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Yesterday, in a major summit arranged at the White House, President Obama met with the rival leaders of both Pakistan and Afghanistan who have been blaming each other for problems with Al Qaeda and the Taliban and allowing terrorism. President Obama achieved peace between the rival leaders and got assurances from both to cooperate against the common enemies of the Taliban, Al Qaeda and terrorism. Also, from Pakistan, there were promises to use military force with the Taliban and to stop making any new peace deals with them.
In just one White House summit, President Obama was able to achieve a great deal, and was able to advance his policy to defeat both the Taliban and Al Qaeda. A new cooperation pact with the United States, Pakistan and Afghanistan to work towards the same goals is vital to defeating the Taliban and Al Qaeda.
Some Republicans had hoped to raise foreign policy doubts about President Obama, however he has proven himself to be tough just like other Democrats who have been forced to respond with military force when America felt compelled to act. Democratic President Woodrow Wilson sent American troops into combat during WWI. Democratic President Franklin Roosevelt sent American troops into combat after the United States was attacked by the Japanese Navy at Pearl Harbor. Democratic President Harry Truman sent American forces to blunt Chinese Communist aggression in Korea. Democratic Presidents Kennedy and Johnson first sent military advisors, and then combat troops in an effort to stop aggression and to achieve peace in the Vietnamese Civil War. Democratic President Bill Clinton sent American forces to combat aggression and ethnic cleansing in Yugoslavia. In far more instances, Democratic presidents have deployed military force from the United States to attempt to restore peace and order in serious incidents than have Republican presidents, yet some Republicans continue to misrepresent that Democrats are either weak on defense or will fail to protect the nation's interests, of which history clearly proves are false assertions.
President Obama is very serious about achieving a military victory over the Taliban and Al Qaeda. And breaking the back of this terrorist network is a major foreign policy goal of his administration.
Note: Wizbang Blue is now closed and our authors have moved on. Paul Hooson can now be found at Wizbang Pop!. Please come see him there!


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The Abu Dhabi Art Squad was established in 1999 making it Abu Dhabi's first
artists' group.
Set up by New Zealand artist Bruce Hill as a group for artists to socialize and promote an artistic lifestyle in Abu Dhabi, ADAS thrives on its ethnic diversity.
The Art Squad works in the true spirit of the country as the cultural melting pot of East and West.
Our artists come from Asia, Europe, Africa and Oceania bringing to Abu Dhabi unique perspectives, cultural insights in their colorful creations.
ADAS fine artists* pride themselves in their individual, innovative styles and techniques.
Our artists have 29, 17, 12 and 7 years living experience in Abu Dhabi so know a lot about the visual and artistic history of this city.
Relevant because the members are living in the city now. ADAS artists bring city based talent to the growing Abu Dhabi art scene.
Please check out this website and feel free to contact us for any more information.
* Fine Art is defined as: " Creative art, especially visual art whose products are to be appreciated primarily or solely for their imaginative, aesthetic, or intellectual content." (Oxford living dictionary)


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U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Key Patent Law Doctrine
by Gerald J. Mossinghoff *
In a decidedly pro-patent, pro-innovation ruling on March 3, 1997, a unanimous Supreme Court in Warner-Jenkinson v. Hilton Davis ("Hilton Davis") upheld the patent law doctrine of equivalents. Speaking for the Court, Justice Clarence Thomas declined, as he phrased it, to "speak the death" of that important doctrine. The doctrine of equivalents was first defined in the mid nineteenth century, but was made the subject of considerable confusion by a sharply divided twelve-judge en banc Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in the Hilton Davis case, with four of the five dissenting judges calling for its abolishment.
Basically, the doctrine of equivalents holds that an inventor can recover from an alleged infringer of his or her patent even though the patent claims -- the legal definition of the invention in the patent -- are not literally infringed by the accused product or process. Nearly fifty years ago, in Graver Tank v. Linde Air Products, a divided Supreme Court blessed the doctrine of equivalents, but in terms that have led to considerable confusion, including the charge that the application -- or some would say misapplication -- of the Graver Tank holding violated the cardinal principle of patent law that a patent should define or claim an invention in such a way as to put would-be infringers on public notice of its metes and bounds.
In speaking for the unanimous Supreme Court, Justice Thomas defined with some precision the basic framework of the doctrine of equivalents, broke new legal ground in its application, and left for a later decision the question of whether the final determination in applying the doctrine of equivalents in any specific case is for the judge or for the jury.
The Doctrine of Equivalents is Alive and Well
The four dissenters from the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in the Hilton Davis case and, of course, the defendant, Warner-Jenkinson, argued that the doctrine of equivalents is inconsistent with the patent statute that requires an inventor to "particularly point out and distinctly claim" the invention in the patent. They argued that the 1950 Graver Tank ruling was overruled by the 1952 Patent Act, now in force. Justice Thomas rejected that position, noting that those arguments were also rejected in the Graver Tank decision under an 1870 statute that was virtually identical to the 1952 Act, and that, in 1952, Congress could easily have overruled Graver Tank, "but did not." He went on to observe that:
Congress can legislate the doctrine of equivalents out of existence any time it chooses. The various policy arguments now made by both sides are thus best addressed to Congress, not this Court.
The Court, however, did . . .
share the concern of the dissenters below that the doctrine of equivalents, as it has come to be applied since Graver Tank, has taken on a life of its own, unbounded by the patent claims.
To address that concern, the Court adopted the position of the late Judge Nies of the Federal Circuit in her dissent in the case. Specifically, the Supreme Court held that:
Each element contained in a patent claim is deemed material to defining the scope of the patented invention, and thus the doctrine of equivalents must be applied to individual elements of the claim, not to the invention as a whole. It is important to ensure that the application of the doctrine, even as to an individual element, is not allowed such broad play as to effectively eliminate that element in its entirety. So long as the doctrine of equivalents does not encroach beyond the limits just described . . . we are confident that the doctrine will not vitiate the central functions of the patent claims themselves.
Prosecution History Estoppel
Since it was first formulated, the doctrine of equivalents has been balanced against what is referred to as "file wrapper estoppel" or "prosecution history estoppel." If, during the prosecution of a patent application in the Patent Office, the inventor had to narrow his or her claims to avoid "prior art" or earlier work by others, the inventor would not be able thereafter to broaden the claim through the doctrine of equivalents in effect to recapture ground already given up. It was on this point that the Supreme Court reversed the Federal Circuit and remanded the case. In the process, the Supreme Court established a new rule.
The Hilton Davis case turned on the question of whether in a process for the ultrafiltration of dyes, an infringing process that used an acidity or "pH" of 5.0 infringed Hilton Davis' claims which specified that the pH should range "from approximately 6.0 to 9.0." That latter range limitation had been added by Hilton Davis during the prosecution of the patent at issue, and it was clear that the upper limit of 9.0 pH was added to avoid prior art. The reasons for inserting the lower limit of the range was not clear from the record before the Supreme Court, and, on that ground, the Court reversed and remanded the case to determine the reasons. Significantly, in remanding the case the Supreme Court announced a new rule of patent law in the following terms:
We are left with the problem, however, of what to do in a case like the one at bar, where the record seems not to reveal the reason for including the lower pH limit of 6.0. In our view, holding that certain reasons for a claim amendment may avoid the application of prosecution history estoppel is not tantamount to holding that the absence of a reason for an amendment may similarly avoid such an estoppel. Mindful that claims do indeed serve both a definitional and a notice function, we think the better rule is to place the burden on the patent holder to establish the reason for an amendment required during patent prosecution. The court then would decide whether that reason is sufficient to overcome prosecution history estoppel as a bar to application of the doctrine of equivalents to the element added by that amendment. Where no explanation is established, however, the court should presume that the PTO had a substantial reason related to patentability for including the limiting element added by amendment. In those circumstances, prosecution history estoppel would bar the application of the doctrine of equivalents as to that element.
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Applied in this fashion, prosecution history estoppel places reasonable limits on the doctrine of equivalents, and further insulates the doctrine from any feared conflict with the Patent Act.
In her concurring opinion, in which Justice Kennedy joined, Justice Ginsburg aded a "cautionary note" on this rebuttal presumption the Court formulated and urged the Federal Circuit to take the following point into consideration on remand:
The new presumption, if applied woodenly, might in some instances unfairly discount the expectations of a patentee who had no notice at the time of patent prosecution that such a presumption would apply.
The Intent of the Infringer Plays No Role
Putting an end to a discussion of intent-based elements of the doctrine of equivalents -- whether the substitution of an equivalent element was the result of copying, designing around a patent, or independent experimentation -- Justice Thomas was very clear:
The better view, and the one consistent with Graver Tank's predecessors and the objective approach to infringement, is that intent plays no role in the application of the doctrine of equivalents.
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Application of the doctrine of equivalents, therefore, is akin to determining literal infringement, and neither requires proof of intent.
The Time for Determining Equivalency Is at the Time of Infringement
Clearing up confusion on the proper time frame to determine whether an element in the accused product or process is equivalent to an element in a patent claim, Justice Thomas again was unambiguous:
Insofar as the question under the doctrine of equivalents is whether an accused element is equivalent to a claimed element, the proper time for evaluating equivalency -- and thus knowledge of interchangeability between elements -- is at the time of infringement, not at the time the patent was issued.
Given the ever-increasing pace of technological development -- for example, the rapid substitution of transistors for vacuum tubes in the late 1950s or the substitution of digital computers for analog computers in the 1960s -- this ruling is quite appropriate.
The invention of the transistor provides a classic example of why the doctrine of equivalents makes so much sense. Before the invention and widespread use of transistors in the 1950s, electronic inventions invariably involved vacuum tubes having anodes, cathodes, and grids. Frequently, patent claims would define the invention using these terms. After their introduction, fully equivalent transistors had collectors, emitters, and bases. By merely substituting a transistor for a vacuum tube in a novel patented circuit, an infringer should not have been able to escape liability under a patent on the circuit. Also, in such a case, the equivalency could only be determined at the time of the infringement and not at the time the patent was granted before there was such a thing as a transistor.
Unresolved Issues
In the line of decisions prior to Hilton Davis that discussed the doctrine of equivalents, a dichotomy evolved in the terminology used to apply the doctrine. Some applied a so-called "function-way-result" test, i.e., "focusing on the function served by a particular claim element, the way that element serves that function, and the result thus obtained by that element." Others preferred an approach that looked to whether or not there were "insubstantial differences" between the invention claimed and the accused product or process. The Supreme Court noted that "different linguistic frameworks may be more suitable to different cases, depending on their particular facts" and that the Court sees "no purpose in going further in micro-managing the Federal Circuit's particular word-choice for analyzing equivalents."
On the question of whether application of the doctrine of equivalents is a task for the judge or for the jury, the Supreme Court noted that although the Federal Circuit held that it was for the jury to decide whether the accused process was equivalent to the claimed process in Hilton Davis -- a proposition for which the Court said there was "ample support in our prior cases" -- the Court went on to indicate that this is "not a question we need to decide today."
Prior to the Supreme Court's decision in Hilton Davis, it is an understatement to say there was considerable confusion surrounding the application of the doctrine of equivalents. That doctrine was first formulated more than a century ago to make sure that inventors -- the creators of new technology -- were amply rewarded for their contributions to society. The confusion surrounding the doctrine clearly had the effect of discouraging investment in research and development. In its remarkably lucid decision, the Supreme Court, by clearing up most of the major issues surrounding the application of the doctrine, has come forth with a very pro-inventor, pro-technology ruling which will serve inventors and society very well into the twenty-first century.
Reprinted with permission. Previously published by Washington Legal Foundation in Legal Backgrounder, Volume 12, Number 9, April 4, 1997.
*.Gerald J. Mossinghoff is Senior Counsel to the Arlington, Virginia law firm of Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt. A former Assistant Secretary of Commerce and Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks in the Reagan Administration, Mr. Mossinghoff is currently a Visiting Professor of Intellectual Property Law at the George Washington University School of Law.


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I'm sorry for so many miscellaneous photo posts lately! I've been far too busy to take proper outfit photos, so here are some from a rooftop dinner party at my friend Anna's gorgeous flat a few days ago.
Wearing a vintage 60s dress, seamed stockings and no shoes. I was shooting with my Belomo Vilia, my favourite of all my 10 cameras, which was a surprise gift from Logan for my 18th birthday. I took lots more photos, which will be revealed when I get around to getting the films developed! Ever since I got my Olympus DSLR I am struggling to get back into film photography, which is a shame because my digital photos are so crap. I guess I could tack that onto the end of the New Years resolutions!
In other news, I acquired not one, not two, but ten vintage dresses (and a skirt (AND A CAPE!)) over the weekend. All will be revealed later!


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- I've met so many talented people from all over the world that I've simply lost count.
- I've gotten introduced to so many social media sites I've never even heard of … Wanelo, Whosin, Craft Juice, Behance, ??? … my head hurts trying to remember all of the names of them.
- I've received so many social media marketing tips that I started writing them all down and organizing them old-school fashion on legal paper.
- I'm in the process of uploading every piece of inventory I have into my Etsy shop, so I can have them ready to set-up in my CRAFTfest stall.
- I visited my forgotten Twitter account and actually started posting tweets.
- I linked my blog and newly created Behance portfolio to my LinkedIn account.
Wednesday, August 8, 2012
Eight Dollars, Sixteen Cents
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- AnonymousAugust 8, 2012 at 1:02 PM
I share your thoughts about craftfest... the amount of information is quite overwhelming in a good sense and there are a lot of talented people taking part in it. It's really great!ReplyDeleteReplies
I know. I can't wait until November it will be even crazier!Delete
What a lovely post Jillian, and thanks for featuring my work too!ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks! I appreciate all of your help and promotions tips. Oh, and I love the piece I featured. It makes me smile.Delete
Great Post.ReplyDelete
Personally I think you have your head around most of this stuff much better than most of us!
You are well on your way.
Thanks! I'm not sure about that, but I'm getting there : )Delete
Great Blog Jillian,ReplyDelete
Could you add me to one of your future blogs please.
Here is the link to my Crafttfest Stall
Thanks! I'd be happy to feature you in a future blog!ReplyDelete
I'm just catching up after a four week summer break. What a great blog post Jillian. I share your enthusiasm for CRAFTfest, having taken part in my first one in June. Looking forward to the September and November events.ReplyDelete
I would be really happy if you could add me to a future blog post.
My CRAFTfest stall link is:
Thanks! Its definitely been an experience. I'd be happy to feature you in a future post.ReplyDelete


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Our fingers lace,
as if they were always knit;
you guide me into the street,
where centuries of secrets rise
between paving stones,
from under darkroom doors.
Like our first embrace,
my new jacket goes unnoticed
in monochrome.
Stolen glance ― snap!
Your eyes flash Kodak,
encompassing everything north.
Nothing important is exchanged;
a few riddles, exhaled laughs,
camera-shy smiles.
Under a suspended crescent,
you surprise ― all quick-turn and lips ―
like the Doisneau.
tk/December 2014


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Bear Boutique
Baby Teddy Sweater BearAwwwww.....bear crafted using John's baby sweater overalls
So many memories! John wore this outfit on our very special occasions. The crosstitch/knit teddy/rocking horse has been hand embroidered and attached to the original overall straps, as an apron for the sweater bear. John wore this sweet beret too!
Detroit TigersBear crafted for grandson Jackson in honor of Tiger's player Austin Jackson (Jackson has brother Austin!) using infant pajamas
Go Tigers! The Detroit Tigers organization repinned this bear to their pinterest page!
Antique BearBear crafted for newborn girl using grandmother's antique blanket.
Soldier BearOur Troops' Loved Ones
Soldier Bear crafted using fatigue uniform, embellished with patches. Perfect to keep loved ones close to us.
Cub Scout BearMickey, Tulsa OK
Cub Scout Bear was crafted for Mickey to celebrate his first grandchild; bear was crafted using his son's childhood cub scout uniform. This side profile demonstrates the pose-abilities, using authentic joints of arms, neck and legs.
Snowflake BearRandy, Tulsa OK
Snowflake Bear crafted from LaDonna's soft, flannel winter pajamas; snow flake motif embroidered on ear.
RufflesRandy, Tulsa OK
Ruffles was crafted from LaDonna's ruffled capri pajamas; bow used with drawstring from pajama bottom.
Red WingsMom, Tulsa OK
Detroit Red Wings Bear crafted from official NHL jersey, Go Wings!
Sweatshirt BearRandy, Tulsa OK
NYC sweatshirt bear crafted from LaDonna's souvenir sweatshirt; tummy of bear incorporates the ribbed front pocket of sweatshirt.


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Wednesday, 9 May 2012
31 day blog challenge..... Day 9
What are your worst habits......
I bite my nails when stressed, They were growing for a few weeks and are now non existent again!
I procrastinate way too much, I make a list each week for housework and I never seem get it finished.
I get distracted way too easily, I am teaching myself Java at the minute as a possible route into IT but I am getting distracted by twitter, MSN , Facebook and Pinterest, then I realise its 11pm and I haven't done that much. The book I am learning from is teach yourself Java in 21 days, at my rate of going It might take me a year.
I hate ironing so therefore I don't do it until Its unavoidable
I over think, stress and worry over silly things, this is probably my worst habit.
Thirty Mummy x
Posted by Lisa @ Thirty Mummy at 15:59
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I know what you mean about distraction. I have ADD and have such a hard time! And I never do ironing. I tried it once and burnt my shirt so haven't attempted it since!ReplyDelete
I HATE ironing, it should be banned! With you on the biting/picking nails when stressed too xxReplyDelete
Definitely I am with you on your last ones - over thinking, stress and worry - check!ReplyDelete
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Victor Davis Hanson on Obama's schoolchildren address next week, and where we are in Afghanistan
HH: I begin this hour by welcoming back Victor Davis Hanson, extraordinary military historian and classicist. Professor Hanson, always a pleasure, thanks for joining us.
VDH: Thank you for having me.
HH: I want to start by discussing with you what I began last hour with, an announcement by the Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan last week, that the President of the United States has decided to address all of the nation's schoolchildren on September the 8th. Arne Duncan wrote in a letter to all principals that this is the first time an American president has spoken to the nation's schoolchildren about persisting and succeeding in school. We encourage you to use this historic moment to help your students get focused and begin the year strong. I encourage you, your teachers and students to join me in watching the President deliver this address on Tuesday, September the 8th. Then, they distributed a bunch of suggested classroom activities, which are just so creepy. But the one that I'll draw your attention to, "Extension of speech – Teacher can extend learning by having students write letters to themselves about what they can do to help the President. These would be collected and redistributed at an appropriate later date by the teacher to make students accountable to their goals." Your reaction, Victor Davis Hanson?
VDH: Well, I mean, this is what, all he has to do is put a red cover, and he's in China, and a green cover, and he's in Libya. This is what totalitarian societies do. They reach out to children in the schools who don't have any choice. The teacher apparently can't say you know what? I don't want to do this, or a child can't say I don't want to read this, because it's part of a mandated curriculum. It's…and this is happening, remember, at a time when his polls are crashing, so you get the impression that last week, it was to invoke God and say that people who were against health care were not properly religious, and now it's to go over the heads of everybody to the children. You know, this administration, we saw this in the campaign with the Latinate, Vero Possumus, yes we can, this is our moment that the seas will stop rising, the planet still start cooling. There was this whole narcissistic, messianic sense of himself. And it's kind of, it is creepy. That's a perfect word for it.
HH: Now in terms of your suggested response, many, many listeners just do not like this at all. In fact, some are very stressed out about it. I think they should go to their principal and say I don't want my kid involved in this, and I don't think they should be intimidated by people who say they're making a mountain out of a molehill. But at that point, they're going to need a response as to why it's not making a mountain out of a molehill. How would you have them respond to that?
VDH: I would have them not only say that they don't want their child in class where they have to have a mandated politically correct address from the President. But I'd try to suggest that teachers don't go, either, because the teachers, I don't think that's in part of their contract that they have to go in and get group think. This is sort of like, this whole thing about…I wrote a column not long ago about Orwell and Barack Obama, this idea that everybody blames Bush. He's like Emanuel Goldstein, where you go shout at him, he did it, he did it. Today, Robert Gibbs said oh, it's not our fault in Afghanistan, Bush did it. This is nine months later when there's more casualties this year in Afghanistan already than there was under the last year of the Bush administration. And it's this whole double think, double speak, group think, it's creepy. And it comes out of the Chicago organizing, therapeutic mindset that we saw before during the campaign. And every time I hear this, I hate to be so negative, but when Barack Obama says he wants to transcend race, I hear, I expect another Sotomayor wise Latina, or profile speech about Skip Gates. When he says he wants to balance a budget and be fiscally sober, I expect a $2 trillion dollar deficit. When he says he wants to repeal the Bush abrogation of the Constitution, I expect he won't do anything with tribunals, even Guantanamo. He'll leave it alone. Every single thing that the man says should give us all pause, and it's not going to be true. He's not going to complete it.
HH: Now I also want to stress, though, Professor Hanson, I would make the same exception if it was George W. Bush.
VDH: I would, too.
HH: So explain to people why as a matter not just of Obama, but presidents should not be talking to school kids in a captive setting.
VDH: We have these examples, we're very fortunate, because we look abroad, and I've been to Libya, and the first thing you see when you get into downtown Tripoli, is that everybody has to have a green book, and all the children have to wear green, and the same thing in China with the red scarf and the former Soviet Union. And that's a method of the totalitarian manner, that children en masse have to hear a great leader speak to them. The Great Leader is never a guy with a Hitlerian mustache. He's always a sympathetic, big brother-type figure that's compassionate, soft-spoken, and that's what Orwell was trying to get at. He was trying to warn people that totalitarianism is not going to come from an easy identifiable brown shirt. It's going to come from somebody who's going to take care of you. He's going to tell you what kind of car you should have bought. He's going to give you money when you make your mistakes. He's going to help you get out of your mortgage. He's going to take over the car industry for you. He's going to give you health care. And he's going to do all these things for you. That's what's really creepy about this entire broad assault on the traditional notion of what America used to be.
HH: Now I do believe, though, that part of that assault has produced a counter-reaction, and that the reason his numbers are plummeting is not just because Obamacare's a terrible idea on policy grounds, but because people do not like the arrogance, the condescension…
VDH: Yeah, I think you're absolutely right. We saw the last six weeks that on every issue, cap and trade, nationalized health care, stimulus, deficit spending, the apology tours, those issues were polling 10% negatively. And then we thought you know, blue dogs and everybody went along with it because the President's ratings were up to 55 and 60%. Now, people, it's gone down to 45-50%, and the issues are unpopular. But now the President is, and the question is why. And I think it's because they thought that he was getting, they were getting a no more red state, no more blue state sympathetic, racially transcendent figure, empathetic figure. But now they're starting to see you know what? This guy makes fun of the Special Olympics, he says doctors take out tonsils and cut out legs, the insurance companies profit unduly, Wall Street, you shouldn't go to Vegas, you shouldn't go to the Super Bowl, he weighs in on things, and he's got a mean streak about him. And people are starting to see that he's a polarizing figure, and he is becoming more of the caricature of the right that said don't elect this man, because he pals around with hard core people like Rashid Khalidi, Bill Ayers, Reverend Wright, Father Pleger. And we all thought you know, that's a little bit too much, but exactly, he's turning out to be that Chicago polarizing, divisive figure. And I think that's made his polls suddenly go down. It's the most precipitous drop in the polls in the first eight months of any presidency since Bill Clinton.
HH: Let's talk about the one area where he's done well, which is Afghanistan policy to date, resupplying and re-supporting the effort there, although he's under pressure from the left to abandon it. George Will today called for abandoning Afghanistan. Your reaction, Victor Davis Hanson?
VDH: Well, everybody's done that in the history of…there were people who said that we should have a negotiated, after Okinawa, they said we should negotiate with the Japanese, and we should not ask for unconditional surrender. In August of 1950, there were a whole bunch of people who said we're down at Pusan, and we cannot win the Korea War. And then when we went up to the Yalu once again, and the Chinese made it, they said we can't get it, let's quit, and Ridgeway came and restored things. We saw that in Iraq, the surge won't work. This country's had these moments, and we've only given in one time, and that was during the Vietnam War, which I think everybody now starts to see was not doomed to be lost. So I think you know, I respect George Will and everything, but look, we only have 30-something thousand, 32,000 troops in Afghanistan. We can escalate if we have to. But there's a question that I'm curious about, and it really confounds the left's thinking. We only lost from 2003, '04, '05, we were losing 48, 52, 98, 97 people a year, less in a year in Afghanistan than we were in Iraq. Suddenly, we're spiking up to 150, I think it's 158 this week. And the question is why, when Iraq is cooling? And I think a lot of it is that the Taliban and al Qaeda thought that they could not win last year, the years before, because of what we were doing in Iraq. We were A) killing a lot of al Qaeda people in a way we couldn't in Afghanistan, because there wasn't a sanctuary nearby. But more importantly, we were committed to staying there. And the last 8 months, the radical Muslim world is seeing the left in America say we're going to get out of Afghanistan, they've seen the timetable in Iraq, they've heard that the Muslim world is not culpable for certain things, they've seen these apologies, they've seen the dismantling of the war on terror, they've seen the CIA officers threatened with investigations. And I think the message to the Taliban and al Qaeda is you know what? We are worn out, we are scattered, we lost in Iraq, we lost tens of thousands, but you know what? They're in worse shape than we are if we just press and escalate. And we've seen that in history when Dean Atchison said South Korea's not in the sphere of U.S. influence, North Korea invaded. When April Glaspie said you know what, borders between Kuwait and Iraq are not our concern, Saddam did that. So when you give these signals from the White House, that whether you want to or not, or whether you intended to or not, or from the Democratic Congress that you're tired, we are just as culpable, that Bush did it, that Cheney is an odious figure, that, those images and implications have consequences.
HH: Victor Davis Hanson, in terms of General McCrystal, how many troops do you think he's going to call foree?
VDH: Oh, I think he's going to want about 60 or 70,000 total. And if he's going to try to pacify, I think what he's trying to do is lessen the violence, and then build this security force up to three or four hundred thousand.
HH: 60,000 in addition to those that are there or total?
VDH: Yeah, that's what Petraeus did in Iraq. Each time we had a problem, Petraeus sent more people into particular areas, and they doubled the size of the security forces, and it worked. But it's going to require, if you're going to win in Afghanistan, you can't say separate Iraq and the war on terror and say that Bush screwed up here, he did bad here. It's just not going to work. These are all fronts that are connected.
HH: Victor Davis Hanson, I appreciate your time so much.
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Think about the best experience of your life. Maybe it was a promotion you had. Maybe it was a trip you went on with your spouse or family. Maybe it was the quiet you had in the middle of the woods. Maybe it was even an insanely good deal you found.
There is something to be said about experiences. Experiences are proven in the research world, to provide that sense of happiness we all desire as humans. The thing is, in a world where consumerism is a hot commodity, spending money on experiences, rather than possessions, seems like a big mistake. And that is where I beg to differ.
Some of the best experiences of my life, have been while traveling. I started to wonder why that was, but I believe it's because experiences shape who we are. It's in experiences, where we see a bigger world, a greater purpose, and can see God in a whole new view, through His general revelation.
I've had the opportunity to travel outside of the U.S., on mission trips to the Dominican Republic twice and also to Belize. It was during those trips, that I saw the world in a whole new way – making those opportunities some of the most life-changing experiences. Not to mention, our mission trip to Alaska was just as influential – seeing the grandeur of God reflecting off the mountains. Wowzas.
My husband and I have also put a high priority on traveling together, whether it be to the Florida Keys, visiting friends, flying out of the country, or just taking a day trip around our state. Taking that time away, to me, is worth more than any possession I could ever own.
I am not saying you have to fly across the vast ocean to have a "good" experience. In fact, I think some of the most beautiful moments can be found right in our backyards, if we are just willing to take the time and look for them.
What I am saying is that what if we viewed life, not as a consumption of possessions, but as a way to experience the world and moments God has created right here for us, if we just step outside of our doors? The novelty of possessions fade. I can't think of many things that I just am still completely head over heels over. When it comes to possessions, it never is enough. The happiness surrounding them eventually wears off, and we are on to the next thing, looking for the next instant gratification piece. (Though I have to secretly admit that our Honda Odyssey does make traveling to experience, has made it well worth it! And no, this is not a paid advertisement for Honda).
When our time comes and God calls us home, we cannot take ANY possession with us. Not even our bodies, folks! So why spend a lifetime obtaining what will be left anyways? I suppose too, our experiences will seem like a trip to the grocery store when it stands in comparison to our experiences in heaven. But you get the idea.
When our daughter was born, we knew we could not buy her every latest and greatest gizmo or apparatus. And we were fine with that. But what we hope to do in life, is not always buy the latest and greatest, but to open her eyes to the beautiful world God has given us. Will we buy a one-way ticket one day to travel around the world? I doubt it. Will we try to create experiences that help shape her worldview? We hope to.
Think about what you spend your money on. Look around your home. Have all of your possessions been worth the money? What if you traded some of them in, for experiences instead? As an individual? As a couple? As a family?


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Port: 6667, 6668 or 6669 (for SSL connection use port 6697)
Channels: #pba,#pbatrades,#pba-international
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4. In the field that appears, type irc.atomicedge.org:+6697
Port 6697 is the SSL connection, but it is the only one that seems to work with the main mibbit site right now.
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Home -> Community -> Mailing Lists -> Oracle-L -> RE: How to invoke Oracle clean up process to remove INACTIVE sessions?
That's exactly what I did a while back for our system. I did not know there was a metalink note, though. I basically wrote an unix shell script (clled by cron every 15 min) that goes through v$session looking for "KILLED" session(s) and then does "kill -9".
Hope this helps.
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[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org]On Behalf Of Egor Starostin Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2004 8:54 AM To: arul.kumar_at_bt.com
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Subject: Re: How to invoke Oracle clean up process to remove INACTIVE sessions?
> By any chance can we control this "auto-cleanup" timing and bring it down
to around 30 minutes or so. Every INACTIVE session after 30 minutes, should be killed? Please let me know your views on the same.
If you are in dedicated server environment then for the first step do
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alter system set resource_limit=true;
create profile only30minutes_of_inactivity limit idle_time 30;
alter user <username> profile only30minutes_of_inactivity;
For the next step, read Note:96170.1 on metalink which provides you the shell script for killing sniped (sessions with exeeded idle_time limit) sessions. You have to run this script by cron.
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I have learned a lot over the last few weeks about how literal children are in their interpretation of words. It's something that I think we often take advantage of until we really think through the need to explain metaphors and figures of speech to children and those whose first language is not the English language.
This become readily apparent to me during my vacation while we were at Busch Gardens. Yet another lesson learned from the amusement park. Our family had spent the whole day at the park and we knew that the "witching hour" would be upon us soon and the children would start melting down if we tried to push our luck with them. The weather outside was starting to become questionable and some of the rides were getting shut down.
Somehow, we were able to get on a river ride just after it had reopened and right before it closed for the second time. My two boys and I rode and we were soaked by the time the ride was over. So what better way to enter into a nice air-conditioned theater than soaking wet? Right, but that's just what we did. My wife and I really wanted to see the "Celtic Fyre" show. The kids had responded pretty well to all of the shows that they had seen over the days that we were there, so we thought that we would give it another try.
One of the most important questions for any parent to ask prior to going into a theater or show is, "Do you have to go potty?" I took the opportunity to ask just that and both of my boys said that they did not. We may have already gone on the way to the theater, so I didn't think anything of it. The show started and they seemed to be into the music and dancing.
About midway through the show, my 5 year old got up and was doing the "pee pee" dance. I reluctantly grabbed him and we made our way to the back of the theater to find a bathroom. As I was leaving, I asked my other son if he needed to go. He told me that he didn't but I needed more assurance of that. I kept pressing him, but he insisted that he didn't need to go. There was no restroom in the theater, so we had to go outside the theater and through the park to find one. By the time we got outside, it had started raining. We ran to the bathroom and made our way back to the theater.
We both settled back into our seats to catch the last 10 minutes or so of the show. Not 30 seconds later, my other son starts saying, "I have to go potty." I am not a patient man, and this nearly sent me over the edge. I knew that the show was almost over though, so I asked him if he could hold it. In fact, my exact words were, "Can you hold it until this is over?" He said that he could and crawled up on my lap to watch the rest of the show.
As the song played on and the performers danced, I thought that I was in the clear. We could enjoy the last part of the show and then hit the bathroom prior to leaving the park. Well, the music stopped and while the note was still hanging in the air and the audience was still applauding, I felt a sudden warmth on my lap. I looked at my 3 year old and said, "I thought you were going to hold it." He looked back at me and said, "It was over." He had a point, I had never specifically told him to wait until the whole show was over, so to him, the ending of the song was reason enough to assume finality and unleash the fury that his bladder had been holding.
I teetered between frustration and amusement. I told my wife what had happened as she was trying to figure it out as she looked at the constant banter between my son and I. We laughed. The show ended and I imagined myself walking around with a distinct smell of urine on me. Thankfully, I had already been soaked from the ride that we had been on, otherwise, it may have been a "Billy Madison" moment when I tried to convince people that I had peed my pants to make my son feel better.
I will be very careful about my words with my children in the future. Not that I already hadn't been, but my sensitivity has been heightened. But it's not just with children, it's with everyone. Our tendency in this digital age is to allow our communications to be abbreviated. Abbreviated communications can easily lead to misunderstanding. I don't know about you, but I hate to be misunderstood.
In this political season in which we find ourselves, it's hard to find people who say what they mean. My intention with my son was to clearly communicate so that I could be understood, it seems that there are many out there who are trying to communicate in such a vague way that they can be easily misunderstood. I wish that people would say what they mean and mean what they say. It would make things much simpler in the understanding arena, trying to decipher the message would be a lot easier, not so much a detective game, but just a listening game.
As I sat and thought about this, I was reminded of James' words in James 5:12, "Above all, my brothers and sisters, do not swear—not by heaven or by earth or by anything else. All you need to say is a simple "Yes" or "No." Otherwise you will be condemned." Regardless of what others do, I have a responsibility to communicate as clearly as possible, to allow people to interpret my words as close to "face value" as possible. I need to do all that is within my ability to eliminate the potential for miscommunication and misunderstanding, which means that I need to think through what I say before I say it.
Everyone hears things different, children aren't the only ones, we need to communicate with that in mind. People will take us literally, they will take us figuratively, they will misunderstand, they will misinterpret. All that we can do is be aware of the possibility and do our best to communicate as explicitly as possible.
(By the way, if you don't understand the picture, there was a scene in the movie "Spaceballs" where the soldiers were told to comb the desert. They took the command very literally.)


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Normally we do not use the word "Remuneration" as an HR term to describe salary-package, compensation, benefits etc. Can any expert tell me whether we can use the word "Remuneration" to describe all encompassing salary-package, compensation, benefits etc.? If not then why? What is the inner meaning of this word?
Remuneration only refers to money - not to other benefits. SemperBlotto 07:40, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
Hello, I am not a native speaker so I will not modify the article. Culd you sort the synonyms as a function of the meaning. For example, what are the synonyms for the first meaning ("Something given in exchange for goods or services rendered."), for the two other meanings? I guess all the synonyms given in the article are not synonyms for the 3 meanings. Pamputt (talk) 19:31, 17 August 2014 (UTC)


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Mansoor Ahmed Says: June 21, 2010 at 3:16 am
There is typo in the first line of the second paragraph, its EPSON not ESON :).
anyways a nice nice review you have done! What fascinates me is the 3-chip technology! 🙂


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Anyway, I just got back from seeing MILK and am totally inspired and want the world (or the 78 persons that read this daily) to go see it. You must. And after you see it you should tell a friend but more importantly, you should do something to rally people to do something positive. As beautiful as it is to promote human rights and animal rights and those kinds of great issues it can be about music and art too. Have a meeting, start a label, set up a show, organize a rally, SOMETHING. And I don't mean the cheesy Myspace bulletins that for some reason I'm skeptical of the intentions. I mean flier, poster, email, round fools up, start a zine, AND myspace if you really want to. That means you really mean it and are devoted. At least to me it does, and I'm just saying what's on my mind. But back to the issue here. Fuck, you know what? Don't even do that shit if you're not that type of person. Be part of something though. Like support something good. I sound like a fool, but I'm just buzzing from the movie.
You know what's funny, too? I usually HATE when there's applause in movies like the beginning of Star Wars 1 when the silly yellow words scrolled and people went bananas. But when Milk ended and people applauded I kinda liked it. But, no I didn't clap because it's kinda stupid to applaud a movie.
Sooo start with seeing it and if you're alive inside you'll agree. DO SOMETHING.
Oh shit!! I almost forgot! It's crazy how this movie relates so much to the Prop 8 issue. I mean Prop 8 could literally be in it. I think it's moronic nd borderline irresponsible for this movie not to be released a full month before November 4. Actually makes me a little sick.


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(if I were an adorable pup)
Well, plans change. At the May club meeting I was told that the two women who've planning our dog shows for the past few years have called it quits. Just. Like. That. Even more frustrating: for two years I tried to get them to share information about show planning -- I even had someone willing to take it all in -- but said women guarded the information like a virgin guards her hymen. Now we need to come up with a Plan B.
|Channeling my inner Butterfly McQueen
- RK and I do it ourselves (and hope that others change their minds about helping) or
- It doesn't get done.
From what I can gather, the club is required to put on a show to keep our AKC sanction. How often we have to do it is in unclear. I know there are problems with securing and/or giving up assigned show dates if they conflict with another nearby show. It's very confusing and I can't find any definitive answers on the internet.
Recently I discovered that an AKC Show Committee Seminar being held in Greenville, South Carolina at the end of the month. I signed up. It's a six hour drive (each way) for a four hour seminar. (Fortunately, I have family in Greenville that I haven't seen since last August, so this is a great excuse to visit.) RK found a pdf of the 2017 AKC Show Manual online. It's 192 pages long -- eek! -- and I've been going through it slowly. It very detailed. And surprisingly empowering.
So, guess who's putting on a dog show? I'm unbelievably nervous. And strangely excited. True to Kelley fashion, I'll share our efforts over the next nine months and we'll see how this baby turns out together. And out of respect for my husband, I will try to watch my stress levels while doing it. Wish us luck! -- K


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this week past i had the joy of a roadtrip to the beautiful Arid Lands Botanic Garden at Port Augusta [South Australia]
where i installed 'elegy'
a sculpture composed of bones
for the Arid Sculptural Exhibition
[in turn part of the wider Arid Festival]
the bones were from cows who had died on our paddocks
mostly due to age and infirmity
one of them from snakebite
the exhibition [and festival] takes the theme 'life on the edge' and i had proposed an installation created from animal bones gathered while walking on the edge of the land, the edge that is the surface where the land meets the sky. these collected bones seemed to me to celebrate the lives that have passed while providing nourishment for future life.
i have for some years now undertaken the stacking of found rocks as a meditative aside to my work in textiles and writing. these bones are a softer material. i planned them to form an interlocking cairn, using white clay as a bonding medium. the bonecairn, a placemarker intersecting the edge between earth and sky, would mark the edge between life and death and be devised to respond to the elements. rain might soften the clay, wind might influence the form, wild animals could likely create interventions of their own. to all this i was open.
arriving at my allocated site it seemed to me that a cairn was not appropriate.
i felt [rightly or wrongly] that it would be too intrusive, would pierce the sky
i felt [rightly or wrongly] that it would be too intrusive, would pierce the sky
and so i worked just a few feet to one side of that spot.
laid the bones out in a big curve and sat in its gentle arc, listened to the land
and then one by one
bone by bone
built a circle. no clay required.
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Now that I am moving to 1st grade, I am looking at this book with fresh eyes and the possibility of students with more independence. I was able to have math stations for the last two years in kindergarten, but the activities were not always what I wanted them to be. Kinders need a lot of support, so I made the stations more directed at the beginning. As the year progressed, they (and I) was ready for them to take on more responsibility. However, Ms. Diller's work has re-inspired me to change them again for my first graders.
I've been following other blogs and reading their fabulous insights into this book. I encourage you to do the same. So far, I'm thinking that I will have 12 stations going at a time (2 students in each). The stations will be made up of:
- Counting/ Number Concepts
- Operations
- Patterns/ Geometry
- Place Value
- Games & Computer (www.IXL.com)
- Measurement
These are just my initial thoughts... I just started rereading, so I know more is to come on this part of my new curriculum.


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Here's some photos of the office. You can see our two desks and bulletin board, along with the gigantic printer, printer, and scanner.
This is our one and only window with the built-in (I think it's built-in at least) book case. That radiator gets *SOOOOO* hot when the heat is on!
The door :). See all the boxes of data? YIKES!
And finally, the refrigerator and microwave wall.
The office isn't much to look at right now, but I think that it has some potential. The walls are messy when you look at them close up, the paint is peeling in some places or it has chipped off, and there are nail marks from where things used to be hanging. I think this probably is the only arrangement of the room that is going to work since we have to fit all of this stuff in here.
I definitely would like to add some framed photos or posters of some sort, a lamp (maybe) and some decorations. Any suggestions? Obviously everything has to be low low low low cost (aka free or found).
I guess this is a good summer project! I know that I've seen a bunch of fun stuff on the Attic24 blog that I would love to make. Lucy is such an inspiration!! I love her flowers, heart bunting/garland, pillows, etc. I think some of that would be very nice in the office--and I know I'd like a nice desk cushion to sit on--I HATE my chair hahaha.
:) Ok, I better get back to studying for my final that is in 1/2 an hour!


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AT&T Labs is offering a look at the future, showing off nearly-there technologies, from a more intuitive GPS system to more helpful televisions to better speech-recognition technology for travelers and drivers.
AT&T is quickly rolling out Long-Term Evolution (LTE) coverage alongside its Evolved High-Speed Packet Access (HSPA+) technologywhat it likes to call its other 4G network. However, the carrier wants people to know that theres more to the company than just making phone calls.
When you build a powerful network, people will want to do more with it than just make phone calls, Krish Prabhu, president and CTO of AT&T Labs, said at an April 19 "Living the Networked Life" event, where AT&T had gathered researchers, engineers and other smart folks to show off the big ideas theyve been working on to take advantage of AT&Ts network and the increasingly capable devices it powers.
Using props that ranged from a Porsche 911 to a hotel doorknob, these creators showed off everything from application platform interfaces (APIs) that developers can grab and integrate into apps, to technologies that various industries might want to adopt and make their own. While all the researchers were mum about time frames, Prabhu said all the projects are in the fairly late stages of development and are here because they have great prospects.
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These art-of-the-possible technologies, as AT&T calls them, included:
A New Kind of Steering Wheel
In-car navigation is great, but instructions like turn left in 200 feet arent super-clear when ones driving, and then theres the aspect of taking ones eyes off the road to consult the little on-dash display. Prompted by AT&Ts It Can Wait campaign, encouraging drivers to not text while driving, AT&T Labs Researcher Kevin Li started thinking more about driver safety and, with help from a few collaborators, came up with a haptics-enhanced steering wheel.
The wheel is fitted with 20 actuators, which are about the size of a screw head and spaced about 2 inches apart around the wheel, so that no matter where a drivers hand or hands are, theyll feel several of them. When the instruction comes to turn, the actuators work together to vibrate either clockwise or counter-clockwise, suggesting a right or left turn. The suggestion of the turn is intuitively understood, and the vibrations speed up as the driver nears the turn, making them more certain of the direction without taking their eyes off the wheel.
Shadow Interactions with Mobile Phone Projectors
Another project from Li, and an AT&T Labs summer intern, Lisa Cowan, looks to make better use of pico projectors in mobile photos. While the projectors are a neat tool, letting users project whats on their screens so the content is viewable to several people, Cowan and Li decided to address the matter of only the person holding the phone being able to manipulate the content. They came up with what they call ShadowPuppets, a system that lets users and the people around them manipulate the content on the screenscroll through photos, zoom in or out on a map or click on linksusing the shadow of their fingers on the projection. It could be used in a boardroom, with multiple people manipulating the screen during a presentation, or among friends, standing around trying to figure out where to eat, for example.
A New Way to Watch TV
A software called Content Augmenting Media (CAM) wants to change the way people watch television. Instead of channel surfing, looking for something they like, CAM delivers to a view the content they like. Using a mobile device or tabletand potentially through speech-to-text capabilitiesusers input essentially tags, or keywords. These can be names of people, popular topics or locations, and they can be saved and turned on or off, so they dont need to be input again. When a program that matches any of the selected keywords is found, a window at the bottom of the screen can pop up to tell the user what its found. Potentially, CAM could also offer program suggestions, based on what it knows the user is interested in.


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Gold futures on the COMEX division of the New York Mercantile Exchange reported the biggest decline since June 26 and closed at a nearly a two-month low as the US government shut down.
The most active gold contract for December delivery dropped $40.9, or 3.08 percent, to settle at $1,286.1 per ounce, Xinhua reported.
It is widely believed that the US government shutdown would be short-lived, with only minimal impact on the broader economy and would not change the Federal Reserve's time-table on retreating from its quantitative easing monetary policy.
However, if the impasse persists within the next 17 days, it could produce a negative impact on the dollar and may lead to a downgrade in the US sovereign credit rating, eroding the world's confidence in the US economy and pushing up gold prices, market analysts said.
Silver for December delivery lost 53.3 cents or 2.46 percent to settle at $21.175 per ounce. Platinum for January delivery shed $27.1 or 1.92 percent to $1,385.3 per ounce.
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Many thanks to electrical contractor GM Monk who have paid for a new karaoke amp. This was used to broadcast the radio commentary at our Airbourne event, and means that we can resume weekly karaoke sessions at the home! Thanks so much to them for this donation and for fundraising for us this year.
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You can catch the Forks vs Feet Debate here live beginning at 11:55 EST on May 12. Since we now have live video streaming we will no longer be live-streaming the audio via Talk Shoe. I think that this video feed will be ad-free, but this is my first time using Justin.tv to stream an event so I am not certain – apologies in advance if there are any ads.
UPDATE: The video of the debate can be found below. Huge thanks to Adrian Ebsary for recording the video and doing a terrific job getting up online!
Thanks again to our terrific debaters, our moderater Dr Rachel Colley, our sponsors (the Canadian Obesity Network and the University of Ottawa Faculty of Health Sciences) and all the members of the University of Ottawa Canadian Obesity Network Student and New Professionals group who helped organize the debate. Finally, thanks to Atif Kukaswadia for prodding me to do the video livestream, and for organizing a satellite event at Queen's University so that Queen's students and staff could watch live.
Enjoy the video!
Part 1: Dr Bob Ross argues for the importance of physical activity
Dr. Robert Ross Argues for Exercise – Obesity Debate May 2011 – 1 of 2 from Adrian J. Ebsary on Vimeo.
Part 2: Dr Yoni Freedhoff argues for the importance of diet
Dr. Yoni Freedhoff Argues for Nutrition – Obesity Debate May 2011 – 2 of 2 from Adrian J. Ebsary on Vimeo.
Part 3: Concluding statements and questions
Concluding Statements and Questions – Obesity Debate May 2011 from Adrian J. Ebsary on Vimeo.
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