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Nearly seven years ago, Delmar and Jan Johnson of Fairbanks, Alaska, brought home a tiny 4-week-old Labrador retriever/ Irish Setter mix, naming him Chuter. The puppy eventually grew into a 90-pound gentle giant and beloved member of the community who owned the responsibility of bringing comfort to the residents of a local assisted living facility with his weekly visits. However, the neighborhood nearly lost their compassionate canine after he was maliciously attacked by a massive moose during a routine bathroom break. Chuter's dreadful drubbing and heartwarming recovery have earned him the title of February's "Most Unusual Claim of the Month" by Nationwide, the nation's first and largest provider of pet health insurance.
Ever since he was old enough to obey commands, Chuter has accompanied Jan along her career as a nurse for the Denali Center care facility. Chuter typically goes to the office a couple times a week to bring joy to the residents with his relaxed demeanor and sociable presence.
"The residents love it when Chuter comes to visit," said Jan. "He does tricks for them on command and knows to be gentle with the tenants. He's an important figure there, and we view him as part of the staff."
On the night of the moose melee, Chuter and the family were preparing to retire to bed for the night. It was around 11p.m. and the winter weather was slightly warmer than usual with temperatures hovering around 20 degrees Fahrenheit. Jan let Chuter and her other dog, Packer, out to use the restroom one last time before bed.
"I gave the dogs a couple minutes outside before I called for them to return, but when I opened the door, Packer was the only one to come back," said Jan. "I called again for Chuter. When I couldn't find him, I knew something was wrong."
Jan and Delmar gathered flashlights, jumped in the car and began searching through the neighborhood, along with the forest area that surrounds their cul-de-sac. Despite searching for hours in two feet of fresh snow, their efforts proved unsuccessful. The couple returned home, but Jan didn't give up hope and refused to go to sleep.
"I was a total wreck," said Jan. "Around three in the morning I heard something at the door, and a second later, Chuter hobbled in and collapsed. I didn't know what had happened, but I knew he was badly hurt."
What the family didn't yet realize was that Chuter had been attacked by a large mother moose who had been spotted in the area with her calf. The moose had pummeled Chuter, severely breaking his leg and shattering some of his teeth. With no local veterinary hospital open until morning, Jan used her nursing skills to give Chuter initial treatment and stayed with him the rest of the night.
"I honestly wasn't sure if he was going to make it through the night," said Jan. "His entire right side looked like it had taken a beating. When I found a bunch of moose hair in his fur, I realized what had happened. We have meese in our area, but I never thought this could happen."
When morning arrived a couple hours later, the Johnsons created a makeshift stretcher out of a large piece of plywood and loaded Chuter into the car. They rushed the ailing canine to Mt. McKinley Animal Hospital in Fairbanks for treatment. Because of the severity of his injury and trauma he had endured, the veterinary staff greeted the Johnsons outside and sedated Chuter as he lay in the car. Once he was in a relaxed state, the staff rushed Chuter directly into the hospital to perform emergency surgeries on his broken leg and battered mouth.
"Chuter is incredibly lucky to survive being attacked by a wild animal as large as a moose," said Carol McConnell, DVM, MBA, Vice President and Chief Veterinary Officer for Nationwide. "He could have easily been too injured to move and died in the freezing weather. Chuter is fortunate to have owners like the Johnsons who sought out medical attention as soon as possible."
A few days after surgery, Chuter was released home but faced months of recovery. Since he was unable to climb the stairs, Jan set up a living space in the garage and stayed with Chuter for days. Chuter's mouth was nearly sewn shut, forcing him to live on a liquid diet. Jan added homemade moose broth to Chuter's food as a small token of revenge.
As of today, Chuter is over the hump and well on his way to a full recovery. His rehab is going well enough for him to walk half a mile at a time, and he has even returned to work at the Denali Center on a limited basis. The Johnsons are relieved that Chuter escaped the incident without any permanent damage and are grateful for all the support they received.
"The veterinarians did an amazing job. We couldn't be more grateful with how well Chuter is recovering," said Jan. "Having Chuter insured with Nationwide helped enormously with the veterinary expenses. Knowing we had pet insurance for Chuter allowed us to get him treated without thinking about overwhelming costs."
As the most unusual claim submitted in February, Chuter will be in the running for the 2017 Hambone Award. Chuter's incident was one of more than 110,000 pet insurance claims received in the month of February by Nationwide, and was selected by Nationwide employees as the most unusual of them all. Honorable mentions in February include a Maltese who battled with a raccoon, a Labrador who got a buffalo horn stuck in his mouth, and a schnauzer who swam into a fishing lure. All pets considered for the Hambone Award have made full recoveries and received insurance reimbursements for eligible expenses.
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The story of Flaming Creatures and the so-called "Fortas Film Festival" illustrates the dialectic of obscenity. When President Johnson nominated Justice Fortas to replace Chief Justice Warren in 1968, Fortas's opponents investigated his record, hoping to justify a filibuster. Among other things, they discovered Jacobs v. New York, in which Fortas alone voted to reverse obscenity convictions for showing Flaming Creatures, an obscure art film that featured a transvestite orgy. Senator Thurmond showed Flaming Creatures to several senators, convinced them to join the filibuster, and blocked the Fortas nomination. Under the dialectic of obscenity, art protects pornography and pornography protects art. Doctrinally, the protection of art requires the protection of pornography. But politically, the protection of art requires the protection of pornography.
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"I have had many dogs in my life," relates Nadine Johnson of Miami, Florida. "But this one," she says of her nine-year-old golden retriever, Maise, "holds my heart like no other.
"I once rescued a puppy who had been kept in a crate all the time. When I brought the dog home I saw that she did not know how to walk up and down stairs. Maise stepped in and taught her how to do it in such a kind and gentle way. She is such a sweet soul."
No wonder Ms. Johnson is concerned that Maise has developed fatty tumors "all over her body," as she told us. "Some are under her legs, some are on her back, one is on her neck, and there is a big one above one of her hips. The one above her hip is almost as big as my palm.
"The ones on her back are round and hard," Ms. Johnson goes on to say, "but others feel like there is a liquid ball inside. I have taken her to the vet and was told not to worry if they are on the skin and you can put your fingers underneath and they are not connected to her body. He added that it would be a mistake to remove them — expensive and involving unnecessary anesthesia.
"I should add that they are not painful and do not bother her. But what causes these fatty tumors? Is there anything I can do to stop them from occurring? I filter her drinking water, and I feed her the best food that was recommended by her doctor."
Ms. Johnson, first, do not worry that something you've been feeding your dog or the water she has been drinking in any way contributed to her tumors. Fatty tumors, known as lipomas, have not been shown to be attributable to any environmental or lifestyle cause. That is, there is nothing you as her loving owner can do to prevent them. Even a dog with an ideal body condition can develop them. And many do.
"They are among the most common tumors we see in dogs," says John Berg, DVM, a soft tissue veterinary surgeon at Tufts whose stock in trade is examining and sometimes removing unwanted growths on dogs and other pets.
Second, do not be concerned that some of the tumors are round and hard and others feel like a ball of liquid. They can feel different to the touch yet still all be harmless lipomas. Dogs die with them, not of them.
But what you don't know yet is whether all the masses on Maise are in fact benign lipomas, and feeling them is not a way to gauge. Benign tumors and cancerous ones can feel the same to the touch, in fact. Don't panic. Chances are they are nothing to worry about. "There are many dogs like Maise that form a lot of lipomas," Dr. Berg says. "We'll see dogs that have 10 or 11." Indeed, once a dog has developed a lipoma, she is prone to developing additional ones.
But you should never self-diagnose. Each lump "should be aspirated by a veterinarian to make sure it is a harmless lipoma." Aspiration involves simply passing a needle into the lump and then aspirating some of the cells with a syringe. "Some of the material that comes back is then squirted onto a microscope slide," Dr. Berg says, "but it doesn't even need to be looked at under a microscope. If you can just see on the slide that it's very clear, greasy material, that's a lipoma."
Even if it's not a lipoma but, rather, a cancerous mass, that's no reason to panic. Many cancerous tumors can be safely removed without ever invading healthy tissue or spreading to vital organs in other parts of the body.
When Dogs Get Tumors: Fear of Cancer Stops People from Seeking Veterinary Treatment
There's every reason to have a lump or bump aspirated if it gets as big in diameter as, say a quarter. In those instances that it does turn out to be cancer (often a mast cell tumor), early treatment allows for the least invasive (and least expensive) treatment and the best chance for recovery and a long, healthy lifespan.
But even benign lipomas should be diagnosed early — and watched for further growth. "I've seen owners who were worried that a lump on their dog was cancer," Dr. Berg says, "and they didn't want to find that out, so they let the lump get bigger and bigger until the dog finally couldn't walk, and they had to take it to the vet. One place on a dog that's fairly common is the axilla — the armpit of the front leg. I've seen people bring in their dogs with lipomas there as big as a cantaloupe. At that point the surgery to remove it becomes more difficult, with a higher risk of healing complications. So fear of cancer kept the owner away, but now they have a risk to deal with that could have been avoided if tended to sooner."
Dr. Berg notes that aspiration is a very simple procedure performed right in the exam room, with no anesthesia necessary, so "there's no excuse for not having it done. You don't have to prep or clip the area in any way," he says. "You just insert the needle, squirt what's collected onto a slide, and look at it. If there are 11 lumps, for instance, we lay out 11 glass slides and do 11 aspirations. It all goes quickly." If the aspirate indicates something other than a lipoma, further testing, including perhaps a biopsy of tissue that will require anesthesia, will be recommended.
Treatment Decisions for Lipomas on Dogs
Nadine Johnson's veterinarian is right that lipomas that are not interfering with a dog's mobility do not need to be treated, even if they are not fun to look at. They simply should be monitored to make sure they're not growing quickly enough to cause a problem. "You want to remove them before they actually reach the point of impeding mobility in order to keep the procedure uncomplicated," Dr. Berg says. The doctor should be paying attention to the rate of growth, which will provide a good indication of whether a benign lump is going to get out of hand.
That said, there are some owners who are uncomfortable with leaving lipomas alone. Most owners in this category do not want to worry about assessing whether the mass has become large enough to consider surgery and prefer the peace of mind that comes with knowing it is gone — and there is nothing wrong with this approach.
It should also be noted that while lipomas don't need to be removed unless they are quite large or are interfering with mobility, and while all cancerous tumors do need to be removed, there are rare cases in which it's not clear whether the bump is malignant or not; medical screenings are not 100 percent foolproof. In those instances, the veterinarian will explain the options and the risks of waiting and watching. Sometimes, all things considered, the wait-and-see approach proves to be the right one.
Keeping Your Dog Safe and Healthy
You shouldn't just wait until you happen to notice a lump somewhere on your dog's body. From the time a dog is middle-aged, it's a good idea to check for masses every three to four months. Just feel all over the dog — along her back, in the "arm pits," down the legs, and so on. It'll take only a minute.
Don't worry about things the size of a grain of sand. But if you feel a bump that's pea-sized that you haven't felt before, it's large enough to have your dog's vet look at it. It's probably nothing. But if it's something, you will have caught it early for the easiest treatment and the best possible outcome. Not dealing with something significant doesn't make it go away.
The vet will take a bit of a history by asking whether the bump has stayed the same size since you found it, or whether you feel it has been growing slowly, rapidly, or somewhere in between. If a bump doesn't increase in size over a period of several months to a year or two, chances are it's nothing to worry about. Benign lipomas tend to grow very slowly or not at all.
Cancers, on the other hand, can increase in size rather rapidly. If that's the case, or you don't know whether it's the case because you just discovered the lump yesterday and you don't know how long it has been there, the vet will be on more heightened alert to screen for cancer. It doesn't mean it is cancer; it means it's a possibility to explore.


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Lahad Datu Bypass – Mile 32, Sandakan
Besides improving people's mobility, the construction of the highway will boost the oil palm industry, which is the main economic feature in the region together with Central and Southwest. Delivery of the crops to the mills and crude palm oil to the ports will be speedier. Eco-tourism industry will also be the beneficiary of the project as the region is the home of natural attractions such as wildlife and natural forests. The 126.5km alignment which starts from Laha Datu ByPass and ends in Mile 32, Sandakan consists of six work packages, i.e WP 22 (Lahad Datu Bypass-Kg. Sandau, 25.5km), WP23 (Kg. Sandau-Sg. Takala, 24.8km), WP24 (Sg. Takala-Kg. Perpaduan Dtk. Moh, 16.4km), WP25 (Kg. Perpaduan Dtk. Moh-Sukau, 16.8km), WP26 (Sukau-Kg. Lot M, 18km), and WP27 (Kg. Lot M-Mile32, Sandakan, 17.5km).


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On Sunday, October 23, The Tribe performed a relief concert at the E Spot Lounge in Studio City, Calif. for the victims of Hurricane Matthew in Haiti.
Hurricane Matthew was the strongest hurricane to hit the Caribbean since Felix in 2007. It left a trail of destruction in Haiti and stunned those emerging from the aftermath. This devastation prompted The Tribe's executive producer, Kevin Wachs, who is also CEO of Earthly Body, Inc., to organize a relief concert to help the hurricane victims in Haiti. He called upon, Lauri Reimer, project developer and production team member of The Tribe, to spearhead an event quickly. By the time the night was over, the Tribe had raised $3,658 in relief funds.
Reimer, also a singer/songwriter and event producer and promoter, confirmed a show date at the E Spot Lounge, upstairs from Vitello's
Italian Restaurant in Studio City, CA, and within two short weeks, a full-scale concert came together featuring more than twenty Tribe members.
The Tribe is a collective of professional studio and touring musicians and singers who donate time to perform concerts for various causes. Since its inception in the Spring of 2015, they have performed three full-scale benefit shows – a Beach Boys tribute at the Canyon Club in Agoura Hills, a Rock n Roll Christmas show at California State University-Northridge's Plaza del Sol Performance Hall and The California Saga – a Musical Journey of the California Sound, for two nights at the El Rey Theatre.
Combined, The Tribe has raised funds exceeding $60,000. Proceeds from these shows have gone to a number of charities that help people and the environment, which have included:
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For this latest event, the list also includes Pure Water for the World, a non-profit organization started in 1999 with a mission to improve the health and livelihood of children and families living in underserved communities in Central America and the Caribbean. They provide effective tools and education to establish sustainable safe water, hygiene and sanitation solutions. Pure Water for the World is based in Rutland, VT with offices in Tegucigalpa and Trojes, Honduras and Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
Tribe shows are sponsored by the Get Together Foundation, created by Kevin and Mare Wachs, and its mission states that 100% of the money raised goes to the designated cause.
The Haiti Relief show featured Freebo (Bonnie Raitt, CSN), Marc Mann (Danny Elfman, Jeff Lynne), Rob Bonfiglio (Wilson Phillips), Ginger Blake & Marilyn Wilson-Rutherford (The Honeys), Jeff Alan Ross (Peter Asher, Badfinger), John Wicks (The Records), Dave Pearlman (Dan Fogelberg, Bobby Womack), Al Keith (Dave Wakeling, Sugar Ray), John Pratt, Kevin Wachs, Jay Cohen, Lauri Reimer, Michael Stern, Lois Blaisch, poet Stephen Kalinich, Gary Stockdale, Adam Daniel, Scotty Mitchell, John McNeely, Steve Goddard, Pete Wagonhurst and Dan Rosen.
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In a New York Times piece on Dumbledore's homosexuality, critic Edward Rothstein suggests that J.K. Rowling, Dumbledore's creator, might not know what she's talking about:
But it is possible that Ms. Rowling may be mistaken about her own character. She may have invented Hogwarts and all the wizards within it, she may have created the most influential fantasy books since J. R. R. Tolkien, and she may have woven her spell over thousands of pages and seven novels, but there seems to be no compelling reason within the books for her after-the-fact assertion. Of course it would not be inconsistent for Dumbledore to be gay, but the books' accounts certainly don't make it necessary. The question is distracting, which is why it never really emerges in the books themselves. Ms. Rowling may think of Dumbledore as gay, but there is no reason why anyone else should.
Sure there is: Because he is. Because the author made him that way. Whether or not anyone but the author knew about it up to last week simply doesn't matter. The author, in her formulation of the character, has this as part of his background, and that background informs how the character was written. Rothstein is under the impression that because Dumbledore's sexuality is not explicitly in the text it's irrelevant or not necessary. But it's not true; if Rowling had as part of Dumbledore's background that he was straight, or entirely asexual, his character would be different and his actions and responses and backstory would be different. He would be different. He wouldn't be the Dumbledore he is today (or was, because he's dead, but even so).
Rothstein seems to be falling into the trap of assuming that everything that goes into a character shows up on the page. This is entirely wrong. What shows up on the page is the public life of the character, so to speak: The things about a character that a writer chooses to let you know about them. The private life of a character exists off the page, and takes place between the writer and the character. You don't see that unless the author discusses it later, in interviews or commentary or whatever. Authors have privilege concerning our characters; we know more about them than the readers. Or as Neil Gaiman recently put it:
You always wind up knowing more about your characters than you can get onto the page. Pages are finite, and the story isn't about giving you all the information about everyone in it any more than life is. Things the author knows about characters (or at least, strongly suspects — it's never really real until it hits the page, because the process of writing is also a process of discovery) that don't make it onto the page could include the characters' backstory, what they like to eat, the toothpaste they use, what happens to them after the story is over or before it began, and what they do in bed. That something didn't turn up in the books just means it didn't make it onto the page or wasn't relevant to the story.
Does the reader need to know Dumbledore is gay? Probably not. Does the reader have to care that he's gay? That's up to the reader. Do these facts mean that Dumbledore's sexuality is unimportant to who the character is? Absolutely not. The moment Rowling said (or discovered, however you want to put it) that Dumbledore was gay, it made a difference in how she perceived him and how she wrote him. The only way Rowling's statement of Dumbledore's sexuality would be irrelevant or should be ignored by the reader (should they hear of the fact at all) is if there were proof that Rowling was tacking on the sexuality of Dumbledore after the fact of the writing, i.e., that Rowling had no conception of Dumbledore's sexuality through all the books, and then is throwing the "dude, he's gay" statement out there now just for kicks. Given how much people have been saying "well, now such-and-such scene makes perfect sense," regarding the books, this doesn't seem like it's the case. She's got backup in the work.
Which is not to say such after-the-fact author revisionism doesn't happen. The reason that Ray Bradbury's recent declaration that Fahrenheit 451 wasn't about censorship but was instead about television destroying literature is looked upon with such utter skepticism is because for the last 50 years it has been about censorship (Bradbury himself has explicitly noted this); while Bradbury takes a poke at TV in the book, the core of the story — what's in the text — is the effect of censorship on his primary character, who is himself a censor. Bradbury's free to say what he wants, but his own words and his own text speak against him, and on balance I'm going with the text, because it doesn't change its mind.
Now, if Rowling had lardered the Harry Potter books with tales of Dumbledore's heterosexual relationships, and had done numerous interviews about how in his younger years he cut a swath through witches and mugglettes alike, leaving a trail of women raving about his wandwork, then we would have reason to discard a latter-day revelation of his gayness; it would be patent nonsense. She did neither. Rowling's outing of Dumbledore might be surprising, but it's not inconsistent with what we know of the text or the character.
Rowling is getting some whacks because she never explicitly stated Dumbledore's sexuality within the books themselves, which is fair enough, although I think it's a little silly. Authors are not obliged to outline every detail about a character, and from what I know of Dumbledore (I haven't read the books themselves because the little I've read of Rowling's prose style doesn't set me aflame; I stick to the movies) it would be entirely in character for him to be circumspect about the topic of his sexuality, both in dealing with Harry and his pals, and in the clearly rather conservative world of magic. Rowling's made it pretty obvious that in her Potterverse it's hard to be "out" when you have an alternate lifestyle (cf. that Lupis dude), and there's no indication that the world of magic is any more gay-friendly than it is werewolf-friendly. She built a world that has certain rules; characters in that world live by those rules. Those rules aren't necessarily the same rules as our world lives by.
Going back to Rothstein, the best you can say for his argument is that it notes that Dumbledore doesn't have to be gay for many of the influential events of his life to have had an effect on him. To which the correct response is to say, yes, well. And this would be different from the lives of actual gay people exactly how? We go through any number of events in our lives without our sexuality front and center — it would make sense an author would model a character similarly. But it doesn't mean that at the end of the day that sexuality doesn't matter to who the character is.
Dumbledore's gay: He was written that way. As a reader, you may not need to know it, or may even feel it's essential to what you see as his purpose, any more than in the real life you'd need to know if your mailman were gay, or your bank teller or your local librarian, or would see their sexuality as essential to how you relate to them even if you did. But what you know, and what these people know about themselves — and what an author knows about his or her characters, not to mention what the characters know about themselves — are separate things. And what they know matters to who they are.
So, no. Rowling's not mistaken about Dumbledore. Rothstein, however, is.


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Sunday, January 27, 2013
UnPub 3 Part IV: Brewing beer and getting GIPF
In the last prototype game that I played at UnPub 3, I joined Chris Kirkman and Ben Rosset in a three-player round of Ben's "Brewmasters." I have to say, this game is neck-and-neck with "Post Position" for my favorite game of all of those that I played at UnPub. Players represent presidents of microbreweries, and the goal is to score the most points by producing beer. Beer options include basic, tried-and-true recipes like porter, stout, and ale, while other more exotic concoctions like "pumpkin spice ale" score more points per unit brewed. Players need to manage not only the acquisition of ingredients but the throughput of the brewing operation, from storage to fermenting to bottling to shipping.
Friday, January 25, 2013
UnPub 3 Part III: Three players, four publishers, and plenty of pancakes
East India Company - Three-player playtest
Late on the first day of UnPub 3, designers Ben Rosset and Stephen Craig joined me for a three-player game of EIC. This game unfolded in a couple of unusual ways. Ben gradually built up his fleet until he had four ships - two small, two medium - and fell into a pattern in which his four ships went to four different colonies, bought four different goods, and returned to Europe to unload all four ships in the same turn. It was kind of an odd cycle, but it worked, because the diversification of commodities meant that he wasn't competing with himself. Stephen tried a couple of different things before he eventually invested in a big ship and started making the long China spice run. I think he might have made that trip twice by the end of the game. I decided to try the "chaining markets" strategy of buying tobacco in one place, bringing it to another colony that bought tobacco and sold ivory, buying ivory to bring it somewhere else that bought ivory, and so on. My method must have worked, because I ended up winning in a pretty narrow range of scores. Although the game ran 150 minutes (a little on the long side for a three-player game), I was pretty happy with how it turned out.
|Ben Rosset (left) and Stephen Craig clearly enjoying the
game playing excitement that is "East India Company"
Thursday, January 24, 2013
UnPub 3 Part II: Pig Pen, Playtesting, and Post Position
|Kevin Kulp (left) explains Pig Pen to Jesse
Catron (right) and another gamer at UnPub3
I first met designer Kevin Kulp at Congress of Gamers last October, when he playtested "East India Company." He'd mentioned his set-building card game Pig Pen, but I never got to try it out at CoG. So I was glad to find him and learn the game in a three-player session. Pig Pen is just a fun, crazy draw-one-play-one game of assembling a pig pen consisting of four fences or walls, a gate, and a feed card. Once those pieces are in place, a player can draw a pig and keep it in the pen - at least until something bad happens, such as an opponent taking a chainsaw to your wooden fence or detonating dynamite on your brick wall. Then you've got one turn to repair the damage, or your pig runs away, potentially into the waiting arms of another player. Oh, the betrayal!
Wednesday, January 23, 2013
UnPub3 Part I: Power Playtesting
on last weekend's
Friday, January 4, 2013
New Year's Renaissance
The last several years, I've hosted a big game at my house on New Year's Day. In January 2009, we played a Wooden Ships and Iron Men fleet action. On New Years in 2011 was a multi-player game of PanzerBlitz. Last year we played History of the World. This year, Keith F., Brian G., Glenn W., and W.J.G. joined me to advance the civilization and develop the markets of Europe with the epic game Age of Renaissance (designers Don Greenwood and Jared Scarborough, artists Stephen Langmead and Kurt Miller, publisher Avalon Hill).
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By Mark Engstrom, J.D.
Symantec subsidiary Blue Coat Systems was entitled to a post-verdict judgment of non-infringement of a Finjan patent on "Policy-based caching" for malware protection (U.S. Patent No. 6,965,968), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has ruled. The district court's denial of Blue Coat's motion for judgment as a matter of law (JMOL) was therefore reversed, with respect to that patent. However, substantial evidence supported a jury's finding that Blue Coat had infringed two additional Finjan patents: a "System and method for attaching a downloadable security profile to a downloadable" (U.S. Patent No. 6,154,844) and a "Method and system for caching at secure gateways" (U.S. Patent No. 7,418,731). With respect to those patents, the judgment of the district court was affirmed. Finally, the Federal Circuit vacated a damages award for the non-infringed '968 patent and affirmed a damages award for the '731 patent. With respect to the '844 patent, the court found that: (1) Finjan failed to apportion damages to the infringing functionality and (2) the royalty rate of $8 per user was insufficiently supported (Finjan, Inc. v. Blue Coat Systems, Inc., January 10, 2018, Dyk, T.).
After a jury found that Blue Coat had infringed four Finjan patents involving malware protection, the jury awarded Finjan nearly $39.5 million: $24 million for infringing the '844 patent, $6 million for the '731 patent, $7.75 million for the '968 patent, and $1,666,700 for the '633 patent (U.S. Patent No. 7,647,633). After a bench trial, the district court decided that the '844 patent was directed to patent-eligible subject matter under 35 U.S.C. §101.
Thereafter, the district court denied Blue Coat's motions for JMOL and a new trial, concluding that Finjan had provided substantial evidence to support each finding of infringement and the jury's award of damages. Blue Coat appealed the district court's rulings on subject matter eligibility of the '844 patent; infringement of the '844, '731, and '968 patents; and damages for all four patents.
Subject matter eligibility. The '844 patent described a method of providing computer security by scanning a "downloadable" and then attaching the results of the scan—to the downloadable—in the form of a newly generated file: a "security profile" that identified suspicious code in the received downloadable. The question for the Federal Circuit was whether the patent's "behavior-based" virus scan provided an improvement in computer functionality such that the patented idea was not abstract. The Federal Circuit found that it did.
According to the court, the method of representative Claim 1 employed a new kind of file that enabled a computer security system to do things that it could not previously do. The "security profile" approach allowed "tailored" access for different users, and it ensured that threats were identified before reaching a user's computer. The fact that the security profile identified suspicious code allowed the system to accumulate and use newly available, behavior-based information about potential threats. The asserted claims were thus directed to a "non-abstract improvement in computer functionality, rather than the abstract idea of computer security writ large."
Even if the claims were directed to a new idea, Blue Coat argued, they remained unpatentably "abstract" because they failed to sufficiently describe how to implement the idea. The court disagreed. The claims recited more than a mere result; they recited specific steps—i.e., generating a security profile that identified suspicious code and linking it to a downloadable—that accomplished the desired result. Moreover, Blue Coat did not contend that the only thing disclosed was the result, rather than an inventive arrangement for accomplishing the result. In the court's view, the idea was not abstract, and there was no need to proceed to the second step of the Alice analysis.
Infringement, '844 patent. Blue Coat argued that the asserted claims, which required "linking a security profile to a downloadable 'before a web server makes the Downloadable available to web clients,'" could be infringed only by a server-side product that evaluated content before it was published to the Internet. One of the accused products—Blue Coat's WebPulse—was a cloud-based service that provided information about downloadables to a customer's network gateway to help the gateway determine whether a particular downloadable could be accessed by a specific end user. In Blue Coat's view, no infringement was possible because WebPulse evaluated downloadables that were already available on the Internet.
Again, the court disagreed. Blue Coat made no request for a claim construction that would require "linking the security profile to the downloadable before the downloadable [wa]s placed on the Internet," the court explained, and Blue Coat could not raise the claim construction issue for the first time in post-trial motions. The claim, as construed by the district court, required "linking by the inspector the first Downloadable security profile to the Downloadable before [a/the] non-network gateway web server make[s] the Downloadable available to web clients."
In the court's view, the jury could reasonably interpret "web clients" to refer to the specific web clients that were protected by the claimed system. Likewise, the limitation requiring that linking occur before a downloadable was "ma[de] … available to web clients" could reasonably be understood to require that linking occur at some point before users were permitted to access the downloadable—but not necessarily before the downloadable was made available on the Internet.
Blue Coat conceded that, at the time a security profile is linked, the "particular web client cannot yet receive the downloadable—but the web server has made it available …." Given the undisputed evidence that WebPulse linked security profiles to downloadables before the downloadables could be received by users, the court found that the jury's infringement verdict was supported by substantial evidence, with respect to the '844 patent.
Infringement, '731 patent. The '731 patent described a computer gateway that protected a private intranet from malicious software embedded in webpages on the public Internet. The claimed gateway operated by scanning potentially malicious files and creating "security profiles" that comprised "a list of computer commands that the file is programmed to perform." Claim 17 specified that the security profile included "a list of at least one computer command that the retrieved file is programmed to perform."
Blue Coat argued that the '731 patent was not infringed as a matter of law because the "security profiles" created by the accused product did not contain the requisite "list of computer commands." Because Blue Coat did not request a construction of the "list of commands" term, the Federal Circuit applied the ordinary meaning and concluded that substantial evidence supported the jury's infringement verdict.
At trial, Finjan presented evidence showing that the accused product created a new file called "cookie2" each time it scanned an incoming file for potential malware. "Cookie2" comprised a set of fields, and each field represented various characteristics about the downloadable file. Fields 78–80 represented certain commands and showed whether those commands—such as eval(), unescape(), and document.write()—appeared in the incoming file. In fields 78–80, an integer represented the number of times each command appeared.
In the court's view, substantial evidence supported the jury's "implied" finding that the "list of commands" limitation was satisfied by the integers in Fields 78–80 of Cookie2. The '731 patent was therefore infringed.
Infringement, '968 patent. Blue Coat successfully argued that a judgment of non-infringement was warranted, with respect to the '968 patent, because Finjan did not introduce substantial evidence to show that the accused products implemented the claimed "policy index."
The court noted that the '968 patent was directed to a "policy-based" cache manager that could efficiently manage cached content according to a plurality of security policies. The policy-based cache manager in the '968 patent was a data structure that tracked whether content was permitted under various policies. At claim construction, the parties stipulated that "policy index" meant "a data structure indicating allowability of cached content relative to a plurality of policies." The jury was instructed to apply, and the court tested the infringement verdict, based on that construction.
The policy index of the '968 patent stored the "results" of a content evaluator's determination of "whether a given digital content is allowable relative to a given policy," the court noted, but the accused product—Proxy SG, a gateway between an intranet of computers and the Internet at large—did not save final decisions about whether content could be accessed by users subject to a given policy; it simply stored the evaluation of each individual rule that went into making an ultimate policy decision. Because Finjan's evidence failed to show that the accused product stored final allowability determinations, Blue Coat was entitled to a judgment of non-infringement.
Damages, '844 patent. Blue Coat successfully argued that, in calculating a royalty base, Finjan failed to apportion damages to the infringing functionality. The Federal Circuit noted that, when the accused technology does not make up the whole of the accused product, apportionment is required. In those cases, the patentee must "give evidence tending to separate or apportion the [infringer]'s profits and the patentee's damages between the patented feature and the unpatented features, and such evidence must be reliable and tangible, and not conjectural or speculative."
Blue Coat's dynamic real-time rating engine (DRTR) is the part of its WebPulse product that analyzes URLs that have not been previously categorized. According to the court, DRTR performs both infringing and non-infringing functions. When a user requests access to a URL that is not in the WebPulse database, for example, DRTR analyzes the content, assigns a category or categories, and collects metadata about the site for further use. As part of that analysis, DRTR examines the URL for malicious or suspicious code, creates a type of "security profile" that highlights the information, and attaches the security profile to the given URL. That process infringes the '844 patent, the court explained.
However, the DRTR also evaluates whether the URL fits into various categories, ranging from pornography to news, and the additional categories were unrelated to DRTR's malware identification function. DRTR also collects metadata about the URL for Blue Coat's later use. Ultimately, all of the infringing functionality occurs in DRTR, but some DRTR functions infringe and some do not.
At trial, Finjan tried to tie the royalty base to the incremental value of the infringement by multiplying WebPulse's total number of users by the percentage of web traffic that passes through DRTR—the WebPulse component that performs the infringing method. DRTR processes roughly 4 percent of WebPulse's total web requests, so Finjan established a royalty base by multiplying the 75 million worldwide WebPulse users by 4 percent.
According to Finjan, apportionment to DRTR was adequate because DRTR was the "smallest, identifiable technical component" that was tied to the footprint of the invention. In the court's view, however, the fact that Finjan had established a royalty base that was based on the "smallest, identifiable technical component" did not insulate the company from the "essential requirement" that the "ultimate reasonable royalty award" be based on "the incremental value that the patented invention adds to the end product."
Because DRTR was a multi-component software engine that included non-infringing features, the percentage of web traffic that DRTR handled was not a proxy for the incremental value of the patented technology to WebPulse as a whole. According to the court, further apportionment was required to reflect the value of the patented technology compared to the value of the unpatented elements.
Further, to arrive at a lump sum reasonable royalty payment for infringement, Finjan multiplied the royalty base by a royalty rate of $8 per user. Blue Coat argued that Finjan failed to provide a basis for that rate, and the court agreed. There was no evidence to show that Finjan had ever used or proposed an $8-per-user fee in any comparable license or negotiation, the court explained.
In light of those findings, the court remanded the matter of damages, with respect to the '844 patent, to the district court to determine whether: (1) Finjan had waived the right to establish reasonable royalty damages under a new theory and (2) a new trial on damages should be ordered.
Damages, '731 and '633 patents. For the '731 and '633 patents, Finjan apportioned the revenues for the royalty base between the infringing and non-infringing functionality of Proxy SG. According to Blue Coat, however, the apportionment was insufficient. The court disagreed. Although the record contained conflicting expert testimony, the existence of conflicting testimony did not mean that the damages award was unsupported by substantial evidence. Because the jury was entitled to believe the patentee's expert, the damages awards for the infringement of the '731 and '633 patents were based on substantial evidence.
The case is No. 2016-2520.
Attorneys: Paul J. Andre (Kramer, Levin, Naftalis & Frankel, LLP) for Finjan, Inc. Mark A. Lemley (Durie Tangri LLP) for Blue Coat Systems, Inc.
Companies: Finjan, Inc.; Blue Coat Systems, Inc.
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I bet some of you have been wondering why my blog has been so quiet for the past week..
I have a really good excuse :) I pretty much put everything in my life aside and dedicate countless of hours and could finally say everything is categorized and sectioned off in Thumbnail Galleries!!
Yes… you can now click on the above navigation bar and view every. single. freebie. I ever posted or have featured at a glance! :) It was pretty much a nightmare but so well worth it! I'm just relieved its over.. Don't be surprised if I "take" another week off ;)
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text: On Tue, Apr 07, 2009, Kevin Littlejohn wrote: > AARNet has nothing to do with charging anyone other than the > University - not students, staff, or faculties. AARNet don't charge > an "excess use fee" as such. Their current billing model requires you to estimate your use for the next 12 months, and any excess use gets an excess use fee. :) > AARNet publish a BGP-extracted list of "on-net" IPs - that's IP > addresses which are routing within their network. Most, possibly all, > Universities use that to differentiate charging to students and staff > (where charging can be quota management or charging dollars). The trouble is aarnet's billing, at least around mid last year, is based on periodic BGP snapshots. I remember inquiring about why certain networks enter and leave AARNet's "on-net" table (and if I poked a bit, I could probably pull out their nightly "on-net" network additions and deletions from a billing system which pulls said data from AARNet) and their reply was they reserve the right to change their network to suit the current "requirements". (ie, stuff going off-net due to outages, congested links, etc, is the universities problem.) > If students are downloading personal content at home, then I'd imagine > most Universities would count that a policy success - the AARNet > network is designed around providing good solid research/academic > access (and their speeds for that are unparalleled in Australia), not > around commercial 'net access. I never said it was personal content. :) "Large amounts of content" doesn't always translate to "illegal or personal content". These are students, and students can and do exchange research content with other students at other universities. Nothing is more off-putting than a department secretary receiving a bill for $5000 because some student transferred some data from an -on-net- university, but AARNet's billing that day decided it was 100% off-net. I'll credit AARNet to being mostly reasonable when it happens but at that point students, staff and academics can and do just stop thinking about doing anything with their quota besides checking email, and even -that- was starting to be billed to them. (We ended up having to absorb the cost of spam before it hit the users's quota, because some users were getting more spam than legitimate email..) For specific academic projects which have specific requirements, and I speak as one of those funny university students and staff members of past, AARNet's speed is great. Right until you run out of quota. At which point your department gets slogged with a bill which, and I really am quoting reality here, entire departments wonder why they don't just buy an ADSL link for the bulk of their research traffic. At this point, as I said in a previous email, staff and students alike just start exchanging university related content at home. > (Incidentally, _most_ Universities are quota'ing students and charging > something to individual departments/faculties based on the total per- > year AARNet charge and each faculties' proportional use thereof.) Anyway. This is one of thos discussions which is now far off-topic for an operations group and for that I apologise. :) Adrian


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Hello my golfing friends,
It's been a while since my last newsletter following an incredibly busy summer coaching and developing our world class 'Putting Studio'.
I am immensely proud to introduce one of the most significant coaching facilities in Europe, if not the world!
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Assuming you play right handed, practice putting using only your right hand.
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Finally, may I take this opportunity to wish you all a fabulous Christmas and prosperous 2016, with straighter drives, more GIR, closer pitches & chips and fewer putts!
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Barefoot Design
Barefoot Designs is an exciting Art Gallery (owned and operated by myself, Samantha Day) which opened in Pissouri Bay in 2012. Now in its sixth season, the Gallery has gone from strength to strength, offering an increasingly wide variety of artwork, all from local artists using ethically sourced, largely local materials.
With a wide range or arts, crafts and souvenirs, the gallery has something for everyone, whether for yourself or as a gift.
There an eclectic range of artwork from a variety of artists in a varying styles to suit all tastes. There are larger pieces hanging on display, as well as a selection of prints and original small, unframed paintings available. You also have the opportunity of commissioning your own, unique painting from a favourite photograph.
You will find a wide variety of crafts, from stained glass to pebble art, as well as jewellery, hand painted cushion covers & beach bags & a large selection of handmade greeting cards – all of which can be fully personalised. All the items are competitively priced to suit all pockets. The gallery is also my studio, and you can often find me working on my latest commission.
So come and browse for that unique piece of art to remind you of the wonderful place called Pissouri.


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INFINITY FOUNDATION, a gaming society founded in Hawke's Bay in 2006 supports a wide variety of amateur sports with a special interest in youth development. We also support schools, cultural clubs and other community based service organisations.
Grants will be made, subject to funds being available, for applications that meet our authorised purpose as approved by the Department of Internal Affairs. For a list of upcoming meeting dates and deadlines please click HERE.
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Application forms can be obtained from the Infinity website, by contacting our grants team by email or from the gaming area of any Infinity Foundation venue in your area.
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Giving Back
Our Springfield students take great pride in "Giving Back" to their community. We kicked off our annual Salvation Army Food Bank challenge at assembly this morning! Ask your child what sort of items are most useful for the Salvation Army Food Bank. Different items equal different points and students look forward to the silly challenges that their teachers will compete in as they continue to reach higher food bank challenge goals.


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Everlong by Foo Fighters
Everlong is the second single from Foo Fighters' second album, 1997's "The Colour and the Shape". It hit #18 in the UK and #3 on the Billboard Modern Rock chart. In 2000, on his first show back from heart surgery, American late night comedian David Letterman introduced the band's performance of the song with "here's my favorite band, performing my favorite song". This appearance made Foo Fighters the first band to perform the same song twice on Letterman's "The Late Show" program. Everlong has been featured in the popular music themed video games Rock Band 2 and Guitar Hero World Tour.
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Max Meyer is just a year out of high school but is miles from his life at Marmion Academy in Aurora.
The 19-year-old Illinois Air National Guard member said he will be in Japan for a week next month as a crew chief.
"I'm an airplane mechanic," Meyer said. "I love my job. It's the best job in the Air Force, that's for sure."
The Kane County Chronicle is looking back at recent high school graduates who have been featured in its annual series the past few years. Meyer was profiled last year.
Meyer left for U.S. Air Force basic training in July and graduated in September at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland in Texas. According to the U.S. Air Force, he was one of 43 airmen in a class of 437 trainees who earned the distinction of being an honor graduate.
"Marmion prepared me for it pretty well," Meyer said. "Growing up in a military family, I kind of knew the lifestyle I was going into."
Because he had further training through January, Meyer said he didn't start his freshman year at Eastern Illinois University until the spring semester. He is studying mechanical engineering.
"It's always something I've wanted to do," he said, noting he eventually will have to transfer to another college to pursue that field.
Last year, one of Meyer's teachers at Marmion, Victor Pinks II, described Meyer as "one of the most inquisitive minds" he's met.
"He never stops asking questions, and he's not afraid to learn or try anything," Pinks said then.
When asked whether he wanted to say anything else about his past year, Meyer thanked his parents, Debby and Dave Meyer of Geneva, for their help.


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Axon Performance is designed to reduce the amount of time field supervisors spend reviewing compliance with agency policies and programs. With Axon Performance, agencies streamline the supervisor review and enable supervisors to deliver tailored personnel training and feedback to ensure that teams are operating within agency guidelines and policies.
Axon Performance Squad Review Workflow
- Sign in to your Axon Evidence.com account and launch Axon Performance from your dashboard.
- Review the Squad Metrics to see the specific policies measured by your agency.
This check provides a high-level look of how well the Squad is doing. See Squad Dashboard Overview for more information on what is included in the Squad Dashboard.
There may be situations where Squad members are out of compliance with agency requirements. See Identifying Out of Compliance Conditions for more information.
- Change the Date Range selection to view how performance has changed over time. There may be situations where performance improves or gets worse over time.
You can select different date ranges to see changes in Squad Metrics. See Reviewing Overall Squad Performance for more information.
Axon Performance Officer Review Workflow
- Sign in to your Axon Evidence.com account and launch Axon Performance from your dashboard.
- Navigate to Squad Performance to find the list of all Officers on the Squad. The list will show if each officers is above or below policy. Click on an officer's name to jump to their individual performance page.
- On the Officer Detail Page, review Officer Metrics to see the specific policies measured by your agency - same as the Squad Metrics - and if the officer's performance meets agency expectations.
This page shows how well an individual officer is meeting Agency goals. See Officer Page Overview for more information on the Officer Page.
- Click View Details to review additional information for each metric and gain further insight. For example, select Activation Rate to return a table of calls for service with and without camera activations during the Date Range selected. You can select different date ranges to see changes for a different date range or longer report period.
- Log a policy review to show your work and to refer to later. If necessary, send the officer an email with feedback based on findings from the review. See Reviewing Officer Performance and Emailing an Officer for more information.
Axon Performance Functionality Details
- Users assigned to the pre-configured Axon Evidence.com Admin role do not automatically have Axon Performance permissions. If users assigned to the pre-configured Admin role need access to Axon Performance permissions, you must create a new role with the Axon Performance permissions or duplicate the existing Admin role and enable the Axon Performance permissions.
- Axon Performance policy configurations are implemented agency-wide.
- When creating or editing Groups, it will take approximately 15 minutes for the changes to be reflected in Axon Performance.
- Audit trails are recorded for user and evidence actions. To protect the privacy of officer performance reviews, we do not log the source of the evidence actions. Performance events are logged within Axon Performance.
- The Random video review workflow is based on an algorithm that selects body-worn videos randomly for review, while trying to ensure that officers are reviewed on a similar frequency and cadence.
- All Agency Groups in Axon Evidence.com will appear in Axon Performance.
- Only users with Roles that have View Squad Performance permission set to Any can access and view groups in Axon Performance that have been deleted. If a Group Monitor does not have Login permission to Axon Performance, even though the Group appears in Axon Performance, the Group Monitor will not have access to Axon Performance.
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This exclusive edition Acrylic Glass Print, designed by enrico varrasso, comes with a numbered and signed certificate of authenticity. Printed on archival-quality photo paper mounted on the back of a 1/8" thick, clear acrylic substrate, this artwork comes ready to hang on a wire attached to a wooden frame fixed on the back.
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<![CDATA[For a while I've noticed my computer running slower and slower for no apparent reason. Although I have a fairly old computer (Athlon 1.2GHz) it was running far slower than it should have been.
A (not so) quick look in task manager revealed a possible culprit – Firefox was running and taking up 80Mb of memory and it was increasing.
Anybody any ideas what could cause a sudden and persistent memory leak in Firefox? The only extra I have installed is LiveHeaders. Until it's fixed I've had to revert to IE.
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I'm pleased to announce exclusive Greek language rights to Sugar Rush have sold to Compupress! The news is especially exciting, since Greece is one place I've actually been! Can't wait to see what the cover might look like - eep, maybe it will have baklava on it!
Last stop on the Sugar Rush blog tour!
Thanks for having me, Book Lovers Inc! http://www.bookloversinc.com/2012/11/02/interview-with-rachel-astor-giveaway/
My Reading Room Interview and Giveaway!
Super fun (and seasonal!) interview at Reading Between the Wines!
Check it out! http://readingbetweenthewinesbookclub.blogspot.ca/2012/10/sugar-rush-by-rachel-astor-interview.html?zx=6dc73845b33bc257
Scorching Book Reviews
Thanks so much for having me as a guest! http://scorchingbookreviews.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/blog-tour-sugar-rush-by-rachel-astor.html?zx=84c6983754f04312
Ex Libris Blog Tour Stop & Giveaway
Thanks so much for having me, and for the fun, insightful questions! http://www.stella-exlibris.com/2012/10/interview-with-rachel-astor-giveaway.html Make sure to check it out for a giveaway of Sugar Rush!
My Life With Books
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(Review) A World Without You
A World Without You by Beth Revis
Publication Date: July 19th, 2016
Pages: 384 (hardcover)
Genre: Young Adult
My Goodreads Rating: 2.5 stars
Goodreads Synopsis:
What if finding her means losing himself?
Seventeen-year-old Bo has always had delusions that he can travel through time. When he was ten, Bo claimed to have witnessed the Titanic hit an iceberg, and at fifteen, he found himself on a Civil War battlefield, horrified by the bodies surrounding him. So when his worried parents send him to a school for troubled youth, Bo assumes he knows the truth: that he's actually attending Berkshire Academy, a school for kids who, like Bo, have "superpowers."
At Berkshire, Bo falls in love with Sofía, a quiet girl with a tragic past and the superpower of invisibility. Sofía helps Bo open up in a way he never has before. In turn, Bo provides comfort to Sofía, who lost her mother and two sisters at a very young age.
But even the strength of their love isn't enough to help Sofía escape her deep depression. After she commits suicide, Bo is convinced that she's not actually dead. He believes that she's stuck somewhere in time—that he somehow left her in the past, and that now it's his job to save her. And as Bo becomes more and more determined to save Sofía, he must decide whether to face his demons head-on or succumb to a psychosis that will let him be with the girl he loves.
My Review:
I've really been out of the loop with books lately, considering this one came out in 2016 and I'm just now reading it. I love Revis' Across the Universe trilogy and was excited to try this one, too.
Bo is special. And by special I mean that he lives in an institute and has delusions that he can travel through time. That is pretty much the only special thing about him. Bo doesn't particularly care about anyone else, besides Sofia.
Only Sofia is dead and Bo thinks he can save her by traveling through time. Actually, he thinks that he left Sofia back in time somewhere and that's why everyone thinks she's dead.
Bo is so obsessed with finding Sofia and so convinced that he has superpowers that there really isn't anything else to this story. Only the chapters that Phoebe, Bo's sister, narrates do you actually get a glimpse of truth.
While Bo's chapters truly feel like he's traveling through time, they get kind of redundant. The imagery is there. The words describing how he pulls strings and finds his way are interesting and it truly feels like you're reading about a kid who can travel through time. But a lot of the time that's all Bo is doing. And, while he thinks he traveling through time, he's just losing his actual time.
I like how Phoebe is the one to kind of bring Bo back from the brink. He "sees" her future and thinks of all the things she could be. The parts where he thinks about his sister is, to me, Bo's only redeeming quality. It's not that he's a bad guy. He's just...Bo?
This book had a good premise and interesting characters. I guess I was just hoping for more growth and more story, less inside Bo's head. Which might have been the point and, in that case, I missed it.
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She bit her bottom lip, leered at him, and stated "I don't want you to go. You belong here with me." He smiled, kissed her sweetly and walked away. Stopping by the doorway to pick up and put on his shirt, he leaned back and said "Sorry about this second job at the pizza pub. Text if you need me." She leaned over, picked up her phone and began typing. As he got to the door, he read her message, "Don't need you right now. I will later. If you read the word anchovies, you'll know what I'm really thinking."
*blogger's note* - This is my latest entry for @velvetverbosity 's 100 word challenge at http://www.velvetverbosity.com/ . It is part of my story, Hellandback, still being worked on for http://www.nanowrimo.org/ . This week one word prompt for the 100 word challenge is ANCHOVIES. It's from one of my favorite books, The Garden of Eden by one of my favorite authors, Ernest Hemingway. Please read the book before on in lieu of seeing the movie, out in December.
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Come to think about it, I've been without Facebook for more than a year now. Do I feel like a social recluse? Not really. Do I feel like I've missed out on a lot? Not really. Do my friends find me annoying? Some do (or maybe more than I'm aware of), because they now have to make extra efforts to send me emails or text messages.
However, that means I usually get the important news and my brain has more capacity to deal with more pressing matters. It does mean I have fewer friends though, because I definitely don't have 200 people keeping me updated on their most recent ups and downs on a daily basis.
Another thought that I find amusing by not being on Facebook is the fact that some marketing campaigns with a Facebook element reaches a wall when they hit me. The fact that I don't have a Facebook account means that I can't join XYZ on their Facebook group, nor can I 'Like' that shiny something on a website. How does that feel? Fantastic! Not sure if I'm missing out on anything though.
Still, there are things which I'm definitely missing out on such as photos taken by friends and families during weddings, childbirth, holidays etc. I usually don't get to see much of those unless someone can be bothered to send me photos by painfully attaching them to emails. It's the price I have to pay for not being on Facebook.
Funnily enough, some people have confessed that it's a love hate relationship with Facebook. You can't live without it, but it doesn't make you feel great all the time. Some exercise moderation, some use it for keeping in touch with very specific 'groups' of friends and/or family members. Some think it's a waste of time and got rid of it. What do you think?
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I played Ali Faroouqi at Tennis in the summer of 2012 and on my past 101 list… I have to play and beat him playing 3 sets. We played 3 sets and I lost all 3 sets. With time demands we have not had a rematch. Always looking for people to play with. I even purchased a new stick to hit the balls with. I now own four raquets and balls and I've gone out and hit some balls and loosen up.
I've always had a love for Tennis and always wanted to join the Ajax Tennis Club. I've also had this little plan that both my kids would have a love for the game and we could play till we are old.
I want to kick his skinny ass.
So this is on my present 101 list and it's two fold. One to sign up for a local Tennis Club somewhere and to also get out and play some new people and also set something with Ali in Whitby.


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Peacock, D.C.P. and Sanderson, D.J. (1996) Effects of propagation rate on displacement variations along faults. Journal of Structural Geology, 18 (2), 311-320. (doi:10.1016/S0191-8141(96)80052-6).
Field observations indicate that much of the variability in the displacement-distance (d-x) profiles and length-displacement relationships of faults is caused by factors which can affect the propagation of faults. These factors include the interaction and linkage of segments, fault bends, conjugate relationships and lithological variations. Existing models for the d-x profiles of faults do not take these effects into account. Fault development can be modelled assuming faults accumulate displacement by a series of slip events, and using a function (p) to describe the rate of fault propagation. When p is constant during fault development, an approximately linear d-x profile eventually develops. When p decreases, such as when interaction occurs, the d-x profile rises above the linear profile. When p increases, the d3x profile initially falls below the linear profile. Such variations in finite d-x profiles mean that the analysis of finite fault displacement gives little information about the d-x profiles of individual slip events.Variations in p cause variations in r/dMAX ratios (where r is the distance between the maximum displacement point and the fault tip, and dMAX is maximum displacement). Interaction tends to hinder propagation, but displacement continues to increase, causing relatively low r/dMAX ratios. Inelastic deformation can occur at fault tips, especially where strain is concentrated at oversteps, causing steep d-x profiles and low r/dMAX ratios to develop.
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Tatamy Tweed DK from Kraemer Yarns to try out. Normally, I am not a fan of cotton yarns because it has no elasticity and can be hard on my hands. Tatamy Tweed DK is a blend of 45% cotton and 55% acrylic. I had a feeling that I would like working with this yarn because of the blend.
My first impressions when I took it out of the packaging? The yarn was cool to the touch and soft. The colors are vibrant and very pleasing to my eyes. I liked the little flecks that were spun into the yarn.
Zoom Loom to weave some squares. It was easy to weave with Tatamy Tweed DK. The yarn wove smoothly and did not snag or fray. If you have any experience with pin loom weaving, you would know that not every yarn is suitable for pin looms. This yarn held up to the 3 layer warp and then weaving with it.
Tatamy Tweed DK is machine washable which I think it's great for kids because it's easy to care for. It comes in many bright colors and neutrals, too. Whether you knit, crochet or weave, I would highly recommend trying this yarn. The cotton and acrylic blend is perfect for anyone with wool allergies. Thank you to Kraemer Yarns for letting me review your yarn.


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In a letter written on March 19, 1944, Ayn Rand remarked: "Fascism, Nazism, Communism and Socialism are only superficial variations of the same monstrous theme—collectivism." Rand would later expand on this insight in various articles, most notably in two of her lectures at the Ford Hall Forum in Boston: "The Fascist New Frontier" (Dec. 16, 1962, published as a booklet by the Nathaniel Branden Institute in 1963); and "The New Fascism: Rule by Consensus" (April 18, 1965, published as Chapter 20 in Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal [CUI] by New American Library in 1967).
The world conflict of today is the conflict of the individual against the state.
Rand knew better than to accept the traditional left-right dichotomy between socialism (or communism) and fascism, according to which socialism is the extreme version of left-ideology and fascism is the extreme version of right-ideology (i.e., capitalism). Indeed, in The Ayn Rand Letter (Nov. 8, 1971) she characterized fascism as "socialism for big business." Both are variants of statism, in contrast to a free country based on individual rights and laissez-faire capitalism. As Rand put it in "Conservativism: An Obituary" (CUI, Chapter 19):
The placement of socialism and fascism at opposite ends of a political spectrum serves a nefarious purpose, according to Rand. It serves to buttress the case that we must avoid "extremism" and choose the sensible middle course of a "mixed economy." Quoting from "'Extremism,' Or The Art of Smearing" (CUI, Chapter 17):
In both of her major articles on fascism (cited above) Rand distinguished between fascism and socialism by noting a rather technical (and ultimately inconsequential) difference in their approaches to private property. Here is the relevant passage from "The New Fascism: Rule by Consensus":
Ownership without control is a contradiction in terms: it means "property," without the right to use it or to dispose of it. It means that the citizens retain the responsibility of holding property, without any of its advantages, while the government acquires all the advantages without any of the responsibility.
In this respect, socialism is the more honest of the two theories. I say "more honest,"not "better"—because, in practice, there is no difference between them: both come from the same collectivist-statist principle, both negate individual rights and subordinate the individual to the collective, both deliver the livelihood and the lives of the citizens into the power of an omnipotent government —and the differences between them are only a matter of time, degree, and superficial detail, such as the choice of slogans by which the rulers delude their enslaved subjects.
Contrary to many conservative commentators during the 1960s, Rand maintained that America was drifting toward fascism, not socialism, and that this descent was virtually inevitable in a mixed economy. "A mixed economy is an explosive, untenable mixture of two opposite elements," freedom and statism, "which cannot remain stable, but must ultimately go one way or the other" ("'Extremism,' or The Art of Smearing"). Economic controls generate their own problems, and with these problems come demands for additional controls—so either those controls must be abolished or a mixed economy will eventually degenerate into a form of economic dictatorship. Rand conceded that most American advocates of the welfare state "are not socialists, that they never advocated or intended the socialization of private property." These welfare-statists "want to 'preserve' private property" while calling for greater government control over such property. "But that is the fundamental characteristic of fascism."
A mixed economy is ruled by pressure groups. It is an amoral, institutionalized civil war of special interests and lobbies.
Rand gave us some of the finest analyses of a mixed economy—its premises, implications, and long-range consequences—ever penned by a free-market advocate. In "The New Fascism," for example, she compared a mixed economy to a system that operates by the law of the jungle, a system in which "no one's interests are safe, everyone's interests are on a public auction block, and anything goes for anyone who can get away with it." A mixed economy divides a country "into an ever-growing number of enemy camps, into economic groups fighting one another for self preservation in an indeterminate mixture of defense and offense." Although Rand did not invoke Thomas Hobbes in this context, it is safe to say that the economic "chaos" of a mixed economy resembles the Hobbesian war of all against all in a state of nature, a system in which interest groups feel the need to screw others before they get screwed themselves.
Of course, Rand never claimed that America had degenerated into full-blown fascism (she held that freedom of speech was a bright line in this respect), but she did believe that the fundamental premise of the "altruist-collectivist" morality—the foundation of all collectivist regimes, including fascism—was accepted and preached by modern liberals and conservatives alike. (Those who mistakenly dub Rand a "conservative" should read "Conservatism: An Obituary" [CUI, Chapter 19], a scathing critique in which she accused conservative leaders of "moral treason." In some respects Rand detested modern conservatives more than she did modern liberals. She was especially contemptuous of those conservatives who attempted to justify capitalism by appealing to religion or to tradition.) Rand illustrated her point in "The Fascist New Frontier," a polemical tour de force aimed at President Kennedy and his administration.
There is no such thing as 'the public interest' except as the sum of the interests of individual men.
Rand began this 1962 lecture by quoting passages from the 1920 political platform of the German Nazi Party, including demands for "an end to the power of the financial interests," "profit sharing in big business," "a broad extension of care for the aged," the "improvement of public health" by government, "an all-around enlargement of our entire system of public education," and so forth. All such welfare-state measures, this platform concluded, "can only proceed from within on the foundation of "The Common Good Before the Individual Good."
Rand had no problem quoting similar proposals and sentiments from President Kennedy and members of his administration, such as Kennedy's celebrated remark, "And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what America will do for you—ask what you can do for your country." The particulars of Rand's speech will come as no surprise to those familiar with her ideas, but I wish to call attention to her final remarks about the meaning of "the public interest." As used by Kennedy and other politicians, both Democratic and Republican, this fuzzy phrase has little if any meaning, except to indicate that individuals have a duty to sacrifice their interests for the sake of a greater, undefined good, as determined by those who wield the brute force of political power. Rand then stated what she regarded as the only coherent meaning of "the public interest."
The principles of a free, non-coercive social system are the only form of "the public interest."
I shall conclude this essay on a personal note. Before I began preparing for this essay, I had not read some of the articles quoted above for many, many years. In fact, I had not read some of the material since my college days 45 years ago. I therefore approached my new readings with a certain amount of trepidation. I liked the articles when I first read them, but would they stand the test of time? Would Rand's insights and arguments appear commonplace, even hackneyed, with the passage of so much time? Well, I was pleasantly surprised. Rand was exactly on point on many issues. Indeed, if we substitute "President Obama," for "President Kennedy" or "President Johnson" many of her points would be even more pertinent today than they were during the 1960s. Unfortunately, the ideological sewer of American politics has become even more foul today than it was in Rand's day, but Rand did what she could to reverse the trend, and one person can only do so much. And no one can say that she didn't warn us.
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Photographer: Belladetta Peresa ( Instagram )
Artist / Model: Mino Wu ( Instagram )
The title for the photoshoot "Flying Fish" comes from model Mino's name meaning "little fish", yet she possesses the capability to break boundaries and go for the unexpected, knowing no limitation. Her solo art exhibition "Story of Our Eyes" creates an immersive experience for her audience in order to empower positive body imaging. The exploration of identity through the eyes of sexuality and race is explored through a sculptural and performance based practice that interrogates the relationship between representation and identity.
Belladetta's topless photoshoot delivers a message about being comfortable in your own skin despite your gender, sexuality, ethnicity, etc. It's only when you accept yourself that you can become mobile and change, and any insecurities are free to vanish.
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[acasa]Since 2011 h+ has collaborated with FBR to create [a casa] private lunches, organized during the Milan Design Week. During this crowded week people have the opportunity to find a relaxed atmosphere thanks to [a casa] where they can meet and converse in a friendly environment that feels like one is at home.
For the third [a casa] edition the project has evolved, becoming a real format that is exportable and can be applied to different situations.
The [a casa] lunches are an innovative method to promote new products and represent an alternative to the traditional presentations that are usually organized for product launches.
The [a casa] format is suitable for every kind of product. The product itself becomes the real protagonist of the conversations during the lunch time among an audience that is selected with care, adding to the uniquely particular and stimulating environment.
The prominence that is given to objects during the meal makes them the real heroes of the event. However the physical presence of the product is not absolutely essential for the success of the lunches. Every kind of product can easily be in the spotlight even if not there, making the format perfectly appropriate for every type of product, from a small table and kitchens objects to bigger items such as a car...
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Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters DVD
Starring Alexandra Daddario, Logan Lerman, Brandon T. Jackson, Leven Rambin, Jake Abel, Stanley Tucci, Nathan Fillion, Sean Bean, Anthony Head, Missi Pyle, Robert Maillet, Douglas Smith
Directed by Thor Freudenthal
The second instalment of the fantasy adventure franchise based on the bestselling children's books by Rick Riordan.
After discovering that their demigod training ground, Camp Half-Blood, is in danger of being overrun by monsters, Percy (Logan Lerman), Annabeth (Alexandra Daddario), Grover (Brandon T.
Jackson) and Tyson (Douglas Smith) set out on a perilous journey to the Sea of Monsters, known today as the Bermuda Triangle, to retrieve the mythical object that can save their camp - the Golden Fleece.
- Format: DVD
- Region: 2
- Certification: (PG)
- Catalogue number: 5544401000
- Studio: 20th Century Fox Home Ent.
- Release date: 09/12/2013
- Genre: Action/Adventure
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