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The exceptions to patent eligibility under 35 USC 101 always fell into three distinct categories: laws of nature, abstract ideas, and natural phenomena. In deciding a case about whether claims of farm animals may be patented, according to some commentators, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit may have created a fourth judicial exception to patent eligibility. Ruling against the inventors of Dolly the sheep, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit held that since the claimed clone had the same genetic information as its parent or donor, it is an exact genetic replica of another sheep, and because the parent exists in nature, the cloned copy is also a product of nature and is therefore unpatentable. Essentially, the court seems to be stating that if the end product is a copy of something that exists in nature, it is not patentable, regardless of the human ingenuity involved.
The story began in 1996, when Dolly the Sheep, the first mammal to be cloned from an adult cell, generated international headlines and intense ethical debates. Dolly was euthanized six years later due to complications of a progressive lung disease. The Roslin Institute applied for and received a patent to the method of cloning, called somatic cell nuclear transfer, which created Dolly. Roslin had also applied for a patent to the clones themselves. The patent to the clones was rejected by a U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) examiner in 2008 for a lack of patent-eligibility (§ 101), anticipation (§ 102), and obviousness (§ 103). In February 2013, the USPTO Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) affirmed the examiner's decision. On May 8th of this year, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed the finding of the USPTO Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) that clones, although man-made, are non-patent eligible subject matter under 35 USC § 101 of the Patent law. The Federal court decision cited the Supreme Court decisions in Myriad, Chakrabarty, and Funk Bros., as making it "clear that naturally occurring organisms are not patentable." The court held that only discoveries that possess "markedly different characteristics from any found in nature" . . . are eligible for patent protection.
Roslin argued that the claimed clones were not identical to donor parent because: (i) the clones had different mitochondrial DNA from the donor parent, since the method of cloning resulted in the mitochondrial DNA coming from the egg cell used to create the clone, and not the donor parent; (ii) the clones had observable differences in shape, size, color and behavior due to environmental factors, i.e., while genes help determine traits, environmental influences have a considerable impact on shaping the clone's physical appearance and personality; and (iii) that clones are "time-delayed versions" of the donor mammals.
The Federal court in rejecting all of Roslin's arguments stated that the claims were written in term of genetic identity, not mitochondrial or phenotypic differences and that "there is nothing in the claims…that suggests that the clones are distinct in any relevant way from the donor animals of which they are copies." Further, the court stated that any phenotypic differences between Roslin's donor mammals and its claimed clones are the result of 'environmental factors,' and that Roslin itself had conceded that such differences were produced "quite independently of any effort of the patentee." Additionally, the court stated that the argument that the clones are a time-delayed version of the donor mammals does not confer patent eligibility because the same is true of any copy. In effect, Dolly is not patentable because she is too similar to her parent.
In re Roslin Inst. (Edinburgh), No. 13-1407 (Fed. Cir. May 8, 2014).
Funk Bros. Seed Co. v. Kalo Inoculant Co., 333 U.S. 127 (1948).
Diamond v. Chakrabarty, 447 U.S. 303, 309 (1980).
Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, Inc., 133 S. Ct. 2107 (2013).
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Three French aid workers kidnapped in Yemen have been freed, with the help of the sultan of Oman, after nearly six months in captivity, officials in Paris have revealed.
A statement from French president Nicolas Sarkozy's office thanked the sultan and authorities in Oman for those who helped secure the release.
The two women and one man from the aid group Triangle Generation Humanitaire were abducted May 28 in eastern Yemen. Men linked to al Qaida's offshoot in Yemen had demanded a 12 million dollar (£7.4 million) ransom for the trio.
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About me: Where do I start? Well I guess I'll start with birth, that sounds like a good place to start! I was born & raised in Neuilly-Sur-Seine, which is pretty much Paris, France. Moved to Zimbabwe when I was 11 and then to WV, USA when I was 16. I've been in love with making videos since high school and I've been an entertainer ever since I use to imitate the weather man as a kid so that my uncle would pay me 5 bucks! I'm very easy going & open minded, love to make people laugh and I have very vivid dreams. I'd say I'm definitely a gifted dreamer. My goal is to become a successful actor in the hopes that one day I can continue to travel the world and put a smile on people's faces!
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Last Friday night at Joe's Crab Shack in Garden Grove, James Ochoa sipped a Budweiser, nibbled on French fries and started to speak about the 16 months he spent in prison for a crime he didn't commit.
"Man . . . " His voice trailed off and he slowly shook his head, apparently unable to find words to describe his time in Centinela State Prison in Imperial County, home to nearly 5,000 male felons. He's got fresh scars to prove life there is dangerous. He was quiet a moment and then said simply, "Nobody wants to live [in a space the size of] a broom closet for 23 hours a day."
Ochoa's path to freedom began at 6:30 on the morning of Oct. 20, when a guard knocked on his cell door, showed him paperwork and said, "The court's kicking you out of here." Ochoa thought it was a bad joke.
"You've got the wrong guy," he told the guard. "But my [cellmate] said, 'Stop talking. You're leaving, man. Go before they change their minds.'"
Still wearing tan prison slippers and a paper-thin blue inmate's jumpsuit, Ochoa emerged from a Centinela cell fittingly called "The Hole," and climbed into a late model black Impala sent by one of the men who'd sent him to prison, Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas. Two DA investigators told Ochoa, "Today's your lucky day." They drove him to a Wal-Mart, bought him jeans and a white T-shirt, took him to lunch and then began the long drive back to Orange County.
Seeing scenery other than a prison wall was nice, but Ochoa's stomach knotted. He kept wondering if he was dreaming. Or if the investigators were performing an elaborate trick in hopes of pinning another crime on him.
"I couldn't believe they let me out," he said. "But they should have known I wasn't guilty a long time ago."
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A year ago, in "The Case of the Dog That Couldn't Sniff Straight," I told Ochoa's story—how "sloppy police, callous prosecutors and indifferent judges" would send the innocent 20-year-old to prison for a May 2005 Buena Park robbery and carjacking committed by another man.
That conclusion prompted angry calls from Buena Park cops. A prosecutor told me to leave investigations to the professionals. Superior Court Judge Robert Fitzgerald dug deep into his wellspring of epithets and dismissed OC Weekly as "a rag"—and then threatened Ochoa with life in prison if he didn't accept a plea bargain before the case went to the jury.
Ochoa weighed his chances with an Orange County jury, and went off to Wasco State Prison and then to Centinela.
My harshest critic was police dog handler Larry Harris, whose work helped convict Ochoa. In a December 2005 letter to the Weekly, Harris gloated. "The final chapter has now been written regarding [Moxley's] article," he wrote. "Mr. Ochoa pleaded guilty and was given time served plus two years in state prison. Because of Moxley's apparent animus for authority, which includes District Attorney Rackauckas, law enforcement personnel and the bloodhound 'Trace,' he apparently relied on a very biased source with a strong agenda for his information. I believe a written apology is in order for bloodhound 'Trace' for the irreparable damage that has been done to her reputation. Unlike Mr. Moxley, she has no bias or agenda. Dogs don't lie, people do."
Of course, time has a way of undoing "final chapters," and Ochoa's most recent was written on Oct. 13. On that day, more than 60 weeks after Ochoa's arrest, the state's Department of Justice crime lab matched DNA evidence left at the crime scene to Jaymes T. McCollum, a 20-year-old man, a felon and current inmate. Confronted with the evidence, court records show, McCollum confessed to facts only the real bandit would have known.
On Oct. 19, the Buena Park Police Department, Orange County Sheriff's Department, the District Attorney's office and Judge Fitzgerald quietly conceded they'd arrested, convicted and imprisoned the wrong man.
"When we learned of the mistake, I made sure that we did everything to get Mr. Ochoa out of custody as soon as possible," DA Rackauckas told the Weekly. "I felt terrible about what happened."
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Ochoa's arrest was no country club affair. At sunrise on a day in May 2005, a police SWAT team raided his home, pointed high-powered rifles in his face, interrogated his family and then arrested him. A detective said a police dog had followed a scent directly from the crime scene to Ochoa's front door; I would later discover the truth about that accusation and reveal that two victims, manipulated by other officers, altered their original descriptions of the bandit and later claimed they were "100 percent" certain Ochoa had robbed them at gunpoint.
It got worse. Veteran prosecutors sought a 50-year prison sentence, despite the substantial exculpatory evidence. Key to that evidence was this fact: before the trial began, the Sheriff's crime lab had already eliminated Ochoa as a possible source of any DNA or fingerprints found in the stolen car, on the baseball cap or shirt worn by the gloveless bandit, or on the gun he carried. Additionally, a fingerprint found on the stolen car's gearshift knob did not match Ochoa or the victims.
Judge Fitzgerald handed Ochoa the final insult. He mocked Ochoa, his defense lawyer Scott Borthwick, the alibi, and the exculpatory evidence, and gave him an ultimatum: plead guilty before the conclusion of the jury trial and take a two-year prison sentence, or face his wrath. The judge promised Ochoa he'd give him life in prison if a jury found him guilty.
"But it was not me [who did the crime]," Ochoa told Fitzgerald, who has been repeatedly reprimanded for bad conduct. (For example, a 2001 murder conviction was overturned because Fitzgerald couldn't stop himself from making sarcastic, rude remarks about the defense in front of jurors.)
"Innocent people go to prison," the judge said nonchalantly.
Ochoa ignored Borthwick's advice, took the deal and was hauled away in handcuffs.
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Back at Joe's Crab Shack, still in his first hours of freedom, Ochoa praised Borthwick, who took the case for free because he believed he was witnessing a travesty. But he doesn't have kind words for Fitzgerald.
"Sure, I've got some anger inside," he says.
And he wonders how anyone else would react if faced with the dilemma Fitzgerald posed.
"What would you do?" Ochoa said. "These people who are framing me want me to take two years [in prison] or they're going to put me away for the rest of my life. No way. That's just crazy."
Borthwick has a long list of villains in this tale and Fitzgerald is at the top.
"Judge Fitzgerald made a snap decision that James was guilty before the trial, and he did everything he could to bully a guilty plea out of him," he said. "All we needed was an impartial referee to let the jury hear the evidence. Instead we got someone who has absolutely no business staining the Orange County bench with his foul presence."
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LA Times Circulation Down and Out
In a follow up to the earlier post "Newspaper Circulation Dropping; Who Could Have Seen That Coming?", comes even more bad news from the newspaper word, LA Times circulation down 5.5%.
Though executives declined to break out individual paper's Fas-Fax numbers, which are due out in May, Smith acknowledged the Times will drop more than 5.5%
Even the Wall Street Journal was not spared from terrible numbers. What is most telling was that their internet operations were more profitable than the "flagship Journal".
One of the few bright spots in the newspaper print medium was USA Today.
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Arnold to Play Conan the Barbarian
Arnold to star as Conan the Barbarian again - MSN Movies News
Cannot wait to see it:rockon:
I wonder if he will be training for this.:) |
I don't know how he would be able to portray the physical aspect of Conan. I understand that the character has aged the same way Arnold has. But, for me, the first two movies were all about the physical presence of Arnold/Conan (I'll never forget the scene where he was dominating the gladiator pit and spreads his arms out - those tri's hanging and the lats just out there). I think it would be cool for him to have a son (maybe another jacked bodybuilder) to be that physical presence.
Conan the Grandpa-rian?!?
I have to admit the first time they showed him as an adult on that grinding wheel he was breathtaking....big man crush for my 16 year old lifting aspirations!
I hope they don't crop his headed onto a meatier body. :)
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What a legend.
And yeah he's gonna be gassin again, I'd expect no less! |
Can't believe they overlooked me... again :mad:
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The Princess Garden – This pageantry of princesses celebrates Disney royalty. Cinderella, Tiana and Belle accompanied by their respective princes, ride in a garden of topiaries with woodland creatures, birds and more. Cinderella's dress playfully twirls like a turntable, while Swan Court couples lead the 50-foot-long majestic float, capped off with a special appearance by Anna and Elsa from Disney's hit animated feature, Frozen.
Tangled – A massive long ship on the high seas showcases Flynn Rider and Rapunzel in search of adventure and another Best. Day. Ever! Rapunzel's iconic tresses weave throughout this 36-foot-long float decked out with swaying pendulums carrying dastardly thugs.
The Little Mermaid – Ariel and her friends sit atop a colorfully kinetic seashell music box that boasts an enchanting musical jubilee. There's no shortage of whimsy on this Under the Sea float with conga dancing fish kicking up their fins and bubbles galore. Shimmering fabrics and intricately designed costumes for the Lion Fish, Coral Fish, Seashell and Sea Horse performers are runway-inspired.
Peter Pan – Straight from Never Land come Peter Pan and Wendy soaring high aboard the famous Jolly Roger pirate ship complete with smoke effects and special surprises. A rainbow arch shines over Skull Rock and Tinker Bell nestled among giant flowers, while Captain Hook takes center stage on a swinging anchor. "Newsies-inspired" Lost Boys kick up their heels to high-energy choreography.
Brave – Celtic couples and a vessel shaped like an enormous bagpipe announce the arrival of Merida perched high on her majestic crown. Scottish dancers step to melodies of the Great Highlands in celebration of the popular Disney*Pixar film, "Brave."
Sleeping Beauty – The heroic Prince Phillip battles a Steampunk-inspired Dragon as the wicked Maleficent. This float stretches 53 feet in length and 26 feet tall with a prickly spinning wheel dead center of the float. With fiery eyes and glowing effects the spectacular dragon was built on an articulating chassis allowing the float to bend and flex as it moves along the parade route – a first for Disney parades. This float was designed in a partnership with Tony Award-winner Michael Curry. There's Prince Phillip, thorn-inspired stilt performers, dramatic raven dancers, plus the three good fairies, Flora, Fauna and Merryweather glide along the parade route.
Finale and Mickey's Airship – The parade culminates with a 90-foot-long magical caravan of characters featuring Pinocchio, Dumbo, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the Mad Hatter, Pluto and more in a splashy carnival of color. There's Pegasus horses, dancing hippos and sassy Bubble Girls with cotton-candy-like hair celebrating Storybook Circus in New Fantasyland. Sporting zany new costumes Mickey and Minnie Mouse sit sky high in Mickey's Airship — a giant hot air balloon that rounds out Disney Festival of Fantasy Parade.
This parade is a FastPass+ attraction which means you can reserve a spot to view this parade using the My Disney Experience app or website. The special FP+ viewing area is located directly in front of Cinderella Castle.
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- The Steampunk-inspired Maleficent Dragon stretches 53 feet from snout to tail and reaches 26 feet in the air.
- Parade features a cast of more than 100
- Disney characters from more than a dozen classic stories are represented among nine parade floats
- 40 additional characters are presented in animated or sculptural form
- Performers appear on stilts, swings and pendulums
- The Princess Garden lead float stretches more than 50 feet long
- The Jolly Roger atop the Peter Pan float flies 28 feet above the parade route
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- The trio of finale floats span more than 90 feet along the parade route
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- Cha Cha Girl (finale unit) – Her wig was designed with 148 yards of horsehair in four colors, that is then rolled, pressed and curled by hand.
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The Homeless Memorial
The Homeless Memorial
de Ellen Coleman Izzo
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A visit to Washington, D.C. would not be complete without the requisite trolley tour of the monuments and memorials, a tribute to the history that formed our great nation. On such a tour, the trolley travels through the pristine streets, while the well-versed guide recites big historical facts and lesser known tidbits linking one magnificent stop to the next. It all sounds wonderful and appears wonderful, until looking more closely at those in-between places along the route: the parks with the smaller monuments like Farragut, McPherson, and Franklin. Look a little more closely, for they are nearly invisible from the trolley, and you will see them there, on the worn benches: The homeless, the street people, the vagrants, the bums, the drifters, tramps, and beggars, the deranged, the drunks, the addicts…We have many names for them, rarely their own.
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- Etiquetas social justice issues, Art, printmaking, installation, homelessness
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Søren Aabye Kierkegaard was a prolific 19th century Danish philosopher and theologian. Kierkegaard strongly criticized both the Hegelianism of his time, and what he saw as the empty formalities of the Danish church. Much of his work deals with religious themes such as faith in God, the institution of the Christian Church, Christian ethics and theology, and the emotions and feelings of individuals when faced with life choices. His early work was written under various pseudonyms who present their own distinctive viewpoints in a complex dialogue. Kierkegaard left the task of discovering the meaning of the works to the reader, because "the task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted". Subsequently, many have interpreted Kierkegaard as an existentialist, neo-orthodoxist, postmodernist, humanist, individualist, etc. Crossing the boundaries of philosophy, theology, psychology, and literature, Kierkegaard came to be regarded as a highly significant and influential figure in contemporary thought.
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"There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming."
Soren Kierkegaard
"Love is all, it gives all, and it takes all."
"Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth -look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment."
"Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts."
"Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living."
"Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings."
"Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a majority is illusory, formed by the gangs who have no opinion -- and who, therefore, in the next instant (when it is evident that the minority is the stronger) assume its opinion... while truth again reverts to a new minority."
"Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom."
"Philosophy always requires something more, requires the eternal, the true, in contrast to which even the fullest existence as such is but a happy moment."
"Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God."


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Life struck me as several cuts above "meh" but never made me jump out of my seat.
Trashy, goofy, and surprisingly sincere, this superhero fantasy is better than you expect but not as good as it should be.
Roger Ebert on James Ivory's "Howards End".
"The Ballad of Narayama" is a Japanese film of great beauty and elegant artifice, telling a story of startling cruelty. What a space it opens…
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An article about two upcoming tv shows that screened at the Chicago International Television Festival.
An article about my recent trip to Cuba and a reprint of Monica Castillo's article about returning to Cuba.
An article about two upcoming tv shows that screened at the Chicago International Television Festival.
When will Asian Americans be considered American enough and when will Asians matter in the racial conundrum that is the United States?
Jana Monji journeys to the legendary Disney vaults to learn more about the creation of Disney's "Pinocchio."
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The Cannes International Film Festival is the most talked-about film festival of the year, where directors from around the world showcase their newest work, from the most challenging art cinema to the big blockbusters. For many years, Roger Ebert and a team of contributors have covered Cannes, and we are continuing that tradition with start-to-finish coverage from around the festival.
The term "listicle" has been kicked around a lot in Cannes this year, so even though I revile the sound of it, I decided to make one of my own. The main award of the festival, Palme d'Or, is seen as the art house equivalent of the Oscar: there is no better proof that you are a true auteur of cinema than getting one of those unassuming and elegant golden twigs. In the past, various juries made both great and horrible choices, and today I want to remind you of some of the Cannes winners that stayed with me forever. My selection process started with 1955, since that is when the first Palme d'Or was awarded (even though the Cannes festival gave out awards before, too, simply called "Grand Prix").
Without further ado, here are my favorite Palme d'Or winners:
1. "Secrets and Lies" (1996, Mike Leigh)
Mike Leigh has been perfecting his skills as an unconventional portrayer of working-class British families for years, and this movie is his masterpiece. Leigh's unique, semi-improvisational way of developing scripts with actors yielded great authenticity to what is basically a heartbreaking story of loneliness within one's own family. The 6-minute two-shot of Brenda Blethyn realizing that Marianne Jean-Baptiste is in fact her daughter more than makes up for the price of admission.
2. "Taxi Driver" (1976, Martin Scorsese)
Still the single best (post-)Vietnam movie and the most harrowing vision of big city alienation ever put on film. Fun Cannes fact: the movie competed here against, among others, Alan Parker's "Bugsy Malone." That kiddie musical also ends with a massacre, albeit the most benign one you will ever see (hint: whipped cream for bullets).
3. "Ballad of Narayama" (1983, Shoei Imamura)
One of the bleakest and most harrowing films ever made depicts a Japanese village in which the elderly are sent up the titular mountain to die and thus relieve the small community of the burden that taking care of them entails. The movie is brutal and beautiful at the same time, and Imamura is both unblinking and strangely serene in the face of death. Fun Cannes fact: "Ballad..." competed here against "Monty Python's The Meaning of Life," which was no less bleak in its outlook—if much (much) funnier in content.
4. "All that Jazz" (1979, Bob Fosse)
Speaking of dying, did you see that great musical number based on cardiac arrest...? Roy Scheider stars as Fosse's alter ego in this unique feat of movie bravado: an innovatively cut, stunningly assured musical about saying goodbye to life on the stage—as well as to the stage of life. It tied at Cannes with "Apocalypse Now". Those were the days.
5. "Rosetta" (1999, Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne)
The Dardennes are among the select group of double Palme d'Or winners (also including Emir Kusturica, Bille August, Francis Ford Coppola, Michael Haneke and Shoei Imamura), but their first Palme is still their best. The struggle of a barely articulate, unlovely and fiercely resilient young woman to own her own food stand and make a living for herself and her mother has a force of "The Bicycle Thieves" and a you-are-there style that influenced an entire generation of modern filmmakers. Will the Dardennes be winning for the third time with this year's "Two Days, One Night"? We'll be seeing shortly.
6. "Pulp Fiction" (1994, Quentin Tarantino)
Is any introduction necessary? QT's first masterpiece is an artfully rolled burrito of a movie, filled with stuff both great and questionable, sweet and spicy, and just about impossible to put away. It's been 20 years since it scooped the Palme and some folks still feel like it was Krzysztof Kieslowski's haute-couture drama "Three Colors: Red" that deserved the prize, but despite my Polish patriotism, I do not agree. This movie manages to be so many things at once (a comedy, a fable, a morality play, a supreme mixtape, a source of inspiration and imitation alike), it's fully earned its place in the everlasting canon.
7. "The Conversation" (1974, Francis Ford Coppola)
Quite simply the greatest movie on loneliness ever made, this post-Watergate study in the destructive power of surveillance was Coppola's first Palme (he won the second for an unfinished cut of "Apocalypse Now"). Gene Hackman pulls you right inside the hollow, battered heart of his guilt-driven, sexually- and emotionally-stifled Harry Caul, while the unforgettable sound editing by Walter Murch (as well as the haunting score by Dave Grusin) really makes you *listen* to the screen in a way that changes your relationship to the medium.
8. "Man of Iron" (1981, Andrzej Wajda)
The only Palme d'Or to be awarded to a Polish film went to this white-hot political drama, shot by Andrzej Wajda in the midst of Solidarity shipyard strikes and still serves as a documentary of that crucial time in Cold War history. A sequel to the groundbreaking "Man of Marble," it picks up where the previous movie left off, with the specters of the past largely gone and with communist Poland in time-changing convulsions. You can still feel the immediacy of the film, not least in watching Lech Walesa's cameo as himself. Fun Cannes fact: Wajda competed against Andrzej Zulawski's "Possesion," a movie that couldn't be more different in tone and style (suffice to say it includes Isabelle's Adjani famous sex scene with a gigantic octopus, of which I wrore more here.
9. "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg" (1964, Jacques Demy)
Every line of (largely unrhymed) dialogue is sang, every frame is a gaudy puff of eye candy floss, and Catherine Deneuve is loveliness itself, no matter how you light her. The movie is one-of-a-kind: a cheap melodrama transformed by its unique form and heartfelt approach; you are bound to cry your heart out at the end. Popular movies haven't really approached this kind of Chaplineque purity of simple emotion since (although "The Artist" certainly tried).
10. "Under the Sun of Satan" (1987, Maurice Pialat)
A largely reviled jury choice at the time (Pialat shook his fist at the booing Cannes audience, shouting: "I don't like you, either!"), this adaptation of a Georges Bernanos novel is a classic of Catholic anguish that's somehow entirely secular in its approach and tone. Gerard Depardieu plays a priest much surer of existence of Satan than he is of God, and Pialat's sparse, merciless style makes you feel the man's overwhelming spiritual hunger. A difficult, but richly rewarding film that remains largely unknown to most viewers.
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Some leading economists are warning that the UK is in danger of sliding back into recession next year due to a potentially fatal combination of damaging government cuts and anaemic private sector growth.
They believe the much-feared double dip is more likely to become a reality the longer that the property market remains mired in misery, industries are affected by budget constraints, and the jobs market remains under pressure.
James Carrick, economist at Legal & General Investment Management, believes there is a one in three chance of the country going into recession, and warns that the current recovery is not strong enough to cope with a rapid removal of its stabilisers.
"I am concerned about the swingeing cuts to come – probably the biggest since the Second World War – and the fact that we need the biggest ever private-sector boom to offset it," he says. "I am struggling to see where this is going to come from."
The two most recent such booms, in the late 1980s and 1990s, were both accompanied by more agreeable economic conditions, he points out, whereas we are now getting negative news such as mortgage approvals falling again.
"Previously you have had either an equity market or property market boom and there was lots of household spending and corporate investing," he adds. "However, I cannot see that happening in the UK over the next couple of years."
Stuart Thomson, chief economist at Ignis Asset Management, also believes that growth will turn negative in the first quarter of 2011, and warns that the problem could deteriorate rapidly unless the Government revisits its policy of quantitative easing.
"Consumers are going to have a very tough time next year because they are being squeezed by the effects of higher inflation, higher taxation and subdued wage growth," he says. "If the Bank doesn't step in we'll have a full-blown recession."
But what would another recession actually mean? How would we be affected by another slump so soon after the last one, and is there anything we can do now to help protect finances and longer-term investments?
According to Justin Modray, founder of the website Candid Money, the overwhelming concern people have when the possibility of a recession is looming large on the horizon is protecting their income.
"The biggest fear is that they will lose their job or suffer a pay cut," he says. "Pay rises are also likely to be far harder to negotiate, as there is greater competition for jobs during a recession."
General finances
Top of the list is getting a handle on your debts – and then you can make sure you are invested in a way you feel comfortable, according to Julian Chillingworth, chief investment officer at Rathbone Unit Trust Management. "In these sorts of difficult times – which are not going to ease imminently – you need to make sure you have your personal debts under control, and if possible, get your mortgage down as well," he says. "The advice is always to pay off the highest credit cards and loans first so that you are not paying too much interest."
Geoff Penrice, an independent financial adviser with Honister Partners, agrees and suggests people should consider putting a financial safety net in place, especially if they have some available cash at the moment. "There is definitely the risk of a double-dip recession if there is not a large enough pick-up in private-sector activity to offset the jobs lost through public-sector cuts, so it is a good idea to have a contingency plan should redundancy strike," he says. "I would normally encourage people to have three months' salary set aside which will help tide them over while they find alternative work."
If redundancy is a real concern you could insure against it, points out Justin Modray at Candid Money. "Cover is usually limited to involuntary redundancy and payouts rarely last beyond 12 months, but it could prove worthwhile short-term if it will give you peace of mind. Cover is usually limited to £1,500 per month, with £1,000 of cover typically costing around £30 per month."
The fact is that no one knows for sure what the next year will bring, which is why individuals must retain as much flexibility as possible, points out Andrew Merricks, head of research at Skerritt Consultants.
"If we go into recession you will want exposure to high-quality corporate or government bonds," he adds. "However, the risk is if it does not become a recession and the markets rally as you will end up being in the wrong place at the wrong time."
Those who fear the prospect of a recession should consider global equity income funds – which have a broader exposure than just the UK market – as well as high-yielding, defensive stocks that will be able to continue paying dividends.
However, it is vitally important that people are not persuaded to pin all their hopes on one outcome. "You need to keep your options open instead of tying your money up and be prepared to move it should the need arise," he adds.
Patrick Connolly, head of communications at AWD Chase de Vere, believes it is best for investors to adopt a diversified approach as it is expected that world economies will recover over the medium to long-term.
"They should hold growth investments such as shares and property, which should do well when economies recover, but alongside these hold fixed interest and cash which will provide protection should we fall back into recession," he explains.
Housing market
Those looking to buy a house may be advised to sit tight – and if they find a property of their dreams to bargain hard as this is certainly not a seller's market by any stretch of the imagination.
UK house prices have fallen by 3.4 per cent in the last three months – halfway towards wiping out the gains made in the first half of the year, according to research from the property website Rightmove. Its latest monthly report found that new sellers dropped average asking prices by 1.1 per cent (£2,474), while the number of new properties coming on to the market is just 26,000 – the lowest since April.
According to Miles Shipside, director of Rightmove, there is plenty of evidence to back up those who are feeling downbeat about the market, and properties need to be spruced up and priced competitive to sell. "They can cite tough competition amongst sellers and agents struggling to find buyers for their record levels of unsold stock," he says.
Further gloomy news came this week from the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML), which revealed that gross mortgage lending declined to an estimated £11.4bn in August, down 14 per cent from £13.3bn in July and 6 per cent from £12.1bn in August 2009. This is the lowest August total since 2000 (£11.1bn).
Lending volumes are likely to remain below last year's level in the coming months as activity was buoyed by the upcoming end of the stamp duty holiday in the last few months of 2009.
Bob Pannell, the CML's chief economist, believes that the outlook is challenging. "We face the prospect of a difficult second half of the year," he says. "However, the Bank of England is likely to keep interest rates at record lows for longer to support the economy. This will continue to alleviate payment pressures for many borrowers."
On the high street
Food inflation has already increased to 3.8 per cent in August from 2.5 per cent the previous month – the highest it has been since July 2009, when the level was 3.8 per cent, according to the British Retail Consortium (BRC).
Stephen Robertson, the BRC's director general, concedes that food inflation is at a 13-month high, but says the country is nowhere near seeing the return of the double-digit inflation of two years ago, and insists that a third of groceries are now on promotion.
"Past rises in the cost of global commodities, such as wheat and sugar, are filtering through to food prices," he says. "In response, retailers are offering more deals. Milk and bread are particularly competitive battlegrounds."
There is also one potential upside of a recessionary environment, as long as you keep your job and don't suffer any major cuts to your monthly pay packet, according to Justin Modray of Candid Money. "Your monthly income might stretch further because retailers are likely to cut prices in the face of falling sales," he says. "This means there will be a greater opportunity to grab discounts and bargains."
Therefore consider holding off big-ticket purchases, and if you do want to buy, make sure you shop around and get the best deal you can.
So where does that leave us? It all depends on what happens to the economic outlook over the next few months and how the Government chooses to respond, according to Stuart Thomson at Ignis Asset Management. "Mervyn King coined the phrase 'the nice decade' in 2003 and declared it over three years later," he says. "We think the new decade is VILE – volatile, inflation, less expansion, so from a consumer's perspective these are not comfortable times."
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Liberty Media is offering $17 per share or about $980 million to acquire Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE:BKS). This is a 20.4% premium over the closing of today's Barnes & Noble stock price of $14.11. The proposal is "is contingent on the participation of founding chairman Leonard Riggio, both in terms of his continuing equity ownership and his continuing role in management." Barnes & Noble is the world's largest book seller. They have 705 stores across the U.S. and operate 636 college bookstores. Barnes & Noble is also known for developing the Nook e-book reader device. [paidContent]