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How an Italian Translator Found an Unlikely Home in the Utah Desert
Sara Reggiani on Belonging, Kinship, and Translating Ellen Meloy's Nature Writing
By Sara Reggiani
The spare desert stirred the most luxuriant imagining; shadows and color bore meaning, light a deliriously languid ecstasy […] Often there would come to me mysteries more intriguing than any lucidity—how, for instance, in a place with few or no human beings, one could begin to see the worth of what it means to be human.
–Ellen Meloy
The Anthropology of Turquoise is less a book to me than a river that has long run through walls of rock, excavating, capturing, carrying away all it encountered. Just why this river decided to flow into my life I can't say, but I find peace in recounting the events that bind me to it and wonder if perhaps in reading about them you will find some too. Writing is not my profession. The act at once attracts and terrifies me. I'm a translator, and translators don't like to hear their own voice. But this time I can't hide behind the words of others, because the story of this book is also my own. What I've done for it, I've done for myself.
I was introduced to Ellen Meloy by a friend. Following our first encounter he recommended me a few collections of nature writing. He had sensed my fascination for the vast open spaces of the West and imagined I would enjoy reading the accounts of those who had experienced and loved those very spaces. Ellen appeared at the top of a list that included authors such as Barry Lopez, Camille Dungy, Annie Dillard and Rebecca Solnit. I picked up a copy of The Anthropology of Turquoise and for a couple months let it sit in the limbo that is my personal reading shelf.
At that time, my husband Leonardo and I had just founded Black Coffee and were traveling across Italy presenting our idea to booksellers. And so I began reading The Anthropology of Turquoise in front of Lake Como on a clear spring day. I was worn out from all the constant movement, and remember how the lush green of the surrounding forest and the turquoise water reinvigorated me, anchored me to the present, stabilized me. And in that state of vibrant calm, I found the serenity to dedicate time to myself. I could never have known that from that act of reading a wave would emanate powerful enough to carry me to the other side of the planet, to a part of the world where people long for water as if it were a precious gem.
That's where Ellen Meloy began, 8,000 miles to the West of me, sitting on that shore on Lake Como. Her biography I would later find, had the same mixture of change and love that took me from a lonely translator's desk to the shores of book publishing. Born in Pasadena, Meloy (née Ditzler) began her exploration of the desert in the arid California foothills, which she would later leave behind to follow her father on his travels as an airplane pilot for the federal government. She received a university degree in London, studied in Florence, Rome and Paris and for a time worked as an illustrator in Baltimore and San Francisco.
But the desert would soon reclaim her.
In 1979, after completing an Environmental Science degree at the University of Montana, she moved to the city of Helena and in 1985, in the Elkhorn Mountains, she and Mark Meloy were married. A few years later, Mark took a job as a ranger in the Desolation and Gray Canyon area of the Green River and the couple moved to Bluff, in Southern Utah. Seven seasons later Ellen published her first collection of essays, Raven's Exile: A Season on the Green River, and from then until her death in 2004, from the desk in the home she and Mark built on the banks of the San Juan River, she never ceased to honor these places through her potent, lucid words.
What attracted her more than anything to this landscape was the paradoxical contrast between the vermilion red of the canyons and the turquoise skies that overlook the desert. In English the word turquoise means both the color—the middle ground between yellow and blue, a pulsating place of tension Ellen could never let go of—as well as the gemstone the desert conceals in its innards, "the burden of waters." Turquoise, the stone the Indians have long revered and worn as an amulet to bring prosperity and good fortune.
In a Martian landscape of blazing stone and blond, windswept dunes, the sight of turquoise is an electric shock, reawakening the feeling of life, accelerating the heartbeat.
"Turquoise. It is the stone of the desert. It is the color of yearning. […] It comes from arid, dusty, stripped-down, skinned-earth places. It occurs almost exclusively in the geography of ascetism, in broken lands of bare rock and infrequent green. Set against the palette of desolation, a piece of turquoise is like a hole open to the sky."
In a Martian landscape of blazing stone and blond, windswept dunes, the sight of turquoise is an electric shock, reawakening the feeling of life, accelerating the heartbeat. In search of that shock, Ellen didn't hesitate to venture into a world, as she defines it, "of beauty and violence." Her deepest desire was to attain a sensory connection to the environment she had chosen to call home and in doing so chart a map of her own interior universe. For a long time she limited herself to observing, to paying attention to her own "neighbors," the living things with whom she shared the land—the yucca and prickly pear, the lizards, ravens, red-tailed hawks, even the coyotes, bighorn sheep, mule deer—and had to learn to live alongside. Laying stretched out on the rocks she became one with the environment surrounding her, a creature of dust and sun whose sinuous folds sheltered a heart of turquoise.
"I no longer want to know the names of things. I do not care if I ran mute or if my tongue is useless for everything but the taste of salt. The verbal map is the wrong map. It is a labyrinth to false treasure. This toxic, wholly liquid place lies outside words but well within the realm of the sensual. The colors come forth for their own sheer ecstasy."
Alone and disarmed, Ellen sought to understand the origin of this visceral attachment she felt towards these places that didn't belong to her by birthright but that she nonetheless perceived as a part of her. She began to ask what clues the eye latched onto in order to determine that a given landscape was home ("How does vision, this tyrant of the senses, draw someone to a piece of earth? What do the eyes rest upon—mind disengaged, heart not—that combines senses and affection into homeland?"). In the silence she would understand it was the shapes and combination of colors that inspired in her that state of intoxication. ("Intoxication with color," she writes, "sometimes subliminal, often fierce, may express itself as a profound attachment to landscape. It has been rightly said: Color is the First principle of Place.") The sense of belonging one feels before a certain view, Ellen writes, does not require elaborate justification or a careful study of a family tree. Perhaps the issue is simpler: it is the colors that speak directly to our genealogy, reawakening in us an intimate connection with the landscape our ancestors sensed was most conducive to their own innate qualities and strengths.
This handful of words was enough to push me to publish The Anthropology of Turquoise. I became convinced that, in a society where far too often we value what is less relevant and find meaning when there isn't any, many others like myself might need to be reassured of the wisdom of their own instincts. If even just once in your life you've felt you belonged somewhere other than where you were born, and were almost ashamed to feel this way because you didn't know this place deeply, because it wasn't yours and there was no pressure to make it feel as if it was, and if at a certain point, fully aware of condemning yourself to an eternal exile, you still chose to carve out for yourself a tiny corner in this place, then this book is also for you.
A few weeks after acquiring the publication rights to The Anthropology of Turquoise I received an email from Ellen's younger brother Grant. Mark had called to let him know an Italian publisher was planning to put out the book, and his happiness at this thought pushed him to get in touch with me. He had been there while Ellen was writing, was physically present in the events described in the essays that make up the book, and in the absence of his sister he was offering to help me untangle knots and interpret passages. If you need me, I'm here, he wrote.
But a few years back, during a trip to Arizona, I came to know a small part of the American desert and since then I've never been the same. A weight fell from my heart.
In the subsequent lines I would discover that "here" wasn't only figurative: Grant, a retired teacher, engraving artist and historical researcher, was in Italy conducting research for a project he'd had in the works for years, and more precisely he was writing me from the San Giovanni Library in Pesaro. Florence has been my home for the last twelve years, but I was born in Pesaro, the city where my parents and sister still live. Do you think it would be possible to meet, get to know each other better and talk a little about Ellen? Grant asked at the end of his letter. I raised my gaze from the computer screen and for a few moments couldn't move a muscle. I tend to not put too much stock in coincidences. Often they are merely mirages arising from a strong desire. But this was impossible to ignore.
To me The Anthropology of Turquoise had much to do with the concept of "home": wherever I've lived—I must have changed at least fifteen houses in my life—I've always felt like I'm just passing through, an outsider. I'm no good at being still. But a few years back, during a trip to Arizona, I came to know a small part of the American desert and since then I've never been the same. A weight fell from my heart.
By the time Grant wrote me I had already decided to publish The Anthropology of Turquoise, because reading it had liberated me: with her words Ellen had granted me the right to feel what I was feeling. If I had found harmony in the American desert, perhaps this was more than mere suggestion. Sooner or later I will return, I kept telling myself. But that day, unexpectedly, the desert had reached out for me. A fissure had opened in the rock and with its long fingers had crossed the ocean. It didn't want to be just a faraway place, a mirage. Through Ellen it was calling out to me.
I wrote to tell Grant I was ready to meet, and that the library he was sitting in was the same one I went to as a child to work on school projects, that the street it sits on is the same one where, twenty years earlier, I would walk arm in arm with my best friend every Saturday afternoon.
A couple weeks later we met in Florence and embraced like two long-separated old friends. It was the type of embrace I've shared with very few people in my life. The next few hours are like a flash of lightning in my memory. Sat in my kitchen drinking coffee, with a map of the American Southwest and my laptop open before us, we searched Bluff on Google Maps. Grant wanted to take me there, to the house Ellen had built with Mark in one of the most desolate parts of Utah. He wanted me to retrace her footsteps, to meet the people who were important to her, to understand for myself just what the desert can do to a person's heart. He couldn't have known that my own had already fallen prey to that enchantment. He wasn't surprised to hear this when I told him. He didn't want to know why his sister's words had left such a deep imprint on me. He asked me only to meet, one year later, in Bluff, where we would find Mark.
The silence, the vastness and desolation of the terrain inspire a state of mute contemplation, a sense of self-removal from the frenzied world of human beings and elicit an acceptance of the ascetic life.
At this we said goodbye, with an embrace that felt like a promise.
"For me the bond between self and place is not conscious—no truth will arrive that way—but entirely sensory." A few months later I reread these words as Leonardo and I prepared to leave for the United States. We had had to clear everything out of our apartment for some restoration work that would soon be starting and hopefully completed while we were away. I remember waking at dawn on the morning of our departure. The apartment was immersed in a deep silence, the furniture lay covered in sheets of opaque plastic, the walls were bare. Light filtered in through the windows, tracing an alien landscape. Are you still my home? I said to no one.
We arrived in Bluff from Salt Lake City on September 30, having driven for miles through the land of the canyons, an inferno of rock that would rear up dizzyingly only to drop off a cliff's edge, vanish into thin air, dissolve into a sea of sand before rising anew from the parched riverbeds that bring life to this ancient landscape, one orphaned by water. The kingdom of an omnipotent sun, a place capable of wavering even the steadiest minds, insinuating doubts sharp as knives. The silence, the vastness and desolation of the terrain inspire a state of mute contemplation, a sense of self-removal from the frenzied world of human beings and elicit an acceptance of the ascetic life. The Mormons know something about this, having chosen this as the land on which to build their church. But the desert is cruel to those who cross it as if it were simply a film set. The desert punishes those who believe they can tame it, shields itself from eyes that have already decided what to see. The desert could care less what it is you wish to see. The desert sees you.
The only directions I had for finding Mark's house were the name of a state road (no house number) and a vague reference to its location being "right after Bluff" if you were coming from the North. Once we reached the small town, to avoid wandering aimlessly towards a potentially unhappy outcome, I did what I always do, which, depending on your point of view, could be called either laziness or wisdom: I asked for help. I went into a shop and asked the owner if he'd heard of Mark. He replied that yes, he knew him and that at a certain point I should have made a left onto a narrow, dirt road just after the stone slab with the town's name etched into it.
Immediately I saw in my mind the area Google Maps had shown me in detail. I then glided down from above to street level, flew over the brushwood driveway and pulled into the yard. Back in the car, on the actual earth, we retraced our steps rapidly, and came on the house in minutes. Mark's best friend Steve came out to meet me. He had come down from the state of Washington to meet Leonardo and me, and to join us for those days of exploration. Then Grant appeared in the doorway and behind him an imposing man with messy white hair and eyes like two slivers of sky. I already knew much about him because he appeared often in Ellen's books – they were deeply in love—but once more it took an embrace to make me realize just who I had before me and what I represented to him. Mark was silent for a long time as he held me to his chest. "Thank you," he then said. And it seemed to me not another single word existed in the world.
That night I couldn't close my eyes: I was afraid to miss the dawn, the moment when the sun would dye pink the rocky ridge that rose right outside my window, beyond the field of rabbitbrush dotted with yellow flowers. Then dawn came and went and I emerged to find Mark and Grant waiting for me at the breakfast table along with a row of juicy cantaloupe slices Mark had procurred for the occasion.
We Europeans are accustomed to taking whatever it is we want, to do anything to obtain it, and I am no different.
Together at the table we read through some of the passages from The Anthropology of Turquoise I had struggled to translate. I would hold my finger on the page and await their response, which would never arrive without some delay. Grant and Mark would trade silent looks, messages I couldn't decipher. They would then hazard an interpretation, hesitant, wishing they could be more precise. At times they would simply grin. Poor you, they'd say, because Ellen was a rare breed, a sui generis naturalist (in this very book she writes: "A great deal of nature writing sounds like a cross between a chloroform stupor and a high mass") equipped with an extremely particular sense of humor, one almost impossible to express in another language.
It was that morning, I believe, that they truly came to understand the weight of the task I'd taken on. And, as if to remedy this, from that point on they never stopped teaching ("this smooth, wind-polished rock is called slickrock, this dark patina is called desert varnish, these are Yucca elata seeds…"), showing me things (the room where Ellen wrote, her favorite cactus, the pictograms at Comb Ridge, Butler Wash, Cedar Mesa, Mule's Ear, Procession Panel…) or introducing me to people. Out on the trails they would constantly bend down to gather stones, flowers, raven feathers—and one day even one of those rubber ducks Ellen would always find on the banks of the San Juan, escaped from the factory upriver and carried to the valley on the current—which they would place in my hands with almost religious solemnity. If at sunset I turned away from the canyons to speak with them, they would implore me to turn back around—"We are not the spectacle here."
Everything you see and find must stay where you saw and found it, explained Mark, an expert on the territory and the people to inhabit it over the centuries. This was the hardest lesson to learn: leaving things as they were, resisting the temptation to make them my own. Can you imagine the feeling of finding an Indian arrowhead in perfect condition and not being able to slip it into your pocket? A fire bursts in your chest, threatens to burn you alive, the desire is so strong that for a moment nothing else matters. We Europeans are accustomed to taking whatever it is we want, to do anything to obtain it, and I am no different. Denied this satisfaction of possession, I had no choice but to observe, listen, touch, smell. I could no longer sleep. My skin was dry and dark, like when I was a child at the end of summer. I was all eyes, nose, ears, no mouth. A passage from The Anthropology of Turquoise resounded in my head:
Each of us possesses five fundamental, enthralling maps to the natural world: sight, touch, taste, hearing, smell. As we unravel the threads that bind us to nature, as denizens of data and artifice, amid crowds and clutter, we become miserly with these loyal and exquisite guides, we numb our sensory intelligence. This failure of attention will make orphans of us all.
On the third day Grant and Mark took us to the banks of the San Juan. They had organized a rafting trip down to Mexican Hat to help us forge a more intimate bond with the river that had meant so much to Ellen and her work. "The San Juan River flows by my home and is so familiar, it is more bloodstream than place," she wrote.
For the first time in a long while I felt clear headed, in control of my own body and strangely at ease.
We would be camping for two nights. On the Navajo side of the river. This was technically illegal, but Mark, a former ranger, had been doing it for years, and his lie to the ranger in charge, who had, as is customary, come to inspect our equipment before we dropped the raft in the water, came with a smile.
Those who know me know I'm a petite woman who inspires in others a sense of protection, and have been treated this way my entire life. But on the river I began to glimpse a different version of myself: Mark and Grant wouldn't let me just sit there, they always gave me something to do and through this I discovered a strength I didn't know I possessed. The more I walked, the more I wanted to walk. My feet were no longer my own. I would wait for hours, eyes fixed on a rock face, hoping to spot a desert bighorn, the animal to which Ellen had dedicated her life along with one of her most successful works, Eating Stone: Imagination and the Loss of the Wild. I carried backpacks and other bags taller than I was and at night slept soundly despite the deep, endless darkness that surrounded the tent. For the first time in a long while I felt clear headed, in control of my own body and strangely at ease.
One day we climbed to the top of a hill to reach an ancient Anasazi site, one of the area's most beautiful and uncontaminated (the Anasazi are the ancient people who occupied the Colorado Plateau around the 10th-century BC, ancestors of the modern Hopi and Zuni tribes). The earth was strewn with metates and manos—tools used by the native peoples for grinding seeds—all perfectly preserved, and even though we'd walked far and were running out water, I continued to wander as if I'd fallen into a state of feverish delirium, tormented by the thought of literally crunching history under my feet. The sky was a panel of turquoise, the high sun had erased the outline of all things. With my finger I was gently brushing a metate, as smooth as velvet, when Mark came over to me. "I don't know why I like them so much," I remember telling him. "Maybe your own people once used them," he replied, "perhaps you have Indian blood in your veins," as if it were the most obvious thing in the world. And I knew it wasn't possible, knew I had no Indian blood in my veins, but for days I'd had a knot in my heart that in that moment dissolved, and in silence I cried. Later, I understood my tears came from the sensation that what Mark had really meant was: If you enter with respect, this can be your home too.
"Home is something you earn," wrote Ellen. "Home is like a religion. Sensibly you understand the need of it, yet not even sensible people can explain it."
"After Ellen's death I found myself wandering in the Goosenecks State Park," recounted Liza, Ellen's best friend and the owner of the Bluff trading post, on the eve of our departure. "I felt hopeless, I just couldn't make sense of why she was no longer here. Then I remember I saw my first golden eagle of the season, which began to circle directly above me. I knew it was Ellen, come to tell me that everything would be fine. This morning too I saw my first golden eagle. And then you showed up."
That evening Liza gifted me a turquoise ring and smiled from her doorstep before yelling out a Ciao, bella that still rings in my ears.
Every nature girl and boy should be prepared to defend the places they love. Otherwise we have not earned them.
Treating nature as a pet or a therapist ends up little better than treating it as a slave. Kinship demands reciprocity. Every nature girl and boy should be prepared to defend the places they love. Otherwise we have not earned them. When we march in from the starry nights and dazzling rivers, we must argue on their behalf, pressure politicians and other moronic invertebrates to wean themselves from their unsightly addiction to corporate blubber and for once act in favor of things that matter, like air to breathe, water to drink, and space to roam. We must exalt the biocentric paradigm, speak for the creatures that have no voice, staunch the lunatic hemorrhage of wild lands from the face of the planet.
Ellen wrote these words in the essay "Tilano's Jeans," and until the day of her death defended the place she had come to love, earning herself the right to call it home. Will we have the courage to do the same?
From The Anthropology of Turquoise by Ellen Meloy, trans. Sara Reggiani. Used with the permission of Freeman's. Copyright © 2020 by Sara Reggiana.
Sara Reggiani
Sara Reggiani is co-publisher of Edizioni Black Coffee, and has translated numerous books from English into Italian.
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"I'm proud to say this plan will ensure K-Country remains a global destination that lives up to the legacy and vision of the late premier Peter Lougheed," said Shannon Phillips, minister of environment and parks.
Projects along a six-kilometre span from Canoe Meadows to the Lower and Upper Barrier Lake day-use areas, including the visitor centre and Widowmaker day-use area will be supported by the funding.
"There will be formalized river access points and trails, a new walking tent camping route, improvements to parking lots, upgrades to shelters, picnic tables and fire pit," said Phillips.
There will also be increased support for whitewater training and water sport equipment rentals.
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The Alberta Whitewater Association is applauding the investment into sport, recreation and tourism infrastructure in the area.
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As well, to protect wildlife, development will be focused on human-use closer to the river and away from Highway 40.
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Drobeta-Turnu Severin (), colloquially Severin, is a city in Mehedinți County, Oltenia, Romania, on the northern bank of the Danube, close to the Iron Gates. "Drobeta" is the name of the ancient Dacian and Roman towns at the site, and the modern town of Turnu Severin received the additional name of Drobeta during Nicolae Ceaușescu's national-communist dictatorship as part of his myth-making efforts.

The city administers three villages: Dudașu Schelei, Gura Văii, and Schela Cladovei. The city's population is 92,617 (2011), up from 18,628 in 1900.

Etymology

Drobeta
Drobeta was a Dacian town. The Roman castrum built by Emperor Trajan at the site preserved the Dacian name (see "History" section). According to Hamp and Hyllested, Drobeta reflects a roman misinterpretation of *Druwā-tā (the wooden place) with a postposed article, reflecting an old Albanian syntag for wood druwa-tai

Severin
The city's name was originally linked by historians with the Roman Emperor Septimius Severus, during whose reign the name of the city was Drobeta Septimia Severiana. However, the name may be derived from Old Church Slavonic severno ("northern"), from sěverъ, "north".

Another possibility is that Severin's name was taken in memory of Severinus of Noricum, who was the patron saint of the medieval colony Turnu, initially a suffragane of the Diocese of Kalocsa.

Turnu
The name of Turnu ("Tower") refers to a tower on the north bank of the Danube built by the Byzantines. Thus, the name of the city would mean "Northern Tower".

In other languages
Foreign names include Hungarian Szörényvár or Szörénytornya, Bulgarian Турну Северин and Serbian Дробета-Турн Северин/Drobeta-Turn Severin.

Geography and climate
It is situated in western Oltenia, at the edge of the Topolnița depression, 220 km south-east of Timișoara, 113 km west of Craiova and 353 km west of Bucharest.

The region's climate gives Severin warm summers and mild winters, meaning the city is home to magnolia trees, Caucasian nut trees, and ginkgo biloba as well as the almond trees, figs, lilacs, lindens, and chestnut trees more common throughout Europe. The climate in the region can be classified as a "sub-Mediterranean climate".

History

The first written document, mentioning the city 1,870 years earlier, was commemorated in 1992.

Dacian and Roman times
Drobeta was a Dacian town the mentioned by Greek geographer Ptolemy of Alexandria (2nd century AD).

The Romans kept the name after building a castra at the site. The tower which supplied the Turnu part of the city's name stood on a small hill surrounded by a deep moat. Near Turnu Severin are the remains of the celebrated Trajan's Bridge, the largest in the Empire. Here, the Danube is about 1,200 metres (4,000 feet) broad. Built in only three years (AD 103–105) by the famous architect Apollodorus of Damascus, the bridge was considered the most daring work in the Roman world. The bridge was built on 20 pillars of stone blocks, was 1135 m long, 14.55 m wide and 18.60 m high. Each bridge head had its own portal monument, whose remains can still be seen on both sides of the Danube. Oaks from 200 hectares of forest were used for the wooden parts of the construction. The bridge was composed of twenty arches supported by stone pillars. Only two of them are still visible at low water.

Drobeta became, from a strategic perspective, a town at the crossing of land and water roads which led to the north and south of the Danube. It became the first urban center in the region and the third of Dacia after Sarmizegetusa and Apullum. During the reign of Emperor Hadrian (AD 117–138), the settlement was declared a city in 121. At this point the population had reached 14,000. During the reign of Septimius Severus (193–211), the city was raised to the rank of a colony (193), which gave its residents equal rights with citizens of Rome. As a colony, Drobeta was a thriving city with temples, a basilica, a theater, a forum, a port and guilds of craftsmen. In the middle of the 3rd century, Drobeta covered an area of 60 hectares and had a population of almost 40,000 inhabitants.

After the retreat of the Roman administration from Dacia in the 4th century, the city was preserved under Roman occupation as a bridge head on the north bank of the Danube until the 6th century. Destroyed by Huns in the 5th century, it was rebuilt by Justinian I (527-565).

Middle Ages
The fortress of Severin was built by the Kingdom of Hungary under Ladislaus I (1077–1095) as a strategical point against the Second Bulgarian Empire. Along with the forming of the Vallachian Voivodeships (Voievodatele Valahe), the Severin fortress was a reason for a war over a period of several generations between Oltenian Voievodes (Litovoi, Bărbat, then Basarab I) and Hungarians. The war ended with the Battle of Posada. Romanians then fought the Ottoman Empire, which threatened the area of the Danube. In this context, castles on the banks of the river, the area from Iron Gates to Calafat, began to be restored.

When the Hungarians attacked Oltenia and conquered Severin's fortress, Andrew II of Hungary organized the Banate of Severin. The first Ban of Severin, Luca, was mentioned in 1233. This year may be taken as the date of birth of a new castle over the ruins of Drobeta, under the name Severin (Severinopolis). It was a basis for the Banate of Severin, Terra Zeurino (Țara Severinului – Country of Severin). Severin's name was taken in memory of Severinus of Noricum, who was the patron saint of the medieval colony Turnu, initially a suffragane of the Diocese of Kalocsa.

In 1247, the Hungarian Kingdom brought the Knights of St. John to the country, giving them Severin as a residence, where they built the medieval castle of Severin (this is the Castrul Zeurini mentioned in Diploma of the Joannites in 1247). Inside the strong fort a Gothic church was erected. This was presumably the headquarters of the Catholic episcopate of Severin that was there until 1502. The knights withdrew in 1259, while the fortress remained in the range of the cannons of Turks, Bulgarians and Tatars who wanted to cross the Danube. The Hungarians still wanted to attack Oltenia.

Severin Fortress was the most important strategic redoubt on the Danube. Its conquest meant to gain an important bridgehead in the region.

Romanian Voivodes have also fought for this powerful fortress, conquering it or claiming it from time to time. Litovoi and Basarab I died at this fortress. Mircea the Elder (Mircea cel Bătrân) established Bănia Severinului (Banate of Severin) and, in 1406, concluded a treaty of alliance with Sigismund of Hungary right in Severin. After the death of Mircea, Sigismund freed the Severin Fortress occupied by the Turks, and even made some concessions to the monasteries of Vodița and Tismana. Then Banate of Severin returned to John Hunyadi, who consolidated all the castles on the Danube. Around 1432, possession passed to the Wallachian voivodes.

After the fall of Constantinople in 1453, attacks on the Danubian fortresses were made, moving the Banate residence to Strehaia. Later in Craiova, the Severin population migrating to Cerneți village at 6 km north, which became the capital of the Mehedinți district. In 1524, after a devastating attack by the Turks led by Suleiman the Magnificent, Litovoi only one tower of the fortress Severin was left standing, which led to the appointment of the Mehedinți people by Turnul lui Severin (Tower of Severinus). Then it was seized by the Ottoman Empire in 1524. Under Ottoman occupation, the territory's administration moved to the west of Oltenia and was centered in Cerneţi. In 1936, Prof. Dr. Al. Bărăcilă executed excavations at the fortress, where he managed to reconstruct the layout of the castle and recovered rich archaeological materials (rails, iron, copper, stone cannonballs, pipe of a bronze cannon etc.). The fortress was rectangular shaped with two walls made of unprocessed river stones, glued with mortar. In the center of the castle there was a chapel, surrounded by graves, built in part with materials taken from Drobeta Castrum. Also in the fortress was an oven-hearth serving a weapons workshop. Inside the interior, to the north, was a tower with three floors used for defense; to the east a second tower, thicker, at the angle of the wall. The entrance to the castle was through a gate dome and the fortress was surrounded by a deep moat. Severin was under Ottoman rule until 1829 except Wallachian occupation between 1594 and 1599 and Austrian one between 1718 and 1738.

For nearly 300 years the fortress was rebuilt after each battle to defend Wallachia against the Hungarians and Turks. Former Drobeta was reborn. Later, monuments from the Ancient Age embedded in the walls of new fortresses were discovered. Two Christian churches, Catholic and Eastern Orthodox, coexisted during these three centuries.

Modern times

After gaining freedom from Ottoman control as a consequence of the Treaty of Adrianople in 1829, it was decided to rebuild the present city. A rigorous program started in 1836. It was followed, in 1858, by the construction of the harbor. By 1900 the national road, rail, the Carol and Elisabeta boulevards, Navigația Fluvială Românească (River Navigation of Romania), the railway workshops, the shipyard (which in 1914 was the largest in the country), the Roman Hall, the Municipal Palace, three churches and two hospitals were built. In 1883, on May 15, Theodor Costescu established Traian High School, which in the next century would become a modern school of national prestige. The building of industrial factories spurred the development of the city. In 1841, Severin became the capital of the county and in 1851 became a city. As a major port on the Danube, the freedom of trade facilitated the entry of goods by boat from Vienna and the exchange of material necessary for economic development. Severin experienced a steady economic, urban and social growth until 1972, when it received the name of Drobeta-Turnu Severin.

In 1914, the Water Castle (Castelul de Apă) was opened. Considered an emblematic monument to the people of Severin, it gives identity to the city by being built in one of the major traffic roundabouts of the settlement.

In the inter-war period, the city of Turnu Severin managed to be placed among the eighteen largest urban centers in all of Romania. The city became a metropolis of culture by the initiatives of the Traian High School and institutions that reside in the imposing halls of the Palace of Culture: library, museum, theater, cinema, choral ensemble "Doina", "Lumina" Society, and Free University. These institutions continued during the communist regime. In the latter period, building was less in central neighborhoods, with the specific architecture of the city surviving the countrywide campaugn of demolitions unleashed by the Ceauşescu regime.

Among the most remarkable buildings of this period were - Hotel "Parc" residence SHN "Iron Gates", the Administration Palace, Youth House, shop "Decebal", House of Trade Unions and kinetic fountain in front of the Cultural Palace. In 1968, Turnu Severin became the capital of the county, concurrently becoming a city ("municipiu"). In 1972, the name of the ancient Drobeta was added to the city's name, and it became Drobeta-Turnu Severin.

Population (1859–2011)

Notable natives

Gallery

See also
 Iron Gates Region Museum
 Iron Gate I Hydroelectric Power Station

References

External links

 Catholic Encyclopedia- Rumania
 Drobeta-Turnu Severin - Defineste-ti orasul

Capitals of Romanian counties
Cities in Romania
Localities in Oltenia
Planned cities in Romania
Populated places in Mehedinți County
Populated places on the Danube
Port cities and towns in Romania
Roman towns and cities in Romania

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Norma Therese Falby (May 10, 1917 – September 19, 2006) — pen name Norma Lorre Goodrich — was an American professor of French, comparative literature and writing who taught in the University of Southern California and Claremont Colleges for 45 years and published several popular books on Arthuriana.

Goodrich was noted for her thesis, first presented in a 1986 book titled King Arthur, that the legendary monarch was not a myth, but a real person, who lived not in England or Wales, as conventionally understood, but in Scotland. In her interpretation, Queen Guinevere was a Pictish queen, and Sir Lancelot a Scottish king. Her scholarly methodology involved back-translating Latin place names found in Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae  to what she believed to be their Celtic originals. Her findings have not been accepted by Galfridian scholars.

Biography

Youth and education
Goodrich was born May 10, 1917, in Huntington, Vermont, the daughter of Charles Edmund and Edyth Annie (Riggs) Falby. When she was 5, an aunt gave her a copy of Alfred, Lord Tennyson's book The Idylls of the King, and set her on a literary path. Goodrich graduated from the University of Vermont in 1938 with a bachelor's degree and continued her studies at universities in France, where she lived for many years and once owned and directed a school.

Career
She married Joseph Lorre and the couple had a son, Jean-Joseph Lorre, but they divorced in 1946. At the age of nearly 50 she earned doctoral degrees in French and Roman philology from Columbia University in 1965. The previous year, she had remarried, to John Hereford Howard, and began teaching French and comparative literature at the University of Southern California rising ultimately to an assistant professorship. In 1971, after an associate professorship, she became dean of the faculty at Scripps College, a women's college in Claremont and one of the five undergraduate Claremont Colleges. After retirement, she became a professor emerita.

Popular writings
Using the pen name "Norma Lorre Goodrich", she began publishing books for a popular audience in 1960, beginning with "Myths of the Hero," an exploration of myths from ancient and medieval times. In it she wrote, "The hero myth may be the one that has most influenced culture down the centuries."
By 1986, now professor emerita at the Claremont Colleges, she had turned her attention full-time to the legend of King Arthur. That year she told a Los Angeles Times reporter that she had discovered a void in Arthurian scholarship: "All the books on Arthur have been on the mythology, the legend," but not the history. (Of course, this was not true; many books had already investigated the "historical Arthur".) Goodrich traveled extensively in Britain and France and laid claim to having mastered several ancient and modern languages. She and her husband traveled to Scotland and followed routes laid out by ancient maps, unearthing clues to the historical King Arthur. She adopted the view that the 12th century pseudo-historian, Geoffrey of Monmouth had known that Arthur had not been in England, but in Scotland, but had concealed this unpopular view by listing the names of Arthur's battles in Latin rather than Gaelic—the original Celtic language of Scotland. "When I finally figured out what he was doing, I translated the Latin back into Gaelic," Goodrich told the Riverside Press-Enterprise in 1994. She then found that the names coincided with places in Scotland. (The conventional view has always been that Geoffrey was describing places in southwestern England or Wales.) From her analyses of ancient languages, Goodrich discerned that Guinevere was a Pictish queen and Lancelot a Scottish king.

Goodrich's books were infrequently reviewed in scholarly journals and generally ignored by academic authorities. (For example, neither Norris J. Lacy's The New Arthurian Encyclopedia (1996) nor Alan Lupack's The Oxford Guide to Arthurian Literature and Legend (2005), both of which are exhaustive, mention her works in their vast indexes.) One exception was Rosemary Morris's review of King Arthur in the journal Albion. Morris was scathing. She found Goodrich's work to be

Final years

Her husband John died in February 1995 at the age of 77. Goodrich died on September 19, 2006 of natural causes at her home in Claremont, California. Her obituary in the Los Angeles Times stated that "the fact that her King Arthur findings contradicted those of other scholars did not trouble Goodrich".

Works
Myths of the Hero (1960)
The Ancient Myths (1960; PB: Mentor, New American Library)
Medieval Myths
 Revised/expanded edition (1977)
Le Morte D'Arthur, Abridged and introduced By Norma Lorre Goodrich (1963; Washington Square Press)
Charles, Duke of Orleans: Poet and Prince (1963; Macmillan Company)
The Ways of Love: Eleven Romances of Medieval France (1965; George Allen & Unwin)
Charles of Orleans: A Study of His French and His English Poetry (1967; Geneva: Libraire Droz)
Giono: Master of Fictional Modes (1973; Princeton University Press)
King Arthur (1986)
Priestesses (1989)
Merlin (1987; PB 1989: HarperPerennial)
Guinevere (1992, Franklin Watts; PB: HarperPerennial)
The Holy Grail (1992, HarperCollins)
Heroines: Demigoddess, Prima Donna, Movie Star (1994)
The Doctor and Maria Theresa
Charlemagne
The Jungle of Academe: The Poetry of Norma Lorre Goodrich (2013; Compiled by Andrew Whitenack)

Accolades
Dame, Knights Templar, Commandery of Nova Scotia, Scotland
Member of the Metropolitan Opera Guild
Member, National Society Daughters of American Revolution (NSDAR)
Royal Society of Descendants of Charlemagne

References

1917 births
2006 deaths
Academics from Vermont
Arthurian scholars


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Category Archives: Parks and Recreation
Thursday, September 17, 2009 · 8:39 PM
Parks and Recreation Premiere "Pawnee Zoo"- Recap and Review
If acting doesn't work out for Amy Poehler, I see some rapping in her future. When approached by Ron she started rapping some song and strolling casually around the office before Ron informed her someone was "on fire at the park". In typical Leslie fashion, she shoots off to save the day.
According to Leslie, she's been doing a lot of promotion for the Pawnee Zoo including; a party for an elderly parrot, an attempt to get chimps to throw prizes into the crowd (they just threw crap), and finally a marriage ceremony for two new penguins. That last one gets her in hot water because the two penguins she marries turn out to be both be boys. Uh oh.
The next day at the office, Mark confronts Leslie and calls her an "activist" to which she says, "No, no, no, no." She then explains that Pawnee is not very receptive to activism,"A garbage man was once suspended for wearing a livestrong bracelet." Later, Ron delivers a cake and a shirt sent to Leslie by The Bulge, a gay bar that Leslie says she's "wasted many nights at". Aprille brings in her boyfriend and her boyfriend's boyfriend who wanted to meet Leslie and thank her for taking a stand for gay marriage. Though Leslie is resistant, she agrees to go to The Bulge and be their guest of honor. They hand her a picture of herself colorized like the Barack Obama posters that say "Hope", only hers says "Knope". That's hilarious.
Later, Marcia Langmen of a family activist group enters the office to ask Leslie for her resignation because she used tax payer dollars to push a gay marriage agenda. Marcia demands either the annulment of the penguins' marriage, or Leslie's resignation. In the midst of all this, Mark asks Ann to go out on a date but she says no because that would be too weird.
That night at the gay bar, Leslie plans to tell the gays present that she was not taking a stand and that she was very sorry. But she is overwhelmed by her supporters chanting her name. With all the pressure, Leslie backs off her previous stance of having no stance. The gays in the bar give her free drinks, and we know how she gets with alcohol. "You know why tonight's fun? Because everyone here is so guy. Just stone cold gay." She's also very excited because she found two bisexuals and got their numbers.
The next day, Ron enters Leslie's office and tells her she has to go on "Pawnee Today" and take a stand because Marcia is calling for her resignation. While Marcia and Leslie are debating she says she just wants her to annul the marriage and then resign. "Is that it?" says Leslie, "You sure you don't want to me jump off a building too? This is why people don't go into politics, because I bust my butt around here and I have one night of fun and this is what I get!" Leslie then takes to the phones and quickly finds that the callers are in favor of her resignation. One caller says "Would you let me marry my guinea pig, because I'd like to." Marcia responds, "See, that's a reasonable concern." Leslie replies, "I didn't murder anyone or have an affair, I just made something cute. I will not annull."
In the mean time, the "new and improved" Andy comes back to see Ann. "I think it would behoove us to try again." He says he's taken an office job and has learned new words, though we quickly find out that he's living in a tent at the bottom of the pit.
In the end, Leslie ends up transferring the penguins to Iowa because gay marriage is legal there and they will be happy together.
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Thursday, April 30, 2009 · 10:40 PM
Parks and Recreation "Boys' Club" Recap, Review, and Video
In tonight's opening scenes, Leslie (Amy Poehler) and Tom (Aziz Ansari) are called out to a hiking trail because of complaints that teenagers are taking dog poop out of the trash and having a war. When they arrive at the scene of the crime, Tom immediately bails to go sit in the car. Leslie, however, is diligent in her efforts and ventures out into the poop field. She uses the trash can lid has a shield as the teens continue to pelt her with bags of dog poop. After a little bit of a struggle, Leslie concedes that poop wars are actually "rather fun", and then procedes to throw a little poop herself. The opening credits role and the fourth episode of 'Parks and Recreation' is underway!
At the start of the episode, the Parks Department staff recieves a nice gift basket from a local construction company. As Tom and another staff member are splitting up the contents, Leslie quickly enters to tell them that for "corruption purposes" they can't except gifts over $25. That's also the reason, she says, that she goes to two towns over to rent movies with nudity in them. Tom says that he would never use his government power to cheat the system, though the video playing of him getting a free hot dog for "park business" seems to show otherwise.
Leslie unveils the social network profile she set up the for the pit project, and it already has several friends. One of which is Mark (Paul Schneider). They look at his profile only to find several picture of Mark and various women that they have never seen. Leslie suggests they could be relatives, which Ann (Rashida Jones) quickly shoots down. "Right, maybe fake boobs run in his family," says Ann.
Leslie and Ann decide to barge in on the meeting of the "boys' club" meeting that's going on outside. While she's chatting with the guys, she leans and the table which knocks it over and breaks several beer bottles. "You hear that? That's the sound of a glass ceiling being shattered," says Leslie. When they run out of beer and everyone wants to leave, Leslie is determined to keep the "good feelings alive". She heads and said looking frantically for more beer when she sees the gift basket she confiscated earlier. There are 3 bottles of wine inside, and she decides keeping the party going is worth being corrupt.
The following morning, Leslie is very disappointed in herself. So disappointed, in fact, that she decides she must apologize to EVERY female politician (in alphabetical order) because she "let them down". She also must confess to the office that she opened the basket. She also confess to Ron (Nick Offerman). Ron, of course, tries to convince her not to worry about it and blow it all out of proportions. "No Ron, I will this IN proportion… This may not be a big deal to you, but you're a white protestant man with a full, rich mustache. I'm a woman and I must hold myself to a higher standard." Again, Ron explains that she is punishing herself more than anyone else would. However, she is persistent. She then e-mailed everyone in the Pawnee government a confession, but not without a link to the pit's webpage.
The next morning, Leslie discovers that April (Aubrey Plaza), the 19 year old intern, put a video of herself on the pit's website. The video contained footage of April seeing what would make her drunker: Wine or spinning around in a chair. Now that all of the government in Pawnee had seen the video, Leslie has to attend a disciplinary hearing.
To prepare for the hearing, Tom asks Leslie some practice questions. All of the questions are completely irrelevant to the hearing, but Leslie answers anyway to the best of her ability. "Have you ever had a sexual fantasy about our boss Ron Swanson?" is one of my personal favorites. At the real hearing, Leslie has prepared a full essay-like speech to let the committee know exactly what happened. The lead committee member points out during the little speech that drinking on government property is prohibited in any instance, but Ron says that's not his department, so they continue. While this going on, Andy (Chris Pratt) is still working on ways to please Ann while she is at work. He decides to bathe himself in the front yard in a kiddie pool. While he's bathing, the neighbor steals his boombox, which prompts him to chase him down the street naked.
Back at the hearing, Ron and his government-hating self is starting to get frustrated with the intense questioning. "This is not communist China! You cannot make her whip herself, you cannot make her wear a hair-shirt. You wanna live in North Korea, live in North Korea. This is America!" Ron continues his little rant and declares the hearing over. Ron says he took up for Leslie only because he hates bureaucracy and his ideal government is "one guy in a small room. The only decision he gets to make is who to nuke."
Leslie reveals to Ann that she opened the gift basket for a guy, Mark. She tells her of the affair they had in February…. 2004. In the end, everything ends happily: Ann is pleased with Andy's cleaning, and Leslie learns that getting a letter in her file isn't all bad; Mark says she's now a member of the "boys' club."
Tonight's episode was hilarious! One of the highlight's of the season so far for me was Ron's little rant during the disciplinary hearing. I think he's got tons of potential to be hilarious. Tonight's episode also avoided the spots of boring that have been in each episode so far, though they have never been a huge deal. Tonight's episode of 'P&R' was one of my favorite shows I've watched all week!
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Saturday, April 11, 2009 · 11:06 PM
Amy Poehler Spruces Up Thursday Nights with 'Parks' Debut
Doesn't she look like she's got it all together.
First off, I know this is a political blog, but as I've said numorous times, there is more to life than politics. Sticking with that theme, I plan to do more of these entertainment style posts throughout the week. Never fear though faithful reader, there are no plans to eliminated the wildly popular (slight exaggeration) "No Politics Tuesday". Those days will simply be more in-depth on the nonpolitical scoop. So without further ado, I present to you the first non-political post made outside of "No Politics Tuesday":
When I saw the 'Parks and Recreation' commericial last Januray, I was thrilled. Amy Poehler had just left SNL the month before, which left a hole in my heart that only she could fill. Her Hillary Clinton impersonations, though baring little to no resemblence to real-life Hillary, summed up her personality perfectly and were always hilarious. Her great sense of humor also added life to the Weekend Update segments, and subtracted from Seth Myers overal suck factor that really brought down the mood. So naturally, a show that starred Amy was something I had dreamed of.
After much anticipation, when 'Parks and Recreation' finally aired last Thursday after The Office (personal favorite show) I was beyond pleased. You can certainly tell that it was made by the genuisess behind The Office, but it still remained original. Leslie Knope, Amy's character, is in charge of the parks and recreation department for Pawnee, Indiana. Her boss, Ron Swanson (Nick Offerman), is quite an intriguing character. He hates government and dreams of privatizing everything, especially the parks and recreation department. Leslie also reveals she slept with Mark Brendanawicz, a colleague that she finds all important for her work. "If you want to get anything done, you gotta ask Mark Brendanawicz," says Mrs. Knope. Her partner Tom Haverford (Aziz Ansari) is lazy, creepy, and confusing all at the same time. One minute he seems like a loyal employee, the next he is passing embarrasing images of Leslie around on the internet. He's like a sneakier, more evil Dwight Schrute. The pilot episode set the groundwork for some hilarious character development.
In this episode, Leslie (Amy Poehler) gets the ball rolling on a new park for the city after much discussion with her government hating boss, Ron Swanson (Nick Offerman). The park is slated for development on a lot that was abandon after it's developer went bankrupt. The decrepit state of the lot causes one resident to fall in, breaking both legs in the process. Poehler's character is oozing with likeability. Unlike The Office's main character Michael Scott (Steve Carrell), she is less about the funny business and more about productivity. That doesn't mean, however, that she isn't funny. Her sincerity over even the slightest of issues gives plenty of humor, and her off-the-wall communication skills are even better.
Parks and Recreation is a true gem that you should definitly add to your Thursday night lineup. Anyone that doubts the potentail of this series must remember that even the award winning series The Office started out slow, and got better with time. I feel very confident that this series is going to be following in the footsteps of its predecessor to the top of the comedy television world.
Don't miss next weeks Parks and Recreation when Leslie Knope sets out to bring her new park idea to the public via the local newspaper, set to air Thursday, April 16th at 8:30 on NBC.
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Thoughts From Around the Blogosphere
**This is a new thing that I want to start doing with posts about commong topics. I will go around and find thoughts on topics similar to what the particular post is about and post the quote, as well as a link to the article.
Critics say it's a little too close to The Office (mockumentary style, talking head interviews, naive protagonists you want to root for, etc.) While this critique may be valid, I'm not complaining. If three Law & Order's, and three CSI's can coexist (under the same title no less) than I am a-okay with a show with a similar format to The Office. edubTV.wordpress.com on critics' comparisons to The Office.
But to be honest I laughed pretty hard whenever she said anything throughout the show. Her character is a bit dopey, really optimistic and super cute. readwatchbuy.com on Amy's character, Leslie Knope.
Overall, I think that the show has great potential. It may never be The Office, but it could come close. stevenmiller2008.wordpress.com on Parks and Recreations prospects.
Did you watch Parks and Recreation? If so, what do you think of the show? Leave your comments below or send an e-mail to theconservativejournal@gmail.com.
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International bodies on IP
Several organizations with international and/or regional membership and mandates deal with issues of intellectual property rights. This includes WIPO, the WTO, and the EPO and OHIM, among others.
Which are the main international IP bodies and what are their main functions?
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) is a United Nations specialized agency and the leading intergovernmental organization dedicated to the promotion and use of intellectual property as a means of stimulating innovation and creativity. WIPO's mission is to develop a balanced and effective international IP system that rewards creativity, stimulates innovation, and contributes to the economic, social and cultural development of all countries, while safeguarding the public interest.
WIPO was established in 1970, following the entry into force of the 1967 WIPO Convention, which sets out the terms governing WIPO's mandate, functions, finances and procedures. Articles three and four of the Convention establish the objectives and functions of the organization.
In sum, the main function of WIPO is to promote the development and use of the international IP system through:
Services: WIPO runs systems that facilitate the process for obtaining international protection for patents, trademarks, designs and appellations of origin. It also resolves IP disputes.
Legal rules: WIPO contributes to the development of an international legal IP framework in line with society's evolving needs.
Infrastructure: by building collaborative networks and technical platforms to share knowledge and simplify IP transactions, including free databases and tools for exchanging information.
Development: by building capacity in the use of IP to support economic development.
Respect for IP: by working with WIPO's member states and stakeholders to improve understanding and respect for IP worldwide.
Creating partnerships to provide IP solutions to global challenges.
WIPO has 185 member states (over 90% of the world's countries) as of July 2013. Some 69 intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) and 295 non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are accredited as observers at WIPO meetings (WIPO, 2012).
Open to all members of the WTO, the WTO Council for TRIPS is the body responsible for administering and monitoring the operation of the TRIPS Agreement (TRIPS, Article 68). The TRIPS Council also meets in "special sessions" for negotiations on a multilateral system for notifying and registering geographical indications for wines and spirits, under the Doha Development Agenda (WTO, Work of the TRIPS Council).
In addition, the WTO has a dispute settlement mechanism for disputes arising when a member government believes another member government is violating a WTO agreement (including the TRIPS Agreement). If a Member State believes that another Member is violating the TRIPS Agreement, it can submit a "request for consultations" to the WTO (WTO, Disputes by Agreement).
The European Patent Office and the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market
The European Patent Office (EPO) was created to grant European patents based on a centralised examination procedure established by the EPC. By filing a single European patent application in one of the three official languages (English, French and German), it is possible to obtain patent rights in all EPC countries. Patents granted by the EPO have the same legal rights and are subject to the same conditions as national patents (granted by the national patent office) in each EPC country for which the patents have been granted.
Once granted by the EPO, a European patent becomes a "bundle" of national patents, which must be validated at the national patent office of the designated states for it to be effective in EPC member countries. Within three months of the grant of a European patent, the applicant has to complete various formalities. For example, the national patent office of a designated state might require the applicant to provide a translation in one of its official languages and pay for the publication fees of the patent (OECD, 2009).
Established within the EU framework, the OHIM is the European Union agency responsible for registering trademarks and designs (under the CTMR) that are valid in all 28 countries of the EU.
Convention Establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization of 14 July 1967.
JPO, The Role of the Japan Patent Office. Available at: http://www.jpo.go.jp/cgi/linke.cgi?url=/shoukai_e/soshiki_e/yakuwae.htm.
OECD (2009), "Patent statistics manual", OECD Publishing, Paris.
USPTO, The USPTO: Who We Are. Available at: http://www.uspto.gov/about/index.jsp.
WIPO (2012), A User's Guide: An Introduction to the Organization, WIPO Publication No. 1040E.
WTO, Disputes by Agreement. Available at: http://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/dispu_e/dispu_agreements_index_e.htm?id=A26#selected_agreement.
WTO, Work of the TRIPS Council. Available at: http://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/trips_e/intel6_e.htm.
Poland (SMEs, Entrepreneurship and Innovation), 2010
Nordic Countries: Matching Exceptional Design and Creativity with Progressive Policy (Intellectual Assets and Innovation: The SME Dimension), 2011
Patent Systems and Procedures (OECD Patent Statistics Manual), 2009
The Impact and Effectiveness of Support Measures for Exploiting Intellectual Property, 2012
Indicators of Patent Value (OECD Patent Statistics Manual), 2009
The Use and Analysis of Citations in Patents (OECD Patent Statistics Manual), 2009
Basic Criteria for Compiling Patent-Based Indicators (OECD Patent Statistics Manual), 2009
Processes and contributions of IP systems to innovation
Types of IPR
Combined uses of IP
Innovation without IP
Rationales of IP for innovation
Access to knowledge and inventions
Incentives for inventions
Economics of knowledge
IP to address information asymmetries
IP and international competitiveness and trade
Patent data - The performance and mobility of researchers
Patent data - The geography of invention
Patent data - Knowledge diffusion and technological change
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IP users
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IP and markets for finance
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Patent races
IP and innovation in agriculture
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it can never be filled again.
how their mother's hugs felt.
not that of a mother.
And, what of the partner?
who has no one to lay beside him?
to carry on with kin.
but, he cannot be both father and mother.
who teaches them how to do things only mothers do.
yet is able to meet them on their level.
about stepping in to care for them.
A new normal appears on the horizon.
They grab it with both hands.
and out of harms way.
but will save the rest.
applied to the son and the daughter.
I still turn to you".
especially, not that of a mother.
if we learn to embrace the silence.
the love of Jesus runs deeper still."
knowing the love of the bride is present still.
and laughter upon our lips.
while our hearts are still beating.
because that's how we honor Amy SoHee.
until it's our turn to run into open arms.
waiting for us at the finish line.
love and light beyond comparison.