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Rams vs. Jaguars Odds, NFL Predictions, Picks: Trust L.A. Defense to Smother Jacksonville in Week 13
Harry How/Getty Images. Pictured: Aaron Donald.
Phillip Kall
The Rams defense isn't just good on paper — our analyst expects it to stifle Trevor Lawrence and the Jaguars.
Find our breakdown of Jaguars-Rams odds below, followed by our analyst's predictions and picks.
Jaguars vs. Rams Odds
Jaguars Odds +12.5
Rams Odds -12.5
Over/Under 48
Time 4:05 p.m. ET
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Since their upset of the Bills and near upset of the Colts, the Jaguars have fallen back to their old ways. They lost to the 49ers 30-10, then followed that up by trailing the Falcons 21-3 before putting up some garbage-time points. This season may be lost, but pulling off upsets is always a big confidence boost for a young team. A struggling Los Angeles squad provides a perfect opportunity to potentially do just that.
The Rams have lost their bearings since their 7-1 start. They have lost three straight and have not looked competitive in any of the losses. Troubles have come both offensively and defensively, as by most metrics these three games have been some of L,A.'s worst. They have a tough schedule to end the year, and a dominant win would help restore the Rams' confidence.
Both teams are currently struggling and could use a momentum-flipping win. Let's see if we can find an angle to take as both teams battle to find their swagger.
Jaguars vs. Rams Injury Report
Jaguars Injuries
CB Shaquill Griffin (concussion): Out
RB James Robinson (heel): Questionable
Rams Injuries
RB Buddy Howell (thigh): Out
WR Odell Beckham Jr. (hip): Questionable
RB Darrell Henderson (thigh): Questionable
OL Rob Havenstein (foot): Questionable
CB David Long (illness): Questionable
Jaguars vs. Rams Matchup
Jaguars Offense DVOA Rank Rams Defense
25 Total 9
5 Rush 8
Jaguars Defense DVOA Rank Rams Offense
32 Pass 5
Jaguars Have Declined Since Bye Week
The Week 7 bye seems to have had the opposite effect that one would expect for a young offense. The Jaguars offense went from averaging 356 yards and 19.3 points per game in their first six games, down to 283 yards and 11.4 points in their past five.
The expectations were not high for this team, but they have even seemed to fall short of that mark so far. The biggest worry is whether or not Urban Meyer is the guy to develop No. 1 overall pick, Trevor Lawrence. Jacksonville currently ranks 31st in the percentage of drives that end in an offensive score and third-worst in the percentage of drives ending in a turnover. Hopefully, these early offensive struggles don't hamper Lawrence's development.
The one thing the Jaguars have done well is run the ball. They currently rank fourth in the league with 5.0 yards per carry. Against a defensive front with Aaron Donald and Von Miller, they will need to continue that success to keep their young quarterback upright.
Defensively, the struggles are nearly as bad as they are on offense. Jacksonville is bottom 10 in both yards and points per drive, and that is with opposing teams frequently leading and running the clock. On top of the down-to-down struggles, the Jaguars have forced the fewest turnovers in the league. We will see if that turnover luck can change against Matt Stafford, who has majorly struggled to protect the ball recently.
Stafford Has Put Rams in Hole
Little more can be said for the Rams recently than disappointment. After hope for the NFC's top seed and conversations of Stafford for MVP began, everything collapsed. While a team's struggles are never on any one player, it is hard to ignore the poor positions Stafford has put the Rams in each game. In each of their past three losses, Stafford has turned over the ball deep in his own territory leading to a touchdown.
On top of protecting the ball, Los Angeles needs to work on sustaining drives. During their losing streak, the Rams are 11 for 38 (29%) on converting third downs. While having Odell Beckham Jr. replace the injured Robert Woods seems logical on paper, during the actual game it does not hold up.
Woods was a receiver willing to play over the middle of the field and get the tough yards on third down. Beckham prefers to play outside the numbers and make the big play. It paid off late against Green Bay, but that was empty calories given the score and time remaining.
As for the Rams defense, the unit is still third against the run, allowing 3.9 yards per carry, and 11th against the pass, allowing 6.1 net yards per attempt. The problem is the Rams struggle to get off the field on third down, as they rank 24th in conversion rate. This defense has the talent to create trouble for opposing offenses, particularly up front. A weak Jaguars pass protection unit could be just what is needed to get Miller and Donald comfortable playing together.
Jaguars vs. Rams Predictions, Picks
Both of these teams have shown reasons to worry about them in recent weeks. With a spread of more than two touchdowns, that makes backing either team even more difficult. The Jags have been beaten by that amount several times, and the Rams have not shown the consistent offense you need with a spread that large. Instead, we will turn to the total in this one.
As mentioned above, the Jaguars offense has simply been a mess since returning from the bye. Now, the Jaguars bring that mess toe-to-toe with one of the most talented defenses in the NFL. To have any success, they will need to run the ball so the Rams cannot pin their ears back and attack Lawrence. This will keep the clock rolling and shorten the game.
As for the Rams, they still need to figure out who their go-to second option is outside of Cooper Kupp. In a game the Rams should control, the answer could be their running game. We have seen Los Angeles abandon the run quickly in recent weeks because of Stafford's critical mistakes. To avoid those in what is a must-win for their pride, handing the ball off is the best way to make sure you don't lose it.
With both teams running the ball, the clock should move quickly and limit both teams' chances to score. Even if the Rams do somehow find themselves and start lighting up the scoreboard, I am going to trust their defense to show it is not just great on paper.
Pick: Under 47 | Bet to: 45.5
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Abuse of a legal loophole provides sanctuary for billions in creditors' unpaid assets
Keith Boyfield is a Senior Fellow at the Adam Smith Institute; Brian Sturgess is Managing Editor of the Journal of World Economics
The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) - the central bankers' banker - is a widely respected body that, as the FT's Martin Wolf points out, was one of the first to warn about the financial tsunami that engulfed global capital markets in 2008. It's odd then that the institution allows itself to be used as a safe haven by controversial jurisdictions seeking to avoid paying their creditors.
Argentina is the worst abuser. No less than 86 per cent of its total foreign currency reserves - US$45 billion – have been stashed away in Basel, the home of the BIS. That's twenty times the average share of foreign reserves that central banks hold at the BIS. (Source: derived from the Bank for International Settlements Annual Report 2011) It is astonishing to discover that recently around one third of all deposits held at the BIS relate to two central banks – Argentina and Nigeria. (Source: Wikileaks reference to US embassy (Abuja) note on meeting between Ambassador Robin R Sanders and Nigerian Central Bank Governor Soludo on 3rd November 2008).
A driving factor behind this allocation is the fact that money held on deposit at the BIS is less vulnerable to legal action by unpaid creditors. In the case of Argentina, there are an awful lot of creditors. Argentina ranks as the biggest defaulter in history, reneging on over US$81bn in outstanding loans in 2001. The country remains in default on over US$15 billion in government bonds issues. And pressure is mounting on Argentina to repay its debt. Earlier this month Britain's Supreme Court removed legal immunity afforded to Argentina with regard to unpaid holders of its defaulted bonds. A similar decision was reached by a court in New York. While these are welcome decisions it remains the case that bondholders are barred from seeking repayment from Argentina's rapidly accumulating reserves held at the BIS.
Ironically, the Argentine Central Bank is pulled in many directions and may even view the role of the BIS as protection against demands from its own government. Last year, Martin Redrado had to be restored to his position as Bank Governor after Argentine President Christine Cristina Fernández de Kirchner conspired to remove him through an emergency decree. He was hounded out of office for having resisted the release of US6.6 billion from the bank's reserves to lend to the government.
In order to maintain its hard earned reputation the BIS should crack down on this abuse. Sovereign nations should be deterred from exploiting loopholes in international law that damage the rights of creditors. And if the BIS won't act, the Swiss government should. The litany of abuse surrounding governance issues at FIFA, also based in Switzerland, has triggered calls for the Swiss government to intervene in soccer's ruling world body.
The problem is that the Swiss government could not do so, even if it so desired. The BIS was set up by inter-state agreements in 1930, signed in The Hague between France, the United Kingdom, Belgium, Italy and Germany. The BIS's original goal was to smooth German reparation payments following the First World War. The Swiss government granted the BIS a Charter which was reaffirmed in 1987.
This forbids Switzerland from abrogating or changing the Charter without the joint agreement of the original signatories to the 1930 Hague Agreements. Furthermore, Article 24 of the 1987 agreement absolves Switzerland from any international responsibility for acts or omissions of the Bank or its officials on Swiss territory. So far as the Swiss authorities are concerned, one could say that the BIS might as well be located on the Moon.
Given the widespread abuse of the legal privileges enjoyed by the BIS, there is clearly an urgent case for reform. The governance of the BIS is wrapped in obfuscation and just like commercial banks it needs to be far more transparent about its activities. It is significantly unaccountable for its actions.
The onus therefore lies with the original signatories to the 1930 Treaty along with the 56 central banks who now constitute the Bank's stakeholders. In this context, Sir Mervyn King, the Governor of the Bank of England, could demonstrate a leadership role in calling for reform. Action is required now if creditors are to receive justice.
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New era for Africa with SA in Brics
Pretoria - South Africa's inclusion to the Brics has added new geopolitical significance to the continent, says International Relations Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane.
Brics - the powerful grouping of emerging markets Brazil, Russia, India and China, with SA being the newest member - is gaining muscle among global investors, and the African continent will also benefit through deeper cooperation in various areas.
Briefing media after the last week's Sanya summit, Nkoana-Mashabane said Africa as a whole would benefit from South Africa being part of Brics, particularly in areas such as economic integration, trade and investment and improving good governance.
"Our fortunes [as African countries] are intertwined. As much as we didn't go to the AU to seek a mandate to join Brics, SA diplomats speak for the wellbeing of SA and the African continent as a whole," Nkoana-Mashabane told a media briefing on Monday.
Nkoana-Mashabane said with the continent recognised as a growing region, Africa could expect to benefit economically in areas such as agriculture, infrastructure, IT and also help Africa to benefit from more equitable world governance bodies.
She said Brics' push for the reform of the global institutions of governance and the UN will ensure that African issues enjoy centre-stage in deliberations within the UN Security Council, the IMF and World Bank.
The meeting, which brought together the five fastest growing economies, resulted in a statement elaborating their vision for common development and shared prosperity, and put forward many new initiatives for global economic governance.
The three-day meeting, which ended on Friday, also called for the speedy achievement of the targets for the reform of the International Monetary Fund agreed to at the recent G20 summit, and reiterated that the governing structure of the international financing institution should reflect the changes in the world economy.
The leaders vowed to support the reform and improvement in international monetary systems for the establishment of a stable, reliable and broad-based international reserve currency system.
The five Brics nations decided to hold a meeting of high-level representatives in the latter part the year in China to discuss security issues, engage in joint research on economic and trade issues, encourage cooperation in sports and promote cooperation in scientific, technological and innovation cooperation. - BuaNews
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This License Agreement (the "Agreement") is entered into as of May 17th, 2017 (the "Effective Date") between Bionik Laboratories Corp., a corporation organized under the laws of Toronto, Canada, with principal offices at 483 Bay Street, Office N105, Toronto ON M5G 2C9, Canada ("Licensor" or "BIONIK") and China Bionik Medical Rehabilitation Technology Ltd, a company organized under the laws of the PRC, with principal offices at Waterside Pavilion Garden No. I building, suite 2003, Nankai district, Tianjin, P.R. China ("Licensee").
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1. Licensor has entered into a co-operative joint venture contract (the "JV Contract") with Ginger Capital Investment Holding, Ltd. ("GC"), dated as of the date hereof, for the establishment of Licensee. Pursuant to the JV Contract, Licensor and Licensee shall enter into a license agreement, which will specify the terms upon which Licensor will license the BIONIK Intellectual Property to Licensee for the purposes of commercializing Licensed Products in the Territory and to obtain CFDA approval.
2. Licensor is willing to grant, and Licensee is willing to accept, this license related rights herein in the BIONIK Intellectual Property upon the terms and conditions set forth herein.
"Affiliate" means, with regard to a given person, a person that controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with, the given person where "control" means (i) ownership of more than fifty percent (50%) of the equity interest or voting stock, (ii) the power to appoint or elect a majority of the directors, or (iii) the power to direct the management and policies of a person, directly or indirectly, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise.
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"Confidential Information" has the meaning given in Section 4.1 of this Agreement.
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"Distribution Agreement" means that certain Distribution Agreement between the Parties dated as of the date hereof.
"Effective Date" has the meaning given in the first paragraph of this Agreement.
"GC" has the meaning given in the Recitals.
"Hong Kong" means the Special Administrative Region of Hong Kong.
"Improvement" means any improvement or modification of a Licensed Product.
"Information" means clinical data, inventions, clinical practices, clinical methods, clinical knowledge, clinical know-how, skill, experience.
"Invention" means any and all discoveries, developments, Improvements, modifications and other inventions (whether patentable or not patentable) specifically related to the Licensed Product or otherwise necessary or useful for CFDA application, training of clinical staff in China, or commercialization of the Licensed Product made in the course of activities performed under this Agreement by or on behalf of either party or both parties.
"BIONIK Infringement Claim" has the meaning given in Section 5.55 of this Agreement.
"BIONIK Patents" means all Patents Controlled by BIONIK or its Affiliates that claim inventions necessary for the use, commercialization, sale, offer for sale and/or importation of Licensed Products within the Licensed Field in the Territory. BIONIK Patents are listed on Schedule II.
"BIONIK Trademarks" means those trademarks owned by Licensor or its Affiliates and listed in Schedule III.
"BIONIK Intellectual Property" has the meaning given in Section 2.1 of this Agreement.
"Intellectual Property" means any and all: (i) inventions (whether patentable or unpatentable and whether or not reduced to practice), all improvements thereto, and all patents, patent applications and patent disclosures, together with all re-issuances, continuations, continuations in part, revisions, extensions and re-examinations thereof; (ii) registered and unregistered trademarks, service marks, trade dress, logos, trade names, assumed names, together with all translations, adaptations, derivations and combinations thereof and including all goodwill associated therewith, and all applications, registrations and renewals in connection therewith; (iii) copyrightable works, all copyrights and all applications, registrations and renewals in connection therewith, works of authorship; (iv) rights in the nature of the aforesaid items in any country, and rights to sue for passing off (whether for past, present or future infringement).
"Joint Inventions" has the meaning given in Section 5.22 of this Agreement.
"JV Contract" has the meaning given in the Recitals.
"Licensed Field" means medical devices used in hernia repair, surgical retraction, catheter fixation and diverticular repair.
"Licensed Products" means those products as listed in Schedule I and the Acquired Future Products as defined under the Distribution Agreement.
"Licensee" has the meaning given in the first paragraph of this Agreement.
"Licensor" has the meaning given in the first paragraph of this Agreement.
"Losses" has the meaning given in Section 7.1 of this Agreement.
"Macau" means the Special Administrative Region of Macau.
"Patent" means (a) unexpired and currently in-force letters patent (or other equivalent legal instrument), including without limitation utility and design patents, and including without limitation any extension, substitution, registration, confirmation, reissue, re-examination or renewal thereof, (b) applications for letters patent, a reissue application, a continuation application, a continuation-in-part application, a divisional application or any equivalent of the foregoing applications, that are pending at any time during the term of this Agreement before a government patent authority and (c) all foreign or international equivalents of any of the foregoing in any country.
"PRC" means the People's Republic or China (solely for the purpose of this Agreement, excluding the province of Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau).
"Receiving Party" has the meaning given in Section 4.1 of this Agreement.
"Regulatory Approval" means, with respect to a Licensed Product, any and all approvals, licenses, registrations or authorizations necessary for the sale and marketing of the Licensed Product throughout the Territory.
"Sole Inventions" has the meaning given in Section 5.2 of this Agreement.
"Term" has the meaning given in Section 6.1 of this Agreement.
"Territory" means the PRC, Hong Kong, and Macau.
"Third Party Infringement Claim" has the meaning given in Section 5.66 of this Agreement.
(e) The terms "hereof", "herein", "hereby", "hereto" and derivative or similar words refer to this entire Agreement or specified Sections or subsections of this Agreement, as the case may be.
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(k) Where a word or expression is defined herein, cognate words and expressions will, if capitalized, be construed analogously.
2.1. Grant. Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, Licensor hereby grants to Licensee the following exclusive (even as to Licensor), revocable, royalty-free right and license under BIONIK Patents and BIONIK Trademarks (collectively, the "BIONIK Intellectual Property"), to import, sell, offer for sale or have sold Licensed Products in the Licensed Field in the Territory and to apply for and obtain CFDA and such other approvals necessary for the commercialization of the Licensed Products in the Territory. The license is revocable only for good cause during the Terms of this Agreement, which includes but is not limited to missing the Milestones as set forth in Schedule IV of the Distribution Agreement.
2.2. Ownership of BIONIK Intellectual Property. Licensee acknowledges that Licensor is the owner of the BIONIK Intellectual Property, and agrees that it will do nothing inconsistent with such ownership, and that all uses of the BIONIK Intellectual Property by Licensee shall solely and exclusively inure to the benefit of and be on behalf of Licensor. Licensee agrees that nothing in this Agreement shall give Licensee any right, title or interest in the BIONTK Intellectual Property other than the right to use the BIONIK Intellectual Property in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, and Licensee agrees that it will not at any time use the BIONIK Intellectual Property without Licensor's permission except as permitted by this Agreement or applicable law. Licensee shall not register the BIONIK Intellectual Property in any forum or in any jurisdiction without Licensor's express prior written consent, which may be granted or withheld in Licensor's absolute discretion, and Licensor shall retain the exclusive right to apply for and obtain registrations for the BIONIK Intellectual Property throughout the world.
2.3. Limitations on Licensor. Licensor agrees and undertakes to Licensor that, during the term of this Agreement, it will not, and will procure that none of its Affiliates will, enter into any agreement with any third party which permits such third party to license or sublicense, market, sell, use, or otherwise distribute, directly or indirectly, the BIONIK Intellectual Property in the Licensed Field in the Territory.
3.1. Use of BIONIK Intellectual Property. Licensee shall only use the BIONIK Intellectual Property in the Licensed Field in the Territory in accordance with Section 2 of the Agreement, unless expressly consented to in writing by Licensor.
3.2. Recordation of License. The parties shall cooperate to carry out formalities to register this Agreement with the Ministry of Commerce of the PRC or its authorized local office in charge of technology importation (the "Approval Authority") within sixty (60) days after the Effective Date if required by applicable Laws. The parties will cooperate to determine the appropriate party to effect the recordation. The recording party will promptly record the license, with the parties bearing the cost of recording evenly.
4.1. Definition of Confidential Information. As used herein, "Confidential Information" means any information, whether in written, visual, oral, electronic or other form, furnished by either Party, its Affiliates, or their respective agents and employees (the "Disclosing Party"), to the other Party, its Affiliates, or their respective agents and employees (the "Receiving Party") under this Agreement, including the Proprietary Information of the Disclosing Party, except to the extent that the Receiving Party can establish by competent proof that such information: (a) was already known to the Receiving Party, as shown by its written records, other than under an obligation of confidentiality, at the time of disclosure by the Disclosing Party; (b) was publicly available at the time of its disclosure by the Disclosing Party; (c) became publicly available after its disclosure by the Disclosing Party, other than through any violation of confidentiality owed to the Disclosing Party; (d) became available to the Receiving Party on a non-confidential basis from a source other than the Disclosing Party, provided that such source is not bound by a confidentiality agreement with the Disclosing Party with respect to such information; or (e) was independently developed by the Receiving Party without reference to the Confidential Information.
In its handling of the Confidential Information, the Receiving Party will use the same standard of care used by the Receiving Party to avoid disclosure, publication, dissemination and unauthorized use of its most sensitive and confidential information, but in no case, less than a standard of reasonable care.
(a) The Receiving Party, and any person to whom the Receiving Party discloses Confidential Information as provided herein, will not disclose, publish or disseminate the Confidential Information to any Person, including any Affiliate of the Receiving Party, except that the Receiving Party may disclose the Confidential Information to those of its Affiliates, and such of its and such Affiliates' employees, agents, or representatives, who have a need to receive such Confidential Information as a result of their specific responsibilities under this Agreement and who agree to be bound by the confidentiality obligations of the Receiving Party, including, without limitation, the provisions of this Section; provided, however, that neither Party will disclose, publish or disseminate, or permit its Affiliates, and such of its and such Affiliates' employees, agents or representatives, to disclose, publish or disseminate, any information, whether or not Confidential Information, which bears the name of the other Party or its Affiliates, without the prior written consent of such other Party, which consent will not be unreasonably withheld.
(c) The Receiving Parry will secure all Confidential Information in written or electronic form, and all copies, notes and records thereof, in a manner consistent with company policy of the Receiving Party regarding the handling of confidential formation.
4.3. Authorized Disclosure. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Parties may with prior written approval of the Party who disclosed the Confidential Information reveal Confidential Information to government personnel to the extent necessary to obtain any required governmental approval, to outside lawyers, accountants and consultants to the extent necessary for them to provide their professional assistance, and to a court of competent jurisdiction to the extent necessary for response to a valid order, provided that Confidential Information so revealed in written form is marked confidential and that such government personnel and outside individuals shall be requested to undertake to respect the confidentiality provisions of this Contract.
4.4. Notification. The Receiving Party will notify the Disclosing Party immediately, and cooperate with the Disclosing Party as the Disclosing Party may reasonably request, upon the Receiving Party's discovery of any loss or compromise of the Disclosing Party's Confidential Information.
4.5. Remedies. Each Party agrees that the unauthorized use or disclosure of any Confidential Information by the Receiving Party in violation of this Agreement will cause severe and irreparable damage to the Disclosing Party and its Affiliates. In the event of any violation of this Section, the Receiving Party agrees that the Disclosing Party and/or its Affiliates will be authorized and entitled to obtain from any court of competent jurisdiction injunctive relief, whether preliminary or permanent, as well as any other relief permitted by applicable Laws. The Receiving Party will waive any requirement that the Disclosing Party and/or its Affiliates post bond as a condition for obtaining any such relief.
4.6. Survival. The provisions of this Section will be in effect for a period often (10) years following the termination or expiration of this Agreement.
5.1. No Ownership. Licensee acknowledges and agrees that no proprietary rights or interest in and to the BIONIK Intellectual Property are conferred upon Licensee by this Agreement except for the license rights as expressly set forth in this Agreement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Licensee retains all of its own trademarks and other property rights, whether existing at the Effective Date or created thereafter and whether or not used in connection with the Licensee's business.
5.2. Ownership of Inventions and Improvements. Any Invention or Improvement made solely by employees, agents, or independent contractors of a party or its Affiliates in the course of performing activities under this Agreement, together with all Intellectual Property rights therein ("Sole Inventions"), shall be owned by Licensor. Any Invention or Improvement made jointly by at least one (1) employee, agent, or independent contract of each party or such party's affiliate, together with al1 Intellectual Property rights therein ("Joint Inventions"), shall also be owned Licensor. Sole Inventions and Joint Inventions may not be used by Licensee without the express written consent of Licensor.
5.3. Disclosure of Inventions and Improvements. Each Party shall promptly disclose to the other Party in writing any Inventions or Improvements and any written Invention or Improvement disclosures, or other similar documents, submitted to it by its employees, agents, or independent contractors describing each and every Invention and Improvements and all Information relating to such Invention and Improvements.
5.4. Patent Prosecution. Licensor shall have the first right and authority to file, prosecute, and maintain BIONIK Patents, at its sole discretion and sole cost, subject to this Section 5.44. Licensor shall provide Licensee with the opportunity to review and comment on any and all prosecution efforts, but in no case less than thirty (30) days prior to any filing deadlines, regarding the BIONIK Patents within the Territory; provided that Licensor shall have final control over such prosecution efforts after reasonably considering Licensee's comments, if any. Licensor shall provide Licensee with a copy of material communications from patent authorities in the Territory regarding the BIONIK Patents, and shall provide drafts of any material filings or responses to be made to such patent authorities in a timely manner. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if Licensor determines in its sole discretion to abandon or not maintain in the Territory any BIONIK Patents, Licensor shall provide Licensee with at least forty-five (45) days prior written notice of such determination and, if Licensee so requests, shall provide Licensee with the opportunity to prosecute and maintain such BIONIK Patent in the Territory in the name of Licensor.
5.5. Infringement of BIONIK Patents. If Licensee's (or its subsidiaries') management becomes aware of actual or threatened infringement or misappropriation of Licensor's rights in or to the BIONIK Patents in the Territory (an "BIONIK Infringement Claim"), Licensee shall promptly provide written notice thereof to Licensor. Licensee shall fully cooperate with Licensor in pursuing any legal action deemed appropriate in Licensor's sale discretion in respect of such BIONIK Infringement Claim, including furnishing documentary and oral evidence reasonably requested from Licensor. Licensee shall not conduct or institute any action with respect to such infringement without the prior written consent of Licensor. Licensee may request that Licensor pursue the BIONIK Infringement Claim against such third party. Licensor shall have full discretion with respect to all such actions, however Licensor shall not settle any BIONIK Infringement Claim without the consent of Licensee if the settlement would negatively impact on Licensee. Licensor agrees to discuss in good faith such proposed BIONIK Infringement Claim for up to sixty (60) days with Licensee; provided, however, that nothing herein shall be deemed to require Licensor to pursue such BIONIK Infringement Claim or any other claim against a third party.
5.6. Infringement of Third Party Patents. If the development, manufacture, use, sale, offer for sale, import or export of the Licensed Product in the Licensed Field in the Territory results in a claim for Patent infringement by a third party, (a "Third Party Infringement Claim") the party first having notice of such claim shall promptly provide written notice thereof to the other party. Licensee may, but shall not be obligated to, assume control of the defense of the Third Party Infringement Claim, and Licensor shall fully cooperate with Licensee in pursuing any legal action deemed appropriate in Licensee's sole discretion in respect of such Third Party Infringement Claim, including furnishing documentary and oral evidence reasonably requested from Licensee. Licensor shall not conduct or institute any action with respect to such infringement without the prior written consent of Licensee. Licensor may request that Licensee pursue the Third Party Infringement Claim against such third party. Licensee shall have full discretion with respect to all such actions, however Licensee shall not settle any Third Party Infringement Claim without the consent of Licensor if the settlement would negatively impact on Licensor. Licensee agrees to discuss in good faith such proposed Third Party Infringement Claim for up to sixty (60) days with Licensor; provided, however, that nothing herein shall he deemed to require Licensee to pursue such Third Party Infringement Claim or any other claim against a third party.
6. TERM AND TERMINATION; EFFECT OF TERMINATION.
6.1. Term. The Agreement shall take effect from the Effective Date and remain in effect as long as the JV Contract is effective (the "Term") unless this Agreement is terminated earlier pursuant to Section 6.2.
(d) Either Party engages in any act of fraud or commits any crime which has resulted in a material effect on such Party's capacity to perform this Agreement.
In the event a Party desires to terminate this Agreement, parties will follow the termination process as set forth under Section 16.4 of the JV Contract.
(a) Upon early termination of this Agreement, (i) Licensee's license to BIONIK Intellectual Property shall terminate, and (ii) the obligations of both parties under this Agreement shall terminate, subject to Section 6.4.
(b) Expiration or termination of this Agreement shall not relieve the parties of any obligation or liability accruing prior to such expiration or termination.
6.4. Provisions to Survive Termination. The provisions of this Section 6 and of Sections 4 (Confidentiality), 5 (Inventions; Access to Improvements; Parents), 7 (Liability and Indemnification), 9 (Dispute Resolution) and 10 (Miscellaneous) shall survive termination or expiration of this Agreement.
7.1. Indemnification by Licensee. Licensee agrees to indemnify, defend, and hold Licensor (including its officers, directors, shareholders, employees, trustees, agents, lab directors, technologists and other staff or representatives) harmless from and against all third party liability, demands, claims, damages, expenses and losses, including reasonable attorney's fees (collectively, "Losses"), arising out of any breach by Licensee of its representations, warranties and obligations under this Agreement.
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In each issue of HemAware, we spotlight a member of the bleeding disorders community. This issue, we profile Federico Parres.
Federico Parres is a sophomore at Damien High School in LaVerne, California. He has severe hemophilia A and is part of Team F, which has taken Caerus-7, a ball-flinging robot, to the VEX Robotics World Championship in Louisville, Kentucky.
VEX Robotics Competitions, which are operated by the educational nonprofit Robotics Education & Competition Foundation (REC), are tournaments in which teams of students design and build a robot, which is then entered into a series of competitions. Parres' team competed in the 2015-16 VEX High School Robotics Tournament.
Parres' team consists of five members, all but one of whom are sophomores. They divide the responsibilities of Caerus-7 as follows: Parres is the programmer and on-field operator; his teammate Eren is the chief engineer, who builds the robot and troubleshoots mechanical issues. Jason assists with ammunition and making sure the robot fires properly. Lorenzo is the on-field manager who supplies tactical information during competition. Adrian is in charge of research and reconnaissance.
"There's a 12' x 12' field with two nets on it, and stacks of balls. The robot needs to be able to fire the balls into the nets," Parres says. Points are given based on how many balls go into a net and where they hit.
For the VEX Robotics Competition, teams go head to head in a series of local, state and regional events, all of which culminate in the VEX Robotics World Championship. Team F competed in several of VEX's regional competitions, and won the Excellence Award at one of them. "That's the highest honor you can win there," says Parres. "Since it was, for our team, the first year of doing robotics, it was a really amazing achievement for us." This win, plus one other regional win, qualified Team F for the US Open National Championship and the World Championship.
"When I was younger, I wanted to be an astronaut, but quickly realized that hemophilia and space travel isn't a good combination," says Parres. His interests in science, math, programming and space have led him to decide to pursue aerospace engineering when he's in college.


A spokesman for the senator said Monday that with attention brought to these two concerns, the political maneuver had "accomplished" its goal and was no longer necessary.
The three holds that Sen. Shelby is keeping in place have directly to do with the Alabama-based pork projects that he believes will make him look good to the Alabama voters he will be facing in November. So, in a way, nothing has changed.
This brings up a legitimate question: can earmarking abuse sometimes be an agent for smaller government?
Few, if any, of President Obama's appointees will work to decrease the size and scope of government. Now that their path is cleared, they will probably do net harm to taxpayers. This is the nature of government workers, whether Republican or Democratic.
Sen. Shelby's motive for blocking them is despicable: stealing from taxpayers to improve his re-election prospects. But one wonders if those same taxpayers would have been better off if Sen. Shelby had stuck to his guns.
One reason Democrats were so upset about losing their 60th Senate seat was that it would make it easier for Republicans to obstruct legislation.
Fair enough. But the revived possibility of a filibuster may turn out to be the least of their worries.
Sen. Richard Shelby, an Alabama Republican, has placed a hold on more than 70 of President Obama's nominees.
His motivations are not partisan. He wants money. A lot of it. If Democrats simply throw a few billion federal dollars at his home state, he promises to release his holds.
Basically, Sen. Shelby is requesting a wealth transfer from federal taxpayers – that's you and me – to politically favored groups in Alabama. Presumably the earmarks would make him look good to Alabama voters. Sen. Shelby is up for re-election this November. Who doesn't like free goodies? Vote for Shelby!
But they aren't free. The money to pay for them has to come from somewhere – us. Let us mince no words, then. Sen. Shelby is a thief. What a shame that such stealing is perfectly legal.
8:46 Welcome to CEI's live-blog of the 2010 State of the Union address. President Obama will be touching on all kinds of issues tonight. And I'll have something to say about them all. But I'll be paying special attention to what he has to say about regulation and spending. Keep refreshing this post every few minutes for fresh commentary.
8:54 Important people are filing in. Pundits are bloviating. Welcome to Washington.
8:58 Here comes the cabinet.
9:00 Peter Orszag and Christina Romer are there. Romer has done some excellent research on the Great Depression, by the way. Any monetarists out there would find much to like about what she has to say about monetary policy vs. fiscal policy.
9:06 The President enters. Much applause.
9:06 While waiting for the applause to die down, I'll add that Romer thinks that monetary policy is what drives business cycles. Fiscal policy, such as stimulus spending, has little effect. I largely agree.
9:11 He refers to the Constitution. Heh.
9:12 American exceptionalism. Neocons cheering somewhere, no doubt.
9:13 He inherited a bad situation. True enough. We must act? Not so much. The recession is largely a creation of over-active monetary and regulatory policy. Not a lack of policy.
9:15 He has said both "hope" and "change" already. Campaign 2012 has begun.
9:18 A government that matches our decency? Public choice theory is unknown on Capitol Hill, apparently.
9:18 He hates the bailout. Good! Why did he go through with it, then?
9:18 It was necessary. Unemployment would have doubled. Hyperbole. Now banks know they can continue taking stupid risks and get bailed out for it.
9:19 touts his fee on big banks that received bailouts.
9:20 20 tax cuts. Net tax cuts. While spending goes through the moon. Tax cuts are great, but spending cuts are more important. A tax cut now is a tax increase later if spending isn't cut to match. An increase. Not a decrease. An increase.
9:22 Many jobs created. Touting the stimulus. Which takes money out of the economy, wastes some of it on bureaucracy, then puts it back into the economy. First instance of the broken window fallacy.
9:23 Anecdotes, people helped by stimulus spending. He sees what is seen. But not what is unseen. Those jobs, and that money, came from somewhere else. Each job created is one lost elsewhere.
9:25 Jobs, jobs, jobs. Bryan Caplan's make-work bias lives.
9:25 Business creates jobs. Government can help. But only by taking money from somewhere else, and hurting businesses elsewhere. No net effect.
9:27 small business tax credit. Eliminate capital gains tax on small businesses. Nice, but tax code simplification would be better. Lobbyists will be all over this one.
9:28 Rail! It's the 19th century all over again.
9:29 Clean energy. Higher energy bills for all!
9:29 Keep jobs in America! Efficiency be damned! USA! USA! USA!
9:33 financial reform! For starters. But don't punish banks. Prevent recklessness. Good. Prevent dumb risks. House has already passed some reform. But lobbyists are all over.
9:34 And they will be as long as Washington is doling out money.
9:34 Plank 2: Innovation and science. More clean energy. More nuclear power. More offshore oil. More biofuels and clean coal. Comprehensive clean energy bil. Cap-and-trade light?
9:36 Consensus on global warming. Jeers from the crowd. Acknowledges doubts, touts clean energy again.
9:37 Plank 3 – trade. More exports! Double them in 5 years = 2 million jobs. National export initiative. Trade, of course, has almost zero effect on the number of jobs. It only affects the kinds of jobs. Also take measures to decrease imports. Renegotiate Doha. Is this a new protectionism?
9:40 4th plank – education. Only reward success. Not failure. Nice. Of course, that would mean less federal involvement in education, not more. Washington has no idea how to educate kids hundreds or thousands of miles away.
9:41 End taxpayer subsidy to banks for college loans. Substitute a tax credit and increase Pell grants. Forgive student loans after 20 years. Why bother paying back, then? This will bode well for future deficits.
9:43 Social Security fix – lend more to homeowners. Yeesh.
9:45 Blames insurance industry for regulatory failures. Emphasis on preventive care; no empirical research is cited for obvious reasons.
9:46 We can save money by spending money.
9:46 Reduce deficit by $1 trillion over 20 years. Last year and this year alone will incur nearly $3 trillion in deficits.
9:47 Temperatures cooling? Oh wait, he's talking about health care.
9:48 Open to other proposals. Not bloody likely.
9:48 Pass a health care bill, any health care bill.
9:50 Blames Bush for the deficit. Rightly so! Where's he going with this, though?
9:51 Adding debt was the right thing to do. No mention of "the children" who will ultimately pay for it.
9:51 freeze certain types of discretionary spending for three years. This excludes most spending.
9:52. Save $20 billion this year. Or less than one percent of total spending.
9:53 Bi-partisan fiscal commission. Not exactly the Gramm Commission. Good idea, but beware the execution. Wayne Crews and I have done some research on this.
9:54 Pay-Go budget keeps spending in line. The data say otherwise.
9:54 Oh, the freeze won't take effect until next year. The crowd laughs.
9:55 Says Bush cut regulations. Actually, he passed more than 30,000. See CEI's Ten Thousand Commandments study for the exact numbers.
9;56 Deficit of trust in Washington, not just dollars. There's a reason for that, you know. Two of them are the Republican and Democratic parties.
9:57 Excluded lobbyists from policymaking jobs. That isn't actually true.
9:58 Doesn't like the Citizens United decision. Or the First Amendment, for that matter. Wants a new campaign finance regulation bill. Presumably so it can be struck down on First Amendment grounds like the last ones.
9:59 I'm liking what he has to say on earmarks. Good luck to you, sir.
10:00 "can't wage a perpetual campaign." Tell that to Organizing for America.
10:01 Partisan politics get in the way of doing things. He's right. And that's exactly why I like gridlock.
10:02 Hey Republicans, no filibusters, please.
10:03 Will be talking more to the other side of the aisle.
10:04 Hope again. I haven't been keeping track, but that's at least 3.
10:05 Start getting out of Afghanistan in mid-2011. Good!
10:06 Out of Iraq by August. Good! Foreign aid to Iraq. Bad for Iraq!
10:07 Pork for veterans. Taking a page right out of the Gracchi playbook.
10:08 Nuclear deproliferation. I applaud the sentiment, but prohibition doesn't work. Good luck to you, sir.
10:11 Would love to hear what Bill Easterly has to say about all the government-to-government transfer programs he's touting.
10:12 Haiti. I completely agree with the ends. But the effectiveness of the means needs to be questioned.
10:13 Hate crimes. Thought crimes?
10:14 Let gays in the military. Nice! About bloody time.
10:14 Immigration. He has a positive view of immigration. Let's hope that means much-needed liberalization. The more immigrants, the better. Those who are illegal, make them legal. It is the right thing to do. Obama says this is bi-partisan. I wish he was right.
10:16 Decries cynicism. There's a reason for all that, you know.
10:26 Here comes Bob McDonnell's Republican response. Get ready to be disappointed!
10:30 Thank yous and much applause.
10:31 Jobs. Jobs for all! Good end. The means?
10:31 So far, indistinguishable from Obama.
10:32 Calls for less taxation, regulation, etc. Quotes Jefferson. Says government is trying to do too much. Now he sounds different.
10:33 Likes Obama's spending freeze. Says it's small. Not often one hears a politician calls a spending non-increase anything other than draconian.
10:34 Likes bipartisanship. I like gridlock. Boo!
10:34 Likes the Shadegg health insurance reform. And medical malpractice reform. No specifics, though.
10:35 Energy. More of everything! Why isn;t anyone saying, "let the market decide?" Why must government, no matter the party, pick winners and losers?
10:36 Government energy policy can create jobs. Oh, wait, that costs money and jobs from elsewhere. Broken window fallacy again.
10:37 Education. Likes merit pay and school choice. Nothing about reducing federal involvement in this state and local issue.
10:38 Wars abroad. Daughter served abroad. Laudable. But nothing to do with the merits of nation-building.
10:39 Doesn't like giving due process to the underwear bomber. Well, he's probably guilty. Let's find that out for sure and then punish him accordingly, then! What's to be gained from denying due process?
10:40 I'm liking his rhetoric about taxes, spending, and regulation. But I'll believe it when I see it. Which is probably never.
10:41 Haiti. Less than a paragraph.
10:42 Big role for government in creating opportunity.
10:43 One more call for bipartisanship, and a big sop to the Religious Right. An utterly conventional speech. If you thought liberals and conservatives have fundamental philosophical differences, think again. Two sides of the same coin.
10:44 That's all for tonight. CEI scholars will have more in-depth analysis for you tomorrow. Thanks for reading!
My Congressman, Jim Moran, has a penchant for pork; I'd rather he didn't. The omnibus bill that Congress recently passed contains $53 million of Rep. Moran's goodies. The list is here.
Perhaps "goodies" is a misnomer. Some of the projects are better handled by state and local governments. There's no need for federal involvement in, say, Gang Prevention Services in Alexandria ($250,000), or restoring the Jones Point Lighthouse ($640,000).
$53 million may be less than a rounding error in today's spending bills — not to mention deficits.. It's still a lot of money. If it were left in the hands of taxpayers to spend as they see fit, who knows how many jobs would be created? $53 million can support a lot of livelihoods.
Instead, Rep. Moran sees pork projects as vote-getters. We'll never know what might have been. Similar stories are playing out in districts across the country.
CEI's Wayne Crews occasionally bestows "Least Objectionable Legislator" awards when Congress critters do good things. I have two nominations of my own, one Democratic and one Republican.
The Democrat is Rep. Jim Cooper of Tennessee. At a previous job I had the opportunity to occasionally work with him and his staff. I found him to be more open-minded than most partisans, and more willing to buck his party leadership when he thinks they are in the wrong.
He gets his award for his recent remarks about the stimulus. President Obama wants a "clean" bill, meaning free of earmarks and other trickery; the House version of the stimulus is decidedly unclean.
Rep. Cooper has publicly taken Obama's side, and voted against the bill. Leadership is furious. He is sticking to his guns, possibly at great professional cost. Well done, Rep. Cooper.
The Republican nominee is Sen. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma. He has been a thorn in the side of both parties for years. Not only is he adamantly anti-pork, he is crafty enough to use Senate rules to make his point as irksomely as possible.
Sen. Coburn also co-sponsored the bi-partisan Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 with then-Sen. Obama. It created USAspending.gov, which attempts to make it easier for the public to track where federal taxpayer dollars are spent.
The stimulus contains the largest earmark ever: $2 billion for FutureGen Industrial Alliance, Inc, of Illinois. Recall that the "Bridge to Nowhere" earmark that led to the end of Sen. Ted Stevens' career cost barely one tenth that.
Sen. Coburn has offered an amendment to eliminate this earmark from the bill. But that's not all. Another Coburn amendment "would prohibit any funding provided by the stimulus bill to be spent on casinos, museums, golf courses, stadiums, parks, or highway beautification projects." The stimulus is supposed to create jobs; such projects don't.
Coburn's amendments usually fail. I expect the same fate of these latest Coburn amendments. But at least he's trying; most members couldn't be bothered.
Congratulations, Rep. Cooper and Sen. Coburn. Keep up the good work.
Maybe President Obama really does believe that he can change Washington. Let us laud his intentions while smiling at his naivete. He'll learn.
His first learning experience is happening right now. Obama has pledged that his stimulus package would be pork-free. All $825 billion of it.
But Washington does not work that way. President Obama's earmark ban is only one more rule for lobbyists to circumvent; rules are made to be broken. This morning the AP reports that lobbyists are quick learners.
Washington's Iron Triangle works like a balloon. President Obama is pushing down on one end of it. But the amount of air inside stays the same; it simply moves to the other end of the balloon.
Obama's earmark ban may actually have an unintended negative consequence. Earmarks won't go through the usual channels, where it's easy to keep an eye on them. They will be forced underground. Less transparent. More secretive.
In this case, banning pork could mean more pork. A paradox. But it's how Congress works.
Good luck to you, President Obama, in your fight against earmarks. You'll need it. Just don't expect very much to, ahem, change.
Nationals Park turns out to have cost more than planned. Not a big surprise. But disappointing all the same. The original figure was $611 million; the final cost is $693 million.
Bear in mind that the Nats only paid for $20 million of the $693 million. Not only did they pay less than 3% of construction costs, but they've apparently been shirking on their rent, too.
Try pulling that with your landlord and see what happens.
I won't. I like having a roof over my head. What a sweetheart deal.


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I agree, Kevin. The unattended beacons seem pointless. Unlike propagation beacons, these don't really tell us anything.  My guess is these people are beaconing every minute or so 24x7, ISS passing or not.
Satgates don't need to identify to be beneficial.  My dad and I have both successfully tested experimental Satgates using just a simple receiver with a ground plane, feeding into a computer sound card.  This is essentially all you need to relay ARISS-digipeated frames to the APRS-IS network.
> Ok so I think that this all fine and dandy and even more so if it keeps people from logging into the BBS and ruining the pass for everyone else. I dont think that an email sent via ISS would be considered a Qso but still pretty neat. In between the beacons there are Two Way Communications made on the ISS Digi.
> What I do not understand is the Beaconing. What is the point? So that while you are at work, or sleeping, your callsign shows up on arris.net? In doing so you Beaconers not only clog up the passes but have basicly killed NO-44.
> If you are going to use the ISS or a satellite you should be there at your station and not be like the very annoying automated menu you get when trying to get through to a human being on the phone.


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The extraordinarily diverse output of composer Karl Jenkins has encompassed genres as numerous as jazz, rock, film music, advertising music, New Age music, and classical composition, largely choral. He is perhaps best known for the song Adiemus, for a series of classical or New Age works derived from it, and for the widely performed mass setting The Armed Man. Jenkins was born in Penclawdd, Swansea, Wales, on February 17, 1944. His father was a local schoolteacher, organist, and choir director who gave him his first music lessons. Jenkins attended Cardiff University, studying music, and went on for further work at the Royal Academy of Music. He later earned a doctorate in music from the University of Wales. In the late 1960s, Jenkins became interested in London's vigorous jazz scene, playing saxophones, keyboards, and, more unusually, oboe. He performed with a band led by bassist Graham Collier and founded the jazz fusion band Nucleus, which performed at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1970. In 1972, Jenkins joined the progressive rock band Soft Machine, composing many of the songs on their successful albums of the 1970s and early 1980s. In the 1980s and 1990s, Jenkins enjoyed a successful career as a composer of music for advertising, winning two industry awards. Some of his advertising music later found its way into his classical compositions. The most significant example of this was his song Adiemus, which was sung by Miriam Stockley and first appeared in 1994 in a Delta Airlines ad. The song was a hit in its own right, and the material (later simply the concept) continued its life through five extraordinarily successful Adiemus albums (Songs of Sanctuary, Cantata Mundi, Dances of Time, The Eternal Knot, and Vocalise). These albums have been categorized as New Age or classical; they incorporate various influences from Celtic music, world music, electronic music, and more, into a basic theme. Just as successful has been The Armed Man (1999), a setting of the Catholic mass incorporating the medieval song The Armed Man (L'homme armé) along with other texts and musical materials. The mass has been performed by hundreds of choirs, many of them nonprofessional, in Britain and beyond. The Armed Man featured a 70-piece orchestra, and in the 21st century, Jenkins has focused on yet larger classical works. The giant choral work The Peacemakers (2014), with texts from Martin Luther King, Jr., the Dalai Lama, Nelson Mandela, Gandhi, Mother Teresa, and Anne Frank, included a 1,000-voice choir called The Really Big Chorus on its 2012 debut recording. Jenkins' 2016 work Cantata Memoria: For the Children commemorated the victims of the Aberfan Disaster, a mine waste collapse in Wales that killed 116 children. Jenkins has remained active into his 70s and continues to issue albums, mostly under his name. In 2019, the album Miserere: Songs of Mercy and Redemption appeared on the Decca label; that year also saw the release of Karl Jenkins: Piano, featuring the composer's performances of his relatively underexposed piano music.
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Q: wrap xml column values into outer for xml path query I want to wrap the xml from a column into an out for xml path query without
the column name as an element.
declare @tab table (col xml)
insert @tab
select '<element/>'

select  'val' AS "@att" , col
from  @tab
for xml path ('ROOT')

This gives
<ROOT att="val">
  <col>
    <element />
  </col>
</ROOT>

but i want
<ROOT att="val">
    <element />
</ROOT>

All help most appreciated.

A: select
  'val' AS "@att",
  (select col)
from  @tab
for xml path ('ROOT')

A: A little cleaner method.
SELECT
    'val' AS [@att],
    [col] AS [*]
FROM
    @tab
FOR XML PATH ('ROOT');

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O cristianismo, desde os seus inícios, sentiu-se desafiado pela realidade histórica, social, econômica, cultural e religiosa, entre outras. Com o advento da modernidade, marcada pelo secularismo, ele não só perdeu seu importante lugar como formador de identidades, mas também se viu cercado pela ditadura do sistema comercial. Ele foi acusado por alguns pensadores como fator de atraso social. E se de um lado, o cristianismo, ao longo de todo este tempo, sentiu-se desafiado, e muitas vezes abertamente perseguido, por outro, tornou-se um elemento desafiador. Neste artigo pretendemos refletir sobre alguns destes desafios no contexto das peregrinações. Levamos aqui em conta as peregrinações que acontecem no Santuário do Bom Jesus da Lapa, Bahia, Brasil e que foram objeto de nosso estudo em vista da tese de doutoramento.
From its beginnings, Christianity, felt challenged by historical, social, economic, cultural and religious reality, among others. With the advent of modernity, marked by secularism, it not only lost its important place as an identity former, but it was also surrounded by the dictatorship of the commercial system. It was accused, too, by some thinkers as a factor of social backwardness. If on the one hand, Christianity, throughout all this time, felt challenged, and often openly persecuted, on the other, became a challenging factor. In this article we intend to reflect on some of these challenges in the context of pilgrimages. For our analisis we will tolk here about pilgrimeges that take place in the Sanctuary of Bom Jesus da Lapa, Bahia, Brazil and which were the object of our studies in view of the doctoral thesis.
DWORAK, Krzysztof. Peregrinação à Lapa do Bom Jesus. Revista Lusófona de Ciência das Religiões, [S.l.], v. 1, n. 20, nov. 2017. ISSN 2183-3737. Disponível em: <http://revistas.ulusofona.pt/index.php/cienciareligioes/article/view/6143>. Acesso em: 22 apr. 2019.


This chapter examines the choice of law rules relating to legitimacy, legitimation and adoption, as well as rules governing the recognition of foreign adoptions and the jurisdiction of the English courts to make adoption orders. It begins with a discussion of questions surrounding legitimacy, such as legitimacy to be governed by the law of the domicile, the effect of the doctrine of putative marriage, meaning of 'domicile of origin', relevance of the incidents of status, and where birth to parents who are married does not confer legitimacy. It then considers legitimation by subsequent marriage and legitimation by recognition before turning to adoption proceedings in England, procedures for taking children into and out of the UK, and recognition of foreign adoptions. Finally, it analyses the effect of foreign adoptions by citing the relevant provisions of the Adoption and Children Act 2002.


The new range will be built next to the existing rifle range and double our capacity.
The new well is complete at Beaver and our rangers are working to connect it to the water storage system. Thanks to this addition, Scouts will have plenty of fresh water from a reliable source for their adventures this summer.
We have also received funding from the NRA to build a second rifle range to expand the existing range facilities. This will allow twice as many Scouts to learn shooting sports and safety at Beaver this year.
Thunder Ridge will be the latest home for a George S. And Dolores Dore Eccles Nature Center in the Council. Thanks to a generous donation from the Eccles Foundation, this camp will have an enclosed classroom with two attached pavilions to teach ecology and conservation. This center will be the third of its kind, joining those completed at Maple Dell and Scofield in recent years. Construction on the new Eccles Nature Center will begin in June.
Camp directors and rangers have been hard at work building new bathrooms with showers in the lodge at Scofield. Any former camp staff member who has made the long trek across camp to get to the old showers down in the valley will be thrilled to know that this year the showers will be much closer to home and actually have electric lights.
For any of you who have ever been to/worked at Scofield, you may have noticed and lamented the lack of flushing toilets. Not this year! (Except at the campsites, of course. Outhouses build character). This much-anticipated improvement to Scofield's lodge will help campers and staff members alike this summer.
Are getting a kitchen (trailer, that is)! This mobile kitchen will allow us to keep our hard-working staff members at both camps well fed and happy as they change the lives of the youth they serve. This kitchen will be used for other Council programs and events throughout the year, but will primarily be used to serve these two camps during the summer season.
We're in the process of bringing water down to spigots in the area that houses Adventure Park and Webelos Wilderness Adventure, making it easier for our young Scouts to hydrate for those adventures they're having.
Our camp at Quail Creek is getting quite the makeover thanks to donations from companies and foundations across Utah. One of the biggest construction projects is the new stake pavilion that will allow large groups to use the camp for their own programs. Our Southern Utah crew has been hard at work, and the finishing touches are being put on now. The pavilion is now hosting its first Wood Badge.
Want to do a stake encampment or stake-sponsored Wood Badge course in the future? Start planning now! The stake pavilion will allow you to bring your whole group to experience the learning, growth, and fun that only the outdoors can provide. It will have an amphitheater for campfire programs, covered pavilion for activities, and a warming kitchen to heat up meals. It will also have bathrooms and showers for your group to use.
Thanks to a grant from the Sorenson Legacy Foundation, Maple Dell will also be home to a brand new stake pavilion. With some creative snow clearing, our crew has made some great progress. Dave Johnson sent this photo of work in progress. If you've ever been to Maple Dell, you know it is our council's oldest camp and is full every summer with hundreds of Scouts. This new stake pavilion will let more groups use this beloved camp for stake encampments, family reunions, girls camps, and more.
Maple Dell's Staff Lodge is also getting a construction overhaul to make it more versatile. Our rangers and construction crew are moving the kitchen and opening up more space for large group meetings. I was up with a large group this past weekend and with newly opened space we were able to better accommodate everyone.
Camps aren't the only ones getting a face lift. Our Council office has also received some much-needed repairs, including a reconstruction of the warehouse area to better organize things and make more bathrooms available for customers.
We have also repaved the parking lot to make the office more accessible and help the lot last longer.
Is Thunder Ridge still getting a pool?
Dave – We are in the process of finishing the engineering plans and getting approval. Once that process is complete, we'll work on getting that pool installed and ready for Scouts to use. All of my camp experience is in aquatics, so I am particularly excited about this project.
We love our Cubs! JJ isn't on the list because there isn't any new construction planned, but camp staff is hard at work getting ready for the summer (read Ann's article about camp here).
The Buck Hollow section has some good news for Cubs, though (water coming down for the Webelos Wilderness Adventure).
The camping directors are working hard to make sure all of our camps are ready for Scouts of all ages this summer. These are just some of the most recent construction projects we're working on. Hope that helps answer your question!


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These organisation will receive the proceeds of carnival week via the street collection from Carnival procession day.
If you are interested please complete the application form and send it to us by the end of February.


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Central California Walk to Emmaus is a non-profit organization that produces three day retreats for Christians to experience the Love of Jesus Christ as they never have before. It is one of many such organizations around the world that are affiliated with The Upper Room. Though sponsored by the United Methodist Church, the Walk to Emmaus celebrates the diversity of many denominations through the unity of our risen Lord, Jesus Christ. All Christians are welcome and encouraged to participate.
Want to Sponsor a Pilgrim?
To acquire information and to obtain an application, contact Jackie Collins.
Note: Men only at the men's Mananitas. Women only at the women's. If you are not working on a live-in team, please bring your own flowers.
Volunteer for Prayer Vigil: The 24-hour prayer vigil is staffed from 6:00am until 11:00pm by the on-site teams, but the remaining hours are manned by off-site members of the community. You may volunteer for a one-hour time slot from 11:00pm until 5:00am for either the Men's or Women's Walks (or both) by contacting the Agape Boss for the weekends.
Write Agape: Hand-write a note to each new Pilgrim and the team members.
Please sort your Agape alphabetically before you drop it off in the Agape room.
Each member of the team and the community is asked to write one hand written note to each Pilgrim. In addition to your written letters, notes, and cards, you may also give "pillow Agape". The community rules require that any "pillow Agape" be given to all of the Pilgrims so no one feels left out.
Agape gifts should be kept simple and need to be small enough to fit inside an Agape sack. If you want to give your Pilgrim a large gift, please wait until after Closing. Be sure to deliver your Agape to the Agape Room early so the team has time to sort it into the bags.
It is the desire of the Central California Board of Walk to Emmaus to state the policy for preparing and serving "Special Diet" meals to our pilgrims and workers. We have in the past and will continue to do whatever is needed to prepare meals to meet the "Medical" and "Spiritual" dietary needs of our community while on the walks. This includes the Vegetarian/Vegan menus. We will continue to seek advice on how to prepare foods to meet those needs, and as any need arises. The most important thing to remember is that we are all brothers and sisters in "The Body of Christ" and serve him together. We love and appreciate each one of you!
Child care is not provided for Closing or Candlelight. Out of respect for the Pilgrims, please do not bring children to these events.
Make sure you obtain Agape letters for your Pilgrim. Notify friends or family members of the individual(s) with this letter.
Notify the Lay Director and Head Cha Cha about any special health or diet needs your Pilgrim may have.
Make adequate preparation for any special sleeping needs your Pilgrim may have such as special bedding, mattresses, etc.
Take your Pilgrim out to dinner Thursday night before going to the church.
Stay at the church and help your Pilgrim get settled.
Attend the Sponsor's prayer service after the social hour Thursday evening (8:05pm).
Pray for your Pilgrim and his/her family during the weekend.
Attend Candlelight and be prepared to pray for your Pilgrim during the candle lighting service.
Assist your Pilgrim's spouse, if he or she has already attended a Walk, to get babysitting so they may attend Candlelight.
Attend Mananitas on Sunday morning. Remember, men only at the men's, and women only at the women's. Also, bring your own flowers if you are not on an on-site team.
Bedding for your pilgrim should be limited to a single cot, blow up single bed or fold out futon. Please, no night stands, privacy screens, or other special amenities that may make others feel inferior.
Bring your pilgrim to the first gathering after their walk to connect them to the community.