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Maurice Lévy
"Despite the fact that I have invested a lot and believe in the shift to digital, I place technology second to ideas."
Sir John Hegarty
"I don't look to people for inspiration, as you always get disappointed by people. I get inspired instead by ideas because, by and large, they don't let you down."
Sir Peter Bazalgette
"Inspiring people often have extraordinary ambition and the ability to deliver and execute on that ambition."
Daniel Bonner
"I'm often most inspired by the really small things, the tiny touches of magic – these often get drowned out by the ambition to do something big and spectacular."
Rory Sutherland
"The reason free markets work so well is not because they are efficient. It's because they are experimental."
At a time when products, services and ideas can seemingly be replicated overnight, innovation and creativity have mainstreamed. More and more, businesses no longer view creativity as something to do with the art they hang on their boardroom walls – they see it as a business essential. Steve Jobs' biography has become a business bestseller and a business school case study, arguing, as it does, that Apple's position at the nexus of creativity, innovation and technology was responsible for its success.
Sure, many businesses still struggle with how to access or leverage creative thinking – but few business people doubt its importance. So there has never been a higher premium on the power of ideas and on the people who specialise in the business of inspiration. These are the type of creative leaders who feature in Talking Inspiration, a series of features that explore where they get their ideas from and how they turn those ideas into action.
The first five interviews feature Maurice Lévy, the chief executive of Publics Groupe; Sir John Hegarty, the founder of Bartle Bogle Hegarty; Sir Peter Bazalgette, the former chief creative officer of Endemol; Daniel Bonner, the chief creative officer of Razorfish; and Rory Sutherland, the vice-chairman of OgilvyOne.
They all come from different parts of the media and marketing empire, but they are unified by their belief in the primacy of creative ideas.
Lévy talks about having a voracious appetite for learning about technology and speaks eloquently about its potential to transform people's lives and work. But, he argues with equal energy that, ultimately, ideas come first.
For Hegarty, inspiration is a question of observing the human condition, watching life unfold around you and allowing it to feed the imagination. He tells the story of how he came upon the idea for a celebrated Audi ad on a rainy day, when he saw a couple under a brolly, walking next to each other in perfect step.
Bazalgette addresses the process of inspiration and what advertising taught television executives about starting with a brief and working in teams and to a deadline. He was also an early exponent of the cross-genre approach: in his case, borrowing not just the process of creating advertising, but the principles too – simple, big, populist ideas – and applying them to television.
Bonner, on the other hand, thinks small in order to think big. He believes that small ideas are more agile, purposeful and contagious, and more likely to resonate with people and drive bigger change over time.
And Sutherland talks breathlessly about quantum mechanics, strategic planning, technology, anthropology and the "cognitive diversity" that is required to develop creative ideas today.
We work in an industry that loves to share – just look at Private View in the back of this magazine to see how much we enjoy reviewing each other's work.
Talking Inspiration could encourage us all to learn more about our own creative drivers and give us the confidence to share where we look to for our ideas. After all, in today's business, more than ever we all have to be creative thinkers. So the more we talk inspiration, the better.
Marc Nohr is the chief executive of Kitcatt Nohr Digitas
To watch Talking Inspiration click here.
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My 2 year old attends preschool part time and I have some concerns regarding the aggressive behavior of some of the children. I have witnessed the behavior when I drop my child off in the afternoon. My son is also starting to push, slap, and pinch at home. I spoke with the teacher and she said this is normal behavior, but I feel as though the school does not do enough to stop it. I want my son to learn social skills and how to handle himself on the playground so I do not want to be too sensitive. Does anyone have experience with preschools in the East Bay that do a good job of handling aggressive behavior and promoting empathy, peace, kindness? What do they do? What can I do as a parent? Andrea
As far as 'empathy,' 'peace,' and 'kindness...' From what you say, your school already reflects those values...They have an understanding of what is normal for a two year old. Regarding their handling of it, have you asked for specifics from the teachers? What do they do when your child is involved in a very emotional situation? Do they read books on the topic during story time? Do they model gentle behavior? Those are just two quick things that come to mind. Chances are they employ many wonderful techniques that they can share with you to use at home. your kid is normal...so are the others...
As for the preschool, I informed my son's preschool teacher that he tends to get hit. I asked the teacher what techniques they apply when hitting occurs. They say that they tell the person who hits that hitting is not allowed. I then asked a favor from her, which is to hug my son when this happens as a way to comfort him and know that he did not do anything wrong.
One of the moms who is in my mommy and me class suggested to the following, which is implemented in her son's co-op preschool: emphasize that the person hurts the child when he hits. You do this by talking to both children, and really show them that the person was hurt, ''look at face, he really didn't like it'' ''you made him very sad when you do that, you wouldn't want to feel sad, would you?'' Then, you TELL, not ASK, the child to say sorry. It really bothers me when moms say, ''Can you say sorry to him?'' The parent has to take responsibility for his/her child's actions and by telling the child to say sorry is one way to accept the child's actions and take responsibility.
As you can see, this has been a big issue for me and my son. I think toddlers hit him because he is very tall for his age and they think he is a big kid. I can only teach my son the techniques and hope that he will apply them.
Good luck! Precilla
We have a 3 year old son, who is warm and caring. He attends a Montessori preschool full-time and does well there. He is not an outgoing, run-around and climb the walls kid -- never was. More cautious and thoughtful and likes to be a follower and fit in with the rest of the kids.
Anyway, now that he in class with older kids (up to age 5) I have noticed a huge surge in the amount of expsosure my son has to things like Disney, superhero's, and the like.
I don't want my child exposed to all that and up to now he has had no idea who Goofy, Superman and the rest are. Now, he plays Spiderman in the play yard and it seems that every child comes to school in Lightning McQueen or Batman clothes. Lunch boxes are a veritable who's who of cartoon characters.
Ironically, my husband and I work in TV, but don't let our son watch any. We figure there is enough time in his life to be seduced by advertising, whether it be Happy Meals, t-shirts, stickers and the like with the latest Disney product and we would rather not encourage it.
What can I do, if anything, to reduce the corporate exposure at school? All tooned out
My understanding is that Waldorf schools can be more proactive about lifestyle choices of the sorts you're making, so perhaps you might want to check them out. We decided, though, that they weren't for us, and while we can pick schools that support our family's educational goals, we can't control everything, especially other families' decisions.
I'm sure it gets harder, but so far, so good. Our 3-year-old still doesn't watch tv, but she now recognizes some Disney characters, for example, and takes little note of them. She was clueless when a kid at preschool kept saying, ''Swiper, no swiping!'' from Dora, but that fact didn't derail her ability to play at school nor did it make her beg for tv. And, my favorite example, she excitedly told me one day after school, ''There's a restaurant called Old MacDonald's!'' mom
That's not different in any important way from wanting to play ''hero'' or ''police'' or any other fantasy role involving physical activity and pretending to have magical powers, which is totally normal for preschool boys. Does it really matter if he calls it ''Spiderman'' instead of a more generic name? In my opinion -- as the mother of a 5-year-old boy who watches very few movies and almost no TV, and whose only clothing or accesories with superhero images is one three-pack of underwear - - not at all.
The only thing you need to watch out for is, if your son goes to playdates at his classmates' homes without you, ask the other parents about their TV-watching rules beforehand.
And if your son wants a licensed-character t-shirt or lunch box, don't freak out. Use that as an opportunity to discuss these issues with him (in an age-appropriate way, of course). You may find that he has very interesting reasons for liking certain characters -- whether you agree to pay the price for the merchandise or not, you're likely to learn something about his world and teach him something about how to make his own way in it Holly
Have you thought of looking for a new school? I honestly don't know anyone who dresses their children in anything with a cartoon character on it. There may be the odd lunch bag with a cartoon character on it thrown into the lunch basket in the morning, but that would be more the exception to the rule. And, I would hazard a guess that the offending lunch bag was purchased when Mom or Dad had a weak moment in the store after a very long day or grandma purchased it because she thought it was cute. Also, while tv does have a place in our households, it hardly dominates. Most of my friends are the shove the kids into the backyard for some fresh air, making and decorating sugar cookie types, or strip down to your skivies and go at it with the finger paint sorts.
Otherwise, continue to keep that tv off/minimized. I wouldn't advocate total 'deprivation' later on, but it sounds like you are already cognizant of that need for balance later. Try to suggest alternative games to Batman. One of my daughters is very active -- has been since the day she was born. But, she HATES the Batman game as much as I do. I try to channel the kids in the playard away from Batman to a game of tag or 'redlight greenlight' or jumping contests -- active, but not sort of violent zap you in your face kind of play. Also, plan get togethers or trips to the playground with kids that are more his speed. -hate batman, too
You could talk to the school director/teachers and ask about whether rules could be made restricting characters on clothing & other items, and redirecting any character based play (our AMS-certified Montessori school does this).
But I think it is hard to reduce exposure to commercialism in childhood these days. While trying to limit exposure, we should also work to make our kids critical consumers and talk to them about what they are imitating/desiring (asking why they like superheroes, telling them how you feel about them, etc.) Montessori Mom
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Real Housewives' Kyle Richards Says Little House on the Prairie Taught Her Good Values
Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Kyle Richards is one hard working woman — and she gets it from her mama! Although she is Beverly Hills born and bred, Kyle — who grew up in front of the camera as Alicia on Little House on the Prairie — insists she was hardly a spoiled kid like her peers thanks to her unique job and her mother's influence.
"I was going to the set every day in Simi Valley and riding horses on the set of Little House on the Prairie and catching tadpoles in the stream. It gave me a glimpse into a different world, which I really appreciate now looking back as an adult," the 42-year-old reality star tells Parade.
Today, Kyle continues to work hard as both a mother and businesswoman, hoping to pass those values on to her offspring. "It was always very important to my mom that we were down to earth. She made us clean our own rooms and wash our own cars. That's how I was raised and that's how I want my daughters to be raised," she explains. And for the brunette beauty, that means setting an example by raising her kids without outside help. "I don't want someone else driving my children to school," Kyle says. "I want to be there with them in the car having those conversations."
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It has been reported that youths from the MDC-T youths are to benefit from the National Youth Fund (NYF), controlled by ZANU PF's Youth Minister Saviour Kasukuwere.
The daily NewsDay newspaper reported on Monday that despite the MDC-T denouncing the scheme as a ZANU PF project, Kasukuwere last week instructed banks administering the fund to approve loan applications by MDC-T activists.
This was after Nelson Chamisa, the MDC-T's national organizing secretary, reportedly tried to 'secretly' liaise with financial institutions to process the loans to appease the restive youths in his party.
It is widely known the MDC-T has been discouraging its party faithful from participating in the scheme, describing the project as motivated by electioneering. Analysts see this sudden change by Kasukuwere as part of ZANU PF's grand plan to buy votes from young voters.
NewsDay said that until recently only ZANU PF youths had benefited from soft loans disbursed under the NYF which forms part of the former ruling party's indigenization policy.
The paper said Kasukuwere claimed at a rally in Mt Darwin on Friday that the MDC-T leadership was under pressure from its youths, who were allegedly demanding permission to access the funds to initiate their own various self-help projects.
Chamisa is quoted by the paper saying the fund is a national project which should not be politicized. He was backed by the party's youth spokesman, Clifford Hlatswayo, who said regardless of political affiliation, every youth in Zimbabwe should have access to the fund.
'It's not about Kasukuwere, ZANU PF or the MDC, that fund is budgeted for by the treasury and should benefit all youths and not only those from ZANU PF,' Hlatswayo said.
The youth leader said it was a political gimmick by Kasukuwere to imply that the fund was part of ZANU PF's indigenization policy when in fact the money came from the Ministry of Finance.
'For the record, our members have not just woken up now and applied for the loans. They've been doing so for the past year but with little success because it has been a preserve of ZANU PF members to get the loans,' Hlatswayo added.
ZANU PF has been on a free-spending drive to attract voters in the crucial elections expected between June and August. Over the weekend Mines Minister Obert Mpofu said government will soon grant mining rights to farmers on whose land mineral deposits are discovered.
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GIGANTIC dinosaurs may have disappeared 65 million years ago, but their sex chromosomes live on in birds - providing the best evidence yet that the famously small Y chromosome carried by men is not doomed to disappear within a few million years.
The rosy long-term prognosis for the Y chromosome was one of the more unusual studies presented at the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology's annual meeting in Raleigh, North Carolina, last week. The meeting also offered a new look into life on four wings (see "Four wings good, two wings better", below) and discussed how best to tuck into a Triceratops (see "Tuck into a Triceratops", below).
Concern about the fate of the human Y chromosome stems from its small size and the fact that it contains few functional genes.
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Seventh Quarry Magazine
Two of my poems, 'On Mending a Lost Letter' and 'Blue Plums' have just appeared in Seventh Quarry Magazine and it was lovely to get my copy of it in the post and read some of the fantastic writing featured in there. Here's one of the poems of mine that was published in Issue 17, Winter 2013:
On Mending a Lost Letter
The paper's yellowed, but the watermark's
still plain, hand-made, sheer as a stocking.
Some perfume – Blue Waltz maybe – mingles
with ink that has turned grey from time.
He lines the pieces on linoleum,
tallies shred with shred, matches threadbare
ribbons of words, mends a g's curve
an n's bend, holds up the whole, reads her
round hand, lays his face against her
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can't help but love this watch!
couldn't find my warranty for the watch in my previous review so i bought another one. i love this watch so much!! i use it everyday- great big numbers for work and i get lots of compliments on the colors. the screen background is a little darker than in the previous watch i had but that may be just the battery. haven't taken this IN the water (for fear of another broken watch) but i take it EVERYWHERE else! i have a ridiculous watch tan now but that just shows how much i love it, haha. if this watch breaks i'd buy it again in a heartbeat.
my second one got wet and died. i give up. going to return this and find something else. :( really a shame- i wear this every day and get compliments on it at least once a week! but the 100m water resistance is a lieeeeee.
kind of a let down
I wasn't turned off by thefact that the watch looks like something out of a 70's sci fi. Frankly I wished the buttons on it were bigger, I got the watch so I could easily hit the lap button or timer buttons in the pool without having to search for them or worry about hitting the wrong button. Unfortunately, the buttons are close enough together that while swimming it's not always easy to just hit on button. A bigger drawback is that you have to push in the button pretty hard for it to register. It is waterproof.
not really waterproof.
i thought i found the watch of my dreams! my watch criteria was: 1) large display 2) timer/stopwatch 3) alarm 4) 24 hour ("military time") display 5) cute colors- specifically white! and pink!! 6) waterproof. this watch fit all of the above criteria and got about 3 months of daily use of this watch. and then i took it to the beach. it says 100 meter waterproof on the face! i was in 8 feet of ocean and when i got out the display is all wonky. the numbers aren't showing up properly and the days of the week is not showing up at all. i think it functions ok because i can hear the timer starting and stopping when i press the buttons. but the main idea of a watch is a visual display. this has thrown a huge wrench in my work routine and i am heartbroken that such a fantastic watch didn't live up to it's description. i love this watch so much that i migh just buy a replacement and use it for work only. but i really expected this to be a surf/dive watch and am pretty disappointed. i'll need to find a new beach watch now, too. i highly recommend this if you plan to stay out of the water. if you are looking for something to dive, fish, surf, or swim in- turn back now and save yourself from heartbreak.
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return it for a replacement, no questions asked! you may have just gotten a defective one. cheers, and happy dives :)


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We spent a lot of time over summer year talking to many of you. Postcard senders from all over the world - German mothers, English-early retirees, New York hipsters, Australian photo junkies and many more.
You gave us a huge amount of input - some specific feedback about how to improve the experience, and some really telling comments on why you send postcards. Today we're very proud to announce the launch of a new service called Hugmail that addresses one of the biggest reasons to use this service - sending messages to family that doesn't live a digital life.
Hugmail - making it easier for us to stay in touch with our Grandparents. For us - who live and breath digital everyday (err, including you who are reading this blog!) - we all really should spend more time with our grandparents, saying "hi", asking them about their day. We know how much they value a phone call, a visit, a small present.
Hugmail is all about celebrating the little things that bring joy and happiness to people's lives - we believe that postcards can play a central part in that.
- Available today on web, iOS and Android
- Part of the Touchnote family of services - all helping you to manage your relationships better
When was the last time you showed one of your our older relatives that you care?
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We've decided to kick off Hugmail in the UK only - it's all about our company ethos of focussing on only a few things, and absolutely doing everything we can to be absolutely the best at them. Hence, for now, Hugmail is focused on UK customers.
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Katsina State Commissioner for Agriculture and Natural Resources, Alhaji Musa Adamu Funtua in this interview with MUAZU ELAZEH speaks on efforts to boost food production in the state.
Katsina State is an agrarian state with farming constituting the mainstay of its economy; how has the state government fared in repositioning agriculture in the state?
Indeed, it is an established fact that Katsina State is an agrarian state with the majority of our people engaged in farming of both food crops and animal husbandry. We are blessed with arable land. Government sees farming as a major venture and has continued to provide all the necessary incentives to boost farming and, in so doing, alleviate poverty while enhancing sustainable food security.
Among the first things this administration did was to partner with relevant agricultural research institutes to identify the potentialities available in the state and, importantly, harness them effectively and efficiently. The state government constituted a high-powered agriculture committee which has drafted a blueprint for the implementation on this all-important sector.
In line with this blueprint, government has expended enormous resources in supporting farming through the provision of farm inputs and agro-allied services. To support mechanization, government purchased and distributed more than 400 tractors to farmers' cooperative societies at a subsidized rate and on a loan basis with an ample time moratorium as a source of motivation.
These tractors have since been distributed to beneficiaries, and the reports available to us indicate success in their usage. Additionally too, government has accorded top most priority to the provision of bull for animal traction because we realized that the tractors are not enough. In this wise, forty people in each of the 34 local government areas will be given a set of animal traction each.
Government has equally sustained its commitments in providing improved seeds, fertilizers and other farm inputs to farmers. In the last couple of years, over N6 billion has been spent in the procurement of fertilizers as part of measures aimed at ensuring availability of fertilizers to the farmers in line with the state government's policy of boosting agriculture so as to engender food security and self sufficiency. We normally have fertilizers in stock and last year alone, we had over 23,000 metric tonnes and government has put in place measures to ensure transparency in the distribution process.
Importantly, we have strengthened extension services so as to sensitize our farmers on modern farming techniques. The extension services under the state owned agricultural and rural development authority has been reaching out to farmers at the grassroots. We have mobilized the extension workers to liaise with farmers and find out what really their concerns and challenges are. This has helped us to organize parleys with the farmers and relevant stakeholders all in a bid to reposition farming in the state.
Additionally too, we have been engaged in transfer of technology through partnership with research institutes and other key stakeholders within and outside the country. We have strengthened the over twenty seven farm centres scattered across the state. All these are part of measures to boost farming in the state as government is convinced that farming can and should be an all year round ventures. To support this, government has provided the needed environment to encourage dry season farming.
In the area of irrigation farming, the state government is partnering with federal government in boosting effective usage of Jibia irrigation sites just as we have been supporting farmers in all the irrigation sites across the state. To boost irrigation farming, government has concluded plans to construct wash bowls and tube wells just as we have procured engines and relevant facilities to be distributed to farmers. We hope to construct at least 40 tube wells in each irrigation sites. Approval has been given and, as I speak, work on the tube wells has commenced.
Without doubt, the commitment to transform agriculture in Katsina State has been demonstrated in the profound, visionary and time-tested policies of the Governor Shema-led administration. Indeed, the agricultural reforms have begun to manifest in the lives of the rural farmers who, now more than ever before, are having easy access to fertilizers and other farm inputs necessary to encourage smooth revolution in the sector.
Everywhere one turns in the agricultural sector, there is a positive story to tell just as there is vast advantages to tap from the government's unalloyed commitment to repositioning agriculture. It is necessary to stress the need for all and sundry to key-into government's laudable agricultural policies so as to make the task of repositioning agriculture a success.
Sometime last year, the state government signed a partnership agreement with Songhai Farms from Porto-Novo in Benin Republic; what is happening to the Katsina -Songhai Initiative?
You know, the Songhai Farm has been successful in Benin Republic and so the state government decided to key into it. The agreement which covers diverse areas of food crop and animal production is to serve as veritable source of employment generation to teeming youths in the state and would run for four years.
Essentially, the Songhai initiative is to provide training on modern techniques of both production and processing of cash crops and indeed other crops including maize, sorghum, millet, beans, cassava, rice, wheat and a host of others for which Katsina has comparative advantage in their production. The Songhai Farm initiative is an advanced farming technique that covers all areas of farming with the full utilisation of waste materials from the products for further agricultural purposes.
It is believed that the initiative will help over 50,000 farming youths to earn a lawful living and to engage themselves in agriculture-related activities all year round. We intend to establish three pilot farms at Zobe, Sabke and Mairuwa dams located at the three senatorial zones of the state.
Right now, a visitor to the Dutsima site near Zobe Dam will not believe that he is in Katsina State. Work has since commenced at the Mairuwa site as well. So the Songhai partnership is work in progress as everything is moving on as planned.
The initiative will pay attention mainly to honey production, honey processing, honey packaging, fisheries production, fishery management, poultry and livestock production, animal husbandry, crops and cereals production among many others.
Perhaps it is important to recall that 60 youths selected from the state's three senatorial districts are undergoing six months intensive training on modern techniques on food and cash crop production, aquaculture and animal husbandry at the Songhai Regional centre in Porto-Novo, as part of the Katsina State government's Songhai partnership initiatives. This category of youths will in turn train other interested youths from different local government areas of the state at three centres to be established by the state government in the three senatorial districts of the state.
What are the state government's new plans for the agric sector in 2013?
We will consolidate on what we have been doing, because we believe in continuity. Essentially, our plans will be to assess what we have done and see how best we can improve on areas that need improvement. But, basically, it will be a continuity geared towards ensuring effective service delivery to the mass of our farmers so as to make Katsina a stronger force to reckon with in the area of food security. We had a target and we surpassed it. The challenge is how to maintain it and we are equal to the task.
As a stakeholder in the agric sector, what is your assessment of the federal government's agricultural transformation agenda?
Well, it is on course and we here in Katsina have keyed into it because we believe in it. Katsina State is the home of agricultural transformation because we have virtually all the federal government's packages and programmes on agriculture. The federal government introduced growth enhancement programme where fertilizers and other inputs like improved seedlings are given directly to farmers. This is a beautiful scheme just as most of the items in the agricultural transformation agenda are. However, in some areas, there is success while in others, there are problems.
Is Nigeria anywhere near achieving sustainable food security?
I think we are on our way to achieving just that provided the need incentives will continually be put in place and the people will support government's efforts in that regard. Having said that, let me say that in Katsina, we already have food security. We have more than we can consume and so the problem is access to market for the farmers; that is why the state government is buying the surplus from farmers.
As I speak, we have earmarked over three million naira to purchase foodstuffs from farmers for storage at the state's reserves. We had bumper harvest and the farmers' problem is access to marker, so government is coming in to buy the food. Most of our stores are 70 percent filled.


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Former alumnae, current students and an estimated 400 people attended the three-day installation ceremony of Dr. Mistick, that followed in the footsteps of retirement of former president, Lorna D. Edmundson.
On Sat, Oct. 1, the campus and community welcomed President Barbara K. Mistick and installed her as the 19th president of the college.
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Former alumnae, current students and an estimated 400 people attended the three-day event to witness Dr. Mistick following in the footsteps of former president, Lorna D. Edmundson.
Dr. Mistick was chosen for her leadership and entrepreneurial credentials. She began to rely on her expertise as of July 1, 2011.
Inauguration committee members, administrators, faculty, staff, students, trustees and community members attended the event.
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Even though wet weather dampened the opportunity to hold the ceremony outside, spirits were high.
John W. Gibb, the Chair of the Board of Trustees conducted the installation of Dr. Mistick as the new president on campus. Those attending gave a standing ovation as Gibb placed the presidential medallion around her neck.
A number of speakers alongside Chair member Gibb spoke, including current Class President, Stephanie Bachman '11.
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Following the ceremony, attendees cheered, exchanging hugs and handshakes with Mistick as she walked out down the isle of the chapel. Alumnae took part in the history of the 19th president and enjoyed tearful reminiscing with old classmates. The oldest class represented was the class of '21. Joan Mitchell '63, Mary Anne McCormick '63 and Anne Barton '63 praised Mistick's inaugural speech theme.
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By Maisie McCabe, campaignlive.co.uk, Wednesday, 21 November 2012 11:56AM
Greenlight will be charged with conceiving and developing a digital strategy for LV='s life and pension insurance products and implementing paid media and search campaigns.
LV= kicked of a review of its digital marketing requirements in March and hired Steak to work on its general insurance business, which includes car, home, pet and travel insurance, in September.
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New Bern is a city in Craven County, North Carolina with a population of 23,128 as of the 2000 census. The estimated population in 2006 was 27,650. It is located at the convergence of the Trent and the Neuse rivers, 87 miles (140 km) northeast of Wilmington. New Bern is the second oldest town in North Carolina and served as the capital of the North Carolina colonial government and then briefly as the state capital. It is the county seat of Craven County and the principal city of the New Bern Micropolitan Statistical Area. Originally a Swiss settlement, the city is named after the capital of Switzerland, Bern. The Swiss connection (just as the Dutch in New Amsterdam, and German immigrants in Pennsylvania Dutch) with England was established by Marian exiles and marriages of the Royal House of Stuart, important people in the history of the Calvinism.
New Bern was first settled in 1710 by Swiss and German immigrants under the leadership of Christoph von Graffenried and John Lawson. It was named after the (later) capital of Switzerland, Bern. The first permanent seat of the colonial government of North Carolina was located in New Bern. Following the American Revolutionary War, New Bern became the first state capital. Christoph von Graffenried ordered that the layout of the town was made into the shape of a cross, although the town is not in the shape today due to growth of the town and towns surrounding it.
Tryon Palace completed in 1770 and was the former home of British governor William Tryon. It then became the original state capitol building of newly-independent North Carolina and remained so until the 1790s. A replica, built from the original plans and on the original foundation, is now maintained as a historic site and tourist attraction.
New Bern was the site of the Battle of New Bern early in the American Civil War in which the town was captured and occupied by Union forces.
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New Bern is located in North Carolina's Inner Banks region. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 27.0 square miles (69.9 km²), of which, 25.8 square miles (66.9 km²) of it is land and 1.2 square miles (3.0 km²) of it (4.30%) is water.
The population density was 895.5 people per square mile (345.7/km²). There were 11,094 housing units at an average density of 429.5/sq mi (165.8/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 55.96% White, 40.32% African American, 0.32% Native American, 0.64% Asian, 0.04% Pacific Islander, 1.44% from other races, and 1.28% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 2.99% of the population.
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The median income for a household in the city was $29,139, and the median income for a family was $38,990. Males had a median income of $28,720 versus $21,687 for females. The per capita income for the city was $18,499. About 14.7% of families and 19.4% of the population were below the poverty line, including 29.4% of those under age 18 and 14.1% of those age 65 or over.


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Golden Gopher leading receiver A.J. Barker has announced Sunday that he's leaving the team in a rant against head coach Jerry Kill via Tumblr. Barker, a junior walk-on, accumulated 577 yards receiving before an ankle injury against Purdue a couple of weeks ago has held him out ever since. According to Barker's post on Tumblr, his decision to leave the team arises out of what he calls manipulation and verbal abuse from Kill. This apparently stemmed from how Barker's ankle injury was dealt with by the Minnesota coaching staff. Now, in honor of my family and myself I'm done with you for good. In light of that pathetic, manipulative display of rage and love you put on this past Thursday, I have come to the decision, with the guidance of my parents and my closest friends, that my time on this team has come to an end. It kills me that I have to do this before the season's over, but this is the only way I can protect myself against the manipulation and abuse I'd have to endure from you the rest of this season. There's nothing special about me? I'm a dime a dozen? You don't know what ********* up things happened to me to screw me up so much as a person"? My stock fell as a person since I got injured? You had 5 of me at Northern Illinois? You say I'll never earn a scholarship under you? That I don't deserve one? I guess time will tell to see if this was an isolated incident with Barker or if more players will follow suit with him after the Kill's alleged abuse and manipulation. Nonetheless Barker wasn't under scholarship so he is free to transfer to any school and play next season.
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77% Americans support path to citizenship or legal status; 19% support deportation The Republican Party's anti-immigrant obsession is driving the GOP in a dangerous direction. Not only is the Party set to be blamed for […]Learn More
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In-Depth Polling Shows that Republicans Are Pandering to 19% of the American Public on Immigration - February 2015
Once again, the GOP looks like they're heading toward a government shutdown. In the latest talks, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell looks like he might allow a vote on a clean DHS bill, while scheduling a […]Learn More
Independent Poll: Americans Strongly Support New Immigration Policies, Favor Path to Legal Status and Citizenship and Oppose Republican Attempts to Block Executive Actions - February 2015
New polling from the highly-regarded Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) finds that the American public supports the President's executive actions on immigration, prefers that Congress focus on passing immigration reform rather than trying to undo […]Learn More
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The Supreme Court issued its order today denying Petroliam's petition for writ of certiorari.
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We've had a lot to say — and with good reason — about Petroliam Nasional Berhad (Petronas) v. GoDaddy.com, Inc. (GoDaddy),[1] the Ninth Circuit decision that held there is no cause of action for contributory cybersquatting[2] under the Anti-Cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (ACPA),[3] which was passed as an amendment to the Lanham Act in 1999. This ruling was no mere "development"; it was a great upheaval in the law. The court's analysis is at odds with the plain meaning of the statute, its legislative history, and the contributory liability case law construing it. We first reported the decision as a blog post here. A lengthier analysis appeared in the Winter 2014 issue of Bloomberg BNA's Books Monitor. And the case gets the million-dollar treatment in the upcoming 2014 Supplement to Secondary Trademark Infringement. Each time we looked at the opinion, it became harder to understand it.
In addition to the issues we've already addressed is the less obvious but equally problematic dependence by the court on Central Bank of Denver, N.A. v. First Interstate Bank of Denver, N.A (Central Bank) [4], which involved aiding and abetting liability under the SecuritiesExchange Act of 1934 (the "Exchange Act").The GoDaddy court relied on that Supreme Court case[5] to help answer an old question that had already been answered, albeit not in the cybersquatting context[5a]: Should courts apply common law principles of secondary liability to the Lanham Act?
Both the Supreme Court and subsequent circuit courts have done so for decades. The Supreme Court resolved the validity of such common law principles under the Lanham Act in 1982 when it set the modern standard for contributory liability in Inwood Labs., Inc. v. Ives Labs., Inc.[6] Inwood Labs.'s two-part test for contributory trademark infringement[7] has been consistently followed by subsequent courts, including the Ninth Circuit.[8] Years later, the question of whether common law principles of agency should apply to the Lanham Act came before the Third Circuit in the landmark case of American Tel. & Tel. Co. Winback & Conserve Program, Inc. (AT &T).[9]There the court acknowledged the validity of vicarious liability (through the paradigm of agency) under the Lanham Act. [10] That case, though not controlling in the 9th Circuit, is nonetheless instructive because the AT &T court considered at length whether the Supreme Court's ruling in Central Bank should apply to the Lanham Act.
In Central Bank, the Supreme Court had rejected the application of aiding and abetting liability to the Exchange Act. Adhering to the plain meaning of the statute, the Court reasoned that an action cannot be maintained for aiding and abetting securities fraud under the Exchange Act because its text did not provide for one.[11] In AT &T, however, the court declined to extend Central Bank to trademark infringement because it did "not believe that the [Central Bank] Court's restrictive reading of the Exchange Act impact[ed] on the determination of the scope of liability under the Lanham Act." [12]
Central Bank had no bearing on the inquiry in AT &T, the Third Circuit reasoned, because the Supreme Court in that case "primarily was concerned with broadening the range of unlawful conduct beyond that specifically proscribed by the [Exchange] Act."[13] Aiding and abetting, the Supreme Court explained, constituted a separate cause of action beyond the scope of the Act.[14] This is not so however, regarding agency liability, the AT&T court reasoned, for "courts imposing liability on agency theories are not expanding the category of affirmative conduct proscribed by the relevant statute; rather, they are deciding on whose shoulders to place responsibility for conduct indisputably proscribed by the relevant statute."[15]
But the AT&T court did not stop there. In distinguishing Central Bank, it held:
[B]eyond this, it is quite clear under Central Bank 's reasoning, the Supreme Court was concerned with the Exchange Act itself under which the private right of action already had been judicially implied. Accordingly, we think that the Court did not intend to overrule settled constructions of other statutes that relied on common law doctrines to determine the scope of liability. …Thus, in contrast to the Court's restrictive reading of the Exchange Act, the Court has endorsed and applied a theory of secondary liability for trademark infringement that comes very close to aiding and abetting. The Court first enunciated the rule over 70 years ago, prior to the enactment of the Lanham Act, when the Court was concerned with constructing and enforcing a common law of unfair competition. … The theory of "contributory infringement", as it came to be called, survived into the statutory era.[16]
Thus, Central Bank did not affect the scope of liability under the Lanham Act, for two reasons: One was that agency can be distinguished from and aiding and abetting. More fundamentally, though, the Supreme Court itself had already allowed for vicarious liability under the Lanham Act. It did so in Inwood Labs., where it validated another common law theory – contributory liability – that closely approximated aiding and abetting.[17]
How, then, in light of the settled law, could the GoDaddy court have concluded that there is no cause of action for contributory cybersquatting under the Lanham Act? The answer, in large part, is that the court insisted on viewing cybersquatting as "a new cause of action that is distinct from traditional trademark remedies[sic],"[18] thereby casting the ACPA outside the purview of the Lanham Act. This dubious conceit has no basis in the statute or its legislative history.[19] It then chose the wrong vehicle, Central Bank, in which to drive its analysis. But even if Central Bank did apply, the legislative history[20] shows that Congress regarded cybersquatting as a new means to an old end, one "indisputably proscribed" by the Lanham Act: trademark infringement.
[1] 737 F.3d 546 (9th Cir. 2013), petition for cert. filed, 2014 WL 1510251 (U.S. Apr. 14, 2014).
[2] As discussed in the Main Volume, Chapter 4, cybersquatting is a form of trademark infringement involving the bad-faith registration of another's trademark-protected domain name with the intent to profit.
[3] 15 U.S.C. § 1125(d). See also the discussion in the Main Volume, Chapter 4, Section II.A.1.
[4] 511 U.S. 164 (1994). The court's reliance on Central Bank is also noted in Chapter 4 of the 2014 Supplement to the Main Volume.
[5] GoDaddy, 737 F.3d at 550, 551, and 552.
[5a] As discussed in Chapter 4 of the Main Volume and this earlier post, several district courts have recognized a cause of action for contributory cybersquatting.
[6] 456 U.S. 844, 854 (1982)(Inwood Labs.). See also the discussion of Inwood Labs. in the Main Volume, Chapter 2, Section III.
[7] The Court held:
if a manufacturer or distributor [1] intentionally induces another to infringe a trademark, or if it [2] continues to supply its product to one whom it knows or has reason to know is engaging in trademark infringement, the manufacturer or distributor is contributorially responsible for any harm done as a result of the deceit.
Id. at 854 (citing William R. Warner & Co. v. Eli Lilly & Co., 265 U.S. 526, 530–31 (1924)).
Note that in the service-provider context, a modified form of the test applies. In those cases, "[d]irect control and monitoring of the instrumentality used by a third party to infringe the plaintiff's mark permits the expansion of Inwood Lab.'s "supplies a product" requirement for contributory infringement." Lockheed Martin Corp. v. Network Solutions Inc. 194 F.3d 980, 984 (9th Cir. 1999).
[8] See, e.g., Perfect 10, Inc. v. Visa Int'l Serv. Ass'n, 494 F.3d 788, 807, 83 USPQ2d 1144 (9th Cir. 2007); Lockheed Martin Corp. v. Network Solutions, Inc., 194 F.3d 980, 983, 52 USPQ2d 1481 (9th Cir. 1999); Polymer Tech. Corp. v. Mimran, 975 F.2d 58, 64, 24 USPQ2d 1189 (2d Cir. 1992); David Berg & Co. v. Gatto Int'l Trading Co., 884 F.2d 306, 311, 12 USPQ2d 1116 (7th Cir. 1989); Sealy, Inc. v. Easy Living, Inc., 743 F.2d 1378, 1381–82, 224 USPQ 364 (9th Cir. 1984); Tiffany (NJ) Inc. v. eBay, Inc., 576 F. Supp. 2d 463, 502 (S.D.N.Y. 2008), affirmed in part and remanded in part, 600 F.3d 93, 105–06, 94 USPQ2d 1188 (2d Cir.) (assuming without deciding that Inwood Labs. applied in service context), cert. denied, 131 S. Ct. 647 (2010); Monotype Imaging, Inc. v. Bitstream Inc., 376 F. Supp. 2d 877, 889–90, 77 USPQ2d 1424 (N.D. Ill. 2005); Monsanto Co. v. Campuzano, 206 F. Supp. 2d 1271, 1274 (S.D. Fla. 2002); Fare Deals, Ltd. v. World Choice Travel.com, Inc., 180 F. Supp. 2d 678, 687 (D. Md. 2001); Medic Alert Found. U.S., Inc. v. Corel Corp., 43 F. Supp. 2d 933, 940, 51 USPQ2d 1024 (N.D. Ill. 1999); National Basketball Ass'n v. Sports Team Analysis & Tracking Sys., Inc., 939 F. Supp. 1071, 1108, 41 USPQ2d 1549 (S.D.N.Y. 1996); MDT Corp. v. New York Stock Exch., Inc., 858 F. Supp. 1028, 1033, 30 USPQ2d 1849 (C.D. Cal. 1994).
[9] 42 F.3d 1421 (3rd Cir. 1994).
[10] Id. at 1433-34 (liability based on common law agency principles is appropriate under the Lanham Act).
[11] 511 U.S. at 177.
[12] AT&T, 42 F.3d at 1430.
[13] Id.
[14] Id.
[15] Id. at 1430-31.
[16] Id. at 1432. (emphasis added)(citations omitted).
[17] See id. at 1432-33 (discussing Inwood Labs. and its progeny).
[18] 737 F.3d at 550.
[19] See the discussion of the legislative history of the ACPA in both the Main Volume, Ch. 4, Section II.A.1 and in Chapter 4 of the 2014 Supplement. As mentioned above, the ACPA passed as an amendment to the Lanham Act in 1999.
[20] Id.
Posted on March 10, 2014
Coach v. Sapatis (D.N.H. Jan. 31, 2014)
Much of modern contributory liability doctrine is founded on the flea market cases, where the courts first extended Inwood's test for contributory trademark infringement outside the "supplies a product" context to flea market owners and operators whose vendors sold counterfeits of the plaintiff's products. These cases historically distinguish two types of flea market landlords: those who own the flea market itself, leasing booth space to individual vendors, and those who merely own the property on which the flea market is located. Courts have declined to extend liability to the latter category of defendants because they do not exercise direct control over the infringing sales. Flea market owners who are also "operators," by contrast, are subject to contributory claims because they can terminate their relationship with their vendors upon notice of infringing activity.
In Coach v. Sapatis, (D.N.H. Jan. 31, 2014), however, the defendant property owner was also the former owner of the flea market he had sold to his daughter and, under the allegations, remained actively involved in its ongoing operation after the sale. There the court denied his motion for summary judgment on the contributory trademark infringement claim because his activities went beyond mere ownership of the land on which the flea market was located. As the court made clear, "the defendant's degree of control over the infringer—rather than his or her nominative status as owner, lessor, or lessee—is the determinative factor."
The court in Coach v. Sapatis thus clarifies that the rule mentioned above—that mere ownership of the land on which the flea market is located will not trigger contributory liability—is not absolute. This is an important reminder not only in the flea market context, but in other areas, such as corporate ownership liability, where similar principles apply.
For in-depth treatment of the topics in this post, see Chapters 3 and 7 of Secondary Trademark Infringement, by Coleman and Price, published by Bloomberg/BNA.
Posted on December 12, 2013
Petroliam Nasional Berhad v. GoDaddy.com (9th Cir. Dec. 4, 2013)
As our book speeds its way to the printer, the Ninth Circuit has made sure we will have a lot to discuss on this blog and in the upcoming supplement to Secondary Trademark Infringement. Last week it held there is no cause of action for contributory cybersquatting under the ACPA, exercising the nuclear option on a body of case law that says such claims are valid when they involve fact patterns this sweeping decision ignores.
It was an unexpected development in an unlikely case that involved a tenuous claim of cybersquatting, much less secondary liability for it: Petroliam Nasional Berhad v. GoDaddy.com, where the plaintiff brought a contributory cybersquatting claim against the registrar GoDaddy for registering domain names containing its mark to others who used them to divert traffic to a pornographic Web site. The district court correctly dismissed the claim on a motion for summary judgment because the defendant had acted only in its capacity as a mere registrar whose domain name forwarding service would not subject it to contributory liability under the ACPA. More to the point, the plaintiff failed to establish direct cybersquatting by the third-party registrants. As with traditional trademark infringement, there can be no contributory cybersquatting without direct cybersquatting, so the district court disposed of the claim without reaching the question of whether the Act allowed for it.
Courts in other cases had already recognized a cause of action for contributory cybersquatting. But the defendants in those cases, as one court put it, did not "simply register a domain name and then go about [their] business." They were complicit actors in complex cybersquatting schemes – not mere registrars like GoDaddy. Acting as both registrars and registrants, the defendants in Verizon Cal. v. Above.com and Transamerica v. Moniker Online implicated themselves in the business of the direct cybersquatters, similar to corporate officer defendants who have been held contributorially liable by virtue of their familiarity with and participation in their companies' infringing activities.
In fact, not all contributory cybersquatting defendants have even been registrars. In Microsoft v. Shah, the court allowed a contributory cybersquatting claim against a group of individuals and companies who sold their customers a cybersquatting "method" for profiting from the plaintiff's marks. There the contributory claim was based on a theory of inducement.
Viewed against this backdrop of jurisprudence distinguishing mere registrars from complicit actors, the Ninth Circuit's decision is hard to understand. The court simply declined to address the issues raised in cases like Verizon Cal. when it affirmed the district court's grant of summary judgment in favor of GoDaddy. Instead it said this:
Extending liability to registrars or other third parties who are not cybersquatters, but whose actions may have the effect of aiding such cybersquatting, would expand the range of conduct prohibited by the statute from a bad faith intent to cybersquat on a trademark to the mere maintenance of a domain name by a registrar, with or without a bad faith intent to profit.
2013 WL 6246460 at *3 (emphasis added).
None of the foregoing cases has even remotely suggested that secondary liability would extend to such "rote" activity as the "mere maintenance of a domain name." In the much more relevant contexts where contributory liability presumably would lie, the courts have made clear that a cause of action for contributory cybersquatting would reach precisely the defendants whose conduct the Act was meant to prohibit — those who are complicit actors in cybersquatting schemes.
For in-depth discussion of the topics in this post, including contributory cybersquatting, see Chapters 1, 3, 4, and 9 in Secondary Trademark Infringement, by Coleman and Price, to be published by Bloomberg BNA this month.
Secondary Trademark Infringement is the first and only comprehensive work on the law of secondary liability for trademark infringement—an area that is quickly becoming an important topic of interest among both practicing attorneys and scholars. The treatise is ground-breaking in its analytical power. Meticulously organized and accessible, it is an ideal reference work for legal and business professionals who use, or whose stakeholders use, trademarks on the internet, who seek guidance with respect to this growing area of potential legal risk.
Secondary Trademark Infringement covers important topics, such as:
Secondary Trademark Infringement features extensive and detailed case law analysis and commentary and practice notes that discuss a wide variety of subjects of practical interest and importance to attorneys and business executives alike. These include notes on substantive and procedural issues in secondary trademark infringement litigation (from both the trademark owner's and the accused infringer's point of view), recovery of damages and injunctive relief and guidelines for trademark protection and enforcement as well as risk management for internet service providers and other service providers. Secondary Trademark Infringement also addresses developing areas of law in online commerce and social networking.
"This first monograph focusing specifically on secondary trademark infringement bids fair to become a definitive desk reference on a topic of growing importance. Notwithstanding the limitation suggested by its title, the book expansively considers secondary infringement and liability for dilution/tarnishment and cybersquatting as well, and addresses its topic in not only classic trademark disputes but also a variety of special situations, including franchising, web hosting, credit card services, and several others. Beginning with policy, doctrine, and the basic elements of a claim, the book is logically and meticulously well-organized and easy to read and use as a reference. Enhanced by an engaging and user-friendly writing style, and a straightforward approach to its subject, the book offers analysis of the applicable case law as well as practice notes. It's an instant necessity for the desktop or bookshelf of any serious trademark practitioner."
—Robert C. Cumbow, Attorney, Graham & Dunn PC
"Secondary Trademark Infringement is a comprehensive and up-to-date guide to the law of secondary liability for trademark infringement. To my knowledge, it provides the only complete review and analysis of all the relevant cases, legal theories and emerging issues relating to someone other than the direct infringer being accused of infringing another's trademark. And unlike many other treatises, it includes a full complement of excellent Practice Notes written by a seasoned IP litigator. Topics covered include (i) the elements of contributory trademark infringement, (ii) secondary trademark infringement on the Internet, (iii) a comparison of secondary trademark and secondary copyright infringement, and (iv) a review of other "subspecies" of secondary trademark infringement and their respective legal standards. For anyone seeking practical insight on how to litigate secondary liability cases, or answers to questions on the topic in general, Secondary Trademark Infringement is an essential reference work that belongs on every trademark attorney's bookshelf. It is a well written, well organized, straightforward guide that delivers on its promise of providing a full overview and examination of this dynamic area of the law."
—Oliver Herzfeld, SVP and Chief Legal Officer, Beanstalk, a leading global brand licensing agency and part of the Diversified Agency Services division of Omnicom Group


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Qatars Amir calls for solid Arab stance to end Israeli aggression
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DOHA - The Amir of Qatar, His Highness Shaikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, has underlined the importance of having an influential Arab stance internationally to stop bloodshed of the Palestinians and to prevent any new Israeli aggression, particularly on the Gaza Strip. He stressed that its time that Israelis should lift the siege on the Gaza Strip.
Qatar News Agency (QNA) said that in an interview with Al Jazeera Channel TV aired on Sunday evening, Shaikh Hamad said that his visit to Egypt and his meeting with Egypt's President Mohammed Mursi, aimed at discussing the situation in Gaza and to support the Egyptian mediation between the Palestinians and the Israelis to ceasefire.
On President Mursi withdrawing the Egyptian ambassador from Israel and delivering a letter of strong protest to the Israeli ambassador in Cairo after the recent Israeli aggression on Gaza, Shaikh Hamad said that what was done by Egypt is an attempt to press on Israel to stop its aggression, highlighting that Egypt is trying to stop the Palestinian bloodshed.
Shaikh Hamad recalled that Israel has repeatedly violated the truce with Hamas, explaining that after the Israeli aggression in 2008 a truce was reached but later breached by Israel. He called for an effective Arab role to stem the Palestinian bloodshed and prevent a new Israeli aggression.
Asked about the idea that some analysts have linked the current aggression on Gaza to Israeli election on one hand, and to the killing of Syrian people by its regime on the other hand, the Amir said of course it is because of the election and it is the fact that Israeli government and the prime minister are trying to create a problem that can lead them to win the election, but this problem may make them lose if they continue their aggression. He added that the issue of Syria is quite different and that in Syria, there is a peaceful demand for dignity.
In respect of the proposal of Arab and UN peacekeepers in Syria to stop the bloodshed, and the extent to which this proposal can be implemented now, Shaikh Hamad said that it is a difficult issue.
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I got photos from 1988 when it closed, took some of the projection box, rewind room and dimmer cables that went in the roof. i know some guy who lived in christchurch that showed me what it was like then. that was 23 years ago.
I think this cinema should be reallocated under Bournemouth….. Boscombe is just a suburb and the Astoria and Classic are further out east of the town centre then the Carlton.
The auditorium was demolished during the summer and autumn of 2002. Many were glad to see the back of it as it was an "eyesore". It was a sad state of affairs that what was at one time a grand building had been allowed to fall into such a sorry state. It had become a shelter for rough sleepers and a safety hazard. I saw some pictures of how it was on the inside before the demolishion men moved in and gutted it prior to knocking it down. In the former circle there was still rows of seats in place and its unique Oriental style decor was still very much in evidence albeit with peeling paint around the proscenium and walls. Sadly the screen had long since gone but the guy who took the photographs said that there was several pulleys behind the stage, which probably worked the screen tabs – no trace of those either I am sorry to say!
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