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The decade preceding the Federal Circuit's en banc Ariad decision concerning the written description requirement brought multiple split opinions regarding its proper role under 35 U.S.C. § 112, first paragraph. See, e.g., Enzo Biochem, Inc. v. Gen-Probe Inc., 323 F.3d 956, 976 (Fed. Cir. 2002); Lizardtech, Inc. v. Earth Res. Mapping, Inc., 433 F.3d 1373, 1376 (Fed. Cir. 2006). According to the dissent in Enzo, this dispute began when the Lilly Court deviated from thirty years of precedent by applying the written description requirement outside of the context of priority disputes and as a general requirement for all patent claims, in addition to enablement. Enzo, 323 F.3dat979-980 (dissent) citing Regents of the University of California v. Eli Lilly & Co., 119 F.3d 1559 (Fed. Cir. 1997). The Enzo dissent lamented that "the aberrant form of [the written description requirement] requires far more specific disclosure than enablement" and thus, "defendants will have no need to invoke enablement, but will proceed directly to the more demanding § 112, ¶ 1 requirements." Enzo, 323 F.3d at 981-982 (dissent).
Before the Ariad Court, Ariad similarly argued that Lilly applied the written description requirement outside of the context of priority disputes, transforming it into a heightened and unpredictable general disclosure requirement. Ariad Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. Eli Lilly & Co., 598 F.3d 1336, 1349 (Fed. Cir. 2010). With its en banc decision, however, the majority in Ariad rejected Ariad's argument as well as Ariad's characterization of the written description requirement as a "super enablement" standard for chemical and biotechnology inventions, and reaffirmed the existence of a separate written description requirement in § 112 as well as the application of the written description requirement to original claims. Id. at 1349 ("[A]lthough the issue arises primarily in cases involving priority, Congress has not so limited [§ 112, ¶ 1], and neither will we."); id. at 1352.
More than two years since the Ariad decision, a significant number of Federal Circuit and district court decisions have addressed the written description requirement as a general patentability requirement, providing some preliminary data concerning how written description will be applied post-Ariad.
Is Written Description the Dominant Basis for § 112 Review?
An analysis of post-Ariad cases suggests that written description compliance is used more frequently as a general challenge to the validity of patent claims rather than to police priority of later-filed claims. Only seven of the Federal Circuit's twenty-two post-Ariad opinions involving written description concerned priority of later-filed claims. And when twenty-two post-Ariad written description opinions at the Federal Circuit are compared against just five enablement-related opinions, some might argue that written description is the dominant basis for § 112 review. See, e.g., Centocor Ortho Biotech, Inc. v. Abbott Labs., 636 F.3d 1341, 1344 (Fed. Cir. 2011) (reaching only written description issues for invalidating patent); Billups-Rothenberg v. Assoc. Regional & Univ. Pathologists, Inc., 642 F.3d 1031, 1037-38 (Fed. Cir. 2011).
Some might even take this a step further and argue that a written description challenge is the preferred defense among accused patent infringers because written description requires a higher standard than enablement. Identifying concrete evidence to support such a theory, however, is problematic at least for the reason that an accused infringer may assert a written description challenge simply to avoid conflicting enablement sufficiency/obviousness arguments. Adding to the mix of uncertainty, in some instances, the accused may assert both written description and enablement challenges while the court only addresses one.
Is There a Heightened Requirement for Written Description in the Chemical and Biotechnology Arts?
Similarly, some might argue that an analysis of post-Ariad cases supports Ariad's characterization of the written description requirement as a "super enablement" standard for chemical and biotechnology inventions. The post-Ariad Court has invalidated the claims of such patents under written description in four of six (66%) appeals. By comparison, the post-Ariad Court only found patent claims invalid in one of three appeals (33%) for each of the mechanical and the electrical/computer arts.
But these results may not tell the whole story given that the Federal Circuit's affirmance rate is over 70% in post-Ariad written description appeals, perhaps implicating a deference to district court decisions. To that end, an analysis of district courts' application of the written description requirement reveals that district courts have applied it more frequently to invalidate patent claims in the mechanical and electrical arts than in the chemical/biotechnology arts.1 The courts have invalidated patent claims in the mechanical arts most often, in four of fourteen cases (28%), and patent claims in the electrical/computer arts almost as often, in five of eighteen cases (27%). By comparison, district courts, notably, all within the third circuit, invalidated patent claims in the chemical/biotech arts in just three of nineteen cases (16%) nationwide. See Apotex Inc. v. Cephalon, Inc., No. 06-cv-2768, 2011 WL 6090696, at *24 (E.D. Pa. November 7, 2011); Alcon Research Ltd. v. Barr Labs. Inc., et al., 837 F.Supp.2d 364, 383-384 (D.N.J. 2011); Wyeth v. Abbott Labs., Nos. 08-cv-230, 08-cv-1021, 2012 WL 175023, at *10, 17 (D.N.J. January 19, 2012). And the Alcon and Wyeth courts additionally found the asserted claims invalid for lack of enablement. Alcon, 837 F.Supp.2d at 380-383; Wyeth, 2012 WL 175023 at *13, 18.
Given these trial court results and the Federal Circuit's arguable deference to trial courts' decisions, recent Federal Circuit jurisprudence cannot conclusively prove that written description requires a heightened and unpredictable general disclosure requirement in the chemical/biotech arts. Instead, mechanical and electrical arts seemingly appear equally susceptible to failing to satisfy written description, if not more so.
Strategies for Post-Ariad Compliance with the Written Description Requirement
Regardless of whether the written description requirement, post-Ariad, constitutes a "heightened" enablement standard, the Federal Circuit clarified that there is a separate written description requirement, and the practitioner must prepare patent applications to withstand written description challenges. Unfortunately, the boundaries for satisfying written description remain elusive because explicit guidance in written description jurisprudence, for the most part, focuses on that which is not required, rather than what is required. For example, the written description requirement does not necessarily require examples. Ariad, 598 F.3d at 1352. It does not necessarily require actual reduction to practice. Id.; Streck, Inc. v. Research & Diagnostic Sys., Inc., 665 F.3d 1269, 1285 (Fed. Cir. 2012). Written description compliance does not require any recitation of known structure. Falko-Gunter Falkner v. Inglis, 448 F.3d 1357, 1367 (Fed. Cir. 2006). Nor does it require any particular form of disclosure. Carnegie Mellon Univ. v. Hoffmann-La Roche Inc., 541 F.3d 1115, 1122 (Fed. Cir. 2008). Accordingly, positive guidance for written description compliance has often been lacking, even though § 112 demands a fairly exacting description of a claimed invention in the specification. Ariad, 598 F.3d at 1352 ("[A] description that merely renders the invention obvious does not satisfy the requirement.").
Since Ariad, however, court decisions suggest certain trends regarding when the written description requirement is satisfied, though compliance in any particular instance will necessarily depend on multiple factors. See Ariad, 598 F.3d at 1351. To that end, an analysis of key post-Ariad Federal Circuit cases involving written description is provided below with an eye towards devising strategies to guide practitioners for compliance with the written description requirement.
Describing Embodiments in the Alternative and Omitting Restrictive Language May Provide Broader Support
Probably the first and foremost strategy for surviving a written description validity attack is to draft the patent application broader than the scope of the claims to include multiple inventions or embodiments if applicable. If possible, such embodiments should be described in the alternative. Further, the applicant should refrain from using language within the specification, such as describing an embodiment as being imperative to the invention, where such language could be used to limit the scope of the claims. For instance, in a priority-policing case, the Federal Circuit found insufficient support in a digital imaging patent application disclosing only a "blue noise mask" for later-filed claims encompassing a "blue noise dot profile." Research Corp. Techs., Inc. v. Microsoft Corp., 627 F.3d 859, 871 (Fed. Cir. 2010). A "blue noise mask" differs from a "blue noise dot profile" in that not all dot profiles in the latter are limited to blue noise characteristics. Yet, the earlier "blue noise mask" application failed to mention any other dot profiles. The earlier "blue noise mask" application also repeatedly characterized the description of the "blue noise mask" as "the present invention," thus precluding inclusion of other inventions. Id. at 871-872. Accordingly, describing alternative embodiments of an invention, to the extent possible, while minimizing restrictive language may provide broader written description support.
This concept proved successful in a biotechnology case where the specification required a specific range of internodal distances for developing vascular grafts that would permit tissue in-growth. As an alternative embodiment, the specification identified a specific range of wall thicknesses that exhibited "excellent mechanical properties." Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. v. W.L. Gore & Assocs., Inc., 670 F.3d 1171, 1188 (Fed. Cir. 2012). Since the wall thickness was described in the alternative, the Court found this disclosure sufficient to support claims omitting any thickness limitation whatsoever, thereby permitting claims to grafts with thicknesses outside of the range described in the specification. Id. at 1188-1189; see also Crown Packaging Tech., Inc. v. Ball Metal Beverage Container Corp., 635 F.3d 1373, 1381-82 (Fed. Cir. 2011). Thus, describing elements in the alternative, rather than as imperative to the claimed invention, may provide broader support.
By comparison, in another example, the asserted claims survived a written description challenge notwithstanding that the specification fixated on application of the invention to a single device, a cathode ray tube display. Nevertheless, the Federal Circuit found this disclosure sufficient for claims incorporating other devices simply because the specification provided inclusive language that "[w]hile specific configurations of the local display . . . have been described, it is understood that the present invention can be applied to a wide variety of . . . devices." Honeywell Int'l, Inc. v. United States, 609 F.3d 1292, 1301 (Fed. Cir. 2010) (reversing invalidation on written description grounds). Here, the use of non-limiting language proved useful in surviving the written description validity challenge.
Knowledge of One of Ordinary Skill May Support Written Description Compliance
In addition to broad disclosures and non-limiting language, the applicant must also consider what aspects of the invention are known in the prior art. As seen in Honeywell above, prior art may help bridge gaps in disclosure, as written description compliance depends in part on the scope and content of the prior art, the maturity of the technical field, and the predictability of the technology at issue. Ariad, 598 F.3d at 1351. Accordingly, "in some instances, a patentee can rely on information that is 'well-known in the art' to satisfy written description." Streck, Inc. v. Research & Diagnostic Sys., Inc., 665 F.3d 1269, 1285 (Fed. Cir. 2012).
Consideration should be given, however, to whether such reliance on the prior art may invite obviousness-based validity challenges. Further, the applicant may be precluded from such reliance where the "four corners of the specification directly contradict information that the patentee alleges is 'well known' to a person of skill at the effective filing date ...." Streck, 665 F.3d at 1285. For example, emphasizing in the specification the uncertainty in the art or that the precise mechanism of a therapeutic ingredient "is still under active investigation" can preclude a patentee from relying on the prior art to bridge gaps in its disclosure. Boston Scientific Corp. v. Johnson & Johnson, 647 F.3d 1353, 1366-67 (Fed. Cir. 2011).
Strategies for Improving Written Description Support for Genus, Sub-Genus, and Species Claims
Patents reciting genus claims, however, typically do not have a wealth of prior art to use in bridging disclosure gaps, and have therefore proven particularly susceptible to invalidity for inadequate written description. See, e.g., Carnegie Mellon, 541 F.3d at 1125-27; but see Capon v. Eshhar, 418 F.3d 1349, 1358 (Fed. Cir. 2005) (where prior art contained "extensive knowledge of the nucleotide structure," including hundreds of identified DNA chains).
When broad claims cannot rely on prior art, the Federal Circuit has clarified that a patent should disclose either "structural features common to the members of the genus" or "a representative number of species" within the genus. Ariad, 595 F.3d at 1350. Indeed, the Federal Circuit has long recognized that describing only a single species typically fails to provide adequate written description. See, e.g., Ariad, 598 F.3d at 1354-55; Capon, 418 F.3d at 1358-59; Boston Sci., 647 F.3d at 1365; Billups-Rothenberg, 642 F.3d at 1037. In that vein, the Court's jurisprudence has illustrated that the "representative number of species" route, when possible, may be safest. For example, in Boston Scientific, although the "[rapamycin] technology was still in its infancy" as of the filing date, the patentee had disclosed information regarding a broad genus of rapamycin analogs. 647 F.3d at 1367. But the claims were directed to a sub-genus of "macrocyclic triene" analogs, which the disclosure did not specifically describe in any manner. Id. Without any information in the prior art that may have directed a person of ordinary skill to the sub-genus, the Court found the specification inadequate to describe the claimed sub-genus, even though the described genus necessarily did describe, at a higher level, the sub-genus. Id. at 1367-68.
Similarly, describing a genus or a sub-genus may fail to adequately describe a claimed species. Id. at 1367. Thus, current jurisprudence counsels an applicant to take care in adequately describing a common structure or feature for each level of claim: genus, sub-genus, and species. This may require exhaustive disclosure.
To avoid potential problems, describing several alternative common features, or a range of alternative representative species, may help support written description compliance. For example, a practitioner might use certain species or features to support one sub-genus claim, while using another selection of species or features to support a different claim. Thus, disclosing alternative features or species, in a manner similar to that discussed above, may help provide broader written description support than relying on a single feature essential to the claimed invention. See Bard, 670 F.3d at 1188-89. Indeed, the more species identified to support a genus improves the chances for surviving written description challenges.
With its en banc decision, the majority in Ariad reaffirmed the existence of a separate written description requirement in § 112 and its application to original claims. Thus, practitioners must continue to prepare patent applications with an eye towards prevailing against written description challenges. Whether or not written description challenges target one technical field over another, a careful analysis of ensuing Federal Circuit decisions across all fields should continue to further guide practitioners in devising strategies for written description compliance, as trends in the fact-specific written description analysis continue to coalesce.
Source: Intellectual Property Today


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All this talk of a skate park has me encouraged.
Those of you who are already familiar with the effort can skip the next dozen or so paragraphs.
The rest of you — I assume you're new to town — are in for a brief history lesson.
About four years ago, a slew of local teens wound up with skateboarding tickets, the result of a Terrebonne Parish law that bans
skateboards on sidewalks and other public property.
Those bad little boys and girls wound up facing a judge, who typically ordered them to do community service as punishment.
Parents moaned at the unfairness of it, but parents are always moaning about someone being mean to their precious little ones, so no one really paid a whole lot
of attention.
That's not entirely true.
One guy did.
But he wasn't just any old body, he was someone with a bull-headed habit of standing up for what he believed.
And Bayou Cane's longtime fire chief believed our kids are worth investing in.
Chief Jerry got involved when those bad little boys and girls showed up to sweep his fire station's parking lots, empty its wastebaskets, wash the big yellow trucks and perform other tasks to fulfill their community-service requirements.
When he learned of the "crime" they were accused of, he went with them to ask the Terrebonne Parish Council for a place where they could do their ollies, slides and grinds without running afoul
of the law.
The council listened, but nothing came of it.
Chief Jerry is gone now, his life claimed by the cancer he valiantly fought.
He had a lot to deal with in his last seven months on Earth — back-to-back storms, retirement from a job he loved and an insurance battle that left his family with some big bills and him with some big worries.
The last thing you'd think he'd be bothering with at a time like that is some shaggy-haired, baggy-pants-wearing kids and their stupid skate park.
But Chief Jerry did.
He left Terrebonne's teens $10,000 for their would-be park. That money, combined with private donations and grants and an organizer with Chief Jerry's vision, could easily make these kids' dreams a reality.
And there are some who see that as a good thing.
There are others, though, who started screaming foul before the ink on The Courier's skate-park story was even dry.
Many, if I might be allowed to paraphrase the anonymous comments posted on this newspaper's online forums, warned of the drugs, fights and graffiti that was sure to result if the skate park materializes.
This community doesn't need the headache, they said.
Heck, the kids don't need it either, they insisted, recalling their own childhoods spent outdoors from dawn to dark.
Yeah, well, me too, buster.
But a lot has changed since then.
My brothers and our friends liked to play in the empty lot across from our Presque Isle home. It provided access to the bayou and its shadowy banks, a place where you could catch a frog, read a book or skip a rock. It was also where
we kept a pirogue for impromptu excursions.
When that grew boring, we'd ride our bikes to the tip of the island subdivision where we could lose ourselves in the woods. Sometimes daddy would load up our dirt bikes and take us to another empty lot, this one on Grand Caillou Road, where we'd meet up with other kids and ride in circles for hours.
I couldn't do any of that today. The boat would be stolen within hours if left unattended and tied to a tree behind a vacant lot. Oh, and did I mention the lot is no longer vacant? There's a house
there now.
The woods where we played all manner of games that sometimes required a stick, leaf or some other found item, and always required a vivid imagination, are nothing but a fond memory now. They are now replaced by more houses.
It wasn't, surprisingly, a subdivision that claimed our motorcycle track. It was Walmart.
I'll tell you something else, my friends and I were known to get in trouble from time to time.
I recall some who dabbled in drugs, others who weren't afraid to spray paint the side of a building and all of us were pretty proficient at securing the alcohol needed for a little underage drinking.
And we turned out OK.
We're cops, teachers, lawyers, doctors and business owners.
Upstanding residents, for the most part, if you don't count the one who turned into a newspaper
A couple of years down the road, the same will be true of that kid with the skateboard tucked under his arm.
He's not a bad kid, he's just a kid.
Don't you think he's worth investing in?
Chief Jerry did.
Dee Dee Thurston is managing editor of The Courier and Daily Comet. She can be reached at 850-1149 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
Local kids need a place of their own
All this talk of a skate park has me encouraged.


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Franken uses resignation speech to point finger at Trump
Dems look to seize 'moral high ground' to destroy Roy Moore, president
Commentators across the spectrum of American politics are wondering whether the move by Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., to resign "in the coming weeks" over a long list of groping allegations will give his party the "moral high ground" against Alabama GOP Senate candidate Roy Moore, who has denied claims of sexual assault by three women and "inappropriate" behavior by six others.
Franken read a statement Thursday on the floor of the U.S. Senate in which, after announcing his resignation and claiming many of the allegations against him are false, he lashed out at President Trump and Moore. He said, however, he would resign because he believed it was in the best interest of the citizens of Minnesota.
"I know in my heart that nothing I have done as a senator, nothing has brought dishonor on this institution, and I am confident that the Ethics Committee would agree. Nevertheless, today I am announcing that in the coming weeks I will be resigning as a member of the United States Senate," he said.
More than half a dozen allegations followed the claim of KABC on-air personality Leeann Tweeden, who accused Franken of kissing and groping her without her consent while she was asleep during a USO tour before Franken's election.
Franken insists he doesn't recall the kissing encounter the way Tweeden described it.
Read all about Al Franken's documented "lies" and "smears" in "Pants on Fire, How Al Franken Lies, Deceives and Smears," available at the WND Superstore.
Tweeden substantiated her claim of groping with a photo that shows Franken with his hands over her breasts while he smiles for the camera.
With Franken's coming departure, as well as the announcement this week of the retirement of Sen. John Conyers, D-Mich. — who had been accused of misbehaving with a multitude of women — the Democrats are setting the stage to claim they are the ones who are cleaning house.
Their immediate target is Judge Roy Moore, the GOP Senate candidate in Alabama who continues to lead in polls ahead of the Dec. 12 special election for the seat vacated by Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
The ultimate target is President Trump, who was caught in the "Access Hollywood" videotape publicized by Democrats during the 2016 election making vulgar comments about women in his banter with a colleague.
Franken on Thursday claimed that he was "hopeful" that the current conversation would turn toward protecting women from predators, until the "conversation turned to me."
The senator said he wanted to respond respectfully to the accusations, but in doing that he "gave some people the false impression that I was admitting to doing things that in fact I haven't done."
"I, of all people, am aware that there is some irony in the fact that I am leaving while a man who has bragged on tape about his history of sexual assault sits in the Oval Office and a man who has repeatedly preyed on young girls campaigns for the Senate with the full support of his party," he said.
The left-leaning Daily Beast's Michael Tomaski warned that Democrats may regret establishing the precedent that they now have.
He said some behavior is wrong, but other behavior is more wrong.
"They've circumvented process and the principle of hearing from both sides. They've completely ignored the possibility that a person can reform himself (maybe Franken used to be a sexist jerk but has genuinely changed; aren't liberals supposed to welcome that?) And they've blurred the line, which I think should exist, between different categories of sexual crimes, some of which are obviously worse than others. The day will almost surely come when they'll regret having established these precedents."
His point was that those who are accusing Moore of misbehaving 40 years ago – claims that Moore has denied – have a much stronger case than those who say Franken misbehaved with them.
"So Al Franken is out. It was the right thing for him to do. I guess. What he did was wrong. It wasn't asking-a-14-year-old-girl-to-take-her-clothes-off wrong, but it was wrong," the Beast commentary said.
"Two thoughts nag at me," he continued. "First, there's some opportunism at work here. And second, if the Democrats think that taking the high ground on this one is going to score them any points, my bet is they're sadly mistaken.
"This is where I see some opportunism at work, in two ways. First, let's cut to the chase: Do you think we'd have heard all these calls for his resignation from his Democratic colleagues if Minnesota had a Republican governor? No way. Maybe a couple senators would, but as a group they wouldn't be nearly so cavalier about dumping him if they knew a Republican was going to replace him. And that's fine; that's politics. Newsflash: Politics is political. But it does make me take these high-moral-ground statements of his colleagues with a few grains of salt."
He continued: "Second, obviously, the Democrats are hoping to present to America a contrast between them and the Republicans. … The Democrats want to be able to say: See, when Al Franken and John Conyers are discovered to have done wrong, we don't equivocate. We take care of it. Meanwhile, look at those Republicans. They're all-in behind Roy Moore, whose alleged attacks on women make Franken's look awfully tame."
At NBCNews.com, Jonathan Allen and Leigh Ann Caldwell explained how the Democrats "tried to seize the moral high ground."
The "Democratic dam" regarding Franken's behavior burst Wednesday, they said, with a statement by Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y.
"I think when we have to start having to talk about the differences between sexual assault and sexual harassment and unwanted groping, you are having the wrong conversation," she said. "You need to draw a line in the sand, say none of it is OK, none of it is acceptable, and we as elected leaders should absolutely be held to a higher standard not a lower standard."
Earlier in the week, Conyers, who had been accused of sexually harassing aides, quit and immediately volunteered his son to take his place.
At the time the Tweeden photo emerged, Franken had been a rising star among Democrats. Some had even suggested his name as a potential Oval Office candidate.
But Tweeden's photo bomb changed that. She alleged he forcibly kissed her, stuck his tongue into her mouth and badgered her for days. Later, other women brought similar allegations forward.
Newsweek compiled a list of Franken statements, including when he "once joked about child rape during a comedic roast of film director Rob Reiner."
Franken, the magazine said, "laid out a scene where Reiner's father, Carl, would invite famous friends over to rape his son."
At that time, Franken quipped: "On a typical night, Carl would slip into Rob's bed, roll him over, swab him down and say something like, 'I'm thinking about hiring Morey Amsterdam to play Buddy Sorrell, what do you think?' Well, the success of The Dick Van Dyke Show changed things dramatically. Carl started inviting many of his famous friends to —- his son. That list includes some of the greats in comedy: Paul Lynde, Dom DeLuise, Rip Taylor, Danny Kaye, Charles Nelson Reilly and Rock Hudson – whom I frankly don't think is that funny."
The report said Franken also "joked" about raping "60 Minutes" reporter Lesley Stahl.
"And, 'I give the pills to Lesley Stahl. Then, when Lesley's passed out, I take her to the closet and rape her.'"
Read all about Al Franken's documented "lies" and "smears" in "Pants on Fire, How Al Franken Lies, Deceives and Smears," available at the WND Superstore.
He also "joked" in Playboy magazine about "creating an Institute for Pornographic Studies where he performed sex acts with humans and robots," the Newsweek report said.
"I found myself extremely attracted to the vulnerable side of this sexy scientist, and when I offered to comfort her, she accepted, kissing me full on the lips and inserting her tongue into my mouth and moving it around suggestively," Franken wrote.
He then describes sex acts in detail.
In the book "Pants on Fire, How Al Franken Lies, Deceives and Smears," author Alan Skorski explains that Franken's fame came from his books "Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot" and "Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them."
According to Skorski's book, Franken's nonstop "smears" were surprisingly unchallenged for a long time while he was a commentator and talk-radio host.
But eventually, Skorski found that Franken himself "regularly lies, smears and distorts what others say and do."
The London Daily Mail reported the senator's action, which left Tweeden feeling "belittled and humiliated," pushed Franken over the edge from "Democratic darling to dirty old man."
WND reported there is evidence Franken's first election victory, by a razor-thin 312 votes, is questionable.
Dan McGrath of Minnesota Majority said his group's investigation found incumbent Norm Coleman had more votes at the end of the polling, but Franken was given the seat after a recount.
According to records, at least 341 convicted felons voted in Hennepin County, where Minneapolis is located, and another 52 voted illegally in Ramsey County, home to St. Paul.
"The number of felons voting in those two counties alone exceeds … Franken's victory margin," according to the analysis.
In Franken's second election, he edged out challenger Mike McFadden after Barack Obama's unpopularity as president threatened the Democratic hold on the seat.
WND reported the Minnesota secretary of state, Mark Ritchie, who oversaw the senatorial recount that put Franken into office, was listed by the Communist Party USA as an official "friend."
That followed WND's earlier report that Ritchie was funded – and apparently continues to be supported – by prominent leaders of the radical left.
Read all about Al Franken's documented "lies" and "smears" in "Pants on Fire, How Al Franken Lies, Deceives and Smears," available at the WND Superstore.
Among Franken's campaign donors were members of the Democratic Socialists of America, founders of the socialist New Party; members of the Communist Party USA, or CPUSA; and even a former associate of the Weatherman domestic terrorist group founded by Bill Ayers.
Personalities from several George Soros-funded think tanks and the terrorist-supporting Code Pink also were on Ritchie's donor list.
The Washington Post reported a Minnesota woman who had been working with Franken on legislation was raped by a man who had worked in Franken's office.
The rapist, Daniel Drill-Mellum, pleaded guilty to criminal sexual conduct and was given six years in prison.
The victim said Thursday she no longer wants Franken's name on the legislation when it is introduced and hopes to find someone else to sponsor it.
WND also was on hand when Melanie Morgan, a Los Angeles radio news anchor who is one of those alleging Franken harassed her, went to Franken's Capitol Hill office with others demanding he resign.
She was joined by three of Bill Clinton's accuser: Kathleen Willey, Juanita Broaddrick and Leslie Millwee, who claims she was stalked and assaulted three times by Clinton while she was a TV reporter in Fort Smith, Arkansas. The women were accompanied by the founders of the new media publication Media Equalizer.
Watch Melanie Morgan and Bill Clinton's accusers demand Franken's resignation at his office on Capitol Hill:
Franken's staff calling security:
Members of Franken's communications staff eventually came out of their offices to explain that Franken was not available to comment.


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Jajuk is Free Music Player And Organizer
Jajuk is a free music player that can organize and play music. It is mainly geared towards advanced users who have a large and scattered music collection. It has got a lot of powerful features that can let you perform the same thing in multiple ways. It has got a very intuitive interface which provides a lot of information.
Some of its features include
Digital DJ: Let Jajuk make your playlist based on your own rule
Ambience management: ask for a soft playlist in two clicks maximum
Advanced rating system : banning system, clever rating based both on user preference
Find duplicate tracks: inbuilt feature to find duplicate tracks across your audio collection
Prepare party: allows to quickly copy playlist tracks to an external device
"Shuffle" smart function to play shuffled selection, track by track, inside an album or album by album
"Finish album" smart function to finish current album even in the middle of a shuffled playlist
Intro from a track position and specified length
Automatic indexing: Jajuk uses an XML database to store collection tags. It allows a fast startup even for very large collections
Collection (indexes) can be used by multiple users and between multiple computers
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Rajiv Gandhi Park is famous picnic spot and major tourist point in Udaipur.
Location : Rajiv Gandhi Park is located on a hill in Udaipur
About Rajiv Gandhi Park
Rajiv Gandhi Park provide the unique look and it is the hallmark of Udaipur. Rajiv Gandhi Park contains a spacious children's park and a food court. This park has been constructed in the remembrance of the late Prime Minister of India Mr. Rajiv Gandhi. Food Court is also fully functional and children park is a wonder ful thing here.
This garden and provides you excellent view of Fatehsagar. It is one of the biggest park in udaipur after Gulab bagh but it is not well mentioned. Here you can spend a short evening to view the iluminated fateh sagar lake. Here you the statue of rajiv gandhi.


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He stood there quietly, just outside the Los Angeles Coliseum, where the University of Southern California plays its home games, a tremendously gifted athlete, his right hand the exact contour of a football. Believe that little gem and the next thing you know people will be telling you that Marcus Allen doesn't need blockers.
Allen is a 6 ft. 2 in. runner who rushed for 1,563 yards and 14 touchdowns last year, led the Trojans in pass receptions (30), and threw two completions himself in what must have been some kind of afterthought. This season he is even better, a leading candidate for the Heisman Trophy and a certain No. 1 pick for some National Football League franchise, whose owners will be happy to make him an instant millionaire.
The USC offense, under head coach John Robinson, has never been what you might call an ''equal opportunity employer.'' Whenever Robinson gets a tailback the quality of Allen, he likes to give him the football 40 times a game and let him see what he can do with it. The result is that Marcus has been averaging better than 200 yards per game, has already broken Tony Dorsett's NCAA single-season rushing record, and is just 32 yards shy of becoming the first major college player to rush for 2,000 yards in a season. On Saturday he gained 243 yards to lead the Trojans, who are second-ranked in the UPI poll, over California 21-3.
''Over the years Southern Cal has had some great backs (Mike Garrett, O. J. Simpson, Anthony Davis, and Charles White), but no one has ever run at Allen's level,'' Robinson explained. ''I mean he performs against the great college teams just as well as he does against the good ones, and he's got more intangible gifts than any runner I've ever been around. He has to win the Heisman Trophy. In fact, right now there isn't anyone in college who is even close to him.'' Of course, many folks figure Georgia's Herschel Walker deserves consideration even if his yardage figures aren't so spectacular as Allen's.
Two weeks ago, against previously unbeaten Washington State, Marcus gained 289 yards on 44 carries in a 41-17 USC win. There isn't much deception involved when you give one man the ball that many times, so the Cougars knew what to expect. When reporters suggested to Washington State coach Jim Walden that maybe Allen's huge offensive line had a lot to do with his success, Walden replied:
''Stars make offensive lines, offensive lines don't make stars. When Marcus cuts around a would-be tackler to keep a drive going, you can't give his offensive line credit for that. What you're seeing is the kind of instinctive talent that can't be taught. Of course the Trojans have a great offensive line, but Allen would excel behind almost any line.''
If all this praise, publicity, and national TV exposure has gotten to Marcus in any way, he hasn't shown it. Like Simpson when he played at Southern Cal, Allen is forever giving credit to his offensive line. And the close personal relationship he seems to have with Robinson does not appear to have caused any morale problems.
What makes Allen so tough to contain is the way he combines speed, power, and balance. A partial hit won't take him down. He has to be tackled low and hard to knock him off his feet, and because he cuts so well he often doesn't present that much of a target.
Even though this is seldom mentioned, the pros are also interested in Allen because of his ability to take punishment, plus the fact that he never shrinks from pass-blocking. There were a lot of times, when Charles White was the USC tailback and Allen the fullback, when Marcus threw the key block that allowed White to make the big gainer.
But where White was an escape artist who seemed to sense whenever a tackler was coming up behind him, Allen is more of a punishing runner. He won't give the opposition as many moves as White, but when he does cut it is almost always a misdirected explosion of power that leaves defensive players with empty hands.
There's no sense in trying to compare Allen's style with any particular running back, college or pro, because what he does is uniquely his own. Dorsett, the man whose season record of 1,948 yards was broken Saturday by Marcus, is a much flashier runner. Tony, now in his fifth season with the Dallas Cowboys, has also proved to be more durable than his size suggests.
But Allen, as has been mentioned so many times in NFL scouting reports, has speed and power and durability. The pros, of course, can't wait to get him.


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A Hyde Park man accused of spitting in the face of a Secret Service agent guarding President Barack Obama's Chicago home last month was ordered held on $50,000 bond Sunday.
The agent was inside a car stationed on the 5000 block of South Greenwood Avenue on Dec. 29 when Kevin Lawrence approached the vehicle, according to police records.
Lawrence spit inside the car, hitting the agent's face and neck, police records state.
Lawrence, 46, of the 5200 block of South Harper Avenue, was charged with aggravated battery of a peace officer.
He was arrested Saturday near his home, which is less than a mile away from Obama's house. Chicago police could not say Sunday why there was a two-week lag between the alleged incident and the arrest.
Lawrence's next court date is scheduled for Friday.
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Just by listening to the program of your choice, which contains specific dialogues and affirmations, you will unlock the power of your subconscious mind and you will be able to effect healing, and positive and rewarding changes in your life.
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Dr J Murphy Continues - Affirmations are Aids to Health
"A psychologist friend of mine told me that one of his lungs was infected. X-rays and analysis showed the presence of tuberculosis. At night before going to sleep he would quietly affirm, 'Every cell, nerve, tissue, and muscle of my lungs are now being made whole, pure, and perfect. My whole body is being restored to health and harmony.'
"These are not his exact words, but they represent the essence of what he affirmed. A complete healing followed in about a month's time. Subsequent X rays showed a perfect healing.
"I wanted to know his method, so I asked him why he repeated the words prior to sleep. Here is his reply, "The kinetic action of the subconscious mind continues throughout your sleep-time period. Hence, give the subconscious mind something good to work on as you drop off into slumber." This was a very wise answer. In thinking of harmony and perfect health, he never mentioned his trouble by name.
"I strongly suggest that you cease talking about your ailments or giving them a name. The only sap from which they draw life is your attention and fear of them. Like the above mentioned psychologist, become a mental surgeon. Then your troubles will be cut off like dead branches are pruned from a tree."
"Find out what it is that heals you. Realize that correct directions given to your subconscious mind will heal your mind and body.
"Develop a definite plan for turning over your requests or desires to your subconscious mind.
"Imagine the end desired and feel its reality. Follow it through, and you will get definite results.
"Decide what belief is. Know that belief is a thought in your Mind, and what you think you create.
"It is foolish to believe in sickness and something to hurt or to harm you. Believe in perfect health, prosperity, peace, wealth, and divine guidance.
"Great and noble thoughts upon which you habitually dwell become great acts.
"Apply the power of prayer therapy in your life. Choose a certain plan, idea, or mental picture. Mentally and emotionally unite with that idea, and as you remain faithful to your mental attitude, your prayer will be answered.
"Always remember, if you really want the power to heal, you can have it through faith, which means a knowledge of the working of your conscious and subconscious mind. Faith comes with understanding.
"Blind faith means that a person may get results in healing without any scientific understanding of the powers and forces involved.
"Learn to visualize for your loved ones who may be ill. Quiet your mind, and your thoughts of health, vitality, and perfection operating through the one universal subjective mind will be felt and manifested in the mind of your loved one."
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Yes, you read it right. According to recent researches from Harvard and Washington State University, drinking half a bottle of red wine at night can help you shred those extra pounds. It even helps you lose weight quicker!
What Science Says
A lot of us have mistakenly believed that alcohol intake could lead to weight gain but new scientific evidence proves this myth wrong. Well, at least for wine, weight gain is not possible.
A long-term study conducted by Harvard University found that women who take at least 1 or 2 glasses of wine (or a half bottle of red wine) before bedtime were less likely to become obese compared to non-drinkers. The study involved nearly 20,000 middle-aged women of normal weight and it came to show that engaging in this nightly tipple helps get rid of obesity by 70 percent.
In another story from DailyMail, a woman named Linda Monk reaped the benefits from this habit when she lost 6 lbs in just a span of three weeks. She said that red wine helps her suppress her cravings for unhealthy food choices like sweets, biscuits, or chocolates during the night and sipping some great cold wine or a juice also makes her feel relax without her having to go out late at night to eat. In case if you also like to drink cold red wine which is unusual, you may consider buying a refrigerator. There are different budget types and classification in WineCoolerLab to find the best fit wine cooler.
Moderation is the key. We all know how important this line is and this also applies to drinking wine. Over indulgence will never result to anything good instead, experts warned that too much intake of alcohol exposes you to many diseases such as disease of the liver and breast cancer for women.
A glass of wine or two, savoured with a healthy meal is enough to contribute to weight loss and keeping healthy.
Here is also why you should make red wine as your new diet drink..
This is great news especially for wine lovers out there. Red wine has a chemical known as Ellagic Acid which acts to slow down the growth of fat cells and stop the formation of new ones, so our bodies burn more fats and help us become slimmer. The chemical is also known for boosting metabolism of fat acids in the liver.
Red wine contributes to achieving a healthy weight because of how it is digested in the body. It triggers the body especially that of the women to burn more calories because women are found to have lesser enzymes that metabolize alcohol compared to men.
This means that for the drink to get digested, a woman's body needs to keep producing enzymes which also requires the body to keep burning energy instead of storing them like how it usually happens when we eat fattening snacks like chocolate. What can you say ladies? Swapping those chocolates with a glass of wine is certainly worth it!
Well, not just that. Red wine also contains quercetin, an antioxidant which can kill cancer cells. That is why, it is also believed that red wine can aid in treating cancer, most specifically in the colon.
Ongoing researches also suggest that red wine helps in lowering bad cholesterol level in the body thus helping regulate hypertension and we have Resveratrol to thank for. Wine drinkers are found to have a healthier cardiovascular system and have lesser risks of having a heart disease.
However, if you're not used to drinking wine, you can always choose the traditional way of keeping healthy through eating nutritious foods and doing regular exercise. You can't just drink bottles of wine and expect your figure to abruptly change. Like what is always said, moderation is the key.
But if you're interested trying on a different way of losing weight, it is always not too late to try and start the habit of drinking half a bottle of red wine every night. Instead of spending on loads of snacks, chocolate bars and other sweet treats, invest in a great tasting wine and drink it with some friends or a loved one.
Just for a bonus fact, wine is a natural aphrodisiac! It promotes good blood circulation which produces a warm and tingling sensation on the skin and helps you get focused. No, we aren't experts to try and recommend it but it's proven and tested to help get you in the mood! *wink*
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The 32-time Malaysia Cup champions, however, arrived in Vietnam yesterday without Michal Kubala and Afiq Azmi, who are both injured.
"Yes, I turned 62 today (yesterday) but my focus is on the match. It would, however, be a perfect belated present if my team can win on Wednesday (tomorrow)," said Irfan when contacted in Ho Chi Minh City.
"We are under-strength as without Kubala, we only have two available foreign players in striker Forkey Doe and defender Peter Chrappan.
"Afiq is down with a hamstring problem while Kubala injured his knee in training."
Saigon, who finished third in the V-League last season, lead the group with four points.
Irfan said Saigon are one of the best teams in the AFC Cup.
"We have come prepared but it will be a difficult match as Saigon are an experienced side, comprising former and current internationals.
"We had huge plans before but the life ban on Ramez Dayoub has affected us a bit in this event.
"Each team are allowed four foreigners but we only have three but one is injured now," said Irfan.
If Selangor fail to earn a point tomorrow, their AFC Cup dream will end but not for Kelantan, who take on V-League champions SHB Da Nang in a Group G match in Kota Baru today.
Kelantan coach Bojan Hodak said his team must not make mistakes in the match.
"Da Nang have a very good striker in V-League top scorer Gaston Merlo but the Argentine is not 100 per cent from a knee injury.
"They are an experienced team and we must play our best football tomorrow. We have been scoring regularly, 10 goals in the last three matches and this is a good record," said Hodak.
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Republicans on the House Judiciary panel were expected to subpoena secret FBI and Justice Department memos urging Attorney General Janet Reno to appoint an independent counsel to investigate alleged fund-raising irregularities in President Clinton's 1996 campaign. If issued, the subpoenas - also compelling testimony from FBI Director Louis Freeh and federal prosecutor Charles LaBella - would open a new avenue of investigation for the impeachment panel. Reno has refused to let other congressional committees see the entire Freeh and LaBella memos, in part because they contain secret grand-jury information.
Reno put off a decision on whether Harold Ickes Jr., a former top aide to Clinton, should be the target of an independent counsel. Reno asked for two more months, in addition to the three months she already has taken, to study allegations that the former deputy White House chief of staff lied to a Senate committee investigating Democratic fund-raising abuses. A special division of the US Court of Appeals approved the request and gave Reno until Jan. 29 to reach her decision.
A US-led donors' meeting secured pledges of more than $3 billion to help Palestinians build their faltering economy and bolster the Mideast peace process. US and Arab officials say rising unemployment and poverty have frustrated the Palestinian people and undermined hope for peace.
Senate Republicans and Democrats were to select new leaders. Both majority leader Trent Lott (R) of Mississippi and minority leader Tom Daschle (D) of South Dakota were unopposed. The only anticipated contest was for leadership of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, pitting Don Nickles of Oklahoma against incumbent Mitch McConnell of Kentucky. In the only two changes on the Democratic side, an unopposed Harry Reid of Nevada was expected to replace the retiring Wendell Ford of Kentucky as minority whip - and Daschle was expected to appoint Robert Torricelli of New Jersey to lead the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.
Vanderbilt University has been promised at least $340 million worth of stock in a California company, Ingram Micro Inc, school officials said. The stocks will come from a fund created by Martha and E. Bronson Ingram with the requirement that at least 40 percent of 20 million Ingram Micro shares be given to the university, located in Nashville, Tenn. According to the Chronicle of Higher Education, the only larger gift to a school was made in 1994 to New York University by Sir Harold Acton. That donation was valued at up to $500 million.
The manufacturing sector slowed for the sixth straight month during November, but there were signs of possible improvement in the economy by mid-1999. The National Association of Purchasing Management said its index of economic activity registered 46.8 percent in November, down 1.5 percent from October. Any reading under 50 percent is a sign of contraction in the industrial sector. However, the Conference Board said its index of leading economic indicators rose 0.1 percent in October, to 105.6. The gain followed two months of flat results.
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So tepid was the voter support for separatist-minded Quebec Premier Lucien Bouchard that a new move to take the province out of the Canadian union is unlikely anytime soon, political analysts said. Bouchard led his Part Quebecois to victory in yesterday's election, winning a new five-year term with 75 of the 125 seats in the provincial parliament. But the rival anti-separatist Liberal Party took a greater percentage of the popular vote: 44 to 43. Bouchard campaigned on a pledge to call another referendum on secession when conditions appeared favorable for passage.
In one of their harshest moves against political dissidents in months, Chinese police arrested five campaigners for democracy, seizing videotapes, a computer, fax machine, address books, and hundreds of documents. The crackdown was aimed at the fledgling Democracy Party and brings to 10 the number of its members now in custody. At least one of those arrested was charged with plotting the overthrow of the state, a crime that carries a penalty of life in prison.
Foreign ministers from 54 countries are to meet in Oslo beginning tomorrow to try to shore up the shaky truce in Kosovo. The member governments of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe say they're worried about the 2,000 "verifiers" charged with overseeing the accord, the alliance's largest mission yet. The verifiers will have no power if Yugoslav President Milosevic fails to cooperate with it, critics say.
Milosevic's refusal to pull heavily armed Serb police from their makeshift base in an abandoned Kosovo town appears to breach the cease-fire he agreed to in October, diplomats said. They said it also keeps hundreds of ethnic Albanian refugees from returning home. Milosevic has argued that the police are needed to keep the town from being retaken by the Kosovo Liberation Army.
"From this year onwards, each 25th of December should be considered a holiday," Cuba's ruling Communist Party said in a statement proposing the end of a ban on observing Christmas. The Council of State is expected to OK the decision. Cubans were given a day off last Christmas as a gesture to Pope John Paul II, whose visit was days away. The Roman Catholic Church had called for another break this year. The holiday was abolished in 1969 in an effort to produce a record sugar harvest.
The Clinton administration will be asked to extend a ban on deporting thousands of Central Americans illegally in the US - for at least 18 months, El Salvador President Armando Calderon Sol said. Deportations were halted in early November at the request of Honduras, Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Guatemala because of the effects of hurricane Mitch. The ban expires Monday. Advocates say deportation would jeopardize the finances of relatives trying to recover from the storm.
Complaining that the $300,000 spent on a massive military parade to mark Romania's National Day was more than the impoverished country could afford, opposition leaders boycotted the festivities in Bucharest, the capital. An estimated 20,000 people watched the parade in sub-zero weather.
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Exxon Corp. agreed to the much-anticipated $77.2 billion purchase of Mobil Corp. The union of the nation's two biggest oil and gas companies, if consummated, would create the world's largest energy company and the largest US firm of any kind. It's to be called Exxon Mobil Corp.
Good but not great Thanksgiving weekend sales got the holiday shopping season off to a promising start, analysts said. Discount stores and specialty retailers - notably music, home-decorating, and electronics outlets - reported brisk sales. Forecasters predict a 4 to 4.5 percent overall increase in holiday sales for stores that have been open more than a year, with 1 to 1.5 percent growth in department-store business.
Investors in mutual-fund stocks appeared in no rush to buy on the first day those were available at banks and insurance companies in Japan. Until Phase 2 of the nationwide financial-reform program began Tuesday, mutual funds could be purchased only from brokers.
'This is an impeachment in search of a crime.'
- Jim Jordan, spokesman for House Judiciary Committee Democrats, on GOP efforts to expand the inquiry into alleged campaign fundraising abuses.
In Troy, Mich., late last month, nine people who'd just appear-ed before a judge for driving with suspended licenses were rearrested before they could leave the courthouse premises. Why? Because, despite the offenses that brought them there, each promptly got behind the wheel of a car for the trip home - right in front of waiting police officers.
Rebekah Bock might well have wondered why it was so important that she and boyfriend Roland Canamar get to an Orange, Calif., movie theater in time for the previews. But since he's a filmmaker, she dutifully went along. As the house lights dimmed, the short subjects began rolling, and there was Roland - on the screen - looking at the camera and saying: "Rebekah, I love you. Will you marry me?" Then the lights came back on, and the Roland sitting beside her offered a ring while the rest of the audience cheered. Her answer: yes.
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Leading capitalists of the century - Time magazine
Este Lauder is the only woman on a list of the 20th century's 20 most influential business people. Time's choices and the business or type of industry most associated with each:
Stephen Bechtel, builder
Leo Burnett, advertising
Willis Carrier, air conditioners
Walt Disney, entertainment
Henry Ford, automobiles
Bill Gates, Microsoft
A.P. Giannini, banking
Ray Kroc, McDonald's
Este Lauder, cosmetics
William Levitt, city planning
Charles "Lucky" Luciano, organized crime
Louis B. Mayer, movies
Charles Merrill, stockbroker
Akio Morita, Sony Corp.
Walter Reuther, labor unions
Pete Rozelle, pro football
David Sarnoff, broadcasting
Juan Trippe, Pan Am Airlines
Sam Walton, Wal-Mart
Thomas Watson Jr., IBM
- Associated Press


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The first thing visitors will see when they enter this small town's new museum is the drab facade of a farmhouse. Brown and white and tidy, it could be any Kansas dwelling: The mailbox reads Gale. Tumbleweeds fall from the roof.
But walk through the screen door - the one you can almost hear banging in the wind - and enter the technicolor world of witches, Munchkins, and other flawed but lovable characters. You're still in Kansas - but now you're in The Oz Museum.
Opened last month, the museum features scenes and characters from "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz," as well as paraphernalia - all from a Wamego native who apparently ran out of space for his vast collection - worth more than $200,000. The display cases span decades, with everything from costumes to Oz-themed toys, and few will leave with unanswered questions about the tale, save maybe these: Why here? Why now? Who cares?
The answers, at least from the perspective of museum organizers, are simple: Where else? Why not? And, hopefully, thousands.
True, it's been more than 100 years since L. Frank Baum wrote Oz, and it's been nearly 65 since director Victor Fleming turned the bestseller into a movie. And yet the legend - and the desire to capitalize on it - lives on here in the wheat fields and small towns of Bob Dole's home state, delighting some and dismaying others. The recognition, Kansans say, is great - but it would be nice to be known for something besides a fictional movie and a girl with ribbons, braids, and bright red shoes.
"Oz has always been in Kansas. It's just been one of those things where people don't know if it's a good thing or a bad thing for us," says Kim Qualls, tourism marketing manager in the Kansas Department of Commerce.
The museum, made possible in part by a $100,000 grant from the state's tourism bureau, drew 120 people last Saturday alone, according to curator Jim Ginavan - visitors from as far away as Hawaii and South Africa. But it's hardly the first attempt to capitalize on Oz. For years, fans tried to get an Oz theme park built, although Sept. 11, 2001 - and the negative impact it had even on places like Disneyland - put at least a temporary halt to that discussion.
And in Kansas, clashing claims to Oz make for an old and stubborn rivalry. Liberal, Kan., has long claimed ownership of Dorothy's home - or at least the model for it, used in the 1939 movie. Sedan, Kan., holds an annual Oz festival, and more than 10,000 yellow bricks encircle downtown. Each brick is inscribed with a name: Among the most recognizable are Bob Hope, Liz Taylor, Whoopie Goldberg, and Zsa Zsa Gabor. But anyone can add a name for a small fee, which goes toward enhancing Sedan's downtown.
More recently, the Kansas State Legislature renamed two highways after the movie. One, which leads to Wamego, is now The Road to Oz. The other, Highway 54, which runs across the entire southern half of the state, is - you guessed it - The Yellow Brick Road.
The state's commemorative quarter is due out in 2005, and one proposal sent to the US Mint includes a sunflower with a banner across it proclaiming, "There's no place like home."
Moreover, the state tourism bureau is considering orienting its next image campaign around the movie. Doing so has been successful in the past, says Ms. Qualls. (A campaign in the 1980s and early '90s was "The Land of Ahs.")
It may seem silly to make so much out of centenarian scarecrows and tin men, but in a state where the official song is "Home on the Range" - and a new Cabela's hunting- and fishing-gear store is the No. 1 tourist attraction - Dorothy is an important claim to pop-culture fame.
In an informal survey in August of 2000, 19 percent of respondents named The Wizard of Oz as one of the top three descriptors of the Sunflower State, Qualls said, while surveys in Germany and Britain reveal that when Europeans think of Kansas, they think of both "The Wizard of Oz" and Dodge City's "Gunsmoke."
In a 1994 national survey, 43 percent of respondents named the movie when asked about the first thing that came to mind at the mention of Kansas. Eighty-two percent said they strongly linked the two. And 38 percent said the movie gave them a favorable impression of Kansas.
It's those who don't draw a positive link between Kansas and Oz who the tourism industry worries about when talking up the Tin Man. While Dorothy insists "there's no place like home," Qualls points out that Kansas is depicted in the movie as a hot, dry, tornado-ravaged place. Still, she says, at least when outsiders think of the state, they have an image to go with the name.
In the end, the spike in Oz-oriented attractions may be less a rebirth of cultish interest - the fascination has always been there - than a stronger focus in small towns like Wamego on providing jobs and attracting people.
"What you want when you get into the tourism world is to get ahold of something that already has some recognition," says Rosemary Crilly, executive director of the Wamego museum.
And museum organizers believe - like those in another movie, from another Midwestern state - that "If you build it, they will come."
"People will see this on I-70 out by Denver," says Tim Akers, creative director for the museum, adding that some billboards were accidentally put up early causing the phone to ring and tour buses to stop in the small town just nine miles off the interstate. "It will be huge."


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Former planning board chairman seeks County Council seat for District 2
Hanson's priorities include fiscal sustainability, growth
Royce Hanson left his mark on Montgomery County in the nearly 15 years he spent as chairman of the county planning board, and he hopes to continue that work as the County Council's District 2 representative.
Hanson stepped down from the planning board when his term expired in June. He was appointed to the position in 2006 after Clarksburg residents uncovered hundreds of site plan violations in their community. During his time as chairman from 1972-81 he oversaw the creation of the county's Agricultural Reserve, a 93,000-acre area set aside for the preservation of farmland.
"The county is at sort of a defining moment in its history and we're going to decide in the next few years if this is going to be a good place or a bad place for our children and grandchildren," said Hanson, 78, of Montgomery Village. "I've spent my life dealing with these issues and I think I can be helpful. It's not really a time for amateurs."
Hanson has an extensive background in academics, research and public service; he served two years in the U.S. Army and was a Democratic nominee for Congress in 1964 and 1966. He has been a dean and professor at several universities; received multiple planning, conservation and public service awards; held leadership positions on academic, government and nonprofit committees and boards; consulted for local governments and federal agencies; and lectured and written on law, planning and public policy.
Hanson said his priorities include expanding the county's public transportation system, strengthening the Ag Reserve, completing Clarksburg and the Germantown Town Center, increasing school capacity and closing the student achievement gap, restoring the library system and increasing incentives for environmentally friendly building.
Hanson sometimes clashed with the council toward the end of his last term as planning chairman and recently criticized what he described as attempts by the executive branch to circumvent the planning process for political reasons.
"I don't have any problems with disagreements," Hanson said. "I think that's how you arrive at answers to problems."
The council seat has been held by Councilman Michael J. Knapp (D-Dist. 2) of Germantown since 2002. Knapp announced in June that he would not seek a third term.
Hanson is running against Sharon Dooley of Olney, Charles E. Kirchman of Germantown, Eddie Kuhlman of Poolesville and Del. Craig Rice of Germantown in the Sept. 14 Democratic primary election. The winner will face Republican Robin Ficker of Boyds in the general election Nov. 2.
District 2 includes Damascus, Poolesville, Olney, Laytonsville, Boyds, Barnesville, Germantown, Clarksburg and Montgomery Village.
-Residence: Montgomery Village
-Age: 78
-Party: Democrat
-Education: Bachelor's degree in economics, University of Central Oklahoma (formerly Central State College); master's degree in government and public administration, American University; doctorate in government and public administration, American University; law degree, Washington College of Law, American University
-Work experience: Research professor, George Washington Institute of Public Policy, George Washington University (2003-06); dean, associate dean and professor at multiple universities; held leadership positions on multiple academic, government and nonprofit committees and boards; consulted for local governments and federal agencies; and written extensively on law, planning and public policy.
-Family: Married to Mary for 52 years; three grown children; four grandchildren
-Top issues: Fiscal sustainability, growth and transportation and protecting the environment and Agricultural Reserve
-Campaign funds: $41,587. Fundraising goal of $50,000
-Previous political experience: Commissioner (1971-81) and chairman (1972-81, 2006-10) of the Montgomery County Planning Board; Democratic nominee for Congress, 1964 and 1966; worked on multiple political campaigns
-Other affiliations: Veteran, U.S. Army; received multiple planning, conservation and public service awards.
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It behooves artists to be at the right place at the right time, ensconced with the right curators, critics, gallerists, and collectors. Those who miss their era's dominant milieu are apt to be ignored or demonized in life and perpetuity. This cold fact was underlined for me recently when I visited "Sam Francis: Five Decades of Abstract Expressionism from California Collections" at the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento. The show originated last August at the Pasadena Museum of California Art, then traveled to the Crocker, where it closes April 20. And while co-curators Debra Burchett-Lere and Peter Selz have invigoratingly showcased Francis' gifts for brilliant color and evocative negative space, they have also had to acknowledge that the painter was never well-regarded in New York critical circles. He, like so many artists then and now, was an outsider who never managed entrée to the in-crowd there. Why? First, he was a generation too young to belong to the first generation of New York Abstract Expressionists. Secondly, although he did maintain studios in New York for many years, he preferred Paris, Tokyo, and Southern California. Moreover, those locales influenced his work.
From France he gleaned the sensual chromaticism of Matisse, whom he studied intensely; from Japan he adopted an approach to brushwork deeply indebted to sumi-e painting and calligraphy; and from his native California he carried with him an expansiveness of line and open space far removed from the brooding density of East Coast AbEx'ers like Jackson Pollock and James Brooks. In short, in his life and work, Sam Francis had the audacity not to be a New Yorker.
For prominent New York critics such as Hilton Kramer, this made Francis a pariah. In a December 1972 review of Francis' retrospective at the Whitney, Kramer called the painter "a historical oddity" because his "reputation and influence owe little or nothing to New York," whereas in Europe, he "was lavished with extravagant praise by critics and collectors who had not yet granted aesthetic recognition to the New York School." Perhaps, Kramer sniffed, the "unashamed decorative quality" of Francis' paintings flowed from his being "isolated from the dynamics of New York in the 1950s." To characterize the globetrotting Francis as in any sense "isolated" was endemic of the fierce rivalry between New York and Paris that still raged during Kramer's heyday: a civic nationalism so myopic, it veered into xenophobia. Only eight days after the review was published, Kramer, still flummoxed by Francis' success outside the U.S., wrote an even longer follow-up in the New York Times. For this go-round he posited that Francis was so popular in Paris because "the French adored the notion that whatever was original in the new American painting somehow drew its inspiration from the Pacific – which is to say, the Oriental – rather than from American sources." The French, he suggested, with their taste for japonisme and chinoiserie, were apt to keep idealizing the American West Coast and Pacific Rim "until the authority of the New York School became too self-evident to deny."
Old habits die hard. Nineteen years later, The New York Times' Roberta Smith, reviewing a Francis exhibition at Gagosian Gallery, pointedly reminded readers that "ever since the 50s, when he lived and worked primarily in Paris, his art has been held in higher regard in Japan and Europe than in the United States."
In their catalogue for the current exhibition in Sacramento, curators Burchett-Lere and Selz acknowledge the tense relationship between the painter and the New York establishment. Burchett-Lere contends Francis put up a good front but was troubled "that he wasn't embraced by the New York critics … He didn't go to the bars or hang with the critics like his contemporaries." Selz adds that "in those days, New York was so totally self-centered," and critics were suspicious of Francis' "hedonistic paintings of joy" and beauty, a word "that was banned from their vocabulary."
Habitués of artistic milieux have always circled their wagons. Artists and writers can be a competitive, suspicious lot. Fortunately, there are unmistakable signs that the revolution of the Internet is engendering increasing pluralism and collaboration where isolationism and turf-grabbing long reigned. Even some New Yorkers are beginning to concede that the earth no longer revolves around the island of Manhattan.


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Spare and beautiful visually, lush and bracing aurally, this ardent celebration of flamenco dance and music is bursting with the most fiery of emotions: love and lust and murderous rage. In dusty Andalusia in Spain, rival gipsy clans are heading for a final showdown in their most recent of blood feuds, but until that happens, there will be spirited partying and mournful singing and sensual dancing, all so truly seductive you'll want to get up and twirl and spin and clap your hands in time with the music. It's all to director Tony Gatlif's plan, imbuing you with the ardor of flamenco so you'll comprehend the furor and the fervor that drives this passionate people even to murder.