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The officials are back! The officials are back! Stop the press, the officials are BACK! Thanks to the debacle this past Monday Night with the replacement officials, the process to end the referee lockout seemed to be accelerated. Tonight's game will be headed by referee Gene Steratore, who has 10 years of officiating experience in the NFL. You'll know him when you see him. Our full position-by-position breakdown for the Browns vs. Ravens game, as well as my prediction, is after the jump.
Position-by-Position Breakdown
When Jon Stinchcomb talked about Joe Flacco in his preview, he highlighted two key attributes for the now-veteran quarterback: his arm strength, and his ability to come through in the clutch. Flacco has turned things up a notch this season in the Ravens' new no-huddle approach, but he's always had a reputation for being inconsistent.
Brandon Weeden is coming off of a mediocre performance last week against the Bills. Overall, you can see the progress he has made the past two weeks, but one thing has been missing: a solid first quarter performance to help Cleveland jump out to an early lead. Weeden will have to try to survive the rookie hazing that Ed Reed usually provides too.
Trent Richardson has the tools, but is obviously still learning as a rookie. You can tell that it has hurt that he didn't get to practice with his offensive line throughout training camp and the preseason; if he did, he might have a better feel of which holes to just hit right off the bat without worrying about bouncing things to the outside. He should have a little more success against this week than he did against Buffalo.
Ray Rice is the ultimate package at running back. He burned the Browns twice last year, and based on the effort C.J. Spiller had in less than a quarter a week ago, Rice is going to burn the Browns again. Are there any running backs in the NFL today that you would take ahead of Rice?
The Ravens have tried to improve their group of receivers for years to better suit Joe Flacco, and now it seems that they finally have it right. Torrey Smith is going to be a star receiver in the league, and he's coming off of a big/emotional game against the Patriots. Anquan Boldin is a solid veteran. Jacoby Jones is coming through in the slot. At tight end, Ed Dickson and Dennis Pitta have been utilized heavily. Everyone catches the ball consistently.
The Browns will have without Mohamed Massaquoi, their top receiver through three games, since he has an ankle injury. There were rumblings going around that Greg Little might see less playing time due to the number of critical drops he has had. It would seem like Jordan Norwood might be active, and he's exactly the type of receiver Brandon Weeden needs this week: someone who can get in and out of their routes quickly like Massaquoi does. With Alex Smith out again, Jordan Cameron should continue getting a fair amount of work at tight end.
It's a little painful to see the Ravens throw rookie right tackle Kelechi Osemele and third-year left guard Ramon Harewood into the starting lineup with pretty solid production through three games. The unit is holding their own in run support and pass protection, and look to be progressing through three games.
The Browns' offensive line, meanwhile, is still a little shaky. To be fair, they were arguably going up against two of the league's better defensive lines, Philadelphia and Buffalo, in two of their games. Against the Bengals, they fared better. People are making fun of Mitchell Schwartz at right tackle, but I have been pleased with him. Those who doubt Schwartz have a really short-term memory on how bad things were with Oniel Cousins. Cleveland needs improved play from both of the guard positions, otherwise there could be some upgrades made in 2013.
It's hard to compare these two teams because they use different alignments up front, and Baltimore usually brings a couple of their linebackers up to the line. Baltimore is strong up front when it comes to Haloti Ngata, but there is not a lot of starting experience between the other two guys, Pernell McPhee and Ma'ake Kemoeatu. McPhee did have two sacks and a good pass rush against Cleveland last season, though.
While the Browns' defense has been shaky to date, I've remained impressed with the defensive line. Two things are holding this unit back from being really good right now: the absence of Phil Taylor (which gives the Browns a stronger rotation when Winn/Hughes substitute), and the fact that Jabaal Sheard hasn't appeared to have a major impact. The talent is there, though.
Again, with a different alignment, it is difficult to compare these two units. Each team has a definitive leader -- that would be Ray Lewis for the Ravens, and D'Qwell Jackson for the Browns. This unit took a major hit when they lost Terrell Suggs. Their pass rushing numbers and overall intimidation factor are down, but inside linebacker Dannell Ellerbe has started to pick things up with 2.5 sacks on the season so far.
It'll be interesting to see how often the Browns are able to get in their true 4-3 alignment against the Ravens. It didn't happen often against Buffalo, and Baltimore runs a hurry-up offense. I'm still an advocate of seeing L.J. Fort in the lineup, but I know it won't happen. Fort was a great tackler in college, and I think he can remain stable in the NFL. Plus, I think the Browns need a more athletic guy in the game than Scott Fujita to stay up with the Ravens' tight ends.
Here is how much of a difference Joe Haden makes, at least in the secondary: if he were available for this game, I would give Cleveland the full advantage here. Cary Williams has been very shaky for the Ravens as a starting cornerback, and it could only be a matter of time before second-year man Jimmy Smith gets another crack. The Ravens score bonus points due to the presence safety Ed Reed brings to the field.
The Browns' secondary, without Haden, has been lost over the past two weeks. While I think Sheldon Brown and Dimitri Patterson are stable, there are just too many mistakes in coverage being made in the unit. The confidence appears to be lacking; any time a quarterback takes a shot, you get the feeling that the secondary is already defeated. Haden is the type of guy who could bring that confidence to the rest of the unit with his strong play.
The Ravens are among the top ten in the league in terms of covering kickoffs and punts through three games. To compare, the Browns are in the bottom third of the league, which is a reason I believe Reggie Hodges purposely tried to punt the ball out of bounds a few times last week. We can't keep doing that, though -- we'll have to trust guys like Ray Ventrone and Joshua Cribbs to make things happen in coverage.
Cribbs actually has the Browns in the top ten in league average for kickoff and punt returns. In terms of field goals, while I trust Phil Dawson more than first-year kicker Justin Tucker, Tucker is 7-of-7 on the year and has a strong leg. When Cleveland's coverage units improve on the field, so will my consideration for them in this category.
I have spent the past two weeks predicting the Browns to upset their opponents, and it has not panned out. I do like some of the matchups this week for Cleveland, especially since the Ravens' defense has been giving up a ton of yardage. I can't go out on a limb for the third week in a row, though, as much as I want to. If the Browns continue to start games flat, they are going to get crushed.


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He was a much loved member of the Zoomer Radio team from 2002 to 2012 and passionate about the history of Toronto.
Mike Filey died of prostate cancer Saturday at the age of 80.
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JERUSALEM – The rabbi of Judaism's holiest prayer site on Wednesday endorsed a proposal to establish a section where men and women can worship together, a groundbreaking motion that could end a decades-old fight against an Orthodox monopoly of the area.
The fight over the Western Wall has reached a fever pitch in recent months, after police arrested female worshippers who prayed at the site wearing religious garments and leading prayers — acts that Orthodox Judaism permits for men only.
The arrests caused an uproar in Israel and among liberal Jewish leaders in the United States, prompting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to instruct the semi-governmental Jewish Agency to devise a plan that would permit non-Orthodox forms of worship at the holy site.
The Western Wall's rabbi, Shmuel Rabinovich, told Army Radio Wednesday that while he dislikes non-Orthodox prayer, he would tolerate it in a separate section in order to end intra-Jewish fighting at the site.
"I want everyone to pray according to Orthodox Jewish religious law, but I don't interfere," said Rabinovich, who is Orthodox. "If these things can be done at the Western Wall without hurting others, and this can bring about compromise and serenity, I don't object."
The Western Wall is Judaism's most revered prayer site because it is a remnant of the biblical Jewish temple compound. Worship at the site is administered according to Orthodox Jewish religious custom: the men's section and smaller women's section are separated by a divider, and women are not allowed to lead prayer groups or wear prayer shawls, skullcaps or phylacteries — small boxes strapped to the head and arms during prayer.
The pluralistic Reform and Conservative movements, which allow mixed prayer and female rabbis, have long campaigned for recognition in Israel. The two groups however are largely marginalized in the Jewish state despite being popular overseas, especially in the United States. The emerging plan could represent a significant accomplishment by these liberal streams of Judaism.
Under the plan, unveiled by the Jewish Agency announced on Tuesday, Israel would create a permanent area for mixed-gender and women-led prayer next to a section of the Western Wall that mainly serves as an archaeological site. Currently, liberal Jewish worship is permitted in the area only during limited hours. Under the proposed plan, a platform would be erected to expand the area and allow liberal prayer there 24 hours a day, like the Orthodox section of the site.
The two Jewish prayer sections would be separated by the large wooden ramp that leads to the Muslim Al Aqsa Mosque compound, a site also revered by Jews as the Temple Mount — another reminder of the sensitive, inextricable mesh of religious claims to the area.
Natan Sharansky, the chairman of the Jewish Agency, said he had presented the proposal to Israeli lawmakers and Jewish leaders in Israel and the United States, and hoped it would be accepted.
"One Western Wall for one Jewish people," said Sharansky, a one-time political prisoner in the former Soviet Union. He expressed his hope that the site "will once again be a symbol of unity among the Jewish people, and not one of discord and strife."
The plan will be presented to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and must be approved by Israel's government before it is implemented. Netanyahu's office had no immediate comment.
Women of the Wall, a liberal Jewish women's group whose members have been arrested in controversial monthly prayer sessions in the current female-only section of the site, cautiously welcomed the proposal.
"The principle is the most important issue here," said Peggy Cidor, a board member of Women of the Wall. "The most important thing for us is that someone has at last understood that this cannot continue."


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Issues like the Baker vs. the Gay Couple are designed to distract from the core problem and focus on the emotional one used by Progressives to advance a tyrannical agenda. Colorado's anti-discrimination law, while well-intentioned, is fundamentally wrong. It infringes on the rights of property owners to decide who is and who is not their customer.
I have little patience for people as individuals who discriminate on the basis of color, sex or religion, lest that religion be Veganism, but that doesn't mean I have the right to force them to not discriminate. They do, and should bear all of the consequences of those decisions.
In the case of the baker it is his right to turn down work for any reason. It does not matter what that reason is. And Colorado passing a law which curtails that right is, by definition, tyrannical and antithetical to the kind of civil society the law's supporters want to have.
That the SCOTUS had to intervene here on First Amendment grounds is actually a travesty because Colorado's Supreme Court should have struck down the law and the plaintiffs. Unfortunately, that didn't happen and with Obama appointees all through the Federal courts it was inevitable that SCOTUS get involved.
This same kind of tyranny is playing out in the EU. The European Court of Justice is nothing more than a rubber-stamp generator for whatever lunacy comes from the undemocratic leadership of the European Commission and the various Ministries.
So are the arbitration courts of Europe, so infected with envy and 'social justice' that the Swedish court awarded Ukraine's Naftogaz billions not because they were in the right, but because they are poor and Gazprom is rich.
The more the leadership in Brussels acts like insulated and unconcerned tyrants of old the closer we get to the "Let them eat cake" moment which will be the end of the European Project.
Frankly, that moment can't come quick enough.
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One of the most imaginative class projects I've consulted on was a 4th grade project about California Missions. Each year, students were required to submit written reports about the history and significance of the religious outposts. From all reports, it wasn't exactly the most electrifying week of the year. After much discussion, we decided to throw tradition out the window and take a very different approach. This time, we asked students to demonstrate their understanding by creating video guides to the mission with the aid of some magical green screen technology.
The first step was to research and plan the video, then capture the relevant images at the mission. Easy enough. Students used mobile devices on their field trip and took photos at specific locations around the mission. Step number two was to script their video guides. It's ironic that most people consider video to be an alternative to writing, yet successful video projects hinge on this very important written component. Once the video was planned and scripted, they moved into the production phase and shot the video. We hung a green curtain in the classroom and students recorded video of themselves reciting the script in front of it. The final step required some simple video editing. Using an inexpensive app, students edited the green screen video and replaced the green background with the images taken at the mission. The end result was a wonderfully realistic video tour of the mission – and quite possibly, this time it was the most exciting week of the school year!
(using the Green Screen app)
- Take photos of a location (or find and use appropriate images online).
- Set up a green screen curtain or any other flat green background (see Equipment section below for more information).
- Make sure to set up in a spot with even lighting that isn't causing any shadows.
- Take video of students in front of the green screen.
- Edit the video in an app such as Green Screen by DoInk.
- Place the green screen video on the uppermost layer. You'll probably notice that the app immediately recognizes the green and strips it out. The green has actually become transparent and anything on the lower layers will show through it.
- If the background color isn't removed, then you'll need to adjust the selected color in the chroma key. Tap the color wheel and select the color that matches the background.
- Place an image on the lower layer. It will replace the green background in your video. If you want to use a series of images, slide the video along in the timeline and insert additional images at the appropriate spots in the lower layer. By the way, you can also insert a video on the lower layer.
- If you're using a laptop or Chromebook, you can use the online video editor at www.wevideo.com. Refer to this article and video for instructions on editing green screen videos with their editor.
- Leave your green shirt at home! Remember, anything green will become invisible. Here's an example of the rather macabre consequences of wearing the wrong clothing in front of a green screen.
- Alternatively, you can create some pretty awesome special effects by wearing something green. I made a green screen video with my young nephews and they draped a green tablecloth around their bodies. We called it, "Floating Heads in Outer Space".
- Place the device as close as possible to the person speaking so that you capture sound clearly. If possible, use an external microphone for better audio quality. Some models attach directly to your device and others work wirelessly.
- Green Screen app by DoInk (iOS)
- www.WeVideo.com (laptops and chromebooks)
Amazon has a range of options that range from inexpensive green screen curtains to an entire green screen kit including curtains and lighting. You can take an even less expensive route by simply attaching a large sheet of green paper to a wall or whiteboard.
You're wondering why the color has to be green? The technique is known as color or chroma keying. It separates one color and makes it transparent. The colors are normally green or blue but you can actually single out any color. Most green screen editing apps will default to green but allow you to change the chroma key.
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The Directorate of Elementary Education, Rajasthan has invited applications from interested candidates to apply for admission under RTE. The entire process of admission is made online to keep up with the technological development of the country. All school going students belonging to the state of Rajasthan can apply for admission under the RTE process. Under the primary education act scheme, 25% of seats are reserved for children to get admission at various established schools across the state of Rajasthan. The entire process is ongoing, and candidates who have applied before the last date of March 15th, 2020 can participate in further rounds.
This article gives detail info about RTE Rajasthan 2020 including, key dates, eligibility criteria, admission procedure, list of documents, selection method, result declaration, important FAQs and contact information. Let's take up each topic separately and understand in detail about them.
RTE Rajasthan 2020 – Important Dates
In the first section, let's acquaint ourselves with the most important dates that candidates need to keep track of. All candidates processing applications after crossing the deadline shall not be accepted whatsoever.
|Key Dates
|Formal commencement of application process
|March 2020
|Deadline for submission of completed application forms
|March 2020
|Online lottery system for selection of students
|March 2020
|Date of reporting for admissions in respective schools
|April 2020
|Commencement of classes for children
|April 2020
|Completion of filling of seats under both 25% and 75% quota
|July 2020
|Verification team formation
|July 2020
|Verification process undertaken in schools
|August 2020
|Submission of verification report
|September 2020
|Verification at office level
|September 2020
RTE Rajasthan 2020 – Eligibility Criteria
All students must comply with the eligibility criteria mentioned below to qualify for admissions under RTE Rajasthan 2020. Here are the details:
- The total annual income of parents from all sources must be less than INR 1 lakhs.
- Students belonging to reservation categories such as SC/ST are welcome to apply.
- Candidates who are orphaned due to various unfortunate circumstances are also preferred for admissions.
- Children of war widows are eligible to apply.
- Students whose parents are suffering from terminal illnesses or deadly diseases like HIV/Cancer etc. are eligible to apply.
- Candidates whose parents belong to the BPL categories are eligible to apply.
- Candidates from primary till class 8 can apply.
- Also, this scheme is exclusively meant for Rajasthan domiciled candidates alone.
Age Limits
Candidates must ensure they satisfy the age criteria specified under RTE Rajasthan guidelines 2020-2021.
|Entry level category
|Age specification for admission
|Pre Primary for 3 plus year old
|Greater than 3 years, but less than 4 years
|Pre Primary for 4 plus year old
|Greater than 3.6 years, but less than 5 years
|Pre Primary for 5 plus year old
|Greater than 4.6 years, but less than 6 years
|Grade 1
|Greater than 5 and less than 7 years
RTE Rajasthan Application Procedure
All candidates have to comply with the online method of application for applying to admission under RTE Rajasthan 2020. Before applying to admission, all parents are hereby requested to check thoroughly and make sure that they fulfill the minimal conditions laid down in the eligibility criteria. IF any student is found not to be complying with the minimum eligibility criteria, then such students may be disqualified during any time of the process. Here is the application procedure:
- Visit the official website of RTE Rajasthan 2020 – rte.raj.nic.in
- In the homepage, click on "Quick links" section.
- Traverse directly to the online application section.
- Application has two parts – registration and form filling.
- Any first time user has to register his/her child first.
- Go to the registration section and enter basic candidate details.
- Next, read and follow the guidelines indicated for filling up the application form.
- Go ahead and click the 'check eligibility' tab.
- If candidate is found eligible only then will the application form be displayed for candidates.
- After passing the eligibility test, fill up details in the application form.
- Choose your preferred school from the list of schools displayed.
- Upload necessary documents required with your application form.
- After verifying for the correctness of all details, submit your application form.
Procedure to select a school from the list of displayed schools
- Visit the homepage of official RTE Rajasthan 2020 portal.
- Go to 'Quick links' section. Click on the link indicating – school details.
- Enter details like school name, block name, gram panchayat and ward information, a class for which admission is sought etc.
- Click on the search button.
- A complete list of schools shall be displayed.
Documents Required For RTE Rajasthan
Along with the submission of the application form, candidates need to upload certain documents in the right format and size. Candidates who fail to comply with these conditions shall not be qualifying for further rounds. Also, attested copies of documents need to be attached. List of documents is presented below:
- Income certificate
- Caste certificate
- Domicile certificate
- Age proof of candidate can be rendered in the form of Aadhaar card/ class 10th mark sheet/ birth certificate/ration card
- Certificate from orphanage [ wherever applicable]
- Disability certificate [ wherever applicable]
- Medical reports from recognized medical practitioner [only for HIV/ cancer patients]
- Certificate indicating war widow status
- BPL card [ wherever applicable]
RTE Rajasthan Result
All candidates who have applied for RTE Rajasthan 2020 shall be curious to find out if they have successfully sought admission. In this regard, candidates need to follow below provided steps to check for their results:
- Visit the official portal of RTE Rajasthan 2020.
- Candidates have two options to check results – check for school name by providing school region OR name of the school.
- Enter any captcha code that is given.
- Submit the data.
- Result shall be displayed.
RTE Rajasthan Selection Process
Once candidates submit their application forms, the candidates shall ensure further processing of the same. An online lottery system shall be initiated to take care of priority list preparation of students. Authorities shall release 3 merit lists in 3 separate rounds. The merit lists shall be available soon after results are declared. Candidates can provide suitable information to check if their name appears in the selected candidate list.
Frequently Asked Questions
- Children of what age group can apply for RTE Rajasthan admission 2020-2021?
All children who are permanent residents of Rajasthan and above 3 years old can apply.
- What are the criteria for choosing school under RTE guidelines?
Parents must ensure that the school should be close to the residence of the child.
- How many schools can parents choose from the official list?
Children can choose between 1 to 15 schools, provided they fall in close circles with respect to their residence.
- What are the details to be entered to check school list for the year 2020-2021?
Details like village name, ward name, block name, class details, district etc. can be provided to a checklist of schools.
- Who is officially responsible for handling admissions under RTE Rajasthan 2020-2021?
Directorate of Elementary Education, Rajasthan is officially responsible for handling admissions under RTE Rajasthan 2020-2021.
Contact information
The Nodal officer can be contacted for any doubts on the following number: (0151)2220140
Address of Jaipur office: No. 407, RTE Cell, 4th Floor, 5th Block, Rajasthan Directorate of school education, JLN Road, Jaipur.
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Seismic has entered into a strategic alliance with McCorkell - Associates and Artis Group with the shared goal of improving buyer experiences.
The Tripartite strategic alliance will reportedly help address sales and marketing gaps that impede B2B buyer experiences and revenue opportunities.
Research indicates 68% of B2B customers in Australia and New Zealand expect companies to use new technologies to create better experiences.
However, 60% feel they are communicating with separate businesses, not one organisation. The new alliance will enable organisations to overcome the challenges presented by these rapidly changing business realities, according to the companies.
The alliance combines McCorkells content strategy and martech consulting capabilities and Artis Groups technology expertise with Seismics sales and marketing enablement platform.
Seismic strategic alliances director APAC Hydar Al Ammar says, "Digital technologies have reshaped the way organisations purchase products and services, resulting in the diversification of traditional roles. Both sales and marketing are now directly responsible for revenue performance.
"To help organisations stay ahead in these market shifts, we have teamed up with McCorkell and Artis to create an integrated, end-to-end consulting alliance that addresses the challenges of CMOs and customer experience leaders."
Ammar says, "With a market-leading content practice, McCorkell is a forward-thinking consultancy renowned for staying at the forefront of marketing innovation, while Artis specialises in professional services to drive modernisation of front-line functions in organisations.
"By merging these capabilities with automation and insights provided by the Seismic platform, joint customers will have access to business and marketing consulting within a comprehensive, analytics-driven solution that removes siloes inhibiting revenue growth.
The combined capabilities of Seismic, McCorkell and Artis enable Australian companies to create connected, consistent buying experiences by enabling marketing and sales teams to personalise content for better alignment and brand compliance, the companies state.
As a result, joint customers will experience faster time-to-market through effective campaign orchestration, supplemented by insights to optimise customer engagement and marketing operations.
These benefits enable organisations to differentiate in the market and improve sales performance, according to the companies.
McCorkell managing director Karen Powell says, "Market studies have found that ANZ businesses are struggling to meet changing customer expectations. With half of surveyed customers ready to switch brands after one bad experience, this presents a significant risk to business leaders.
"We believe the key to solving this problem lies in the way organisations engage their customers with content. We are excited about leveraging the complementary strengths of the alliance in content, data and technology to help companies transform the customer experience.
Artis Group head of business consulting Matthew Verity says, "With the Australian economy forecast to slow down in 2020, businesses are under massive pressure to increase operational efficiencies and win new business.
"Artis has extensive experience in digitising front-line business operations with customer relationship systems and salesforce automation.
"Collaborating with an industry leader like Seismic and drawing upon McCorkell's innovation-led marketing approach is a pivotal step in helping our customers differentiate themselves in the market to combat the potential economic downturn."
The alliances combined value proposition is available to large enterprises and mid-sized businesses in Australia and New Zealand, and will be expanding its availability to Asian markets.
The Seismic Partner Edge Program establishes alliances with partners to better serve customers through value-added solutions and services. Partners bring the Seismic platform to customers by referrals, reselling, and co-selling opportunities that are focused on end-to-end services.
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Quarterback Marcus Mariota will bypass the 2014 NFL draft and return for his junior season at Oregon, it was announced Tuesday.
Mariota, a first-team All-Pac-12 selection for the second straight year, has completed 227 of 360 attempts for 3,412 yards with 30 touchdowns and four interceptions. The redshirt sophomore set a Pac-12 record from the end of last season into this year by attempting 353 passes without an interception. The streak came to an end on his first attempt against Arizona on Nov. 23.
"It is an honor to be a student at the University of Oregon and to have the opportunity to represent our institution on the football field alongside my teammates," Mariota said in a statement released by the school. "I look forward to earning my degree next year and to the rest of my career at this great university."
Mariota ranks second nationally behind Florida State's Jameis Winston with a 90.1 Total QBR and is third on the team with 582 rushing yards and nine touchdowns on 81 carries.
He should again receive considerable buzz and be among the early favorites for the Heisman Trophy in 2014.
In two seasons, Mariota has 6,089 passing yards, 77 total touchdowns and only 10 interceptions. His streak of 25 games with at least one TD pass is third-longest in the nation.
In addition, Hroniss Grasu, a three-year starter at center, announced that he is returning to the Ducks.
Oregon completed the regular season with a 10-2 record (7-2 Pac-12 North) -- the sixth consecutive 10-win season for the Ducks.


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A new masterclass aims to promote the use of green ingredients in beauty and personal care applications. Taking place in Paris on June 25, 2014, the one-day training program will feature novel and emerging green ingredients and tackle their associated formulation issues.
Organized by Organic Monitor, the Natural Cosmetics Masterclass has been designed to encourage cosmetic brands and ingredient firms to use green materials. A range of green alternatives are now available to synthetic preservatives, emulsifiers, surfactants, thickeners and stabilizers in beauty and cosmetic applications. By discussing their technical issues and providing practical advice, the masterclass aims to encourage the use of such green materials.
The first part of the Masterclass will give an update on new and emerging green ingredients. After an introductory seminar by Organic Monitor, Symrise will explore the opportunities provided by marine-based ingredients. Tony Gough from Innospec will then discuss developments in green emulsifiers and surfactants. What are the most cost-effective green alternatives to SLS and SLES in personal care applications? Other papers will discuss green materials for thickeners and stabilizers, and developing paraben-free cosmetic formulations.
With many beauty brands still grappling to formulate certified products, an update will be given on popular natural and organic cosmetic standards. CosmeBio and Ecocert will state the technical and raw material requirements of the Cosmos standard, while Dr. Mark Smith will give an update on the NaTrue standard. Organic Monitor will then present its latest findings on the European market for natural and organic cosmetics, stating the differences in standards and market developments between countries.
In the second part of the masterclass, Judi Beerling, technical research manager of Organic Monitor, will give a dedicated workshop on green actives. Many beauty brands are turning to green actives for innovation; however, their use brings technical hurdles. The workshop will give details of popular classes of green actives and their functionality in beauty cosmetic applications. The interactive session will go through pragmatic solutions to common problems faced by formulators and product developers when using green materials.


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IQ: Subterranea
Comparisons of Radiohead to Pink Floyd notwithstanding, progressive rock remains, as the Nineties hurry past on their way out, a commodity whose already-marginal commercial viability abroad resists translation to the US with a tenacity usually reserved for cars with the steering wheels on the wrong side, Vegemite, malaria and ritual scarring (though arguably the last of these is making some headway). Marillion, the leaders of the movement's modern wing, barely qualify as cult figures here, and anything beyond them inhabits an especially remote and dusty stretch of the Labyrinth of Obscurity. This is the age of the Global Village, of course (or, more properly, the Global Shopping Mall), so it's basically possible to buy anything from anywhere, but I'm still resisting that particular aspect of the world's drawing-in. The motions of trudging from record store to record store with my omnipresent want-list, the act of stalking up and down the aisles of CD bins, the senses of anticipation and elation that accompany the dance of fingers across spines to see if something potentially mythical on the list has finally assumed corporeal form -- all these ceremonial details are integral parts of the experience, to me. Record stores and concert halls are our temples to music, like book stores (and those few libraries that haven't diverted their book budgets to technological superfluity) are our temples to reading, and movie theaters our temples to film; they are public statements of the places these things occupy in our hearts. True, the temples are usually dominated by the gaudiest ephemera of their respective media, Spice Girls and celebrity memoirs and steroid sequels, but the facades of churches are almost always constructed of the most livid passions of a faith, not the quiet epiphanies that really form its core. Shopping by mail-order undermines this vital component of our civilization's infrastructure, I believe, so I try to do as little of it as possible. That said, it's probably a last-resort that the few US fans of IQ have by now become intimately acquainted with. The band puts out their records on their own label, Giant Electric Pea, and I have never seen a single GEP disc in a Boston store. Even in London, where I found my copy of this one, they were hardly commonplace.
Subterranea, the first new IQ studio album in four years, is the band's sixth proper album, and fourteenth release. The early stages of their history, at least, parallel that of Marillion quite closely. The first two studio albums, 1983's Tales From the Lush Attic and 1984's The Wake, are fitful, theatrical, exploratory and abstruse, if anything even more angular and unapproachable than Marillion's contemporaneous Script for a Jester's Tear and Fugazi, albeit also a little more self-conscious and self-deprecating about their pretense. Marillion then put out the concert album Real to Reel, for which IQ's equivalent is the live disc Living Proof, a bootleg of an impromptu 1985 British television appearance that was recaptured by the band, remastered, and officially released on GEP in 1992. An even odder GEP retro-assemblage, the cryptic rehearsal-set Nine in a Pond Is Here, fills approximately the role of Marillion's out-takes compilation B'Sides Themselves. The IQ catalog then sort of skips ahead along the Marillion timeline, bypassing Misplaced Childhood and Clutching at Straws, and getting straight to the point where their flamboyant lead singer, Peter Nicholls, departs, to be replaced by P.L. Menel, IQ's answer to Steve Hogarth. IQ's brief flirtation with a more succinctly melodic and commercial style, to match Marillion's Seasons End and Holidays in Eden, thus comes a couple years earlier, with 1987's Nomzamo and 1989's Are You Sitting Comfortably?, which were even distributed in the US, by the PolyGram affiliate Squawk, to little effect. Most serious IQ supporters, including the band themselves, seem to regard this period as an unfortunate digression, but these were the IQ albums I was first exposed to, and tempering epic prog ambition with pop forthrightness doesn't seem like a bad tactic, to me, so my affections for these two records retain a particular intensity. The emotional peaks of Nomzamo are still my favorite isolated IQ moments, and Are You Sitting Comfortably? is still my favorite single IQ album. This period's apparently obligatory disc of related miscellany is the 1990 GEP release J'ai Pollette D'arnu, half old b-sides and half stray concert recordings.
After that, IQ and Marillion finally diverge. In IQ's version of the universe, their commercial implosion also results in P.L. Menel leaving the band, and Peter Nicholls (who, in the interim, had formed a band called Niadem's Ghost, who released their sole album, In Sheltered Winds, also later reissued on GEP, in 1987) actually rejoining. With the original line-up of IQ effectively reconstituted (bassist John Jowitt, shared at the time with IQ keyboardist Martin Orford's other GEP band, Jadis, replaces Tim Esau; in an incestuous later twist, Jowitt would join ex-Marillion drummer Mick Pointer's new band Arena, and Jadis, without Jowitt or Orford, would move from GEP to Marillion guitarist Steve Rothery's label Dorian Music), 1993's studio album Ever sounds to me like exactly the synthesis of their original convoluted principles and some selected musical lessons from the pop years (especially the trick of tethering adventurous instrumental flights to squarely inexorable rhythm tracks) that the chronology would suggest. A period of surprisingly diligent retrenching followed, during which GEP managed to reclaim and reissue their first four studio albums, with a bonus track or two each, and then put out the lavish box set Forever Live, a career-summarizing 1993 German concert appearance captured on both a long video and two CDs.
If the live album represents IQ's time-stream intersecting, at least glancingly, with Marillion's again (the double-live album Made Again), then Subterranea could be their nod to Marillion's Brave. In juxtaposition, however, the two albums reveal the differences between the two bands as clearly as any pair. Brave is, to me, Marillion's most introspective and restrained record, a harrowing, spare and intimately personal concept album that resists disassembly fiercely, and so, at least for me, required some effort and patience to appreciate at all. Subterranea is even longer (almost an hour and three-quarters, on two discs), but is so consistently animated, throughout, that I find myself having almost the opposite problem, the charm of each individual song distracting me from following the overall flow. Where Brave has long sections in which things, especially if you're too close to them, can seem to drift, becalmed, even the long movements of Subterranea, like the surging "Failsafe", the lurching "Tunnel Vision" and the elegant, pulsing "Somewhere in Time", feel more like songs in their own right than transitional exposition. The shorter pieces span the range from eerie atmospherics ("Provider") to solid rock propulsion ("Subterranea", "Breathtaker"), passing through graceful acoustic lullaby and solemn monastic whir ("Sleepless Incidental", "The Sense in Sanity"), a haunting love song ("Speak My Name"), macabre drama ("Infernal Chorus"), sinister muttering ("King of Fools"), soaring intricacy ("State of Mine"), piano composure ("Laid Low", "High Waters"), some vaguely New-Age interludes ("Capricorn", "The Other Side"), and one heart-wrenchingly timeless mainstream pop anthem ("Unsolid Ground") on the way. All of which builds to, and is recapitulated in, the album's monumental finale, the twenty-minute "The Narrow Margin", which somehow manages to last that long without ever resorting to anything that sounds to me like noodling. If it makes any sense to say that progressive rock has a state of the art, this is it. Marillion's This Strange Engine hints that they may be returning to assume their throne again, but for the time being, IQ to me is the movement's center.
Of course, concept albums are supposed to be about something. One of the odd properties of progressive rock, though, I find, is that while an impression of lyrical sophistication is a required component of the aesthetic, this is mostly a matter of word-choice and syntax, and if you mix in a little healthy consonance with a few poetic flourishes like "falling apart at the seams", "in this darkest hour" and "then I know to free the reins of unquiet thoughts", it doesn't necessarily matter what, if anything, the songs end up being about. Subterranea, however, once I get out the booklet and follow along with it, turns out to be a rather disturbing amalgam of apocalyptic conspiracy paranoia, plaintive spiritual angst, romantic redemption, romantic rejection, and a rather alarming overall collapse of hope. The illustrations show an unexplained domino-like symbol cropping up Orwellianly in everything from children's paintings to ATM screens and a stained-glass church window, as if it's a hybrid of the icon of a new messiah and the insignia of a sinister cult, or possibly both. The narrator begins the story in a sort of embryonic limbo, wondering what sort of person he'll be, and over the course of it works through an inability to sustain himself in the face of moral decay, a hallucinatory impression that a homeless man is really a prophet (or perhaps vice versa), an argument in which he seems to be trying to turn down messiah-hood himself, a hopeful interlude in which either a woman can save him by speaking his name, or his god can, or he can save his god, a furious rage in which he seems set on tracking down and confronting Satan himself, some unnervingly serene ignorance, a bit of venomous schizophrenia, some exhausted resignation and a Zen-like surrender to instability. By "The Narrow Margin" he has amassed a pretty depressing body of incapacities and regrets, and seems to have alienated (or believes he has) both his lover and his god, although at times it's not clear whether these are separate.
Normally I might shrug at all this, and go back to humming along happily, but seeing Radiohead's OK Computer, an album I recognize as impressive but whose lyrics depress me so much that I can't listen to it, on so many year-end top-ten lists has made me temporarily hyper-aware of the relationship between lyrical content and my emotional responses. I want it to matter, frankly, what the words mean; it's rare enough for rock albums to have meanings that I'm loath to ignore one that does, even if I run the risk of having the text ruin the album for me. My impressions, though, are holding up: just the sound of Thom Yorke's voice is now sufficient to induce violent shivers, but IQ produces a thoughtful calm. Reverse-engineered explanations of why I'm able to keep listening to Subterranea, but not OK Computer, will inevitably smack of rationalization, I suspect. Part of it, of course, is a simple product of my reactions to the musical styles on the two albums; Radiohead's songs seem eerie and bleak, and even the angelic frailty of Yorke's singing has a deathly languor to it, while IQ's, dense with swirling, textural keyboards, elliptical guitar flights, symphonic dynamics and metallic churn, have a visceral heroic swell to them that can't help but influence what I make of the text. But while both albums seem to me to be at the precipice of suicide, it makes an incalculable difference that Subterranea's narrator has regrets. His diagnosis of the failure of his life relies on his recognition of what success might have constituted, and the depth of his depression comes precisely from the keenness of his awareness of his losses, and so his specific depression is also an expression of his belief in human potential. Depression, in his situation, is cogent and correct; tragedy and helplessness are supposed to depress you. The anger contained in this sort of depression is part of the soul's defense against apathy. The misanthropy and misery of Thom Yorke's persona, on the other hand, feels to me like a nihilistic surrender, not a function of any kind of resistance or remorse. OK Computer isn't depressed about what might have been, it's depressed about what is, and doesn't appear to believe that there are any other options. Of course, it's possible that there aren't any other options, but if we're going to stay alive, and listen to records, we had better learn to sustain every fable we can invent that suggests a vulnerability for evil.
Twelfth Night: Collectors Item
My other favorite progressive-rock discovery, in a massive stack of genre fillers I'm glad to have, but uninterested in discussing, is this scattershot collection of songs (whose title ought to have had an apostrophe somewhere, I feel sure) from Marillion and IQ contemporaries Twelfth Night, which came out way back in 1991, but is so far the only trace of the band I've been able to find on CD. Vocalist turnover seems to be a compulsory experience for progressive bands; of the eight songs on this compilation, the first two, recorded in 1982 and 1983, feature original singer Geoff Mann, the middle four, from 1984-86, have his replacement, Andy Sears, and for the last two, recorded by a reunited band in 1988, Geoff Mann is back again. The two early songs fit squarely into the company of Marillion and IQ's first records, complicated and segmented on the scale of Marillion's "Grendel" or IQ's "The Last Human Gateway", but with a little more of the unabashed approachability of "Market Square Heroes" or "The Thousand Days". The long "We Are Sane", from the album Fact and Fiction, opens with a Nyman-esque choirboy falsetto and glistening synthesizer sighs over chaotic background chatter, and gradually evolves through some "Fugazi"-ish spoken parts into stomping rock strut, a manic, howling chorus and some fearless tape experiments that end up, to me, sounding more than a little like a combination of Kraftwerk, Specimen and some renegade Smurfs. The even longer "Sequences", from the concert record Live and Let Live, is a sprawling multi-character horrors-of-war saga, with enough musical ideas for a whole album and at least enough notes for half of one, that makes Marillion's "Forgotten Sons" seem conciliatory and terse.
Andy Sears sounds a little less like Fish than Geoff Mann, a little more like he could have spent the decade in a-ha or Naked Eyes if he'd preferred. The first of his songs here, the title track of the 1984 album Art and Illusion, might have even made a good New Wave single with a few fewer tempo changes and some guitar parts transposed to keyboards. The chorus drum flourishes and guitar hooks are straight out of "Market Square Heroes", and the allegorical lyrical presence of the jester is an unmistakable Fish touch, but I have no idea if coincidence or influence is responsible. "First New Day", from the same album (produced, bizarrely, by Gil Norton, who would later end up at another sonic pole entirely, doing Pixies albums), is colder and more geometrical, glacial synth chords slicing through in broad, reflective sheets. The technophobic epic "Take a Look", from the 1986 album Twelfth Night, is nervous and grinding, Sears spinning from vocal personality to personality as if daring the other players to come up with jump-cut transitions to match, and builds to a deliriously redemptive choral finale based on the endearingly simple faith that all it takes to fight the forces of mechanization is looking at yourself and remembering what you are capable of. The jerky "Blondon Fair", the last Sears track, was the b-side to the excerpt from "Take a Look" that served as a single, and parts of it sound as much like Peter Gabriel's solo work as they do like Genesis when he was still in it.
The last two Geoff Mann tracks, though these versions were recorded in 1988, are both songs from earlier in the band's life. "The Collector", which was apparently played live but never previously recorded, dwarfs even "Sequences" in length, but lacks much narrative structure, and so doesn't seem to me to accomplish as much with its mass. "Love Song", conversely, remade from its original appearance on Fact and Fiction, is an uncharacteristically straight-forward and concise slow anthem that could almost be by Then Jerico or the Sound. "I remember Geoff's farewell gigs at the Marquee being very emotional", keyboardist Rick Battersby comments in the notes, and although Geoff's death, from cancer, came two years after this collection was released, and thus can't be the "farewell" referred to, there is such a patient nobility to this performance of "Love Song", especially, that it could, it seems to me, be the singer's own living elegy.
Which, too, is both depressing and uplifting. But some nights it seems to me like the tension between the two is all that ever holds us in place.


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What is an acceptable level and/or amount of risk?
Risk can be scored and quantified but it is quite hard to measure.
Risk is comparative and/or relative, not absolute.
Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA) can be a handy tool for looking at the dark side of situations and understanding potential impacts.
Risk Priority Number (RPN) is used, commonly in the automotive industry, as a measure of assessed risk and helps identify critical failure modes associated with a design or process. RPN values range from 1 (absolute best) to 1000 (absolute worst). RPN is somewhat similar to the criticality.
Quite a bit of conversation was had about differences between risk (perceived negative impact) and opportunity (perceived negative impact). Weighing both of these sides is critical for decision making. Both live within the context of uncertainty. Information gathering, research and assessment are good tools to reduce uncertainty and increase the ability to predict outcomes.
David Slight brought up the point about the cost to mitigate. Just because a risk could be mitigated, the question is raised "is it worth mitigating?"
Risk reduction is indeed a measurement and tool that is commonly used.
Paul, a first-time attendee and new Seattleite (welcome to the group, Paul), shared about the tool of Potential Problem Analysis. PPA is a way that can help analysts anticipate problems before they happen and to identify the actions needed to be taken to prevent them from happening, or to minimize the effect.
David said that many people assume that there is a 1:1 relationship between the problem and its solution, which is a fallacy. And that risk is oftentimes hierarchically decomposed, which presents issues since things are multi-dimensional and multi-faceted (do not fall into simple hierarchies). NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) provides a Risk Management Framework that is common in industry.
Fred said that a lack of a Business Continuity plan is one of the biggest risks that companies face. Without this plan, they have no plan and are therefore at risk.
There are many types of risk: financial, reputation, technological, infrastructural, contractual, relational, global, service, project, corporate, enterprise, operational. This page has many of the risk types explained and differentiated.
Controls and compliance are big parts of the risk management process and plan.
Eric shared about extremely significant cultural differences about risk between companies in, say, healthcare, and those in, say, fashion. Stark differences in language and behavior can be seen between these two cultures.
Jean, who was at the group for the first time and is currently taking a Building your Own Theology class at BCC, shared about a big difference between the occurrence of the risk and the actual harm that results from it. The risk event and the following harm or actions are two different areas, each requiring management, caution and care.
There are many situations and scenarios where we as humans choose to "look the other way" from a risk or issue so we maintain focus on our current projects and mission. We "accept" (by ignoring) the other risk and therefore are at risk to its potential harm. Risk and strategy are closely related.
We spoke quite a bit about authorization and systems including roles. The BART system (Boundary, Authority, Role and Task) is a good way to clearly define roles.
We moved onto the topic of resiliency. We agreed that scalability was related, as is the idea of "foreverness". A clear plan that is aware of various thresholds, steps and milestones can help with communications about foreverness, a commitment to permanence and resiliency.
Many organizational and management-level issues can crop up in the topic of risk, authority and resiliency. For example, there are many scenarios when people have a lot of responsibility but no authority. Legitimate power delegated is a key to organizational success and growth. (Managing down the chain).
Reba and others commented on individual-level requirements such as "if I found it, then I fix it". Leadership and care at the individual level are required for organizations to survive and grow optimally. Tableau has a core cultural value of "We Work as a Team" and that works well but it can also get into a blaming situation where no one (only the team) is accountable. I felt that a similar cultural value of "I either hand-off well or I win." was a good one.
"I either hand off or we win."
Bruce, an always great contributor at the meetings, shared the phrase "you can't manage a secret". And Leland, also new to the meeting, shared about the need for positive handoff.
Ultimately culture and individual attitudes, aggregated, play into the ability of an organization to identify and effectively manage risk, be compliant and be resilient. Next month, we will talk about Managing External Relationships that plays into this topic very well. Keep your eyes and ears peeled for our podcast on these and other topics coming soon.
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We talked for over two hours.
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The seven board members also said in their letter that they want a review of the role the superintendent and department had in legislation that puts a CEO in charge of running Youngstown's city schools.
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Game design
Framework for game design, enhancing organizational development
Design-in-the-large & Design-in-the-small
Design is a key activity in gaming & simulation. As Klabbers (2009) has pointed out, design – broadly conceived – aims at implementing courses of action with the purpose of changing existing (dysfunctional) situations or social systems into preferred ones. For proper understanding of gaming enhancing change and innovation, we have to distinguish two levels of design: a) design-in-the-small and b) design-in-the-large.
Design-in-the-large offers a basis for various forms of consulting, training and education in an attempt to foster new ways of thinking and acting in the context of organizational development. Games & simulations offer effective approaches to the framing and better understanding of social systems and to the generation of ideas and the shaping of action repertoires for change.
Design-in-the-small produces games and simulations (artifacts) as such, and related action learning environments with the aim of modifying existing organizational cultures and structures. Used with that goal in mind, they contribute to the design-in the-large process of social systems.
Games can be designed for dual purposes: a) to generate a practical tool (artifact) for supporting the design-in-the-large, or b) to devise a method or model in the analytical science tradition for developing and testing theories. In both cases games are being used to simulate (to model) existing social systems. Klabbers stresses the fact that members of gaming and simulation associations represent two distinct branches of science: a) design sciences (communities of practice) and b) analytical sciences (community of observers). The basic concept of the design sciences is to build games and assess their effects and usability. The scientific methods of the analytical sciences aim at using games for developing and testing theories. Both communities focus on different notions of causality and use different criteria for success.
Figure: Framework of two interconnected gaming and simulation communities (Klabbers, 2009).
Game design is an iterative process, strongly influenced by the ongoing conversations between the Designer and Client. Design methodology is not a chapter from a cookbook with a series of recipes on how to cook a meal. Game design is a science, an art, as well as a craft. The following scheme offers the framework for the conceptual design of games, as precondition for the subsequent technical design. It provides basic clues about the game architecture.
The iterative design process is illustrated below.
For more details, see Chapter 5 of the book:
The Magic Circle: Principles of Gaming & Simulation


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Is using a URL shortening service patent infringement? INTERNET MEDIA v. CRACKER BARREL
Is using a URL shortening service patent infringement? INTERNET MEDIA v. CRACKER BARREL
A patent is a set of exclusive rights granted to the inventor of an invention. An inventor gains a patent in the Untied States by filing a patent application with the Untied States Patent and Trademark Office. For a patent application to be granted, the invention described in the application must be new, useful and not obvious. If the Untied States Patent and Trademark Office determines that the invention described in a patent application meets all the requirements, the inventor will be granted a patent on the invention. A patent gives an inventor the exclusive right to make, use, sell and import an invention in the United States. If someone other than the patent owner exercises of of these rights that can be considered patent infringement. A patent owner can sue to stop patent infringement with an injunction and get monetary damages for patent infringement which has occurred.
A defendant in a patent infringement lawsuit can be liable for infringement in two different ways. Direct infringement of a patent occurs when the defendant's performs all the actions which infringe on the claims of a patent. A defendant can also be held liable for patent infringement even if it does not personally perform all the actions which infringe on a patent under the theory of vicarious liability. Traditionally a defendant would be found vicarioulsy liable for patent infringement when (1) the defendant directed a third party to infringe on the patent or (2) where the actors form a joint enterprise. In Akamai Techs., Inc. v. Limelight Networks, Inc., 805 F.3d 1368 (Fed. Cir. 2015) the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit articulated a third theory for vicarious liability i.e. when an alleged infringer conditions participation in an activity or receipt of a benefit upon performance of a step or steps of a patented method and establishes the manner or timing of that performance.
This means that if a business creates a situation where a customer of the business is induced to infringe a patent, the business can be held vicariously liable for patent infringement. The Limelight case involved a internet content distribution network, where customers needed to complete certain configuration steps to make Limelight's product operate. Limelight argued that it was not liable for patent infringement because its product did not infringe on the plaintiff's patent until a customer performed certain steps. The court was not persuaded by this argument because Limelight's product had no value to the customer until all the steps were performed.
Limelight was considered precedent changing because it expanded the definition of vicarious liability for patent infringement. Other plaintiffs are now trying to expand the precedent set in Limelight even further.
A case which cites Limelight as precedent is INTERNET MEDIA INTERACTIVE CORP., v. CRACKER BARREL OLD COUNTRY STORE, INC., 2:19-cv-00237 (M.D.FL 2019). The plaintiff in this case is a holding company that owns United States Patent No. 6,049,835, entitled "System For Providing Easy Access To The World Wide Web Utilizing A Published List Of Preselected Internet Locations Together With Their Unique Multi-Digit Jump Codes," which issued on April 11, 2000 ("the '835 Patent"). In the most simple terms, the patent relates to a URL shortener. A URL shortener takes a very long website address and reduces it down to a few characters that are easier to type or transmit through a messaging service.
The defendant operates a chain of popular restaurants throughout the United States. To promote its restaurants the defendant posts advertisements with links to coupons on social media sites. The links use a URL shortening service so the link is easier to manually type and so the links take up less space.
The plaintiff sued the defendant for direct infringement as well as vicarious infringement. The plaintiff cites Limelight as precedent to bolster its argument. Like Limelight, the defendant in this case is inducing a customer to perform and action to gain a benefit (a customer clicks a link to get a coupon). However the steps performed by customers in Limelight were more involved than merely clicking a link. If the defendant fights this case it is likely they will argue, (1) that the '835 patent is invalid, (2) that Limelight requires more involvement than a trivial action like clicking a link to impose vicarious liability.
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Saigon Vietnam is a city teeming with motorbikes, coffee and soup. At least that's what we found during our two-week exploration of the Saigon food scene. Read on if you're wondering what to eat in Saigon.
With a population exceeding 8 million people, rapidly growing Saigon rumbles with activity on every corner like a machine with chainlike lines of never-ending scooters that streak through some of the busiest intersections in the world.
The Saigon food scene is for real. There's literally great food on every block from Southern Vietnamese style Pho to what seems to be a million variations on bun or rice noodles.
Discover more of the world's best noodle dishes.
Regardless of whether you choose to use Saigon or Ho Chi Minh City, you'll quickly notice that the city loves Banh Mi. You'll find the Vietnamese submarine sandwiches everywhere – the Banh Mi was invented in Saigon after all. Northern specialties like Banh Cuon are also popular. You will never get bored eating Saigon food!
Saigon vs. Ho Chi Minh City
Though the city's official name is now Ho Chi Minh City, many in the electric city calls it Saigon. That's what we call it too.
If that's not enough, you can always enjoy a seafood celebration in one of the many seafood halls that seem to be everywhere. We encountered one seafood joint with a ginormous king crab lurking in a tank for all to see.
If you're still wondering where to eat in Saigon – the answer is everywhere.
Saigon Food Experiences Not To Miss
Saigon is a great city to sample a wide selection of the best food in Vietnam. The city serves up local specialties like Pho on practically every street, but it's also easy to find a wide selection of traditional Vietnamese food from all over the country.
But where should a tourist start? We won't pretend to be Saigon cuisine experts after two weeks of eating our way through the city; however, we happily share our favorite ways of eating (and drinking coffee) in this Vietnamese mega-city here.
1. Take A Saigon Food Tour
We have an ongoing love-hate relationship with food tours. We love the idea of taking food tours to learn about the culinary aspects of a city while bonding with local experts and like-minded travelers. At the same time, we hate dumbed-down tours that waste our time and bore our taste buds.
We gambled with Saigon Street Eats when we accepted their invitation for their Pho Trail morning food tour. Owned and managed by a food-loving Australian-Vietnamese couple, this tour company falls into the good category of food tours. Co-owner Vu guided us around a non-touristy Saigon neighborhood for pho, market food, sugar cane juice and a temple picnic.
During the tour, Vu shared food and food tips as we wandered with purpose, plus some valuable tips on how to cross the city's busy streets. We won't tell you exactly where we went as that would just ruin the fun when you take this Ho Chi Minh City food tour yourself.
Learn more about taking a Saigon street food tour with Saigon Street Eats.
2. Eat Saigon Street Food
Some cities like Paris and Tokyo demand an exploration of their fine dining scenes. Saigon is not one of them.
Sure, Saigon is a big city with its fair share fancy restaurants, but the best way to eat in Saigon is by taking it to the street. Each block in the city has multiple casual restaurants plus a myriad of vendors serving homespun food right on the sidewalk. Popular Vietnamese street food includes Banh Mi sandwiches and Bot Chien (pictured above).
There are tons of internet lists with recommended street food vendors, but we found our favorite Saigon street food vendors by following our eyes and noses.
Our preferred technique is to see where and what the local crowds are eating and then plop down on a little plastic chair to join them. The risk is low since prices are so reasonable, but the taste rewards are boundless.
3. Slurp Soup
In many ways, Saigon serves as a "best of" for Vietnamese cuisine. If you look hard enough and research a Ho Chi Minh food blog or two, you can find all of the country's specialties done with a Saigon twist.
Soup is no exception to this rule. Hanoi may be the original home for Pho, but Saigon does its own sweeter version. How about Bun Bo Hue? Yep, you can easily find this Central Vietnam favorite in Saigon too.
As an extra bonus, most Saigon soup shops provide copious amounts of fresh herbs like Thai Basil, Mint, Culantro (a heartier stemmed relative to cilantro) and Rice Paddy Herb. In Saigon, you can also add pickled garlic and a slew of condiments to the big bowls of soup.
4. Graze Through A Saigon Market
Vietnam is a country with more than its fair share of natural resources, and there's no better place to check out the bounty of HCMC food options than at a local market. Ben Thanh Market is the city's most famous market, but we found this huge central market to be touristic and expensive. Instead, we preferred the smaller neighborhood markets which can be found all over the city.
Pro Tip
As fun as it is to shop at the city's many markets, check out high-end Japanese department store Takashimaya. We shared a big platter of sushi and a tasty custard pastry in Takashimaya's basement food court for very reasonable prices.
Ben Thanh Market is located at 32-30, 36-34-32-30 Bội Phan Châu, Bến Thành, Hồ Chí Minh, Vietnam.
Takashimaya is located at Saigon Centre, 65 Le Loi Street, Ben Nghe Ward, District1, Hồ Chí Minh, Vietnam.
5. Eat Breakfast
Breakfast is a big deal in Saigon.
Many people eat this meal at their favorite Saigon restaurant on their way to work, often eating a big bowl of Pho or a quick Banh Mi sandwich on the go. Though we mostly ate Pho and Banh Cuon (stuffed noodle rolls) for breakfast in Saigon, our favorite Saigon breakfast is Banh Mi Op La at Banh Mi Hoa Ma.
Sitting on tiny plastic chairs with a view of the city traffic and the constant construction noise is the perfect way to enjoy Banh Mi Op La. This restaurant's sparse menu includes Banh Mi sandwiches and Banh Mi Op La Du Thu.
We prefer the latter – platters of fried eggs and assorted meats served with pickled vegetables, paté and crispy baguettes. With the addition of a little hot sauce and two cups of ice coffee, this meal was our favorite Saigon breakfast and maybe even our favorite Saigon meal.
Bánh Mì Hoà Mã is located at 53 Cao Thắng, phường 17, Hồ Chí Minh, Vietnam.
6. Drink Specialty Coffee
As the biggest city in the world's second largest coffee bean producing country, Saigon has a lot of coffee shops. And by a lot, we mean thousands if not more.
Locals drink coffee at all times of the day, usually iced and with a lot of condensed milk. Some coffee shops, like Aha Cafe in the bottom of our apartment building, are simple spaces serving coffee and smoothies in a community setting. Liberally sprinkled throughout the city, small coffee shops like Aha fuel the city with endless cups of strong, sweet coffee.
Saigon's growing coffee shop trend, however, is more upscale with coffee shops like L'Usine and The Workshop, fitting with the city's growing artisan food movement. L'Usine's space includes a design shop and restaurant, adding up to an elegant coffee experience. Located on the third floor of an old industrial building, The Workshop provides a more streamlined space with sophisticated coffee drinks.
When we closed our eyes at these two modern coffee shops, we could have been anywhere in the world. We opened them and were happy to be sipping coffee in a Saigon cafe.
Aha Cafe has multiple locations. We drank at the one located at 92 Phạm Ngọc Thach, Phượng 6, Hồ Chí Minh, Vietnam.
L'Usine is located at 70A-70B-68 Lê Lợi, Bến Thành, quân 1, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
The Workshop is located at 3 / F pq 1, 27 Ngô Đức kẻ, Bến Nghe, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
Things To Do In Saigon
How much Pho can you can slurp in a day? Here are some ideas of what to do when you're not eating in Saigon:
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About The Authors
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Saveur Magazine's BEST TRAVEL BLOG award winners Daryl and Mindi Hirsch share their culinary travel experiences and recipes on their website 2foodtrippers. Since launching the site in 2012, they've traveled to over 40 countries in their quest to bring readers a unique taste of the world.
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Original Publication Date: October 18, 2016


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For the year under review, the Group recorded a significant growth. Revenue amounted to approximately RMB17.475 billion, representing an increase of 63.83% as compared with RMB10.667 billion last year. Gross profit rose 45.83% year-on-year to approximately RMB4.021 billion, while profit attributable to shareholders increased 31.16% to approximately RMB2.29 billion. Basic earnings per share were RMB0.99. The board of directors proposed a dividend payout of RMB0.34 for the year ended 31 December 2010.
Mr. Wu Gang, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Goldwind, said, "In 2010, China's wind power industry continued to experience rapid growth. The massive demand for energy and wind energy's relatively small contribution so far, there is a fantastic opportunity for the rapid growth of the Chinese wind power industry to continue. According to statistics published by the Chinese Wind Energy Association, China's newly installed wind power capacity reached 18.93 GW, representing an increase of 37.1% from 2009. With such favorable economic conditions, the Group has continued its strong growth momentum and delivered remarkable results for the year under review."
The Group commits itself to the research, design and manufacture of high quality WTGs with high efficiency and reliability. The revenue from sales of WTG and spare parts surged 64.34% year-on-year to RMB17.005 billion. Total sales volume was 4,006.75 MW, an increase of 96.84% over 2009. Up to now, the Group's major WTG manufacturing layout has been completed, which includes nine production bases, namely Yizhuang in Beijing, Urumuqi in Xinjiang, Baotou in Inner Mongolia, Jiuquan in Gansu, Xi'an in Shaanxi, Dafeng in Jiangsu, Fuxin in Liaoning, Chengde in Hebei and Yinchuan in Ningxia. With the continued optimization of its technology and manufacturing process, the production capacity of 1.5MW WTG has reached 4,000 units, and all nine bases are also able to meet the production requirement of the 2.5MW WTG.
The Group's Xi'an production base began commenced operation in July 2010. It became the Group's major MW-level WTG production base in the northwestern area. The offshore WTG production base in Dafeng, Jiangsu was also launched for operation, establishing an important milestone for the Group's offshore strategy.
During the year under review, the Group acquired the domestically matured blade suppliers, Xiexin Wind Power (Jiangsu) Co., Ltd and Xiexin Wind Power (Xilinhaote) Co., Ltd., aimed at integrating design and production abilities of both companies, and develop the ability for blades in-house production, thus reducing costs. In 2010, the Group and Infineon Technologies AG, a leading global semiconductor solution provider, entered into an agreement to introduce core module technology to the Group, which also received the license to manufacture in-house Infineon modules required by the convertor of MW-level WTGs. In this way the self sufficiency in components could be enhanced.
Goldwind localizes its wind power services to enhance technical support and better ensure a rapid response to customers' needs. The Group provides its customers with comprehensive wind power services, including preliminary investment consultation, pre-construction services, project construction services, post construction operations and maintenance services, and various kinds of software support services such as SCADA and energy management platform, etc. In 2010, the revenue from wind power services reached RMB293 million, representing an increase of 35.90% over last year.
In 2010, the total newly installed capacity of completed wind farms was 327MW, while attributable installed capacity was 248.13MW. The Group sold six wind farms with an attributable installed capacity of approximately 155.82MW. As of 31 December 2010, the Group had 624MW of total installed capacity of completed wind farms and 417.42MW of attributable installed capacity. In addition to the completed wind farms, the attributable installed capacity of the projects still under construction is 306.38MW. In 2010, the revenue from the wind farm operations was RMB178 million, an increase of 71.35% over that of 2009. Revenue from wind farm sales was RMB444 million, an increase of RMB254 million from 2009.
Goldwind also made remarkable progress in its international business during the year under review. TianRun Shady Oaks, LLC, a wholly-owned U.S. subsidiary of Goldwind, won a bid and entered into a long-term agreement for the supply of electricity to Illinois-based Shady Oaks Wind Farm for a term of 20 years starting from 2012. In addition, the Group also entered into an agreement with China Machinery & Equipment International Tendering Co., Ltd. for the supply of 34 units of 1.5MW DDPM WTGs for the Adama wind farm project in Ethiopia, representing Goldwind's first step into the African market.
n addition, the Company will supply 21 units of 1.5MW WTGs for the Alexigros project in Cyprus and over 70 units of MW-level WTGs for the Gullen Range project in Australia. This marks a major milestone for the Group's development in Australian market.
Looking forward, Mr. Wu Gang concluded, "We believe in the positive outlook for the global wind power market in 2011. The Global Wind Energy Council forecasted that the global accumulated installed capacity to reach 533GW in 2015 and 1,071GW in 2020. By then wind power will provide 13% of the total electricity supply in the world. Taking opportunities and challenges presented by industry trends, we will continue to increase our R&D investment to accelerate the pace of products development, and enhance the technology with our leading cost control system and competition strategy. Apart from this, we also plan to actively develop our business in the international market and further integrate our global business resources. Striving to develop a multi-level business model with a focus on WTGs and a new profit-making model, we are dedicated to integrating wind power technology, manufacturing, services and project development, and maximizing returns for our shareholders and creating the best value for our customers."


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