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The Goodwill in Passing Off Actions: The Toyota Prius Story
Posted on December 21, 2017 January 21, 2023 by Rudrajyoti Nath Ray
TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA launched the world's first hybrid car, 'Prius', in Japan in 1997. In India, the car was released in 2009 and until that point of time Toyota had not obtained registration of the mark 'Prius' in the Indian jurisdiction.
M/S PRIUS AUTO INDUSTRIES LIMITED had got the mark 'Prius' registered way back in the year 2002-2003 for all types of auto parts and accessories. They were the first in India to manufacture add-on chrome plated accessories. They conceptualized their attempt as 'pehela prayas' ('First Attempt'). It was on that basis they had adopted the name 'Prius'. [Shri Chidambaram termed the story 'absurd'. The possibility of conjuring a word in the Hindi language and then looking for it in the English dictionary and finally selecting a Latin word was too far-fetched for acceptance as a bona fide act of adoption of a mark.]
Toyota filed a suit in 2009 praying for a permanent injunction restraining Prius Auto from using the well-known trade mark 'Prius', to prevent passing off Prius Auto's goods as that of Toyota's. The Battle of the Prii.
SC has recently held in Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha v. M/s. Prius Auto Industries Ltd., [Civil Appeal Nos. 5375-5377 of 2017]:
"To prove and establish an action of passing off, three ingredients are required to be proved by the Plaintiff, i.e., his goodwill, misrepresentation and damages…
Prof. Cristopher Wadlow's view on the subject appears to be, the test of whether a foreign claimant may succeed in a passing-off action is whether his business has a goodwill in a particular jurisdiction, which criterion is broader than the "obsolete" test of whether a claimant has a business/place of business in that jurisdiction. If there are customers for the claimant's products in that jurisdiction, then the claimant stands in the same position as a domestic trader.
The overwhelming judicial and academic opinion all over the globe… seems to be in favour of the territoriality principle . We do not see why the same should not apply to this country.
To give effect to the territoriality principle, Courts must necessarily have to determine if there has been a spill-over of the reputation and goodwill of the mark used by the claimant who has brought the passing off action. In the course of such determination it may be necessary to seek and ascertain the existence of not necessarily a real market but the presence of the claimant through its mark within a particular territorial jurisdiction in a more subtle form which can best be manifested by the following illustrations, though they arise from decisions of Courts which may not be final in that particular jurisdiction.
In Panhard Levassor Motor Co., 1901 2 Ch. 513 the Plaintiffs were French car manufacturers who had consciously decided to not launch their cars in England (apprehending patent infringement). Nevertheless, some individuals had got them imported to England. It was seen, England was one of the Plaintiff's markets and thus, in this case, permanent injunction was granted. Similarly, in Grant v. Levitt, 190118 RPC 361 a Liverpool business concern trading as the Globe Furnishing Company, obtained an injunction against the use of the same name in Dublin as it was observed, advertisements by the Plaintiff had reached Ireland and there were Irish customers…
Indeed, the trade mark 'Prius' had undoubtedly acquired a great deal of goodwill in several other jurisdictions in the world and that too much earlier to the use and registration of the same by the defendants in India. But if the territoriality principle is to govern the matter… there must be adequate evidence to show, the Plaintiff had acquired a substantial goodwill for its car under the brand name 'Prius' in the Indian market also.
The car itself was introduced in the Indian market in the year 2009-2010. The advertisements in automobile magazines, international business magazines; availability of data in information-disseminating portals like Wikipedia and online Britannica dictionary and the information on the internet, even if accepted, will not be a safe basis to hold the existence of the necessary goodwill and reputation of the product in the Indian market at the relevant point of time, particularly having regard to the limited online exposure at that point of time, i.e., in 2001. The news items relating to the launching of the product in Japan isolatedly and singularly in The Economic Times (27.03.1997 and 15.12.1997) also do not firmly establish the acquisition and existence of goodwill and reputation of the brand name in the Indian market. Coupled with the above, the evidence of the Plaintiff's witnesses themselves would be suggestive of a very limited sale of the product in the Indian market and virtually the absence of any advertisement of the product in India prior to April, 2001 (date of adoption of the mark by the defendants). This, in turn, would show either lack of goodwill in the domestic market or lack of knowledge and information of the product amongst a significant section of the Indian population. While it may be correct, the population to whom such knowledge or information of the product should be available would be the section of the public dealing with the product as distinguished from the general population, even proof of such knowledge and information within the limited segment of the population is not prominent.
All these should lead to us to eventually agree, the brand name of the car Prius had not acquired the degree of goodwill, reputation and the market or popularity in the Indian market so as to vest in the Plaintiff the necessary attributes of the right of a prior user so as to successfully maintain an action of passing off even against the registered owner.
If goodwill or reputation in the particular jurisdiction (in India) is not established by the Plaintiff, no other issue really would need any further examination to determine the extent of the Plaintiff's right in the action of passing off."
Court refused to wade into the argument of whether or not Prius Auto were honest or dishonest in adopting the mark 'Prius' (The First Attempt Story). In any case, the alleged dishonest adoption did not matter to Apex Courts' ultimate analysis. It correctly noted, even if the Defendants had been dishonest, that by itself would not exonerate the Plaintiff of having to prove that they had trademark rights in 'Prius' in the first place.
Eashan Ghosh, rising stalwart in Intellectual Property Law matters, had this view to share:
"The finding on merits is objectionable. SC's rejection of the Respondents' etymology story ('Prius'/'Prayas') is not tied to a full-blooded conclusion. This is disappointing. A strong word by SC on the issue – which is unfortunately replete in trademark suits – would have done much to discourage the practice, at least in the short term.
Further, SC's finding that the Appellant didn't demonstrate sufficient reputation and goodwill in India to sustain its claim is insensitive to at least to two sets of issues.
First, what is the standard of proof that a pure passing off claim by an unregistered proprietor (as Toyota was in relation to the 'Prius' trademark) against a registered proprietor must meet? Is this the same or greater than the proof that an unregistered proprietor must meet against another unregistered proprietor? What of the precedent rendered by Courts on this exact issue in the past? No clear answers by SC on this.
Second, how is it that a passing off claim such as this must demonstrate evidence of goodwill and reputation in India and yet be part of trademark jurisprudence that permits passing off claims to be brought on the basis of international (or 'cross-border/'trans-border') reputation and goodwill alone. Again no clear answers by SC.
Finally, I think it's fascinating, SC has revisited the core of passing off law – the principle of commercial and business morality – to find, claimants only need to prove likelihood of confusion and not actual confusion. SC says the likelihood standard is preferable because evidence of actual confusion "may not be easily forthcoming and directly available".
However, there is considerable doubt about how this is intended to be understood. Is this a simple rule of substitution or preference, i.e., where you are unable to bring evidence of actual confusion then likelihood of confusion will suffice? or is it something to be adopted by claimants more generally, i.e., only lead evidence of distinctiveness of your own trademark because the legal presumption is that a trademark broadly similar to yours will be likely to confuse anyway, even if there is no proof that it does?
This, again, is significant, and could have profound consequences for how the evidence in support of trademark claims is to be judged in the future."
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Officers shoot and kill man in East Oakland hours before New Year
By Bay Area Living Staff | Bay Area News Group
PUBLISHED: January 1, 2008 at 4:17 p.m. | UPDATED: August 17, 2016 at 4:05 a.m.
A man who ran from a car stopped by police Monday night was shot to death by two officers who said they thought he was reaching for a gun, investigators said.
The man turned out not to have a gun. Authorities were trying to identify him today.
Police said the man was driving a car with other passengers and was stopped by officers about 7:33 p.m. Monday in the 4600 block of International Boulevard for a violation.
It was not immediately known what the violation was.
The driver ran to the 1200 block of 47th Avenue where he tried to hide between a car parked on the sidewalk and a rolled-up metal door of a business.
Two officers not involved in the car stop found him and ordered him several times to surrender and keep his hands in sight, police said.
Sgt. Lou Cruz said the man refused to surrender and was yelling and swearing at the officers. At one point, the man told the officers he "didn't care about being shot."
The officers told investigators they both shot at the man after he made a quick move toward his rear waistband like he was reaching for a gun.
The man was hit more than once and died about a half-hour later at a local hospital.
The passengers in the car later told police they had been partying earlier. An open bottle of liquor was found in the car.
The names of the officers were not released. They are on administrative leave, which is routine in officer-involved shootings.
It was at least the fourth fatal shooting by police in Oakland in 2007. The most recent was Dec. 21 when a 26-year-old man was fatally shot by two officers who said they thought he was reaching for a gun in his car at the intersection of Ritchie Street and Bancroft Avenue. A gun was recovered in that incident.
Police would not identify the officers in Monday night's shooting, but did say they were not involved in any of the previous fatal shootings.
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Q: Queries about the Skolem-Mahler-Lech theorem (integer zeros of exponential polynomials) The Skolem-Mahler-Lech Theorem says that the integer zeros of an exponential polynomial are the union of complete arithmetic progressions and a finite number of exceptional zeros. http://terrytao.wordpress.com/2007/05/25/open-question-effective-skolem-mahler-lech-theorem/#comment-46954 (thanks to Qiaochu Yuan for pointing out the link).
*What I am really interested in is the description of the exceptional set. About how and where  they are located ? Is there some kind of an estimate on how many of them are there ?
 conditions under which the exceptional set is empty / rather small / far from the origin etc. etc. in short any description about the geometry of the zero set.
*

Here is an observation

Apparently all the known proofs use p-adic methods. Incidentally a lemma due to Turan comes very close to proving Skolem Mahler Lech theorem. It says if one knows the values of an exponential polynomial along an n length AP then one can find an estimate of it at the n+1 th point. Here is the exact statement
$\underline {Turan's Lemma}$ Let $ z_1,\dots,z_n$ be complex numbers, $|z_j|\geq 1, j=1,\dots,n.$ Let $ b_1,\dots, b_n \in \mathbb C $ and $$S_j:= \Sigma_{k=1}^n b_k z_k^j$$
Then  $$|S_0| \leq \{\frac{4 e (m+n-1)}{n}\}^{n-1} \max_{j=m+1}^{m+n} |S_j|.$$ As a simple consequence of this result  when the value of an exponential  polynomial (with constant coefficient)  is known for $n$ consecutive term of an arithmetic progression, then one can get an estimate of the value of the polynomial along that arithmetic progression. i.e.,
Let $p(t)=\Sigma_{k=1}^n c_k e^{i \lambda_k t}$ and assume that the value of the polynomial $p(t)$ is known for  $t_j=t_0+j \delta$ for $ j= m+1,...,m+n$. Then substitute $b_k=c_k e^{i \lambda_j t_0}$ and $z_k= e^{i \lambda_k \delta}$ and apply Turan's lemma.
Applied to the the specific case under consideration ( i.e. an exponential polynomial of order n) it says  if the exponential polynomial vanishes at an arithmetic progression of length n then it vanishes on the complete arithmetic progression.
So Szemeredi's Theorem now tells us that the structure of the zero set has to be union of complete AP plus a set of density zero set (actually more the exceptional set has no AP of length n).
Though it does not prove Skolem Mahler Lech theorem it's tantalizingly close and provides the extra information about the geometry of the zero sets .... that the exceptional set do not have an n length AP and using estimates from Ramsey theory one can find a bound on how many zeros can be there in an interval ?
Can one use all of these to give an analytic proof of Skolem Mahler Lech theorem maybe ? That would be real nice.

PS
Having said all that what is a good reference to what is known about the nature of the exceptional set. Can somebody suggest a good reference ? a good review article maybe.
My problem is though the statement about Skolem Mahler Lech Theorem seems like a problem in analysis/ complex analysis the relevant literature is in other fields about which I have very little familiarity. My present ambition is just to understand the results (not the proofs) that is what  can one infer about the nature of the zero set (may be with some additional condition imposed on the set of exponents).

A: You may find something helpful in my paper with Alf van der Poorten, Some problems concerning recurrence sequences, Amer Math Monthly 102 (1995) 698-705. If you don't have access to the Monthly, a preprint is freely available at http://pictor.math.uqam.ca/~plouffe/OEIS/archive_in_pdf/a106.pdf

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Trial! Not an Apology
Thursday 11 August 2022, by Rahul Varma
Leading up to Pope Francis' arrival, the government prepared Canadians to expect a genuine apology for a crime that the Church could no longer mask: the forceful removal of over 150,000 indigenous children from their families, sexual abuse, torture; more than 3,200 unmarked graves and the deaths of over 4000 indigenous children. But the so-called apology was an act of damage control to halt the decline of the Church's eroding reputation.
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) report, published in 2015, listed 94 concrete actions to help healing and reconciliation with Canada's injured Indigenous community. Action No. 58 asked the Pope to apologize "for the Roman Catholic Church's role in the spiritual, cultural, emotional, physical and sexual abuse of First Nations, Inuit and Métis children", within one year of the report's release. However, the Pope waited seven years, a period marked by more revelations of the Church's crimes, which left the Pope with no option but to apologize to calm the rising public rage.
In a carefully choreographed event, a sad-looking Pope asked for forgiveness "for the ways in which many members of the Church and religious communities cooperated, not least through their indifference, in projects of cultural destruction and forced assimilation promoted by the governments of that time, which culminated in the system of residential schools." Pope Francis was deeply sorry because "many Christians supported the colonizing mentality of the powers that oppressed the Indigenous peoples." Calling the residential schools catastrophic, the Pope said, "I humbly beg forgiveness for the evil committed by so many Christians against the Indigenous peoples."
This was no apology; it was an empty sentiment to deflect the responsibility.
An apology must include an unqualified admission of the sexual abuse, deaths, torture, forced removal and cultural genocide. It must express shame and remorse, pledge reparation, justice restoration, and a commitment to collaborate in dismantling the legacy of colonialism the Catholic Church designed under the Doctrine of Discovery. The Papal Bull "Inter Caetera," issued by Pope Alexander VI on May 4, 1493, played a central role in the Spanish conquest of the New World. The document supported Spain's strategy to ensure its exclusive right to the lands discovered by Columbus the previous year. Instead, Pope Francis apologized for the actions of "many members of the church," absolving the Church as the governing body that has systematically covered up and protected predatory priests, nuns and clergies, refused to hand over documents, and promoted conversion and assimilation, resulting in cultural genocide. As Indigenous leaders have repeatedly stressed, this Doctrine must be rescinded.
Most likely, the Pope's words were drafted by his legal team to obscure the Church's liability and maintain its brand.
The genocide against this hemisphere's Indigenous people is a foundational crime of Canada (and the United States), resulting from the Doctrine of Discovery authorizing the seizing of non-Christian lands in Canada, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand, South America and the African continent.
The testimonies from the survivors and families and evidence cited in the TRC confirm that the cover-up of sexual abuse, torture, and killings were not acts of individual priests but resulted from the Church's policies, which is why the abusers were neither reported nor punished. The Church's sexual abuse was about racism, white Christian supremacy, systemic domination, and decadence, not "indifference," as the Pope said in his apology.
The United Nation's 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, passed after the holocaust, stipulates that genocide of a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group is a crime, whether committed during a time of peace or war. The discovery of more than 1000 unmarked graves, indiscriminate killings by the police and RCMP, missing and murdered Indigenous women, and systemic racism confirm that the elimination was intentional.
When a crime of this nature and this magnitude is carried out anywhere in the world, with long-lasting effects that still touch the lives of those living today, one must not beg the criminal or his institution to apologize but put them on trial to restore justice.
Rahul Varma is a Playwright and Artistic Director of Teesri Duniya Theatre
Photo: Teesri Duniya Theatre's 2012 production of "Where the Blood Mixes" about the after-effects of the Residential School Systems.
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Q: Scala type erasure I just would like to check for any occurrences of type T in the example bellow. Assert fails though (try me):
val seq = List(AcceptableRisk, UnacceptableRisk)
def any[T] =
    seq.collect { case x: T => x }.nonEmpty

assert(any[UnknownRisk] == false)

trait Risk
case class AcceptableRisk() extends Risk
case class UnacceptableRisk() extends Risk
case class UnknownRisk() extends Risk

There is a compilation warning:

jdoodle.scala:5: warning: abstract type pattern T is unchecked since
it is eliminated by erasure
   seq.collect { case x: T => x }.nonEmpty
                         ^

Why does it fail?

A: Since your domain is limited, I would just go with something like this:
trait Risk extends Product with Serializable
object Risk {
  def isUnacceptableRisk(risk: Risk): Boolean = risk match {
    case UnacceptableRisk(_) => true
    case _                   => false
  }
  // Repeat for other types if needed.
}

final case class AcceptableRisk(name: String) extends Risk
final case class UnacceptableRisk(name: String) extends Risk
final case class UnknownRisk(name: String) extends Risk

Then you can just: seq.exists(Risk.isUnacceptableRisk)
A more generic solution could be done using typeclasses, like this:
trait Is[T] {
  type U
  def check(t: T): Boolean
}

object Is {
  type Aux[T, _U] = Is[T] { type U = _U }
}

object syntax {
  object is {
     implicit class SeqOps[T](private val seq: Seq[T]) extends AnyVal {
       def any[U <: T](implicit ev: Is.Aux[T, U]): Boolean =
         seq.exists(ev.check)
     }
  }
}

trait Risk extends Product with Serializable
object Risk {
  implicit final val IsUnacceptableRisk: Is.Aux[Risk, UnacceptableRisk] =
    new Is[Risk] {
      override type U = UnacceptableRisk
      override def check(risk: Risk): Boolean = risk match {
        case UnacceptableRisk(_) => true
        case _                   => false
      }
    }
    // Repeat for other types if needed.
}

final case class AcceptableRisk(name: String) extends Risk
final case class UnacceptableRisk(name: String) extends Risk
final case class UnknownRisk(name: String) extends Risk

import syntax.is._
List(AcceptableRisk("foo"), UnacceptableRisk("bar")).any[UnacceptableRisk] // true.

But sincerely IMHO, it is too much work for not really winning too much.

A: It helps:
def any[T <: Risk: Manifest] =
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CABANATUAN CITY, January 19, 2011–Police have revealed that the charred body of an unidentified male which was found beside an irrigation canal in this city's suburb last Friday – the same day as the discovery of the body of the son of Marcos loyalist lawyer Oliver Lozano - was confirmed to be that of missing car dealer Venson Evangelista.
Police Supt. Eliseo Cruz, city police chief, reported to provincial police director Senior Supt. Roberto Aliggayu that personnel from the medico-legal division of the PNP Crime Laboratory in Camp Crame led by medico-legal officer Supt. Ruby Grace Sabino have positively identified Evangelista through his dentures which matched his dental records. Sabino was assisted in the examination by Senior Inspector Dindo Marie <?<span>Trinidad Herrera.
Evangelista's father Arsenio arrived here past noon yesterday, accompanied by PO3 Noel Sanchez to check on the body a day after police confirmed the identity of Lozano's son Emerson who was found near the anti-lahar megadike in Barangay Mancantian, Porac, Pampanga.
Cruz said the younger Evangelista's body was found on January 14 at around 6 am beside the irrigation canal in Purok 1, Buliran here a day after he was reportedly abducted by four men when he accompanied two potential buyers for a test drive of a 2009 Toyota Land Cruiser at about 4 pm along Sgt. Juan Catolos St. in Cubao. The sport utility vehicle belongs to the elder Evangelista, which the victim had been helping to sell.
A team from the Cabanatuan police and the Scene of the Crime Operatives found the body, his eyes covered with packaging tape and with a hole in the left side of the forehead.
Cruz said there were also traces of burned tire in the place where Verson's body was found, indicating it was there where he was burned.When the body was first brought to the RBN Funeral Homes, police initially failed to identify the victim which was already decomposing.
Arsenio said his son met two of the kidnappers at their house in Cubao, with one of the suspects introducing himself as the buyer while the other posed as the mechanic.


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The House of Graff has been hit by the Conti cybercrime gang. (Image source: Shutterstock)
The Conti cybercrime gang, known for ransomware attacks, has reportedly leaked details of world leaders, actors and business tycoons after a strike at London-based high society jeweler Graff.
The breach was confirmed to Information Security Media Group by the official spokesperson of The House of Graff, who said the organization is working with the relevant law enforcement agencies and has informed the U.K.'s Information Commissioner's Office about the incident.
"Regrettably we, in common with a number of other businesses, have recently been the target of a sophisticated - though limited - cyberattack by professional and determined criminals. We were alerted to their intrusive activity by our security systems, allowing us to react swiftly and shut down our network," a spokesperson for The House of Graff tells ISMG.
Sam Curry, chief security officer at cybersecurity solutions vendor Cybereason, says that it could be many weeks before the real impact of the attack is known to the public.
"One thing that isn't trivial for the celebs and A-listers that have reportedly had personal information stolen is that the people or organizations with deep pockets are more likely to pay a ransom than others. The threat actors know it and when they target organizations for theft, they will be persistent, patient and thorough in their attack," Curry notes.
High-Profile Leak
A report in U.K. newspaper The Daily Mirror claims that the threat actors have leaked 69,000 confidential documents on a darknet site, including files related to Donald Trump, Oprah Winfrey and David Beckham.
The newspaper report also claims that the leaked data of about 11,000 individuals involves Graff's well-heeled clients, and the ransomware actors are demanding tens of millions of pounds in ransom money to stop the release of further sensitive information.
"We have informed those individuals whose personal data was affected and have advised them on the appropriate steps to take. Thanks to our robust backup facilities, we were able to rebuild and restart our systems within days - crucially, with no irretrievable loss of data," a Graff spokesperson says.
According to the report, the leaked documents include client lists, invoices, receipts and credit notes. The list includes international superstars, such as Tom Hanks, Samuel L. Jackson and Alec Baldwin.
"Sadly, it appears that notable brands, corporates and even government departments are deliberately targeted by unscrupulous operators in an effort to extort money [and] cause disruption or simply embarrassment," a House of Graff spokesperson notes.
Trevor Morgan, product manager at Comforte AG, says that details on the initial attack vector are speculative at the moment, however, the tactic could have been simple social engineering, in which a person is tricked into launching malicious code that appears as a seemingly innocuous attachment.
Morgan also says that the attackers most likely demanded the ransom in Bitcoin or some other difficult-to-trace form of payment.
"Some organizations in similar situations have been inclined not to pay the ransom and simply restore all IT systems in the case of encrypted files that halt operations. But in this situation, apparently we're talking about stolen sensitive information that Graff would not want out in the open," he notes.
To avoid such situations, Morgan says, any organization possessing sensitive information should protect it with data-centric security as soon as it enters the enterprise ecosystem.
He recommends keeping sensitive information tokenized or encrypted in a way that preserves the original data format.
"Cybercrime continues to rise in scale and complexity. It is a threat to every business. Maintaining the highest level of security against these threats has always been a top priority for us. We are continually strengthening our systems to counter these threats as they evolve," a House of Graff spokesperson notes.
Conti Attacks
Conti is one of several Russian-speaking ransomware operations - believed to be operating from countries that were formerly part of the Soviet Union - that have continued to hit targets in the U.S. and Europe, causing widespread disruption.
The U.S. government, which has been tracking an increase in the pace of attacks tied to Conti ransomware, recently issued a joint cybersecurity advisory from the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, FBI and National Security Agency, warning that Conti has so far successfully hit more than 400 organizations based in the U.S. and abroad (see: Conti Ransomware Attacks Surging, US Government Warns)
"In typical Conti ransomware attacks, malicious cyber actors steal files, encrypt servers and workstations, and demand a ransom payment," the advisory states.
To better secure against Conti attacks, the alert recommends a range of defenses, including "implementing the mitigation measures described in this advisory, which include requiring multi-factor authentication, implementing network segmentation and keeping operating systems and software up to date."
Ransomware incident response firm Coveware reports that based on thousands of incidents it helped investigate from April to June, Conti was the second-most-prevalent ransomware it encountered, following Sodinokibi, aka REvil. Coveware said that while Sodinokibi accounted for over 16% of all incidents with which it assisted, Conti accounted for over 14%.
Like other ransomware-as-a-service operations, Conti relies on affiliates to infect victims. As some major ransomware operations have disappeared, rebranded or been on hiatus in recent months, experts say Conti appears to have been recruiting many of their affiliates, helping it to launch more attacks.
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Rep. Mike Pompeo, R-Wichita, has been receiving criticism for raising questions about a well-intentioned but flawed federal program to establish a public database of safety complaints about consumer products. However, he is doing exactly what a member of Congress should do — raising questions about how best to use tax dollars and whether scarce public resources should be used for such a poorly conceived program.
Though the objectives of this program are laudable — to provide consumers with reliable information about the safety of the products they buy — one can and should question the way in which this program is being implemented.
* Instead of requiring those who submit complaints to at least put the location of the incident or the model number of the product, complaints could be filled with only sketchy information that is of little use to anyone.
* Instead of verifying that the information posted to the database is correct, the commission is under no obligation to confirm the accuracy of information submitted, even when the accuracy is challenged. And while it is clear the commission will not investigate most of these claims, when we do, we are not planning on telling consumers the results. It appears that once the complaint is there, accurate or not, it's there indefinitely.
We had the chance to make the database a helpful tool for consumers, but instead it will potentially become just another sinkhole for complaints, but with the apparent "seal of approval" that comes from being on a federal government website. We had the opportunity to get it right but instead spent millions of taxpayer dollars to construct something that could well mislead consumers and undermine our safety mission. Consumer safety is not advanced by such a result.
To be clear, the intent is not to keep reports from consumers; the goal is to give consumers accurate reports that can be safely relied upon in their decisions.
Today the Wichita Eagle published the letter to the editor that I sent defending Congressman Pompeo's move to halt funding for the consumer product database. Here's the letter, in case you missed it.
The commentary "Pompeo's cut puts children's safety at risk" (March 8 Opinion) could not have been further from the truth. Rep. Mike Pompeo, R-Wichita, is doing exactly what he should do — question spending scarce public resources on poorly conceived programs that may well mislead consumers to their detriment.
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission public database was launched with a "punch list" of more than 120 fixes still needed, and the list grows. It is not ready for consumers to rely on.
The commentary compared the database to warnings on cigarette packs. Really? Science tells us what carcinogens are in cigarettes. The commission will investigate less than 10 percent of the reports on this database, and those results will not necessarily be made public. A sketchy warning, at best.
Pompeo rightly insists on spending the money on a database that gives consumers accurate reports that can be safely relied upon in their decisions, not a mishmash of "junk science." We should give consumers "news they can use," not just a sinkhole for complaints.
We all want a database that works for consumers, not confuses them. The commission is supposed to address defective products, not produce them.
In case you missed it, my letter to the editor of the Washington Post, published yesterday, cites some reasons why Representative Pompeo is right to hit the 'pause' button on the public database. Here's the letter, with its headline in print and its headline online.
Rep. Mike Pompeo (R-Kan.) raises legitimate questions about the Consumer Product Safety Commission's new public database ["Pompeo turns to Koch in business, politics," news story, March 21]. It was unfortunate that you focused on motives instead of the valid merits of his concerns, which The Post reported Feb. 27.
The congressman rightly questions whether this database will help consumers. Because of its design, the database could become just another "yelp.com" — an Internet site for complaints — but with the apparent "seal of approval" that comes from being a federal government Web site. The public will never know which complaints have merit, which do not and which are totally off base. Congress needs to look at how the agency spends scarce public dollars to construct something that could well mislead consumers and undermine our safety mission.
The Post is hyping politics over safety. Consumer safety is not advanced by such a result.
The writer is a commissioner of the Consumer Product Safety Commission.
As Congress discusses the CPSC's budget, some are warning that we must maintain or increase our budget in order to avoid a repeat of 2007, the so-called "year of the recall." To make this point, agency officials recently have pointed out that as our staffing fell, recalls rose – the implication being that this increase in recalls indicated a lapse in safety. I challenge this assertion.
Until the passage of the CPSIA, the recall was the agency's primary enforcement activity and it continues to be one of the most important tools in our arsenal. In 2007, when we saw lead paint violations from two of America's iconic brands, the agency undertook an immediate and aggressive enforcement campaign to assure that the lead paint law was being strictly complied with. This enforcement emphasis showed troubling lapses in quality assurance programs of some global manufacturers and, of course, led to the lead paint recalls of 2007. However, preventing violative products from coming into the country is always better than recalling them after import and the CPSIA gave the agency additional tools to stop violative products from entering the country. It is incorrect to say that the 2007 recalls indicated the agency was not doing its job or that a decrease in resources caused an increase in recalls.
Recall statistics can be used to demonstrate just about anything. For example, during 2007 and 2008, the agency was criticized in many quarters, including by a number of Members of Congress, for doing too many recalls. Yet, Representative Jan Schakowsky wrote in a 2002 edition of Mothering Magazine (which recently stopped its print operation because of CPSIA) that she was "relieved" to see the "CPSC announcing recalls of infant products." A representative of the organization "Kids in Danger" was very critical of a past chairman of this agency for, among other reasons, a dip in recalls in 2004, asserting this decline indicated that the agency was not doing its job. While this same organization criticized the agency in 2008 for too many recalls, it just published a press release stating the 2010 increase in recalls of children's products indicated that our "actions…have had a measurable and definitively positive impact on children's product safety." In other words recalls are either bad or good depending on what point you are trying to make.
As readers of this blog know, I strongly support recalls when done right, and do not believe that every recall the agency does has merit. However, it's time we all got off the kick of using recall statistics to push a particular point of view. They show we are doing an essential part of our job. Let's leave it at that.
Nutty test standards give Obama a real chance to help business.
President Obama has been on a campaign to shake his antibusiness reputation, so a good place to start would be to revisit the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act, a mess of a law that has put new burdens on small businesses.
In 2008, Congress passed the law in a rush to do something after a scare over lead in toys imported from China. Its problems were quickly apparent, sweeping products from books to bicycles into the dragnet for lead standards. But while businesses pleaded, Democrats stood behind it as a pinnacle of consumer protection while blaming the Consumer Product Safety Commission for any enforcement problems.
Instead of being able to focus energy on products that present real risks to kids, the CPSC's staff has had to regulate products that pose no harm. The likelihood of a toddler swallowing an all-terrain vehicle, for instance, didn't stop that product from being swept into the maw.
The law also requires the CPSC to propose the parameters of a third-party lead testing regime, but the issue is so mired in complexity that the commission has yet to set those standards. Under the proposed version of this so-called "15 Month Rule," Learning Resources Chairman Rick Woldenberg has estimated that supplying multiple testing samples on each of his company's toys and products will cost his company some $15 million per year.
It gets worse. In August, the lead standard is set to go down to 100 parts per million from the current level of 300 parts per million. Like the earlier step down, the new standard is supposed to be retroactive when it goes into effect, meaning that it will apply to toys and children's products manufactured before that date, which were perfectly legal when they were made. All five CPSC commissioners have said they don't believe the new standards should be retroactive when they go into effect this summer.
At a hearing in the House Energy and Commerce Committee in February, California Democrat Henry Waxman defended the law as "necessary to protect kids and families across the country." We wonder how he figures that, since the incidence of lead poisoning from toys made by domestic manufacturers is nil.
Energy and Commerce Chairman Fred Upton and Subcommittee Chair Mary Bono-Mack have said they will soon introduce a bill that would finally end a regime that has clobbered small businesses with ill-conceived regulations. If Mr. Obama wants to help small business job creation, he could agree that the government doesn't need to mandate a lead testing protocol for every product known to man.
Come March 11, reports filed with the CPSC from virtually any source will be logged into a database that will become available for public viewing on April 1 (no comment!). There has been much press coverage of what a boon to consumers this information will be. What is remarkable is that no one in the media has made the effort to look behind the curtain at how it is really working. The fact is, this show is not ready for prime time.
· Licensees or retailers may be referenced in a report, but because of the database set-up, they cannot respond to the report and would not even be put on notice.
· Currently our system allows us to send only one automatic electronic notification through the business portal to a manufacturer or importer. Anyone else who should receive it gets it sent manually and if sent by "snail mail," that will eat up much of the 10 day turnaround time allotted for manufacturers' responses.
This is hardly an exhaustive list. Yet we are rushing to get this up and going, I suspect, in part, to beat any Congressional action to delay it until these issues can be resolved.
Gee, what a novel idea. I don't see why CPSC couldn't do that and instead insists on launching a defective consumer product. CPSC is supposed to address defective products, not produce them.


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John Gould was born 11 May 1808 in Ontario, Canada, the fifth of twelve children born to Seth Burr Gould and Hannah sager. He married Abigail Harrington. His known children are John Gould, Jr. and Magor G. Gould. He was baptized no later than June 1833 for he was appointed to travel to Jackson County, Missouri, with [[Orson Hyde]] on 21 August 1833 to direct Church leaders in Missouri to seek redress for illegal persecution at law. He left [[Kirtland]] about 31 August 1833 and arrived in Independence about 28 September 1833. A revelation received by [[Joseph Smith]] on 12 October [[1833]] assured the [[Prophet]] that Orson Hyde and John Gould were safe and well. He arrived back in Kirtland on 25 November 1833 bringing the "melancholy intelligence of the riot in Zion" the previous July. . Elder Gould accompanied Joseph Smith and others to seek volunteers for [[Zion's Camp]] in March 1834. After returning to Kirtland he joined with Evan M. Greene in New York to preach gospel 16 June 1834. He and Elder Greene worked in establishing branches of the Church in Freedom, New York, area in 1834. He served another Mission in Catteraugaus County, New York in 1834-35. Elder Gould was ordained a [[Seventy]] in [[1836]]. He was ordained and [[set apart]] as a President of the First Quorum of Seventy 6 April 1837 under the hands of [[Sidney Rigdon]] and [[Hyrum Smith]]. At a conference held at Kirtland, Sept. 3, 1837; he was objected to as a president of Seventies. Six brethren, instead of five, had been selected to fill vacancies in the council of Seventies in April, 1837, it being supposed at the time that Levi W. Hancock, who was absent from Kirtland, had also been ordained a [[High Priest]]. This being a mistake the Prophet requested Bro. [[Joseph Young]] to see John Gould and signify to him the desire of the Prophet to have him placed in the High Priests' quorum. Bro. Gould complied with the wishes of the Prophet, and he was consequently ordained a High Priest. Surviving the persecutions of Missouri, Elder Gould relocated to [[Nauvoo]]. There he received his endowment 3 February [[1846]]. After the expulsion of the Saints from Nauvoo John settled at Cooley's Mill in Pottawatamie County, Iowa where he died 9 May 1851. [[Category:Church Leaders: Past]] [[Category:Members of the First Quorum of the Seventy]]
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Are Current Aluminum Baseball Bat Regulations Enough?
By: Michael L. Wright
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States across the country are looking at aluminum bat regulation following the recent lawsuit filed by Ohio teen Cole Schlesner in September 2013. The teen was struck in the head by a baseball hit with an Easton BT265 aluminum bat. Schlesner's case is quite shocking, but what is even more shocking is that he is not the only teen to suffer extensive injuries from aluminum bats.
Data from the National Center for Catastrophic Injury Research has revealed that there were 52 catastrophic baseball-related injuries between 1983 and 2009. Catastrophic injuries range from traumatic brain injury, to paralysis, to skull fractures, and other injuries resulting in permanent or temporary disablement. Many of these injuries were caused by aluminum bats.
(April,2010 http://www.athleticbusiness.com/articles/article.aspx?articleid=3536&zoneid=46)
Dangers of Aluminum Baseball Bats
Aluminum baseball bats are capable of causing severe injuries. Aluminum bats are less safe because most of the weight in an aluminum bat is in the handle. This makes metal bats easier to swing, which significantly increases ball speed. A player has only .003 seconds to react to an incoming ball hit by an aluminum bat at 96 miles per hour.
Aluminum bats are responsible for many injuries over the past few decades. Below is just a sampling of the many bat-related accidents that have occurred since 2001:
•	In 2001, an Oklahoma high school pitcher was stuck by a line drive off a Hillerich & Bradsby "Air Attack" bat. The teen suffered severe injuries and was awarded actual damages by a jury in 2002.
•	In 2003, a former pitcher from Downstate high school sued manufacturer Hillerich & Bradsby over their "Air Attack" aluminum bat after sustaining injuries from a ball hit by the bat and was awarded $80,000 for medical expenses.
•	In 2009, a boy was killed after he was struck in the head with a baseball hit by a Hillerich & Bradsby "Air Attack" aluminum bat and his family was awarded $850,000.
•	In 2010, California a California teen was hit in the head by a line drive hit off an aluminum bat and nearly died as a result of his injuries. He has not yet sought legal recourse.
•	In 2012, a New Jersey boy was left brain damaged after he was struck in the chest by a baseball hit with a Hillerich & Bradsby aluminum bat. His family was awarded over $14 million in damages.
These frequent and serious injuries showcase why so many states and leagues are clamoring for additional regulations or bans on aluminum bats.
(New York Times, August 23, 2012nytimes.com/2012/08/23/nyregion/lawsuit-over-metal-bats-in-little-league-is-settled.html?_r=0,)
(USA Today, October 29, 2009usatoday30.usatoday.com/sports/baseball/2009-10-29-aluminum-bat-lawsuit_N.htm,) (Chicago Tribune, May, 2003 http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2003-05-10/sports/0305100011_1_louisville-slugger-bat-hillerich-bradsby)
Reducing Aluminum Bat Injuries
Current regulations require the use of BBCOR-certified aluminum bats and bats that are BESR (Bat Exit Speed Ratio) certified, according to Little League rules. Aluminum bats cannot weigh more than three ounces less than its length (a 33-inch bat can weigh 30 ounces).
Although the regulations for baseball bats have tightened since 2012, many states still want additional protective measures. States that have already implemented aluminum bat restrictions include New York, Massachusetts, and Illinois. Conferences in Massachusetts, New Mexico, New Jersey, North Dakota, and Pennsylvania have banned the use of aluminum bats altogether; and California currently has pending legislation to further restrict the use of aluminum baseball bats. All of these new regulations hope to lead to fewer injuries in 2014 and beyond.
(April, 2012
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Two (2) Folk Art Carvings and one (1) Carved Fiddle, 3 items total. 1st item: Rufus Hurley Ball (Virginia, 1920-2018) folk art carved wood owl. Signed and dated "6-25-1975" on the base. 8" H. 2nd item: David C. Ownby (1955-2004) carved wood buffalo on a burlwood stand. Signed and dated "2003" on the base. 6 3/4" H x 10 1/2" L x 5 1/2" D. 3rd item: German Lion's Head violin, in the style of Stainer with abalone inlay. 23 3/4" L x 8" W. 20th century. Provenance: Nancy Walton Collection, Gatlinburg, TN. CONDITION: 1st item: Overall good condition, slight wear to top of head. 2nd item: Very good condition. 3rd item: Missing strings, bridge, tuner, tailpiece and chin rest absent. Overall general wear.


The explicit material, which is the centre of a "blackmail" row between the world's richest man and the National Enquirer, was allegedly passed to the United States tabloid by Michael Sanchez. Their investigation into how the National Enquirer and AMI handled the story, de Becker noted, is "ongoing".
The identity of the Enquirer's source was only one of the many mysteries in a tale that is sordid and tangled, even by supermarket tabloid standards. Neither AMI nor Sanchez have confirmed the claim, but this new report cited multiple anonymous sources inside the media company.
The National Enquirer said Thursday, Jan. 10, 2019, that it had tailed billionaire Jeff Bezos for four months across five states as he secretly rendezvoused with Lauren Sanchez. AMI Chairman and CEO David Pecker has had a long personal and business relationship with Trump, dating back to the late 1990s and has been accused of helping then-candidate Trump bury damaging stories in 2016.


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Bockman to give his "Last Lecture"
Bob Bockman, senior legal writing instructor at USC Law.
Anyone who has ever had the pleasure of corresponding with Bob Bockman, a senior legal writing instructor at the University of South Carolina School of Law, knows of his eloquence, his warmth, and his thoughtfulness. His genuine kindness, apparent whether in person or in writing, is just one of the reasons he is very popular among his pupils. So it should come as no surprise that USC Honors College students chose him to to deliver one of the highly esteemed "Last Lectures."
Bockman will present his speech on Wednesday, Oct. 9 at 7 p.m. in the Gressette Room of Harper College, located on the historic Horseshoe. It is open to the public.
The Last Lecture Series is a program through the Carolina Scholars Program and sponsored by USC Student Government. Students in the Honors College select professors whom they would like to hear, and ask them to speak as if giving their "Last Lecture". This allows students and faculty to hear from professors on topics that they might feel passionate about, but might not necessarily fit their field of study.
Bockman's lecture, however, covers both areas. Titled "Reading, Writing, and Running: The Last Page, the Last Word, the Last Mile," his lecture intends to combine three of his passions and explain how they relate to each other, and how each has impacted him both personally and professionally.
"When I saw his name on the ballot, I thought he was an excellent choice," said Hilary C. Martin, this year's coordinator for the Last Lecture Series. "Having had Professor Bockman for a class myself, I am sure that he will leave the audience still thinking at the end of the lecture."
Indeed, Bockman said he hopes it will do just that. His lecture ties together reading writing and running and compellingly shares what they all have in common: risk, challenge, and liberation.
Certainly, his path as a lawyer and then professor have forced him to read and write volumes over the course of his career. But he is also an avid runner, averaging 35 miles each week. Bockman uses his daily jog "in the enveloping darkness before dawn" to contemplate the things he's read and the things he will write, to stimulate his mind and loosen the bounds of his thinking.
Towards the end of his lecture, he leaves no doubt how intertwined these three pillars are, at least for him:
"Physical activity (and not only running) for the use of knowledge acquired by reading for the purposes of writing offers a liberation when the risk is seized and the challenge is met. There is the sense of freedom in the movement of the body and the air about it. That sense promotes the clarity of thought that is essential to good writing, but it can also encourage a kind of quiet meditation or something like a spiritual awareness from which often come the kind of language in writing that stays with a reader. That liberation is nearly tangibly sensual in its nature."
"It is certainly an honor for the students to ask me to do this. It has given me a chance to reflect on those things that have meant so much to me in my life," he said. "I hope it resonates with them and enriches their time here at Carolina."
As for his love of reading, Bockman replied, "I'm not sure I could name a favorite book because of the universe of books I have read. My favorite book has not been written yet. I continually look for it and hopefully someday I'll find it."
Similarly, his biggest writing accomplishment is not yet fully committed to paper: "Professionally, a particular brief I wrote for the South Carolina Supreme Court was indicative of my best legal writing, but my unfinished baseball novel will probably be the best thing I've ever written."
This entry was posted in Faculty, Special Events on 8 October 2013 by Rob Schaller.


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The feat of Fran Jones, the 8-finger tennis player goes to the Australian Open
Her name is Francesca, for all Fran, Jones and perhaps you are hearing her name for the first time. Not the last, however, because she has accomplished a feat that is exceptional and that will lead her to new challenges. This 20-year-old tennis player has qualified to participate in the Australian Open. The feat lies in the fact that she was born with one less finger in each hand due to a rare syndrome and still manages to hold the racket and play tennis at very high levels.
In the last round of the tournament of Dubai leading to the Australian Grand Slam 6-0 6-1 overtook the Chinese Lu.
It is therefore this English player number 241 of the WTA ranking to go to one of the most important tournaments in the world. He had already participated in the Wimbledon qualifiers, but thanks to a wild card.
The syndrome from which it is affected is ectodermal ectodermal dysplasia, and un genetic anomaly of embryonic development affecting the extremities of the limbs. She has three fingers and one thumb on each hand, three toes on her right foot and four toes on her left. He also has fewer teeth than the others. In her life she has been subjected to many interventions and sport seemed an impossible path.
Not for her. "I always say that one of the greatest pleasures in life is doing what others say you can't do," he told Sky News, "I live by this motto. I think no one should be limited by the opinions of others».
Her passion for tennis was born in elementary school, when her father took her to a summer camp where the sport was practiced. At 9 she moved to Barcelona to attend the Sanchez-Casal Academy and aims to disprove everyone by climbing the world rankings. For her, however, it is not only the result that matters, it is important to be an example. «I was contacted by a family in Argentina with a daughter who has the same syndrome as me and they asked me how I managed to overcome the difficulties. There are no words to describe how wonderful it is to receive such messages. '
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Well don't know if I messed this one up or not. I have a 12 x 48 matrix (Boscoyo matrix sheet). I have this set up in xlights as a 12 string with 48 nodes per string. However, I have used all 50 of the nodes on the pixel string. So the result is that I have doubled back on successive rows by an increment of 2 pixels. My falcon controller is set up with 300 pixels per port. So I have to use two ports to control the 576 pixels on this matrix. I have also setup the falcon to zig each 48 pixels the first series of 300 pixels on controller output 1 works fine. Its the second controller port where I'm getting into trouble. I believe that since port two doesn't start at the beginning of a row that my 48 zig setting is causing the second port pixels to wrap at the wrong interval. So can we have a 12x48 matrix using 50 node strands that has to run on 2 controller ports? I can't seem to figure out how to setup in xLights and the Falcon. . . . Any help would be appreciated.
Ok figured it out. . . Had to do some interesting things in the Falcon. Added two sub port lines on the second matrix port. the first was the length of the remaining 36 pixels in line 7 with a zig of 36. then second sub line is for 48 pixels reversed with 48 zig for line 8. then the third is the remaining 192 pixels with a 48 zig for lines 9-12. Now my text scrolls fine. I will probably fix the matrix and the end of the season to only have 288 pixels per channel. But I have other things to get done before Christmas. . . . . this controller is really amazing!
Any screen shots on this? I ran into the same thing and spend most of yesterday changing my start channel on the Falcon till it lined up. I'm trying to setup 2 matrixes, 24 x 48. Might start a new thread. Sorry to highjack.


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from __future__ import unicode_literals

from django.db import migrations, models

class Migration(migrations.Migration):
    dependencies = [
        ('materialmanager', '0006_delivery_categories'),
    ]

    operations = [
        migrations.AlterModelOptions(
            name='category',
            options={'verbose_name_plural': 'categories'},
        ),
        migrations.AlterModelOptions(
            name='delivery',
            options={'verbose_name_plural': 'deliveries'},
        ),
        migrations.AddField(
            model_name='delivery',
            name='photo',
            field=models.FileField(blank=True, null=True, upload_to=''),
        ),
    ]

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


One of my attempts for fighting winter has been juicing. That freshness, the kick of color, and use of so many good veggies at once could almost trick you into thinking its summer.
My juice of choice right now is spinach, romaine, kale, celery, apple, lemon and ginger. The apartment smells like a farmer's market when I'm done. And if you're a fan of green juices like I am, you will love this combination. It's most certainly a nutrient rich leg up for the day ! I found the original here, and threw the ginger in because whether its sushi, candy, or juice -- too much ginger is never enough.
Heeaayyy Mama I miss you !!


If you read last week's column, I talked about the striking difference in Mr. Shmooze type customer service at the front desk of a top hotel. One person started presenting me with problems to solve, while the other person interrupted and solved all my problems by simply saying, "I will take care of it." Here is another one . . . but not to be redundant . . . I will follow with some new thoughts.
I went to the airport yesterday. I printed my ticket. I used mileage for a first class seat (important to me . . . I am 6'6"). The ticket gave me a coach seat. I went to the counter and the lady there could not help me. She called the awards department.
The lady there said that their agent had made a mistake giving me the first class seat since none were actually available at the mileage I had paid. I obviously said, "That's too bad, I am already here at the desk, ready to go, so just give me another first class seat (which was open) and I can be on my way." She said that while there were indeed other first class seats available, I would have to double my mileage. I asked for the supervisor. After ten minutes on hold, the supervisor, a rude woman who interrupted me at every turn, read strictly from a script and held the party line. So there I was . . . a loyal, platinum, frequent flyer with 4 million miles on my card . . . and the people I spoke to were argumentative, rude and would not help me solve for their mistake. Here is my point.
Back in the late 1970's Japan began to eat our lunch with a higher level of quality control processes (which they had actually learned, in large part, from American advisors). They began to take huge market share in a variety of industries. It took some time, but American companies responded by hiring their own advisors and starting to take quality control and quality service very seriously. The result was a magnificent Renaissance in American manufacturing and service, with many, many companies providing a much more consistent level of quality and customer experience.
Unfortunately, things have regressed. Cost cutters have taken ahold of the process and so called innovation in the form of technology that, in many cases, corrupts rather than enhances the customer experience (automated phone prompts and the like). The result is a serious breach in the relationship between service provider and customer, as companies charge for endless technicalities, cut costs to the bone and, when a problem does come up, take the authority to work with a customer out of the customer service representative's hands (if the person can even speak the same language fluently).
Opportunity is always the child of adversity. Sales and customer service are very close cousins . . . often they are both part of our jobs as salespeople. I have not seen a greater opportunity to differentiate your products/services by re-emphasizing customer service in 35 years. Market share is truly available to companies who get back to the customer service basics. We are all trying to apply Mr. Shmooze type principals and techniques to maximize our customer relationships from the sales side . . . service must be equally passionate to complete the mission.
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This case study offers a day-by-day account of a Diagnosis and Design project with Scottish Life.
In 2007, Scottish Life was seen by the Insurance Brokers as providing the worst Customer Service in the industry.
"Scottish Life, the pensions specialist arm of the Royal London Group, has received two prestigious awards at the annual Financial Adviser Service Awards ceremony. The awards for "5 Star Service" and "Most Improved Life and Pensions Company" were presented at a dinner held at theNationalHistoryMuseuminLondonlast night.
These awards follow on from other significant successes. Scottish Life was recently presented with three other major awards: the Bankhall Pension Provider of the Year award; the Scottish Financial Enterprise Innovators Award; and the Best Group Pension Provider award from Investment Life and Pensions Moneyfacts. Earlier in the year Scottish Life received another 5 star award from FT Adviser, this time for Online Service; and also received Triple 'e' excellence ratings in the Group Personal Pensions and Group CIMP categories from the Financial Technology Research Centre." (The Scotsman).


Economists are also not certain, for example, whether last year's personal income tax cut will lead to higher refunds and boost big-ticket purchases, such as home appliances, typical for this time of year, or whether the windfall was already spent last year when paycheck withholding declined.
The chief financial officer at T-Mobile US told investors last week any delay in refunds was a concern for the company because its prepaid business, roughly 30 percent of sales, was "particularly sensitive" to tax refunds.
A delay in refunds could also hurt home improvement chains, such as Home Depot, Lowe's Cos Inc and Wayfair Inc that see furniture purchases and early spring projects boost sales. "We don't see any material impact," a Home Depot spokesman said without elaborating. Lowe's and Wayfair did not respond to a request for comment.
Consumer spending accounts for about two-thirds of U.S. economic activity, and the 4 percent jump in household spending on goods last year was a major reason the economy probably grew by a healthy 3 percent in 2018. More recently, robust consumption offset weaker-than-expected business investment and the drag from trade, and was expected to mitigate the waning impact of the Trump administration's earlier spending splurge.
These would include chains like McDonald's Corp, Chipotle Mexican Grill and Starbucks Corp, which analysts said will be unable to make up for lost sales to government workers during a shutdown.
Brian Cantor, managing director of Alvarez & Marsal's retail performance improvement group, said grocery chains, including Walmart Inc and Kroger, could feel the pinch of weaker discretionary spending. While food staples sales will hold up, typical add-on purchases like batteries, chips, magazines or chocolates will suffer, hurting profit margins.


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CBP Workout #1: Divide a page in sketchbook into a dozen squares, takes 2 minutes a day to draw anything you happen to see in one of the squares.


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China's record shows it isn't ready for global leadership
Malcolm Cook
Published 9 Jul 2015 14:00 0 Comments
The Asia Pacific's Economies
Michael Thawley's comments on China's present global leadership credentials and ambitions are correct and phrased in the refreshingly direct manner Australians usually take as a badge of national pride and uniqueness.
The fact that his comments caused such a stir in Australia (and seemingly in Australia alone) tells us more about the commentators than the comments themselves.
The Chinese state has so far eschewed attempts at global leadership. Rather, Chinese policy-makers are focusing their institution-building efforts at the regional level, as part of what Beijing refers to rather undiplomatically as 'peripheral diplomacy', and among fellow developing-economy states.
The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), for instance, are both regional institutions. The SCO only has Asian member-states and observer-states, while the AIIB has regional and non-regional members, though membership is in strong favour of the regionals and China itself. The New Development Bank (known widely as the BRICS Bank) is in line with China's decades-old view of itself as a leading state in the developing world.
In existing global multilateral bodies, from the UN Security Council to the WTO, China has been comparatively low-key and primarily focused on defending specific national interests.
China was a late-comer to the WTO and its restrictive trade practices and policies have made it not a leader in that institution but the most frequent subject of cases heard by the WTOs dispute-settlement mechanism. In the G20, a new global body created to better acknowledge rising powers like China and India, Beijing has also failed to take a leading role. In the UN Security Council (another body that has long recognised China's leadership potential), Beijing rarely leads or uses its veto power (unless it is in company with others, usually Russia). On climate change, China was painted as the major villain of the failed 2009 UN summit in Copenhagen.
Recent Pew Research Center polling shows that Australians seem to be a global outlier when it comes to judging China's global economic weight. 57% of Australians mistakenly see China as the world's leading economic power, the highest score among the 40 countries polled. In no other country did a majority of respondents identify China as the world's leading economic power.
The comparatively disproportionate amount of money being invested in Australia into understanding China risks reducing the Australian discussion of Asia as a whole. Given the tempest in the teapot caused by Michael Thawley's remarks, this risk may spill over from Asia, where China is starting to flex its leadership muscles, to the world as a whole, where it is not.
Photo courtesy of Flickr user G20 Australia 2014.
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Q: Python Regex - Identifying the first and last items in a list I need to transform some text files into HTML code. I'm stuck in transforming a list into an HTML unordered list. Example source:

some text in the document
  * item 1
  * item 2
  * item 3
  some other text

The output should be:
some text in the document

item 1

item 2

item 3

some other text

Currently, I have this:
r = re.compile(r'\*(.*)\n')
r.sub('
\1
', the_text_document)

which creates an HTML list without
 tags.
How can I identify the first and last items and surround them with
 tags?

A: You could just process you data line by line .. this quick and dirty solution below could probably be tidied up, but for your data it does the trick.
with open('data.txt') as inf:
    star_count = 0
    for line in inf:
        line = line.strip()

        if not line.startswith('*'):
            if star_count == 1:
                print'
'
            print line
        else:
            if star_count == 0:
                print '
'
                star_count = 1
            print '
%s
'  %line.split('*')[1].strip()

yields:
some text in the document

item 1

item 2

item 3

some other text

Depending on how complex your data, or if you have repeating unumbered lists etc this will require modification and you may want to look for a more general solution, or modify this starter code to fill your needs, only you can decide.
Update:
Edited
 ..
 print line to get rid of * that were previously left.

A: Or use BeautifulSoup
http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/bs4/doc/
edit
I apparently have to give you some hint on how to read documentation.

*

*Open the link

*On the left there is a big menu (teal color)

*If you look carefully you will notice that the documentation is divided in multiple sections

*

*Stuffs

*Navigation in the tree

*Searching the tree

*Modifying the tree (got it)

*Output (got it!)

And many more things

Beautiful Soup is a Python library for pulling data out of HTML and XML files. It works with your favorite parser to provide idiomatic ways of navigating, searching, and modifying the parse tree. It commonly saves programmers hours or days of work.

Don't stop reading after the first sentence... The last one is pretty important and what's in the middle to.
In other word, you can create an empty document... let say:
soup = BeautifulSoup("

")
document = soup.div

then you read each lines of you text.. and then do that whenever you have text.
document.append(line)

if the line starts with a `*``
ul = document.new_tag('ul')
document.append(ul)
document = ul

then push all the li on the document... and once you end up reading *, just pop the parent so the document gets back to the div. And keep doing that... you can even do it recursively to insert ul into uls.
Once you parsed everything... you can do
str(document)

or
document.prettify()

Edit
just realized that you weren't editing the html but a unformatted text.. You could try using markdown then.
http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/

A: After playing with some ideas, I've decided to go with a second regex.
So basically, after running the first regex (from my original post, that creates the
 tags), I run:
r = re.compile(r'(
.*?
\n(?!\s*
))', re.DOTALL)
r.sub('
\\1
', string_with_li_tags)

This will find the first match of
 tag and the last match of
\n combo, not followed by a
 tag (which essentially means the entire list) and add
 tags.
EDIT:
I modified the regex a bit so it won't be greedy. This way it can handle multiple lists in the same document. Only requirement is that there are no spaces between list items, as @Aprillion mentioned below
EDIT 2:
Modified the negative lookahead to treat spaces between list items as well, so all cases are covered