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GJM leader urges Rajnath Singh to ensure the safety of Gurung
As the queen of hills gradually coming back to normalcy and expelled GJM leader and chairman of the board of administrators of Gorkha Territorial Administration (GJM) is steadily establishing his grip over the administration and earning hill people's confidence, the pro Gurung leader are fearing the imminent arrest of their top ranking leaders who went underground fearing arrest.
"The Centre should ensure the safety and security of Bimal Gurung and other top leaders of GJM, so that they are not arrested by the West Bengal police," GJM vice-president Kalyan Dewan told a news agency. Terming it a part of confidence building measures, Dewan said if GJM leaders were arrested there would be no one to carry on talk with the state government and the centre.
Meanwhile, Binay Tamang, , said the suspension of the strike on the assurance of a tripartite meeting by the Centre was nothing but a "face saver and a political gimmick" of Darjeeling BJP MP SS Ahluwalia and Gurung.
Union home minister Rajnath Singh had appealed to the GJM to withdraw the strike in the Darjeeling hills for a separate Gorkhaland state and asked the Union home secretary to convene an official-level meeting to discuss related issues. Gurung had called off the indefinite shutdown on its 104th day on 26 September in response to Singh's appeal.
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Detective Pikachu hasn't been lighting up the charts as it should be. It is doing fine, but not spectacular. However, could Sonic do worse? Sonic is a series that has had several bad games that would have ended any other series. Meanwhile Pokemon still is mighty healthy even if it peaked somewhere around 2000. Detective Pikachu got 166.7 OW. which would put it at worst 400. Sonic will do worse than that. half maybe. There might be some people who will go to see it just to make fun of it, but it won't be enough. In or Out.
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#432271 Your Shopping Experience Is on the Verge ...
Exponential technologies (AI, VR, 3D printing, and networks) are radically reshaping traditional retail.
E-commerce giants (Amazon, Walmart, Alibaba) are digitizing the retail industry, riding the exponential growth of computation.
Many brick-and-mortar stores have already gone bankrupt, or migrated their operations online.
Massive change is occurring in this arena.
For those "real-life stores" that survive, an evolution is taking place from a product-centric mentality to an experience-based business model by leveraging AI, VR/AR, and 3D printing.
Let's dive in.
E-Commerce Trends
Last year, 3.8 billion people were connected online. By 2024, thanks to 5G, stratospheric and space-based satellites, we will grow to 8 billion people online, each with megabit to gigabit connection speeds.
These 4.2 billion new digital consumers will begin buying things online, a potential bonanza for the e-commerce world.
At the same time, entrepreneurs seeking to service these four-billion-plus new consumers can now skip the costly steps of procuring retail space and hiring sales clerks.
Today, thanks to global connectivity, contract production, and turnkey pack-and-ship logistics, an entrepreneur can go from an idea to building and scaling a multimillion-dollar business from anywhere in the world in record time.
And while e-commerce sales have been exploding (growing from $34 billion in Q1 2009 to $115 billion in Q3 2017), e-commerce only accounted for about 10 percent of total retail sales in 2017.
In 2016, global online sales totaled $1.8 trillion. Remarkably, this $1.8 trillion was spent by only 1.5 billion people — a mere 20 percent of Earth's global population that year.
There's plenty more room for digital disruption.
AI and the Retail Experience
For the business owner, AI will demonetize e-commerce operations with automated customer service, ultra-accurate supply chain modeling, marketing content generation, and advertising.
In the case of customer service, imagine an AI that is trained by every customer interaction, learns how to answer any consumer question perfectly, and offers feedback to product designers and company owners as a result.
Facebook's handover protocol allows live customer service representatives and language-learning bots to work within the same Facebook Messenger conversation.
Taking it one step further, imagine an AI that is empathic to a consumer's frustration, that can take any amount of abuse and come back with a smile every time. As one example, meet Ava. "Ava is a virtual customer service agent, to bring a whole new level of personalization and brand experience to that customer experience on a day-to-day basis," says Greg Cross, CEO of Ava's creator, an Austrian company called Soul Machines.
Predictive modeling and machine learning are also optimizing product ordering and the supply chain process. For example, Skubana, a platform for online sellers, leverages data analytics to provide entrepreneurs constant product performance feedback and maintain optimal warehouse stock levels.
Blockchain is set to follow suit in the retail space. ShipChain and Ambrosus plan to introduce transparency and trust into shipping and production, further reducing costs for entrepreneurs and consumers.
Meanwhile, for consumers, personal shopping assistants are shifting the psychology of the standard shopping experience.
Amazon's Alexa marks an important user interface moment in this regard.
Alexa is in her infancy with voice search and vocal controls for smart homes. Already, Amazon's Alexa users, on average, spent more on Amazon.com when purchasing than standard Amazon Prime customers — $1,700 versus $1,400.
As I've discussed in previous posts, the future combination of virtual reality shopping, coupled with a personalized, AI-enabled fashion advisor will make finding, selecting, and ordering products fast and painless for consumers.
But let's take it one step further.
Imagine a future in which your personal AI shopper knows your desires better than you do. Possible? I think so. After all, our future AIs will follow us, watch us, and observe our interactions — including how long we glance at objects, our facial expressions, and much more.
In this future, shopping might be as easy as saying, "Buy me a new outfit for Saturday night's dinner party," followed by a surprise-and-delight moment in which the outfit that arrives is perfect.
In this future world of AI-enabled shopping, one of the most disruptive implications is that advertising is now dead.
In a world where an AI is buying my stuff, and I'm no longer in the decision loop, why would a big brand ever waste money on a Super Bowl advertisement?
The dematerialization, demonetization, and democratization of personalized shopping has only just begun.
The In-Store Experience: Experiential Retailing
In 2017, over 6,700 brick-and-mortar retail stores closed their doors, surpassing the former record year for store closures set in 2008 during the financial crisis. Regardless, business is still booming.
As shoppers seek the convenience of online shopping, brick-and-mortar stores are tapping into the power of the experience economy.
Rather than focusing on the practicality of the products they buy, consumers are instead seeking out the experience of going shopping.
The Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, and computation are exponentially improving the in-person consumer experience.
As AI dominates curated online shopping, AI and data analytics tools are also empowering real-life store owners to optimize staffing, marketing strategies, customer relationship management, and inventory logistics.
In the short term,retail store locations will serve as the next big user interface for production 3D printing (custom 3D printed clothes at the Ministry of Supply), virtual and augmented reality (DIY skills clinics), and the Internet of Things (checkout-less shopping).
In the long term,we'll see how our desire for enhanced productivity and seamless consumption balances with our preference for enjoyable real-life consumer experiences — all of which will be driven by exponential technologies.
One thing is certain: the nominal shopping experience is on the verge of a major transformation.
The convergence of exponential technologies has already revamped how and where we shop, how we use our time, and how much we pay.
Twenty years ago, Amazon showed us how the web could offer each of us the long tail of available reading material, and since then, the world of e-commerce has exploded.
And yet we still haven't experienced the cost savings coming our way from drone delivery, the Internet of Things, tokenized ecosystems, the impact of truly powerful AI, or even the other major applications for 3D printing and AR/VR.
Perhaps nothing will be more transformed than today's $20 trillion retail sector.
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In the myth about the Tower of Babel, people conspired to build a city and tower that would reach heaven. Their creator observed, "And now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do." According to the myth, God thwarted this effort by creating diverse languages so that they could no longer collaborate.
In our modern times, we're experiencing a state of unprecedented connectivity thanks to technology. However, we're still living under the shadow of the Tower of Babel. Language remains a barrier in business and marketing. Even though technological devices can quickly and easily connect, humans from different parts of the world often can't.
Translation agencies step in, making presentations, contracts, outsourcing instructions, and advertisements comprehensible to all intended recipients. Some agencies also offer "localization" expertise. For instance, if a company is marketing in Quebec, the advertisements need to be in Québécois French, not European French. Risk-averse companies may be reluctant to invest in these translations. Consequently, these ventures haven't achieved full market penetration.
Global markets are waiting, but AI-powered language translation isn't ready yet, despite recent advancements in natural language processing and sentiment analysis. AI still has difficulties processing requests in one language, without the additional complications of translation. In November 2016, Google added a neural network to its translation tool. However, some of its translations are still socially and grammatically odd. I spoke to technologists and a language professor to find out why.
"To Google's credit, they made a pretty massive improvement that appeared almost overnight. You know, I don't use it as much. I will say this. Language is hard," said Michael Housman, chief data science officer at RapportBoost.AI and faculty member of Singularity University.
He explained that the ideal scenario for machine learning and artificial intelligence is something with fixed rules and a clear-cut measure of success or failure. He named chess as an obvious example, and noted machines were able to beat the best human Go player. This happened faster than anyone anticipated because of the game's very clear rules and limited set of moves.
Housman elaborated, "Language is almost the opposite of that. There aren't as clearly-cut and defined rules. The conversation can go in an infinite number of different directions. And then of course, you need labeled data. You need to tell the machine to do it right or wrong."
Housman noted that it's inherently difficult to assign these informative labels. "Two translators won't even agree on whether it was translated properly or not," he said. "Language is kind of the wild west, in terms of data."
Google's technology is now able to consider the entirety of a sentence, as opposed to merely translating individual words. Still, the glitches linger. I asked Dr. Jorge Majfud, Associate Professor of Spanish, Latin American Literature, and International Studies at Jacksonville University, to explain why consistently accurate language translation has thus far eluded AI.
He replied, "The problem is that considering the 'entire' sentence is still not enough. The same way the meaning of a word depends on the rest of the sentence (more in English than in Spanish), the meaning of a sentence depends on the rest of the paragraph and the rest of the text, as the meaning of a text depends on a larger context called culture, speaker intentions, etc."
He noted that sarcasm and irony only make sense within this widened context. Similarly, idioms can be problematic for automated translations.
"Google translation is a good tool if you use it as a tool, that is, not to substitute human learning or understanding," he said, before offering examples of mistranslations that could occur.
"Months ago, I went to buy a drill at Home Depot and I read a sign under a machine: 'Saw machine.' Right below it, the Spanish translation: 'La máquina vió,' which means, 'The machine did see it.' Saw, not as a noun but as a verb in the preterit form," he explained.
Dr. Majfud warned, "We should be aware of the fragility of their 'interpretation.' Because to translate is basically to interpret, not just an idea but a feeling. Human feelings and ideas that only humans can understand—and sometimes not even we, humans, understand other humans."
He noted that cultures, gender, and even age can pose barriers to this understanding and also contended that an over-reliance on technology is leading to our cultural and political decline. Dr. Majfud mentioned that Argentinean writer Julio Cortázar used to refer to dictionaries as "cemeteries." He suggested that automatic translators could be called "zombies."
Erik Cambria is an academic AI researcher and assistant professor at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. He mostly focuses on natural language processing, which is at the core of AI-powered language translation. Like Dr. Majfud, he sees the complexity and associated risks. "There are so many things that we unconsciously do when we read a piece of text," he told me. Reading comprehension requires multiple interrelated tasks, which haven't been accounted for in past attempts to automate translation.
Cambria continued, "The biggest issue with machine translation today is that we tend to go from the syntactic form of a sentence in the input language to the syntactic form of that sentence in the target language. That's not what we humans do. We first decode the meaning of the sentence in the input language and then we encode that meaning into the target language."
Additionally, there are cultural risks involved with these translations. Dr. Ramesh Srinivasan, Director of UCLA's Digital Cultures Lab, said that new technological tools sometimes reflect underlying biases.
"There tend to be two parameters that shape how we design 'intelligent systems.' One is the values and you might say biases of those that create the systems. And the second is the world if you will that they learn from," he told me. "If you build AI systems that reflect the biases of their creators and of the world more largely, you get some, occasionally, spectacular failures."
Dr. Srinivasan said translation tools should be transparent about their capabilities and limitations. He said, "You know, the idea that a single system can take languages that I believe are very diverse semantically and syntactically from one another and claim to unite them or universalize them, or essentially make them sort of a singular entity, it's a misnomer, right?"
Mary Cochran, co-founder of Launching Labs Marketing, sees the commercial upside. She mentioned that listings in online marketplaces such as Amazon could potentially be auto-translated and optimized for buyers in other countries.
She said, "I believe that we're just at the tip of the iceberg, so to speak, with what AI can do with marketing. And with better translation, and more globalization around the world, AI can't help but lead to exploding markets."
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CCHAOTER Lyric Drama
In five acts by VERDI.
Text by F. M. PIAVE.
Auber's success with the opera of the same name inspired Verdi to try
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for him and in 1854 the opera was handed to the San Carlo theatre in
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From this time it conquered the stages of Europe, all but one, Auber's
widow having stipulated that no opera rival to that of her husband's
was to be given in Paris. The Ballo in Maschera has been revived in
Dresden in October 1897, after having lain buried for over 15 years;
its success showed, that it is still full of vitality. The music is
exceedingly fresh and characteristic; indeed it surpasses both
Trovatore and Rigoletto in beauty and originality. Verdi has scarcely
ever written anything finer than the Ensemble at the end of the second
act, and the delightful quartette "Is it a jest or madness, that comes
now from her lips."
The libretto may be explained shortly, as it is almost identical with
Auber's "Masked Ball".
Count Richard, governor of Boston is adored by the people but hated by
the noblemen, who resolve upon his death. He loves Amelia, the
wife of his secretary and best friend Rene, who in vain tries to warn
him of the plots of his enemies, but who faithfully watches over his
An old sorceress of negro blood Ulrica, is to be banished by the decree
of the high Judge, but Richard's page Oscar speaks in her favour, and
the count decides to see her himself and test her tricks. He invites
his lords to accompany him to the sybil's dwelling, and orders Oscar to
bring him a fisherman's disguise. His enemies Samuel and Tom follow
The second act shows Ulrica in her cottage seated at a table conjuring
Satan. A crowd of people are around her, amongst them Richard in
disguise. A sailor Sylvan advances first to hear his fate, and while
Ulrica is prophesying that better days await him, Richard slips a roll
of gold with a scroll into Sylvan's pocket and so makes the witch's
words true. Sylvan searching in his pockets finds the gold and reads
the inscription on the scroll: "Richard to his dear officer Sylvan",
and all break out into loud praises of the clever sybil.
A short while after a servant announces Amelia, and the sorceress
driving the crowd away ushers her in, while Richard conceals himself.
He listens with delight to the confession of her sinful love to
himself, against which she asks for a draught, which might enable her
to banish it from her heart. Ulrica advises her to pluck a magic herb
at midnight, which grows in the field where the criminals are executed.
Amelia shudders but promises to do as she is bidden, while Richard
secretly vows to follow and protect her. Amelia departs and the
people flock in again. Richard is the first to ask what is his fate.
The sybil reluctantly tells him that his life is to be destroyed by the
first person who shall touch his hand on this very day. Richard vainly
offers his hand to the bystanders, they all recoil from him, when
suddenly his friend Rene comes in, and heartily shakes Richard's
outstretched hand. This seems to break the spell, for everybody knows
Rene to be the count's dearest friend, and now believes the oracle to
be false. Nevertheless Ulrica, who only now recognizes the count,
warns him once more against his enemies, but he laughs at her, and
shows the sorceress the verdict of her banishment, which however he has
cancelled. Full of gratitude Ulrica joins in the universal song of
praise, sung by the people to their faithful leader.
The third act opens on the ghostly field where Amelia is to look for
the magic herb. She is frozen with horror believing that she sees a
ghost rise before her; Richard now turns up, and breaks out into
passionate words, entreating her to acknowledge her love for him. She
does so, but implores him at the same time, not to approach her, and to
remain true to his friend. While they speak Rene surprises them. He
has followed Richard to save him from his enemies, who are waiting to
kill him. Richard wraps himself in his friend's cloak, after having
taken Rene's promise to lead the veiled lady to the gates of the town,
without trying to look at her. Rene swears, but fate wills it
otherwise, for hardly has Richard departed, when the conspirators
throng in, and enraged at finding only the friend, try to tear the veil
off the lady's face. Rene guards her with his sword, but Amelia
springing between the assailers lets fall her veil, and reveals her
face to her husband and to the astonished men, thereby bringing shame
and bitter mockery on them both. Rene, believing himself betrayed by
wife and friend, asks the conspirators to meet him in his own house on
the following morning, and swears to avenge the supposed treachery.
In the fourth act in his own house Rene bids his wife prepare herself
for death. He disbelieves in her protest of innocence, but at last,
touched by her misery he allows her to take a last farewell of her son.
When she is gone, he resolves rather to kill the seducer than his poor
weak wife. When the conspirators enter he astonishes them by his
knowledge of their dark designs, but they wonder still more, when he
offers to join them in their evil purpose. As they do not agree, who
it shall be that is to kill Richard, Rene makes his wife draw the lot
from a vase on the table. The chosen one is her own husband.--At this
moment Oscar enters with an invitation to a masked ball from the court.
Rene accepts, and the conspirators decide to seize the opportunity, to
put their foe to death. They are to wear blue dominos with red
ribbons; their pass word is "death."
The next scene shows a richly decorated ballroom. Rene vainly tries to
find out the count's disguise, until it is betrayed to him by the
page who believes that Rene wants to have some fun with his master.
Amelia waylaying Richard implores him, to fly, and when he disbelieves
her warnings, shows him her face. When he recognizes her, he tenderly
takes her hand, and tells her that he too has resolved to conquer his
passion, and that he is sending her away to England with her husband.
They are taking a last farewell, but alas, fate overtakes Richard in
the shape of Rene, who runs his dagger through him. The crowd tries to
arrest the murderer, but the dying count waves them back and with his
last breath tells his unhappy friend, that his wife is innocent.
Drawing forth a document and handing it to Rene the unfortunate man
reads the count's order to send them to their native country. Richard
pardons his misguided friend and dies with a blessing on his beloved
Armida Bearskin


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Mood: bright
Now Playing: "Planet of the Aped" Mad scientist antagonizes crazy monkeys (brief anxieties)
Topic: Notable Opinions
From Case3:10-cv-04645-RS Document76 Filed11/14/11
Interwoven Claim Construction
page 9
Interwoven: Data, including information, photographs, illustrations, and articles, that appears in the computer application or on the web site, which is not form or functionality.
Vertical: Data, including information, photographs, illustrations, articles.
Interwoven: Structured format or appearance of the computer application or web site, which is not content or functionality.
Vertical: Formatting including graphic designs, user interfaces, graphical representations.
Interwoven: Software code that implements logical functionality within the computer application or web site, which is not form or content.
Vertical: Software code.
Again we see Interwoven attempting to use the concept "must" (absolute requirement) when any common sense reader will come to the conclusion Vertical says "may" (available option).
"Vertical's proposed construction contradicts the record, which prohibits any combination of content, form, and functionality"
Interwoven wants the reader to believe since Vertical is so fired up on keeping content, form and functionality separate the patent intended to preclude any operation that might combine content and form, content and functionality, form and functionality. It's quite easy to thumb through the patent language and see references to the combination of these data object types into compound objects of content/form, form/functionality, content/functionalty which are additionally kept separate as their own composite object qualities i.e. formatted content, content functionality as is practiced by traditional object use. Again relying on previous methods used in a novel patentable way does not preclude use of the previous methods as an available option in use of the method. This is the accepted current ruling per "negative limitations".
Interwoven is desperate to have the court see the case as "must" because Interwoven has been practicing the art of compositing object structure for automating content management (combining objects of content, form and functionality) just as Autonomy has been practicing the art of compositing applications (combining objects of content, form and functionality). We don't know in what manner they've been doing this sort of compositing but it's obvious they haven't presented anything showing they do not use the methods claimed by Vertical's patents.
Therefore, if the judge fails to see things Interwoven's way, there is a cascade effect in all of Interwoven/Autonomy's work that puts everything they've done for the past decade in jeopardy.
That is the impetus for the trick Interwoven is attempting to use to confuse the judge. It's really that simple. But apparently Niro went and stuck a broomstick in Interwoven's spokes so Interwoven is riding into the December 14 Markman hearing with an already damaged steering position.
Now we know Interwoven is going to have to argue the Markman with Vertical's "may" position in place. If the judge does not take up the motion earlier than the January 12 data proposed by Interwoven, Vertical's language will be the dominant position when the Markman hearing is held December 12. But, even if the judge takes the matter before that, the common sense approach and therefore not negatively limited is Vertical's treatment.
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The separation of content, form and functionality has been a key controversy throughout software industry history. On one hand, information theory teaches maintaining a separation of each of these quality/type data entities is a more elegant, efficient and productive way of working. On the other hand, human developers continually point to work experience showing the separation of these data entities is not possible.
The 744/629 patent teaches not only is the theory correct but the achievement of the theory is possible by making use of architecture and language designed primarily for the purpose of maintaining an arbitrary use throughout the workflow. As is typical in human work development, an advance seen and declared as impossible as a human employment becomes possible once a machine is designed to accomplish the purpose.
Interwoven is here basing their case on two ideas:
1) Vertical describes their patent as maintaining the separation of content, form and functionality, therefore, there can be no discussion of combined content, form and/or functionality anywhere in Vertical's consideration.
2) Vertical's patent enables separation of content, form and functionality, therefore, a user of Vertical's patent can not combine content, form or functionality.
Yes it's a flimsy position but it's really all Interwoven has. The prior art concepts were hashed out quite thoroughly as 744 was first granted in 2004 and the 629 continuance was granted in 2010 after a de-facto full review of 744.
So now we get into the concepts embodied in the terms Content, Form and Functionality.
page 12-13
2. Content
Interwoven provides a self contradicting claim:
"The patent specification consistently describes "content" as data appearing in a web site or computer application."
"In contrast, Vertical's proposed construction is improper, as it merely substitutes "data" for "content".
But Interwoven just said in their opening statement to "2. Content":
"The patent specification consistently describes "content" as data..."
Duhhhh. If Interwoven describes "content" as "data" then who are we (or they) to argue?
Next issue:
"The term "data", used in its ordinary sense without limitation, could have nonsensical meanings in the context of the '744 and '629 patents. It might even include the
machine-level 1's and 0's that define all information stored in a computer."
Content may be any data as that data (including the 1's and 0's representing the binary code in a computer) may need to be seen and considered by human and/or machine for information purposes. Are we to prevent a human from seeing binary code simply because it appears nonsensical to Interwoven to look at something like that?
This: 0101 * 0100 = 10100 is very informative to a student of computer information. 0001 + 0001 = 0010 informs someone skilled in even the most basic computing art. These are data represented to the human (you) as "content". These are therefore "content" in this container which happens to be called a document (swhich started life in a notepad container and ends up in a web post container).
Are we to then strike the consideration of thousands of lines of information already in textbooks presenting such "nonsensical meanings" as content? Interwoven would have it that way.
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Interwoven continues: "This sense of the generic word "data" defies the teachings of the patent specification, because the purported point of the claimed invention is to "separate" content so that writers, photographers, and editors can access it independently without having to deal with computer-level data. '744 patent col.1 l.21-22, col.2 l.22-23."
But I just showed what "computer-level data" can just as easily be considered by "writers, photographers, and editors".
Interwoven continues:
"Plainly, "data" alone may also refer to "a new look" or "functionality" based on the specification, both of which are independent from content."
The art of demonstrating correctness lies in being able to use your opponents paradigm to explain your own argument. Thus:
"data" in a computer comes in binary form. We humans "abstract" data into data types just as we abstract data into data entities also called data objects. The purpose of human use of machines as a quality multiplier dictates that the human understanding supercedes the more base and non-abstracted machine terminology.
At first glance, as all information can be considered "data" by the machine, Interwoven's adoption of the human programmer paradigm would appear to be correct by saying "everything is data so there is no separation possible".
But the machine is not in control of the language. The human is. And the human chooses to qualify and therefore categorize the raw treatment of data into three particular useful sets to reach a realistic (not dumbed down) language construct:
1) data as data: information as contained and available for consumption from its most raw state to its most transformed processed result.
2) data as data about data: information qualifying the contained information from its most basic containment as raw content to it's most refined presentation as formatted content.
3) data that transforms data and/or data about data and/or data that transforms etcetera (see the code can achieve?): information instructing the machine (and the human capable of reading the machine instructions) to perform tasks intended to transform the data and/or data about data AND/OR data that transforms data, data about data and data that transforms.
Words work because they express being, perception and action and any abstraction must first result from those three qualities.
We can abstract the above 1,2,3 discussion to the following terms to stand in for the above:
from: http://www.etymonline.com/
1) data (from Latin L. datum meaning "(thing) given") = It is what it is.
2) metadata (from Greek meta (preposition) "in the midst of, in common with, by means of, in pursuit or quest of,") = It can be what we want it do be.
3) code (Latin codex, earlier caudex "book, book of laws," lit. "tree trunk,") = It will be what we make it do be.
These three abstractions are closer to machine descriptions than human. So we continue to abstract the terms upward to human understanding as follows:
1) content (Latin contentus "contained, satisfied,") It is.
2) form (Latin forma "form, contour, figure, shape; appearance, looks' model, pattern, design; sort, kind condition,") It appears.
3) functionality (Latin functionem (nom. functio) "performance, execution," noun of action from functus, pp. of fungi "perform, execute, discharge,") It does.
PS You might want to print all this out to stick on your refrigerator so you can be reminded lawyers only play with words. Real people make them live.
Little Ol' Insufferable Me
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Discussion about data beyond those three sets is so far pointless as no-one has shown a viable state beyond those three.
Who knows - if we continue to kick this particular dead horse long enough it may rise up as a fourth state of data. That happened with the possible states of matter - why not abstract thought?
Now that we have two sets of experiments saying objects can travel faster than light (albeit only a few kilometers per hour but who's quibbling with the speed limit, right?) we humans may be shown a state of data previously unconsidered.
Perhaps it will be our machines who will teach us this new state. But until then data comes in three forms (there. I said it.): content, form and functionality.
Interwoven is going to have a terrible time attempting to restrict the idea of data as being only one thing everywhere. But that thinking is central to the traditional programmer's declaration throughout software history that separation of content, form and functionality is not possible no matter how advantageous information theory says it would be... and that's where Interwoven wants the court to camp.
Fortunately the USPTO is tasked to analyze invention and innovation and therefore sees things beyond a human limitation as considerations and tasks achieved by machine.
Onward and upward:
page 13-14
3. Form
"Vertical contends incorrectly that Interwoven is importing specific examples from the specification. VOB, at 13. Though the Federal Circuit warns against wholesale importation of "very specific embodiments", it also approves of interpreting limitations to the extent they match definitions that persons of ordinary skill in the art might assign to the claims."
Since we see a lack of such in Interwoven and/or their representation, we need to consider what Interwoven means by "skill".
As I showed earlier the "skill" embodied in the typical software architects and software developers throughout software industry history up to the publication of the 744 patent application has taught them that separation of content, form and functionality is a desirable theoretical position but can not be achieved in human hands.
So Interwoven would have us believe that, although Interwoven agrees Vertical has achieved separation of content, form and functionality and insists it must be used everywhere, architect and programmer ignorance of such a capability over history equates to "skill" used by Interwoven to lampoon Vertical's brief.
"Further, Interwoven's proposed construction is not limited to one specific example in the specification; confirming citations are replete throughout."
Explaining something in a dumbed down way over and over, as Interwoven does, does not make it smart.
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page 14-15
4. Functionality
"Vertical's proposed construction substituting "software code" for "functionality" is inconsistent with the prosecution history and is overly broad. For example, in order to overcome a cited reference, Vertical stressed that "Ferrel merely describes a system
that achieves only one 'function,' if at all specifically, to present (publish or print) the structured content using the forms. There is no other function described in Ferrel, and the forms and structured content are integrated to only serve this one purpose.""
A "function" is a single operational capability. "Functionality" is a set of functions and Interwoven knows that as evidenced by their attempt to play fast and loose with the words they just quoted:
"If "function" truly meant something as broad as "software code," there would necessarily have been more to Ferrel than this purpose of presenting structured content using the forms." page 14 line 24 and page 15 lines 1 and 2
So did the passage Interwoven cites say "function = software code"? Noooooo. Vertical was pointing out a single "function" does NOT equate to functionality and therefore does not qualify as "software code"... and that's precisely what Interwoven "accidentally" said at line 24.
It's this kind of quick handed playing with what's said that plagues Interwoven's brief. I would suggest a team of lawyers who thinks sneaking under a "good faith negotiation" to file first indicates a team of lawyers who will try every trick they can to get their way.
Interwoven concludes the paragraph on page 15 by saying: ""the logical functionality of software code" is a subset of functionality."
I don't see that in that phrase, do you? What I do see is "functionality of software code" meaning functionality is a subset of software code. If you read it the way Interwoven wants you to see it as you have to conclude: "functionality (primary subject of the phrase) is a subset of functionality"???? Duhhh....
"Moreover, the entire patent is about "software." Arbitrary objects and the object library all comprise software code."
While an arbitrary object (the thing) may be "software" and the object library (the structure) may be "software, neither of them are "code" meaning the thing does nothing by itself and the structure does nothing by itself. The "software code" works on all other "software". "WORKS" being the operative quality of "code".
Again Interwoven wants the dumbed down "skill" of traditional programming to take precedence declaring data is nothing but data. I agree everything is data but as I've shown language must qualify and quantify and not fall at the feet of those too unskilled to parse and debate.
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"Arbitrary objects and the object library all comprise software code."
"software" is a nebulous term describing "data". The issue here is not data nor is it about data about data. It is about data that transforms both data and data about data. It is about data used in a way traditional users have seen for decades but failed to recognize in the novel way the 744/629 patents have: data as code in its own right as an object. Yes it's been used that way - just as steam was used by Heron to make a toy spin around. But the inventiveness of others superceded the millenia of ignorance to build steam engines. Many have used the wheel. But only a few first understood the wheel as more than a means of conveyence and presented the wheel as a way to power conveyence.
All data is "soft" "ware". We've already seen language about computing is abstracted from most rudimentary considerations (as would be seen by a machine should that machine be able to "think") to more useful language for human discussion and specification.
Saying something like "all data is software" and therefore "all software is code" compounds Interwoven's painfully obvious effort to cloud the court's understanding and play word games with a judicial consideration of the issues.
"Vertical's proposed construction of "functionality" as merely "software code" prevents the separation of "content" and "form" from "functionality.""
Interwoven obviously doesn't understand the difference between "being" and "doing". Two entirely different states. Content and form "be". Functionality "does".
Content sits and just is. Content in raw form may or may not be available to the human or to the machine in an understandable manner but that doesn't change the fact that data as content exists.
Form is a description of content. Form is information that may be used (by code) to transform the raw content into a way understood by human and/or machine. Without function acting on the form the content does not get presented in the desired way.
Functionality is the act of "doing. Functionality uses information provided by form to transform available content.
Content is a state of being. Form is a state of representing. Functionality is a state of doing.
Pretending to not know such distinctions does not reflect well upon a team of lawyers who are supposed to know the difference between "fact", "appearance" and "argument".
Oh boy we're about to go into the mental gymnastics of "B. Arbitrary Object Framework". Working up a good sweat here. I can hardly wait.
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THE FOLLOWING ADDED TO THIS POST November 22, 2011:
"B. Arbitrary Object Framework"
"This term is indefinite. To the extent that this term may be given any meaning, Interwoven proposes the following construction: A hierarchical structure of arbitrary objects, within which the arbitrary objects of various object types are created by the user based on individual preference, managed in an object library, and deployed into a design framework to generate a computer application or deployed into a container page to create a web site."
"A hierarchical system that can separate content, form and functionality to generate a product, and facilitates creation of arbitrary objects, management of arbitrary objects, and deployment of arbitrary objects."
page 16
Interwoven says: "The first problem with construction is one of functional definition; the patents contain multiple instances of the term "arbitrary object framework", yet never explain what it is or how it serves the purposes or functions described. For example, it supposedly "allows arbitrary objects to be referenced in a consistent manner""
I think Interwoven is forcing itself to appear rational here because the patent plainly states the arbitrary quality of the object is held by the fact the programmer need only know the name of the arbitrary object. The traditional world of software objects knows quite well invocation of an object requires enumerated parameters and the sequence of parameter invocation be known in order to successfully use the objects.
When you can access and employ software objects by only knowing the object name... when the system itself relieves you from having to know the number, type and/or sequence of parameters to be supplied by the invoking software statements... just how much more consistently can objects be referenced?
So ONE operational requirement declared by the patent is all that is needed to demonstrate the novel productive quality of the arbitrary object. How many different ways does one need to say knowing "only the name of the object is required"?
Interwoven says: "These statements describe tasks the "arbitrary object framework" can do but not how it can accomplish them. They fail to provide requisite notice of claim boundaries. But the law requires claims to "delineate the scope of the invention using language that adequately notifies the public of the patentee's right to exclude.""
BUT "Interwoven does not submit that a claim term must be defined in non-functional terms." "Vertical's proposed construction only exacerbates the vagueness of this term by merely echoing other limitations."
Apparently the Interwoven lawyers know nothing about using software objects to build applications. AND Interwoven continues to couch Vertical's terms of usefulness as "limitations" which we've covered earlier sections with Vertical pointing out these are negative limitation assertions which are disallowed.
Vertical describes operational treatment to traditional objects to render them as arbitrary objects which is what Interwoven says is a permitted way to describe and make plain claims. But at the same time Interwoven wants to portray Vertical's language as limiting... again attempting to pass along to the court as unseen negative limitation.
The plain and simple operation of arbitrary objects makes elaborate explanation unnecessary beyond descibing the simplified operation.
Manual sweeping: "Broom must be applied against unclean portion of floor forcing dust and dirt into manageable and disposable collections by use of user's arms and body positions and actions.
Arbitrary sweeping: "Broom applies itself against unclean portion of floor forcing dust and dirt into manageable and disposable collections."
Is anyone here too stupid to recognize the advantage and operation? Don't understand how it's done? Look at the diagrams and read the supporting information. These are CLAIMS and simple claims are self describing.
As additional support, VCSY has operational examples of their arbitrary object framework claims which can plainly demonstrate how the operational qualities can be achieved. Interwoven fails to acknowledge those examples because considering the examples demonstrate the arbitrary qualities are NOT limiting but are enhancing.
"Interwoven does not submit that a claim term must be defined in non-functional terms." but that's precisely the thrust of their complaint which they redundantly supply.
Interwoven says: "A second problem of construction is definiteness, which depends on whether claim terms can be given a reasonable meaning by a person of ordinary skill in the art. See Datamize, 417 F.3d at 1347. No reasonable meaning can be given to the term "arbitrary object framework" because of the lack of common definition in the art and the inventor's failure to fulfill his duties as lexicographer.10"
Vertical says the "arbitrary" term could just as well have been "intelligent". The term itself is a semantic tag to convey the automation qualities of the system in relieving the programmer from the traditional manual expertise required in using traditional objects. There need be no more definition than that to describe such an elegant and simplified requirement.
This is tiresome. Methinks they doth protest too much.
Interwoven attempts to couch "separates content, form, and function" is a support of the arbitrary claim but that is incorrect. The ability to separate content, form, and function is an additional claim which provides something traditional manual programming has failed to accomplish since software objects were invented.
Interwoven says: "But just as one would not expect to find fur coats at a "rain coat sale", one should not expect to find anything but arbitrary objects in an "arbitrary object framework."
That might be true in an old world (and purposely disingenuous) scenario perhaps. But were a fur coat to be treated to make it rain proof it would be perfectly at home in a rain coat sale. This is befitting a novel treatment and the added value that treatment gives.
But does that preclude wearing the same fur coat to a posh soirée? Of course not! The idea of a novel treatment is that treatment enhances the use of the original objects while maintaining the traditional object qualities as well. We call this "backward compatibility" and it is the hallmark of proper software use design... but Interwoven refuses to acknowledge how it should be provided by VCSY's patented system. Thus Interwoven is clearly applying negative limitations in their attempt to deny VCSY claims as valid.
page 19
"C. that separates a content of said computer application, a form of said computer application and a functionality of said computer application"
"In which the content, form, and functionality of said computer application are kept apart and distinct from each other, so that each may be accessed or modified independently.
Prosecution history disavowal: Content, form, and functionality of said computer application or web site are kept apart and distinct from each other."
"The ability to independently modify Content, Form and Function Objects."
Interwoven's contention here: "The preamble term "that separates a content of said computer application" is a limitation to the claim rather than merely a statement of its purpose." is a further continuation of Interwoven's disingenuous feigned ignorance of the importance of the ability to handle objects without being forced to know and handle the required object parameters and their further requirements.
Interwoven's various references to USPTO examiner prosecution throughout their brief is a weak tactic attempting to re-argue the same ground the examiner covered both in the first prosecution toward the 744 grant and a subsequent re-examination leading to the grant of the 629 continuance. Interwoven attempts to suggest the examiner must have forgotten the material of his objections which were successfully argued by Vertical. I wonder if the judge will be so easily fooled.
Interwoven: "The Federal Circuit found that an applicant under these circumstances cannot avoid the limiting effect of the very language that the applicant relied on to obtain issuance of its patent."
Interwoven continues to attempt to apply negative limitations. When an argument during prosecution in favor of a further enhancement beyond the described prior art limitations raised by the examiner achieves a successful argument by the patentee such language is no longer a description of patent claim limitations but is an underscored description of traditional limitations.
"Interwoven's proposed construction is in line with the intrinsic record, which requires the separation of content, form, and functionality."
The "arbitrary" quality applied to the objects by the system does not REQUIRE the separation of content, form, and functionality. The arbitrary quality applied to objects allows a further enhancement applied to objects by providing for the quality of separation of content, form, and functionality.
Nuff said.
Interwoven: "Discrete entity accessed by its corresponding arbitrary name, created by the user based on individual preference, used to generate the form, the functionality, and the content of said computer application or web site, that are interchangeable and referenced in a consistent manner within the arbitrary object framework."
Vertical: "An object that can be created independently by individual preference and that can be optionally accessed solely by name, the object being an entity that can have form, content or functionality or any combination of form, content and functionality"
Interwoven: "Vertical's construction (i) fails to recognize that "arbitrary objects" must be discrete and interchangeable in the context of the "present invention" and (ii) attempts to recapture the idea of an "object" being "any combination of form, content, and functionality," which Vertical repeatedly disclaimed during prosecution."
Again more disingenuous obfuscation of positive enhancement by the claims which Interwoven is attempting to turn into negative limitation.
Interwoven's case gets weaker by the word.
page 22 "1. The Intrinsic Record Requires Arbitrary Objects to Be Interchangeable
and Be Referenced in a Consistent Manner"
I'm going to skip for now sections 1, 2, and 3 on pages 22, 24, and 25 to allow all the previous study to sink in. Interwoven is using a veiled twist to the actual intent of the VCSY patent language to attempt to say VCSY has been inconsistent in describing what the arbitrary framework does and MUST do rather than Vertical's intended MAY meaning. This is the reason for the conflict suggested in Interwoven's motion to strike a large portion of Verticals claim definition and brief.
Interwoven apparently fails to realize their subsequent writings end up nulling their contentions, so I'm going to move on to the discussion on Object amd Design terms in the next post then come back to "1. The Intrinsic Record Requires Arbitrary Objects to Be Interchangeable and Be Referenced in a Consistent Manner", "2. The Claimed Invention Defines Arbitrary Objects as Discrete Entities", and "3. Arbitrary Objects Need to Be Accessed by Their Corresponding Arbitrary Names" just before Vertical files their response November 27.
Why am I writing all this? In order to educate VCSY longs who don't have the time, energy or experience to look at complex issues in this patent language so they can do proper DD and inform themselves using publicly available documents from the web... because I'm just a free wheeling modern kind of guy.
(A "framework" is a metaphor to describe work around a software construct derived from the practice of building scaffolding around a building upon which workers stand and move in order to perform the work necessary to build or renovate a building (whether that building exists at the time of the scaffolding built or not). Naturally the first and primary elements in the use of that scaffolding will be those concentrated in the implementation of a design of the building. Such a framework is thus a design framework first then a construction framework and thereafter an inspection framework.)
(Interwoven's attempt to confine the concept of "Design Framework" in the patent language to only such activities limited to the deployment of "arbitrary objects" is typical of the myopic attitudes tempting those faced with a disruption of their traditional work paradigms. Such attitudes can be traced to the attempt to restrict entry into specialized skills such as bricklayers and [comparatively] programmers who contrive guilds and attempt to restrict access to the frameworks necessary around any work to only those workers belonging to their guild. The idea of masons being a highly regarded profession essential to the building trades withered in time due to the advances of materials and methods applied to the existing prior state art. Programmers face the same assault by advancement typical of the teachings of 744/629. Denying those teachings does not make a mason irreplaceable. Denying only shows how out of touch such a mason has become from the art skills supposedly learned and practiced.)
(Today the guild of masons is a rarely seen but still existing closet of men who cleave to ancient ideas and mumbled incantations - secrets which deny the expansion of knowledge and work to those not educated in the clique. The fact masons were once necessary to building great cathedrals a long time ago does not enforce itself onto the mind of modern builders. They remain an artifact of a time before invention made their specialized knowledge and skilled tasks unnecessary. I do not desire to insult masons. I desire to insult programmers who covet codifying the manual nature of software construction and attempt to delay or deny the advancement of techniques that may be used by anyone in a subject matter discipline other than programming.)
(The use of hidden languages and secret signs such as Interwoven attempts to promote in this brief demonstrates the mindset that prevented "persons skilled" in the software arts in the 1990's from seeing the potential and desired impact of the advances embodied in 744/629 at the time of development of these patented claims.)
(The 744/629 patent advancements teach an extension of programming capabilities to people not necessarily educated in the ways of programming. It also opens the way for machines to employ the advancements toward autonomous handling and building of software applications. This does not preclude its use by manual programmers any more than the invention of the motorcycle prevented those who wish to pedal from dropping the engine off and replacing it with pedals.)
"H. Container Page"
Interwoven: "A web page that can logically contain arbitrary objects, into which arbitrary objects are deployed from the object library."
Vertical: "A web page that includes object(s).
Interwoven: "For this final term, the primary dispute is again the same as the previous three, and the reasoning is similar. Interwoven's proposed construction finds ample textual support. Everywhere the term "container page" appears in the patent, it is encumbered with the same qualifiers that Interwoven has placed in its proposed construction: "arbitrary object" and "deploying arbitrary objects from said object library." See id. at col.4 l.15-20, 55-56, claims 26, 43, 52 (with dependent claims 43 and 52 deriving from the wording of claim 26). Vertical's attempt to expand the scope of this term suffers from the same faults as its other misguided attempts: it fails to capture limitations that are recorded throughout the patent specification and claims, and further fails to bring clarity to the term."
(The most bare and obvious of Interwoven's attempt to apply negative limitation to the patent terms. While the intent appears to saturate the court with the view that "arbitrary" aka "advanced" prevents this patent from being used in conjunction with any existing "non-advanced" entities, I think this last attempt is nothing more than a dull pop coming from the last bullet drawn a soaked ammunition pouch. If Interwoven had been able to argue the patents do not provide an advancement of the state of the software arts, I would have been stymied from seeing the negative limitation attempt... more appropriately, the attempt would not have been necessary in the first place. But since, the final declaration relies on seeing the patent language as a limitation rather than an advancement, I have to conclude Interwoven saw the Microsoft brief's attempts to paint the term "arbitrary" as a term too broad to apply to software objects as unsuccessful - thus they had to go to the other extreme and paint the term "arbitrary" as a term too limiting.)
(Preliminary Conclusion: The weakness of their argument shows up in the conclusion on page 28. Had they a real argument to press, this is where the whole of their argument should be enveloped and presented in a parcel. But this is more a bag of flaming poop than a debate. Interwoven is ringing the doorbell of a court that will have disdain and ridicule for such a contrived assault. I have to conclude Interwoven intended this case to be decided by dullards and nincompoops. The attempt at manipulating the language is so obvious here I would say the lawyers who prepared this case are young and of the sort of talent level employed to post on financial message boards. They certainly do not see [or are paid to not see - a hireling must do the client's bidding] the advances embodied in automating the process of building and handling objects. Microsoft's brief was actually more substantial, although it suffered from the same delusion that a court can be impressed by language skills in lieu of language meaning. This brief is pathetic.)
So now we go back to the three areas I held back to drive the final nail. I will also continue on the discussion of prior art presented in pages 5-7. We are waiting now for Vertical's response to this document to be filed November 27.


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Present Scenario of Politics in Andhra Pradesh
The Political Situation of Andhra Pradesh is going, day by day very interesting. Here the major parties are Telugu Desam Party which is ruling the government & opposition YSR Congress party & Janasena Party. These 3 parties have a major battle in 2019 elections.
AP Politics - Telugu Desam Party has won 104 seats out of 175 assembly seats and formed the government with the support of TDP- BJP alliance & Telugu actor, politician Pawan Kalyan. The TDP government has not fulfilled the promises of 2014 elections like special status and development of the capital city Amaravathi etc. After 4 years of government rule, the cm of Andhra Pradesh has denied the support for NDA for not fulfilling the promise special status. of state So, the central government is also keen to dethrone the government in the 2019 elections. So, it will be a very tough task for TDP to win again in the 2019 elections.
Coming to the scenario of opposition party YSR Congress, it was defeated with the little difference of 2.06 % votes in 2014 elections. It has gained its strength due to disaccord of the present government. There are several allegations on the president of YSR Congress & some internal party issues are threatening the president YS Jagan. Currently through his Campaigns "Sankalp yatra" where he targets the ruling government for not fulfilling the promises has gained some political mileage to his party.
Coming to the scenario of Janasena party leads by Pawan Kalyan who supported TDP in 2014 elections with NDA. He will participate in direct elections of 2019. Currently, he is going with the "Janasena porata yatra", also targeting the ruling government for not satisfying the promises. Because of some humanitarian works like uddanam kidney ailment etc, a huge fan following & simplicity and also from one major caste in the region, he has gained strength for his party.
According to our analysis, there will be neck- neck fight between those parties, although, the major fight between TDP & YSR Congress. The Janasena Party would steal some percentage of votes of TDP & YSR Congress, due to this situation; there will be a chance of hung government will in 2019 elections. It's almost 7 months for elections; hope how political moves will take place to form a government.
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A Senior House Master of the Salaga Senior High School (SHS) in the East Gonja District of Northern Region has shot and injured one of two students who was said to be smoking wee on campus.
The students, MyNewsGh.com gathered, were suspended for engaging in a similar act but found their way onto the campus of the school during entertainment session over the weekend and were seen smoking the substance in the full glare of the colleagues with impunity.
Mr. Asuma Sulley's attention was immediately drawn to the presence of the two truant students by members of the school's cadet corps because they were per their suspension not allowed to come close to the school.
The trigger-happy teacher armed himself with a single barrel gun and headed in the direction of the culprits. The two students on seeing him fled, but he fired at them at close range, injuring 19-year-old Mohammed Abdul- Rauf on both legs.
The other, it was established, managed to escape from harm but his colleague who sustained the gunshot wound was immediately rushed to the Salaga district hospital where he was treated and discharged.
Northern Regional Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Yusif Mohammed Tanko who confirmed the incident said efforts are underway to get the alleged teacher apprehended to assist in investigations.
Meanwhile, MyNewsGh.com has gathered that teacher in question has fled the campus and till date his whereabouts unknown.
Source: mynewsgh.com


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Market Development Manager – Saskatchewan (R-5732)
Imagine what you can do at Land O'Lakes. Our growth relies on extraordinary talent and boundless thinkers who are always looking for a better way and believe anything is possible. Like you, innovation and technology drive us.At Land O'Lakes, you will also be part of a community with creative doers and dreamers, who want to make a difference. We work together combining our global perspective and direct access to the source to create practical, new solutions to meet agriculture's toughest challenges.Join the team at any Land O'Lakes location or with one of our retail-owners and you'll sense the optimism, honesty and innovation that goes into everything we do. Together, we strive to feed human progress.Job Description: The Market Development Manager is the key contact point of retail sales agronomists to help create demand for WinField United Brands, and partner supplier strategic growth initiatives, throughout Saskatchewan. This position will also be responsible for the training, sales support, and product performance with retail sales agronomists and farmers. It is anticipated that this role will spend 80% of their time in customer-facing activities, and 20% of time supporting Answer Plot and Total Acre trials. The individual will be expected to demonstrate and effectively use all associated customer-facing tools, including the WinField United Answer Tech digital agronomy tools.?Key Responsibilities:Strategy ExecutionWith input from sales and marketing team, this role has responsibility for demand creation and sales of WinField United proprietary brands (CROPLAN Seed, Executive and Performance Brand CPP products), and partner supplier strategic growth initiatives.Responsible for the effective utilization of WinField United resources designed to support and grow the business, such as: Answer Tech digital agronomy tools, Answer Plot, and Total Acre.Customer RelationsPartner with WinField United Account Manager and customers to develop customized business plans.Act as the focal point for customer relationships with the retail sales agronomists.Be able to fully demonstrate, communicate and leverage all the technical and exclusive aspects of WinField United proprietary brands.Sales GenerationResponsible for achieving key performance indicators, including sales and growth targets.Partner with the Account Manager to grow the proprietary brands and other strategic products through a defined plan and consistent communication with assigned accounts.Partner with WinField United Agronomist to support retail sales agronomists by leading product information meetings, Answer Tech Clinics, Agronomy Clinics, Answer Plot days, and assisting sales agronomists with farm calls.Effectively demonstrate how to use the WinField United Answer Tech digital agronomy toolsProduct PromotionSupport the WinField United Agronomist or Field Trial Manager in planning, planting, spraying, harvesting, and hosting events at Answer Plot locations.Support retail sales agronomists to set up, monitor, harvest, gather production information and promote CROPLAN Total Acre field trials.Bachelor's degree in Agriculture with a minimum of 5 years of agronomic or sales experience with direct customer contact. Individuals with a 2-year diploma in agriculture and extensive industry experience will be considered.Experience in selling seed and utilizing ag technology decision tools will be considered strong assets for this role.Proven ability to interact well with customers, suppliers, employees and management of all levels.Ability to create and present interesting, informative and educational product presentations.Ability to effectively work individual in a remote environment, while also maintaining a collaborative virtual team??Apply HerePI107227106??Apply for this job.


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Neymar no more? Star could be set to leave PSG
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He joined for a world-record fee of €222 million in 2017, but Paris Saint-Germain's Brazilian star Neymar could be set to leave the club this summer after missing training, amid rumours of an imminent return to Barcelona.
After watching from the stands as Brazil beat Peru in the Copa America final at Rio de Janeiro's Maracana stadium on Sunday, an injured Neymar failed to report for duty with the French champions the next day, prompting the club to issues a terse statement.
"Paris Saint-Germain notes that Neymar Jr was not in attendance at the agreed time and place. This was without the club's prior authorisation," the statement said.
"The club regrets this situation and will therefore take appropriate action."
Hours later, PSG sporting director Leonardo was quoted as telling a French newspaper the star could leave the club, for the right price.
"Neymar can leave PSG, if there is an offer which suits everyone," he told Le Parisien. "But up to now, we do not know if anyone wants to buy him, or at what price. It will not be done in a day, that's for sure."
Signed under much fanfare, Neymar's time at PSG has been marred by injury and off-the-pitch controversy.
He was questioned by Brazilian police last month over rape allegations, which the player denies.
Neymar is also banned for three matches of next season's Champions League for insulting a referee on Instagram after PSG were knocked out of last season's competition by Manchester United.
On the pitch, success has been mixed. The club won back-to-back league titles since Neymar joined, but the success in Europe PSG's Qatari owners badly crave has continued to prove elusive.
Meanwhile, reports in Spain suggest a deal between Neymar and Barcelona that would see the player return to club he left to join PSG has already been agreed.
Spanish sports newspaper Diario Sport said Neymar was set to sign a five-year contract to return to the Camp Nou, where he won the Champions League and two La Liga titles in a four-year spell.


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Attorney General Janet Reno has promised a thorough investigation of violence by abortion opponents, women's rights groups said on Friday.
A Justice Department official said she later told some abortion foes, at a separate meeting, that their right to protest publicly would not be jeopardized.
But Ms. Reno refused to meet with other abortion opponents who have violated court orders or are involved in legal matters in which the Government is an adversary, said Carl Stern, the Justice Department's spokesman.
Abortion rights groups told reporters after meeting with Ms. Reno that they were reassured. "It's a step in the right direction," said Pamela Maraldo of Planned Parenthood. "We're going to monitor the situation very closely." Home Telephone Number
Ms. Maraldo said Ms. Reno "was visibly upset" when participants in the first meeting described attacks on abortion clinics and doctors. As a sign of good faith, Ms. Maraldo said, the Attorney General gave the groups her home telephone number and told them they could call her there.
Mr. Stern said Ms. Reno told the participants that operators of abortion clinics could take complaints of violence to the department's criminal division here or local United States attorneys or field offices of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Meanwhile, some abortion opponents expressed anger after they were told on Friday morning they would not be allowed to meet with Ms. Reno as planned. The Rev. Patrick Mahoney of the anti-abortion group Operation Rescue told reporters outside the Justice Department: "We have to believe clearly that we are being discriminated against. She's refusing to meet with us. We are nonviolent. We have committed to that on a personal level."
Father Mahoney said he was told by Mr. Stern that Ms. Reno declined to meet with members of anti-abortion groups that had violated court orders barring them from blocking clinic access. Father Mahoney compared that to a refusal to meet with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. or other civil rights demonstrators who had been arrested in peaceful protests in the 1960's.
Ms. Maraldo said the abortion rights groups protested Ms. Reno's proposed meeting with representatives of Operation Rescue because it would amount to legitimizing violence.
"It's like saying, 'I'll see the N.A.A.C.P. in the morning and the Ku Klux Klan in the afternoon,' " Ms. Maraldo said.


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Mother Earth News – which has thrived, whithered and nearly become extinct only to cling to life – is about to be sold for the fourth time, for about $5 million, The Post has learned.
The current ower, John "Jo" Colman, chairman of Sussex Publishing, is in the final phase of negotiations to sell the publication to the Ogden Newspaper Group, according to a source familiar with the talks.
A deal could be announced as early as today.
Ogden owns small daily papers in upstate New York and Ohio and publishes magazines Grit and Cappers.
Colman, whose family once controlled the Colman mustard empire in Britain, has made a career of taking over distressed titles and trying to resuscitate them.
After the sale, Sussex will be down to a single title, Psychology Today. His turnaround efforts have had mixed results.
Neither Colman nor officials at the Ogden Newspaper Group could be reached.


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For incoming first years. Get to know your program, and the people in it. Academic Orientation Day includes a networking session and presentations from Dr. Lisa Mills, Arthur Kroeger College's administrative staff, and the AKCESS executive. Students will also have the opportunity to participate in a fun, interactive scavenger hunt around campus.
Loeb (LA) C164
- 8:30-9:15 am| T-Shirt Distribution & Check-In
- 9:15-9:30 am | Break
- 9:30-10:15 am | Introduction to the Bachelor of Public Affairs and Policy Management (Dr. Lisa Mills)
- 10:15-10:30 am | Break
- 10:30-10:45 am | AKCESS Introduction (Sancho Angulo)
- 10:45 am-12:00 pm | AKCESS Scavenger Hunt
Got questions?
Contact Andrea Laporte or Holly Klein-Swormink at Arthur Kroeger College.


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Facebook is making rapid progress on its cryptocurrency project codenamed Libra. According to the new revelations, the social media giant is in talks with many companies including big financial investment firms and payment gateways for establishing a complete ecosystem for its upcoming digital coin. The cryptocurrency of Facebook will be a Stablecoin. Its value will be pegged at 1:1 in order to provide stability to its digital currency. This means that the most critical concern about volatility will not be there. The large network of Facebook that is around 2-billion user strong is going to be a primary driver of revenue for the company. Facebook's users will be able to use Stablecoin for a number of different purposes including shopping, payments, and transfers, etc.
Wide Adoption
Not all the Facebook, but the whole ecosystem of businesses owned by the company such as Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, etc., will be benefited by the invention of this new Stablecoin. It will help Instagram to position itself as a credible player on online shopping as this picture-sharing platform has already unveiled its in-app purchase feature. Experts believe that Facebook is going to create a sort of instant Digital Mall that is ultimately going to compete with large online retailers as it evolves with the passage of time. The advantage of shopping platform by Facebook is the fact that it's going to make the shopping experience seamless in nature as there will be no additional layer of intermediary that is conventionally present in other online shopping platforms. What's more, users will be having no need of paying extra money to merchants or banks which conventionally facilitate transactions and charges fee from the concerned stakeholders. The extraordinary feature of Facebook's Stablecoin will be its application outside the ecosystem of the company wherein customers can use this digital currency to purchase things online using the different payment gateways and choosing the Stablecoin as an option to make payment.
Advertisement Architecture
In addition to providing convenience to its users, Facebook is also considering various options about how it is going to integrate its Stablecoin to promote its advertisement architecture. While users will be buying products/services advertised on the Facebook platform using the Stablecoin, advertisers can also use Facebook's digital currency to buy more advertising space on the company's platform. Facebook might also use the loyalty program, a very popular format in various retail and online mediums, wherein the company will be rewarding its users for watching the advertisement or engaging with advertisers for specific promotional or advertising campaign. This will help drive the revenue of Facebook from both users and client perspective.
Bitcoin vs Facebook's Stablecoin
As far as rivalry with Bitcoin is concerned, Facebook's Stablecoin is an altogether different proposition. While the value of Bitcoin changes according to the market forces, there won't be any such case with Stablecoin from Facebook as its value will be fixed. This stability is going to be the most positive part of the Facebook currency and expected to change the industry dynamics when it finally launches in the market. Facebook is betting big on this new project as the company has been marred by a number of concerns related to users' privacy and data security. Now how it handles such issues in its Libra project remains to be seen in the future.


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Mil - Smålands Karoliner
This article was published Jul 01, 2019.
My hunt for measures finally paid of. I got in contact with Smalands Caroleans or "Smålands Karoliner" as they are called in swedish. They are an association who shows how swedish soldiers and army looked like during the time of king Charles the XII (1682-1718) and also long after that. The association has six 3-pdr cannons, ammunition wagon, a forging carriage, a portable mill wagon and a drum wagon. They are all replicas but made by hand from the original drawings from 1716. They of course also has there own website you can visit. There president Kaj Nordquist was very kind to show us around and tell a lot about there association, how the equipment was used back then (and today) and the place there it all is stored, at a military installation in an old barn the army once had there horses in. My wife was an excellent secretary with the notebook, while I strolled around with the ruler and camera, measuring and photographing all there cannons and wagons as below.


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What size tank is most popular for Residential Use?
By PCT12:00am, Nov 1st, 2017
The most popular size tanks are 107,000 litres and 120,000 litres for areas with no town water. For a household with 4-5 occupants it should last around 4 months without rainfall based on the usage of 1000 litres of water per day. Some councils may have minimum sizes so you may want to check with your government authority.


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Finally a classroom set to teach the basic of electronics and fashion! Enter the world of e-textiles and wearables with the Fabtronic Sew Bundle featuring custom reusable parts that allow you to make and remake as many times as you want! Designed for 25 students working alone, or 50 students in pairs. Fabric included but additional fabric and scraps recommended.
Recommended grades: 5-9
- Number of Students: 25
- Hours of Curriculum: 16
- Curriculum for up to 8 activities ranging from 1-2 hours.
- Tackle storage box
- Instructor guide with vocabulary guide
- Collaboration and discussion tips
- Lesson extensions for differentiation
- Adaptable for classroom/makerspace instruction or self-directed learning
Each set includes:
- 51 Teknikio RGB sewable LEDs
- 26 Teknikio Star blue sewable LEDs
- 51 Teknikio batteryboard
- 60 batteries
- 1 large spool conductive thread
- 8 spools of regular thread and sewing kit
- 25 swatches felt
- conductive fabric tape
- needles
- 100 snaps
Note: to get the maximum lessons out of this kit parts must be reused.