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The Hill:
Firm disowns lobbyist selling anti-gay bill — A K Street lobbying giant joined a brewing battle over gay and lesbian rights Tuesday when it disowned a former employee who is hawking legislation to bar gays from the National Football League (NFL). — In an unusual public rebuke …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and The Huffington Post
Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo: Michael Sam, Former Employer Hit Lobbyist Trying To Ban Gays In NFL
Washington Examiner:
NFL could pull Super Bowl if Arizona religious rights bill passes — BELTWAY CONFIDENTIAL NFL ARIZONA SUPER BOWL — Call it what you want — anti-gay or religious rights — but if Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer signs a controversial bill, you might not be calling Arizona the home of the 2015 Super Bowl.
Discussion: USA Today, Christian News …, The Daily Beast, Hot Air, OnPolitics, The Gateway Pundit, Vox Popoli, National Review and Arizona Republic
Morgan Lee / Christian News, The Christian Post: John McCain, Other Republicans, Break With Party Over Controversial Religious Freedom Bill Slammed …
Allahpundit / Hot Air: Quotes of the day — Republican Gov. Jan Brewer faced …
Catalina Camia / OnPolitics: Mitt Romney calls on Arizona governor to veto anti-gay law
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit: NFL Warns AZ: Sign the Religious Rights Bill & You'll Lose Super Bowl
Greg Pollowitz / National Review: Arizona Worried They'll Lose SB XLIX without Veto of SB 1062
Dana Liebelson / Mother Jones:
Georgia Wants to Allow Businesses to Kick Gay People Out of Diners
Georgia Wants to Allow Businesses to Kick Gay People Out of Diners
Discussion: Advocate, Liberaland, The Raw Story, Daily Kos, Lawyers, Guns & Money and PoliticusUSA
Dave-Dr-Gonzo / Liberaland: Georgia, Missouri Latest To Push 'Hate The Gays' Laws
David Ferguson / The Raw Story: Georgia progressive activist on state's proposed anti-LGBT law: 'Hate is bad policy'
Scott Lemieux / Lawyers, Guns & Money: The New Wave of Anti-Civil Rights Legislation
Hrafnkell Haraldsson / PoliticusUSA: Pat Buchanan Says Conservative Christians Are True Victims in Arizona
Mackenzie Weinger / Politico:
Rush Limbaugh: Jan Brewer being 'bullied' to veto
Rush Limbaugh: Jan Brewer being 'bullied' to veto
Steve M. / No More Mister Nice Blog: THIS WOULD BE AN EXCELLENT TIME FOR A CONSERVATIVE CRACK-UP (BUT IT WON'T HAPPEN)
Hart Williams / his vorpal sword: The Canary In The Troll Mine
Eleanor Clift / The Daily Beast: Once-Supportive Republicans Go From Anti-Gay to No Way
Edward Morrissey / The Week: On wedding cakes, gay marriage, and our growing inability to tolerate one another
Josh Coddington / Arizona Capitol Times: Poll: GOP voters want Brewer to veto SB1062
Jim Acosta / CNN: Romney weighs in, Obama silent on Arizona SB1062
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air: Arizona bill sponsor, supporters reverse course; Update: NBC says Brewer likely to veto
Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly: The Rush Limbaugh Anti-Bullying Initiative
Napp Nazworth / Christian News, The Christian Post:
Issue Analysis: Arizona Bill Does Not Give Businesses License to Discriminate Against Gays
Issue Analysis: Arizona Bill Does Not Give Businesses License to Discriminate Against Gays
Discussion: Washington Post, Power Line and Associated Press
Tony Merevick / BuzzFeed:
Intel, Yelp Join Companies Urging Arizona Governor To Veto Anti-LGBT Bill
Intel, Yelp Join Companies Urging Arizona Governor To Veto Anti-LGBT Bill
Discussion: AMERICAblog News, TechCrunch, Valley Fever, Politico, Joe. My. God., Advocate and Re/code
John Aravosis / AMERICAblog News: Hate State Update: Even Gingrich is now criticizing Arizona anti-gay law
Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: Apple Urges Arizona Governor To Veto Anti-LGBT Bill Before Opening Sapphire Glass Plant
Matthew Hendley / Valley Fever: KTAR Finds a Business That Actually Supports SB 1062
Joe Jervis / Joe. My. God.: Intel & Yelp: Veto The Hate Bill
Daniel Reynolds / Advocate: Arizona Gov. Says She Will 'Do the Right Thing' on Anti-LGBT Bill
Ina Fried / Re/code: Apple Comes Out Against Arizona Anti-LGBT Bill
Steve Stout / KPHO-TV:
NFL, Cardinals, Super Bowl committee sound off on SB 1062
NFL, Cardinals, Super Bowl committee sound off on SB 1062
Discussion: ThinkProgress, BobCesca.com, Politico, The Huffington Post, Outsports and Daily Kos
ThinkProgress: Apple Warns Arizona Governor Anti-Gay Bill Will Hurt Highly Anticipated Sapphire Glass Factory
Lucy McCalmont / Politico: NFL keeping eye on Arizona bill
Amanda Terkel / The Huffington Post: Democratic Governor: Arizona Shouldn't Host 2015 Super Bowl If Jan Brewer Signs Anti-Gay Bill
Cyd Zeigler / Outsports: Arizona can kiss sports events like the Super Bowl good-bye if governor signs SB 1062
Sabrina Tavernise / New York Times:
Obesity Rate for Young Children Plummets 43% in a Decade — Federal health authorities on Tuesday reported a stunning 43 percent drop in the obesity rate among 2- to 5-year-old children over the past decade, the first broad decline in an epidemic that often leads to lifelong struggles …
Centers for Disease Control: New CDC data show encouraging development in obesity rates among 2 to 5 year olds
Dan Goldberg / Capital New York: Capital Health Care: Questions about pot-program funding; latest Obamacare numbers
Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo: Young Child Obesity Rate Dropped By 43 Percent Over Last Decade
Stephen Green / VodkaPundit: Childhood Obesity Plunges
Marc Ambinder / The Week: A drop in obesity: the skinny on those new statistics
Prevalence of Childhood and Adult Obesity in the United States, 2011-2012
Prevalence of Childhood and Adult Obesity in the United States, 2011-2012
Jacque Wilson / CNN: 'Let's Move!' turns 4
Reid J. Epstein / Politico:
Obama: OFA volunteers doing 'God's work' — Touting the latest White House Obamacare benchmark, President Barack Obama told his political base not to be discouraged by partisan attacks and stressed that their cause is divine. — About 4 million people have signed up for private health care plans under …
Jonathan Easley / The Hill: Sebelius lashes out at GOP governors
William Teach / Right Wing News: Team Obama Provides A Triple-shot Of Stupidity
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard: Obama Says Supporters Doing 'God's Work'
Caroline Schaeffer / Independent Journal Review: Obama Tells OfA Supporters They Are Doing 'God's Work,' While Blaming Fox News Again
Ed Rogers / PostPartisan:
The Insiders: Another day, another Obamacare disaster
The Insiders: Another day, another Obamacare disaster
Discussion: The Week, Hot Air and The Daily Caller
Jon Terbush / The Week: The GOP takes another ObamaCare study way out of context
Washington Examiner:
Examiner Editorial: Media should fact-check Obama, not Obamacare victims
Examiner Editorial: Media should fact-check Obama, not Obamacare victims
Discussion: The Huffington Post, Talking Points Memo, The Plum Line and Independent Journal Review
Jason Linkins / The Huffington Post: Anyone Who Fact Checks This Obamacare Attack Ad Hates Cancer Patients, Apparently
Daniel Strauss / Talking Points Memo: Bombs Away! Billionaire Money is Biggest Threat to Dems in 2014
Bernie Becker / The Hill:
Issa, House GOP to recall Lois Lerner — House Oversight Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) is hauling Lois Lerner back to Congress. — Issa told Lerner's attorney in a Tuesday letter that he expected the retired IRS official to appear before his committee on March 5.
Discussion: Politico and Patterico's Pontifications
Andrea Drusch / Politico: Darrell Issa seeks Lois Lerner IRS testimony
Seung Min Kim / Politico: Democrats' immigration gambit
Betsy Rothstein / The Daily Caller:
Tommy Christopher out at Mediaite — Mediaite and its illustrious White House Correspondent Tommy Christopher have parted ways, The Mirror has learned. And it wasn't voluntary. We're told Christopher was fired. Details are still forthcoming. — In the past year there were murmurings …
Discussion: Patterico's Pontifications and Politico
Hadas Gold / Politico: Tommy Christopher out at Mediaite
Bridget Williams / Mediaite:
Hello Mediaite Changes! And Farewell to Tommy Christopher
Hello Mediaite Changes! And Farewell to Tommy Christopher
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Biden: 'I May Be a White Boy, But I Can Jump' — During a celebration of African-American History Month, Vice President Joe Biden said, "I may be a white boy, but I can jump." The comments were made at Biden's home, the Naval Observatory. — Via the pool report:
Discussion: Post Politics, Mediaite, Scared Monkeys and The Gateway Pundit
Aaron Blake / Post Politics: Biden: 'I may be a white boy, but I can jump'
Josh Feldman / Mediaite: Joe Biden: 'I May Be a White Boy, But I Can Jump'
Scared Monkeys: VP Joe Biden Said What to Audiance During Celebration of African-American History Month …
Biden jokes 'I may be a white boy, but I can jump'
Biden jokes 'I may be a white boy, but I can jump'
Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico: Joe Biden links voter-ID laws to 'hatred'
Gabrielle Bluestone / Gawker: Joe Biden: I May Be a White Boy But I Can Jump
Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
Oops: GOP Bill Would Strip 1 Million Workers Of Health Coverage — A Republican-led bill designed to "save American workers" would cause 1 million workers to lose their health care coverage and increase the deficit by $74 billion, according to Congress' official scorekeeper.
Discussion: Liberaland, The Raw Story, Daily Kos, Liberal Values and ThinkProgress
John Byrne / The Raw Story: Republican bill to revise Obamacare would kick one million off their policies, report shows
Ron Chusid / Liberal Values: Republican Health Care Proposal Would Remove Employer Coverage From One Million And Increase Deficit
Justin McCarthy / Gallup:
Boehner's Favorability Returns to Pre-Shutdown Levels — Thirty-two percent view speaker favorably, 50% unfavorably — WASHINGTON, D.C. — After suffering record-low favorability for his tenure as House speaker in October, John Boehner's image among Americans has rebounded to pre-shutdown levels.
Discussion: Real Clear Politics and Politico
Natalie Villacorta / Politico: Poll: John Boehner's numbers inch up
Patrick O'Connor / Wall Street Journal:
Democrats Try to Build on Technology Lead — Washington Wire is one of the oldest standing features in American journalism. Since the Wire launched on Sept. 20, 1940, the Journal has offered readers an informal look at the capital's comings and goings in a series of newsy, and sometimes even gossipy, items.
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Lacking votes, Reid stalling action on minimum wage hike legislation — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on Tuesday delayed action on legislation raising the minimum wage, the centerpiece of the Democrats' 2014 agenda. — The Nevada Democrat made the surprising move amid escalating Democratic resistance …
Discussion: Hot Air
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air: Reid stops minimum-wage hike bill after Dems balk
Cameron Joseph / The Hill:
Businessmen a boon or bust for Senate Republicans' chances? — Republicans are banking on businessmen to help them retake the Senate in 2014. — A half-dozen top GOP candidates boast records as wealthy businessmen and entrepreneurs. If voters decide they're successful job creators on Election Day …
Delta Air Lines Newsroom:
DELTA ISSUES STATEMENT ON PROPOSED LEGISLATION — ATLANTA, Feb. 25, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — Delta Air Lines (NYSE: DAL) today issued the following statement: — "As a global values-based company, Delta Air Lines is proud of the diversity of its customers and employees, and is deeply concerned …
Discussion: Los Angeles Times, Political Insider blog and Towleroad News #gay
Pete Kasperowicz / The Hill:
House slaps IRS on targeting, transparency — The House voted Tuesday to stop the IRS from asking intrusive political questions, and to block it from sharing taxpayer data without telling taxpayers. — Members passed the two Republican bills after brief debate that heard some Democratic complaints …
Discussion: Fox News
Janet Hook / Wall Street Journal:
Why Lawmaking on a Grand Scale Is a Dying Art — When Rep. Dave Camp (R., Mich.) laid plans to unveil a big tax reform bill this week, it was as if he was operating in some kind of time warp. No one seemed to have told the Ways and Means Committee chairman that Congress isn't doing much legislating any more.
Discussion: Taegan Goddard's …, AEIdeas and Washington Wire
James Pethokoukis / AEIdeas: Dave Camp's tax reform plan shows how the US is sabotaging its own economy
John D. McKinnon / Washington Wire: House GOP Tax Overhaul Would Cut Capital Gains, Dividend Rates
Jose Pagliery / CNNMoney.com:
Mt.Gox site disappears, Bitcoin future in doubt — What was once the world's largest trading platform for bitcoins is now a blank page. — The Bitcoin-trading website Mt.Gox was taken offline late Monday, putting at risk millions of dollars put there by investors who gambled on the digital currency.
Discussion: News Desk, Mashable, New York Times, The Switch, DealBook, Re/code and Engadget
John Cassidy / News Desk: Bitcoin Falls Victim to Galbraith's "Bezzle"
Todd Wasserman / Mashable: Mt. Gox Founder: Stop Asking Our Staff Questions
Andrea Peterson / The Switch: Everything you need to know about the latest Bitcoin crisis
Richard Lawler / Engadget: Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox goes dark (update: HTML, domain suggest it could relaunch as Gox)
The Coinbase Blog:
Joint Statement Regarding MtGox
Joint Statement Regarding MtGox
Discussion: Quartz, New York Times, Hit & Run, Bloomberg, PandoDaily, The Switch, Guardian, Fortune, TechCrunch, Re/code, Gawker, The Week, The Two-Bit Idiot, Gizmodo, The Verge, National Review and Washington Post
Heather Timmons / Quartz: The failure of Mt. Gox could be a mortal wound for bitcoin
Sydney Ember / New York Times: A Silver Lining in Bitcoin's Stumble
Brian Doherty / Hit & Run: A Normal Day for Bitcoin, A Currency That Dies Every Day
Nathaniel Mott / PandoDaily: The Mt. Gox meltdown and what it means for Bitcoin
Timothy B. Lee / The Switch: No, the failure of Mt. Gox won't kill Bitcoin
Dan Primack / Fortune: SecondMarket to launch first U.S.-based Bitcoin exchange
Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: The Bitcoin Regulation Paradox
Sam Biddle / Gawker: Mt.Gox Died and the Money Is Gone
Jamie Condliffe / Gizmodo: Bitcoin Exchange Mt. Gox Disappears, Not Getting Help From Authorities
Greg Pollowitz / National Review: Shocker: Bitcoin Economy on the Brink


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I watched a video of "Glass cutting" which uses a Water Jet Cutter. It was said that Cutting glass simply by machines would eventually crack it... So, They're using grains of sand (by placing a sand paper beneath) to cut glass using a Water Jet. It also has enough force to cut through steel.
- What exactly is the property of GLASS so that it requires a "Water Jet" to cut it..?
- Also, Why can't we use a powerful laser and some kinda coolant to cut through glass..?

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The Notes application on your iPhone lets you write text notes that you can save for yourself or send through e-mail. To create a note on your iPhone, first tap the Notes icon on the Home screen, and then tap the Plus button in the upper-right corner to start a new note.
The virtual keyboard appears. Type the note. When you're finished, tap the Done button in the upper-right corner to save the note.
After a note is saved, you can do the following:
Tap the Notes button at the top-left corner of the screen to see a list of all your notes. When the list is on-screen, just tap a note to open and view it.
Tap the left- or right-arrow button at the bottom of the screen to read the previous or next note.
Tap the letter icon at the bottom of the screen to e-mail the note to someone with the Mail application.
Tap the trash can icon at the bottom of the screen to delete the note.


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It is the correct Spanish pronunciation.
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I hear that a lot on TV. Is it from Spanish?
Last edited by michael147; 25-Aug-2013 at 13:17.
It is the correct Spanish pronunciation.
I'm not a native speaker nor a teacher. I'm just Spanish and English learner.
I think this word came from Spanish. In Spanish I'd pronounce it like [Méjico]. Anyway, [Mehico] sounds correct and natural. I think so, because I have never heard another way of pronunciation this word.
If I have made any mistakes, please tell me about them. I need to improve my English anyway and I hope you'll help me.
Just noticed that it is pronounced like that. But it is pronounced in dictionary as written. So what do you guys recommend would be much better to use? Mek.sɪ.kəʊ or Méjico?
"As written" is never a reliable concept with Roman letters, particularly if you first encounter them in English. Both X and J in Spanish are pronounced like a very strong /h/. Incidentally, Spanish boasts a 100% match between orthographies and pronunciations, meaning there are no exceptions in pronouncing Spanish based on its spelling.
Remember - if you don't use correct capitalisation, punctuation and spacing, anything you write will be incorrect.
@ Nickelxoxo: To say that Mexico is pronounced Méjico or Mehico really depends on whose /j/ and /h/ you're using. (Apparently, you mean a Spanish pronunciation - Neither works in IPA for English or Spanish.) So, to tell an English audience that a Spanish 'x' is pronounced like a Spanish 'h' or 'j' here might not be that useful.


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2010.7.9 -- The Sigma Corporation is pleased to announce the new Sigma APO 70-200 F2.8 EX DG OS HSM.
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SIGMA APO 70-200mm F2.8 EX DG OS HSM
Case, Petal-type Hood (LH850-02), Hood Adapter(HA850-01), Tripod Socket TS-21 supplied.
Corresponding AF Mounts:SIGMA, SONY(D), NIKON(D), PENTAX, CANON
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Nikon and Pentax mounts do not have an aperture ring. Some functions may not work depending on the camera model.
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As organic farmers in Asia and the Pacific face the challenges of dynamically growing markets that are increasingly complex, their capacity to adapt to change, take entrepreneurial initiative and conceive of new solutions becomes crucial.
Hosted by IFOAM and FAO from December 2 - 4 in Bangkok, Thailand, this Symposium will address the different successful strategies adopted by organic farmer entrepreneurs to ensure their competitiveness in a series of presentations and workshops complemented by a field trip. There are also corporate sponsorship opportunities available.
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As I write this letter, hundreds of frustrated and angered peoples have uniquely transformed the traditional protest into a massive public sit-in. A display that started in New York has been duplicated all over the nation into the movement known as "Occupy Wall Street."
The frustration and discontent is against governments' inept and lackluster response to the growing economic woes of the nation. Though a legitimate concern and cause, the methods of the protesters are all wrong. The true way to right the wrong in government is to get involved and become active in government, not to sit around.
Here in Baltimore, the Occupy movement ironically have chosen McKeldin Square at the intersection of Pratt and Charles streets. Ironic because that location was named after the last Republican mayor, Theodore McKeldin. Mayor McKeldin left office in 1967 when Baltimore's economy was robust and supported a population of more than 890,000. Today, Occupy Baltimore protesters face a loss of jobs, population, and the overall stagnant economy of the city.
On Nov. 8, the true occupiers will not get the fanfare and attention as those in the tents of Pratt Street because their address is 100 North Holliday Street, home of Baltimore's City Hall. That is the only occupying that matters.
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I have this variable of type PreciseTime that I need to instantiate to get it into a class called PhoneCall. here's the PhoneCall object signature [PhoneCall(PreciseTime, Precise Time).
With that said I need to create a precise time object first before instantiating my PhoneCall.
My user input variable is startIn. I have a method in PreciseTime called PreciseTime fromString(String).
What am I missing to create my PreciseTime object
PreciseTime callStart = new PreciseTime(startIn.fromString());
Here is the compile error I get.
CallCost.java:48: cannot find symbol
symbol : method fromString()
location: class java.lang.String
PreciseTime callStart = new PreciseTime(startIn.fromString());
CallCost.java:48: internal error; cannot instantiate PreciseTime.<init> at PreciseTime to ()
PreciseTime callStart = new PreciseTime(startIn.fromString());
Question 2:
I need to write my PhoneCall object called phoneCall to a custom made string method. The call to the string is inside class PhoneCall. The toString() should call another toString() method inside another class. I want to make the one call and have it cascade to the other classes.
main -- printOut.write(phoneCall.toString());
PhoneCall class -- String startTimeOutput = startTime.toString(); startTime is a PreciseTime object and an instance variable in this class
PreciseTime class -- return twentyFourHrTime; String toString(PreciseTime o) is the method and as you can see, accepts a PreciseTime object.
What is wrong with the call from main? Below are the error messages.
CallCost.java:65: write(java.lang.String) has private access in java.io.PrintStream


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Like this! First mentioned last fall, Metal Gear Solid: HD Edition is coming to the PS Vita. Have a gander at the PS Vita versions of Metal Gear Solid 2 and Metal Gear Solid 3.
With the "transfarring" system, players can save and transfer play data between the PS Vita and the PS3 via WiFi or the cloud. Thus, it's possible to enjoy the Vita version at home on the PS3 or on the go with the Vita.
The game is slated for a June release in Japan.
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Geneva, 3 Jun (Kanaga Raja) -- The WTO TRIPS Agreement and the TRIPS-plus
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States need to take steps to facilitate the use of TRIPS flexibilities.
Furthermore, developing countries and LDCs should not introduce TRIPS-plus
standards in their national laws. Developed countries should not encourage
developing countries and LDCs to enter into TRIPS-plus FTAs and should be
mindful of actions which may infringe upon the right to health.
These were some of the key recommendations made by the rights expert in his
report (A/HRC/11/12) to the UN Human Rights Council, which began its regular
eleventh session on Tuesday.
The Special Rapporteur recommended that developing countries and LDCs should
review their laws and policies and consider whether they have made full use
of TRIPS flexibilities or included TRIPS-plus measures, and if necessary
consider amending their laws and policies to make full use of the
Developing countries and LDCs should also establish high patentability
standards and provide for exclusions from patentability of medicines - such
as new forms and new or second uses, and combinations - in order to address
evergreening and facilitate entry of generic medicines. They should adopt
the principle of international exhaustion and provide for parallel
importation with simplified procedures in their national laws.
In addition, developing countries and LDCs need to incorporate in their
national patent laws all possible grounds upon which compulsory licences,
including government use, may be issued. Such laws provide straightforward,
transparent procedures for rapid issue of compulsory licences. There is also
a need to revisit the 30 August decision (of the WTO General Council) and
provide for a simpler mechanism.
In presenting his report to the Council, the Special Rapporteur noted that
nearly two billion people lack access to essential medicines, and massive
inequalities still remain regarding access to health services and medicines
around the world, which is partly due to high costs. Improving access to
medicines could save 10 million lives a year, 4 million in Africa and South
East Asia.
"It is clear that intellectual property (IP) rights have an impact on the
enjoyment of the right to health as it directly affects affordability of
medicines," said Grover.
The report by the Special Rapporteur explores the impact of the Agreement on
Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) and "TRIPS
plus" standards on access to medicines within the broader framework of the
right to health.
Referring to the work done by former Special Rapporteur on the right to
health, Mr Paul Hunt, and the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human
Rights (OHCHR) on trade and intellectual property issues relevant to the
right to health, the rights expert found that these reports highlighted the
need for TRIPS flexibilities to be implemented and noted the adverse impacts
of FTAs on access to medicines.
The full use of TRIPS flexibilities can help countries meet their
obligations to protect, promote and fulfil the right to health by improving
access to affordable medicines. However, that use of TRIPS flexibilities has
been variable and that there are growing instances of developing countries
and LDCs adopting TRIPS-plus standards that may have an adverse effect on
the right to health.
The rights expert stressed the need to revisit trade-related agreements in
light of their impact on the right to health and in particular, on access to
He further noted that the right to health, enshrined in numerous
international and regional human rights treaties and in many national
constitutions, is an inclusive right, extending not only to timely and
appropriate health care, but also to the underlying determinants of health,
such as access to clean water and sanitation, adequate housing and nutrition
as well as social determinants such as gender, racial and ethnic
discrimination and disparities.
He emphasized that, if integrated into national and international health
policy-making, the right to health can help establish laws, policies and
practices that are sustainable, equitable, meaningful and responsive to the
needs of those living in poverty.
According to the report, health trends indicate that despite progress made
in the last 30 years, massive inequalities remain in access to health
services and medicines around the world. "Diseases of poverty" (i. e.
communicable, maternal, perinatal, and nutritional diseases) still account
for 50% of the burden of disease in developing countries, nearly ten times
higher than in developed countries.
There has been a resurgence of tuberculosis and malaria in the last decade:
58% of malaria cases occur in the poorest 20% of the world population and
each year there are nearly 529,000 maternal deaths.
The inability of populations to access medicines is partly due to high
costs, said the report. In the context of HIV, as of 2007, only 31% of
people living with HIV who needed treatment received it. In addition, it is
estimated that people living with HIV will become resistant to their
first-line medicine regimens and will need second-line treatment which can
currently cost between 9 and 19 times as much as first-line medicines.
IP law has an impact on the right to health, as it protects pharmaceutical
products. Patents create monopolies, limit competition and allow patentees
to establish high prices. In regard to medicines, a product patent enables a
patentee to set high prices.
Generic competition in the field of pharmaceuticals has the potential to
significantly lower prices and increase access, said the report, pointing
out that in 2001, when the HIV crisis was at its peak and the need for
antiretrovirals (ARVs) was the most acute, it was the availability of
cheaper generic ARVs from developing countries that led to a reduction in
prices from over $10,000 per patient per year to less than $350 per patient
per year for a first-line combination therapy. Today, generic competition
has helped reduce prices of first generation ARVs by more than 99%.
The importance of generic medicines continues to be underscored today by
their prominence in international medicine supply programmes. However, the
continued supply of generic medicines is now in doubt, said the report.
For developing countries including those that manufacture and supply generic
medicines, the deadline for TRIPS compliance and the introduction of product
patents came in 2005. With this deadline, there is concern that the ability
of companies to patent new pharmaceutical products on a near-global scale
could inhibit further competition and prevent the price reductions needed to
make antiretroviral therapy more widely available.
Developing countries and LDCs should be enabled to take steps to modulate
the implementation of TRIPS on access to medicines including by encouraging
competition and being able to access affordable generic versions of patented
medicines, the rights expert recommended.
The rights expert also noted that the WTO TRIPS Agreement was one of the
most controversial agreements, as developed countries pushed for extensive
IP protection and the harmonization of IP norms. Developing countries argued
that extensive IP standards would hinder their development prospects as they
were not well-equipped to reap the benefits of such standards. Developing
countries eventually gave way, under the pressure of developed countries as
they were ultimately dependent on them for trade.
From a right-to-health perspective, said the rights expert, developing
countries and LDCs should be enabled to use TRIPS flexibilities. Their
national laws should incorporate the flexibility to: make full use of the
transition periods; define the criteria of patentability; issue compulsory
licences and provide for government use; adopt the international exhaustion
principle, to facilitate parallel importation; create limited exceptions to
patent rights; and allow for opposition and revocation procedures.
In addition, countries need to have strong pro-competitive measures to limit
abuse of the patent system.
The importance of the transition period is underscored by the fact that the
absence of product patents on medicines can help establish local
manufacturing capacity, promote generic manufacturing and facilitate the
import of affordable medicines from other countries, said the report, adding
that developing countries that have been successful in the use of the
transition period in any of these respects may present good examples for
LDCs to consider in adapting to their own needs and circumstances.
With regards to patentability criteria, the report said that from a
right-to-health perspective, the "evergreening" of patents by pharmaceutical
companies is of particular concern.
Evergreening refers to the practice of obtaining new patents on a patented
medicine by making minor changes to it. For example, patents are obtained on
new uses, forms, combinations and formulations of known medicines in a bid
to extend the period of the patentee's monopoly. Such evergreening delays
the entry of competitive generic medicines into the market.
The freedom to set high patentability criteria and exclude certain
inventions is an important tool that countries can use to address
evergreening and ensure that patents are granted only to genuine inventions
in the pharmaceutical field. Thus, countries can deny patents on new uses,
forms, formulations or combinations of known medicines, said the rights
He noted, for example, that India and the Philippines exclude from
patentability new forms of known substances unless they are significantly
more efficacious and new (or second) uses and combinations of known
substances. Reducing the number of patents granted on medicines can limit
the impact of patents on access to medicines and facilitate the early entry
of generic competition.
Countries with little or no manufacturing capacity face difficulties in
utilizing compulsory licences to import generic medicines. The report noted
that this difficulty was recognized by the Doha Declaration, pursuant to
which the WTO General Council provided a framework to address this issue
through the decision of 30 August 2003.
However, countries have faced difficulties in implementing the 30 August
decision as it entails complex administrative procedures. Even though a
number of potential exporting countries amended their national laws to
incorporate the 30 August decision, their regulations have added further
administrative requirements that make it difficult to implement.
The first and only case of export of a patented medicine under the 30 August
decision occurred in 2008 to Rwanda, five years after the adoption of the
decision. "The case of Rwanda highlights the need to revisit the decision."
The report found that the use of anti-competition law can be an important
tool to promote access to medicines. TRIPS Article 31, for example, allows a
relaxation of certain restrictions, such as prior negotiation with patentees
and predominantly domestic use, relating to compulsory licences which may be
useful to remedy anti-competitive practices.
There is a need for countries to adopt and effectively apply pro-competitive
measures allowed under TRIPS to prevent or remedy anti-competitive practices
having a bearing on the use of patented medicines.
The rights expert also found that developing countries, while attempting to
implement TRIPS flexibilities in order to address public health concerns,
have experienced pressures from developed countries and multinational
pharmaceutical corporations.
The report illustrates the cases of South Africa, Thailand and India
experiencing pressures in this regard. In 1996, South Africa adopted a new
National Drugs Policy with the goal of "ensuring an adequate and reliable
supply of safe, cost-effective drugs of acceptable quality to all citizens
of South Africa".
Following the principles of the Policy, the South African Government amended
its existing Medicines Act to improve access to medicines. In response,
South Africa was placed on the United States Special 301 Watch List and 39
pharmaceutical companies filed a suit, challenging the amendments,
contending that they would destroy patent protections by giving the Health
Minister overly broad powers to produce or import cheaper versions of drugs
still under patent. Worldwide public outrage eventually led to a change in
the US position and to the withdrawal of the lawsuit by the pharmaceutical
companies in 2001.
Thailand also faced pressure following its attempts to lower prices of
medicines through compulsory licensing. Between 2006 and 2007, Thailand
issued compulsory licences for HIV and heart disease medicines in order to
meet its obligations to provide universal access to medicines. In 2007,
Thailand was placed on the Special 301 Priority Watch List.
The report also highlighted India facing pressure for its attempt to use
safeguards. In 2005, India included strict patentability criteria in its
patent law to address the evergreening of patents. This provision was
challenged by a pharmaceutical company in the Madras High court alleging it
was a violation of TRIPS and of the constitutional equality provision. The
amendment was upheld, among other grounds as a fulfilment of the right to
health obligations of the Government.
The experiences of South Africa, Thailand and India provide examples of
difficulties countries have had to overcome to implement TRIPS
flexibilities. Although they were successful in their attempts, there is
fear that pressure from developed countries and pharmaceutical companies
will thwart future actions, said Grover.
The report underscored that few LDCs have local manufacturing capacities or
any technological base to fully take advantage of TRIPS or TRIPS
flexibilities. In this regard, concrete steps towards the specific
obligation under Article 66, paragraph 2, of TRIPS of developed countries to
provide incentives to promote and encourage technology transfer to LDCs in
order to enable them to create a sound and viable technological base should
be encouraged.
Turning to the issue of FTAs and their imposition of TRIPS-plus standards,
the report said that many countries have signed or are currently engaged in
negotiations on extensive trade agreements, including bilateral investment
treaties (BITs), FTAs, economic partnership agreements (EPAs) etc. Such
agreements have extensive implications for pharmaceutical patent protection,
which can directly impact access to medicines. Some developed countries, for
example, have negotiated FTAs which reflect their standard of IP protection.
These agreements are usually negotiated with little transparency or
participation from the public, and often establish TRIPS-plus provisions.
These provisions undermine the safeguards and flexibilities that developing
countries sought to preserve under TRIPS. Studies indicate that TRIPS-plus
standards increase medicine prices as they delay or restrict the
introduction of generic competition, said the report.
"As FTAs can directly affect access to medicines, there is a need for
countries to assess multilateral and bilateral trade agreements for
potential health violations and that all stages of negotiation remain open
and transparent."
The report noted that TRIPS-plus provisions in FTAs differ from agreement to
agreement, but their purposes are by and large to: extend the patent term;
introduce data exclusivity; introduce patent linkage with drug registration
and approval; and create new enforcement mechanisms for IPRs.
With respect to TRIPS-plus IP enforcement, the Special Rapporteur expressed
concern over reports of IP enforcement measures that have resulted in
multiple seizures at some ports of shipments of generic medicines heading to
developing countries and LDCs. Such regulations impose a far higher standard
of IPR enforcement than that required by TRIPS, which requires that IP
enforcement measures should not create barriers to legitimate trade.
"In effect, such actions can bring to naught TRIPS flexibilities exercised
by developing countries and LDCs, and de facto impose IP protection on LDCs
that are not yet required to comply with TRIPS as generic medicines they
need do not reach them. In particular, the use of compulsory licensing or
the 30 August decision to export and import medicines is effectively
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On Tuesday, "Pope Francis: His Life in His Own Words," a book of conversations with the man who was then Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, will be published in English (Putnam; $24.95). These interviews from 2010 with two journalists in Argentina yield cute facts about the new boss of the church — a favorite movie? "Babette's Feast" — but not much interesting theology.
But one passage in the book, at first glance rather slight, ends up insinuating a radical note into the proceedings. On a close read, it seems that Pope Francis believes that we must — indeed, that God is calling us to — relax.
Responding to the question, "Do we need to rediscover the meaning of leisure?" Pope Francis replies: "Together with a culture of work, there must be a culture of leisure as gratification. To put it another way: people who work must take the time to relax, to be with their families, to enjoy themselves, read, listen to music, play a sport. But this is being destroyed, in large part, by the elimination of the Sabbath rest day. More and more people work on Sundays as a consequence of the competitiveness imposed by a consumer society." In such cases, he concludes, "work ends up dehumanizing people."
Some pages later, he derides people who think of themselves as Catholic but don't make time for their children. This is an example, according to Pope Francis, of living "with fraud."
Catholic social teaching is known for promoting the idea that workers deserve dignity, which includes rest. But Pope Francis seems to be saying something more: that an authentically Christian life includes a proper dose of leisure and family time. That may sound unusual coming from a man whose tradition valorizes solitude and monasticism, and whose clergy members are not permitted to take spouses or beget children.
The idea of a Catholic exalting the Sabbath sounds particularly peculiar in the American context. In the United States, Catholics were never the great proponents of Sabbatarianism, observing Sunday as a special day, for worship or rest. That was a Protestant thing.
From the moment the Puritans arrived, they began enforcing laws to reserve Sunday for churchgoing. Over time, what came to be called "blue laws" covered different activities, and varied by state. Some laws forbade hunting on Sunday, others the sale of liquor, others any commercial activity. In religious towns, cultural norms made some recreation, like sports, taboo as well. As a child being raised in a Pentecostal family, John Ashcroft, the former attorney general, wasn't allowed to ride a bicycle on Sundays.
Over time, the official justification for the laws had changed, but it was still Protestants who pushed for them. "In the 1820s, they would say this is a time to pause to reflect on our religious obligations to God," said David Sehat, a historian at Georgia State University. But by the 1870s, "they started using Pope Francis' justification: a time to spend time with family, for 'the preservation of health and the promotion of good morals,' " to use one jurist's language.
And the temperance movement, which of course supported laws against Sunday liquor sales, was Protestant in character. Activists often depicted Catholic immigrants as drunkards.
Today, the laws are disappearing, relics of a time when Protestant culture was more dominant. Connecticut, for example, finally decided to permit Sunday liquor sales last year. And in the United States, Sunday has lost its sacred character. Most Christians see little conflict in going to church in the morning, then watching a football game — maybe with the family, or maybe at a sports bar — in the afternoon.
The Sabbatarian tradition is upheld, in a serious way, by some small groups of religious Protestants and, of course, by observant Jews. And, it so happens, by those who think of themselves as both Christian and Jewish. "Messianic Jews," who believe in the divinity of Jesus but pay special attention to the Jewish roots of Christianity, are often very attached to Sabbath observance.
Sarah Posner, a staff writer for the ReligionDispatches.org Web site, recalled a conference of messianic Jews she attended last year in Ellicott City, Md. "They weren't selling their books, CDs and DVDs on Saturday, because they didn't want to exchange money," Ms. Posner said. "But they were using electricity" — which traditionally observant Jews would not.
Our religiously diverse country includes those who call their weekly day off from smartphones a "secular Sabbath." Some groups may not even have a concept of Sabbatarianism. In Islam, for example, "there's a deep theological objection to the idea that God rested on the seventh day," according to Marion Holmes Katz, a scholar of Islam at New York University. "The idea of God resting seems to imply God being tired. So the whole idea that you refrain from work as some sort of ritualized recapitulation or symbolic nod to the process of creation — it's not one that has any traction in Islam."
But in Catholicism, as Pope Francis suggests, the Sabbath actually is supposed to matter — the whole day, not just Mass. For as the catechism teaches, in Paragraph 2185, "On Sundays and other holy days of obligation, the faithful are to refrain from engaging in work or activities that hinder the worship owed to God, the joy proper to the Lord's Day, the performance of the works of mercy, and the appropriate relaxation of mind and body."
The Catholic Church has been recovering this teaching at least since 1998, when Pope John Paul II published his apostolic letter "Dies Domini." There, he writes that "even in those countries which give legal sanction to the festive character of Sunday, changes in socioeconomic conditions have often led to profound modifications of social behavior and hence of the character of Sunday."
Last October, about 250 bishops met in Rome for a conference on the movement called the New Evangelization, which focuses on reawakening faith in those already baptized. One of their conclusions was, "Even though there is a tension between the Christian Sunday and the secular Sunday, Sunday needs to be recovered" — in keeping, they wrote, with John Paul's "Dies Domini."
Of course, those who preach a relaxing Sabbath, with friends and family, are often working hardest on the day they exalt. For clergy members, the Sabbath is the busiest workday of the week. One charm of the book "Pope Francis" is how much we learn about the new pope's pastimes, like reading the German Romantic poet Friedrich Hölderlin and listening to Verdi's operas. One imagines that now, more than ever, Sunday is not his day for leisure reading, nor a good time to catch a showing of "Babette's Feast."


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Proposition 8 supporters have filed a case in court claiming that the vote of the people which passed the law should stand.
From what I've read, I believe that what they are basically saying is that since the Supreme Court failed to rule on Proposition 8 by tossing the whole case out, that the law itself stands.
When the Supreme Court refuses to review a lower court ruling, that means that the lower court ruling is allowed to stand. I believe that the lower court ruling in question overturned Prop 8. However, the Supreme Court took the Prop 8 case under consideration, and then tossed it out by saying that the law's defendants did not have standing.
Does that mean that the entire case was thrown out of court and has no merit? I think that is what the opponents of Prop 8 are saying in the case they have filed.
It's an interesting argument that, at least on its face, does seem to have merit.
I have no idea where this will go. The whole thing might wind its way back to the Supreme Court again. The basic point for now is that the proponents of traditional marriage are not rolling over. That, in itself, is very good news.


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Sterling Police Department
April 30
- At 2:25 a.m., 52-year-old James Ervin Perryman of Sterling was charged with harassment with the intent to annoy/alarm/harass and domestic violence at 323 N. Fourth St.
April 29
- At 4:25 a.m., 58-year-old John Wayne Ostlee of Sterling was issued a summons for defacing property at 421 N. Fourth St. He was later charged with third degree criminal trespass at 311 W. Main St., as well.
April 23
- At 8 a.m., two vehicles collided front to rear in the 200 block of W. Broadway Street. Letitia Gutierrez of Sterling was stopped in traffic in a 2005 Dodge while Tommy Gulbrandson, traveling directly behind in a 1990 Chevy, attempted to slow down. The Chevy hit ice and the vehicles collided, causing slight damage to each.
- April 21
- At 2 p.m., two vehicles collided front to rear in the intersection of N. Sixth and Franklin streets. Michael Gartner of Sterling was stopped at a stop sign and began to proceed west on Franklin Street in a 1993 Chevy Lumina, while Richard Chafin of Sterling was already proceeding from a stop sign across Franklin on Sixth in a 2004 Dodge. The Chevy left before the Dodge was out of the intersection, causing the two to collide. The Chevy sustained slight front damage and the Dodge sustained moderate rear passenger side damage.
April 15
- Between 1 and 3:45 p.m. a vehicle traveling west in the 500 block of Jackson Street struck a parked 2001 Dodge Ram 1500, causing slight damage.
April 7
- At 4 a.m., a vehicle struck a parked 2005 Dodge Stratus in the 300 block of McKinley Street. Nicholas Trexel of Sterling was traveling west in a 2008 Chevy Impala when the vehicle drove off the right side of the road and collided with the vehicle, causing the front passenger tire to detach from the Chevy. Both vehicles sustained moderate to severe damage, though no injuries were reported. Trexel was arrested for DUI.