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First Instance Court of Paris, 17 April 2015, Core Wireless Licensing SARL v. LG Electronics Inc. and LG Electronics France
The First Instance Court of Paris holds that when asserting alleged Standard Essential Patents (SEPs), a patent holder cannot just state and presume the essentiality of said patents.
Core Wireless Licensing SARL ("Core") purchased roughly 1200 patents declared essential with the ETSI for implementing the UMTS and LTE (3g and 4g) standards. Core and LG Electronics France ("LGE") exchanged letters on some of said alleged SEPs, their implementation by LGE and the need for the latter to enter into a Fair Reasonable And Non Discriminatory ("FRAND") license. After two years of discussions, Core decided to sue LGE.
Core decided not to request an injunction and not to request damages. Rather, Core requested the Court to state that LGE was in breach of its ETSI commitments.
Core chose to move for expedited proceedings on the merits, asking the Court to set a FRAND license royalty to be paid by LGE. In Core's opinion, looking at a "sample" of five of it alleged SEPs was a proper way to assess that its whole portfolio was essential and that a FRAND license royalty should be set on said portfolio.
However, Core did not disclose a single document explaining what a proper royalty rate could be, requesting that the Court appoint an expert to assess a proper royalty.
Leaving aside the invalidity defence by LGE, the Court looks at the essentiality of the patents at stake.
The Court notes that the assignor of the patents to Core declared essentiality with the ETSI in 2001. Core (not ETSI affiliated) restated this essentiality by letter to LGE in 2013. The Court then points out that essentiality is not assessed by ETSI.
According to the Court, based on the explanations of LGE and despite the expert opinion filed by Core, the patents seem to offer alternate or variant ways of performing the processes described in the UMTS and LTE standards.
The Court thus holds that it is not clear that implementing the UMTS and LTE standards would imply implementing the patented processes.
Consequently, the Court decides that there is no evidence of essentiality of the patents and thus rejects all the claims of Core.
LGE counterclaimed that Core acted in bad faith since it went into a FRAND negotiation without ever disclosing royalty rates for LGE to consider. The Court finds that the negotiations between the two sides lasted over two years, which suggests that neither party acted in bad faith since none of the parties felt like putting a formal end to the discussions.
LGE was also alleging that Core would be abusing a dominant position under Art. 102 TFEU when asserting alleged SEPs instead of granting FRAND licenses over the same. The Court finds that requesting the judge to set a rate which could not be amicably negotiated cannot amount to an abuse of dominant position. This would require a showing of other circumstances, e.g. a clear intent by Core to deprive LGE from its ability to use such patents.


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Skeleton Tree follows on from the melancholy themes of Push the Sky Away with a slow moving and reflective record, full of grief and reflection. The death last year of Nick Cave's son last year surely hung over the making record.
In his last record Nick was marking a point in his life, and it was no coincidence that the movie 20,000 Days on Earth was released at around the same time and featured much of the music. In that film Nick Cave was the musing writer, the rock-star, the collaborator refulgent with the memories of people from his past. It was a reflective record, and my favourite track Higgs Boson Blues summed up all of it so well. It was a slow moving jam, which threw together references from popular culture in a grand milieu. The death of Martin Luther King Jr is mentioned alongside the genocide of the Native Americans and Miley Cyrus floating in a swimming pool. The point of the song (I think) is that scientists have found the higgs boson, the elusive God particle that makes the genesis of the universe knowable, and has made the pastiche of human affairs possible.
There is no Higgs Boson Blues equivalent in Skeleton Tree. Instead Nick Cave has stripped his music to the bone, with just his vocals and some dark tones and percussion behind him for some tracks. Cave as poet predominates. Loss, and death, and being left behind. But this does not make for a depressing listening experience. No, this is probably not the right album to play at a party. But when the party is over, the guests have left and you sit alone in the corpse of the night.
For me this record gets right what Pink Floyd's Endless River got wrong. It is thoughtful, something to meditate on for a while, which is where Endless River went wrong. It was tonal, with echoes of the Pink Floyd sound, but like an overwrought good-bye. Frankly, that's what it was because Pink Floyd is not making another one. I got to the end of that record waiting for it to begin, to really get underway. Perhaps the lack of vocals was the culprit, in any case it was a frustrating experience. I think they forgot the immortal lie that is critical to good music; that a moment can last forever, and that time is not so omnipotent, or perhaps they just didn't care.
For example, David Bowie is as influential to people of my generation who grew up with our parents records — as he was to my parents. He was more productive in the last year of his life than he had been for a long time, and in dying just after releasing Blackstar he cheated death somewhat because he was living freshly through spotify, YouTube, Itunes, as well as the traditional LP. Another example is The Rolling Stones, who remain active after fifty years. They could have preemptively 'called it', knowing that there is only one destination to life, but instead they go on. Let them pry the guitar out of Kieth's cold, dead hands.
Nick Cave is singing about loss, but it is loss for him rather than him being lost. The final track, Skeleton Tree, speaks of a Sunday morning, and the continuing passage of time with the repeated line: "And nothing is for free." It ends with Cave singing three times, "And it's alright now." I don't think I have to explain further. An outstanding record.
A Note on melancholy music:
Skeleton Tree is unsurprisingly an emotionally draining experience, therefore the ideal pressure valve to relieve all the build up sadness. I am one of those people that will play something morose when I am feeling down so I descend all the way — because I come up feeling better (and I'm a brooding sort of chap). Forcing a frown into a smile is basic emotional repression, which keeps one stunted in an emotional sense. So, allowing the feeling of existential sadness completely flood you can be a good thing. I find that the waters don't drown me, they simply drain away slowly leaving me quiet and at peace. So, give it a shot.

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Reading of a couple of these posts has caused me to reflect on some of the messages that have appeared herein.
Lets remember that divorce by itself is emotionally traumatic. Divorce involving a custody battle is often devastating. I know that I personally am glad that I have stored my rifles with my father – my soon-to-be-ex gets me that mad. But the most important thing is to try and get over that and consider the needs of the child.
If you have not already guessed, courts appear to be generally shying away from sole custody in favor of joint custody. Children need interaction from both parents. And, in many instances, true joint custody can also bring relief from child support (or at least reduce the payment). You get sole custody only when you can prove that the other parent is unfit – an incredibly difficult standard to meet. I've seen cases where drug addicted mothers still got joint custody on the theory that they had not done drugs in front of the child and where undergoing treatment.
Now, its nice to come into this forum and bitch. But when you do, many of us automatically wonder what the other side of the story is. For all the truly lousy cases that make it into the newspapers, there are thousands more where justice and fairness prevails.
So if you want to vent – I'm down with that and can understand why. But at the end of the day, we're all here to lend each other moral support and advice and to share in the experiences we are undergoing.
'Nuff said. Sorry for the long post.


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Heavy rains lashed Jammu today thus bringing to end the strong heat wave which had hit the city for the last one week making life difficult for the residents whose life was made more difficult by the incessant power cuts, and breakdowns caused by distribution failure. On Monday afternoon the rain gods finally showered mercy on the city of temples and sky turned overcast with monsoon clouds pouring for more than hour.
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Westercon Seattle Trip Report – 1997
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Day 1 - Pasadena to Oregon
It's 7:30 in the a.m. when my friend Gina and I pile into the car for the trip to the wilds of Seattle. We're taking the scenic route and I've got it all planned where we're going.
However, in spite of that "scenic" qualifier, our first leg will be up the 5 through the San Joaquin Valley, which is classed as the antithesis of "scenic." The only thing I've got to keep me interested, visually, is trying to locate where a couple of big lakes were here/are on "Trolley World."
We're heading towards San Francisco and a crossing of the Golden Gate (via the Bay Bridge), then towards Redwood country and to do that and actually still have
to see redwoods once we get there, we have to get through the first part of the trip as soon as possible. That proves to be over the usual six hours or so. It would have been shorter, but we stopped in Santa Nella to eat at "Anderson's Split Pea Soup Restaurant."
Anderson's is kinda a California icon. There are four of the restaurants in the state all of them placed (as far as I can tell) to be as
from people as possible (Santa Nella, fer example, basically
the restaurant, plus a motel and gas station or two and is at least fifty miles from any
town with more than ten-thousand people in it). So, how do they survive (I mean, besides licensing their name for the canned soup)? Well, for most of the way there, as you drive you'll see signs saying "Only 252 (or whatever) miles to Anderson's Split Pea Soup." On the 5, you'll start seeing them as soon as you get past San Fernando (or going south as soon as you cross the Oregon border).
Now, on all my trips north & south to cons and whatnot, I've been
to stop there to eat, but either I didn't have the time, or it was two in the morning, or I
just wanted to get where I was going fast as possible. So I kept missing it.
time, however, I stopped.
I recommend the namesake split-pea soup, but avoid the calamari. It has both the appearance and most of the taste of scrambled eggs (don't ask me how).
A couple of hours later, we hit the Bay Area and headed for the Bay Bridge to San Francisco. Once across the bridge, the freeway disappeared and we made our way across surface streets (always an adventure in San Francisco) towards the Golden Gate.
Once there, we stopped for about half an hour to do the tourist thing at the bridge. Now this was the really weird part. You see, it was sunny...and clear...and a comfortable temperature...in
San Francisco!
It was actually a gorgeous day I've never seen one better and it was probably the
day like that San Francisco will get all year (it was Mark Twain who wrote "the coldest winter I ever spent was one summer in San Francisco").
After taking some really good pictures of the bridge, the city, and Alcatraz, we piled back in the car and headed north on the 101 as fast as possible (we were an hour or two behind schedule) for the redwoods.
This bit proved to be much farther than I remembered. In fact, it wasn't until nearly a hundred and fifty miles later, just past Willits, that we started hitting the big trees. Once we did, however, we pulled off the main 101 onto the "Scenic Alternate" (actually, the old pre-freeway 101) to actually enjoy them a bit. In Leggett, we stopped to drive through Chandelier Tree, then continued north on the scenic route (the "Avenue of the Giants"). We also made a stop at a touristy gift shop or two.
However, by now it was nine-ish and the sun was doing it's slow fade in the west. We rejoined the main 101 in Redcrest, but it was dark by the time we hit Eureka. That slowed our drive down considerably, because between Eureka and Crescent City (pretty much on the Oregon border), the 101 is two lanes of narrowness that twists back and forth and up and down along the coastal mountains. Neither of us (for once, I'm on a trip where someone
can drive too) was willing to drive what you'd call "fast" for much of the trip (well, what
call fast, anyway). Still, by eleven or so, we're pulling into Crescent City for a brief stop to eat dinner.
Soon we're off again, this time jogging northeast on the 199, back to the 5. We twist through the dark coastal forests, climb into the mountains (passing a semi that almost rolled off the road) and at around one a.m. reach Grants Pass and return to the 5.
Day 2 - Oregon to Seattle - Con Thursday
Now we're zipping through the Oregon night. Dawn hits us just pass Salem, and we stop for a few photos.
Gina's driving and I'm napping as we tool through
and cross the bridge over the Columbia into Washington.
Much to my surprise, the day has once again dawned clear and sunny, and for the first time ever, I'm actually able to see the battered peak of Mount St. Helens - something it has
been too cloudy to do such before. By now, however, even with the naps, I'm getting a little punchy. We've been driving more
than twenty-four hours (my previous limit) and as usual I didn't get a lot of sleep the night before we left (just
, just once...). Still, we're now only a couple of hours away from Seattle. Those two hours eventually pass by, and we're getting off the 5 in downtown Seattle, for a three-block drive to the hotel.
We park, check in (surprisingly early), move stuff up to the room, and wash off twenty-six hours of road grime. Then I go off in search of the con.
Our hotel
was about in the center of downtown as it's possible to get, and tons of interesting things circled around it.
one of a new chain of major-league videogame parlors was right across the street (our room's windows looked out at it, abet from fifteen floors up), so was a "Planet Hollywood." Across another street from the hotel was a F.A.O. Swartz. The monorail terminal was about three blocks away, the Space Needle at the other end of that. "Pike Place Market", a harbor-side collection of shops, stores, and restaurants was six blocks away. The farthest we had to walk to anything was a restaurant eight blocks away.
And the whole time we were there, Seattle was bright and sunny. Oh, on Saturday morning, it rained briefly, but it cleared up before noon and as it turned out, we weren't to hit
clouds and rain until the trip home.
Like most cons on their first day,
Westercon Seattle
was a little slow, a little quiet. I started planning what panels I wanted to see, and when the Huckster's room opened, checked that out.
was a major disappointment. As Gina said It's smaller than the one at
. It wasn't quite - but for a major Westercon (note that Gally is a very small con) it was, well,
Other things that bugged me about an otherwise fairly well run con. The entire film and video program for the convention was run over the hotel's video channel. Oh, there were a couple of rooms that had TV's to show this program but since the exact same thing was on back in
hotel room, why bother? There was also no anime program.
The Art show (when I finally found it) was up on the very top floor of the hotel - which wouldn't have been so bad if you didn't have to dig through the program book for a couple of hours to find out this fact. And speaking of the program book, let's talk about the pocket program.
First, like almost all "pocket programs" I've ever seen, it did
fit in a standard pocket. But more annoying was how difficult it made it to find out anything about the panels it listed. First, you looked at the grid to see what was on when. Because they'd chosen this wonky little manual-typewriter-style font to do it in (okay, so it was part of the Fiftieth Westercon theme of "Westercon, Past, Present, Future" - it was still a bitch to read...) they couldn't put a very long name in any of the grid boxes. So you had to flip to another section of the pocket program to cross-reference the shortened name with a list to find out what the full title was. But then, you had to note down the
for that title, and go to the program
and another list to find out a description of what the program was about...
...and about a tenth of the time, the only thing the program book had for a description was the title.
Gina and I got together again for dinner at one of the hotel's restaurants which was very good (I had this spicy shrimp thing). However, by now we're wondering where Manoa and Edward are.
My friend Manoa (from Vancouver, BC) was coming down with her S.O. Edward to the convention, and they were going to share the room with us (at $130 a night, you need people to share with...). But I had expected them by, well, late afternoon at the latest (Manoa was a little vague about exact times). Night continued on, though, and they still hadn't arrived.
After dinner, I went off to do the rounds of some of the parties. In spite of being totally zoned from the trip, it wasn't until very late that evening that I got back to the room and crashed. Then, at about two in the morning, Manoa and Edward finally arrived...
Day 3 - Con Friday - Fourth of July!
It's the Fourth of July in Seattle, and we spent it mostly at the con. And Pathfinder arrived, so the convention's TV's were turned to CNN so that everyone could watch the first pictures download. Gina and I spent a couple of hours watching that.
However, we did
get together to go see
Men In Black
at the theater across the street (eighteen screens, half of them playing "MiB", so the movie was basically playing every half-hour from ten a.m. till midnight) and then go off to a very nice Korean/Japanese restaurant a few blocks away. Satiated, and walking back to the hotel, the evening's fireworks began. They were still going on by the time we reached our room so we got to watch a very nice show from our window (including the more private displays of illegal fireworks that would sprout from places about town, including the alley between Gameworks and Planet Hollywood). I then spent the rest of the evening doing the parties.
Day 4 - Con Saturday
More convention. I tried to go to all the panels with Jack Cohen - who I really liked as a speaker - on them. Later that afternoon, Gina and I walked over to the monorail station and took it to go visit the Space Needle and Seattle Center (site of the old World's Fair). The monorail itself is
kinda silly. It's only got about a mile of track and two stops: Downtown and Seattle Center. Seattle Center has a small amusement park, a Children's museum, the big Pacific Science Center museum (closed, by the time we got there, darn it), some shops and food places, the Space Needle (which we were not
to spend the eighteen bucks or so to ride up into) and this really cool fountain.
The fountain is a giant golf-ball-ish metal structure sitting at the bottom of a sort of artificial crater.
Water randomly spouts out of several of the holes that pockmark it's surface, which made some lovely rainbows. But unlike almost
other public fountain I've ever seen, the builders here not only acknowledged that the kids were going to play in it, they actually built ramps down into the bottom of the "crater" so that it'd be easy to
down to it. Yes, remarkable as it sounds, here was a public fountain that actually
people to come and play in it. And the kids were.
We headed back after that for more con. I ended up at a midnight (of course) showing of
Rocky Horror
before heading off to more parties, then bed.
Day 5 - Con Sunday
The convention was pretty much winding down by now, so much so even the "Dead Dog" party was, well, dead. After it's official closing, all four of tried to think of a place to eat, and ended up at Gameworks - which has various fast-food class foods along with the games. Afterwards, we went to see
My Best Friend's Wedding
then it was back to the hotel for our final night's stay.
Day 6 - Seattle to Grants Pass
The day dawned slightly cloudy as we crawled out of our respective beds and began packing to check out. Manoa and Edward had to be at the train station by 7:30, so we gathered up stuff as fast as possible, and dragged it down to the car. I checked out, and we were off on the streets of Seattle.
The Amtrak station wasn't too far away, but it was in a direction we hadn't really investigated during our walks about the town. A pity too, because Seattle's old town - "Pioneer Square" - was down there and looked very interesting. Oh well, maybe next trip. We got a little confused trying to follow the signs to the station entrance, but soon Gina and I were saying goodbye to Manoa and Edward as they headed inside to catch their train and
headed off to catch our ferry.
The plan for the day was to take one of the ferries across Puget Sound to the Olympic Peninsula, then drive around the peninsula and down the coast seeing the sights until we hooked back up with the 5 near Portland. We drove onto the ferry at Pier 52 and chugged across the waters towards Bainbridge Island. As we sailed west, the cloud cover got heavier and heavier and by the time we docked, the sky was totally steel-grey.
Arriving on Bainbridge, we got gas, then began our trip around the peninsula. Actually, we had to cross over a couple of bridges (one from the island, the other over the Hood Canal) before we met up with the 101 and the main portion of the peninsula, but along the way we passed through some nice small towns (effectively "suburbs" of Seattle) and some pretty scenery.
Once on the 101 we were soon driving through a mix of forest and heavily logged forest. On the trip, we only skimmed an edge of Olympic National Park, so most of the land we drove through was privately owned by lumber companies. Trees came in large blocks of different sizes (the trees and the blocks), usually accompanied by a sign that told when it was last logged, and when it was next scheduled to be so.
We reached the town of Port Angeles, where we could see the island of Vancouver out across the strait, got slightly lost, then continued on.
A few miles later, Gina pointed out a sign towards a fish hatchery and we decided to jog over to take a look. The "jog" off the 101 got longer with no sign of the hatchery and we were just about ready to turn around when we hit this park/campground on the coast. We decided to get out and visit.
It proved to be a lovely site. Dense forest worked its way to the edges of bluffs that overlooked the tidepools below. By a
lucky chance, we arrived pretty much at low tide, so were able to walk down to the pools and investigate all the nifty sea life within them. Bright orange starfish, kiwi-green anenomies, and tiny little mottled fish abounded in every pool. The bluff faces were covered in a coat of deep green foliage with the occasional trickle of a spring dripping down them. Absolutely beautiful.
On the road again, we decided to follow the small 112 along the coast until we hit the 113 to go back to the 101 instead of simply backtracking. Along the way we stopped occasionally to take pictures of the wonderful landscape under the now brooding grey sky.
When we reached it, the 113 proved to follow a small river back inland. As we followed it, we finally hit our first real rain of the entire trip. It would continue to at least drizzle on us all the way to Aberdeen.
Now heading south, the trees grew taller on each side of the road, and the undergrowth heavier as we got into the true rainforest area of the peninsula. Ferns, moss, and stumps covered with the green growth of new plants abounded.
By now feeling a little bit peckish, we had brunch in Ruby Beach. I had the salmon, on the theory that to go to Washington and
at some point eat salmon was Just Not Done. Fortunately, it was pretty good too.
Unfortunately, Gina was now starting to get sick, with all the symptoms of a case of the flu. As the trip progressed, she got worse and this would leave me with all the driving while she tried to rest.
And we were
behind my tentative schedule. I had hoped that we would reach Crescent City back in California by nightfall, so that we could stop there and have time to take the 1 down the coast to the Bay Area. But it was becoming increasingly obvious that we couldn't make it that far, even though I had already decided to cut back to the 5 at Aberdeen rather than following the 101 all the way down to the Columbia River. I tagged Grants Pass as our new stop for the night.
Reaching the 5, we burned our way south, stopping only at the occasional rest stop and in Portland to get some ibuprophin for Gina. Night fell at about the same point of the route that dawn had risen on the way up. We didn't reach Grants Pass until about midnight, at which point we found a Motel 6 and crashed for the night.
Day 7 Grants Pass to Pasadena Home!
Depressingly early the next day, with Gina still sick, we headed off down the 199 back to California. This was my first time driving the 199 actually in daylight, so I spent a lot of time trying to watch the scenery
not driving off the edge of the road into the river. At Crescent City, we returned to the 101 heading south. Soon, we stopped for breakfast at
"Trees Of Mystery"
- or rather, the restaurant across the road from "Trees Of Mystery."
"ToM" is a typical tourist-trap affair, comparable to the "drive through a tree" thing we'd hit on the way up, or the "Grand Canyon Caverns" that I visited on my
Route 66 trip
. We only stopped long enough to eat and didn't visit (or pay money for) the trees. I had some rather impressive pancakes, "impressive" because apparently they took the name rather literally and each pancake was the diameter of, well, a pan.
We were now traveling through territory that we'd hit at night on the way up, so we could both go faster - and not want to, because we could now
things. In Redwoods National Park, we pulled off to go visit some of the trees for a while. I love redwoods.
It was pretty obvious by now that if we wanted to get back home by
reasonable time (and as both of us needed to be at work the next day, it had to be reasonable), cutting over to the 1 at Leggett was now out and our only hope was to drive as fast as possible. I also realized that "fast as possible" was necessary so that we didn't hit the Bay Area at rush hour, which could add a very frustrating hour or so to our trip.
Gina was sleeping or trying to most of time, very sick, as I drove south. The miles and, unfortunately, the hours scrolled by and by around four we were driving through San Rafael, heading for the last of the Bay Area's big bridges - the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge. It totally lacks the style of the Golden Gate - or even the Bay Bridge - but it did have the advantage that we wouldn't have to go through downtown San Francisco's late afternoon traffic. Instead, we went through Richmond, Berkeley and Oakland, only hitting minor tie-ups, until we reached the 580 and our route back to the 5.
Much of the part of the trip is kinda a blur to me. I was driving in the eighties most of the way, the vibrations from the road kept screwing up the CD player, and as the sun set, we were just at the southern end of San Joaquin valley. Darkness descended pretty quickly as we climbed the Tejon Pass, passed by Magic Mountain, and soon dropped back into the Los Angeles basin. At about ten p.m., two very tired and one very sick people arrived back in Pasadena.
Oh, and as it turned out, Gina didn't just have the flu, but a case of strep-throat!
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA paused Thursday to remember the 17 astronauts lost in the line of duty.
The so-called Day of Remembrance — always the last Thursday of January — has special meaning this year. Friday marks the 25th anniversary of the shuttle Challenger launch disaster.
Flags flew at half-staff at NASA centers nationwide. In addition, NASA officials laid wreathes at various memorials to honor the dead, including at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex.
NASA's three space-related fatalities occurred within days of one another but years apart. Three astronauts were killed in the Apollo 1 launch pad fire on Jan. 27, 1967. Seven more died aboard Challenger on Jan. 28, 1986. And the seven-member crew of Columbia perished during re-entry on Feb. 1, 2003.
"The legacy of those who have perished is present every day in our work and inspires generations of new space explorers," NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said in a statement. "Every day, with each new challenge we overcome and every discovery we make, we honor these remarkable men and women."
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The Savantes New York programme has returned to its original date in March for 2018.
The move gives participants the opportunity to taste the freshest extra virgin olive oil from the Northern Hemisphere harvesting campaigns.
The format of the three-day programme has also been adjusted with all the presentations being completed in two days with the third day now devoted to the Savantes Review and Recognition, incorporating the skills test.
Read more: Savantes New York Moves from June to 21-23 March 2018
There is something important for everyone involved in the olive oil industry at The Olive Oil Conference to be held in Rosemont near Chicago starting on 18th July.
For tasters, buyers, traders, retailers and consumers there are sessions on practical tasting to increase sales, get to know oils from different regions and get the best value for your money. Presented by Simon Field, founder of Extra Virgin Olive Oil Savantes, Hayley Stevens, North American Tasting Championship 2015 and Eryn Balch, Executive Vice President of the North American Olive Oil Association (NAOOA) these presentations will enhance your confidence.
Everyone will be able to test their tasting skill in the North American Taster's Challenge and possibly be recognised as the Champion, a member of The Register of Savantes or an Associate Savante.
For producers and all involved in the supply chain the session on Megatrends by leading Spanish producer Rafael Muela of Mueloliva will help plan for the future.
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Not surprisingly, banking officials in China have been on edge since armed robbers hit a branch earlier this month, resulting in three people being killed. So, to make sure its employees were prepared for such a contingency, administrators at a Bank of China branch in Wuhan decided to stage a mock holdup. Unhappily, no one bothered to warn the staff or, for that matter, the customers. The reaction? Right, pure panic. "In 60 years," one woman said, "that's the worst fright I've ever had." The charade ended when a staff member set off the burglar alarm.
In London, observers are finding a certain irony in the replacement of the memorial to Sir Walter Raleigh on the lawn of Britain's Defense Ministry. The statue of Raleigh, who won fame for placing his cloak over a puddle so that Queen Elizabeth I could keep her feet dry, is being moved to a military college in Greenwich. Taking its place: a monument to women "of World War II."
Dumb jocks? More than half graduate at major colleges
Results of the latest annual survey by the National Collegiate Athletic Association show scholarship athletes graduated last year at a slightly higher rate than the student body at large among Division I member schools - those with the largest sports programs. The data track only men and women who enroll as freshmen, receive athletics-related financial aid, and earn diplomas within six years. (NCAA rules give scholarship athletes five years to exhaust their eligibility, although that does not apply to their coursework.) Those who transfer to other colleges count against the schools at which they first enrolled. Comparative graduation percentages for selected categories in the report:
All students 56%
Student-athletes 58%
Male student-athletes 51%
Female student-athletes 68%
Black students (overall) 38%
Black student-athletes 45%
Football players 48%
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Sometimes Complications With Nursing Home Patients Are Not Disclosed Until They Arrive At A Hospital
Some of my angriest clients contact me after a loved one was transferred from a nursing home to another nursing home or hospital only to learn of serious medical problems their loved one likely acquired during their original admission.
Of course, breaking disappointing news is difficult for anyone to do. Yet, in the case of nursing homes— this is something they simply are required to do under the law. Similarly, nursing homes must notify the patients doctor if their condition deteriorates.
I see many cases where there is no doubt an intention on the part of the original facility to cover up change in condition– but also injuries related to situations involving improper care.
This situation of a dangerous condition being discovered only after the patient was transferred to a hospital was highlighted in a recent lawsuit filed against an Illinois Nursing Home, Alhambra Care Center. Part of the lawsuit alleges that the patient lived that the nursing home with multiple health problems, but the staff at the facility failed to notify the family of the conditions including:
- Stage III decubitus ulcer
- Multiple stage I and II decubitus ulcers on the patients feet
- Dehydration
- Urinary tract infection
None of the conditions were disclosed to the family until after the patient was admitted to a local hospital.
In cases such as these– perhaps more alarming than not notifying the patients family as the various problems their loved one has developed– is the fact that the facility allowed the conditions to develop in the first place. My guess is that the facility was so ashamed of the condition they allowed their patient to get into that they failed to document the conditions during the patients stay at the facility either.
Some of these situations may give way to a claim against the nursing home where the condition developed. In addition to contacting an attorney to discuss your legal options, you should give serious consideration to locating another facility for your loved one following their discharge from the hospital.
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Dear Carolyn: My older sister recently passed away at 63. She had lived with my mother for the past 25-plus years, and with me, my husband and my mom for the past five. She gave her small Social Security check to my mother to help with living expenses. She could not have lived by herself with this money. Neither of her two adult children ever offered to assist in any way. My mother basically supported her — she wanted to.
With my mother's recent stay in the hospital, I encouraged her to write a will. She had intended to give most of her money — there is not much to speak of — to my sister. Now my two brothers and I would each get some money, and she is putting a small amount in for each of her grandchildren.
She thinks she should include something in her will for my sister — it would obviously go to her adult children. I'm not sure how to guide her. I have already stated that I believe she has done enough for my sister and her adult children.
I believe she thinks my sister is already forgotten and that her not being in the will would compound that. It's sad and I feel bad for my mom.
K: I think the kindest way to guide her would be to stay out of her way. If it's important to her to honor her late daughter in her will, then that takes precedence over your opinion of your sister's children — even if you're right that the effect would be for these kids to benefit from washing their hands of their mom.
One possible bypass: If your sister had a favorite place or cause, then you can suggest to your mother that she donate something to it that bears your sister's name. Such a memorial would achieve your mother's ends even better than a bequest to her children, I'd say — and it would be merely a convenient benefit that it left your sense of justice a lot less chapped than it would have been with your mother's Plan A.
Dear Carolyn: I have a friend who admittedly suffers from smartphone addiction. We will be at dinner before the theater, and he will text as though I'm not at the table across from him, show me pix of his boyfriend and side piece, more pix of cats and grandchild. Okay. When he does put the phone down, he rehashes the latest family crap.
I have things going in my life, but I can't speak of them between digital noise and verbal restreams. I know he's lonely, but I'm at my wits' end. My instinct is to be perpetually unavailable, but welcome any suggestions.
C: The phone problem is easy, especially given his addiction admission. Say you won't dine with him unless he turns it off and puts it away-away. You have that right.
If he refuses, then, huzzah, that solves the other problem of disengaging from a friend you clearly don't like.
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I am also having problems getting this working.. on WP single 2.9.2 and BP 1.2.3. I have the same issue on two installs on different servers. "There was an error while loading data about user XX. Try again later please…" Any help would be great.
Nice plugin.
Could we have a privacy option so that only logged-in users will see the avatar bubble? Or maybe they'll see the bubble but the only text displayed will say "You must be logged in to see this user's data".
+1 for only viewable by logged in users
+1 also for logged in users only!
Its display blank next to the user avatar after enabling the plugin
Neat stuff, I just discovered that the Avatar Bubble appears even on member blogs when viewing "Blog Authors" in the adminbar. Also, having coded each field value in the bubble to be a clickable search term, that works too; clicking a value brings the user to my main site's global search results page. Cool!
How about some hooks to allow me to put whatever info I want in the bubble? So, pcwriter could add his s2member level. Other plugins could add other info.
Great plugin !
Ideas :
– Add a friend button (yes/no)
– Contact button (yes/no)
– Number of friends (yes/no, link to the friends profil or not)
– Number of groups (yes/no, link to the groups profil or not)
– Ability to choose the order of informations are display
– Checking if information is public (link with buddypress privacity ?)
– Active xxx days ago
– the bubble display on the right of the avatar. If the avatar is on the right of the screen, It would be great to display bubble on the left (am I understandable ?)
– mo and po files (I can translate in french if you want)
– Ability to choose wich information is clicable for search
– Last profil update with xxxx first caracters
– max height and width editable, if we have too info to display, then display "more info" link
– ability to create his own info with php code
If I have more ideas, I'll come back !
Thanks for your plugin.
Sorry for mo and po files wich already exist.. I speak too fast.. Give me your mail to send po file please.
I'm on MU 2.9.2 and BP 1.2.3 and get the same error as @anton. had to disable.
I'm receiving the same error as @gregfielding and @anton – MU 2.9.2 BP 1.2.3 "Could not retrieve details for userid….please try again" unfortunately had to disable
@dre1080 – I will look into it, thank you for a link.
@paulhastings0 – Great idea – thanks!
@bofw – I agree w/ you
@crashutah – Ok, I will add several hooks into the plugin, that's useful idea.
@guigoz – wow, huge list… I will see what can be done and will be useful/essential for next release. I like number of friends/groups, order. Don't understand what you mean under contact button. Not sure whether it's useful to have in a bubble Add friend button. I'm currently working on repositioning bubble (that's harder than I thought it could be).
PS I'm trying to find out what's wrong that on some sites it's working and on some is not.
Oh, could we have options on what type of avatars the bubble appears on?
For instance, a community may only want the bubble to appear on the largest avatars that are directly on the activity stream but not on smaller avatars that are replies. E.g. I want the bubble on all my avatars that are displayed as 60 x 60 but not on the avatars that are 25 x 25.
Another example would be to show the bubble only on the members page (i.e. domain.com/members) but not on the main activity stream (i.e. domain.com or domain.com/activity)
But definitely, the privacy option first. In fact if I could prevent non-logged-in visitors from seeing the bubbles I would probably use the plugin on my live site tomorrow.
@SlaFFik Hey there, awesome plugin thanks for this. I am on wp 2.8.2 latest BP. Same problem as many other guys:
There was an error while loading data about user #.
Try again later please…
Hope you crack it soon mate
@mazen, @dre1080, @gpo1
Ok, the only thought – your BP installation is not in the root of the domain
If you have shortcodes for php (aka ) disabled – it might still doesn't work.
Please check this version: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6771917/cd-bp-avatar-bubble.zip
Hey Slaffik, my BP installation is at the root of the domain, but direct domain no www.
shortcodes for php? if you mean the plugin, I hate it installed and enabled with boingball bbcode to support it.
I tried the version you sent, same error still
Thanks a lot for your support and hard work.
Could you give a link to your site? I wnat to see by myself.
@SlaFFik not sure if you received my message, my site is not public yet, however I can provide you access to it, how can I send you access details privately?
I want the suggestions from @guigoz
@SlaFFik , Am using localhost on wp2.9.2
@slaFFik, not to bother, but any news on the next update?
Also going to chime in here and see if an update is on its way, specifically wondering about only showing the pop up to logged in users – privacy concerns
Cheers and it really is a great plugin!
I'm having the same issues as some other users are, If I hover over an avatar then a blank bubble appears.
@slaFFik @Gpo1 I've solved the issue where the bubble appears blank.
On line 50 and 54 of /wp-content/plugins/cd-bp-avatar-bubble/bubble.js where it says /wp-content change it to yourdomain.com/wp-content/
This is only if you are running on a localhost, once your site goes live you should return the lines to normal.
Now! I'm going to customise this neat little plugin to my hearts content! Thanks.
Are you sure that's the right file? I don't see anything like that on those lines…
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Thank you for what you've written. It's like reading a good book. At the end of the chapter, you're left with wanting to read more.
I have just a thought about the portion above. In regards to your plausible reason #1, I find it very unlikely. My reason being that some of the students of Morihei Ueshiba also met and felt Sokaku Takeda. Rather than noting that Takeda's skills were completely different, they noted instead that his skills were far better. In other words, if you look at those student's views, they did not liken Takeda as someone completely different than Ueshiba, but instead as someone far better at the same skills. And looking at Takeda, we can see that he instilled these same skills to a few other students. In that regard, Ueshiba can not be seen as being unique.
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Hello Mark,
Well, I suppose it depends on the nature of genius and I think we are dealing with two here. I know of a proverb, to the effect that you cannot have two queens in the same beehive. With aiki (bu) do, perhaps we should slightly modify this to: you cannot have more than one queen in one beehive (to allow for many more than two).
I have not really spent much space discussing Morihei Ueshiba's relationship with Sokaku Takeda. The reason is that these columns discuss aikido and I so wanted to start with M Ueshiba, not with S Takeda.
I have read Stan Pranin's interviews with the DRAJJ students of Takeda, but there is really no objective discussion in these interviews of Ueshiba's skills in relation to Takeda's. In any case there is a Master-Deshi relationship here and it is very unlikely that Takeda's DRAJJ students would rate Ueshiba's skills higher than those of their own Master.
The same relationship can be seen in
Aikido Modern Masters
and this is what leads me to have some distrust in the interview as a means of obtaining objective information. I know that Stan's interviews are all we have about the early history of aikido, but this in itself does make them objectve (with all due respect to Stan's obvious skill as an interviewer).
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