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The Financial Reporting Council will need more firepower to police the proposed third board
The Financial Reporting Council will need a bigger budget and more staff to cope with a rising workload if the proposed third board for start-ups is approved
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Ten years on, Hong Kong's independent auditor Financial Reporting Council has been up and running well, but with only 22 staff on hand we have to ask if this tiny regulator has the right resources to get its job done.
This is a timely question, coming as Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing is proposing to introduce a third board next year. A public consultation underway until August will help determine whether there is a need for the new board, which will operate as two separate markets catering to different size companies and different share holding structures.
A premium market, open to all investors, will host companies that can meet the eligibility requirements for a main board listing, but which have a dual-class share structure currently banned on the main exchange.
The second market will be focused towards start-ups and limited solely to professional investors. Inevitably, this board, designed to cater towards smaller, higher risk companies will provide more headaches of the Financial Reporting Council, as several studies show that start-ups typically have failure rates of 70 per cent.
As such, if this new start-up market is introduced next year, we can expect more investigations, which raises the question whether the council's 22 staff are sufficient to handle the workload.
In terms of manpower, the Financial Reporting Council is far behind the Securities and Futures Commission's 860 staff, and the new Insurance Authority, which is targeted to have 300 staff.
The government-appointed members of the Financial Reporting Council, which was established in 2007, have already taken over the investigation of audit failures from the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants. The institute still retains routine inspection duties and decides on penalties if auditors are found to have breached the rules.
This situation has seen Hong Kong lag behind other financial centres such as New York, London, and Singapore, which have independent audit regulators. In September, Hong Kong lost out to Singapore in the Corporate Governance Watch 2016 rankings, a survey of regional corporate governance standards, because it did not have an independent audit regulator.
To be fair, during the past 10 years the Financial Reporting Council has completed 50 investigations, 11 enquiries and handled 400 complaints while it has passed on 67 cases to the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants for follow up. That's an accomplishment for a public body with limited resources.
Hong Kong's insurance regulator sets its first task as cross-border enforcement
Financial Secretary Paul Chan Mo-po said the government later this year would submit a bill to the Legislative Council. If approved by Hong Kong lawmakers, the reforms would give the Financial Reporting Council the power to regulate auditors of about 2,000 Hong Kong-listed companies. The oversight of auditors for private companies would remain under the supervision of the Hong Kong Institute Certified Public Accountants.
We hope the proposed law will also allocate additional funding so that the council can bolster its headcount, giving it the investigative means to get its job done properly.
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Learning from the NBA
Major League Baseball has a message for players and employees this spring training: Keep guns, long knives and explosives out of the clubhouse.
Signs have been placed in spring training clubhouses stating "individuals are prohibited from possessing deadly weapons while performing any services for MLB." The rules apply to employees of the commissioner's office, other central baseball businesses and to teams, including players.
Titled "Major League Baseball's Weapon-Free Workplace Policy," it says MLB "shall prohibit the possession or use of deadly weapons in any facility or venue owned, operated, or controlled by it." Included are "firearms, explosives, daggers, metal knuckles, switchblade knives, and knives having blades exceeding 5 inches."
Branyan to Indians: First baseman Russell Branyan reached a preliminary agreement to rejoin the Indians. The deal is subject to a physical.
He set career highs of 31 homers and 76 RBIs for Seattle last year but hit .251. He didn't play after Aug. 28 because of a back injury.
Arbitration summation: Catcher Jeff Mathis defeated the Angels in salary arbitration (winning $1.3 million), and reliever Sean Burnett lost to the Nationals (awarded $775,000).
Owners lead players 4-3 with one case remaining.
Briefly: Tigers GM Dave Dombrowski said he has made an offer to free agent Johnny Damon. The Braves also appear interested. ... Catcher Jose Molina agreed to a one-year contract with the Blue Jays worth up to $1 million. He has hit .217 in 10 major-league seasons. ... Toronto placed right-hander Jesse Litsch, who won 13 games in 2008 but pitched just twice last season, on the 60-day disabled list to open a spot on the roster.


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A Personalised Hip Flask with your initials engraved on the front. Comes in a presentation box with a funnel.
The Personalised Hip Flask has your initials engraved on the front, a maximum of 4 characters can be engraved. Character limit includes full stops.
The Personalised Initial Hip Flask comes with an easy filling funnel and is presented in a gift box. The hip flask can hold up to 6oz.
Please note that once an order has been placed, it may not be possible to amend your personalisation. We are unable to print accents and symbols so please do not include these as it may affect your personalisation.
Makes a lovely gift for any Father or Grandfather on their Birthday, Father's Day or Christmas.
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These photos are the work of photographer Katerina Plotnikova. Incredibly, no photoshop is used here, just careful staging with trained animals.
Unforgettable Elephant
I wonder if getting a signed print is deer?
Definitely honey involved in this shot…
She's having a hoot…
Behind the scenes
For a sneaky peak behind the scenes, here's a photo from Katerina's Facebook page showing the bear trainer supplying some treats!
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"Untamed Pharmaceuticals" 40hx30w oil
My post will be a not so brief explanation of how I composed the oil painting. Included are details or the painting and working drawings. I used the image of a tiger tamer, as a metaphor for battling a pharmaceutical industry that is guilty of predatory pricing and releasing highly addictive prescription drugs to the public. To turn the metaphor idea into a painting, I used a live drawing from a model, a study of a man in a Reuben's painting, photo references, poetry, an oil study from life set up in my studio, and visual influences from an art exhibit I saw on Samoan tattoos.
The Man with the Tiger Tattoo
I chose this drawing from a live model to start thumbnails. His arm and hand on the green towel seemed strong visually to me.
I worked out various compositions with a tamer and whole tigers. They were too literal. One day I was doodling and thinking, tiger and tail and I came up with the tiger balloon in my sketchbook.
My sketchbook ideas morphed into the composition in the painting. I sized out my canvas based on the proportions of my preparatory sketch (below – notice it is a mess of cut out tracing paper ideas) and put down the drawing in charcoal on the canvas.
The life drawing has no detail on the man's face. I knew I wanted him to have red hair (the model had reddish blonde hair) and some sideburn chops or some facial hair to make him tiger-like. I had just gotten a book on Rubens at a library book sale and found the head I was seeking, whiskers and all. Below is a study from my sketchbook from a painting called "The Four Philosophers" by Peter Paul Rubens. The profile if the man in my painting is more tiger-like.
If you've been reading my posts, I often mention that coincidence and me are pals. I couldn't quite figure out the outfit of my tamer. I had an idea but couldn't find reference photos. Oddly enough, I found references for the shirt, vest and armband in photos from an article about a drummer in my husband's Modern Drummer magazine!
An exhibit I saw at the Japanese American National Museum in downtown Los Angeles, CA, influenced the tattoo design. There were beautiful photographs the current day people of Samoa posing to show their tattoos. They were very intricate and also seemed in harmony with the shape of the body and underlying musculature. I hoped to emulate some of that in my tamer's tattoo.
The purple teardrop earring is a memorial to singer and entertainer, Prince, who was battling chronic pain and became a victim of an accidental drug overdose.
Fearful Symmetry
"The Tyger", by William Blake is the poem that inspired the artwork on the box. I had a good time arranging the words to look like an old poster. Poems are cool.
While working on the painting, I kept seeing tigers everywhere. Putting gas in my car, there is a small sticker of a tiger on the pump. Going to the post office, the new stamps are of wild animals, the featured one is a tiger. The background prop of a T.V. show I'm watching is a tiger poster. The most abstract tiger was an orange wine glass with tiger stripes at its base that was in the clearance section of a plant/ gift store I go to. Just the other day, (now that I'm done with the painting, but writing about it) I checked out a book from the library about a writer and flip to a photo of him standing next to a fake tiger. So far, I haven't actually seen a tiger balloon, but you never know.
Predatory pricing, ballooning costs, holding a tiger by the tail, an addiction sneaking up on a person… images and phrasing that came to mind while painting.
The Symbolism of Water
First, I had to hunt for the right pitcher at my local thrift stores. When I got a pleasing "circus-like" pitcher (The decorations were a surprise, really) I set it up with the glass in my studio. It is way easier to paint what is in front of me, than to make things up.
To me the water has a double meaning: A symbol of purity or cleansing and a vehicle by which one takes to swallow dangerous prescription drugs. I guess that leaves the glass half full or half empty depending on your perception.
I've written enough, time for you to ponder. Maybe take an action. Vote. Read poems. Write letters. Create art. Hold a Tiger to your heart.


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Former X Factor judge Cheryl has given birth to a baby boy.
The 33-year-old singer announced on her Instagram page on Saturday evening that she and Liam Payne had become parents on Wednesday.
She posted a photo of One Direction star Liam cradling a baby with dark hair.
Cheryl captioned the photo: "On Wednesday 22nd March Liam and I became parents to an incredibly beautiful, healthy baby boy, weighing 7lb 9 and looking like a dream.
"Although he still doesn't have a name he is already stealing hearts.
"We are all madly in love and overwhelmingly happy with our little arrival.
"Happy Mother's Day to all the mothers around the world.
"A day that now has a different meaning to me forever."
The couple had kept details of the pregnancy private, but Cheryl had been photographed numerous times with a prominent baby bump.
Proud new father Payne shared the same photo with his Instagram followers.
The 23-year-old wrote: "My close friends and family know there are very few times when I'm left speechless...wow!
"I'm incredibly happy to welcome our new baby boy into the world, it's a moment that I will never forget for the rest of my life and my favourite memory I have so far.
"I'm completely in awe of his incredible mother and how she has been the whole way through this, she's really made my dreams come true.
"We haven't named him yet but he's already capturing hearts including mine. I feel very blessed.
"Happy Mother's Day everyone!"
Cheryl's former Girls Aloud bandmate Nadine Coyle offered her congratulations on the new arrival.
She tweeted: "Congratulations @cherylofficial I am so so happy for you & your precious little boy & family! Sending you loads of love!"


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Just a friendly reminder that this Thursday is our MJHS Open House! We are thrilled to welcome you in to get a sneak peek into our school! We will have a bit of a different format this year with the focus being on you getting to see all that you'd like to see while you're here at your own pace! Tomorrow, your kiddo will be given an extra copy of their schedule to bring home to you – so check those book bags. :) We will start all together in the commons promptly at 7pm. After a quick introduction, you'll have time to walk your kiddo's schedule, visit their classrooms, meet their teachers, check out their locker location, etc. The event is true open house style so while we'll formally wrap up at 8pm, you're welcome to head out after you've 'made the rounds' and seen all that you wanted to see. Also, we'll have representatives from our PTO, the Foundation, the Boosters, and Mariemont Arts Association here to share information and offer memberships.
Late Arrival / Early Dismissal Procedure: Parents please send a note to school with your student if they need to leave early for an appointment or other reason. Please remind your student to bring the note to the office upon arrival (prior to first bell class) where they will receive a pass to leave class early and wait at the office until you arrive. If this procedure is followed, your student will be sent outside to meet you upon your arrival. In place of a note to school you may email Mrs. Murray prior to 8:30 email@example.com


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Destruction by Sigyn
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wow. dark. dark and true
Yeah, I always liked Angel and Spike going at it.
01/09/2016 05:13 pm
Powerfully written! Every sentence packs a punch. The differences between Spike and Angel are clear. Spike is right. Angel revels in destruction. It is his modus operandi whether he is aware of it or not.
And he can't bloody STOP destroying anything. Bloody Angel...
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Jordan's trip started out with a flat rear tire at 60 but he rode it out, got it fixed and it only set us back about an hour.
Which called for a little celebration
We stopped to visit Mary in Dodge.
Got our route figured out.
And after 5 hours of country back roads we were there!
This guys always wrecking shit and he does it every year.
Brandon bet Jordan a million bucks it would start first kick, it did the whole trip.
Numbers were a little down this year. My guess is the gloomy forecast scared most away. It never did rain on us, just a breif downpour on the way home.
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Ukraine-based Natus Vincere is finally ready to return to competitive League of Legends with a brand new roster of talented individuals.
The esports organization's previous roster participated in the Continental Qualifiers of the European League Championship Series (EU LCS). Despite registering a massive finish in the tournament, Na`Vi failed to qualify for the big league.
It now places its hopes in a new League of Legends roster that has been formed after "great scouting work" to represent the team in the upcoming spring split of the LCL, the Russia/CIS equivalent of the LCS.
We are proud to announce our new @LeagueOfLegends roster that will play at #LCL: https://t.co/4oOknufZSe #navinews #LoL pic.twitter.com/1fdrzQgNzq
— Natus Vincere (@natusvincere) December 28, 2016
"We've formed a roster of mature and experienced players for the spring season of LCL," said team manager Yaroslav "N1ghtEnd" Klochko in a statement. "The players will share the experience with each other to avoid the mistakes of the past and work hard to achieve the common goal."
The new League of Legends roster of Natus Vincere:
- TOP: Simon "Zvene" Svensson
- JUN: Ruslan "Gumbeq" Pozdniakov
- MID: Sebastian "niQ" Robak
- ADC: Vladislav "aMiracle" Scherbina
- SUP: Arthur "Skash" Yermolaev
Zvene is one of two returning members from the original roster, a key ingredient that helped Natus Vincere place in the top 4 rankings. Skash is the second, switching to Vega Squadron in-between but coming back to wear the Na`Vi for the next split.
Veteran Gumbeq has been part of Good Team Multigaming for the last three years, where he took fourth place at the regional CIS championship. Mid-laner niQ is known for his time on Gambit Gaming and is respected as a powerful player that can turn the tide of battles. In the bottom lane, aMiracle is the former player of Albus NoX Luna. He won the regional CIS championship twice and qualified for the 2016 League of Legends World Championship.
The multi-games esports organization is known for its dominant Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and Dota 2 presence. It also features rosters for World of Tanks, FIFA, and StarCraft II. It had been part of the League of Legends scene for the past three years or so but scrapped its last roster in late 2015. Since then, Na`Vi expressed the wish to return but was probably bidding its time to search for suitable members for its new roster.


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Mollie Busta, popular performer from the Jim Busta Band and Squeezebox, is host of the weekly RFD-TV Polka show, the "Mollie B Polka Party". The one-hour program features the nation's top polka bands and a wide-variety of ethnic styles produced on location at music festivals from around the country. Along with Ted Lange, Mollie B serves as Creative Director in expanding and improving RFD-TV's prime-time polka programming.


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Lucky Stars Quilt Pattern
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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- Muriel Levesque, of East Rutherford, died on Jan. 19. She was 92.
Born in New York City, Levesque was the manager at Clara's Dress Shop in Rutherford for over 25 years. She retired when she was 75.
She is survived by her children, Ailanna Stoebling, and Barbara Marino and her husband John; grandchildren Barbara Madeline, David, Matthew and Angela; great-grandchildren Alyssa, Emma, John Anthony, Hailey Deana and Lisa; and sister Victoria O'Brien.
Levesque was predeceased by her husband, Charles Levesque.
Visitation will be from 4-8 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 20, at the Kimak Funeral Home, 425 Broad St., in Carlstadt. The funeral service will be at 10 a.m. on Saturday at the funeral home. Interment will be at Holy Cross Cemetery, in North Arlington.
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For those with a knife collection - how do you store them and/or display them? I've gone from a simple Benchmade to some nicer folders and straight knives, which are just stuffed in a sock drawer. I figured I'd give them some respect.
I have one of these in my safe https://www.amazon.com/Spyderco-4401.../dp/B000JXLSQ8
It works really nice.
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I've just used the rolls and satchel style carriers for both storage and display, but now that I'm starting to acquire more custom knives, I am considering building a glass covered display case with lighting and humidity control of some kind.
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I have two or three that are pretty much the same as this one, but with a different company logo / name. (Could very well be made at same manufacturing facility.)
I also have a soft attache type bag made by Unique Cases that has a soft, velour-like interior with many individual pockets as well as larger full width compartments that I've had for many years.
I don't see it on their website but maybe if you contact them they can tell you if they still make it. It's a really nice bag and much more suitable for protecting valuable pieces as compared to the first one I posted...which I generally use for production knives like Benchmade, Spyderco and the like.
And then, of course, there are the standard little padded zipper pouches that are suitable for individual knives and can be stored in a larger bag or duffel.
They are available in various sizes / dimensions.
Here's one example:
These are really nice, they make individual and multi slot pouches:
I also have some little lucite stands for display rather than storage. Forgot where I got them.
@jc000 I called "Unique", the company I linked to above and spoke to "Jerry" who says they no longer make the attache case type product I described. (It's been about 12 years since they discontinued it as demand wasn't high and they couldn't justify the cost of production.) He said he couldn't think of anyone to refer you to that makes a similar type product currently.
You may have to buy individual zipper (or velcro closure) pouches and just store them in a Pelican case or soft sided bag...or the other knife bags I linked to in the post above...the ones I use for the Benchmades, Spydercos etc.
Sorry couldn't help more.
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The reliability of the 30-06 on most of the worlds non-dangerous game is so well established as to be beyond intelligent dispute. Finn Aagaard
"Don't fuck with it" seems to prevent the vast majority of reported issues." BehindBlueI's
I'm in the Okie John camp, except that mine are laying all over the house. A friend who is a serious knife collector has what I believe are custom made shadow boxes to display his fancy/rare/expensive stuff.
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This visual example is taken from a benign text book about how to manage the social effects of Schizophrenia, but it still has a difficult and severe (some would even say stigmatising) label emblazoned right on its cover. In mental health, these labels are all around us.
Apart from the visual quality of mental health labels, there is also the troubling habit of slipping into using them as metanyms. Metanym is the substitution of a proper name with an alternative which actually represents something with which it is associated. This is what is going on when a health-care professional refers to someone as, say, "the depressive in room 10". I have seen many people object to the use of "Schizophrenic", and they are right to. While someone may meet the criteria for Schizophrenia, no-one is a "Schizophrenic"; it is not what the word is for.
Political Correctness:
A politically correct and formally inclusive language of mental health problems would presumably not use words that are themselves unpleasant and would carefully caution against the over-extension of the labels beyond their originally intended use. The implications of disease (which implies infection) and of mental health problems as in some way characterologically definitive (as in personality disorders, where a person is seen as in some way defined by the label) should be strenuously resisted if clinicians want to avoid their diagnostic labels becoming simple insults.
Identity Politics:Another approach is Identity Politics. A fantastic example is contained in this marvellously strident tweet by @ukschizophrenic:
Just to clarify: I believe that individuals aiming to change the name of schizophrenia are cowards, idiots & the worst agents of stigma!
— TheSchizoPodcaster (@ukschizophrenic) June 4, 2013
An alternative to "politically correct" re-namings of DSM terms is for service users to accept them; to take them on as identities in themselves and, from this position, to assert their right to experience things in a particular way. I am unclear whether this stands as a reaction against diagnosis or a tacit validation of it. However, the gist of this tweet seems to be that @ukschizophrenic identifies to some extent with "Schizophrenia" and is simultaneously unimpressed by the notion that it is something to feel ashamed of. Just as LGBT groups took ownership of "queer" and "dyke" in order to neutralise their toxicity, there seems to be an emergence of a mental health identity politics online; Twitter's "Schizo-Tribe" is a brilliant example.
This movement makes it difficult for anti-diagnosis campaigners to say that they have the monopoly on taking patient experience seriously. If diagnosis is a useful way for people to make sense of their experience (and proponents of formulation have already accepted that the criterion we're interested in is "usefulness" rather than "truth") then to highlight the problems with diagnosis' validity seems irrelevant. Meanwhile, by claiming that a diagnosis is "stigmatising" or "colonising", anti-nosologists are privileging one group's experience over another's.


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Whenever I'm doing a fast day, I tend to feel a bit of a responsibility to dose my husband and offspring up on somemeat.
They are generally ever so good, and tend to go veggie most of the week, but as they aren't actually vegetarian, I feel a bit unfair denying them of meat all the time!
So tonight's meal, in accordance with the changing weather and season, is a nice hearty Chicken and Mushroom pie!
Chicken and Mushroom Pie
You will need:
1) 4 chicken breasts, or some mini fillets (doesn't matter too much)
2) 350g puff pastry, preferably ready rolled.
3) 25g butter.
4) 200g button mushrooms, chopped in half.
5) 250g cream cheese or mascarpone (I'm using mascarpone)
6) 150ml milk.
7) 1/2 tsp mustard.
How to make it.
1) Begin by cooking the chicken. Gently cook in a little oil in a griddle or frying pan until cooked through. Whilst it is cooking, chop the mushrooms if you haven't already.
2) Put the cooked chicken to one side and preheat the oven to 200c. In a large frying pan, melt the butter and cook the mushrooms over a gentle heat until soft.
3) In a large bowl, beat the cheese with a fork until soft. Add most of the milk (save a little for brushing the pastry with!) and the mustard, and mix into a thick sauce.
4) Chop the chicken into bite size amounts, and add to the cheese sauce, along with the mushrooms. Stir in, then pour into your pie dish. (Or casserole dish, if, like me, you don't have a pie dish!)
5) Roll the pastry out (if not ready rolled) on a lightly floured surface, and then cut it so it fits on top of your pie, with enough for a rolled edge. If you have any excess, make some pretty leaves (or…er…animals. My kids requested a pig and an elephant. Ahem. Not going to happen guys.)
Feel free to snigger openly at my flower/ heap of rabbits droppings decoration.
6) Brush the remaining milk over the pastry, then pop in the oven for around 25 minutes.
and after 25 minutes
And…a bit of spillage!
7) Leave to cool, then serve, with gravy and mash, or on its own; however you like! I'm serving with a few peas for a bit of greenery.
Total Cost? About £7.00. A very pricey one this one! Mind you, without the meat, substituted for more mushrooms and Quorn pieces, it would have been £5.00. However, in fairness to the pie, there is plenty left over for tomorrow's lunch as well.
The verdict? Very well received! DB1 polished off loads, DB2 was a bit slower off the mark but got there in the end, and OH declared that it was delicious. Hooray!


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Facing their first loss in 71 years, Toyota has decided to make a change at the top. Akio Toyoda will take over as the new company president in June.
Toyota Motor has named Akio Toyoda its next president. Toyoda, 52, is the grandson of company founder Kiichiro Toyoda. He will take over for current chief Katsuaki Watanabe in June, becoming the first member of the Toyoda family in charge since 1995.
Akio Toyoda will hold the reigns at a hazardous time for the company. Expected to post their first annual fiscal loss in 71 years, Toyota sales dropped four per-cent for the 2008 calendar year. The global economy is the worst in recent memory, with several countries finding themselves in recession.
The United States, Toyota's largest market, auto sales are down substantially. Toyota sales dropped 16% in that country alone. In Japan, the value of Toyota stock has dropped nearly 52% since February 2008.
Shares of Toyota, traded on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, ended up 1.3%, closing at 3,100 yen, according to Bloomberg News.


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This article concludes our discussion of the WS-Resource Framework, a set of proposed standards that formalizes the relationship between Web services and state. In this part, we finish covering notifications and go into greater detail about resources. It is excerpted from chapter 8 of the book Building Web Services with Java: Making sense of XML, SOAP, WSDL, and UDDI, written by Steve Graham et al. (Sams; ISBN: 0672326418).
When the WS-Resource Framework was announced in January 2004, a total of five specifications were included in the framework. Simultaneous with the announcement, two of the specifications were published: WS-ResourceProperties and WS-ResourceLifetime, along with a whitepaper that discussed the WS-Resource concept ("Modeling Stateful Resources Using Web Services").
The remaining three specifications were discussed, but weren't published at that time. This section presents a brief sketch of the specifications that will be made public sometime in the first half of 2004.
The uses of a WS-Addressing endpoint reference are many. An endpoint reference can be returned as part of a response message, as you saw in the updated doSubmission operation. An endpoint reference can be passed as part of an input message to a Web service. A requestor can receive an endpoint reference by some non-Web services means, such as in an email message. An endpoint reference can also be a resource property of a WS-Resource.
You can imagine that many copies of an endpoint reference can be made and shared with any number of other entities in a distributed computing system (more than is reasonable to keep track of). This poses an interesting challenge: What happens when an endpoint reference needs to change? Consider the scenario where SkatesTown wishes to migrate the location of its PurchaseOrder service to another IP address, perhaps as a result of a load balancing requirement, or due to a severe hardware or software problem on its server. Now the Address components of all the endpoint references to the PurchaseOrder service reflect an incorrect URL. How can all the copies of the endpoint reference to the PurchaseOrder be updated? This is solved by the concept of a renewable reference.
The WS-RenewableReference specification standardizes the renewable reference. WS-RenewableReferences uses WS-Policy to indicate how a requestor can renew or refresh an endpoint reference when it has become stale or incoherent due to a change made by the service provider. The policy specifies the location of one or more Web services that understands how to renew the endpoint reference to its current form.
WS-ServiceGroups is a standard means of declaring a by-value collection of Web services or WS-Resources (essentially, anything that can be pointed to by an endpoint reference). This collection is a WS-Resource and therefore can be manipulated, through a Web service in a fashion similar to what you've seen in this chapter: resource property queries, notifications on topics, lifetime management through WS-ResourceLifetime, and so on. A ServiceGroup can be used to collect Web services or WS-Resources for all sorts of purposes; for example, it can be used as a registry of available WS-Resources.
SkatesTown, for example, could use a WS-ServiceGroup to collect all the PurchaseOrder WS-Resources that are currently in process. By having a single WS-Resource, business intelligence monitoring tools can be built to occasionally query this WS-ServiceGroup to get status on the health of SkatesTown's order pipeline.
WS-BaseFaults is a simple specification, rounding out the WS-Resource Framework. It describes an XML Schema complexType for error messages associated with Web services fault messages, along with a means by which a hierarchy of application-specific extensions to this base error message complexType should be constructed. A standardized form of error messages allows tooling to be built to make the job of reporting Web services errors to
Note - You can see the final, complete WSDL for the POPortType, which manages the PurchaseOrder WS-Resources for SkatesTown, at the Sams Publishing Web site: http://www.samspublishing.com. Remember that the bulk of this WSDL is copied from WSDL portType definitions defined by the various WS-Resource Framework specifications. At the Web site, you can also view the full XML Schema definition for the resource properties document of a PurchaseOrder.
In this chapter, we introduced the WS-Resource Framework, a collection of specifications and conventions that standardize how stateful resources are represented in the Web services world. We examined how one particular stateful resource, a PurchaseOrder, is modeled by SkatesTown's use of the WS-Resource Framework. We reviewed the concept of a WS-Resource and the implied resource pattern, which is a conventional use of the endpoint reference facility from WS-Addressing to point to a WS-Resource. We explored the WS-ResourceProperties specification, which describes how elements of a WS-Resource can be queried and updated by requestors.
We outlined the WS-Notification family of specifications, which standardizes the notion of publish and subscribe (asynchronous notification) in Web services. You saw how SkatesTown used WS-Notification to replace an older, SkatesTown-proprietary approach to notification. We also reviewed the WS-ResourceLifetime specification that standardizes two means by which a requestor can terminate WS-Resources: immediate and scheduled termination.
Finally, we finished our review of the WS-Resource Framework by summarizing three other specifications that will be completed and published soon.


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Intelliscanner announced its new comic book management application and barcode scanner bundle, Comic Collector, on Thursday. Comic Collector manages your comic book inventory, locates and displays cover artwork, tracks detailed issue data, generates printable barcodes for the items in your collection, tracks Web-based comics, and more.
The Comic Collector application is Universal Binary, allowing it to run natively on PowerPC and Intel-based Macs, and requires Mac OS X 10.3.9 or higher. The included barcode scanner connects to your Mac via USB.
Comic Collector is scheduled to ship in April, and will be demonstrated at Macworld Expo 2007. Pricing information is not yet available.


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Further appellate review granted, 455 Mass. 1108 (2010).
Practice, Civil, Motion to dismiss. Limitations, Statute of. Copyright. Federal Preemption. Jurisdiction, Federal preemption. Collateral Estoppel. Contract, Implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing, Interference with contractual relations. Consumer Protection Act, Damages. Damages, Punitive.
The statute of limitations did not bar a civil action brought in Superior Court within one year of the dismissal in the Superior Court of an action that a Federal District Court had "transferred" to it, where in the circumstances, the earlier dismissal in the Superior Court was a dismissal of the original action for a matter of form within the meaning of G. L. c. 260, § 32. [666-667]
A Superior Court judge properly dismissed, for failure to state a claim on which relief could be granted, a civil action alleging, inter alia, violation of common-law trade dress, where, under the circumstances of the case, principles of collateral estoppel precluded the plaintiff from arguing that promotional materials underlying the trade dress claim had acquired "secondary meaning" or that they were fanciful and thus inherently distinctive [669-670]; moreover, the judge properly dismissed, for failure to state a claim on which relief could be granted, a claim against one of the defendants for breach of the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing, where the plaintiff had no contract with that defendant [670].
The Federal Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. §§ 101 et seq. (1976), did not preempt claims alleged in a civil action brought in Superior Court, where, assuming that the promotional materials underlying the claims were within the subject matter of copyright [667-668], the claims for breach of the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing [670-672], interference with advantageous business relations [672], and unfair and deceptive trade practices in violation of G. L. c. 93A [673] each required proof of at least one additional element that made those claims qualitatively different from a Federal copyright claim.
In a civil action, a claim of interference with advantageous business relations survived the death of the plaintiff, where the claim sought a remedy for an injury to a property interest [673]; likewise, a claim for multiple damages as a remedy for alleged unfair and deceptive trade practices in violation of G. L. c. 93A survived the plaintiff's death, where the multiple damages provisions of G. L. c. 93A not only vindicate the rights of an injured party, but are part of a legislative scheme designed to serve a broad public interest in the eradication of unfair and deceptive practices in trade or commerce [673-677].
CIVIL ACTION commenced in the Superior Court Department on February 8, 2007.
A motion to dismiss was heard by Patrick J. Riley, J.
Robert S. Wolfe for the plaintiff.
Edward C. Cooley for Herb Chambers I-95, Inc., & others.
Carol E. Head for Globe Specialty Products, Inc.
RUBIN, J. The plaintiff, Susan Curtis (plaintiff), as executrix of the estate of Harold Curtis (Curtis), appeals from the dismissal of her complaint alleging four counts against the defendants, five automobile dealerships (collectively, the Chambers defendants), and Globe Specialty Products, Inc. (Globe).
The complaint alleges that Curtis, while doing business as Curtis & Associates, conceived an idea for advertising to be used by automobile dealerships and, as an original expression of that idea, designed and produced distinctive promotional materials. Curtis sold these materials to dealerships and provided, for a fee, marketing services such as direct mail campaigns. Specifically, Curtis designed, produced, and sold a particularly successful and distinctive advertisement that dealerships used as a direct mailer and/or newspaper insert. Curtis avoided using his promotional materials for competing dealerships in the same marketing area at the same time. This allowed his customers to distinguish themselves from one another and also insured the value of Curtis's promotional materials. Similarly, Curtis limited the frequency of use of his promotional materials to preserve their impact.
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During 2000, Curtis contracted with the Chambers defendants to provide marketing services using his promotional materials. In late 2000, Globe approached and solicited Curtis for printing business. Curtis declined to do business with Globe.
Beginning in early 2001 and continuing at least until Curtis brought suit, Globe began printing and distributing promotional materials for the Chambers defendants. These promotional materials, which were substantially similar to those designed and produced by Curtis, were distributed by hand and through direct mailers and newspaper inserts. The Chambers defendants ceased doing business with Curtis.
Globe's promotional materials, which appeared in the same marketing areas at the same times as Curtis's promotional materials, confused Curtis's other customers, namely competing dealerships. Customers of these dealerships were similarly confused, and Curtis's promotional materials lost their impact, and value, due to the frequency of use of Globe's promotional materials. The complaint alleges that the defendants knew or should have known that their conduct would interfere with and impair Curtis's business. Curtis demanded in writing that the defendants cease their conduct, but the defendants ignored this demand. Curtis consequently lost both his credibility and the ability to sell his promotional materials and marketing services to dealerships in the same marketing areas as the Chambers defendants, sustaining damages. [Note 4]
Curtis first filed a complaint in late 2001 in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts. That complaint contained two Federal and four State claims. The Federal claims alleged copyright infringement under the Federal Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. §§ 101 et seq. (1976), and violation of the Lanham Act, the Federal trade dress statute, 15 U.S.C. § 1125 (1999). The State claims were for violation of common law trade dress, breach of the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing, interference with advantageous business relations, and unfair and deceptive trade practices in violation of G. L. c. 93A.
The Federal District Court granted summary judgment on the two Federal claims. The court found that Curtis had not registered
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a copyright for the advertisement materials at issue. Copyright registration is a condition precedent to bringing a Federal copyright claim. 17 U.S.C. § 411(a). The court also granted the defendants' motion with respect to the statutory trade dress claim because Curtis failed to introduce sufficient evidence that his product had acquired "secondary meaning." See Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Samara Bros., Inc., 529 U.S. 205, 211 (2000). Trade dress develops "secondary meaning" when, although it is not inherently distinctive, it has acquired distinctiveness in that in the minds of the public it identifies the source of the product rather than the product itself. See ibid. The court concluded that it lacked jurisdiction to hear Curtis's remaining State claims and said, "Accordingly, the Court will transfer this case to the Essex Superior Court."
The Superior Court clerk subsequently opened a docket in the matter. The docket indicates that the case was "[t]ransferred from U.S. District Court of Massachusetts to Essex." The docket also indicates receipt of the first amended complaint in the Federal action, the defendants' answers to it, and an attested copy of the docket entries from the Federal District Court. Curtis did not file a new complaint, but he did pay the filing fee.
The defendants moved to dismiss the State claims in the Superior Court on the basis that the Federal District Court lacked the authority to transfer a case originally filed in the Federal District Court to the Superior Court. The motion judge found that procedural defects indeed required dismissal and dismissed the case without prejudice. That first motion judge noted that "Massachusetts law provides a procedure for the refiling of an action dismissed for any matter of form (if originally commenced within the applicable period of limitations) within one year after the dismissal." See G. L. c. 260, § 32.
By this time Curtis had died, and the plaintiff, his wife, as executrix of his estate, filed the instant complaint in Superior Court. This complaint alleges four State claims: count I for violation of common law trade dress; count II for breach of the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing; count III for interference with advantageous business relations; and count IV for unfair and deceptive trade practices in violation of G. L. c. 93A. The defendants' motion to dismiss was allowed by a second judge of the Superior Court.
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The defendants brought their motion to dismiss the present complaint under both Mass.R.Civ.P. 12(b)(1), 365 Mass. 754 (1974), for lack of subject matter jurisdiction, and under Mass.R.Civ.P. 12(b)(6), 365 Mass. 754 (1974), for failure to state a claim upon which relief could be granted. We review the allowance of a motion to dismiss under rule 12(b)(6) de novo. Okerman v. VA Software Corp., 69 Mass. App. Ct. 771, 774 (2007). See Iannacchino v. Ford Motor Co., 451 Mass. 623, 635-636 (2008) (articulating the standard for reviewing the adequacy of complaints). We accept as true all the allegations in the complaint and draw every reasonable inference in favor of the plaintiff. Warner-Lambert Co. v. Execuquest Corp., 427 Mass. 46, 47 (1998). In reviewing the allowance of a motion to dismiss under rule 12(b)(1), we review questions of law de novo. See id. at 47-50. See also Valentin v. Hospital Bella Vista, 254 F.3d 358, 365 (1st Cir. 2001). A judge must "dispose[] of a Rule 12(b)(1) sufficiency challenge on the basis of the plaintiff's version of the relevant events, taking the well-pleaded facts as true and drawing all reasonable inferences in favor of the pleader." Id. at 365 (construing the parallel Federal rule). See Callahan v. First Congregational Church of Haverhill, 441 Mass. 699, 709 (2004). While "a judge may consider documents and other materials outside the pleadings," id. at 710, where no relevant fact is "in issue, the court's determination engenders de novo review." Valentin v. Hospital Bella Vista, supra at 365. See Wooten v. Crayton, 66 Mass. App. Ct. 187, 190 n.6 (2006) (addressing the treatment of disputed facts in a rule 12[b] [1]) motion).
As an initial matter, we address the defendants' argument that dismissal under rule 12(b)(6) was appropriate because the statute of limitations had run by the time the plaintiff filed the instant complaint in the Superior Court. Curtis originally brought suit in the Federal District Court within the statute of limitations. The Federal District Court did not purport to dismiss the State claims in that case, but rather to "transfer" the "case" to the Superior Court. The Superior Court concluded that the Federal District Court lacked the authority to transfer the State claims under these circumstances and dismissed those claims without prejudice.
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Within one year of that first Superior Court dismissal, the plaintiff filed the instant complaint.
General Laws c. 260, § 32, provides in relevant part that "[i]f an action duly commenced within the time limited in this chapter is dismissed . . . for any matter of form, the plaintiff . . . may commence a new action for the same cause within one year after the dismissal . . . of the original action." The defendants argue that the "original action" was the Federal action and that it was "dismissed" by the Federal District Court in the transfer order. They argue as a corollary to this that the first action dismissed by the Superior Court was not the "original action."
The procedural steps taken in this case present an extremely unusual circumstance. The Federal District Court purported to "transfer" the timely-filed Federal action, not to dismiss it. The "transferred" action was placed on the Superior Court docket. We think that, in light of the Federal District Judge's explicit order that the case be "transferred" to the Superior Court, the first Superior Court dismissal was a dismissal of the original action for a matter of form within the meaning of the statute. The filing of the instant complaint was, therefore, as the first Superior Court motion judge suggested, timely under G. L. c. 260, § 32. [Note 5]
Turning to the merits, the defendants' primary argument is that all of the plaintiff's State claims are preempted under the Federal Copyright Act (Act), and that, consequently, the Superior Court lacked subject matter jurisdiction. See 17 U.S.C. § 301(a). The leading Massachusetts case in this area is Lee v. Mt. Ivy Press, L.P., 63 Mass. App. Ct. 538 (2005) (Lee). We explained there that there is a two-prong test to determine whether a particular State claim is preempted under the Act. Id. at 548. "First, the work in which rights are claimed must come within the subject matter of copyright as defined by the Act [, s]ee 17 U.S.C. §§ 102, 301(a), [and second, the] right asserted under State law must be equivalent to one or more of the 'exclusive rights' provided by § 106 of the Act." Ibid. Under § 106 of the
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Act, a copyright owner has "the exclusive rights to do and to authorize any of the following: (1) to reproduce the copyrighted work . . . ; (2) to prepare derivative works . . . ; (3) to distribute copies . . . of the copyrighted work to the public by sale or other transfer of ownership, or by rental, lease, or lending; (4) . . . to perform the copyrighted work publicly; [and] (5) . . . to display the copyrighted work publicly." We will assume for purposes of this opinion, without deciding, that the first prong of this test is met and that although Curtis did not prevail on his Federal copyright claim, his promotional materials are nonetheless within the subject matter of copyright.
With respect to the second prong, because a State claim is not preempted under the Act unless the right asserted is equivalent to one of the foregoing rights, the preemption provision does not immunize all conduct otherwise unlawful under State law simply because it is effected through the reproduction of printed materials. As Lee explains, "Federal courts have developed what is known as the 'extra element' test. . . . '[W]hen a state law violation is predicated upon an act incorporating elements beyond mere reproduction or the like, the rights involved are not equivalent and preemption will not occur.' " Id. at 549, quoting from Rubin v. Brooks/Cole Publishing Co., 836 F. Supp. 909, 923 (D.Mass. 1993), in turn quoting from Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc. v. Nation Enterprises, 723 F.2d 195, 200 (2d Cir. 1983), rev'd on other grounds, 471 U.S. 539 (1985). As this court explained in Lee, supra at 549:
"The extra element inquiry is not accomplished merely by counting the elements of a claim. The fact that a State claim has more elements than a Federal claim will not necessarily save it from preemption. Rather, the dispositive factor is the nature of the claim asserted. Where the extra element renders the claim 'qualitatively different' from a Federal copyright claim, the State cause of action will survive a preemption challenge. In determining whether a State law claim is qualitatively different from a [Federal] copyright claim, courts look beyond the label and evaluate what right the plaintiff was seeking to protect or enforce and the theories on which the claim was brought." (Citations omitted).
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We turn first to the common law trade dress claim. We need not determine whether this claim is preempted because we conclude that dismissal was required under rule 12(b)(6).
The plaintiff argues first that Curtis's promotional materials contained terms and images that had acquired "secondary meaning." See Professional Economics, Inc. v. Professional Economic Servs., Inc., 12 Mass. App. Ct. 70, 74-75 (1981). However, the Federal District Court's determination that Curtis's promotional materials had not acquired secondary meaning precludes the plaintiff under the doctrine of collateral estoppel from seeking relief on this basis. See Fireside Motors, Inc. v. Nissan Motor Corp. in U.S.A., 395 Mass. 366, 372-373 (1985).
The plaintiff also argues cursorily in the alternative that "[a]t the very least, the images" in Curtis's promotional materials "were fanciful and not utilitarian." A finding that trade dress is fanciful and thus inherently distinctive can provide an alternative avenue to protection for such materials under the Lanham Act, the Federal trade dress statute. See Datacomm Interface, Inc. v. Computerworld, Inc., 396 Mass. 760, 771 n.9 (1986). The plaintiff is, however, also collaterally estopped from seeking relief on this basis. Curtis litigated the question of whether his promotional materials were fanciful in the Federal action and lost. Under the Federal trade dress statute, protection for fanciful materials is not available where the claim involves product design. See Wal-Mart Stores v. Samara Bros., Inc., 529 U.S. at 212-216. Curtis has not argued that the rule is any different under the common law of Massachusetts. Cf. U-Neek, Inc. v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., 147 F. Supp. 2d 158, 178 (S.D.N.Y. 2001) (holding that a New York common law trade dress claim is analyzed in the same manner as a claim brought under the Lanham Act). The Federal District Court found that this case involved only product design, noting correctly that "[t]o recover on a statutory trade dress claim involving product design, a plaintiff must prove that the product in question has acquired a secondary meaning." The determination that this case involved only product design was necessary to that court's decision. Having litigated and lost on this issue in the Federal action, and in the absence of any argument that the common law rule regarding
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product design differs from that under the Lanham Act, the plaintiff is collaterally estopped from raising it here. Cf. Patterson v. Hantzes, 5 Mass. App. Ct. 806, 807 (1977) (collateral estoppel prohibits relitigation of issues expressly or necessarily decided in prior litigation).
The next count alleges breach of the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing. We begin by noting that this is a covenant implied in contracts. Since the plaintiff does not allege that Curtis ever had a contract with Globe, dismissal of this claim with respect to Globe was proper under rule 12(b)(6) regardless of the defendants' preemption argument. See National Lumber Co. v. Canton Inst. for Sav., 56 Mass. App. Ct. 186, 187 n.3 (2002) (this court may affirm on any ground supporting the judgment below).
The plaintiff does allege that the Chambers defendants had a contract with Curtis. We noted in Lee, 63 Mass. App. Ct. at 550, that, "[i]n general, private contract disputes belong in State court." While "a breach of contract claim based solely upon a promise to refrain from taking one of the actions reserved exclusively to the copyright owner should be struck on preemption grounds," id. at 551, case law indicates that where contract claims allege breach of a promise to pay for the use of a work, they involve an extra element that is absent from a Federal copyright claim, which renders them qualitatively different from such a copyright claim. See ibid.; Wrench LLC v. Taco Bell Corp., 256 F.3d 446, 457-459 (6th Cir. 2001), cert. denied, 534 U.S. 1114 (2002).
The complaint alleges that "[b]etween May of 2000 and November of 2000 Curtis contracted with and sold marketing services utilizing his distinctive and unique advertising materials to [some of the Chambers defendants]. . . . After some success, general management for the Chambers organization caused other Chambers dealerships outside Essex County to utilize the designs and services of Curtis." This amounts to an allegation that Curtis and the Chambers defendants had a contract under which the Chambers defendants promised to pay Curtis in exchange for which they were permitted to use his promotional materials. The defendants do not contend otherwise.
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The shape of the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing necessarily depends upon the terms of the contract. See, e.g., Hawthorne's, Inc. v. Warrenton Realty, Inc., 414 Mass. 200, 210-211 (1993). The plaintiff argues that the covenant of good faith and fair dealing implied in the contract here included a prohibition on the Chambers defendants' continued use of Curtis's promotional materials without paying for that use. The principal argument put forward by the defendants in support of their claim of preemption is that the only action complained of in the complaint is the act of copying. [Note 6] The requirement that copyrighted materials not be used, either by reproduction or distribution, without permission of the copyright holder is one of the exclusive rights protected under the Act. 17 U.S.C.§ 106.
A fair reading of the complaint indicates that it asserts not only that the materials were reproduced, but that they were reproduced without compensation being paid to Curtis. Among the damages alleged are "the loss of the fair value for the use of [Curtis's] design by the Chambers Defendants." Although the reproduction of Curtis's promotional materials is a necessary component of the alleged breach, the claim for breach of the covenant of good faith and fair dealing requires proof of an
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additional element, the implied promise to pay for any subsequent use of Curtis's promotional materials, which makes the claim differ qualitatively from a Federal copyright claim in the same way that ordinary breach of contract claims do. It therefore is not preempted. [Note 7]
The third count alleges that Globe intentionally interfered with advantageous business relations existing between Curtis and the Chambers defendants and that Globe and the Chambers defendants intentionally interfered with advantageous business relations existing between Curtis and other dealerships. This claim involves "extra elements" rendering it qualitatively different from a Federal copyright claim. It therefore is not preempted. To succeed on an interference with advantageous business relations claim, a plaintiff must show that he or she had a business relationship with a third party from which he or she derived economic benefit, that "the defendants knew of that relationship," that "the defendants interfered with that relationship through improper motive or means," and that "the plaintiff's loss of advantage resulted directly from the defendants' conduct." Cavicchi v. Koski, 67 Mass. App. Ct. 654, 657 (2006). The rights involved in such a claim are not equivalent to any of the rights enumerated above that are protected under the Act. The fact that the alleged tortious conduct may have included reproduction of printed materials does not immunize the defendants from liability, nor does it render the two claims equivalent.
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Fourth, we turn to the claim under G. L. c. 93A. Our decision with respect to this claim is controlled by Lee. As that case makes clear, to the extent that the plaintiff's c. 93A claim is based on the same conduct as the interference with advantageous business relations claim, this claim, too, is qualitatively different from a Federal copyright claim and is thus not preempted. See Lee, 63 Mass. App. Ct. at 553.
The defendants make one further argument with respect to two of the claims, arguing that the interference with advantageous business relations claim and the claim for multiple damages under G. L. c. 93A do not survive Curtis's death. See Pine v. Rust, 404 Mass. 411, 417-418 (1989). [Note 8]
As for the tortious interference with business relations claim, it suffices to note that the plaintiff alleges the loss of good will among the damages caused by the defendants. As the Supreme Judicial Court held over a century ago, "good will is property, and is a valuable asset in [an individual's] business." George G. Fox Co. v. Glynn, 191 Mass. 344, 348 (1906). The tortious interference claim thus seeks a remedy for an injury to a property interest. Consequently, it does survive. See Sheldone v. Marino, 398 Mass. 817, 819 (1986) (actions seeking redress for damage to property rights survive death).
As for the plaintiff's inclusion of a request for multiple damages as relief under G. L. c. 93A, the defendants characterize these as "punitive" damages, cf., e.g., Drywall Sys., Inc. v. ZVI Constr. Co., 435 Mass. 664, 670 n.4 (2002), and assert that their availability does not survive Curtis's death.
No decision of either the Supreme Judicial Court or this court has ever held that punitive damages that are provided for by statute are unavailable for a claim that has survived the death of the plaintiff. [Note 9] Nonetheless, the defendants here are not the first
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to argue that under Massachusetts law punitive damages claims do not survive death. See, e.g., Gasior v. Massachusetts Gen. Hosp., 446 Mass. 645, 653-655 (2006). This argument appears to derive from language in the single case cited by the defendants in its support, Harrison v. Loyal Protective Life Ins. Co., 379 Mass. 212, 216-217 (1979). There, the Supreme Judicial Court said, " 'So long as the recovery of damages was regarded as a matter of personal vengeance and punishment as between the transgressor and his victim, death erased the purpose of a civil action between them. . . . [W]hen the function of damages awards came to be recognized as compensatory rather than punitive, the reason for the rule ceased to exist.' Smedley, Wrongful Death -- Bases of the Common Law Rules, 13 Vand. L. Rev. 605, 608-609 (1960). Clearly, the passage of the Massachusetts Survival Statute [G. L. c. 228, § 1,] in abrogation of the common law represents the Legislature's acceptance of this logic." Ibid.
This passage, however, purports to explain the reason for abandonment of the common law rule that damages claims abated upon death. It does not necessarily imply that requests for relief in the form of authorized punitive damages are unavailable in a case in which the claim otherwise survives. Indeed, courts ordinarily ask whether a "claim" survives death, not whether particular requests for relief do. In the only case we have found that addresses whether punitive damages are allowed on claims that at common law survived the death of the plaintiff, the court concluded that they are. See Worrie v. Boze, 198 Va. 533, 537 (1956) (deciding the question); Worrie v. Boze, 198 Va. 891, 892 (1957) (reaffirming earlier decision). And courts in most jurisdictions have concluded that when a claim survives an individual's death under the State's survival statute, his or her estate has available to it all of the damages that would have been available to the decedent had he or she lived, including punitive damages. See, e.g., Murphy v. New York & New Haven R.R. Co., 29 Conn. 496, 499 (1861); Pennsylvania R.R. Co. v. McCloskey's Administrator, 23 Pa. 526, 530-531 (1854); Earl v. Tupper, 45 Vt. 275, 288 (1873). See also 1 Schlueter, Punitive Damages § 9.9(B), at
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633 n.954 (5th ed. 2005) (collecting cases). Some States' survival statutes have been construed to prevent the survival of punitive damages, but where survival statutes are silent on the matter, as ours is, they have ordinarily been construed to allow all the damages that would have been available to the decedent if he or she were living. 1 Schlueter, supra at 631-632. See 1 Kircher & Wiseman, Punitive Damages: Law & Practice § 9:8, at 9-57 -- 9-58 (2009) (unless a jurisdiction's survival statute bars punitive damages, "the estate or representative of a decedent to whom wrong was done [may] recover punitive damages in a survival action against the person responsible for causing the wrong").
The Supreme Judicial Court has not squarely addressed the question whether punitive damages are always available when a claim survives. Nonetheless, it decided recently that punitive damages may be awarded to the estate of a decedent in a common law tort action for injury done to that decedent. Matsuyama v. Birnbaum, 452 Mass. 1, 37 n.61 (2008) (Matsuyama). [Note 10] There, the Supreme Judicial Court held that punitive damages are available in a claim for "loss of chance" brought by a decedent's estate for harm done to the decedent in the form of his or her loss of chance of survival. Although ordinary wrongful death claims seek redress for injury done to a decedent's survivors, loss of chance claims seek redress for injury done to the person who died. Compare id. at 16 ("When a physician's negligence diminishes or destroys a patient's chance of survival, the patient has suffered real injury"), with Thibert v. Milka, 419 Mass. 693, 695 (1995) ("The purpose of the wrongful death statute is to compensate a decedent's survivors for the loss of the decedent's life"). Nonetheless, the Supreme Judicial Court held that punitive damages were available, despite the death of the injured party. Matsuyama, supra at 37 n.61. Matsuyama thus undermines the argument that under Massachusetts law statutorily authorized punitive damages may not always be sought where the claim for which they are authorized otherwise survives a plaintiff's death. Indeed, even if there is a principle that relief that is in some sense personal could not be sought on behalf of a decedent's estate, something that was assumed by the court in Gasior v.
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Massachusetts Gen. Hosp., 446 Mass. at 654-655 (Gasior), Matsuyama, supra at 37 n.61, suggests, consistent with the modern understanding of the systemic deterrent effect wrought by the availability of punitive damages, that claims for such damages are not merely personal. [Note 11]
In any event, in this case we need not determine definitively whether otherwise authorized punitive damages are always available under Massachusetts law when an action survives death. This is because regardless of the answer to that question, under the Supreme Judicial Court's decision in Gasior, the multiple damages provided for by statute in G. L. c. 93A do survive.
The court in Gasior held, even before Matsuyama, that punitive damages provided for by the antidiscrimination statute, G. L. c. 151B, § 9, survive death. See Gasior, supra at 653-655. The court concluded that the punitive damages called for by that statute did "not merely vindicat[e] personal rights, but compris [ed] part of a scheme to vindicate a 'broader public interest in eradicating systemic discrimination,' " and that "[c]onsistent with the broad remedial purposes" of the statute, "to the extent a deceased plaintiff's . . . claim [under the statute] survives him, he should have available to him all of the remedies provided under the . . . statute." Id. at 654, quoting from Stonehill College v. Massachusetts Commn. Against Discrimination, 441 Mass. 549, 563 (2004). See ibid. ("We see no reason to distinguish as to statutory remedies between a plaintiff who has suffered the indignities of unlawful discrimination (if proved) and who survives, and a similarly aggrieved plaintiff who is deceased, simply because the exigencies of court scheduling may delay the granting of relief until after the plaintiff's death").
Even assuming that in some circumstances a claim for punitive damages may abate under Massachusetts law upon the death of the plaintiff, a question we do not decide, in light of Gasior multiple damages under G. L. c. 93A -- even if characterized as
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punitive in the sense that that word was used in Harrison v. Loyal Protective Life Ins. Co., 379 Mass. at 216-217 -- are available in this case despite the fact that the original plaintiff has died. The multiple damages provisions of c. 93A are part of a legislative scheme designed to serve a broad public interest in the eradication of unfair and deceptive practices in trade or commerce. Further, while the multiple damages provisions serve several purposes, [Note 12] a "prime goal" of their inclusion in the statute is to serve the public interest in "reasonable settlement." See International Fid. Ins. Co. v. Wilson, 387 Mass. 841, 857 (1983). Multiple damages are permitted under c. 93A in the commercial context only when the defendant either fails to tender with his answer a written offer for settlement, or the court finds that such a tendered offer was not reasonable. See G. L. c. 93A, § 11. In a c. 93A consumer action, damages may be multiplied only when the defendant has failed to respond to a demand letter with a reasonable offer for settlement. See G. L. c. 93A, § 9.
Multiple damages under c. 93A thus are necessary not only to vindicate the rights of the injured party, but to serve these public interests. In these circumstances, even if punitive damages might sometimes be precluded by the death of the injured party in a case in which his or her claim otherwise survives, there is no reason to limit the statutory remedies available under G. L. c. 93A simply because relief is not granted until after the original plaintiff's death. Cf. Gasior, 446 Mass. at 653-654.
The judgment of dismissal is affirmed in part and reversed in part, and the case is remanded for further proceedings consistent with this opinion.
So ordered.
[Note 1] Of the estate of Harold Curtis.
[Note 2] Doing business as Herb Chambers Dodge.
[Note 3] Silver Star, Inc., doing business as Herb Chambers Kia Lynnfield; Dave Dinger Ford, Inc., doing business as Herb Chambers Ford; Herb Chambers of Millbury, Inc., doing business as Herb Chambers Chrysler, Plymouth, Dodge; Herb Chambers of Rehoboth, Inc., doing business as Herb Chambers Kia; and Globe Specialty Products, Inc.
[Note 4] Of course we voice no opinion as to whether any of these allegations are true. For present purposes, as we explain in the text, we must assume that they are true.
[Note 5] In light of this conclusion, we need not address the plaintiff's alternative arguments concerning tolling of the statute of limitations.
[Note 6] The defendants acknowledge that under the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing, "neither party shall do anything which will have the effect of destroying or injuring the right of the other party to receive the fruits of the contract." Druker v. Roland Wm. Jutras Assocs., 370 Mass. 383, 385 (1976), quoting from Uproar Co. v. National Bdcst. Co., 81 F.2d 373, 377 (1st Cir. 1935), cert. denied, 298 U.S. 670 (1936). They also argue, however, that the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing cannot survive after the explicit terms of the contract have been satisfied because "the fruits have been fully harvested."
This argument is foreclosed by the Supreme Judicial Court's decision in Druker, supra. In that case, the plaintiff "developed a concept for a restaurant at the Colonnade Hotel in Boston," "conceiv[ing] the distinctive name," Zachary's, and "designing a unique logotype and historical legend, as well as the entire design format and theme." Id. at 384. He entered into a contract with the defendant to provide decorating and consulting services for the hotel and restaurant. There was no allegation that the defendant had failed to comply with the express terms of its contract with the plaintiff. Nonetheless, the court held that the plaintiff's allegation that the defendant later revealed to others, for profit, the plaintiff's unique concept, design, logotype, legend, and theme, including the name of the restaurant, and used them in rendering interior design services for a hotel in Toronto, Canada, stated a claim for breach of the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing. Id. at 385.
[Note 7] The defendants have not claimed, either here or in the court below, that because of the actual terms of the contract, the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing does not contain an implied promise to pay for any subsequent use of Curtis's promotional materials. Consequently, the plaintiff was not required to prove the precise terms of the contract (which are not spelled out in the complaint) in order to demonstrate that the Superior Court had subject matter jurisdiction. See Callahan v. First Congregational Church of Haverhill, 441 Mass. at 710-711 (plaintiff may not rely on the allegations in the complaint but must prove jurisdictional facts when defendant raises a "factual challenge" to those facts). We express no opinion concerning the actual terms of the contract, or whether in light of those terms the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing prohibited the Chambers defendants from using the promotional materials without payment to Curtis.
[Note 8] The defendants make the same argument with respect to the common law trade dress claim, but in light of our conclusion that that claim is barred by principles of collateral estoppel, we need not address this alternative argument.
[Note 9] "Under Massachusetts law, punitive damages may be awarded only by statute." International Fid. Ins. Co. v. Wilson, 387 Mass. 841, 856 n.20 (1983). See Boott Mills v. Boston & Me. R.R., 218 Mass. 582, 589 (1914) ("In this Commonwealth there is no such thing known to the common law as the recovery of punitive damages").
[Note 10] Matsuyama, supra at 23, involved a common law cause of action for wrongful death. See Gaudette v. Webb, 362 Mass. 60, 71 (1972). The wrongful death statute provides for punitive damages. See G. L. c. 229, § 2.
[Note 11] Cf. 1 Kircher & Wiseman, Punitive Damages: Law & Practice, supra at 9- 59 ("[A] particular jurisdiction's rationale for imposing punitive damages may largely dictate whether those damages are recoverable on behalf of a decedent's estate. For example, when the purpose underlying the imposition of punitive damages is to punish tortfeasors and deter future injurious conduct, one might reasonably posit that the death of a wronged individual is irrelevant to the issue of whether punitive damages are recoverable").
[Note 12] "Like other statutes containing multiple damage provisions, [G. L. c. 93A,] §§ 9 and 11 reflect 'the Legislature's displeasure with the proscribed conduct and its desire to deter such conduct and encourage vindictive lawsuits.' " International Fid. Ins. Co. v. Wilson, 387 Mass. at 857, quoting from McGrath v. Mishara, 386 Mass. 74, 85 (1982). See Haddad v. Gonzalez, 410 Mass. 855, 875-876 (1991), citing Rice, New Private Remedies for Consumers: The Amendment of Chapter 93A, 54 Mass. L.Q. 307, 317 (1969) ("According to the principal draftsman of the statute, the damages provisions of c. 93A[, § 9,] are intended to remove economic disincentives to consumer actions, which typically involve small dollar amounts").


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