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"We are working on a bipartisan basis to craft legislation to address this problem of abusive practices and restore confidence in the American patent system."
These bold words, from the pens of Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont and Republican Sen. Mike Lee of Utah, represent the strong—and bipartisan—stance that the federal government is taking on the issue of patent reform.
The cooperation between parties extends to the state level as well. "There are issues that break down along political lines," explains Vermont Attorney General Bill Sorrell, "but the issue of patent trolls is not one that should be for red state or blue state attorneys general. It affects businesses in our states in a harmful way; consumers are paying more for goods or services."
The attack against patent trolls goes all the way up to the Obama administration, which last June issued a series of executive actions and legislative recommendations designed to reform the patent system. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has also declared war on the rash of patent lawsuits that has sprung up in recent years.
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Though in the past much of this patent litigation has centered on hi-tech firms, it is clear that the impact of patent suits will be felt in any industry that uses technology. David Shlansky, managing partner at the Shlansky Law Group says that the list is almost limitless. "The way tech is permeating so many devices, it will affect transportation, automotive, aviation… anywhere where you have complex technological inputs," he says. "Some of the infringement actions and license asks go to industries that have adopted tech that may be off the shelf that may not be self-evidently something they need a license for." This, of course, can make matters extremely complicated for companies not well versed in these matters, which is one reason why IP is such a key topic for boards.
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One of the most important pieces of federal legislation in this area in decades is the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (AIA), which was intended to serve as a sweeping reform for the patent system. But experts are sharply divided on its efficacy, citing certain sections of the law as more potent than others.
Mallun Yen, executive vice president of RPX Corporation and head of corporate development, served eight years as vice president of worldwide intellectual property and deputy general counsel at Cisco. She says that the AIA is not what the technology sector was looking for. "Tech companies are focused on litigation reform, but there is only one provision in that area," she says, citing the joinder provision. Yen believes that it is helpful in some regards, but that there were some unintended consequences.
"In the past, companies were joined together in one suit, leading to conflicting arguments and forcing them to share time. Now, thanks to the joinder provision, I can't just join anyone; there needs to be a connection." But, she says, NPEs adapt. "Now, they are filing multiple cases and staggering them. It makes it harder for defendants to collaborate. It has not been a panacea; it's made it almost more difficult for defendants to coordinate."
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The decision represented the first substantive ruling concerning covered business methods, as outlined in AIA. The case is unique because it began well before the passage of AIA, and the court took the new law into consideration late in the process. After a jury found that SAP had infringed on a Versata patent, the software company appealed to the USPTO to consider the matter under the new law. The PTAB found that Versata's patents were ineligible under Section 101 because they were not patentable. They merely recited abstract ideas and created processes that could have been completed with a paper and pen.
"It is a useful and powerful tool for any company that is faced with a patent that claims a financial service," Frost explains. "The mechanisms appear to be working, and there are lots of decisions coming out soon. It helps financial services companies and the industry to get a handle on this matter. It's not just applicable to NPEs, it's applicable to any patentee with a patent that falls into this category."
Trolling for trouble?
Finally, there are certain financial investors who use the M&A tactic as an investment strategy. This brings to mind the name that many parties use to describe these companies that amass IP and then threaten litigation: "patent trolls."
Hedge funds, private equity firms and individual investors have found that amassing a stockpile of IP can be very profitable, even without building anything based on those patents. Companies that fit this mold are given many names: patent assertion entities, NPEs and, perhaps harshest of all, patent trolls.
But this term carries with it a host of negative connotations. There are many large corporations that engage in behavior that might be considered "troll-like." It's essential, then, to clarify at the board and to the C-level, just how companies are exploiting the value of patents.
David Shlansky says that "patent troll" is a disparaging term. "Many have strong opinions on 'trolls,' but these companies have IP rights; they are assignable and inalienable," he says. "Troll is a disparaging term, but if companies are infringing, someone has the right to seek a licensing deal or other recourse."
Other terms are tricky as well, Shlansky believes. "The term NPE (non-practicing entity) implies that they don't use the patent; it's like the argument that people have too much capital (or that you have so many homes that you don't use one). They acquired the IP fairly. You don't need to be practicing in order to contribute to society. You can use or not use your property, but you can enforce it for any reason. A lot of this is rhetoric and propaganda." He says that PAE (patent assertion entity) is probably a fairer term, but there should not be a differentiation. "Saying they are not in the business of practicing is a distinction without a difference, endeavoring to strip entities of rights. It's not legally material."
Bernard Nash, partner and practice leader of the State Attorney General Practice at Dickstein Shapiro, says that the issue is complex, and assigning names to these groups is a way to simplify matters and make a point. "Those who see problems in this area characterize it as patent trolls, a pejorative term. One faction that state attorneys general are thinking about are properly called patent trolls, the lowest of the low. Ones that threaten and lie and cheat small business owners who are not sophisticated, who make things up and put it in threatening letters. If it were that simple, you would not need federal legislation. You'd go after crooks who abuse people, the scam artists."
But alongside these trolls, says Nash, is what he refers to as "real" NPEs, which he distinguishes from trolls by their behavior. "Real NPEs spend a lot of money buying up portfolios and monetizing an investment—intellectual property," he says, noting that these companies are interested in getting a return on their investments, usually through licensing. Nash, an expert in the strategies that state attorneys general have been using to combat trolls, states that attorneys general are not interested in getting involved with these types of NPEs, focusing instead on companies engaged in criminal behavior.
Vermont's Sorrell echoes this differentiation between legitimate patent holders and so-called trolls. He emphasizes that he does not want the state to get involved in a legitimate fight between agencies over whether patents exist or what they cover. Rather, he asserts, "We are trying to get at the patent trolls, those companies that buy up patents for a song, take expansive views of what those patents cover, then threaten or bring litigation." He states that this is a business problem, and he wanted to be able to go after these bad faith agencies with laws that would protect consumers.
No matter what you call the parties involved, these patent suits are a trend that should be on the radar of every board, and should be top of mind for general counsel as well. Though the government has pledged to reform the system even further, Yen feels it is unlikely to yield results in the short term.
"The government tried to reform the system 10 years ago. The patent system had not changed in 50 year," she says. "As we look back now, the legislature is not designed for wholesale change all at once. Legislation is a small fix and case law is more meandering."
On the other hand, states are carefully watching proposed federal legislation, as state attorneys general need to address the problem brewing in their own backyards while ensuring that federal law does not upend their ongoing efforts. "If there is a bill moving through Congress," says Sorrell, "we want to ensure that states are not cut out of enforcement action in this arena. We have jurisdiction over violations of state statutes in the context of the patent arena." In the end, he says, he is doing what he can to spread the word in Vermont and elsewhere that this behavior is unacceptable. In the meantime, he hopes the federal government will stand up and amend laws to make it more difficult for this business model to succeed.
Ultimately, the state of the trolls is in flux, and many dominos must fall before there is clarity on the matter. This means that this problem will continue for the time being, and in-house counsel need to address the issues now rather than later. After all, whether you call them trolls or not, companies are waiting to spot an potential patent infringement and take action, so businesses better be armed with something more than just the courage of their convictions.


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The company is currently involved in talks with Warner Music, and talks with Sony and Universal are soon to follow. Lest you mistake this for a fit of corporate altruism, however, know that the move will likely mean greater profits for Spotify which – despite being an industry leader – is essentially treading water financially. The hope is that this will allow it to expand its audience and reduce its operating costs.
Spotify currently boasts 5 million paid subscribers, and though it may seem like ceding $50 million per month is bad business, the overhead is such that the company is more focused on a different figure: 20 million. That's the number of total users Spotify can claim, and it wants to see that number tick upwards.
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Meeting in Addis Ababa under the auspices of the UN Girls Education Initiative, the experts say governments need to consolidate the gains made in universal primary education by abolishing school fees for lower and upper secondary education, investing more in vocational and technical education and job training, and promoting lifeskills, health education, and income generating programmes.
Several countries in the region have succeeded in increasing primary school enrolments largely by abolishing school fees and recruiting more teachers. However, transition rates for children from primary to secondary school remain relatively poor. Burundi, Mozambique, and Tanzania, for example, have transition rates of below 35 per cent, meaning less than four out of every 10 children make it to secondary school. Botswana, Kenya, Namibia, and South Africa are among the better performers at more than 85 per cent.
Kenyas Assistant Minister of Education Honourable Beth Mugo attributes the poor transition rates to poverty, poor funding to schools, not enough secondary school teachers, inadequate classroom facilities, underemployment of school leavers, and HIV/AIDS. For girls, puberty, pregnancy, and early marriage are major barriers, with only one in five girls enrolling in secondary school. Any approaches to improve post primary education need to address these barriers but should equally focus specifically on girls, given the benefits that girls education have for both families and communities.
Girls who have a secondary education tend to have fewer and healthier children, said Aster Haregot, UNICEFs Focal Point on the UN Girls Education Initiative for Eastern and Southern Africa. Studies from Uganda and Zimbabwe have also shown that girls who received primary and some secondary education had lower HIV infection rates than those who did not attend school. Secondary education for girls therefore is an effective barrier against HIV.
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In the sport of sailing, winning the America's Cup can be compared to winning the World Cup trophy in soccer.
It's the ultimate test of teamwork where only the strong survive. But if a sailor can somehow survive it more than once and come out on top, he will have achieved sailing immortality.
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"After coming up short a couple times, it felt good to be successful this time around," said Belsky, a native of Rye, N.Y who moved to Hood River in 1995.
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Belsky, a world-class "pitman," was a member of the "America 3" boat that won the Cup in 1992. He also competed with Dennis Connor aboard "Stars & Stripes" when the United States lost the Cup to New Zealand in 1995.
Alinghi's win in early March marked the end of an era for New Zealand, and also for Belsky.
The Kiwis had held the Cup since 1995, when they became the first non-U.S. syndicate to win the trophy. Meanwhile, Belsky was sailing for a non-U.S. syndicate for the first time in his career.
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March 2010
From the Editor. One of my goals as a writer and editor is to learn to write better and help others to do the same. Back in 2006 when I developed the OS web page, I included a Writers Guide to provide resources for improving our writing skills. I have recently updated the guide and included a link to an essay by George Orwell entitled "Politics and the English Language" (http://www.opc.org/OS/WritersGuide.html). Orwell published the essay in 1946, after he had witnessed the power and degradation of language by the Third Reich. It is an enormously helpful admonition to use language economically and honestly.
This month we have made an important change in our citation standards. I owe John Muether a debt of gratitude for guiding me through this process. We have decided to distinguish between Ordained Servant Online and Ordained Servant the printed annual. The latter alone will be referred to by volume number with the year, while the online version will be referred to by month and year, and where appropriate by URL. Please consult the "How to Cite Ordained Servant" on our website at http://www.opc.org/OS/HowToCite.html.
Intelligent and friendly exchanges help sharpen our theological and exegetical reasoning skills. I trust that the White, Gordon exchange on evangelistic responsibility exemplifies this.
As I was thinking about revisiting evangelism, I was reminded of the importance of the Word being announced to the world. That in turn brought to mind the ways in which modernity undermines the church's hearing of the Word of God. My editorial essay, "Hearing the Word in the Modern World," addresses this problem. Part two will come in April.
Bill Edgar's review of Dave VanDrunen's new book on bioethics gives attention to a unique and extraordinarily helpful work that will also serve as a model for the entire field of Christian ethics. I am using it as a text for an eleven-week adult Sunday school course. I would be happy to pass on the questions I'm developing to any pastor who wishes to do the same.
Blessings in the Lamb,
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At the beginning of the 11th century, the long process of the conversion
of the barbarians by the Church was completed with the conversion of Russia in
the East, Scandinavia and Iceland. In the North, and Hungary and Poland in
central Europe. Henceforward the whole of Europe was to l)e a Christian continent
excepting a few peripheral regions, such as the Baltic and Finnish peoples southeast
of the Baltic J the remaining footholds of Islam in Spain and. Sicily which were
soon to become Christian and finally the south Russian steppes which were to
remain an open door to the nomad, peoples of Central Asia, such as the Turks and
the Tartars. Apart from these outlying regions, Europe became more and more
identified with Christendom, especially since In the course of the 11th centuries,
the remaining territories of the Byzantine Empire in Asia Minor were overrun by the
Turks and were permanently lost to Christendom.
TMs change was the more important because from, the 11th century onwards,
Western Europe witnessed a great explosion of cultural and religious energy which
was most evident in France, West Germany and North Italy. The most active elements
in this movement were the monks and bishops who had inherited the Carolingian
tradition of Christian culture and who were the only part of the society who
possessed some degree of higher education. These men became the leaders of a
movement of religious reform which beginning with the monasteries, like Cluny and
Fluery the 10th century, gradually extended to the Papacy and the whole Western
Church. They aimed, both at moral reform and at the restoration of canonical
discipline which, had. become entirely neglected in the age of civil war and
barbarian invasions which had followed the decline of the Carolingian Empire, And
this inevitably led to a conflict with the secular powers In order to vindicate
the freedom and independence of the Church.


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The MySQL Windows Experience Team is proud to announce the release of MySQL for Excel version 1.2.1. This is a maintenance release for 1.2.x. MySQL for Excel is an application plug-in enabling data analysts to very easily access and manipulate MySQL data within Microsoft Excel. It enables you to directly work with a MySQL database from within Microsoft Excel so you can easily do tasks such as: · Importing MySQL Data into Excel · Exporting Excel data directly into MySQL to a new or existing table · Editing MySQL data directly within Excel MySQL for Excel is installed using the MySQL Installer for Windows. The MySQL installer comes in 2 versions · Full (150 MB) which includes a complete set of MySQL products with their binaries included in the download · Web (1.5 MB - a network install) which will just pull the MySQL for Excel over the web and install it when run. You can download MySQL for Excel 1.2.1 from our official Downloads page at http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/windows/excel as a standalone MSI, and it will be available shortly in the MySQL Installer for Windows that can be downloaded from http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/installer/. MySQL for Excel 1.2.1 introduces the following features: · When MySQL Workbench is not installed, MySQL connections are now automatically created for discovered MySQL services. If MySQL Workbench is later installed, these connections are not migrated over to MySQL Workbench as MySQL Workbench also creates connections for discovered MySQL services. o Bug #16238788 - CONNECTIONS FOR FOUND MYSQL SERVICES SHOULD BE AUTOMATICALLY CREATED Known limitation / requirement: · You must uninstall any current installation of MySQL for Excel before performing this upgrade, due to a bug that prevented upgrades from previous versions. This applies to both the standalone MSI and MySQL Installer installation methods, and the fix allows for simpler upgrades in the future. Also this release contains the following bug fixes: · With Microsoft Excel 2013, closing an Excel window containing an open MySQL for Excel plugin did not properly dispose of the link to the plugin, which caused a delay when opening the plugin inside additional Excel windows. o Bug #18392674 - SEVERAL CLICKS NEEDED ON THE MYSQL FOR EXCEL RIBBON BUTTON TO START/CLOSE ADD-IN · Attempts to upgrade MySQL for Excel would sometimes fail. The Installer would attempt to add Registry keys that were already present from a previous installation. A workaround was to uninstall and then reinstall the plugin o Bug #18354533 - MYSQL FOR EXCELL ADDIN 1.2.0 (STAND ALONE) IS NOT ABLE TO UPDATE AN OLD VERSION · Executing Export Data while the first data column was not numeric would cause an "AutoPK" column (Automatically create a Primary Key) to be created as the first column in the table. This column was also created if the user manually selected the Add a Primary Key column radio button. The generated CREATE TABLE statement did not contain the AutoPK column. o Bug #18269654 - EXPORT DATA - ERROR ON CHANGING PRIMARY KEY OPTIONS · The Export Data operation failed when checking the Exclude Column checkbox for any column. The generated CREATE TABLE query did not show the excluded columns, but the generated INSERT statements did (incorrectly) include them. o Bug #18269602 - EXPORT DATA - EXCLUDING COLUMNS CAUSE THE EXPORT DATA TO FAIL · The Remove columns that contain no data, otherwise just flag them as "Excluded" option was removed from the Export Data Advanced Options preference panel. Now, the default behavior is to always remove empty columns from the calculations. o Bug #18113057 - EXPORT DATA - UNHANDLED EXCEPTION WHEN SELECTING THE WHOLE SPREADSHEEET'S DATA · A MySQL database with unique keys would sometimes fail to import, when executing Import MySQL Data. o MySQL Bug #71004, Bug #17891357 - ONLY ONE TABLE FROM A DATABASE WON'T IMPORT · The creation of named tables did not function in all cases during an import, and could generate an exception. o MySQL Bug #70925, Bug #17806468 - IMPORTING TABLES WITH GUID TO EXCEL - EXCEPTION · After creating a new stored mapping in the Append Data dialog, the default selection for the Stored Mapping drop-down list was a blank value. The new default is the newly created stored mapping. o Bug #17665496 - APPEND DATA - NEW STORED MAPPING NOT APPLIED AFTER CREATION · Exporting large table (250,000+ rows) would not function, as MySQL for Excel would disconnect from the MySQL Server before completion. The MySQL for Excel plugin was optimized to help with these use cases, and these changes include: o Optimized the way SQL statements are sent to the server, compared to statements sent in version 1.2.0 a 30-35% time improvement was achieved. o Optimized the way SQL queries are created for a modified row, by processing the warnings returned by the MySQL server and the overall creation of result text for errors and warnings to optimize processing and reduce the memory usage. On average, a 30-40% time improvement was achieved. o Optimized how the Excel data is loaded into the MySqlDataTable object, so now a temporary (and hidden) Excel worksheet is used to prepare the data to be loaded, and then it is loaded after it was preprocessed instead of preprocessing cell-by-cell as it was done before. This preprocessing also eliminates many blank Excel cells. On average, an 80% time improvement was achieved. o Added an advanced option to the Export Data dialog to create secondary indexes after all of the data has been inserted. This saves disk I/O for bulk inserts (thousands of rows) since reindexing will not happen every time a row is inserted, but only once at the end of the data insertion. This option is enabled by default. o Added an advanced option to the Append Data dialog to temporarily disable unique indexes and foreign keys for the duration of the data insertion. This option is disabled by default, since you must make sure that if unique indexes are present, that the data mapped to that column does not contain duplicate data. o Added checks for lost or broken connections before each statement is executed against the database, and will now properly display connection issues back to the user. o The global option Wait XX seconds for a database query to execute before timing out is now setting the net_write_timeout and net_read_timeout accordingly. The default value for this option was increased from 30 to 60 seconds. o Bug #17577014 - EXPORTING HUGE TABLE (250,000 ROWS) NEVER FINISH (SERVER LOST THE CONNECTION) · When performing an Export Data with the "Remove columns that contain no data, otherwise flag them as Excluded" advanced option disabled (unchecked), empty columns were not flagged as "Excluded" if the first row contained data, even when the first row contained header information. o Bug #16501338 - EXPORT DATA - EMPTY COLUMNS ARE NOT ALWAYS FLAGGED AS EXCLUDED · When mapping a source column to a target column that has a different data type, a visual warning is now displayed as a warning icon with associated text next to it, and the problematic grid column changes to red. o Bug #16238994 - APPEND DATA - DISPLAY WARNINGS ON MAPPED COLUMNS WHERE DATATYPE DOESN'T MATCH · The table icons were cut off on the Database Objects list when tables were exported to an empty schema on Windows XP environments. o Bug #16238484 - TABLE ICON IS CUTOFF ON THE TABLE LIST WHEN TABLE IS EXPORTED TO AN EMPTY SCHEMA · When selecting all cells in a spreadsheet, MySQL for Excel attempted to compute if data was present in each cell. Due to the large number of cells, the Excel API component "VSTO" would fail and return a Range.Count property related exception. This check now uses native Excel functions, which are optimized for speed less memory usage. o Bug #14362824 - SELECTING A HUGE AMOUNT OF CELLS IN EXCEL FREEZES EXCEL o Bug #17349260 - ERROR WHEN SELECTING THE WHOLE SPREADSHEET'S CELLS You can access the MySQL for Excel documentation at http://dev.mysql.com/doc/en/mysql-for-excel.html. You can find our team's blog at http://blogs.oracle.com/MySQLOnWindows. You can also post questions on our MySQL for Excel forum found at http://forums.mysql.com/list.php?172. You can follow our videos on our YouTube channel found at http://www.youtube.com/user/MySQLChannel. Enjoy and thanks for the support! The MySQL on Windows team at Oracle.
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After qualifying for the ACHA Women's Division National Championships two weeks ago when it captured the Eastern Collegiate Women's League Championship, the URI women's hockey team put together another strong showing on the biggest stage.
The Lady Rams won their first game at nationals – which took place in Wooster, Ohio – with a 5-1 victory over Michigan last Thursday. URI then continued its strong play by tying the University of Massachusetts 1-1 later in the day.
On Friday, needing a win to advance in the tournament, the Lady Rams fell 2-0 to Robert Morris, ending their chances at the title.
Northeastern went on to win the national championship with a 3-1 victory over Minnesota in the title game on Sunday.
Three former Warwick girls' hockey players – all of whom attended Toll Gate – were part of the URI roster. They are senior Danika Korpacz and sophomores Sydney Collins and Brianna Accetturo.


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South Africa: Rhino poacher gets 77 years in jail
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A rhino poacher in South Africa has been sentenced to 77 years in prison in one of the heaviest penalties aimed at curbing poachers who target rhinos for their horns, which fetch a high price on the illegal market in parts of Asia.
The sentencing of Mandla Chauke, a South African who was arrested in Kruger National Park in 2011, shows that South African courts are starting to realize the negative impact that poaching has not only on wildlife but also an economy heavily dependent on tourism, South Africa's national parks service said Wednesday.
"We hope that this will be a deterrent" to other poachers, parks spokesman Reynold Thakhuli said.
Earlier this month, a South African court sentenced two Mozambicans to 16 years in prison for killing a rhino and taking its horn last year in Kruger park, where many poachers cross from neighboring Mozambique. In late 2012, a South African court sentenced a Thai national to 40 years in prison for selling rhino horns.
Kruger park has lost 370 rhinos to poachers this year — well over half the total for South Africa — and 62 people have been arrested in connection with some of the cases, according to the parks service.
South Africa, which has 70 percent of the world's rhinos, lost a record 1,004 of the animals to poachers in 2013, according to government figures. Some Vietnamese and Chinese view rhino horn as a status symbol and a healing agent, despite a lack of evidence that it can cure. The horn is made of keratin, a protein also found in human fingernails.
Chauke, the poacher, and two accomplices shot three rhinos after illegally entering Kruger park, then got into a firefight with patrolling rangers in which one suspect was killed and another fled, according to police.
Chauke was convicted of murder, illegal hunting of rhinos, rhino horn theft, illegal possession of firearms and ammunition, as well as trespassing in a national park. He was sentenced Tuesday in the Nelspruit Magistrates Court, near Kruger in the northeastern part of South Africa.
Prosecutors had argued successfully that Chauke should be convicted for the murder of the accomplice who was killed by rangers, South Africa's SABC News said on its website. The judge rejected Chauke's argument that he was forced into the poaching excursion by his accomplices.
In a separate case, five suspected poachers appeared in court Tuesday after they were arrested in a game reserve in South Africa's KwaZulu-Natal province, south of Kruger park, according to police. The group was detained after a shootout with police in which one suspect was injured, and they face charges including attempted murder, the South African Press Association reported.


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After issuing a statement that both shocked and confused the international community, the Guarani-Kaiowá community from Pyelito Key/Mbarakay can rest easy–at least for now.
A federal judge ruled on Tuesday that the community should be allowed to remain on their ancestral land until a final decision is made on the area's lawful owner.
Specifically, Judge Cecília Mello of the Regional Federal Tribunal of the 3rd Region stated that the community "can not be evicted from the land that they occupy because those lands are the subject of an administrative process of demarcation."
The process of demarcating Indigenous territory, as per the 1973 Statute of the Indian, involves an extensive ethnographic and geographical survey of a land area in question, and a proposal that aims to fairly resolve any existing land disputes. Such proposals have frequently led to the eviction of non-indigenous occupants to lands, such as the case with the territorial integrity of Raposa Serra do Sol in Roraima.
Even so, the demarcation process can take decades to complete, often to the detriment of the indigenous communities who must either live in squalor alongside busy highways – or contend with private land holders and their hired guns.
Knowing this all too well, the Guarani-Kaiowá community from Pyelito Key/Mbarakay warned earlier this month that they would rather die than lose what little land they managed to recover.
The Guarani's profound words–which echoes the needs and fears of all Indigenous Peoples in Brazil–both shocked and confused the international community.
Journalists and activists alike mistook the Guarani's warning to mean that they were going to commit mass suicide if the courts ordered them off the ancestral land.
To be sure, "mass suicide" was simply never an option the Guarani considered. Rather, their plan was mass resistance, to the death.
Fortunately, the community will not have to follow through on their promise unless this latest ruling is overturned or worse, the current land title holder decides to take matters into his own hands. There is alot of precedent in both scenarios, especially when the land in question is Guarani land.


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I am again having doubts about 12 step programs.
I have been in ACoA and Alanon for a year now, but I still feel that they dog me out because instead of relying on Godism I am turning to the groups for support as my "HP"; they said I could do that.
However, when I do that, they turn away from me, claiming that I don't "get" the program or the steps or what "God wants me to do".
They tell me to "put myself out there and give love in order to get it, to give it away to keep it", but I still feel that I give and don't get anyting back or "keep" anything.
I feel that, like churches, 12 step programs are empty promises, asking me to give of myself and promising things in return that neve rhappen.
this is definitely, for me, a loss of community and more disillusionment in my face.
I am now attening online smart recovery meetings and advocating "alanon/acoa" type meetings that do not support the idea of a deity or 12 steps.
or sponsor, either.
Over the weekend I tried to get a sponsor, 2 of them did not email me after insisting that i do so every day. after one email, they never spoke to me again.
then they say, "God wants you to be alone so that you can get to know Him".
I am so sick of people's cryptic, magical thinking when they explain to me what happens to me and why.
someone told me to come back here and bask in more rational ideas.
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ty everyone so far for your support.
very sane and to the point.
I came back here and read your replies today.
ty again.
It is helping me right now.
things keep happening to me in "sixes and sevens" (not twos and threes) and again I have to keep fighting the brainwashing.
all that is available to me are 12 step meetings (chats) and it is hard when I am feeling so vulnerable.
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The round shape of the dough is intentional: I want it to cool down more slowly and to ferment more slowly than if it were flattened into a disk. Using a metal container also plays into that objective.
And I have to ask November, we all are aware that glass is a better insulator than plastic, plastic more so than metal. Any actual #'s or real temps as to time that the same products take to cool down?
I know that November has commented before about using metal containers to store dough, and that he prefers plastic, possibly because of the increased likelihood of thermal shock to the dough when using metal.
I have noticed in any event that the pebbling tends to diminish as the dough ferments.
I just about always include some oil in my doughs and on the outer surfaces so it came to me as a big surprise to find that the all-purpose dough I made the other day and reported on earlier in this thread was perhaps the best, or one of the best, doughs I have ever made in terms of having an almost perfect balance between elasticity and extensibility. And that dough had no oil in it at all, and just a small amount on the outer surface. I might have been happy to give credit to the new dough making method I have been using and writing about, but are there other factors besides oil that might have been involved? The formulation included only flour, water (65%), salt (1%) and yeast (0.25% IDY). The dough did ferment at room temperature for a few hours before degassing and placing it in the refrigerator, but otherwise the dough preparation was fairly standard (salt dissolved in water, flour and IDY added, etc.)Peter


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A girl accompanies her mother as they march with thousands of Czech people through streets of Prague to commemoration the 20th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution on November 17, 2009 in Prague. Thousands of Czech citizens followed the same route taken by student demonstrators in 1989 until a violent intervention by riot police took place in what was then communist Czechoslovakia. The event in 1989 sparked a series of much larger protests and strikes that ended with in the relinquishing of power by the communist authorities in December of 1989, paving the way for the democratic election of a post-communist government under the leadership of then-President Vaclav Havel. AFP PHOTO/JOE KLAMAR (Photo credit should read JOE KLAMAR/AFP/Getty Images)


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NYC's Met museum to open 7 days a week
NEW YORK (AP) -- Starting July 1, New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art will be open to the public 7 days a week.
The museum is now closed on Mondays, except on holidays that fall on a Monday. Also on July 1, the museum's opening time will be changed to 10 a.m., from the current 9:30 a.m.
The changes also apply to The Cloisters, the Met's museum of medieval art and architecture in Fort Tryon Park in northern Manhattan. The Met had a record 6.28 million visitors last year.
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UPDATE – Ossun Elementary Now On Lockdown As Four Original Schools Taken Off After American Bank Robbery
UPDATE: Lafayette Police say Acadian Middle, Evangeline Elementary, J.W. Faulk Elementary and Northside High School have been taken off of lockdown. Ossun Elementary, though, has been added to the list because the suspect has been seen in the area.
The Lafayette Police Department confirms to Newstalk 96-five KPEL that the American Bank on Moss Street has been robbed.
The Lafayette Parish School System says several schools are on lockdown due to the incident. Here is the statement:
Due to a bank robbery at American Bank and Trust Company on Moss Street, schools in the vicinity have been placed on lockdown, Acadian Middle, Evangeline Elementary, JW Faulk, and Northside. This lockdown is to ensure the safety of our students. LPSS is working cooperatively with the Lafayette Police Department and will lift the lockdown once an all clear is given.
Corporal Paul Mouton tells KPEL that a white male about 5'5" to 5'7" walked into the bank and demanded money. A shot was fired, but no one was injured. The man was wearing a white t-shirt and jeans. He fled by carjacking one of the employees' cars, but later abandoned the vehicle.
If you recognize this man, please call 911 or Lafayette Crime Stoppers at 232-TIPS.


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Obama's victory lap
Apparently, President Barack Obama does have a red line.
The shutdown of 2013 may have changed the way Washington does its federal budgets. It may have permanently damaged the Republican brand. It may have set Democrats up for a stronger bargaining position than they've been able to muster in years.
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Or, in the end, it may have done none of the above. But, for a man who's been obsessed with crafting his own narrative ever since he published his first autobiography at age 34, the past 16 days seem to have helped Obama recalibrate the long-established sense of himself — among Republicans as a reliable pushover, and among Democrats as a fading frustration.
White House aides aren't sure how much this will matter. Obama didn't get a personality transplant after the shutdown began, and neither did the tea party members of Congress. But carrying the budget fight now into the conference committees, restarting the immigration reform effort or negotiating with Iran, his message seems to be: he'll talk and talk and talk some more. And then a little more. And then one more round of talks. Then an emergency meeting to try to salvage the talks. But press him too much, and eventually he's going to say no. And he's going to stick with it and deal with the consequences.
( WATCH: Obama delivers statement on deal)
Come January, when the next continuing resolution deadline will arrive, the idea of a re-empowered Obama may seem quaint. A year from now, when he'll really start molting into a lame duck, he'll have to defy decades of political history by staying relevant. And there isn't a person familiar with the Democratic Party who believes the Democratic unity he's enjoyed the past 16 days will last.
Wednesday night, though, as Obama celebrated delegitimizing the strategy of threatening default with a slipped smile, the mood was clearly different.
"When people are telling the story about what the administration accomplished, this will be part of that story," said a White House official, reflecting on the end of the standoff Wednesday evening. "This is a telling episode in a broader narrative of the Obama presidency."
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The Republicans who've spent years trying to destroy him are now at war with one another. As a party, they're polling worse than — well, pretty much anything. John Boehner has been bullied into one of the biggest and most public defeats for any speaker of the House ever. Republicans have been left looking as though their priorities were giving a medical device tax break and taking away their own staffers' health care. Democrats are actually excited about and supportive of a president whom many had started to give up on.
"You can win these conflagrations," said Neera Tanden, a former Obama administration aide and now president of the Center for American Progress. "Sometimes, in order to make progress on your long game, you have to just hold your ground and fight your fight."
Obama, according to aides, sees the past three weeks less as an accomplishment than as a process that possibly paves the way for accomplishments: He did not, as he is prone to say, run for president just to avert disaster. What he has gotten is like the prize at the bottom of a box of Cracker Jack: definitely something, though he doesn't yet know what. It may not be that great. And it'll definitely be sticky.
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There seems to be actual planning for a conference committee, and while the White House will leave most of the work to budget committee chairs Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) and Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), they expect to be involved early and often. They feel more confident that this will produce a document both Murray and Ryan can endorse, and that it won't go the way of the Simpson-Bowles deficit reduction plan, which Ryan backed, and then backed away from.
"The Republicans are recognizing this was not a good strategy, and seeing the horrible reaction from the American people, I'm pretty sure they're not going to run this play again," Obama told New York television station WABC on Tuesday as the Republican resistance wound down.
"There are a few things that can reset a table," Tanden said, discussing political party perception. "And a government shutdown can reset a table."
( Also on POLITICO: W.H.: No winners here)
Privately, White House aides are more cautious, confident that Obama has scored a win, but almost as confident that Republicans could come back at him and make Wednesday seem a lot less like a change than just the latest episode in an ongoing, repetitive series, as many suspect.
"It just remains to be seen how significant it is," the official said, discussing this inflection point of the presidency. "That will be dictated by the reaction of the people on the other side."
One of the key factors is what lessons Boehner (or whoever is speaker) takes from the shutdown, which White House aides acknowledge is an open question as well.
Conceding Wednesday, the speaker vowed to fight another day — and that day appears to be today. Immediately after his emailed white flag hit inboxes, Boehner tweeted, complete with talking point hashtag, "Our drive to stop the #trainwreck that is the president's health care law will continue."


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Plan To Melt The Pounds Off Your Stock-Style Transmission Like Ice Cream In July
Everything that has mass has a moment of inertia, the energy required to spin an object about its axis. The greater the moment of inertia, the greater the energy required. Two factors affect an objects moment of inertia: mass and the distance of the mass from the axis of rotation. This means that a one-pound solid rod with a one-inch diameter will have a smaller moment of inertia than a one-pound disc with a 12-inch diameter. Thats about all the physics my brain can stand. Lets move on.
The best way to make sure the horsepower produced by your engine makes it to the rear wheels is to reduce the rotating weight of the driveline to the absolute limit without sacrificing durability. And generally, because of gear reduction at the transmission and rear differential, the closer to the engine you are when removing rotating weight, the greater effect it will have on the car. Thats why a properly-built and maintained transmission can be a tremendous advantage on the racetrack.
When it comes to the Saturday-night level of oval-track racing, many sanctioning bodies require stock-style transmissions, which can have either three or four speeds. This severely limits the number of options available to the competitive racer. There are the normal junkyard options, Muncie and Saginaw, but those are getting extremely difficult to find. One popular solution is the T10 transmission, now being produced by Richmond Gear. The T10 was originally designed in the early 70s by Borg-Warner and found throughout the 70s and early 80s in nearly every GM automobile with a manual four-speed.
The right to produce the transmission is now owned by Richmond Gear, which mainly sells it to racers and street rodders. It is lightweight and durable, but the gears are clustered into a single unit, limiting the racers options for customization. The T10 is also a four-speed, which is one more than most oval-trackers need for racing.
Where its legal, there are ways to improve the T10 for the Saturday-night circle tracker. Johnny Hightower, owner of Hightower Racing Transmissions, has been building custom racing transmissions for years. A longtime racer himself, Hightowers work building custom racing transmissions isnt widely known, but his client list does include some pretty impressive names. Three-time Hooters ProCup champion Bobby Gill races Hightowers equipment, as does former ASA champ Gary St. Amant. Other customers can be found in All Pro cars, the Busch Series and Late Model race cars across the country. Recently, Hightower turned his attention to transforming the T10 into an oval-track monster. Ive been customizing Jerico transmissions for years, Hightower says. Jericos are great units, but they are built expressly for racing and arent legal in series that specify stock-style [stock outer case, usually] transmissions. That leaves the Richmond T10 unit, which is the only thing that is strong enough to be raced, still being built new and will fit within the rules.
For years, racers who were lucky enough to have a Muncie or Saginaw three-speed in good working condition enjoyed an advantagein terms of rotating weightover racers using four-speed transmissions. Now Hightower has made the playing field a little more level with his three-speed version of the T10. Originally, he began with a completely stock unit and made all modifications himself. Now though, he has been able to work with Richmond to produce custom pieces exclusively for his use.
The first step is to cut down the cluster gear. Hightowers redesign for the T10 includes completely throwing out the existing reverse gear, flipping the reverse idler around and using the first gear slider to drive reverse. Since the entire gear isnt necessary, he cuts it down until its approximately only a half-inch wide. To minimize heat buildup Hightower actually cuts the gears off the cluster on a lathe instead of grinding the metal away. It requires more time and a lot more care with specialized tooling, but he believes the end result is worth it.
To match the new cluster gear configuration, Hightower also uses custom output shafts. Depending on what the racers rules will allow, he has one for use with roller bearings and another for the standard setupthe gears spin on the shaft with nothing but a film of oil to reduce friction. We did a very unscientific test comparing the roller-bearing equipped shaft with the standard unit. Without lubricant or any tension on either gear, a flick of the wrist sent the roller-bearing gear spinning two to three times longer than the gear spinning directly on the shaft. The motion is quite noticeably smoother.
Ive been adding roller bearings to transmissions for years and never had any trouble with failures, Hightower says. The more friction you have, the more heat buildup you are going to get. Neither is good for a transmission. Plus, when the gear and shaft heat up, they expand making them fit even tighter; thats where Ive seen galling problems. The bearings help reduce all of that. The transmission depends on oil splashing up between the gear and the shaft to provide proper lubriction; a roller bearing just requires less lubricant.
Once all the various parts and pieces are properly chosen and cut down to Hightowers specifications, the first option is to put all gears, shafts and shifter forks through a time-consuming polishing process. Hightower uses REM equipment and a special media mixture designed to reach even the tightest slots on the gears. Dont even bother asking him about the fluids used, because all you are going to get in return is a sly smile. The polishing process cuts down all sharp edgespotential crack pointsand smoothes all the surfaces to a mirror finish. When hes finished, the gears look like theyve been chromed.
Assembly is fairly straightforward. The reverse idler gear is cut down and flipped over, and even though its significantly smaller and lighter than the stock configuration, it still secures to the stock mounting points. Normally, the idler gear extends into the tailhousing, but a plug contains Hightowers unit completely within the gear case. One note here: Hightower has significantly cut down the reverse gear. It can be used to back the car, but only very gently. For simply maneuvering the car around the pits, he recommends pushing the car whenever possible. (If youve ever had the opportunity to spend some time in the Winston Cup pits, you might have noticed the Cup guys doing the same thing. Reverse gear is weak in almost every full-race transmission.)
Overall, when Hightower has finished remaking a T10, the reverse gear is gone from the tailhousing, the idler gear is cut down, first gear (now reverse) is significantly cut down and the synchronizers and shifter fork are removed. And if the customer wants it, the tailhousing bushing is also replaced with a roller bearing to further reduce parasitic losses. It all adds up to approximately seven pounds of rotating weight removed from the transmission.
Second is used for a pit gear, third is the gear for restarts and fourth, of course, is for racing. Hightower sells a stock T10 three-speed for $1,450 and his polished unit with free-spinning roller bearings for $1,950.


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A great recording of BUZZINGS by the Grant Park Chorus with Christopher Bell conducting! You can find it on Cedille Records.
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piano solo -- Bagatelle and bgtl
violin and piano -- Poème Bleu
percussion duo -- Bei Mir
solo voice -- Piangerò (voice, cello, piano), There will I Go (soprano & organ), trplfy (for 3 solo voices)
chamber orchestra -- Aspiration
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This is an activity about magnetism. In this activity, polystyrene spheres and several strong neodymium magnets are used to represent the Sun and Earth and their distinct magnetic fields. Participants construct and use a field detector to predict... (View More) where the magnetic fields are on the Sun and Earth, and use field bits, which is the term used in the lesson plan, made from the closed staples to form loops and trace the invisible magnetic fields of the Sun and Earth. The activity is designed to be used in an informal public outreach setting, for example as a stand-alone station in a family science day event. It can also be modified for use as a simple classroom demonstration. There are background information sheets provided that can be printed to go along with the activity station. This activity requires two polystyrene spheres, 8 neodymium magnets, epoxy adhesive, wire clippers, needle nose pliers, and acrylic paints, along with other easily obtained materials. (View Less)
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A delightfully and updated version of the classic "Card Duck," or "Gwendolyn, this specially made puppet in brightly colored quality card can reveal any number of chosen cards.
Two spectators each select a card and return it to the pack. The deck is then placed in Pancho's beak. Pancho then tossesout all the cards except one. It is the first chosen card! The cards are placed back in Pancho's beak and this time he isblindfolded. Again, Pancho finds the card. For a comical finish Pancho opens one side of the blindfold to show he peaked.
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UFA Options is a continuing series that gives a brief run-down of the unrestricted free agent market this summer, team-by-team. Our next team for consideration is the New York Islanders .
Watching the mess down on Long Island is a cringe-inducing exercise, in the main. Garth Snow was a much reviled pick as G.M., but he's clearly not the source of the problem (and just as clearly he's an improvement on Mike Milbury). Charles Wang, with his wacky contracts, threats to move the team, and constant meddling in the team's affairs is the very worst sort of owner.
There's a reason that successful teams generally have a G.M. with autonomy, and as a rule the guy who has spent his life working towards the job has a better notion of what to do with it than a trigger-happy owner.
In any case, the Islanders have eight unrestricted free agents, including a handful of forwards, one defenseman, and both of last season's 'yesterday I was a career AHL'er, today I'm the starter for an NHL team' fill-in goaltenders. If I sound apathetic, it's because I am: none of the changes will significantly effect the fortunes of the team, and there's very little chance that brining in free agents will either. It's been sixteen years since the team advanced past the first round, and it's going to be at least one more.
Mike Sillinger
"Suitcase" Sillinger (if anyone's earned the nickname, this veteran of 12 different NHL teams has) played in only seven games last season and just turned 38. He also missed extensive time the year before. A smart player with the ability to play multiple roles, at this point it's anyone's guess if Sillinger will get another NHL contract.
Dean McAmmond
Used largely in a depth role, McAmmond had a decent season, and came on offensively once he was traded to New York, with 9 points in 18 games. He still has speed and while the ex-Oiler/ex-Flame isn't likely to hit the 50-point mark again anytime soon he can still contribute in a bottom-six role. If the price is right (and I were working as a G.M.), McAmmond's a player I'd be interested in as veteran depth.
Andy Hilbert
Andy Hilbert led the Islanders in shots (167), blocked shots (85) and recorded his best ever offensive season. Unfortunately, Hilbert's best-ever offensive season only had him on pace for 33 points, so his upside isn't exactly unlimited. He doesn't have much of a hitting game and he's a lousy faceoff guy. With all of that said, he's a quality positional defender, a guy who saw a lot of time in his own end and a lot of time against the other team's best players, and on top of that he's dirt cheap. Garth Snow is expected to re-sign Hilbert this summer.
Mitch Fritz
The 6'7" left-winger has played in the ECHL, AHL and NHL, and he's never topped the 12 points he put up in 2003-04 for the Columbus Cottonmouths. He set another career-high with the Cottonmouths: 284 PIM in only 45 games in 2001-02. Fritz is just one of the many minor-league goons out there, and this season was his first in the NHL – 20GP, 0 points, 42 PIM.
Thomas Pock
Pock has scored in every league he's played in – except the NHL. A depth defenseman on the Islanders this season, Pock brings size but not physicality, and while he's a relatively effective puck-mover he remains unable to translate his shiny AHL statistics into NHL point totals. He doesn't really block shots, either. He got killed in terms of +/- this year while not shouldering that heavy of a load, but then again the Islanders were a miserable team. He's a fringe NHL'er at this point.
Yann Danis
A fine example of why backup goaltenders have virtually no value to NHL clubs, the 27-year old journeyman had played in only 6 NHL games prior to this season, and had been up-and-down in the AHL. He started this year strong, going 7 and 3 with a .924 SV%, and continued that in the NHL – playing 31 games with a 2.86 GAA and .910 SV% for the Islanders. He should get another NHL look this coming season.
Joey MacDonald
The 29-year old MacDonald, who spent most of five seasons in the vaunted Detroit development system had played all of 15 NHL games prior to this season. When Rick DiPietro went down with injury early on, he found himself thrust into the starting job, and didn't do badly, posting a .901 SV% over 49 games. He's a legitimate backup at this point.


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Powerball Jackpot Hits $325 Million
The number have been drawn for the Powerball jackpot worth $352 million.
The numbers drawn Saturday night are: 22,32,37,44,50 and the power ball was 34. No word yet on any winners.,
The jackpot is the fourth largest in the multi-state game's history .No one has picked a winner for 14 straight draws in the multi-state lottery.
The cash option will be valued at $212.8 million.
Powerball organizers say this is the first run-up to a large jackpot that's fallen over a major holiday. They're unsure whether it will help or hinder sales.
An increase in the ticket price to $2 has helped the jackpots grown faster.
The Powerball reached a jackpot of $337 million in August, the third highest jackpot ever and was won by a Michigan railroad engineer.
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