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An older Vanity Fair piece from Lisa Robinson entitled "The Secret World of Serge Gainsbourg". Definitely worth a read. Here is an excerpt on the house he lived in until his death:
Except for two pianos which have been removed, the house remains exactly the way it was on the day he died. The walls are covered with black fabric. The floor of the main drawing room is black and white marble. "Cluttered" is an understatement, but each thing is precisely in the place that Serge put it—and there are hundreds of things. Every surface is covered with ashtrays, photographs, and collections: toy monkeys, medals from various branches of the armed services, cameras, guns, bullets, police badges from all over France, pictures of the women who sang his songs—Brigitte Bardot, Anna Karina, Petula Clark, Juliette Gréco, Catherine Deneuve, Isabelle Adjani, Marianne Faithfull, Françoise Hardy, Vanessa Paradis—and, most prominently, his lover of 13 years and Charlotte's mother, the British actress Jane Birkin. There is a larger-than-life-size poster of international sex kitten Bardot, whom Serge first met on the set of a movie in 1959. Later, they carried on a clandestine affair while she was married to playboy Gunther Sachs, and recorded the steamy duet, written by Gainsbourg, "Je T'Aime … Moi Non Plus." Framed gold records—for albums featuring songs such as "La Javanaise," "Ballade de Melody Nelson," and "Love on the Beat"—are on the walls and the mantel above the fireplace. There is a bronze sculpture of a headless nude that Charlotte tells me was modeled on her mother, a statue of the Man with a Cabbage Head (the title of one of Gainsbourg's greatest albums), Gainsbourg puppet dolls, tape recorders, a black lacquered bar with a cocktail shaker and glasses, a Jimi Hendrix cassette, framed newspaper stories, and empty red jewelry boxes from Cartier—"He loved the boxes," says Charlotte. There are photos of Serge with Ray Charles, with Dirk Bogarde, with his last girlfriend, Bambou, and their son, Lulu. The small kitchen at the back of the first floor has a 15-inch black-and-white television set, candy bars and two cans of tomato juice in the refrigerator, opened wine bottles, and, in the cupboard, cans of food from 1991—except, says Charlotte, "the ones that exploded."
Upstairs, on the second floor, in Serge's skylit study, there is an IBM electric typewriter even though he never typed, books about Chopin, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Fra Angelico, and Velázquez, and a copy of Robinson Crusoe. Photos of Marilyn Monroe line the dark, narrow hallway, including one of the star dead, in the morgue. There is the room Jane Birkin called her "boudoir" and what Serge called "La Chambre de Poupée" (the doll room) after Jane left him, in 1980. The bathroom has a very low bathtub, modeled after one Serge saw in Salvador Dalí's apartment, and bottles of Guerlain, Roger & Gallet colognes, and soap from Santa Maria Novella. His toothbrush is still there. The master bedroom has blackout curtains, a mirrored wall, and twin gold female heads with pearls around their necks at the foot of the black, mink-covered double bed. Chewing gum and mints are next to the bed, and on the bed are dried flowers that have been there since he died. In the large hallway closet: his white Repetto jazz shoes, ties, and pin-striped suits. The house is a shrine, but it's not creepy, and one can imagine how stylish, even decadent this all must have seemed in 1970 when Serge and Jane moved into what was their family home and later would become the solitary lair of Gainsbourg—singer, songwriter, musician, painter, actor, director, smoker, alcoholic, romantic, ladies' man, and revered national figure.
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And here is Serge performing "L'homme a Tete de Chou" live in '88.


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Beware! This equity bull is tiring - C. Suisse's Sneddon
April 5 - Red flags on technical indicators suggest this equity bull is tiring. Credit Suisse technical analyst David Sneddon takes us through his analysis of the S&P 500 and DJ Stoxx 600.
Winning -- -- raging bull market to become a birdie bear. As the SMP 500 and Dow hit record high raise some red flags already popping up so it's time for equity investors to head for the hills. Well the momentum is giving the warning signal. Reticent but beyond balanced front which is a favorite indicator of mine because it. And really reflects what the underlying vote remains on the train it's not outright volume into its could accuse of an indicator. And this has been confirmed in the -- all this way. Until last week until the last two weeks in fact I'm for the first time we're not saying the volume continued high. As the markets we've continued high so I think this is another red flag that's not gonna help. And we ran against -- this is still a market is trending -- but we really need to -- trailing stops and have very tight because the -- started to me quite against us. Now we take a step back looking at S&P this is okay and -- state. Would you say this is -- and sold is that is another red flag coming up tight I think it's ten and that I think and I know what you're saying in terms if you look back at 1015 years in the market to -- can see the peace that we saw in 2002007. A McConnell coming in the same levels. Clearly when we get to any major peak in the market there is this risk of of a major topic -- and head and shoulders top and that double talk B the triple topple any other type offense until we like. But we are right -- -- went to make the -- This is that they can chose Tom Foreman. We knew a lot more information place and we have now sent you something to have -- about about not just -- -- to to be aware of but I think it's too early to make that -- clearly some difference kind but they're clearly some reference of the missing and if we look at on our -- -- -- commodity that was shown as we can chalk. We can see the -- side is being extremely overbought territories. And typically when you get to this height of the few times and the market -- when you're missing is facts passing bearish divergence -- an amendment and you aren't. It's actually confirming the means -- environments -- it's kind of hard for that its warning all of a move just becoming too fast we sustained. But it's not warning has yet as as a major incident downtown a major break in the market let's move on to Europe and the Sox 600 now. Quite a few red flags appearing there on the ISI and Matt dean -- let's take us through not so ridiculous on 208 it. Clearly a very different -- -- to the US market S&P -- up at a record -- Your -- -- as well we are as high as. Agency are some momentum on the Stoxx 600 as we push to a new high above this resistance has not moved to your heart a classic red flag map the momentum is kind of grinding -- -- -- What we have. He's from the mementos on the -- a rally. That's moving ahead but that really weakening quite significantly. So the miss it's from David is Korea. Just stops tight because he's becoming more risky and hey it's two brands that sell portion.


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Doctor fired for comments he made online
As mentioned in the ABC affiliate video above, anti-gay comments continue to cause controversy on the internet and beyond.
In a similar scenario across the globe, Israeli doctor Sudi Namir quickly learned that what happens on an internet forum, doesn't stay on the internet forum. Namir's comments were made in regards to a discussion amongst professionals, surrounding the issue of same-sex parenting and surrogacy.
Namir attempted to explain himself to Israeli news station, Arutz Sheva: "someone on the forum had asked why the state of Israel was making huge efforts to save babies born by surrogate mothers in Nepal for Israeli homosexuals, after the earthquake there, when these babies are 'aburden on the public because most of these couples break up after some time.'"
After forum members from both sides expressed their views, Namir chimed in saying that he felt "sorry and pray for all those who are sick in their bodies and minds."
His stance quickly escalated to take on a extreme tone. "A pervert is a pervert is a pervert, you can call him whatever you want, he's a pervert...All the abominations of yesterday have become today's norm."
Little did Namir know, there were several doctors in the forum who were in same-sex relationships themselves. After this realization, Namir says he apologized to the forum for his tone, but would not apologize for the view itself. It was later reported that The Israel Medical Association had fired Numir for his actions. In his interview with Arutz Sheva, Namir seems to blame the United States for what he calls is an "abomination."
So we want to know, do you think the Israel Medical Association was correct in firing Sudi Namir?
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Why Commodity Prices Rise
John Robertson
Rising demand for commodities does not necessarily translate into higher prices.
One of the financial commentators on the news the other night opined that China is still strong so commodity prices will keep rising. He went on to use this as justification for buying resource sector equities.
The poor quality of this advice was mitigated only by the fact that it was free.
The ATC weekly e-mail and the monthly ATC Digest have contained more detailed commentaries on commodity price formation from time to time. See, for example, the July and August 2006 editions of the ATC Digest.
Commodity prices respond to supply shortages or surpluses. When inventories are high, an indicator of supply availability, prices will be low and least volatile. When inventories are low, implying a rising risk of supply shortage, prices will tend higher and be more volatile.
One of the reasons commodity prices rose between 2003 and 2007 was that demand was rising faster than the growth in supply. This caused inventories to decline creating doubts about access to raw materials and providing an incentive for traders to pay more for their supplies.
China certainly played a significant role on the demand side. However, raw material suppliers were also caught napping.
For many years before, investment returns in the resources sector had been poor. Investment markets also had many alternatives to consider. A growing financial services industry and the emergence of internet-based companies were just two sectors that offered more exciting, even if not always better, investment returns.
In Australia, even the previously indomitable spirit of the western Australian mining entrepreneurs was overcome by the attractions of information technology as they swapped industries.
Exploration activity had fallen and production capacity had been limited by a lack of investment capital. As demand first started to accelerate, gun-shy producers were still reluctant to invest. Their first reaction was to use higher cash flows to pay off debt and catch up on some long delayed spending on existing operations.
Sometime later, investment in new capacity became a higher priority. Then they complained that governments had not done enough. Meanwhile, a part of the additional raw material needs was sourced from inventories which progressively fell creating the basis for an eventual cyclical rise in prices.
Just as at the beginning of the last cycle, how high prices rise will depend a great deal on how aware the industry is of its macroeconomic surrounds and the speed of its reaction to changes.
The industry is no longer in the 2002 frame of mind. Who, now, does not know about China emerging as a global economic powerhouse?
While the global credit crisis in 2008 delayed funding for many resource projects, the constraint quickly diminished. New mines are being developed. Supply is rising.
Supplies of base metals, for example, look set to rise by more than 10%, in some cases, over the coming two years. Demand may not grow so strongly despite the growth of China.
Unlike 2002, the supply side is ready to react. The impediments to investment which had delayed a supply response by the industry at the beginning of the last cycle no longer apply. Bear in mind, too, that demand fell or rose little in 2008 and 2009 while supplies rose across many raw material commodity segments. Even where supplies reacted most quickly to the prospect of a recession, as in zinc whose production slipped 3%, consumption dropped 3.3% in 2009.
Supplies are set to bounce back quickly in this cycle in response to higher prices and stronger demand. Even after a year or two of rising demand, markets might still be unable to regain enough tension to cause another cyclical rise in prices.
The speed of industrial output growth in not only China but also the USA, Europe and Japan in the year ahead will be important. But demand will be only one blade of the scissors, with more than the usual amount of uncertainty about this, in any event. The supply side needs to be given as much weight in any conclusion about likely price movements.
There are many uncertainties but one thing is clear: it is simply wrong to think of commodity prices rising in lock-step with greater usage.
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I think there are indeed people that devote themselves to one purpose, and yes, they can serve as guardian angels for humanity.
In Orwells' case, I think he was more concerned with radical, revolutionary totalitarianism, having just lived through the rise and fall of Nazism and the continuing evils of Communism. But his warnings are also valid for a totalitarianism of of a gentler but perhaps more insidious, Fabian sort, where freedoms are lost so gradually that few are aware of it. And of course the corrupt elites are just as corrupt, if not as violent, as in the former systems.


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Bird Food: Feeding Your Parrot A Well-Balanced Diet
What Types of Bird Food Do Wild Birds Eat?
Optimal parrot health starts with a nutritionally enriched bird food. Avian vets recommend that you feed your parrot 80% premium pellets like Harrisons Bird Food and the 20% fresh foods. "Our birds' bodies are adapted to fresh raw foods, such as fruits, vegetable matter, nuts, seeds, sprouts, berries, leaf buds, pollen, nectar, insects, larvae, and small vertebrae" (Excerpts from Avian Nutrition by Alicia McWatters, Ph.D., C.N.C.) Offering your parrot a variety of fruits and vegetables is essential to parrot nutrition. Dried fruits and vegetables are good while fresh fruits and vegetables are better. Fruits provide your parrot with essential protein, carbohydrates, vitamins, minerals and antioxidant. Fruits even contain fructose to support parrots energy level. The natural sugars in fruit are absorbed through the mouth providing an immediate energy boost aiding in re-hydration. A variety of vegetables provide minerals that are not available in some fruits. For instance, leafy greens contain essential vitamin A .
Wild Parrot Bird Food May Consist of Fresh Plant Growth and Sprouts
However, sometimes getting your parrot to eat a variety of fruits and vegetables is difficult. Parrots are picky by nature. In the wild, adult parrots acutally teach their young what foods are safe to eat through demonstration. Your parrot may not feel that a new offering is safe unless you show it. Birds that have been taught to eat a variety of foods tend to instinctively know which vitamins and minerals their body needs. For example, while your parrot may avoid eating the stems of many fruits, they eat the stems of vegetables such as Kale, Broccoli, or Mustard Greens which have increased nutritional values in the stem. Some root vegetables have combined nutrition from the root and the leaves. Dandelion Greens and Roots offer different, more complete nutritional benefits.
Clean your fruits and vegetables thoroughly to remove pesticides from the skin before feeding them to your parrot. Avicine (bird safe disinfectant) or GSE are two good products to try. You can also peel most fruits since parrots usually disgard the peel. Try leaving a few chunks of fruit with the peel on for the fun of it. Parrots have a natural ability to peel foods due to of the unique shape of their beaks and tongues. Most parrots make a fun foraging game of shredding up fruit peel or picking at and tossing fruit seeds from fruits such as Papaya and Cantaloupe. If there is a significant portion of the fruit or vegetable that is leftover, you can toss the unused portion in the food processor and freeze for later use.
Several things can influence whether or not your parrot eats a particular piece of produce or not. Keep the FAITH! If once you do not succeed, try, try, try again! Entice your parrot with creativity!
- Is the fruit ripened? Some parrots do prefer some fruits just before they ripen while some parrots like fruits sweet and juicy.
- Is the fruit expired or out of season? Parrots know if the fruit is not good or not
- Does your parrot avoid soiling it's beak? Your parrot might be dying to try that sweet piece of Cantaloupe but he sees the juice is dripping down and he is thinking "Too messy for me!" Yes there are neat freaks out there, so we have to find a way to get parrots to try new foods.
- Flavor: Does your parrot love hot and spicy foods? Try combining dried chili peppers to cooked sweet potatoes to encourage your parrot to taste test a new healthy vegetable. Sweet and Tangy. Does your bird love tart apples? Shred up some Granny Smith Apples and sprinkle them over another fruit you want them to try. They will love to find the surprise underneath the apples! For the Garlic Lover. Mince up some garlic and add it to your broccoli. Stand back and watch your bird ravage it!
Shape: Slice, Dice & Chunks. There are those little rascals who prefer their fruit or vegetables cut a certain way. Here are some tips on fitting the "cut" with your parrots persona.
- Julienne: Great for birds who use their talons to eat.
- Chunks: What else, other than for the hearty eaters.
- Diced: Ideal for those who like petite bites. Bite size pieces is also helpful in attaining less waste.
- Puree: You can also puree it in the food processor till it is a "pudding" consistency. Often times parrots will enjoy a specific produce item served warm on a spoon.
Shredded: Nice alternative for those who might like a certain vegetable/fruit but are afraid to try it (Try it with carrots or apples).
Sprout seeds for increased nutritional value to the seed junkie parrot.
- Temperature: If your parrot does not enjoy a particular vegetable, try offering it steamed. It is an inventive way of enticing your parrot to eat specific vegetables with high nutritional values. (Note: Some parrots have an extraordinary sensitive beak which may cause them to dislike warm food. Always make sure foods are served at 105 degrees or less)
Crushed Ice Fruit Shake! Blend ice with tropical fruits such as Papaya, Mango or Pineapple.Fun Bird Recipes To Try:
- Broccoli Delite: Steam Broccoli and Carrots until tender. Sprinkle with some fresh lemon juice and serve.
- Broccoli Soup: Chop steamed Broccoli and Carrots in a food processor, add Soy Milk for and you have Cream of Broccoli soup!
- Bursting Birdie Bread: Grind up leftover fruits and vegetables and add them to Momma's Birdie Bread!
- Fruity Oatmeal: Add a teaspoon of ground up papaya or apple to some warm oatmeal. Keep all bird food under 105 degrees. Your parrot will love to try it.
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- Dried Beans
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Hello everyone!
First of all I'd just like to say I'm so sorry about not updating my blog in forever - first of all had my mac away for 10 days being repaired, then was away for a week for my graduation, then my mac was away again being repaired and when I finally got it back fixed I was just really out of practice! I now have a plan of action to keep this up to date (basically getting my little sister to take pictures of me in 4 different outfits on my day off so it can all be done in one go! after work I never want my picture taken!)
I'm unbelievably excited about Christmas at the moment, it's my favourite time of year and an excuse to wear my multiple Christmas jumpers! I've attached bells to some of them so it jingles when I move haha!
Anyway I'd like to show off my new favourite shirt
I fell in love with this Minkpink shirt as soon as I saw it on ASOS. I'm obsessed with sheer shirts at the moment, and that vintage style print but at £50 I just couldn't justify it. Then ASOS started offering 20% off brands taking it down to £40, and then an extra 10% off taking it down to £36 and I couldn't say no! I've worn this shirt so much since I've got it and it gets so many compliments!
The shirt has since sold out on ASOS but is still available from Urban Outfitters.
Shirt - Minkpink
Cardigan - Topshop
Chanel Button Necklace - Ebay
Compass Necklace - Urban Outfitters
Rabbit Ring - Bjorg
Owl Ring - Accessorize
Blue Gem and Gold Band Rings - Vintage
Anyway I hope everyone is having a lovely Christmas and has a wonderful day with their families on Sunday!
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Whenever we have guests in the studio they have to play with our Oculus Rift headset. While it's fun to see grown-ups go a bit silly what we really want to know is what kids think of virtual reality. So along with our friends at KZero we conducted six research groups with 12 children aged between seven and 12 years-of-age. We gave them the opportunity to play with the headset, which was a first for all of them, and then we found out what they thought about. We got insight into it's usability, where kids could see it being used and even how much they thought it would cost!
The good news is that kids loved it! They loved it so much they think it would be great in schools and expected it to cost more than £400.
A hit with Kids
The overarching message from our sessions is that children love using Oculus Rift and felt immersed in the games in ways they've never felt before! Comments along the lines of it being the best way to play games were common. Oculus VR may not see children as their core market but there's no doubting the device's potential popularity with kids. We were glad to see that none of the children in our groups felt dizzy or ill after using the headset; the only usability issues occurred when the children had to move their heads to look down and found the headset heavy. A couple of the younger children also reported fitting issues with the head-straps. With lighter headsets on the way (we used the first development kit version) we don't see Oculus Rift causing many usability issues for young wearers.
Get to School
Since Facebook's acquisition of Oculus VR there has been much discussion around the technology's application outside of gaming. This was also echoed by the children who said they thought virtual reality would be great in their schools. They thought it would make lessons more interesting and allow them to take 'virtual field tips'. But they wanted to do more than just visit new places; they wanted to go back in time and interact with people, like the Captain of the Titanic or people living in Tudor England and get their views on history. They were more interested about exploring history than changing it through gaming. We also found that children placed great emphasis on exploration – a trait they wanted to see in all games, not just educational experiences.
Bearing in mind the age of the children we didn't find it surprising to hear them suggest that Minecraft would be great on Oculus Rift: "It's striking how much of an impact Minecraft has had on children's gaming expectations. While most of the children wanted to see Oculus Rift used in first-person-shooter games like Call of Duty – yes, even the young ones – it was games that allowed them to explore, like Skyrim, or create their own content, Minecraft, that came up time and time again as being great fits for virtual reality. We didn't have the heart to tell them that Notch had refused to bring his game to the system due to the Facebook acquisition – maybe now he'll reconsider.
In Control
During our tests the children controlled the games using either head movements, an Xbox control pad or keyboard and mouse. Xbox pads were the most familiar to the children and the preferred control method, unless the games were meant to be passive, like the rollercoaster simulator, in these cases they were happy to have no control. In most cases the children wanted even greater immersion and suggested peripherals such as steering wheels and swords would make the experience feel even more realistic. Kinect was suggested so the game could track the player's movements. The consensus was that an innovative device like the Oculus Rift needed an innovative method of control.
Deep Pockets
While we understand that it won't be children buying this technology with their pocket money it's still interesting to see how much they think it will cost. It can also help us understand whether they see it as better or worse than current technology. While there was quite a swing between estimates the average price suggested by the children was £430, quite a lot higher than we expected. To gauge their ability to estimate such costs we asked them to guess the price of existing technology like games consoles, mobile devices and TVs. In all cases, except for the TV, their average estimates were within £50 of the correct price, showing they have a good idea of tech costs.
These focus groups are the first in a number of internal research projects being carried on virtual reality out by our team and we've already built our first virtual world for Oculus Rift, Fairy Forest. Over the next six months we will publish further work, this time with the University of Sheffield, that looks to provide understanding of how children engage with entertainment across devices and platforms.
We're also going to hold a Google Hangout to discuss the findings. To sign-up or to receive a copy of the presentation applicants please fill in this form http://bit.ly/DubitVR.
In the meantime, here is our report on the groups.

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|Keigo Higashino translated by 'Alexander O. Smith'
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|A divorcee woman is leading a simple life as a devoted mother to her only daughter. One fine evening her ex-husband appears at her door unexpected. The sight of her ex-husband sends shivers down the woman's spine. Her life turns upside down, her silent world shatters into pieces and something un-planned happens-a murder takes place.When the police look into the matter, their obvious suspect is the woman. But as they unveil the case further they are presented with an entire new plot which leaves them confused and derailed umpteen times until they reach the end of this jigsaw puzzle.Who commits the crime? Who is murdered? What's the woman's ex-husband got to do with her after so many years of the divorce? Do the police find the actual murderer? Who is this suspect X?
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|Very Much-I will go to an extent and say 'it is a must read'!
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|>Set up in Tokyo, it is a thrillerby all means.
>A page turnerin truer sense. It takes you through the entire plot without many delays yet you feel when will you reach the answer that you've been trying to find throughout.
>This is a reverse murder mysterywhere in you already know the murderer but you don't know how the body was disposed off. It is like to trace back all the events and going through them time and again in your head to join the dots by the help of the clues thrown at you in every chapter.
>You feel you are one notch above the detectives in the novel cause at least you know the murderer whereas they just know that the crime has been committed-gives you a high to know you know at least one part of the answer!
>Two friends, who are excellent research scientists, one who is a mathematician and other a physicist, are each involved in different ways. They use their logical and scientific skills to commit the crime and solve the puzzle.
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Smartphone-related patent infringement lawsuits Apple and Samsung recently filed against each other are but the latest in an escalating series of Android and open-source-related complaints filed by major corporations over the past 18 months.
After more than 40 lawsuits, there's no sign of a letup in smartphone litigiousness, leaving patent experts divided over whether the epic phone fights are a sign of a healthy free market or a serious deterrent to future innovators.
Several patent experts said in interviews that when the dust finally settles, they believe that Apple -- with arguably the biggest smartphone legal stake -- would prefer to reach settlement agreements with various Android manufacturers such as Samsung. That means that Apple would seek damages and and future license agreements from lawsuit opponents, rather than fighting to prevent the sale of Android phones in the U.S.
"These companies are all trying to get more space in the valuable smartphone market, and [they all] hold huge portfolios of patents, so they will use every tool at their disposal," said Tim Delaney, an intellectual property litigator at Brinks Hofer in Chicago. Delaney added that he has no role in any of the current suits.
"The players are competing in every way imaginable: on price, patents and in advertising," Delaney said. "I'm sure they all have their big stables of expert patent witnesses and lawyers ready to go. It will be World War III."
Delaney, like seven other patent attorneys interviewed for this story but not involved in the lawsuits, said it is "possible, but unlikely, that some company could get knocked out of selling handsets" as a result of the current suits. Economic considerations come into play as to how patent lawsuit strategies proceed, he said.
Delaney argued, for example, that since Apple was first to market with its iconic iPhone in 2007, it is more invested in seeing other smartphones stopped cold than, say, Microsoft. Still, Apple might seek a settlement and a licensing agreement with Android smartphone makers, just to benefit financially from Android's growing revenues, several attorneys speculated.
Microsoft, meanwhile, was late to the game with Windows Phone 7, whose Windows Phone OS currently lags behind Google's Android, Apple's iOS, Research In Motion's BlackBerry and Nokia's Symbian.
Therefore, Microsoft might seek licensing agreements or royalties from other companies -- instead of seeking injunctions in any suit it brings. Proceeds from the settlements would be used to cover Microsoft's smartphone research investment costs, Delaney asserted. (In fact, in April 2010, HTC signed a settlement agreement calling for it to pay Microsoft royalties for its Android phones.)
How did we get here?
Before making further predictions on the outcome of the phone patent battles, it's useful to look at some background.
Since early 2010, there have been so many smartphone- and wireless-related lawsuits filed around the globe that nobody seems to have an accurate count.
Florian Mueller, a self-described intellectual property "activist," runs the respected FOSS Patents blog, which recently listed a slew of Android-related device lawsuits in graphic form. The list begins with suits filed in 2010 and ends prior to the recent Apple and Samsung lawsuits. Including the Apple and Samsung filings, Mueller said there have been 41 active Android-related lawsuits since the start of last year.
Google, creator of the Android platform, is often named as a defendant in such lawsuits. Apple is a plaintiff in three cases, starting with its March 2010 suit against HTC, currently the biggest Android smartphone maker. Apple sued Motorola in October 2010.
Apple's approach thus far is to take on Android manufacturers rather than Google per se, since Google provides its open-source Android software basically for free while undoubtedly expecting to eventually reap tremendous revenue from advertising on Android phones, several patent attorneys noted. That Google advertising revenue stream isn't so far readily available to companies that would sue it, they noted.
The patent attorneys speculated that many more lawsuits could result from a raft of expected intellectual property disputes over wireless technologies such as LTE.
Mueller, who said he has no stake in any of the cases, expects "many more smartphone patent suits this year."
What is being disputed?
The recent Apple suit against Samsung characterizes the somewhat widespread nature of Apple's patent attacks and typifies many of the other cases filed by other parties. Apple's complaint includes 10 charges of patent infringement and two for alleged trademark violations against several Samsung smartphones and its Galaxy Tab tablet.
"Samsung has chosen to slavishly copy Apple's innovative technology, distinctive user interfaces, and elegant and distinctive product and packaging design, in violation of Apple's valuable intellectual property rights," Apple said in its April 15 complaint.
A week later, Samsung filed lawsuits in three countries, claiming that Apple infringed on Samsung smartphone patents. The company filed suit in a fourth country shortly thereafter.
Most of the patent attorneys interviewed wouldn't speculate on the validity of the claims in the lawsuits, pointing to the precise nature of how patents are written and granted, and the need to avoid adding potential bias to any given case.
In one example of how wide-ranging the smartphone patent suits are, digital security tool-maker Gemalto sued Google, HTC, Motorola and Samsung last October for using its patented software in Android and other products. Gemalto's software was originally intended for designing Java-based programs that would run on full-size PCs.
Some of the patent claims in the smartphone cases have been derided, even by insiders, as somewhat specious.
"These claims are all about competing companies wanting to get a piece of the [smartphone revenue] pie, although I do see some of the claims that are eye-opening, to say the least," remarked Mitchell Stein, an intellectual property litigator at Silver Freedman in Los Angeles.
"One claim that killed me was that Apple sued Amazon over Amazon's Android store, which is called the Amazon Appstore," he added, noting that Apple's is called the App Store. "So, Apple thinks Amazon can't call its store an 'appstore'? That shows how creative and aggressive some of these companies are in this field, with all the money being made."
Enter the patent trolls
Several of the smartphone cases were filed by a number of so-called nonpracticing entities, such as NTP, which have purchased or gained rights to enormous numbers of patents.
While it may sound derisive, these companies are widely referred to by patent insiders as "patent trolls," a term that goes back nearly 20 years. The term has lost much of its pejorative value in recent years as such trolls have become useful to just about any company trying to defend itself in a patent suit.
NTP became famous for winning $612.5 million from RIM in March 2006 in a settlement of a patent dispute that lasted four years. In July 2010, NTP also filed smartphone patent infringement claims against Apple, Google, LG, Motorola, Microsoft and HTC.
NTP co-founder Donald Stoute claimed that use of its intellectual property without a license is "just plain unfair to NTP and its licensees," a group that now includes Nokia and, ironically, RIM.
"You will see smartphone competitors sue for the next couple of years, but the suits by the nonpracticing entities, the trolls, will drag on for a while as they go after Apple and all the handset makers," noted patent attorney Greg Bishop of Goodwin Procter in Menlo Park, Calif. "That's where the biggest money is."
In a sense, the patent troll tradition has given birth to newer, more respectable gambits where companies like Intellectual Ventures collect patents and give a variety of vendors the right to license those patents, thereby creating a kind of patent licensee collective, Bishop said.
"That big portfolio of patents adds to the inability of one player to dominate the patent arena," Bishop said.
Michael Specht and Glenn Perry, patent attorneys at Sterne Kessler Goldstein, noted in a recent article that HTC and Samsung recently licensed the 30,000-patent portfolio of Intellectual Ventures to protect themselves against smartphone suits filed by Apple and others. The moves are apparently intended to generate a legal debate over who owns what smartphone intellectual property rights.
Specht and Perry noted that to date there is no patent pool for smartphones specifically but added that a group called the Open Patent Alliance has created patent pools for WiMax, LTE and 4G patents. At the same time, private entities such as Sisvel, Via Licensing and MPEG LA are creating LTE patent pools.
Clearly, there is likely to be plenty of ongoing legal positioning by mobile device makers beyond disputes over Android.
The financial burdens
Patent attorneys claim that the costs of patent litigation are relatively low compared to the cost of developing and marketing a smartphone.
"No [major company] in these disputes will be stymied by the litigation expense," said Delaney, who noted that the cost for a single patent case typically ranges from $5 million to $10 million. "That's an order of magnitude less than the sales for a product. And while it's a burden, it's a burden companies are willing to bear."
Blogger-activist Mueller, however, predicted that patent licensing costs will "soon become the single largest cost factor for those building smartphones."
Why the glut of Android suits?
Android patent lawsuits are currently at the centerpiece of the smartphone wars, partly because the open-source software has quickly become dominant. Android late in 2010 became the largest smartphone platform -- and is expected to hold that position for several years, according to Gartner and IDC.
The very nature of Android, as an open-source operating system, has led to its global expansion. But the open-source nature of the software also leaves it somewhat defenseless, Mueller has argued.
Google apparently believes that an Android program written with a General Public License "can just cut out the copyrightable parts," Mueller recently noted in a blog. Oracle, in a Java-related lawsuit against Google, has argued that any company that treats a copyright this way "may be similarly arrogant and reckless when patents are concerned."
Mueller concluded that Google's approach "exposes its entire ecosystem to legal risks."
Mueller also called Google's patent portfolio "far too weak for what's undertaken in connection with Android" and argued that Google needs more cross-licensing agreements with other IT-related software and hardware makers. "This is a serious strategic weakness, and it's in no small part responsible for the Android patent mess," Mueller concluded.
Early jury rules against Google
Google recently lost a case that could have major implications in the smartphone wars, and on open-source technology in general. In that case, Bedrock Computer Technologies filed suit in 2009 contending that Google had infringed on one of its Linux-related patents.
A federal court jury in the Eastern District of Texas on April 15 ruled that Google must pay Bedrock $5 million for past infringement on its patent on the Linux kernel Google uses in software that runs in its server farm.
Since so many companies use Linux, Mueller predicted that the jury verdict will convince more companies to pay royalties related to the use of the open-source operating systems. He also predicted that Google might need to modify the Linux kernel that it distributes with Android in order to remove any patent-infringing code.
In general, patent attorneys said they don't expect many jury verdicts in the smartphone battles. Instead, most will be settled.
"In reality, most of these lawsuits go away, and the statistical reality in the [intellectual property] and business world is that these cases are settled 95% to 98% of the time," Stein said. "A lot of these suits are threats, and threats grab headlines."
In addition to smartphone suits filed in federal courts, some entities are turning to the U.S. International Trade Commission, which takes precedence over the federal courts and can grant injunctions allowing U.S. customs agents to seize property before it enters the U.S. "The ITC is very powerful, and if a patent case wins there, the ITC is definitely going to stop companies" from bringing specific products into the U.S., Delaney noted.
History of smartphone patent wars
James Madison, the fourth president of the United States, probably never envisioned anything like today's smartphone patent wars when he proposed language in 1787 to the Constitutional Convention protecting copyrights to literary authors. That recommendation led to Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution, which is commonly called the Copyright and Patent Clause: "To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to respective writings and discoveries."
The Copyright and Patent Clause led to the creation of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and is the basis for many judgments in federal courts.
Specht cited many spectacular patent battles in U.S. history, including disputes over sewing machine patents in the 1800s and years of lawsuits over the telecommunications and telephone patents that began with Alexander Graham Bell's U.S. Patent No. 174,465 for the telephone more than 100 years ago. There were also desktop computer patent battles between Apple and Microsoft in the 1990s.
The smartphone battles are helping to bring new dimensions to patent disputes.
For instance, intellectual property laws and traditions are different from country to country, Specht noted. "In the U.S., we protect intellectual property rights, which is historically not the same as in Asian countries, where copying was often a form of flattery and not a violation of law," he said.
Also, Specht noted that while the value of the worldwide smartphone market exceeds $100 billion annually, the profit margins are shrinking and thus competition is intensifying. Those factors mean that "gaining an advantage through patent licensing royalties or making it more costly for a competitor are critical," Specht and Perry recently wrote.
Mueller said that the convergence of telecommunications and computing technology inside a smartphone just adds to the number of patents that can come into play, increasing the complexity of the smartphone battles.
"The patent wars in the smartphone space are distinct and of a scale that is without precedent," Mueller said in an email.
Impact on customers and innovation
Some academics and activists believe that such pitched patent battles will eventually push up the cost of smartphones for consumers. The prospect of litigation could also keep smaller innovators from wanting to compete in the smartphone market, they added.
Some patent attorneys disagreed, however, and said they believe the amount of smartphone patent litigation is a sign of a healthy and creative market.
Prof. Jonathan Asking of Brooklyn Law School worries that the lawsuits could stifle innovation. "Unfortunately, for consumers and innovators, every new technology is beset with companies fighting battles in the courtroom at the expense of battles in the marketplace," he said.
"The phone [and related] companies historically and presently spend more money on lobbyists and litigators than almost any other industry," he added. "This is all money and energy that would have been better served on research and development, or at least marketing and competing for consumers in the marketplace."
Eric Von Hippel, a professor of technological innovation at MIT's Sloan School of Management, said via email that several academic researchers are looking into questions about the negative effects of software intellectual property on innovation generally.
"It's a bad scene right now," he recently told The New York Times. "The social value of patents was supposed to be to encourage innovation -- that's what society gets out of it. The net effect is that they decrease innovation, and in the end, the public loses out."
Patent attorneys like Maurice Ross, a partner at Barton, Barton and Plotkin in New York, however, argued that "these cases do not, in my view, reflect a litigation system that it is out of control. Rather, they reflect a rational response among competitors to competition in the marketplace. These suits also reflect reasonable litigation strategies. Sometimes the best defense against charges of patent infringement is to go on the offensive against your competitors."
Ross said that patents are granted to companies as a "reward for innovation. There is absolutely nothing wrong or nefarious about a system that allows a patent owner to reap the value of its patent rights by either licensing the patent and/or enforcing it against infringing competitors."
Specht said vigorous smartphone litigation is a "good sign with respect to innovation." Apple, Google and Oracle, are involved in litigation and are leaders in innovation in wireless communications, he noted.
The smartphone lawsuits "are a really good thing," Specht added. "With so much opportunity and innovation, things are sort of coming to a head. I don't think [the litigation] changes smartphone costs for consumers. Instead, the innovators are grabbing land."


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Friday, March 11, 2011
Crumbling: the Yazoo County Agricultural High School, Benton Mississippi
In August of 2009, Mississippi Preservation wrote about the abandoned Yazoo County Agricultural High School in Benton, MS. This inspired me to visit Benton with an out-of-town friend who shares my interest in exploring fading architecture and the remnants of our industrial society. We did not expect much but were disappointed to see that: 1. The 1930-vintage brick school building is deteriorating quickly; 2. The wood building housing treachers' apartments had just been demolished.
The brick building, built in 1930 by Lumbergh & Hayes (Canton architects/builders), had the classic school architecture with large windows to let in light and, in a pre-air conditioning era, fresh air. I like the arch over the main door. Students pass through with a sense that they are entering an important place. Also, windows allow the students to have a connection with nature, so much nicer than modern mega-schools that resemble prisons.
From the outside, the building appears sound, but look in through the windows and the deterioration is evident. The main hallway runs longitudinally through the building. Transoms would have allowed air flow on hot days. Notice the radiator, originally for a hot water or steam heat system.
The rooms were high-ceilinged and had been painted with the ghastly industrial green pigment (the stuff that resists body fluids). Notice in last photograph, the floor has caved in and fallen down to the former crawl space.
The wood teachers' apartment building had just been razed. I met the owner of the property, a builder (investor?) from Vicksburg. He recently bought the land from Yazoo County and had to knock down the wood building because it was imploding and dangerous. He was concerned that vagrants might get hurt in it. As you can see in the photograph above, all that is left is a pile of sticks and rubble. I'm surprised they could not recycle joists, but maybe the rot or termite damage was too extensive. The owner said someone had approached him to buy the bricks in the school building, but he was not interested in the offer.
Some of the books were rather interesting, basic science texts without the fluff and political correctness idiocy found in contemporary textbooks. Who read these books, and did they continue on to college?
All photographs taken with a Sony DSC-R1 digital camera, tripod-mounted. Hint: always use a tripod for architecture and static subjects.
For more information: Mississippi Preservation
4 comments:
- AnonymousMay 19, 2013 at 2:42 AM
I taught at this school twenty years ago in one of those rooms pictured. It was crumbling even then. There was no air conditioning anywhere. The steam heat was not turned on on weekends, and it took a day for the thing to start working, so if it was a cold winter Monday, it stayed that way, same temperature as outside. The teaching materials were rudimentary. The staff was consistently white and exceedingly racist. The students were working class or marginal poverty line mixed races, predominantly black as the white county families endeavored to send their kids to the private white school down the road. I will never forget the many good kids I met while there who only needed a lift to surmount their circumstances. I wonder many times what became of them. They were worth saving. This school and the teaching staff were not. It's better off closed.ReplyDeleteReplies
- AnonymousNovember 8, 2017 at 11:54 AM
What did you teach?Delete
- AnonymousNovember 8, 2017 at 11:55 AM
What did you teach I might have neen one of your studentsDelete
- AnonymousNovember 8, 2017 at 10:33 PM
Class of 1992ReplyDelete


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