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Changing Times: How Insurance CIOs Can Strengthen Their Strategic Influence
Optimism Under PressureCraig Weber, Celent
Craig Weber, Celent
The successful insurance CIO acts in a spirit of "optimism under pressure." Most CIOs have resources at their disposal -- not as many as they'd like, perhaps, but enough to make a big difference in their companies' performance. There's a sense that technology is gaining traction and delivering improvements more efficiently than ever before.
CIOs are definitely key players in senior management now. The past decade has taught us that getting value out of IT spending is hard to do, and most business people know they lack the skills and experience to do it well. Secretly, lots of business people (including CEOs) are terrified of the complexity in today's technology. Effective CIOs have job security and/or high employability.
Setting strategy is about managing tradeoffs, and no one knows better than a CIO what is possible using current and emerging technologies. But too often, CIOs are caught up in justifying IT costs or addressing short-term needs and can't make the mental shift toward defining the world of the possible to other inhabitants of the C-suite.
The CIO's Golden Rule
Frank Petersmark, X by 2
Frank Petersmark, X by 2
Today's environment is completely different from just a few years ago. CIOs are expected to be strategic leaders while worrying about operational business alignment, innovate while battling strong headwinds against change within their organizations, and contribute directly to top-/bottom-line revenue while seeing overall investments in IT stay flat or slightly decrease.
Alignment is yesterday's challenge for CIOs; if they're not strategically integrated into their firms, then they're not functioning effectively as a CIO. Where that hasn't occurred it's often due to undelivered promises on IT initiatives -- over time, over budget, unrealized efficiencies, etc. That's how credibility and trust are lost.
CIOs must be careful about how they communicate the complexity and effort required for enterprisewide IT initiatives. More CIOs than not get into trouble by oversimplifying what it will take to get something done; when things go awry, they've left themselves in a vulnerable position and risk damaging whatever hard-earned credibility they've attained. The golden CIO rule is still to do what you say you're going to do, and implicit in that is thinking carefully about what you and your division can and cannot do.
Know Your Business
Steve Callahan, Robert E. Nolan Co.
Steve Callahan, Robert E. Nolan Co.
Many of the other demands on a CIO -- resource balancing, scope management, governance, communication skills, staff leadership -- have always been and will continue to be foundational skills. Knowing which specific solution to run, why it is best for the business, and how to get it in place ensures C-level trust, a place at the strategic planning table, and a more successful business.
Anthony O'Donnell has covered technology in the insurance industry since 2000, when he joined the editorial staff of Insurance & Technology. As an editor and reporter for I&T and the InformationWeek Financial Services of TechWeb he has written on all areas of information ... View Full Bio


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Nokia has unveiled the X2, a music phone that will cost €85 (US$110) before taxes and subsidies.
Users will be able to listen to music via two speakers, wireless headphones using Bluetooth 2.1 or a 3.5mm headphone jack, the company said Thursday. Songs are stored on a MicroSD card. The phone also has dedicated music keys and an FM radio with a built-in antenna.
The X2 will also be bundled with Nokia's music service Comes with Music and Nokia Music Store, in some markets, according to a data sheet from Nokia.
The X2 is a Series 40-based candy-bar phone that comes with a 2.2-inch screen and a 5-megapixel camera. Users will be able to access Facebook from the homescreen, send e-mails using Nokia's Messaging client and surf the Web with Opera's Mini browser. However, accessing the Internet will be slowed down by the lack of support for 3G or Wi-Fi. Instead, users will have to make do with GPRS (General Packet Radio Services).
The phone will start shipping before the end of June, according to a blog post. Nokia isn't elaborating where the X2 will become available, but the phone was announced in India.

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[Bun B]
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Motherf-ckers say "who that?"
Big Bun B, but you already knew that
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Secret Fed Loans Helped Banks Net $13B
(Bloomberg) -- by Bob Ivry, Bradley Keoun and Phil Kuntz --
The Federal Reserve and the big banks fought for more than two years to keep details of the largest bailout in U.S. history a secret. Now, the rest of the world can see what it was missing.
The Fed didn't tell anyone which banks were in trouble so deep they required a combined $1.2 trillion on Dec. 5, 2008, their single neediest day. Bankers didn't mention that they took tens of billions of dollars in emergency loans at the same time they were assuring investors their firms were healthy. And no one calculated until now that banks reaped an estimated $13 billion of income by taking advantage of the Fed's below-market rates, Bloomberg Markets magazine reports in its January issue.
Saved by the bailout, bankers lobbied against government regulations, a job made easier by the Fed, which never disclosed the details of the rescue to lawmakers even as Congress doled out more money and debated new rules aimed at preventing the next collapse.
A fresh narrative of the financial crisis of 2007 to 2009 emerges from 29,000 pages of Fed documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act and central bank records of more than 21,000 transactions. While Fed officials say that almost all of the loans were repaid and there have been no losses, details suggest taxpayers paid a price beyond dollars as the secret funding helped preserve a broken status quo and enabled the biggest banks to grow even bigger...MORE...LINK
"And no one calculated until now that banks reaped an estimated $13 billion of income by taking advantage of the Fed's below-market rates, Bloomberg Markets magazine reports in its January issue."
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Amputation is the removal of a body extremity by trauma, prolonged constriction, or surgery. As a surgical measure, it is used to control pain or a disease process in the affected limb, such as malignancy or gangrene. In some cases, it is carried out on individuals as a preventative surgery for such problems. A special case is the congenital amputation, a congenital disorder, where fetal limbs have been cut off by constrictive bands. In some countries, amputation of the hands or feet is or was used as a form of punishment for people who committed crimes. Amputation has also been used as a tactic in war and acts of terrorism; it may also occur as a war injury. In some cultures and religions, minor amputations or mutilations are considered a ritual accomplishment. Unlike some non-mammalian animals (such as lizards that shed their tails, salamanders that can regrow many missing body parts, and hydras, flatworms, and starfish that can regrow entire bodies from small fragments), once removed, human extremities do not grow back, unlike portions of some organs, such as the liver. A transplant or a prosthesis are the only options for recovering the loss.
In the US, the majority of new amputations occur due to complications of the vascular system (of or pertaining to the blood vessels), especially from diabetes. Between 1988 and 1996, there was an average of 133,735 hospital discharges for amputation per year in the US. .
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Soham Chatterjee and Nivedita Bhattacharjee
The exodus of staff and senior management gathered pace after Infosys brought back from retirement its founder N R Narayana Murthy to help revive its fortunes in June last year.
Staff left India's second largest IT services exporter Infosys Ltd at an unprecedented pace in the last quarter, worrying its management and raising investors' concerns about its ability to win lucrative contracts even as it posted a higher-than-expected net profit for the period.
Retaining staff is a challenge for all Indian IT services firms, which rely on armies of young, mainly low-paid workers to remain competitive in an industry worth more than $100 billion.
Infosys, however, appears to be having a particularly difficult time with staff as it undergoes a restructuring aimed at lifting growth to match rivals including sector leader Tata Consultancy Services Ltd and third-ranked Wipro Ltd.
The attrition rate, currently bigger than its two rivals, is the highest ever seen and "more than we are comfortable with", Chief Executive S.D. Shibulal told a briefing after the company posted a 25 percent increase its net profit for the fourth quarter that ended March 31.
Murthy effect: Infosys sees highest staff exodus
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The company's annualised staff attrition rate stood at 18.7 percent at the end of March, the company said, up from 16.3 percent at the end of the same quarter last year and in line with the rate of staff exits in the previous quarter.
Shibulal said the company was trying to retain staff through pay increases, promotions and other incentives.
"Clearly some of these moves are affecting relationships and client demand as they go through this transition," said Sam Mahtani, a London-based fund manager for F&C Indian Investment which owns shares in Indian IT firms, but not Infosys.
"They really need to bed down all the changes and give investors a stable ground so they don't continue to surprise investors negatively on a quarterly basis. They need to go through several quarters of building investor confidence."
Murthy effect: Infosys sees highest staff exodus
Photographs: Reuters
Negative Impact
The exodus of staff and senior management gathered pace after Infosys brought back from retirement its founder N.R. Narayana Murthy to help revive its fortunes in June last year.
The company, once a bellwether for the IT outsourcing industry, has been underperforming its rivals in winning contracts from the United States in Europe in recent years as it focused on high-margin consulting and software services.
Murthy has vowed to boost growth over the next three years, partly through prioritising the quest for big-ticket contracts.
Some senior executives, seen as CEO contenders, left after Murthy initiated changes that also ushered in his Harvard-educated son Rohan as executive assistant. His strategy also led to some jobs becoming redundant.
Murthy effect: Infosys sees highest staff exodus
Photographs: Reuters
Before Murthy rejoined, some investors had faulted Infosys' strategy of choosing its chief executives only from its founding members.
Chief Executive Shibulal, one of the founders who said last week he would retire early next year, told the earnings briefing the departure of several senior managers had not affected the company's business.
Some analysts, however, said the overall high attrition rate would weigh on the prospects of Infosys, one of the pioneers of the outsourcing sector that lured tens of thousands of young workers by paying attractive wages and building campus-style facilities.
Murthy effect: Infosys sees highest staff exodus
Photographs: Reuters
"The current attrition levels will have some negative impact in the near future," said Ankita Somani, analyst with Angel Broking. An attrition rate of under 15 percent, which Infosys reported some two years ago, would not cause concern, she added.
Infosys on Tuesday forecast sales to grow between 7 and 9 percent this fiscal year, in line with expectations, helped by an anticipated increase in U.S. and European clients. Last fiscal year, revenue grew 11.5 percent.
Infosys also said it had added 50 new clients in the March quarter, including Chinese-owned Swedish automaker Volvo Car Corp, taking its total tally to 890. At the end of the previous quarter, Infosys had a total of 888 clients.
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My piece on the Oldsmobile Toronado XS yesterday revealed a high level of appreciation for personal luxury coupes from Curbivores – a lot of us are Brougham fans here, after all – but elicited a rather lukewarm response to the Toronado itself. So, tell me: what personal luxury coupe from the 1970s would you want instead?
The Lincoln Mark V is perhaps the most dramatic and stunning personal luxury coupe but, well, it's a bit big. I realize that's like saying, "I liked the horror movie but it was a bit too scary, don't you reckon?" Nevertheless, I'd prefer something a little bit more sensibly-sized, like the downsized '79 Cadillac Eldorado.
It may surprise you to learn that I'm not much of a fan of pre-downsizing era Cadillacs. Those Coupe de Villes and Eldorados from earlier in the 1970s are just too gargantuan and gauche for my tastes, but the '79 has an undeniable presence and yet a cleanness of line. The detailing is on point and the interior is warm and inviting.
If we want to stretch the QOTD to include coupes that weren't separate line models like the Eldorado, then a '77-79 Coupe de Ville is my other favourite classic Cadillac. The cherry on the parfait is the availability of Cadillac-exclusive V8s: the 425 in the '77-79 Coupe de Ville and the 368 in the first few years of the downsized Eldorado.
If we're talking mainstream brands, a 1977 Pontiac Grand Prix is at the top of the list. There's not a bad line on these and I like the '77 headlights. Make mine a loaded LJ with two-tone paint and snowflake wheels and any of the available engines will do, just not the 301.
I've spoken before about my morbid fascination with the '75-77 Dodge Charger and so I wouldn't mind one of these…
…or the more attractive Dodge Magnum…
…or Ricardo Montalbán's car of choice, the Chrysler Cordoba. With soft Corinthian leather, of course.
Finally, one other car I'd consider is the '74-76 Buick Riviera. What can I say, I like underdogs. These are either reviled or forgotten and, while they don't have the visual drama of the '71-73 boat-tails, I think they're quite handsome. I'll take a '76 S/R with the bucket/console set-up.
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With the iPad2 on the launching pad, it's a great time to share this list of useful iPad apps for teachers from guest writer Paula Dierkens.
There's no doubt that the iPad is an excellent device, and if you own this gadget, it makes sense to pick up the applications best suited to your lifestyle and profession. So if you're a teacher, here are ten great iPad apps that you must try out:
[Note to readers of this article! I conducted a survey in March of 2012 to update this list of iPad apps that educators like to use in their professional roles, so it is based on actual teacher input. The results are available in this post. I hope you'll click through and check it out! – KW 3/25/12]
1. QuickVoice Recorder: This is the perfect recording tool to record your classes and get feedback on your performance; you can see what you're doing right and what you're going about wrong and learn how you can improve your lectures.
2. Dropbox: If you've used Dropbox on your computer, you already know this is a must-have tool on your iPad. If not, it's a file storage application that allows you to say goodbye to flash drives and portable hard disks for good. Just sign up to store your files online and then access them from any other computer, your iPad or your smartphone. Ideal for files you use at school and at home.  Â
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These were two bills in equity, heard together in the circuit court, and argued together in this court.
On March 31, 1886, Allen C. Dalzell, a citizen of the state of New York, and the Fahys Watch-Case Company, a New York corporation, filed a bill in equity against the Dueber Watch-Case Manufacturing Company, a corporation of Ohio, for the infringement of two patents for improvements in apparatus for making cores for watch cases, granted to Dalzell, October 27, 1885, for the term of which he had, on January 21, 1886, granted a license, exclusive for three years, to the Fahys Company.
To that bill the Deuber Company, on June 4, 1886, filed the following plea: 'That prior to the grant of the said [149 U.S. 315, 316] letters patent upon which the bill of complaint is based, and prior to the application therefor, and prior to any alleged invention by said Dalzell of any part, feature, or combination described, shown, or claimed in either of said letters patent, the said defendant being then engaged in the manufacture of watch cases in the city of Newport, in the state of Kentucky, and the said Dalzell having been in its employ as a tool maker for a year preceding, it, said defendant, at the request of said Dalzell, re-employed said Dalzell, at increased wages, to aid in experimenting upon inventions upon machinery and tools to be used in the manufacture of various portions of watch cases; that said Dalzell did then and there agree with said defendant, in consideration of said increased salary as aforesaid to be paid to him, and which was paid to him by this defendant, to dedicate his best efforts, skill, and inventive talent and genius towards the perfecting and improvement of watch-case machinery and such other devices as this defendant should direct and order, and in experimenting under the direction of this defendant for this purpose, and further agreed that any inventions or improvements made or contributed to by him (said Dalzell) should be patented at the expense of this defendant, and for its benefit exclusively, and that said Dalzell should execute proper deeds of assignment, at the expense of this defendant, to be lodged with the applications for all such patents in the United States patent office, and said patents were to be granted and issued directly to this defendant; that, in pursuance of said agreement, said Dalzell entered upon said employment, and while thus employed at the factory of this defendant, and while using its tools and materials, and receiving such increased wages from it, as aforesaid, the said alleged inventions were made; that said patents were applied for, with the permission of this defendant, by the said Dalzell; and that all fees and expenses of every kind, necessary or useful for obtaining said patents, including as well patent-office fees as fees paid the solicitor employed to attend to the work incident to the procuring of said patents and drawing said assignments to this defendant, were paid by this defendant; and that, notwithstanding the foregoing, said Dalzell did [149 U.S. 315, 317] not sign the said deeds, although he had promised so to do, but fraudulently and secretly procured the said patents to be granted to himself, of all of which this defendant avers the complainant the Fahys Watch-Case Company had notice at and prior to the alleged making of the license by said Dalzell to it, more particularly referred to in the bill of complaint; and defendant avers that, by reason of the premises, the title in equity to said patents is in this defendant.'
The plea, as required by equity rule 31 of this court, was upon a certificate of counsel that in his opinion it was well founded in point of law, and was supported by the affidavit of John C. Dueber that he was the president of the Dueber Company, that the plea was not interposed for delay, and that it was true in point of fact.
After a general replication had been filed and some proofs taken in that case, including depositions of Dueber and of Dalzell, the Dueber Company, on January 17, 1887, filed a bill in equity against Dalzell and the Fahys Company for the specific performance of an oral contract of Dalzell to assign to the Dueber Company the rights to obtain patents for his inventions, and for an injunction against Dalzell and the Fahys Company, and for further relief.
This bill contained the following allegations:
This bill further alleged that Dalzell did, in pursuance of that agreement, select a solicitor, and apply for the two patents mentioned in the bill for an infringement, and three other patents; that, when some of the patents had 'passed for issue,' the solicitor employed by Dalzell sent blank assignments thereof to the Dueber Company, with a request that [149 U.S. 315, 319] Dalzell sign them, and thus transfer the legal title in the inventions to the Dueber Company, and enable the patents to be granted directly to it; that it exhibited these assignments to Dalzell, and requested him to sign them; that Dalzell replied that he would postpone signing them until all the patents had 'passed for issue,' and would then sign all together, to all which the Dueber Company assented; that the Dueber Company paid all the fees and expenses necessary or useful in obtaining the patents, but that Dalzell fraudulently procured the patents to be granted to himself, and refused to assign them to the Dueber Company, and, as that company was informed and believed, conveyed, with the intention of defrauding it, certain interests in and licenses under the patents to the Fahys Company, with knowledge of the facts; and that Dalzell and the Fahys Company confederated and conspired to cheat and defraud the Dueber Company out of the patents, and, in pursuance of their conspiracy, filed their bill aforesaid against the Dueber Company.
Annexed to this bill was an affidavit of Dueber that he had he had read it and knew the contents thereof, and that the same was true of his own knowledge, except as to the matters therein stated on information and belief, and that as to those matters he believed it to be true.
To this bill answers were filed by Dalzell and the Fahys Company, denying the material allegations, and a general replication was filed to these answers.
By stipulation of the parties, the evidence taken in each case was used in both. After a hearing on pleadings and proofs, the circuit court dismissed the bill of Dalzell and the Fahys Company, and entered a decree against them, as prayed for, upon the bill of the Dueber Company, 38 Fed. Rep. 597. Dalzell and the Fahys Company appealed from each decree.
Mr. Justice Brewer, dissenting.
Edmund Wetmore and J. E. Bowman, for appellants.
James Moore, for appellee. [149 U.S. 315, 320]
Mr. Justice GRAY, after stating the substance of the pleadings and decrees, delivered the opinion of the court.
The more important of these cases, and the first to be considered, is the bill in equity of the Dueber Watch-Case Manufacturing Company to compel specific performance by Dalzell of an oral agreement, alleged to have been made by him while in its employment, to assign to it the right to obtain patents for his inventions in tools for making parts of watch cases.
An oral agreement for the sale and assignment of the right to obtain a patent for an invention is not within the statute of frauds, nor within section 4898 of the Revised Statutes, requiring assignments of patents to be in writing, and may be specifically enforced in equity, upon sufficient proof thereof. Somerby v. Buntin, 118 Mass. 279; Gould v. Banks, 8 Wend. 562; Burr v. De La Vergne, 102 N. Y. 415, 7 N. E. Rep. 366; Blakeney v. Goode, 30 Ohio St. 350.
But a manufacturing corporation which has employed a skilled workman, for a stated compensation, to take charge of its works, and to devote his time and services to devising and making improvements in articles there manufactured, is not entitled to a conveyance of patents obtained for inventions made by him while so employed, in the absence of express agreement to that effect. Hapgood v. Hewitt, 119 U.S. 226 , 7 Sup. Ct. Rep. 193.
Upon the question whether such a contract was ever made by Dalzell as is alleged in the bill of the Dueber Company, the testimony of Dalzell and of Dueber, the president and principal stockholder of the Dueber Company, is in irrecondilable conflict.
Dalzell was a skilled workman in the manufacture of various parts of which cases, and was employed by the Dueber Company, first for eight months as electroplater and gilder, and then for a year in its tool factory, at wages of $25 a week, from February, 1883, until November, 1884, and thence-forth, at wages of $30 a week, until January 19, 1886, when he left their employment, and immediately entered the employment of the Fahys Company, and executed to that company a license to use his patents. [149 U.S. 315, 321] The matters principally relied on by the Dueber Company as proving the contract sought to be enforced are a conversation between Dalzell and Dueber at the time of raising his wages, in November, 1884, another conversation between them in the spring of 1885, and oral promises, said to have been made by Dalzell in the summer of 1885, to assign to the Dueber Company his rights to obtain patents. It will be convenient to consider these matters successively.
The bill alleges that Dalzell's wages were raised in November, 1884, at his request, 'and in consideration of a promise then made by said Dalzell to' the Dueber Company 'that in the future his services would be of great value in the devising and perfecting of such tools,' and that, 'in pursuance of said promise and contract,' Dalzell continued in the company's employ, at its expense, and with the assistance of its workmen, to devise and construct such tools.
Dueber's whole testimony on this point appears in the following question and answer: 'Question. Please state the circumstances which induced your company to increase Mr. Dalzell's wages at the time they were increased. Answer. Mr. Dalzell came to me in the office, and he says, 'Mr. Dueber, a year is now up since I worked for you in this factory. I suppose you are satisfied with the improvements I have made, and I have come to have my wages raised, and I will show you that, if you raise my wages, the improvements I will make this year will justify you in doing so.' I asked him what wages he wanted. He said, 'Thirty dollars per week;' and he was paid that until the time he left. When that year was up, nothing was said about wages.'
This testimony tends to show no more than that Dalzell expressed a confident belief that, if his wages should be raised, the improvements which he would make during the coming year would justify the increase. It has no tendency to prove any such promise or contract as alleged in the bill, or any other promise or contract on Dalzell's part. So far, therefore, no contract is proved, even if full credit is given to Dueber's testimony.
As to what took place in the spring of 1885, the bill alleges [149 U.S. 315, 322] that subsequently to the aforesaid interview, 'and when said tools were completed,' Dalzell requested the company to apply, for its own use and benefit, for patents for inventions which he represented that he had made 'while engaged in designing and constructing said tools,' and which, he suggested, might, if not secured by letters patent, be made known and explained by some of the workmen then employed there to rival companies; and, as a further inducement to the company to have such patents applied for, voluntarily offered, if the company would permit him to do so, and would pay all expenses of obtaining patents, to apply therefor, for the benefit of the company, and 'not ask or require any further or other consideration for said inventions and such letters patent as might be granted therein;' and that this proposition was 'then and there accepted by' the company, and 'it was then fully agreed between said parties' that Dalzell should immediately proceed, through a solicitor of his own selection, to procure the patents in the name of the company, and the company should pay the necessary expenses.
Upon this point, Dueber's testimony was as follows: 'Question. Who first suggested the idea of patenting these devices, and when? Answer. Mr. Dalzell, in the spring of 1885. Q. Please state all that took place at that time. A. Mr. Dalzell came to me, and said: 'Mr. Dueber, we have got a very good thing here. Let us patent this for the benefit of the concern. We have some men here who may run away and carry those ideas with them.' I objected at first. Finally he says: 'If you will pay for getting them out, I don't want anything for them.' I then said: 'Let us go over to Mr. Layman to-morrow, and attend to it.' He said he knew a more competent lawyer than that, that he would send for.' Dueber also testified that, when Dalzell first suggested taking out letters patent, Dueber told him that he did not think the improvemets of sufficient value to justify taking out patents and paying for them; and that 'about all' that Dalzell replied was: 'We have a good many men here who may carry off these ideas into other shops, and I want to retain them for this concern.'
All this testimony of Dueber was given in September, 1886, [149 U.S. 315, 323] before the filing of the bill for specific performance. Being recalled, after this bill had been filed, he testified, on cross-examination, that he now considered the inventions covered by the patents sued on as valuable, because the company had spent a great deal of money on them, and he declined or evaded giving any other reason.
Bearing in mind that there was no proof whatever of any previous agreement between the parties on the subject, the contract, as alleged in the bill and testified to by Dueber, by which Dalzell is said to have voluntarily offered, with no other motive than to prevent workmen from injuring the Dueber Company by communicating the inventions to rival companies, and for no other consideration than the payment by the Dueber Company of the expenses of obtaining patents, and without himself receiving any consideration, benefit, or reward, and without the company's even binding itself, for any fixed time, to pay him the increased wages, or to keep him in its service, is of it-self highly improbable; and it may well be doubted whether, if such a contract were satisfactorily proved to have been made, a court of equity would not consider it too unconscionable a one, between employer and employed, to be specifically enforced in favor of the former against the latter. Cathcart v. Robinson, 5 Pet. 264, 276; Railroad Co. v. Cromwell, 91 U.S. 643 ; Manufacturing Co. v. Gormully, 144 U.S. 224 , 12 Sup. Ct. Rep. 632.
Moreover, Dueber throughout manifests extreme readiness to testify in favor of the theory which he is called to support, and much unwillingness to disclose or to remember any inconsistent or qualifying circumstances. The record shows that he has at different times made oath to four different versions of the contract:
(1) On March 16, 1886, when the Dueber Company filed a petition in the superior court of Cincinnati against Dalzell to compel him to assign his patents to it, Dueber made oath to the truth of the statements in the petition, one of which was 'that, at the time of the making of application for said patents, it was agreed, for a valuable consideration before that time paid, that said patents and inventions were the property [149 U.S. 315, 324] of this plaintiff, and should be transferred to it immediately upon the issue thereof, and prior to the grant of the patents.'
(2) On June 4, 1886, he made oath that the plea was true in point of fact, which stated that the whole contract, both for an increase of Dalzell's wages and for his assignment to the Dueber Company of his rights to patents for his inventions, was made 'prior to any alleged invention by said Dalzell,' and in consideration of an increase of wages to be thereafter paid.
(3) In September, 1886, he testified that the increase of wages was made upon the mere statement of Dalzell that he would show that the improvements he would make during the coming year would justify the increase, and that the subsequent contract to assign the patent rights was after the inventions had been made.
(4) On January 17, 1887, he made oath to the truth, of his own knowledge, of this bill, which alleged that Dalzell's wages were raised 'in consideration of a promise' by Dalzell 'that in the future his services would be of great value in the devising and perfecting of such tools,' and also alleged that the agreement to assign the patent rights was made after the inventions.
Dalzell, being called as a witness in his own behalf, directly contradicted Dueber in every material particular, and testified that the real transaction was that, after his inventions had been made, and shown to Dueber, the latter was so pleased with them that he, of his own accord, raised Dalzell's wages, and offered to furnish the money to enable him to take out patents. There is much evidence in the record which tends to contradict Dalzell in matters aside from the interviews between him and Dueber, and to impeach Dalzell's credibility as a witness; but impeaching Dalzell does not prove that Dueber's testimony can be relied on.
What took place, or is said to have taken place, after these interviews, may be more briefly treated.
Whitney, the solicitor employed at Dalzell's suggestion, applied for and obtained the patents in Dalzell's name, and was paid his fees and the expenses of applying for the patents [149 U.S. 315, 325] by the Dueber Company, with Dalzell's knowledge. In the summer of 1885, before the patents were issued, he sent blank assignments thereof to the Dueber Company to be signed by Dalzell, which Moore, the general manager of the company, as well as Dueber, in the absence of each other, asked Dalzell to sign.
Upon what Dalzell then said, as upon nearly every material point in the case, the testimony is conflicting. Dueber and Moore testified, in accordance with the allegations in the bill, that Dalzell replied that he would not sign any of them until all the patents had 'passed for issue,' and would then sign all together. But the manner in which they testified to this does not carry much weight; and Dalzell testified that he positively refused to assign the patents until some arrangement for compensating him had been agreed upon.
Parts of a correspondence of Whitney with Dueber and with Dalzell, during the summer of 1885, were put in evidence, which indicate that Whitney, while advising Dalzell as to his interests, sought to ingratiate himself with the Dueber Company. But they contain nothing to show any admission by Dalzell that he had agreed or intended to assign the patent rights to the Dueber Company without first obtaining some arrangement whereby he might be compensated for his inventions.
The circuit court, in its opinion, after alluding to various matters tending to throw discredit on the testimony of each of the principal witnesses, said: 'The case is one on which different minds may well reach a contrary opinion of the merits.' 38 Fed. Rep. 599. We concur in that view, and it affords of itself a strong reason why the specific performance prayed for should not be decreed.
From the time of Lord Hardwicke it has been the established rule that a court of chancery will not decree specific performance unless the agreement is 'certain, fair, and just in all its parts,' (Buxton v. Lister, 3 Atk. 383, 385; Underwood v. Hitchcox, 1 Ves. Sr. 279; Franks v. Martin, 1 Eden, 309, 323;) and the rule has been repeatedly affirmed and acted on by this court. In Colson v. Thompson, Mr. Justice Washing- [149 U.S. 315, 326] ton, speaking for the court, said: 'The contract which is sought to be specifically executed ought not only to be proved, but the terms of it should be so precise as that neither party could reasonably misunderstand them. If the contract be vague or uncertain, or the evidence to establish it be insufficient, a court of equity will not exercise its extraordinary jurisdiction to enforce it, but will leave the party to his legal remedy.' 2 Wheat. 336, 341. So, this court has said that chancery will not decree specific performance 'if it be doubtful whether an agreement has been concluded, or is a mere negotiation,' nor 'unless the proof is clear and satisfactory, both as to the existence of the agreement and as to its terms.' Carr v. Duvall, 14 Pet. 79, 83; Nickerson v. Nickerson, 127 U.S. 668, 676 , 8 S. Sup. Ct. Rep. 1355; Hennessey v. Woolworth, 128 U.S. 438, 442 , 9 S. Sup. Ct. Rep. 109.
For these reasons we are of opinion that the contract set forth in the bill for specific performance has not been so clearly and satisfactorily proved as to justify a decree for specific performance of that contract, and that the decree for the plaintiff on the bill of the Dueber Company must therefore be reversed, and the bill dismissed.
The decree sustaining the plea to the bill against the Dueber Company for an infringement, and ordering that bill to be dismissed; is yet more clearly erroneous, for none of the evidence introduced by either party tended to prove such a contract as was set up in that plea. The only issue upon the plea and replication was as to the sufficiency of the testimony to support the plea as pleaded; and, as the plea was not supported by the testimony, it should be overruled, and the defendant ordered to answer the bill. Stead v. Course, 4 Cranch, 403, 413; Farley v. Kittson, 120 U.S. 303, 315 , 318 S., 7 Sup. Ct. Rep. 534; Equity Rule 34.
It is proper to add that the question whether the Dueber Company, by virtue of the relations and transactions between it and Dalzell, had the right, as by an implied license, to use Dalzell's patents in its establishment is not presented by either of these records, but may be raised in the further proceedings upon the bill against the Dueber Company for an infringement. [149 U.S. 315, 327] Decrees reversed, and cases remanded to the circuit court, with directions to dismiss the bill for specific performance, and to overrule the plea to the other bill, and order the defendant to answer it.
Mr. Justice BREWER dissented.
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02-Sep-2012 -- At first glance, this confluence point seemed to be easy to visit, and I couldn't understand why it had been visited only once before - more than 12 years ago. According to my road atlas, a dirt road - "County Line Road" (between Deschutes and Crook Counties) - runs southward from Alfala Market Road towards the confluence point. As I drove down County Line Road, however, I soon learned the truth: This road dead ends, several miles north of the confluence point. It turns out that - since the previous visit in 2001 - this area has been redesignated as the Oregon Badlands Wilderness. Being a wilderness area, it is closed to motor vehicles and mountain bikes (grumble).
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Ibrahim al-Jaafari was selected Sunday by the Shiite bloc to remain PM.
After weeks of dispute within the bloc of Shiite Islamist politicians over who would lead Iraq's next government, Sunday they decided that Ibrahim al-Jaafari should keep his job as the country's prime minister.
Mr. Jaafari won the Shiite nomination by a one-vote margin over current Vice President Adil Abdul-Mahdi, virtually cementing his position in the powerful role for the next four years.
Mr. Jaafari's nomination won't be official until a new government is formed, something that looks like it is to be weeks away, at least.
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Many Sunni Arabs blame him for the murder and torture of alleged insurgents by the country's Shiite-led security services; Kurds dislike him for a war of words between him and Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani last year; secular Iraqis and the US have been opposed to his advocacy for strengthened Islamic law here; and many average Iraqis are frustrated that the public face of ongoing economic and security failures will keep his job.
Mr. Talabani told reporters Sunday that he wouldn't support a government led by Jaafari unless it gives a cabinet post to Iraqi List's Iyad Allawi, a US-backed secularist.
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The dapper Jaafari, who once refused to shake US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's hand out of his sense of Islamic modesty, was the choice of UIA officials after weeks of often heated debate.
UIA officials say that the swing votes for Jaafari's victory were provided by followers of the firebrand cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, whose Mahdi Army has fought pitched battles with US forces on at least two occasions.
Mr. Sadr continues to demand a fast withdrawal of US forces from Iraq and says he supports armed resistance if that doesn't happen. He's also set to solidify his transformation from a rabble rouser with a private army behind him into a powerful politician. His movement controls three ministries - and the patronage opportunities they generate - in the current government, and is hoping to see that number increase to five in reward for backing Jaafari.
Meanwhile, having lost the premiership, the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI), who selected Mr. Mahdi, is likely to dig in its heels on the ministries it currently controls, particularly the contentious Ministry of the Interior, which controls the police, paramilitary squads like the feared Wolf Brigade, and domestic intelligence.
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Shiite lawmakers cast their votes at the heavily guarded home of Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim, the head of Mahdi's party. Jaafari's supporters gathered in the compound cheered when word of the outcome emerged.
Jaafari, a physician, spent years in exile in Iran and Britain before returning to his homeland after the 2003 US-led invasion.
Jaafari's government, which took office in April 2005, had been widely criticized for failing to improve Iraq's crumbling infrastructure or deal effectively with the Sunni-led insurgency. Jaafari's supporters had complained of infighting within the dominant Shiite alliance.
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Programs encouraging teenagers to develop healthy eating habits have popped up all over the country in recent years: "Project EAT (Eating Among Teens"), "Eat, Think and Be Active!" and "The Power of Choice: Helping Youth Make Healthy Eating and Fitness Decisions," to name a few.
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- Grafts of soft tissue
- Bone grafts or surgery
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Drug Treatment for Gum Disease
Antibiotic and antimicrobial treatments may be used alone or in conjunction with other therapies; these products include oral antibiotics, mouth rinses, special toothpastes or medicine-filled chips inserted into periodontal pockets after root planing.
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Most periodontal procedures can be performed by a dentist or periodontist in an office setting using local anesthesia. No special preparations are required on the patient's part. You can't afford to neglect your oral health when affordable dental care is within your reach. Don't wait until gum disease destroys your smile; make an appointment to see a qualified provider today.
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Miami Center for Cosmetic and Implant Dentistry offers affordable family dentistry and gentle, compassionate dental care in Miami. Our offices are conveniently located with extended hours to meet your needs. At Miami Center for Cosmetic and Implant Dentistry, we provide most dental services, from basic preventative care and general dentistry to specialized procedures and complete dental reconstruction. We accept most dental insurance plans and offer affordable financial solutions for any budget. Patient satisfaction is our top priority and we strive to provide the exceptional, affordable dental care and personal touch that lead to lasting relationships. A smiling patient is our greatest reward and we look forward to keeping those smiles healthy, beautiful, and bright. Discover an affordable dentist who truly cares at Miami Center for Cosmetic and Implant Dentistry.


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Junker: English is losing its importance in Europe. Is it true?
Last week, the President of the European Union, Jean Claude Juncker, said English is losing its importance in Europe. He made the remark, at a meeting of European diplomats and experts in Florence, Italy. Is it true?
Junker said, "Slowly but surely, English is losing importance in Europe. The French will have elections on Sunday, and I would like them to understand what I am saying." He then switched into French for the rest of his speech. Whilst this might have been done to please the French voters ahead of the election, it is a fair point he raises, and to debate now.


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