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Letter dated - 11/05/2012 U.S. Department of Commerce
November 5, 2012
The Hon. David Kappos
Under Secretary for Intellectual Property
U.S. Department of Commerce
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Via Electronic Mail
Re: Changes to Implement the First Inventor to File Provisions of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act, Proposed Rules and Proposed Examination Guidelines 1
Dear Under Secretary Kappos:
Congress established the Office of Advocacy (Advocacy) under Pub. L. 94-305 to
represent the views of small business before Federal agencies and Congress. Advocacy is an
independent office within the Small Business Administration (SBA), and the views expressed by
Advocacy come from do not necessarily reflect the views of the SBA or the Administration. Part of our role under the Regulatory Flexibility Act (RFA) is to assist agencies in understanding how
regulations may impact small entities, including non-profit organizations, and to ensure that the voice of small entities is not lost within the regulatory process.2 Congress crafted the RFA to ensure that regulations do not unduly inhibit the ability of small entities to compete, innovate, or to comply with federal laws.3
Advocacy respectfully submits these comments to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
(USPTO) regarding its proposed rules and examination guidelines implementing the
First-Inventor-to-File (FITF) provisions of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (AIA). Advocacy has conducted significant outreach with the patent community regarding the proposals and appreciates this opportunity to forward the information it has gathered through these efforts. Chiefly, Advocacy has learned that there is significant concern within the university-based and non-profit research community, as well as the startup inventor community, regarding USPTO's interpretation of the scope of the AIA's grace period provisions.
The AIA provides that an inventor must file a patent application before any public disclosures of the same subject matter are made by others. This is what is referred to as the novelty requirement under the law. The AIA provides two limited exceptions to this requirement, both of which exclude certain pre-filing disclosures from the universe of patent-defeating disclosures (i.e. disqualifying prior art). These exceptions encompass what are referred to as the grace period provisions of the AIA. First, the AIA makes an exception for all inventor and inventor-derived disclosures made within the one year prior to filing a patent application. Second, the AIA makes an exception for disclosures of the "same subject matter" by third parties within the one year prior to the filing date of a patent application. The scope of this second exception under § 102(b)(1)(B) of the AIA has been of significant debate since the law's passage, especially following USPTO's publication of its proposed rule and examination guidelines implementing the change.
The AIA shifted the U.S. patent system from a first-to-invent to a first-inventor-to-file system. This is a significant change from the previous patent law, and one that was supported by a significant portion of the patent community; however, many of those who supported this shift to first-inventor-to-file supported it on the condition that the AIA would provide a strong grace period. This can be seen in the legislative history of the AIA, as well as in the public record of numerous hearings held before Congress. Indeed, in testimony to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, USPTO indicated that the new law as passed would "simplify the process of acquiring rights while maintaining a one-year grace period that protects innovators". These reassurances to the patent community from policy makers were an essential component to achieving the widespread consensus which enabled the passage of the law.
The Proposed Examination Guidelines Narrow the Scope of the AIA Grace Period
Through its outreach and engagement with the patent community, Advocacy has heard persistent concerns that the USPTO's proposed interpretation of the AIA § 102(b)(1)(B)
grace period exception may not offer the protections for innovators envisioned by supporters of the law. At a roundtable hosted by USPTO on September 6, 2012, numerous participants expressed concerns that language in the proposed examination guidelines impermissibly narrowed the scope of the grace period protections of the AIA. USPTO responded to such concerns by inviting commenters to offer alternative interpretations of the AIA. An intense discussion regarding possible interpretations has taken place and Advocacy appreciates the extra time USPTO has given the patent community to submit comments.
The text of the relevant portion of the AIA is as follows:
A disclosure made 1 year or less before the effective filing date of a claimed invention shall not be prior art to the claimed invention under subsection (a)(1) if—
(A) the disclosure was made by the inventor or joint inventor or by another who obtained the subject matter disclosed directly or indirectly from the inventor or a joint inventor; or
(B) the subject matter disclosed had, before such disclosure, been publicly disclosed by the inventor or a joint inventor or another who obtained the subject matter disclosed directly or indirectly from the inventor or a joint inventor.4
USPTO's interpretation of the above statutory language, as put forth in the proposed examination guidelines, is as follows:
The exception in 35 U.S.C. 102(b)(1)(B) applies if the "'subject matter' disclosed [in the prior art disclosure] had, before such [prior art] disclosure, been publicly disclosed by the inventor or a joint inventor * * * ." Thus, the exception in 35 U.S.C. 102(b)(1)(B) requires that the subject matter in the prior disclosure being relied upon under 35 U.S.C. 102(a) be the same "subject matter" as the subject matter publicly disclosed by the inventor before such prior art disclosure for the exception in 35 U.S.C. 102(b)(1)(B) to apply. Even if the only differences between the subject matter in the prior art disclosure that is relied upon under 35 U.S.C. 102(a) and the subject matter publicly disclosed by the inventor before such prior art disclosure are mere insubstantial changes, or only trivial or obvious variations, the exception under 35 U.S.C. 102(b)(1)(B) does not apply.
The proposed guidelines suggest that all third party disclosures made within the one year grace period following an inventor's disclosure will constitute a bar to patentability—unless the third party disclosure is identical to the inventor's earlier disclosure, or it can be proven to have been derived from the inventor's own disclosure. Advocacy has heard from stakeholders that this interpretation appears to provide a significant disincentive for individuals to publish or even discuss their inventions prior to filing, because it leaves the door open for competitors to simply publish an obvious variant of a disclosed (but not yet patented) invention and strategically block the first inventor's ability to obtain broad patent rights within the grace period provided.
Stakeholders have expressed strong concerns that PTO's interpretation will not only discourage publication in the academic setting, but have a chilling effect on research and development conducted at university and other non-profit research institutions—institutions that play an extremely important role in developing game-changing innovation, and also rely heavily on their researchers' ability to publish their research prior to applying for and obtaining patents. USPTO's proposed interpretation appears to add an element of risk to the decision to publish an invention prior to filing for a patent that may ultimately discourage the practice, and thus slow the pace of innovation in these settings.
Additionally, members of the independent inventor and startup community have expressed concerns to Advocacy that early-stage disclosures made by inventors to potential investors prior to filing a patent application will open the door for disqualifying third-party disclosures that may not be able to be proven to be derived from the inventor's disclosure through costly derivation proceedings. The primary concern is that disclosures made in these discussions will leak (even unintentionally), triggering the grace period and opening the door for subsequent disclosures by third parties that will bar the inventor's ability to secure valuable patent rights. This possibility, in turn, could provide a significant disincentive for investors to back inventors in their research and development efforts prior to the filing of a successful patent application.
Many patent stakeholders, including the Association of American Universities, the University of California, and several major intellectual property associations that supported that passage of the AIA have argued that there is an alternative legal interpretation of AIA § 102(b)(1)(B) than the one USPTO has proposed. Some stakeholders believe that the scope of the term "subject matter" in the language of AIA § 102(b)(1)(B) includes subsequent third-party disclosures that are obvious variants of the subject matter disclosed by an inventor. Another interpretation of the language offered by a PTO roundtable participant is that an intervening third-party disclosure is excluded from the universe of patent-defeating prior art if it contains as much of the claimed invention as the earlier disclosure shows.5
Advocacy encourages USPTO to examine the merits of the alternative interpretations provided by various stakeholders given the intense disagreement over the correct statutory interpretation, as well as the significant concerns raised by stakeholders with respect to the effect USPTO's interpretation will have on the innovation economy.
For additional information or assistance please contact me or Jamie Belcore Saloom at (202) 205-6890.
Winslow L. Sargeant, Ph.D.
Chief Counsel for Advocacy
Jamie Belcore Saloom
Assistant Chief Counsel for Advocacy
Cc: Boris Bershteyn, Acting Administrator, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs
77 Fed. Reg. 43742 (July 26, 2012).
Pub. No. 96-354, 94 Stat. 1164 (1980).
Pub. L. 96-354, Findings and Purposes, Sec. 2 (a)(4)-(5), 126 Cong. Rec. S299 (1980).
35 U.S.C. 102(b)(1).
"First to File Practice: An Alternative Interpretation of the Grace Period Shielding Disclosure Exception", Courtenay Brinckerhoff , Foley & Lardner LLP (September 7, 2012); available at www.pharmapatentsblog.com/2012/09/07/first-to-file-practice-an-alternative-interpretation-of-the-grace-period-shielding-disclosure-exception/ (last viewed September 27, 2012).


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Seria de balante analitice profesionale XA 4Y este echipata cu un afisaj touchscreen grafic color cu dimensiunea de 5.7 " care impreuna cu noul software ofera multiple posibilitati de operare si prezentare a rezultatelor obtinute. Setarile avansate ne ofera posibilitati de personalizare si configurare a unor profiluri individuale pentru fiecare operator. Calibrarea interna automata menține o precizie si o acuratete de masurare excelentă.Calibrarea interna impreuna cu setul de senzori cu care este echipata balanta realizeaza o autoajustare permanenta ca si reactie impotriva perturbatiilor generate de factorii externi ( temperatura, presiune atmosferica etc..). Controlul orizontalitatii se realizeaza printr-un sistem de afisare electronic , patent propriu al producatorului, care ajuta la un reglaj de foarte mare precizie.
Statistiscs function registers and analyses performed measurements. This supplies the user withthe following information: Max and Min standard deviation, average value, variance, range et.
Function verifying correctness of piston pipettes functioning, the verification is performed via gravimetric measurement of the excreted liquid. Pipettes calibration may be either a stand-alone module or it may be operated
Percent Weighing function is used for comparision of measured products with mass standard. Mass of a mass standard may be a numeric value taken from a database or it may be determined through a measurement process. Each measured product is compared to mass standard, mass of which is presumed as a model 100% ideal mass. For products weighing less than the mass standard, obtained results are lower than 100%, for products weighing more, the obtained results are greatly exceeded
Function using mass measurement for determination of measured items quantity. Mass of a single item is required for this process. It may be either estimated through weighment or taken from a database. For items counting the following algorithm is used: all items mass / single item mass = quantity. Function operation is supperted by a mechanism of Automatic Correction of Accuracy. This allows to update single item mass in course of the process. To a certain extend Automatic Correction of Accuracy eliminates error which may be a result of different mass values of seemingly alike single elements. For industry solutions items counting may be simultaneously carried out with checkweighing and dosing thus industry solutions feature audio signalling base informing that specified number of items has been weighed. It is possible to apply weighing systems using few platfroms of different MAX capacities and different accuracies.
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Checkweighing function is used for checking whether the measured sample mass is within the predefined threshold values, Low [LO] and Hgh [HI]. The thresholds are given in [g] and [kg] units. Current state of a sample being measured is signalled by means of pictorgams located on a display for laboratory balances, for industrial scales Stackligt System is used. This visual +/- inspection is in operation during segregation, control or packing process of products for which mass has bees determined with a specifaied tolerance, eg. 12860 g 961
Process of mass determination for a product which may unwillingly reposition within the weighing pan. Mass determination in such cases requires much longer period of time when compared to typical weighing process. It is the user who defines period of time needed for control of measured product mass. The user can thus optimaze the function depending on the measured product characteristics.
|Capacitatea maxima [Max]
|310 g
|Minimum load
|10 mg
|0,1 mg
|Tare range
|-310 g
|0,08 mg
|±0,3 mg
|Excentric load deviation
|0,3 mg
|Sensitivity offset
|Sensitivity temperature drift
|Sensitivity stability
|Minimum weight (USP)
|160 mg
|Minimum weight
|16 mg
|Weighing chamber dimensions
|170×200×220 mm
|Stabilization time
|3 s
|Pan Size
|ø 100 mm
|Working temperature
|Atmospheric humidity
|40% ÷ 80%
|Power supply
|Display size
|5,7'' (touch screen)
|internal (automatic)
|2×USB, 2×RS 232, Ethernet, 4Inputs/4Outputs - digital, WiFi 2,4GHz b,g,n

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|This article is about Rachel's version. You may be looking for Santana's version.
Don't Rain on My Parade from Funny Girl is featured in Sectionals, the thirteenth episode of Season One. It is sung by Rachel Berry and was originally performed by her idol, Barbra Streisand.
After Jane Addams Academy steals And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going, the New Directions are forced to come up with another setlist quickly, with Mercedes deferring the solo to Rachel.
Don't tell me not to live
Just sit and putter
Life's candy and the sun's a ball of butter
Don't bring around a cloud to rain on my parade
Don't tell me not to fly
I've simply got to
If someone takes a spill
It's me and not you
Who told you you're allowed to rain on my parade
I'll march my band out
I'll beat my drum
And if I'm fanned out
Your turn at bat, sir
At least I didn't fake it
Hat, sir, I guess I didn't make it
But whether I'm the rose of sheer perfection
A freckle on the nose of life's complexion
A cinder on the shiny apple of his eye
I gotta fly once
I gotta try once
Only can die once, right, sir
Ooh, life is juicy
Juicy, and you see
I gotta have my bite, sir
Get ready for me, love, cause I'm a comer
I simply gotta march
My heart's a drummer
Don't bring around a cloud to rain on my parade
I'm gonna live and live now
Get what I want I know how
One roll for the whole shebang
One throw, that bell will go clang
Eye on the target and wham
One shot, one gun shot, and BAM
Hey, Mr. Arnstien
Here I am!
I'll march my band out
I'll beat my drum
And if I'm fanned out
Your turn at bat, sir
At least I didn't fake it
Hat, sir, I guess I didn't make it
Get ready for me, love, 'cause I'm a comer
I simply gotta march, my heart's a drummer
Nobody, no, nobody
Is gonna rain on my parade!
- This song is Rachel's go-to song, because of her idol, Barbra Streisand.
- This is the first song in the New Directions first competition setlist and Sectionals setlist. It is then followed by You Can't Always Get What You Want and Somebody to Love, the latter of which was performed off screen.
- Rachel sang it as her audition to get into NYADA in Choke.
- She also sang it as her audition for the Archies in the second issue of Archie Meets Glee.
- Rachel has been working on performing this song ever since she was four, though in Choke she says she has been singing it since she was two, which could have been her exaggerating.
- Lea sang this song at the 64th Tony Awards in 2010.
- The instrumental version of the song can be briefly heard in the opening scenes of Hell-O.
- Lea Michele also sang this song at the Glee Live tour, although it was cut from the setlist after May 28, 2011, a week after the tour began, as Lea found the song too difficult to perform each night. The song was also included in Glee: The 3D Concert Movie and the Soundtrack of the movie.
- Puck goes to the stage, and then when Rachel is done singing, you can see Puck going to the stage again.
- Rachel is seen walking up the stage stairs. A few seconds later, she's seen striding to the stairs again.
- Shortly after Rachel moves to the stage, a bandage can be seen on the side of her right leg, just below the knee. In the very next shot a few seconds later, the bandage is gone.
- During the opening lines, a bandage is visible on Rachel's right wrist. This is hiding Lea's tattoo that says "I Believe."


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doc green necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 42 diseños de 12 diseñadores freelance.
Doc Green's Healing Collective - topical cannabis products
Doc Green's Healing Collective is a medicinal cannabis patients collective that produces topical cannabis products for pain relief and healing.
Our target audience includes both cannabis aficionados as well as non-smokers seeking an effective source of pain relief. People suffering from arthritis, bruises, sore muscles, torn ligaments, headaches, skin conditions & injuries have been finding relief with our product. Most of our products are distributed through medical cannabis dispensaries and our target audience is looking for natural, non-pharmaceutical healing products. We want a logo that appeals to both genders.
Essentially, we want the logo to be clean and readable, while conveying the concepts of cannabis and healing. Purple and Green theme, (See example below)
Here are the ELEMENTS that we are looking for in the logo:
TEXT - the text is of primary importance and must be able to read across the room. We like the LEGACY font. (see below)
POTTED CANNABIS SEEDLING - We want to include a potted cannabis seedling. The young plant should be made from simple lines or shapes, that give sufficient detail to be recognize, but in a form that will also look good if printed in 2 colors (ie b&w)
The drawing should show the baby leaves (round), and one set of young jagged leaves.(see logo idea below, but that is NOT a cannabis plant, just an example). We are more interested at showing the character of the seedling, and not necessarily its perfect proportions. The potted plant can be positioned anywhere around the text of the logo, but we like the current position in the logo design below. We are open to other options to keep the logo more proportional.
HEALING SYMBOL (???) - . If you figure out a creative way to add a medical symbol (like the staff with the snakes incorporated into the image of the pot that the plant is growing out of :)-) - or some other imagery of medicine or healing, we would be interested in seeing these possibilities. WE DO NOT WANT A MEDICAL CROSS IN THE LOGO.
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KRA helps Italian Business
KRA supports and helps Italy Companies who are looking to expand their business in the UK and Europe.
The UK business environment is considered by many to be one of the worlds most sophisticated and, as such, it is an attractive proposition for business of all sizes. If you are considering the UK as a possible location for your business expansion in Europe, KRA can help you fulfil all the requirements of the UK system and advise on the best structure based on your business needs.
We offer a one stop shop that will deal with all your requirements based on the size and type of operation you want.
We can support and help businesses that just want a UK presence but do not want to incur the costs of having a permanent place of business with permanent staff and therefore want KRA to run the company on their behalf reporting direct to the parent company or associated company directors.
We can also support Parent companies who want a UK subsidiary with a permanent establishment in the UK with employees. Please click the link below to the KRA UK website which details the wide range of services the UK operation supports.
The Regulatory framework in the UK includes many things which need to be considered and we at KRA can give you specialist advice to ensure you do not breach any regulations. We have listed below many of the areas which need to be considered when setting up a business in the UK:
•the tax, National Insurance and VAT systems
•the legal system, and what laws and regulations may affect your business
•health and safety regulations
•environmental considerations
•employment procedures
•immigration status (e.g. of your staff)
•intellectual property, including patents, copyright and trademarks
In order to operate in the UK we would recommend you set up a Company which we at KRA will gladly take full responsibility for.
In order to register a company the following information must be provided on the 'Statement of First Directors and Secretary' to Companies House:
An acceptable company name which is not identical to another registered company, as this will not be accepted. The full name of a limited company must also end with the word 'Limited' or 'Ltd'. Details of at least one director and one company secretary (a sole director may not also be the secretary), including personal details such as residential address, date of birth and nationality. Details of the registered office address of the company to where official correspondence will be sent. This is usually the address of the Company's accountant, solicitor, or the trading address of the Company.
The above must be accompanied by the Memorandum and Articles of
Memorandum – this sets out the name, authorised share capital, the number and nominal value of shares issued, names and addresses of initial members (shareholders), the powers and the
objects of the company.
Articles – these are the internal rules of conduct of the company. The above is filed together with a 'Statement of Compliance' with Companies House and the Registrar of Companies will issue a Certificate of Incorporation confirming the company name and registered number. A company does not legally exist until the certificate has been issued.
After setting up a Company there are a number of other reporting requirements for a company in the UK which we at KRA will gladly take full responsibility for.
A company must maintain a Register of Members, Register of Directors and Secretaries, Register of Directors' Interests in Shares, Minutes of General Meetings, Minutes of Directors Meetings and the Register of Written Resolutions.
These registers must be available for inspection at the registered office or in some cases, at another nominated office. Any changes to the directors or secretary (or their personal details), to the registered office or any allotment of further shares must be reported to the Registrar of Companies.
There are many other instances where prescribed forms must be filed with the Registrar of Companies these include: increase in authorised share capital; allotment of shares and registration of mortgages and charges. At least one general meeting of the members must be held every year, unless they elect not to hold such a meeting, and minutes of the meetings must be kept.
An annual audit by external auditors of the accounting records of the business should be carried out if it is over the minimum size which is currently Companies who are over two of the following three limits;
1. Turnover greater than £5.6 Million
2. Gross Assets greater than £2.8 Million
3. Greater than 50 Employees
An Annual Return must be completed annually and be delivered to Companies House, it must contain current information about the Company, its officers and members.
In addition to your regulatory requirements we can also help in other ways such as the following;
Reliable and regular reporting of financial data back to an overseas headquarters.
The application and impact of different transfer pricing scenarios
Differences in financial reporting requirements between UK GAAP and the regime applicable to the parent company
We find the UK operations of foreign owned businesses are rarely sufficiently skilled to handle the various challenges. This is where KRA can add value as we can handle most situations relating to the UK branch , but we will call on the expertise of specialists as required. For example, we may need to engage with employment law solicitors to convert group employment contracts into contracts that meet UK requirements. On other occasions, we may need to engage with Chartered Surveyors for lease negotiations. Throughout, we act as a one-stop-shop to provide the overseas parent with UK-compliant solutions.
So if you want KRA to set up and Established a UK subsidiaries or branch or you already have one and need help in performing your regulatory requirements Please get in Contact on 020 8868 3357 or email email@example.com
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In my recent piece for the Wall Street Journal on the new museum for the Red Star Line, now under construction in Antwerp, I briefly mention the story of Morris Moel, 97, the oldest known immigrant to have come to America on the Red Star. As I wrote, his story is extraordinary in the way that many immigrant stories are. Moel arrived in 1922, after a harrowing trip across the Pale. Upon arrival, he moved to West Virginia, where his father already had a men's shop, and later graduated from the University of Cincinnati medical school. He has lived in Florida since 1980, a retired radiologist. For the historical record, I thought it would be worth publishing a transcript of Moel's accounting of his trip, as he told it to me.
Are you the last surviving member in your family to emigrate.
I'm the last one in our family living. I'm 97 years old. I was the youngest. So I lasted longer. I came over in 1922 on the Red Star. Four children and my mother. We came from the Ukraine, a little town called Lubar in the Ukraine.
What do you remember about your journey.
First of all, it's a long story. My father was here [in the USA]. He came in 1913. We didn't hear from him for many many years during World War I, and after this the revolution in Russia. Things were terrible. So we didn't hear from my father for 12 or 13 years. We finally got a message. It came through from Warsaw, from HIAS, the Hebrew immigration society. So my mother went to Warsaw, she left us with my grandmother. She was there for two months, three months, and during that period my grandmother passed away, and my older brother who was 17 became our mother and father. And one winter day a big sleigh approaches the house and a man comes out and asks if we are the Moel family. "We're here to take you to your mother." Put on the warmest things you can put on. I wrapped all kinds of rags on my feet. We traveled to the Polish border all day and part of the night. This was I suspect some time in late winter. We got to this house near the border where we slept part of the night and we were awakened and we found this sleigh and were taken to close to the border and then walked to the border. The Russian part of the border was all forest. And we were stopped. I heard rifles being cocked while we were walking. Russian soldiers. And the soldiers searched everyone and took everything that was valuable and said you've got to go back, and I guess they [the guides] knew another route so we got through. And the Polish border was absolutely free, but it was all snow. I was so little and my older borther dragged me across that border. Finally we got to the other side inside Poland. Stayed in a house for half a night and we were then taken to a train station. And that train took us into Warsaw. The first time I was in a train. And my mother was waiting for us in an office. We told her my grandmother died. She never knew about it.
We left Warsaw in June after four or five months, after waiting for documents. Then we took a train. I remember going through Germany. Ended up in Antwerp. We stayed one or two nights in someplace in a little narrow street near the Castle [Steen]. It was not too far away from where the ship was. We were in the steerage, where we had a little cabin with four plces to sleep, upper and lower bunk on each side. Very, very close quarters. Not beds, just bunks. And I know that I got seasick. And I was vomiting into the ocean. It was not a pleasant trip. And we were in steerage and we used to look up at other decks where people were well dressed. We had a lot of people from different nations in different garb. It was not a very pleasant trip across the ocean.
We were anxious to see my father. We knew nothing about the New World. When we approached the harbor we saw the Statue of Liberty. A lot of people said it was a statue of Columbus. They didn't know who it was. When we debarked there was this boat that takes you to Ellis Island. And we were sort of separated there. And all of a sudden my mother realized that my sister had been immediately taken into the infirmary. And I never saw her in Ellis Island again. And we were detained there for at least four weeks, possibly six weeks, because we couldn't get into the United States….And my mother was given the choice, after four weeks, either we all go back to Antwerp, or my sister, who was ten, a year older, would have to go back for treatment, and my mother made a decision, and it was a hell of a decision to make, that my sister should go back.
My father took us to Huntington, West VirginIa, where he had opened a store. A men's store. My sister was there [in Antwerp] for a year, then came back to Ellis Island. They sent her back again. Four years later she came after that, and she finally made it.


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I started out by creating an applet with the size of 400x400 pixels. Draw three horizontal lines and three vertical lines that evenly divide the area into 16 cells. Based on mouse movement over the boxes, a box has been created in cell one, (this was just a guessing place to start for me), as the mouse is moved over each of the sixteen squares the white box created should move to the box the mouse is pointing in (and disappear from the previous box the mouse was in.)
I am now stuck and don't know where to go next. I have read all of the mouse event and etc. but just don't get the next move. Any advice would be appreciated.
Here is my code.
import java.awt.*; import java.awt.event.*; import java.applet.Applet; /* <applet code="Assign10" width=400 height=400> </applet> */ public class Assign10 extends Applet implements MouseListener, MouseMotionListener { public void init() { addMouseListener(this); addMouseMotionListener(this); } public void paint(Graphics g) { g.setColor(Color.blue); setBackground(Color.blue); //draw vertical lines for (int x=100; x<=300; x+=100) { g.setColor(Color.red); g.drawLine (x,0, x,400); } //draw horizontal lines for (int y=100; y<=300; y+=100) { g.setColor(Color.red); g.drawLine (0,y, 400,y); } //draw square g.setColor(Color.white); g.drawRect(10, 10, 80, 80); setSize(400,400); } //Handle mouse moved. public void mouseMoved(MouseEvent me) { } //Handle mouse entered. public void mouseEntered(MouseEvent me) { } //Handle mouse exited. public void mouseExited(MouseEvent me){ } //Handle mouse click. public void mouseClicked(MouseEvent me) { } //Handle button pressed. public void mousePressed(MouseEvent me) { } //Handle button released. public void mouseReleased(MouseEvent me) { } //Handle mouse dragged. public void mouseDragged(MouseEvent me) { } }


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The first public release of libvirt-glib is out! libvirt-glib wraps libvirt to provide a high-level object-oriented API better suited for glib-based applications. Daniel wrote nice release notes so I'll save myself some time and quote it for more details:
I am pleased to announce the first release of the libvirt-glib package, version 0.0.1 is now available from ftp://libvirt.org/libvirt/glib/
The packages are GPG signed with Key ID: 15104FDF Daniel P. Berrange
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Although I was hot for the Land of the Rising Fun concept, I've definitely thought of it as a Gabe thing. An excuse to make his Neo fetish a more demonstrable facet of the site, perhaps. Maybe it is an attempt to kill me dead by writing an entire article without using a single comma. Fair enough. Really, anything that keeps him off the street and out of the public eye meets with my most vigorous applause.
The main issue is that he and I prefer different games, and that's the long and the short of it. The action genre he favors is rarely going to be hindered overmuch by the fact that Japanese - as a language - looks like rows of disciplined insects, and not really any kind of language at all. The RPGs and strategy games I crave, on the other hand, would be rendered incomprehensible (by and large) by that fact, and so I'd essentially surrendered interest. And that's when they struck.
The moment we tore into our latest shipment, something was different. Obviously, a hybrid of Action and RPG would (quite necessarily) be more streamlined than RPG alone, as the tenets of the stern Action Lords dictate. The new GBA Castlevania, which appears to call itself "Concerto of Midnight Sun," is completely accessible in my opinion - and I don't know a lick of Japanese. Some experimentation is required, yeah, but you'd have to have had a recent head trauma not to grasp this stuff. What's more, it's great. Looks delicious, you will literally see things in the first ten seconds that will surprise you. They've switched out Circle of the Moon's card shit for a new spell system, which, you know, hey. Whatever you need to do, Japan. I'm not really here to talk about Castlevania, but if questions about it start to pop up in my mail I'll gladly do so later. I've got to be honest with you. I've got something else on my mind.
Zettai Zetsumei Toshi is, as I had hoped, fantastic. That's the Playstation 2 game they're calling "Survival Horror," except with earthquakes and not Zombies, but I hardly think this game is a valid application of that nomenclature. For one thing, it has a very heavy platform element - jumping on shit, balancing on other shit, falling off shit to your death, you know what I'm talking about. The combination of mature themes and that kind of gameplay is interesting to see in practice. There's a heavy inventory management angle, which is common to what people call Survival Horror - but just about the time we're outgrowing one backpack, they give us a new one which has a spacious interior and sleeps four. In fact, the one we have now is like a Goddamn costume trunk or something as well, it's that substantial, and it's filled with hats and sunglasses. I don't even need to tell you how pleased I am about that.
Your objectives are pretty straightforward, namely to escape an artificial Island off the coast of Japan after a severe earthquake, and the pacing has been excellent these first six hours. There's more dialogue and text here than in a Castlevania let's say, but you're managing a much more complicated scenario than deciding which bat to whip. You'll meet people, emasculating people, people who will take your umbrella and they won't even care. I've seen them do it, maybe this is is a problem in Nippon. Highly cinematic, the familiar urban environment you've seen so many times before is now an absolute deathtrap, and don't get used to a building being there because odds are good you'll be wearing it as a hat here in a minute. The scenery is very dynamic, ofttimes as gamers we will take solace in the fact that something in an environment is too big to ever possibly move, like the ground, and you can make no such assumptions here. Each level - they aren't labeled as such, but you move from place to place, each with a discrete purpose, and that's called a level - involves you needing to help people and get out, while taking every article of clothing you can find and wearing it immediately, even if it doesn't go. For example, as our shirt and jeans became ever more ragged, we were clearly moving into fashionable territory, and something had to be done. A pair of safety gloves, Ray-Bans with yellow lenses, and a Bus Driver's hat is clearly not a regulation ensemble, but we had a crowbar, so it's not like anybody was going to give us any shit about it. Plus, they're almost all dead.
The game is completely unmodified from it's Japanese release, because it is the Japanese release, so even outside of me not knowing what the hell these people are talking about I feel like I'm having some kind of cultural exchange. I can't speak to this one in particular, but the story in most games - let alone Japanese ones - isn't really an afterthought, because that implies that they thought about it at all. So, in the absence of any intelligible narrative, we just concoct our own in real time. For us, Zettai Zetsumei Toshi is an allegory for relations between the sexes, and it works especially well at this because we don't speak Japanese. She will say things, and we have no idea what the hell is going on, and then we'll select from a list of responses, but we have no idea which one is the right one, and then they're all wrong. It works on a lot of levels. The crumbling metropolis is your self-determination and capacity to feel any kind of pleasure in this life whatsoever. The puppy you must rescue later symbolizes a stupid little fucker. You're given a chance to go with either a man or a woman later, which I guess might mean they're just going in, you know, different directions but I'm still satisfied with my prior analysis. We navigated a mysterious conversation tree four layers deep, talking to a woman in the pouring rain. This culminated, inexplicably, in her stealing our umbrella, which we blamed Monkey for. She still didn't look very happy, but that's because we hadn't been buried alive in wreckage. And don't think it's because she hasn't been trying.
The level of collectibility and customization in this game is strange, and I don't know if that's more common in Japanese games in general, or what. The multifarious clothing options I've already discussed, but even something like the compass that sits down in the corner of the screen has no less than fifteen different variations you can discover. There was a strange blue cannister near us, and we didn't understand exactly what it was used for - until we realized that it was allowing us to try different paint jobs on a boat. It's very small thing, but the amount of ownership it conferred to us in our own destiny (and the destiny of our ingenious watercraft) was noteworthy.
Why import something? Well, you can get things early sometimes, but unless we're talking about a fighter or some other kind of action game that's not very compelling to me. Just having a game early is no consolation when every conversation in it is going to be garbled, alien nonsense. But in a case like this, where I couldn't say for sure if it was ever even going to come to the US to begin with, yeah. That's something I don't want to miss out on. Get a couple friends over, or some friends and Safety Monkey let's say, and just make it up as you go along. If you've got the hardware to play it, I wouldn't recommend that you miss out, either.
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For some New York City high school students, summer means days at the beach or tennis courts. But for 100 participants in the Summer Research Internship Program at The Cooper Union, summer means science. At no cost to the students, ambitious teens from the five boroughs spend six weeks applying scientific principles to tackling high tech challenges such as the transport phenomena of tomato sauce, analyzing carcinogens in common cooking oils, developing battling mini-robots; engineering clever Rube Goldberg contraptions, and examining unconventional methods to reduce electrical consumption.
Since 1987 this free program, funded in part by Consolidated Edison, Inc., has been a gateway for high school students from underserved communities who want to learn more about science, technology, engineering and math. Each project is supervised and mentored by Cooper Union faculty and covers fields such as civil, chemical, electrical, mechanical, biomedical and environmental engineering; mathematics, and chemistry. Nearly 100 percent of the participants are accepted to college, with more than 70 percent going on to study math and science. Gotham Schools featured these budding scientists on the day of their final presentations in the Rose Auditorium, where they talked about their experience working on real-life projects along side Cooper Union faculty.


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Imagine you're working in Web production when someone comes up to you and asks you to step into your dream job. That's what happened to Brett Leonhardt, a former SUNY Oswego goalie who, for Friday night at least, got to suit up for an NHL game.
He was certainly in the right place at the right time. Leonhardt, a 6′ 7″ guy who always seemed an intimidating presence in Laker green and gold, works on the Washington Capitals Web production team when word came down that goalie Jose Theodore injured himself during warmups. The veritable Moonlight Graham wasn't asked to start, but with the time lag to recall another goalie from the minors, Leonhardt suited up, took part in pregame drills and sat on the bench.
This isn't a perfect Hollywood story, as he didn't get in the game. He won't even receive a game check, but interviewed later he didn't care. I should pay them for being able to do this, he said. Every dream come true. Growing up in Canada, playing since I was 4. It was just very surreal.
I guess my dream-job moment would involve being asked to put down the laptop and go warm up in the Seattle Mariners bullpen. I'd soak in the air of beautiful Safeco Field on a summer night, enjoy the easy camaraderie of the other pitchers, savor the feel of the ball leaving my hand and the snap sound of it hitting the bullpen catchers' glove. That alone would be enough.
Far-fetched, to be sure, but: If you were called away to do your dream job, even just for one day, what would it be?
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The Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf (GCC) comprises of 6 nations, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, and Oman. In principle, Kuwait and Bahrain are considered "constitutional monarchs," in practice, all 6 are despotic autocracies with Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, and Oman overtly "absolute monarchs." Devoid of even a feigned semblance of representative governance, these regimes brutally repress not only their own subjects, but play active roles in repressing the people of other nations, both on their borders and well beyond them.
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Image: A map of the GCC's members, a collection of interconnected absolute monarchies guilty of serial crimes against humanity both at home and abroad, for decades. We are now expected to believe this criminal collaboration is promoting "democracy" in both Libya and now Syria by sending in legions of armed sectarian militants, when not even a feigned semblance of democracy exists within their own borders.
Likewise, the collective efforts of the GCC's regimes have torn North Africa's nation of Libya apart, leaving it under the control of roving bands of NATO/GCC-armed and funded genocidal sectarian militants with the Tripoli government dominated by Western proxies. A similar operation is now underway in Syria, also fully funded, armed, and directed by the GCC and its Western minders.
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Everyone who makes tuna casserole makes it a different way. There are recipes that use egg noodles (like this one), and there are recipes that use potato chips. Some use a can of cream of mushroom, while others user cream of chicken. The recipe that I like to use starts off with a roux and builds up to a rich and creamy filling of noodles, tuna, and aromatic herbs. The final topping of bread crumbs keeps the top of the casserole from drying out while giving it a pleasant tasting crust.
This recipe is one of the few that survived the
"Outlook-Palm Purge"
. I don't know where I got this recipe, but it seems to be a winner because I don't recall ever getting a complaint when I prepare it.
Start by assembling 12 ounces of light tuna packed in spring water, 1/4 cup all purpose flour, 2-1/4 cup whole milk, 4 oz. sliced button mushrooms, 1/2 cup chopped scallions (also called green onions), 1/4 cup chopped celery, 1 teaspoon dried rosemary, and 1 teaspoon dried thyme. I prefer to use light tuna (usually made with yellowfin and skipjack tuna) for it's milder taste and softer texture than albacore. There will be significantly less than 12 ounces of tuna after we drain the water from the fish, so go ahead and drain the tuna at this point.
Get some water boiling when it comes to a boil cook 8 oz. egg noodles according to the directions on the bag. Once the noodles are cooked, remove from the cooking water and rinse with cold water. Set aside.
Melt four tablespoons butter in a saucepan over medium heat.
Add flour to the butter and stir for about two minutes.
The mixture, called a roux, should become smooth and thick during the two minutes.
Add milk slowly to the to the roux while stirring. Continue stirring until the milk thickens. The milk mixture will easily coat the back of your spoon when you dip you spoon in and not flow off quickly when it begins to thicken.
Melt one tablespoon of butter in a skillet.
saute the vegetables until the mushrooms are tender. Then, stir in the rosemary and thyme.
Pour vegetables into the sauce.
Stir until evenly mixed. This is a good time to salt and pepper the sauce. I don't actually measure the amount of salt or pepper that I use for this dish, so I add salt and pepper to taste. Add some salt and pepper, stir, and taste. Repeat as necessary.
Place drained tuna into a large bowl.
Pour noodles and sauce into the bowl and mix until evenly distributed. Pour everything into a greased 8x8 inch baking pan or 1.5 quart casserole.
At this point, you can refrigerate the casserole for up to a couple days without baking it. I cover it with plastic wrap and press the wrap directly onto casserole so no film will form during refrigeration.
When you're ready to serve the casserole, prepare one cup of bread crumbs. I used store bought bread crumbs with herbs in this picture, but I've also used rushed crackers and plain bread crumbs from white bread successfully.
Melt four tablespoons butter in a skillet over medium heat and add the bread crumbs. Stir until the bread crumbs turn a golden brown color.
Sprinkle the bread crumbs over the casserole making sure you cover most of the surface. Any bits of noodle sticking up will dry out and not be tasty, so make sure the noodles are down and covered. Bake at 350°F for thirty minutes (or until the edges begin to bubble).
Cut the casserole after you let it cool for a few minutes.
The casserole is flavorful, but not so complex that you can't taste the individual components. A great hot and hearty dinner for the upcoming autumn and winter.
Tuna noodle casserole
(serves four)
Preheat oven to 350°F (175°C)
4 Tbs. (60 g) butter
Bake 350°F (175°C) 30 min.
1/4 cup (40 g) all purpose flour
2-1/2 cup (590 mL) whole milk
1 Tbs. (15 g) butter
4 oz. (115 g) sliced mushrooms
1/2 cup (50 g) chopped scallions
1/4 cup (25 g) chopped celery
1 tsp. (1.2 g) dried rosemary
1 tsp. (1.4 g) dried thyme
ground black pepper
8 oz.(230 g) egg noodles
12 oz. (340 g) light tuna
4 Tbs. (60 g) butter
1 cup (120 g) bread crumbs
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Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 5:37 am
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This doesn't exactly pertain to this post, but I just wanted to let you know, as an engineer, and a college student you're recipes are great. For those of us that really suck at cooking, your recipes give really great description on how to not screw things up, and do it all with the least amount of trouble. Definetly going to visit your blog on a regular basis
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Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 5:38 am
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Like you say, everyone who makes tuna casserole makes it a different way. Imagine my surprise when, after twenty years of eating my mom's tuna casserole, I found out that EVERYONE else in the world makes it with noodles. My family makes it with white rice. I'm still too disoriented to evaluate other tuna casseroles!
Yours looks pretty yummy, though. I might just have to take the plunge and give noodles a try.
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Your blog's pretty cool! Just loved the way you show the recipes! Great! Great! Keep up with the great job!
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I have a completely off-topic question.
How does "All-purpose" flour compare to the UK's "Plain flour"? I ask, because I have seen American recipes use "all-purpose" for some breads. In the UK, only "strong" flour has adequate gluten/protein to use in leavened bread.
Any idea how the gluten / protein content compares?
I've just had a look at some flour, "plain" = 9.7g protein per 100g, "strong" = 11.7g protein per 100g.
Sorry about the off-topic again.
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I like the end result there, I could live with that. My kids won't touch tuna though, I'm out of that loop. Which is why sometimes I end up making two complete meals for dinner, sigh.
Try the tuna in olive oil, water degrades the fish meat.
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It all looks great except for one thing. It's missing the massive amount of cheese necessary to make me happy [I really do believe that cheese can improve nearly everything imaginable]
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Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 5:40 am
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re: Flour
I wrote an
article on flour
because of your question. The answer to your question is that plain flour is almost the same as all-purpose flour (only with regional variation). Most breads are made with bread flours, but a number of recipes for all-purpose flour have appeared because most American households only keep all-purpose flour around. It makes a reasonable bread, but doesn't have enough protein for a good french or italian bread.
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I like the end result there, I could live with that. My kids won't touch tuna though, I'm out of that loop. Which is why sometimes I end up making two complete meals for dinner, sigh.
do you have to tell them it's tuna? Often as I was a kid I would instantly hate every food I hadn't had before. If I was kept out of the loop of the ingredients prior to tasting, I would love the dish, even after being told what was in it.
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"Like you say, everyone who makes tuna casserole makes it a different way."
Decades later, I found out that what my mother called "Macaroni and cheese" is the garden variety Tuna Casserole made with canned tuna, macaroni, American cheese slices, cream of mushroom soup and sometimes crushed potato chips on top.
Being a cheese lover, I add even more cheese in the body of the casserole, not merely on top, and add frozen mixed vegetables to make it more of a one-course meal.
Buttered bread crumbs on top sounds like a nice variation from the slightly browned melted cheese, though!
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Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 5:42 am
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I like your recipe for tuna caserole starting with a roux is a great idea. My question pertains to the roux though. I alwasy start my soups with a roux, but I'll saute the veggies in butter before adding flour, and later milk or chicken base. I was wondering why you add the flour before the veggies?
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I start my making the cream so that I don't over cook the vegetables. (The vegetables are cooked until just tender and then mixed into the cream.)
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Tuna casserole is one of those dishes that I have never like, but for some reason thought that I should. Came across this recipe and it sounded 'different', so I thought I should give a try.
After making tonight, my opinion of this dish has changed. The version of the tuna casserole is really good, and my family agrees. I served with green peas on the side, but next time I think I will add them into the casserole.
Thanks for posting it.
I do have a site request also. It would be really nice if we could just print out the recipe card, without all the directions. Your table format is enough to cook from.
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Great site but hey how about some veggie recipes as well
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Came out great! Kind of reminds me of the frozen Stouffer's Tuna Casserole - without the bellyache from their preservatives! I stirred the white sauce into the veggies to get up all the flavorful pan brownings under the veggies.
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Ovacik is a peaceful residential area of Fethiye on the stunning south-west turquoise coastline of Turkey, nestled in the hillsides above the famous beach resort of Oludeniz with its calm Blue Lagoon, and the busy harbour town of Fethiye.
Ovacik was once a quiet, traditional farming village with a splattering of farmhouses and dirt tracks for roads, with the one main road leading down the mountain to the beach at Oludeniz. Today the peaceful village has seen much development meeting the demands of many overseas buyers. Luxury villas in private plots with large swimming pools, villas on complexes with huge communal pools, and private apartments on modern complexes have all risen from the hillsides making Ovacik a resort in its own right, yet still retaining its stunning beauty and laid back atmosphere, with some of the old farm houses still standing today and still inhabited by the local people.
As the village has grown over recent years, so had the amenities, Ovacik now has a great selection of nice quiet restaurants serving an array of international menus from traditional Turkish dishes to a tasty Thai curry, with some offering free home delivery for those that want a nice relaxed evening in the balcony. Ovacik can also offer plenty of relaxing bars which are perfect for a nice quiet drink with friends, unlike the bars in the neighbouring resort of Hisaronu where bars a more focused on loud music and entertainment. Shopping facilities are also excellent with lots of local shops and a host of low cost supermarkets, a far cry from the days when a trip to Fethiye was needed to pick up the weekly grocery supplies.
Property in Ovacik
When searching for accommodation for sale in Ovacik, you will no doubt have a budget in mind, whether high or low Ovacik offers something in the way of property for everyone's budget, with 1 bedroom apartments for sale in the region of £30,000 and large private villas in the region of £135,000, however, prices can go much higher for seclusion, luxury, rare sea view real estate in Ovacik.
Maintenance cost should also be taken into consideration with Ovacik property for sale, private villa owners take sole responsibility of the cost of running a pool, and the larger the pool the higher the cost, and garden maintenance is also a factor again the bigger the garden the higher the cost, both using more water than property with smaller pools and gardens. Owners of apartments in complexes share the cost of any maintenance and often have a pool of money to be used for any unexpected work that may need carrying out throughout the season.
Investors looking to buy property in Ovacik, Turkey, can expect excellent yields from summer rentals, the more luxurious and private properties will command the highest yields along with rare views of the sea in Oludeniz, and with a steadily rising prices capital appreciation figures are also good for long term investors.
All-in-all accommodation in Ovacik, Turkey offers a laid back lifestyle with the best of both worlds, sea, sun, and sand on the doorstep and mixed with either a quite relaxed life or a lively nightlife in nearby Hisaronu or Fethiye.
Turkey Homes will guide you to your ideal property in Ovacik, taking into consideration your lifestyle requirements and budget.


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Johhny Swanger, arrested and charged by Port Orange police, faces new charges from the Sheriff's Office and Daytona Beach Shores police.
A former pest control man accused by Port Orange police of stealing from his customer now stands accused by the Volusia County Sheriff's Office and Daytona Beach Shores police of similar crimes.
Johnny Swanger, 44, was arrested by Port Orange police Tuesday and charged with burglary and grand theft after he was captured on surveillance video trying to pawn some property that had been stolen from a house.
Port Orange police said Swanger went to a home one day last week, giving the impression he was an exterminator who was there to spray for bugs. The resident realized the following day jewelry had been stolen from the home.
As Swanger sat in the Volusia County Branch Jail wihout bail, waiting to go before a judge for first appearance Wednesday, sheriff's deputies filed two new charges of grand theft against Swanger.
The new theft charges each carry a $10,000 bail, said sheriff's spokesman Gary Davidson.
Swanger was connected to two thefts similar to the Port Orange incidents, Davidson said.
The thefts were reported to the Sheriff's Office in June and August of 2012. A 74-year-old woman, reported four rings valued at $4,100 missing from her home. Then, a 59-year-old woman had five rings and two bracelets valued at about $3,300 swiped from her residence, Davidson said.
"The common denominator in both cases was that both victims were customers of Dave's Pest Control," Davidson said. "Investigators developed Swanger as a suspect after learning that he had worked for the company for about 14 months before being fired last July."
Similarly, Swanger went to fumigate a condominium at Oceans West Boulevard in Daytona Beach Shores in July 2012. After Swanger, left the 78-year-old owner of the condo called Daytona Beach Shores police to report a gold necklace with a Virgin Mary pendant missing, a report shows.
Swanger was working for Dave's Pest Control when he visited the Daytona Beach Shores condo, police said.
Daytona Beach Shores police charged Swanger with theft of $300 less than $10,000 from a person older than 65, the report states.
Meanwhile, when deputies developed Swanger as a suspect, further investigation by deputies revealed Swanger had sold a lot of jewelry to area pawn shops. Some of the jewelry closely matched the description of the rings and bracelets stolen from the two victims, Davidson said.
Sheriff's investigators suspect there may be additional victims. Anyone who has had Swanger in their home and then later discovered missing property is asked to contact the Sheriff's Office at 386-423-3301.


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Gordon Nixon
President & CEO
RBC Financial Group
Kingston Canadian Club
Kingston, Ontario
February 10, 2005
Good afternoon. I would like to thank Patrick McCue and the Kingston Canadian Club for inviting me today.
It is always a pleasure to be back in Kingston where I have such great memories from my university days.
Each time I visit, I am amazed at how much both Queen's and Kingston have changed, but comforted by how much remains the same.
This morning, I met with a class from the Queen's Business School, and what did hit home for me was not how much the students and school have changed, but rather how much the environment they are about to enter has changed.
Students still talk about the same issues that preoccupied my class 25 years ago. They're worried about landing the best job. About how long it will take to repay their student loan. About the type of career they want and how to achieve it.
They struggle with the tension between ambition and lifestyle, between making money and solving world issues. But they enter a world and a business environment that is vastly different than the one my class faced.
When I was at Queen's, we had every confidence that Canada was one of the best countries in which we could strive to succeed. We weren't guaranteed a good standard of living, but we trusted that it was well within our reach. There was demand for most graduates regardless of their training, and most joined companies and institutions, fully expecting to build long-term careers.
But graduates no longer take much of that for granted. They're living in a globalized, high-tech, hyper-competitive and transparent world. It's a world in which there has been profound change. And the stakes have never been higher for every Canadian.
Canada has much to offer its citizens when it comes to social services, lifestyle, and a high standard of living. Yet it is too easy for us to be complacent about the economic shifts and global rebalancing that could threaten our future prosperity.
That's what I would like to talk about today. And my message has a sense of urgency.
If we want to achieve our potential as a successful society in the 21st century, we must understand the economic challenges our country faces.
More importantly, we must meet those challenges in a way that provides a higher standard of living for all Canadians.
Think back to 1990. How many people thought China would be a giant factory, producing both cheap goods and value-added products for the whole world? How many people saw India as a centre for software outsourcing?
Who would have thought that a Korean car would end up winning awards for quality and performance? For that matter, even the Internet was a relatively new development in 1990, and cell phones were something that you would have expected to find at one of the Kingston Penitentiaries.
Our lives have been changed by globalization, technological advancements, transparency and geo-political shifts. The way business is conducted has changed dramatically and the time-frame in which companies succeed or fail has shrunk considerably.
There is no question that these influences have created benefits, including economic growth, gains in productivity and an improved standard of living in most developing countries. We have seen great wealth creation for entrepreneurs, innovators, and risk-takers. The stage has now been set for a dynamic and expanding global economy, led by advances in science and technology and a re-definition of the global economic system.
This is just a taste of the world we will inhabit in the years ahead. It will be a world filled with great potential for economic gain and advances in human well-being, but it will also be a world of intense competition, complete transparency and ever more rapid advances that will transform industries.
It will be a world where a gradual shift of economic power from west to east will create significant opportunities, but also major challenges.
Canada must continue to re-position itself to compete in this new reality.
Canadians have high ambitions for the kind of society we want. You see this almost every time you pick up a newspaper, from the current debates over how we should strengthen our health care system, to how we should deliver new funds to make our cities more liveable.
All of these are important concerns - but they all rest on one critical assumption: that we will be able to afford the solutions.
It is critical that Canadians recognize that a well-intentioned social agenda cannot be implemented without a sound economic agenda.
Simply put, if we want the world's best healthcare and more liveable cities, then we need to become one of the world's most competitive nations to pay for it. We need focus, public policy and a commitment from all constituents to live up to our potential.
There are three ways for an economy like Canada's to grow and prosper.
I'd like to, first, spend a few moments providing some context on the new competitive environment in which we find ourselves.
We know that new jobs and wealth will come primarily from new activities, not by protecting existing businesses and industries where jobs are declining.
These new activities - new goods or services, or new ways of doing things - will occur in countries that not only generate new ideas or knowledge, but in countries that can commercialize them successfully as well.
There will be intense competition between countries to see who will be the leaders. Canada must find its niches-and quickly, because the rest of the world won't wait. Competitiveness and productivity will determine where investments are made.
Our disappointing rankings in the most recent Global Competitiveness Report of the World Economic Forum show that we must take this challenge seriously.
Our productivity level has slipped, and if we want to elevate our real standard of living, especially as our work force ages, we must reverse this trend.
In recent testimony before the Senate Banking Committee, David Dodge emphasized the need to boost productivity, suggesting that this was "perhaps the most important micro-economic issue facing Canada."
To improve our competitiveness:
A second facet of this new competitive environment is the increasing impact of globalization. Countries like China, India, Brazil, and Mexico are aggressive new competitors who will become even more formidable as they enhance their capabilities.
China will be a major global economic force, not only because of the size of its marketplace and low wage rates, but because it is developing the knowledge and skills needed for a 21st century economy.
China is graduating 200,000 engineers per year - almost three times as many as the United States does.
And while many of the world's most talented and educated people once immigrated to western countries, many Chinese graduates are now remaining or returning home because of the immense opportunities.
Napoleon Bonaparte once described China as a sleeping giant, and said "let her sleep, for when she wakes, she will shake the world".
I don't think that Napoleon was referring to 21st century industrial policy, but in the end, he was right. In my view, the world's economic landscape will be redefined by domestic growth in the east, led by China. This is a significant change from the last two decades when the US was the economic engine of the world, and Canada derived natural advantages accordingly.
China's domestic market potential is staggering. As a result of workers migrating from rural to urban areas, it is estimated that China is growing a city the size of Houston every month.
Foreign direct investment in China is currently running at about a billion dollars a week. Someone is going to make a lot of money.
In the years ahead, we will see Chinese cars and computers. But we'll also see Indian software companies that retail products under their own brand names, and competing head-to-head with the Microsofts of the world. We're already seeing a tough new competitor in the aviation industry-in Brazil.
Globalization is a double edge sword creating new and growing markets but also increased competition in our traditional markets. Canada has to find its own areas of specialization. As emerging market economies become more successful, they will also become viable markets for unique, high-value goods and services, the kinds of things where we must focus our own efforts and also they will become increasingly competitive in areas where we have traditionally enjoyed strength.
A third reality is that, to succeed, Canada has to build business services to support entrepreneurship and the creation of globally competitive Canadian companies.
Canada has one of the best financial systems in the world, and over the past 10 to 15 years we have responded to the needs of the knowledge-based economy. But we know that we need to do more to support the growth of our small and medium-sized businesses.
As a country, we do a good job at getting new businesses up and running. But we fall short when it comes to growing our small companies into larger ones, and in improving their productivity.
One way to address this is to make sure our new businesses have better access to capital through a wider scope of partners and models.
We need more innovative ways to finance the development of knowledge-based companies, especially those where risk is high, time to market is long, and life cycles for new products and services are short.
Another way to meet this challenge is to increase our country's investment in fundamental science, through expanded support for research in our universities and hospitals.
I believe this is a key role for government. These investments provide the new knowledge base that businesses and entrepreneurs can leverage to strengthen existing companies or to create new ones.
For its part, the Government of Canada has set a goal of making our country the fifth most research-intensive nation in the world by 2010.
But talk is cheap.
Today, we are number 14. If we are to achieve the government's ambitious goal, we will need to focus on creating a competitive environment to support innovative companies, and business research and development. There are some good examples of this, and none better, perhaps, than right here in Kingston.
To prepare for this visit, I picked up a copy of a paper written in 2002 by the Kingston Economic Development Corporation in response to the government of Canada's Innovation Strategy, called "Scope and Scale: Kingston's approach to innovation". I wouldn't be surprised if a number of you in this room had a hand in writing it.
Clearly, Kingston already has most of the ingredients required to ensure economic prosperity in the 21st century: an impressive scope of world-class academic and health care institutions dedicated to research, a growing base of companies focused on the commercialization of research, and a strong will to build networks between all sectors. I believe you are taking exactly the right approach, and I congratulate you for your vision, especially for the focus on increasing support for targeted commercialization programs.
Other cities and provinces are quickly moving down the road of innovation as well. British Columbia is becoming a major centre for fuel cells and biotechnology; and Manitoba, for public health research.
Last year, I visited the largest science project in Canada-the Canadian Light Source Synchrotron in Saskatchewan. This $174 million investment will enable critical new research into the microstructure of materials.
Right now, somewhere in BC, or Saskatchewan, or right here in Kingston, researchers who are coming up with remarkable new ideas that will create lucrative opportunities to enhance Canada's future.
But this huge and growing investment in science and innovation does raise questions:
This is an area where Canada is badly lagging.
In the United States, the ratio of commercialization revenue to research expenditures is about three times higher than it is in Canada. In addition, institutional research in the U.S. generates far more patents per dollar of investment than in Canada. And we can't just compare ourselves to the United States, because even they recognize that they are lagging and face serious competitive challenges from the rest of the world.
Foreign-owned companies and foreign-born inventors account for almost half of all U.S. patents. Japan, Korea and Taiwan account for more than one-fourth of all U. S. patents.
To the fullest extent possible, we must ensure that new knowledge generated here leads to successful commercialization in Canada, so that the resulting jobs and wealth flow to Canadians. To accomplish this, we must collectively create the right framework to attract research, for new and innovative companies to succeed.
There are a number of things we can do to make this happen.
Now is the time when financial institutions, government and academia must intersect. We need a financial system that enables growth; we need government policies that encourage, facilitate and reward growth; we need an educational system that produces the people capable of generating new ideas and we need a business climate that produces leaders with the management skills necessary to bring new ideas to market.
This will require both public and private capital. This is not an ideological issue. It is a practical question of finding what works best.
At RBC Financial Group, we've given a lot of thought to what we can do. We supported the development of Canada's National Angel Organization, whose purpose is to expand the circle of Canadians who have the personal wealth to invest in local new businesses that are at the early stages of growth.
We are also involved in the venture capital market through our subsidiary, RBC Technology Ventures. This part of our company is focused on early stage venture financing, starting with seed capital.
Since 1999, RBC has helped 48 new companies raise more than half a billion dollars, with over half of this coming from outside Canada. The confidence of these investors is a ringing endorsement of the quality of science in this country. But we can't rest on our laurels.
If we don't do a good job in commercialization, then the benefits of our expanding public investment in new knowledge will flow to other countries that can commercialize better than we can. We must create a new generation of Canadian companies, headquartered in Canada, and creating good Canadian jobs by producing valuable goods and services that can be sold around the world.
It is great to see the growth and success of businesses like Kingston' Millennium Biologix, a biomedical company that develops and supplies products for Regenerative Medicine in the field of skeletal disease and trauma. Global commercialization of research is at their core of their business, and their corporate vision is to be the most sought-after international alliance partner in world markets for bioactive medical products and tissue engineering systems.
This multinational corporation has experienced so much growth that they just went public a few weeks ago-and coincidentally, they also happen to be an RBC client. For a banker, nothing is more satisfying than a story like this.
In addition to more creative financing, we also need to expand the pool of skilled business managers in Canada. We cannot grow our best companies on a national and global scale without this leadership capability.
If Canada is to succeed in commercializing new knowledge from its universities, research hospitals and other institutions, it must do a better job of training managers who can create commercial success from new knowledge.
Proportionately, there is not much difference between Canada and the United States in the graduation of scientists and engineers. But the United States produces nearly twice as many educated managers as Canada does. This is part of Canada's innovation gap. You see this illustrated in the Global Competitiveness Report of the World Economic Forum, which shows that companies are not taking full advantage of Canada's business environment.
Clearly we can and must do better.
In a country as large and dispersed as Canada, we need to figure out better ways to collaborate so we can create scale and expertise. For example, universities and centres of excellence need to work together on projects wherever possible. Without scale, we won't develop the level of excellence needed to compete globally.
As a matter of interest, I co-chair, with Dr. John Evans, the Toronto Region Research Alliance, whose mission is to build public and private research capacity, embrace the commercialization of research and attract research-intensive companies to the GTA. Our focus is primarily on building consensus among the region's institutions, to align academia, business and government to accomplish our objectives.
At the start of my remarks, I stressed that Canada faces many challenges if it is going to succeed in the knowledge-based economy of the 21st century. I also expressed concern that we were too complacent about what we needed to do to address these challenges. But I don't want to leave the impression that nothing is happening.
There are hopeful signs, such as:
But we need more.
We need agreement that our country's economic agenda is just as important as our social agenda - the two are inextricably linked. If we want the world's best healthcare system and its most liveable cities, then we need to become one of the world's most competitive nations in order to pay for it.
This requires focus, coordination, and investment. And it requires changes to our existing rules regulations and processes -- and the commitment of all constituents. It is about execution and must be based on a long-term strategy.
Today, Canada has so much going for it. We have an abundance of natural resources. We have the only budgetary surplus in the G7. Our ratio of net debt to Gross Domestic Product is among the best in the OECD. Our immigration polices enable us to attract valuable human capital. And Canada has a reputation as one of the best places in the world in which to live and do business.
Canada is a great country, but we must never become complacent about how much hard work it took to get here, and how much hard work it will take to maintain and improve our standard of living.
We are competing in a world where significant economic shifts are occurring. If we are going to succeed in this new world, our politicians, our business leaders, our labour leaders and our academics must work together and focus on ensuring our businesses have every competitive advantage. We have abundant raw material to work with but we must have a coordinated strategy to ensure that Canada has every opportunity to live up to its potential, for the benefit of all Canadians.
Thank you.