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A sustainable and effective reputation requires:
The biggest challenge is less about the fact that this requires change, but that stasis will never be a reality or option where reputation management is concerned.
Fellow, Royal Society for Arts, Manufacturing and Science since 1998.
I love music, and have travelled Europe and the US for live experiences
I enjoy cooking and have trainged with Rick Stein, Leith's and River Cottage Cookery Schools.
I am a qualified PADI diver, and RYA Day Skipper.
I relax with a good book.
I have recently taken up playing golf (badly).
Accomplished strategic communications professional with more than 20 years' experience and proven expertise in inspiring, building and sustaining corporate brand and reputation, including international FTSE 100 companies, innovative global start ups, corporate relaunches and local government. Underpinned by a first class MBA with distinction.
Jonathan's experience includes journalism, media relations, marketing communications, internal communications, investor relations, public affairs, corporate social responsibility, stakeholder engagement and corporate brand evaluation and development.
Having worked regionally, nationally and internationally Jonathan formed QuaysideComms Ltd to help organisations and provide senior level counsel and project management skills which can be applied specifically or broadly to your organisation's communication and reputational issues or opportunities.
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Lancaster University Management School
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2002 - Cranfield Development Programme
BT Development Pool.
1999 - Templeton College, Development Programme
Thames Water Executive.
1992 - British Airways Senior Management Academy, Lancaster University.
1987 - Diploma in Journalism (NCTJ), Portsmouth.
1985 - BA in History & Social Ethics,
University of Lancaster.
Having worked regionally, nationally and internationally Jonathan formed QuaysideComms Ltd to help organisations and provide senior level counsel and project management skills which can be applied specifically or broadly to your organisation's communication and reputational issues or opportunities. To date, challenges have ranged from counselling a major support charity with its marketing and fundraising communications; providing input to a professional services organisation looking to refresh its approach to business development, customer service and marketing, and helping a niche training business explore how it could move up the value chain, including advice on market evaluation.
Helped set up and run blue chip boutique agency specialising in corporate placements, MBOs, and
corporate communication audits, alongside private counsel for Chairmen and Chief Executives.Clients included airlines, retail, manufacturing and motor racing businesses.
Worked variously in internal communications, investor relations, PR and product positioning, including the innovative press and marketing launch of First Class and Wellbeing in the Air products. Developed strategic approach CSR and reputation management via work in Kuwait, Kurdistan, Malawi and Mozambique. Winner of two Chief Executive Awards for Excellence from Sir Colin Marshall and one of the youngest managers at that time selected for the Senior Management Development programme.
Qualified with distinction as a journalist in 1986. Worked, variously, as Chief Reporter for the Surrey Mirror Series (Tandridge), Deputy Chief Sub for the Reading Evening Post, along with a range of freelance national reporting and sub-editing roles, including the BBC and Sunday Correspondent.
"Shortly after taking over as Director of Public Relations at PPP healthcare, Jonathan recruited me into my first in-house role to help him develop the organisation's Public Affairs function. Jonathan is a highly-driven and decisive leader who operated in a very challenging environment - private medical insurance and a Labour government were never going to be close friends! He is highly articulate and was very passionate about the company's business, and transmitted this passion to his team, encouraging and empowering to innovate. When he subsequently moved on to the bigger challenge of Thames Water, it was a no-brainer to follow him at the first opportunity. At Thames Water he gave me the latitude to develop my ideas for customer and stakeholder engagement and championed their practical application."
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Slotting fees, the funds many marketers must pay to supermarket chains to reserve space on store shelves, have become the subject of FTC scrutiny in recent months. Last week-the same week Coca-Cola Co. and Procter & Gamble Co. made public their venture to market juices and snacks-the FTC staff released a report recapping a workshop on slotting practices it held last year. The report urged the commission to quit waiting for recalcitrant marketers to volunteer information on slotting practices and subpoena the information, a good possibility given that Congress last year gave $900,000 to the commission to examine slotting issues.
The 61-page report recommended the FTC hold off on issuing any guidelines for marketers or retailers on slotting activities ranging from fees for introduction, fees to stay and fees to win category captain leadership. It also offered several theories in which the fees could raise antitrust issues that have to be looked at in mergers.
too much power?
One chapter of the report focused on potential antitrust implications of retailers having too much gatekeeper power, which stymies market competition. That could result in greater scrutiny for grocery industry mergers.
Some lawyers and antitrust experts who saw the report said the FTC now will have slotting clearly in mind when it reviews merger deals. "It's hard to know exactly what it will mean with the change in administrations, but it puts the idea in the air," said Steven Salop, professor of economics at Georgetown University Law Center. "Now that [the rep0rt] put [the slotting issue] on the front burner, the FTC will be looking for situations where those effects are likely."
Robert Skitol, a Washington antitrust lawyer who represented some tortilla makers in urging the FTC to act immediately to set guidelines, said that while he is disappointed agency staff didn't take immediate action, he is hopeful the FTC has now become "sensitized" to slotting issues. "If nothing else, it raises consciousness and visibility of slotting issues in the outside world," he said. He called the staff recommendation to subpoena information from companies the most significant part of the report.
Mr. Skitol said the FTC already is examining slotting issues in its antitrust review of PepsiCo's purchase of Quaker Oats Co.
Slotting has been a major issue in the continuing fight over the FTC's attempt to block H.J. Heinz Co. from buying Milnot Holding Corp.'s Beech-Nut brand. In court papers, the FTC said both Heinz and Milnot are making money on baby food and the merger would lessen competition to be the second baby-food brand on store shelves (along with Novartis' Gerber). That shelf space battle would partly be waged via slotting fees.
Heinz, meanwhile, claims the slotting fee wars actually hurt consumers. With the two brands splitting the second position in stores and fighting slotting-fee battles, neither has the national distribution or ad muscle to effectively challenge Gerber, which pays no similar fees.
Sen. Kit Bond, R-Mo., chairman of the Senate Small Business Committee, has held hearings on slotting issues, questioning whether slotting practices prevent small businesses from getting store shelf space.
The FTC report, however, also presents several theories for looking at slotting, especially when mergers of marketers or retailers are involved. If a dominant marketer or a small group of marketers win exclusive shelf-space agreements in a market in its top retailers, the report suggested "competitive harm might occur." Even if an agreement isn't exclusive, activities that make it difficult for rivals to get effective distribution also could warrant scrutiny.
"If a dominant firm's use of slotting allowances, pay-to-stay fees or exclusionary contracts reduces the number of competing firms sufficiently or otherwise hinders rivals' ability to compete, it can harm competition," the report said. It also questioned the antitrust implications of stores turning over category management to some of their suppliers who act as "category captains."


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In world affairs the year 1981 goes down in history as identifying a time when the two greatest military powers on earth found it increasingly difficult to use their own military might as an instrument of their purposes.
Restraints were heavier on Washington due to greater influence of public opinion on policy in the United States. But both were restrained.
Events in Poland at the end of the year dramatized the fact of the restraints.
Twenty-five years ago the Soviets did not hesitate for a moment to use tanks in a bloody repression of independence in Hungary. Thirteen years ago they did not hesitate to send their tanks into Prague.
But in 1981, when the Poles reached for the same independence that had earlier moved Hungarians, then Czechs, the Soviets chose to try to solve their ''Polish problem'' with Polish armed forces.
As for the US, its new leadership came into office in January breathing oratorical fire against Cuba and proposing to take stern and decisive action against insurgency in El Salvador. The world braced for aggressive use of American military power anywhere.
But by year's end the only actions in support of the bold words were the shooting down of two Libyan aircraft and the dispatch of 56 US soldiers to El Salvador to help train the armed forces of that country. The 56 soldiers were forbidden to take part in field operations. There was little follow-up against Libya. The allies disapproved of the original shooting and declined cooperation in further actions against Libya.
In fact, 1981 saw both the US and the Soviet Union largely occupied in trying to hang on to what each has in the way of world position and influence. Both were so busy defending or maintaining their positions that neither undertook any new offensive ventures.
Moscow had an unsettled military problem on its hands in Afghanistan and a continuing political as well as military problem with Poland. The two problems seemed to use up about all the energy the Soviets had.
Moscow's last foreign policy offensive had been the invasion of Afghanistan in December of 1979. This in the Soviet mind was probably defensive rather than offensive. Their last attempt to project their military power well outside their immediate neighborhood was the dispatch of their own and Cuban troops to Ethiopia in 1977 and to Angola in 1975, back in the Kissinger era.
The condition of the two superpowers at the end of 1981 is not a stalemate, because the word stalemate implies two great forces pushing against each other. In this case there was little actual pushing at each other by the superpowers in 1981.
Moscow undoubtedly kept an interested and perhaps larcenous eye on events in Iran, but made no overt move into the Middle East since that would obviously provoke an extreme American reaction. Washington talked loudly about being ''tough'' with Moscow. But one of President Reagan's early deeds in foreign affairs was to cancel the embargo his predecessor had placed on the export of US grain to the Soviet Union.
The nearest thing to a foreign policy offensive from Moscow during the year was an attempt to woo Western Europe away from the NATO alliance by purporting to be more interested in peace and in the curbing of nuclear weapons than was Washington. Some propaganda success was gained, largely due to careless or foolish use of words in Washington.
President Reagan said he could conceive of a limited use of nuclear weapons in Europe. Leonid Brezhnev thundered back from Moscow that such limited war would be madness. Score one point for Moscow.
Washington managed to compensate for that propaganda loss by proposing mutual renunciation for Europe of middle-range nuclear weapons. The score was evened.
Moscow restraint and Moscow resort to a propaganda ''peace offensive'' was due not to any effective pressure from Washington, but rather to its own inherent weaknesses. Its economy was stagnating. Food shortages were chronic. Influence over world opinion through communist parties had dwindled to the negligible level. Soviet control over the ''satellite'' members of the Warsaw Pact was becoming increasingly difficult and complicated.
Moscow could not afford to let Poland go free because that would require in return the losing of East Germany. To any Russian with even second-hand memories of World Wars I and II the idea of letting go of East Germany is unthinkable. The Russian fear of Germans equals the Israeli fear of Arabs.
But if Poland had to be kept inside the Soviet military system, how could it be done while at the same time trying to run a ''peace offensive'' and woo Europe away from the US? To repeat in Warsaw in 1981 the fearsome bloodletting of 1956 in Budapest or even the bloodless takeover of Prague in 1968 would ruin Moscow's role as the peaceable and peace-loving superpower. The more President Reagan in Washington talked about guns, the more the Soviets felt it desirable to don the feathers of the dove.
So instead of using tanks and violence in Warsaw, the Soviets in 1981 fell back on using the Polish Army itself, which meant a Polish solution to the ''Polish problem.'' That served the immediate purpose of securing military control over the supply line from the arsenals and food supplies of the Soviet Union to Moscow's frontline forces in East Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary.
But it also meant that Poland was more Polish than back in the days when it was governed by hand-picked stooges trained in Moscow and dominated by a secret police taking orders from the KGB.
Nor was the US contained or restrained by Soviet pressures or advances. Washington was restrained by weaknesses and disagreements within the Western system itself. All major countries in the NATO alliance were having economic troubles in 1981. And the European members of the alliance were exceedingly reluctant to follow the Reagan lead into any overt actions against the Soviets.
The Reagan-Haig idea of moving against Cuba was checked when Mexico's President (whose goodwill is greatly desired in Washington) put a literal protecting arm around Fidel Castro. The urge to send US forces into action in El Salvador was checked in the Congress and by disapproval from Mexico, Canada, and the European allies. The original reluctance of the new administration in Washington to talk to the Soviets was overwhelmed by a virtual demand from the European allies for negotiations with them.
By the year's end an American delegation in Geneva was talking nuclear arms reductions with the Soviets. It was the price of holding the alliance together.
The year had opened with the new administration in Washington planning to build a ''strategic consensus'' in the Middle East which would bring Israel and the Arabs together in a mutual organization aimed to keep the Soviets out of the area. But the prospects for achieving that goal were less promising at the year's end than at its beginning. Israel's mid-December move to annex the Golan Heights upset the area and pushed into doubt even the limited progress achieved at Camp David toward an Arab-Israeli peace.
No one in 1981 could doubt the enormous power of the armed forces of the Soviet Union and of the United States. But in the events of the year these forces weighed little except that they more or less balanced each other out. Washington was restrained not by Soviet military power but by the reluctance of its own allies, and of its Congress at home, to use its own power.
And Moscow was restrained not by US military power but by the restlessness among its own allies, by the intractability of the Afghan patriots, and by the distrust of Moscow in much of the world.
In other words 1981 was a year of marking time. There was virtually no change in the power patterns of the world. But it had become obvious that the possession of enormous military power is not a readily usable instrument of policy in these immediate times.


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Immediately after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, as US Coast Guard vessels and surveillance aircraft all but abandoned the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico and rushed to protect domestic ports, Pentagon officials were quietly alarmed by a major gap in US maritime defenses.
"We suddenly realized there was a big hole, and we didn't have enough resources," one defense official explains.
Meanwhile, in an unusual sign of regional solidarity, members of the Organization of American States (OAS) quickly decided to invoke a 1947 treaty which states that an attack on one member country is an attack on all.
Those two events helped catapult a new Pentagon plan to increase military funding and links to Latin American nations in an effort to strengthen regional security against a growing list of threats, including terrorism. Already, defense officials say, foreign military financing to the region has doubled to $800 million over the past three years.
"New threats must be countered with new capabilities," US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told a gathering of top officials from 34 nations at the Defense Ministerial of the Americas that convened Tuesday in Santiago, Chile.
The plan aims to bolster the defense, military, and intelligence capabilities of regional states and enable them to work together to tackle problems of "ungoverned space" - from open seas and remote border areas to jungle skies and cyberspace. This is where terrorist groups, gun smugglers, pirates, and human-traffickers operate freely.
As such, the plan represents a deliberate shift away from a Latin American policy that the Bush administration considers overly focused on counter narcotics efforts. One US maritime initiative, still under discussion, would strengthen regional defenses against possible terrorist attacks on ports or key waterways while stemming an illicit arms trade that threatens to destabilize societies, particularly in the Caribbean. "The Caribbean is our third border," one defense official says.
The initiative could provide military equipment and training for coast guards in the Caribbean and Central America and for navies in such countries as Brazil, Argentina, Chile, and Venezuela.
Gear that could range from spare parts to patrol boats and ship-based helicopters would improve their ability to carry out maritime interdictions, while radios and other communications equipment would enable them to operate together and with American forces, US defense and military officials say.
The initiative may also broaden the mandate of an existing intelligence-sharing group - the Joint Inter-Agency Task Force (JIATF) based in Key West, Fla. - to cover terrorism and arms smuggling in addition to counter narcotics. Current funding limits JIATF, which has Latin American and European liaison officers, to focus on the illicit drug trade.
Another US proposal would help integrate the peacekeeping resources of countries such as Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Canada, and Uruguay, to enable them to act as one region in peacekeeping and stability operations around the world.
Training and logistics have limited the reach of such forces so far. For example, Argentina offered to supply peacekeepers and a field hospital to Afghanistan, but lacked the required airlift - 22 C-5 transport planes - to get there quickly.
More broadly, the United States seeks to promote a stronger yet flexible security apparatus under the OAS at a meeting of the body in May 2003. US officials draw parallels between these efforts and policies to expand the role and functions of NATO.
Key to these plans are US steps to enhance civilian control over the military in Latin American countries. Since 1995 the United States has run a program that has trained more than 1,000 civilian defense officials from democratic states in the continent.


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In-game reset:Press L1 + L2 + R1 + R2 + Start + Select during game play.
Hint: Easy full Overdrive:Activate the tutorial console and select "Fiend Info". As the battle goes on, call an Aeon. When the Overdrive gauge is full, use an attack other than the Overdrive. After the battle ends, you Overdrive gauge will be full. Go to Monster Arena in the Calm Lands. Buy weapons with the Capture ability. Capture all monsters from all areas, then go back to the arena and talk to the man. He will give you a lot of items, then he will say that he has created a monster. He will ask if you want to fight it for free. Answer "Yes". The monster is called Catastrophe. When you fight, it will release an attack called Poison Breath. It will do over 10,000 damage and all of your characters that are fighting will die. However, your Overdrive will either be full or very close to being full.
Hint: Easy Aeon healing:Instead of bothering to have one of your Aeons learn any of the cure spells, try this. For the elemental Aeons (Ifrit, Shiva, Ixion, etc.), try using a spell that corresponds with their element (Ifrit: Fire, Shiva: Blizzard, Ixion: Thunder). This heals them much more than if you did any cure spell You can also try the advanced spells (Fira, Blizzara, etc.).
Hint: Aeons and legendary weapons:Although it may seem as if your legendary weapons are weak and useless, get all of them and your Aeons will have a normal attack of 9999.
Hint: Quick healing and restoration:Every time you save the game at a save point, it will completely heal all the party members, revive all summons and completely heal MP.
Hint: Low MP spells:Equip items with the one MP ability and Magic Booster. This makes each spell cast cost one MP, and Magic Booster makes the damage x1.5 for double the MP. Then, double cast these spells for a cost of only 4 MP. If you do not have 1 MP or Half MP abilities, use the following trick to use considerably less MP for maximum damage. Have one person with Doublecast and Ultima, and everyone (including the one with Doublecast and Ultima) with Copycat. Doublecast Ultima (180 MP), then have everybody use Copycat (28 MP). After the first 180 MP, it will only cost 28 MP to Doublecast Ultima.
Hint: Hidden ending:After defeating Yu Yevon and the FMV sequence begins, allow all the credits to complete. You will see spirits start to gather, like the orbs before Jecht and it will show Tidus swimming to the top of the lake Yuna was looking towards at the end.
Hint: Speak perfect Al Bhed at the start:Play through and collect all the Al Bhed Primers, then save the game. Start a new game. At the point where Tidus first arrives in Spira, he is in the water with a bird on it. When he can move, swim over to the left of the screen. Over on that side is an Al Bhed Compilation Sphere. Make sure that you have the same memory card in that your first game was saved to. Touch the sphere and have it compile the Al Bhed dictionary. Check your key items. You will now find that you have every single Al Bhed Primer that you found in your first game. If you found all 26 of them, you will be speaking perfect Al Bhed, even before meeting Rikku for the first time. Note: If this is done, all the Al Bhed Primers will disappear from the "new" game, as you will already have them. Also, you can roam and get every single Primer in the game except for XXII, which is in the Temple Of Bevelle -- If you did not get it the first time around, you will have to wait until you can get it in the second game. All other Primers can be found at any time in the game.
Hint: Defeating Behemoth Kings:If you have a weapon with "Capture" equipped and manage to use it in the finishing hit, the Behemoth King will not do his "Meteor" counter-attack before dying. Note: Also add the "Sensor" ability to the same weapon too.
Hint: Defeating Cactuars:Provoke Cactuars them with Tidus, then attack with Wakka. If Wakka is not strong enough to kill the Cactuar with one hit, you will probably have to revive Tidus.
Hint: Defeating the Crawler Machina:Make sure that Rikku's Overdrive gauge is almost full and you have an Arctic Wind equipped. Have Auron, Rikku, and any other character out on the battlefield. Do not destroy the Magic Blocker that the Machina sends out. That prevents the Machina from using Mana Beam. Instead, have Rikku steal from the Machina to get a Lunar Curtain. Have the next two characters in your party attack. When Rikku's overdrive gauge is full, have her mix the Arctic Wind and the Lunar Curtain. This will cast Haste and Shell on your party. It also puts a shield around you. Also, your party will regain health after you are attacked by the Machina.
Hint: Defeating Bosses:Get all your Aeons' Overdrives character's Overdrives up before battle. When you enter the battle, let everyone hit once with their Overdrive (so at the end they all get experience) and let Yuna summon her Aeons and use their Overdrives. Try using Yuna's Overdrive "Grand Summon" and summon your best Aeon. You can use two Overdrives with hem if you charged them up. To defeat almost any Boss in the game, go through the Monster Arena side quest until the man gives you 60 (99?) Gambler's Spirits. Next, build up your characters' Overdrives. With a party that includes Tidus, Rikku, and Yuna, go into a battle. Usually Rikku will go first -- have her use Overdrive: Mix and combine two Gambler's Spirits. This casts Trio of 9999 (makes the next time the character attacks to do 9999 damage). Then, use Tidus and his second Overdrive. Since you cast Trio of 9999, all six of Tidus' attacks will do 9999 damage for a grand total of 59,994. Next, have Yuna Grand Summon a strong Aeon (Anema, Magus Sisters, Bahamut) and they should do about 30,000 damage for a grand total about 90,000. This should kill any Boss except for Omega Weapon, and the second form of Braska's final Aeon. For even more damage, make sure all of your Aeons are also at Overdrive.
Hint: Defeating enemies that use Reflect:Have a party member cast Reflect on another party member. Then, just use an attack spell on that person. For example, when you are fighting an enemy with Reflect, to attack that creature with magic first use Reflect on Tidus with Yuna. On the next move, use Thundaga on Tidus. It will reflect to the enemy and will not be reflected back.
Hint: Easy win:Use Zombie, then Phoenix Down (or the potion that heals you completely) on the enemy.
Hint: Easy gil:Collect all the Al Bhed Primers throughout the game. When this is completed, talk to Rin on the airship. Tidus will have a conversation with him in Al Bhed and will then receive 99 Underdog's Secrets. You can use 30 to add the Double Overdrive ability to a weapon, or they can be sold for 5,000 gil each.
Hint: Increase damage:When in battle, choose the Attack command. When your character is just about to strike, tap R1. A small explosion will appear on the enemy and the damage will be twice the amount usually done. Throughout the game you will acquire Black Magic Spheres. Save them until Lulu has learned her top elemental spells, when Kimari learns Ultima, and when Wakka gets close enough to Flare to learn it. You will need a total of six Black Magic Spheres. Teach Ultima, then Flare, then the elemental spells to Yuna. When she powers up her Nirvana, she can use Ultima and do at least 18,000 HP worth of damage to each enemy for only 1 MP. If you want even more damage, have her learn Doublecast with a Skill Sphere obtainable from enemies in the Omega Ruins. Holy also works well after Yuna powers up her Nirvana. This is effective because Yuna's magic power is double that of Lulu.
Hint: Potions:At the very beginning of the game, as you head down the long road to get to the Blitzball stadium, talk to the girl running around who talks about tickets more than once. Eventually she will say that tickets are sold out, and will ask if you can get tickets for her. Tell her you can, and she will reward you with two Potions. Near the start of the game, when you get on the S.S. Liki after getting Yuna, you should be able to explore the ship for a little bit. When you get to walk around, go downstairs. A man will talk to you about your clothes. After he is done talking, go to the only open room (on the left side) in the hallway. You should see a seasick man with his head out the window. On the far right of the screen, you should see a suitcase similar to the one Yuna was going to bring on the boat. Go up to it and press X to kick it. You will receive a Potion. Keep kicking it to get about fifteen free Potions.
Hint: Items:After your ship docks at the first town (the one torn apart by Sin), proceed through the intermission sequence with Yuna, and you will find yourself in a hut. Exit the hut, and proceed to the left side of the screen. You will see a child on a pile of rubble. Press X near the child to rescue her before the rubble collapses. Proceed to the hut at the top right of the current screen for a free item from the chest.
Hint: Hidden locations:There are several hidden locations on the world map that you can find by selecting specific coordinates while aboard the airship. Move the pointer to the approximate coordinates and press X to search that region.
|X coordinate
|Y coordinate
|Baaj Temple
|Sanubia Desert
|Besaid falls
|Mi'ihen Ruins
|Battle Site
|Omega Ruins
Hint: Revisiting temples:After defeating Seymour 3, go to the Farplanes in Guadosalam and talk to the leader. He will not say anything relevant to the temples, but you will be able to go back in them. You cannot go back to Beville, but it is not necessary to go there to get Anima.
Hint: Airship passwords:There are hidden locations accessible by using the "Input" feature found in the airship command list. All passwords are case-sensitive. GODHAND VICTORIOUS MURASAME AL BHED
Hint: No Encounter:To find the No Encounter easily, capture a Ghost where you get the Yojimbo. Then, go the man in the Calm Lands. Find the Ghost and fight him until you get the No Encounter.
Hint: Quicker party:If you have your three faster characters in your battle party formation, you will always get your initial turns faster. Then, just switch them out for slower characters, allowing them to go instead.
Hint: Staying alive:Keep Yuna out of a battle. When someone is about to die, use white magic Cure and they will have full health. Or, use Ifrit and you can heal yourself by using the fire attack on yourself.
Hint: Get other people on Blitzball team:> To get other people on your Blitzball team press Square while facing someone. If they play, it will show their stats. Shin them up for as many games as you want. Note: This costs money.
Hint: Better Blitzball players:If you are bad at Blitzball, keep playing until a good team fires one of their players. Then, go to the team and find the player that they fired and hire him.
Hint: Blitzball team locations:Here are the original locations for the six Blitzball teams: Luca Goers: Dock #3, Luca Ronso Fangs: Dock #4, Luca Al Bhed Psyches: Airship Engine Room Besaid Aurochs: Right Locker Room, Luca Guado Glories: Guadosalam Kilika Beasts: Kilika
Hint: Wake up sleeping Blitzball players:If any of your players have been put to sleep by a nap tackle, change your strategy and they will automatically wake up without you having to lose the ball by throwing it at them. For example, if Tidus is put to sleep by a nap tackle and your current strategy is Normal Attack, switch to Left Attack and he will wake up.
Hint: Easy Blitzball win:After the gaining control of the airship, scout Brother (the man flying it). Put him on you team for as many games as you can afford. He is very fast and will be a good player to have on your team. Also have Tidus and another good shooter and put them in your RF and LF positions. Have Brother be your MF. The rest of the positions do not matter. When your team gets the ball, give it to Brother. Dribble in with him and go around all of the defenders. If you get close enough, the defenders will follow you. Since Brother is so fast dribbling in, get all defenders on you, and dribble the opposite direction to the goal your team is guarding. If all defenders follow you, should be able to get away from the defenders enough so you can have an open pass down the other half of the sphere. Pass it to one of the open players down the sphere. If Tidus has the Sphere or Jecht Shot, give it to him or someone else that is open. Once you pass it, dribble down with the player who received the pass. You should have an open shot. Take it at point blank range, since it is very possible to do that. You should score most of the time. Continue this to rack up points and the game should be no problem. If you just want to waste down the clock, give the ball to Brother and just run around. No one should be able to catch him. Note: This trick works the best when playing the Ronso Fangs.
Hint: Bonus Blitzball items:At the end of a season or tournament in Blitzball, if two or more of your players are tied for the lead in scoring, you will receive an item for each of them. For example, if Tidus and Wakka both finish a tournament with four goals each The prize for leading scorer is a Return Sphere. You will receive a Return Sphere for both Wakka and Tidus, giving you two of them.
Hint: Recommended Blitzball players:Jumal: Goalie (Sitting on a bench in Luca) Ropp: LD or RD (Clerk in AlBhed shop on Mi'Hen highroad) Kyou: LD or RD (Djose temple - crusader with red and blue) Wakka: LF, RF or MF (on Airship after Zanarkand) Tidus: LF, RF or MF Wedge: LF, RF or MF (Guarding door into Luca stadium) Tidus: RF Vilucha: LF (Besaid Village-House ) Letty: MF (Luca Stadium, Aurochs Locker Room) Vuroja: LD (Kilika Port, Docks) Jassu: RD (Luca Stadium, Aurochs' Locker Room) Nimrook: GL (Airship, Corridor) Note: You will have to wait for some players to be released from certain teams and need a lot money to get them.
Hint: Mastering the Jecht Shot:When you are on the ship about to go to Luca and ready to practice it, do not do it when it the game displays the directional arrows. Instead, do it when the sentences from Jecht appear on the screen. For example, when the voice of Jecht says "You're never gonna make it kid" on the bottom right corner of the screen, press Left Analog-stick Right then X and it will disappear. There are a total of eleven sentences that he says. Keep resetting it until you master it.
Hint: Easy captures:Later in the game, when every monster is basically a mini-boss, have two magic casters with the One AP Cost and Break Damage Limit abilities use Doublecast Demi. Then, have your most heavy hitting character with a Capture weapon enter and finish them off.
Hint: Easy AP:This trick requires a Friend Sphere or Teleport Sphere and Rikku on your team. Use a Teleport Sphere or a Friend Sphere to get to where Rikku starts out on the Sphere Grid. Because she starts out with such low HP, the sphere grid has to give her a lot of HP Spheres. Getting other characters there will add at least 1000 HP. Collect some Doors Of Tomorrow, either from the first weapon in the Omega Ruins or from the Battle Arena by capturing enemies. Then, gain the ability Overdrive -> AP. Return to the Battle Arena and choose the character who has the weapon with that skill. It is best to have three characters with it for easier levels and to save time. Set the character's Overdrive mode to "Comrade" then choose to fight a King Cactaur. Note: You must have captured all the enemies from the Thunder Plains in order to unlock King Cactaur. In the battle the King Cactaur will use either 10,000 Needles or 99,999 Needles (better). Keep using Phoenix Downs or a Life spell to bring back the character he kills. He will eventually run away and the battle will end with your characters sometimes gaining anywhere from 10 to 20 levels depending on how long the battle lasted and how many times King Cactaur used his attacks.
Hint: Easy Sphere levels:Catch all the monsters in the Calm Lands and then get the Chimerageist at the Monster Arena and fight it multiple times. Along with normal levels, you will get Return Spheres. Go to the Sphere Grid and use Return Spheres to go to an already activated Sphere with an un-activated one next to it. Activate it and use the Return Spheres to move to it. Repeat this to get as many as desired and keep fighting Chimerageist to get more Spheres and Dark Matter.
Hint: Exceed Max Damage:With this ability equipped on your weapon, you can hit for a maximum of 99,999 instead of only 9,999. You need 60 Dark Matter. You can win these from many of the special battle fights at the Monster Trainer. When you equip this ability on a weapon, the name of the weapon changes as well.
Hint: Exceed Max HP:This ability equipped in your armor will allow you to have more than 9,999 HP. It is very difficult to raise your HP very far past 9,999, even if you use the additional abilities of HP +30% and similar methods. To gain the Exceed Max HP ability, you need 30 Wings Of Heaven. To gain these items, use the Wairu (Bribe) command. If you bribe the Maruboru in Nagi Plains/Calm Lands and pay the 540,000 gil, he will leave behind two to four Wings of Heaven. You also can get 30 of them for capturing 10 of every enemy for one area of the game.
Hint: Break HP Limit:Get the airship (after the battle with Yunalesca), go to search and enter the coordinates for the Omega Ruins(X: 74, Y: 36). Make your way through the ruins until you fight Omega Weapon's shadow. Then, go to the little transporter in front of you. It will take you to another world. Fight your way to the purple light. Having Tidus's Calabolg at maximum power is recommended. It will defeat Omega Weapon's true form quickly. After the battle, you will receive the Genji Sheild. It has the Break HP Limit, which will allow you to surpass 9999 HP.
Hint: Easy Wings To Discovery:To get 60 Wings To Discovery without bribing Malabro or Great Malabro, first capture all the monsters in Mt. Gagazet. Then, capture all the monsters in the Calm Lands. Go to the Monster Arena Trainer and talk to him once. Do not fight the arena creation. A chest containing Yuna's best weapon will drop down . Open it, then talk to the trainer again. Do not fight the arena creation. He will give you some items. Talk to him again for the 60 Wings To Discovery. If he does not give it to you, keep talking to him until he does.
Hint: Tidus: Easy experience:To get Tidus to level up faster, get his double AP weapon which is located in Sanubia Desert (12-16, 41-45). With this weapon, you will be able to level up faster and can get to the ability that you want to learn.
Hint: Tidus: Get Blitzace sooner:Get Tidus the Overdrive victor, so that every five battles you win you can use an Overdrive. Fight somewhere you know you can win battles quickly to charge the Overdrive up. Use the Overdrive enough times to get Blitzace.
Hint: Wakka: Overdrive:Wakka's Overdrive is Slots. When the screen appears, press X and get three of the same colored circles. The power of Wakka's Overdrive does not depend on the color of the slot he gets. It is based on elemental damage: yellow for lighting, blue for water, red for fire, and white for ice.
Hint: Best place to train:The best place to train in is the Zanarkand Ruins-Cordor area. This is because you get the same amount of AP from here as from Omega Ruins even though they are weak enemies. The monsters at Omega Ruins are more difficult.
Hint: Easier Chocobo handling:Hold L1 + L2 + R1 + R2 and your Chocobo will be easier to steer.
Hint: Besaid Island Village: Energy Burst:Go to the first building on the left. There is a dog inside. Talk to it to get Valefor's second Overdrive, Energy Burst.
Hint: Bickanel Island: Cactaur games:Go to Bickanel Island. Go to the farthest screen right before home. There is a stone similar to the ones in the Thunder Plains. Talk to it and it will tell you to find a Cactaur and then another. There are ten in all. When you play their games, try to catch them then use magic on it when you fight it. Do not hit it with physical attacks -- it will dodge them.
Hint: Bickanel Island: Special items:When you reach "Home" on Bikanel Island, follow Rikku down to the corridor. Do not go through the door on your left until you have gotten the items. First, go to the right and you will find an seemingly empty hall. Go up to get the first treasure, six Al Bhed potions. Come down and go to the right some more and to find two doors on your right. You cannot go through the malfunctioned door. Your only choice is the other door. Before going inside, get the Al Bhed Primer in the corner just beside the door. Go inside and defeat the Guado Guard and Chimeras. There are two treasures there (one is hidden). First, go to the one that you can see. It will ask for a combination and give you hints on what the numbers are. Next, find the hidden one, just beside the flames on the ground. It will ask a series of questions. For the first question, "Are You Al Bhed?", select the third choice. The second question is "Name the son of the Al Bhed leader". Answer "Brother". The third question is "On what island do the Al Bhed live?". Chose "Bikanel Island". The last question is "What is Al Bhed in Al Bhed". Choose the first choice to obtain the treasure. Next, go back up the steps and enter the room on the left. Fight the Guado Guard and Dual Horns to progress. The first treasure box will say something about being the "Treasure Chest of Dreams". Choosing an item is up to you. At the second chest you will be asked to translate a series of words in Al Bhed. Answer accordingly: Sorry (second to last choice); Wait (last choice on second row); Pardon (second choice on second row).
Hint: Calm Lands: Easy AP:In order to do the following trick, you must have the airship, all of the Thunder Plain monsters, the Overdrive=AP ability on your weapons, a lot of Phoenix Downs, the overdrive mode on "Stoic" or "Comrade" (or you will not get the experience), and Auto-Phoenix (recommended). Go to Calm Lands and make sure you have your Overdrive=AP weapons on. Go over to the arena, and play against Cactuar King (in Zone Conquer). When the battle starts, immediately cast Hastega on your party. Cactuar should make his first attack. If not, have the character use a move that will hit Cactuar King, and that character is set for the battle. If Cactuar King attacked, use a Pheonix Down on whoever died, then attack. Watch your timing -- If he has a turn immediately after yours, fix anything you have to, but do not attack. This will make this match very difficult, because he will kill two characters. Make sure your Limit setting is either on Stoic, or Comrade, so his 100,000 damage translates into that much AP. Assuming that you hit him with all the characters you want to gain levels, continue to do a Phoenix Down, Guard, Phoenix Down, Guard, and after you have had enough, you can run, you can kill him, or he will run. You should have at least 100,000 AP after the battle. After the battle, buy more Phoenix Downs, save, use levels, and then do it again.
Hint: Calm Lands: Easy monster captures:Find the Monster Arena owner. Buy a weapon from him. Go and fight lots of Anacondours and steal 60 Petrify Grenades from them. Customize the weapon with Stonestrike. Capture all the monsters that you need in the Calm Lands. Talk to the Monster Arena owner. He will give you a chest with Nirvana, Yuna's legendary weapon. You cannot open it without the Celestial Mirror. Talk to the man. He will give you 60 Farplane Winds. Customize your weapon with these to get Deathstrike. Now almost any monster can be captured in one move.
Hint: Chamber Of The Fayth: Items:After Master Mika "leaves", fly back to every Cloister Of Trials in the game, and make your way to the Chamber Of The Fayth. Once there, you will get new intermission sequences and at least four very rare and useful items in the treasure chests.
Hint: Djose Temple: Hidden treasure:Solve the bottom floor as normal, then before going to the next floor, go left and touch the glyph there to take the Destruction Sphere. Take it to the next floor and put it in the small column directly in front of you. A section will blow up. Take the treasure, solve the rest of the puzzle, then go upstairs to get the rest of the three treasures.
Hint: Kilika: Hidden items:Go to Besaid Village at any point in the game. Then, go to the bushes between the shop and Luzzu and Gatta's place. Walk in the bushes and you will be in a small clearing. There will be three treasure chests there, and a man who can give you some items. To get there, use the airship or just go in when you first visit Besaid.
Hint: Kilika Temple: Hidden treasure:Solve the entire puzzle including the last door, but do not go to the Chamber Of Fayth yet. Get the Destruction Sphere and put it in the second (movable) altar. Step on the shiny spot on the floor on the right side, then move the altar on top of it. A section will blow up. Take the treasure, proceed to the Chamber Of Fayth, and get the rest of the treasures.
Hint: Luca: View CGMs:Go to Luca and go down. On the next screen go up and talk to the man in red. Buy Movie Spheres, then talk to the receptionist to view them.
Hint: Luca: Listen to music:Go to Luca and go down. On the next screen go up and talk to the man in blue. Buy Music Spheres, then talk to the receptionist to listen to them.
Hint: Luca: Win first Blitzball game:Use the following tactic to defeat the Luca Goers on the first attempt. First, it is absolutely essential that Tidus complete the Jecht Shot Challenge offered on the boat ride from Kilika to Luca. This will give him the infamous Jecth Shot, which is the most reliable way to beat the Luca Goners tough defense. As the match begins, place Tidus in the front and place the other players at the location of your choice. During the first half, Tidus will be unable to use techs as his level is too low (and the game gives no chance to set techs). Focus on keeping the ball away from the Goers. Make long passes in the Auroch's territory to burn the clock, and be sure to have Tidus get plenty of time on the ball passing and dribbling. Avoid shooting because the Goers will have a good chance to score if they get the ball. At half time, if Tidus has done enough ballhandling he will obtain level 3. This allows him to set the Jecth Shot in his tech slot. As the second half starts, hopefully you will have held the score to 0-0 by passing between defenders. Have Tidus break toward the Luca goal with the ball. Swim him as close as possible (using manual mode, watching the overhead map, and not the actual players). If there are two or less defenders on him, break out the Jecht Shot and the Luca Goers will be powerless to stop it. Keep in mind you will only have the first three minutes of the second half before Wakka is substituted back in. If you are finding it difficult to get Tidus to the goal with two or less defenders (he must shoot from almost point-blank range due to his low level), simply have a defender swim toward the Luca side and then swim away toward the Aurochs territory to lure Luca's aggressive players away from their goal. Then, pass and attack. With these techniques you should be able to bring home the big blue trophy (which you will see Wakka carrying as he bids farewell to the Aurochs after the game)/ For your efforts you will be rewarded with a Strength Sphere, which will make the upcoming battles considerably easier. The post-game reaction from Luca residents will be different as well, after Tidus and crew upset their home team.
Hint: Luca: Another Jecht Shot chance:If you missed the Jecht Shot the first time, after you have defeated Yuunalesca and have the airship, go to Luca. Take the regular ship that is in port. Once on it, go to the forward deck and there will be a Blitz Ball there. Walk up to it and press X. Note: You can also get the Wizard Ball on the ship by counting the sea gulls (11 of them) and talking to the man on the upper deck that is sitting down.
Hint: Macalania Woods: Celestial Mirror:After obtaining the Cloudy Mirror in the Calm Lands, get on the Airship and go to the Macalania Woods. Go straight until you see a mother and son. Speak to them to find out that the father is late. Go to the fork (where the guards are patrolling). Take the north fork and you will see the father. Speak with him, and he will run over to the rendezvous point. Go back and speak to the couple, now without a son, until they mention the son being gone. Look around for a sparkling path and go up. Locate the north end of it (where a women was blocking it) and go to the plant at the end. Press X to examine it, and it will charge the Cloudy Mirror into its final form, the Celestial Mirror. The mirror is needed to get the Ultimate Weapons.
Hint: Macalania woods: Double Overdrive for final weapons:Go to the tree where you found the child of the missing couple in the Macalania woods. After you have obtained a couple Ultimate Weapons, go to that tree and press Action to upgrade final weapons.
Hint: Macalania Temple: Easy experience:Note: This trick requires a controller with an auto-fire feature. When leaving the Macalania Temple, you are chased out by a certain group. Set your cursor in the game configuration to "Memory". Place Yuna in your party and set her up on "Pray". Bring in at least one heavy hitter and set him on "Attack". Choose the third member of the group by simply selecting a person you would like to also level up. After selecting your character's movements (avoid attacks with MP Cost and do not use Item), set your controller to fire the X repeatedly. The angry group will continue attacking while the party gains experience. Your characters may not be strong enough on your first pass through the temple, but it can be reached again once you gain the airship, or reached on foot once on the Calm Lands.
Hint: Macalania Temple Hidden treasure:Solve the entire puzzle (three slabs of ice) then recognize the three floors. The first floor is the one with the three big ice slabs and the shiny object; the second is the big floor with the three poles; and last is the small floor. Step on the shiny object on the second floor, which should bring an altar to your right. Take the Macalania Sphere and place it in the slot that makes a ramp. Then, go to the last floor and take the Glyph Sphere. Bring it to the altar on the second floor and put it in. Go to the first floor and step on the shiny object there, which will make the altar appear to the left of the screen. Push it and watch. Get the pink Destruction Sphere and go down to the last floor. Insert the sphere in the slot you have not used and a treasure box will appear. Get the treasure and go to the second floor. At the three big altars, take out the Macalania Sphere from the one to the left. Put it in the slot to the far right to make a big ice thing appear. Push the moving altar to the right, then take the Macalania Sphere from the slot to the far right and put it in the moving altar. Push it so it goes to the last floor. At the last floor, push the altar right again to activate an ice slab. Then on the second floor, take the Macalania Sphere and put it in the left large altar. Then, go to the Chamber Of Fayth and take the treasures located there.
Hint: Monster Arena: Keep items:When fighting in the Monster Arena, even if you die, you still keep any items you may have stolen.
Hint: Monster Arena: Easy Gil:Have an attack that does at least 50,000 damage. Quick Hit is recommended. Release One-eye in special contest by capturing at least four of each species of One-eyes in all Spira. You can get between 300,000 and 1,000,000 gil by defeating One-eye. Also, sell the items he drops (such as those with Triple AP Auto-ability), to get more.
Hint: Mt. Gagazet: Get a lot of Kimahri's skills:When you are fighting Biran and Yenke on Mt. Gagazet, just keep using Lancet on them until there is no more to steal. Kimahri will have a lot more skills than before.
Hint: Omega Ruins Easy AP:Find Omega Weapon (this can also be done with Ultima Weapon). Have Rikku Mug from him and you will get 10 Doorway Tomorrows. Do not waste these -- they can give your weapon Overdrive > AP, which gives you AP every time your Overdrive meter fills, then set the Overdrive of the owner of the weapon to ally, which will charge the Overdrive meter. Next, go to the Cavern Of The Stolen Fayth and fight a Pot. The Pot will not do anything until you attack it. Put the owner of the weapon with the Overdrive > AP ability in your party. Keep Triangle held for at least half an hour (use a rubber band), then flee. The person will get one Sphere level up. This works best with Lulu and her weapon Space Master, which has the ability Triple Overdrive.
Hint: Omega Ruins: Easy gil:Get Rikku's Legendary Weapon and use the specified crest and sigil to power it up fully. It will then receive the Gillionare ability. Go to the Omega Ruins and find and a Zaurus and treasure chest to fight. Steal from the treasure chest with Rikku. Do not Mug it, as this will kill it. Assuming that the treasure chest has nothing in it, it will turn out as a Mimic. Defeat the Mimics to get 100,000+ gil each time.
Hint: Remiem Temple: Cloudy Mirror:Fly in the airship (obtained immediately after you finish the Zanarkand Ruins) to the Calm lands. Go to the Chocobo rider standing still directly out of the Al Bhed location where the Airship dropped you off. Take the Chocobo to the southern entrance and go east to where you see a Chocobo feather. Press X over it and the Chocobo will jump down. Go into the entrance that you see. You will see a huge temple and bridge leading to it. Go across the bridge and move to the left side, not through the door. Examine the sphere you see and then go to the opposite side. Press X near the Chocobo and race it. Win this race and get the Cloudy Mirror (which is the Celestial Mirror's first form).
Hint: Remiem Temple: EnteringAsk the Chocobo girl to ride a Chocobo. Ride it all the way down were you usually start out races with her. Go all the way to the end to find what resembles a yellow Chocobo feather. Press X on the feather and the Chocobo will back up, jump off the ledge, and land on a new section of land. Go to the exit of that section of land. The next screen will show the Remeim Temple.
Hint: Spira: Chocobo Feathers:Around Spira, in the locations when you can ride a Chocobo, there are Chocobo Feathers on the ground. These feathers are easily spotted due to their semi-open location and out-of-place color.
Hint: Thunder Plains: Items:If you can dodge the lightning a certain number of times in a row, you will be rewarded with items. Additionally, if you get struck by lightning 30 times, you get an Ether. If you get hit 80 times, you get an Elixir.
|Times Dodged
|Two X-Potions
|Two Mega-Potions
|Two MP Spheres
|Three Strength Spheres
|Three HP Spheres
|Four Megalixirs
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curry favour
ingratiate yourself with someone through obsequious behaviour.
Curry here means groom a horse or other animal with a coarse brush or comb. The phrase is an early 16th-century alteration of the Middle English curry favel - Favel (or Fauvel) being the name of a chestnut horse in an early 14th-century French romance who epitomized cunning and duplicity. From this to groom Favel came to mean to use on him the cunning which he personified. It is unclear whether the bad reputation of chestnut horses existed before the French romance. But the idea is also found in 15th century German in the phrase den fahlen hengst reiten (ride the chestnut horse) meaning behave deceitfully.
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The EU Trademark Regulation (2015/2424/EU) amending the Community Trademark Regulation (207/2009/EC) entered into force on 23 March 2016 (the "new Regulation"). The new Regulation is part of the EU trademark reform legislative package that also includes the replacement of the existing EU Trademarks Directive (2015/2436/EU). Some of the main changes brought about by the new rules are briefly outlined below.
Name Changes
In order to adapt the terminology to the Lisbon Treaty, Community Trademarks (CTM) are now called European Union Trademarks (EUTM), and the Office for Harmoni zation in the Internal Market (OHIM) has been re-named the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO).
New "One-Fee-per-Class" System for Applications
Until recently, the basic application fee covered up to three classes of goods or services. If the applicant wished to register the trademark in one class only, it still had to pay the basic fee. The new Regulation now introduced a new "one-class-per-fee" structure. Additional fees must be paid for each class beyond the first.
The basic fee for an electronic application covering up to three classes under the old rules amounted to EUR 900. The fee for each additional class was EUR 150. Under the new Regulation, the basic fee for one class is EUR 850. The fee for two classes corresponds to EUR 900, and for three classes, EUR 1,050. The fee for each subsequent class remains EUR 150.
These new fees also apply to the renewal of trademarks, which under the old rules amounted to EUR 1,350 up to three classes and EUR 400 for each subsequent class.
Opposition, cancellation and appeal fees have also been reduced.
New Scope of Protection for Class H eading Designations
It used to be common practice of trademark applicants to use class headings of the Nice Classification to designate the goods or services for which protection was sought. Class headings, in effect, were considered by the OHIM to protect all of the goods and services within a particular class (the so-called "class-heading-covers-all" approach).
A decision by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) dated 19 June 2012 changed this approach. The Court decided that an applicant using the general indi cations of a particular class heading must specify whether its application is intended to cover all of the goods or services included in the alphabetical list of the particular class, or only some of those goods or services (C-307/10, "IP Translator", para. 61). This decision thus limited the "class heading-covers-all" approach to cases in which the applicant clearly expressed the intention to cover all of the goods or services in a particular class.
This principle has now been adopted by the new Regu lation, according to which the use of class headings shall be interpreted as including only the goods or services clearly covered by the literal meaning of the indication or term used (Article 1 (28) No. 5 of the new Regulation, amending Article 28 No. 5 of the Regulation 207/2009/EC).
This new rule entered into force on 23 March 2016. However, owners of trademarks applied for before 22 June 2012 that utilize the entire class heading of at least one Nice class are given the opportunity to declare to the EUIPO by 24 September 2016 that they would like to add further goods and services to their registration in order to conserve the originally intended scope of protection. This may compensate for the narrowing of scope otherwise caused by the new interpretative practice. However, such decla rations can only be made for specific goods or services contained within the alphabetical list and not covered by the literal meaning of the class heading. Upon receiving such a declaration, the EUIPO will amend the register accordingly. If no such declaration is filed, the registration will only cover the goods and services that fall within the literal meaning of the terms used.
Moreover, owners of EUTMs that amend the specification of goods or services of their trademarks in accordance with Article 1 (28) No. 9 of the new Regulation will not be able to prevent a third party from continuing to use a trademark if: i) the use of the trademark for these goods and services by such third party started before the register was amended; and ii) the use did not infringe the trade mark owner's rights based on the literal meaning of the recorded goods and services in the register at that time.
The Transit of Goods Under the New Regulation
On 1 December 2011, in its highly anticipated judgment in the joined Cases C-446/09 Phillips and C-495/09 Nokia, the CJEU once again confirmed its position, that goods from non-member states placed under a suspensive customs procedure cannot, merely by the fact of being so placed, infringe intellectual property rights applicable in the EU. However, the CJEU found that those rights may be infrin ged, where it can be proven that during the placement of these goods under the transit procedure in the EU customs territory, they were intended to be made availa ble for sale in the EU. In this regard the CJEU emphasized that such proof is provided, inter alia, where it turns out that the goods have been sold to a customer in the EU or offered for sale or advertised to consumers in the EU, or where it is apparent from documents or correspondence concerning the goods that their diversion to EU consu mers is envisaged.
In this case, customs authorities were entitled to intervene to detain shipments of counterfeit goods. However, the trademark owner was still the one bearing the burden of proof that the counterfeit goods were in fact intended to enter the EU market.
Another important change brought about by the New Regulation concerns the transit of counterfeit trademark goods through the EU.
The Old Rules
The transit of goods was not specifically dealt with under the old Regulation. The latter contained only general pro visions about the rights conferred by a Community Trade mark, and what should be considered an infringement of a trademark. Article 9 para. 2 of the old rules listed infringe ment actions that could be prohibited by the trademark owner, including, for instance, affixing the sign to goods or to the packaging thereof, offering the goods, putting them on the market or stocking them for these purposes under that sign, among others. The transit of goods from countries outside the EU through the EU territory was not included in the list of infringement actions.
In light of the above, the CJEU decided in several judg ments under the old rules that the mere transit of counter feit goods through the territory of the EU did not per se constitute a trademark infringement (see inter alia, Case C-405/03 Class International/Colgate Palmolive and Case C-281/05 Montex/Diesel).
The New Regulation
The new Regulation changed the rules on transit goods. The new Regulation introduced an express right to prevent infringing goods from entering the EU without being relea sed for free circulation. Thus, the Philips/Nokia judgment no longer applies to prevent seizure of counterfeit goods in transit.
Under the new Regulation, trademark owners are now expressly allowed to oppose the transit of goods bearing without authorization the EU trademark or a sign essen tially similar, even if the goods are not released for free circulation or intended to be put on the European market. This new rule is codified in Article 1 (11) No. 4 and also spe cifically addressed in Recital No. 16 of the new Regulation. Trademark owners may further contest other customs situ ations such as transhipment, warehousing, free zones, tem porary storage, inward processing or temporary admission. Customs authorities are entitled to take the actions laid down in the Regulation (EC) No. 608/2013 on the customs enforcement of IP rights, such as detaining shipments suspected to infringe a EU trademark.
However, Article 9 para. 4 also establishes that such a right of the EU trademark owner shall cease to exist if, during the proceedings to determine whether the trademark has been infringed according to the Regulation No. 608/2013, the shipper provides evidence that the trademark is not protected in the country of final destination. According to Recital No. 17 of the new Regulation, this rule is intended to strike a balance between fighting counterfeiting and the need to protect the free trade of legitimate goods.
New Challenges for Trademark Owners
At first glance, the new rules seem to strengthen the rights of trademark owners. However, the changes might also create difficulties, especially in cases in which the final destination of the goods is not declared in the customs d eclaration. In this case, in practice, the trademark owner will not know whether or not it is entitled to have the customs authority detain the shipment. If it decides to have the shipment seized and start infringement procee dings, it will run the risk that the shipper declares a country of destination in which the trademark is not protected. This might expose the trademark owner to the risk of liability towards the shipper.


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How people even begin to justify a pointless industry that slaughters 56 billion animals I think perfectly paints a picture of how incredibly entitled and selfish we are. And after all this death, what are the arguments?
So, let see. We usually start with fallacies.
'The animals do it so why can't we!?'
Naturally, we ignore the part where those animals that are eating other animals kind of don't have the privilege of having supermarkets and countless grocery stores at virtually every corner. Honestly, every time I get this appeal to nature all I hear is something along the lines of someone in a first world country whining on why they can't eat dogs.
" :< It's not fair. Starving people can eat dogs. Why can't I?"
I mean, doesn't this question practically answer its self?
Then of course we move on to the classic 'do what we want' lie.
'Don't force your morality on me! :< '
Believe it or not, but I can actually tolerate people who eat meat despite how horrible of an industry it is. What I cannot accept, however, are these incredibly delusional excuses to try and defend it. That's usually when I begin to lose my patience.
But you know, I will force my morality on you. Want to know why? Because I'm pretty sure a lot of you here that don't like my self-righteous stance are no better. When's the last time you lectured someone on a moral high horse because they were racist or homophobic? How about you are racist and homophobic and you tried to enforce your beliefs on those people? Or heck, even better, how about I hit up an issue in animal rights and bring up dog-fighting, bear-baiting, and Fox-hunting. Generally people don't defend those acts. Lets be honest here, it's not because vegetarians enforce their morality on people that they get the reputation of being obnoxious, it's because no one likes to be told that they're wrong and because we only happen to be a minority. As always, right or wrong, the majority continues throwing their rocks in their glass houses.
Then inevitably we get to the downright insulting.
'Well, what about all the vegetables we murder!?'
First of all, we actually need vegetables, while we don't need meat. Second of all, we're not even completely sure if vegetables can even feel pain while it's inarguable that animals can. An industry that contributes countless health problems, kills 56 billion animals horrifically without any legitimate merit simply cannot be compared to another resource which is essential. Honestly, if you live off either meat or vegetarian I'd love to see how long you last with just the former before serious health complications.
And the classic meat is healthy argument.
'You guys look like twigs'
And you guys look obese, greasy, and barbaric. I guess in comparison, twig don' look too bad. Oh, and some vegans are legitimately athletes, so your argument is nothing but a stereotype.
Being vegetarian would be beneficial to help to cut the fat eaten daily. I think that not only will it help the environment and they treat animals bad but its us we have to worry about and not being so obese. Possibly every month has vegetarian week or day to help to ease into it.
I don't think it is a moral issue and I think the fundamentalism of most vegans works against the rational acceptance of vegetarian diets.
Nevertheless, meat-eating as it is currently practiced in the world is simply unsustainable. Generally speaking, we spend fewer calories of than we create when we grow plants for food. In certain Chinese rice-growing communities, we have achieved rates of 50 calories created for every calorie spent. This is a food and energy surplus. It is sustainable and plant growth is generally good for the environment.
Meat Eating, on the other hand (not including hunting), spends hundreds of calories for every calorie created. Beef is the worst at rates like 500-1000 calories spent to raise every calorie of beef. Furthermore, the pollution rates are unsustainable. US Beef consumption alone accounts for more greenhouse gas increases and resultant climate change than US automobile usage.
We can either temper our practices now, or nature will force us to change under more violent conditions in the future.
All you meat eaters, please consider the following.. I have 5 cats, all of which have claws to rip, and teeth to match, a short intestine to expel waste fast, these creature show no sign of disease on a diet of meat. However, give meat to humans and they make all the disease's you could wish for...
This would not be fair to all people because there are some people or most people out there that like meat. All the vegetarians have a choose but you could not just force everybody to not eat meat. And what do you think happens out in the wild? Animal eat other animals. Humans are still part of the food chain.
Since the beginning of time humans have been eating meat. We have canine teeth (carnivore teeth) made just for eating meat AND vegetables. Yes there are substitutes for meat but they are very unhealthy. Soy substitutes are TERRIBLE for men and women. And people have been saying that animals don't eat us soy why should we eat them, so you're saying it's only ok for an animal to eat another animal, but not ok if humans eat animals? ITS TOTAL BS
Meat helps build a strong immune system. It can also help when you need to sleep. Without proper Iron from Red Meat, people can develop many different cases of insomnia. Insomnia is an awful experience if you have had it, you would know. We are completing the generous food chain.
Meat has vitamin b12 which your bodies need. When you become a vegerterian you have many disorders a such as eating disorders and many more i know all vegerterian will start pushing back with probably a great argument but were are just proving a stating that having meat and vegetables are the best diets. Yes being a vegerterian is healthy but is it as healthy as being and meat eater and a vegerterian. We all know how cute animals are and how we would not kill it if it was us but we should be grateful that there are animals. On this earth this is why God put them on. Please note that animals may be in harmful conditions but if you were so worried when you by chicken legs that ¥ou would track down and spend a long time finding out how it was treated. I hope i have changed your view or at least thought about it.
First of all, I'm indifferent towards the religious reasons for eating meat. That's a personal choice. And I'm 100% supportive of, at the very least, reforming the meat industry. The excessive production and consumption of meat is a major cause of global warming. And, I am against animal cruelty.
But then again, vegans do fall short in several places. There is NO SOLID EVIDENCE that just eating plants is better or worse for our health. And when omnivores cite overpopulation problems , THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT ANIMALS LIKE DEER, FISH, AND RABBITS, not the industry animals like cows and pigs. So yes, the natural population of these animals would explode and cause major environmental problems. Industrial agriculture is about as unsustainable as the meat industry, because it destroys entire ecosystems, causes mass deforestation, and consumes massive amounts of water.
From a moral perspective, how do we know where to draw the line? Isn't all life equally important? Plants may not have a conscious, nor feel pain, but they still strive to survive. Plants are sessile, so it doesn't make sense for them to be able to feel, because what could they do about it? Not run away. No, instead they have toxins in their leaves, spikes on their stems, and roots to hold them firm in the ground. Animals, on the other hand, have a consciousness and feel pain so they can run away from danger, BECAUSE THEY CAN ACTUALLY MOVE. All organisms have a will, whether that is a conscious, instictive, or innate will, to survive. So what gives you grounds to say that killing a plant is any different from killing an animal, if they are all trying, in some way, to survive? It is moral to kill other organisms, but not excessively, and in the most humane way possible.
But I believe that meat is a valuable part to the human diet, We can sustain ourselves on other high-protein substances, but meat is usually more easily accessible. Yes, I find it a crime the way these animals are slaughtered, rather inefficiently and gruesomely, but it is such a large producer of revenue, that there is no way the world could just shut down all production of meat products. In a world of 7 billion people, we could not just all go *cold turkey* (Ha, haha)
Meat, and especially food in general, is not just for consumption, it is tradition and a lifestyle choice in what we eat. Tradition can be broken, but it is extremely hard. Humans are suppose to eat meat. I agree with the user above me, and could quote the bible verse that speaks of this. But that would probably just send people int rages and fits. Instead, ill just say it is natural. What is not natural, however, is gigantic factories with illegal workers being imported and cow living knee deep in feces. Sometimes I think it would be nice to live in a simpler time, where I would have to hunt and kill food myself.
You can be vegan, vegetarian, an omnivore, whatever. It is your choice and no one has the right to insult and belittle one another for their dietary choices. Some people are vegetarian because of health concern, but being vegan is mostly because of personal choice and not because of health.
People who eat meat should not feel bad about it because eating meat is part of Human Nature. Eating other animals is part of the circle of life and has been going on for millions of years so why stop now. I am not saying people MUST eat meat, nor should we be cruel to animals or eat endangered species. I am just saying it is a normal part of life
I could name at least 3 studies that prove that meat is needed in moderation as a part of a healthy diet. Vegans are lacking in asparagine, Vitamin B12, and countless others. They have to take an expensive vitamin pill that probably came from an animal anyway.
I try to avoid red meat because mammals have feelings. But any notion that lesser animals have feelings is absurd. There have been brain studies on dogs that prove they have feelings, but no such study on a chicken. It gets even stupider when they compare eating lobster to the holocaust. Nonsense!
"All animals have the same parts" is absurd. That's like saying that a promotional pocket calculator has the same power as the new Mac Pro, because they have the same parts (semiconductors). They both are electronics, but you don't complain to Office Depot saying, "This pocket calculator is only 5 dollars. Why should I have to pay for this Mac Pro?"
Same thing with humans/mammals vs lesser animals. They both are animals, but that doesn't mean we should treat everything that moves the same as a human.
Sure, there are alternates, but why? Soy can feminize men and give cancer to women. Seitan (gluten-based meat substitute) requires about one whole pack of flour to make one little ball of "meat", plus it wastes water. It's practically the same as just giving the grains and water to the chicken, who will make it into something that TASTES good as well.
Don't eat "meat," eat MEAT. Vegetarianism is paradoxical, illogical, irrational, self-denial, cruel, and doesn't fit with our species. We have canine teeth, not that straight row goats have.
Eating meat is amazing so my evidence is it tastes good and youre a nub now i would like to go further into my points first it tastes good. The mcnuggetts at mcdonalds will suffer if this is a rule... Even though it does not use meat so go think about that idiot


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Kaul to take oath as Madras HC CJ on July 26
The Punjab and Haryana high court on Monday received the transfer orders of chief justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul to the Madras high court as its chief justice.chandigarh Updated: Jul 15, 2014 08:11 IST
The Punjab and Haryana high court on Monday received the transfer orders of chief justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul to the Madras high court as its chief justice.
Justice Kaul would take oath of Madras high court chief justice on July 26 and till the new chief justice of the Punjab and Haryana high court is appointed, justice Ashutosh Mohunta (seniormost judge) would work as acting chief justice.
As per information, July 22 would be the last working day of chief justice Kaul in the Punjab and Haryana high court.
Justice Kaul, 55, who had taken oath as the 32nd chief justice of Punjab and Haryana high court on June 1 last year, has spent over 14 months in Chandigarh.
Born on December 26, 1958, justice Kaul obtained an LLB degree from Delhi University in 1982. He practised in the Delhi high court mainly in commercial, civil, writ and company matters. He was designated as senior advocate in December 1999 after which he was elevated as additional judge of the Delhi high court on May 3, 2001. He became the permanent judge on May 2, 2003.
During his tenure as chief justice, among various initiatives, justice Kaul had been successful on bringing down pendency of cases in all the courts across Punjab, Haryana and Chandigarh.
He is also known for discouraging filing of frivolous public interest litigations and effectively implementing the system of holding of courts by high court judges as per their respective rosters as well as seniority on the same floor of the building.
The step had also come as a big relief to the advocates since they had earlier been shuttling between one building of the high court and another. In an initiative to clear long-pending cases in the high court, chief justice Kaul had also dedicated Wednesdays and Thursdays for hearing such cases.
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