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September 22, 2011 - Sorrow at loss of My children who want nothing to do with Me
My dearly beloved daughter, prepare your family for The Warning. Ask My children everywhere to seek forgiveness for their sins. Their request must be from the heart. If not they will suffer the burning pain of Purgatory during My Divine Mercy Illumination, when I will face each and every one of you.
The Purification ahead will leave such a lasting and unforgettable impression on your souls that you will remain in the Bosom of My Heart for eternity.
For those of you who know and love Me, please prepare now for My greatest Gift. Obtain blessed candles and Holy Water and be ready so you can join in the prayers with the saints in Heaven to help redeem the souls of all of My children around the world.
For the first time in your lives, you will be truly alone in My Company. Without a sound you will witness My Crucifixion and for unbelievers, they will then finally understand the Truth of My suffering for mankind.
You, My children, will understand and welcome My great Gift of Mercy and you will be given a strength known only to the saints in Heaven. This strength will forge the backbone of My new army on Earth afterwards. This great army will save millions of other souls from the clutches of the army led by the antichrist. Prayer now will save and help convert millions during this crucial time since the Creation of mankind.
Let me embrace you, children, in advance. Allow Me to give you the courage and the strength to bring Me more souls. I need your love. My wounds are raw. My sorrow is at its peak for the loss of so many of My children, who want nothing to do with Me. I feel desolate and alone. Help Me, children, save them on time.
While My great Act of Mercy will bring Divine Light into the world on a magnitude that will take your breath away, it will also be a time of sorrow for those who won't be able to withstand the shock.
Please do not be alarmed. I come with great Love and Compassion for you all. It's because I love you that I now step in to save you from the vile acts being carried out by global powers, who want to deplete the population of the world. They want to do this through control. I won't allow them to do this. My Father is waiting. If man accepts the sins of which he is guilty, then the world will become a place of peace and love. If he fails to heed the lesson from The Warning, he will not be spared. That is when the Hand of My Father will fall.
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This seems to be the week of no touch, no stir, nearly hands off cooking. Easter became a menu of simple, down home Italian dishes that I felt I just had to share even if they're off topic from my usual Indian fare.
How does someone get to be 91 years old without eating a turnip....ever? To what is that attributed? The fact that turnips have gotten bad press? That they are mainly the stuff that's thrown at witches in fairy tales and bad vaudeville acts? That being called a turnip head is not exactly compliment? Seeing as the turnip is a basic vegetable in many cuisines, including Italian, it seems nearly impossible. But that's what my father told me on his birthday. He had never, ever, ever eaten a turnip. This from a man who got an iPod for his 90th. How can one experience an Apple, and never a turnip?
Thanks to me, he had his first turnips last Sunday and the recipe came from my good friend Paula Wolferts' new cookbook Mediterranean Clay Pot Cooking: Traditional and Modern Recipes To Savor and Share.
The thing I love about this recipe (besides the fact that it's delicious and turnips are among my favorite vegetables) is the ease of preparation. This is especially helpful when prepping a company or holiday dinner with a lot of action on the stove. It's great when a vegetable just minds itself, as this one does.
This recipe calls for a simple clay pot that sits on top of the stove on a diffuser.
The ideal sort of turnip for this dish are tiny little turnips but since those were not to be found, I bought the smallest ones I could find and cut them down to size.
So here's how to do Glazed Turnips
Peel two pounds of small turnips, or peel and cut down 2 pounds of regular size turnips
Place the turnips in a clay pot.
Mix them with
3 Tbs of melted unsalted butter
2 tsp of sugar
3/4 tsp of salt
1/4 tsp of ground black pepper
Add in 1/2 cup of water
Cover the turnips with a wadded up piece of parchment paper
Place the lid over that and cook for 45 minutes on a low heat.
Every now and then give the pot a shake, rolling around the turnips inside. Don't lift the lid while they're cooking.
When they're done and you do lift it, you will be rewarded.
Under the nest of damp parchment paper will be lovely little sweetly glazed beauties.
"Babys' First Turnips", even if "Baby" is 91 years old!

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Rite Aid introduces new online coupon management tool, wellness rewards for Wellness+ members
CAMP HILL, Pa. — Calling it a first for the drug store industry, Rite Aid will roll out an online coupon management tool for members of its Wellness+ loyalty card program, the retail pharmacy chain said Tuesday.
Starting Jan. 1, all members will have access to the tool, called Load2Card, allowing them to load an average of more than $100 in savings directly to their Wellness+ cards. In addition, members who accumulate 500 points to become silver members will have access to a "wellness reward" of their choice, including a health screening, a subscription to a health or fitness magazine, or a gym membership.
"Wellness+ has been a game changer for Rite Aid," COO Ken Martindale said. "As we grow the program, it's important that we continue to enhance its value to members. Through innovative tools and exciting, new wellness rewards, we'll deliver more value than ever before to Wellness+ members — our most loyal customers — in the new year."
The company also created a new bronze tier for members who accumulate 250 points in a single year. Anyone who has reached the silver or 1,000-point gold tier by the end of 2011 will retain that status through 2012.


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Democrats are trying to revamp their presidential primary calendar. President Biden's recommendation to give the No. 1 spot to South Carolina was approved by a Democratic National Committee panel. But the plan faces resistance from Iowa and New Hampshire. NPR's Asma Khalid, Domenico Montanaro and Barbara Sprunt take us through some of the challenges.
BARBARA SPRUNT, BYLINE: If we zoom back a little bit on why there's a lot of outrage coming out of these states, why the senators of New Hampshire have been so vocally opposed to the changes, generations of voters in New Hampshire and Iowa view this like their political birthright, you know? They take this job of vetting presidential hopefuls very seriously. And they relish that they get to kind of kick the tires of who's going to be, you know, the nominee for the parties. They take it seriously. And I think when we talk about why there has been such a reaction from these states, that's an important element to consider as well.
ASMA KHALID, BYLINE: Gosh, so poor Iowans because it does not appear that they are going to be going first in this future nominating calendar the Democrats...
SPRUNT: Yeah.
DOMENICO MONTANARO, BYLINE: Nope (laughter).
KHALID: So let's talk about that. At the end of last year, the Democrats rolled out their plans for this new nominating process that put the state of South Carolina first. And, you know, my understanding from the reporting that you all have done is that that decision did not go over well with all Democrats.
SPRUNT: That's an understatement, yes. Yeah, you know, the Rules and Bylaws Committee of the DNC met in December. As you said, they voted on a new slate of states to go in that early nominating window, South Carolina being first. And then they put New Hampshire, which has traditionally been the first primary in the nation, second, on the same date as Nevada. And then they elevated Georgia and Michigan so that their primaries would also be included in that early window. That means New Hampshire wasn't happy because it wasn't the first primary in the nation anymore. And it means that I wasn't happy because it's not even in the first slate of early states at all.
And I was in that room. I would say there was polite tension in the room. But you saw a lot more open revolt on Twitter. And, you know, New Hampshire basically said, this is cute. Thanks for your opinion. But we're still going to go first. We have a law on the books, a state law on the books that says we get to go first. And we plan on doing that anyway. Thanks for sharing your opinion, but we're going to do what we're going to do.
MONTANARO: Well, what's difficult about that is that the Democratic National Committee obviously controls the party process. And they can penalize states with, you know, cutting the number of delegates, for example, to the conventions, which they've done in the past. So they have some track record of following through on Florida and Michigan, for example, in 2008 when they tried to jump the line. So they're really cautious about that.
You know, for the most part, most Democrats in the DNC and otherwise are in favor of this switch. It passed through the Rules and Bylaws Committee meeting. There was a deadline of January 5 - last week - where the five states that they decided to move up had to all submit, you know, statements saying that they were going to be ready and able to hold primaries not just on those dates, but also to be able to do things like expand voting access, like, you know, expanding absentee voting. That's become a real hang-up for states with Republican governors and legislatures like Georgia and New Hampshire.
KHALID: So Domenico, I want to ask you, though, a quick follow-up about South Carolina itself going first because, you know, as Barbara was saying, the decision got kind of slammed in some quarters, at least that's what I saw in some of the public conversation that spilled over. Is it kind of a done deal that South Carolina is going to go first despite some of this criticism?
MONTANARO: Well, some of the criticism really centered around the fact that South Carolina was a state that really propelled President Biden - now-President Biden...
KHALID: Yeah.
MONTANARO: ...To the nomination. And he's the one who pushed for South Carolina to go first. So a lot of people see that as a bit of political payback, you know, and didn't like the optics of that. But what Democratic strategists tell me is that there's almost no way that Biden will be derailed anyway. So it doesn't particularly matter which states and that, you know, he has his prerogative to go this direction. But I did speak with Faiz Shakir, who is - who was Bernie Sanders' campaign manager in 2020 and is a voting DNC member.
FAIZ SHAKIR: South Carolina has no business going first for a variety of reasons. You know, it is a heavily anti-union state, heavily opposed to democratic values. You look at their war on women. You look at the very conservative nature of the culture of that place.
MONTANARO: Yeah. The basic idea from him is that the states that go first should be the most competitive states in the general election so that Democrats can try to win over those voters and win in general elections.
SPRUNT: To that point, Domenico, it was really interesting because, you know, we talk about the process of the DNC changing the slate of states. But, I mean, this was a long process. It didn't just happen in December. States were making pitches over the last year to the committee about, you know, why they deserved to go first. And a lot of states seemed to feel blindsided when the actual decision came out for that very reason that you alluded to about South Carolina's competitiveness because from jump, the bylaws committee had said that one of the factors they were looking for when they would pick this new set of states is who's competitive in the general election, in addition to, you know, diversity and voter access. And, you know, South Carolina is not what we think of when we think of a state that's competitive in the general.
KHALID: I guess what I'm hearing from supporters of the decision to put South Carolina first is, well, it's a fairly small state. It's a state that candidates and campaigns could travel across. And they don't have to have particularly well-endowed campaigns to make their pitch in South Carolina, as opposed to a state like Michigan or Georgia that's just much more expensive to campaign in.
MONTANARO: Well, there's also a little bit of track record. You know, South Carolina was moved into the first four state windows and has been doing this since 2008, where candidates have now gotten kind of used to how to campaign in the state. You're right that retail politicking is also potentially possible there because it's smaller. But, you know, the real elephant in the room here is that 60-plus percent of the primary electorate in South Carolina are Black voters. And that's a big reason for why Democrats feel like this state should go first. It's been there before. And they feel like that, you know, this is a way for Democrats to really appeal to Black voters, which is a voting bloc that is one of the most, if not the most strongly Democratic group. And anybody who's going to win the nomination is going to need Black voters on their side.
FADEL: NPR's Domenico Montanaro, Asma Khalid and Barbara Sprunt. For more, you can find the NPR Politics Podcast wherever you get your podcasts.
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Key Take-Away: Pressure continues to mount on Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi to reshuffle the cabinet. Sadrist Trend leader Muqtada al-Sadr gave PM Abadi until March 26 to submit the list of nominations for the new cabinet to the Council of Representatives (CoR). However, discussions underway in the pan-Shi'a political body, the National Alliance, over what positions blocs will retain in the new government stalled the reshuffle process, and PM Abadi missed the deadline as a result. In response, Sadr initiated his own sit-in inside of a tent in the Green Zone on March 27 to pressure PM Abadi to conduct reforms, refusing to meet with politicians and government officials. Political blocs meanwhile have pressured PM Abadi to conduct reforms to their own preferences, seeking to preserve their positions and increase their representation within the cabinet. Groups like the Sunni Etihad and the Kurdistan Alliance refused to submit nominations for the new cabinet positions, citing concerns over the unclear selection process. Meanwhile, the National Alliance decided on March 27 to form a new sub-committee aimed at "advising" PM Abadi during the cabinet reshuffle process. However, the presence of Badr Organization leader Hadi al-Amiri and Popular Mobilization Commission Chairman Faleh al-Fayadh on the committee indicate that Iranian proxies are attempting to direct the final outcome of the cabinet reshuffle, an outcome that would undermine the U.S.'s ability to continue its advise-and-assist mission in Iraq and effectively combat ISIS. PM Abadi is being pulled in multiple directions by Sadr, pro-Iranian elements, and non-Shi'a political blocs in a way that makes it impossible to satisfy all parties involved. It is a distinct possibility that multiple political blocs will reject PM Abadi's cabinet submission on Thursday, or that he may not be able to submit it at all, given the disparate demands of the political blocs. PM Abadi may thus face the real possibility of a questioning session and a subsequent vote of no-confidence if the reform process continues to stall.


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Chip upgrade helps bee-size drones navigate | Robotics
Researchers at MIT, who last year designed a tiny computer chip tailored to help honeybee-sized drones navigate, have now shrunk their chip design even further, in both size and power consumption.
The team, co-led by Vivienne Sze, associate professor in MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), and Sertac Karaman, the Class of 1948 Career Development Associate Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics, built a fully customized chip from the ground up, with a focus on reducing power consumption and size while also increasing processing speed.
The new computer chip, named "Navion," which they are presenting this week at the Symposia on VLSI Technology and Circuits, is just 20 square millimeters — about the size of a LEGO minifigure's footprint — and consumes just 24 milliwatts of power, or about one-thousandth the energy required to power a lightbulb.
Using this tiny amount of power, the chip is able to process in real-time camera images at up to 171 frames per second, as well as inertial measurements, both of which it uses to determine where it is in space. The researchers say the chip can be integrated into "nanodrones" as small as a fingernail, to help the vehicles navigate, particularly in remote or inaccessible places where global positioning satellite data is unavailable.
The chip design can also be run on any small robot or device that needs to navigate over long stretches of time on a limited power supply.
"I can imagine applying this chip to low-energy robotics, like flapping-wing vehicles the size of your fingernail, or lighter-than-air vehicles like weather balloons, that have to go for months on one battery," says Karaman, who is a member of the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems and the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society at MIT. "Or imagine medical devices like a little pill you swallow, that can navigate in an intelligent way on very little battery so it doesn't overheat in your body. The chips we are building can help with all of these."
Sze and Karaman's co-authors are EECS graduate student Amr Suleiman, who is the lead author; EECS graduate student Zhengdong Zhang; and Luca Carlone, who was a research scientist during the project and is now an assistant professor in MIT's Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
A flexible chip
In the past few years, multiple research groups have engineered miniature drones small enough to fit in the palm of your hand. Scientists envision that such tiny vehicles can fly around and snap pictures of your surroundings, like mosquito-sized photographers or surveyors, before landing back in your palm, where they can then be easily stored away.
But a palm-sized drone can only carry so much battery power, most of which is used to make its motors fly, leaving very little energy for other essential operations, such as navigation, and, in particular, state estimation, or a robot's ability to determine where it is in space.
"In traditional robotics, we take existing off-the-shelf computers and implement [state estimation] algorithms on them, because we don't usually have to worry about power consumption," Karaman says. "But in every project that requires us to miniaturize low-power applications, we have to now think about the challenges of programming in a very different way."
In their previous work, Sze and Karaman began to address such issues by combining algorithms and hardware in a single chip. Their initial design was implemented on a field-programmable gate array, or FPGA, a commercial hardware platform that can be configured to a given application. The chip was able to perform state estimation using 2 watts of power, compared to larger, standard drones that typically require 10 to 30 watts to perform the same tasks. Still, the chip's power consumption was greater than the total amount of power that miniature drones can typically carry, which researchers estimate to be about 100 milliwatts.
To shrink the chip further, in both size and power consumption, the team decided to build a chip from the ground up rather than reconfigure an existing design. "This gave us a lot more flexibility in the design of the chip," Sze says.
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To reduce the chip's power consumption, the group came up with a design to minimize the amount of data — in the form of camera images and inertial measurements — that is stored on the chip at any given time. The design also optimizes the way this data flows across the chip.
"Any of the images we would've temporarily stored on the chip, we actually compressed so it required less memory," says Sze, who is a member of the Research Laboratory of Electronics at MIT. The team also cut down on extraneous operations, such as the computation of zeros, which results in a zero. The researchers found a way to skip those computational steps involving any zeros in the data. "This allowed us to avoid having to process and store all those zeros, so we can cut out a lot of unnecessary storage and compute cycles, which reduces the chip size and power, and increases the processing speed of the chip," Sze says.
Through their design, the team was able to reduce the chip's memory from its previous 2 megabytes, to about 0.8 megabytes. The team tested the chip on previously collected datasets generated by drones flying through multiple environments, such as office and warehouse-type spaces.
"While we customized the chip for low power and high speed processing, we also made it sufficiently flexible so that it can adapt to these different environments for additional energy savings," Sze says. "The key is finding the balance between flexibility and efficiency." The chip can also be reconfigured to support different cameras and inertial measurement unit (IMU) sensors.
From these tests, the researchers found they were able to bring down the chip's power consumption from 2 watts to 24 milliwatts, and that this was enough to power the chip to process images at 171 frames per second — a rate that was even faster than what the datasets projected.
The team plans to demonstrate its design by implementing its chip on a miniature race car. While a screen displays an onboard camera's live video, the researchers also hope to show the chip determining where it is in space, in real-time, as well as the amount of power that it uses to perform this task. Eventually, the team plans to test the chip on an actual drone, and ultimately on a miniature drone.
This research was supported, in part, by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, and by the National Science Foundation.
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Difference between Marriage and Dating
Dating is a lot like watching previews of a new romantic movie that's about to come out. The scenes switch swiftly from one intriguing part to another while seductive music fills the theater and makes the emotions soar.
You watch extreme close-ups of beautiful people while they pledge their undying love for each other. In one scene they're on a sun drenched beach frolicking in the surf, while in the next they're holding hands across the table at a candle lit dinner. Finally, his lips meet hers as they fall into a pillow laden bed while the director fades to black.
When you pay to see the entire movie you discover the relationship is not all love, passion and kisses. The love struck couple wakes up the next morning or soon thereafter to a life of reality that's not all bronzed bodies, expensive dinners and deep breathless kisses. They usually find they're not right for each other at all and regret the blind love that led them into this mess.
Be aware that dating is a preview of coming attractions but you have to keep your eyes open to learn what's to come as the relationship progresses and eventually leads to marriage.
When you're dating, you put your best foot (and all the rest of you too) forward. You're both on your best behavior and constantly trying to please the other. If only marriage could continue to be like this. The good news is, sometimes it is.
One of the main differences between marital and dating relationships is marital relationships are supposed to be forever. With a date you can simply say get lost but with a spouse it's a little more difficult and complicated. So, do your dating homework and enjoy selecting a lifetime partner.
Ask yourself if both share common lifetime goals. Marry someone who wants the same thing in life as you. Marriage is hard enough pulling together, much less going in different directions.
Notice how your date treats other people. Are they nice to their parents as well as waiters and sales clerks? Is your date considerate of your feelings and concerned with giving you pleasure? Hopefully, these things will remain the same whether married or single.
Is your date appreciative of the things he or she has or do they think the world owes them a living? If your date is comfortable with the status quo and you're a more aggressive goal oriented person, this may cause a conflict when you enter into the marital relationship. Are they seeking growth or are they content to be comfortable and let the world pass them by?
If you can't trust them and communicate with them while dating, it likely won't change after marriage. Communicate by sharing your thoughts and dreams and learn if you're on the same wavelength for the future. Be objective and ask questions. While you're dating you seek the perfect mate who gives you respect, love and truth. When you're married you expect it.


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Trump's favorite hatemonger bites the dust
reports on the election defeat of a sexual predator and reactionary.
HEY TRUMP, tweet this.
Your sexual predator endorsee for Alabama senator went down the tubes last night--and literally rode out on the horse he came in on.
And, oh yeah, the women you sexually assaulted and then called "liars"? They aren't going away. They held a press conference this week, and they want Congress to do something about your crimes--and, yes, they are crimes.
In a down-to-the-wire election, Alabama Democrat Doug Jones defeated Bible-thumping sexual predator Republican Roy Moore in a special election Tuesday to fill the Senate seat left open by Jeff Sessions when he became attorney general.
But the big winner in this election is the women of #MeToo--who broke the silence about sexual harassment and assault committed by powerful men.
Moore's fanaticism in the service of hate and reaction is well known--he was drummed out of the state Supreme Court for his statue of the Ten Commandments, and he defied the U.S. Supreme Court by refusing to grant LGBT couples their legal right to marry.
But in the end, it was the women who came forward to tell their stories of being abused who turned the tables on him--including one woman who said the holier-than-thou evangelical forced himself on her when he was a district attorney, and she was just 14 years old.
Moore's response to these calls for justice was to smear the women as liars and double down on his nauseating bigotry.
This election was about far more than vote in Alabama for a Senate seat. It was a test of support for Republican monsters like Moore, their bigoted policies and the presidency of Donald Trump.
MOORE'S CAMPAIGN presented itself as a referendum on the Trump administration--and threatened that the Republicans' big plans for next year would be in peril if he lost. "If they can beat [Moore], they can beat [Trump's] agenda, because Judge Moore stands with Donald Trump and his agenda," Moore strategist Dean Young told ABC's This Week.
Sections of the Republican Party fled from Moore, including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Alabama's longtime senior senator Richard Shelby, who said he cast his vote for a write-in candidate instead of Moore.
But not Trump. Though the president reluctantly campaigned for the GOP establishment's choice, Luther Strange, Moore's opponent in the Republican primary earlier this year, Trump eagerly jumped on board when Moore became the nominee--despite the allegations of sexual harassment.
Trump recorded a robo-call for the candidate and made an appearance at a pro-Moore rally in Florida--the day before he was scheduled to visit the new Mississippi Civil Rights Museum, no less. Former Trump White House adviser and alt-right celebrity Steve Bannon has also been a fixture of the Moore campaign.
Trump and Moore have a lot in common. Like trying to silence women who accuse them of sexual assault.
As Alabama voters were casting their ballots, Trump went on the attack against a group of women who are calling on Congress to investigate their sexual assault claims against the president. In a sexist tweet, Trump said New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand "would come to my office 'begging' for campaign contributions not so long ago (and would do anything for them)."
Trump's refusal to go along with Republican Party leaders and continue promoting Moore was a calculated pushback against the #MeToo campaign and its hundreds of women stepping out of the shadows to tell their stories of abuse and, in some cases, bring down their abusers.
At first, the Republican National Committee withdrew its support for Moore's campaign when the allegations of sexual assault emerged. But it flipped on that decision after Trump decided to continue endorsing Moore.
BUT THAT wasn't enough to push Moore over the top. With absentee ballots still to be counted, Jones had defeated the Republican candidate by some 20,000 votes, with about a dozen counties that voted for Trump over Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election switching over to the Democrats in this race.
The margin of victory for Jones is about the same as the number of voters who wrote in another candidate. As FiveThirtyEight.org pointed out, of all Alabama senate races since 1990, only the 2014 race, in which Jeff Sessions ran uncontested, had a higher share of write-in votes.
But while the media will focus on this number, Jones built up his margin of victory in counties with major cities like Birmingham and Huntsville, where African Americans especially voted overwhelmingly for him. Jones also had a stronger advantage among women and younger voters, according to exit polls.
In Birmingham's primarily Black Woodlawn neighborhood, Genesis Johnson told the Washington Post that he hadn't voted since 2008, when he supported Barack Obama for president. He felt compelled to cast his vote for Jones this time.
And no wonder. During this election, Moore wasn't just the anti-woman candidate. When a Black voter asked Moore in September at what point in history he thought America was "great," Moore picked the era when slavery was legal. "I think it was great at the time when families were united--even though we had slavery--they cared for one another," Moore said. "Our families were strong, our country had a direction."
WITH A candidate like that for the Republicans, why was it even close?
The Democrats had a lot of ground to make up, even to defeat a monster like Moore. Alabama hasn't voted for a Democrat in a presidential election since 1976. Republican candidates have won Senate races by over 20 percentage points since 2004--and in 2016, Donald Trump won the state by a 28 percentage-point margin.
Alabama is like other states of the former slave-holding Confederacy and Jim Crow South in having turned from solid Dixiecrat to solid Republican in the aftermath of the civil rights movement.
But it isn't only the legacy of racism and reaction that turned Alabama into a GOP bastion. During the same period since the civil rights era, the Democratic Party increasingly embraced neoliberalism--and, in the process, abandoned even a rhetorical appeal to class issues.
Those issues are as urgent today as ever. Alabama has no state minimum wage, so the paltry federal standard of $7.25 an hour applies. When the city of Birmingham enacted a $10.10 an hour minimum in 2016, state legislators killed it with a law banning cities and counties from raising the minimum wage--or requiring employers to provide leave or other benefits, to boot.
Poverty is dire in rural areas of the state--where hookworm, a disease of extreme poverty that has been largely eradicated in the U.S., is back. During a recent tour focusing on poverty and human rights abuses in the U.S., United Nations investigators singled out Alabama's rural Black Belt as the site of some of the worst conditions.
"I think it's very uncommon in the First World," the UN's Special Rapporteur Philip Alston said, describing Butler County, where investigators documented raw sewage flowing from homes through exposed PVC pipes and into open trenches and pits. "This is not a sight that one normally sees."
But Doug Jones had nothing to say about these issues during the campaign for Senate. He relied on being the not-Roy-Moore candidate.
That was enough to win--barely.
IN LATE November, press accounts quoted African American community leaders warning that Jones and the Democrats weren't doing enough to energize African American voters.
Hatred of Moore and Trump apparently motivated a big enough Black turnout to push Jones over the top. But the sad fact is that Jones has done nothing to deserve their votes other than not being Moore.
The Democrats' failure to provide any positive reason to vote for them will set the stage for disillusionment in the future, when the Republican candidate is merely reactionary, and not an open sexual predator.
Alabama's special election shows the rot in the Republican Party that runs all the way to the White House. This time around, it was enough to repel some reliably Republican voters who couldn't stomach voting for Moore, given the revelations about him.
The consequences of their defeat are unknown, but Trump and the Republicans are likely to pay a price--maybe even over the proposal to cut taxes for the superrich currently before Congress.
But the inadequacy of the Democrats as an alternative to Trumpian reaction is obvious from this election, too.
Trump and his supporters won't back down. They will, in fact, double down on the hate and scapegoating that got them this far, while pushing a reactionary agenda that the ruling class wants to see enacted, whether they approve of Trump or not.
It's a pleasure to see Roy Moore go down to defeat, but we still have a fight on our hands. The resistance to this class war assault will have to be built from the bottom up.


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4 Makeup Tips For Your New Frames
Your glasses are a unique expression of your personality. And with a few simple makeup techniques, you'll really get the look you want.
We all know that our glasses pose a unique challenge when we're applying makeup. If you're wondering how to flatter your new fames during your makeup routine, checkout these helpful hints below!
4 Tips For A Great Glasses-Friendly Look
#1 Shape Your Brows
Glasses draw attention to eyes. It's important to keep eyebrows looking good by shaping them and filling them in with a brow pencil or powder.
#2 Line Your Eyes
Eyeliner helps eyes stand out behind the frames. Work close to the lash line, but don't go inside the lash line! Remember this rule—thicker frames call for a thicker line.
#3 Pick A Bold Color For Cheeks Or Lips
Spice up your look by adding a pop of color with blush or lip color. Darker colors like a deep red compliment dark frames. Pinks and corals are great for thinner frames and can add some color to your look.
#4 Lighten Up The Shadows
Glasses, especially thick-framed glasses, tend to accentuate any darkness that appears under the eyes. Put some concealer or foundation under your eyes, preferably one shade lighter than your skin tone. Finish up with some loose powder.
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Grilled cheese (ask for half as much cheese) on rye or whole wheat with a bowl of broth based soup or green salad
Grilled chicken sandwich
Club sandwich minus the bacon and mayo on whole wheat or rye
Veggie burger with no mayo
Sirloin Steak or grilled chicken dinner
Side baked potato with a green salad
Vegetarian Chili
Turkey burger (only if they use lean meat- ask!) without mayo or cheese
Chinese Chicken Salad without the fried noodles and dressing on the side. Make sure chicken is not "crispy."
Ask for a side of steamed veggies!
Look into senior or kid portions- they're smaller and cheaper!
Order fruit or green salad instead of fries or creamy salads (potato, coleslaw, macaroni).
Modify cobb or chef salads by choosing to keep only one high-calorie/fat item and leaving off the rest. For example, skip the blue cheese and bacon on a cobb but keep the heart healthy avocado.
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Note: GitHub-hosted runners are not currently supported on GitHub Enterprise Server. You can see more information about planned future support on the GitHub public roadmap.
About workflow artifacts
Artifacts allow you to persist data after a job has completed, and share that data with another job in the same workflow. An artifact is a file or collection of files produced during a workflow run. For example, you can use artifacts to save your build and test output after a workflow run has ended.
By default, GitHub Enterprise Server stores build logs and artifacts for 90 days, and this retention period can be customized. For more information, see "Usage limits, billing, and administration." The retention period for a pull request restarts each time someone pushes a new commit to the pull request.
These are some of the common artifacts that you can upload:
- Log files and core dumps
- Test results, failures, and screenshots
- Binary or compressed files
- Stress test performance output and code coverage results
Artifacts consume storage space on the external blob storage that is configured for GitHub Actions on your GitHub Enterprise Server instance.
Artifacts are uploaded during a workflow run, and you can view an artifact's name and size in the UI. When an artifact is downloaded using the GitHub Enterprise Server UI, all files that were individually uploaded as part of the artifact get zipped together into a single file. This means that billing is calculated based on the size of the uploaded artifact and not the size of the zip file.
GitHub Enterprise Server provides two actions that you can use to upload and download build artifacts. For more information, see the actions/upload-artifact
and download-artifact
actions on your GitHub Enterprise Server instance.
To share data between jobs:
- Uploading files: Give the uploaded file a name and upload the data before the job ends.
- Downloading files: You can only download artifacts that were uploaded during the same workflow run. When you download a file, you can reference it by name.
The steps of a job share the same environment on the runner machine, but run in their own individual processes. To pass data between steps in a job, you can use inputs and outputs. For more information about inputs and outputs, see "Metadata syntax for GitHub Actions."
Uploading build and test artifacts
You can create a continuous integration (CI) workflow to build and test your code. For more information about using GitHub Actions to perform CI, see "About continuous integration."
The output of building and testing your code often produces files you can use to debug test failures and production code that you can deploy. You can configure a workflow to build and test the code pushed to your repository and report a success or failure status. You can upload the build and test output to use for deployments, debugging failed tests or crashes, and viewing test suite coverage.
You can use the upload-artifact
action to upload artifacts. When uploading an artifact, you can specify a single file or directory, or multiple files or directories. You can also exclude certain files or directories, and use wildcard patterns. We recommend that you provide a name for an artifact, but if no name is provided then artifact
will be used as the default name. For more information on syntax, see the actions/upload-artifact
action on your GitHub Enterprise Server instance.
For example, your repository or a web application might contain SASS and TypeScript files that you must convert to CSS and JavaScript. Assuming your build configuration outputs the compiled files in the dist
directory, you would deploy the files in the dist
directory to your web application server if all tests completed successfully.
|-- hello-world (repository)
| └── dist
| └── tests
| └── src
| └── sass/app.scss
| └── app.ts
| └── output
| └── test
This example shows you how to create a workflow for a Node.js project that builds the code in the src
directory and runs the tests in the tests
directory. You can assume that running npm test
produces a code coverage report named code-coverage.html
stored in the output/test/
The workflow uploads the production artifacts in the dist
directory, but excludes any markdown files. It also uploads the code-coverage.html
report as another artifact.
name: Node CI
on: [push]
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
- name: Checkout repository
uses: actions/checkout@v2
- name: npm install, build, and test
run: |
npm install
npm run build --if-present
npm test
- name: Archive production artifacts
uses: actions/upload-artifact@v2
name: dist-without-markdown
path: |
- name: Archive code coverage results
uses: actions/upload-artifact@v2
name: code-coverage-report
path: output/test/code-coverage.html
Configuring a custom artifact retention period
You can define a custom retention period for individual artifacts created by a workflow. When using a workflow to create a new artifact, you can use retention-days
with the upload-artifact
action. This example demonstrates how to set a custom retention period of 5 days for the artifact named my-artifact
- name: 'Upload Artifact'
uses: actions/upload-artifact@v2
name: my-artifact
path: my_file.txt
retention-days: 5
The retention-days
value cannot exceed the retention limit set by the repository, organization, or enterprise.
Downloading or deleting artifacts
During a workflow run, you can use the download-artifact
action to download artifacts that were previously uploaded in the same workflow run.
After a workflow run has been completed, you can download or delete artifacts on GitHub or using the REST API. For more information, see "Downloading workflow artifacts," "Removing workflow artifacts," and the "Artifacts REST API."
Downloading artifacts during a workflow run
The actions/download-artifact
action can be used to download previously uploaded artifacts during a workflow run.
Note: You can only download artifacts in a workflow that were uploaded during the same workflow run.
Specify an artifact's name to download an individual artifact. If you uploaded an artifact without specifying a name, the default name is artifact
- name: Download a single artifact
uses: actions/download-artifact@v2
name: my-artifact
You can also download all artifacts in a workflow run by not specifying a name. This can be useful if you are working with lots of artifacts.
- name: Download all workflow run artifacts
uses: actions/download-artifact@v2
If you download all workflow run's artifacts, a directory for each artifact is created using its name.
For more information on syntax, see the actions/download-artifact
action on your GitHub Enterprise Server instance.
Passing data between jobs in a workflow
You can use the upload-artifact
and download-artifact
actions to share data between jobs in a workflow. This example workflow illustrates how to pass data between jobs in the same workflow. For more information, see the actions/upload-artifact
and download-artifact
actions on your GitHub Enterprise Server instance.
Jobs that are dependent on a previous job's artifacts must wait for the dependent job to complete successfully. This workflow uses the needs
keyword to ensure that job_1
, job_2
, and job_3
run sequentially. For example, job_2
requires job_1
using the needs: job_1
Job 1 performs these steps:
- Performs a math calculation and saves the result to a text file called
. - Uses the
action to upload themath-homework.txt
file with the artifact namehomework
Job 2 uses the result in the previous job:
- Downloads the
artifact uploaded in the previous job. By default, thedownload-artifact
action downloads artifacts to the workspace directory that the step is executing in. You can use thepath
input parameter to specify a different download directory. - Reads the value in the
file, performs a math calculation, and saves the result tomath-homework.txt
again, overwriting its contents. - Uploads the
file. This upload overwrites the previously uploaded artifact because they share the same name.
Job 3 displays the result uploaded in the previous job:
- Downloads the
artifact. - Prints the result of the math equation to the log.
The full math operation performed in this workflow example is (3 + 7) x 9 = 90
name: Share data between jobs
on: [push]
name: Add 3 and 7
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
- shell: bash
run: |
expr 3 + 7 > math-homework.txt
- name: Upload math result for job 1
uses: actions/upload-artifact@v2
name: homework
path: math-homework.txt
name: Multiply by 9
needs: job_1
runs-on: windows-latest
- name: Download math result for job 1
uses: actions/download-artifact@v2
name: homework
- shell: bash
run: |
value=`cat math-homework.txt`
expr $value \* 9 > math-homework.txt
- name: Upload math result for job 2
uses: actions/upload-artifact@v2
name: homework
path: math-homework.txt
name: Display results
needs: job_2
runs-on: macOS-latest
- name: Download math result for job 2
uses: actions/download-artifact@v2
name: homework
- name: Print the final result
shell: bash
run: |
value=`cat math-homework.txt`
echo The result is $value
The workflow run will archive any artifacts that it generated. For more information on downloading archived artifacts, see "Downloading workflow artifacts."


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Visa Requirements
- Language Course Visa (Visa for Language Learning) – the perfect option for those that want to learn the German language in Germany.
- Student Applicant Visa (Visum Zur Studienbewerbung) – if you want to study in Germany, but are still trying to find the right program or you still haven't got the confirmation letter from your University.
- Student Visa (Visum Zu Studienzwecken) – if you have already been accepted to a German university.
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Visa name
Language Course Visa; Student Applicant Visa; Student Visa
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You should expect to pay €60 (~US$74) for your student visa to Germany.
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For citizens from the EU or from Iceland, Norway, Switzerland, or Liechtenstein, it is only necessary to have an identity card to enter Germany. It is not necessary to have a visa.
Citizens from Australia, Israel, Japan, Canada, New Zealand, South Korea, and the USA can apply for their visa even after they arrived in Germany.
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The Power of Rescuing Others: Marsha Linehan, a therapist and researcher at the University of Washington who suffered from borderline personality disorder, recalls the religious experience that transformed her as a young woman.
By BENEDICT CAREY
Published: June 23, 2011
HARTFORD — Are you one of us?
The patient wanted to know, and her therapist — Marsha M. Linehan of the University of Washington, creator of a treatment used worldwide for severely suicidal people — had a ready answer. It was the one she always used to cut the question short, whether a patient asked it hopefully, accusingly or knowingly, having glimpsed the macramé of faded burns, cuts and welts on Dr. Linehan's arms:
"You mean, have I suffered?"
"No, Marsha," the patient replied, in an encounter last spring. "I mean one of us. Like us. Because if you were, it would give all of us so much hope."
"That did it," said Dr. Linehan, 68, who told her story in public for the first time last week before an audience of friends, family and doctors at the Institute of Living, the Hartford clinic where she was first treated for extreme social withdrawal at age 17. "So many people have begged me to come forward, and I just thought — well, I have to do this. I owe it to them. I cannot die a coward."
No one knows how many people with severe mental illness live what appear to be normal, successful lives, because such people are not in the habit of announcing themselves. They are too busy juggling responsibilities, paying the bills, studying, raising families — all while weathering gusts of dark emotions or delusions that would quickly overwhelm almost anyone else.
Now, an increasing number of them are risking exposure of their secret, saying that the time is right. The nation's mental health system is a shambles, they say, criminalizing many patients and warehousing some of the most severe in nursing and group homes where they receive care from workers with minimal qualifications.
Moreover, the enduring stigma of mental illness teaches people with such a diagnosis to think of themselves as victims, snuffing out the one thing that can motivate them to find treatment: hope.
"There's a tremendous need to implode the myths of mental illness, to put a face on it, to show people that a diagnosis does not have to lead to a painful and oblique life," said Elyn R. Saks, a professor at the University of Southern California School of Law who chronicles her own struggles with schizophrenia in "The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness." "We who struggle with these disorders can lead full, happy, productive lives, if we have the right resources."
These include medication (usually), therapy (often), a measure of good luck (always) — and, most of all, the inner strength to manage one's demons, if not banish them. That strength can come from any number of places, these former patients say: love, forgiveness, faith in God, a lifelong friendship.
But Dr. Linehan's case shows there is no recipe. She was driven by a mission to rescue people who are chronically suicidal, often as a result of borderline personality disorder, an enigmatic condition characterized in part by self-destructive urges.
"I honestly didn't realize at the time that I was dealing with myself," she said. "But I suppose it's true that I developed a therapy that provides the things I needed for so many years and never got."
'I Was in Hell'
She learned the central tragedy of severe mental illness the hard way, banging her head against the wall of a locked room.
Marsha Linehan arrived at the Institute of Living on March 9, 1961, at age 17, and quickly became the sole occupant of the seclusion room on the unit known as Thompson Two, for the most severely ill patients. The staff saw no alternative: The girl attacked herself habitually, burning her wrists with cigarettes, slashing her arms, her legs, her midsection, using any sharp object she could get her hands on.
The seclusion room, a small cell with a bed, a chair and a tiny, barred window, had no such weapon. Yet her urge to die only deepened. So she did the only thing that made any sense to her at the time: banged her head against the wall and, later, the floor. Hard.
"My whole experience of these episodes was that someone else was doing it; it was like 'I know this is coming, I'm out of control, somebody help me; where are you, God?' " she said. "I felt totally empty, like the Tin Man; I had no way to communicate what was going on, no way to understand it."
Her childhood, in Tulsa, Okla., provided few clues. An excellent student from early on, a natural on the piano, she was the third of six children of an oilman and his wife, an outgoing woman who juggled child care with the Junior League and Tulsa social events.
People who knew the Linehans at that time remember that their precocious third child was often in trouble at home, and Dr. Linehan recalls feeling deeply inadequate compared with her attractive and accomplished siblings. But whatever currents of distress ran under the surface, no one took much notice until she was bedridden with headaches in her senior year of high school.
Her younger sister, Aline Haynes, said: "This was Tulsa in the 1960s, and I don't think my parents had any idea what to do with Marsha. No one really knew what mental illness was."
Soon, a local psychiatrist recommended a stay at the Institute of Living, to get to the bottom of the problem. There, doctors gave her a diagnosis of schizophrenia; dosed her with Thorazine, Librium and other powerful drugs, as well as hours of Freudian analysis; and strapped her down for electroshock treatments, 14 shocks the first time through and 16 the second, according to her medical records. Nothing changed, and soon enough the patient was back in seclusion on the locked ward.
"Everyone was terrified of ending up in there," said Sebern Fisher, a fellow patient who became a close friend. But whatever her surroundings, Ms. Fisher added, "Marsha was capable of caring a great deal about another person; her passion was as deep as her loneliness."
A discharge summary, dated May 31, 1963, noted that "during 26 months of hospitalization, Miss Linehan was, for a considerable part of this time, one of the most disturbed patients in the hospital."
A verse the troubled girl wrote at the time reads:
They put me in a four-walled room
But left me really out
My soul was tossed somewhere askew
My limbs were tossed here about
Bang her head where she would, the tragedy remained: no one knew what was happening to her, and as a result medical care only made it worse. Any real treatment would have to be based not on some theory, she later concluded, but on facts: which precise emotion led to which thought led to the latest gruesome act. It would have to break that chain — and teach a new behavior.
"I was in hell," she said. "And I made a vow: when I get out, I'm going to come back and get others out of here."
Radical Acceptance
She sensed the power of another principle while praying in a small chapel in Chicago.
It was 1967, several years after she left the institute as a desperate 20-year-old whom doctors gave little chance of surviving outside the hospital. Survive she did, barely: there was at least one suicide attempt in Tulsa, when she first arrived home; and another episode after she moved to a Y.M.C.A. in Chicago to start over.
She was hospitalized again and emerged confused, lonely and more committed than ever to her Catholic faith. She moved into another Y, found a job as a clerk in an insurance company, started taking night classes at Loyola University — and prayed, often, at a chapel in the Cenacle Retreat Center.
"One night I was kneeling in there, looking up at the cross, and the whole place became gold — and suddenly I felt something coming toward me," she said. "It was this shimmering experience, and I just ran back to my room and said, 'I love myself.' It was the first time I remember talking to myself in the first person. I felt transformed."
The high lasted about a year, before the feelings of devastation returned in the wake of a romance that ended. But something was different. She could now weather her emotional storms without cutting or harming herself.
What had changed?
It took years of study in psychology — she earned a Ph.D. at Loyola in 1971 — before she found an answer. On the surface, it seemed obvious: She had accepted herself as she was. She had tried to kill herself so many times because the gulf between the person she wanted to be and the person she was left her desperate, hopeless, deeply homesick for a life she would never know. That gulf was real, and unbridgeable.
That basic idea — radical acceptance, she now calls it — became increasingly important as she began working with patients, first at a suicide clinic in Buffalo and later as a researcher. Yes, real change was possible. The emerging discipline of behaviorism taught that people could learn new behaviors — and that acting differently can in time alter underlying emotions from the top down.
But deeply suicidal people have tried to change a million times and failed. The only way to get through to them was to acknowledge that their behavior made sense: Thoughts of death were sweet release given what they were suffering.
"She was very creative with people. I saw that right away," said Gerald C. Davison, who in 1972 admitted Dr. Linehan into a postdoctoral program in behavioral therapy at Stony Brook University. (He is now a psychologist at the University of Southern California.) "She could get people off center, challenge them with things they didn't want to hear without making them feel put down."
No therapist could promise a quick transformation or even sudden "insight," much less a shimmering religious vision. But now Dr. Linehan was closing in on two seemingly opposed principles that could form the basis of a treatment: acceptance of life as it is, not as it is supposed to be; and the need to change, despite that reality and because of it. The only way to know for sure whether she had something more than a theory was to test it scientifically in the real world — and there was never any doubt where to start.
Getting Through the Day
"I decided to get supersuicidal people, the very worst cases, because I figured these are the most miserable people in the world — they think they're evil, that they're bad, bad, bad — and I understood that they weren't," she said. "I understood their suffering because I'd been there, in hell, with no idea how to get out."
In particular she chose to treat people with a diagnosis that she would have given her young self: borderline personality disorder, a poorly understood condition characterized by neediness, outbursts and self-destructive urges, often leading to cutting or burning. In therapy, borderline patients can be terrors — manipulative, hostile, sometimes ominously mute, and notorious for storming out threatening suicide.
Dr. Linehan found that the tension of acceptance could at least keep people in the room: patients accept who they are, that they feel the mental squalls of rage, emptiness and anxiety far more intensely than most people do. In turn, the therapist accepts that given all this, cutting, burning and suicide attempts make some sense.
Finally, the therapist elicits a commitment from the patient to change his or her behavior, a verbal pledge in exchange for a chance to live: "Therapy does not work for people who are dead" is one way she puts it.
Yet even as she climbed the academic ladder, moving from the Catholic University of America to the University of Washington in 1977, she understood from her own experience that acceptance and change were hardly enough. During those first years in Seattle she sometimes felt suicidal while driving to work; even today, she can feel rushes of panic, most recently while driving through tunnels. She relied on therapists herself, off and on over the years, for support and guidance (she does not remember taking medication after leaving the institute).
Dr. Linehan's own emerging approach to treatment — now called dialectical behavior therapy, or D.B.T. — would also have to include day-to-day skills. A commitment means very little, after all, if people do not have the tools to carry it out. She borrowed some of these from other behavioral therapies and added elements, like opposite action, in which patients act opposite to the way they feel when an emotion is inappropriate; and mindfulness meditation, a Zen technique in which people focus on their breath and observe their emotions come and go without acting on them. (Mindfulness is now a staple of many kinds of psychotherapy.)
In studies in the 1980s and '90s, researchers at the University of Washington and elsewhere tracked the progress of hundreds of borderline patients at high risk of suicide who attended weekly dialectical therapy sessions. Compared with similar patients who got other experts' treatments, those who learned Dr. Linehan's approach made far fewer suicide attempts, landed in the hospital less often and were much more likely to stay in treatment. D.B.T. is now widely used for a variety of stubborn clients, including juvenile offenders, people with eating disorders and those with drug addictions.
"I think the reason D.B.T. has made such a splash is that it addresses something that couldn't be treated before; people were just at a loss when it came to borderline," said Lisa Onken, chief of the behavioral and integrative treatment branch of the National Institutes of Health. "But I think the reason it has resonated so much with community therapists has a lot to do with Marsha Linehan's charisma, her ability to connect with clinical people as well as a scientific audience."
Most remarkably, perhaps, Dr. Linehan has reached a place where she can stand up and tell her story, come what will. "I'm a very happy person now," she said in an interview at her house near campus, where she lives with her adopted daughter, Geraldine, and Geraldine's husband, Nate. "I still have ups and downs, of course, but I think no more than anyone else."
After her coming-out speech last week, she visited the seclusion room, which has since been converted to a small office. "Well, look at that, they changed the windows," she said, holding her palms up. "There's so much more light."
A version of this article appeared in print on June 23, 2011, on page A1 of the New York edition with the headline: Expert on Mental Illness Reveals Her Own Fight.


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In what will probably be my last post for this year (though it won't be the last post here on a patent case, or one of the last ones, in general as far as my own plans are concerned), I'm going to talk about a couple of FRAND-related court filings that were made earlier this month. Both of them involve Google and its Motorola Mobility subsidiary.
The first one is Google's (Motorola Mobility's) answer to Intellectual Ventures' amended complaint in the Southern District of Florida, in which IV is asserting various wireless patents originally obtained by Nokia. Lo and behold, Google is actually resorting to a FRAND defense against some of IV's patents-in-suit:
"M. Thirteenth Defense and Affirmative Defense
Plaintiffs' claim for damages is limited by FRAND principles since Plaintiffs contend one or more of the patents are essential to the practice of and Plaintiffs or its alleged predecessors in interest to the '793 Patent, the '392 Patent, the '960 Patent, the '771 Patent, the '784 Patent, the '073 Patent, and the '353 Patent participated in the relevant standardization processes and/or submitted a declaration including a FRAND commitment covering one or more of these patents to the relevant standards body and/or otherwise committed to license one or more patents on commercially reasonable and non-discriminatory terms."
Also this month, Google decided to raise this defense against yet another patent-in-suit, and IV did not oppose the related modification, though it does, of course, disagree on substance.
Actually, this kind of FRAND defense was already in Google's answer to the original complaint, filed several months earlier. I admit that I had not paid close attention to this lawsuit. And a FRAND defense that merely relates to a limitation to a "claim for damages" is not a full-fledged, comprehensive FRAND defense of the kind that Apple and Microsoft raised against Motorola. But still it's significant enough that Google feels forced to raise a FRAND defense against IV, and as that litigation unfolds, it may have to be much more specific about how it believes a FRAND licensing pledge to a standard-setting organization benefits third parties.
In its disputes with Apple and Microsoft, Google's Motorola does not recognize third-party beneficiares. In the Microsoft FRAND case in Seattle, its then-counsel made a concession to that effect in early 2012, but on appeal Google is probably going to re-raise this issue. Google is, in fact, disputing the rights of third-party beneficiaries in its cross-appeal of the dismissal of a FRAND contract case brought by Apple in the Western District of Wisconsin.
The Federal Circuit appeal (actually, Google tries to get it transferred to the Seventh Circuit) of that Wisconsin FRAND contract case is the other FRAND case I wish to discuss in this post. On December 19, Apple filed its reply brief in support of its appeal of the dismissal, the public redacted version of which entered the public record the following week (this post continues below the document):
13-12-19 Apple Reply Brief in Appeal of Wisconsin FRAND Dismissal by Florian Mueller
Now Google will get to file a reply brief in support of its cross-appeal, and then briefing will be complete and the appellate hearing will be scheduled. You can find more details in the briefs. I'll just share my high-level observations here.
The most fundamental disagreement between Apple and Google is that Apple argues on appeal, as it did in district court, that a FRAND licensing pledge is enforceable like any options contract in the sense that a beneficiary can obligate the patentee to make an offer on FRAND terms (court-determined if necessary) without the beneficiary (here, Apple) having to make an unconditional commitment to take a license on court-determined terms. Unlike Apple, Microsoft made that commitment in its own dispute with Motorola. That's why Microsoft already has a FRAND rate determination and a jury verdict finding a breach of contract by Motorola in place, while Apple needs help from the appeals court in the form of a remand to district court in order to reach the stage of the Microsoft-Motorola proceedings further down the road (like in 2016 or so). But let's separate tactics from the legal framework. No matter what Microsoft did, Apple may actually be right that it's not necessary to make a commitment of this kind, or to write a blank check, which is how Apple portrays it.
Apple wants to retain its choice to either accept an offer on court-determined FRAND terms or to "continue to fend off Motorola's infringement allegations (which thus far have failed dismally)". As to the dismal failure of Motorola's infringement claims, Apple notes that "[i]n fact, in the course of years of litigation asserting eight declared-essential patents in multiple U.S. jurisdictions, Motorola has never--not once--succeeded in proving that Apple has infringed a valid patent." (That, of course, is yet another data point that calls into question the "wisdom" behind Google's $12.5 billion Motorola deal.)
Whether this appeal will ultimately be adjudicated by the Federal Circuit or by the appeals court Google prefers in this particular case (the Seventh Circuit), Wisconsin state contract law will be the governing law. Of course, a ruling will bear considerable weight in all states that have a similar contract law framework in place as Wisconsin.
I'm not an expert in Wisconsin contract law. I did, however, notice that Apple places more emphasis on Wisconsin law while Google's Motorola makes a whole lot of policy arguments that, according to Apple's reply brief, "amount to arguments to change Wisconsin law". Generally, lawyers emphasize applicable law if they believe it's on their side, or they focus on facts if that seems opportune, but the more they talk about policy, the less confident they are of their positions in those other areas.
Even if (just assuming this now for the sake of the argument) Wisconsin state contract law is indeed on Apple's side, the Federal Circuit will probably still be fairly sympathetic to Google's approach, for policy reasons. Apple's lead counsel in this appeal, Orrick Herrington Sutcliffe's E. Joshua Rosenkranz, has already won one Federal Circuit appeal for Apple against Motorola, recently appeared on the winning track at the hearing in the "Posner appeal", and is virtually certain to revive Oracle's copyright case against Google. But in those other cases, the positions he took were clearly compatible with the Federal Circuit's intellectual property-friendly philosophy, and Google's (Motorola's) position on FRAND royalties was so out of line that Chief Judge Rader of the Federal Circuit repeatedly labeled it as "crazy". In the Wisconsin appeal, Google's position is (apart from certain elements such as its denial of third-party beneficiary rights) nowhere as strikingly unreasonable as in the "Posner case", and Apple's position is nowhere as right holder-friendly as in Mr. Rosenkranz's other smartphone-related Federal Circuit appeals.
It could be that the Federal Circuit concludes that Wisconsin contract law entitles Apple to a FRAND offer from Motorola regardless of whether it pre-commits to its acceptance, with no wiggle room to decide in Motorola's favor based on such notions as Apple being an allegedly "unwilling licensee". But if the Federal Circuit feels that Google's (and Qualcomm's) warnings against a devaluation of FRAND-pledged SEPs can be outcome-determinative, then Apple is in for a really rough ride at the appellate hearing.
It has been pointed out by others, of which I'd like to particularly mention Professor Thomas Cotter, that FRAND determinations factoring in the inevitable uncertainty surrounding the validity and essentiality of declared-essential patents could result in what I would describe as a downward spiral. If there's a probabilistic discount once in the process, that's fine and fair. But if there's a further discount, and if this affects future determinations in which earlier decisions and settlements are used as comparables, then, theoretically speaking, royalty rates could converge with zero.
Motorola argues that Apple would simply use a FRAND determination by a court as a bargaining chip. If, for example, the court says that Motorola is entitled to $1 per device, Apple will then tell Motorola that it can, for instance, get 70 cents now or Apple will continue to litigate, since the $1 offer would be a get-out-of-jail card at any stage of the dispute. And it's true that if Apple could always change mind and accept a $1 offer that a court orders Motorola to make, then it would only be rational for Motorola to do a deal slightly below $1 now. 70 cents would probably be too low, unless Motorola fears that it's unlikely to gain serious leverage through SEP assertions. But 90 cents would probably be just a rational decision. Now, if the court determination of $1 was right, but if Motorola accepted 90 cents for the reason I just outlined, then this would affect future FRAND rate-setting decisions. Future rate-setters (courts or arbitrators) would see that a court thought $1 was fair, but they would also see that Motorola settled for 90 cents. And if you have a sequence of rate-setting decisions influenced by this, then it becomes increasingly unlikely that a future court or arbitrator would, all other things being equal, attach a $1-per-unit valuation to Motorola's portfolio.
All I'm saying here is that the policy concerns expressed by Google in this context aren't all unreasonable. I've criticized a number of Google positions, mostly on FRAND. In this particular case here, while I see potential merit in Apple's theory of an enforceable options contract, I can't say that Motorola and Qualcomm (and others) don't raise a legitimate policy concern.
From the Federal Circuit's vantage point, looking at the record of this case and of related cases, neither of the parties nor the district judge make a perfect impression. Judge Barbara Crabb in Wisconsin was pretty much on Apple's side and then became a bit emotional about Apple's "no more than $1" position. She initially wanted to dismiss Apple's case even without prejudice, only to realize after further thought that this was too extreme. That doesn't look great. But Apple's behavior before the district court can be perceived (rightly or wrongly) as somewhat arrogant, also in light of the fact that other litigants, such as Microsoft, did commit beforehand to take a license on court-determined terms, which is also what the Federal Trade Commission deemed reasonable in the Google-Motorola FRAND antitrust case. But Google's Motorola also has its credibility problems. It has notoriously taken "crazy" positions on FRAND, it's known to have drawn antitrust scrutiny in the U.S. and Europe, and it's presumably not lost on the Federal Circuit that Google is the driving force behind a massive anti-patent (and generally IP-eviscerating) push in Washington DC and elsewhere.
All in all, this looks like the most difficult one of Mr. Rosenkranz's smartphone-related appeals to win, unless Wisconsin law is as firmly on Apple's side as he argues. Should it come down to policy considerations, I would bet on Google this time around.
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