to the last chapter of the book and I really want to think about it very carefully where I want to go."
"I am 63 years of age and I can't keep living like this," Osbourne added.
While she said they are still speaking, Osbourne is unsure whether they will stay married.
"I honestly don't know," she said. "I can't cry about anything because there's nothing to cry about."
Though their relationship remains up in the air, Osbourne does not doubt the connection she has with her partner of more than three decades. "I love Ozzy dearly. He's given me an unbelievable life. He's given me three beautiful kids," she added.
Osbourne assured the audience and fans at home watching that she will keep everyone updated once she makes these major life decisions.
"I just want to say that when I know what I'm going to do for the rest of my life and who I'm going to spend the rest of my life with, I will let you know," she said.
There's much speculation about Osbourne's choice of beverage Tuesday and its associations with Beyonce's latest album. Daughter Kelly Osbourne joined in the lemon/lemonade discussion via social media, posting a photo to Instagram that shows her holding a lemon over one eye around the time her mom returned to the syndicated talk show.
Guess who's turning 🍋's into #lemonade?
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The interconnected network that delivers electricity from producers to consumers, known as the "electric grid," is facing new changes. Mandatory renewable energy targets are being adopted worldwide, meaning electricity suppliers are required to obtain a specific percentage of their total electricity from intermittent renewable energy sources. Wherever intermittent power sources reach high levels of grid penetration, energy storage becomes one of the options to provide reliable energy supplies.
Power grids need to maintain a stable current in order to provide quality electricity supplies. Because of this, the high costs associated with powering down and because of the unpredictability of renewable energy, it makes more sense that when power demand drops, the excess energy is stored for later use. National Grid, which operates Britain's power transmission system, said "that developing storage technology would help stabilize the grid" (Irish Examiner). In recent years there has been growing interest in energy storage technologies and focus has centered on advanced batteries, compressed air storage, and the most widely-used on power grids today, pumped hydro storage.
According to the Electric Power Research Institute (ERPI) and Germany's Fraunhofer Institute, pumped-storage hydropower currently accounts for more than 99% of installed storage capacity for electrical energy worldwide, equaling around 127 GW (International Electrotechnical Commission). So, how does it work? Using electricity that would normally be wasted, a pumped storage facility uses that excess off-peak power to pump water uphill from a lower reservoir to a higher reservoir. When demand is high, the water can be released back to the lower reservoir through a turbine to generate electricity, which is then fed to the grid.
There are several key benefits associated with pumped storage. The plants reduce electricity costs by using electricity at off-peak times when prices are lower, making them highly cost-effective. The plants have low operation and maintenance costs and are characterized by a long asset life of at least 50 years. While capital costs are location-dependent, given that a large space with varying altitudes is typically required, the extended lifetime of this storage system makes it an attractive long-term investment. Pumped storage also helps to balance out fluctuating renewable sources and improves power quality, frequency, and voltage with its ability to kick in when it is most needed (International Electrotechnical Commission).
While pumped storage has been thrust under the spotlight as the storage solution for a renewable energy future, it does raise some concerns. Sean Fridley, the Station Manager at The Bath County Hydro Pumped Storage Facility, the largest facility of its kind in the world, discussed how drought conditions can be detrimental to power output, putting it simply: "If there's no water, you can't make electricity" (thinkprogress.org). It has also been noted that since energy is lost in the pump turbine unit, the plant will need to buy power more cheaply than it sells it in order to work economically. Environmental and operational challenges also need to be addressed so that the technology is not always limited to mountainous terrain.
Some efforts have been undertaken to combat the technology and location barriers, with one UK company planning to turn abandoned quarries and mines into energy storage facilities (Bloomberg). As the conversation on climate change continues to be at the forefront of the renewable energy debate, and the amount of uncertainty in demand forecasting increases with its incorporation into the grid, perhaps we will see a shift in the market, with more room being made for pumped storage.
I would take "renewable" out of the title and replace it with "intermittent". Not all renewable power source are intermittent; geothermal, for example. Of course pumped storage is an efficient way to store energy. It got its start way before the word "renewable" was popularized. It is used in New England as a peak shaving method. It is economical because of electrical price difference between day and night time. However, it has also been opposed by environmental groups, such as in the "storm king" project in New York.
This is a very good report on a well known and well established energy storage system. Although well known, this hydro electric energy storage system gets litttle publicity. It is actually the only energy storage system that works on a grand scale.
Growth of the pumped storage capacity would be an essential benefit for "renewables" such as solar and wind.
However, there are serious limitations. Many or most of the most feasible sites have already been developed. Permitting is extremely difficult in most cases; and development is capital intensive.
Thanks for your comments Ulrich and Jack. Ulrich, you made a valid point on the title!
While pumped storage can make economic sense by using electric power to pump water uphill during off-peak hours, it does pose problems in terms of the locational requirements it has.
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Q: Creating a Monad Transformer from a Monad Given an arbitrary monad, is there a way to create a monad transformer based on that monad? I googled this question and didn't see anywhere where it was addressed (although I may have missed it) so I just tried to do it myself, and I got close, I think:
import Control.Monad.Trans.Class (MonadTrans, lift)

newtype ToMonadTrans m2 m1 a = ToMonadTrans (m2 (m1 a))

instance (Functor m2, Functor m1) => Functor (ToMonadTrans m2 m1) where
  fmap f (ToMonadTrans x) = ToMonadTrans (fmap (fmap f) x)

instance (Applicative m2, Applicative m1) => Applicative (ToMonadTrans m2 m1) where
  pure = ToMonadTrans . pure . pure
  ToMonadTrans f <*> ToMonadTrans x = ToMonadTrans (((<*>) . (fmap (<*>))) f x)

instance (Monad m2, Monad m1) => Monad (ToMonadTrans m2 m1) where
  ToMonadTrans x >>= ToMonadTrans f = ToMonadTrans (???)

instance Monad m2 => MonadTrans (ToMonadTrans m2) where
  lift x = ToMonadTrans (pure x)

The idea here is that ToMonadTrans Maybe is the same as MaybeT. The good thing about this approach (if it works) is that you can make any monad into a MonadTrans, allowing one to layer any monad without having to write a corresponding specialised transformer.
As you can see, I implemented MonadTrans as well as Functor and Applicative, the only place I got stuck is Monad.
My questions are:

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*Can this be done?

*Has this been done in a package on hackage?

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The company I work for has been producing the 30– to 60-second videos that accompany each doctor's profile on Rush's Find-a-Doctor online physician directory. The goal of these videos is to give prospective patients a better sense of each doctor's areas of expertise and approach to patient care in order to help them find a doctor who meets their needs.
As the camera operator on the Find-a-Doctor profile video shoots, I'm responsible for lighting the scene, selecting and framing the shot, and monitoring the audio. Essentially, I make sure that everything looks and sounds great while someone else — a producer — focuses on the content of the interviews. Initially, I approached this project like any other — from a largely technical point of view. But from the first shoot day on, it's been hard to ignore what the doctors are saying in their interviews, especially when they talk about their commitment to medicine and their passion for patient care.
Like many people — especially men, I'm told — I hadn't been to a doctor in a long time. So I decided to schedule a check-up. After hearing all of the talented and dedicated physicians at Rush discuss their work and how it can benefit patients, I knew I wanted to choose one of the over 400 (and counting) physicians we had interviewed. But I found that in the nearly two years since we'd started the project, my memory of who I'd liked and what they'd said had become pretty spotty.
So I went to the Find-a-Doctor website. Although I had thought being behind the camera for all the interviews had given me special access to the doctors, I quickly realized that the Find-a-Doctor video clips give every prospective patient the same kind of access. Sure, the content of the original interviews had been cut from 10-20 minutes to 30-60 seconds, but the essence of what I'd remembered about each doctor from their interview was still there, as was all the information I needed in order to feel like I was making an informed choice.
In the end I chose a primary care doctor we had interviewed fairly early in the process, and I am very happy with my choice. In fact, during my initial visit, my doctor discovered something that would require a follow-up with a specialist. The Find-a-Doctor videos once again helped me identify the right doctor for my needs. They're an empowering, efficient and effective resource that truly simplify the process of finding a doctor. I'm not only proud to be a part of creating the videos, but I also feel very fortunate to have them as a resource.
Has the Find-a-Doctor tool been valuable to you? If so, please share some of your insights by filling out our survey.
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On Dr. King's birthday, I'm damn proud that I'm not White
Martin Luther kin speaking at the Washington Memorial at the March for Life in 1963.
My wife is Lebanese-Irish and calls her race "beige." She says her Lebanese ancestry gives her Irish side something real to fight and die for.
Musings, Opinion
A fitting tribute to a symbol of racism in America.
Each year at this time, I take time to reflect on a life that has, as a man who is partially white, at the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the heroic civil rights leader who gave his life for the cause of April 4th, 1968, felled by an assassin's bullet in Memphis, TN.
I was at work in The Roanoke Times newsroom and was soon out on the street covering protests and demonstrations in the city's Black neighborhoods. Before several of us left the newsroom, however, the man who maintains the write service machines stood up and cheered, and proclaimed "that goddamned n—-r is dead. This is a great day for America."
He wasn't the first overt racist I encountered in my life, nor would he be the last.
The first was my maternal grandfather, Walter McPeak, who screamed at his television set whenever a Black person appeared on the screen. As sales manager of Thomas Ford, he refused to sell cars to Blacks, predicting loudly those sold by the other salesmen would be repossessed. My grandmother said she thinks he "regretted" that racism as he was dying from respiratory problems.
For the record, I am not "white." DNA shows I'm 25% Native American (Seminole, from my father's side) and another 15% Black Irish (a term for those of Irish descent with mixed genes, from my mother), and about 50% Scot.
Amy, my Lebanese-Irish wife, considered herself "beige," not White, and we're both proud of our mixed heritage.
At age 10, as an elementary school student in Prince Edward County, VA, I went from being a public school student to part of an all-white private school mandated by a racist Board of Supervisors and School Board that closed the public schools to prevent federal court ordered integration and our classrooms became makeshifts in fraternal organizations, churches other places that bought into a racist credo.
A Klan Rally
I head that environment so much that, at age 11, I hid in the woods overlooking a field where the Klux Klan met and took photos, which I offered, along with an essay, to The Farmville Herald, our twice-a-week newspaper, but they turned them down before editor Ben Bowers sent them to the Richmond News-Leader, which published the photos and story and paid me $100.
Some other papers picked the photos and story. While some congratulated me for exposing the Klan's existence in the county, I was jumped by several students at school and came home with scrapes, bruises, and a bloody nose. The reaction got so bad that my mother considered sending me down to Florida, my birthplace, to live with my paternal grandparents and attend an integrated school there. Instead, she and my stepfather sold the farm in Prince Edward County and relocated the family back to his and her hometown of Floyd County, where the schools were integrated and a new county-wide high school was opening.
Integration in Floyd County wasn't much of a problem because the Black population was less than three percent in 1960 but I saw a lot of Confederate flags and enough racism to concern me.
In high school, Floyd Press owner Pete Hallman offered me a full-time job as a reporter, photographer, and, when needed, typesetter. Hallman, a longtime newspaperman, taught me a lot and encouraged me to write and photograph the county with an observant and, when needed, critical eye. His wife, Ruth Hallman, was my English and Journalism teacher and urged me to continue writing, reporting, and taking news photos later in life.
Working on a story for The Floyd Press in 1965.
The creation of Floyd County High School brought the expansion of sports, and the first football, but some parents told the School objected to including Black students on the team and kept their students from participating because the Buffaloes would play other teams with Black players. When I wrote about that controversy, some readers dropped their subscriptions.
Before school started in 1963, Hallman and his wife, Ruth Hallman, my English and Journalism teacher at Floyd County High, encouraged me to drive my 1957 Ford hardtop to Washington, DC, to photograph and write about Dr. Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech during the March on Washington.
On that day, Interstate 81 was very incomplete and the trip involved driving through many towns on U.S. 11 and then U.S. 50 to get into Washington. I left in the dark morning hours and got there about an hour before things began, but managed to get a good spot to photograph a great man doing great things for a country that, sadly, considered him a troublemaker.
I was shunned by students after I wrote about the speech and praised the words of Dr. King. My grandfather, who called King a "godless Communist" stopped speaking to me for a while.
After graduating from high school a year early, I joined The Roanoke Times at 17, the youngest reporter and photographer in the paper's history, and wrote often about the racial situations in the city and Southwestern Virginia. Several of those stories were honored by the Virginia Press Association.
An evil that still exists among us.
At the Times, I covered and photographed meetings of the Klan in Patrick County. In one meeting, they showed "Birth of the Nation," D.W. Griffith's black and white silent film that showed the birth and murderous actions of the Klan. The crowd cheered every time a Klansman attacks a Black person.
In 1969, I accepted a job offer from The Telegraph in Alton, IL, part of the St. Louis metro area and, ironically, the birthplace of James Earl Ray, the convicted assassin of Dr. King. Alton had its own racial problem, including police officers who gunned down a shoplifting suspect, paralyzing him, and resulting in a court judgment that forced the city to issue bonds to pay it.
In Alton, I learned that racism was not limited to Baptists. A lot of racial comments and insults from Catholics, the primary religion in the city. Because of my writings, I was asked to give a sermon on racism at the city's primary AME church, A story about that sermon brought angry letters to the editor and slashed tires on my car.
Later, when we left Alton and moved to Arlington County, VA, to work in Washington, DC, I saw, wrote about, and photographed a lot of racial unrest.
Virginia, sadly, was one of the states that resisted the federal proclamation of Dr. King's birthday as a national holiday. When we left the National Capitol Region after 23 years and moved to Floyd County in 2004, I saw some changes that seemed positive, a popular restaurant, Oddfellas Cantina, owned and operated by a mixed-race couple, a black chief deputy in the Sheriff's department, but I also saw, and continue to see, an all-white Board of Supervisors, pickup trucks flying large confederate flags from their bed while sporting racist bumper stickers, The racist tea party thrived here, The county voted overwhelmingly for the racist criminal wannabe president Donald Trump.
Virginia, finally, accepted the holiday honoring Dr. King. but for too many years it bundled it with "Lee-Jackson Day" and turned it into a four-day weekend recognized by local and state governments but not federal ones. Finally, during the purge of the overwhelming glut of statues recognizing the treason of those who abandoned their county and joined the illegal confederacy, the Lee-Jackson was finally scrapped by a Democratic governor and legislature.
That change, in our view, made the holiday honoring Dr. King even more special. As a Southerner, I was never comfortable seeing memorials to enemies of our state.


The official extension for Bahrain is .BH.
Registering this domain extension is a recommended strategic move for those companies with interests in Bahrain or that are looking to protect their trademark within the country.
Bahrain is an archipelago governed by a constitutional monarchy and located in Southwestern Asia in the Persian Gulf. It is made up of 33 islands, of which there are 5 main ones: Bahrain Island, Muharraq Island, Umm an Nasan, Sitrah and Hawar. It is subdivided into 5 governorates.
The islands cover a total area of 678 km². Many of them are uninhabited, due to the unfavourable conditions of intense heat, desert plains and very little rainfall.
The population of 1,261,835 live mainly in the towns and cities, and are predominantly Arab, with minority groups from Pakistan and India. The capital, Manama, is located on Bahrain Island. The official language is Arabic, and the local currency is the Bahraini Dinar. The economy is based on petroleum exports, with a growing chemical manufacturing industry.


A mix of powerful and sweet vocals…the songs in here are so beautiful. Some can make you shiver in awe and some can lull you to sleep. This album helped me get through my first semester of college while suffering depression so it'll always be the closest to my heart.


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A personal response by Stuart Mitchell to an inter-denominational church initiative aimed at transforming the public understanding of the main issues in the Science/God debate. In this essay, he welcomes the opportunity to revisit the basic values of the Christian faith.
We live in seismic times, and not only in Nepal have the august peaks of our planet been under assault from awesome, tectonic forces of destructive malignity, for the annual congress of Scotland's Church has lately been confronted by the facts of the nation's drift from a state of centuries-long, Christian orientation. Urgent therapy it is said, will alone secure the Kirk's future as an institution of stable influence upon the turbulent sea of Scottish society.
"Starker secularisation in Scotland than anywhere in the world" is the typically blunt verdict of the Kirk's Free Church cousin, and no astute observer of the country's social and spiritual trends would disagree. "Bible-loving Scotland" was once a commonplace among commentators upon our unique powerhouse of a nation. But such a label today seems quaintly misplaced.
Scott lies on his deathbed, and John Lockhart his biographer records the great man's request for "the book" from his vast library. "But which ?" asks Lockhart. "There is but one book," comes the faint response, and his bible is brought.
Sadly, today's intelligentsia may smirk at such naïve faith of our forefathers. Times change, we are assured, and our sophisticated culture has slowly but decisively outgrown the foundational beliefs of days past when God was the ultimate reality and His scriptures the bedrock of Scotland's stature. "A supreme deity is fantasy; Dawkins and his atheist cohorts call the tune; and religion is to be banished from the public arena, school assemblies, the science lab and any other context where the impressionable are exposed to persuasive argument." "We don't do God," quipped Tony Blair's adjutant.
Nevertheless, the crucial question might be asked: has the national trend away from Scotland's ecclesiastical heritage been a form of drift on the winds of unthinking fashion or a deliberate and reasoned retreat from all matters religious and morally constraining? And regardless of which of these explanations is accurate is it not time to re-evaluate whether our default atheism and secularism has separated us from a rational understanding of our origins?
Might the time therefore be right for a movement of solid resistance to the ideology of the anti-faith brigade whose aim is to abolish the theologians' orthodoxy and substitute their own brand of ortho-toxicity? It would be an unforgivable betrayal of our generation to allow the faith-presuppositions of militant secularists to monopolise the debate and shape the discourse of our day towards an abandonment of religious commitment and radical departure from the Christian allegiance and practice which once made our land a beacon of brilliance and prime source of humane enlightenment. For the fact is, man's spectacular advances in science have by no means rendered God redundant. There are still many authoritative voices at the vanguard of scientific progress who robustly defend the compatibility of faith with science and testify to the enrichment and illumination that are thus brought to the practice of their profession.
For that reason, among others, I welcome that there is in the process of being born an initiative called "GRASPING THE NETTLE" which intends to bring back centre-stage an opportunity, not only for the Church to re-evaluate its faith position in the face of the revelations of contemporary science, but also for our culture to reacquaint itself with the rational basis for belief in a creator God. The Grasping the Nettle launch was at the Thistle Hotel, Glasgow, on June 11th, 2015, with leaders and activists from the country's mainstream churches.


Under the North Star – a night of SeriousFun was North Star Reach's inaugural annual signature gala held on Saturday, June 7th, 2014. We wanted to share with you some thoughtful words from our hosts of the night Jake and Jackie Long, our presenting sponsor; Gwen Haggerty-Bearden, president of the Ted and Jane Von Voigtlander Foundation; and our special guest, Clea Newman, Paul Newman's daughter and director at SeriousFun Children's Network. For more details on the event, visit the event page here.
"North Star Reach touched our hearts from the instant that we heard about it. We wanted to dedicate ourselves and our resources to a meaningful cause and as we learned more and more about the camp and the children and their families that would benefit from it, we knew that this was something we wanted to dive into head first. Being involved in the building stages has been so exciting for us because we get to see this wonderful project literally being built from the ground up. We have complete faith in those who are leading the charge to make this dream into a reality and can't wait to be a part of North Star Reach as it impacts so many lives throughout the Midwest region and beyond." Our event hosts, Jake and Jackie Long.
For more details about the event, visit the event page here.


Phillip Smith at the Drug War Chronicle sums up the news reports detailing the latest casualty in the never-ending U.S. war on drugs.
According to WMAZ TV 13, Laurens County sheriff's deputies with the drug task force and special response team (SWAT team) conducted a no-knock search on Hooks' home in East Dublin on the evening of the 24th. When the raiders burst through the back door of the residence, they encountered Hooks' carrying a shotgun. Multiple deputies opened fire, shooting [and] killing Hooks.
Mitchell Shook, an attorney for Hooks's family, told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that deputies spent 44 hours searching Hooks's home for drugs — yet they found nothing. The attorney also told the Macon Telegraph that the shooting didn't happen the way the police say it did.
According to the family attorney's account, Hooks was asleep when armed deputies arrived at his house at 1184 Ga. 319 just before 11 p.m. Sept. 24. His wife, Teresa, was upstairs in her craft room when she heard a car drive fast up the driveway, and she looked out the window.
Hooks retrieved a gun and headed out of the bedroom as the officers broke down the back door, Shook said. He said Hooks was not wounded at the door but behind a wall in his house.
He believes deputies fired 16 to 18 shots from multiple guns and assault rifles. Shook also questioned the wisdom of serving the warrant so late at night.
The [Georgia Bureau of Investigation] is investigating the shooting, as is customary when officers are involved in wounding or killing a suspect.
The police are doing what they usually do after one of these raids goes wrong: They're bunkering down.
Laurens County Sheriff Bill Harrell indicated last week his department would not be releasing any information beyond the initial news release. He also did not immediately return Wednesday's inquiries concerning the attorney's allegations.
So add another body to the pile. Four years ago, I described another fatality at the hands of a Georgia anti-drug task force — the death of pastor Jonathan Ayers. Eight years ago, a narcotics team from Atlanta killed 92-year-old Kathryn Johnston during a drug raid on her home, then attempted to plant drugs in her basement to cover its mistake. The team had been relying on a tip from an informant and did no corroborating investigation. In 2010, a Polk County, Ga., drug raid team put a 76-year-old woman in intensive care with congestive heart failure after raiding the wrong house. In 2008, a Gwinnett County tactical team terrified a couple and a baby when they raided the wrong home. In 2000, a Georgia police raid team shot and killed Lynette Gayle Jackson when she held up a gun as they broke into her home. Jackson had recently been robbed. In 2006, Deputy Joseph Whitehead was shot and killed during a surprise raid on a suspected drug house. The men who shot him, Antron Fair and Damon Jolly, argued that they thought they were being robbed by a gang. They later pleaded guilty to murder to avoid the death penalty. And, of course, last May, 19-month-old Bounkham Phonesavanh was critically wounded when officers deployed a flash grenade in his crib during a drug raid on his home. That raid, too, lacked much in the way of investigation.
Meanwhile, last week, a heavily armed team of Bartow County, Ga., cops and the Georgia governor's anti-drug task force raided a man's home after mistaking the okra in his garden for marijuana. No one was harmed, but the gardener, Dwayne Perry, described the cops as "armed to the gills" and told the Journal-Constitution, "The more I thought about it, what could have happened? Anything could have happened." He's right. Just ask the family of David Hooks.
That's all just Georgia. Other things that have triggered raids after police mistook them for pot: tomatoes (many times), loose leaf tea, sunflowers, fish, elderberry bushes, kenaf plants, hibiscus, ragweed, yellow bell peppers, daisies, the scent of a skunk, the scent of guinea pigs and a plastic plant purchased for a pet lizard's terrarium.
And, of course, people are dying outside of Georgia, too. Like Jason Westcott in May. In fact, by my count, 11 people have been killed in drug raids this year — nine civilians and two cops.