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ZAGREB (Reuters) - Croatia's former prime minister Ivo Sanader went on trial on Monday on charges that he and senior officials abused state funds and rigged public tenders in a case that could bankrupt the biggest party, the HDZ.
"The whole indictment is fabricated and we shall prove it," Sanader told the court.
The trial is the first against a political party since independence in 1991 and part of an anti-corruption drive to boost Croatia's attempt to join the European Union in July 2013.
Sanader was expelled from the HDZ six months after he quit the government in July 2009. Also on trial are the HDZ's former treasurer, accountant and spokesman, and the party itself.
If convicted, the HDZ could be ordered to pay back about 33 million kuna ($5.78 million), which could effectively send it into bankruptcy, the Jutarnji List daily reported on its website.
The centre-right HDZ, which lost power in December after eight years, has denied the charges. Several lower-ranking former party officials have plea-bargained and received short jail terms.
The indictment says Sanader and six other people conspired to secure illegal funding for the HDZ from public firms from 2003 to 2009, when Sanader quit without explanation.
During that time, the HDZ is accused of having illegally acquired 31.6 million kuna ($5.54 million) and Sanader of personally receiving 15 million kuna, the indictment said.
Three other suspects and their two companies acquired altogether another 18 million kuna.
Before the trial, Sanader said the party leadership had known of, and approved, all the decisions, while the party accused him of creating a secret, parallel structure that engineered the financial schemes without telling them.
The HDZ has ruled Croatia for 16 of the 20 years of its independence. It is the first party indicted for corruption, which is perceived as widespread at the top levels of politics and at state-run companies.
"For Croatia's political scene, this will have a positive effect because it is unlikely that anyone will ever again dare to divert public companies' money into party coffers," said political analyst Davor Gjenero.
"It is not clear at the moment what possible bankruptcy would effectively mean ... whether the party would be dissolved," he said. "I think a more likely outcome is some kind of settlement which would leave the HDZ alive."
Jadranka Kosor, Sanader's hand-picked successor who was prime minister for 30 months until the election in December, launched the anti-graft campaign in 2009 to help Zagreb's EU bid. Croatia signed the accession treaty last December but its anti-corruption efforts will remain under scrutiny from Brussels.
Sanader is also on trial on two separate graft charges involving a loan from Austria's Hypo Bank and alleged secret deals with Hungarian oil concern MOL related to managing Croatia's oil group INA.
Reporting by Zoran Radosavljevic and Igor Ilic; Editing by Janet Lawrence


text: Linear translation stages with travel track lengths of 6, 12 and 24 in. are available from Edmund Optics Inc. The Techspec series stages use rack-and-pinion positioning with accuracy of 0.01 in. and are designed for integration with standard English-unit positioning equipment. They come in single- and dual-knob versions, with stages measuring 2.36 × 2.45 and 1.18 in. The stages offer nine 1/4-20 tapped holes for equipment mounting and have a load capacity of 5 kg and 2 kg when locked. The tracks are 2.45 and 0.4 in. and have counterbored mounting holes for 1/4-20 socket head cap screws every 6 in.

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Jim Coen, Franchise Perfection
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Phone Home Office: 617-469-3002, Fax: 617-323-4030
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With over 30 years of franchising, marketing, and entrepreneurial experience, Jim Coen is a franchise expert. Who can help prospective franchisees, private equity investors, franchisees, multi-unit franchisees, and stockholders, evaluate franchise business models and Franchise Disclosure Documents (FDD). Jim is not an attorney, his specialty is analyzing and reviewing the franchise disclosure document and website.
In May 2014 Jim was named the Interim Executive Director of The Planet Fitness Independent Franchisee Association (PFIFA) he finished in that capacity on October 31, 2014.
From September 2013 to November 2014, Jim served as the Executive Director of the Maine Franchise Owners Association (MFOA), this Maven served in that capacity on a part-time basis. This Maven is now a Member of the Board of Directors.
From April 1, 2008, thru November 2012 this Maven served as President of the Dunkin' Donuts Independent Franchise Owners (DDIFO). DDIFO represents franchisees that own and operate over 2600 Dunkin' Donuts shops in the US.
Jim served as the Vice Chairman of the Coalition of Franchisee Associations (CFA), from 2009 – 2011. As Vice-Chairman, Jim worked with the Fair Franchising Committee to develop the Universal Franchisee Bill of Rights (UFBOR).
From 2006 thru 2008, Jim was the Executive Director and Board Member of the New England Franchise Association (NEFA). NEFA is a franchise trade group that brings franchise executives, area developers, and vendors together to share ideas and best practices.
Prior to that Jim sold and trained franchisees at Supercoups, a direct mail company based in MA that is similar to Val-Pak. Jim became VP of Sales for the largest Super Coups franchisee based in the Boston area.
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I haven't had a period since august when i came off the pill. I was sent for an ultrasound and have 16 cysts on one ovary and 18 on the other and have cysts in my uterus. The doctors think i have pcos, but i'm not overweight or insulin resistant???
I haven't been fully diagnosed they just put me on the pill, which doesn't suit me at all, none of them do. I'm at a loss, cos all the websites say different things and its always to do with obesity, which i don't have. I'm confused, has anyone else experienced anything like this, or can you help in any way?


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- September 1, 2011 - Applicants may begin to submit applications to the J.D. program
- October 9, 2010 - Last LSAT administration date that meets Columbia Law School's Early Decision Plan deadline
- November 15, 2011 - Early Decision Plan application deadline
- December 11, 2010 - Last LSAT administration date that meets Columbia Law School's Regular Admission deadline
- December 2010 - Decision letters emailed to Early Decision Plan applicants
- January-April, 2012 - Notification letters mailed to Regular Admission applicants on a rolling basis
- February 15, 2011 - Regular Admission application deadline
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Tuition for 2011-2012 is $50,080. There are additional mandatory fees for health services, student activities, and University facilities, which will be $1,822 for 2011-2012. Insurance for hospital care and standard medical coverage is also required ($1,935), unless students can show proof of comparable coverage.
The total budget for the nine-month academic year, including tuition, fees, room, board, books, and personal expenses is $77,000 for a single student. Expenses are adjusted annually.
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Sadie and Stella features the gorgeous room of Charmaine's from My Best Friend Craig
The look is very clean, modern and designed, yet it is still comfortable and has a neutral enough background to easily be transformed when the fancy strikes.
This greek key mirror was a craigslist find!
The hallway, what a perfect place for a striped wall.
I'm loving the look of layered rugs, and what a neat table. I'm loving the built in bookcases, the touches of lucite, and those matching chairs.
On it's own, the fabric on this seat is dated and kind of hideous, but it is perfect when paired with a seamless brass table and eclectic elements. I love the simple touches of hot pink in this room. Be sure to read the interview and to see the shocking before photo!


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WINNERS!!For the whole month of May, we had a digital extravaganza. And, if you were one of the lucky ones to buy one of the flowers from our Instant Garden collection, you were given a ticket to participate in our Friday challenges! If you missed out on some of the fun, never fear, we loved hosting those challenges and LOVED seeing all the creativity that came out of the stamp rooms from far and wide. As promised, we're announcing our winners! Each winner from the challenges will receive a stamp set of choice.
Let's get on to the fun!
GET SKETCHY CHALLENGE WINNER: The winner did a gorgeous job with the sketch and has a fabulously colored set of Gladioli to prove it! Cheers to Pauline Godfrey!
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POP GOES THE WORLD CHALLENGE WINNER: For the next winning creation, the designer chose to focus on the deep shades of orange and yellow and add in a splash of green for our color inspiration challenge, and featured our Tulips image. And as you can see, Sherri Dean nailed this one!
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The experience of false memories following neurological trauma is a relatively common occurrence. Until now, the event known as confabulation has been unexplained.
Now a new study conducted by Dr Martha Turner and colleagues at University College London, published in the May 2008 issue of Cortex offers some clues as to what might be going on.
The authors studied 50 patients who had damage to different parts of the brain, and found that those who confabulated all shared damage to the inferior medial prefrontal cortex, a region in the centre of the front part of the brain just behind the eyes.
"The patients who confabulated had varying levels of memory ability, and varying levels of "executive functioning" (the set of cognitive abilities overseen by the prefrontal cortex that control and regulate other abilities and behaviours), so confabulation cannot be as simple as a combination of these deficits.
Instead it must be due to a specific function controlled by the inferior medial prefrontal cortex. Damage to this region appears to lead to the convincing experience of false memories" says Martha Turner, corresponding author for this study.
This study has implications for our understanding of how the human brain controls memory, and how most of us are able to easily tell apart true memories from things we have imagined, dreamed or invented.
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Baseball America checks in on Duke and BC
Baseball America writer Aaron Fitt recently wrote an article on the Duke Blue Devils and Boston College Eagles baseball program. Both teams have been bringing up the rear of the pack through their history in one of the best conferences in the country. The Duke Blue Devils are led by third year head coach Sean McNally who led the Blue Devils to a 29-25 overall record in 2007 the first time they finished over .500 since 1998. The Blue Devils struggled in conference only picking up six wins in 30 conference games. Mik Aoki is entering his second season with the Eagles where he led them to a 24-27-1 overall record and 12-17 in the conference. The full article from Baseball America is available here.


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Replay Music Studios offers weeklong summer and holiday camps for the beginning or seasoned musician aged eight to 18. Participants make original rock/pop music, learn to play the songs they like and delve into the fundamentals of songwriting, arranging, and musical collaboration. Half-day sessions take place for a full week and are led by experienced, multi-instrumentalist band coaches.
New this summer – Recording Camp! Write and record an original song with your new band, and in the process learn the tools and tricks of today's recording and music editing technology. Topics include microphone technique, audio basics, and navigating Garageband's digital instruments and effects. Offered select weeks (see below). Call/email for more information.
Summer Camp meets from 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm Monday through Friday, or starting at 12pm if adding private lessons (see below).
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Learning Your Influences. Students share and listen to favorite songs while band coaches lead an exploration of musical genre, song form, arrangement, dynamics, and lyrical styles.
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June is the month when school reopens after the summer holidays in many parts of the country. It is on June 1st that schools reopen in Kerala and it is also the day when the south west monsoon breaks out in Kerala, which in Kerala is known as Edavapathi as it starts by the 15th of the Malayalam month of Edavam. The Kerala monsoon is to be experienced to be believed. No words can describe the sheer magic of the rains. It just pours and pours with thunder and lightning. There are sheets of water pouring from the skies. The volume of water that pours down in a shower is so much that within minutes you will find a small stream of knee deep water, but it also subsides minutes after the rain stops.
The children love it. When I was growing up monsoon was the season we all liked best. The stream near our house (thodu) would over flow with brown muddy water. We enjoyed swimming in the overflowing thodu in rain much to the anxiety of our elders, who would caution us not to swim in the swirling waters. It was bliss floating in the water with rain water pouring on you from the skies. How I miss all those little pleasures in life.
We made paper boats and sailed it in the flowing drain water in front of our houses. We had competition as to whose boat would sail farther. We looked forward for our evening visits to the temple. There would be knee deep water in the granite paved compound of the temple and we loved running and splashing the water on each other much to the displeasure of the elders who would get drenched. "Wait until I tell your mother," they would threaten us. There would be a ban on our going to the temple next day unless we promised to behave. On the way to school we would play in the puddles. We were also mesmerized looking at the little whirls created by the raindrops in the puddles.
In the villages there would be flash floods in small canals and we loved wading through them. The wells would get filled to the brim which made our chore of drawing water from the wells an easy task. There was one house in our village where they had to manually pour out the water from their well because it used to overflow. We had firewood stoves those days and the smoke blowing out of the chimneys on rainy days was a sight I loved and I can still smell the fragrance of the bubbling oil at the end of the burning firewood.
We were lucky enough to have a school within 5 minutes walking distance from home. But for many other children, some of whom had to walk upto 5 - 8 miles, it must have been the dreadful season balancing their books, lunch boxes and an umbrella, mostly through paddy fields with knee deep water. By the time they reached school, they would be wet to their skins and they had to spend the whole day with their wet clothes on. They had only an ottayadi patha or a narrow trail dividing two fields, made of mud to walk between the paddy fields. Many times if there was a breach in the mud trail and it was flooded with water, you just slipped and fell in it. Books got washed away, lunch boxes got washed away and still they would reach school with umbrellas in hand. It is quite a sight to behold little children leaving for school with their best dresses and umbrellas in hand. When we were children we had umbrellas made of palm leaves with a long bamboo handle which was known as olakuda or pattakuda. There were big ones and small ones and they were not foldable. This meant we needed lot of space to keep them when we reached school. Mothers wrote their childrens' names inside the umbrellas so that they wouldn't get mixed up. The olakuda had a large span and it fully protected us from the rains. The farm laborers used a modified version of this olakuda, which was much larger and conical in shape and had a cap like ring inside the umbrella which would sit on their head, thus holding the umbrella as they worked with both their hands.
After coming to Bangalore, we still had rains in the earlier years, but the charm was not there. You could not get wet in the Bangalore rains as the moment the rain falls it would become chill. We had rains throughout the year. Now Bangalore does not get much rains and I yearn for the Monsoon Magic of God's own Kerala.


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We were in New Mexico visiting my folks Wednesday – Monday so I "got" to run some proper hills. It was also 90+ degrees every day I was there so none of these runs were all that remarkable except for the fact that I did them at all. On top of that, the kids' sleep always gets totally fucked when we travel from Eastern to Mountain time so none of us ever really sleep that great. Last week was also sort of noteworthy because I ran six days in a row (including Sunday 6/25) and I never do that.
Monday: 5 @ 9:05 – a tempoish thing? Warmup mile, 8:47, 8:46, 8:38, cool down mile.
Tuesday: 3 @ 9:38. Weights day plus a run so a little slower but I still managed a teeny bit faster finish.
Wednesday: 3 @ 9:41 in New Mexico, after flying around all morning and with a 171 ft elevation gain so I felt like 9:40s weren't half bad.
Thursday: 4 @ 10:08. Another hilly one, 296 ft elevation gain.
Friday: 3 @ 9:26, yup more hills.
Saturday: OFF.
Sunday:4 @ 10:06.
Total: 22ish miles
#300milesofsummer update: 81.7 miles in June, 37 miles since the official beginning of summer.
What's next
At some point I will probably do a June recap for me and anyone else who is actually reading this. We also went on sort of an eating/drinking tour of Albuquerque and Santa Fe and I might actually blog about that too!


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For a school assignment, I have to make a game of BlackJack using VB2008 Express. I have decided that in the login screen, the user will select his name from a listbox, and then type his password into a text box in order to get to the game screen. He can then play the game of BlackJack in the game screen. After he exits out of the game screen, his details (wins, losses, draws, cash etc.) will all be saved into a text file. This all works fin except when the gets to the login screen, there are 3 random characters () in front of his name (Eg if his name is bob, it will display as Bob). Here is my code for the game screen.
Dim FindInfo, NewInfo As String
Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.Load
FindInfo = lblPlayerName.Text + vbCrLf + lblPassword.Text + vbCrLf + lblWins.Text + vbCrLf + lblDraws.Text + vbCrLf + lblLosses.Text + vbCrLf + lblYourCash.Text + vbCrLf + lblLastPlayed.Text
End Sub
Private Sub frmGame_FormClosing(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.FormClosingEventArgs) Handles Me.FormClosing
NewInfo = lblPlayerName.Text + vbCrLf + lblPassword.Text + vbCrLf + lblWins.Text + vbCrLf + lblDraws.Text + vbCrLf + lblLosses.Text + vbCrLf + lblYourCash.Text + vbCrLf + System.DateTime.Now
'Save player info to text file
For Each TextFile As String In System.IO.Directory.GetFiles(Environment.CurrentDirectory, "document.txt")
Dim A As String = My.Computer.FileSystem.ReadAllText(TextFile)
A = A.Replace(FindInfo, NewInfo)
My.Computer.FileSystem.WriteAllText(TextFile, A, False)
End Sub
Here is he code for reading the text file into the appropriate listbox. (Only lstNames will be visible)
Private Sub frmLogin_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
Dim Name, Password, Wins, Draws, Losses, Cash As String
Dim LastPlayed As String
Dim Filenum As Integer = FreeFile()
FileOpen(Filenum, "document.txt", OpenMode.Input)
Do Until EOF(Filenum)
Name = LineInput(Filenum)
Password = LineInput(Filenum)
Wins = LineInput(Filenum)
Draws = LineInput(Filenum)
Losses = LineInput(Filenum)
Cash = LineInput(Filenum)
LastPlayed = LineInput(Filenum)
End Sub
Any Suggestions?


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text: A holiday, for four weeks! It's been three years since my last visit to North America, where we drove the coast from San Francisco to Seattle. This time only Canada is on the cards, but an equally exciting road trip through the Rocky Mountains. We began with Vancouver Island and Powell River - visiting family.


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What's a Sunday service like?
No strobe lights or laser shows, and very few (if any) church announcements at The Story. We keep things simple, fun, and approachable. Our services usually include 15-20 minutes of music and about 30-35 minutes of teaching. We get straight to the point, and most of our services last about an hour.
With our sermons, we start with a question people are asking in the real world, questions like:
- Where does the Bible come from and can it be trusted?
- How are we supposed to understand the problematic and disturbing parts of the Bible?
- Does everything happen for a reason?
- Are faith and science at war?
- What does the Bible say about addiction? Depression? Mental illness?
- Is Jesus really the only way to heaven?
Then, with all the honesty, integrity, and good humor we can muster, we dive into these questions in search of biblical, practical answers for everyday life.


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Normally adding 200 million users in 8 months to a product that already has a billion would reduce the average engagement, but most apps don't have Facebook Messenger's network effect. Now with 1.2 billion monthly active users, "we increased engagement massively in terms of number of messages sent per active user. We had double-digit growth percentage-wise"… Read More
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Japan is a country that is famous for its everyday use of the surgical mask. At any given time on any given day you will find someone wearing one. Whether they have a cold or allergies, those around them can only guess as to why they are wearing the mask. The mask is to help protect others from any germs that you might be tossing about...or to protect yourself from catching anything flying around in the air.
(FYI....the other day I read where teachers were now expected to teach their student the correct way to sneeze and/or cough---by turning one's head or by covering one's mouth with arm, hand or even better, a tissue or handkerchief. As a westerner, my first response to that was "Du-uh!")
These days, thanks to the swine flu, it is more often than not, you see people wearing these masks. Last week at the boys' school, there was a culture festival and a memo was sent home the day before, reminding everyone to wear their masks to the festival...we all had them on. Only those students about to perform were allowed to take theirs off.
At the stores, you can find a bevy of masks to choose from: adult or child sizes, cotton or other materials, with germ-fighting medicine or not, generic shape or face forming shape, you can choose men's or women's....the list is endless
Some even have pictures on them....personally, the Hello Kitty ones are my favorite (but they really don't come in adult sizes. Damn.)
The other day, I was at one of my friend's restaurant and she was in the back sewing masks for her grandchildren. I commented that they were really cute and was she going to make them in adult sizes? *hint hint* She had some very cute ones with Hello Kitty material on one side....yeah, I wanted one of those. The ones that the majority of adults wear are plain white...actually, kind of boring.
A few days later, I went back for lunch and the owner handed me a small package....a present from his wife, he said. "How did she know I would be in?" The look on his face upon hearing that question was funny....his own thoughts of "Du-uh!" were quite evident. (Yeah, yeah, yeah, I go there pretty often!)
Inside the package was this.....my own personal handmade, reversible, washable mask.
It's pink with white polka-dots and I like it very much.


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Freeware Game Pick: They Need to be Fed (Jesse Venbrux)
March 31, 2010 11:34 PM | Tim W.
They Need to be Fed is a gravity-based platformer with six worlds to visit, created by Jesse Venbrux in just under a week for YoYo Games' design-a-handheld competition. Your objective here is to reach the monster at the end of each level, jumping from platform to platform while avoiding contact with spikes, lasers, and even homing missiles fired from turrets.
A tutorial is included to help new players learn the controls, but anyone who is already familiar with Maru should be able to pick up the game and start playing immediately. (Windows, 8.22MB)


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Early on in my teaching career I was completely and utterly dependent on worksheets. Some were reasonably good, some were acceptable at best and others were a complete waste of the paper they were printed on.
Thankfully I have moved away from this now. I can safely say I have significantly reduced my reliance on worksheets and as a result have become a better friend to our environment and, dare I say it, a better teacher as a result.
But I still use them. The odd starter here, an exam paper there. Throughout my working week I'm still using more worksheets than are necessary. I can't quite let go of the comfort of a warm, freshly printed batch of papers in my hands which help me feel psychologically prepared for my lessons.
I have a sneaky suspicion that I am light years behind many, many teachers who might read this and sneer at my outdated teaching methods. But for those of you like me, why not try the following challenge which I have set myself for this next week?
I am going to teach all of my lessons without any worksheets. Not. One. Single. Worksheet. It is that time of year when I feel like I know the students and the classroom is getting more comfortable. I need to do something that will challenge me and help my students get a better deal in terms of their learning. This rule will force me out of my comfort zone and into one of focused creativity. I'm nervous but I know this will forced me to reflect on my teaching in a different way. This can only be a good thing.
Are you up for the challenge?


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Former Steelers DE Banaszak recovering
Former Steelers defensive end John Banaszak is expected to recover after suffering a hemorrhage on the surface of his brain, doctors at Allegheny General Hospital said Friday.
Banaszak, 58, fell ill Wednesday afternoon, when he complained of neck pain and headaches, said his oldest son, Jay Banaszak. He initially was taken to Washington Hospital and later transferred to AGH, where he's expected to remain for a week to 10 days.
"The expectation is that he'll get better," Dr. Khaled Aziz, an AGH neurosurgeon, said yesterday during a news briefing at the North Side hospital.
Banaszak, a member of three Steelers' Super Bowl championship teams, was awake and alert yesterday morning. Preliminary tests have ruled out an aneurysm, which doctors initially suspected.
The type of bleed Banaszak suffered is called a nonaneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage, Aziz said. It isn't uncommon in people who take aspirin, a blood-thinner.
Banaszak, who played for the Steelers from 1975-81 and now works as an assistant football coach at Robert Morris, has a history of neck pain.
His wife, son and two daughters were with him at the hospital. He's been overwhelmed by messages of support and well-wishes from the Pittsburgh community, including former Steelers teammates, said the son, Jay Banaszak, 35.
"There's a lot of love in the family," he said. "It's a pretty big, tight-knit family."


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National's day peektures
that we're crazy cause the 10 of us wore red and white.
we're not mad, we just love singapore.
Well, sad to say.... i thought this year's fireworks arent
as goood as the past years. The ambience was dead too.
we're the only ones who were so happy jumping ard
singing the songs along....
I laughed to myself upon chancing the photos of me
with my friends last year on the same day....
Many things changed, Many things left unsaid,
Many things left undone and Many things left
with regrets. A year just speed through my eyes.....
I'm a year older, a year wiser.
I hope or should i say i wish, that whatever i do
i'll think of all the consequences, so on and so forth.
Humans rejoice over success, I don't.
I rejoice over failures, because i've learnt something
new from it. ( It's a norm for me to cry for days and weeks before rejoicing)
Anyw, thanks Baby, Jus and Ms for studying with
me ytd. I hope i didn't make your blood boil because
of my ultra dumb maths brain.
Tmr geog and maths paper 1
thurs maths paper 2.


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2015 Resources
Portrayal of Disability: Then and Now
Examining the way disability and disabled people have been portrayed in literature, pictures, sculpture, photographs, advertising, journalism, media and film in past periods and now.
York "Hip Hop Shake Up"
Here is the "York Hip Hop Shake Up", which we are hoping might challenge people's perceptions about disability; I would be very interested in hearing your thoughts on this, and whether in your opinion we have succeeded. If we have, then I would really appreciate some advice about how to spread the video in order to […]
Successful day Conference and Launch of UKDHM on Portrayal of Disability in Moving Image Media.
Very successful day Conference and Launch of UKDHM on Portrayal of Disability in Moving Image Media. Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell gave an audience of TV and film makers, actors and disabled people a strong message of support at the British Film Institute yesterday evening the 19th Nov 2015. He said that the 'New politics' that […]
UKDHM 2015 Filmography
A page with all clips used in the UKDHM 2015 launch can be seen here: UKDHM 2015 Filmography The sequence shows the spectrum of portrayal over the past century, both good and bad. Each one comes with a short commentary.
Portrayal on Screen: City Lights (1931)
City Lights (Dir. Charles Chaplin, 1930) American silent romantic comedy film written by, directed by, and starring Charlie Chaplin even as talkies were in the ascendancy. The story follows the misadventures of Chaplin's Tramp as he falls in love with a blind girl (Virginia Cherrill) and develops a turbulent friendship with an alcoholic millionaire (Harry […]
Portrayal on Screen: The Sessions
A gripping film telling a real life story of how forty plus, polio survivor, Mark O'Brien (John Hawles), who spends most of his day in an iron lung, first clears his conscience with his Catholic priest( William Macey) and then embarks on working with a sex surrogate (Cheryl) to experience sex for the first time in his life. After some initial faltering he is successful, though Mark falls in love with his surrogate (Helen Hunt) and she is also taken with him, but the rules do not allow this. Later Hawkes develops the self esteem to embark on a loving relationship. Though played by a non-disabled actor Hawkes' gives a realistic portrayal.
Portrayal on Screen: Freaks (1932)
Freaks (Dir. Tod Browning, 1932) Banned for many years, when analysed the film is very sympathetic to the disabled people who work at the circus as curiosities, clowns and in the 'freak show' and who form a tightly knit and supportive community. At 16, Browning had left his well-to-do family to join a travelling circus: […]
Profile of Hopes: Robert David Hall by Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health
Emmy award winning "Profiles of Hope" features CSI actor and Musician, Robert David Hall, who talks about overcoming physical trauma. Produced by the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health's Public Information Office.
Best Years of Our Lives
This Academy Award(R)-winning masterpiece recounts the problems faced by three returning veterans after WWII as they attempt to pick up the threads of their lives. Fredric March, Harold Russell and Dana Andrews are superb as the servicemen who Year: 1946 Director: William Wyler Starring: Fredric March, Myrna Loy, Dana Andrews. Harold Russell was a double […]
Interview with deaf actress Sophie Stone
Interview about deaf character in Dr Who played by deaf actress Sophie Stone. See it here In this 7 minute preview clip made by the BBC's See Hear programme (and shown at the weekend as part of the See Hear Sign Language Festival), you can go behind the scenes and watch Deaf actress Sophie Stone […]
Russell Howard interview with Jess Thom
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One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest is a 1975 Film starring Jack Nicholson, written by Lawrence Hauben and Bo Goldman and directed by Miloš Forman. It is based on the novel: "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" by Ken Kesey.
The Elephant Man
Born Joseph Carey Merrick 5 August 1862 Leicester, Leicestershire, England Died 11 April 1890 (aged 27) The London Hospital, Whitechapel, London, England Other names "Elephant Man", John Merrick Joseph Carey Merrick (5 August 1862 – 11 April 1890), sometimes incorrectly referred to as John Merrick, was an English man with severe deformities who was exhibited […]
The First To Go (Nabil Shaban)
The most recent upload is the video recording of the entire two and half hour live performance "The First To Go" as presented at the Tron Theatre, Glasgow in 2008. I have subtitled the whole show, a) for deaf and hard of hearing viewers, but also b) because the audio quality is not consistently good […]
Nabil Shaban
Here is my YouTube channel – 2BenefitPeople which archives the hidden TV and Film Cultural History of Disabled People over the past three and half decades. As I said yesterday, the channel contains only those film and television that I have had a creative input, whether as performer, writer, film-maker, which are not commercially available […]
Breaking Bad star RJ Mitte: End stigma around disability
From bbc.co.uk Actor RJ Mitte rose to fame at the age of 14 when he was cast as Walter White Jr in cult series Breaking Bad. He has cerebral palsy and was bullied when he was younger because of his disability. "I had my hand broken, my foot broken, I was slammed on the ground," […]
Photographer with Down's syndrome 'sees the world differently'
From bbc.co.uk Photographer Oliver Hellowell has Down's syndrome, which his mother says means he sees the world differently from most people. Oliver's unique way of capturing the natural world has recently gained him a lot of fans. Just over a year ago, his mother Wendy O'Carroll set up a Facebook page for the 18-year-old's photography. That […]
Can advertisers be persuaded to use more disabled models?
Published on bbc.co.uk on 4 August 2014 In a new advert for disability charity Scope, model Jack Eyers strips down to his underpants, revealing not only his torso but also his prosthetic leg. According to campaigning group Models of Diversity there are too few disabled models making it into the world of "perfect" bodies. "There […]
Opportunity for disabled actors with RJ Mitte
BBC Newsnight Published on Jan 14, 2015
Evan Davis discusses opportunities for disabled actors with Breaking Bad's RJ Mitte and Hollywood Reporter writer Leslie Felperin.
Switched at Birth (2011–)
Series on ABC Family, featuring deaf character Daphne Vasquez.
The Fifth Gospel (1990)
In 1989, Nabil Shaban with his then girlfriend, Tina Leslie, went to Lourdes to make a television documentary about disability and Christianity, commissioned by the BBC. It was called "The Fifth Gospel".
It was produced and directed by Nigel Evans, and written by Nigel Evans, Tina Leslie and Nabil Shaban.
The programme was screened in 1990 as part of BBC's Everyman religious affairs slot.
Love and Disability
From the panel discussion at BFI, 27th November 2015. Love and Disability – Event text
Reflections On the Coney Island Freak Show
– Originally published in The Huffington Post 10/08/2015 "Why are you doing this?" I asked myself as I handed over $10 to enter the infamous Coney Island Side Show. After all, as a person of short stature, I could easily have been exhibited there not so long ago. Yet something about the concept intrigued me, […]
Framed: Interrogating disability in the media. 1997 Edited by Ann Pointon with Chris Davis Framed brought together the thinking and writing on a large number of the key players who were pushing for more and fairer representation of disabled people in the 1990s Whole book as pdf. Download here
R J Mitte talking about being a disabled actor on BBC
BBC http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-31923337 3.56
2015 Broadsheet Moving Image Portrayal of Disability:Then and Now
This years 12 page broadsheet examines current portrayal in TV and Film and Past portrayal of disability. PDF Word document Large print version Text-only version Easy-read version
Portrayal in Film
A series of clips showing portrayals of disability in mainstream film, across the history of cinema. Full playlist here.
Raspberry Ripple Awards
An awards ceremony ceremony co-ordinated by supporters of the 1 in 8 group which monitors disabled representation in the media. Prizes are awarded for the best and worst portrayals of disabled people in the media in a range of categories including Feature Film, Documentaries, Drama and Light Entertainment. 'Raspberry Ripple' is Cockney slang for 'cripple'. […]
Disabling Imagery
The Disabling Imagery website was finished for BFI in 2004 and contains an historical analysis of portrayal of disabled people mainly in film. It has a range of activities for primary and secondary pupils linked to specific film clips. The pack published by DEE is also downloadable in PDF format. Disabling Imagery (website) Disabling Imagery […]
The 1 in 8 Group brought together TV Producers/Directors, Actors, Disability Rights Advocates and Parents. Its aim was to change the portrayal of disability in the mainstream media. To challenge stereotypes and make disability ordinary. It carried out lunches for casting directors,film producers, TV Soap Producers, a whole day conference for writers, producers and directors […]
Off Limits – Images of Disability
(suitable for ages 8 to 18) Channel 4 programme from 1993 presented Mick Scarlet. Still very relevant. Video here Length 24.22
Cast Offs
Channel 4 in 2009 commissioned a 6 part drama series about a reality TV show where 6 disabled characters played by disabled actors are marooned on an island for 90 days. Cast offs
CinemAbility – a film by Jenni Gold
This dynamic documentary takes a detailed look at the evolution of "disability" in entertainment by going behind the scenes to interview Filmmakers, Studio Executives, Film Historians, and Celebrities, and by utilizing vivid clips from Hollywood's most beloved motion pictures and television programs to focus attention on the powerful impact that entertainment and the media can […]
TCM Disability in Film
Actors Robert David Hall, Danny Woodburn, Kurt Yaeger and Marlee Matlin are featured in this discussion on stereotyping of disabled people in the movies, part of TCM's October programming The Projected Image: Disability In Film
Crip Fest 2015
Crip Fest was a day looking at cultural changes in the portrayal of disability in the 25 years since the Americans with Disabilities Act 25th July 2015.
Word of Mouth on Disability
BBC Radio 4 programme Word of Mouth, hosted by Michael Rosen – on the language used by and about disabled people, and the recent trend in humour of using disability to produce laughs. With Victoria Wright and Francesca Martinez. Listen to it here
Invisible Children
Invisible Children, a report of the Joint Conference of Children, Images and Disability, covering aspects of representation in children's media. The Invisible Children Conference was held in March 1995 and was a collaboration between Save the Children and the Alliance for Inclusive Education. It brought together 70 children's authors, TV producers,Commissioning Editors, actors, parents and […]
European Disability Forum Declaration 2003
This declaration was prepared and adopted at the European Congress on "Media and Disability" held in Athens on 13-14 June, 2003 by over 300 participants from different parts of the media, media networks, advertising and communication companies, organizations of disabled people and representatives of EU Member States. It is adopted within the framework of the […]
Colin Barnes – Disabling Imagery And The Media
Disabling Imagery And The Media An Exploration of the Principles for Media Representations of Disabled People the First in a Series of Reports by Colin Barnes
Media Guidelines for the Portrayal of Disabled People ILO
Media Guidelines for the Portrayal of Disabled People Ireland, made by the ILO.
TV Tropes
TV Tropes has many examples of disability portrayal mainly in USA
Ouch BBC Podcasts
Ouch BBC Podcasts cover a wide range of issues including portrayal.
On Wikipedia
The article of Disability in the Media.
The Canadian Association of Broadcasters report
A summary by Media Smarts of Common Portrayals of Persons with Disabilities in Canada.
Representations of Disability Slideshow
A slideshow covering a range of stereotyped images propagated by the media. See it here.
A tale of two general election years
Article by Jenny Morris depicting the stark change in public and political attitudes to disability between 1992 and today.
Media Representation of Disabled People
A concise overview by Lucy Wood. http://www.disabilityplanet.co.uk/critical-analysis.html
Why social model is important to disabled people
See this useful explanation including language on Inclusion London website https://www.inclusionlondon.org.uk/disability-in-london/social-model/the-social-model-of-disability-and-the-cultural-model-of-deafness/
Scope End the Awkward Campaign
Three short TV adverts on how to respect disabled people. Form a good talking point for discussion. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wG_p7nc3wk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vE2HgtoOE7g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QX84nJoP4zc


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Almost 3 million people are expected to reach Europe by the end of 2017. This creates a tremendous geo-cultural challenge for refugees, especially at the outset. Being forlorn, destitute, lost in translation – and with a mobile phone, new comers do not have enough local information and are held back by language barriers. As much as they get help, especially in Germany, there is a mismatch between public aides and refugees. The is why Integreat app was developed.
Integreat provides comprehensive local information for refugees, is multilingual, has simple administration, and is connected to local authorities, is linked to job platforms, and is free of charge. Creators of Integreat asked these two simple questions that lead to the creation of the app : Can we provide all the relevant information to incoming people in our city in their own language as quickly as possible – without permanent internet access and without confusing paper chaos?
Integreat is available in the App Store and Google Play.


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When someone ask me about a shared hosting usually I know what to say, but if my friend has some particular needs like vps hosting I go to my bookmarked web hosting review and learn what is the best choice for him. There are so many web hosting providers for VPS or even dedicated server, so an independent web hosting reviewer is one of the best solutions.
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Fourth of July Pops
These colorful pops are a delicious, dairy-free treat that's perfect as an afternoon snack or dessert on a hot evening! You can use any type of yogurt and can substitute whatever berries are in season.
Prep time: 10 minutes + overnight
Cooking time: 0 minutes
Yield: Makes 6 (3 oz) popsicles (may vary depending on size of mold)
⅔ cup chopped strawberries
1 cup coconut water, divided
½ cup coconut yogurt (or yogurt of choice)
½ cup blueberries
- Add the strawberries to the popsicle molds and cover with ½ cup coconut water.
- Freeze for 1½ hours, then add the next layer by spooning in the coconut yogurt.
- Freeze for an additional 1½ hours, then add the final layer by adding the blueberries and covering with the remaining coconut water.
- Freeze popsicles for an additional 2–3 hours until completely frozen. Enjoy cold!
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It may seem to many people within the modern world that unemployment has been getting worse when, in fact, it has been slowly but surely improving. The recent unemployment trends show that the unemployment rate has been staying somewhat steady over the past 5 years and has actually dropped over the past 30 years. The current unemployment rate in the United Kingdom is 7.7% which is a 1% drop since August of 2011.. When people are considering what the unemployment rate is, it is important to remember that the statistics do not include the under employed or partially employed.
When the statistics are configured, only the average of 2.7 million people that are completely out of work count towards the unemployment rate. There are also around 1 and a half million people that are under employed or partially employed. This means that these people are working to make money that is far beneath the level of money they should be making depending on their experience, education and abilities. The partially employed makes up a large percentage of UK residents that are unable to obtain full time work.
Job rates also vary greatly within different parts of the UK. While many of the larger Northern cities and production areas have high rates, as few as 1/4 of homes in the South are unemployed. This means that for every four homes, there is only one that has a major breadwinner in the home.


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Aw yeah, this book has everything! Vicious wildlife; invincible sea captains; undead cops; hive minds; psychotic space crabs; smart-alecky AIs; and of course blood, torture, and gore, courtesy of a twisted monster named the Skinner who ain't just skinning apples.
When a science-fiction novel is this overstuffed, it either falls apart or becomes totally awesome, and fortunately Neal Asher's The Skinner takes the latter course. The main character in the book is really the planet Spatterjay, which Asher fills with an incredible array of horrible creatures, starting with the omnipresent leeches that mindlessly extract plugs of flesh from any organic being. I fricking hate leeches (seriously, their mouths belong on hellspawn), and Asher's loving descriptions of their voracity sent chills through me.
But leeches are only the beginning because Spatterjay also has razor-edged prill (basically lethal lobsters), predatory whelks, roadkill-like lungbirds, and the putrephallus tree, which looks and smells exactly as you'd expect from its ingenious name.
There are of course also humans, and if you're wondering how fragile meat sacks like us survive in a world full of predators, the answer is a bizarre virus that pervades the planet's ecosystem and, when introduced into humans, warps physiology so thoroughly that flesh regenerates upon being stripped and life extends basically indefinitely, with all of these effects growing the longer the virus lives in the system.
Incidentally, combine this fact with the Skinner's favorite hobby, and you can see why that monster is so feared. And that's not the end of the horrors that Asher inflicts on the essentially immortal humans on Spatterjay who have nonetheless not entirely lost their ability to feel pain. The greatest enemy in the book is not even the Skinner, as grotesque as it is, but the Prador, violent crab-like aliens who make a habit of enslaving other species by installing thrall units on their nervous systems. (To be fair, they also enslave their own kind.) The dark back story to this world is that in the early days of Spatterjay's colonization, a group of heartless pirates used their virus-given strength to sell millions of people to the Prador, leading to an intergalactic war and immense, lurid suffering. The actual story of The Skinner (well, the main one at any rate) involves a cop who has been reincarnated into his rotting body with the sole purpose of finding and killing the last of these depraved pirates — joined (of course) by a human agent of a hornet hive mind and a two-century-old xenobiologist.
When I said the book was bursting with crazy ideas I was not playing!
Mostly though The Skinner is just fun. There's of course the fun of discovering yet another of Asher's outrageous ideas. But a lot of the fun comes from Asher's willingness to let stuff hit the fan. Spatterjay is a dark world with a dark history, and every bit of its awfulness gets dredged up during the story. But although much of what Asher recounts is stomach-churningly macabre, it provides a context for great heroics and literally world-changing decisions, as well as some kick-ass battle sequences. And hey there are even two sequels! I'm as happy as a leech on a heirodont.


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1. Biker leather jacket
I'm now obsessed with this leather jacket...I want to have one too. I'd love to see myself rocking in that leather jacket!
2. Studded bag
It's all because of the most incredible creation of Alexander Wang's studded bag so studs are everywhere now. I'm obsessed to have one too. I figured I would look mighty good with that leather jacket with some cool additions in the form of studs. This time I'm really thinking of a nice studded bag. So yes, Santa...if you are listening, a rockin' studded bag would make me very very happy!
3. Tiffany&Co
And moving on...my last wish list would be the signature charm bracelet of Tiffany&Co. I'd loveeee to own one with my name inscribed.


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my shirogisu whiting rod.
The ground layer, fully dried. This layer is intended only to form a foundation for the following coloured lacquer and so does not look particularly impressive.
One coat of coloured nashiji lacquer on the rod. At the risk of exposing myself to accusations of coxcombry, I was surprised at how rich and deep the lacquer colour came out after only one layer. Usually it takes me three or more layers to get this kind of rich colour, and although I did everything as per normal it came out much better than I expected after just one.
Everything comes at a price. The reddish-brown lacquer is applied to the bamboo with one's fingers, and despite several washes in neat turpentine and great scrubbing in hot soap'n'water, my fingertips were lacquered almost as surely as my rod. Purely from the aspect of natural philosophy, it is interesting as the lacquer never leaves your skin, and one must wait till the topmost layer of epidermis sloughs off before the skin is restored to its native state. This takes a few days, with a few bouts of dermatitis in between to take one's mind off proceedings. Fortunately I have two secret remedies – one a native cure, taught me by a professional rod-maker here in Tokyo, the other won through personal experimentation and a background in pharmacognosy – for the more unpleasant aspects of urushiol-induced skin irritation, and I seemed to have built up a tolerance for the lacquer over the last year or so.


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A watchdog group charged Tuesday that the Internal Revenue Service's top criminal investigator in Los Angeles and several colleagues improperly bought property from an El Monte firm that was being audited by the IRS and then used it for their own tax benefit.
"Had anything like the El Monte situation occurred in the district I was working in, the officials certainly would have been fired," said Paul J. DesFosses, a retired IRS agent and president of the National Coalition of IRS Whistleblowers, a loosely knit network of current and former IRS employees.
Shortly after the 1981 property transfer, the taxpayer's IRS troubles apparently ended: The government terminated the audit and found that the taxpayer, Elco Manufacturing Co., did not owe more money, the watchdog group said Tuesday, based on records that it obtained through the Freedom of Information Act.
"They obviously used their position for some advantage," DesFosses claimed of the IRS officials in an interview. "Clearly, the taxpayer was under some pressure."


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PokerStars weekend review (12-3-2012)
December is here and while Jack Frost might not yet be nipping at your nose he certainly can't be far away (unless you live in the Southern Hemisphere, of course). In most industries things start to slow down in this December run-in; Christmas parties, Xmas shopping and the looming threat of spending the holidays with your family start getting in the way. Not so in the poker world.
We dealt our 90 Billionth hand last Thursday (and have already clocked up another 190 million since), the Sunday majors are busting at the seams before the Christmas turkey has even been put in the oven and we're giving you presents before most people have even dusted off last year's tinsel.
Rick Dacey is a staff writer for the PokerStars Blog.


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Implications of Patent Venue Decision Extend Well Beyond the Heartland
Just over two months have elapsed since the Supreme Court rejected the Federal Circuit's patent venue jurisprudence. TC Heartland LLC v. Kraft Foods Grp. Brands LLC, 137 S. Ct. 1514 (2017). The Supreme Court held that venue for patent cases is proper in (1) the defendant's state of incorporation or (2) "where the defendant has committed acts of infringement and has a regular and established place of business." Id. at 1516 (quoting 28 U.S.C. § 1400(b)). This departs from the Federal Circuit's previous position that venue is proper anywhere the defendant is subject to personal jurisdiction. Id. at 1519. Recent district court decisions have begun to shed light on what this development means for ANDA litigants.
Waiver. The first wave of post-TC Heartland cases suggests that defendants in pending cases are unlikely to benefit from the narrowed scope of proper venue. If defendants fail to object to venue in their answer and sufficiently preserve the objection, the objection is waived. Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(b), (h). A majority of district courts have held that TC Heartland does not constitute a "change of law" that would trigger an exception to waiver. See Koninklijke Philips N.V. v. ASUSTeK Comput. Inc., 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 111889, at *11 (D. Del. July 19, 2017) (surveying district court opinions). Instead, TC Heartland is construed as merely re-affirming an earlier Supreme Court precedent. Id. ANDA defendants that did not previously object to venue in a timely fashion will be stuck in their current venue.
Application of TC Heartland. The next wave of post-TC Heartland cases will have to address the questions left in TC Heartland's aftermath. First, courts must decide where an ANDA filer has committed an act of infringement by filing an ANDA. If courts follow the analysis used in the personal jurisdiction context, infringement is deemed to have occurred wherever the ANDA filer intends to market and sell the drug. C.f. Acorda Therapeutics, Inc. v. Mylan Pharms., Inc., 817 F.3d 755, 760 (Fed. Cir. 2016).
Second, the definition of "regular and established place of business" remains under-developed. If this provision is interpreted broadly, TC Heartland would minimally impact a plaintiff's choice of venue. Judge Gilstrap of the Eastern District of Texas has generously interpreted the requirement, finding a "regular and established place of business" to exist even where a company lacked a physical building. Raytheon Co. v. Cray, Inc., 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 100887, *32-37 (E.D. Tex. June 29, 2017) (considering additional factors, including defendant's representations regarding its presence, benefits received, and targeted interactions with the district). In contrast, if this provision is interpreted strictly, plaintiffs may increasingly resort to litigating in the defendant's state of incorporation. See, e.g., Logantree Lp v. Garmin Int'l, Inc., 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 99925, *4-5 (W.D. Tex. June 22, 2017) (stating that authorization to do business in the state and distributors in the district did not amount to a "permanent and continuous presence which shows a regular and established place of business").
Finally, TC Heartland may impact the identity of defendants. TC Heartland does not extend to foreign entities. 137 S. Ct. at 1520 n.2. Thus, foreign entities may still be sued in any judicial district. 28 U.S.C. § 1391(c). Accordingly, branded companies may attempt to file ANDA litigations against foreign parents instead of their U.S. subsidiaries.
As the ripples from TC Heartland continue to spread, ANDA petitioners should prepare for increased litigation over the interpretation of § 1400(b), further congestion in Delaware district courts, and possibly a shift in focus to foreign defendants.


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The quality or state of being swift; speed; quickness; celerity; velocity; rapidity; as, the swiftness of a bird; the swiftness of a stream; swiftness of descent in a falling body; swiftness of thought, etc.
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Who's gonna be the first?Rev
No, I've got testicular immunity....Rev
Angry gusville Guy was the first inmate. Seemed only fitting.
I can't find him nowhere....we musta executed him.....Rev
Sure he didn't escape.
easy 2 do with warden rev
You Slackers are wasting a potential great forum
We do still need to figure out a way to limit a poster's access/visibility to the Prison Forum. Been a long while since I've tinkered around with admin type stuff like that but if it could be done, twould be awesome!
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Here is a good piglet to test on.
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Publication Date: 2017
The poems in Ears crackle with aplomb and verve as they try to measure the distance between the ear, an organ of touch, and the often chaotic and sometimes orderly vibrations the ears permit the body to receive; in that gap between trust and faith is this collection of poems—a devotional book that prays to the senses for mercy. It's tricky.
I like to think of Jared Stanley's Ears as a friendly rejoinder to Frank O'Hara's "Personism," a brilliant collegial corrective that places the poem not between two persons but just simply between, as open to the gritty wind off the Nevada desert as to the spy novels and hot wings of the anthropocene. Indeed, for Stanley, the poem is a form of listening to environs: an "open trick, composed of ears" whose signature magic is an enchantment that has an ethics, an enchantment that enacts "the mandate of inanimate friendship." This book is an ecological manifesto, an unembarrassed declaration of dependence and love for the world, a kind of manual for turning toward animate and inanimate others with fierce and friendly attention. "I'm pretty sure I'm a sorcerer," Stanley claims, and the necessary good work done by his poems' wayward charms convinces me he's right. Ears is magic we desperately need. — Brian Teare
Jared Stanley's Ears has a planetary perspective rife with daily life, love, sex, and politics. Because Stanley's daily life takes place in Reno, Nevada (with observations extending to the Bay Area and beyond) there is a high desert sensibility that comprises a kind of geographical sublime—and yet the diction is down to earth, visceral and intimate. As a reader you are dazzled and implicated: "This specific/emptiness (the/desert's) is not/about you it's/about nobody,/but not about you/specifically/though it doesn't/mind if you use/it as a place to/store your feckless/ears, curse its/attention to your/tiniest sounds;/grit in your teeth/squeaks in time/to your jaw." Ever since I discovered his work, Jared Stanley has been one of my favorite poets and now Ears has become one of my favorite books. — Laura Moriarty
Toward the end of this quite splendid book Jared Stanley writes, "ears are an organ of fate." And this book (in its accumulations, protests, trackings of desire) is an attempt to record or, better, listen at, or—better still—detect the shapes and sounds of fate itself. And in a book with this title the poet must be super-conscious—as Stanley is—of both voice and voice-over as the poems test and re-test the ranges of vocal possibility. So there's some very fine call and response here (including notably a prayer to the cities of sleep, plural—cities—because "sleep has no singular attention") and some marvelously insistent toasts—to extinction, to existence, to "the implacable/ and unnoticeable," to the desert itself, these among others. Reader, please listen up. — C. S. Giscombe
Jared Stanley's new book, Ears, is a manifesto of interdependence and susceptibility, a theory of the senses, and a deliberate sequence of jokes about lyric address. Actually, it's a book of poems about daily life, listening and looking, among friends...The poet has recently moved from the Bay Area to the Nevada desert, and the book, like Stanley's previous book The Weeds, sets up a constant interplay between these locations. But while The Weeds drew its intensity from a solitary speaker obsessively investigating and sometimes ventriloquizing his nonhuman surroundings, Ears (as the title suggests) is always socially situated, negotiating a path among human and nonhuman neighbors. Maybe for this reason the poems are more circuitous, the speaker more persistently, often hilariously, self-conscious.—Sam Lohmann, The Volta
He's a writer who values his sensory perceptions. The poems in Ears are full of smells, sounds and tactile sensations. And the book title is reflective of that recurring theme.—Brad Bynum, Reno News & Review
Jared Stanley is a wizard, and a master of the garden path sentence. In the latest collection of his, Ears, he invites the reader to listen to the resonances each word in his spells make as they follow their somatic path through the line break and dissolve into dreamsong. When Stanley creates these marvelous sentences he welds together the affects of sound, the registers of the eye, and the emotive responses of desert landscapes his speakers find themselves in.—Chris Muravez, Heavy Feather Review
In EARS, Jared Stanley uses language to try, as much as one can try, to posit the self onto an invisible line. One where what is sensed, felt and remembered, is met at a crossroads between what the world gives him, how he lets it in, and how he makes it public. Sometimes that line is tender, sometimes it's contemplative, and sometimes it's interrogated.—Rijard Bergeron, The Poetry Project Newletter


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One pill makes you larger and one pill makes you small, and the pills Tim Burton gives you don't do very much at all.
With apologies to Jefferson Airplane's "White Rabbit," that more or less sums up "Alice in Wonderland," the director's middling new version of the Lewis Carroll tale. It has its successful moments but it's surprisingly inert overall, more like a Burton derivative than something he actually did himself.
Through no fault of its own, "Alice" also has the misfortune of being the first major 3-D release to come out after the "Avatar" revolution, and when you add in that Burton chose to shoot in 2-D and have the footage converted, it inevitably plays like one of the last gasps of the old-fashioned ways of doing things.
Especially old-school is the framing device devised by veteran Disney animation screenwriter Linda Woolverton ("Beauty and the Beast," "The Lion King"). In this version, Alice is introduced as a 6-year-old girl troubled by visions of falling down a hole and "seeing all these creatures," episodes her kindly dad assures her are nothing but dreams.


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East Hampton's quirky shops have in recent years been edged out by chains (so long, Above the Potatoes; hello, Banana Republic). This summer, the food stores met their Goliath, when Citarella opened at Main Street and Fifthian Lane. Fans of Dreesen's doughnuts took to Citarella's aisles, scooping up grill-ready fish; Martha Stewart was spotted cooing over the white apricots.
"There isn't a food place out here that didn't feel a significant impact," sighs Jerry Della Femina, who owns Red Horse Market. "The closer you were, the more trouble you had." So much trouble, in fact, that Della Femina closed shop right after Labor Day, far earlier than usual. He says he'll reopen in May, but store insiders doubt it. Jeff Hellerbach, owner of Jeff's Fancy Produce, also closed in mid-August, running a heartfelt farewell ad in the East Hampton Star.
Perhaps because it buys in greater volume, Citarella offers Hamptonites some relief from the likes of $60-per-pound lobster salad. (The coffee starts at $5 per pound; at Jerry's, the least expensive grind is $9, and at the Barefoot Contessa, it's $11.95.) "I've seen workers from other food places checking out our store," says Citarella's Joe Carerra, who cheekily took an ad in Jodi Della Femina's Shortcuts guide.
Of course, some competitors say there's no problem. "This summer was just as hellish as ever," maintains Barefoot Contessa manager Sandy Posnick. "People tried it and came back," adds Schmidt's owner George Boden. But Della Femina isn't buying it: "Everybody says they had a great year, but people who work there will tell you the truth."
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Thursday, September 27, 2007
How to Make Computer Geeks Obsolete: The Future of Software Design
I just finished reading a very interesting article over at MIT Technology Review about former Microsoft programming guru and billionaire, Charles Simonyi. Essentially, Simonyi, much like everyone else in the computer business with a head on their shoulders, realized that there is something fundamentally wrong with the way we construct software. So, while working at Microsoft, he came up with a new approach called intentional programming to attack the problem. Seeing that his bosses at Microsoft were not entirely impressed, Simonyi quit his position and founded his own company, Intentional Software Corporation, to develop and market the idea. It's been a while, though. I am not entirely sure what's holding things up at Intentional but methinks they may have run into a brick wall and, knowing what I know about Simonyi's style, he is probably doing some deconstruction and reconstruction.
Sorry, Charlie, Geeks Love the Dark Ages
There is a lot of secrecy surrounding the project but, in my opinion, Simonyi and the folks at Intentional will have to come around to the conclusion that the solution will involve the use of graphical tools. At this week's Emerging Technology Conference at MIT, Simonyi tried to convince programmers to leave the Dark Ages (LOL), as he put it. His idea is to bring the business people (i.e., the domain experts) into software development. I applaud Simonyi's courage but my question to him is this, if your goal is to turn domain experts into developers, why give a talk at a techie conference? The last thing a computer geek wants to hear is that he or she may no longer be needed. In fact, based on my own personal experience, the geeks will fight Simonyi every step of the way on this issue. Ironically enough, geeks are the new luddites of the automation age. Unfortunately for the geeks but fortunately for Simonyi, he is not exactly looking for venture capital. With about a billion dollars in his piggy bank, a mega-yacht in the bay and Martha Stewart at his side, the man can pretty much do as he pleases.
The Future of Software Development
In my opinion, Simonyi does not go far enough. In his picture of the future of software development, he sees the domain expert continuing to work side by side with the programmer. In my picture, by contrast, I see only the domain expert gesturing in front of one of Jeff Han's multi-touch screens and speaking into a microphone. The programmer is nowhere to be seen. How can this be? Well, the whole idea of automation is to make previous expertise obsolete so as to save time and money, right? Programmers will have joined blacksmiths and keypunch operators as the newest victims of the automation age. Sorry. I am just telling it like I see it. But don't feel bad if you're a programmer because, eventually, with the advent of true AI, even the domain expert will disappear from the picture.
Intentional Design vs. Intentional Programming
The way I see it, future software development will be strictly about design and composition. Forget programming. I see a software application as a collection of concurrent, elementary behaving entities organized into plug-compatible modules that communicate via message connectors. Modules are like pieces in a giant picture puzzle. The main difference is that modules are intelligent: they know how to connect to one another. For example, let's say you are standing in front of your beautiful new multi-touch screen and you are composing a new business application. Suppose you get to a point where you have some floating point data that you want the program to display as a bar graph. You simply say "give me bar graph display module" into the microphone. Problem is, there are all sorts of bar graph display modules available and the computer displays them all on the right side of the screen. No worry. You simply grab all of them with your right hand and throw them into your app space like confetti driven by the wind. And, lo and behold, the one that is compatible with your data magically and automatically connects itself to your app and voila! You smile and say "clean up!" and all the incompatible modules disappear, as if by magic. You suddenly remember Tom Cruise's character, John Anderton, in the movie Minority Report and you can barely keep from laughing. Creating software is so much fun! This tiny glimpse of the future of software development is brought to you by Project COSA.
In conclusion, my advice to Charles Simonyi is to start thinking in terms of reactive, plug-compatible parallel objects and to get somebody like Jeff Han on board. Also, stop trying to convince the geeks.
2 comments:
- Vector said...
Ok, let's get rid of the programmer! No more programming, no more code. Everything should be done via 'design and composition.'
But who is going to design the things that design things?
- October 25, 2007 at 12:23 PM
- Arcadia said...
Sadly, I came to this blog too late only to realize I came to the same conclusion precisely 3 years after when this blog was posted. However, my newest opinion has gone much further than graphic programming as well as the notion of domain expert doing "programming" on a parallel computer with graphic tool.
Developing software by human is a logical process, sequential in nature, one would never master the parallel programming as proficient as programming on a single thread computer. Let the code builds itself. In other words, the graphic tool should be merely a translator of human requirements if it needs one.
- November 30, 2012 at 9:44 PM


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Peter Barakan
Born in London in 1951, Peter earned a degree in Japanese from the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). An expert on diverse forms of popular music, Peter is also a well-known TV and radio presenter. He has lived in Japan for 40 years and has a deep understanding of the language and culture.
Matt Alt
Born in Washington D.C. in 1973, Matt's interest in Japan was kindled by robot toys in his childhood. He worked as a translator for the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office before co-founding a company that produces English versions of Japanese comics and video games. He also writes extensively about cultural trends including yokai, ninja, emoji, and more.
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An economics journalist and business consultant, Naoyuki Takai started taking a serious interest in Japan's cafe culture in 2007 and has since written extensively on the subject, publishing a number of books. He was born in Nagoya, a city known for its love of kissaten.
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When this writer first arrived in Japan in 1981, the sheer number of kissaten (literally "drink tea shops") was stunning.
Back then many cafes had game consoles built into the tables (arcade cocktail cabinets). But there were various other types to choose from: some would focus on a special way of making coffee, some would be devoted to jazz or classical music, and others would appeal to fans of manga, and so on. There were also cafes in department stores and near smart residential areas that were frequented by customers who wanted to chat with friends about a child's education or simply to gossip. In each case, the user would instantly perceive what each cafe had to offer, and react accordingly.
At many kissaten, great care is taken with the preparation of each cup of coffee.
Meticulous attention is paid to each detail.
It wasn't so long ago that many kissaten were havens for smokers, and breakfast "morning sets" featuring ultra-thick fluffy toast and a boiled egg were ubiquitous. While you can still find cafes like that, mainstream consumer preferences have moved on.
These days there are cafes that roast their own coffee beans and cafes where you can be sure to get good access to the internet. In addition to owl cafes, there are places where you can pet a cat, a reptile, or a hedgehog, and then there are super-specialized establishments, such as the cafe visited by Matt Alt that is dedicated to the theme of tranquility.
Peter Barakan chats with guest Naoyuki Takai in a kissaten whose customers enjoy listening to classical music.
Matt enjoys a tranquil moment in a kissaten designed for that purpose.
"Big Coffee," meanwhile, is continuing to enjoy its day in the sun. But anyone familiar with the famous names in global cafe culture will soon observe that, in Japan, customers use these spaces, too, for specific purposes. One especially common activity is revision for upcoming exams.
Just yesterday, this writer noted a relatively unusual sight in a Japanese cafe: two men playing cards, using tokens to "gamble" with. Will cafes for the playing of card games emerge in the months ahead? In the constantly evolving and highly diverse kissaten eco-system, it is impossible to predict what the next boom will be.
The main draw in this kissaten, meanwhile, is a chat with the good-humored "master."
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