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Het Herewegviaduct is een viaduct in de Nederlandse stad Groningen. Het is het oudste viaduct van de stad Groningen. Het viaduct overspant de spoorlijnen van Groningen in het westen naar het oosten (Leer en Veendam) en zuiden (Zwolle e.v.). Het viaduct vormt onderdeel van de Hereweg en loopt tussen de Herebrug in het noorden en de zuidelijke stadswijken Herewegbuurt en Rivierenbuurt.

Het viaduct werd bij een reconstructie in 1926 door architect Siebe Jan Bouma in samenwerking met beeldhouwer Willem Valk voorzien van haar huidige aanzien. Aan de vier zijden van het viaduct zijn door Valk abstract vormgegeven hardstenen trappartijen aangebracht die voor voetgangers toegang bieden tot de wegen eronder. Aan noord- en zuidzijde bevinden zich bordessen. Het viaduct wordt geflankeerd door fraai gedetailleerde smeedijzeren brughekken van de hand van Bouma in een mix van art-nouveau en Amsterdamse School. Het smeedwerk en de hardstenen elementen vormen een gemeentelijk monument.

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Eerste Herewegviaduct
Het viaduct werd gebouwd in 1870, kort na de oplevering van Station Groningen bij de ingebruikname van de spoorlijn naar Assen. In 1897 werd de Tramweg-Maatschappij Zuidlaren – Groningen over het viaduct doorgetrokken naar het centrum van Groningen. Begin jaren 1920 werd deze tram vervangen door lijn 1 en 5 van de Gemeentetram Groningen.

Tweede Herewegviaduct

In verband met het toegenomen verkeer en de ombouw van de tramlijnen tussen de Grote Markt en de Natte brug werd in 1926 en 1928 een groot wegenbouwproject uitgevoerd, waarbij onder andere het viaduct werd aangepast. Het viaduct werd hierbij in 1926 sterk vergroot en kreeg zo haar huidige uitstraling. De reeds enigszins vervallen onderbouw werd vervangen. Het oppervlak werd in het midden verbreed naar 16,5 meter om zo de tramwissels ook een plek te kunnen geven. Een deel van de verbreding werd verkregen door uitkraging. De opgangen vanuit het noorden en zuiden werden verlengd om de opgangshoek voor het verkeer terug te brengen naar 21 cm per meter. De kosten werden geraamd op 371.000 gulden.

Omdat het verkeer bleef groeien werden de beide tramlijnen 5 en 1 respectievelijk in 1939 en 1949 opgebroken en (in 1949) vervangen door lijn 1 van de Groningse trolleybus. In 1965 verdwenen de trolleybussen en werden de diensten voortaan uitgevoerd door bussen.

In april 1945 vormde het viaduct een van de aanvalsroutes van de Canadezen tijdens de Bevrijding van Groningen.

Begin jaren 1970 werden er plannen gemaakt voor het opnieuw verbreden van het viaduct, maar uiteindelijk werd dit niet doorgezet, mogelijk vanwege de perikelen in de Davidstraatbuurt. In 1973 ramde een rangerende personentrein het viaduct, waarbij drie pijlers doormidden werden geslagen en de enige resterende pijler zwaar beschadigd raakte. Het viaduct stortte toen bijna in en zakte aan een kant enkele centimeters naar beneden. Het vervangen van de 4 pijlers en het herstel aan het viaduct duurden twee maanden.

Begin jaren 1980 werd het viaduct in 3 fasen hersteld. In de loop der decennia versleet de brug echter steeds verder. Na een incident in 1988 waarbij een slippende auto een deel van het brughek wegsloeg, werd een onderzoek ingesteld naar de brug. Betonrot en verroeste staalconstructies leiden daarop in 1991 tot plannen om het te vervangen. Geldgebrek en onduidelijkheid over nieuwbouwplannen bij de Glaudépanden leidden toen echter tot uitstel. In 2002 vond een treinbotsing plaats waarbij het viaduct beschadigd raakte. Na een inspectie in 2007 werd besloten dat zware voertuigcombinaties van meer dan 45 ton niet meer over het viaduct heen mochten rijden en auto's niet meer langs de randen mochten rijden. Het voetpad onder het viaduct werd toen versterkt met stalen palen.

In 2011 werd na een inspectie waarbij schade aan het voegwerk en loszittend metselwerk naar voren kwamen een nieuw plan opgesteld om het viaduct te vervangen. Prorail dacht daarbij aan een hoger viaduct en de gemeente aan een even hoge fietsbrug (in verband met een anders te steile opgangshoek) met een autotunnel. Ook waren er een ideeën voor de aanleg van alleen een tunnel. Vanwege de grote druk die andere grote projecten (zoals de ombouw van het stationsgebied, de aanleg van een tunnel onder het spoor aan de Paterswoldseweg en de ombouw van de Zuidelijke Ringweg) op het omringende gebied zouden krijgen, werd in 2015 echter wederom besloten om de vervanging uit te stellen (tot 2028). De brug kreeg in plaats daarvan in 2015 een opknapbeurt, waarbij onder andere een geluidwerende asfaltlaag werd aangelegd.

Brug in Groningen (stad)


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Netanyahu Said Trump Was Israel's 'Greatest Friend.' How Will He Cope with Biden in the White House?
By Joseph Hincks
November 11, 2020 12:39 PM EST
On Nov 8, the day after Joe Biden's acceptance speech, Israel's far-right defense minister Naftali Bennet tweeted his congratulations to the President-Elect. Bennet's more effusive language, however, he reserved for the man still occupying the Oval Office: "You brought us peace without giving up land," he wrote, "You made it clear the focus of the region is not the Palestinians. We will never forget this and we will always remain thankful."
In the four years since Bennet declared "the era of the Palestinian State" over upon Donald Trump's poll-defying win in 2016, Bennet's views—on the White House, at least—have gone from fringe to consensus. Where in 2016, polling showed most Israelis favored President Hillary Clinton, the vast majority preferred Trump in 2020.
That's largely down to the unprecedented favoritism Trump showed to Israel on issues related to the decades-long Israeli-Palestinian conflict. His team of special advisor Jared Kushner, special envoy Jason Greenblatt (since departed), and U.S. ambassador to Israel David Friedman championed some of the ambitions of hardliners like Bennet, who aspire to a Biblical vision of Israel that stretches from the Jordan River to the Sea of Galilee, incorporating the Palestinian territories of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
But the proposed annexation of swathes of the West Bank was suspended over the summer as a condition of the UAE and Bahrain's recent normalization deals with Israel. Under Biden, unequivocal in his support for a two-state solution, it might be off the table completely.
A Democratic victory strips Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of support from a U.S. president he described as Israel's "greatest friend," at a moment when he is facing weekly protests over his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic and a felony corruption trial. It could also leave him exposed to challenges from hardliners, whose views Netanyahu helped bring into the political mainstream.
"There's no question that Bibi is losing his patron," says Shira Efron, a senior policy researcher at the Israel Policy Forum, using a popular nickname for Netanyahu. That hurts the prime minister domestically, but it also diminishes his stature on the world stage. Netanyahu promoted the idea that "only [he] has an open door with the White House," Efron says. "So, he didn't just lose Trump, he lost the ability to mediate with other governments."
Netanyahu's own loss of prominence is mirrored by the one Israel can be expected to undergo. Biden will inherit a deeply divided America struck hard by a pandemic. His transition team will contend with a lame-duck president that has still refused to concede defeat. When compared to the challenges he faces in China, North Korea, and Iran, "I don't think Israel–Palestine is going to be the number one priority for Biden," says Yossi Meckelberg, an international relations expert at Regent's University, London.
How Netanyahu and Biden will get along
Netanyahu and Trump may have been kindred spirits politically but the prime minister's relations with Trump's predecessor, former President Obama, were decidedly frostier. They were at their coldest when Netanyahu circumvented the White House to become only the second foreign leader since Winston Churchill to address Congress directly—denouncing the Obama administration's signature foreign policy deal on Iran.
In his congratulatory note to Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris on Nov 8, Netanyahu appeared keen to assert his friendship with Obama's Vice-President. "Joe, we've had a long and warm personal relationship for nearly 40 years, and I know you as a great friend of Israel," he wrote. "I look forward to working with both of you to further strengthen the special alliance between the US and Israel."
Netanyahu's opponents in Israel argue that Democrats have not forgiven him, despite the prime minister's claims he has maintained good relations on both sides of the aisle. "The disconnect between him and the reality of the situation is so dramatic that he doesn't even know what the Democratic Party and the new administration think and say about him," says Yair Lapid, chairman of the Yesh Atid party and leader of the opposition in Israel's parliament. "Netanyahu took a dangerous gamble and endangered our strategic bi-partisan relationship with the United States. Only a new government can fix that."
Experts say a return to the acrimony that characterized Netanyahu's relationship with former President Obama is unlikely. When relations were at their sourest it was Biden who served as an intermediary—one Israeli diplomat that served under Netanyahu described him as the "good cop." Biden, a Catholic, has in the past declared himself a "Zionist" and reportedly intervened to remove references to Israel's "occupation" from the Democratic party platform—although last year he said that Netanyahu had drifted to the "extreme right" in order to survive politically.
But the Biden White House is likely to change direction from the past four years. It may slow settlement building in the West Bank, which accelerated under Trump. It could also encourage Arab States pursuing new normalization agreements with Israel to attach conditions that would benefit the Palestinians, according to experts who spoke with the New York Times. Palestinian leaders told TIME recently that they hoped Biden would re-open the shuttered Palestinian mission in Washington, restore funding to Palestinian refugees, and establish a second U.S. consulate for the Palestinian leadership in East Jerusalem.
Arab Israeli lawmakers aren't expecting much more than that, however. "Biden will take off the table the deal of the century," says Ayman Odeh, the leader of a coalition of Arab–Israeli dominated parties, referring to the Trump peace proposal. "But it's hard for me to believe that he'll put actual pressure on Israel to end the occupation."
To annex or not to annex?
In Israel's domestic sphere, a Democratic White House may benefit the hard right as much as the far-left, who remain a marginal political force. While Netanyahu will have to be cautious about aggravating the Democrats with overt plays to his base, says IPC's Efron, hardliners in Israel's parliament will feel no such constraints.
"As long as you had someone like Obama in office, it served as Netanyahu's break when the right asked him why are you not annexing? Why are you not extending settlements or legalizing the outposts?" says Regent's University. "Then comes Trump: not only is he not stopping him; he's pushing him."
Meckleberg believes that no matter how much Netanyahu trumpeted his intent to annex the West Bank, he did not intend to go against the advice of his security establishment and risk opprobrium on the international stage. For a prime minister known to be a cautious actor on foreign policy, annexing territory Israel already effectively controls doesn't make sense, he argues. The normalization deals with the UAE and Bahrain allowed him to call it off without losing face.
Still, de facto annexation continues unabated. Days after Biden was declared winner, right-wing lawmakers in Israel began promoting plans to advance settlement infrastructure before Trump leaves office. Likud's transportation minister Miri Regev on Oct 9 announced plans for new transportation infrastructure in the West Bank. Likud's Tzachi Hanegbi planted a tree near Jericho—a tactic used by some settlers to lay claim to land they illegally occupy. Authorities are this week expected to release a tender booklet for Givat Hamatos, one of the West Bank's most controversial settlements according to Israeli anti-occupation organization Peace Now.
In the interim, Israel watchers are waiting on Biden's pick for Secretary of State and the makeup of the Senate for a clearer indication of the extent to which the Democrats' progressive wing might influence foreign policy. Among the favorites are former national security advisor Susan Rice, whose selection would be read in Israel as a signal Biden plans to pick up where Obama left off, a former Israeli diplomat told Israel's Haaretz newspaper. It would also be a blow for Netanyahu: Rice implied Netanyahu was racist in his angry response to Obama's acceleration of peace talks with Iran, according to a 2015 book by former peace negotiator Dennis Ross. Ross also wrote that Rice's "combative mind-set" had "damaged our relationship with Israel."
When Biden addressed Americans on the evening of Nov. 7, some were struck by the magnitude of the task he faced. His acceptance speech focused on unity and healing the deep divisions that had spit America. To Meckleberg, it seemed unlikely he would deliberately seek contentious issues to tackle: "He won't set himself to fail, which the Israeli–Palestinian conflict gives you: a high probability of failing."
Write to Joseph Hincks at joseph.hincks@time.com.
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Dorset: Holiday group acquires park in Cornwall
Dorset-based Waterside Holiday Group is expanding with the acquisition of its fourth holiday park, and its first in Cornwall.
The company's newly acquired park, named Tregoad, is situated near the coastal town and fishing port of Looe. The new acquisition, covering 55 acres, will undergo a sympathetic, high-quality enhancement of the park's existing landscape, including a refresh of facilities and creation of new pitches for premium holiday homes.
Dave Bennett, CEO at Waterside Holiday Group, commented: "We are committed to a phased redevelopment approach to ensure as little disruption to the existing park as possible. We're keen to mirror our high-quality offering across our three existing sites, while staying true to the values of the traditional Cornish countryside and culture. We are focused on blending unobtrusively into the environment and its community. This new development is a landmark moment for Waterside Holiday Group and we're very much looking forward to taking the business to its next exciting stage.
"Our new acquisition has come at a unique time for our industry, as COVID-19 has significantly impacted many businesses. However, we have worked hard through this difficult period and I am delighted to report that we have recovered and maintained a stable and forward-thinking focus, while continuing to offer the enjoyable holiday experience our guests know and love. This new acquisition comes after a year of careful planning and consideration and forms part of our wider growth strategy."
Waterside Holiday Group currently operates three holiday parks in Weymouth, having first launched in 1963 by Ralph and Esther Jacobs. The business has passed down the generations over the years, with granddaughter Miranda Jacobs now Director of the business.
Tregoad is being handed over to Waterside Holiday Group by owners Pete and Tina Hannay, who have managed the park for 17 years.
Pete Hannay added: "We are incredibly proud to have grown our business into the success it is today but after much deliberation, we have made the decision to move on to other projects as we head towards eventual retirement. It was important to us to hand the reins over to a driven family business, so we are delighted to be welcoming Waterside Holiday Group as the new guardians of our much-loved park. We have every confidence their long-term commitment and investment plans will see Tregoad develop and flourish."
Waterside Holiday Group currently operates three parks in Dorset: The Waterside Holiday Park & Spa on Weymouth's Bowleaze Cove, Chesil Vista on Portland Road, Weymouth, and Osmington, in Osmington Mills.
For further information about Waterside Holiday Group, visit https://www.watersideholidaygroup.co.uk
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Qatar, the Taliban, and the Gulf Schism
Qatar's mediation efforts and activist foreign policy set up a Manichean split between opposing world views.
David B. Roberts Oct 19, 2020
From left to right sitting on the podium, U.S. Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Qatari Minister of Foreign Affairs Mohammed bin Abdel Rahman al-Thani, and Mutlaq bin Majid al-Qahtani, the special envoy of the Qatari foreign minister for Terrorism and Mediation in the Settlement of Disputes, listen to Abdullah Abdullah, chairman of Afghanistan's High Council for National Reconciliation, on the screen, at the opening session of the peace talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban in Doha, Qatar, Sept. 12. (AP Photo/Hussein Sayed)
David B. Roberts
Non-Resident Fellow, AGSIW; Associate Professor, King's College London
Many a warlord, dissident, diplomat, rebel commander, terrorist, or freedom fighter has seen the inside of the Sheraton Hotel in Qatar. One of the first hotels built in Doha in 1982, the Toblerone-like Sheraton Hotel came under the reign of former Emir Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani and his son, Emir Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, to be a frequent center for Qatar's mediation efforts. Most recently, the Taliban have stayed at the Sheraton in Doha, negotiating with the United States, Afghan counterparts, and other members of the international community the terms to end the multidecade Afghan war.
This mediation effort is emblematic of the approach of Qatar, which sees itself as endeavoring to encourage the resolution of a long-festering and deadly conflict. As a part of the mediation, Qatar engineered a meeting between the Taliban delegation and Doha-based Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the influential Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated cleric. It seems likely that Qatari authorities were attempting to use Qaradawi to guide, or at the very least advise, the Taliban on the process of reimagining the institutionalization of religion under their rule, a process said to be underway. To critics, this modus operandi is precisely the problem with Qatar: Engaging with, or at the very least hosting and facilitating, extremist actors, endowing them with legitimacy, furthering their ends in formal negotiations, and using its influence to proselytize the formal mixing of religion and politics.
Qatar has for centuries hosted exiles and assorted strays from the Arab world. The state's founding father, Jassim bin Mohammed al-Thani, turned his inability to control Qatar's borders into a virtue, crafting a sentiment about how Qatar was the "Mecca of the dispossessed" in his poetry. Emir Ahmed bin Ali al-Thani, who reigned from 1960-72, engaged in regional mediation between argumentative elites in the Trucial States (the modern-day United Arab Emirates), overseeing border demarcations in the 1960s, while he also lightly facilitated the final push for Algerian independence in 1962.
Engagement in mediation increased under Hamad bin Khalifa. In the early 1990s, as crown prince and de facto ruler, Hamad began involving Qatar in Israeli-Palestinian affairs by, for example, sending representation to the 1991 Madrid Peace talks (alongside representatives from all the Gulf Arab states), and Hamad himself attended the Oslo II signing ceremony in 1995. Qatar's current deep involvement with Hamas in Gaza, where it frequently acts as an intermediary between the Israeli government and Hamas, is primarily predicated on this foundation.
Qatar's 2003 Constitution emphasized the crucial role that mediation was to play in the framing of Qatar's foreign relations. Since, Qatar has conducted a number of mediation efforts, with varied levels of success. In 2006, Qatar sought to leverage its relations with Palestinians, sponsoring an ultimately unsuccessful reconciliation initiative between Hamas and Fatah. In 2007, Qatar sought (though ultimately failed) to mediate a peace between Houthi rebels and the Yemeni government. In 2008, Qatar brokered a deal among feuding Lebanese factions ending an 18-month political crisis and embarked on a multiyear mediation effort in Sudan between the government and various Darfuri militias, resulting in agreements signed in 2011 and 2013. In 2010, with the help of the German government, the Qataris began negotiating the opening of a Taliban office in Doha. The office opened and closed over subsequent years, but the Taliban presence in Qatar was broadly maintained.
Pragmatism and Utility
With its mediation efforts, Qatar has three goals. First, Qatar wants to make itself a conspicuously useful ally to its key international partner state, the United States. In the early-2010s, the United States was looking to wind down its involvement in Afghanistan and needed a diplomatic exit strategy. More specifically, a U.S. soldier, Bowe Bergdahl, who was captured by the Taliban, became a pawn amid wider negotiations, mediated by the Qataris. Bergdahl's return home to the United States was ultimately negotiated in exchange for prisoners from Guantanamo Bay.
Second, Qatar uses its foreign relations to create and burnish a reputation for itself as a peaceable, proactive, and contributing member of the international system. Al Jazeera, the Doha-based international news network, can also be seen as a tool trumpeting Qatar's achievements. Hamad bin Khalifa's tenure as emir was suffused with such an approach. Partly, this was a move rooted in economics, with Hamad reasoning that Qatar was in direct, often zero-sum, competition with many regional states for foreign direct investment and human resources, and any public relations edge was a bonus.
Third, Qatar, like others in the region, insists that it wants to promote regional peace and stability. Given that one of the key assets Qatar possesses is financial power, it has used this to host long-term, expensive mediations with dozens of different parties, frequently with the promise of investment as an inducement. That this was another way to circulate state hydrocarbon money around the local economy was an added benefit.
Alternative Interpretations
By pursuing such an activist foreign policy, Qatar leaves itself open to criticism over its motivations and interests. And the current Taliban negotiations bring together three strands of critique that are at the root of the boycott of Qatar by Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and Egypt.
First, Qatar is accused of being meddlesome, involving itself in conflicts and other low-level political matters in Syria, Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, Yemen, Afghanistan, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Mali, Iraq, and various states in the Horn of Africa that do not directly affect Qatari interests. This would be a more powerful critique if other Gulf states like Saudi Arabia and the UAE did not have their own range of engagements in these countries. Kuwait and Oman, by contrast, have nowhere near the range of interventionist foreign policies as their Gulf neighbors.
Second, Qatar is criticized for supporting and spreading the ideology of Islamist or Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated groups throughout the Middle East and North Africa. However, while Qatar's critics see its support of Islamists as an end in and of itself, Doha arguably views such support as a pragmatic means to forward its foreign policy goals.
Third, the most stringent critiques of Qatar view its consistent engagement with Islamists, and their fundamental empowerment, as a central problem, irrespective of Doha's intentions. This sets up a Manichean split between opposing world views. Qatar broadly believes that Islamists need to be engaged in modern governance to give such often widespread sentiments legitimacy and to prevent those on this spectrum feeling radicalization is their only option. Ranged against this approach are states like the UAE, which believes that empowerment of Islamists reliably leads to worse sociopolitical and economic outcomes. This has embedded a zero-sum game in regional foreign policies, with each seeing the other as actively harming regional interests with their basic foreign policy orientation and choices.
This is precisely evidenced in today's Taliban negotiations. Critics argue that, again, Qatar is engaging with a terrorist group on the Islamist spectrum. By hosting the Taliban, Qatar enhances its legitimacy and the chances it will play an outsized political role henceforth in Afghanistan. Moreover, Qatar is likely encouraging the Taliban to actively engage with Qaradawi, one of the world's most influential Islamists. In this way, Qatar is accused of striving to proselytize its Islamist-orientated worldview to the Taliban as it considers how to incorporate Islam in its future institutional makeup.
There is logic on both sides. The Taliban is a powerful actor that needs to be contended with in efforts to stem conflict in Afghanistan, but it is also a deadly terrorist organization with retrograde ideas. When states engage on either side of this debate, they are not so much pursuing different political agendas as promulgating opposing ideologically rooted world views. Consequently, the room for deconfliction and de-escalation is limited. This conception of the differences makes the Gulf schism particularly challenging to resolve, requiring a transformative moment of leadership to break through the growing layers of norms, the bourgeoning history of mistrust, and fundamental disagreements.
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Exclusive: Tiny island sues to take control of lucrative .nu
Kevin Murphy, November 28, 2018, Domain Registries
The tiny Pacific island of Niue has sued the Swedish ccTLD registry to gain control of its own ccTLD, .nu, DI has learned.
The lawsuit, filed this week in Stockholm, claims that the Internet Foundation In Sweden (IIS) acted illegally when it essentially took control of .nu in 2013, paying its American owner millions of dollars a year for the privilege.
Niue wants the whole ccTLD registry transferred to its control at IIS's expense, along with all the profits IIS has made from .nu since 2013 — many millions of dollars.
It also plans to file a lawsuit in Niue, and to formally request a redelegation from IANA.
While .nu is the code assigned to Niue, it has always been marketed in northern Europe, particularly Sweden, in countries where the string means "now".
It currently has just shy of 400,000 domains under management, according to IIS's web site, having seen a 50,000-name slump just a couple weeks ago.
It was expected to be worth a additional roughly $5 million a year for the registry's top line, according to IIS documents dated 2012, a time when it only had about 240,000 domains.
For comparison, Niue's entire GDP has been estimated at a mere $10 million, according to the CIA World Factbook. The island has about 1,800 inhabitants and relies heavily on tourism and handouts from New Zealand.
According to documents detailing its 2013 takeover, IIS agreed to pay a minimum of $14.7 million over 15 years for the right to run the ccTLD, with a potential few million more in performance-related bonuses.
The Niue end of the lawsuit is being handled by Par Brumark, a Swedish national living in Denmark, who has been appointed by the Niuean government to act on its behalf on ICANN's Governmental Advisory Committee, where he is currently a vice-chair.
Brumark told DI that IIS acted illegally when it took over .nu from previous registry, Massachusetts-based WorldNames, which had been running the ccTLD without the consent of Niue's government since 1997.
The deal was characterized by WorldNames in 2013 as a back-end deal, with IIS taking over administrative and technical operations.
But IIS documents from 2012 reveal that it is actually more like a licensing deal, with IIS paying WorldNames the aforementioned minimum of $14.7 million over 15 years for the rights to manage, and profit from, the TLD.
The crux of the lawsuit appears to be the question of whether .nu can be considered a "Swedish national domain".
IIS is a "foundation", which under Swedish law has to stick to the purpose outlined in its founding charter.
That charter says, per IIS's own translation, that the IIS "must particularly promote the development of the handling of domain names under the top-level domain .se and other national domains pertaining to Sweden."
Brumark believes that .nu is not a national domain pertaining to Sweden, because it's Niue's national ccTLD.
One of his strongest pieces of evidence is that the Swedish telecoms regulator, PTS, refuses to regulate .nu because it's not Swedish. PTS is expected to be called as a witness.
But documents show that the Stockholm County Administrative Board, which regulates Foundations, gave permission in 2012 for IIS to run "additional top-level domains".
Via Google Translate, the Board said: "The County Administrative Board finds that the Foundation's proposed management measures to administer, managing and running additional top-level domains is acceptable."
Brumark thinks this opinion was only supposed to apply to geographic gTLDs such as .stockholm, and not to ccTLD strings assigned by ISO to other nations.
The Stockholm Board did not mention .nu or make a distinction between ccTLD and gTLDs in its letter to IIS, but the letter was in response to a statement from an IIS lawyer that .nu, with 70% of its registrations in Sweden, could be considered a Swedish national domain under the IIS charter.
Brumark points to public statements made by IIS CEO Danny Aerts to the effect that IIS is limited to Swedish national domains. Here, for example, he says that IIS could not run .wales.
IIS did not respond to my requests for comment by close of business in Sweden today.
Niue claims that if .nu isn't Swedish, IIS has no rights under its founding charter to run it, and that it should be transferred to a Niuean entity, the Niue Information Technology Committee.
That's a governmental entity created by an act of the local parliament 18 years ago, when Niue first started its campaign to get control of .nu.
The history of .nu is a controversial one, previously characterized as "colonialism" by some.
The ccTLD was claimed by Boston-based WorldNames founder Bill Semich and an American resident of the island, in 1997. That's pre-ICANN, when the IANA database was still being managed by Jon Postel.
At the time, governments had basically no say in how their ccTLDs were delegated. It's not even clear if Niue was aware its TLD had gone live at the time.
The official sponsor of .nu, according to the IANA record, is the IUSN Foundation, which is controlled by WorldNames.
Under ICANN/IANA policy, the consent of the incumbent sponsor is required in order for a redelegation to occur, and WorldNames has been understandably reluctant to give up its cash cow, despite Niue trying to take control for the better part of two decades.
The 2000 act of parliament declared that NITC was the only true sponsor for .nu, but even Niuean law has so far not proved persuasive.
So the lawsuit against IIS is huge twist in the tale.
If Niue were to win, IIS would presumably be obliged to hand over all of its registry and customer data to Niue's choice of back-end provider.
Both Afilias and Danish registrar One.com have previously expressed an interest in running .nu, providing a share of the revenue to Niue, according to court documents.
Brumark said that a settlement might also be possible, but that it would be very costly to IIS.
Readers might also be interested in my 2011 article about Niue, which was once widely referred to as the "WiFi Nation".
Niue: the myth of the "Wifi Nation"
Kevin Murphy, April 22, 2011, Domain Policy
The tiny Pacific island of Niue is commonly referred to as the world's first and only "Wifi Nation".
There was a lot of feel-good press coverage back in 2003, when the Massachusetts-based manager of the .nu country-code top-level domain started deploying wireless internet on the island.
NU Domain said at the time that it was "building the world's first nation-wide wifi Internet access service, all at no cost to the public or the local government" (pdf)
This led to major media outlets, such as the BBC, reporting the line: "The free wi-fi link will be accessible to all of Niue's 2,000 residents as well as tourists and business travellers."
This story has remained in the media consciousness to this date, encouraged by the registry.
Just this week, NU Domain's charitable front operation, the IUSN Foundation, was fluffily claiming that it has provided Niue with "the world's only nation-wide free Internet".
Even ICANN's Kiwi chairman, Peter Dengate Thrush, spread the meme during a recent interview (audio), saying Niue had "installed free wifi across the entire island".
There is just one problem with the "Wifi Nation" story: it's bollocks.
This is what Niue's Premier, Toke Talagi, had to say to Australian radio (audio) this week:
The internet services are unreliable, they're not available throughout the island, and if you do want internet services connected up to your home you have to pay for it. Some people as I understand it have been paying up to $3,000 [$2,400] just for the installation of the wifi.
We're never quite certain about what that "free" internet services is about, because we've had to pay.
According to Talagi, the wifi network provided by IUSN does not cover every village on the island, and users have to pay for it. The free wifi nation is neither free nor nationwide.
Even IUSN, while continuing to make its claims about nationwide wifi, admitted a year ago, seven years after the "wifi nation" claims were first made, that "villagers have been waiting to get online for some time".
According to Talagi, the lack of reliable internet access is such a big problem that the Niuean government has had to take matters into its own hands and build its own ISP.
It is close to completing its own wired and wireless internet infrastructure, at the cost of $4.8 million, according to reports.
Niue discussed its needs with IUSN in 2009 and 2010, Talagi said, but "they felt they didn't need to discuss these particular matters, that the services they were providing for us were adequate".
It appears that IUSN doesn't even pay to maintain its own equipment. This quote comes from a locally produced newsletter dated April 2009:
While IUSN is committed to provide free internet for its residents it is up to the users of this service to look after and maintain the internet enabling facilities.
That came from a report about residents of one of the island's villages holding a fund-raiser in order to collect the $2,400 required to fix a wifi mast that had been damaged in a lightning storm (a common problem).
The per capita GDP of Niue, incidentally, is $5,800. Its citizens are not starving, but by the measure of its estimated GDP, about $10 million, it's one of the poorest nations on the planet, reliant heavily on aid from nearby New Zealand.
According to Talagi and other sources, good internet access is not only required for economic reasons such as boosting the tourism industry.
Fast, reliable connectivity would also enable important human services, such as remote video diagnoses to be performed by overseas medical specialists, which the island lacks.
Niue's ongoing economic problems come about largely because, other than fishing, it has very few natural resources to exploit.
A notable industry in the past has been the export of postage stamps to overseas collectors.
That business made headlines recently when a stamp was issued, celebrating the marriage of Prince William to Kate Middleton, which featured a perforation separating bride and groom.
There's also talk of setting up a casino on the island, to boost revenues.
One asset it does have, at least on paper, is its top-level domain, .nu, which has proven popular in Sweden, where the word "nu" means "now".
However, other than the lackluster internet connectivity provided by IUSN, Niue apparently does not see any significant revenue from the sale of .nu domain names.
According to IANA records, the .nu domain is officially delegated to the IUSN Foundation, previously known as the Internet Users Society – Niue.
The technical back-end provider is WorldNames Inc, which also operates as a registry/registrar under the brand NU Domain.
IUSN's contact address is a PO Box in Niue, probably due to the fact that all ccTLD registry operators have to be based in the country they purport to represent.
The IUSN's domain name, iusn.org, is registered to the same address as WorldNames and NU Domain, in the leafy Boston suburb of Medford, MA.
Most of the company's business is done in Sweden, where most of its staff are based.
WorldNames has been in control of .nu since 1997, when its founder, Bill Semich, in partnership with a American ex-pat living on the island, managed to acquire the IANA delegation, pre-ICANN.
By several accounts, Niue has been trying to reclaim .nu from Semich for almost as many years.
In 2003, the government hired an American lawyer, Gerald McClurg, to be its representative on ICANN's Governmental Advisory Committee and attempt to secure a redelegation.
That same year, McClurg made a submission to the International Telecommunications Union (.doc), in which he alleged that the nation was tricked out of its domain:
In 1997 IANA, without the approval of the Niuean Government, delegated the ccTLD for Niue to a businessman, William Semich, who lives in the United States. The advisor to the Government at that time was an ex-peace corp volunteer named Richard Saint Clair. Mr Saint Clair told the Government that the name meant nothing, that it was of no value or significance, and there was nothing that could be done. Shortly thereafter, Mr. Saint Clair then left his post as advisor and joined with Mr Semich in his organization – IUSN. The Government of Niue has been working every since to regain its ccTLD.
The Niuean government has actually passed a law, the Communications Amendment Act 2000, which states: ".nu is a National resource for which the prime authority is the Government of Niue".
It also established the Niue Information Technology Committee, which "shall be the only designated Registry Manager of the Niue ccTLD .nu."
Yet, eleven years on, IUSN is still the registry manager for .nu.
Talagi said in his radio interview this week that Niue was preparing to submit a redelegation request to ICANN/IANA in February last year, which is in line with what I was hearing at the time.
I have in my possession documentation from a European domain name registrar, dated March 2010, offering to take over the management of .nu on a not-for-profit basis.
It's not clear to me whether Niue's redelegation request is still active. Under current IANA practices, ICANN does not discuss pending ccTLD redelegation requests.
But I suspect IUSN has little interest in handing .nu back to Niue.
While registration data is not easy to come by, the number that has been reported frequently over the years, and as recently as 2008, is 200,000.
At 30 euros ($44) per year for the standard service from NU Domain, that's close to a $9 million business just from domain registration fees.
That may not be much on the grand scheme of things, but it would certainly be material to a nation so reliant on hand-outs as Niue.
But IUSN is very protective of its asset.
Take a look at the Accountability Framework – one of the methods by which ICANN establishes formal relationships with ccTLD managers – that IUSN and ICANN signed in 2008 (pdf).
ICANN has signed 26 Accountability Frameworks over the last five years. They're all very similarly worded, but the one it signed with IUSN has a notable addition not found in any of the others.
All ccTLDs' Accountability Frameworks call for the TLD to be managed "in a manner that is consistent with the relevant laws of [insert country name]".
But the .nu agreement is the only one to also make a specific reference to RFC 1591 and ICP-1, two rules dating from the 1990s that govern how ccTLDs are redelegated from one organization to another.
While ICP-1 gives governments a significant voice in redelegation requests, both documents state that IANA should only redelegate a TLD when both the winning and losing parties agree to the transfer.
The only notable exception to the rule is when the incumbent registry manager has been found to have "substantially misbehaved", which I understand to be quite a high bar.
With that in mind, it's far from obvious whether Niue stands any chance of getting its ccTLD redelegated to an approved registry any time soon.
According to a recent report (pdf) from ICANN's ccNSO, IANA has redelegated ccTLDs in cases where the losing registry fought the decision, but its procedures for doing so are utterly opaque.


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The Kiwanis Club of Stow-Munroe Falls will be hosting a Dining to Donate fundraiser at Applebee's on Jan. 13.
Between the hours of 11 a.m. and 9 p.m., Applebee's will give the club 15% of To Go orders only; a flyer must be presented. The flyer can be found on the club's website, www.kiwanissmf.org; go to the "Donate" page at the bottom and click on th download button for the PDF flyer.
This fundraiser is at the Applebee's location at 4296 Kent Road in Stow. To Go orders can be placed at the restaurant's website or by calling Applebee's at 330-688-6818.
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Harry Lambert Welsh
Harry Lambert Welsh, physicist, educator (b at Aurora, Ont 23 Mar 1910; d at Toronto 23 July 1984). He was educated and spent his career at U of T, except for 1931-33 in Göttingen and 1943-45 in Ottawa as lieutenant-commander of naval operational research.
Jeanne Fisher Manery
Jeanne Fisher Manery, biochemist (b at Chesley, Ont 6 July 1908; d at Toronto 9 Sept 1986).
Walter Palmer Thompson
Walter Palmer Thompson, plant geneticist, university administrator (b near Decewsville, Ont 3 Apr 1889; d at Saskatoon 30 Mar 1970). Raised on a farm in Haldimand County, Ont, Thompson graduated from U of T in 1910 and received his PhD from Harvard in 1914.
John Patrick Tully
John Patrick Tully, oceanographer (b at Brandon, Man 29 Nov 1906; d at Nanaimo, BC 19 May 1987).
Walter Andrew Kenyon
Walter Andrew Kenyon, archaeologist, museum curator (b near Brantford, Ont 21 Feb 1917; d at Toronto 10 Sept 1986). He joined the Royal Ontario Museum in 1956 as assistant curator of ethnology, later earning Canada's first PhD degree in archaeology (U of T, 1967).
William Howard Rapson
William Howard Rapson, chemical engineer, professor, consultant (b at Toronto 15 Sept 1912). After 12 years of research at the Canadian International Paper Co, Hawkesbury, Ont, he returned to U of T, where he had received his doctorate in chemical engineering in 1941.
George William Taylor
George William Taylor, clergyman, entomologist, conchologist (b at Derby, Eng 1854; d 22 Aug 1912, buried at Nanaimo, BC). After immigrating to Victoria, BC, in 1882, he studied theology and was ordained an Anglican priest in 1886.
Stanley John Hughes
Stanley John Hughes, mycologist (b at Llanelly, Wales 17 Sept 1918). A naturalized Canadian, Hughes worked as an assistant mycologist at the Commonwealth Mycological Institute in Kew, England (1945-52), and in 1952 joined Agriculture Canada in Ottawa as a research scientist.
William Edward Gallie
William Edward Gallie, surgeon, educator (born at Barrie, Ont 29 Jan 1882; d at Toronto 25 Sept 1959). He graduated from Barrie Collegiate Institute in 1899 and received his MD from the University of Toronto in 1903.
David Douglas, botanist (b at Scone near Perth, Scotland 25 July 1799; d in Hawaii 12 July 1834). Douglas became an apprentice gardener at age 11; at 20 he moved to the Botanic Gardens, Glasgow, and at 23 became a collector for the Horticultural Society of London in North America.
Joseph-Clovis-Kemner Laflamme
Joseph-Clovis-Kemner Laflamme, priest, educator, scientist (b at St-Anselme, Canada E 18 Sept 1849; d at Québec C 6 July 1910). After studying at the SÉMINAIRE DE QUÉBEC and later spending periods at Harvard and in Europe, Laflamme became professor of geology and mineralogy at Laval in 1870.
Robert Ferguson Legget
Robert Ferguson Legget, civil engineer (b at Liverpool, Eng 29 Sept 1904; died at Ottawa, Ont 17 Apr 1994).
James Alexander Teit
James Alexander Teit, ethnographer (b in Shetland Is, Scot 1864; d at Spences Bridge, BC 30 Oct 1922).
Edmund Murton Walker
Edmund Murton Walker, entomologist (b at Windsor, Ont 5 Oct 1877; d at Toronto 14 Feb 1969).
Howard Fredeen
Howard Fredeen, agricultural research scientist (b at Macrorie, Sask 10 Dec 1921).
Kenneth George McKenzie
Kenneth George McKenzie, neurosurgeon (b at Toronto 13 June 1892; d there 11 Feb 1964). After graduating with an MB from the University of Toronto in 1914, he saw medical service overseas during WWI.
Cyril Harold Goulden
Cyril Harold Goulden, geneticist (b at Bridgend, Wales 2 June 1897; d at Ottawa 4 Feb 1981).
Donald Frank Stedman
Donald Frank Stedman, scientist (b at Tunbridge Wells, Eng 4 Apr 1900; d at Ottawa 2 May 1967). Primarily a chemist, he was one of the earliest staffers of the NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL (1930).
Robert Ramsay Wright
Robert Ramsay Wright, zoologist, educator (b at Alloa, Scot 23 Sept 1852; d at Droitwich Spa, Eng 6 Sept 1933).
Joseph Alexander Gray
Joseph Alexander Gray, physicist (b at Melbourne, Australia 7 Feb 1884; d at London, Eng 5 Mar 1966). After graduating from Melbourne U in 1907, Gray worked in Sir Ernest RUTHERFORD's laboratory in Manchester, Eng, concentrating on the study of the interaction of electrons and X-rays with atoms.


One of the best-known beaches on the Central Coast, Terrigal Beach is a cosmopolitan seaside town, as popular with locals as it is with visitors. The patrolled beach offers safe swimming all year round and has a small ocean rock pool tucked into the cliff at the southern end. Also at the southern end of Terrigal Beach is Terrigal Haven, a protected boat harbour with boat ramp, fishing charters, scuba diving and snorkelling, picnic and barbecue facilities. The scuttled RMAS Adelaide provides a great opportunity for diving.
The beach is patrolled every day from October long weekend until the end of the April school holiday break. Picnic areas include grassed and under cover picnic tables available.
Room to run the dog off leash at the dog park in The Haven, watch a spot of cricket or rugby, depending on season – perfect spot for whale watching at the top of the Skillion, too. Great cafes and restaurants in the area, or if you want to go it alone, BBQ facilities are also at Terrigal Haven.
If shopping or browsing is more your style, check out the Terrigal Beachside markets all along the shore line on the first Saturday of each month, or the Terrigal Vintage and Antique market held quarterly at the Scout Hall. There is also the Car Boot sale which is held on the first Sunday of the month on the corner of Willoughby Road and Terrigal Drive. No excuses for my birthday present now!
Famous for it's amazing accommodation, boutique shopping, upmarket restaurants and cafes and first class entertainment, Terrigal is a legendary Australian seaside village and we are proud to call it home.


release for win, on a xp SP2 box ).
Randomly, Mysql daemon stops responding.
* No way to connect ( by tcp/ip or by running the mysql command line tool ).
* Stop and then restart the Mysql service is unsuccessful.
The only "workaround" is to ... reboot the computer !
And then, all's ok for a random duration.
When I read the Mysql log, no error is written.
- I updated Mysql server version.
and cpu ( 512Mo / 1,8Ghz ).
Thanks you everybody for any help.
What about anti-virus programs and such, tried to turn them off?
Do you dare to update to the Unix world?
turn on performance monitoring so that you know when and/or how it starts to overload.
are you sure it's independant of a long running query or loop?
I think so ... but I have no way to be 100% sure.
queries to this mysql server.
I have desactivated it ( Mc Afee viruscan ).
But, to do a test, I uninstalled it fully since a few days.
dba's knows only MsSQL, here ), and to use Perl instead of vb/asp.
And the queries/load average were bigger.
> I have desactivated it ( Mc Afee viruscan ).
> But, to do a test, I uninstalled it fully since a few days.
argument to try another environment. I wish you the best of luck.
Unfortunately, I had a new "crash" of MySQL today.
>> I have desactivated it ( Mc Afee viruscan ).
>> But, to do a test, I uninstalled it fully since a few days.
> Unfortunately, I had a new "crash" of MySQL today.
the same place each time or if it's all random.
are such tool for microsoft.
I already have some logging functions in my scripts.
But currently, the only logged errors are about a connect failure.
data ( all queries are successful ).
five hundred rows at all ... I think it's not to much, don't you ?
And Apache logs aren't very interesting too.
why a "reboot" solve the issue.
I don't know if I can use strace, but I'll try to do so.
you the results of the tests/logs if I find something interesting ).
> I already have some logging functions in my scripts.
> But currently, the only logged errors are about a connect failure.
> data ( all queries are successful ).
> five hundred rows at all ... I think it's not to much, don't you ?
> And Apache logs aren't very interesting too.
library (dll) and microsft can't flush it out at a restart.
mysql will start properly again).
and see if the trouble disappears.
MySQL problem. What hostname do you use to connect to MySQL?
program returning without a message?
your data). Then start MySQL via MMC again.
What log? Is there anything in there? Show your my.ini!
scanner to not check files in the MySQL dir.
file locking) with other processes.
Yes, mysqld-nt is always running.
Issue appeared 2 times today, but nothing in the .err.
First time, I was unable to connect ( for instance, via mysql admin ).
Second time, I was already running mysqlAdmin, when a script "started"
to hang. MysqlAdmin didn't crash ( previously, MysqlAdmin hang-up too ).
the status for "root" was "query" ).
Status for queries of bdc never changed.
I killed it and tried again : Always the same.
So, I didn't make this test.
Ok, I killed the process, restarted it via MMC but it was always the same.
Would you like the full file or only a few params/values ?
Thanks you very much for your help !
tried to find a mysql process always running.
Today, I had the issue 2 times again.
Via Process Explorer, and Tcp View, I killed all mysql tasks.
But when restarted, issue was always here.
So I rebooted the unit again.
You'll found it (uncommented) at the end of my post.
The "more" interesting one seems to be Process Monitor.
I don't know what is the "FIN_WAIT2" state, and if it's normal.
.... and then, all mysql processes are in "fin_wait2" state.
Thanks you very much for any ideas.
does not receive an acknowledgement of the close from the client.
Since a few days, issue appeared at least one time / day.
* Via Mysql Administrator : unsuccessfull.
* Via mysql command line tool : successfull !!!
always the same table ), connection is lost.
- find a way to solve this "silent crash" issue shortly.
Anyway, thanks you all for your previous answers/help.
gave a few bugzilla listings for similar error messages.


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I love primal and paleo cookbooks. What caught my eye on this currently un-realesed cookbook was how in the title 'Practical Paleo: A Customized Approach to Health and a Whole-Foods Lifestyle', the author, Diane Sanfilippo, speaks about customising.
The term "customising" really resonates with me, as I like to make things work for me. There is little point in approaching something without a prospect of making that something individualised and customised to my specific tastes and requirements. In this case that would be specific needs within my diet and lifestyle. Remember that you can personalise your diet right down to what specific nutrients you are getting from the foods you are eating.
Diane Sanfilippo is regarded as being one of the easiest to read voices in the paleo diet community, and is recommended by medical practitioners to their patients for aid to various nutrition-based health issues. Diane is known for being a clear and positive energy when communicating on and giving advice about the paleo diet and what it means to eat for the body. She appears to be completely focused on helping people achieve optimum health in their lives, and encourages people to perform at their maximum.
She holds a Bachelor of Science from Syracuse University and is also a qualified nutrition consultant. She has particular knowledge in sugar level management and how certain foods affect the digestive processes in the body. Dian owns and runs her own blog, balancedbites.com and offers advice in podcasts which she publishes weekly.
Overall, this looks to be a great addition to the paleo diet movement and I am certainly going to be buying myself a copy of her hardcopy when it becomes available to purchase.
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What Is A Trademark, And How Can You Apply For It?
Having a trademark is essential to create and establish your product/service in this competitive world. But you know what would be even better? If this entire process of registering for a trademark was completely hassle-free. Read on to learn more.
Humans have always had the habit of claiming ownership over things that were theirs. Years ago, early humans used personal marks to claim ownership of their livestock, and artisans from many ancient civilizations left their distinctive marks on hand-made creations like brickwork, roof tiles, decorative vases, and even gravestones.
Today, this mark has taken up a much more formal meaning and identity in the form of a trademark. But a trademark denotes a lot more than just the ownership of a product or service. It signifies the brand's unique identity and helps it stand out from the crowd.
A trademark is a distinctive symbol or word(s) used to represent a business or its products. After a trademark is registered for a product or service, the same symbol or words cannot be used by any other entity as long as its owner uses it.
Through a trademark, customers can recognize a brand in a marketplace and differentiate it from its competitors.
While the word 'trademark' is essentially for goods, a 'service mark' is for services. However, 'service mark' is rarely used, and 'trademark' is used for both products and services.
Usually, trademarks are known as intellectual properties and may or may not be registered. A registered trademark provides better rights and protection as compared to an unregistered one. Nevertheless, it's not always necessary to register your trademark.
How to Identify a Trademark?
Trademarks identify and protect words and design elements that distinguish the source, owner, or creator of a product or service. They can be product names, logos, or slogans.
A trademark prevents any other entity from using a company or individual's products or services without permission. It also helps avoid any possibility of a situation where a name, symbol, or logo has a chance of confusion with an already existing one.
This means that a company cannot use a symbol or brand name if it looks or sounds similar or has a similar meaning to one that already exists, especially if they belong to the same industry.
For example, any mobile manufacturer can't legally use a logo that looks like that of Apple and cannot use a name that sounds similar to Apple.
Here's how you can identify trademarks:
™ – Through this symbol, usually put after a logo or a phrase, brands claim that respective symbol or words as their own. However, the symbol doesn't necessarily mean that the trademark has been officially applied for.
® – Only those trademarks that are officially granted and registered by the Trademark office can use the ® symbol. The symbol denotes a 'registered trademark'.
℠ – Companies that sell services and not products can use the service mark logo. However, commonly, service providers also use the ™ instead.
What Can a Trademark Do?
A trademark does the following things for its owner:
Helps send a notice of claim to other businesses that consider using the same symbol or word as their trademark.
Provides a legal presumption of ownership preventing anyone else to take it, even in the future.
Provides the exclusive right to use the claimed trademark.
Gives goods or services their identity and a traceable source.
Offers legal protection to your brand.
Safeguards your brand against fraud or counterfeit.
Ensures trust of quality among customers.
How Can You Apply for a Trademark?
Any individual, company, or legally identified person can apply for a trademark or a separate trademark registration. Steps to register for a trademark:
Step 1: Trademark Search
A thorough search of trademarks will help you determine if there are other identical trademarks in the market. Often, a trademark search can also predict possible trademark litigation. You can check for all existing registered trademarks on the Trademark Registry India website.
Step 2: Application Filing of a Trademark
After confirming that the brand name or logo selected by you does not already exist in the official Trademark Registry, you can register it by going on the Trademark Registry India website and filing for a trademark application.
Step 3: Inspection of Application
After filing the trademark application, an examiner will inspect it for any issues, which might take about 12-18 months. The examiner can accept the trademark in any of the 3 forms- absolute, conditional, or object. The trademark is then published in the Trademark Journal if your application gets accepted.
Step 4: Publication of the Trademark Application
If anyone wants to object to a particular trademark, they get a chance to oppose it. And, the authorities find out that there is no opposition after 3-4 months from the trademark's publication, you can go ahead with the final registration. In case, there is an opposition, an official hearing takes place, and the Registrar makes the final call.
Step 5: Getting the Registration Certificate
After publication in the Trademark Journal, the application proceeds for trademark registration. Following this, you will get a registration certificate carrying the seal of the Trademark Office.
Step 6: Renewal of a Trademark
After every 10 years, one can renew the trademark forever. In other words, your logo or brand name gets the trademark for as long as you want.
What is the Cost of Registering a Trademark?
In India, the trademark cost is Rs. 9000 per application per class for a company, while the trademark cost for an individual is Rs. 4500 per application per class.
Is Trademark a Copyright?
People tend to confuse a trademark with copyright. But no, a trademark is not a copyright, and there's a significant difference between the two.
While a trademark distinguishes your brand name, mark, or logo from others, copyright prevents others from using your creation without your permission. Copyright is applicable to artistic works like paintings, poems, artwork, literature, and songs.
Having a trademark is important to create and establish your product/service in this competitive world. But do you know what would be even better? If this entire process of registering for a trademark was completely hassle-free.
PayU does precisely this! It simplifies the trademark registration process and takes care of it all for you. Registering for a trademark has never been this simple!
So trademark and stand out, for the world merely accommodates the common ones but rewards those that stand out!
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The law enters every facet of human life, none probably more so than medicine. As a consultant doctor David was already familiar with the ethical and legal elements of medicine, and the statutory obligations under the law such as The Equality Act 2010, The Access to Medical Reports Act 1988, and others. However he wished to expand his legal knowledge further in order to refine and improve his practice.
Therefore David completed the Graduate Diploma in Law (GDL) in 2013, following this up with a Degree in Law (LLB) in 2014. Then he completed the Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC) over 2 years to qualify as a Barrister. Accordingly he was called to the Bar as a member of the Inner Temple in 2016.
Due to David's experience in Military Occupational and Environmental Medicine and his expertise in Aviation, Diving and Military Medicine, David is an Expert Witness in those fields. He is commonly instructed to compile reports for solicitors, particularly in those fields and in that of Non-Freezing Cold Injury (NFCI); David had worked as a consultant at the Cold Injuries Clinic (CIC) at the Institute of Naval Medicine (INM) whilst in the Royal Navy.
David's legal knowledge ensures that his reports are fully compliant with Part 35 of the Civil Procedure Rules (CPR). It also enables him to understand the legal principles of the case and converse on level terms with regard to both legal language and legal procedures.
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David has an excellent grasp and understanding of all evidence and arguments presented, and is very clear in his expressions and thought processes. His legal background is evident in the way he is able to understand the legal process and frameworks involved."
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Dr David Carey's expertise from his former position as Surgeon Commander with the Royal Navy at the Institute of Naval Medicine is invaluable. His concerns that service personnel should receive the best medical and occupational care, are reflected in his expert opinion, soundly based on long professional service
Dr Carey is very approachable and he is happy to provide an early informal opinion, which can be invaluable from a medico-legal point of view."
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I must say that, in contrast to a number of other experts I work with, you show a far better understanding of the legal process and issues (apart from just the medical). You regularly engage with me and Counsel on these issues, which can often be complex in my cases and particularly in relation to issues of causation. You have a thorough understanding of CPR and your obligations as an expert, but also have an appreciation of my role as a solicitor. I have been very impressed with your advice and guidance on questions to other experts and I can tell from your discussions with Counsel that you are familiar with principles of evidence and the likely cross examination that you and/or other experts may face when in trial. Most impressive is your appreciation at all times that, ultimately, a Judge will need to make a determination on the available evidence, which is something that escapes a lot of people!"
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Chris Wilder will not panic in the transfer market despite admitting his team would benefit from "two or three more" signings.
But the Sheffield United manager, who earlier this week learnt that Samir Carruthers faces a month on the sidelines after being injured during last weekend's victory at Southend, is thought to have decided against recalling John Brayford from his loan at Burton Albion to bolster the League One leader's squad.
As The Star first revealed, Wilder has placed Joe Riley on his wish-list after learning Manchester United are willing to let the youngster leave Old Trafford on loan.
Daniel Lafferty is also poised to join United permanently after initially arriving on a temporary basis. The Northern Ireland international's move from Burnley was agreed in principle before the visit to Roots Hall but a minor back problem could delay his medical.
Although the interest in Riley, who can also operate in attack, is designed to strengthen United's options at wing-back, Albion expect Brayford to complete his season long-agreement. James Wallace is also set to remain with Tranmere Rovers while contracts talks with Stefan Scougall, whose deal expires this summer, are unlikely to take place until after the window closes on January 31.
Carruthers, who limped-off only 15 minutes into his debut at Roots Hall, will miss this weekend's visit to Walsall after being diagnosed with strained ankle ligaments. The former MK Dons midfielder is also set to sit-out forthcoming games against Gillingham, Fleetwood Town and AFC Wimbledon but could return for the trip to Peterborough on February 11.
"We brought Samir in because he's a quality player, someone we've tracked for a long time, and because we needed more in that area," Wilder said. "Obviously, situations change but that's something we prefer to do rather than make knee-jerk reactions. You should always treat the club's money as if it was your own and plans things properly.


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Brämön () is an island in Sundsvall Municipality, Västernorrland County, Sweden.

Brämön is about 5 km long and 3 km wide, with an area of about 11 km2. It is situated in the Bothnian Sea, separated from the mainland by the approximately 2 km wide Brämösundet. A small island named Kalven just lies just off Brämön in the south.

Brämön had already been known for fishing in the 15th century. The last fisherman left the island in 1949.

There are two inhabited places in Brämön, namely Sanna and Norrhamn. The two places are connected by a footpath. A nature reserve was established in 2004, which includes the island except Sanna and Norrhamn.

Brämön was spelled as Bremön. The old spelling is still used by many.

Climate

Brämön, being an island close to the mainland near Sundsvall has got a maritime climate, with significantly  milder winters as well as cooler summers when compared to mainland Sweden and Finland at the same latitude. Its Köppen classification is either Dfb or Cfb depending on whether a -3°C or 0°C isotherm is used.

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Swedish islands in the Baltic
Islands of Västernorrland County


UPEA Street Art Festival is a unique art festival and a brand new addition to Finland's festival scene. UPEA invites artists from all over the world to create large scale mural artworks in different cities. The first UPEA Festival will take place in September 2016 and the murals will be created simultaneously in different cities.
The goal of UPEA Street Art Festival is to bring the joy and diversity of street art to Finland and raise the appreciation of the art form. Large scale mural art is something that is still rarely seen in Finnish cities. UPEA wants to cover the bare facades with mural art by renowned street artists and bring the art out of museums to the public.
The first UPEA Street Art Festival has selected some of the most prominent artists from the street art scene in Finland and established names from abroad. UPEA is the first street art festival in Finland that invites foreign artists to create permanent street art.
Confirmed artists for UPEA16 are Italian artist Tellas (in Helsinki), Swedish duo Graffitisthlm (in Helsinki), Australian artist Guido van Helten (in Helsinki), Bulgarian duo Arsek & Erase (in Turku), Swedish artist Ola Kalnins (in Riihimäki), Indonesian artist WD (in Kemi), U.S. artist Andrew Hem (in Vaasa) and Finnish artists Kim Somervuori and Teemu Mäenpää (in Hyvinkää and Hämeenlinna).
UPEA Street Art Festival is organized by the street art association Katutaideyhdistys Päävärit ry.


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Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is unidentified in an estimated 40%–85% of infected adults. Surveillance and modeling data have found significant increases in HCV-associated morbidity and mortality.
To compare two HCV antibody (anti-HCV) testing strategies based on (1) elevated alanine aminotransferase levels (ALT) and (2) a birth cohort approach for people born during 1945–1965.
Data from 19,055 adults aged 20–70 years who completed the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey in 1999–2008 were analyzed in 2013. Two independent models were evaluated, based on membership in the 1945–1965 birth cohort or elevated ALT, to compare the number of identified anti-HCV-positive (anti-HCV+) individuals; proportion of total identified cases; and the number of people that would be tested using either strategy.
The prevalence of anti-HCV among adults aged 20–70 years was estimated at 2.0% (95% CI=1.8%, 2.3%), representing about 3.6 million people. The birth cohort strategy would result in testing about 85.4 million people and identifying nearly 2.8 million anti-HCV+ people with a sensitivity of 76.6%. The ALT strategy would test about 21.5 million adults and identify approximately 1.8 million anti-HCV+ people with a sensitivity of 50.0%. Implementing both strategies concurrently would identify 87.3% of anti-HCV+ adults.
The birth cohort strategy, which is recommended by both the CDC and the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, would identify 1 million more anti-HCV+ people than the elevated ALT approach. Concurrent implementation would identify an even larger number of individuals ever infected.
MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2013; 62(18):362-365.


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We get it, Microsoft. You want us to use Azure. You want us to build highly scalable software that will run in the cloud—your cloud. And we'll get the wonderful support from Microsoft if we choose Azure. Yes, Microsoft. We get it.
We're not stupid. You play up Azure like it's a development skill, or some critical piece of the Visual Studio development puzzle, but we recognize that Azure is a proprietary cloud service that you're advertising, not an essential tool chain component. Now go away. Please. Stop diluting the MSDN Magazine articles and the msdev Facebook app status posts with your marketing drivel about Azure. You are not going to get any checks written out from me for hosted solutions. We know that you want to profit from this. Heck, we even believe it might actually be a half-decent hosting service. But, Microsoft, you didn't invent the cloud, there are other clouds out there, so tooling for your operating system using Visual Studio does not mean that I need to know diddly squat about your tirelessly hyped service.
There are a lot of other things you can talk about and still make a buck off of your platform. You can talk about how cool WPF is as a great way to build innovative Windows-only products. You can focus on how fast SQL Server 2008 R2 is and how Oracle wasted their money on a joke (mySQL). You can play up the wonderful extensibility of IIS 7 and all the neat kinds of innovative networked software you can build with it. Honestly, I don't even know what you should talk about because you're the ones who know the info, not me.
But Microsoft it's getting really boring to hear the constant hyping of Azure. I've already chosen how my stuff will be hosted, and that's not going to change right now. So honestly, I really don't care.
Maybe I need to explain why I don't care.
Microsoft, there are only two groups of people who are going to choose your ridiculously wonderful and bloated cloud: established mid-market businesses with money to spend, and start-ups with a lot of throw-away capital who drank your kool aid. You shouldn't worry about those people. The people you should worry about are those who will choose against it, and will have made their decision firmly.
First of all, I believe most enterprises will not want to put their data on a cloud, certainly not with a standardized set of cloud interfaces. It's too great a security risk. Amazon's true OS cloud is enticing because companies can roll their own APIs with proprietary APIs and have them talk to each other while rolling out VM instances on a whim. They have sufficient tooling outside of cloud-speak to write what they need and to do what needs doing. But for the most part, companies want to keep internal data internal.
Second, we geeks don't fiddle a whole lot with accounting and taking corporate risks. We focus on writing code. That code has to be portable. It has to run locally, on a dedicated IIS server, or in a cloud. Writing code that deploys to your cloud—whether a true cloud or locally for testing, it doesn't matter—if it doesn't run equally well in other environments it's at best a redundant effort and at worst a potentially wasted one. We have to write code for your cloud and then we have to write code for running without your cloud. We most certainly would not be comfortable writing code that only runs on your cloud, but the mangled way your cloud APIs are marketed we might as well bet the whole farm on it. And that just ain't right.
See, I don't like going into anything not knowing I can pull out and look at alternatives at any time without having completely wasted my efforts. If I'm going to write code for Azure, I want to be assured that the code will have the same functionality outside of Azure. But since Azure APIs only run in the Azure cloud, and Azure cannot be self-hosted (outside of localhost debugging), I don't have that assurance. Hence, I as a geek and as an entrepreneur have no interest in Azure.
When I choose a tool chain, I choose it for its toolset, not for its target environment. I already know that Windows Server with IIS is adequate for the scale of runtimes I work with. When I choose a hosting service, I choose it expecting to be very low-demand but with potential for high demand. I don't want to pay out the nose for that potential. I often experiment with different solutions and discover a site's market potential. But I don't go in expecting to make a big buck—I only go in hoping to.
What would gain my interest in Azure? Pretty much the only thing that would have me give Azure even a second glance would be a low-demand (low traffic, low CPU, low storage, and low memory) absolutely free account, whereby I am simply billed if I go over my limit. If free's no good, then a flat ridiculously low rate, like $10/mo for reasonable usage and a reasonable rate when I go over. A trial is unacceptable. I'm not going to develop for something that is going to only be a trial. And I also prefer a reasonable flat rate for low-demand usage over a generated-per-use one. I prefer to have an up-front idea of how much things will cost. I don't have time to keep adjusting my budget. I don't want to have to get billed first in order to see what my monthly cost will be.
Just stop, please. I have no problem with Azure, you can put your banner ads and printed ads into everything I touch, I'm totally fine with that. What is really upsetting to me is when magazine and related content, both online and printed, is taken up to hype your proprietary cloud services, and I really feel like I'm getting robbed as an MSDN subscriber.
Just keep in mind, we're not stupid. We do know service marketing versus helpful development tips when we see it. You're only hurting yourselves when you push the platform on us like we're lemmings. Speaking for myself, I'm starting to dread what should have been a wonderful year of 2010 with the evolution of the Microsoft tool chain.


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The Rhythm Road - Vice Verse All Stars
Members of the music group, Vice Verse All Stars, share their thoughts before leaving on a State Department-sponsored trip to West Africa.
The Rhythm Road: Gospel Music Abroad
Oscar Williams Jr. and Perfected Praise share some of their gospel spirit before heading out on a U.S. Department of State sponsored tour through Europe.
The Rift, the Rhyme, and the Rhythm Road
Oscar Williams, Jr. and Perfected Praise demonstrate how they plan to teach the fundamentals of gospel music during their Rhythm Road tour abroad.
The Rhythm Road: Music Olympics
Mark Sherman says the Rhythm Road is a kind of "music Olympics," only without the medals.
QuestFest
QuestFest is a two-week, international festival that features groundbreaking work from exceptional performers and companies dedicated to the use of movement, gesture, and digital media to tell stories.
Life After Chernobyl
Professional photographer and Fulbright alumnus, Michael Forster Rothbart, recounts his work documenting a Ukrainian village 24 years after the Chernobyl disaster.
Cultural Diplomacy In Action
The Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the U.S. Department of State sponsors a number of cultural exchange programs that share America's rich culture of performing arts with international audiences.
Members of ExchangesConnect answer the question, "What is Culture?"
The Capitoline Venus
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The seven day mental diet by Emmet Fox was prescribed to us almost two weeks ago in the MKMMA course. It is a diet of only thinking positive thoughts straight through for 7 days. Just as much as we become what we eat, we also become what we think.
It's been a huge challenge for me. I thought that I was a fairly positive person and the "no opinions" challenge went fairly well and we had this experience of monitoring our thought processes. We were told to turn off the televisions for ourselves and for our children. This includes any device that broadcasts news and all the negative stuff that comes with it.
I now call myself a former news junkie. I loved all things news. It has been running through my ears and into my brain for decades from morning till night. Now there is silence. And now I listen to my internal dialog. Oh my goodness! So many thoughts to actually become conscious of. How can I make sure that I can catch every negative thought?
Part of the process is becoming aware so we can correct the negative and turn it into a positive thought. And it's kind of crazy how a simple inert thought can turn catastrophic in a mere split second. For example chopping onions for dinner… "these garden onions are strong, don't drop onion bits on floor so the dog won't eat it, onion kills dogs, oh my goodness I would be devastated when my dog dies" And then I go about feeling bad and then my thoughts go from my dog dying to other similar catastrophic events.
The good thing is that I am aware and I can stop them before they turn so bad and catch them at the "don't drop onion on the floor" stage and get the thoughts going in a positive direction.
I have accomplished around 8hrs or so of positive thinking. We have been snowed in and the kids only had one day if school this week. They have been missing their TV and with no place to go to keep them engaged it's been challenging. I have been teaching them material from MKMMA and it's really been amazing to see their relationship between each other getting stronger.
I greet this day with LOVE in my heart. And I shall succeed.
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great thoughts on the 7 day mental diet. it has been up and down for me but the experience is worth it all.
I am inspired by your words! Thank you for sharing. God bless you on your journey.
I too have struggled going a full day with the mental diet, you are right about how easy it is for those thoughts to quickly spiral down into more negativity.
It's so exciting to see how it affects our children as well!! Great work Catherine!
Teaching kids skills is so worthwhile. It gives them the knowledge and belief that they could do anything in life! How powerful is that.
Great comments about the 7 Day Mental Diet.Love your comments about no TV, I'm a news person also. Have you found yourself not being able to comment on a news event because you didn't know about it? I have had that happen a couple things. Sounds like you're in the Buffalo area.
I caved and watched the news one day this past week. I prefer to not have it on anymore!
Brodi, I just found your comments in the spam folder and approved them! Here is to your 7 days of positive thinking! Cheers.


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Apple no longer touts Maps app as 'most powerful'
By Salvador Rodriguez
Amid the furor over its new Maps app, Apple has deleted the description that it is the "most beautiful, powerful mapping service ever."
The change, first noted by German website iDaily.de, follows last week's rare move by Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook, who apologized to users of the new app that came with an operating system upgrade.
Though the new Maps is pretty to look at, Apple essentially admitted that the app is nowhere near being the most "powerful mapping service ever" when Cook sent out an apology letter, in which he said Maps failed to live up to the standard Apple has for its products.
That's because Maps is now powered by Apple software, along with the help of some partners, after using Google Maps since 2007. That's caused the app to be filled with inaccurate information, gaffes throughout and overall less useful information than its predecessor.
Apple's webpage for the Maps app has now been updated with: "All in a beautiful vector-based interface that scales and zooms with ease."
That's embarrassing for Apple, which has also begun recommending that its users try out other map apps, including Nokia Maps and Google Maps.
In fact, Apple is now going to great lengths to teach users just how they can add app icons for those websites, putting up an instruction page online, as pointed out by Business Insider.
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import { MapPoint } from "../chart/types";
import { NamedPlace, NamedTypedPlace } from "../shared/types";
import { DisasterType } from "./constants";

/**
 * Types specific to Disaster Dashboard
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export interface PlaceInfo {
  place: NamedTypedPlace;
  placeType: string;
  parentPlaces: NamedPlace[];
}
export interface DisasterEventPoint extends MapPoint {
  disasterType: DisasterType;
  startDate: string;
  intensity: { [prop: string]: number };
  endDate?: string;
}

export interface DisasterApiEventPoint {
  eventId: string;
  name: string;
  startDate: string;
  affectedPlaces: string[];
  longitude: number;
  latitude: number;
  endDate?: string;
  magnitude?: number;
  directDeaths?: number;
  directInjuries?: number;
}

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