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MILAN (Reuters) - Italy expects to settle a tax dispute with Google's parent company, Alphabet Inc, this week, two sources close to the matter said on Wednesday, as the company seeks to end hostilities with tax authorities across Europe.
Alphabet is accused of avoiding taxes by booking income earned in higher-taxing European markets through a unit based in low-tax Ireland. It has already settled with Britain but remains in dispute with Italy, France and Spain.
Italy's tax authority and Google are close to agreeing that the firm pays a settlement of between 280 million and 300 million euros ($306-$328 million), the sources said. The deal would also include a change to Google's tax practices to ensure it pays tax on Italian-sourced income, the sources added.
Tax police alleged Google had not paid tax on about 1 billion euros of Italian revenue between 2009 and 2013.
The U.S. company has said in the past that it complied with tax rules in every country it worked.
"Google continues to work cooperatively with the Italian tax authorities," a Google spokeswoman said on Wednesday, when asked about a possible settlement in the coming days.
Last year, Italian tax police said Google should have paid taxes totalling 227 million euros between 2009 and 2013, including tax on the 1 billion euros of undeclared Italian revenue and tax on royalties received.
The sources said the agreement with Rome would also cover the period since 2013 and would give details on how the U.S. giant should book its revenues in Italy for tax purposes.
On Wednesday the head of the Italian tax authority, Rossella Orlandi, told Italian newspaper La Repubblica a deal with Google was "very close".
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WASHINGTON — I tip my 10-gallon hat to the Texas school board, which just voted to "streamline" the public-school curriculum in a way that will surely Make America Great Again.
The board, on which Republicans have a two-thirds majority, agreed with recommendations that it is "not necessary" for students to learn about Hillary Clinton, Helen Keller or the father of modern conservatism, Barry Goldwater, the Dallas Morning News reported.
Eleanor Roosevelt and Betty Friedan were also deemed "not necessary" by a working group, which undertook an intriguing ranking of historical figures: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln fell short of perfect scores, but "local members of the Texas legislature" scored a perfect 20 of 20, as did "military and first responders."
The board decided to save 40 minutes of third-graders' time by sparing them a lesson on how government services are paid for. But it did preserve the one teaching that "Arab rejection of the State of Israel has led to ongoing conflict."
My favorite: the decision to strike from the fourth-grade curriculum a lesson about "holding public officials to their word." (Killing this topic, deemed "not being grade appropriate," should save kids 30 minutes, the board estimates.)
Some will take this as evidence that politicians should not write lesson plans. But I think Texas has done a great service. Indeed, if we are to survive the current era without succumbing to terminal cases of cognitive dissonance, we must eliminate all lessons, at all grade levels, on "holding public officials to their word." (For maximum relief, it would also help to strike all lessons involving "math" or "economics.")
Abandoning the obsolete teaching that public officials should be held accountable would make us all feel better about current affairs. Applying the veil of ignorance to our eyes, we would no longer be troubled to discover that:
Despite President Trump's promise that the $1.5 trillion tax cut would not benefit rich people, the rich can now write off 100 percent of their multimillion-dollar corporate jet purchases — double their previous benefit, the Wall Street Journal reports.
Despite Trump's promise that corporations would devote their vast tax savings to job creation and raises for their workers, executives are instead using the windfall primarily on stock buybacks that benefit themselves and their shareholders. A Goldman Sachs report finds that repurchases of company stock (which push up share values) were up nearly 50 percent, to $384 billion, in the first half of 2018, eclipsing capital expenditures.
Despite the Trump administration's promise that, as Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin put it, "not only will this tax plan pay for itself, but it will pay down debt," the Congressional Budget Office reports that the government had a deficit of $895 billion over the past 11 months — up 33 percent from a year earlier — as corporate tax receipts plunged 30 percent. As The Washington Post's Damian Paletta and Erica Werner observed, the last time unemployment was at the current 3.9 percent, in 2000, the government ran a surplus.
Despite Trump's promise to eliminate the debt, it has grown from $19.9 trillion to $21.5 trillion, with trillions more set to be added by the tax cuts (House Republicans just proposed another $650 billion cut) and higher spending despite a strong economy.
Despite Trump's drain-the-swamp promises, FEMA Administrator William "Brock" Long is the latest person in his orbit to earn the attention of federal prosecutors — this time an inspector general's referral over his use of taxpayer funds to commute home to North Carolina. Three Trump Cabinet officials were forced out over similar travel-related issues. Five former Trump advisers already have federal convictions for a range of wrongdoing.
Despite Trump's assurance a month ago that Paul Manafort "happens to be a very good person" in part because he "refused to 'break' " under pressure from prosecutors, the former Trump campaign chairman has admitted that over a decade he laundered more than $30 million, cheated the United States of $15 million in taxes, secretly lobbied for a repressive government in Ukraine (attempting to enlist "Obama Jews" and Israeli officials to pressure the administration) and tampered with witnesses.
Now Trump has escalated a trade war with China, adding tariffs on $200 billion in Chinese imports and drawing fast retaliation. Higher prices on consumer goods will follow.
But Trump's millionaire commerce secretary, Wilbur Ross, announced on CNBC that "nobody's going to actually notice it." Ross, who probably won't notice the price increases personally, previously held up a can of Campbell's soup on TV and said nobody "in the world is going to be bothered" by increased steel prices.
I won't be bothered, because I've learned my lesson: Holding public officials to their word is no longer on the books.
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Over 50% of the world's population lives in cities. The city is the concrete manifestation of our global world. Almost every trend involving goods, capital, immigration, social, economical and political structures, real life situations and people's plans for their lives, production and consummation, collective and fabricated dreams and utopias that exist in this world can be found in their visual, audible and tangible forms in the city. The city is for its inhabitants the aesthetic and social realm of experiences and actions regarding the globalized world and often it appears to us like a reduced map of the world.
As the centers of the cities in their more and more uniform look represent the global aspect of the city, the outer districts and quarters reflect the other side of the globalization process, as each city and each quarter is still very different, with its own history, location, mentalities,
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Global City – Local City is the fourth project of the festival network Theater/Festivals in Transition (FIT), a network of initially eight theatre festivals of eight European countries which has been initiated by the SPIELART Festival in Munich in 2005. In the beginning of FIT there was the strong need of all festival directors to analyze the festival work itself together, to establish an exchange with festival stakeholders and local politicians about the values of programming a festival (first FIT program 2005-2006).
The second program (FIT Mobile Lab of Theatre and Communication 2001-2009) was born because all festival directors agreed that in their experience the classical theatre critique can not find an adequate language for the contemporary art works presented by the festivals. So a group of young European theatre critics from ten countries was invited to writing courses and to actively participate as writers in residence at ten European theatre festivals.
The third FIT-program (Festival Lab – theory and practice for the next generation of festival programmers 2010-2011) has been initiated to exchange ideas about festival making with
young curators and to vaccinate the eight participating festivals with new ideas. A group of 20 young programmers of 15 European countries has been invited to workshops and
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In the period of seven years now by working intensively together by a lot of meetings, challenges and conceptual talks, shared opinions about art and best practices and also very personal aspects of working a trustful group not only of representatives of very different festivals but also of very different individuals has grown together. So the time has come to not only integrate different artistic programs in the FIT sections of each festival but to focus with Global City – Local City on the artists themselves as the main player of the program.


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I know for sure… He knows exactly what He IS doing, and He knows exactly what He is NOT doing.
I know for sure… He knows exactly how much I CAN handle with His help, and exactly how much I CANNOT handle without His help.
I know for sure… Eveything He does and does not do in the lives of His children is based upon 100% Divine WISDOM and upon 100% Divine LOVE.
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Today: Jacqui Scoggin (a.k.a. goodthingsgrow) shares the first recipe that got her eating zucchini.
Zucchini bread: two words that conjure up many memories for me. This recipe was the first way, and for a long time the only way, I would even touch zucchini.My grandma, Dolores, was an avid home cook and gardener. She and my grandpa used to tend a large vegetable and flower garden in the suburbs of Seattle and when I'd come over in the summer, she would always exclaim that there was far too much zucchini to harvest. Her solution was to make several batches of zucchini bread during our visits because she couldn't get my cousins and I to eat fresh zucchini any other way -- sneaking it into bread was probably the only secret she kept from us.
Slightly warm from the oven was my favorite way to eat it. I could hardly wait for it to cool before cutting a thick slice and happily sitting down at her kitchen table to enjoy it. As I got older, she would insist that I try every zucchini recipe she discovered. I finally gave in and tasted a lightly breaded and fried version that was completely unlike the watered down, mushy zucchini that I was expecting. This was good news for her and my grandpa -- and when I lived in their basement for a year during college, I could finally help them out with their zucchini problem. She and I would swap recipes and spend afternoons in the garden weeding or eating something delicious.
Sometimes I wish I could still go over for a lazy afternoon and bake, but at least I have the memories and recipes from the times we did share together.
Grandma's Zucchini BreadMakes 2 loaves3 cups whole wheat or all-purpose flour1 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon3/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg1 teaspoon salt2 teaspoons baking soda1/2 teaspoon baking powder3 eggs3/4 cup canola or melted coconut oil1 1/2 cups sugar2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract3 cups grated zucchini1 cup chopped toasted walnuts (optional)1 cup dried cranberries (optional)See the full recipe (and save and print it) here.
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M95 galaxy was discovered by Pierre Mechain on March 20, 1781 along with M96 galaxy. M95 is a barred spiral galaxy with nearly circular arms according to Vaucouleur's classification. Alan Sandage in the Hubble Atlas of Galaxies calls it a "typical ringed galaxy." The distance of the M95 galaxy is 38,000 kilo light years from earth. It is located in Leo I or M96 group along with M96, M105, and numerous other fainter galaxy. M95 galaxy was one of the key galaxies in the Hubble Space Telescope project in 1996.
When Pierre Mechain discovered M95 in 1781 he described it as " [A] Nebula without star, in the Lion [Leo], above star l (53 Leonis): its light is very faint." Then John Herschel in 1833 described the galaxy as "Bright; large; round; pretty gradually much brighter toward the middle where there is a nucleus." The size of the galaxy is 55860 light years.
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When cooking goes deadly. According to a Tallahassee Democrat report, a man who used to portray FSU mascot Chief Osceola for the university was killed during an argument about a gumbo recipe.
Caleb Halley, who served as Chief Osceola from 2004-07 according to the report, got into an argument with coworker Orlando Thompson at Buddy's Seafood Market in Panama City Beach last Tuesday.
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Lahore Resolution
The Lahore Resolution (Urdu: قرارداد لاہور, Qarardad-e-Lahore; Bengali: লাহোর প্রস্তাব, Lahor Prostab), also known as the Pakistan Resolution (Urdu: قرارداد پاکستان, Qarardad-e-Pakistan),[1] was a formal political statement adopted by the All-India Muslim League on the occasion of its three-day general session in Lahore on March 22–24, 1940. It called for the creation of 'independent states' for Muslims in north-western and eastern British India. The constituent units of these states were to be autonomous and sovereign.[2][3] The resolution was presented by A. K. Fazlul Huq, the Prime Minister of Bengal. It was later interpreted as a demand for a separate and single Muslim state called Pakistan.[4]
Although the name "Pakistan" had been proposed by Choudhary Rahmat Ali in his Pakistan Declaration[5] in 1933, Muhammad Ali Jinnah and other leaders had kept firm their belief in Hindu–Muslim unity.[6] However, the volatile political climate gave the idea stronger backing.[7]
The session was held between March 22 and March 24, 1940, at Iqbal Park, Lahore. The welcome address was made by Sir Shah Nawaz Khan of Mamdot. He was also the chairman of the reception committee and personally bore all the expenses. In his speech, Prime Minister Sikandar Hayat Khan of the Punjab, recounted the contemporary situation, stressing that the problem of D.G. Khan was "not of an inter-communal nature, but manifestly an international one".[8] According to Stanley Wolpert, this was the moment when Jinnah, the former ambassador of Hindu-Muslim unity, totally transformed himself into Pakistan's great leader.[9]
Khan Abdul Wali Khan - and many others - attributes the authorship of the Resolution to Sir Muhammad Zafarullah Khan.[10] Sir Sikandar Hayat's Unionist Party had swept the elections in Punjab and provided support to Jinnah at the urging of Sir Muhammad Zafarullah Khan resulting in the Sikander-Jinnah pact. Sir Sikandar convinced his classfellow Fazlul Haq, premier of Bengal, to support Jinnah as well. Sikandar supported the British in the Second World War at the request of Sir Winston Churchill after all of India's political parties had refused. The British promised dominion status to India after the war. After his suspicious death other players moved in. Sikandar did not envisage partition of his beloved Punjab. When he learnt of the intended partition of Punjab he rejected this outright.Due to civil unrest it was decided that Sir Fazlul Haq would present the resolution. The resolution text unanimously rejected the concept of a united India on the grounds of growing inter-communal violence[11] and recommended the creation of an independent Muslim state.[12]
After the presentation of the annual report by Liaquat Ali Khan, the resolution was moved in the general session by A.K. Fazlul Huq, the chief minister of undivided Bengal, and was seconded by Choudhury Khaliquzzaman who explained his views on the causes which led to the demand for partition. Subsequently, Maulana Zafar Ali Khan from Punjab, Mohammad Abdul Ghafoor Hazarvi from North-West Frontier Province, Sir Abdullah Haroon from Sindh, Qazi Esa from Baluchistan, and other leaders announced their support. In the same session, Jinnah also presented a resolution to condemn the Khaksar massacre of March 19, owing to a clash between the Khaksars and the police, that had resulted in the loss of 32 lives.[13]
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The Lahore resolution was actually adopted on March 24, but officially in Pakistan March 23 is considered the date of its adoption. In 1941, it became part of the Muslim League's constitution. In 1946, it formed the basis for the decision of Muslim League to struggle for one state for the Muslims.[14] The statement declared:
No constitutional plan would be workable or acceptable to the Muslims unless geographical contiguous units are demarcated into regions which should be so constituted with such territorial readjustments as may be necessary.[15]
Additionally, it stated:
That adequate, effective and mandatory safeguards shall be specifically provided in the constitution for minorities in the units and in the regions for the protection of their religious, cultural, economic, political, administrative and other rights of the minorities.
Most importantly, to convince smaller provinces such as Sindh to join, it provided a guarantee:
That geographically contiguous units are demarcated into regions which should be constituted, with such territorial readjustments as may be necessary that the areas in which the Muslims are numerically in a majority as in the North Western and Eastern Zones of (British) India should be grouped to constitute 'independent states' in which the constituent units should be autonomous and sovereign.
There remains a debate on whether the resolution envisaged two sovereign states in the eastern and western parts of British India. Abdul Hashim of the Bengal Muslim League interpreted the text as a demand for two separate countries.[16] In 1946, Prime Minister H. S. Suhrawardy of Bengal, a member of the All India Muslim League, mooted the United Bengal proposal with the support of Muslim and Hindu leaders, as well as the Governor of Bengal. However, it was opposed by Lord Mountbatten, the Muslim League, the Congress and the Hindu Mahasabha.
Pakistan resolution in the Sindh Assembly
The Sindh assembly was the first British Indian legislature to pass the resolution in favour of Pakistan. G. M. Syed, an influential Sindhi activist, revolutionary and Sufi and later one of the important leaders in the forefront of the Sindh independence movement,[17] joined the Muslim League in 1938 and presented the Pakistan resolution in the Sindh Assembly. A key motivating factor was the promise of "autonomy and sovereignty for constituent units".[18]
This text was buried under the Minar-e-Pakistan during its building in the Ayub regime. In this session the political situation was analyzed in detail and Muslim demanded a separate homeland only to maintain their identification and to safeguard their rights. Pakistan resolution was the landmark in the history of Muslim of South-Asia. It determined for the Muslims a true goal and their homeland in north-east and north-west. The acceptance of the Pakistan resolution accelerated the pace of freedom movement. It gave new energy and courage to the Muslims who gathered around Quaid-i-Azam for struggle for freedom.
The Lahore Resolution envisaged modern democratic states in the Muslim-majority regions of South Asia. It was invoked in the Six point movement of the Awami League in 1966, which eventually led to the creation of Bangladesh in 1971.
- To commemorate the event, Minar-e-Pakistan, a monument 60 m tall in the shape of a minaret, was built at the site in Iqbal Park where the resolution was passed.
- March 23 (Pakistan Day) is a national holiday in Pakistan to commemorate both Lahore Resolution (1940) and the Republic Day (1956); the country became the first Islamic Republic in the world.[19]
See also
- ^ Francis Robinson (1997), The Muslims and Partition, History Today, Vol. 47, September
- ^ "North Western and Eastern Zones of (British) India should be grouped to constitute 'independent states' in which the constituent units should be autonomous and sovereign"- Lahore Resolution. [1]
- ^ "Do we know anything about Lahore Resolution?". Alarabiya.net. 2009-03-24. Retrieved 2013-06-02.
- ^ Christoph Jaffrelot (Ed.) (2005), A History of Pakistan and Its Origins, Anthem Press, ISBN 978-1-84331-149-2
- ^ Choudhary Rahmat Ali, (1933), Now or Never; Are We to Live or Perish Forever?, pamphlet, published January 28. (Rehmat Ali at the time was an undergraduate at the University of Cambridge)
- ^ Ian Talbot (1999), Pakistan: a modern history, St. Martin's Press, ISBN 0-312-21606-8
- ^ Reginald Coupland (1943), Indian Politics (1936–1942), Oxford university press, London
- ^ Lahore Resolution (1940), Story of Pakistan website, retrieved on April 23, 2006
- ^ Stanley Wolpert (1984), Jinnah of Pakistan. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-503412-7
- ^ Khan, Wali. "Facts are Facts: The Untold Story of India's Partition" (PDF). pp. 40–42. Retrieved March 9, 2011.
- ^ Muhammad Aslam Malik (2001), The Making of the Pakistan Resolution, Oxford University Press, Delhi. ISBN 0-19-579538-5
- ^ Syed Iftikhar Ahmed (1983), Essays on Pakistan, Alpha Bravo Publishers, Lahore, OCLC 12811079
- ^ Nasim Yousaf (2004), Pakistan's Freedom & Allama Mashriqi: Statements, Letters, Chronology of Khaksar Tehrik (Movement), Period Mashriqi's birth to 1947. page 123. AMZ Publications. ISBN 0-9760333-0-5
- ^ I H Qureshi, (1965), Struggle for Pakistan, Karachi
- ^ I H Qureshi, (1992), A Short History of Pakistan. University of Karachi, Reprint of 1967 edition. ISBN 969–404–008–6
- ^ http://www.banglapedia.org/HT/L_0011.htm
- ^ G. M. Syed. http://gmsyed.org/hiswork/chains.html A Nation in Chains
- ^ G. M. Syed. http://gmsyed.org/case/saeen-book1-part2.htm The Case of Sindh (Chapter 2)
- ^ Stanford M. Mirkin (1966), What Happened when: A Noted Researcher's Almanac of Yesterdays, I. Washburn, New York. OCLC 390802 (First published in 1957 under title: When did it happen?)
External links
16x16px Wikimedia Atlas of Pakistan
- The Pakistan Resolution, Government of Pakistan Official website. (Retrieved on 23 April 2006)
- Lahore Resolution (1940) at Story of Pakistan website. (Retrieved on 23 April 2006)
- Lahore Resolution at Asiatic Society of Bangladesh.(Retrieved on 23 April 2006)
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'We know all these players so well. We know them at a tactical level'
'We know what they are capable of doing and we know their individual qualities'
Familiarity from facing each other regularly in England's Premier League will add to the flavour of Tuesday's World Cup semi-final between Belgium and France, Belgian midfielder Nacer Chadli said on Sunday.
The 28-year-old from relegated West Bromwich Albion is one of 11 players in the Belgian squad members based at English clubs, to add to five in the French line-up.
"We know all these players so well. We know them at a tactical level, we know what they are capable of doing and we know their individual qualities. I think it's an advantage for our planning," Chadli told a news conference after Belgium's training session on the outskirts of Moscow.
Tuesday's semi-final in St Petersburg sees team mates from English champions Manchester City, Chelsea, Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur go head to head as well as rivalries between club colleagues from Barcelona, Paris St Germain and Monaco.
Among the appetising match-ups, Chelsea have Belgian goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois and captain Eden Hazard up against Ngolo Kante and Olivier Giroud, who are certain to start for France. Paul Pogba faces Manchester United club mates Marouane Fellaini and Romelu Lukaku.
Chadli is the only player from West Brom involved on Tuesday after a season in which they were relegated but he hardly played because of recurring thigh injuries.
"I was in a negative spiral all season at West Brom," he said. "I was injured several times and that was not easy. I worked hard in the rehabilitation just to try and get some game time.
"For me just to get selected for the 23 to come to Russia was a victory. And then to be able to play, even nicer, not to speak of helping to score a match winner. That was tremendous."
Chadli netted a dramatic stoppage-time winner in the round of 16 against Japan as Belgium came from two goals down to win 3-2.
He had been brought on when Belgium were in dire straits and was involved at the beginning of the decisive counter-attack, which came from a Japanese corner, and applied the finishing touch after sprinting the entire length of the field.
His performance meant he started against Brazil in the quarter-final in Kazan.
"The feeling after scoring that goal was unbelievable but then so was the feeling after the match against Brazil. I don't know which was nicer," Chadli added.


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The Yellow Submarine movie was released in July of 1968 and the soundtrack in January 1969. The record contained classic and new Beatles songs including Yellow Submarine and All You Need is Love. It is not necessarily considered one of the best Beatles albums but "We all live in a yellow submarine..." is a refrain that I am sure you have heard before.
Anyway, back to the Lego set, which is set number 21306 with 553 pieces and recommended for individuals aged 10. It is super fun – done of course in bright yellow and accompanied with four handsome mini-figure versions of the Beatles - John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. In addition, it has a Jeremy figure. For those not in the know, Jeremy is a fictional character that appeared in the original animated movie.
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mike rowe's name and corresponding website have drawn criticism from microsoft for being too closely related to the software giant's name. mike rowe registered his website as mikerowesoft.com. the 17-year-old is a website designer, and he hoped to use the new website and corresponding company name to attract work. rowe even went so far as to print up corresponding business cards and letterhead.
rowe, a resident of vancouver, british columbia in canada, registered the domain name in august 2003. three months later he was e-mailed by microsoft. the e-mail was from a microsoft lawyer demanding that rowe transfer the domain to microsoft since it infringes on the company's copyright.
as a settlement, microsoft offered us$10 to reimburse rowe the cost of his registration fee. in response, rowe asked for us$10,000 from microsoft, which prompted microsoft to write rowe a 25-page letter explaining its position.
since the news hit rowe has been unable to keep his site online due to visitors wishing to give rowe their support. read more on this topic at zdnet uk and from the associated press article.
thanks to dan granahan and b1ister for the links.
update 1/20/2004 3:45 p.m. et: a link to our coverage of a similar incident from earlier this month and a status update on that were apparently not indicated clearly enough as a separate item, and have been moved below this update. the link and the update were added by editorial staff; my bad, not brian osborne's. –chiefeditor
you can also check out our related article about mikerosoft.ca from january 8, where mike morris's mikerosoft.ca website is undergoing a similar battle.
update 1/23/2004 7:05 a.m. et: we received the following info from mike rushton on yet another ms trademark-enforcement move — chiefeditor
on wednesday, 3 december 2003, microsoft's lawyers at arnold and porter contacted me via e-mail stating the following about my registered mikerosoft.net domain:
- cease all advertisement or sale of computer-related services, or any other services or products, which include "mikerosoft" or any other name confusingly similiar to any of microsoft's trademarks
- provide written confirmation of your agreement to cease all future advertisement or sale of any computer-related services, or any services or products, which include "mikerosoft" or any other name confusingly similar to microsoft's trademarks, and
- agree to voluntarily transfer the registration for the "mikerosoft.net" domain to microsoft.
i have owned this domain since january 10, 2000. i have never advertised the domain as an actual serious business, and have never made a dime using the name as a business. the domain is used for personal reasons to host web pages for myself and a few friends (all non-commercial). i contacted microsoft's lawyers and tried to explain that the domain is not used for commercial purposed and that i do not wish to transfer ownership to microsoft. i offered to take down the main page at www.mikerosoft.net (it was a placer page made for me by a friend as an example of a website he would make for me should i start an actual company). i also offered to forward the domain name to microsoft.com or any other address the lawyers wished. this was all turned down, and i received another letter on december 10th 2003 rejecting my offers. i have yet to hear from them again.
brian's opinion
well, this won't make microsoft any friends–all this action has done is made mike rowe into a martyr. if you ask me i think us$10,000 would have been worth it to avoid all of the bad publicity microsoft is going to receive for going after a 17-year-old. everyone likes a story like david and goliath, and microsoft has created itself a modern online version of that biblical tale.
no matter how much microsoft believes it is protecting its copyright, the best thing to do at this point would be to settle with mike rowe for an amount which is to be left undisclosed by both parties. that way microsoft can kill the story and rowe gets paid for his lost time.
if microsoft ends up taking this kid to court it will be a public relations nightmare for the company.
user comments 71 comment(s)
|sue me (10:11am est tue jan 20 2004)
sorry bill :) – by …
|is nothing safe? (10:15am est tue jan 20 2004)
since when does a trademark cover similar sounding names? it doesn't. it is meant to allow a company to use a certain mark or brand.
a point that should be made here is that copyright offers absolutly no protection for a company name. that is a trademark. copyrights only prevent verbatim copying of a company or indivudual's work.
if microsoft really is trying to push this from a copyright stance, they are sure to lose. however, i suspect their position is on trademark violation. i don't think this will stand up in court either since mikerowesoft is not visually similar to microsoft.
most importantly, mr. rowe should make as big a media frenzy out of this as possible. the reason big companies are able to do things that are not quite legal (or bully people with false legal threats) is because an individual is pretty powerless. but there is strength in numbers. go get 'em mike. – by m@
|ahem… (10:16am est tue jan 20 2004)
and they fail to mention where microsoft gets "its" best ideas… – by microsteals
|me too (10:17am est tue jan 20 2004)
i had the same problem – by n. ron insatoilet
|update (10:17am est tue jan 20 2004)
hmm…looks like they are implementing spin control…
"microsoft has admitted it took things 'too seriously' when its lawyers threatened a 17-year-old student called mike rowe over his domain name"
– by m@
|oy vey (10:22am est tue jan 20 2004)
i love ugeek.com and have been faithful to it for some time now, but man all the news is so ofn it's crazy. it's like it reads all the news sites at the beginning of the week and then puts up the same news at the end of the week.
i hope this changes, cause there is never anything here worth reading a 2nd time. – by goaheadflameme
|they may not want to pay up! (10:23am est tue jan 20 2004)
true but at the other hand, i do not think that microsoft would want to let people to start buying registration name that looks like theirs so they can get $10,000 for it. allthough i think if the registration name is available it should be everyone's right. – by pjw27
|its www.mikerosoft.com not .ca (10:27am est tue jan 20 2004)
btw – by hoser
|no brainer! (10:31am est tue jan 20 2004)
even a half-ass lawyer can see this one's a no-brainer. "mikerowesoft is a cool moniker for a web designer. i say mike should keep it and "microscrewem"!! – by kevin l.
|trademark violation (10:31am est tue jan 20 2004)
imagine if you will mr. mike rowe calling on a potential client and stating that he is from "mikerowesoft". does this sound like microsoft? absolutely. is it likely to cause confusion to potential clients? absolutely. it is on this basis that microsoft is within their rights to force mike rowe from using his new found domain name.
just because microsoft can be a pain in the a** sometimes, doesn't mean that they are always wrong. – by welcometoamerica
|welcometoamerica (10:36am est tue jan 20 2004)
if his name were not mike rowe, i'd agree with you.
– by archerb
|archerb (10:41am est tue jan 20 2004)
yes. the fact that his name is mike rowe seems to cloud the issue, but in reality, mike rowe chose the ending "soft" to attract business. he has clearly chosen to attempt to create business by having a site with a similar sounding name to the software giant. couldn't he have chosen "mikerowesoftware" or "softwarebymike" or any other number of names?
not saying that i like it, nor am i saying that microsoft need pursue a 17-year old programmer… just saying that the kid took a swing at the giant and is now up against the ropes – by welcometoamerica
|don't be chumps (10:45am est tue jan 20 2004)
microsoft has every right to take this action. it is more important to show strength than worry about taking a bad publicity mark. m.r. knew exactly what he was doing. it is the reasonable man standard! – by ian p.
|confusion vs. infringement (10:46am est tue jan 20 2004)
a similar sounding name can be infringement — coke fights kokko-cola type things all the time.
it's infringement if the trademark is used for the same type of product: kokko-cola and coca-cola.
it is generally not infringement if the names are used for different types of products, except in the few states that recognize "trademark dilution" — in illinois for example, mcdonalds won over mcmotel.
if microsoft is a web page designer, it probably wins — if it is not a web page designer, it might win in a few states like illinois. – by jim l
|microsoft vs mikerowesoft (10:49am est tue jan 20 2004)
i think i need another domain name..
hp.biz ? ibm.net ? ???
$10,000.00 even $5,000.00 i dont mind – by gmaster
|wrong, wrong, wrong (10:52am est tue jan 20 2004)
brian, hoser:
there are 2 (two) mikes.
there is mike morris (late of ), 17 year old designer of web sites.
sheesh! i blame the banning of phonics in school for the production of two such illiterate geeks. whole word, ha! – by kev, a swing dancer
|hire the guy (10:53am est tue jan 20 2004)
what better stage presenter than .. " hello my name is mike rowe and i would like to present microsoft office 2003." then have bill gates come out and say .. "he acts ilke he owns the company.."
that should be worth $100,000 to do the trade shows for one year.
otherwise a linux company can hire him and he can do this ad.
"hello my name mike rowe and i work in the computer industry. but microsoft software is so bad that i had to change my name to linux o'pen gwyn because i wouldn't be caught dead running anything bill gates wrote."
"hello my name is mike rowe and i only use amd processors in my advanced ""mike rowe"" devices in my business systems."
and so on.. – by old timer
|sorry to say but.. (10:53am est tue jan 20 2004)
i dislike microsoft's tactics sometimes and this has led them into really bad pr waters… "microsoft attacks teen!", but i think microsoft is right on this one.
a teenager, who was blatently leeching off the microsoft name (from what i've read, he doesn't write software, so there's no need for the "soft" for his company, and if he does create software, then he's in competition with microsoft)… after they offered to pay the registration fees (which i agree was a little cheap), he demanded $10,000 for the domain and then ignored all e-mails from them, until they sent him the information telling him that he was in breach of trademark.
it's an unpopular opinion because "microsoft is teh devil!", but meh. – by captain planet
|oops! (10:54am est tue jan 20 2004)
wrong, wrong, wrong.
i meant to say "now of onlinemike.com ".
damn – by kev, a swing dancer
|mr. osborne… (11:01am est tue jan 20 2004)
it's not mikerosoft.com, it's mikerowesoft.com!!! please correct your article… his name is mike rowe: mikerowesoft.com!!! – by your1stgradeteacher
|the future for mikey . . . (11:11am est tue jan 20 2004)
i see a tell-all book detailing every moment of his 30 second fight against a company who embodies the american dream. that ought to fetch him his ten g's. – by ian p.
|well (11:34am est tue jan 20 2004)
i can't see much wrong with this aslong as his real name is mike rowe surely he can have the oft bit.
of course if this is anti ms site then thats different he should loose the domain and stop using the name.
suprised ms could be bothered with this maybe the lawers are short of things to do at the moment. – by d.ddd
|mikerowesoft.com (11:54am est tue jan 20 2004)
when pressed about the issue, bill gates was quoted as saying, "all your website are belong to us."
– by cybersaur
|it's nothing new microsoft has done this since 1997 (11:55am est tue jan 20 2004)
only then the guy didn't make a big deal out of it, even if he did have it reg'd since 1995, but now mike rowe stands to make out, as he should, that 10 dollars they offered was a wicked wedgie. i got this from this url.
– by riley
|trademark (11:59am est tue jan 20 2004)
this is clearly a trademark infringement and mike rowe doesn't really have a case.
however, the $10 offer from microsoft was a bit too much of a slap in the face. mike rowe doesn't reasonably deserve the $10,000 he asked for (i think thats a bit much) — after all paying off domain name squatters could end up costing companies quite a bit if they pay $10k per name. but mike does deserve something reasonable. if microsoft had gone in with a $1000 offer i doubt mike would have much to fight about. – by jay
|the confusion benefits microsoft (12:03pm est tue jan 20 2004)
if mike rowe ever had any clients, and he told them to go to his site. people would go to microsoft.com, not the other way around.
if at this point you can't spell microsoft, you're an idiot. – by phatcat
|who's attacking who? (12:04pm est tue jan 20 2004)
$10,000 for ms to buy the domain name from him when the *real* cost is only $10? a 1000 percent markup? sorry, but i think when mike saw ms, he really saw m$. "ms can afford it" should not be a consideration when figuring a *fair* price. i don't blame ms for turning his "offer" down. why couldn't the two sides have settled for a lesser (resonable) amount, say $500-1000?
as an aside, i work with a guy named mike rowe. he thinks this is all pretty funny, though i imagine he's getting tired of everyone asking him "are you the mikerowesoft guy?" – by jrink
|homonyms (12:05pm est tue jan 20 2004)
it's all about 'da homonyms fools. – by englisho professorio
|in the first place microsoft == crap (12:13pm est tue jan 20 2004)
just download gentoo or slackware.
(if "what the hell are those" is the first thing to enter your mind, you deserve to put up with microsoft's sub-standard os.)
if my last name was alex warner and i wanted to name my book "time for warner", i would. and when aol comes knocking on my door all pissy, i'd ask for a check (so i could re-publish all my books) or tell them to hit the road.
mike shouldn't have to spend all that time over again to promote his site just because billy thinks the other kids arn't playing the way they should (read: the way he wants them to). i'm not going to type mikerowesoft.com accedently trying to find microsoft. i mean for cryin out loud, i have to pay real close attention to make sure i even spell the kids name right in the first place!
in addition, i've yet to see any telephone numbers or "call our central office" links on mike's site, and i doubt there ever will be one, so no, he probably wont cause any confusion by answering his phone with "mikerowesoft website solutions, how may i help you today?", because his freind tommy from down the street isn't going to double check the number he dialed asking "oh my, i didn't call my tech support number by mistake did i? see, cause i've never actually gotten through to them before, so i don't know how they'd answer their phones."
billy needs to grow up, and so do the rest of these ignorant ms zombies that jump to the aid of their beloved crap os whenever someone with a diffrent (and often better) idea comes along (such as the notion that microsoft's time really should have come and gone a long time ago) because they might get confused if their computer doesn't crash every 10 minutes.
you should have to pass an aptitude test to sign up for an internet account. – by alex(acesmythe)smith
|hmmm… new domains anyone? (12:18pm est tue jan 20 2004)
my crow's off
mike rows often
micros oft
– by 01000111
|so many mikerowesoft (12:22pm est tue jan 20 2004)
i did search whois domain.
mikerowesoft.com owned by mike rowe
mikerowesoft.net owned by david titus
mikerowesoft.org owned by unknown
mikerowesoft.info owned by mesa hostmaster
mikerowesoft.info owned by joshua youssef
mikerowesoft.us owned by bruce miller
mikerosoft.com owned by
geez.. isn't microsoft going to sue all of them? we need some petition to support mike rowe – by mikecrap
|only a punk would oppose (12:28pm est tue jan 20 2004)
mike rowe, cmon. so you're all jealous this kid has this name and got this domain. he makes a good webiste. i would also understand if he changed his name to mike rowe or something like that. but with that being his birth name there should be no problem with him having that domain. so what if he gets a phone call and he says "hello this is mikerowesoft" they're only calling his number because they are looking for his services. they already understand that its not a service from the more commonly known "microsoft" you know the difference between m&m and eminem dont you? if microsoft was so concerned about other people taking domains that sound the same, heck, theyve been on the web long enough, they shouldve registered all the sound alikes as to disallow anyone from infringing upon their precious copyrights…
if microsoft wins this thing, i can truly say i do live in a united states of embarassment – by unionpulse rocks
|microbrain (12:30pm est tue jan 20 2004)
did someone say this rowe fellow was a parasite on microsoft? it's microsoft that is the parasite. through a series of questionable tactics they have maneouvered themselves into a position to be a "necessity," and now they can foist their buggy software on us and we eat it up like it was manna. – by macuser
|donate (12:32pm est tue jan 20 2004)
you can donate via paypal on his web page. – by why
|idiots (12:49pm est tue jan 20 2004)
i can't believe geek has a quote from in their article about mikerowesoft.com.
apparently they don't even read their own articles.
idiots. – by disgustipated
|enough already! (12:49pm est tue jan 20 2004)
isn't microsoft's reputation bad enough already? do they really want to steal someone's birth name from them???
i personally think that is is corporate greed gone wild! microsoft is a perfect companion for gw and the rest of his corporately irresponsible pillagers. hurray for mike rowe! – by dan bosten
|mike rowe (12:53pm est tue jan 20 2004)
good luck with your website mike…it's your name and your site. if billy wants it let him spend some of his 36,000,000,000 dollars for it….he can afford it. but make sure hi pays in us dollars..
billy wouldn't even bother if you were from china and you named your website
mikhosof.com,,,,… china already shows that copyrights are and american joke to make money…let billy change his…send him 10 dollars..
dead aye – by deadaye
|ms canadian lawyers (12:55pm est tue jan 20 2004)
what's this i read…ms's canadian lawyers ar named smart and biggar. that's gotta be a joke! – by dino (all dino, all
|credibility (12:59pm est tue jan 20 2004)
geek.com credibility just went to zero. mikerosoft is mike morris. no affiliation with mike rowe. do you even bother to check your facts dillhole? – by po'd at fools
|mike rowe soft (1:05pm est tue jan 20 2004)
some of this reminds me of the famous 2600 magazine battle against verizon's lawyers.
verizon's lawyers registered
– by retsof
|don't hate (1:11pm est tue jan 20 2004)
microsoft owns you all, i don't care what browser you have. as well, they should own you. they are smarter, more efficient and a most successful incarnation of the american dream. they give you more than you're worth at a tenth of the price. a person is not bigger, better, or more richous for fighting ms, its not even that kind of a thing. – by ian p.
|mike rowe soft (1:16pm est tue jan 20 2004)
joshua youssef just picked up
mikerowesoft.ws is still available at if you have $9.95 for a year of registration fun. – by retsof
|hmmmm (1:20pm est tue jan 20 2004)
kind of funny that most of those domains were registered in the past 48 hours. – by bonedome
|mike rowe soft (1:23pm est tue jan 20 2004)
might still be available.
did the lawyers complain about .com .org or .net for that name?
if not, then that could help the defense. – by retsof
|mike rowe soft (1:30pm est tue jan 20 2004)
who wants
mikerowesopht. whatever????
– by retsof
|just crazy. (1:32pm est tue jan 20 2004)
i think the whole point was to scare the kid into giving up his domain, which is crazy in itself. – by volomon
|domain subject is greed (1:36pm est tue jan 20 2004)
this section has pingponged like a political debate, only this was cool.
i have to swing the axe at microsoft, they're as bad as bush and bunch.
kick their ass, mike rowe.
– by theo
|bliss (1:40pm est tue jan 20 2004)
six years ms free. aaaaaahhhhh……!
i feel good,dada, dada, dada, da !
like i knew that i would,dada, dada, dada, da !
so good! da da! so good, i don't need you, da, da, da, dada!
– by james brown
|going too far (1:41pm est tue jan 20 2004)
it is unfortunate the microsoft is so insecure that they have to go after the young man like that. it is almost as bad as the riaa. they need to draw the line on this copyright stuff and pull their heads out. it should be only for the exact name, lindows is legal and so is every other name out there! did you know that ups has a patent on the color brown that they use and if i had a business and sold a paint from my own mix (if it was the same or close enough to it)from the store that they could sue me for copyright infringement. luckily ups is not as arrogant or insecure as other companies we know. it has gone too far. – by regulas
|so tired of all this (1:43pm est tue jan 20 2004)
pretty soon any website containing 9 characters as a website, like "microsoft" is 9 characters they will be suing with the following in mind: "well we have used an advanced cryptography to actually decipher the 9 characters they are using for their website can be decrypted in such a way that it can spell microsoft….anyone could decipher this in such a way that we find misleading that their website is actually referring to the microsoft name…"
look, who gives a good god damn about a websites name……i see only 2 possible problems here:
1: a large company buying names like mikerosoft.com, etc in order to confuse 0.000000001% of their customer base and bring the company down.
2: anyone using a name like and posing as microsoft.
other than that, laws need to be changed, or whatever to keep this kind of "crap" to a minimum. – by ………………..
|microsoft.com —> microbully.com (1:45pm est tue jan 20 2004)
yea…microsoft should adopt a new name as microbully.com.
i sell the domain to them for $10.
what a punch of a&^%holes.
bully gates – by bully gates
|lol (1:54pm est tue jan 20 2004)
good pr m$ – by i_drive_a_honda
|microsoft called back and said, (1:59pm est tue jan 20 2004)
"we can have you killed for less." – by bill gates
|better check your facts! (2:40pm est tue jan 20 2004)
the website mikerosoft.ca is completely unaffiliated with mikerowesoft.com. your article confuses the two. – by anonymous
|microsopht.com (2:45pm est tue jan 20 2004)
hmmm. that one has been out there since april 26, 2002. it comes up for renewal april 26, 2004. i can hardly wait – by retsoph
|micro$oft (2:50pm est tue jan 20 2004)
will they complain about
microdollaroft.com? – by retdollarof
|what he should have done… (3:00pm est tue jan 20 2004)
is register the name "rowesoft.com".
then his email could be "firstname.lastname@example.com"… and there would be nothing ms could do about it.
or he could identify a host in the domain as "mike" to have:
(da dumm) "mike.rowesoft.com"…
again, nothing they could do about it, since the host "mike" is registered under the domain "rowesoft.com" (and is not part of the domain name).
|re: old timer (3:15pm est tue jan 20 2004)
one of the funniest posts i have ever seen… – by x-plattform
|ya (3:17pm est tue jan 20 2004)
microsoft vs little mikey from canada..ha ha i laugh at the corporate a$$holes..you would never see cisco go after sysco(a food distributer)just because its a homynym of their name.(excuse the speeelign).these over zelous lawers on large retainers with too much spare time surfing the web with one hand.(insert inuendo). i hope they rectaly violate microsoft in court.
make them pay a hundred times more money for being pricks to 17 year old kids..and for 98 and nt4 and oh shit thie list is to long.. – by notme
|microsoft owns you not me, (3:30pm est tue jan 20 2004)
and only if you are among those who are still stupid enough to believe that the "american dream" really works for them. only idiots apologize for cut throat corporate tactics in the belief that, they too, can succeed.
corporations will screw you without mercy . people who think they are going to succeed and become respectable rich people under the current system without sacrificing the qualities that truly make them admirable are fooling themselves.
'nobody has a god-given right to a job'. that's a statement of belief, though carly and all the top dogs who benefit from such a stance would like us to take it as a fact.. we could just as easily say that it is a 'fact' that everybody had a right to a decent paying job, health coverage, food, shelter etc. and we would find ourselves living in a country where everyone did have these things.
there is a difference between facts and values.
every time people identify with corporations and defend corporate interests against the little guy , dog eat dog becomes a fact rather than a value. they are operating under the assumption that defending liberty for corporations defends their own liberty. it does not. like 99% of the rest of us, they are the little guy too and they are going to remain so, despite any bogus promises that hard work and intelligence will let them join the elite ranks of the 1%.
until the crash, a lot of smart techies drove this economy, they put blood sweat and tears into making it succeed. some of them got rich, some didn't and it was not necessarily correlated with who was the hardest working or most brilliant. now of course the people who built these corporations and made them strong are being thanked for their hard work and loyalty by seeing their jobs go to lower paid workers oversees so that execs and the lazy shareholders who don't even do any work continue to prosper. identifying with the corporatocracy is for chumps. thinking that somehow it is going to be different for you is like relying on winning the lottery .
work and its place in the world are about more than personal earnings, they are what allows a community to survive and remain healthy. we are on the brink of losing that and we will lose it if we continue to accept the bogus ideology being fed to us by morally bankrupt ceos, corporate lawyers, and fools who mistakenly think that by defending corporate greed think they are defending their own freedom.
microsoft got where they are not by being the best , but by being the greediest most intimidating kids on the playground. why do we reward that kind of behaviour?
they don't own me and they don't have to own you. – by macuser
|sue me please! (4:43pm est tue jan 20 2004)
i just registered rowesoft.com. hahaha!
and yes, it's to be hosted on a linux server.
(i'll give it to rowe if he wants it. but he better ask before i start printing up stationary. lol!)
by the way, chief editor you should check your grammer on the 1/20/04 3:45pm et update. – by anonymous
|anonymous (5:05pm est tue jan 20 2004)
you're are an idiot. it makes no sense that you would register that domain. stop reaching for attention that isnt yours. – by unionpulse rocks
|to unionpulse (5:34pm est tue jan 20 2004)
oh get over it. if it wasn't me it would have been somebody else. if anything i'm doing rowe a favor because i'm agreeing to give it to him if he wants it before some greedy bastard (like jeff campagnola, the owner of mikerowesoft.ca) tries to sell it for $10,000.
yes, the attention is not mine. but aren't you reaching for attention by calling me and idiot? people who call others names are the ones who are trying to get attention. you should look for a more constructive way to criticise. – by anonymous
|hmmmm (7:51pm est tue jan 20 2004)
this all makes me just wanna go and register
:p – by headley
|re: sue me please! (8:01pm est tue jan 20 2004)
and while the editor is checking his grammar (grammer), you should check your spelling!!! – by theone
|pill popin punk! (9:27am est wed jan 21 2004)
did you know that mikey also designed this site??
– by plurman
|quick money… (2:03pm est wed jan 21 2004)
oh poor kid…yea right stfu guys. he knew exactly what he was doing. this is what he wanted to happen. get microsoft to pay him $10,000. !@#$ the kid. go microsoft! sue his ass! – by give me a break
|macuser (5:03am est thu jan 22 2004)
you are such a commie! "let's all just hold hands and sing "cuhm bah yah"" puuhleeeze! no matter what your "work" is, it is probably a corporation that pays you.typical union mentality "hey let's cook that goose that has been laying those golden eggs (my paycheck!" if you don't like the way existing companies operate, start your own and show us all how it should be done. – by yuneyonbuster
|microsoft suing a pillow maker (10:08am est thu jan 22 2004)
taking the stuffing out of microsoft
to the world at large, the word microsoft means one thing – computer software. in australia, the trademark microsoft is also used, legally, by a company which manufactures pillows and quilts!
– by ms suing everybody
|self-employed (4:15am est wed jan 28 2004)
if you don't like the way existing companies work, and try to start your own to show the way it could be done, you will be stopped. by literally thousands of laws that define how a corporation is required to behave. – by been there, done tha
|makin' the $$$ (5:10pm est fri jan 30 2004)
so maybe he won't get 10gs from ms. but he will get loads from his ebay book!
– by jessica


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People who read books often eagerly anticipate a second volume because they are keen to revisit a world and its characters. So, why are film sequels expected to be less satisfying than a first film? Is novelty more important in film than in literature? Or, have film sequels too often revisited earlier worlds without expanding the story?
"When we finally got a green light to do a second movie, we had a choice," says Simon Otto, head of character animation at DreamWorks for the 2010 film How to Train Your Dragon and the sequel
How to Train Your Dragon 2, scheduled for June 2014.
"We could reshuffle elements and tell the same story in a different way. But, Dean [DeBlois], our writer and director, said that he wanted to do a trilogy, and that this second chapter would take place five years later. For his navigational tool, he looked at how
The Empire Strikes Back in the first
Star Wars trilogy opened the scope and expanded that world, evolving so there was a true progression in time."
THE RELATIONSHIP between Hiccup and his dragon Toothless forms the emotional heart of the story.
In many ways, How to Train Your Dragon 2 has as much in common with live-action dramas as animated features. Says DeBlois, who also wrote and directed the first
Dragon, "I was a
Star Wars kid. It seemed like that universe could go on and on, and that was compelling. I love the fact that these films are set in a mythic Nordic land with islands and dragons yet to be discovered. Hiccup has the mind of an explorer. He is on the edges of Viking land, moving into uncharted worlds, exciting worlds that go on and on."
Sympathy with the Dragons
In Dragon 2 Hiccup is five years older, accepted as a Viking, and a hero of his village for having created a utopia in which the people serve the dragons and the dragons help the people. Actor Jay Baruchel
voiced Hiccup, as he had done for the first film, and America Ferrera returns as Hiccup's girlfriend Astrid.
"Visually, Hiccup is clearly a more attractive, leading man type," Otto says. "But as animators, we didn't want to lose the slightly awkward kid who talks more than he should and overcomes challenges through wit and intelligence. So, how do you do that and present a slightly more heroic and grown-up character? The balance is incredibly challenging."
The team decided to show that the 20-year-old would still have some of the 15-year-old's behavior. "We had conversations with the director and ended up writing a scene early in the film where Astrid mocks Hiccup's geekiness," Otto says.
Also helping round out Hiccup's character is his dragon Toothless. At the end of the first film, Hiccup had lost a leg and his friend Gobber had fitted him with a prosthetic. That gave Hiccup a special synergy with Toothless, who has a prosthetic tail fin, as they moved into the second film.
"The rider and dragon are symbiotic," DeBlois says. "They are best friends. Hiccup is an ace flyer. Toothless has a certain amount of dog behavior. But, he has feral cat and domestic cat behaviors, too. Partly because of his design, he has a lot of black panther quality."
Otto sees the relationship between the two as key elements in the film." Toothless and Hiccup have lived together for five years now, so they are more like college roommates," Otto says. "There is playful banter between them."
He describes a scene in which the dragon mimics Hiccup's big-talking attitude, and in return, Hiccup teases Toothless when he pouts, suggesting he's a big baby.
"The magic about Toothless is that he's a puppy dog on one hand and a fierce dragon on the other," Otto says. "On one side, he's 100 percent innocent, and yet he's the most dangerous weapon one could have. For me, the key relationship in the film is between Hiccup and Toothless. That's the emotional heartbeat throughout, and we challenged that relationship. Hiccup meeting Toothless is a talisman of our world. You believe in that to the point where you love the dragon and you want one of your own. The more tangible that is, the more people let go and enter this world."
Dragon Mother
Making her debut appearance in Dragon 2 is Hiccup's mother Valka, marking this animated film as one of the few in which a character's mother is alive and has a starring role. Cate Blanchett voices the reclusive vigilante.
TOOTHLESS SOARS through an even larger world than in the first film. Animators used a new system to create the performances.
"I thought it would be fun to bring a parent back from the 'dead,' rather than to kill a parent," DeBlois says. "We didn't explain what happened to her in the first film, so she was a mystery. It was fun to delve into that. We find out that she's a wild Dian Fossey type who lives with dragons and rescues them from evildoers. She is the ultimate dragon whisperer."
The idea is, as we learned in the first film, Vikings considered dragons to be enemies, so they hunted and trapped the dragons. Like her son many years later, Valka understood that dragons were not the enemy. She freed them and hid them away.
Hiccup meets his mother in one of the film's key scenes. "I think his discovery that the mysterious dragon rider is his mother has a different flavor in the film than the scene in the trailer," Otto says. "It's definitely a pivotal scene. She's been gone for 20 years. She lives with dragons. How does that change her behavior?"
As he had for the first film, Otto assigned supervising animators to particular characters. "Some were on the first movie, so they took on the same characters," Otto says. "They knew more about the characters than the director did. The director has to think about 15 characters, the story, the plot, what effects should do, how to stage a scene. An animator thinks about one character 24 hours a day. Dean [DeBlois] would give them the purpose of a scene, the emotional points, and say, 'Go play.' So, it wasn't 'move something 30 degrees over here.' It was much more like live action."
In addition to the main characters, the actors voicing Hiccup's peers are back, as well: Snotlout (Jonah Hill), Fishlegs (Christopher Mintz-Plasse), Gobber (Craig Ferguson), the twins Tuffnut and Ruffnut (TJ Miller and Kristen Wiig), and Hiccup's father Stoick (Gerard Butler).
Like Hiccup, each character has his or her own dragon, and in addition to her dragon Cloud Jumper, Valka has a nest of dragons. Thousands of dragons. "I didn't count the full number," DeBlois says. "Our hero dragons have detailed rigs that make them capable of more performance and acting than the ones in her nest. For the nest of dragons, we took a standard body and changed tails, heads, spikes, wings, and colors to create variety."
To ground the fantasy and help audiences believe in the world, the modelers and animators gave every dragon animal behaviors and real-world characteristics. "We needed armies of dragons," Otto says. "The difference between a dragon created for live action and the dragons in our world is that we can create humorous dragons. But, we still want to make them believable."
Thus, the designers caricatured animals and objects from the real world. A dog. A crocodile. A cement mixer.
"Grump, who is Gobber's dragon, is an oversized sea elephant mixed with a concrete mixer," Otto says. "He's a traveling trash can. We wanted to give the audiences a caricature of something they know. It's a whimsical world, overdrawn, oversized, but we wanted people to believe in the existence of the dragons."
DeBlois helped provide Grump's voice. "We recorded one of my French bulldogs, and his sound made its way into the sound design for Gobber's Grump," he says. "My dogs have been featured in movies as far back as Lilo and Stitch."
Tooling the Performances
Helping animators create believable dragons and engaging characters was a new generation of animation tools the studio has named Premo, and a new rigging system designed to take advantage of fast graphics cards. The crew on this film were the first to use the new system.
"It's revolutionary," DeBlois says of Premo. "The artists can work on tablet screens, like a [Wacom] Cintiq with a stylus, and manipulate a character like a stop-motion puppet. Before, they had to select what they wanted to move and input degrees or percentages. It's amazing that they were so proficient. Now, they have a seemingly unlimited ability to grab any part of a face or body and move it where they want. [Premo] allows them to work faster and more intuitively. Being able to work faster means they can refine the performances more."
AT RIGHT, TOP TO BOTTOM: Hiccup discovers Valka's nest of dragons. Hiccup with his reunited parents. Each Viking in the village has his or her own dragon.
The visual complexity of the shots put the new system to the test. "Hiccup has the most complicated character rig we've ever attempted," DeBlois says. "He is in shots with Toothless and six other characters, and we also have the flight rigs and the saddles. It should break a system, but Premo is very powerful. It worked flawlessly."
Like the first film, Dragon 2 has a live-action look that DeBlois attributes in part to Cinematographer Roger Deakins, who was a consultant. "His bold, uncompromised style influenced the look," DeBlois says.
Helping the lighting team achieve that look was a new-generation lighting system the studio calls Torch. "Lighters can see quick renders of their setups," DeBlois says. "They can manipulate and tweak the light in each shot. It allows more subtlety."
As the animators work, they can see keyframes rendered in real time with a standard lighting setup that gives them a sense of volume, dimension, light, and shadow.
"Before, we had to simplify the workflow, turn on details, render the frames, and then see the work," says Otto. "Now, we can create more sophisticated characters and more detail-oriented work, and run them in real time. It's one step short of seeing frames lit and finished. We see full resolution and geometry, and can interact with the characters live. It's more playful. We can iterate more, test things out, try a slightly different gesture, and find things we otherwise might not have found."
Once approved, animated sequences travel to the character effects department for cloth and hair simulation. "Animators can see enough of that to know the animation is working and the movement is correct, but they don't see the final surfacing," DeBlois says. "The nuances are yet to come. The character effects team moves the hair and fabric, giving it weight and believability."
Worlds Apart
The expansive dragon world provoked big creative as well as technical challenges. "Most of our dragons have wings and tails," Otto says. "Some have multiple wings. Some are gigantic, some are tiny. We had numerous dragons, dragon armies, and human armies. Armies from different areas of the world. Bringing that through rigging and animation into lighting scenes with thousands of characters put a giant burden on the pipeline, and then doing that with new-generation software was a technical challenge. But, we wanted to expand the dragon world."
"Even though it's a caricatured and larger-than-life world, we still render it with surfacing and textures that make it believable," De Blois says. "And, the special effects, the natural movement of water, smoke, and snow, adds so much credibility to the world. It envelops you as a live-action experience."
DeBlois imagines a next generation of tools that would bring the live action feeling even closer. "The next step might be having a setup in which the lighters work concurrently with the animators so they can animate to the lighting. They could make sure the shadows fall where they want, the light reflects properly in the eyes. Everything could play to the lighting setup as much as possible. And if lighters could tweak the lighting early while the animators are animating, it would be even better."
That's the next step. For now, DeBlois believes the generation of tools newly implemented for this film have had a big impact. "The decision to age up the characters by five years allowed us to redesign the characters," he says. "So, they have more nuance because we have more tools to give them subtle expressions. The biggest contribution of the new tools are that they allowed artists to work with their hands again, as if they had a clay model right in front of them. They can do multiple iterations and see immediate results. That allowed us to refine the animation to an incredible degree. And on top of that, we had real-time renders. The surfacing is amazing because we had time. If you compare the first film to the second, I think you can really see the difference."
The maturation of the animation and lighting tools, which has opened new ways of working for the animators and lighting artists, parallels the story in the film they worked on. "What makes me proud is that we managed to not do the same thing we did in the first film," Otto says. "We took it further. We grew up the world and the characters, we grew up the universe - even tonally. That was the pivotal thing."
Barbara Robertson
is an award-winning writer and a contributing editor for CGW
. She can be reached at email@example.com.


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As reported, the US Senate on May 6 passed, by a vote of 69-27, the Marketplace Fairness Act of 2013, which provides that full member states of the Streamlined Sales and Use Tax Agreement and non-member states that meet certain minimum simplification requirements may require remote sales tax collection. The Senate also passed a perfecting amendment by a vote of 70-24.
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You were raised as a forest trapper, and are adept at moving quickly through underbrush.
Benefit: For 3 rounds per day, you can move through light or heavy undergrowth at full speed. This ability doesn't work in terrain that has been magically manipulated to impede motion.
Section 15: Copyright Notice
Pathfinder Player Companion: Kobolds of Golarion. © 2013 Paizo Publishing, LLC; Authors: Tork Shaw, Mat Smith, and Jerome Virnich.


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The City of West Palm Beach is creating an economic opportunity by funding a series of 12 pop-up stores in Downtown West Palm Beach, while curating talent to activate these underutilized spaces.
The program has three main goals:
- to lower the barrier to rent storefronts by allowing smaller square footage and multiple tenant structure;
- to provide technical business assistance and marketing to the winners; and
- to collect data that can assess and improve the economic model of "pop-up to rent."
The 12 for 12: Pop-up to Rent Business Competition is open to all legal U.S. residents, 18 years of age or older at the time of entry. Employees and temporary employees of the West Palm Beach City or other Contest sponsors and their immediate family are not eligible to apply to the contest.
If you want to pursue a new creative business idea, or have a business that is looking to expand, this competition is for you. You can apply as an individual or with additional business partners.
A pitch is a way to deliver a business plan verbally. For Phase 1, we are asking entrepreneurs or a group of entrepreneurs to present and describe your business idea in a 30-second video format.
The 12 for 12: Pop-up to Rent program will be part of an open plan project being built out at 314 Clematis Street, the space will be opening in Fall 2018 as The Thoroughfare.
OPEN CALL FOR PHASE 1 BUSINESS PITCH: Monday, January 29, 2018
DEADLINE PHASE 1: Monday, May 14th, 2018 at midnight
Motionloft cameras will measure pedestrian flow near the project's cluster location to understand increase and decrease of foot traffic. We will also collect data on sales, as well as, survey tenants and people that attend events in the space throughout the first year of the project.
If you want to provide an in-kind contribution or sponsor business development or financial advising workshops, please use our contact form, submit your name, contact information, and write Community Sponsor on the subject line. Please add a link of your website or LinkedIn for credentials and briefly tell us your idea. We will contact you shortly.
Please use our contact form, submit your name, contact information, and write General Inquiry on the subject line. If you have a specific question about the competition, please write Business Competition on the subject line and one of our team members will answer your question(s).