Not everyone lives a greeting-card like holiday. Between the fast-paced pressures of life today and the added burdens of financial strain, even happy families and singles alike can face holidays filled with angst, disappointment and frustration. Add to today's stresses the disagreeable experiences we've all experienced from one holiday to another and it's no wonder why most people dread the entire holiday season.
No matter what your past holiday experiences have been, your current situation looks like or the new challenges you're facing today, you really can experience a holiday season full of love, peace and joy.
If you had a magic wand, what would you create this holiday?
Actually enjoy yourself this holiday season?
Experience real connection and love?
Learn how to find and accept support?
End Family Feuds for good?
Leave this year more prosperous?
Heal grief from lost loved ones?
Enter the New Year ready to create more and regret less?
Feel what it's like to have control over your life?
You Can: Holiday Harmony will teach you how!
Through this Holiday Harmony program you'll learn how to use personal energy modalities, such as Emotional Freedom Techniques, combined with conscious intentional manifesting. By learning to release the stuck energy of pains old and new, and engaging the powerful resources you have to create the experience you truly desire by effectively employing Universal creation laws such as the Law of Attraction and more.
Holiday Harmony teaches a proven and gentle self-applied acupressure method combined with guided statements that connects the mind, heart, body and spirit in a conscious release of the unseen blocking or binding forces called stuck energies resulting from any trauma, negative imbalance or dysfunction. These gentle yet effective techniques have been proven effective often where nothing else has worked and on everything from physical pain to relationship dysfunctions, overwhelming grief to financial difficulties. Once stuck energy is released acute conditions are often cleared instantaneously, and long-term patterns are easily corrected.
This season, give yourself and the world around you the gift of a peaceful, enjoyable time of wellbeing and love. This Living Harmony program will not only teach you the tools you can use to release the things that keep you from experiencing the joy and peace you desire, it'll support you in learning to create with conscious intention the kind of holiday you may never have experienced before.
This season, give yourself the gift of Holiday Harmony!
Experience the power of group energy work while addressing some of the most challenging areas of your life in relation to the holiday season all from the comfort of your home or office computer, phone, mp3 player or smartphone! Workbooks and pre-recorded guided classes round out the entire series giving you the tools you need to really clear away the negatives so you can successfully create a more positive and harmonious holiday experience.
You're about to Learn the Real & Secrets of Successful Manifesting From World-Renowned Energy and Success Expert, Cathleen Campbell.
Holiday Harmony Reveals How These Proven Methods Really Work, So You Can Learn to Manifest Harmonious Holidays Successfully too!
For years I've studied the Law of Attraction, feng shui and everything in between in an effort to finally have the success I envied in others. I wondered what was wrong with me, because even with a PhD. I coudln't get it. I struggled and suffered, and I wasted thousands on this stuff and therapy too. Cathleen's got the answers and her warmth, understanding and fun presentation made me realize I wasn't the looser I always felt like. Within a few days from the holiday master class on manifesting, not only did I start manifesting a better holiday experience but I was already humming in other areas too: my boss actually told me they'd felt my energy getting more enthsiastic and he gave me an unexpected raise! There's NO way I would have had this happen without learning how to flow my energy to what I want to create intentionally. Thank you Cathleen, you're the best!
Experienced manifester, or new to the entire concept of intentional creation? You're about to learn how to apply amazing amounts of energetic resources you never knew existed to create more and more of what you deeply desire.
It is not helpful to force positive thinking or feeling especially in the face of overwhelming pain such as in the case of grief or financial hardship. In fact, forcing the positive can be incredibly destructive!
In this brand-new live tele-class, How to Manifest Holiday Harmony, you'll not only learn how to harness the powerful energies you have within and those around you to create what you want but as you follow along you'll already be creating a new experience in holiday enjoyment. Best of all, as you follow along with other participants, you'll access group energy to help supercharge your own intentions!
Align your energies with what you really desire instead of fixing what you don't.
Harnessing your super powerful subconscious mind to actively seek out experiences of harmony and joy.
Magnetizing yourself to the very thing you want...Holiday Harmony...Now!
If you aren't already enjoying the anticipation of a happy and harmonious holiday season, either the way you want to or perhaps the way you remember, my heart goes out to you. Maybe life in general has gotten you down, or perhaps it's just this time of year. Either way, right now you're looking forward to several weeks of these unhappy feelings and the difficult experiences that go with them, and that's not fair.
You're not alone. I personally understand how it can feel. It's sad and disheartening, frustrating and can even make you have feelings of anger and isolation. All the frivolity, the forced glee and affections not only make you feel uncomfortable but can sometimes make the burdens you're already facing seem unbearable. It seems impossible enough to get all we have to accomplished throughout the year, and the holidays push us even further. Throw in the overwhelming and relentless pressure to buy and give presents you either don't want to or can't afford, and we have to wonder why the heck we participate in any holiday at all.
Whether you are simply living out the inevitable results of increasing family discord made more intense during the holidays, you're out of work, have an overwhelming painful physical challenge or perhaps you're alone…it may seem impossible, but I can guarantee that you really can create a new experience and maybe for the first time ever enjoy yourself!
Holiday Harmony is a proven program I developed to help people just like you learn some of the amazing energy tools I use in my regular practice teaching clients to release painful emotions, thoughts, patterns and habits so they can create a new experience of life. My clients regularly release decades of painful experiences and memories and go on to create new jobs, renewed family relationships, new love and an abundance they never knew possible. And now you can follow along with my students around the globe to learn these same tools and help yourself release the pain you carry that keeps you from experiencing peace, joy, love and abundance during the holiday season and beyond.
The program I've created is the only one I know of like it. For a series of short classes, the results are astounding! Just follow along, listening to me and the class participants for the pre-recorded sessions and voila a huge shift in your experience of the holiday season no matter what your religious affiliation or not. Each class guides you though so you'll easily pick up the techniques that you can continue to use on your own long after the holidays are over.
This program isn't about forcing you to forgive and forget people who treat you callously, or to ignore your current reality so you can pretend gratitude on the outside while feeling afraid and bitter about finances on the inside. It's about real release, it's about learning the How-To of letting go for good.
Once you let go of the pain, you'll be able to consciously choose who you want in your life and how you want to interact with them. You'll have the freedom to make good financial decisions for you, regardless of what it seems everyone else is doing. Without the burden of all this painful stuck energy, you'll finally be able to feel the peace from within the holidays are meant to convey.
Whether you are a woman or man, single or married, with our without children, alone or just alone in the crowd…Holiday Harmony will teach you how to create the holidays you want to experience.
Successful people everywhere have known for as long as time the real secret, and it's time for you to embrace the truth too: you really DO have the power in you to manifest your needs and your dreams. Read on for a description of the many classes you'll access with this program supporting you to learn how to manifest Holiday Harmony!
One payment of $97.00 will give you all the coaching, training and support you need to get started on your best holidays now. My clients regularly pay up to $1500 per session with me to learn just some of the very same techniques you'll learn in this wonderful program. With Holiday Harmony, you'll have a ready coach offering hours of uplifting, inspirational and instructional guidance whenever and wherever you need. Whether you are just getting started, or are already a client or student, this program is a terrific tool to help you unearth and release your own stuck pain, unproductive beliefs and patterns so you can harness all that wasted energy and direct it to create life the way you want it.
Bring Holiday Harmony with you! Now you can use your portable device to access your Holiday Harmony program including all of the recorded classes, workbook and meditation.
Not sure Holiday Harmony is for you?Read on to learn specific information about each segment of the Holiday Harmony and some real-life comments from people just like you who decided not to endure another holiday season filled with pain and frustration. You can also check out the Holiday Harmony Blog for more insights, inspiration, instruction, tips and techniques...including some of my favorite recipes! People from all over the world are leaving their comments, testimonials and questions. Please join our discussion.
Too Busy, Beleaguered and Behind to Enjoy!
Imagine my surprise waking up the next day after the first Holiday Harmony class feeling calm and rested. My life is so hectic and pressured, I'm overwhelmed already so the holidays usually send me over the edge. I just try to get through it with my head down, waiting to let my breath out. But this year I'm not only feeling in control at home, I'm really getting in control at work too! My usually difficult boss has noticed and praised me for my increased work. I'm actually getting home at a decent time and have energy to enjoy my personal life. It really is a miracle!
It's not just in an economic downturn that we worry about holiday finances. No matter what you personally celebrate or don't, there's a good chance that your expenses, both personal and business, will rise during the last quarter. The cost of sending greeting cards alone can feel overwhelming. But add to these the costs for those who give gifts to family, friends, colleagues and clients. It's no wonder why statistics show most people actually begin the new year carrying debt from their holiday purchases alone! It can the better part of the current year to pay off last year's holiday spending. This recurring issue is actually one of the biggest reasons for recurring debt: for carrying over old debt, especially one that may carry a compilation of resentful feelings, holds us squarely in the vibration of lack. It seems the only ways to manage this ongoing and emotionally draining challenge is to either cut everyone off, spend countless hours we don't have attempting to personally craft gifts that never look like the magazine photos, or carry almost another full-time job over the year attempting to find bargain gifts that don't look cheap. These so-called fixes still come from the vibration of lack, and therefore they continue to produce lack and more of it, fo the Law of Attraction multiplies what we are sending out! There's another way, and it's not only easier it's far less costly in every area. In this class, you'll learn that clearing the stuck energy of our holiday finances not only opens us up to bring true abundance into our lives, but gives us the tools to be able to experience what the holidays are truly about: giving from a place of joyful love. And that experience will multiply back to you over and over again, during this holiday season and beyond.
For most, when it comes to health and fitness the holidays are a lost exercise in our strength of will. Yearning to either maintain or keep working at creating a thin, fit body, the deprivation that looms ahead can be incredibly painful. Do we stay strong and force salads while everyone else is enjoying a full holiday dinner with all the sides and sweets? And while we struggle to maintain exercising, we may just give into a rationalized "break" promising to return renewed at the beginning of the next year. Holidays, to those who are not living in their ideal bodies, can feel like a series of battles, each mostly lostcreating even more pain and disappointment. Now more than ever we need to learn and embrace the real truth that while proper nutrition and regular movement are important to our health, there is no good food or magic move that will transform our bodies into the icons we may wish to embody! And even more important is the connection between our thoughts, feelings and beliefs and the results we are living our physically. In this class, you'll not only clear some of the most detrimental holiday fitness belief paradigms, but you'll learn how you can actually turn your vibrational frequency around completely so that any deviation from your usual plan will actually help you in your fitness goals! Imagine going on vacation or enjoying your holiday returning to realize your body feels and looks better than ever! It's not only possible, but when you take this class you'll begin to set yourself up for this wonderful new true fitness reality!
"Enjoying My Holidays For the First Time!"
After the first session, I found myself actually feeling happy and almost eager for all the harried activities to come! Cathleen's a fun, caring and informative teacher and her methods work really fast. I can't remember ever having enjoyed my holidays, but now I'm actually having fun!
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Give yourself or someone you love the gift of Holiday Harmony today. For about $10 per class, the return on your investment will keep giving invaluable peace, love and joy throughout this holiday season and beyond.
Get your Holiday Harmony tools right now, So You Can Learn to Manifest Harmonious Holidays Successfully too!


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BREAKING: Deep State's Plans For Russia REVEALED
(BLP) – In a piece by Casey Michel at The Atlantic, talked about how Russia is still a "colonial" power in light of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Michel argued that Russia is a "haphazard amalgamation of regions and nations with hugely varied histories, cultures, and languages." Once the Russo-Ukrainian War subsides, Michel noted that "The Kremlin will continue ruling over colonial holdings in places including Chechnya, Tatarstan, Siberia, and the Arctic."
Michel added that "Russia's history is one of almost ceaseless expansion and colonization, and Russia is the last European empire that has resisted even basic decolonization efforts, such as granting subject populations autonomy and a meaningful voice in choosing the country's leaders."
The journalist lamented how the US "refused to safeguard the newly won independence of multiple post-Soviet states" during and after the collapse of the Soviet Union. He cited former Vice President Dick Cheney, who was the Secretary of Defense during the George H.W. Bush administration (1989-1993), as someone who offered a dissenting voice to the prevailing policy of keeping Russia's territories intact. During a National Security Council meeting, Cheney said "We could get an authoritarian regime [in Russia] still. I am concerned that a year or so from now, if it all goes sour, how we can answer that we did not do more."
Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates noted that Cheney "wanted to see the dismantlement not only of the Soviet Union and the Russian empire but of Russia itself, so it could never again be a threat to the rest of the world."
Once the dust settles from the Russo-Ukrainian War, Michel said "the West must support full freedom for Russia's imperial subjects."
Michel concluded that "Until Moscow's empire is toppled, though, the region—and the world—will not be safe."
Cheney's remarks during the collapse of the Soviet Union reveal the strong anti-Russian sentiments held by US foreign policymakers. Michel's post on The Atlantic further gives credence to these suspicions.
Joe Biden's statement in March hinting at regime change in Russia demonstrated long-held Deep State desires of overthrowing the Putin regime and then subjugating Russia. There are many people in DC that have an irrational hatred of Russia and want to do everything possible to undermine it through conventional state means or through subversive NGO action.
One doesn't need to be a Putinophile to recognize that such attempts to break Russia could lead to a nuclear escalation. Moreover, a breakup of Russia would give countries like China an opportunity to swoop in and fill a major vacuum in the Russian Far East, thus empowering it and fast-tracking its ascent as the premier Eurasian hegemon.
Long-term thinking has never been a strong suit of the DC Blob, which continues to pursue myopic policies against whichever country it deems an enemy, long-term consequences be damned. This is a recipe for the US sleepwalking into a military conflict of epic proportions.
The rising America First movement is the only political movement that's willing to reject fantastical foreign policy proposals and focus on confronting America's real enemies — the DC Swamp class.
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8 Amazing Hotels Around the World with Museum Quality Art Collections
Don't book your summer holidays until you have read this.
Amah-Rose Abrams, July 24, 2015
Photo: via Brommel.net
Walter De Maria,'Time/Timeless/No Time (2004) Chichu Art Museum
Photo: Michael Kellough
In the material world we live in, there is always someone trying to make it big by redefining luxury.
While there is always a Jeff Koons-designed yacht to contemplate, there is no debating the fact that waking up in a gorgeous location, looking at millions of dollars worth of beautiful art is pretty incomparable.
If you're a fan of luxe traveling and are aiming to avoid well-trodden tourist sites (some of which are plagued by rats) this summer holiday, we have compiled a list of eight top hotels around the world that boast great art collections. Add them to your bucket list!
Benesse House Oval, accessible only by the guests who are staying overnight at Benesse House Oval.
Photo: Osamu Watanabe
1. Benesse House, Naoshima
Benesse House in Naoshima, Japan, can be found in the inland Seto Island Sea.
The islands, which include Teshima, Inujima, and Naoshima, are not only host to several jaw-dropping contemporary art museums—some of which also function as hotels—they also feature many sculptures scattered around.
Yayoi Kusama Pumpkin
The entire project is curated around ideas on how art and nature can co-exist, and some of the artists you can find as you wander around these scenic islands include James Turrell, Yayoi Kusama, and Claude Monet.
The Tadao Ando-designed museums on Naoshima include the Lee Ufan museum, The Chichu Art Museum, and Benesse House.
The Thief, Oslo.
Photo: Courtesy of The Thief Hotel.
2. The Thief, Oslo
The Thief in Oslo is exactly what it says it is. Curator Sune Nordgren "steals" works from the renowned Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, just a stone's throw away, and from the Norwegian collector and hotel tycoon Petter Stordalen, to put on display.
The Thief houses around 150 contemporary works, by artists ranging from Julian Opie to Jeff Koons, and the works in the hotel change from time to time.
Lobby of the Thief art hotel, Oslo.
Every room contains artwork from prints, photographs, and protected works on paper, while the Oslo Suite also contains original works, including a selection by Sir Peter Blake.
More adventurous guests can book the Apparatjik suite, featuring video art, music, disco textiles, and art installations signed by supergroup Apparatjik.
Chuck Close, Kate (2007).
Photo: Courtesy of The Surrey.
3. The Surrey, New York
The Surrey in New York has all the trappings of glamour you would expect from a five star hotel on Manhattan's Upper East Side.
The design is slick and the art, fashionable and contemporary. You'll be greeted by a Jenny Holzer piece as you enter the foyer and the famous Chuck Close tapestry of Kate Moss as you head up to your room.
The hotel's collection consists of 31 works of art including an interactive video installation in the bar by William Kentridge.
La Colombe d'Or.
Photo: Courtesy of La Colombe d'Or.
4. La Colombe d'Or, Côte d'Azur
La Colombe d'Or is a charming hotel on the Côte d'Azur in the South of France. A place rich in art history, the hotel—which started life as a bar called Chez Robinson—opened in the 1920s. Owners Paul and Baptistine Roux decided to turn it into a small hotel, and re-christened the place as La Colombe d'Or.
They have a small but historic collection of works including a large Alexander Calder sculpture by the pool and a mosaic by Georges Braque. Their most recent commission is a Sean Scully mosaic in the garden.
In the 1940s, the hotel was favoured by artists and free thinkers drawn to the Côte d'Azur. Over the years, the likes of Joan Miró and Henri Matisse stayed at the hotel, leaving artworks behind that still hang there today.
The hotel has remained a family business.
A part of the museum space at 21c Louisville.
Photo: Courtesy of 21c Museum Hotels.
5. 21c Louisville Museum Hotel, USA
21c is a group of very contemporary art museum hotels. It all started when founders Laura Lee Brown and Steve Wilson began collecting art. But as their number of contemporary works grew, they opened their four hotels—with four more in development—to accommodate rotating exhibitions.
21c Louisville Museum Hotel.
Photo: Courtesy of Rett Peek, via 21c Museum Hotels.
Works currently on display at the Louisville site are, among others, Camille Utterback's Text Rain video work, Iván Navarro's Untitled lightbulb and mirror ceiling installation in the elevators, and Ned Kahn's Cloud Rings, which emits mist into to the exterior sidewalk.
There are works in all guest accommodation, so visitors can literally wake up surrounded by art.
Juan Munoz at the the Dolder Grand.
Photo: Courtesy of the Dolder Grand.
6. The Dolder Grand, Zurich
The luxurious Dolder Grand in Zurich has a collection of over 100 paintings and sculptural works, from Impressionist to contemporary.
Sculpture by Takashi Murakami at the Dolder Grand.
The entire range of works is pretty unbelievable. There are Camille Pissarro paintings in the dining room, Murakami sculptures, a Salvador Dalí painting, and artworks by Fernando Botero, Henry Moore, Joan Miró, Damien Hirst, and Keith Haring.
Oh! And then there's the 11 meter Andy Warhol that greets you in the foyer.
Frank Stella Cornucopia in the foyer at the Ritz-Carlton.
Photo: via Wikipedia Commons.
7. Ritz-Carlton Millennia Singapore
If you happen to be heading to Singapore, be sure to book a room at the Ritz-Carlton.
The enormous collection of 4,200 works includes a three-ton Frank Stella piece which hangs in the entrance. Other artists in the collection include Andy Warhol, David Hockney, Rainer Gross, and Robert Zakanitch.
The good news about this spot is that even if you don't feel like shelling out for the cost of a luxurious room, you can still visit the collection free of charge.
Elma Hotel.
Photo: Ross Belfer
8. Elma Hotel, Zichron Ya'akov, Israel
The Elma hotel, founded by collector Lily Elstein, is not only a museum within a hotel, it also houses two performance spaces in the refurbished Brutalist building, and sits on stunning hilly land overlooking the Mediterranean.
The large complex was restored into its current incarnation from a design by architect Ya'akov Rechter with the idea of creating a museum, hotel, and arts center, which would be a national center of excellence.
Works in the collection date from the Post-Impressionist era, including Pablo Picasso, Braque, Jim Dine, as well as works by Israeli artists, such as Sigalit Landau.
Sigalit Landau, Thirst at the Elma Hotel.
Photo: Courtesy of the Elma Hotel.
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Moscow, 21 September 2017 — Rusnano Sistema Sicar, a private equity fund established by Sistema and RUSNANO, will invest up to USD 6m in Apis Cor, a developer and manufacturer of unique construction 3D printers. This will be the first investment made by Rusnano Sistema Sicar.
The Apis Cor 3D printer is a mobile robot capable of constructing buildings using fine-grained fibre concrete with special additives. It can build walls of buildings to any design in very short time-frames. This technology has no peers anywhere in the world. Today, the technology can be used to construct buildings up to three storeys high. The printer is competitive with conventional technologies on cost and significantly outperforms them in terms of speed and ease of construction. Apis Cor"s technology is expected to make cottage construction 19% cheaper compared to foam concrete houses as early as in 2018, with the potential for further cost reduction projected at 20–30%.
Apis Cor has an effective full-cycle solution and is now entering the phase of active commercial growth. The company's potential customers are based not only in Russia, but also in Asia and the Middle East, where state programmes for construction of social low-rise housing and infrastructure are under way, as well as the US and Europe, where demand is high for original and highly complex architectural designs for houses and cottages.
«We are pleased that Apis Cor has become our fund»s first investment. The company is a pioneer in the 3D printing industry and its technology has no peers on the global stage. Apis Cor's solution makes the construction process cheaper and drastically changes the entire industry. We are seeking to work with innovative companies that require not only financing, but also the experience and resources offered by investors such as RUSNANO and Sistema," said Sergey Vakhterov, Managing Director of RUSNANO MC.
Rusnano Sistema Sicar is a private equity fund established by Sistema and RUSNANO in 2016. The fund will have USD 100m under management. Sistema and RUSNANO hold 50% each in the fund. The partners will allocate cash funds as soon as it becomes necessary to finance specific transactions. The fund is open for outside investors.
The average amount of a single investment is USD 3-10m.
The fund will focus on investing in initial-stage high-tech projects and in growing and established companies in Russia, the CIS, Europe and Israel.
Rusnano Sistema Sicar's main industrial focus is information technologies, robotics and on-board equipment, software and cloud technologies, communication equipment and end-to-end solutions, renewable sources of energy and energy saving technologies (including fuel cells), microelectronics, automated control systems, special communications systems, and software for comprehensive security systems.


Season 2 premieres September 4th!
Editor's note: Dearest MHz Choice subscribers, we've heard you! At long last, Season 2 of French series 'Detectives' premieres September 4th on MHz Choice. Read Allison Lowe Huff's Season 1 recap below and then Watch Season 1 to get reacquainted with this lovable cast of characters!
Her mom, and Philippe's wife, is gone. She left the family high and dry allegedly to help refugees in Africa, but… something ain't right. First of all, who would leave Xenia and her sassy little brother, Hugo, by choice? And then, what's Nora got to do with it? Her old colleagues seem to be holding something over her that has to do with the missing wife, but what? Is one of them a spy? Are all of them spies? We don't know yet, but what I do know is if this lady comes back in Season 2, she has some explaining to do.
The through line for the season is the mystery surrounding Philippe's wife, but otherwise the cases don't overlap episodes. Philippe and Nora are at their best when forced to utilize their dramatic flair and pretend, to Nora's great frustration, to be a married couple. I especially loved "The Honey Trap," putting Xenia and Nora together on a case to solve a case of corporate espionage, and the season finale, where Maxime (Jean-Luc Bideau) must dust off his charms to infiltrate a cell of possibly thieving old women. Ultimately, the last episode of the season has a breezy spirit, making the whole thing super binge-able and very enjoyable. Shout out, also, to the really catchy theme song that has been in my head for weeks.
Detectives Season 2 premieres September 4th on MHz Choice.


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Latest Federal Court Cases, 2/11/19
PATENT CASE OF THE WEEK
Athena Diagnostics, Inc. v. Mayo Collaborative Services, LLC, Appeal No. 2017-2508 (Fed. Cir. Feb. 6, 2019)
In an appeal from an order of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, the Federal Circuit affirmed that certain claims of a patent directed to methods for diagnosing neurological disorders were ineligible for patenting under 35 U.S.C. § 101. Specifically, the Court found that the "district court correctly concluded that the claims at issue are directed to a natural law and lack an inventive concept..." The patent covers a method for diagnosing disorders "by detecting antibodies to a protein called muscle specific tyrosine kinase ('MuSK')." This is yet another case in which methods for diagnosing diseases have been found patent ineligible, with Mayo as the challenger, following the Supreme Court in Mayo Collaborative Services v. Prometheus Laboratories, Inc., 566 U.S. 66 (2012).
The Court first reviewed the test for subject matter eligibility established in Mayo and Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank International, 573 U.S. 208 (2014). In particular, it noted "[l]aws of nature are not patentable, but applications of such laws may be patentable. A claim to otherwise statutory subject matter does not become ineligible by its use of a law of nature. … But, on the other hand, adding "conventional steps, specified at a high level of generality," to a law of nature does not make a claim to the law of nature patentable.
Athena argued that the relevant claims in issue were not directed to a natural law because they recited "innovative, specific, and concrete steps that do not preempt a natural law." Athena argued that its invention related to a new laboratory technique that made use of man-made molecules. In response, Defendant Mayo argued that the claims were directed to a natural law and the fact that the test made use of man-made molecules was irrelevant, analogizing the facts in Mayo v. Prometheus.
The Court sided with Mayo, finding the claims are directed to a natural law "because they recite only the natural law together with standard techniques for observing it. That the routine steps are set forth with some specificity is not enough to change that conclusion." The Court also found "that the steps of the claims not drawn to ineligible subject matter, whether viewed individually or as an ordered combination, only require standard techniques to be applied in a standard way.
Concerning the fact that man-made molecules were involved, the Federal Circuit agreed that this was irrelevant—"the use of a man-made molecule is not decisive if it amounts to only a routine step in a conventional method for observing a natural law." The Court noted that in two other cases, including Mayo, the claimed method made use of man-made molecules, and held "that use of a man-made molecule in a method claim employing standard techniques to detect or observe a natural law may still leave the claim directed to a natural law."
Consequently, the Court held that the claims at issue were ineligible under § 101 because the claims recited only a natural law together with conventional steps to detect that law, and thus also lacked an inventive concept.
The Court was careful to distinguish claims that "recite a natural law and conventional means for detecting it, and applications of natural laws, which are patent-eligible." The Court reiterated that "Claiming a natural cause of an ailment and well-known means of observing it is not eligible for patent because such a claim in effect only encompasses the natural law itself. But claiming a new treatment for an ailment, albeit using a natural law, is not claiming the natural law." Thus, patents directed to diagnosing ailments are more likely to fall into this exception to patentability.
Judge Newman dissented. Her position is aptly summarized at the beginning of her opinion: "Until discovery of the diagnostic method described in [the patent], some 20% of patients suffering from the neurological disorder Myasthenia Gravis were not capable of being diagnosed. My colleagues rule that this new diagnostic method is not patent eligible, although new and unobvious. However, '[t]his new and improved technique, for producing a tangible and useful result, falls squarely outside those categories of inventions that are "directed to" patent-ineligible concepts.' … The court again departs from the cautious restraints in the Supreme Court's Mayo/Alice application of laws of nature and abstract ideas. This court's decisions on the patent-ineligibility of diagnostic methods are not consistent, and my colleagues today enlarge the inconsistencies and exacerbate the judge-made disincentives to development of new diagnostic methods, with no public benefit. I respectfully dissent."
The opinion can be found here.
ALSO THIS WEEK
Continental Circuits LLC v. Intel Corporation, Appeal No. 2018-1076 (Fed. Cir. Feb. 8, 2019)
In an appeal from a district court decision, the Federal Circuit reversed on an issue of claim construction. At issue was a process for making electronic devices, and whether or not the process required a "repeated desmear" or only a single desmear. The district court had found that the defendants "had 'met the exacting standard required' to read a limitation into the claims," and held that the claims required a repeated desmear process. The Federal Circuit reversed, finding insufficient evidence of disavowal or disparagement of a single desmear process. The Court found that the "preferred embodiment" was not necessarily limited to a repeated desmear process. The Court also addressed the extent to which process limitations can be read into product claims, citing Andersen Corp. v. Fiber Composites, LLC, 474 F.3d 1361, 1375 (Fed. Cir. 2007).
Momenta Pharmaceuticals Inc. v. Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, Appeal No. 2017-1694 (Fed. Cir. Feb. 7, 2019)
The Federal Circuit dismissed an appeal from an inter partes review decision for lack of Article III standing and for mootness. The IPR had upheld all claims of a pharmaceutical patent covering a commercial immunosuppressant, to which Appellant/Petitioner Momenta had been attempting to develop a biosimilar counterpart. During the course of the appeal, Momenta informed the SEC of its termination of an agreement to co-develop the counterpart drug following its failure in Phase I clinical trials. The Court acknowledged a relaxed standing requirement for statutory appeals from administrative decisions, but reiterated that some particularized interest or injury-in-fact is "a hard floor of Article III jurisdiction that cannot be removed by statute." The Court rejected as speculative Momenta's argument that it may someday receive royalties if its former partner should resume development activities, and found that Momenta lacked standing to invoke federal appellant jurisdiction. While warning that "[s]tanding and mootness may not be coextensive in all cases," the Court also found the appeal to be mooted by Momenta's discontinuance of any potentially infringing activity.
In re: Google LLC, Appeal No. 2018-152 (Fed. Cir. Feb. 5, 2019)
The Federal Circuit denied Google's combined petition for panel rehearing and rehearing en banc of the Court's earlier denial of Google's petition for writ of mandamus concerning whether venue was appropriate in the Eastern District of Texas. The district court originally held that venue was proper based on the fact that Google owns servers that operate in the district, despite the fact that no Google employee physically interacts with the servers, and the servers were installed by third parties. In its previous denial of Google's petition for mandamus, the Court noted that it denied the petition in part based on the "many specific details" of Google's contracts with internet service providers and its "strong control" over the servers. While the panel denying Google's petition for rehearing here made no comment on the merits, Judge Reyna, in dissent, explained that the implications of this denial could be far-reaching due to the tension between the statute and the "realities of the continued change in the nature of the marketplace and how goods and services are traded." The dissent also notes that the district court's holding could be read as yet another expansive reading of § 1400(b), essentially re-establishing nationwide venue in direct conflict with TC Heartland, by standing for the proposition that owning and controlling computer hardware involved in some aspect of company business (e.g., transmitting data) alone is sufficient to establish venue.
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The ramifications of 'dark social' for marketers
May 25, 2017 2:54
Digital marketing budgets have become too skewed towards social media platforms to the point that brands are missing out on creating more "intimate connections" with consumers, the South East Asia director of digital marketing agency RadiumOne has claimed.
Speaking at MediaCom's Blink conference in Singapore today, Charlie Baillie said that marketers needed to capitalise on the content sharing seen on apps like Whats App and WeChat as a way of tapping into "word-of-mouth" potential.
Describing messenger apps as "dark content", Baillie said: "What we're also seeing is a huge disconnect between the amount of sharing taking place on instant messenger and digital media spend. We're seeing 84 per cent of sharing taking place on apps like WhatsApp and WeChat, while 90 per cent of spend is going on social channels like Facebook.
"There needs to be a rebalancing act of how marketers go about reaching their audience in the most efficient way.
"We all know that word-of-mouth is much more powerful than any marketing, and in a digital sense instant messaging apps are the most pronounced word-of-mouth out there because of how it's sharing content in a one-to-one basis."
Charlie Ballie
One way of leveraging that connection is to include a coded hashtag in a web URL that allows brands and publishers to track when a link has been shared between two people, and therefore target them more effectively, Baillie said. Brands such as Marina Bay Sands hotel in Singapore were among those using it in South East Asia, he added.
"Dark social has a higher penetration in South East Asia than in any other region because instant messengers are very much part of the fabric of our society," he added. "In Singapore, apps like WhatsApp are as much used for business as well as personal.
"Brands like Marina Bay Sands do see a significant uplift [of traffic] with dark social, because there is a stronger intent in the act of sharing. You share things you know that particular person has a genuine interest in so [the brand] can continue to engage them."
He added: "The broadcast nature of social media and the lack of intimacy it has created has led to a disconnect between people. And that's why we are seeing the growth of these instant messenger platforms like WhatsApp and WeChat – people wanting a more intimate connection."
R/GA opens Tokyo office with raft of senior hires
Google to predict what consumers will buy and where by using cross-device measurement
topics dark social, RadiumOne
Ardy 25 May 17
"And that's why we are seeing the growth of these instant messenger platforms like WhatsApp and WeChat – people wanting a more intimate connection."
yes…with each other…not with brands and the crap they're selling.
get real please.
sickofthis 26 May 17
such garbage. yet again. where do you think people are finding all that stuff to share on fb messenger wechat and whatsapp on? plucking it out of the air?
they find it on social networks and spread the word on their messaging apps. reduce / minimize your marketing spend on fb and see how that impacts your dark social traffic too.
ppl just like talking about dark social because its the "new thing" like big data was a year ago and they get free clicks and impressions on that. idiotic rambling – so sick of this. agree with ardy – get real, and mumbrella – you can do better.
Tokyo Bird 29 May 17
@ardy and @sickofthis do you people even work in advertising or did you just fail to launch?
Do you think because you don't like it then it isn't happening?
O dear.
Imagine people who actually work in marketing and advertising stimulating conversations about what's actually happening rather than what they wished was happening..crazy stuff.
Don't you think that regardless of the source the fact I've shared something with you adds a level of intimacy and weight to the communication?
Felix 30 May 17
Not really, tokyo bird….depends on what you're sharing.
Digital gurus make me a little wary because they're always making sketchy assumptions that are cherry picked to suit their business interests.
Look at the description 'dark social'…wtf does it even mean?
Why is it being made to sound like some sort of clandestine underground channel? It's just a bunch of private networks that have gained enormous traction because you can actually talk to those you want without the rest of the nut jobs on Facebook listening in.
Wheres the data that shows what content people share on these private channels? Im not buying the theory that people are sharing ads there because its a more intimate connection.
Working in advertising is one thing…but like most digital folks you seem to be living in a fantasy world of your own imagining.


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Hammer Films Hopes for 'Woman in Black' Franchise
By: Steven Chaitman | Movie News | June 19, 2012
You might not have felt it if you live in North America, but Hammer Films' The Woman in Black was the biggest horror film in decades in the U.K.— decades. Harry Potter himself, Daniel Radcliffe, probably had something to do with it, but it's actually a pretty good movie.
Back in April, Hammer Films announced a sequel, The Woman in Black: Angels of Death, and now we've not only learned a bit more about the follow-up but also that the company has movie franchise aspirations for the titular character.
At a screening to promote the U.K. DVD and Blu-ray release of the film, Hammer CEO Simon Oakes answered some questions about future "Woman in Black" films and Bleeding Cool was there to jot down the responses.
First, Oakes noted that the film will not be a direct sequel.
"We are working on not a sequel but a continuation of The Woman in Black. Susan Hill (author of the book the movie is based on) wrote an outline story about what happened 40 years later to the woman in Woman in Black and the house and all of that. It's completely different. It's completely different. Obviously with a different story and cast."
The official synopsis of the film is reportedly as follows:
"Seized by the government and converted into a military mental hospital during World War II, the sudden arrival of disturbed solider to Eel Marsh House has awoken its darkest inhabitant. Eve, a beautiful young nurse, is sent to the house to care for the patients, but soon realises she must save them from more than their own demons. Despite Eve's efforts to stop her, one by one they fall victim to the Woman in Black."
A few too many details there for my tastes, but I like that the setting and the lore will be the same, but the characters and the circumstances surrounding their being at Eel Marsh House will be completely different. Oakes also teased the remote possibility of Radcliffe appearing in a small capacity in the second film. Undoubtedly without his presence, future films will not be nearly as successful, at least in North America.
As for those franchise aspirations, here's what Oakes had to say:
"I also think with a bit of luck, The Woman in Black is sort of like the brand ... we won't count our chickens but absolutely. Plans are afoot."
Jon Crocker has been working on the script for The Woman in Black: Angels of Death. No word on whether director James Watkins will return to Eel Marsh or when Hammer Films expects to release the film.
Steven Chaitman


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Charles Smith Blog takes brief recess while publisher struggles to meet a publishing deadline: Sympathy appreciated! Harold Levy.
Dear reader; Due to a looming publishing deadline I will be unable to post new material until mid-November. I invite my many impeccable, well-placed sources around the Globe (all three of them!) to draw issues and cases that arrive during this period to my attention, so that I can dig into them when I am back in action. There are two cases you might be interested in be keeping your eye on in my absence.
First case: The on-going sexual assault trial in Calgary, Alberta of Dr. Aubrey Levin:
CBC reporter Tara Weber is tweeting on the trial at:
@TaraNWeber
Reporter Daryl Slade has been covering the trial for the Calgary Herald: Search for his stories at:
calgaryherald.com;
Second case: The fallout in the arrest of former Boston drug analyst Annie Dookhan - a source of potentially hundreds of miscarriages of justice, and a canary warning of what could happen in over-worked police labs throughout the U.S.A.
Reporter Brian Ballou has been covering developments in the Dookhan investigation for the Boston Globe: Search for his stories at:
bostonglobe.com;
I have added a search box for content in this blog which now encompasses several thousand posts. The search box is located near the bottom of the screen just above the list of links. I am confident that this powerful search tool provided by "Blogger" will help our readers and myself get more out of the site. One word of caution: It may take several weeks for content from current posts to respond to the search. Search away!
The Toronto Star, my previous employer for more than twenty incredible years, has put considerable effort into exposing the harm caused by Dr. Charles Smith and his protectors - and into pushing for reform of Ontario's forensic pediatric pathology system. The Star has a "topic" section which focuses on recent stories related to Dr. Charles Smith. It can be found at:
http://www.thestar.com/topic/charlessmith
Information on "The Charles Smith Blog Award"- and its nomination process - can be found at:
http://smithforensic.blogspot.com/2011/05/charles-smith-blog-award-nominations.html
Please send any comments or information on other cases and issues of interest to the readers of this blog to: hlevy15@gmail.com
Aubrey Levin: Psychiatrist charged with sex assaults; Jury sees more graphic video taken by complainant with spy watch camera. Calgary Herald;
STORY: "Jury sees more graphic video in trial for psychiatrist charged with sex assaults," by reporter Daryl Slade, published by the Calgary Herald, on October 12, 2012.
GIST: "A jury got a second look at a surreptitiously recorded video that purportedly shows Dr. Aubrey Levin fondling a patient during a session, with enhanced audio, at the forensic psychiatrist's sex assault trial on Friday. However, without a transcript, it was virtually impossible to understand what was being said between Levin and R.B., the 36-year-old man who initiated the complaint in March 2010 after recording two sessions with a spy watch camera, any better than it was the previous day without the enhancement.........R.B. told the jury on Thursday he bought the spy watch for $240 to gather evidence against Levin, whom he said had sexually molested him in February 2010. He recorded two sessions, on March 3 and March 16, with the spy watch camera. In the first video, Levin is seen fondling R.B. twice for about two minutes each during the 70-minute session. In the second one, Levin fondles the 36-year-old patient for more than 14 minutes. R.B. testified he bought the watch because he had been previously molested by the doctor, who punctured his genitals with his fingernails during the February session at Peter Lougheed Centre's Forensic Assessment and Outpatient Ser-vices (FAOS) unit. R.B. took pictures of the injuries from that incident. They were shown in court. Levin has shown no emotion during the times the videos have been played. R.B. had been scheduled to continue his testimony on Friday, but he was shifted to next Tuesday to accommodate Begault and other experts. A urologist and another forensic psychiatrist are scheduled testify on Monday."
http://www.canada.com/news/crime-and-justice/Jury+sees+more+graphic+video+trial+psychiatrist+charged/7382367/story.html
PUBLISHER'S NOTE:
I am monitoring this issue. Keep your eye on the Charles Smith Blog for reports on developments.
Oregon State Police; Flawed handwriting analysis suspected; Dozens of cases under review; Prosecutors nix grand jury; The Oregonian;
STORY: "Experts examining criminal cases possibly tainted by Oregon State police handwriting analysts," by reporter Bryan Denson, published in the Oregonian, on October 7, 2012.
GIST: "Oregon State Police, confronted by suspected quality lapses by its handwriting analysts, have commissioned external examiners to review dozens of criminal cases to make sure they weren't tainted by mistakes. The two analysts were suspended with pay last spring and the head of the state police Forensic Services Division was reassigned after state police officials identified problems with handwriting analysis in a Umatilla County case. The number of cases under review has grown to more than 30 and may rise, said Lt. Gregg Hastings, a department spokesman. "In addition to those reviews (that) haven't been completed, other cases are also being considered for independent review," according to a state police statement on the investigation. A state police lieutenant and an investigator in the Clackamas County District Attorney's Office conducted a criminal investigation of the handwriting analysis problems last spring that concluded on June 15. A prosecutor reviewed the evidence and decided not to take the case before a grand jury, state police said.........Dingeman said state police want to make sure none of the suspected lapses in handwriting analysis tainted evidence or trial testimony. He pointed out that it is the rare criminal case that hinges solely on handwriting analysis. Fingerprint and DNA analyses are typically far more critical, he said."
http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2012/10/experts_examining_criminal_cas.html
Bulletin: Dr. Aubrey Levin: Forensic psychiatrist found fit to stand trial. Trial underway. Videotaped sessions offered in evidence. Calgary Herald.
STORY: "Videotaped session led to sexual assault charges against psychiatrist: Levin trial." by reporter Daryl Slade, published on October 11, 2012.
GIST: "The former criminal lawyer for a Calgary man who created a firestorm when he accused prominent forensic psychiatrist Dr. Aubrey Levin of sexually assaulting him said he told the complainant, R.B., that he should tape his sessions for proof. Mitch Stephensen testified on Thursday that R.B. brought in a tape of his next session with Levin, on March 16, 2010, and he subsequently turned it over to police the next month. "I knew (R.B.) had been seeing Levin for awhile, but I never heard of any improprieties until March 5 (2010)," Stephensen told Levin's lawyer Alain Hepner. Levin is currently on trial for allegedly sexually assaulting a total of 10 men during court-ordered sessions at the Peter Lougheed Centre's Forensic Assessment and Outpatient Services unit between 1999 and 2010. Stephensen said he advised R.B. to take the video in contemplation of civil or criminal actions, because it would serve as evidence. "I said you need evidence," the lawyer told Crown prosecutor Bill Wister. "I just said, 'if it happens again,' better to have a second video. "(R.B.) was concerned nobody would believe him. He didn't want to talk to police. He was embarrassed. Quite frankly, if I didn't see the video, I don't know if I'd have believed him."......... The scheduled six-week trial before Court of Queen's Bench Justice Donna Shelley and jury continues.
http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/calgary/Videotaped+session+sexual+assault+charges+against+psychiatrist+Levin+trial/7376106/story.
Posted by Harold Levy at Thursday, October 11, 2012
Annie Dookhan: "Chemist in Mass. scandal refuses to testify." Closed lab is now a crime scene. Associated Press. (Really fascinating story! HL);
STORY: "Chemist in Mass. scandal refuses to testify," by Denise Lavoie, AP Legal Affairs Writer, published on October 10, 2102.
GIST: "The chemist at the center of a Massachusetts drug-testing lab scandal refused to testify Wednesday in a drug case against a Boston man who once spent 15 years in prison for the slaying of a 12-year-old girl he says he did not commit.
A lawyer for Shawn Drumgold asked a judge to dismiss two drug charges against her client because chemist Annie Dookhan's initials appear on a drug analysis form in the case. The judge refused, and Drumgold's drug trial began Wednesday afternoon. Dookhan is charged with obstruction of justice for allegedly skirting protocols and faking test results at the now-closed lab. Dookhan appeared in court but did not take the stand and exercised her Fifth Amendment right not to testify.........When Drumgold was arrested on drug possession charges in 2011, he was the only person out of 14 people in a Boston apartment charged, his lawyer, Rosemary Scapicchio, said Wednesday. He denied the drugs were his and she thinks Boston police only arrested him because of his legal victory against the department. Scapicchio said Wednesday prosecutors hadn't provided her with sufficient drug testing evidence in the case. Costello said they have been unable to fulfill her request for some documents because the closed lab is a "crime scene" in the custody of the state attorney general's office as it investigates the testing scandal. State police, who took over operation of the lab from the Department of Public Health, have said Dookhan tested more than 60,000 samples covering 34,000 defendants during her nine years at the lab. State officials said last week that they have identified more than 1,100 defendants who are serving time in county jails or state prisons based on samples tested by Dookhan."
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gEy-_5eoAIdZ3KQA4MfxvF-Bh0Bw?docId=0e732446a8a3474ea9bf7e14bd019e9d
Annie Dookhan: Shocking numbers and a warning: "If you think this couldn't happen in your lab, you're naive." Nature. Link to Boston police file. Great Read.
STORY: "Chemist charged with fraud shows system under pressure," by Eugenie Samuel Reich, published by "Nature" on October 9, 2012.
SUB-Heading: "Boston scandal exposes backlog."
GIST: "The numbers are shocking: 1,100 people are in jail on the basis of evidence that may have been tampered with, and 34,000 criminal cases could be affected. The fallout stems from the work of just one forensic chemist, who is alleged to have faked test results on suspected drug samples........"If you think this couldn't happen in your lab, you're naive," says Robin Cotton, director of the forensic-sciences programme at Boston University and a former forensic-lab director. "Lab directors all over the country are paying attention." Cotton and others say that the affair highlights a resourcing problem that is putting pressure on US forensic-lab workers and their supervisors, who need to bring cases to court fast, but without compromising the integrity of test results.........A bill now before the US Congress aims to improve the quality of forensic science by providing funding for research and for development of national standards. But the bill does not include funding to clear backlogs. Stephen Saloom, policy director at the Innocence Project in New York, which seeks to uncover wrongful convictions, says that even if the bill passes it won't provide an immediate remedy for cases of deliberate evidence tampering."
http://www.nature.com/news/boston-scandal-exposes-backlog-1.11561
Colin Matchim: Newfoundland; "Bleeding on baby's brain not caused by shaking, expert says." CBC News.
STORY: "Bleeding on baby's brain not caused by shaking, expert says," up-dated on October 9, 2012, by CBC News.
SUB-HEADING: Defence calls expert to question baby-shaking ruling;
GIST: "Another expert witness testified in court in St. John's Tuesday that bleeding on baby August Matchim's brain was not caused by shaken baby syndrome. Testifying by video link, pediatric radiologist Dr. Julie Mack told a St. John's courtroom that the baby could have had what amounted to a stroke. She said no one could generate enough force simply by shaking the baby to cause the bleeding on the brain that August Matchim had suffered.......... Matchim's sentencing was put on hold for more than a year because his new lawyers wanted to put expert evidence before the court to show that the injuries to his baby daughter could have happened some other way. Last week, neuropathologist Dr. David Ramsay told the court that August Matchim's injuries were consistent with shaken baby syndrome, but could have also been caused if the infant had a pre-existing condition that interfered with the flow of blood in her brain. Ramsay also noted that August didn't show any external signs of trauma, such as bruising or cuts."
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/story/2012/10/09/nl-109-shaken-baby-hearing-evidence.html
Deborah Madden: California; Mistrial declared; Retrial deate set for crime lab tech accused of cocaine fraud. San Mateo Patch;
STORY: "Retrial date set for crime lab tech accused of cocaine fraud," published by the San Mateo Patch on October 6, 2012.
SUB-HEADING: "Deborah Madden, 62, of San Mateo, is accused of illegally acquiring cocaine from the laboratory's narcotics analysis unit in 2009."
GIST: "Madden's first trial in the court of U.S. District Judge Susan Illston in San Francisco ended Wednesday with a hung jury. Jurors said after being dismissed that they were split at various times during the deliberations by a 10-2 or 9-3 vote in favor of conviction. During the first trial, defense attorney Paul DeMeester conceded that Madden took cocaine, but argued there was no proof of deception and said she just took "what's in front of her when she works." The new date was set by U.S. District Judge Susan Illston of San Francisco at a status conference Friday. The hearing was originally scheduled for Oct. 12, but was moved to today, DeMeester said. The defense attorney said jury selection is scheduled for Jan. 14 and opening statements and witness testimony will begin on Jan. 22, after the Martin Luther King holiday. DeMeester said that on Madden's behalf, he offered prosecutors a plea bargain in which she would plead guilty to a lesser charge of cocaine possession. But the federal prosecutors told him on Thursday that they declined the offer. A conviction on the possession charge would have carried a maximum sentence of one year in prison, while the maximum for the fraud charge is four years. In a separate case, Madden pleaded guilty in San Mateo County Superior Court in 2011 to possessing a small amount of cocaine found in her home in March 2010. She was sentenced to undergo drug counseling."
http://sanmateo.patch.com/articles/retrial-date-set-for-crime-lab-tech-accused-of-cocaine-fraud
Sharon Keller: "We close at 5.00" comment comes back to haunt her; Dallas Morning news. (What time do the polls close? HL);
STORY: Hampton for Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, published by the Dallas Morning News on October 7, 2012.
GIST: "The stakes are higher this year. The post now in question is held by a person who has brought embarrassment to the court. Presiding Judge Sharon Keller made herself and the state caricatures of indifference to justice, on more than one occasion, not just her infamous "we close at 5" comment that closed off a last-minute execution appeal. Voters have the chance to cleanse the court of a stain, and they should.........Keller, 59, was first elected to the court in 1994, pledging to be "pro-prosecution," a chilling concept as we look at it in retrospect.
In 1998, she sided with a court majority that denied a retrial to a man serving 99 years for the rape-murder of a 16-year-old girl. DNA tests determined that semen on the victim was not Roy Criner's, but Keller's opinion speculated that he might have raped her with a condom. Fellow GOP Judge Tom Price said that made the court a "national laughingstock." Gov. George W. Bush pardoned Criner in 2000, the year Keller won election to the court's top job. It was in 2007 that Keller made national headlines again, telling an aide not to wait for a death-row inmate's last-minute appeal — despite a waiting on-call judge — because "we close at 5." The execution was carried out that evening."
http://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/editorials/20121007-editorial-hampton-for-texas-court-of-criminal-appeals.ece
Posted by Harold Levy at Monday, October 08, 2012
"Willie Grimes: Innocence proven: Convicted after hair belonging to black man found on white woman; Never positively identified as his; Charlotte Observer;
STORY: "Panel overturns rape conviction against Willie Grimes in 1987 Hickory rape," published by the Charlotte Observer on October 5, 20112;
GIST: "A panel of judges on Friday overturned the rape conviction of Willie Grimes, who was imprisoned for more than two decades for the sexual assault of a Hickory woman. Grimes has long said that he did not commit the crime, and a state panel ruled this spring that enough evidence of his innocence existed. It referred the case to a three-judge panel to decide whether the conviction should be overturned. The panel has been meeting since Monday.........Court offered Grimes no sense of vindication, only more problems. He had asked Hickory police for a "rape kit" after they arrested him for the crime. He said that request actually hurt him. In court the prosecution said there was a strand of hair belonging to a black man on the items of the white rape victim. In court the hair was never positively identified at Grimes' hair, just the hair of an African American man. Grimes said that he was at a house more than a mile-and-a-half away with friends who all testified that he was at the house during the time of the rape. But that testimony did not sway his jury. There was other evidence that never made it into the Catawba County courtroom for jurors to hear like fingerprints."
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2012/10/05/3578650/hearing-continues-in-1987-hickory.html
See Willie Grimes brief for his innocence hearing:
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=9&ved=0CFAQFjAI&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.innocencecommission-nc.gov%2FForms%2Fpdf%2FGrimes%2FGrimes%2520full%2520scanned%2520Brief.pdf&ei=KVZxUJHjDILg0gHt5IDwDA&usg=AFQjCNFtJj1mDP9uHegZiZ5FexyRSHrr5Q&sig2=aQRp2LEWlH_cMVG2C7_1CQ
I am monitoring this case. Keep your eye on the Charles Smith Blog for reports on developments.
Annie Dookhan: Allegation that detective lied under oath about drug tests prompts judge's rebuke; Boston Herald.
STORY: "Perjury allegation prompts judge's rebuke," by reporters Matt Stout and O'Ryan Johnson, published by the Boston Herald on October 6, 2012.
GIST: "A lawyer for an accused drug dealer whose Suffolk Superior Court charges were the first to be tossed out yesterday in the wake of a state drug lab scandal claims a police detective lied to a grand jury "to explain the results that came out of the lab" handled by accused state drug chemist Annie Dookhan, a shocking allegation that brought a sharp response from prosecutors, police and even the judge. Judge Carol S. Ball accepted prosecutors' request to drop cocaine distribution charges against Jeffrey Solomon, also known as Jeffrey Banks, yesterday. But Solomon's lawyer, Victoria Kelleher, also claimed that Sgt. Detective Donald Keehan "perjured himself" in testimony to a grand jury. According to the grand jury minutes, Keenan said the initial field test of the substance he seized did not turn up a positive "blue" indicator. The evidence he believed to be crack cocaine, he said, "might not have been consistent and I may have grabbed a part where it wasn't cocaine." Under questioning, he testified he later saw the same evidence again and that there was "a small piece in there that's blue ... the color (that) would come up for a positive result of cocaine." But Kelleher said state police retested the sample and it was negative. "It's simply impossible that it would've ever turned blue," she said. "We reject the assertion the officer perjured himself," a spokesman for Suffolk District Attorney Daniel F. Conley said. "The issue at hand was the officer's field test, and he states unequivocally that the substance field tested negative for cocaine.""
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view.bg?articleid=1061165621&srvc=rss
I am monitoring these cases. Keep your eye on the Charles Smith Blog for reports on developments.
Posted by Harold Levy at Sunday, October 07, 2012
Annie Dookhan: AP: Governor says this is about people who should not have been convicted and need justice done in their cases;
STORY: "DA: 300-500 defendants face release in la scandal." by reporter Lindsey Anderson, published by Associated Press, on October 5, 2012.
GIST: "About 300 to 500 defendants, including some ''pretty dangerous people,'' may be released into Boston streets because of the alleged mishandling of evidence at a Massachusetts drug lab, a prosecutor said Friday. Chemist Annie Dookhan is charged with obstruction of justice for allegedly skirting protocols and faking test results at the now-closed state drug lab. At least two dozen defendants whose cases Dookhan handled have been released, including career criminal and convicted rapist Marcus Pixley. Pixley was released on bail earlier this month but failed to show up for court Wednesday. Quincy police arrested him Friday. Suffolk District Attorney Dan Conley said officials in Boston are ''concerned that there may be violence'' if other defendants and convicts are released and have discussed intervening in the lives of those who are freed in order to prevent repeat offenses.........Asked about public safety in light of the release of inmates, Gov. Patrick Deval said freeing them is not a ''technicality.''
'We are talking about people who shouldn't have been convicted and who need to have justice done in their cases,'' he said. ''In terms of people who have other charges or records, there's a process for that, there's a system for that and there's public safety officials who have responsibility for that,'' he added."
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/2012/10/05/defendants-face-release-lab-scandal/ulnH8anFO9kjcDcsV6xqsJ/story.html
Colin Matchim Newfoundland: "Shaken Baby Syndrome" case. Medical evidence may clear him: Hearing continues throughout this week; VOCM;
STORY: "Hearing may clear Matchim," published by VOCM on October 3, 2012.
GIST: A medical expert testifying in defence of Colin Matchim, has taken the stand in Supreme Court. Matchim is accused of shaking his infant daughter, causing her to suffer brain injuries. Dr. David Ramsay, a neuro-pathologist, says it's possible there could be other causes that explain the injuries suffered by Matchim's daughter. The hearing will continue all week. Matchim had been accused of aggravated assault in May 2011, but since then his defense has asked to enter some new medical evidence that could clear Matchim of any wrong-doing.
BACKGROUND: Colin Matchim has been convicted and is still to be sentenced on a charge of aggravated assault of his infant daughter, allegedly by shaking her. He has, however, been given the opportunity to call expert evidence that there may be other explanations for his daughter's injuries, at a hearing that is proceeding this week.
http://www.vocm.com/newsarticle.asp?mn=2&id=27130&popular=1
Annie Dookhan: Massachusetts; Woman released half way through sentence; Lawyer says very "productive" lab people set her back. Boston Globe.
STORY: "Roxbury mother freed amid state drug lab scandal." by reporter Brian Ballou, published in the Boston Globe on October 4, 2012.
GIST: "Standing in the administrative offices of the South Middlesex Correctional Center in Framingham, Mylazia Johnson was handed a letter from her attorney. At first, she didn't quite understand the import of the news it contained: She had a court date Sept. 28. And she could be released. "I read it again, and I was thinking it can't be true," said Johnson, of Roxbury, who was halfway through her 3½-year drug sentence. The attorney explained during a telephone call: Annie Dookhan, the former state chemist at the epicenter of a spiraling drug lab scandal, had been involved in testing the drugs in Johnson's case...........Attorney Kathleen S. Lucey has represented two of those people, Johnson and Joshua P. Fernandes, who was freed last week in Plymouth Superior Court after serving about half of his sentence for cocaine trafficking and drug possession. Fernandes was convicted in March 2011. "Ms. Johnson was dealt a much tougher hand than most of us, but she never, ever gave up on herself, and she's already doing good things and moving forward despite what very 'productive' lab people have done to set her back," Lucey said."
http://bostonglobe.com/metro/2012/10/03/mother-released-from-prison-after-revelation-that-state-chemist-annie-dookhan-was-involved-testing-drugs-her-case/2dRxL1tevTkidqslmvviiO/story.html
Annie Dookhan: Justin J. McShane rejects the "rogue chemist excuse" and notes jury deliberations have begun in the Deborah Madden drug lab trial.
STORIES: "The rogue chemist excuse: Just as real as the boogie man in the closet," and "Jury deliberations begin in SFPD crime lab cocaine theft trial," posted by Justin J. McShane, on "The truth about forensic science," on October 3, 2012.
GIST: "Rogue chemist': "The typical scenario is that there is a press conference where all are told that they figured out the problem and it was isolated to one person and one person only. They claim it is not the whole laboratory. This is the Boogie Man in the closet excuse. Of course, there is no such thing as the Boogie Man who lives in the closet. Just like there is no such thing as the sole, rogue chemist run a muck. It is an institutional problem. While a lot has been reported here about Annie Dookhan, she is not the only person and not the Massachusetts laboratory involved is not the only laboratory rocked by these types of things. It isn't aberrant. Mark my words: We are going to see more and more and more of these types of cases as the defense bar becomes more scientifically educated."
GIST: "Jury deliberations": "A federal jury began deliberating today in the case of a former San Francisco police crime laboratory technician whose pilfering of cocaine led to the dismissal of hundreds of drug cases. Deborah Madden, 62, of San Mateo, is accused in the court of U.S. District Judge Susan Illston in San Francisco of a federal charge of obtaining cocaine from the lab in 2009 by means of misrepresentation, fraud, forgery, deception or subterfuge. The accusation also contains a lesser charge of simple possession of cocaine. In closing arguments today, Madden's lawyer, Paul DeMeester, conceded that she took small amounts of cocaine and could be found guilty of the lesser charge. But he maintained there was no proof of the element of deception or subterfuge needed for a conviction on the heavier charge. "Ms. Madden had access to drugs that were available to her in the laboratory and she simply took them," DeMeester told the jury. "There's nothing scheming or fraudulent about it. She's just taking what's in front of her when she works," he said. DeMeester ended by telling the jurors, "The state of the evidence compels a not-guilty verdict on the charged offense, but it also compels a guilty verdict on the lesser charged offense." The charge of obtaining cocaine through fraud carries a maximum sentence of four years in prison if Madden is convicted. The lesser possession charge has a maximum punishment of one year in prison. Prosecutors contended Madden engaged in a series of deceptions in order to be able to steal cocaine, including staying late at the lab at night in the fall of 2009 so that she could be alone there.
The entire stories can be found at:
http://www.thetruthaboutforensicscience.com/
Annie Dookhan: Told police she tested some drug samples by looking at them. Fosters Daily Democrat.
STORY: "Chemist in Mass. lab scandal could see new charges," by reporters Denise Lavoie and Erika Niedowski, published by Fosters Daily Democrat on October 3, 2012.
GIST: "Annie Dookhan, 34, of Franklin, was arrested Friday in a burgeoning investigation that has already led to the shutdown of the lab, the resignation of the state's public health commissioner and the release of more than a dozen drug defendants. Many more defendants are expected to be released. Authorities say more than 1,100 inmates are serving time in cases in which Dookhan was the primary or secondary chemist.........Dookhan's supervisors have faced harsh criticism for not removing her from lab duties after suspicions about her were first raised by her co-workers and for not alerting prosecutors and police. However, Coakley said, there is no indication so far of criminal activity by anyone else at the lab. Co-workers began expressing concern about Dookhan's work habits several years ago, but her supervisors allowed her to continue working. Dookhan was the most productive chemist in the lab, routinely testing more than 500 samples a month, while others tested 50 to 150. One co-worker told state police he never saw Dookhan in front of a microscope. A lab employee saw Dookhan weighing drug samples without doing a balance check on her scale. In an interview with state police late last month, Dookhan acknowledged faking test results for two to three years. She told police she identified some drug samples as narcotics simply by looking at them instead of testing them, a process known as dry labbing. She also said she forged the initials of colleagues and deliberately turned a negative sample into a positive for narcotics a few times."
http://www.fosters.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20121003/GJLIFESTYLES/120939967/-1/FOSLIFESTYLES
Bulletin: Annie Dookhan; Crime lab scientist arrested for allegedly faking thousands of drug test results; Massive number of miscarriages of justice feared; CBS News.
STORY: "Massachusetts lab tech arrested for alleged improper handling of drug tests," by reporter Elaine Quijano, published on September 30, 2012. (Thanks to the Wrongful Convictions Blog for alerting us to this important story.)
GIST: "Police in Massachusetts on Friday arrested a crime lab scientist and accused her of faking thousands of tests that may have put innocent people behind bars. Annie Dookhan was arrested at her home outside Boston. Police said the former state crime lab chemist admitted that she altered or faked test results of drug cases assigned to her. Prosecutors said she went as far as adding cocaine to samples that were negative. "There was clearly a short cutting of corners," State Attorney General Martha Coakley said. "There was just getting this done as quickly as possible and all of that we're looking at." Officials said during her nine years the lab, Dookhan tested more than 60,000 drug samples. About 11,000 people now in jail were put there in part due to her work. Already more than a dozen have been released because of questions about how she handled evidence. "Everyone who's been convicted in the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk in the last five to six years, is possibly the victim of a very substantial miscarriage of justice," defense attorney John Martin said. "On the other hand, a lot of very dangerous people might get out of jail." The entire story can be found at:
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18563_162-57522834/massachusetts-lab-tech-arrested-for-alleged-improper-handling-of-drug-tests/
See this link for story on special court sessions set up to deal with the influx of Annie Dookhan cases:
http://www.boston.com/metrodesk/2012/10/01/special-court-session-deal-with-influx-annie-dookhan-cases-suffolk-county/mPaNAuLDhT7xkkqVXTirUM/story.html
Adam Scott: UK; "Innocent victim' of avoidable contamination in DNA testing process; Jersey Evening Post;
STORY: "Rape accused was 'innocent victim," published by the Jersey Evening Post on October 1, 2012;
SUB-HEADING: "A man wrongly acccused and charged with raping a woman was the 'innocent victim' of an avoidable mistake, the forensics watchdog has said;
GIST: "Adam Scott was arrested and held in custody for months after a plastic tray containing a sample of his DNA was re-used in the analysis of a swab from a rape victim in Manchester by private firm LGC Forensics. Forensic science regulator Andrew Rennison said Mr Scott, from Devon, was an "innocent victim of avoidable contamination". "The contamination was the result of human error by a technician who failed to follow basic procedures for the disposal of plastic trays used as part of a validated DNA extraction process," he said. "The procedures themselves were not adequate, leading to no records maintained by the technicians and nothing done to mark used trays as such." Mr Scott was charged on October 23 2011 over the rape of the woman in Plant Hill Park, Blackley, and remanded in custody until the case was withdrawn on March 7 this year, the regulator's report said. It also emerged that the same error happened at least once before, on October 12 last year, the report added. That alone "should have triggered a more comprehensive response than that undertaken", Mr Rennison said. "These errors were compounded by the failure at LGC to consider the possibility of contamination despite concerns expressed by the investigating officer about the reliability of the DNA profile." He went on: "It is unlikely that the case against Mr Scott would ever have proceeded to trial and, in the absence of any further evidence, the case would probably have been discontinued. However, this is of little comfort to Mr Scott who was charged on October 23 2011 and remanded in custody on this case until it was withdrawn on March 7 2012."
http://www.thisisjersey.com/news/uk-news/2012/10/01/rape-accused-was-innocent-victim/
False confessions: How they contaminate everything and everyone they touch. Dr. Karen Franklin; "In The News." Must Read.
POST: "The taint of a false confession," by Karen Franklin, posted on "In The News" on September 30, 2012. Karen Franklyn a forensic psychologist and adjunct professor at Alliant University in Northern California. She is a former criminal investigator and legal affairs reporter.
GIST: "With the recent tidal wave of scholarly research into false confessions, informed forensic psychologists are by now tuned in to the phenomenon. We know, for example, that they played a role in one out of four DNAexoneration cases. We are aware of their compelling nature, and can cite examples such as the Central Park Jogger case in which they produced profound miscarriages of justice. But let's take it one step further. What if, once police elicit a false confession from a suspect, it contaminates everything and everyone in touches -- from the prosecutor, the judge, and even the suspect's own attorney all the way to the fingerprint identification and even, perhaps, the DNA match?
That is the troubling thesis raised by Saul Kassin, a pioneer in the psychological study of false confessions, in an article in the current issue of the American Psychologist.".........All of this suggests that it is essential for courts to allow the testimony of forensic experts who can explain the mechanisms of false confessions, including both what types of police practices are more likely to generate them, and what types of individual vulnerabilities make a person especially prone to cave in under such pressure. More broadly, this line of analysis suggests the need for changes in police practices, for example an end to the routine practice of lying to suspects about incriminating evidence, and greater government oversight and regulation of police interrogations. Moreover, safeguards on the analysis of supposedly independent evidence, such as evidence technicians being blind to a suspect's confession status, must be implemented in order to ensure that corroborating evidence truly is independent."
The entire post can be found at:
http://forensicpsychologist.blogspot.ca/2012/09/the-tainting-effects-of-false.html
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Let's Get Serious… and Do a Giveaway!
Romance novels are lighthearted fluff, right? No chance that you'll encounter any real issues or frightening problems. They're simple love stories about happy people.
The two books I have coming out this spring both feature significant, non-fluffy issues. That's one of the reasons I adore writing Christian romance; I can address much more serious issues, issues that can only be overcome with God's help. But just to make this post fun (despite the seriousness), I'm going to do a quiz. Take a look at the covers above, TODAY, and match them with the following serious issues—there are two in each book.
I'll reveal the answers at the end of the day on my Facebook Page. And tomorrow I'll choose a random commenter to get a copy of an earlier book in each series—an ebook in the case of Arcadia Valley, and a signed paperback in the case of the Love Inspired books.
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Hi Lee, I hear those sentiments so frequently that I am selective when telling others that I read inspirational romance- the sceptical, raised eyebrows and derisive comments are pretty regular!!
It always makes me shake my head when people disrespect Christian romance. Have they ever read one? Most of my fellow writers also include serious issues in their books.
Hi Lee! Interesting interactive post. As a reader, I am amazed and intrigued by the themes and issues included in inspirational romances. That is what makes it fun to explore different authors and their works. Two delightful covers and four modern issues. Best wishes on your upcoming release.
Thank you, Renate! Glad you like the covers.
Thank you for reminding me of what's really important to be more aware of.
I'm guessing at least one of the above issues hits home for everyone who reads this post. Even people who seem to have it all together usually have some struggles inside. That's why I don't like writing about perfect people with no problems… I don't think they exist!
I know so many people who won't touch Christian fiction. Makes me sad. Our local library in California doesn't have a lot of Christian romance and our closest Christian bookstore is about an hour's drive away. And we live in a big city! Thankfully I can order off of Amazon but sometimes it's just nice to browse a little.
There is a company, The Book Faeries, that makes stickers to put on the front of books that say "Take this book, read it & leave it for the next person to enjoy." I have done this with several books.
Ten to fifteen years ago, there was a lot of fluff in Christian romance. I'm glad authors are embracing non-fluff and authenticity in today's market. Although there are some readers who want nothing but a feel-good, happily-ever-after, dream world, I think the majority appreciates relateable and even challenging circumstances in fiction. Looking forward to your stories, Lee!
You're right, Beth–I love how the genre has changed and developed. There's still room for a lighthearted love story, but many readers enjoy the challenging stuff. Thank you for being a supporter of Christian fiction of all types.
I am right there with you on the happy ending, Margaret! And don't worry about having no information–nobody does, except for the book covers. That's why I'm choosing my winner randomly! It's only fair.
I really enjoy reading books in which God helps characters to overcome their issues. I like when I can be inspired from the story!
I am anxiously awaiting A Family for Easter's release!
I enjoy Christian fiction because they are clean,inspirational and they deal with problems of the day.
I enjoy Christian Fiction and I am so happy that you and other authors choose to write these books.
You can't really tell by the cover. However, I've shed many a tear over a romance like yours. Some I get historical info that applies to our ancestors . Keep up the good work.
Issues that only God can help you through, are why I read good Christian Stories. So please don't stop writing them!
I like both the fluffy and the real issues books. Sometimes when life gets hard, a little fluff is just what I need. But too much of it can leave us in a false reality.
i forgot to say letters for JOMH and they are a and d. also for AFFE my letters are b and c.


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Q: Jquery -> php -> mysql and dynamic form fields I have a multi page form which uses multiple tables in mysql for the entered values. One of the pages has a form which needs to have the option of enabling the user to click a + to add an extra line if they want to include extra information. There can be any number of lines added.
When the user clicks the +, jquery and php inserts the current userid in a row in the database table, this is then updated when more information is entered.
The problem I've got is to how to insert any number of rows for that particular id - when the data is entered, a blur event sends the data to the php code for updating the database. However, the problem I have is that it will update ALL the rows with that particular user id and not the current one.
What would be the best way of taking the data entered on the new rows and updating the database - I assume that I will have to use the ID value rather than userid value as that will be unique, or is there another way of doing it?
Thanks for any suggestions you can give, this one is clouding my mind currently...

A: You are correct when you state that you should use the primary key of the table you are updating, rather than the foreign key (UserId in your case) which occurs many times on your table. This guarantees you will update the row you expect.
An alternative would be to narrow down the rows you update - for example by only updating the most recent / the one with the highest ID or using a combination of fields that make the record unique. However, using the primary key is the best way to solve your issue.

A: Yes, you need the ID value of the rows you're inserting, not just the userid.  I presume what you'd want to do is pass back the mysql LAST_INSERT_ID() from your Ajax script that does the insert when you click +, and push that ID into the information that you use later for updating the row.

A: Well, I think that you need to use a pair of identifiers, your userid and the field id.
For editing only filedid would be enought but when you need to list all the user fields another reference will be necessary.

A: yeah, your best bet is to have mysql return a unique id for every row created, then just make sure whenever you edit a row on your form, to send the id along with it. Now you can edit one row at a time.

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