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Board of Governors
As directed by West Virginia State Code, the Concord University Board of Governors includes 12 members total. Of those 12, nine members are appointed by the Governor. The other three are institutional members.
Gregory M. Allen Vice Chair Partner Disciplined Advisors Group Scottsdale, AZ Republican Appointed August 02, 2012 email@example.com |
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The following are additional guidelines for board membership; the Board will include:
- A full time member of the faculty (Faculty Representative) elected by popular vote of the full-time faculty,
- A member of the student body (Student Representative) elected by popular vote in an at-large election,
- A member from the institutional classified employees (Classified Staff Representative) elected by popular vote from members of the Classified Personnel Association,
- No more than five lay members can be from the same political party, and
- At least six of the lay members must be residents of the state.
The appointed lay citizen members serve terms of four years each and are eligible to succeed themselves for no more than one additional term.
The member representing classified employees serves for a term of two years. Each term begins on the first day of July. Members representing classified employees are eligible to succeed themselves for three additional terms, not to exceed a total of eight consecutive years.
Go to http://www.legis.state.wv.us/ > WV Code > Chapter 18B HIGHER EDUCATION > WVC 18 B-2 A-1 for more information. If this link does not work then conduct a search for "West Virginia Legislature." then look for Chapter 18B, Article 2A, Section 1.


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WELCOME TO THE MICHIGAN RESOURCE PAGE FOR PSI. We are glad you found us. This page lists the PSI Support Coordinators and other area resources such as groups, telephone support, and reliable services that are available for no charge. We also list local events, trainings, and volunteer opportunities.
PLEASE CONTACT YOUR PSI COORDINATOR: PSI Coordinators are volunteers who offer caring and informed support and resources to moms and their families. They also provide information and resources for area providers who are caring for pregnant and postpartum families. Please don't hesitate to contact us; we want to hear from you.
This is a collaborative of professionals and others working in the field of Perinatal Mental Health. Founded in 2013, this group's mission is to improve the emotional health and wellbeing of pregnant and postpartum women and their families through education, outreach, advocacy, and support. If you would like to join these efforts, contact: Nancy Roberts RN, CBC, CCE Spectrum Health Hospital email@example.com Auffrey-Zambiasi, M.A.,L.L.P.,L.P.C.- Pine Rest Christian Mental Health Services email@example.com
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Roger Wolfe, the Charleston attorney arrested and then beaten so badly that he spent six days in the hospital, is suing the state Department of Motor Vehicles for revoking his license.
The suit claims that Wolfe was denied an administrative hearing on the revocation.
Wolfe didn't receive an order of revocation or any further correspondence from the DMV, according to the suit filed Friday by Wolfe's lawyer Ben Bailey in Kanawha County Circuit Court.
Even if Wolfe had been notified, the suit claims, Wolfe would not have been able to consider a response until after he got out of the hospital on June 23.
"At no time did [Wolfe] receive any correspondence from the DMV regarding the charges filed against him," according to the lawsuit.
Bailey contacted the DMV on Thursday to find out about any proceedings regarding Wolfe, according to the lawsuit.
Neither Bailey nor Wolfe could be reached for comment.
According to the official notice of revocation dated June 20 and included as evidence in the suit, Wolfe was "carefully placed under arrest for an offense relating to driving a motor vehicle ... while under the influence of alcohol."
Wolfe refused a blood alcohol test and was given a written statement that his license would be revoked if he did not submit to the test, according to the order of revocation.
The DMV revoked Wolfe's license for one year for refusing the test and 90 days for driving under the influence. The suspensions were to run concurrently, according to the order of revocation.


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1 June 2002
Time to Revive the Marketing Concept
By Ed Ross
Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it." This statement, usually erroneously attributed to Mark Twain, is true because nobody knows what to do.
Everybody talks about the slow conditions in the industrial and technology sectors of the economy, including motion control. We wait for the weather to change.
The consumer segment, two-thirds of the economy, is doing well. Home sales, automobile sales, and restaurant services are all doing fine. Why aren't businesses spending as freely as customers are?
There's an obvious answer: Consumers are getting what they want. Industry isn't.
My wife and I have bought a new car, garage door openers, garden plants, etc. I used to buy a lot of software, which required hardware and peripherals. We're happy with our consumer purchases that do what they were supposed to.
My computer-related purchases have trailed off. Each piece of software tends to be a nightmare. It's dictatorial and recalcitrant. There's no manual. If you wait forever, you can get someone on the phone, who usually knows only what I already know. (At this very instant, Microsoft Word is insisting that I change the preceding sentence so it reads ". . . get someone on the phone, which usually knows. . . ." I use the "who" to indicate that a person "usually knows," not an inanimate phone. There ought to be a command such as "Down, Gates" that makes Word leave me alone.)
I'm curious about the Segway, for example. Do you wonder how much consumer input was in that stand-up scooter?
There used to be something called the Marketing Concept, according to which you tailored your efforts to satisfy the customer. After World War II, consumer goods were scarce. They were easily sold at high prices. Manufacturers stopped trying to satisfy consumers and still made profits. As manufacturing capability improved, costs were reduced. Instead of trying to supply products the consumer wanted, manufacturers reduced prices until profits declined drastically.
The same thing happened when the automobile replaced the horse. And it happened, more recently, in the computer business and related technologies.
Telecommunications aren't providing the kind of services people want. For instance, everybody hates to make a telephone call and hear a menu of numbers, followed by a long wait. This isn't the only thing that irritates customers, but it's a good example.
Let's make a comparison.
Dining out is still a big thing in America, with restaurant sales doing fine and prices sufficiently high to make a profit, but. . . .
Suppose a restaurant delivered a steak to your table, smothered in mayonnaise you didn't order. You call the kitchen from the phone provided for your table. A voice says, "Please listen carefully, as our menu has changed. If you are calling because your order is too hot, press 1. If it is too cold, press 2. If you would like more mayonnaise, press 9. Otherwise, stay on the phone, and a waiter will speak with you. Your call is very, very important to us. Do not walk out of the restaurant. Our calls are answered in the order received, and you will lose your place if you decide to come back. We repeat, your call is very, very important to us."
If restaurants behaved this way, the restaurant business would soon be in as bad a shape as the telecommunications industry.
The first recommendation I'd make to any telecommunications company is that the CEO be required to go through the number-choosing procedure each time he wants to speak with his secretary. That, and spending time on the phone with his customers, should solve his company's problems.
It's not as easy to fix the motion control industry's problems. Motion control is a segment of industrial automation. If OEMs' sales are slow, they don't need subsystems or components.
Is there nothing a motion controller can do about the corporate weather? There's plenty.
Learn what your industry needs. Talk to end users and OEMs. Find out what they needor think they do. See what your engineers can do to meet those needs. Your engineers will have the ideas in your technical field. Create communications channels to the OEMs. Bad times are the times to prepare for good times. See what your engineers can propose. Don't expect their buyers to tell you what to do, or your reps, or even your salespeople. Help your potential customers to create new products.
I don't know exactly what you'll discover. The Marketing Concept may not be a quick fix, but you will find it well worthwhile. MC
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Edward A. Ross is president of Ross Associates in Needham, Mass., and author of The Ross Guide to the Motion Control Industry. Contact Ed at (781) 449-5123.
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Is there anyplace in Albuquerque that recycles old clothing, towels, etc? By that I mean fabrics that are no good for resale/reuse but could be recycled for some other use.
As a point of interest, my mother up until about the mid-1960s in Wisconsin would tear old sheets and other used-up fabrics into strips, roll them into balls and when she had enough, take them to an old lady who had a loom on her porch and who would weave them into rag rugs that we used on our floors at home. Now that's recycling on the home front!
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Actor and X Factor finalist Ray Quinn has won Dancing On Ice 2014. He's the last ever winner of the series.
Dwarfs on TV; two very different representations
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Life's Too Short's Warwick Davis and Game of Thrones' Peter Dinklage
Jace Lacob talks about the TV view from America
Peter Dinklage, best known until now as the star of The Station Agent, was born with achondroplasia, a genetic disorder that causes dwarfism.
He currently stars as Tyrion Lannister on the HBO fantasy drama Game of Thrones (based on the A Song of Ice and Fire novels by George R.R. Martin), and has so far won an Emmy and a Golden Globe for his portrayal of the cunning, ruthless, and charismatic schemer.
Dwarfs on TV
Dinklage's win is all the more important given the audience's very limited exposure to dwarfs in the media. While the Munchkins of The Wizard of Oz, the Oompa-Loompas of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and Fantasy Island's Tattoo (the late Hervé Villechaize) all exist as cultural touchstones, most audience encounters with dwarfs are limited to seeing them as mythical creatures in science-fiction/fantasy films or in reality television.
"there are very few three-dimensional depictions of dwarfs"
The latter category includes Amy and Matt Roloff and their family on TLC's Little People, Big World. Also Seinfeld, which featured Danny Woodburn's dwarf character Mickey Abbott in several episodes, and HBO's Carnivàle boasting Michael J. Anderson as a series regular.
In fact, there are very few three-dimensional depictions of dwarfs, with Dinklage's turns as The Station Agent's Finbar McBride and Tyrion Lannister being notable exceptions for the fact that neither was a mythological creature and both had deep inner lives that resonated on the screen.
Game of Thrones returns in April for its second season, in which Dinklage's character - who suffers the unflattering sobriquet of The Imp - will be front and centre. Tyrion tends to be underestimated by the majority of people he encounters, many of whom mistake his physical stature for weakness, but in fact he's one of the most compelling and strong characters in the entire series. ("A very small man," as we're told in Season 2, "can cast a very large shadow.")
Which makes it all the more surprising that in America, HBO - which created Game of Thrones - also airs Life's Too Short.
Life's Too Short - two leaps backward
This is the latest Ricky Gervais/Stephen Merchant comedy series first shown in the UK on BBC2. It follows the adventures of semi well-known dwarf actor Warwick Davis (Willow, Star Wars), who plays an unflattering fictionalised version of himself.
Where Game of Thrones succeeds at subverting the audience's expectations of Tyrion Lannister - allowing his physical dimensions not to dictate his stature as a man - Life's Too Short seems to take two leaps backward.
"The effect isn't humorous, but instead cringe-inducing"
It portrays "Warwick" as a short-statured egomaniac and loser who too often is literally shoved into a garbage can or a toilet (to name two instances from the first few episodes) or is portrayed as falling out of his giant SUV or attempting to squeeze through a dog flap.
The effect isn't humorous, but instead cringe-inducing, and not in the way that we've come to expect from the emotionally complex and uncomfortable comedy of Gervais and Merchant, as demonstrated in both The Office and Extras.
Here, Davis appears to be mimicking Gervais as The Office's David Brent, boorish and unable to read social cues or exhibit any sense of empathy. He's a Napoleon Complex - afflicted creep who profits from his business, a casting agency for dwarfs (the real-life Davis owns a similar business), whom he belittles and objectifies - that is, when he's not stealing their gigs.
It's the objectification that's the most troubling. In one instance on the show, "Warwick" has to deal with an unhappy client involved in a dwarf-bowling gig.
In another, Helena Bonham Carter refuses to look at "Warwick" while she's shooting a scene in which he's standing in for a child actor. At first, she demands that he crouch behind a garbage can painted with a monstrous visage, before the director, at Bonham Carter's insistence, forces him to climb in.
He's later left in the refuse bin when he's abandoned by the crew. It's unclear whether we're meant to laugh at the un-PC situation, at "Warwick" in the garbage can, at the hysteria of Bonham Carter, or all three. The comedy within Life's Too Short is meant to be subversive, but the fact remains that we're not laughing at all, not least of all because it's not funny.
A tale of two TV dwarfs
At the Television Critics Association's Winter Press Tour last month, Gervais was asked about uncomfortable topics, such as a scene with Liam Neeson in which Neeson, playing himself, keeps making AIDS jokes in Life's Too Short.
"I deal in taboo subjects, particularly in stand-up, because I want to take the audience to a place they haven't been before," Gervais said.
"And no harm can come of taboo subjects. And when people say it's sort of outrageous or sick or pushing the boundaries, I don't see that it is. I think some people confuse the target of a joke with the subject of a joke. You can have jokes about race without being racist, etcetera, which we've always done. And I think sometimes people flinch too soon. And very often, the target is people's prejudices or the character's stupidity."
"Warwick" is designed to be intensely unlikable and unsympathetic, rather than engaging. As a result, any small triumphs he might encounter feel entirely hollow.
"Davis himself reportedly came up with the idea for Life's Too Short"
It doesn't help that Davis himself reportedly came up with the idea for Life's Too Short and is credited as co-creator with Gervais and Merchant; it feels a bit like the equivalent of a little-person minstrel hour.
Rather than empower "Warwick," the show seems to relish knocking him down a peg or three, diminishing him further still.
Both "Warwick" and Dinklage's Tyrion are meant to be manipulative conspirators, but it's the latter who casts off society's expectations to emerge the untrammeled victor, while "Warwick" is metaphorically dancing for coins.
"There's just nothing he won't do. We can dress him up, throw him around, make him climb bookshelves. I was shoving him down a toilet; that's a good day's work," Gervais told the TCA press.
Merchant believes, however, that because Davis's character is hoist by his own petard, it explains away the innate unpleasantness that follows. "He shouldn't have been in a giant car that he has to fall out of," Merchant said at the same press conference. "It was his own fault because of his ego he's bought this great big SUV. He doesn't need to get something from a high shelf; he can ask. But because he's got this chip on his shoulder, he needs to climb it to make a point."
But is it Warwick's ego that forces him to be put in a toilet or a garbage can?
Gervais and Merchant have a tendency to write horrible characters who do horrible things, granting viewers the ability to laugh at their misfortunes without feeling guilty. But where is the line? Is seeing Warwick in a garbage can servicing the character, or is it done because, from Gervais and Merchant's perspective, it's funny to see a dwarf put in a garbage can?
The answer is decidedly unclear. But what's apparent is that the effort to wring jokes out of Life's Too Short is very much at the expense of the dignity of all involved, not least of all Warwick Davis. And it's impossible not to wonder what Peter Dinklage will make of Life's Too Short.
- This is an abridged version. Please visit The Daily Beast to read the article in full.
Jace Lacob is The Daily Beast's TV Columnist. As a freelance writer, he has written for the Los Angeles Times, TVWeek, and others. Jace is the founder of television criticism and analysis website Televisionary and can be foundon Twitter. He is a member of the Television Critics Association.
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I couldn't find when the Main Theatre opened. It was located on Hamilton Avenue and Kinney Avenue, which is the main street through Mount Healthy (Strange name for a town, but I am sure there is some history behind it). In the 1950 edition of Film Daily Yearbook, it is listed with a seating capacity of 311, and the address is given as 1342 Hamilton Avenue.
The theatre was closed in the late-1950's and is now boarded up. The shops on each side of the lobby are still open, a Beauty Shop on one side and a Cleaners on the other.
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Mt. Healthy is really just a suburb of Cincinnati, not a city. As such, the location listing should be changed to Cincinnati, OH.
I drove past that location dozens of times, I never knew there was a theatre there. I wonder if the shops expanded into the theatre space or if it's just being used as a warehouse. Any idea on the capacity?
The Main Theatre celebrated its 50th anniversary on February 9, 10, and 11, 1965. Boxoffice of February 22, 1965, reported that operator Joe Blum, son of Peter Blum who had opened the house in 1915, on those nights presented three admission-free movies which had been chosen by the theater's patrons. The three movies shown on successive nights were "Muscle Beach Party," "McLintock," and "PT 109." The 300-seat house was packed each night.
Mt. Healthy is not just a suburb of Cincinnati. It is it's own city, so the location listing is correct. Mt. Healthy was founded in 1817. It has it's own mayor, city council, police and fire departments, school system, and income tax. It also has several buildings that were a part of the Underground Railroad.
To see a current picture of the theater, do a search for "hamilton county ohio auditor". At the site, you can enter the address to see a picture and get property information such as owner history and recent sales.
I grew up in Mount Healthy and spent many Saturday afternoons at the Main in the mid and late 1950's. Double feature and a cartoon. Admission was a quarter, and popcorn a dime. Sometimes there was a coupon for a free admission at the bottom of the bag.
Joe Blum said he closed the theater because he could not get the kind of movies he thought kids should be seeing. He was making money, and had offers from buyers who wanted to keep it a theater, but he didn't want others showing unsavory movies either.
II might disagree with the need for protection, but I sure admire his integrity.
I grew up in Mt. Healthy as well and spent many a Sunday afternoon in that theater with my brothers and friends in the mid to late 60's watching everything from Godzilla vs. Mothra to The Ghost and Mr. Chicken (Don Knots).Great Memories. Remember when Joe Blum would play his banjo at intermission? The screen also had a curtain that would open and close at the start and end of each movie, sometimes getting stuck. I never did get a ticket for a free movie pass in my popcorn bag.I believe the theater closed for good in 1970 or 1971.
First, Mt Healthy IS a city of it's own. It is not part of Cincinnati, OH. It is in the middle of Springfield Township, but has it's own government, police, fire dept and Mt Healthy City School District. The Main Theater DID NOT CLOSE IT'S DOORS in the 1950's. I went there every Saturday afternoon as a kid growing up. It closed in the early 1970's. MT Healthy was a refuge from the Cholera Epidemic of 1850. The original name was Mt. Pleasant and was changed because the folks living there did not get sick. After the epidemic, they changed the name of the town officially to Mt. Healthy.
You're right, Albert Lee! I grew up in Skyline Acres, age 3 to 10, moving to Forest Park in 1971; in '69 and '70 we'd get one of our moms to drive a carload of us over there: admission on Friday & Saturday nights was a quarter, and the owner sold small bags of popcorn and Dixie Cups of Coca-Cola for ten or fifteen cents apiece. They had a Birthday Club, and would mail you a free pass for your birthday. I remember seeing films like "The Bank Dick" and "Dracula" with my friends here. I'm pretty sure it's the first place I ever saw a hippy smoke a joint.
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In December 2009, the UN Security Council, acting under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations, adopted Resolution 1907 determining that Eritrea's actions undermine peace and reconciliation in Somalia and that the dispute between Djibouti and Eritrea constitutes a threat to international peace and security. Resolution 1907 demands that Eritrea immediately comply with Resolution 1862 and that all states, and in particular Eritrea, cease any support of armed opposition groups in Somalia.
Resolution 1907 (2009) also imposes sanctions against Eritrea and persons designated by a committee of the Security Council. These sanctions are legally binding upon all UN Member States pursuant to Article 25 of the Charter of the United Nations. Therefore Canada must implement them domestically. The Regulations Implementing the United Nations Resolution on Eritrea (the Regulations) made under the legislative authority of the United Nations Act incorporate these sanctions into Canadian domestic law.
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Congratulations fcortese, great use of texture and B&W. When I saw you posted that picture it stuck out at me, though honestly after looking back at it a couple times over the past week I kept hoping to see more where I could more clearly see (wider angle or lower approach) which specific bridge it was. Maybe I'm just not familiar enough with the Brooklyn bridge to recognize it from such a view.
imac wannabe: I love the photo and as well as the plane. My brother is an aerodynamics researcher at NASA and I've spent years hearing and reading about the SR-71 and it truly is iconic. Great job on the capture from a totally unusual angle. Also thanks for the comments on my photo. I got lucky, the sky cleared up as we were leaving, but I found Alcatraz to be perfectly set up for moody black and white photography. I'd say many were better than the one I submitted, but this one most suited the theme, and the warning sign nailed it for me. Good luck to all next week.
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Wow, I am honored to have been chosen as the winner of this contest. There were so many great photos submitted; pmexperience's, JD's, Cheese&Apple's, GT41's, AlexH's and keleko's, just to name a few, that I really caught my eye. Thanks for the judging, sideonecincy. Nice job. For GT41, I took this picture late in the afternoon with a cloudless sky. I was captured by the 1875 date on the brickwork and tried to capture the symmetry of the arches and cables. Since it was built in 1875, I went with the B&W processing through Silver Efex Pro. I did not do a lot of tampering with increasing structure or darkening the sky, etc. I just wanted to give an old feel to the picture w/o over doing it. I'll have something up either later tonight or early tomorrow morning. Thanks again and congrats to all who entered.
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Some really great shots once again!
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Great job with the judging and thanks for taking the time for all the comments. Great set of photos here.
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Great photos everyone! This was a strong group of shots. Thanks for all the time sideonecincy and congrats to fcortese. JDDavis your shot is "the one" this week that when I saw it I thought it was great...such nice colors and great composition. I look forward to the next contest
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Thanks for judging. The icon I was shooting was the backside of the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain.
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Thinking About Hiring an SEO Company? Read This First!
I often get people asking me for help with their SEO because they are currently 'very unhappy' with their existing company. When I ask why they are unhappy, it usually boils down to expectations (or worse, promises) that have not been met. In almost all of these cases, the client and the SEO company meet for crunch talks and end up parting ways. At the risk of losing potential clients, I am now going to reveal 5 things you should do after hiring an SEO consultant, in order to ensure expectations are met.
Agree a list of keywords to target and benchmark performance
It is important that you agree a set list of keywords that you can actively measure the performance of your SEO company against. The list should be prepared by both yourself and the consultant to ensure your key industry keywords are included along with some valuable long-tail keywords. Performance with these keywords should be measured at least on a weekly basis by your consultant and manually checked by yourself in Google.
Keep in regular contact with your SEO consultant
This may seem obvious but you will be surprised at how many clients tell me that they would communicate 'maybe once a month, if that' with their SEO firm. Don't be fooled into thinking that communication is entirely down to you. Yes, you should be making regular requests for information but you should not have to continually pester your consultant. A sign that they are doing a good job is when they are regularly updating you and asking for specific things such as more content for the site.
Agree in principal a defined set of realistic targets
"We guarantee number 1 rankings in Google! We can get your site to the first page in Google, fast!" Beware of unrealistic claims like these. No company can or should promise to get your site to number one in Google. This is completely unrealistic and any company promising this is one you should avoid. The key is to agreeing realistic targets based on where your site currently sits and how competitive the market is. For example, if you are a new car insurance provider coming to the market, you will likely struggle to make even the first 3 pages for quite some time. However, if you are in an uncompetitive market and you sit outside the top 3 pages, it is certainly more realistic to look at improving to either page 1 or 2.
Ask to see all links that are obtained and check them all manually
Your SEO company should have clear guidelines about how they obtain links and they should also be familiar with recent algorithm updates that effect this process. However, sometimes what a company says and what they do is completely different. Insisting on checking each link as they obtain them ensures that they are sticking to their guidelines and providing quality links to your site. You will also be able to detect if your SEO company are engaging in outdated and spammy link building techniques such as forum posts or blog commenting.
Learn more about SEO and best practices
This last point is probably the most important. Ultimately, your SEO company or consultant could tell you absolutely anything about search engines and rankings but how do you know if they're right? Well you don't, unless you start learning more about SEO. A great place to start and find out more about SEO best practice is from the horse's mouth, so to speak. Google's Webmaster Guidelines provides a great learning resource and I would highly recommend checking them out.
So, if you follow these tips then you should be more confident about handling your SEO company and hopefully you will avoid any unnecessary confrontations with them.
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"keywords should be measured… and manually checked by yourself in Google"
Consider updating this to include language telling them to disable personalization! (be logged in, and hit that Globe! on the top right that says "Disable Personal Results" when you mouse over it.)
One of the biggest disappointments ever for a client is when they think they rank well for a term, just to find out Google has personalized the results for them. That "#3″ spot can quickly become "not on page one" when they look at what everyone else is looking at.
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October 17th, 2012 at 9:04 amThis is a very good point Brian. It is very common for clients to use Google with personalised search and think they are ranking well for terms that they are in fact, not.
Certainly you should make them aware of the difference between searching Google as a logged in user and incognito. It may even be worth while showing them how to setup custom search engines in Chrome, so that they are able to search easily without personalisation.
I wouldn't say that blog commenting is an outdated or spammy technique. It's only spammy if you aren't adding any value to the conversation. It's a great way to get your name noticed in the industry and can help generate traffic back to your site/blog.
Hi Nick.
Yes I totally agree with you that blog commenting can be useful if used correctly. Certainly from the perspective of using other blogs to help generate traffic to your site/blog.
However, it shouldn't be used as a priority link building strategy and probably should only be used by the site owner rather than the SEO company. The problem arises when SEO companies use it as a link building strategy and end up spamming an already spammed blog post. This kind of blog commenting can ultimately be damaging to your site.
agree, seo services always help you to attract better traffic and appropriate reachability to audience.
This is a good article. However, we're probably the only company that gives guarantee. If we take on a client's project, we'll guarantee that he's going to be on page one within a projected time frame.
Everything we do is manual and it's all white hat.
Thank you for this very useful article for me


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National Taiwan University
National Taiwan University | |
國立臺灣大學 | |
Seal of the National Taiwan University
Motto | 敦品勵學,愛國愛人 Dūnpǐn Lìxué, àiguó àiren |
Motto in English | Cultivate virtue, advance intellect; love one's country, love one's people[1] |
Established | Founded 1928[a] Reorganized 1945 |
Type | Public (National) |
President | Yang, Pan-Chyr (楊泮池) |
Academic staff | 1,793 (full time), 1,188 (joint and adjunct) |
Undergraduates | 17,706 |
Postgraduates | 15,710 |
Location | Da'an, Taipei, Taiwan 25°00′58″N 121°32′10″E / 25.016°N 121.536°ECoordinates: 25°00′58″N 121°32′10″E / 25.016°N 121.536°E |
Campus | Urban, 1.6 km² (Greater Taipei combined), 344 km² (Nantou County combined) |
Former names | Taihoku Imperial University |
Affiliations | ASAIHL AACSB |
Website | www.ntu.edu.tw/english |
National Taiwan University | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 国立台湾大学 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Traditional Chinese | 國立臺灣大學 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Taihoku Imperial University | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 台北帝国大学 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Traditional Chinese | 臺北帝國大學 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
National Taiwan University (NTU; Chinese: 國立臺灣大學; pinyin: Guólì Táiwān Dàxué) is a national co-educational research university located in Taipei, Taiwan. In Taiwan, it is colloquially known as "Táidà" (台大). Its 1,086,167 m2 main campus is located in Taipei's Da'an District. In addition, the university has 6 other campuses in Taipei and elsewhere, with a total area of 345,830,000 m2.[2] The University consists of 11 colleges, 54 departments, 103 graduate institutes and 4 research centers.[3] In 2010, the student body consisted of 17,514 undergraduate students and 15,824 graduate students.[4]
The university was founded in 1928 by the Japanese administration during the Japanese colonial era and was then known as the Taihoku (Taipei) Imperial University. After World War II, the government of the Republic of China resumed the administration of Taihoku University and reorganized and renamed it National Taiwan University on November 15, 1945.[5]
NTU is often considered to be among the most prestigious universities in Taiwan. It has strong ties with the Academia Sinica.[citation needed]
National Taiwan University has its origins in the Taihoku Imperial University (Japanese: 臺北帝國大學, Taihoku Teikoku Daigaku) founded by Taiwan's Japanese colonial government in 1928 as a member of the imperial university system administered by the Empire of Japan.[5]
The school's first president was Taira Shidehara. The Taihoku Imperial University began with a Faculty of Liberal Arts and Law and a Faculty of Science and Agriculture serving 60 students. The university was intended mainly for Japanese nationals; few Taiwanese students were admitted. The Faculty of Medicine and the Faculty of Engineering were added in 1935 and 1943, respectively.[5]
After World War II the government of the Republic of China reorganized the school as an institution for Chinese-speaking students. The school was renamed National Taiwan University on 15 November 1945 and Lo Tsung-lo was appointed as its president. In 1962, joint projects with the Academia Sinica were initiated. An evening division was established in 1967.[5] Between 1972 and 1975, the Philosophy Department Incident took place during the White Terror period authoritarian rule, resulting in the dismissal of several professors.[6]
A new university library opened in 1998.[7] In 1999, the evening division and the Center of Continuing Education merged to form the Division of Continuing Education & Professional Development. Lee Si-Chen, the current president, took office in 2005.[5]
NTU offers bachelor's degrees, master's degrees, and doctorate degrees in many disciplines. Students are able to select courses offered by any of the colleges; however, compulsory subjects designated for each major needs to be completed to be awarded a degree. A student must declare a major during college application, some majors are more competitive than others and require a higher national examination score. In recent years, medicine, electrical engineering, law, and finance have been the most selective majors. Most majors take four years to complete while the dental and the medical degree take six and seven years to finish, respectively.
NTU requires most of its undergraduate students to take a mandatory core curriculum, comprising Chinese, freshman English, physical education, and public service. The medical school in addition dictates each of its students to take philosophy and sociology classes as well as seminars in ethics and thanatology. Military training is no longer an obligatory course for male students, but it is a prerequisite if they plan to apply to become officers during their compulsory military service.
The total number of students, including those enrolled at the School of Professional and Continuing Studies, has grown to over 33,000, including over 17,000 university students and 15,000 graduate students. The university staff and students produced over 5000 research publications in 2010.[8]
The president heads the university. Each college is headed by a dean, and each department by a chairman. Students elect their own representatives each year to attend administrative meetings.
The colleges in NTU are:
- College of Liberal Arts
- College of Science
- College of Social Sciences
- College of Medicine
- College of Engineering
- College of Bio-resource and Agriculture
- College of Management
- College of Public Health
- College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
- College of Law
- College of Life Science
- School of Dentistry
- School of Pharmacy
- School of Veterinary Medicine
The International Chinese Language Program (ICLP), founded by Stanford University, is located at National Taiwan University.
The university has six campuses in the greater Taipei region (including New Taipei City) and two additional campuses in Nantou County, amounting to nearly 1% of the total area of the Taiwan island. The university governs farms, forests, and hospitals for education and research purposes.
The main campus (interactive map) is in Taipei's Daan district near Gongguan, where most college department buildings and all the administrative buildings are. Notable exceptions are the College of Social Science, and the College of Medicine, which are near the Presidential Building.
The six campuses are:
- Main Campus (No. 1, Sec. 4, Roosevelt Road, Taipei, Taiwan)
- College of Social Sciences and Public Health (No. 21, XuZhou Road, Taipei)
- College of Medicine (No. 1, Sec. 1, RenAi Road, Taipei)
- University Hospital (No. 7, ZhongShan South Road, Taipei)
- University Farm (No. 7, Jiu-kuang Road, Xindian, New Taipei)
- Wenshan Botanical Garden (No. 4, Lei-kung Po, Geh-tou Tsun, Shiding, New Taipei)
Research stations[edit]
The three research stations are:
- Highland Farm (No. 136, Jen-heh Road, Ta-tung Tsun, Jen-ai, Nan-tou County)
- Experimental Forest
- Department of Forestry (No. 12, Sec.1, Chien-shan Road, Shiang-shan, Nan-tou County)
University presidents[edit]
Presidents of Taihoku Imperial University:
- Taira Shidehara (幣原坦): March 1928 - September 1937
- Sadanori Mita (三田定則): September 1937 - April 1941
- Masatsugu Ando (安藤正次): April 1941 - March 1945
- Kazuo Ando (安藤一雄): March 1945 - August 1945
Presidents of National Taiwan University:
- Lo Tsung-lo (羅宗洛): August 1945 - July 1946
- Lu Chih-houng (陸志鴻): August 1946 - May 1948
- Chuang Chang-kung (莊長恭): June 1948 - December 1948
- Fu Szu-nien (傅斯年): January 1949 - December 1950
- Shen Kang-po (沈剛伯): December 1950 - January 1951
- Chien Szu-liang (錢思亮): January 1951 - May 1970
- Yen Cheng-hsing (閻振興): June 1970 - July 1981
- Yu Chao-Chung (虞兆中): August 1981 - July 1984
- Sun Chen (孫震): August 1984 - February 1993
- Kou Guang-hsiung (郭光雄): March 1993 - July 1993
- Chen Wei-Jao (陳維昭): August 1993 - June 2005
- Lee Si-Chen (李嗣涔): August 2005 - June 2013
- Yang Pan-Chyr (楊泮池): June 2013 - present
University rankings[edit]
University rankings | |
Global | |
Times[10] | 142 |
Asia | |
Times[13] | 14 |
QS (World version)[14] QS (Asian version)[15] |
15 22 |
NTU is generally considered to be one of the best universities in Taiwan. The QS World University Rankings (2013/14) placed it at 82nd worldwide, making it 15th in Asia.[16] The independent regional QS Asian University Rankings (2013) considered it 22nd.[17] It was the best of all Taiwanese tertiary institutions in both rankings. Meanwhile, the university was at 142nd in the world and 14th in Asia in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings (2013–14),[18] and 51st-60th in its World Reputation Rankings,[19] both of which regarded it as the first in Taiwan. Moreover, the ARWU (2013) listed it at a position among 101-150th globally and the best in both Taiwan and Greater China.[20] In addition, Nature Publishing Index gives NTU 2nd rank in Taiwan.[21]
Status and alumni[edit]
National Taiwan University has produced many notable alumni. Ma Ying-jeou, the current President of the Republic of China as of 2012, as well as former presidents Lee Teng-hui and Chen Shui-bian, are graduates from NTU.[22][23][24] Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate Yuan T. Lee received his BSc from the university.[25] Over 40 NTU alumni were elected as members of US National Academy of Engineering or US National Academy of Science.
Other alumni include:
- Wen Chi Chen (陳文琦): President and CEO of VIA Technologies
- Chang Yi Wang: Chairperson and CEO of the United Biomedical, Inc. (UBI) Group of companies.
- Vivian E. Shih, M.D.: Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School
- Felice Chen: Former Managing Director and Co-Head of Investment Banking for UBS Investment Bank in Taipei
- Chen, Sisy (陳文茜): famous talk show host in Taiwan
- Su Tseng-chang (蘇貞昌): Premier of R.O.C., 2006–2007
- Andrew Yao (姚期智): Turing Award 2000; Professor, Princeton University; Professor, Tsinghua University, Beijing (2004 - )
- Robert Chiu: Managing Director, Head of Telecommunications, Media and Technology investment banking at Nomura
- John Chou (周鴻成): Chief Actuary and Senior Vice President of Liberty National Life Insurance Co., the founding division of Torchmark Corporation
- Simon Sze (施敏): pioneer in MOSFET; IEEE J J Ebers Award, 1991
- Yu-Chong Tai (戴聿昌): pioneer in microelectromechanical system (MEMS); Professor of Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology
- Koo Chen-fu (辜振甫): Former Chairman of the Koos Group of companies
- General Chen Chao-ming, M.B.A. (陳肇敏): Commander-in-Chief, R.O.C. Air Force, 1998–2002; Deputy Defense Minister, R.O.C., 2002-
- Chen-Yuan Lee, M.D. (李鎮源): co-discoverer of bungarotoxin; Redi Award, 1976; Former President, International Society on Toxinology
- Benjamin Hsiao (BS, Chemical Engineering 1980) : Chief Research Officer and Vice-President for Research at Stony Brook University, Fellow of the American Physical Society, Fellow of the American Chemical Society, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science[26]
- T.J. Huang (黃宗仁): Founder and Managing Partner of AsiaVest Partners, one of the leading venture capital firms in the Far East
- Steven Hung: Chairman of Waterland Financial Holding Co., Ltd.
- Kwang-chih Chang (張光直): Professor of Anthropology, Harvard University
- Min H. Kao (高民環): Co-founder of Garmin Corporation, the GPS manufacturer
- Barry Lam: (林百里): Founder and Chairman of Quanta Computer, the leading laptop producer worldwide
- Fred Pai: Chairman of Central Insurance Co. and brother of Wayne Pai, founder and former chairman of Polaris Financial Group
- Yuan-Tsong Chen, M.D. (陳垣崇): inventor of Myozyme, the first EMEA- and U.S. Food and Drug Administration-approved treatment for Pompe disease (approved in 2006); Director, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica; former Chief and Professor, the Pediatrics Division of Medical Genetics, Duke University Medical Center
- John Shen: Executive of Globalization Services, IBM China Development Laboratory
- Tun-Hou Lee (李惇厚): Professor of Virology, Harvard School of Public Health
- Lee Teng-hui (李登輝): President of R.O.C., 1988–2000
- Li Ao (李敖): A writer, social commentator, historian, independent scholar and politician in the Republic of China (Taiwan).
- Lien Chan (連戰): Vice President of R.O.C., 1996–2000
- Rick Tsai (蔡力行): President and CEO of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company
- Peter Chen (陳品山): originator of the Entity-Relationship Model
- Alec Su (蘇有朋): actor and singer
- Wakin Chau (周華健): singer
- William Wei (韋禮安): singer
- Monster, Wen Shang-Yi (怪獸): guitarist and leader of the Taiwanese rock band, Mayday.
- ^ as Taihoku Imperial University
See also[edit]
- ^ "University Motto". National Taiwan University. Retrieved 17 January 2012.
- ^ National Taiwan University_Campus Location & Area
- ^ "About NTU". National Taiwan University. Retrieved 17 January 2012.
- ^ "Table 20: Number of students in each academic year,1945-2010". National Taiwan University. Retrieved 17 January 2012.
- ^ a b c d e "National Taiwan University, (2007) " NTU history
- ^ 周俊宇 (Chun-yu Chou). "台大哲學系事件 (NTU Philosophy Department Incident)". Council for Cultural Affairs. Retrieved 17 January 2012.
- ^ "History". NTU Library. Retrieved 17 January 2012.
- ^ "NTU Statistics". Retrieved 10 May 2012.
- ^ "Academic Ranking of World Universities: Global". Institute of Higher Education, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. 2013. Retrieved October 3, 2013.
- ^ "Top 400 – The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2013–2014". The Times Higher Education. 2013. Retrieved October 2, 2013.
- ^ "QS World University Rankings (2013/14)". QS Quacquarelli Symonds Limited. 2013. Retrieved October 3, 2013.
- ^ "Academic Ranking of World Universities: Global". Institute of Higher Education, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. 2012. Retrieved October 7, 2012.
- ^ "Asia University Rankings 2013 Top 100". The Times Higher Education. 2013. Retrieved October 2, 2013.
- ^ "QS World University Rankings (extracting Asian universities from the list for counting this position)". QS Quacquarelli Symonds Limited. 2013. Retrieved September 10, 2013.
- ^ "QS Asian University Rankings". QS Quacquarelli Symonds Limited. 2013. Retrieved June 12, 2013.
- ^ "QS World University Rankings (2013/14)".
- ^ "QS Asian University Rankings (2013)".
- ^ "Times Higher Education University Rankings (2013-14)".
- ^ "Times Higher Education World Reputation Rankings (2012-13)".
- ^ "Nature Publishing Index (2013)".
- ^ "Biography". Office of the President, Republic of China. Retrieved 17 January 2012.
- ^ "Lee Teng-hui". Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Retrieved 17 January 2012.
- ^ "Chen Shui-bian (1950-)". Office of the President, Republic of China. Retrieved 17 January 2012.
- ^ "Yuan T. Lee - Biography". Nobelprize.org. Retrieved 17 January 2012.
- ^ "Benjamin S. Hsiao Named Vice President for Research at Stony Brook University". Retrieved 12 July 2012.
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I've come to the conclusion that humans and galactic travel don't mix. So you either make a sci-fi that's at odds with human nature (and no one will like it) or one that's more of a fantasy and is totally unrealistic.
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The blue-bloods ran some very good companies at the time.
My observation is that capitalism provides a necessary cleansing effect for new industries (and jobs) to occur as the old are made non-competitive or outdated. The incubator of new and better industries has been, is and will be the capitalist system.
If socialism or another like-form of system were in place, Grigsby-Grunow would still be making crytal radio receives and McGraw Edison would be producing wax cylinder dictaphones - with a government subsidy propping both companies and the union headed by thugs.
Yes, capitalism is not perfect, but it sure beats everything else. Unless, of course, the country's leader wishes to be King.
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funny, i am proofreading my TSCM article on this fund right now.
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Roger, first I want to thank the people that offered me some encouragement including the institutional trader and the comment on Granthman.
I hope the comment that I made on Italian market was helpful. Perhaps some people are wondering about Fiat. Well fiat in the past has always had government help but when the European Union was created all help was stopped. Giovanni Agnelli who is now dead was a strong person that controlled it and always asked the government for help under the plan if Fiat closed the government would have to pay more in subsidies. Agnelli' family had two companies ifi and ifil holding companies that were runned by Giovanni's brother. Giovanni's brother died a year after Giovanni. The 3 companies were in disarray and engulfed in a family feud as to who was getting what. General Motor about 5 years ago had an option to buy fiat. Some of Agnelli members took money and others took shares that where worth not much. The two who took over the situation where Lapo and John Elkmann. They are sons of the daughter of Giovanni's brother. Lapo is into being a playboy and fashion (I do not want to say more because I may get sued) John is very astute and a great businessman, great negotiator, and strategist. He told the mother to take a walk after she chose to take cash, then after a year when things started to pick up she changed her mind, and ended up in a lawsuit. Well John Elkmenn got out the GM tie-up about 2 years ago. Then started a modernization of fiat, design model ect. He created a totally independent company of the Ferrari(not tie-in to the rest) runned by Montezemolo. Two years ago Ferrari was rated the best company to work for. Well in John's strategy was to consolidate ifi and ifil into Exor(exo.mi). Now exor has a billion euro in cash and ready to have fiat take advantage of this cycle bottom and position itself as number two in auto manufacture. How did they get the cash, they were active in financial dealings including NY real estate just before it plummeted. Exor trades in the Milan stock exchange and has gone up about 70% for the year.
Currently is very pricy but worth keep an eye. I would not invest in a car manufacture but would invest in exor at more actratvive price. Mar 2,2009 was euro1,5 today is around 12 euro. I have no participation.
Like you said Roger, planning, strategy is very important. John Elkmenn a great strategist has made a mark in the business world.
One company that I purchased in Milan stock exchange at 2.45 euro is Granitifiandre(GRF.mi). It makes Italian tiles. The exports to Germany and USA have grown at 6% and 8%. A year and half ago there was another Italian tile maker - Marazzi. The marazzi family had a controll over 50% the minority part was issued at 10 and where many value funds invested like t.row price. When Marazzi got down to 4.50 Euro and was so undervalued the marazzi holding company made an offer at 7 taking such a jewel from the public. GRF.mi is a growth and value play. Granitifiandre makes a product with Italian design and quality. They are located near the manufacturing plants of the ferraries. At current price of GRF.mi it is like getting in at bottom price.
The lehman debogle. – Many employees in the London offices were Italians. These employees were selling lehman instruments to the Italian banks which one part was kept in their books and the rest to customers. The day after Lehman was shut down, the bank customers could not take any money out from their account. Well there was a limit 500 euroes. Some customers had the lehman junk replaced with other instruments to prevent a lawsuit. Now these banks are recouping ground. BP.mi went from 20 to 1.87 and now over 6. BP.mi has a minority interest of Italease bank and they are planning to take over the rest. I have the shares from 17 euro and never sold my shares. The purchase of these few shares were made not on any valuation but purely based on conveniences.
I have just put this note as to tell you what happen here in Italy when Lehamn closed.
Another Italian company worth looking at is LUXOTTICA GROUP (LUX.MI). They are in the manufacturing of eye glasses. Lux has the local market and a giant export operation. Lux is based in an area that is very productive and produces high quality goods. Lux has small external independent producers making all pieces of the eye components so that the risk of a downturn is very minimal. They beat the Japanese and the rest of the Asian counterparts for quality and design with very little risk in the manufacturing. Lux is above the 200dma. I do not own any shares.
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Statement of Chief Executive Officer "Perspectives on Patents" Before the April 25, 2005 Mr. Chairman, Ranking Member Leahy, and members of the Subcommittee, my name is Bill Parker and I am the Chief Executive Officer and Director of Research for Diffraction LTD, a technology and intellectual property based small business. Thank you for inviting me to testify today on the very important topic of patent reform. In my testimony I hope to present some of the views of individual inventors and other small entities on needed changes to the United States patent system. As evidenced by the substantial numbers of innovations and patents that spring from small businesses around this country, and the jobs these innovations create or maintain, even our rural Vermont operation has a role to play in the United States economy and its highly valued high technologies. My company, Diffraction LTD is not just small, it is a micro-business. This panel's members are by and large from large entities, so I will try to make this presentation as focused as possible on a few issues of patent reform as they affect individuals and small businesses. My apologies in advance if this testimony takes on a personal perspective, but perhaps this approach will help us to remember that it is (still) people that do the inventing. Introduction In the last 15 years our company, now employing over a dozen innovators and a similarly sized professional support staff, has produced a number of commercially viable developments in holography, optics, microelectronics and nanotechnology. Some of these discoveries and intellectual developments have been issued United States "letters patent", still others are in the patenting process. We have recently launched an effort to develop innovations that may help win the war against terrorism, work supported with federal government contracts as well as our own private funds. Some of our homeland defense ideas are now in the patent process and will hopefully gain protection as well. It is important to note that we believe our intellectual property in the long term will have a greater value than our tangible output will in the short term. Said a different way: the product of our minds probably has more value than the things we can make with our hands. This is a theme you will be hearing frequently in representations that there is a need for better patent quality. If intellectual property is not protected with high quality patents, then its value diminishes or goes away. Ranging from a few percent and up, a royalty payment is made during the life of the patent and sometimes longer, with terms and conditions negotiated between the inventor (licensor) and the manufacturer (licensee). The licensee using or selling our patented invention wins because he has gained a protected product or process without the expensive R&D it took to create it. Society wins because independent innovators can think of new products, processes or methods unfettered by limits part and parcel with the corporate decision process or the demands of quarterly profits reporting. As more large companies outsource innovation to companies expressly built around the speedy generation of new processes and products, consistent protection is to everyone's benefit. That the United States is moving toward an economy where intellectual property (IP) is a significant element of the GDP is undeniable. That we are doing everything we can as a country to protect our IP is questionable. The future world market will need new rules regarding the ownership of ideas, rules that are fair and balanced. I would like to offer an image to the committee of a day when all the US has to offer the world is IP, a few raw materials and some farm produce. This is a scary scenario if we are not prepared or able to protect our most important assets. As it has since its inception in all other areas, the United States needs to take the ethical and legal high ground with robust, creative and independent approaches required for a fair and equitable marketplace for ideas. I believe that patent reform efforts now in discussion can produce the necessary changes in a relevant time period. I would like to direct my remaining remarks toward recognizing a few of the critical elements for the success of small technology based businesses that would be affected by patent reform currently under discussion. Quality of Patents When an examination for a foreign filing uncovers prior art that neither I nor the USPTO examiner had seen before, it leads to a very uncomfortable feeling of "what else didn't we know about". I have personally seen improvements in this area in the last few years, hopefully due to better resources being applied to the problem. Resources that need still more improvements, i.e. more money, as well as some "outside the box thinking" on the problem. Money not spent by the PTO to ensure quality is often spent instead by the patent holders and their challengers in legal actions - when it's too late for anyone to gracefully back down. Tremendous amounts of money are spent in challenges when a fraction of that could have often prevented the problem at its source. This leads to the appreciation that for many inventors a patent is seen as nothing more than a "license to litigate." We need to do everything we can to dispel that appreciation. If it is true that other counties tend to have better prior art examinations than in the US, then perhaps we can determine why. This may be an effect of timing, as our examination may be concluded prior to the commencement of a foreign one, but it may also be that they know how to do better examinations. This should be investigated and if we can learn some new tricks, then let's do it. There is a need for skilled examiners in emerging technology areas - keep in mind that experts in their specific art are their customers. From biotechnology to nanotechnology, in software and microelectronics as well as other cutting edge fields, the experts are the ones making the inventions - not the ones determining if they are in fact inventions. It is not easy for an examiner to know enough about an emerging field of science, and in particular a specialty area of scientific or technical endeavor, to see the full breadth of a filing's impact or the value of a particular claim. Regardless of what it takes, in manpower or money, the patent examination process needs to be up to the task. Entrepreneurs depend on a filed patent to interest investors, and if the invention succeeds to the point of a patent but is in fact easily challenged, both sides have wasted time and money that could have been better spent. Patent filings are routinely used by entrepreneurs to protect themselves from confidants that might just as easily become competitors as customers. Everyone benefits if the product of an examination is beyond question. A post grant review process undoubtedly could improve the quality of the patents issued. Despite the fact that it is a good idea, how does the owner best deal with the wait time in a commercial sense. A patent in limbo for a year is a scary thing from a commercial perspective, but far better that a patent in limbo for its entire life. It would be great to have a system that erased the worry - will the patent that you are building your business on ever be a sure thing? First to Invent vs. First to File Due to the high cost of building prototypes or laboratory work, it takes a small inventor longer to go from idea to reduction to practice, and without a sufficient test of reality a patent filing is more difficult to put through the PTO and more suspect when it is. A one year "grace" period following a provisional patent filing is the best protection afforded a small entity - unless it takes over a year to assemble the required funding and then verify the invention, as it often does. Perhaps there are ways to optimize the first to file approach that levels the playing field with bigger entities. Different rules are already in play for filing costs, why not extend those benefits in other ways as well. A number of efforts are in place to help small entities short circuit this issue of costs to reduce ideas to practice, such as the Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) program, but even then only a small fraction of innovative ideas obtains support toward a reduction to practice. International Protection for Small Entities An issue I hear frequently from independent inventors is how they can do nothing to stop overseas copying of their inventions. When I ask them how they know they are being infringed, they tell me they see their inventions in big chain stores here in the US. What may be needed is both a better understanding of the rights of an inventor to compel a seller of their invention to cease and a less expensive and more responsive means in the courts to enforce this right. Need for Injunctive Relief There is, however, a need to recognize and protect the value independent inventors and other small entities bring to the commercialization "party". But how best to accomplish this, when there is such a large range of ways patents can be used - and misused? A patentee's ability to operate in the commercial sense is in part determined by how well they are able to control their intellectual property - with whom they do a deal and under what terms. If their invention has been infringed, willfully or otherwise, and the infringer is not compelled to cease, then not only has the inventor's rights been abridged, but so has their earning power. Another deal, with another manufacturer at a higher royalty rate and with a larger commercial value could have been the outcome of a clean, preferably exclusive, licensing relationship. Because an infringer is willing to pay a royalty, it is not an indication that they are willing to respect the rights of the patentee in the broader sense. In these cases commerce in general suffers, and the full potential of the patent is in question. 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