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Dish Network L.L.C. v. ABC, Inc. et al - Document 90
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MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER: For the foregoing reasons, Dish's request for an anti-suit injunction is denied and as further set forth in this conluscion re: 26 MOTION to Dismiss , Stay or Transfer filed by NBC Universal Media, L.L.C., CBS Corporation, 28 MOTION to Dismiss filed by The Fox Entertainment Group, Inc., Fox Cable Network Services, L.L.C., Fox Television Holdings, Inc., which are resolved. (Signed by Judge Laura Taylor Swain on 7/9/2012) (cd)
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK -------------------------------------------------------x DISH NETWORK, L.L.C., Plaintiffs, -v- No. 12 Civ. 4155 (LTS)(KNF) AMERICAN BROADCASTING COMPANIES, INC. et al., Defendants. -------------------------------------------------------x MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER On May 24,2012, Dish Network, L.L.C. ("Plaintiff' or "Dish"), filed this action against American Broadcasting Companies, Inc. ("ABC"), CBS Corp. ("CBS"), NBCUniversal Media ("NBCU"),I Fox Entertainment Group, Inc., Fox Television Holdings, Inc., and Fox Cable Network Services, L.L.c. (collectively "Fox" and, together with CBSINBCU, "Defendants" or the "Networks") seeking a declaratory judgment that its "Auto Hop" technology does not infringe the copyrights of the Networks and ABC or breach its license agreements with those entities. Dish now seeks to enjoin litigation, filed in the United States District Court for the Central District of California within three hours after Dish commenced its action in this Court, by the Networks in which Fox and CBSINBCU and certain of their affiliated entities assert that Dish's PrimeTime Anytime ("PTAT") and "Auto Hop" television programming recording and playback services infringe the Networks' programming copyrights and in which CBS Corporation and NBCUniversal Media are collectively referred to throughout as "CBSINBCU." DISH STAY TRA NSFER !v1TDx, WPD VERSION 7/9il2 Fox asserts that the services violate Dish's licensing agreement with that Network. 2 On May 30, 2012, this Court granted Dish's application for a temporary restraining order prohibiting Fox from prosecuting its California action pending the Court's determination of Dish's application for an anti-suit injunction staying prosecution of all of the California litigation in favor ofthis declaratory injunction action. There are now three motions before the Court: (1) Dish's motion for an anti-suit injunction to enjoin the Networks from prosecuting their suits in the Central District of California; (2) Fox's motion to dismiss Dish's declaratory judgment action as an improper anticipatory suit; and (3) CBSINBCU's motion under Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 12(b)(1) and 12(b)(6) to dismiss, transfer, or stay Dish's action. The Court heard oral argument on the motions on July 2,2012, and has considered thoroughly all of the parties' submissions. For the following reasons, Dish's motion for an anti-suit injunction is denied, Fox's motion is granted in its entirety, and CBSINBCU's motion is granted in part and denied in part. BACKGROUND This suit arises out of Dish's introduction of a new digital video recorder ("DVR") system called the "Hopper," which is outfitted with PT AT and Auto Hop features. In brief, PTAT permits viewers to record simultaneously, and in high-definition ("HD") format, all of the HD primetime TV programming on ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC. The recordings are stored for eight days after they originally aired. (CompI. 2 ~ 4.) Auto Hop enables viewers, with the ABC is the only network named in Dish's complaint that did not file suit in the Central District of California. While ABC has filed an Answer and Counterclaims to Dish's declaratory judgment complaint in this Court, ABC has stated that it does not object to litigating its claims in the Central District of California. DISH STAY TRANSFER MTDx. WPD VERSION 7/9112 2 touch of a button, to skip the commercials in replaying the primetime recordings. (Id. ~ 5.) The addition of the Auto Hop feature on May 10, 2012, prompted what Dish has charaeterized as a "barrage of negative media attacks" by the Networks. (Memo. in Support of IRO, at 2.) At least one Network executive characterized the feature to reporters as "illegaL" 2 to Declaration of Elyse D. Echtman, docket entry no. 12.) On May 23, 2012, the (See Hollywood Reporter published an article} containing un sourced statements that four major broadcast networks - Fox Broadcasting, NBCUniversal, ABC/Disney Television Group and CBS Corp. "have begun consulting with major law firms with the expectation that litigation will be filed against Dish." (Compl. 'II 34.) The article reported that the "networks are said to be examining their Dish license agreements, looking for breaches of contract that can be alleged along with claims for copyright infringement," and that "[one] top exec said a lawsuit should be expected within a month." (Id.) Dish filed this action the following day, stating in its complaint that "the Major Television Networks have threatened [Dish] with litigation." (Id. 'II 1.) Dish's action seeks a declaratory judgment that its Auto Hop technology does not infringe the copyrights of the Networks and ABC or breach its license agreements with those entities. Dish's 13-page complaint does not identifY which copyrights are at issue, nor does it specify the license agreement provisions as to which it seeks declaratory relief. The complaints filed in the California actions, whose plaintiffs include the alleged copyright holders, are far more detailed with respect to the copyrights and contract provisions allegedly infringed. Dish argues that (1) under the first-filed rule, this action is entitled to priority, and } "Dish vs. TV Networks: Attorneys Readying Showdown Over Auto Hop," Hollywood Reporter, May 23,2012, available at: http://w.\vw.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/dish-auto-hop-tv-networks-Iawsuit-32 7958 (last visited July 8, 2012). DISH STAY TRANSFER MTDx.WPD VERSION 7/9112 (2) due to the forum selection clauses in its contracts with ABC and CBS (which Dish has indicated it will not waive), this is the only forum in which all the issues identified by the parties may be resolved. In their motions to dismiss, transfer, and/or stay this action, the Networks argue principally that Dish's complaint is an improper anticipatory filing, and that this Court should not afford it the presumption of priority accorded by the first-filed rule and should decline to exercise jurisdiction of Dish's requests for relief under the Declaratory Judgment Act. DISCUSSION 1. Legal Standards A. The First-Filed Rule The first-filed rule contemplates that "[w]here there are two competing lawsuits, the first should have priority." Emp'rs Ins. of Wausau v. Fox Entm't Grp., Inc., 522 F.3d 271, 274-75 (2d Cir. 2008). The rule does not require that the lawsuits present exactly the same issues, only that the cases be related, as they are here. See GT Plus, Ltd. v. Ja-Ru. Inc., 41 F. Supp. 2d 421, 427 n.2 (S.D.N.Y. 1998). The first-filed rule "embodies considerations of judicial administration and conservation of resources by avoiding duplicative litigation." .::...==-..;:=.;:.;,---"--,=,,-,, Bank & Trust Co. v. Simmons, 878 F .2d 76, 80 (2d Cir. 1989). Because parties "should be free from the vexation of concurrent litigation over the same subject matter," there is a strong presumption that a later lawsuit will be dismissed in favor of the first-filed lawsuit. ~~~~ v. Jacobs, 950 F .2d 89, 93 (2d Cir. 1991); see also City of New York v. Exxon Corp., 932 F .2d 1020, 1025 (2d Cir. 1991) (,,[W]here an action is brought in one federal district court and a later action embracing the same issue is brought in another federal court, the first court has jurisdiction to enjoin the prosecution of the second action."). The presumption in favor of the first-filed suit, however, "is not to be applied in a DISH ST AY TRANSFER MTDK WPD VERSION 7/9112 4 'rigid' or 'mechanical' way." Dornoch Ltd. v. PBM Holdings, Inc., 666 F. Supp. 2d 366, 369 (S.D.N.Y. 2009) (quoting Columbia Pictures Indus., Inc. v. Schneider, 435 F. Supp. 742, 747 (S.D.N. Y. 1977)). Indeed, "[t]he complex problems that can arise from multiple federal filings do not lend themselves to a rigid test, but require instead that the district court consider the equities of the situation when exercising its discretion." Curtis v. Citibank, N .A., 226 F.3d 133, 138 (2d Cir. 2006). In particular, the Second Circuit has held that the presumption of priority accorded the first-filed suit will give way "(1) where the 'balance of convenience' favors the second-filed action, and (2) where 'special circumstances' warrant giving priority to the second suit." Employers Ins. of Wausau, 522 F.3d at 275. Such special circumstances include the situation in which "the first-filed lawsuit is an improper anticipatory declaratory judgment action." Id. at 275. "An improper anticipatory lawsuit is one made under the apparent threat of a presumed adversary flling the mirror image of that suit in another court." Reliance Ins. Co. v. Six Star, Inc., 155 F. Supp. 2d 49,55 (S.D.N.Y. 2001). Defendants contend that Dish's action is just such an improper anticipatory lawsuit and should be denied the presumption of priority. B. The Declaratory Judgment Act Under the Declaratory Judgment Act, 28 U.S.c. § 220 I (a), a court "may declare the rights and other legal relations of any interested party seeking such a declaration" in "a case of actual controversy." An "actual controversy" exists if there is a "substantial controversy, between parties having adverse legal interests, of sufficient immediacy and reality to warrant the issuance of a declaratory judgment." Duane Reade, Inc. v. St. Paul Fire & Marine Ins. Co., 411 F.3d 384,388 (2d Cir. 2005) (quoting Md. Cas. Co. v. Pac. Coal & Oil Co., 312 U.S. 270, 273 (1941 ». The disagreement must "have taken on a fixed and final shape so that a court can see what legal issues it is deciding." Jenkins v. United States, 386 F.3d 415,418 (2d Cir. 2004) DISH STA y TRANSFER MTDx.WPD VERSION 7i9/12 (quoting Public Servo Comm'n of Utah v. Wycoff Co., 344 U.S. 237,244 (1952)). It is left to the discretion of the district court to decide whether to hear declaratory relief claims. Wilton v. Seven Falls Co., 515 U.S. 277, 289-90 (1995). "The Second Circuit has provided two factors to help district courts properly exercise the broad discretion conferred by the Declaratory Judgment Act: '(1) when the judgment will serve a useful purpose in clarifying and settling the legal relations in issue; and (2) when it will terminate and afford relief from the uncertainty, insecurity, and controversy giving rise to the proceeding.'" Bentley v. The Wellpoint Companies, Inc., No. 11 Civ. 8963(CM), 2012 WL 546991, at *4 (S.D.N.Y. Feb. 17, 2012) (quoting Continental Cas. Co. v. Coastal Sav. Bank, 977 F.2d 734, 737 (2d Cir. 1992)). In deciding whether to exercise its permissive jurisdiction, the district court may consider "equitable, prudential, and policy arguments." MedImmune, Inc. v. Genentech, Inc., 549 U.S. 118, 136 (2007). One of the primary purposes of declaratory relief is to promote efficiency i.e., to allow "one action to define the legal relationships and adjust the attendant rights and obligations at issue between the parties." Dow Jones & Co., Inc. v. Harrods, Ltd., 237 F. Supp. 2d 394, 405 (S.D.N.V. 2002); UBS Sec. LLC v. Finish Line, Inc., 07 Civ. 10382 (LAP), 2008 WL 536616, at *3 (S.D.N.V. Feb. 22, 2008) (the Declaratory Judgment act is designed to "avoid multiplicity of actions"). However, "[i]f a court finds that a declaratory judgment action was brought in anticipation of the coercive suit for the purpose of gaining 'home field advantage,' the coercive suit is given precedence." Reliance Ins. Co. v. Bend'N Stretch, Inc., 935 F. Supp. 476, 478 (S.D.N.V. 1996); Nat'l Union Fire Ins. Co. v. Int'l Wire Group, Inc., No. 02 Civ. 10338,2003 WL 21277114, at *6 (S.D.N.V. June 2,2003) ("Courts in the Second Circuit have repeatedly refused to exercise jurisdiction over declaratory actions motivated by a desire to wrest DISH S"f AY TRANSFER MTDx.WPD VERSION 7/9/]2 6 the choice of forum from the real plaintiff."); Great Am. Ins. Co. v. Houston Gen. Ins. Co., 735 F. Supp. 581, 586 (S.D.N.Y. 1990) ("[T]he misuse of the Declaratory Judgment Act to gain a procedural advantage and preempt the forum choice of the plaintiff in the coercive action militates in favor of dismissing the declaratory judgment action."); Dow Jones & Co.. Inc. v. Harrods, Ltd., 237 F. Supp. 2d 394,440 (S.D.N.Y. 2002) ("A rush to file first in anticipation of litigation in another tribunal, thereby enabling a potential defendant to choose the forum and governing law by which to adjudicate the dispute, and otherwise to interfere with or frustrate the other party's pursuit of claims elsewhere, is one ofthe equitable considerations a court may weigh in ruling on a request for declaratory relief."); Perez v. Ledesma, 401 U.S. 82, 119 n. 12 (1971) (Brennan, 1. dissenting) ("The federal declaratory judgment is not a prize to the winner of a race to the courthouses. "). Moreover, courts have found no "useful purpose" and declined to exercise jurisdiction over a declaratory judgment complaint where a coercive suit exists that will settle the legal issues for which declaratory judgment was sought. ="-"-""-= Amusement Indus. v. Stern, 693 F. Supp. 2d 301,311 (S.D.N.Y. 2010) (citing cases). The Court thus considers whether dismissal of Dish's declaratory judgment claims is appropriate to the extent that mirror coercive claims have been raised by the "natural" plaintiffs the Defendants who claim that their copyright and contractual rights are being violated) in California. n. Whether Dish's Complaint is an Improper Anticipatory Filing The Second Circuit has stated that, for a declaratory judgment action to be properly treated as anticipatory and denied priority under the first-filed rule, the action must have been "filed in response to a direct threat of litigation that gives specific warnings as to deadlines DISH STAY TR,~ NSFER MTDx. WPD VERSION 719112 7 and subsequent legal action." Emp'rs Ins. of Wausau, 522 FJd at 276. Whether a threat is sufficiently direct and specific is a delicate, highly fact-dependent inquiry that requires courts to examine the "totality of the events rather than employ[] any bright line rule." BuddyUSA v. Recording Indus. Ass'n of Am., Inc., 21 F. App'x 52, 55 (2d Cir. 2001); Schnabel v. Ramsey Quantitative Sys., 322 F. Supp. 2d 505,512 (S.D.N.Y. 2004). This inquiry is complicated by the fact that actions for declaratory relief are always, to a degree, anticipatory: the main purpose of the Declaratory Judgment Act is to "avoid accrual of avoidable damages to one not certain of his rights and to afford him an early adjudication without waiting until his adversary should see fit to begin suit, after damage has accrued." Nafl Union Fire Ins. Co. of Pittsburgh, Pa. v. Int'l Wire Gm., Inc., No. 02 Civ. 10338,2003 WL 21277114, at *4 (S.D.N.Y. June 2, 2003) (quoting Luckenbach Steamship Co. v. United States, 312 F.2d 545, 548 (2d Cir. 1963)); see also Dow Jones & Co., Inc. v. Harrods, Ltd., 237 F. Supp. 2d 394, 405 (S.D.N.Y. 2002) (the Declaratory Judgment Act is designed to "settle legal rights and remove uncertainty and insecurity from legal relationships without awaiting a violation of the rights or a disturbance of the relationships") (quoting Beacon Const. Co. Inc. v. Matco Elec. Co., Inc., 521 F.2d 392, 397 (2d Cir. ] 975). Here, several facts persuade the Court that Dish's filing was motivated by a fear of imminent legal action by the Networks and was, thus, improperly anticipatory within the meaning of the special circumstances exception to the first-filed rule. First, the Hollywood Reporter article conveyed the unmistakable impression that a legal showdown was inevitable; while it did not quote named sources, it identified each of the networks preparing for legal action, provided a time frame for filing suit ("within a month"), and identified the types of claims that were expected to be brought. See, e.g., CGI Solutions, LLC v. Sailtime Licensing Grp., LLC, No. 05 Civ. 4120(DAB), 2005 WL 3097533, at *3-4 (S.D.N.Y. Nov. 17,2005) DISH STAY TRANSFER MTDx.WPD VERSION 7/9112 8 (finding anticipatory filing where notice letter detailed claims that "may" be brought even though it "did not outright announce that it would be filing suit by a particular date"). Dish's complaint leaves no doubt as to how Dish understood the import of this article: Dish's opening paragraph states that "the Major Television Networks have threatened [Dish Network] with litigation," and a later subheading reads, "The Major Television Networks Threaten DISH with Imminent Litigation." (Compi. ~ 1, pg. 9 (emphasis added». Second, Dish filed its complaint less than 24 hours after the article was published, bolstering the inference that Dish took the article's claims of impending coercive litigation seriously. See Chicago Ins. Co. v. Holzer, No. 00 Civ. 1062,2000 WL 777907(SAS), at *3 (S.D.N.Y. June 16,2000) (fact that plaintiff filed for declaratory relief within 24 hours of receiving notice letter "demonstrate [ed] that [plaintiff] interpreted defendant's threat oflegal action as a firm intention"). Third, the length and content of Dish's complaint are indicative of hasty preparation: it is a mere 13 pages long, fails to name the parties who hold the copyrights, lists neither the relevant copyrights nor the contractual provisions at issue, and contains only the most cursory description of the allegedly offending services. See Laxman v. Shapiro, 06 Civ. 11408(DLC), 2006 WL 3423807, at *2 (S.D.N.Y. Nov. 29,2006) (finding that brevity of complaint and "numerous technical deficiencies and factual omissions" support inference of anticipatory filing); John Wiley & Sons, Inc. v. Visuals Unlimited, Inc., 11 Civ. 5453(CM), 2011 WL 5245192, at *4 (S.D.N.Y. Nov. 2, 2011) (declining to exercise jurisdiction over declaratory jUdgment complaint that contained nothing more than "vague allegations"). These deficiencies support Defendants' contention that Dish's complaint was a "place-holder" suit, filed in anticipation of coercive litigation and designed principally to secure Dish's preferred forum over any other forum selected by the natural DISH STAY TRANSFER MTDx.WPD VERSION 7/9/12 9 plaintiffs. Plaintiff nonetheless argues that it is properly entitled to first-filed priority, asserting that the standard enunciated by the Second Circuit in Emp'rs Ins. of Wausau requires a threatening communication that is "direct" in the sense that it is specifically communicated by the party claiming injury to the alleged offendcr by means of a letter or some other party-to-party mode of communication. Plaintiff thus defines "direct" as "[w]ithout intervening persons, conditions or agencies." (Dish Opp. at 3, docket entry no. 51 (quoting American Heritage Dictionary).) In Plaintiffs view, only a formal party-to-party communication - as opposed to, say, a statement conveyed through a media outlet - can constitute a "direct threat." IIowever, the American Heritage Dictionary also defines "direct" as "[s]traightforward and candid; not devious or ambiguous." This definition is more consistent with the policies animating the policy disfavoring anticipatory filings. If Plaintiffs interpretation governed the analysis, a party that learned of an imminent suit through subterfuge, an unauthorized leak, or even - to take Plaintiff s argument to its logical conclusion a televised announcement by corporate counsel describing in detail the claims her company was set to file the following day, and then raced into court with a preemptive declaratory judgment action would be rewarded with presumptive priority for its choice of forum. While it is true that, in each of the opinions that Defendants cite, party-to-party communications (usually in the form of "notice-of-suit" letters) preceded the anticipatory filing, that fact only reflects the reality that parties often engage in dispute-specific communications before commencing litigation. Here, however, it appears that none of the Networks raised the prospect of litigation in their ongoing business-related communications with Dish. DISH STAY TRANSFER MTDx.wPD VERSION 7 i9!12 10 The Court is not aware of any judicial decisions that specifically require that the coercive litigation threat be expressed in a party-to-party communication. Dish offers 800 Flowers, Inc. v. Intercontinental Florist, Inc., 860 F. Supp. 128 (S.D.N.Y. 1994) as support for such a proposition. But, in 800 Flowers, the only evidence supporting the plaintiffs argument that the earlier-filed action was anticipatory was a proffer that the plaintiff had told the defendant's customers that the defendant's employees were "thieves and crooks" and had falsely told them that the parties were in litigation. Id. at 131-32. The 800 Flowers court's rejection of the anticipatory filing argument was not based on the absence of a direct party-to-party communication but, rather, on the absence of any unambiguous threat oflitigation: it found that the cited comments were only "disparaging remarks to potential customers, presumably in order to divert competition away from [plaintiffJ." Id. at 133. Dish also argues that this Court should entertain its suit because this is the only forum in which it can resolve all of its PTAT and Auto Hop-related disputes with the Networks and ABC in a single lawsuit: neither CBS nor NBCU has brought contract claims in California, and the ABC and CBS contracts include forum selection clauses that provide for adjudication of contract disputes in New York. The Court notes that, although ABC has indicated that it would waive the New York forum selection clause were the remainder of the litigation transferred to California, Dish stated at oral argument that it will not waive its rights under the forum selection clauses. 4 4 Dish also argues that this is the appropriate venue because the Networks have ties to the Southern District of New York. Dish's arguments show only that the Networks have ties to the Southern District in addition to their ties to the Central District of California: they do not persuade the Court that the Southern District is a plainly superior venue. DISH STAY TRANSFER MTDx.WPD VERSION 7/9112 II However, entertaining the declaratory judgment complaint for the purpose of consolidating all of the litigation against the four networks and their affiliates in New York would be particularly inappropriate in this case, precisely because three of the sets of parties claiming injury have chosen another forum for their claims, and none of those natural plaintiffs has asserted an affirnlative claim under a contract requiring litigation in New York. Fox (which is not a party to a forum selection clause) has filed coercive contract and copyright claims in California, CBS and NBCU have also filed copyright claims there, and CBS takes the position that the contract on which Dish appears to premise its New Yark forum selection argument is inapplicable to its copyright claims. In light of the Court's determination that Dish's complaint constitutes an improper anticipatory filing, and the existence of coercive litigation as to most of the issues in California, the Court finds that there is no useful or appropriate purpose in entertaining Dish's declaratory judgment action to the extent that it overlaps with the litigation pending in the Central District of California. Accordingly, insofar as Dish's complaint pertains to Fox's copyright and contract claims and CBS/NBCU's copyright claims, this action will be dismissed without prejudice to litigation of Dish's assertions in the pending Central District of California actions. Because CBS and NBCU have not asserted contract claims in California, and because ABC has not filed suit against Dish, this action will continue as to Dish's contract claims against CBS/NBCU, and as to all of the claims and counterclaims asserted with respect to ABC. There are numerous ways to mitigate whatever inefficiencies might result from allowing these claims to proceed in separate venues. CBS and NBCU are represented by the sanle national law firm (indeed, with the exception of ABC, each of the parties is represented by D1SH STAY TRA;;SFER MTDx.WPD VERS10N 7/9/12 12 at least one firm that has offices on both coasts of the United States), which will facilitate coordination; the California actions may be consolidated; and, if the parties are unable to reach an agreement to consolidate the claims that remain in this district with those in California, the courts can, with the cooperation of the parties, coordinate the proceedings so as to minimize any inefficiencies. CONCLUSION For the foregoing reasons, Dish's request for an anti-suit injunction is denied. The Court declines to exercise jurisdiction of Dish's declaratory judgment claims against Fox. Fox's motion to dismiss the complaint is therefore granted without prejudice to litigation of Dish's assertions in the pending Central District of California action. The Court al so declines to exercise jurisdiction of Dish's copyright declaratory judgment claims against CBSINBCU. CBSINBCU's motion to dismiss the complaint is granted without prejudice with respect to the copyright claims, and is denied in all other respects. The aspect of the CBSINBCU motion that seeks dismissal of Dish's contract claims pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b)(6) for failure to state a claim is denied without prejudice to renewal upon briefing that addresses the relevant pleading standards. Because ABC has not brought claims in California and has counterclaimed here, the ABC-related aspect of this action will proceed as well. The expedited discovery orders made orally on the record at the June 22, 2012, conference remain in place except to the extent they are superseded by orders of the California court. The parties are directed to use their best efforts to coordinate the taking and use of discovery in the remaining aspects of this action and the California litigation so a'> to avoid duplication and inefficiency. DISH STAY TRAC>lSFER MTDx.WPD VERSION 7/9/12 ]3 This Memorandum Opinion and Order resolves docket entries 26 and 28. SO ORDERED. Dated: New York, New York July 9, 20]2 ~YLORSWAIN United States District Judge DISH STAY TRANSFER MTDx.WPD VERS[OT' 7/9112 14


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While KCH will not have a team in 2011, it will be a Kane Area Relay sponsor and hospital partner as to delivery of care and ACS services. KCH houses an ACS Wig Room for those in need of wigs, hats and scarves as a result of chemo and expects to host the Look Good, Feel Better program at the hospital, a program led by local cosmetologists on skin care and makeup during
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Fallacies, Irrelevant Facts, and Myths in the Discussion of Capital Regulation: Why Bank Equity is Not Expensive
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Daniel Bard was a mess last year -- no need to rehash it. So what will happen this year for the former future closer and now complete question mark? John Farrell and pitching coach Juan Nieves swung through Mississippi on their tour of Red Sox players in the south and had encouraging things to say, according to the Globe. "He looked very good," said Farrell, who along with pitching coach Juan Nieves watched Bard throw in Mississippi. "His arm slot is back to a normal position. He shows the power he previously as a reliever. His mindset is more clear and his approach is more simplified." Good to hear...but really, what else is he going to say? "Bard? Oh yeah, kid's crazy. He's done." Farrell also said Lackey is in "great shape," which is kind of hilarious. I don't expect Lackey to ever be in great shape, but I do think he could be a productive member of the staff this year. This should be basically the first time since joining Boston that he'll be pitching healthy.
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Yesterday I picked up a copy of Spin magazine off the rack at my gym. I hopped on the elliptical with my mindless reading in hopes an article on the regression of musical technology (cassette tapes a la "Washed Out", anyone?) and a piece on "Which Bands Get Banned" would pass the sweaty time. This copy was an edition of Spin's "Success Issue" featuring profiles of music's most successful acts of right now: Bon Iver (Justin Vernon), Arctic Monkeys, and Black Lips. Bon Iver's "Skinny Love" is one of the most played songs in my iTunes library, and as a normal red-blooded college student I've listened to Arctic Monkeys before. But Black Lips? Totally foreign territory to me.
Black Lips are four punk-esque garage rockers from Atlanta, Georgia. Spin calls them the "road warriors" for their extensive travels and frequent misadventures. Their aura is distinctly "Jackass"-esque: setting instruments ablaze onstage, urinating into the crowd, lighting off fireworks, performing in the nude. The band even exploits the symptomatic vomiting of a member's medical condition for shock value. While they're not my musical cup of tea, I suppose I could see how somebody else, with more punk-inclined ears, could really dig into their sound. But what's with the off-the-wall antics? I'm not one of those uppity people who decry the sort of extreme risk humor popularized by the program "Jackass" (I totally crushed on Johnny Knoxville) and its TV show spawn, "Viva la Bam" and "Wild Boys." I think those stunts are hysterical – extremely stupid, obviously dangerous, but usually pretty hysterical. But that has its time and place. Black Lips has dipped into this sort of stunts meets extreme potty humor shamelessness to gain publicity and, ultimately, fans. In the Spin article, the Black Lips' members admit to not being quite as stupid as they look. Their crazy antics are a ploy to get people to underestimate them, setting listeners up to be taken aback by their actual musical merit. (But I'd beg to differ, I don't hear much of that, especially on tracks like "Bad Kids.")
So what's this say about the "successful" music of right-now? Do you have to have some sort of a gimmick to make your mark? Bon Iver aka Justin Vernon has the whole bearded outdoorsman meets romantically inclined poet vibe going for him. Arctic Monkeys have the whole, well, being English thing going for them. And Black Lips have the whole… pissing into the audience thing? Flashing their genitalia thing? Rebels without a cause, kids your mother warned you about, kind of gross and a little bit creepy thing? Again, this is all entirely my opinion; I'm not a garage rock junkie by any means, so my ears are a little biased. But if we're all arguing "our" music is the most artistically authentic, I argue that the whole pyrotechnics and piss claim to fame is a little bit like cheating.
Just typical media writing.
Sucess because of gimmicks?
Black lips are not sucessful because of their stage antics or gimmicks
Where are the gimmicks?
They dont do anythin special, the concert goers like it because of the music and having a good time
Real talk:
I can understand that you dont like music because only gimmicks make it sucessful.
But the sucessful black lips years were 2007-2012 (media coverage in pitchfork, new york times, spin, nme…….
Black lips show the mentioned gimmicks like pissing, vomiting et.al. in 2000-2005 (a time where no media outlet writes about the band
It is just blown up boring media writing
The problem is that besides the music (i like) there is nothing very special to write about, so the spin article writes about band gimmicks the band shows times before they were successful and got media coverage
dont belive anything such boring writers will suggest you.
I will not persuade you to like the black lips but to correct the view of a band sucess because of gimmicks.
People always forget about main plots of being sucessful
Good music, good reviews and media coverage / years end lists polls / mouth to mouth propaganda (AM check / Bon iver check/ Black lips check)
Sorry for the long apologise but iam sick of the many black lips articles who write about something that happend in the early stages of the band and has nothing to do with the band success. Enough is enough.
I really appreciate the well thought-out rebuttal. While my musical taste is relatively permanent (so, no, you did not persuade me to like Black Lips), I appreciate your opinion.
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Congratulations on your pregnancy! This time of your life is nothing short of a magical voyage that lasts (give or take) nine months. While you anxiously wait for your son or daughter, you have a very important decision to make: what will you name your precious baby?
As generations have passed, we've learned from psychological studies, case histories, and experts in onomastics—the scientific study of names—about overwhelming evidence that names and personalities are interwoven entities, and that what you name your child will impact his or her future.
Many of our own parents believed that a popular name was the most desirable choice for a child because of a flawed yet well-accepted study indicating that kids with popular names do better in school. More recently, published research says that a child should have a unique name to feel confident and special; likewise, namesakes, stereotypes, and spelling variations are often frowned upon. While this is interesting edification, what continues to be overlooked is that expectant parents have a natural and intuitive image of what their child may be and what name will suit him or her.
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In the popular movie There's Something About Mary, the beautiful Cameron Diaz portrays a strong-minded and funny woman in her role as Mary Jensen Matthews. Who doesn't remember Julie Andrews as the delightfully proper Mary Poppins? So the perception of Mary as a biblical name is now mulled with a musical, magical nanny and a gorgeous blond with unusual hair gel.
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When the funds were repaid, the securities - including the warrants - were auctioned off to the public.
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The activist investor's recent involvement in Dell Inc. (Nasdaq: DELL), Herbalife Ltd. (NYSE: HLF) and Transocean Ltd (NYSE: RIG) have propelled shares higher.
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Under normal conditions, discharge from neurons in the brain is random. Seizures are caused by bursts of electricity set off in the brain by neurons that discharge in a coordinated way from the brain. A seizure usually can last anywhere from a few seconds up to several minutes, but, in some serious cases, can last longer.
Signs of a seizure can be subtle or drastic—the affected person could simply stare at nothing for a few seconds, he or she could lose consciousness, could exhibit strange behavior, like speaking nonsense, or could convulse violently.
Though they can vary widely, specific kinds of symptoms can usually be associated with the type of seizure from which a person suffers. Also, an episode can start out as a simpler form of seizure, but can grow worse, becoming another type with more widespread or powerful symptoms.
Seizure types are determined by what body functions are affected and what degree of dysfunction there is to different parts of the body.
Different seizure types include:
Simple Partial Seizures
Also called a focal or local seizure, this type is limited to a specific part of the brain. The awareness of the affected person is not altered, but other symptoms depend on what functions the malfunctioning part of the brain controls. Limited parts of the body might twitch, there may be strange sensations, like tingling, or there may be sensory hallucinations, including strange sights or smells.
Complex Partial Seizures
This type is also limited to specific parts of the brain and can have widely varying symptoms, but, unlike the simple partial seizure, affects the awareness of the person. The affected person often begins to stare off at nothing and may perform odd, meaningless behaviors known as automatisms. These can include fumbling with clothes and making chewing motions. After the seizure, the person may be disoriented.
Tonic Clonic Seizures
Also known as the grand mal seizure, the initial warning sign may be a grunt or other vocalization from the affected person, followed by a slumping over of the body, which briefly becomes rigid (the tonic phase). The person's body then begins to convulse, which is known as the clonic phase. The patient most often will twitch and undergo rhythmic jerking. The seizure may cause the person to bite down on his or her tongue, so there may also be bleeding from the mouth. The patient may be unable to control secretions, which leads to increased salivation, or "foaming at the mouth." There may also be a loss of control of bowel or bladder functions, or other injury from the convulsions or from the body striking objects during the seizure.
The victim of a tonic clonic seizure is often sore and tired afterwards and has little or no memory of the experience. The grand mal seizure can be the result of a more limited type of seizure worsening. In that case, it is called a secondarily generalized seizure.
The electrical misfire starts in a specific area of the brain, but the malfunction cascades into larger areas of the brain. This can happen swiftly or slowly.
Absence Seizures
Also known as petit mal seizures, absence seizures occur more often in children and are characterized by brief losses of awareness in which the child stops what he or she is doing and stares off into space, unresponsive. The child may blink rapidly or go limp. Though they only last seconds, petit mals can recur numerous times in one day. Absence seizures should be considered in kids who are considered 'spacey' or who have difficulty paying attention.
Myoclonic Seizures
These seizures are characterized by the super-fast jerking of specific portions of the body. They can feel like jumps inside the body, which can affect the limbs, jaw, or other parts of the body. People without epilepsy can feel these types of jerks or twitches, especially when falling asleep or when waking in the morning.
Atonic Seizures
Also known as astatic seizures or drop attacks, these seizures involve a brief loss of consciousness in the affected person. Once it is over, the person is usually unaware of what happened. This severity of this type of seizure can range from appearing to slump or nod briefly before recovering, to the person collapsing.


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Can't believe Ramadan is over..! Seems like it started yday..! I wish I got to read more of the Qur'an this month but inshallah, I will continue to read even after Eid. Please let us continue to make duas for Palestine 💜💜💜
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Yea a lot of people don't know the face behind all the work when it comes to art… Plus I always write something in the hair so try and look hard for the words in the hair of the people I draw. I'm a normal person that enjoys boondocks and drawing. I had no idea that the pics I was so fearful of posting will get over 1000 notes! ;A; I kinda wanted to cry when I saw that… So I am putting then all together along with my smiling face to show my thanks. RB and comment if you like to.
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- 2 teaspoons olive oil
- 2 carrots, sliced
- 1/4 cup diced red onion
- 2 garlic cloves, chopped
- Pinch plus 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon tomato paste
- Pinch chile pepper flakes
- 1 small head escarole, cored and chopped
- 4 cups low-sodium chicken stock
- 2 cups water
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create a wiki based website which will allow everyone to collaborate to solve the most important problems that face all of us.
An opensource and inclusive site where people can submit problems and solutions to those problems which will retain the best of what we know now in terms of solutions and evolve as we do in our understanding of what works and what doesn't through trial and error (if nothing else) could be of immense value to everyone. If the same site could provide a way to collaborate on projects to implement solutions it could become an incredible resource. I am attempting exactly that with WeSolver.org please take a look and let me know what you think of the idea
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Feb 15 2012: I agree that the Malthusian interpretation of Darwinian evolution as applied to human society and survival is (unintentionally) nihilistic and does not account for a number of fundamental (and easily observable) human capabilities and adaptabilities in pursuit of our common survival.
Personally I cannot divorce the human from the animal though. I see all the "human traits" in them as much as I see the "animal" in ourselves. There are of course many differences however it seems to me that these are more about scale, context, intention and time than anything else. Even human "vs." (or just separated) from "nature" is problematic for me compared to the idea that we (humans) are a force of nature ourselves but that is off topic.
I do agree that we have the ability to affect our evolution by design as well as accident. The way I read history our social evolution has been successful as much due to trial and error as insight or inspiration. Both have been there in abundance. It is exciting for me to think about what happens next as the entire human species becomes more and more interdependent in ways that have not existed since the first tribe of us. We have and are so much more than we have ever been. What we do with it all promises to be very interesting to say the least.
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