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To facilitate a constructive, ongoing dialog on critical issues concerning global intellectual property law and policy, the Drake Intellectual Property Law Center publishes an
Occasional Papers in Intellectual Property Law
series. This series features papers written by the Center faculty, distinguished visitors, and symposium participants.
#1 Peter K. Yu
Intellectual Property, Economic Development, and the China Puzzle
Forthcoming as a book chapter, this Paper examines the relationship between intellectual property protection and economic development in China. It begins by exploring the conventional linkage between intellectual property protection and foreign direct investment. It then examines why China expanded its intellectual property protection even though such expansion was unnecessary for attracting foreign direct investment. The Paper concludes by highlighting the country's regional and sectoral disparities, its inadequate development of an enabling environment for effective intellectual property protection, and its improvements in intellectual property protection at both the microscopic and qualitative levels. It takes the view that a better understanding of the role of intellectual property protection in promoting economic development will help provide a more accurate forecast of when China will reach a crossover point at which it will find stronger intellectual property protection in its self-interests.
#2 Peter K. Yu
Three Questions That Will Make You Rethink the U.S.-China Intellectual Property Debate
Reprinted from a written symposium on intellectual property law in China, this provocative Paper argues that the failure to resolve piracy and counterfeiting problems in China can be partly attributed to the lack of political will on the part of U.S. policymakers and the American public to put intellectual property protection at the very top of the U.S.-China agenda. The Paper illustrates the argument by examining three questions that the author has asked when he engages in debate with U.S. scholars and policymakers over intellectual property protection in China. The Paper underscores the policy complexities involved in the U.S.-China intellectual property debate.
#3 Peter K. Yu
Building Intellectual Property Coalitions for Development
Commissioned by the EDGE (Emerging Dynamic Global Economies) Network of the University of Ottawa, this Paper begins by explaining how building intellectual property coalitions for development (IPC4D) can help less developed countries strengthen their collective bargaining position, influence negotiation outcomes, and promote effective and democratic decision making in the international intellectual property regime. The Paper then discusses four coordination strategies that can be used to develop these coalitions. It concludes with a discussion of the various challenges confronting the creation and maintenance of these coalitions.
olars and policymakers over intellectual property protection in China. The Paper underscores the policy complexities involved in the U.S.-China intellectual property debate.
#4 Peter K. Yu
The Global Intellectual Property Order and Its Undetermined Future
Published in the inaugural issue of the new
WIPO Journal
this Paper highlights some of the key recent developments in the intellectual property field. It discusses the increasingly complex and incoherent international legal order governing the protection and enforcement of intellectual property rights. It also examines the increasingly polarized debate on intellectual property law and policy. The Paper points out that many middle-income developing countries are now approaching a crossover point at which they switch over to the more promising side of the intellectual property divide. This crossover process is likely to have significant implications for the future development of the intellectual property system.
#5 Peter K. Yu
The U.S.-China Dispute over TRIPS Enforcement
Forthcoming as a book chapter, this Paper examines the first WTO dispute between China and the United States over the protection and enforcement of intellectual property rights. It outlines the origin of the United States' complaint against China and explores the challenges to filing such a complaint. It then discusses the key arguments made by both China and the United States as well as the major findings in the WTO panel report. The Paper concludes by focusing on the remedial actions China has taken to bring its law into conformity with the TRIPS Agreement. It further examines the key lessons for the United States, China, and other less developed countries, as well as intellectual property rights holders in general.
#6 Peter K. Yu
Enforcement, Economics and Estimates
Published in the second special issue of
The WIPO Journal
, this Paper draws on the latest economic research to show that high intellectual property enforcement standards come with a hefty price tag and difficult trade-offs. It then outlines the challenges in measuring the cross-border economic impact of piracy and counterfeiting. The Paper concludes with an analysis of the various metrics that can be or have been used to develop cross-country comparative analyses. It also suggests new areas researchers can explore in their continuous search for a set of mutually satisfactory metrics that advance the international intellectual property enforcement debate.
#7 Peter K. Yu
Of ACTA/TPP and SOPA/PIPA
This Paper brings together two recently published essays discussing the ongoing efforts to strengthen intellectual property enforcement standards. The first essay, "ACTA and Its Complex Politics," was published in a special issue on the politics of intellectual property in
The WIPO Journal
. It examines the "country club" approach the negotiating parties of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) embraced to establish new and higher international intellectual property enforcement standards. It points out that the agreement is flawed not only because it is a country club agreement, but also because it is a bad country club agreement. The second essay, "The Alphabet Soup of Transborder Intellectual Property Enforcement," was published in the inaugural issue of
Drake Law Review Discourse
. It identifies six different concerns and challenges ACTA poses to U.S. consumers, technology developers, and small and midsize firms. In addition, it explains why the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement is likely to be more dangerous than ACTA from a public interest standpoint. It also explores the challenges posed by recent U.S. legislation, such as the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA).
#8 Peter K. Yu
"The Rise of China and Other Middle Intellectual Property Powers"
This Paper brings together three recent articles discussing the latest intellectual property developments in China and other middle-income countries. The first article, "The Confucian Challenge to Intellectual Property Reforms," was published in a special issue on intellectual property and culture in
The WIPO Journal
. It examines the longstanding claim that Confucianism has presented a major barrier to intellectual property reforms in China and other parts of Asia. The second article, "The Middle Intellectual Property Powers," is forthcoming as a book chapter from Cambridge University Press. It examines a group of middle-income countries that have played or will play important roles in the international intellectual property regime. The final article, "Five Oft-repeated Questions about China's Recent Rise as a Patent Power," was commissioned by the
Cardozo Law Review
for its online symposium. This article focuses on five key questions that the author has been repeatedly asked in presentations or conferences exploring recent intellectual property developments in China.
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There are a lot of causes of schizophrenia, so first I would figure out what's causing it. Here's a list:
Also, they figured out that schizophrenia is caused by too much dopamine and Parkinson's Disease is caused by not enough dopamine. So they created drugs to lower dopamine (neuoleptics like thorazine and the newer atypical drugs like risperdal and clozapine) and drugs to raise dopamine- carbidopa-levodopa. It makes sense because too little dopamine causes parkinson's disease and when someone takes too much antipsychotic drugs they get parkinsons-like-side effects.
Have you tried any of the newer drugs? Some people do amazingly well on them.
This disorder is very interesting. It causes alcoholism and mental illness and it's so simple to cure:
"A pyrrole is a chemical substance that is involved in the formation of heme, which makes blood red. Pyrroles bind with B6 and then with zinc, thus depleting these nutrients. Abnormal production of pyrroles and their appearance in the urine of psychotics was first noticed in 1958 during LSD experimentation. Approximately 15-30% of "schizophrenics" have pyroluria. (At least 10% of these also have histamine problems.)
Symptoms include sweet, fruity breath and body odor, general loss of appetite, motion sickness, problems with sugar metabolism, allergies. Mental phenomena include delusions, hallucinations, paranoia, occasional loss of contact with reality, amnesia spells, and low stress tolerance. Person has a tendency to have insight (understand they have mental problems).
The ailment, which normally strikes females, generally responds well to B6 and zinc treatment."
That was from the url above and if you google it there's a lot more info.
Good luck.
I believe that Iboga root or Ibogaine, made from it, would cure schitzophrenia because it resets the seratonin and dopamine recepters in the brain.
However, guess what, it is illegal here in the USA.
There are treatment centers in Mexico, Canada and other countries.
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Watching Dame Elizabeth Taylor get wheeled out of happy hour at WeHo gay bar the Abbey -- with her Maltese named Daisy and one of the bar's waifish waiters -- was one Cher impersonator shy of being the most fabulous thing we've ever seen.
She is the Queen of Hollywood :D Forever may she Reign!!!! :D
the abbey is not strictly gay
Love her! Classy old dame!
I saw 'Who's afraid of virginia woolf?' on TV the other week
and she was such an awesome actress in her day!
Rent or download it!
She could out act any crappy present day 'actress' in today''s hollywood.
Nowadays actresses just have to pose for fashion magazines.
Will she be a hag until the end????
There is something sad about this to me for some reason. Don't know what it is but I guess I don't like to see the oldsters rolled out for display.
All I have to say is where can I get a boy toy like that!!! :)
who is that hot guy in the car with her? wowza!
Hell I'd buy her a drink, A.A. Schmay-A.
There is more going on with this woman than just being a friend of Michael Jackson's. She did some of the best work as an actress. She has done huge work for charities, and she has proven to be a great businesswoman. Isn't it a bit disrespectful to ONLY ask her about Michael Jackson when she's out and about? She has a whole lifetime of experiences to share. The paps need to put down their cameras long enough to get an education.
I'm looking forward to her estate auction when she passes.
All Hail the Queen!!! The world would be a better place with more people like Liz. Some of you posters should show some respect.
Okay TMZ. For ONCE you showed some class in not trashing this beautiful celebrity.. She truly is a Hollywood legend and you likely knew better than to say anything negative or cruel about one of the last true Hollywood icons left.
reign the Queen of Hollywood... we love you liz
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true story. -.-
My girlfriend's in the bathroom with me and she's texting while I'm on here.
& all you here is clackclackclackclackclackkkk. -.-
—excuse me, for i have just died.
but i missed you so muchhhh. :/
My little cousin, he's 7 or 8, i believe. I can't remember right now. Anyway, he's autistic. But when he was diagnosed, they told my cousin (his mother) that he wouldn't be able to talk or really do anything because his autism was so severe. These past two years have just been so full of accomplishments for him. Last year he started talking. Nothing in particular but just talking instead of screaming. He'll make noise and just talk to himself and count, etc. Towards the middle/end of last year, he started saying "mommy". Something he NEVER said….at all. My cousin was so happy as was the rest of our family. I can just imagine how heartwarming it was for her to finally hear him call her mommy. This year, he started writing. Obviously, tracing letters, shapes, etc. He finally wrote his own name by himself..by tracing the letters. A month or so after that, he was able to write his own name without tracing. So fucking proud of that kid.
I get a text today from my cousin about one of his biggest accomplishments yet and when I check what it was, HE FUCKING MADE STUDENT OF THE MONTH! This little kid, who doctors said would most likely never speak or do anything for himself is fucking STUDENT OF THE FUCKING MONTH! My eyes got so fucking watery. I'm so fucking happy. I loooooooove him!!! check it out,
I want to make an impact like that on a child's life. I can't wait to become a teacher. <33
I'll take care o you! <333 :)
if walking down the street can be like this:
loved this episode. <333
I miss my babe. :(
Me either. Pssh. I love looking in the mirror.
lol. jkjkjk. I can't wait to see you either. Pounce on you. like a baby tiger. rofl.
I love youuuu!!! I'm gonna see you soooon!!
We're stranded at the airport. ;( my moms boyfriend got lost getting here. In the process, my moms car (which he was driving) started fuming. He found out the car was leaking it's antifreeze. Apparently you can't or shouldn't drive your car if that happens. So he's at a gas station chilling. I called my baby to pick us up but I know she was tired so I decided to ask my other friend to pick us up…thank god she was awake. Lmao. I just can't wait to see my babyyyy ;(
I love dreamcatchers so much, sometimes I want to turn into one. Is that strange? ;|
You were always too busy for me. -.- I don't want to be your option. I'm your priority or nothing.
My girlfriend wants to use a strapon. I'm down to try anything once. ;)
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If you are one of the millions of Americans who eat at fast food restaurants, you may want to prepare to cook your own food. At least for a little while. According to a New York Times report, fast food employees will be striking in up to 100 cities over the next week. The strikes come about after a longstanding battle between the companies who bring us the Big Mac, the Whopper, and the Crunchwrap Supreme, and the workers who assemble those items on a daily basis. Wage strikes have been organized to bring attention to the salary demands of $15 per hour. While the movement has gained steam behind unionization groups such as Fast Food Forward and Fight For 15, the strikes won't come without criticism.
Officials with the National Restaurant Association have warned that increasing pay to $15 an hour when the federal minimum wage is $7.25 would cause restaurants to rely more on automation and hire fewer workers. While others in the industry say that only a small percentage of fast-food jobs pay the minimum wage and that those are largely entry-level jobs for workers under 25.
Outsiders are bound to say that fast food employees do not deserve a salary north of $30,000 per year for a job which in most cases does not even require a high school diploma. But arguing with that figure given the amount of money their labor affords companies like McDonald's is a tough task to take on. However, in 2012, McDonald's reported revenue of over $27.5 billion, and employed over 1.9 million workers. If those 1.9 million all received $15 per hour, the company would owe employees around $57 billion assuming a 40 hour work week.
Whatever the arguments are, if entry level employees at fast food chains are being paid $15 an hour you can expect many more culinary school graduates looking to pay off their student loans while flipping burgers and dropping fries. Be sure to pack your lunch this week.


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The hotel is very well located to the subway, shopping, nightlife, local sites, etc. The building and the room were clear, comfortable and felt safe. It was easy to to everything I wanted around Madrid on foot with this hotel as my base. There are nearby markets and cafes that supply everything you need. I would come back, a great value for money. - Anonymous
The hostal is great: the location, the room, the price, everything. I would really recommend it. The only problem is the fact the there is no elevator access to the 4th floor (even though the rooms in such floor are the newest and, consequently, the best ones). Anyway, ou just have to climb the stairs from 3rd to 4th floor: no big deal. It is worth while doing. - Rubens
Hotel staff spoke very good English, and they were very pleasant. It
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The mini frig was a wonderful item, as was the hairdryer. I would
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FCA Endurance gives adult Christian runners, triathletes, & cyclists, as well as all who engage in and support endurance athletics, the chance to tell the world why they do the things they do and why they are the people they are. Our ministry's purpose is to unite those who are competing for Christ and equip them for ministry within the endurance community. Being part of our ministry team serves as a way for believers to recognize each other and share in a closer fellowship with one another while reaching out to those who don't yet know Jesus as Savior and Lord.
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Qualcomm today announced 802.11ac Wave 2 solutions with multi-user multi-input/multi-output (MU-MIMO). Qualcomm Atheros will be conducting the industry's an over-the-air, end-to-end MU-MIMO demonstration using their networking and client-side chips at Broadband World Forum in Amsterdam, October 21-23.
Qualcomm VIVE 802.11ac chipsets with MU-MIMO technology, which Qualcomm Atheros introduced earlier this year are beginning to be released in products. Mobile device manufacturers are also preparing smartphones and tablets to take advantage of these MU-MIMO which can achieve up to three times faster 11ac Wi-Fi, according to Qualcomm.
The Qualcomm Atheros QCA9377 chip extends the performance benefits of MU | EFX to notebooks, TVs, cameras, and other consumer electronics, while Qualcomm's single-stream 11ac + Bluetooth 4.1 combination chip is designed to provide the best possible performance with reduced power consumption.
Qualcomm says its VIVE is currently the only line of 802.11ac Multi-User MIMO solutions for networking equipment, consumer electronics, and mobile and computing devices. The VIVE Wi-Fi radio is an integral part built into the new Snapdragon 810 and 808 platforms.
Multi-user MIMO allows multiple transmitters to send separate signals to multiple receivers simultaneously in the same band.
Three Quantenna-based 802.11ac products are now available on the market, says Tim Higgins of Small Net Builder. They include the ASUS' Broadcom / Quantenna based RT-AC87U/R, the NETGEAR's R7500, and the Linksys E8350, but they currently do not support MU-MIMO. Broadcom's new 5G Xtream adds another radio to the existing platform, but does not support MU-MIMO.
Qualcomm says AVM will introduce a new FRITZ! Box router based on the Qualcomm IPQ and 4-stream 802.11ac with MU-MIMO products, targeting both retail and carrier segments. Qualcomm Atheros has enabled mobile customers using its 802.11ac products (QCA6174A and WCN3680B) to include Qualcomm MU | EFX in forthcoming smartphones and tablets.


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Inter Arma - Sky Burial
There are few more exciting and rewarding experiences than hearing a band realise their full potential. It is a joy to behold a group of musicians take that step forward from being a great band to being a fully fledged creative force, from exciting trailblazers to titans and whilst only time will tell just how high Virginia's Inter Arma will climb, Sky Burial certainly sees them with all hands grasping the mountain side and all pulling in the same direction.
Sky Burial is Inter Arma's first release for Relapse Records after a string of demos splits and EPs beginning in 2008 and each building upon the last with unwavering progression. Now, progression and progressiveness sit firmly planted at the centre of Inter Armas sound; extended track times, meter shifts, instrumental passages and swirling guitar riffs have always been present in their work but not until Sky Burial has their heady mix of doom, prog, sludge and blackened metal felt so well married and whilst simultaneous comparisons to Neurosis, Baroness and at times Pink Floyd are inevitable it would be unfair to describe what unfolds across Sky Burials nearly hour long run by way of other bands.
With so much going on on one album, the combination of melodically sublime and the viscerally sharp displayed on Sky Burial could easily come across as contrived, as pompous, as 'over reaching' but there is a wholly evident sense that each passage of each song has been created with the utmost care and placed precisely where it needs to be. The way in which pummeling album opener 'The Survival Files'; a track laden with sludge riffs, blast beats and tortured voals waxes and wanes into the soaring double track 'The Long Road Home' is a prime example of a band having been given enough time and almost more importantly enough space to carefully map out such a hulking movement of music and flex it's creative muscles.
It would be rude not to give guitarists Trey Dalton and Steve Russell a mention of their own as it is their evidently thorough understanding of how to both engage and transport the listener that really helps bring the album to life. Guitar fireworks are certainly not in short supply with the albums title track showcasing their highly developed twin guitar styles but it is 'Sblood', a song built entirely on dynamic variations of one single note - ONE - underpinned by a throbbing bed of ritualistic drums and shrieking vocals that really stands out and embodies Inter Arma's ever forward way of thinking.
Intelligence is abundant throughout Sky Burial but never feels cold or calculated, moreso instinctive and it is this that serves best to create an almost ritualistic immersion in sound and a sense that this album was supposed to be made. It is, quite simply sublime. Sky Burial paints a portrait of band that has not so much matured as grown - physically grown into a living, breathing behemoth replete with multiple heads and arms, the power to breathe fire and the ability to utterly steal you away.


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Upon hearing that the Philadelphia 76ers had bought out Danny Granger's contract this past February, a crazy thought entered into my mind.
The Pacers traded Danny Granger away in hopes of finalizing their roster to make a run at an NBA Title.
Danny Granger.
Once the face of their franchise in the mid-2000s, was betrayed by his team just after the all-star break, and reports said he was less than pleased on the move.
Report: Danny Granger 'pissed' over trade to 76ers, eyes potential jump to Spurs, Heat http://t.co/nTkdCReMv3
— SI NBA (@si_nba) February 21, 2014
This move excited me for two reasons:
1) Danny Granger still knows how to shoot from downtown and, in my opinion, still has some life left in him
2) It would give the Heat (and Granger) a chance to pour salt in the wounds of Indiana when they knocked the Pacers out of the playoffs.
Of course Miami didn't bring Granger to South Beach, but while he went off to play in Tinzle Town with the Clippers, the Heat went on to win the Eastern Conference for a 4th straight time.
Needless to say, I assumed any Granger to Miami deal was dead.
Even when the Josh McRoberts news came out this afternoon my imagination couldn't even create a thought for Granger joining as well.
And then a scenario, not of imagination but of factual information, was created.
Free agent Danny Granger has agreed to a two-year, $4.2 million deal with the Miami Heat, league sources tell Yahoo Sports.
— Adrian Wojnarowski (@WojYahooNBA) July 7, 2014
This should be a very exciting moment for Heat fans.
Regardless of the fact that Granger is up there in age and didn't play much last season due to injury, he did show impressive numbers over the final 12 games of the Clippers regular season and presents many positives that are beneficial to Miami.
For one, Granger is the perfect forward with his 6'2 225 lbs. build. This adds more length options for Miami on the wings and, since Granger is also a stretch 4, gives Spolestra another weapon to spread the floor during small-ball scenarios.
Imagine throwing Granger in the mix during the final seconds of a playoff game, where the Heat are trailing by 1 and the opposing defense wants to clog the paint so LeBron can't drive.
Well thanks to Danny, who is a strong three-point shooter in his own right, the defense has to leave the paint because they can't afford him to be wide open.
This gives LeBron more space to work with, and ultimately gives the best player on the planet even more options to work with to try and win the game.
Only time will tell which Danny Granger the Heat have obtained, the former all-star or the ghost of himself.
My thought? A full off-season of training will get him back into strong form by the time the season begins this fall. He won't be the all-star he was in the mid-2000's but he won't be a lifeless body either.
I'll leave you with this thought, which should calm some nerves surrounding LeBron's future.
Why would two players with plenty of NBA life left, sign with Miami if they didn't know the King was returning?
Five months later than I thought, but I'm glad to have him nevertheless.
Welcome to the Heat Danny.


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After a somewhat flat year in 2012, the price of rubber products has slowed even further to just 1%. This might be related to the price of crude, which may add some volatility to the price of rubber.
After steady big gains for eight years, price increases for sand and gravel moderated to 1-2%. The highway and public works portion of demand is waning, resulting in this dip, although commercial construction doesn't seem to have much of an effect.
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text: The Theatre November 26, 2012 Issue Unhappy Families Ghosts of generations past in Christopher Durang and David Henry Hwang. Table of Contents Nielsen, Hyde Pierce, and Weaver in "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike." Photograph by Brigitte Lacombe. Christopher Durang's theatrical specialty is a kind of gleeful comic exaggeration that falls somewhere between farce and satire, between mischief and mayhem, in that territory that Chekhov referred to as "vaudeville." Durang is an equal-opportunity lampooner; he has sent up Russian literature ("The Idiots Karamazov"), the Brecht-Weill collaboration ("Das Lusitania Songspiel"), the Catholic Church ("Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You"), dysfunctional families ("The Marriage of Bette and Boo"), and even Tennessee Williams ("For Whom the Southern Belle Tolls"). In his new play, "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike" (splendidly directed by Nicholas Martin, at Lincoln Center's Mitzi E. Newhouse), Durang has struck funny again. It's as if he had fallen asleep over the works of Anton Chekhov and woken up to find that the plots and tropes of the playwright's iconic lost souls had migrated from the vastness of Russia to the bucolic tidiness of a Bucks County, Pennsylvania, farmhouse. "Man will become better when we have shown him to himself as he is," Chekhov noted. But Durang has disabused himself of any such idealism: the mirror that he holds up to nature is a fun-house mirror. The handsome patio where the resigned Vanya (David Hyde Pierce) and his bipolar adopted sister, Sonia (Kristine Nielsen), like to sit after breakfast is described in the script as "the morning room"; inevitably, it becomes the mourning room. "I mean I have two pleasant moments every day in my fucking life, and one of them is bringing you coffee," Sonia tells Vanya when he says that he prefers his already brewed cup to her proffered one. To keep the peace, he accepts hers, doesn't like it, then takes his back. Sonia heaves the rejected cup against the wall, saying, "It's just I had bad dreams last night. I dreamt I was fifty-two and I wasn't married." Vanya replies, "Were you dreaming in the documentary form?" Vanya and Sonia owe their names to their parents' enthusiasm for the theatre, but those names have become their destinies. They have been rusticated in this Pennsylvania backwater, first looking after their dying parents, and now living together, without work or purpose, while a third sibling, Masha (the droll Sigourney Weaver), a famous actress, supports them from afar. So much for Chekhov; now for Durang's impish deconstruction: SONIA: And if I pine for you, that's my business. VANYA: Don't pine for me. That's ridiculous. I'm fifty-seven and I've told you for many years, I'm not interested in you in that way. I . . . march to a different drummer. SONIA: Why must you march to a drummer at all? Why couldn't we both . . . walk to the sounds of a piccolo? VANYA: What? I don't know what that metaphor means. Besides, you're my sister. Vanya and Sonia seem to be vanishing before their own eyes. "We sit still a lot. We look out the window," Sonia says. "We long for what the world cannot give. We are in our twilight years, and we . . . have never really lived." Time, it turns out, weighs just as heavily on Masha, the aging egotist, who swans in with Spike (the excellent Billy Magnussen), an imbecilic Adonis, who "was almost cast in the sequel to 'Entourage.' " "Young men are meant for young women. Or at least women whose decades are within hailing distance," notes the pert and perky maid, Cassandra (Shalita Grant), a walk-on sendup of Greek tragedy who launches into occasional buttonholing bouts of pessimistic prophesy. "Fie on you both! I see doom and destruction swirling around you," she tells Sonia and Vanya when she first arrives to clean the house. "Just say good morning," Vanya counters. Into this farcical situation, Durang contrives to weave two plot lines from "The Seagull": Nina (Genevieve Angelson), a young wannabe actress, joins the group, and Vanya reads her his apocalyptic avant-garde play. Durang adds travesty to parody when Masha frog-marches the depressed crew to a neighbor's costume party. Masha is dressed as Disney's Snow White, with the others cast as extras in her epic: Vanya goes as Doc, and Sonia takes on the Evil Queen, "as played by Maggie Smith on the way to the Oscars"—a bit of silliness that Nielsen turns into a side-splitting impersonation. In Act II, Masha, having fizzled at the party and been two-timed by Spike, who has a sweet tooth for Nina, competes with Sonia for the role of Most Failed: SONIA: My life is pointless. I haven't lived! I haven't lived! (She cries.) MASHA: Well, I have lived and made my money and messed up all my relationships, and now I have nothing! No one loves me. I have no future, my life is over! As Masha and Sonia wail like inconsolable babies, the rumpled, po-faced Hyde Pierce sits cross-legged on the floor, swishing tea from one cheek to the other; his stoic slow take anchors the comedy and gives a terrific lift to the manic melodrama around him. For all the amusing raspberries Durang blows at melancholy, the play also provides a clever parallel to the seismic upheaval of industrialization, which the bewildered characters in Chekhov's "Cherry Orchard" could neither stop nor fully understand, even as it rendered them and their world obsolete. "Time marches on, dude," the tweeting, texting Spike says to Vanya. Toward the end of the play, Vanya delivers a nostalgic rant on the losses of the digital age—the loss of privacy, of cultural memory, of eloquence, of social cohesion. "Now there's Twitter and e-mail and Facebook and cable and satellite, and the movies and TV shows are all worthless and we don't even watch the same worthless things together, it's all separate. And our lives are . . . disconnected," he says. Durang's comic mash-up is haunted by the ghosts of Chekhov's great characters. In David Henry Hwang's "Golden Child" (in revival at the Signature, under the direction of Leigh Silverman), the ghosts are the characters' ancestors. "I am afraid of dishonoring my ancestors, even the ones dead for centuries. All the time I feel ghosts—whispering in my ear—keeping me from living as I see fit," the early-twentieth-century patriarch Eng Tieng-Bin (Greg Watanabe) explains to Reverend Baines (Matthew Maher), who converts him to the radical ideas of Christianity: one God and one wife. In its fascinating, sprawling original form, "Golden Child," which premièred in 1996, was narrated by a fast-moving, joint-smoking Asian-American youth. The story of his family's conversion was told in flashback, and precipitated an onstage collision between the American and the Chinese sense of self. In the current, stately, streamlined version, the narrator is a pious grandmother, Eng Ahn (Annie Q.), the eponymous "golden child," who is debriefed about her life in Fujian by a fourteen-year-old Asian-American grandson. What began as a cross-cultural drama has been reimagined as a documentary on pre-Christian Chinese customs: polygamy, foot-binding, opium-smoking, ancestor worship. The narrative is clearer now, but it has lost some of its daring; what was theatrically dynamic now feels merely anecdotal. The play's resonance has been muted; Hwang's intelligence, however, remains constant. "Golden Child" is neatly divided between trouble with wives (Act I) and trouble with ancestors (Act II). The first half deals with the comic infighting among Tieng-Bin's three wives, who jockey for position after he returns from travels abroad. "If you can't live with dishonesty, you have no business calling yourself a woman," the sour No. 1 Wife (Julyana Soelistyo, the most seasoned member of the uneven cast), says. Later, she remarks, "Thank Heaven for duty. Without it, we would be forced to think for ourselves." Hwang's aphorisms are witty, but too knowing for his cloistered, provincial characters. In the play's best scene, Reverend Baines teaches Tieng-Bin the meaning of the word "individual" ("each man, stand alone, choose own life"), and then, as an exercise in self-assertion, coaxes him to brag. Tieng-Bin talks about the beauty of his No. 3 Wife, his only real love match. "What a luxury. To speak the truth—in my own home, of all places," he adds. In the end, however, Tieng-Bin's conversion creates more havoc than happiness. "I don't give a damn anymore about the living or the dead. Yes, I have finally become . . . an individual," he says, after his No. 3 Wife dies in childbirth. 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Suzhou, a 2,500 year-old cultural city is located in an area of rivers that crisscross the Yangtze River Delta of southeastern China. In the city, boats bob along waterways interwoven with small bridges that run parallel to the streets and traditional houses built along them. Coupled with a stunning collection of UNESCO-listed gardens and famed for itŌĆÖs silk, Suzhou is an oriental treasure. Just southeast of Suzhou is the charming Venetian-like town of Zhouzhuang. Surrounded as well as divided by lakes and rivers, various stone bridges offer amazing views of this pretty town that is popular with Chinese artists.
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Today you transfer to Zhouzhuang for the day. This is one of the prettiest and most famous ancient waterway cities in China and a great place to explore. Later on return to Suzhou in time to visit the Net MasterŌĆÖs Garden at night. Overnight - Suzhou
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Due to increasing environmental concerns related to consumer products together with demand from the biomedical industry for novel materials with sophisticated properties, the global biopolymers market has been rapidly growing. Even well-developed market segments like starch-based or Polylactic Acid (PLA) biopolymers are poised for higher growth due to the increasing industry demand and recent technological advancements made in production and polymer properties research. This Sc-Mind offering will investigate the science and business of Biopolymers by exploring aspects of product life cycles, bio-based vs. petroleum based polymers, and global health and toxicology regulations. Top academic and industry experts from across the commodity plastics, medical applications, additives and other industry fields will provide you with a global view of the current issues and hot topics, as well as a detailed understanding of the most relevant chemical processes.
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text: First Lady Michelle Obama was spotted off-duty from the food police this week, simply spending Saturday in the company of daughters Sasha and Malia over a bite at Enoteca Drago, working her shoulders over some heavy fork-lifting. And speaking of spending cherished moments with loved ones, Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez entertained some theatrical teppanyaki at Benihana, then later in the week, were caught having a Subway-catered picnic in the park. Romantic, no less with the teens' official photographer documenting their every awkward nibble. Elsewhere, funny-boy Judah Friedlander tipped his cap to himself at a birthday party held in a random 7-11, Lindsay Lohan fled the pressure over a safe and sane dinner at Cafe Habana, and Jennifer Aniston and dude had a big double-date with Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson at Katsuya in Brentwood. To see where else celebs ate, drank, and stared achingly into each others' eyes, read on.


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When given the choice between Facebook messaging and texting as a means of communication.. Always assume the later. Turns out people prefer it!
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When given the choice between Facebook messaging and texting as a means of communication.. Always assume the later. Turns out people prefer it!
Have a fantastic day.
Source of some inspiration for me lately.
Things are starting to come together with my environment. Using Mental Ray in Maya. Textures are file based with procedural masks, and procedural. Using Vue 10 for the indirect HDR enviroment light. Still have some things to fix but I like the direction that it's going in.
As someone who is trying to become more comfortable with Renderman's Slim shading interface, there really isn't enough documentation out there. Those of you who have tried searching, like I have, know that Pixar is notorious for not publishing a whole lot of anything in the way of documentation, and the documentation that they do publish is either outdated, on the surface, or way over your (my head). That aside, Escape Studios was nice enough to provide some write ups and videos for Pixar on their website (and yes its free!). It's not a lot, but it's a good start.
Anyway, to get to my point, I found three videos on an Introduction to Slim yesterday and took notes while I watched. So in lieu of my previous rant, I'd like to make my notes available to you. Yes, I am not publishing anything new, I'm merely regurgitating information from the videos by Escape Studios, but if you're like me more notes never hurt!
So without further ado, I give you the aforementioned notes…
which go with these videos (you will need to set up a free student account with Pixar to access the page) https://renderman.pixar.com/courseware/bin/view/Fundamentals/Introduction_to_Slim
If you're in Savannah, I'll be giving my very first lecture tonight where I'll be going over "my story" from my horribly awkward highschool years, to missteps in art school, to everything that has happened in the last 2 years since I graduated — filled with things I've never shared and hopefully…
Saw an inspiring tag team presentation by the talented Sam Spratt and Colin Levy tonight. The creativity is flowing right now!Source: samspratt
For anyone that is interested in knowing more about what exactly happened, is happening, and what could potentially happen with the Digital Domain Media Group and all of its subsidiaries this is a good article from Mike Seymour at FX Guide.
For anyone that hasn't heard yet, Digital Domain is the Visual Effects company behind amazing works like The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Titanic, Apollo 13 and True Lies. Recently, within the last month, their parent company, Digital Domain Media Group filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy.
I wish the best for any artist who are currently working/worked at DD.
Was looking for a high-res starry night sky to use in Vue, when I stumbled into NASA's 3D resources webpage. Pretty cool resource.
3D models
People in the know have been hearing me talk about creating a time-lapse video for the visual component of my thesis. This video is obviously just one example, but it illustrates many of the things that I will be aiming to replicate in my visual for my thesis. Things like the pace of the sky, the jittery movements of the plants, trees and water, animating of shadows, etc… It's gonna be fun!Source: vimeo.com


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November 9, 2012
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In today's Wall Street Journal "Sightings" column I look at how artists respond to great public events like Hurricane Sandy--and how amateurs sometimes do a better job. Here's an excerpt.
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Here's a safe bet: The e-mailboxes of every editor at every publishing house in Manhattan are filling up with proposals for novels about Hurricane Sandy. And here's a safer one: If any of them actually get written, they'll be awful.
Artists of all kinds have a weakness for Big Statements. But few of them are equal to a challenge the size of Sandy, which laid waste to much of the eastern seaboard. Consider the art created in response to 9/11. Was any of it good? Truth to tell, just about all of it is already forgotten, and rightly so. Novelist Jonathan Safran Foer's "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close," classical composer John Adams' "On the Transmigration of Souls," singer-songwriter Neil Young's "Let's Roll," sculptor Eric Fischl's "Tumbling Woman": All now seem hopelessly inadequate to the task of embodying such an event, much less clarifying its human impact....
Who, then, will best tell posterity what it was like to be on the receiving end of Sandy? If I had to guess, I'd look to the innumerable photographers--most of them point-and-shoot amateurs--who have spent the last couple of weeks sharing images of the storm and its aftermath on Flickr and Instagram. Their snapshots are anything but slick. All they show is how things looked: Refrigerators in front yards, uprooted trees and caved-in roofs, flooded tunnels, darkened houses on the edge of collapse, and water everywhere. Naïve? Sure, but that's what makes them so telling. Another way of describing them is unpretentious. Such photos are properly modest in the face of the nightmare that is a natural disaster. Instead of preaching a sermon, they invite you to look--and despair....
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The actress, who plays Fiz on the soap hosted the bash at her restaurant Annies, which she co-owns with boyfriend Chris Farr
The Coronation Street star's career was launched by entertainer James Thornhill - so Cath did her best to help him fulfill
Corrie beauties Brooke, Cath and Katie join fash pack for Selfridges' Autumn/Winter catwalk extravaganza
A host of stars headed to watch the opening night of The Full Monty at the Opera House, including Coronation Street stars Cath Tyldesley and Tina O'Brien
Annie Giles-Quinn, an extra on the soap, and her her guide dog are very popular and have been taking pictures with the cast
Catherine, 30, and her partner Tom Pitfield, 27, a personal trainer, said it "feels 100% right" to become a mum
Michelle Keegan, Liam Gallagher and Rio Ferdinand are among those who have been paying their respects to the 63-year-old comedian and actor
A host of Corrie stars headed to Annies Restaurant in Manchester on Wednesday as Jennie launched her online tearoom
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A 2011 survey conducted by ActionAid in three Liberian universities found that about 85% of female students had been sexually harassed or involved in transactional sex while they studied. Some women said they were forced to keep repeating classes if they refused to have sex with their male lecturers. If a woman reported her lecturer and he was sacked, the teacher would often simply move to another institution, the survey revealed.


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"There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment." - Sarah Dessen
when your friends laugh at you in class for not knowing the answer to a "simple question"
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i had self esteem for like 3 minutes once
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Sorry, I'm not good at listening so feel free to correct me please.
what….? I'm not gonna drown with him just 'cuz we're allied
My favourite pictures of Gangsta Loki
Because I thought I'd collect some of 'em in one post! :D
In reply to hundreds and hundreds requests about Sherlock learning how to play violin
Aaaand another fic, dear Yuri! <3 xxx
John can't leave me now. He is the only person I can rely on. He is the only thing I can trust. He is the only one. No, no, nope. You can't leave me, John. Tell me you are joking. Please, John. Tell me this is a nightmare!
But he doesn't. His dark-blue eyes stare at me apologetically and I swear – I swear, swear, swear – that if I walk out of the room at this very moment, he would cry.
No, John! Don't do this, stupid John! You can see it too – you don't want to leave. I don't want you to leave. No one wants you to leave. Except your dull parents.
'Are you really going to leave?'
I want to add some 'me' at the end of the sentence but I know perfectly well this is going to sound awkward and so out of space. It's better to preserve my status of 'an annoying dick' and my self-esteem high enough. Sentiment is not for me. It's a chemical defect found on the losing side. I am not a loser. Not yet.
He nods and I feel a whole massive planet – not just a stone – in my throat. I am afraid that if I open my mouth, there would be no sound coming out from it.
'But… why?'
My voice is weak, barely heard, almost a whisper. John shrugs.
'Because of my parents. They want to live in the centre, to have stores nearby, theatres, to go to concerts…'
Dull parents, as I said. They can go to those stupid things if they live here. No reason for moving.
I sigh and John responds to me with a quiet cough. He is trying to suppress his tears, I can tell.
Don't leave me, John…
'I'm so sorry, Sherlock. We're leaving in a week. I-…'
But he doesn't finish. He just shrugs once again and walks out of the room. I curl up (John would say 'sulk') in my small sofa. Then jump off it and approach the window. It's so quiet now – without John. Quiet. Calm. Peaceful. It's disgustingly hateful.
Loved this interview. SO PRETTY.
Ah yes. And wearing the pink shirt of dubious provenance.
And leather jacket.
Now, look at this:
That's "Paul Mounet", a french actor, who "died" in 1922.
His body never was found.
Then, look at this:
An unknown man, painted in 1530 by Parmigianino.
Compare them:
He's a motherfucking vampire
His beard in 2011 even grows the same way as the painting in 1530
Yup, Keanu Reeves.
Really, I'm just amused by the idea of 1) Loki being casually dickish to his minions and b) Clint running menial errands in full gear.
Why was this not in the movie?


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Lakers center Wilt Chamberlain coverts a layup as Knicks defenders Phil Jackson (18), Dave DeBusschere (22) and Jerry Lucas (32) look on during Game 1 of the 1972 NBA Finals. The Knicks would win the game 114-92 but the Lakers would win the next four games to claim the championship. (George Long/SI)
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Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory activity. Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the compulsion being that of Nature, which in these latitudes leaves men no choice between labor and starvation.
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Xerox Corp (NYSE:XRX) has received an average rating of "Hold" from the ten brokerages that are presently covering the company, Analyst Ratings Network reports. Two research analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, three have given a hold rating and five have given a buy rating to the company. The average twelve-month target price among analysts that have issued a report on the stock in the last year is $12.33.
A number of research firms have recently commented on XRX. Analysts at Susquehanna initiated coverage on shares of Xerox Corp in a research note on Thursday, April 24th. They set a "positive" rating and a $14.00 price target on the stock. Separately, analysts at Zacks reiterated a "neutral" rating on shares of Xerox Corp in a research note on Wednesday, April 23rd. They now have a $12.00 price target on the stock. Finally, analysts at JPMorgan Chase & Co. raised their price target on shares of Xerox Corp from $9.00 to $11.00 in a research note on Wednesday, April 23rd. They now have an "underweight" rating on the stock.
In other Xerox Corp news, EVP Lima Armando Zagalo De sold 24,900 shares of the stock on the open market in a transaction dated Thursday, May 1st. The shares were sold at an average price of $12.15, for a total transaction of $302,535.00. Following the sale, the executive vice president now directly owns 255,435 shares of the company's stock, valued at approximately $3,103,535. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which can be accessed through this link.
Shares of Xerox Corp (NYSE:XRX) opened at 11.83 on Wednesday. Xerox Corp has a one year low of $8.63 and a one year high of $12.65. The stock's 50-day moving average is $11.49 and its 200-day moving average is $11.18. The company has a market cap of $13.809 billion and a P/E ratio of 12.89. Xerox Corp also was the recipient of a large increase in short interest during the month of April. As of April 15th, there was short interest totalling 15,882,515 shares, an increase of 22.9% from the March 31st total of 12,918,395 shares. Currently, 1.4% of the company's shares are sold short. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 10,134,748 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 1.6 days.
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Thanks for the suggestion. It is a bit clunky but it works well and you don't have to worry about setting the visibility and worrying about view reps ect.
I would be nice fot the "Select other" to work or by not having to click on an edge :/
Think I might add this to the wishlist for next release.
Yes it is still a bit clunky. Not sure if you noticed when you use "attach balloon" you can then use the selection tool.
I missed that the first time round... unfortunately it only makes a long process (when being repeated often) a slight bit shorted (or even longer if you have to hover and wait for the "Select other" HUD).
Great idea guys! that definately goes in the column of " If you ain't cheating, you ain't trying"! I like it and it isn't too time consuming.
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