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'Fast and Furious' called false flag against gun dealers
Author says government's actions are 'comparable to U.S. funding al-Qaida'
WASHINGTON—The U.S. government running guns to Mexican cartels is "comparable to the United States funding al-Qaida to make someone in the United States look bad," according to the author of a new best-seller.
Katie Pavlich is the author of "Fast and Furious: Barack Obama's Bloodiest Scandal and the Shameless Cover-Up," news editor of Townhall.com and an expert on the Fast and Furious scandal.
In an interview with WND, she asserted that the Obama administration intentionally orchestrated a "false flag" against lawful gun dealers, the U.S. Border Patrol and Mexican citizens to give cause for more gun regulation.
"This is a situation where the government was creating a situation where they could blame law-abiding citizens, turn them into criminals and creat[e] this false problem that they could solve through gun regulation," Pavlich said.
Pavlich compares drug cartels to terrorist groups like Hezbollah, and new reports say the groups actually are linked.
"This is a situation where [the Obama administration was] willing to put public safety in danger, get thousands of people killed south of the border. The only reason we know about this is because (Border Patrol agent) Brian Terry was killed," she said.
Pavlich cites the history of how the government courted gun dealers in Arizona to work with the ATF to sell guns to illegal buyers – allegedly to prove that guns were being transferred from American dealers to drug cartels.
She notes how the ATF assured gun dealers that "everything was OK" and that the ATF was "going to make sure the guns aren't transferred to violent hands" and "not going to Mexico."
Despite these assurances by the government, after the killings started happening, the government declared that gun dealers in Arizona were responsible for the "murder and mayhem in Mexico."
When asked by WND if the real agenda was to make American gun dealers look bad, Pavlich said, "absolutely."
She said Obama, then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Attorney General Eric Holder "were giving us this false 90 percent figure" that 90 percent of guns being illegally trafficked to Mexico were coming from Arizona and the Southwest border.
Pavlich asserts that the administration's agenda is mirrored in a 1995 video of Holder that shows him advocating "brainwashing" children to think differently about guns
In reference to the recent filibuster by Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., on the use of drones to kill American citizens, Pavlich said, "Fast and Furious was a perfect example" of the government setting the precedent and breaking psychological barriers to kill American citizens.
Pavlich is not the only commentator to assert that Fast and Furious was an attempt to curb the Second Amendment. NRA executive vice-president Wayne LaPierre said in 2011 that "Fast and Furious" was a "plot to undermine" the right to bear arms.
Former Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, in a 2011 interview with radio talk show host Alex Jones, said the government is criminally liable for Fast and Furious and described the operation as a "false flag."
Pavlich said that since Fast and Furious, "Democrats have done everything they can to drop 'Fast and Furious' from their vocabulary" yet their attempts to press for gun control are obviously not hindered by the scandal.
She cited Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., who was an "ardent defender of Eric Holder" who is still out in front pressing for more gun control in the wake of the scandal.
However, the administration has been only partly successful in its strategy to use Fast and Furious.
Fellow Democrats such as Sens. Jon Tester, D-Mont., and Max Baucus, D-Mont., stood up to Holder in 2009 immediately after the scandal broke, saying they "oppose reinstating the ban on the sale of assault weapons, and we call on the Department of Justice to enforce existing laws before it considers imposing any new restrictions on gun ownership."
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Ask the Half M.D.: Is there a best medical school?
A reader posted the following comment on another article:
Hi, I was just wondering how large a factor what medical school plays into getting a residency and job where you want. I realize getting into Harvard Med is a bigger deal than say Oakland University. But when you say apply to as many school as possible, is it simply the money issue that would prevent you from doing that, or is getting into a below average medical school that bad of a thing.
I'll summarize it by saying, "Is there a best medical school?"
The U.S. News & World Report rankings would have you think that there is a vast difference in the quality of medical schools here in the United States. Pre-meds, parents, and the media play into this frenzy of believing that certain schools are vastly superior to others. I've written in an earlier post on my feelings about the ranking methodology. Instead, I will use today to discuss whether or not there is any validity to these rankings.
First, consider performance on the licensing exams. All universities, on average, have a 95% pass rate for their students. That also means that there is, on average, a 5% failure rate. Both Harvard and Drexel each have students perform at the top of the bell curve as well as those who fail outright. While there are differences in the average score, your performance on the test is based solely upon your own preparation, and not any magical instruction given by the school.
Here are the match lists for Johns Hopkins University (currently ranked #2), Brown University (currently ranked #31), and Albert Einstein College of Medicine (not ranked). You will notice that people from all three universities have matched in noncompetitive specialties such as pediatrics as well as competitive specialties such as ophthalmology.
I also found a list of people who have matched into plastic surgery in 2007 and neurosurgery in 2008. Take a moment to go through the names of all of the schools. You'll notice a variety of universities are listed, including rank and unranked programs.
That's not to say that where you go to medical school is completely meaningless. Residency program directors certainly take it into consideration. For example, if a senior resident from State University is doing well at a particular residency, the program director is likely to look favorably upon medical students applying from that university. The converse is true. If a resident who is an alum of your university is performing poorly, the program director might unconsciously think that you will struggle as well.
Some research has been performed on the subject as to what program directors are looking for. Several years ago the journal Academic Emergency Medicine published an article ranking the most important factors of an application. They are:
1. Emergency medicine rotation grades
2. Interview
3. Clinical grades
4. Other
5. Recommendations
6. Grades (overall)
7. Elective at the program director's institution
8. Board scores (overall)
9. USMLE step II
10. Interest expressed
11. USMLE step I
12. Awards/achievements
13. AOA status
14. Medical school attended
15. Extracurricular activities
16. Basic science grades
17. Publications
18. Personal statement
You will notice that "medical school attended" falls behind "other" and "interest expressed." So maybe it does play a role after all.
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Chris said,
I don't know where any of my doctors went to school. For that matter, most of my doctors are partners in a private practice anyway.
RAG said,
True, mostly. There are, however, some places that are stigmatized either for reputation or historical reasons. I went to a school where a couple interviews actually asked me how I'd ended up there and what I thought of it – spun it well, but it really showed me that there was a bias. Plus we've never matched in some highly competitive fields despite multiple attempts.
Scrub Notes said,
While I agree with the general idea that a student from any school who does well academically can match pretty much anywhere, I still think school reputation matters, albeit indirectly. The problem here is that the variables being listed are not independent from each other. If you go to a good medical school and get a good education and then do well on your boards, then your good board score will partially capture the value that the medical school imparted. Match rates are not necessarily as important as average board score or whether graduates go into their top or one of their top three choices.
Another way to look at this is, look at the top tier programs in a particular field. Are there students seemingly randomly distributed across medical schools, or clustered from a certain few? I think there is more clustering than what your post would imply.
Just my two cents.
-Scrub Notes
jwisc said,
It is important to realize that the end goal of a medical education is not the perfect match, but rather becoming the best physician possible. I think the stress that is put on going to a top tier medical school has some foundation albeit a poor one. The reason (hopefully and probably optimistically) we all are pursuing a career in medicine is to be able to have a direct impact on the well-being of those around us. Medical school choice should be based upon coherence with an individual's learning style and the quality of teaching staff and ultimately for superb patient care. Again, I hope that I'm not delusional.
Graham said,
But you're forgetting that The Match is a stepwise process. I do think that a particular applicant's medical school may help them be given the opportunity to then interview.
buckeye surgeon said,
Medical school curriculum doesn't vary. The same body of knowledge needs to be learned whether you're in Cambridge, MA or Toledo, OH. Once you get renal physiology down, there's nothing else to do with it. There are no honors courses or visiting professor seminars. You simply move on to the next topic. Medical school isn't an open-ended situation that challenges students to go beyond the curriculum, like at elite undergrad colleges. You're given x amount of information to learn and master and that's all there is to it. After the first week of med school, I never went to another class. I basically home schooled myself using the syllabi and text books and noteservice as the guide. And I finished near the top of the class.
Residency is a different situation, especially for a surgeon. If you're at a marginal residency program, you're not going to be exposed to the kinds of patients and operations that someone at a good program would see. And with work hour reform… blah blah blah….I'll stop right there..
GreenWeaver said,
My two cents is that there is not a "best" medical school, but that there really might be a better medical school for YOU. I'm sure buckeye surgeon is essentially correct, but I think it's in general difficult to know unless you have spent time really interacting at multiple medical schools. Based on my current experience at a school with two curricular paths that really are quite different, I'd say it sure can vary a lot, particularly in how material is presented. How you learn, and the extent to which you will be expected to learn on your own vs. having things really drilled into you seems to be pretty different just between our two programs. Also, different schools can offer you different kinds of exposures to research, service, shadowing, etc. Probably in the long run won't make much difference in terms of residency, but could if you don't do well because you're at a school that fits you badly.
Notanopinion said,
HMS is in Boston, MA not Cambridge, FYI
DoubleDizzle said,
I would disagree with BuckeyeSurgeon – I think medical curricula vary quite a bit. Fortunately, the "classics" – such as the renal physiology he mentions – are available at any allopathic or osteopathic school. Heck, you can learn that sort of thing for "a buck twenty five in late charges from the public library" to quote Good Will Hunting. Guess what? I went to Hopkins and I got to learn renal physiology from Peter Agre – you know, the guy who discovered aquaporins, for which he won the Nobel prize. Guess what else? That has zero bearing on anything I've ever done as a physician and to this day I don't think I can explain renal physiology any better for having learned all the excruciating details that "serious" research-oriented medical schools will force on you (and its not cause I played hookey – I was AOA). When you go to an elite reseach oriented medical school you will end your preclinical years (the first and most meaningless half of your MD) wondering what the hell you are paying for?
What you do get at an "elite" or "top tier" medical school that is worthwhile is a chance to interact one-on-one with exceptional clinicians – the opportunity to "retract for the stars" if you will. Medicine is a very practical field and most of the truly important information cannot be learned from a book. The best example of this is surgery. The majority of this type of training takes place in residency, but medical school is a profoundly important stepping stool to getting into the residency of your choice. And I would look at data rather than some random article in some Academic ED rag – 99% of journal articles in academic medicine are complete bullshit published so someone can make tenure, get a grant and see fewer patients in clinic.
Follow halfmd's links to the Hopkins match list, for example, you'll see almost all of the Hopkins neurosurgery spots over the past few years have gone to – you guessed it – Hopkins graduates. Look at MGH's Radiology page and see where those guys went. Bottom line – you go to a state school and you have to be #1 in your class to get to work with the premier neurosurgeons or radiologists in the country. Go to Harvard, Hopkins, Penn, etc. and you can be one of two or three students from your class that stay on (the rest will go to other elite programs and cross-pollinate). For people like myself who have invested 20 plus years of their life into preparing for their career, this constitutes a huge difference. Since I was unwilling to leave my Match chances to fate, I decided it was worth the sacrifice to attend a place like Hopkins.
All of this essentially boils down to the fact that while the first two years of medical school can be learned from books, the majority of important medical knowledge must be learned from people – your piers, attendings, residents, fellows, etc. This is why there is such a profound variation in the adequacy of residency training programs. You will appreciate this the first time you rotate in a non-academic center like a VA or a community hospital and work with someone who went to a weak residency in the US or even worse trained in the Caribbean.
So here's my advice – excellence begets excellence. Dig deep into your pockets (or, as is usually the case, someone else's) and bet on yourself. If you want to be the best of your generation – train with the best of your generation.
ATWIINE said,
MARTHA said,
Are there any sponsorship oppotunities for students who not citzens of any of USA?
Half M.D.: You are supposed to be a citizen of the U.S. to receive a military scholarship.
stevenM said,
I had a couple of questions. I am currently in college pre med I have a good gpa and am a single parent of five children. One of my children has special needs. I want to be a Dr very badly but have a shaky past in which I got into some trouble but all before I had children. Should I classify my dream as just that or keep hot on its heels?
mb said,
Is there a best medical school – yes – harvard
Does it matter where you go – yes
Its a lot easier getting into a good residency from a good medical school:
more research opportunities
letters from "famous" docs
a home program that is good and favors you
well respected advisors making calls for you
residency programs comfortable taking applicants from your school…all that shit
Or you could be AOA and smoke the step 1's and be fine, but that requires being AOA and smoking the step 1s.

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With cold weather slowly creeping its way across the state, fall foliage is beginning to show its true colors in Texas state parks.
In the Panhandle, Palo Duro Canyon State Park's cottonwood trees' yellow leaves glint in the sunlight and the skunkbush sumacs are just about to turn.
Northwest of San Antonio, the bigtooth maples and other hardwoods at Lost Maples State Natural Area are showing hints of color around their edges and are expected to be in peak color by Veterans Day. The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department strongly suggests that to avoid long lines of traffic, try to visit Lost Maples during the week.
Northwest of Austin at Inks Lake State Park near Burnet, the sycamore trees are sporting golden foliage and the cypress trees lining the lake have adorned themselves in shades of brown, orange, and red.
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So you want to buy a Rolex (yes I do as a matter of fact). The reasons are irrelevant - perhaps you were in Milan and liked the way the suave locals were wearing them, or maybe you just got a nice bonus. Regardless, once you have made the decision, you are likely to start some online research. The next thing you know, you're seriously overwhelmed, reading about vintage Bart Simpson dials and Single vs Double Reds, and lying awake at night wondering how to tell an original Paul Newman dial from a repainted one. Relax! Just stick to the tips MR PORTER has outlined above and not only will your watch-loving friends be impressed by your superior take, but there will be a smile on your face every time you glance at your wrist and see the face of an expertly considered Rolex looking right back at you.
Check out some common mistakes when buying a Rolex after the break!
Falling to quickly: You may fall for, or obsess over, the first Rolex you see, and want to buy it immediately. Don't. Get a bit of perspective - Rolex made more than half a million watches in each of the past 25 years alone. Do your research, bide your time and find a source you trust - it will be worth the wait.
Acting on looks alone: Don't enter into a marriage that will never work. Sometimes you will find a 1980s watch with a 1970s dial, or a Submariner with a bracelet that was only ever used on other models. While it may be attractive, it is wrong, and not only will it be hard to resell, but once you know the truth it will irritate you every time you glance at your wrist.
Not putting the hours in: There are dozens of books on Rolex watches and even more websites. Take your time, read up and talk to dealers and other collectors before taking the plunge. No hour spent on research is a wasted hour.


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This is a sampling from Bay Area News Group's Political Blotter blog. Read more and post comments at www.ibabuzz.com/politics.
Jan. 24
MoveOn is hosting an online petition that urges federal immigration officials and local police departments to treat all immigrants like Justin Bieber.
I'm not a 12-year-old girl and thus not specifically attuned to the story, but apparently the Canadian heartthrob was arrested early Thursday on suspicion of drunken driving after officers saw him drag racing in a yellow Lamborghini.
The petition, launched by activist Jesus Iñiguez of Presente.org, claims that "the treatment of Justin Bieber has proven that an immigrant can make mistakes and not be slapped with outrageously steep fines by the justice system, or be detained and deported by Immigration and Customs Enforcement."
"We demand that ALL undocumented immigrants be treated the same way," the petition says. "We're Beliebers that this form of justice will prevail and that this becomes reflective of the change President Obama promised us."
Without taking any stance on the issue of immigration, I'll just say I actually favor deporting Justin Bieber. From the planet.
Jan. 24
Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus will speak at the state GOP's spring convention.
Priebus will be the opening-night speaker at the confab, which runs March 14 through 16 at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport in Burlingame. The party also announced Friday that House Rules Committee Chairman Pete Sessions, R-Texas, will speak at the Saturday-night banquet.
The party previously had announced that former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will speak as well.
"We're thrilled to have such a distinguished lineup of speakers for this convention," party Chairman Jim Brulte said in a news release. "Both Chairman Priebus and Congressman Sessions have track records of success in reviving Republican organizations and will be extremely helpful in the ongoing efforts to rebuild our state party from the ground up."
Jan. 24
State Controller John Chiang overstepped his legal authority in 2011 by deciding to dock lawmakers' paychecks because he deemed the budget they had passed to be unbalanced, a state appellate court ruled Friday.
"(W)here the Legislature is the entity acting indisputably within its fundamental constitutional jurisdiction to enact what it designates as a balanced budget, the controller does not have audit authority to determine whether the budget bill is in fact balanced," Court of Appeal Associate Justice M. Kathleen Butz wrote; associate justices Cole Blease and William Murray Jr. concurred in this affirmation of a lower court's 2012 decision.
Proposition 25 of 2010, approved by 55 percent of voters, lets the Legislature approve budgets on a simple-majority vote, but it also says lawmakers must forfeit their pay and per diems for each day the state is past its constitutional deadline without a budget.
Chiang announced in June 2011 that his office's review of the budget, which had been passed on the day it was due, "found components that were miscalculated, miscounted or unfinished. The numbers simply did not add up, and the Legislature will forfeit their pay until a balanced budget is sent to the governor." He ended up withholding about $583,000 from the lawmakers.
Assembly Speaker John Perez, D-Los Angeles, and state Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento, sued on principle, without seeking recovery of that back pay.


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The sun is already beginning to set in the western sky. As the precious final minutes of the holiest day of the year slip away, we reach one of its celebrated high points – the haftorah reading which relates the story of Jonah and the whale.
This famous yet thoroughly baffling story opens with Hashem sending Jonah as a divine messenger to the huge Assyrian metropolis of Ninveh. The city had descended to a level of decadence that was simply intolerable, and destruction was imminent. Only immediate repentance would bring about a reprieve. Jonah, however, does not want to undertake this mission, and he attempts to flee from Hashem. He books passage on a ship which will carry him far away from Ninveh, but a sudden storm threatens to tear the ship apart. The sailors cast lots, and Jonah is tossed into the sea, where he is swallowed by a whale.
From the belly of the whale, Jonah cries out to Hashem in anguish and despair and pleads for deliverance. Hashem answers Jonah's prayer. The whale spits him out onto the shore, and he sets off at once for Ninveh, where his message is greeted with consternation. The people don sackcloth and repent, and the city is spared.
The obvious question leaps at us from the page: Jonah was undoubtedly a very holy man if Hashem granted him the gift of prophecy. How then did he have the effrontery to refuse to serve as the messenger of Heaven?
Our Sages tell us that Jonah was concerned for the welfare of the Jewish people who, at that time, were also guilty of grievous sins in spite of the repeated warnings of the great prophets. They explain Jonah feared the people of evil Ninveh, a nation of degenerate pagans, would heed his prophetic warning and repent, causing the Jewish people, the custodians of the Torah, to suffer by comparison. They would stand indicted before the bar of Heavenly justice with nothing to say in their own defense. Therefore, Jonah chose to flee rather than bring down retribution on the heads of his people.
But the questions still remain: Did Jonah think he could frustrate the divine plan by fleeing on a ship? Did he think Hashem would find no other way to offer Ninveh the option of repentance? And even if he thought his flight could somehow benefit the Jewish people, what right did he have to suppress the prophecy entrusted to him?
Furthermore, what lesson are we meant to derive from this story in the climactic moments of Yom Kippur? Is it only meant to present us with another example of disaster avoided through timely repentance? Or is there also a deeper significance in the central theme of the story, which revolves around Jonah's attempt to extricate himself from his mission?
The commentators explain that Jonah certainly had no illusions about thwarting the divine plan. If Hashem wanted to warn Ninveh that only repentance could save them, He undoubtedly would. However, Jonah had such an overpowering love for the Jewish people that he could not bear to be the agent of their misfortune. In desperation, he resolved to flee so that Hashem's will would be fulfilled through some other channel. He was fully aware of the magnitude of his act and the dire consequences he would probably suffer for his disobedience, but the alternative was unbearable.
Hashem, however, chose not to send a different messenger to Ninveh. Instead, He sent storms and whales to force Jonah to return and accept his mission. The message to Jonah was very clear, and it resonates down through the ages to reach us every Yom Kippur. Jonah had no right to weigh the pros and cons of obeying Hashem's command. He did not have the option of deciding whether or not to obey. If Hashem commanded him to go to Ninveh, then that was what he was obliged to do, and no amount of rationalization could change it. A person has to subjugate himself completely to the divine will, to obey without question, reservation or rationalization. Hashem undoubtedly knew of Jonah's love for his people, and if He nevertheless sent him on his mission, Jonah had no choice but to obey.
In our own lives, we sometimes bend the rules to suit our convenience. We fall into the trap of "situation ethics," seeking a middle ground between our desires and the dictates of our Creator. We rationalize. We equivocate. We compromise. Like Jonah, we seek to escape the strictures imposed on us by our innermost conscience. But in actuality, as Jonah discovered so painfully, it is not for us to make value judgments about the divine will. Total acceptance may indeed be difficult from time to time, but overall, it is the only path to spiritual tranquillity and fulfillment. Text Copyright © 2010 by Rabbi Naftali Reich and Torah.org.
Rabbi Reich is on the faculty of the Ohr Somayach Tanenbaum Education Center.


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DAYTON, Ohio (AP) Matthew Dellavedova scored 22 points on Tuesday night, and Saint Mary's got a good start on its second straight NCAA tournament appearance, beating Middle Tennessee 67-54 in the First Four.
The Gaels (28-6) make a quick trip to Auburn Hills, Mich., to play sixth-seeded Memphis on Thursday.
Saint Mary's is making back-to-back NCAA tournament appearances for the first time in its history. The Gaels reached the round of 16 in 2010 before losing to Baylor. Not so good last year, when they dropped their opening game to Purdue 72-69.
With four starters back and Dellavedova, the school's career scoring leader, handling the ball and making the biggest shots, the Gaels were too much for Middle Tennessee (28-6), which was making its first NCAA tournament appearance in 24 years.
Credit Dellavedova for making a difference, as he has all season. The point guard went 7 of 14 from the field, including 5 of 7 behind the arc, and had four assists and six rebounds.
Tweety Knight led Middle Tennessee with 16 points. The Blue Raiders went only 4 of 12 from behind the arc, hitting one fewer 3-pointer than Dellavedova.
With those four starters back, Saint Mary's is looking for one of its best finishes yet. The Gaels did pretty much what they wanted all season long, except for one thing: Beating rival Gonzaga. Saint Mary's lost only three times in its last 22 games, all three times to the Bulldogs.
Fortunately for the Gaels, they put a lot of space between themselves and the Zags this week. No. 1 Gonzaga snagged the top seed in the West Regional and is playing in Salt Lake City. The Gaels get to stay in the Midwest for a while.
Middle Tennessee counted it a breakthrough just to be playing in the First Four - the Blue Raiders hadn't been there since 1989.
They won the Sun Belt's regular-season title and were expected to win the tournament and their league's automatic bid, but were upset in the semifinals, ending a 17-game winning streak. They had to sweat out a few days before finding out that the NCAA selection committee picked them over defending champion Kentucky and other basketball blue bloods for an at-large bid.
One main reason: Consistency, especially on the road. The Blue Raiders didn't lose two games in a row all season until their last two tournament games.
Dellavedova had made only one of his last 18 shots from behind the arc heading into the game, but found his mark early. He had a pair of 3s as well as a steal and a layup, helping Saint Mary's pull ahead 13-9. After his second 3-pointer fell, Middle Tennessee coach Kermit Davis called a timeout to get the Blue Raiders reset on defense.
Couldn't stop Dellavedova for long. He hit a floater in the lane, passed to Brad Waldow for a dunk, then drew a foul and made a pair of free throws during an 11-2 run that closed the first half and gave Saint Mary's a 29-20 lead.
The Blue Raiders repeatedly missed close-up shots and managed only two free throws in the final 6 minutes, shooting 32 percent from the field overall in the half.
Dellavedova showed he was comfortable in the big moments, pumping up teammates with a pat or fist bump and slicing into the lane and pulling the defense to him like a magnet. He was part of Australia's backcourt in the 2012 Olympics in London, and it showed.
Dellavedova hit a pair of long 3s for a 39-28 lead early in the second half. Middle Tennessee pushed the pace and got its first significant run of the game, a 7-0 spurt that cut it to 41-38 with 12:38 to go.
Dellavedova had a 2-minute break on the bench to rest, then came back and hit his fifth 3-pointer of the game, helping the Gaels pull ahead 54-42 with 6 minutes to go. Middle Tennessee never got closer than nine points the rest of the way.


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Unfair Competition law: an overview
The law of unfair competition is primarily comprised of torts that cause an economic injury to a business through a deceptive or wrongful business practice. Unfair competition can be broken down into two broad categories. First, the term "unfair competition" is sometimes used to refer only to those torts that are meant to confuse consumers as to the source of the product. The other category, "unfair trade practices", comprises all other forms of unfair competition.
Unfair competition does not refer to the economic harms involving monopolies and antitrust legislation. What constitutes an "unfair" act varies with the context of the business, the action being examined, and the facts of the individual case.
Two common examples of unfair competition are trademark infringement and misappropriation. The latter involves the unauthorized use of an intangible assets not protected by trademark or copyright laws. See also Right of Publicity. Other practices that fall into the area of unfair competition include: false advertising, "bait and switch" selling tactics, unauthorized substitution of one brand of goods for another, use of confidential information by former employee to solicit customers, theft of trade secrets, breach of a restrictive covenant, trade libel, and false representation of products or services.
The law of unfair competition is mainly governed by state common law. Federal law may apply in the areas of trademarks, copyrights, and false advertising. See Trademark, Copyright, and § 1125 of the Lanham Act.
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In a strong show of unity, the AAFP and other major physician organizations met with House and Senate leaders Dec. 13 on Capitol Hill in a final push to avert a deep reduction in the Medicare physician payment rate on Jan. 1.
AAFP Board Chair Glen Stream, M.D., M.B.I., (left) and Charles Cutler, M.D., chair-elect of the board of regents for the American College of Physicians, take part in a briefing with other physician groups shortly before meeting with House and Senate leaders Dec. 13 on Capitol Hill.
AAFP Board Chair Glen Stream, M.D., M.B.I., of Spokane, Wash., and the leaders of four other physician organizations -- the AMA, the American College of Physicians, the American College of Surgeons and the American Osteopathic Association -- met with Republican and Democratic leaders to stop a 26.5 percent cut in the Medicare physician payment rate that is scheduled to take effect on Jan. 1 as a result of the sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula. Physicians also are facing an additional 2 percent cut in the Medicare physician payment rate on Jan. 2 due to the Budget Control Act's sequestration provision.
"We had good and frank discussions about the SGR and the critical importance of avoiding the end-of-the-year cuts," said Stream in an interview with AAFP News Now.
Stream and the other physician leaders also discussed the importance of replacing the SGR with a more equitable and stable payment system, effectively presenting congressional leaders with a two-part SGR request: First, prevent the impending cut, and then eliminate the SGR next year. Congressional leaders were very receptive to both requests, Stream said. "There really is strong support in the House and the Senate and in both parties about avoiding the impending cuts, but there is not agreement about how to pay for a Medicare payment patch."
Stream and the other physician leaders implored lawmakers to not pay for a Medicare payment extension by cutting funding for graduate medical education (GME) or by eliminating a provision in the health care reform law to bring Medicaid payment rates at least to Medicare levels for the next two years. The AAFP is spearheading opposition to a House proposal that would pay for a yearlong extension of the Medicare physician payment rate by eliminating the Medicaid-Medicare parity provision.
During the past few weeks, the AAFP has issued a number of Speak Out alerts, asking members to contact their legislators in Washington to voice opposition to the House proposal and to urge lawmakers to not cut GME funding to finance a payment fix. In addition, the AAFP and 43 of its state chapters, along with most of the nation's other major physician organizations, signed a joint letter to House and Senate leaders expressing strong opposition to the proposal. Stream and the other physicians referenced the letter during discussions with legislators.
In their discussions, Stream and the other physician leaders stressed that they are seeking a permanent solution to the ongoing cycle of deep Medicare cuts called for by the SGR, as well as congressional intervention to block the reductions. "We were not there asking for more money just to prevent payment cuts to physicians," said Stream. "We recognize that the current system is unsustainable -- that it doesn't promote quality. We want to transition to a better system, and we want certainty and stability during that transition."
Like physicians, lawmakers also are "tired and frustrated with the SGR," according to Stream. He said there is a growing consensus in Congress to eliminate the SGR as part of a possible larger budget deal between Congress and the White House next year. "I think we are closer than we have ever been," said Stream. But, "a repeal is not going to happen by the end of the month."
As a result, AAFP members need to keep contacting their legislators to tell them the impending Medicare payment cuts are not acceptable, Stream said. "If enacted, the cuts will have an adverse impact on physician practices and on the patients that we serve. We just can't let that happen."
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WASHINGTON — Is Republican presidential contender Ron Paul destined to be remembered for saying that terrorists attacked the United States on Sept 11, 2001 "because we've been over there; we've been bombing Iraq for 10 years"?
It was a critical moment in Tuesday night's GOP presidential candidates' debate in South Carolina.
Paul gave former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani the opportunity to rebuke him and dominate the news coverage of the event.
But Paul's passionate supporters don't think Giuliani was the winner — and their man the loser — in that skirmish.
In fact, Paul said Thursday that in the hours immediately after Tuesday night's debate, supportive phone calls to his campaign and donations via his web site soared.
"I was amazed. People donate money in the middle of the night, so all that night there was money coming into our website," Paul said in an interview with MSNBC.com.
Every four years, under-funded and relatively little-known presidential hopefuls such as Paul enter the race for their party's nomination. You may recall some other long-shot contenders of past elections:
- Former Delaware governor Pierre "Pete" du Pont IV in 1988, who advocated allowing younger workers to set up voluntary retirement accounts as an alternative to Social Security.
- South Carolina Sen. Ernest "Fritz" Hollings in 1984, whose broad Southern accent led Sen. Ted Kennedy to call him "the first non-English speaking candidate for president."
- Virtuoso orator Allan Keyes in 2000 who thrilled conservative audiences by demanding abolition of the income tax and repeal of the 16th Amendment.
'Pierre... a nutty idea'
Sometimes these candidates serve as unwitting foils for their party's frontrunners.
During a 1987 debate among the six GOP contenders, Vice President George Bush snidely pointed out du Pont's aristocratic heritage by criticizing du Pont's proposal for private retirement accounts as an alternative to Social Security.
"Pierre, let me help you on some of this," Bush snapped. "I think it's a nutty idea to fool around with the Social Security system and run the risk of the people who've been saving all their lives."
The poll numbers of contenders such as du Pont or Paul in the early stage of the nomination contest suggest they have no chance to win.
Other political news of note
Animated Boehner: 'There's nothing complex about the Keystone Pipeline!'
House Speaker John Boehner became animated Tuesday over the proposed Keystone Pipeline, castigating the Obama administration for not having approved the project yet.
- Budget deficits shrinking but set to grow after 2015
- Senate readies another volley on unemployment aid
- Obama faces Syria standstill
- Fluke files to run in California
- Animated Boehner: 'There's nothing complex about the Keystone Pipeline!'
But then again, they just might. The best case of a seemingly out-of-the-running candidate who surprised everyone and became the front-runner was Howard Dean four years ago.
In early 2003 the former Vermont governor keenly sensed the frustration Democrats felt about the Iraq war and he was exactly the right candidate for that moment.
Apart from their function as the idiosyncratic "character actors" of presidential debates, do these second-tier candidates have an impact on their party's nominees and their policies?
Varied messages and motives
If they have little chance of sitting in the Oval Office, why do they run? In the case of this year's crop of GOP long-shot contenders, the motives and messages vary:
- Rep. Tom Tancredo of Colorado: Long the leading voice in his party for keeping out illegal immigrants, Tancredo has spread his immigration message through his political action committee, trying to defeat fellow Republican Rep. Chris Cannon, in 2004, for example. A presidential bid is a natural extension of Tancredo's advocacy and his presence in debates will ensure that the pressure is on Giuliani and McCain on the immigration issue.
- Rep. Duncan Hunter of California: Like Tancredo, Hunter speaks for the frustrated immigration hawks in his party. He's also using his presidential bid to sound the alarm about the Chinese regime which, he said in his debut television ad, is "cheating on trade and they're buying ships, planes and missiles with our money, as well as taking millions of jobs."
- Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee: Having finished 11 years as governor, Huckabee was free to show off his relaxed talents as a presidential candidate, which he'd already been doing as a public health crusader. "Quit Digging Your Grave with a Knife and Fork," he pleaded in his book and in speeches warning of soaring incidence of diabetes and obesity.
- Sen. Sam Brownback of Kansas: His candidacy ensures that social conservatives will have their voice heard on protection of fetal life in the womb and preservation of heterosexual marriage.
- Tommy Thompson: He served 15 years of governor of Wisconsin, implemented successful welfare reform in his state, and contemplated seeking the GOP presidential nomination in 2000. But he yielded to a less experienced governor from Texas. On the campaign trial Thompson touts the significance of Wisconsin and its ten electoral votes and guarantees that he'd carry it for Republicans.
An unsuccessful bid can put a contender in the running for a future job, either as vice president, or as in the case of 1988 Democratic long-shot Bruce Babbitt who ended up as Bill Clinton's Secretary of Interior.
Sometimes, as in the case of Paul, these second-tier candidates represent a category-busting type of thinking that cannot find a comfortable resting place in either major party.
Is Paul having an impact?
Asked Thursday what impact he is having on the Republican presidential race, Paul said, "I think it might be significant that one of the so-called front-runners needed to attack me on national television. They must think I'm having enough of an impact that they have to try to discredit me. That was the purpose of the (Giuliani) attack: to discredit me so that my foreign policy challenge wouldn't be heard."
He added, "What annoys them the most is that I don't criticize foreign policy from the Left; I criticize it from the Right, from a conservative viewpoint, from a constitutional viewpoint. It drives them nuts."
Paul, a ten-term House member from Texas and the 1988 Libertarian candidate for president, admits most Republican voters don't agree with his non-interventionist approach to foreign policy.
"I think the majority of Republicans right now are in the camp of intervention — but they're also asking a lot of questions because of what happened in last year's election and they know that they lost the election over foreign policy," he said.
Complete U.S. exit from Iraq
Paul supports withdrawing all U.S. troops from Iraq — not leaving some behind for counter-terrorism operations and training Iraqi soldiers, as advocated by Democratic contenders Sen. Hillary Clinton and Sen. Barack Obama.
And what of the consequences of U.S. exit from Iraq?
"It may be much better," Paul said. "The Arab League may take over. Israel may be much more of a player there rather than us suppressing Israel. There's all kinds of good things that could come of it."
Paul will probably not be able to persuade Sen. John McCain to adopt a non-interventionist foreign policy. But in the long run, a contender can see vindication.
Case in point: Pete du Pont saw some of his ideas — considered extreme and unorthodox in 1988 — become mainstream.
In 1988 du Pont called for:
- Requiring welfare recipients to work, an idea which was incorporated into the 1996 welfare reform bill signed into law by President Clinton.
- Creating voluntary individual retirement accounts as an alternative to Social Security, a proposal which President Bush championed and tried to get Congress to enact in 2005.
- Withholding drivers' licenses from high school students who test positive during mandatory random drug testing.
- Offering vouchers to parents so they could send their children to private schools, if local public schools were dysfunctional.
Discounted as an iconoclast who had little chance to become the 1988 GOP nominee, du Pont proved to be ahead of his time. So, too, could be today's crop of contenders.
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- Sandra Guzman: Dolores Prida, advice columnist, "Latina Dear Abby," died at 69
- She says Guzman was Renaissance woman: playwright, activist, feminist
- Her plays spoke to Latina experience in U.S.; Her advice columns were wise, frank, witty
- Guzman: Her last hours were joyous, spent with friends; she brought many joy and light
Imagine if Dear Abby had been a Cuban feminist living in New York's Spanish Harlem.
Imagine she was a lesbian with gravitas, an immigrant rights activist with spunk, sass and a wickedly mischievous sense of humor -- and you have Dolores Prida, an advice columnist widely known and beloved in the Latino community.
She died this weekend, at 69, and her dignified and elegant persona, her significance in New York's theater world, its artistic community, Hispanic life, and journalism cannot be overstated, even if you've never heard of her.
An oldest of three children, Ms. Prida, who was born in a Cabairién, Cuba, came to New York City in 1961 with her siblings and parents, and before long worked in the theater.
She would go on to be a playwright, and among the most important plays she wrote was "Beautiful Señoritas," a searing exploration of the role of women in society. It was written two decades ago, but many of the issues that plagued women then, particularly immigrant women, are still being negotiated today: how to balance the desire for a meaningful career with being a mother and wife when you're stuck in traditional, strict, and suffocating gender roles.
She also taught classes at several colleges and wrote political columns for the New York Daily News and El Diario.
But it was in her role as the voice behind Latina magazine's advice column, Dolores Dice, (Dolores Says) where Ms. Prida's generous spirit, lyrical eloquence and playful wit would find its glory.
I had the pleasure of hiring her when I was Latina's editor-in-chief 15 years ago. Though the column name was a sweet coincidence -- a play on the Spanish verb for pain, dolor -- once Ms. Prida took it over in the spring of 1998, it took fabulous form. This was the Hispanic woman's answer to Dear Abby. Ms. Prida gave the column guts and grit.
In one of her last responses, published in the current issue of Latina, a woman from Texas who described herself as being "white and Puerto Rican" longed to be proud of her heritage.
Ms. Prida's response: "When you say you can pass for either, 'depending on how I dress, wear make up and do my hair,' you are stereotyping yourself based on an imagined cultural identity centered on looks and behaviors. Latinas do not wear their hair or behave in any particular way. We come in every shape and form. Be yourself." The zinger? "And stop hanging out with people who judge you based on your hairstyle or outburst of sassiness. Let them think whatever."
In a 1998 column that was vintage Dolores, a reader sought advice: "I'm married, but I've fallen in love with the young man who works at the corner store. He doesn't know it yet. I don't know what to do. --Iris."
The answer? "Dear Iris: Do your shopping elsewhere. Pronto!" --Dolores"
Ms. Prida's work as an advice columnist was remarkable because of the many lenses through which she viewed life, among them: immigrant, Cuban exile, poet, community activist, sister, friend, mentor, immigrant rights advocate, lesbian, cook, smartass -- a candid soul filled with wisdom and fully-lived experiences. She'd been born in 1943 and she delivered good old-fashioned wisdom for women of the 21st century.
It's almost a poetic irony that a woman whose name in Spanish means many pains brought so many of us so much joy and light.
Hours before dying of a heart attack, Ms. Prida celebrated the 20th anniversary of LIPS, "Latinas In Power, Sort Of," a women's group that we are both part of. But there is nothing "sort of" about this unofficial group of gals. Among its members are a publisher of a large metro newspaper, several Emmy and Pulitzer winners, writers, lawyers, producers.
There's even a Justice in the group, as in Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who decided to pay a surprise visit that night to toast our enduring friendships.
Near midnight Ms. Prida complained of a slight stomachache and left quietly, as if not to disturb the flow. She did not say goodbye, but earlier in the evening she'd revealed to the group that she would be 70 this year. She could hardly believe it herself. Neither could we. She looked radiant and bursting with energy and ideas. A few blocks from her house, we later learned, she called her sister and asked her to pick her up, as she was not feeling well. Her sister found her.
During the ride to the hospital, the paramedics asked her name, and Ms. Prida instead of repeating her information, responded by telling them that she was just at a party and she was dancing -- that she was dancing for joy. She died several hours later at Mount Sinai Hospital, surrounded by her two sisters and niece.
She'd been working on a book, "How to Become an American in 100 Films" and told me that finishing was a challenge because she wasn't sure she wanted to include modern flicks. She didn't care much for them; she loved the black and white classics. Of course she did: Classic, like her.
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Blockade Aims to Stop Southern KXL Pipeline
This article originally appeared on Rabble.ca and is adapted and reposted with permission.
Just when it seemed that the Keystone XL pipeline was on hold, TransCanada Corp. segmented the project and the U.S. government fast-tracked the environmental review process. This allows TransCanada to begin construction on the southern part of the Keystone XL this summer.
With a nonviolent direct action camp that started July 27, 2012 in East Texas, grassroots opponents are working on a construction project of their own: Tar Sands Blockade, a coalition of landowners, community members, students, and others dedicated to stopping the pipeline through direct action.
Building in Segments to Get around Opposition
The Keystone XL pipeline was originally proposed as a single line that went from Alberta to Texas. However, in February, TransCanada announced that the southern part of the Keystone XL had been reconceived as a separate pipeline called the Gulf Coast Project.
TransCanada spokesperson David Dodson characterizes the Gulf Coast pipeline as important for the energy security of the United States. According to Dodson, domestic producers "do not have access to enough pipeline capacity to move the production to the large refining market along the U.S. Gulf Coast."
In March, U.S. President Barack Obama expedited the review process for pipelines going from Oklahoma to Texas. "In part due to rising domestic production, more oil is flowing in than can flow out, creating a bottleneck that is dampening incentives for new production while restricting oil from reaching state-of-the-art refineries on the Gulf Coast," reads the president's March 22 memo. In a whopping 86-word sentence, the president goes on to explain that all agencies are to "coordinate and expedite their reviews, consultations, and other processes as necessary to expedite decisions related to domestic pipeline infrastructure projects."
Following the President's order to expedite the review process, the Sierra Club, Oklahoma and Texas landowners, and the Texas communities of Reklaw, Gallatin, and Alto filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), which issues water permits.
Tar Sands Blockade spokesperson Ron Seifert explained that the president was under no obligation to come forward and expedite the Gulf Coast Project review process. "The president expedited the project not because he had to, but because he wanted to show support for our oil and gas industry," Seifert said. "It wasn't mandated by any laws. But in doing so, our Environmental Protection Agency was persuaded to stand down and the result is that the more thorough water crossing investigations and hearings along the pipeline route are basically bypassed."
USACE names environmental sustainability as a guiding principle.
A Lesson from Enbridge
Another organization that highlights its interest in sustainability is Enbridge, Inc. The company joined forces with the University of Calgary's Haskayne School of Business on March 27, 2012, to unveil the Enbridge Centre for Corporate Sustainability.
But these days the name Enbridge is more likely to evoke images of its 2010 oil spill, in which 20,000 barrels of oil flowed into Michigan's Kalamazoo River. The disaster has been called the largest inland oil spill in the history of the U.S. Midwest.
In its July 25 report on the Enbridge oil spill, the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board twice recommends that Enbridge require its operators "to provide system-specific information about their pipeline systems to the emergency response agencies of the communities and jurisdictions in which those pipelines are located." The report goes on to say that these reports should include details such as "pipe diameter, operating pressure, product transported, and the potential impact radius."
Seifert from Tar Sands Blockade indicated that TransCanada has not disclosed the pipeline contents to landowners. In a phone interview from Texas, he expressed concern about chemicals used to dilute bitumen. Bitumen requires dilution because it is too thick to flow through pipelines by itself. And there is fear that diluted bitumen, or "dilbit," will pass through the Gulf Coast Project if the northern part of the Keystone XL is built. Diluted bitumen contains carcinogenic benzenes and toxic heavy metals.
Referring to the National Transportation Safety Board report, Seifert says that Enbridge "increased their pipeline pressure on several occasions leading up to the accident. They did that because they were getting false readings from gas bubbles in their pipe. So that's an endemic flaw of tar sands dilbit because they mix and dilute tar sands with this natural gas condensate, which creates gas pockets and creates false pressure readings."
Council of Canadians Energy and Climate Justice Campaigner Maryam Adrangi concurs with Seifert's observation about the oil and gas industry's lack of transparency. "They talk a lot about hypothetical [pipeline] routes lately. You think in the back of your mind, these companies have to have an idea of where they want to put these projects," Adrangi said in a phone interview from Vancouver. "There's just a general lack of transparency when it comes down to it."
The Keystone XL pipeline is back, sort of. But will its promoters' tactics cause a property rights backlash?
Nebraska isn't known for environmental activism—but an oil pipeline that would cross the Ogallala aquifer is changing that.
Gaining ground in the fight against controversial natural gas extraction.


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It's a single word that created an internet sensation in the steamy journalistic echo chamber of a national political convention.
The word: "Absolutely."
Asked by NBC News political director Chuck Todd whether he might consider another presidential run, Texas Gov. Rick Perry responded: "Oh absolutely. There's a long time until 2016 and a lot of good things can happen," he said.
The comment prompted dozens of blog posts and instant commentary from the Pundit Elite. The Los Angeles Times declared: "Musing on 2016, Texas Gov. Perry strays from GOP corral."
After all, why would Perry, who withdrew from the 2012 presidential race in January, even be talking about 2016 unless 2012 Republican nominee Mitt Romney loses to President Barack Obama in November.
Well, this morning, speaking with a small group of Texas reporters, Perry walked back his off-hand remark on the convention floor.
Is he running for president in 2016?
Is he "seriously considering" a run in 2016?
Could it happen?
"2016 is a long way to trying to make any decisions about what you're doing," he said at a session with print reporters at the Saddlebrook Resort, where the Texas delegation is staying.
Perry said he will decide on his future plans after the 2013 session of the Texas Legislature. But he did hint — strongly — that he will seek another term as governor in 2014.
"There's certainly that option," he said, noting later that "I'm pretty comfortable with my record. We are the envy of the other 49 states."
The Texas press corps has been trying to get the scoop all week about the governor's future plans.
Perry told Gromer Jeffers of the Dallas Morning News yesterday that he "most likely" would seek another term.
"I don't have to make that decision today," he told the intrepid News reporter. "I've told folks that unless the good Lord's got a different plan for me, it's most likely, but the good news is I don't have to make that decision right now and I'm focused on the next 70 days and making sure we elect Mitt Romney the president of the United States."
Today, he joked that the media was trying to create a news story.
"I greatly appreciate your efforts to stir up the electoral process in Texas," he said.
Here's Chuck Todd's original report…
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|[The making of EU legislation according to Otto von Bismarck]
But given the latest front lines in the negotiations for the Unitary Patent and Unified Patent Court, we must confess that finding a compromise between the diametrically opposed positions of the EU Council and the JURI committee with respect to the legal supervision of the CJEU over substantive EU patent law (see earlier posting) would be a miracle indeed.
The dilemma started on the European Council summit on 28/29 June 2012, as UK Prime Minister David Cameron could push through that Articles 6 to 8 of the UPP Regulation be deleted to the effect that substantive patent law would not anymore be subject to CJEU supersision. The European Parliament and its legal committee (JURI) were strongly irritated and willing to refuse any text in which the CJEU has not the final say about the EU patent system (see e.g. here or there).
But nevertheless, such a divine compromise may have been found in COREPER on 19 November 2012 under the Cyprus Council Presidency in the form of a new Article 5a UPP, replacing former Articles 6 to 8 (see press release). The most recent drafts thus are:
- UPC Agreement, draft dated 14 November 2012 (Document 16222/12),
- UPP Regulation, undated draft of 19 November 2012 (leaked Document sent from COREPER to JURI).
- Summer Break is Over (Nov 19)
- EU: Unitary Patent: State Of Play, What Next? (Nov 20)
- New Council Documents (Nov 20)
- More Secrets Unveiled (Nov 21)
- Some Thoughts on Territorial Aspects (Nov 25)
But why is that a compromise? Why is JURI prepared to accept the amended UPP Regulation without Articles 6 to 8?
The reason appears to lie in new Art. 5a (3) UPP, reading
The acts against which the patent provides protection referred to in paragraph 1 [i.e. the substantive effects of a Unitary Patent] and the applicable limitations shall be those defined by the law applied to European patents with unitary effect in the participating Member State whose national law is applicable to the European patent with unitary effect as an object of property in accordance with Article 10 [treating a Unitary Patent as a national patent]which is outlined in the explanation on page 2 of this leaked document:
Pursuant to new Article 5a(3) UPP Regulation, uniformity of protection will be achieved by the reference to the law of the participating Member State whose law is applicable to the European patent with unitary effect as an object of property pursuant to Article 10 UPP Regulation. Implicitly this refers to Articles 14f to 14i of the UPC Agreement, which correspond to the former Articles 6 to 8 of the UPP Regulation and which define the scope of the right of the proprietor, its limitations and prior user rights. Articles 14f to 14i of the UPC Agreement which previously applied only to "classical" European bundle patents have now been amended so that they now apply also to European patents with unitary effect. These Articles defining the scope of the right, its limitations and prior use rights will form an integral part of the national law of each participating Member State in which the UPC Agreement will come into force and for which the European patent with unitary effect will become operational.That is, in short, by a legislative trick the new Unified Patent Court is defined to be a "court of a European Union member state" (just like e.g. the Benelux Court of Justice) and thus is, as a "court or tribunal of a Member State" within the meaning of Article 267 TFEU, entitled to refer questions to the CJEU and ask for a preliminary ruling.
As some may feel reminded of the finding of Otto von Bismarck, who compared laws to sausages, since it is better not to be there when they are made, British Tory eurosceptics might feel severely outsmarted by the EU legislation as the trophies their brave knight David Cameron heroically won on the European Council summit in June 2012 suddenly turn to a Pyrrhic victory.
But the tide may turn again, because for entering into force the UPC Agreement has to be ratified or acceded by thirteen member states including the three (mandatory) Member States in which the highest number of European patents had effect in 2012 (cf. Art. 59 UPC Agreement), which will be Germany, France, and ... the United Kingdom, thus providing UK eurosceptics with a long lever to infuriate the rest of the Union - maybe except Italy and Spain.


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