Mitch, first of all congratulations on your Worlds Title 2015 on the Hobie Wild Cat.
This was really a great thing winning it with Ruben. Very well done. This to me shows how you are living the Hobie Way of Life truely in a Hobie family.
Another great thing was your outstanding performance at the F18 Worlds in Kiel; it showed that the Wild Cat is still able to outrace all other designs – a job very well done by you and Ruben.
What makes you stick to Hobie?
Having met you in Kiel, it was mainly lighter winds and some swell. Would you be so kind and explain us a bit on how you were tuning the Wild Thing (aka Hobie Wild Cat)?
MB We really didn't have much time prior to the regatta to train, only one day. The boat was setup with everything in the middle. Meaning mast rake mid, diamonds mid spreaders mid and nothing special.
How do you push your boat through the chop?
MB It is very important in the light and choppy conditions to sail in clear wind and not disturbed from other boats. Its also critical to sail a free and twist mode to keep max boat speed and not focus on height.
With so many new classes like Nacra 17, F16, Nacra 16, foiling cats etc. what do you think or recommend the Hobie class should pursue in the future?
MB I don't know what Hobies plan is for future classes or designs, but there is a trend towards higher performance beach cats in general. I hope Hobie continue to be a brand pursuing the leading edge of our sport.
With respect to my last question, what is your recommendation to ISAF? Personally, I am really missing a master plan, as we are seeing changes in i.e. Youth Boats almost every time ISAF meets. This really makes it difficult for nations to cope with.
MB ISAF have many political pressures to push the sport in different directions. I think its important to create the boats that the sailors want and then they will in turn pursue ISAF for use or recognition in the right place , either Youth Worlds, Olympics, etc.
I realised some changes at your Wild Cat in Kiel – i.e. you had extra holes drilled in your daggers. Could you explain to us how you use those?
MB The holes in our daggerboards where simply to place a rope as a stopper so when we flew a hull it didn't drop too far down in stronger wind.
Besides this which upgrades/ improvements do you recommend for the Wild Cat?
During pre-start procedures, how do you prevent that you are drifting leewards towards other boat designs with different underwater shapes?
MB Side drift is controlled by sail trim and speed. This is something that can be practiced and help with good starts. This has very little to do with hull shapes.
Which do you do first: reduce mast rotation or increase cunningham tension?
MB Always cunningham. Mast rotation is only when at end of cunningham range.
Do you have pointing problems in comparison to other boat designs? If so, what is your solution?
MB Not in light to medium wind… in fact the Wild cat points higher than most other F18's in lighter conditions. This is mostly due to the daggerboards. Stronger wind is a bit harder but its most important to remember speed creates lift from the foils, so its important to always keep fast.
A couple of years ago in Dec. 2004 we prepared a tuning table with you for the Tiger. If you don´t mind, please give us your recommendations for the Wild Cat.
MB You may think it strange, but I rarely work with numbers and always tune the boat according to sail look, helm feel, charictaristics of how the boat feels and sails. Only then do I go and check what the settings are so I can have reference for next time I rig. To be completly honest, I have no idea what numbers we used in the last regatta's . All I can tell you is Ruben and I were 143 kg and very fast in under 12 knots.
Before we are closing, may I ask, which are your plans for the EXTREME SAILING series?
Mitch, thanks a lot for your time and the information you have provided. Hope to see you next year back in Germany and please say hi to your family!
Best regards and have a Hobie day!


There are lots of things customers can complain about – communication breakdowns, process failures, faulty products, rude employees and unclean facilities, just to name a few.
If taken seriously, these seemingly annoying encounters can shed revelation on areas in the organization that needs improvement.
For example, if a customer complains about an employee who is rude on the telephone, it might heighten the awareness for the need to do telephone training for those employees who answer the phone.
So what is the correct way to respond to a complaining customer?
Complaining customers have a perception that somehow their needs and expectations were not met. Acknowledging their concern is the first step in diffusing the emotion of an upset customer.
For example: Mr. Jones, I understand that your food was not cooked to your expectations.
One of the most difficult aspects of listening to complaints is having the ability to separate yourself from the issue. When someone is yelling at you, it is difficult to not take it personal. However, it is important to remember that the complaint is not about you; it is about a perception of a need that was not met.
An apology is the next tool you can use to diffuse an upset customer. Apologizing with sincerity can do a lot to help ease the tension of high emotions. Look the customer in the eye, smile and sincerely apologize and communicate that their issue is important and that you want to make things right for them.
For example, Ms. Smith, I am sorry that you did not have a good experience.
When listening to a complaining customer, keep your facial expressions and responses as positive as possible. Do not do anything that could cause more emotional response and make matters worse. Be as pleasant as possible as you try to resolve the issue for the customer.
For example, think about your facial expressions and don't inadvertently add fuel to the fire by having an uncaring smirk on your face.
Allow the customer to vent and explain their issue. This is a good time to try and gather all the details of the situation and try to find out where the breakdown happened.
Sometimes there are minor misunderstandings or breakdowns in communication that can create an emotional response to a situation. Find out the facts and then try to find out what the customer wants.
An upset customer is not interested in what you can't do, so focus on what you can do.
You probably won't always be able to do exactly what the customer wants but there is always something you can do.
Focus on what you can offer the customer.
Customers don't necessarily want to hear the why behind an issue; they just want their problem solved.
Try to offer a couple options of things you can do to fix the situation for them.
For example, Mr. Smith I understand you did not like the salad you were served, what I can do is ask the Chef to remake it or is there something else on the menu you would like instead?
It is important to document and track complaints. There are formal complaint tracking systems that can help you keep track of complaints.
Document: Date, time, description of complaint, employees involved, what customer wanted, what was given to the customer, was the issue resolved, follow-up with the customer at a later time.
It is always important to check with a customer after the fact to ensure that their issue was resolved to their satisfaction.
Collecting complaint data can help provide the information needed to resolve systemic problems that may not be as evident without supporting data.
As an example, if you continually get the same complaint about the same employee, there may be an issue with the employee and the way they provide a service or respond to customer needs. This could be a training issue or a performance issue. This kind of information is also helpful to have during performance appraisal time.
Sometimes things happen and should be classified as outliers. As an example, if a storm hits and the power goes out and affects the electronic registers causing long wait times at the checkout, the long waits are an outlier and should not necessarily give cause for creating a new process.
However, looking into back-up power issues and working toward a proactive plan to ensure the operation is sustainable in the absence of power can be a way to eliminate future issues.
There is a theory that if there is an effort to recover from a bad service experience, that the customer will be more loyal to the organization. Create a service recovery process and empower employees to take action and offer solutions to customers for bad service experiences.
Finally, customers are human and deserved to be treated fairly and with dignity and respect. However, a customer that crosses the line of appropriate communication, specifically cursing and threatening should not be tolerated. Good communication skills in response to a complaint can help minimize angry emotions.
Anyone in business understands the importance of retaining a loyal customer base and, regardless of how fine-tuned an organization is there will be times when systems, products or communications fail. Creating a process to respond, manage and recover from a bad service experience is the secret to successful businesses.


This model removes one layer (brand vendor) from the equation, removing approximately 25-30% of costs of hardware. Internet companies (like Google or Facebook) and telecom operators (like AT&T, Vodafone) are seeking to optimize their procurement costs for IT hardware further with more configured solutions.
In this process, Taiwanese ODMs (especially Quanta, Wistron and Inventec) have built up substantial knowhow in server design and data center performance.
In the last few years, a new set of customers have emerged…primarily Internet companies (like Google or Facebook) and telecom operators (like AT&T, Vodafone), seeking to optimize their purchasing and procurement costs for IT hardware further and seeking more configured solutions.
In your search results, you will be able to further target your options.
At this point, it is happening mainly for 'white box servers', since servers are becoming more and more standardized in the x86 space the bank states in its report. However, there is an attempt to replicate this for storage and switches as well.
Cost savings: This model removes one layer (brand vendor) from the equation, removing approximately 25-30% of costs of hardware. As the hardware gets more commoditized, this is likely to accelerate.
Configurability: Most Internet companies (and to a certain extent, telecom operators) require highly customized server configuration in their data centers. For instance, J.P. Morgan believes one of the major online video broadcasting providers is using Intel ATOM CPUs for their servers supporting this service, since power efficiency is much more important and raw computing power requirement is low.
This level of customization is not likely to be provided by brand vendors, while vendors like Quanta are willing to provide it, given sufficient scale.
According to Intel, its current server business is split into enterprise customers (80%) and data centers (20%). In 2014, Intel expects the data center and high performance computing market (which is the addressable market for this new business model) to account for 50% of the total market, implying a 30% CAGR for this segment, the report states.
In addition, data center build out activity is also accelerating globally (Intel's Data Center revenues grew 32% in 1Q11) with the proliferation of mobile data and HD video.
For instance, EMC estimates that total data storage needs would increase 44 times from 2011 to 2020.
The global server market is around $40 billion, while the total Cloud / Data Center infrastructure market is around $120 billion (according to IDC).
J.P. Morgan believes the total addressable market for this business model is around 30-35% of each market in the next 4 to 5 years (which equates to a $12-$15 billion market for white box servers and $35-$40 billion market for overall data center infrastructure globally).
The states in its report this will be driven by adoption of public cloud and buildup of mobile data infrastructure for consumer-centric applications and moving to hybrid cloud models (mix of private and public cloud) for enterprises.
The 'white box server' market has been in existence for a while, but is becoming more relevant due to the target audience. Internet companies and operators are now more keen on adopting this mode of purchasing hardware as data center build outs are accelerating.
This is becoming more relevant since these set of customers now have more purchasing power (Google runs >1 million servers in its date centers), and the hardware itself has become commoditized enough to allow them to completely bypass the brand vendors.
Facebook's 'Open Compute project' is also a step in this direction (Quanta is a key partner in this initiative).
In addition, the ODMs have also moved up the experience and learning curve – for instance, Quanta has augmented its hardware experience by also developing software platforms in conjunction with MIT and also invested in a multi-core CPU vendor called Tilera, states the report.
In addition, these set of customers are much more IT savvy and do not require the level of IT consulting or services from companies like Dell and HP, compared to a typical enterprise customer.
In the report, J.P. Morgan believes Quanta has moved forward quicker than other peers in this area. The bank rates Inventec and Wistron as having good design capability in servers and able to implement this kind of business model as well, but feels Quanta has made a significant early entry into this space.
Another competitor the bank feels could emerge is Delta, which is setting up a comprehensive data center infrastructure team and is likely to tie up with other vendors for server capabilities.
Still, given the nature of the product (customized) and level of R&D resources required (Quanta has an 800 strong R&D team in servers), J.P. Morgan feels margins are likely to still remain fairly high in this space.


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ATO expanding to Lamar University
EXPANSION (Lamar)—Alpha Tau Omega is Lamar University's newest fraternity. The organization started on campus this fall.
"ATO is known as America's Leadership Development Fraternity," RJ Taylor, senior leadership consultant, said in an email interview.
The Lamar chapter is the 12th active ATO chapter in the state of Texas.
"This network of alumni serves as an invaluable resource for the men choosing to become (the fraternity's) founding fathers here at Lamar," Taylor said. "ATO gives you the opportunity to find a family away from home.
"Our focus is on establishing a strong foundation for the organization to grow and succeed."
ATO's alumni include Steve Spurrier, Red McCombs, Cris Collinsworth, Lee Corso, Guy Fieri, William H. Davidson, and John "Papa John" Schnatter.
Taylor said that this fall's members are founding fathers, charged with getting the fraternity up and running. They are seeking new members to be initiated in November so they can qualify as a full fraternity.
ATO donates its time and resources to local and national charities, Taylor said.
"Alpha Tau Omega National Fraternity does not have a single philanthropy or cause, but instead empowers every ATO chapter to choose a cause within their local community to support," he said. "Over the past year, ATO donated more than $8.1 million to philanthropies and local communities."
ATO is a national social fraternity governed by the North-American Interfraternity Conference, Taylor said.
"We are Greek in name only," he said. "We base our ATO values and principles on Christian beliefs and teachings. We do not force Christianity on any member nor is it a prerequisite for membership. We encourage men of every faith or no faith at all to join ATO."
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2019 | Live Auction 16991
South Asian Modern + Contemporary Art
RANA BEGUM (B. 1977)
paint on mild steel
59 x 39 x 13 ¾ in. (150 x 99 x 35 cm.)
Executed in 2013
The Third Line, Dubai
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2017
NO. 10, exhibition publication, Dubai, 2013 (illustrated, unpaginated)
Dubai, The Third Line, NO. 10, 19 June - 30 July, 2013
Damian Vesey
dvesey@christies.com +44 (0)20 7389 2106
Born in Bangladesh in 1977 and brought up in England where she moved with her family in 1985, Rana Begum is one of the leading figures of her generation in the contemporary art world. Combining a deep understanding of the different technical qualities of each material she explores, such as paper, aluminum or wood, with a unique poetic vision, Begum has created an impressive corpus of artworks in which she explores the mediums of painting, sculpture and installation.
In a series of sculptural paintings she began in the mid-2000s, the delicacy of paper folding is imposed onto geometrical forms constructed with extruded aluminum. In No 426, an appealing three-dimensional object reveals the artist's mastery of a technique perfected over several years. The different surfaces engage each other with interplays of bold hues and random reflections or absorption of light and shadow, creating a dynamic artefact which activates the space it occupies, entrancing viewers.
This elegant work, which seems to almost organically emerge from the wall, invites viewers to participate in different visual experiences from various perspectives and changing with environmental modifications. This accidental factor is a key element for the artist, who is profoundly inspired and fascinated by the chaos of the buzzing city of London where she lives and works. Begum investigates and formalises this urban journey through a visual language inspired by minimalism which traces its roots to the work of Agnes Martin and Sol Le Witt, and more subtly by the geometry of Islamic architecture and décor inspired by her education, homeland of Bangladesh, and travels across Europe and Spain in particular.
Begum's work has been internationally exhibited to great acclaim, with recent solo exhibitions at Tate St Ives, Cornwall (2018); Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich (2017) touring to Djanogly Gallery, Nottingham (2018); Parasol Unit, London (2016); and Delfina Foundation, London (2010). In 2017, Begum curated the Arts Council Collection in an exhibition at Yorkshire Sculpture Park and was awarded the Abraaj Prize. Her work has been acquired by international institutions and foundations including the Art Museum of Western Virginia, the London Institute, and MoNA (Museum of Old and New Art), Tasmania.
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Sorry California, You Don't Get to Choose What Vehicles the Rest of America Can Drive
By: Marc Morano - Climate DepotSeptember 18, 2019 7:26 PM with 0 comments
MEDIA CONTACT: JON HAUBERT
"The Administration's efforts to reform this ill-conceived and wickedly regressive mandate will save consumers and workers money, preserve their choices, and ensure that the federal government, and not California, sets national policy."
WASHINGTON DC (September 18, 2019) – The American Energy Alliance (AEA) supports President Trump's federal action to revoke the previous administration's decision to allow California to set fuel mandates and environmental policy for the rest of the nation.
Tom Pyle, AEA President, issued the following statement in reaction to today's tweet thread from @RealDonaldTrump:
"We commend President Trump on his decision to ensure that consumers can make the decisions about what cars and trucks they should buy. While there are some who would rather have those decisions made by bureaucrats in California, we believe that workers, consumers, and families can and should be trusted to make decisions that affect their lives.
"The Administration's efforts to reform this ill-conceived and wickedly regressive mandate will save consumers money, preserve their choices, and ensure that the federal government, and not California, sets national fuel efficiency policy.
"It's simple. The State of California should not be able – as it has been – to determine what kinds of cars are sold in other states. Moreover, consumers should pay for their own cars and not be compelled by a regulatory scheme to pay for the choices of others.
"As we have noted before, the existing unlawful mandate makes cars more expensive. To meet the mandate, automakers often have to sell smaller, less desirable cars at a discount, while increasing prices on the cars people want to buy, like trucks, SUVs, and crossovers. This is a very real and regressive tax on American workers and families that makes consumers poorer and the economy weaker.
"Today's message to California is that that they're just like everyone else. The administration's action puts power back into the hands of drivers, not California bureaucrats, saving American families money, and reestablishes the states' and the federal government's proper roles with respect to fuel efficiency.
"Reforming the CAFE mandate is not about doing a favor for automakers, it's about looking after average American workers, consumers, and families.
Common misconceptions about California's unlawful waiver:
The administration is only withdrawing the Clean Air Act (CAA) waiver for tailpipe greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions granted by the Obama administration, as well as the related approval of the state's zero emission vehicle (ZEV) mandate.
The administration is not withdrawing the numerous other CAA waivers granted over the decades applying to pollutants or other emissions sources.
This decision is well grounded in law, in fact it was the Obama administration's granting of the GHG tailpipe waiver that was unlawful:
The Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards, created by the Energy Policy and Conservation Act (EPCA) in 1975 in reaction to the Arab fuel embargo, mandates higher fuel efficiency for vehicles towards the goal of reducing U.S. reliance on foreign oil. The EPCA expressly preempts states from establishing their own fuel economy standards, or any regulations "relating to" fuel economy.[1]
The CAA, passed in 1970, includes a mandate for the regulation of tailpipe emissions of vehicles. Under the CAA, federal air standards also generally preempt state level standards. CAA does allow the state of California to seek a waiver of federal preemption in order to impose more stringent air standards under certain circumstances.[2] This is permitted when the emissions cause a problem locally specific to California (e.g. smog in Los Angeles).
GHG emissions are directly related to fuel economy, practically one for one. There is no catalytic convertor for GHGs, the only way to reduce tailpipe GHG emissions is to reduce fuel consumption. Additionally, GHGs are not local to California, GHGs dissipate fairly uniformly throughout the atmosphere globally.
Thus the CAA waiver does not apply for GHGs, rather the EPCA state preemption under CAFE standards applies. The Bush administration correctly denied California's CAA tailpipe GHG waiver request, and the Obama administration incorrectly reversed that decision.
This is not about state's rights:
This is not a federalism issue. Only one state, California, is permitted to make special rules under the Clean Air Act. Those rules were then imposed on the rest of the country by the Obama administration through its merging of the Clean Air Act waiver with the federally preempted CAFE rulemaking process.
California's ZEV mandate, which is only possible because of this unlawful waiver, also impacts all other states. Because the ZEV mandate is fleet wide, carmakers sell electric vehicles at a loss in California to meet the mandate while charging the rest of the country higher prices for pick-up trucks and SUVs to cover the loss.
One state taxing and regulating the rest of the country is not federalism.
Our July 11th coalition letter urging President Trump to stay the course on CAFE reform from 30 national and state groups can be read here.
For more information on the President Trump's CAFE reform, click here.
To view AEA's latest public opinion research on the topic, click here.
[1] 49 U.S.C. §32919
[2] 42 U.S.C. §7543(b)
For media inquiries, please contact Jon Haubert.
j[email protected]
Flashback: Watch: Morano on Fox News on EPA car regs: 'Trump is trying to stop the regulatory nuts in California from controlling the auto industry'
Morano Fox Business – Varney & Co. – Stuart Varney – April 3, 2018:
Morano: 'Nameless, faceless bureaucrats in California to dictate car policy'
'It's probably one of the best arguments for secession of California. For far too long, they've been regulating industry and making it to their whims and dictates and forcing the rest of the country to go along with them. And SUV sales, by the way, are now one-third of all cars in the world, they've tripled in the last ten years. Not only Americans like bigger, safer cars, but the rest of the world is discovering them too. So these are bureaucrats trying to regulate their ideology on people based on climate change, ultimately.
'The Trump Administration is trying to stop the regulatory nuts in California from controlling the auto industry.'
'This is the first administration that's directly challenging the tyranny of California, which is one of the most overregulated states coming out and setting federal auto policy for years now. And California doesn't want to give up this role.'
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Alessandra Amoroso (Galatina, Pulla, 12 d'agost de 1986) és una cantant italiana. Esdevingué famosa el 2009 quan va guanyar de la 8a temporada de l'espectacle de talents Amici di Maria De Filippi.

El 2014 es va convertir en la primera artista femenina italiana nominada a Best Worldwide Act durant els MTV Europe Music Awards, després de guanyar a les categoríes Best Italian Act i Best Europe South Act.

Discografia
 Senza nuvole (2009)
 Il mondo in un secondo (2010)
 Cinque passi in più (2011)
 Amore puro (2013)
 Alessandra Amoroso (2015)
 Vivere a colori (2016)
 10 (2018)

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Persones de la província de Lecce
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Q: Magento 2 - Redirect to Account Dashboard During Checkout Funnel Login I have the setting checked to redirect a customer to their account dashboard after logging in and it works fine on regular pages, but I noticed that it has no effect when someone is on the checkout page and they log in during the checkout processes.
I need to redirect the customer to their dashboard when they are attempting to log in on the shopping cart page during the /checkout/cart/ funnel. Right now, it shows them their shipping options after logging in from the cart and allows them to continue the checkout process. Any solutions?

A: You have to override Ajax login (root_dir\vendor\magento\module-customer\Controller\Ajax\Login.php) controller and login.js(vendor\magento\module-customer\view\frontend\web\js\action\login.js) for ajax login redirect and need to add your conditions accordingly.
Step 1. Create/edit Your_Company/Your_Module/etc/di.xml
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<config xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="../../../../../lib/internal/Magento/Framework/ObjectManager/etc/config.xsd">
<preference for="Magento\Customer\Controller\Ajax\Login" type="Your_Company\Your_Module\Controller\Ajax\Login" />
</config>

Step 2. Overridden controller will reside in Your_Company\Your_Module\Controller\Ajax\Login.php
Now copy and paste the code from parent Ajax\Login.php
in execute method you will see
if (!$this->getScopeConfig()->getValue('customer/startup/redirect_dashboard') && $redirectRoute) {
    $response['redirectUrl'] = $this->_redirect->success($redirectRoute);
    $this->getAccountRedirect()->clearRedirectCookie();
}

Step 3. Now you have to insert your logic below this condition.
$response['redirectUrl'] = $this->_redirect->success($this->_url->getUrl("customer/account"));

This will set the response.redirectUrl for login.js(vendor\magento\module-customer\view\frontend\web\js\action\login.js) and here we got the real issue there is a code snippet you can check
if (redirectUrl) {
    window.location.href = redirectUrl;
} else if (response.redirectUrl) {
    window.location.href = response.redirectUrl;
} else {
    location.reload();
}

You just have to change it to
if (response.redirectUrl) {
    window.location.href = response.redirectUrl;
} else if (redirectUrl) {
    window.location.href = redirectUrl;
} else {
    location.reload();
}

To override login.js follow steps.
Step 4. Create file requirejs-config.js in You_Company\Your_Module\requirejs-config.js and write below code...
var config = {
    map: {
        '*': {
            'Magento_Customer/js/action/login': 'YourCompany_YourModule/js/login'
        }
    }
};

Step 5.
Copy login.js from vendor\magento\module-customer\view\frontend\web\js\action\login.js to YourCompany\YourModule\view\frontend\web\js\login.js
That's all.

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Mary Frances Gifford (7 de diciembre de 1920 – 22 de enero de 1994) fue una actriz cinematográfica estadounidense, activa durante los años 1930 y 1940.

Inicios
Nacida y criada en Long Beach, California, su nombre completo era Mary Frances Gifford. A los 16 años de edad estudiaba en la School of Law de la Universidad de California en Los Ángeles, sin intención de dedicarse a la interpretación.  Sin embargo, con un amigo visitó los estudios de Samuel Goldwyn para ver cómo se rodaba una película y, mientras estaba allí, fue descubierta por un cazatalentos que la presentó a Goldwyn, siendo contratada como actriz del estudio.

Carrera
Tras interpretar únicamente pequeños papeles, Gifford pasó a RKO Pictures, donde fue elegida para hacer varios papeles de reparto, sin aparecer en los créditos, en películas de finales de los años 1930 como Damas del teatro (1937), protagonizada por Katharine Hepburn y Ginger Rogers.

En 1938, a los 18 años de edad, Gifford se casó con el actor de carácter James Dunn, y en 1939 consiguió su primer papel de importancia, en el film de bajo presupuesto Mercy Plane, en el que trabajaba su marido. Interrumpió brevemente un planeado retiro para hacer otro papel sin créditos en Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), película que convirtió en estrella a James Stewart.

Gifford hizo otros varios papeles menores, hasta que en 1941 fue prestada a Republic Pictures y elegida para hacer el papel por el cual posiblemente se hizo más conocida: el de Nyoka en Jungle Girl, un serial de 15 episodios basado muy libremente en la novela de Edgar Rice Burroughs. Era la primera vez que una actriz hacía un papel protagonista en un serial desde la época en que Pearl White hizo lo propio en el cine mudo.

Al siguiente año Republic hizo una secuela, Perils of Nyoka, pero Gifford ya no estaba disponible, y la heroína fue interpretada por Kay Aldridge.  En el largometraje de The Walt Disney Company El dragón chiflado (1941), Gifford tuvo un papel protagonista, el de Doris, una artista del estudio.

A causa de que la carrera de Gifford iba hacia arriba y la de Dunn declinaba, en parte a causa de su alcoholismo, el matrimonio se rompió en 1942. Ella dejó RKO y pasó a Paramount Pictures, compañía en la que actuó en varios filmes, entre ellos The Glass Key (1942). En 1943 rodó otro film de la jungla, Tarzan Triumphs, para RKO y junto a Johnny Weissmuller. Ese año también dejó Paramount, pasando a la prestigiosa Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer con el apoyo de un ejecutivo de MGM.

En MGM tuvo más éxito interpretando primeros papeles en películas como Our Vines Have Tender Grapes (1945), She Went to the Races (1945) y The Arnelo Affair (1947). Gifford también hizo papeles de reparto en Thrill of a Romance (1945), con Esther Williams, and Luxury Liner (1948), con Jane Powell.

Últimos años
En 1948 Gifford estuvo a punto de morir en un accidente de tráfico, un hecho que dejó de lado su carrera y que le causó secuelas. Sufrió graves lesiones en la cabeza que le produjeron un cambio en su personalidad. Así, empezó a perder la confianza en sus habilidades y le costó volver al cine. Perdió su contrato con MGM, por lo que intentó volver al cine trabajando en dos películas de serie B de los primeros años 1950, Riding High (1950) y Sky Commando (1953). En los años siguientes su salud física y mental disminuyó, hasta el punto de que hubo de ser ingresada en el Hospital Mental Camarillo State en 1958, recibiendo durante 25 años tratamiento en diferentes instituciones.

En 1983, Richard S. Fisher, un periodista de una revista cinematográfica, se interesó por la situación de Gifford, y pudo saber que finalmente parecía haberse recuperado, y que había trabajado como voluntaria en la Pasadena, California City Library. Frances Gifford pasó sus últimos años en el anonimato, y falleció a causa de un enfisema en un centro sanitario de Pasadena, California en 1994. Tenía 73 años de edad. Sus restos fueron incinerados, y las cenizas esparcidas en el mar.

Selección de su filmografía

Woman Chases Man (1937)
New Faces of 1937 (1937)
Damas del teatro (1937)
Living on Love (1937)
Night Spot (1938)
Having a Wonderful Time (1938)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Mercy Plane (1939)
Hold That Woman! (1940)
Border Vigilantes (1941)
West Point Widow (1941)
Jungle Girl (1941)
The Reluctant Dragon (1941)
The Remarkable Andrew (1942)
My Heart Belongs to Daddy (1942)
Tombstone, the Town Too Tough to Die (1942)

Beyond the Blue Horizon (1942)
The Glass Key (1942)
American Empire (1942)
Star Spangled Rhythm (1942)
Tarzan Triumphs (1943)
Henry Aldrich Gets Glamour (1943)
Cry 'Havoc' (1943)
Marriage Is a Private Affair (1944)
Thrill of a Romance (1945)
Our Vines Have Tender Grapes (1945)
She Went to the Races (1945)
Little Mister Jim (1946)
The Arnelo Affair (1947)
Luxury Liner (1948)
Riding High (1950)
Sky Commando (1953)

Bibliografía
 Jewell, Richard B. and Vernon Harbin. The RKO Story. London: Octopus Books, 1982. ISBN 0-7064-1285-0.
 Maltin, Leonard. Leonard Maltin's Movie Encyclopedia. New York: Dutton, 1994. ISBN 0-525-93635-1.
 McClelland, Doug. The Golden Age of B Movies. New York: Bonanza Books, 1978. ISBN 0-517-349221.
 Weiss, Ken and Ed Goodgold. To be Continued ...: A Complete Guide to Motion Picture Serials. New York: Bonanza Books, 1973. ISBN 0-517-166259.

Referencias

Enlaces externos

Biografía de Frances Gifford
Biografía en Allmovie

Obituario en el New York Times

Nacidos en Long Beach (California)
Fallecidos en Pasadena (California)
Actrices de cine de Estados Unidos
Actrices de California
Fallecidos por enfisema


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Check the news headlines and you can't avoid seeing stories – usually negative – that essentially involve cultural clashes: wars, immigration debates, police-involved shootings, terrorism, the list goes on. In healthcare, there are similar clashes. A child taken from its parents because the parents disagree with doctors about cancer treatment, a patient who chooses alternative remedies rather than conventional treatments, even healthcare affordability and accessibility; all involve cultural issues.
Cultural awareness is an acceptance and understanding of the differences, especially differences in attitudes and values, between people from diverse backgrounds. This awareness is essential across the spectrum of human interactions, from international diplomacy to daily interactions with our neighbors. The ability to respond respectfully and effectively to people of all backgrounds and cultures is Cultural Competence.
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For those who nurture and serve all those mentioned above.
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In a year like 2020, when one is just thankful for being alive, healthy and busy, it seems like we have all gone back to the basics which have been taken for granted to too long. When is the last time you shook someone's hand or just had a friendly gathering with your colleagues, not through a computer screen? Somewhere around March, 2020, it seems like most of us working professionals have descended down Maslow's hierarchy of needs from the highest "self-actualization" tier down to the basic tiers of "physiological needs" and "safety needs". This year, more than ever, we needed stories of inspiration and hope, and for me the IP ray of hope has been the 40th Anniversary of the Bayh-Dole Act. On so many levels, this is really the one thing we should have all been thankful for since 1980. In a year of a pandemic, the full benefits of technology transfer have become apparent with new vaccines, new treatments, and new diagnostics that emerged from U.S. research institutions. Also, in this election year, Bayh-Dole is a reminder of bipartisanship at its best, and how uniting forces in bringing innovation to market works for the betterment of humanity. Happy Thanksgiving!
Sherry Knowles, Knowles Intellectual Property Strategies
Given the distractions of COVID19 and the 2020 elections this year, it is not surprising we did not give proper due to a huge anniversary-the signing of the Mayflower Compact on November 21, 1620 and the landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth Rock December 26, 1620! I am grateful to the courageous Pilgrims who started from the Nottinghamshire village of Scrooby, England, united by purpose and spirit, passing through Leiden, Netherlands for their dangerous voyage to start this great experiment in democracy. They were fierce! Like many Americans, my roots go back to those Pilgrims. My great-grandmother was Abigail Grace Brewster, a proud descendant of William Brewster, one of the Pilgrim Leaders. What a rebel! I am grateful for him.
Those Pilgrims had to work together as a group to survive despite their strong disagreements. The Mayflower Compact was born of necessity– and historic as a first in western consensual government. Not perfect-no females signed it and it was a product of its time in history. Instead of thinking about these COVID spikes, protests, dissension, all time high in media bias and the balance of power in Congress, why don't we distract ourselves for a moment and reread part of the Mayflower Compact to:
Covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic, for our better ordering, preservation and furtherance of these ends and by virtue hereof to enact, constitute and frame such just and equal laws, ordinances, Acts, constitutions and offices, from time to time as shall be thought most meete and convenient for the general good of the Colony, unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.
Democracy is a permanent series of experiments. Sometimes experiments work and sometimes they fail along the way. We haven't been as inclusive or understanding as we should have been as a group. This great experiment in democracy did, however, create the Constitutional framework to innovate beyond our wildest dreams, and enjoy the increase in quality of life that comes with great innovation. That framework of laws has to be defended, not ignored when convenient. We have also seen a lot of ugliness this year and could use some practice working on that "civil body politic" (emphasis on civil) aspect. And we will not fix our laws on patent eligibility without some consensus. While we are isolating this Thanksgiving, let's think about the Mayflower Compact and how to work better together when we are lucky and grateful enough to be able to—out of necessity!
Stephen Kunin, Maier & Maier PLLC
We should continue to be grateful for Director Andrei Iancu's leadership and stewardship of the USPTO during these trying times caused by the adverse impacts of COVID-19. With his strong leadership, the USPTO has continued to provide vital services to the patent and trademark user communities. His outreach efforts have been well received and the USPTO has been open-minded and responsive to public feedback on how it can make continuous quality improvements to its services and products. Kudos as well to all the USPTO employees who have had to adapt to more extensive telework while striving to maintain continuity of operations.
Daryl Lim, Professor of Law and Director, Center for Intellectual Property, Information & Privacy Law, UIC John Marshall Law School
For progress on what we know about the law's take on artificial intelligence and what we don't.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is less of a legal "black box" than it was a year ago. We have a better idea today of where the U.S., China, and Europe stand on issues such as inventorship, authorship, and ownership. The general approach is expectedly conservative, preferring to lean on familiar human-centric notions like "conception," "originality," and corporate ownership than to deal with increasingly common instances when human play an uncomfortably diminished role in the actual creative or inventive process.
We know the "black box" nature of AI algorithms and their functional interchangeability make it challenging to locate prior art, that examiners may be less likely to identify and cite sources of prior art that are more difficult to find, that biotech inventions can inform how we approach sufficiency of disclosure AI inventions, that at least one Chinese court has relied on a "work for hire"-like doctrine to resolve copyright ownership, and that European rules on privacy as well as its restrictions on text and data mining will likely make countries with friendlier rules like the U.S., China, and Singapore more attractive for investors.
We don't know if we need to expand nonobviousness' analogous arts doctrine or rethink the notional skilled artisan judging nonobviousness to account for the capabilities of inventive AI, or how to go about doing so. We don't know if we eventually still need trademarks as heuristics when AI butlers can comprehensively scour the marketplace with little regard for the distinctiveness of a trademark, or if we no longer need trademarks to protect consumers from confusion.
We do know the winners in this new legal terrain will be the ones: 1) with clearly defined safe harbors, regulatory sandboxes, and blacklists; 2) with ethical and balanced rules that allow big and small entities on the value chain to grow and prosper; and 3) who pragmatically collaborate with like-minded partners to standardize these norms across the markets that matter to them.
Gene Quinn, President and CEO, IPWatchdog, Inc.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but I am thankful that 2020 will soon come to an end. This year has been a most turbulent one, from the COVID-19 pandemic, to widespread riots in American cities, to the most acrimonious election America has had for many years. Too many small businesses of all sorts won't survive 2020, but despite all the turbulence, there are signs we will have a better 2021. So, I am thankful that the legal and policy groundwork laid over so many years has enabled innovators to realize the monumental achievement of a safe and effective vaccine that is expected to be widely available by the beginning of Q2 2021, and available for seniors and frontline emergency workers starting by the end of 2020. I am also thankful that over the last six months we have seen decisions in the most highly anticipated cases — FTC v. Qualcomm, Unwired Planet and Sisvel, to name a few — be decided in favor of the innovator.
Jonathan Stroud, Unified Patents
I am grateful and thankful to work in a profession and among professionals who are so understanding, who make working virtually in a difficult time with small children at home so seamless, and where collegiality and civility tend to reign still, even amid the heated rhetoric and an increasingly polarized society. I'm also thankful that in patent law, decisions are generally made based on hard evidence and data rather than vague policy narrative and base plays to emotion. Objectivity is in short supply these days, and being able to trust that our colleagues and friends are considering all of the available evidence and respecting differences in belief divorced from personal animosity is, to the Midwesterner in me, comforting.
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Eileen McDermott is the Editor-in-Chief of IPWatchdog.com. Eileen is a veteran IP and legal journalist, and no stranger to the intellectual property world, having held editorial and managerial positions at several publications and industry organizations. She has acted as editorial consultant for the International Trademark Association (INTA), chiefly overseeing the editorial process for the Association's twice-monthly newsletter, the INTA Bulletin. Eileen has also served as a freelance editor for the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO); as senior consulting editor for the Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) from 2015 to 2017; as Managing Editor and Editor-in-Chief at INTA from 2013 to 2016; and was Americas Editor for Managing Intellectual Property magazine from 2007 to 2013.
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Pro Say November 27, 2020 3:51 pm
Turning now our attention to the realm of Intellectual Property . . . I am most thankful for two things:
First, our very own Supreme Court's strong, unwavering, constitutional support of American — and indeed the World's — innovation.
Second, the Federal Circuit's faithful application of the Supreme Court's decisions.
ChrisW December 9, 2020 8:36 pm
It certainly has been a great year for learning, by so many people of so many things. The tuition may seem steep, lets hope the value of the learnings pan out…. ")
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How will we succeed in 2009?
I was talking to one of my agents last week, and he said they'd finished up 2008 in pretty good shape. 10% growth. He wasn't sure how 2009 was going to look, though, and asked me what I was projecting, since I write "nice-to-have" lines of business that he feels the insureds will drop under financial pressure.
However, my philosophy is that in bad economic times, coverages that protect ones personal assets against loss due to mismanagement or mistakes are even more important than they usually are. Likelihood of loss grows as litigation increases. Litigation increases as customers, vendors and competitors have their own issues and look for someone to share the burden.
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There are also industry segments that continue to grow, or even some industries that thrive during downturns. To the extent we can identify and focus on them, they also provide opportunities.
More diligence, more communication, more education, more effort. All will be needed for 2009 to be a successful year. Challenging? Yes. Attainable? Absolutely.
How do *you* plan to succeed in '09? I'm eager to hear your ideas.


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