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As the primary agency responsible for permitting domestic wells and septic systems for Baltimore County, my staff and I receive frequent questions from county residents about the safety of their well water. Specifically, they are interested in knowing how often their wells should be tested, what parameters should be tested, and who can do the testing.
I recommended that all private drinking water wells be regularly tested for bacteria. The US EPA recommends testing for bacteria annually, but it is probably most important to test for bacteria immediately following any plumbing work (adding a bathroom, replacing a well pump, etc.) or if you notice your wellhead is damaged or was flooded, or if your well water gets cloudy after it rains. Nitrate levels should also be monitored (but less frequently) to ensure that they are below the 10 ppm standard for drinking water, and pH is important to watch to assess if your water is corrosive. Depending on your specific tastes /preferences, it is also recommended that you test for iron, manganese, chlorides, and hardness. If you notice a gasoline or oily smell in your well water or suspect leakage from a nearby underground fuel storage tank, you should probably have your water tested for volatile organic compounds (VOCs).
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Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2010 10:30 pm
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I'm all for new technology. Heck, I couldn't make a living at home without the Internet. But now I face a niggling little worry. The kindle reader and others of its ilk are selling well but still very pricey. Downloads are great and certainly a convenient reading take-along, but will they replace the good old printed word in the near future?
Of course, they (the ubiquitous "they") said that about personal computers too a few years ago. We'd no longer need paper. But computers crash and even laptops don't always replace the security of holding a printed document or book in your hands. Besides, I still like to reread some books years after I read them the first time, and I can go straight to my bookshelves and pluck the volumes out. An e-reader has limited storage and I doubt I could find the book I'd want to read again a decade later on an e-reader.
I understand that Harlequin has opened a division for e-publishing only. For those books, of course, the kindle will come in handy (although I assume e-books can be downloaded to a PC too). Recently, I told my agent that I was only interested in deals that at least combined print with e-books instead of relying on e-publishing only.
So what do you think the future holds? Am I a hopeless anachronism? Will e-readers replace good old-fashioned print? Your thoughts please.
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I hope not...at least until someone finds a way to make old eyes young again. Digital print of any kind makes my eyes burn and water. And, for me at least, holding a book gives a tactile pleasure that a mechanical device just can't replicate.
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I don't think we'll see what happened to records happen to books. E books are great for a lot of things, beach reads that you're never going to want to look at again, textbooks, magazines. I think at the very outside most things will convert to digital, but there will be print on demand for those things you really want in your library.
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I don't think books will ever be completely replace by an e-reader. I know that books can be ruined too, but can you imagine something happening to your reader and losing all of them?
My son keeps saying we're not as techno as we should be, but I am trying to explain to him that it's experience - until technology is dependable, there's no way I'm going totally in. I've got the experience and know myself well enough to know the things that will improve my life, and the things that are just extra silly toys, for me, at least. Take digital photos for example, among other things, I love the way you can take ten shots and delete nine of them to get the best one. But I'm worried about losing them, so I have them in four different places. There's no way I'm losing all the shots of my grandbabies! So when I have new ones, I have to add them in four places, what a pain.
I think Charlotte's right, digital is great for disposable, but for things that need to be kept, not so much. Especially since the technology keeps changing. Who needs to take home movies, pictures, books and keep switching them all to something else in a few years?
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As someone who keeps all books I buy, I ran out of space to build more bookshelves a few years ago, so ebooks came just in time for me (first Sony Reader in 2006). I now buy hundreds of ebooks per year and only a few in printed form.
DRM and possible future format changes are issues, but not enough to prevent me from loving ebooks. I make sure all my ebook files are included in my regular backups.
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I hope not...at least until someone finds a way to make old eyes young again. Digital print of any kind makes my eyes burn and water. And, for me at least, holding a book gives a tactile pleasure that a mechanical device just can't replicate.
I've just received my copy of Mary Balogh's A Matter of Class. I know some have poo-poo'd it for being a short work in hard back and therefore expensive but, goodness, what a simple, lovely pleasure to hold a REAL book in my hands. It's nicely bound and beautiful to look at and touch. Satisfying, sensual and a real treat.
This debate interests me and I read what I can about it. I have downloaded things on to my laptop and PC but as I read widely from backlists I don't know if an e-reader will ever meet my expectations.
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Bassetts Allsorts are an iconic candy in my life. They're the one consistent sweet I'd see my Mom buy for my Dad, as he's just crazy for them. He learned to enjoy them from his dad, so I guess it's fitting for tradition that I learned to love them too. I'd always seen and enjoyed the black licorice variety, so when I saw these red licorice ones in an Irish market in Queens I could resist them. I never knew such a thing existed, and since I am a fan of red licorice too, I was eager to see how it compared to the traditional black kind.
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Derenda Thomason Everhart Smith, 66, of North Leonard Road, died Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2013, at Hinkle Hospice House after an illness of nine years.
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Colleges and universities across the U.S. are grappling with higher tuition costs and changing enrollment trends. The average published tuition and fees for in‐state students at public four‐year institutions increased from $7,050 in 2009-2010 to $8,893 in 2013-14, according to research by the College Board. In addition, recent U.S. Department of Education data shows that total postsecondary enrollment in the United States actually decreased for the first time in 15 years between 2010 and 2011 by 0.2 percent, from 21.59 million to 21.54 million.
These times of unprecedented challenges in higher education mean that campus administrators at the University of California Berkeley (Cal) must work to be more strategic and accountable in the way they manage course enrollment and curriculum planning to better meet the needs of the university's 36,142 students.
"In 2008 with the economic downturn, there was tremendous pressure on Cal and probably all universities because funding was cut dramatically. We had to find a more efficient way to do things," says Greg Hamilton, lead campus data architect at Cal. "By adding enrollment data to our fully integrated campus-wide enterprise data warehouse, Cal Answers, we believed we could improve analysis on the data and gain better insight into what students want now and in the future."
In early 2013, Cal administrators looked to Oracle Platinum Partner KPI Partners to help expand the Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE)-based data warehouse with the addition of Cal Answers Student Curriculum, a new component that would add enrollment data to the mix of student demographic information and financial data already accessible in the warehouse. With one source of centralized information, administers, advisors and staff members would have better visibility into enrollment patterns, student course history and course availability—ultimately improving overall curriculum planning and enrollment decisions, and better meeting students' needs.
By adding enrollment data to our fully integrated campus-wide enterprise data warehouse, Cal Answers, we believed we could improve analysis on the data and gain better insight into what students want now and in the future.
KPI Partners, a California-based strategic consulting and systems implementation company, was an ideal choice for the project because the company specializes in Oracle Business Intelligence and creating custom data warehouses using Oracle technology. And the company's offshore development talent gives customers, including Cal, significant benefits, reducing the time it takes to bring a project into production.
"Our Offshore Technology Center is really the backbone and strength of our organization in a project like this," says Norman Dy, vice president of Business Development and Client Services at KPI. "It gives us the ability to be flexible and to provide agile development."
According to Hamilton, during the prototyping phase to create dashboards and reports for the new Cal Answers Student Curriculum system, KPI consultants and Cal's IT Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) group worked on critical items during the day. Then, they would have a telephone meeting with offshore personnel in the evening, and the offshore staff would work all night. As a result, first thing the next morning, the onsite team at Cal would have completed change requests they asked for the prior day. Working with offshore experts streamlined the process so that within the first month users already had live dashboards to evaluate.
Working collaboratively for just a few months, KPI consultants and Cal IT personnel were able to launch the initial two Cal Answers Student Curriculum dashboards. The first, Weekly Enrollment Manager, tracks classes offered, enrollment counts and limits, and which classes are filled during the registration period. Updated every week, users can monitor curriculum and make decisions about teacher support and how many classes to offer based on where there is growing demand.
"People can figure out which classes aren't filling at the same rate that they did last year," says Hamilton.
The second dashboard, Curriculum Long-Term Planning, provides analytics on course offerings, enrollment, average class size, and student credit hours, enabling users to look at overall trends to make better decisions for upcoming school semesters.
Users are pleased that the Cal Answers Student Curriculum dashboards are easy to navigate, and the underlying OBIEE technology means in just seconds the system, even with its multi-million record sets, can quickly generate the reports users need to see. Most importantly, advisors, campus administrators and staff are already using the real-time analytics from Cal Answers Student Curriculum to make adjustments to which classes should be added because of increased demand and which should be dropped because of lack of interest. Curriculum planning is much more strategic because there is a better match between the classes offered and what courses students need to meet degree requirements and graduation deadlines.
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Dy sees only good outcomes for the next phase of the project. "The technology is great, and users find the system easy to use and intuitive," he says. "But all that stuff only comes around with the leadership, collaboration and openness shown by Greg and the other folks at UC Berkeley. They're the main drivers for the success of what we've had so far."
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Sony Adds RX1/R and RX100 II to its Premium Line of Compact Cameras
With the announcement of the RX1/R and the RX100 II, Sony has expanded its Cyber-shot RX-line of compact premium cameras to four. The new models are variations of the original RX1 and RX100, which both remain in the line-up.
The RX1/R is identical to the current 24 megapixel, full-frame RX1 but is designed for optimal resolution (hence, the "R" designation). In order to achieve high resolving power, Sony has removed the optical low pass filter (OLPF), a practice that has become more common with cameras like the Nikon D800E and Fuji's X-series premium fixed lens models. Sony suggests that the RX1/R will appeal to landscape photographers and other pros who want and need the highest resolution (and sharpness) possible. (Be sure to read our hands-on review of the current RX1 (with OLPF), to be published in the August issue of PDN.)
The other addition to Sony's Cyber-shot RX-line is the RX100 II. While the RX1/R is positioned to emphasize resolution, the RX100 II's strengths are based around low light capabilities. Like the RX1/R, this smaller camera is, in many ways, a clone of its current 20 megapixel sibling.
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George Saunders's fourth collection of short stories, Tenth of December, is already a contender for 2013 prizes
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Critical acclaim came immediately to George Saunders in 1996 with the publication of his first collection of short stories, Civil War Land in Bad Decline. This success allowed him to leave his first career in technical writing and join the faculty at Syracuse University. But the experience of crafting a precise and highly-managed point of view for corporations still informs his fiction with brand-name awareness, emptyspeak, and the never-quite-fulfilled promises of better living through chemistry. These concepts, plus the occasional theme park, serve as the basis of many of Saunders's stories, which are skewed with hints of science-fiction weirdness. Saunders has earned four National Magazine Awards, a Guggenheim fellowship, and a MacArthur genius grant.
Tenth of December, Saunders's first collection of stories since 2006's In Persuasion Nation, retains his savage wit, but it also shows him at his most compassionate. High expectations for the new book have yielded to near-universal critical approval, led by The New York Times, which called it "the best book you'll read this year."
Considered by many to be the modern master of the American short story, Saunders shows no sign of feeling burdened by such high expectations. In an interview with Chapter 16, he talked of looking forward to redeeming a gift certificate from his wife for a new Fender Stratocaster and experimenting with a small home-recording studio he recently put together. Our talk focused on two stories, "Victory Lap," a tale about an attempted kidnapping, and "The Semplica-Girls Diary," a novella which shows how exploitation is often an ill Americans have no conscious awareness of. We discussed themes in the book addressing relationships between parents and children, our ignorance of the evil we unknowingly commit today, the MacArthur Foundation's effect on his credit-card balance, as well as his inability to be satisfied with any song he's ever written.
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Raleigh: Wednesday (February 20) at 6:30 pm in the Walnut Room of 4115 Talley Student Center at North Carolina State University (2610 Cates Ave., Raleigh NC 27606). Open to the public. Parking is free after 5:00pm in the Coliseum Deck (directly east of Talley). My talk will be "Why the Gospels Are Myth: The Evidence of Genre and Content," with Q&A. I'll be selling and signing some of my books afterward.
Greensboro: Thursday (February 21) at 7:00pm in the UNCG Sullivan Science Building, Room 101 (301 McIver St., Greensboro, NC 27403). Open to the public. Not sure about parking. My talk will be "Why I Think Jesus Didn't Exist: A Historian Explains the Evidence That Changed His Mind." I will be talking about some things I haven't mentioned in prior talks about this subject, but also summarizing some of my past talks on the same subject (and only minimal overlap with the Raleigh talk), and of course taking Q&A on the topic. And then selling and signing some of my books afterward.


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Is Paul Ryan Now Selling Out Gun Owners?
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Wisconsin --(Ammoland.com)- Dear Patriot,
Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan (R), who fancies himself a champion for Wisconsin sportsmen, has become the anti-gun lobbys leading cheerleader.
In an interview with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel published Tuesday, Ryan said gun show loopholes are a very reasonable issue and that its obvious it should be addressed. Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) said this week that he is open to closing the loophole that allows weapon purchases at gun shows without a background check washingtonpost.com, Jan. 29, 2013, Paul Ryan open to closing gun-show loophole
Wisconsin congressman Paul Ryan wants to close a loophole that you and I know better as the Second Amendment.
Universal Background Checks is the latest Washington buzzword. But what they really mean is, Universal Gun Registration.
Paul Ryan and Republicans in the House and Senate are working with noted anti-gunners like Senator Chuck Schumer and Congresswoman Carolyn McCarthy to fashion reasonable gun control legislation.
Schumer and McCarthy are enlisting accomplices like Republican Senators Tom Coburn and John McCain and Congressmen Eric Cantor and Scott Rigell to achieve bi-partisan anti-gun legislation.
Interesting friends Paul Ryan is keeping, dont you think?
Senator Schumer recently said: I think youre going to see . . . in the next week or two a proposal that has broad support for universal background checks . . . And I think youre going to find much broader support than we ever imagined.
Make no mistake, Schumer isnt just talking about background checks, hes talking about mass registration of all firearms and gun owners in America.
This isnt about public safety, its about government tracking gun owners through Form 4473. Paul Ryan has been in Washington D.C. too long and seems to think that compromise is success. You and I know that compromise is just a fancy way to say surrender.
Republicans like Ryan who try to appease the anti-gunners miss a fundamental point: The anti-gunners wont be satisfied until theyve banned ALL firearms from civilian ownership.
Registration-via-background check is just the first step.
Appeasing the anti-gunners will only speed up their next assault on our rights. Paul Ryan needs to hear from gun owners. Tell him to stop compromising your gun rights for political expediency.
Tell Paul Ryan to stand united with gun owners and oppose ALL gun control, and all attempts to implement so-called universal background checks.
1. Contact Paul Ryan IMMEDIATELY and demand that he not use the excuse of closing some imaginary loophole to crack down on our gun rights. You can contact him at:
Paul Ryan (R)
Washington, DC 20515
E-mail: https://paulryan.house.gov/contact/email.htm [Editors Note: you can use the Wisconsin Capital zip code of 53703]
2. Then take a moment to contact your Representative and State Senator and let them know what you expect of them. You can find out who your representatives are here.
3. Consider helping WGO in our efforts to DEFEAT gun control with a $20 contribution. Your donation will be put immediately into this fight by helping us reach out to more and more Wisconsinites.
Please make your calls and emails today.
Yours for Freedom,
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P.S. Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan is selling you out. He thinks he just appears reasonable but you and I know hes marching in lockstep with Chuck Schumer and the gun ban crowd to implement universal gun registration. Contact him today to express your displeasure.
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Update 6/2/06:
***This giveaway is now closed – thanks so much to all 846 of you that participated!! (a new record at HWTM!) Your recipe ideas were all fantastic – I think Hansen's should create a "Sparkling Drinks" booklet based off of them! The lucky random winner is…Kim O. from Cary, NC. Congrats, Kim!
I'm so excited to tell you about today's Surprise Giveaway!! In celebration of the upcoming movie release this Friday, Hansen's is generously offering up the entire Sex and the City: Complete Series DVD Collectors Gift Set to a lucky HWTM reader! And wait, there's more…!
The winner will also receive these fun Mikasa Cheers Martini Glasses (set of 4) – perfect for sipping cosmos with friends while watching your new DVDs – and four 4-packs of the new Sparkling beverage from Hansen's…one pack of each flavor : blueberry pomegranate, cranberry grapefruit, valencia orange, and dragonfruit! The Sparkling line is made from fresh fruit & real cane sugar…with only 90 calories a pop for the regular cans and zero calories for the sugar free versions!
(Details for how to enter the giveaway after the jump…)
• Post a comment here telling us which Sparkling flavor (listed above) sounds best to you, or what mixed drink you can dream up utilizing one of the flavors. (As a side note, I'll be doing a SATC party segment on Streetside San Diego this Friday and will feature a couple of the reader recipes that sound especially tasty!).
• Giveaway ends Saturday, May 31st at midnight PST. The winner be chosen at random and announced Monday, June 2nd here at HWTM!
Good Luck!!
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1Julie SAYS:
Cranberry grapefruit sounds RIDICULOUSLY good!
2Wendy SAYS:
WOW! LOVE LOVE LOVE this giveaway!! Dragonfruit flavor?!!! That sounds like something I definitely have to try!
3Sarah Lisi SAYS:
I would love the blueberry pom – perf with a shot of vodka! Yum.
4Julie SAYS:
I'd make a cosmo out of the cranberry grapefruit– rimmed with grapefruit sugar!
5amy SAYS:
I happen to think that the Blueberry Pomegranate would be wonderful on it's own and insanely good in your basic Pomegranate Martini recipe.
I'm thirsty now.
1 1/2 cups pomegranate juice
2 oz. Absolute Citron vodka
1 oz. Cointreau liquor
Cup of ice
Splash of Hansen's Blueberry Pomegranate Sparkling
Shaken and poured into your most fabulous martini glasses!
6Lisa SAYS:
OMG!!!! I would be ecstatic to win this giveaway! *fingers crossed!!*
All of the flavors sound great – but I'm especially drawn to "Valencia Orange" – it sounds so chic!
7fiona k. SAYS:
I think all of these flavors would be great simply mixed with vodka and served on the rocks!
8Stephanie SAYS:
dragonfruit — because it's pink, of course!
9Sharold Friedrich SAYS:
Dragonfruit sounds like it would be tasty!!
10Eleni SAYS:
cranberry grapefruit and vodka is all you need!
The Blueberry Pomegranate is to die for. I love this new line of drinks. I would mix the Valencia Orange with some Hennessy VSOP and have a smooth, delish cognac. :)
12Eipryl SAYS:
To tell you the truth, I've never tried any of these, but that dragonfruit sounds intriguing.
13Ali SAYS:
blueberry pomegranate- yum!
14Louise Brouillette SAYS:
The blueberry pom….yummy!
15Rachel SAYS:
Mmmm, definitely blueberry pomegranate…delicious and a great source of antioxidants!


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TGI Office Automation now provides custom production printing professional services and more in the New York metropolitan area, Long Island, New Jersey and South Florida
Malvern, PA, September 30, 2013 - Ricoh Americas Corporation today announced that TGI Office Automation has been officially confirmed as a Ricoh Certified Production Printing Professional Services Provider through Ricoh's CHAMPS program for dealer transformation. CHAMPS is Ricoh's innovative program designed to help dealers transform their business model to meet customers' most pressing information management needs. The program qualifies dealers to analyze customer business challenges and prescribe custom services drawing from Ricoh's Business Information Solutions expertise. The CHAMPS certification program confirms that a dealer has successfully completed all Ricoh Services certification requirements for a particular specialized service or solution offering. TGI Office Automation's professionals have successfully completed expert training on delivering Ricoh's Production Printing Professional Services. Several of the dealer's employees passed a rigorous certification examination that followed intensive training through the Ricoh Learning Institute, the company's comprehensive training organization."Congratulations to TGI Office Automation and its newly certified staff," said Jim Coriddi, Vice President, Dealer Division, Ricoh U.S. "This certification arises from a unique and transformative program in our industry. The overall goal is to enable our dealers to do more to address their clients' most pressing business problems. We remain committed to supporting our dealers with programs that allow them stand out as the best source for information management in their region."About CHAMPSRicoh's CHAMPS program is designed to help dealers transform their business model to meet customers' most pressing information management needs. The program combines a proven methodology, best-in-class resources and Ricoh's industry-leading services to create custom solutions that improve customer business performance. The program makes it easier for the Ricoh family group of dealers to leverage what they need, when they need it, while lowering their document-related capital investment and helping accelerate profit generation opportunities.| About TGI Office Automation |TGI Office Automation, founded in 1963, is an award winning leader in office technology. TGI is locally owned and operated with a national reputation for excellence. TGI is an authorized dealer for Lanier, providing sales, solutions support, service, and supplies for multifunction and stand-alone copiers, fax machines, scanners, and printers. In addition, TGI offers print and document management solutions. From copiers and supplies to document and business process management, our solutions are designed to help organizations integrate the flow of information more effectively. TGI is committed to improving document workflow, controlling costs, meeting compliancy requirements and reducing waste. Over the last 50 years, TGI has matured to become an indispensable business partner by providing our clients with solutions to their most pressing business problems. We have identified through our experiences that most companies are looking for guidance on issues such as increasing efficiency, improving security, lowering their environmental impact and becoming more profitable. By implementing strategies within our value propositions, TGI can help our customers realize a significant, positive impact to their bottom line.For more information, visit http://w3.tgioa.com.| About Ricoh |Ricoh is a global technology company specializing in office imaging equipment, production print solutions, document management systems and IT services. Headquartered in Tokyo, Ricoh Group operates in about 200 countries and regions. In the financial year ending March 2013, Ricoh Group had worldwide sales of 1,924 billion yen (approx. 20 billion USD).The majority of the company's revenue comes from products, solutions and services that improve the interaction between people and information. Ricoh also produces award-winning digital cameras and specialized industrial products. It is known for the quality of its technology, the exceptional standard of its customer service and sustainability initiatives.Under its corporate tagline, imagine. change. Ricoh helps companies transform the way they work and harness the collective imagination of their employees.For further information, please visit www.ricoh.com/about/.###© 2013 Ricoh Americas Corporation. All rights reserved. All referenced product names are the trademarks of their respective companies.
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Purse Dreams is a new boutique in the trendy and chic 9th & 9th district specializing in quality, designer purses. Yes, you know, all those amazing bags you see in the pages of Vogue and in the hands of celebs and fashionistas the blogosphere over.
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Owner Jennifer DeVries, a transplant from Seattle and New York, found herself in a constant state of frustration over her inability to find a stylish, quality handbag in Salt Lake City and decided to do something about it. "I've obsessed over many bags," said DeVries of purses she found online, "but I hated that I had to order them without seeing, touching or trying them on." In turn, DeVries opened her own handbag boutique in August, bringing designer names and excellent quality leather bags to Salt City.
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Tuesday, March 20, 2012
AnneMarie's Quilt
And it turns out that I really don't mind straight-line quilting—as long as I don't have to turn the darn quilt! It's the turning that I despise. So you may see more edge-to-edge straight-line quilting from me in the future.
Congratulations, AnneMarie, on the addition to your family! Enjoy the quilt!
28 comments:
- A.J. Dub. said...
You gals are good friends! That is a sweet quilt.
I used the quilting guide when I did the pillow sham and liked it a lot.
- March 20, 2012 at 12:23 PM
- Little Bluebell (Adrianne) said...
Aw!! You guys are so sweet!! AnneMarie is going to love it. There is no such thing as too many quilts. ; )
- March 20, 2012 at 12:28 PM
- Nicky said...
It looks lovely and just the thing to lift your spirits!
- March 20, 2012 at 12:30 PM
- iluvmybugs said...
I'm sure your friend, and her new little guy, are going to love it! TFS
- March 20, 2012 at 12:43 PM
- Laura @ Needles, Pins and Baking Tins said...
Aww, it's so cute!
- March 20, 2012 at 12:47 PM
- Marjorie's Busy Corner said...
Lovely Lee; it is extra special coming from a friend...don't you think?
- March 20, 2012 at 12:56 PM
- Jessica said...
Oh how sweet! Great quilting, I'm sure she'll love it!
- March 20, 2012 at 1:00 PM
- Erin @ Two More Seconds said...
That is just the PERFECT little boy quilt. Love it so much.
- March 20, 2012 at 1:00 PM
- Leila said...
Love it! You can never go wrong with log cabins.
Congratulations again AnneMarie!
- March 20, 2012 at 1:10 PM
- Kristie said...
It's beautiful :). I am sure it will be loved!
- March 20, 2012 at 1:15 PM
- Svetlana said...
What a wonderful quilt, really pretty, love the log cabins.
- March 20, 2012 at 1:21 PM
- Linda said...
To make straight quilting lines and not mess with the channel guide, just use a Hera marker to "draw" lines on your quilt, marking along the edge of your longest ruler. In fact, that's the way to free-motion quilt straight lines on my quilts, following the Hera-marked line. That way too, there's no need to do any quilt turning at all.
- March 20, 2012 at 2:12 PM
- Cherie said...
It looks amazing!! Love all the blocks! The quilting is great too! I like straight lines...need to invest in a guide and a free motion foot me thinks =D
- March 20, 2012 at 4:03 PM
- Tanya said...
What great friends...the quilt looks wonderful great colours
- March 20, 2012 at 4:46 PM
- Katie B. said...
That's so sweet! I know AM and her family will love it.
- March 20, 2012 at 5:19 PM
- beaquilter said...
very nice quilt! and good job quilting it too
- March 20, 2012 at 5:20 PM
- Katy Cameron said...
Love all the bright colours in the quilt
- March 20, 2012 at 5:52 PM
- The Thompsons said...
You can never have enough quilts. It's adorable. :)
- March 20, 2012 at 5:54 PM
- CathyK said...
A gift that will be treasured, I am sure! Very sweet of you ladies!
- March 20, 2012 at 7:22 PM
- Lora said...
Love the quilt and the straight line quilting. I hate turning quilts also. I keep the long-arm quilters in business. Very thoughtful gift - can't have too many quilts!
- March 20, 2012 at 9:51 PM
- OPQuilt said...
This is such a generous gift to a friend and who wouldn't love to receive this in the mail to celebrate the birth of a child. I use my guide on my even-feed foot all the time--so glad you found it. Every once in a while I'll bump it, so sometimes I put a little bit of masking tape to secure it in line. I agree with the echoing of wobbly lines--but the other fun thing about taking off the quilt is to admire all the fine work that has gone into (and is going into) a quilt like this.
It's really lovely!
Elizabeth E.
- March 21, 2012 at 12:03 AM
- diane said...
a beautiful and thoughtful gift that I am sure AnneMarie will love.
- March 21, 2012 at 12:28 AM
- Marlene @ KISSed Quilts . com said...
Very thoughtful ...and so glad you got a walking foot!!
- March 21, 2012 at 12:57 AM
- Katie @SwimBikeQuilt said...
just fabulous!!!
- March 21, 2012 at 8:25 AM
- Lindsay Conner said...
What a sweet gift ladies! I'm sure she was thrilled! :)
- March 21, 2012 at 9:33 AM
- **nicke... said...
i love those quilting lines! perfect! i am sure she will be soo happy with it.
- March 22, 2012 at 12:15 AM
- Heidi @ Buttons and Butterflies said...
Thanks for the tip on rechecking with lines. Nothing like an echo of an oopsie you might have made!!!
- March 22, 2012 at 12:24 AM
- amandajean said...
I LOVE THIS QUILT!!! how nice of you three to make such a sweet gift for your friend's new little boy. who could have too many quilts?
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ZF-8922: Adding an Anchor property to Zend_Navigation_Page_Mvc
Currently, Zend_Navigation_Page_Mvc has no way of appending an anchor link, such as http://example.com/About#who, without subclassing the framework, or using the more general but less useful Zend_Navigation_Page_Uri.
I think it'd be a good idea to add an "anchor" field to Zend_Navigation_Page_Mvc. That way, the above url could be generated from:
This feature is still missing in 1.10.
The patch should include the following points:
- Zend_Navigation_Page gets a new property "anchor" and getter and setter for this property
- Zend_View_Helper_Navigation_HelperAbstract::htmlify uses the new property from the page
- Zend_View_Helper_Navigation_HelperAbstract gets a new option to the output of anchors to skip
This is not an "anchor"! It is a "fragment identifier".
- HTML4 - 2 Introduction to HTML 4: 2.1.2 Fragment identifiers
- www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/links.html#h-12.1" rel="nofollow">HTML 4 - 12 Links: 12.1 Introduction to links and anchors
- W3 Naming Schemes
Another description for "fragment identifier": Wikipedia - Fragment identifier
Any comments on this?
{quote} Any comments on this? {quote} I agree with you. Here's another source: RFC 3986 - Uniform Resource Identifier (URI): Generic Syntax - 3.5. Fragment
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Delaware Tech's Alpha Beta Gamma International Business Honor Society held its spring induction ceremony April 3.
The Terry Campus chapter had more than 20 inductees from culinary arts, accounting, web development, visual communications, visual communications multimedia, visual communications ad design, photo imaging, paralegal, management and marketing programs.
The following students were inducted: Shallisa Alexander, Samantha Angle, Jayne Bayquen, Ranisha Brown, Jacqueline Cameron, Tremica Cherry, Taren Ann Cooper, Sarah DeLong, Dorothy Driscoll, Hannah Geyer, Ananda Guzman, Sarah King, Breena Kline, Gabrielle Lavender, Jana McGee, Judith Nazarewycz, Andrew Oechsler, Lana Palmer, Alyssa Rickoski, Jacqie Thompson, Haley Walker and Rena Ward.
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The Only Place You Can Get This Information
Peer Group Analysis - A Unique Analytic Tool
How's Your Winery Doing Neighbor?
There's a sense in the business that your neighbor is just that; they are your neighbor, not a rival or a competitor, so lots of information and stuff is shared. If you need a tractor because yours is mired in a soggy field, no problemo! Need a little welding and custom fabrication on a pump? I'll be right over with a welding rig. Stuck fermentation? I'll send over a portable heating unit.
That kind of sharing happens all the time. But ask for a customer list, or ask "Can you show me a copy of your financial performance so I can compare my winery to yours?" The answer is always just < ..... crickets ..... >. When it comes to that question you'll just get a mixture of liars dice, false bravado, partial truths and ..... well ..... the following video we put together is the best explanation of how that game is played in wine country.......
You might be able to fool your neighbor on your cost of goods sold per case, or put your marketing hat on and fudge your growth rate upward from actual, but as bankers we get the real financial information. We're a little harder to fool but since I'm going to share some of the inside information with you too, now you can call out fact from fiction when your neighbor spins tales.
How Much Do Wineries Really Make?
It's important to understand the data are not weighted by case size. Had we weighted the results by case size, the largest volume producers which grow by about 2%-3% annually, would dominate the data making the benchmarks useless for most of the wine business. The "average" winery is quite small by case production measures but higher in sales growth rates compared to the largest wineries.
In the following PGA chart, the red bars represent gross margin (sales minus the cost of sales), and the green line is pretax profit. The blue line is industry sales growth. You can back into total operating expenses if you are interested, by adding pretax profit and gross margin and subtracting the sum from 100%. The scales for each point of information are on the right and left vertical axes.
Accrual Statements
While Napa County gross margins improved year over year in 2014, 2/3rds of the industry improvement in gross margin was from non-Napa wineries. It's hard to say from this angle if that is due to the inability of Napa to fully pass on higher grape costs compared to other regions, the fact Napa is ahead in direct sales that carry higher margins and the other regions are closing the gap, or the result of higher grape costs alone in Napa compared to other regions. That's something to sort out for another day.
Direct Sales Fallacy
It should also be noted that while the gross margin is better on direct sales versus selling through the 3-tier system, there are substantial costs incurred with staffing, facilities, and an investment in digital infrastructure that are not included in cost of goods sold. It's a fallacy to think higher margin DtC sales will solve all the issues associated with small wineries inability to get wholesaler representation. Many of those costs are embedded in the General and Administrative expense load. So while gross margin has returned to near historic highs, net profits have not recovered because of the higher costs in direct consumer sales. There is quite a long way to go to get back to those halcyon days of 10%+ pretax profitability.
Net profit in 2014 was still a very respectable 8.00%, up from 6.60% but a quick review of the PGA chart shows profit is still a long ways off the highs experienced in the middle 1990's and again in 2006 and 2007. That is the impact of the changing business model and the required investment in direct sales.
Cash Flow Impacts
Accounting profits are different from annual cash flow in the wine business. A great example is the 2012 harvest. When that harvest was underway, wineries were selling essentially 2010 bottled wine which was a short harvest year. They were paying for grapes in 2012 that had moved higher out of the recession as inventories were feared to be running short, and with estate wineries, the costs were higher due to the short crop. They were also working on smaller inventories to sell.
What Do You Think?
Weigh in with Your Thoughts and Opinions!!
- How do you see winery profitability? Can wineries pass on higher grape costs and increase margins further in 2015? What concerns should owners have with the solid financial performance of the fine winery producers at this stage in the cycle? How can wineries get back to the kind of profitability experienced prior to the great recession? Do you have a red sweat suit?


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Volvo Buses has signed its first order on the intercity bus Volvo 8900 in France. It's the large operator Faure that purchase six vehicles. The order also includes service contracts.
Volvo Bus France has signed an order with Faure, a large French public transport operator, on six vehicles Volvo 8900 RLE (13 metres). The buses are low-entry, and the body is built on the principle of best choice materials. The use of aluminium and Volvo's patented jointing method help create a strong, corrosion resistant and easy-to-maintain bus with low weight and a long service life. The order also includes service contracts.
The Faure group operates around 1100 vehicles. The buses will operate in the Rhône region. The delivery will take place in August.
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EMU to Host Intercollegiate Peace Gathering
EMU will host the annual meeting of the Intercollegiate Peace Fellowship (IPF), Feb. 20-21, 2004. IPF is a rotating gathering of 150-200 students and faculty from Mennonite, Brethren, and Quaker colleges across the U.S. and Canada to discuss peace issues," said organizer William (Bill) Goldberg of Harrisonburg. Last year's conference was held at Bluffton (Ohio) College. ...More


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- Date submitted: 1 Nov 2011
- Stakeholder type: United Nations & Other IGOs
- Name: World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
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October 31, 2011
This input has been prepared with reference to the letter from the UNCSD Co-Chairs conveying the invitation from the UNCSD 2nd Preparatory Committee ?to provide ?inputs and contributions by 1 November 2011 for inclusion in a compilation document to serve as a basis for the preparation of zero draft of the outcome document? and the ?Co-Chair?s Guidance Note on Inputs for the Compilation Document? that notes that the Conference ?will result in a focused political document?. WIPO?s input is focused on those issues of direct relevance to its mandate1 as related to the objectives and theme of the Conference; namely, promoting innovation and facilitating the transfer of technology to developing countries to support the transition to a green economy in the context of sustainable development and poverty eradication.
History shows that society turns to technology -the application of science to the solution of practical problems -as one of the principal means for dealing with challenges confronting societies. The intellectual property (IP) system contributed to the development of industry-based economies and underpinned the process of globalization. Sustainable development (based on the three pillars of economic development, social development and environmental protection) continues to be one of the main challenges that the international community faces. Policies that stimulate innovation and the creation and diffusion of technologies to address this challenge will be key in considering how the global community responds.
In addressing two major policy objectives, namely: (i) encouraging investment in the creation of sustainable development related technologies, including environment-friendly technologies, and (ii) contributing to the rapid dissemination of those technologies; the IP system, and in particular patents, are fundamental in that they provide a stimulus for investment in innovation and contribute to a rapid -and global -diffusion of new technologies
Agreement between the United Nations and the World Intellectual Property Organization
?Article 1 Recognition
The United Nations recognizes the World Intellectual Property Organization (hereinafter called the " Organization ") as a specialized agency and as being responsible for taking appropriate action in accordance with its basic instrument, treaties and agreements administered by it, inter alia, for promoting creative intellectual activity and for facilitating the transfer of technology related to industrial property to the developing countries in order to accelerate economic, social and cultural development, subject to the competence and responsibilities of the United Nations and its organs, particularly the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, the United Nations Development Programme and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, as well as of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and of other agencies within the United Nations system.
?Article 10 Transfer of Technology
The Organization agrees to co-operate within the field of its competence with the United Nations and its organs, particularly the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, the United Nations Development Programme and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, as well as the agencies within the United Nations system, in promoting and facilitating the transfer of technology to developing countries in such a manner as to assist these countries in attaining their objectives in the fields of science and technology and trade and development.?
and knowledge, and since all patents are published, the patent system also provides the most comprehensive public repository of information on all technologies. It reveals knowledge that already exists, which helps to develop new technologies, and it helps identify technologies that are not protected and thus freely available. WIPO?s activities in cooperation with its Member States, IGOs, NGOs and other stakeholders help ensure that the IP system serves as an effective instrument to create and disseminate technologies which, for example, may reduce greenhouse gas emissions, enhance water management or allow society to benefit from genetic resources in a fair manner.
Conference Objective
To secure renewed political commitment for sustainable development, assessing the progress to date and remaining gaps in the implementation of the outcomes of the major summits on sustainable development and addressing new and Emerging challenges.
The Rio Declaration on Environment and Development (1992) enshrines in Principle 9 the importance of endogenous capacity building in scientific and technological knowledge and in enhancing the development, adaptation, diffusion and transfer of technologies. This principle is further echoed in the outcomes and documents of the major summits on sustainable development, including the Johannesburg Declaration on Sustainable Development and the Plan of Implementation of the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD). The UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) provides an opportunity to take stock of what has been achieved to date, to renew political commitment to help meet the environmentally sound technology needs of developing countries and to agree upon and put in place practical, measureable and actionable steps which strengthen existing actions to address disparities in the development and dissemination of environmentally sound technologies.
Furthermore, Rio Principle 22, recognizes the vital role of indigenous people and local communities in environmental management and development. This is reaffirmed in the Johannesburg Declaration on Sustainable Development and the Plan of Implementation of the WSSD (paragraph 44(p)) which encourages successful conclusion of the existing processes under the auspices of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge (TK) and Folklore. The Rio+20 Outcome Document should take note of the further progress achieved in this process and the decision by WIPO Member States in September 2011 to expedite ongoing negotiations on an international legal instrument or instruments for the protection of TK and traditional cultural expressions, and to regulate the interface between intellectual property and genetic resources. In September 2012, Member States will decide on convening a Diplomatic Conference.
Conference Themes
THEME A. Green economy in the context of sustainable development and poverty eradication: views regarding how green economy can be a means to achieve sustainable development in its three dimensions, and poverty eradication; what is its potential added value; experience to date, including what has worked and how to build upon success, what are the challenges and opportunities and how to address the challenges and seize opportunities, and possible elements of an agreement in outcome document on a green economy in the context of sustainable development and poverty eradication
A transformation to a green economy requires a shift from the current technological base to the widespread use of environmentally sound technologies in a manner, which supports economic, social and environmental development. This shift to a new technology base requires policies that incentivize investments in the research and development of new environmentally sound technologies and which support the transfer, adaptation and widespread dissemination of these technologies. A critical component of this new technology base is the need to respond to increased demand for energy. With expectations of global demand for energy set to double by 2030, replacing existing fossil fuel based sources of energy with renewable technologies, such as wind power, biomass, solar, geothermal and wave, will be the one of the main challenges facing the transformation to a green economy.
Rio+20 can scale up efforts to support the transfer of environmentally sound technologies by:
(i) Recognizing that a rich body of scientific and technological information exists in the global technology databases managed by WIPO, that can support innovation and the search for green technology solutions and by building on existing efforts to support access to this information and to the technology analysis and reports accompanying it, which enables informed technology choices to be made and which helps promote the development of technology partnerships. This information can also contribute to more detailed and actionable technology needs assessments;
(ii) Supporting successful long term technology partnerships, in particular public-private partnerships, which acknowledge that the successful transfer, adaptation and widespread dissemination of technologies requires a systems approach to technologies incorporating intellectual property, know-how, procedures, goods and services, and equipment as well as organizational and managerial skills. (Agenda 21, Chapter 34, paragraphs 3, 4);
(iii) Improving and ensuring greater coordination in the delivery of human capacity building and technical assistance to support the development of science, technology and innovation infrastructure and technology management (including intellectual property management) in developing countries; and,
(iv) Supporting efforts to increase the empirical evidence base on the relationship between policy tools, including intellectual property rights, and the transfer of technologies, to support better informed policy making by decision-makers.
THEME B. Institutional framework for sustainable development: Priorities and proposals for strengthening individual pillars of sustainable development, as well as those for strengthening integration of the three pillars, at multiple levels ? local, national, regional and international
The World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD, Johannesburg, 2002) agreed in the Plan of Implementation (Paragraph 44 (p)) to:
?Encourage successful conclusion of existing processes under the auspices of the Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, TK and Folklore of the World Intellectual Property Organization, and in the ad hoc open-ended working group on article 8 (j) and related provisions of the Convention (CBD);?
The Rio+20 Outcome Document should take note of the further progress achieved in this process and the decision by WIPO Member States in September 2011 to expedite ongoing negotiations on an international legal instrument or instruments for the protection of TK and traditional cultural expressions, and to regulate the interface between intellectual property and genetic resources. In September 2012, Member States will decide on convening a Diplomatic Conference.
Annex I provides information on existing initiatives being undertaken by WIPO which are relevant to the themes of Rio+20.
The following Annex provides a brief summary of the programmes and activities undertaken by WIPO relevant to Rio+20 and which support the implementation of Agenda 21 (1992) and the WSSD Plan of Implementation (2002).
WIPO?s global technology databases, infrastructure and support services make a major contribution to ensuring access, particularly for developing countries and least developed countries, to scientific and technological information, including state of the art technologies (Agenda 21, Chapter 34, paragraph 14a).
The patent system aims to encourage innovation and economic growth by: protecting creativity and rewarding investments made in developing a new invention; and by publishing and disclosing technical information related to new inventions. Access to technology information, contained in patent applications, has expanded rapidly in recent years, a result of the increasing availability of technical documents in digital format and the progressive development of electronic means of distribution and retrieval. As the quantities of technology information available to the public have grown, so too have the challenges of finding relevant information from which useful knowledge can be extracted. WIPO offers a number of services to facilitate easy access to this information, as well as technology analysis and reports, and services to make use of this information to support innovation and technology transfer.
Patent information is an important resource for researchers and inventors, entrepreneurs and commercial enterprises, and patent professionals. Patent information comprises all information which has either been published in a patent document or can be derived from analyzing patent filing statistics and includes: technical information from the description and drawings of the invention; legal information from the patent claims defining the scope of the patent and from its legal status; business-relevant information from reference data identifying the inventor, date of filing, country of origin, etc.; public policy-relevant information from an analysis of filing trends to be used by policymakers, e.g., in national industrial policy strategy. Patent information can assist users to: avoid duplicating research and development effort; determine the patentability of their inventions; avoid infringing other inventors? patents; estimate the value of their or other inventors? patents; exploit technology from patent applications that have never been granted, are not valid in certain countries, or from patents that are no longer in force; gain intelligence on the innovative activities and future direction of business competitors; improve planning for business decisions such as licensing, technology partnerships, and mergers and acquisitions; and, identify key trends in specific technical fields of public interest such as those relating to the environment and provide a foundation for policy planning.
The PATENTSCOPE® search service provides free access to the technology contained in over 8 million patent documents. A figure that that will increase to 12 million by the end of 2011. The main features of PATENTSCOPE® include: full-text search facilities, permitting the contents of the whole document ? and not just bibliographic data or abstracts -to be searched; status information and file contents; graphical analysis of search results; cross lingual search and Machine Translation -allowing to search collections in foreign languages not understood by the user -and RSS feeds to help track technology developments in specific areas.
Patent Landscape Reports
Patent landscape reports research and describe the patent situation for a specific technology in a given country, region or on the global level. Patent landscape reports therefore usually start with a state-of-the-art search for the technology of interest in suitable patent databases. In a second step, the results of the search are analyzed to answer specific questions, e.g. to identify certain patterns of patenting activity (Who is doing what? What is filed where?) or certain patterns of innovation (innovation trends, diversity of solutions for a technical problem, collaborations). An essential component of each patent landscape report is the visualization of these results in order to facilitate their understanding and certain conclusions or recommendations based on the empirical evidence provided by the search and analysis. Patent landscapes can therefore be useful for policy discussions, strategic research planning or technology transfer. However, they provide only a snapshot of the patenting situation at a certain point in time. In a wider sense, some patent landscapes reports may analyze the validity of patents by referring to legal status data, and thereby form a basis, e.g., for freedom to operate analysis.
IPC Green
All patents are systematically classified according to their specific technical field. Though various national classification systems exist, the International Patent Classification (IPC) system is a common system shared by all patent offices. The ?IPC Green Inventory? was developed by the IPC Committee of Experts in order to facilitate searches for patent information relating to Environmentally Sound Technologies (ESTs), as listed by the UNFCCC.
Access to Specialized Patent Information for Developing Countries (ASPI)
The Access to Specialized Patent Information (ASPI) program was launched by WIPO in 2010 in cooperation with its partners LexisNexis, Minesoft, ProQuest, Questel, Thomson Reuters, and WIPS and provides thousands of institutions in developing countries the opportunity to access powerful tools and services for retrieving and analyzing patent data available in commercial patent databases. ASPI partners have agreed to provide low-cost access to their premier patent information products for patent offices as well as academic and research institutions in many developing countries and free access to offices and institutions located in least developed countries.
The ASPI program complements the activities being carried out within the framework of the Access to Research for Development and Innovation (ARDI) program -see below -as well as the patent search and analysis tools provided by PATENTSCOPE®.
Access to Research for Development and Innovation (ARDI) program
The Access to Research for Development and Innovation (ARDI) program is coordinated by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) together with its partners in the publishing industry with the aim to increase the availability of scientific and technical information in developing countries.
By improving access to scholarly literature from diverse fields of science and technology, with a particular focus on applied science and technology, the ARDI program seeks to: reinforce the capacity of developing countries to participate in the global knowledge economy; and, support researchers in developing countries in creating and developing new solutions to technical challenges faced on a local and global level. Access to scholarly literature is critical to the innovation process, as it represents an important source of scientific and technical knowledge and thus complements the information contained in patent documents. The ARDI program was launched in 2009. It was developed together with 12 major scientific and technical publishers.
In October 2011, ARDI joined the Research4Life partnership. Research4Life is a public-private partnership between the World Health Organization (WHO), the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers (STM), Cornell University, Yale University and several technical partners including Microsoft. The partnership?s goal is to contribute to the attainment of the UN's Millennium Development Goals, reducing the knowledge gap between industrialized countries and developing countries by providing affordable access to critical scientific research. Since 2002, the Research4Life programmes have provided researchers at more than 5,000 institutions in 105 developing countries with free or low-cost access to over 8,000 leading journals in the fields of health, agriculture, and environment.
Technology and Innovation Support Centers -TISCs
Technology and Innovation Support Centers (TISCs) are designed to provide innovators in developing countries with access to locally based, high quality technology information services and other related services. Within the context of a joint engagement with national and regional industrial property authorities, WIPO supports the effective operation of TISCs by: facilitating access to patent databases and other scientific and technology resources; training local users through on-site and distance learning; providing information and training materials; supporting awareness-raising activities; and disseminating best practices and experiences among TISCs. Support services are provided by trained local staff and designed to promote access and effective use of valuable sources of technical and commercial information, such as patent information, scientific and technical journals, trademark and industrial design information, etc.
WIPO Green
WIPO Green is a technology marketplace which responds to the wide recognition that green technologies can significantly contribute to worldwide efforts towards achieving a low-carbon economy. Its key objectives are the accelerated adaptation, adoption and deployment of environmental technologies, particularly in developing countries and emerging economies. WIPO Green provides access to a broad range of technological solutions, in particular those that are less polluting, use resources in a more sustainable manner, recycle more of their waste products, or that handle residual waste in a more acceptable manner.
In order to mitigate the impact of and adapt to climate change, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) calls for all parties to promote and cooperate in the development, application and diffusion -including transfer -of environmentally sound technologies. WIPO Green aims to support and operate in conjunction with the UNFCCC Technology Mechanism and more specifically the Climate Technology Center and Network.
The aim of WIPO Green is to act as a trustworthy focal point where prospective users can obtain relevant worldwide information and learn about new technologies in specific areas; provide expanded technology options for users in their search for solutions; offer easy access to technology, technical assistance, as well as licensing and financial support; provide reputational benefits for companies proactively engaged in promoting the uptake and diffusion of green technologies; create opportunities to enter new markets and to reach out to potential global partners, serve as a reliable entry point, through WIPO and other intergovernmental and non-governmental partners, into the UNFCCC process, specifically the Climate Technology Center and Network.
WIPO Green enables owners of proprietary technologies to make selected technologies and solutions available as packages, including related know-how, services and materials and facilitates the matching of specific user-formulated needs with technology providers. In addition, it provides additional services, including training, consulting, tailor-made dispute resolution and assistance in getting financial support and acts as a hub connecting various critical partners, with WIPO facilitating policy dialogue and networking.
Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) are indispensable tools for addressing high priority sustainable development challenges (e.g. food security, job creation, clean energy, etc.). Experience suggests that building appropriate STI systems tailored to achieving each country?s priority economic and social development objectives as well as environment related challenges is the surest way to generate medium and long term sustainable progress. Intellectual property is not an end in itself, but a useful policy tool for achieving those goals, in particular when well integrated into national development plans (UNDAFs) or country Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers.
WIPO provides assistance, upon request, in the systematic assessment of the needs of developing countries and least developed countries (LDCs) in effectively using IP for development, taking into account their broader development goals as reflected in national development plans. Based on the needs assessment, WIPO supports the development and implementation of country-owned and tailored National IP and Innovation Strategies aimed at addressing their technical assistance and capacity building specific needs in a comprehensive and coherent way. This may include the establishment or enhancement of policy, legislative and regulatory frameworks, the institutional and technical infrastructure and the human resource capabilities that can support countries when strengthening their S&T system and domestic innovation capacities with the support of the IP system, in order to produce and disseminate solutions adapted to their own health, food and agriculture, housing, energy, environmental and other sustainable development needs.
IP encourages innovation by providing the means to generate a commercial return on investment in the development of new technologies, including those needed to address sustainable development goals; and it gives inventors, universities, research institutions and companies the confidence to license their proprietary inventions and technologies for use or further development where they are most needed.
Recipients of technology transfer must be able to negotiate, structure and implement technology (including associated know-how) transfer agreements as a first step in absorbing and/or adapting technologies needed for national sustainable development goals. WIPO provides capacity building to support its Member States in order for them to acquire the necessary IP management-related skills to deal with successful (?in? and ?out?) flows of knowledge and technologies that can contribute to sustainable development (for example, by reducing greenhouse gas emissions), including in the areas of:
- Training and practical tools to develop capacity in IP assets management, protection and commercialization, including, inter alia, patent drafting, negotiation of agreements relating to licensing and technology transfer, and patent valuation and marketing
- Technical assistance, guidance and advice on how to establish or improve organizational or legal infrastructures necessary for efficient technology transfer including, inter alia, the development of institutional IP policies and national innovation strategies, as well as in the development of projects supporting the establishment and management of technology transfer offices (TTO) and IP hubs in universities and research institutions;
- Technical assistance to developing countries and countries in transition in relation to IP legislation, IP-related flexibilities and public policy options and strategies for supporting, inter alia, R&D, innovation, and technology transfer and management. WIPO assists universities and research institutions in building science, technology and innovation (STI) capacity and in creating conditions for those institutions to look for partnerships either locally or internationally. These include WIPO University Initiative Program and the program on Research Networks; and,
- WIPO support can be specifically targeted to the transfer of ?green? technology, public health-related technologies and other technologies that may be needed to support sustainable development goals.
Intellectual property (IP) protection has emerged as an important component of national economic policies. Governments face choices on how to design an IP system that best serves their policy objectives. They also need to respond to changes in technology and in business models that may challenge the status quo. WIPO seeks to contribute to a better understanding of the economic effects of different IP policy choices and to offer a first entry point for anyone seeking information on the economics of IP. WIPO conducts economic research and commissions studies from academic economists. The resulting publications �taking the form of WIPO Economic Research Working Papers and Miscellaneous Economics Publications -seek to inform the public policy discourse on the economic effects of different IP policies.
In addition to activities stemming from its identity as the UN specialized agency for IP, WIPO has been specifically called upon by its Member States to address development issues through the WIPO Development Agenda. WIPO?s Global Challenges Division leads on WIPO?s efforts to foster international policy dialogue on the intersection between IP and global public policy issues. In addition to serving as a forum for dialogue on subjects such as public health, climate change, and food security, WIPO also seeks to inform sound policy making by contributing empirically-based information to its Member States, IGOs, and the public at large. The most recent contribution in this respect was a study commissioned by WIPO on ?Intellectual Property and the Transfer of Environmentally Sound Technologies?. This was also accompanied by a short policy brief based on the study.
WIPO is engaged in a wide range of TK related capacity -building activities, such as the co�ordination of local, national and regional seminars, workshops and consultations, the running of training programs and the publication of case-studies and surveys.
In recent years, there has been significant growth in the number of community, national and regional initiatives requesting the expertise, support and participation of WIPO. These have included policy and legislative processes, capacity-building projects and civil society, industry and academic programs, in all regions and in developed and developing countries. WIPO?s extensive body of unique policy materials and specialized practical tools, such as guidelines, toolkits, training programs and databases, are in high demand. Similarly, WIPO?s tools on IP management in TK documentation, patent examination, recognition of customary law, access and benefit-sharing contracts, handicrafts, arts festivals, dispute resolution and the digitization of cultural heritage are considered to be timely, appropriate and practically useful. In partnership with two external institutions, WIPO successfully launched a hands-on cultural documentation and IP training course for indigenous communities and museums/archives.
WIPO provides practical training to indigenous and local communities in recording, digitizing and disseminating their own cultural traditions and in managing IP issues and options for the purpose of safeguarding both their cultural heritage for future generations and their interest in authorizing use of their recordings and traditions by third parties. This hands-on program includes technical training on the techniques of cultural documentation and on the management of IP rights. The program was successfully piloted with a Maasai community in Kenya in 2008 and 2009.
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