In Brazil, registration alone guarantees ownership of a trademark and its exclusive use within Brazilian territory.
Trademarks can be registered in word, figurative, mixed or three-dimensional form.
Registration is valid for 10 years, counted from its date of granting, and is renewable for a period of 10 years successively, in accordance with the interest of its owner.
Trademarks are protected within the field in which their owner operates. It is possible to register identical trademarks, provided that they are in completely different fields. There is an exception for these cases. Highly Renowned trademarks enjoy protection in all trademark classes, which is to say, in all existing fields of activity.
Before using or requesting a trademark, the owner must carry out a prior search, in order to identify possible identical or similar priorities registered by third parties.
It is a priority of VILAGE's trademark's department to ensure the rights of our clients over a trademark for its products or services. Our team is highly qualified and focused on the best solution for our clients.
Our work goes beyond requesting trademarks. Comprehensive monitoring is constantly realized in order to prevent third parties from acquiring or registering similar or identical trademarks to those of our clients. Through our specialists, 80% of the trademark conflicts are resolved amicably, without the need to file lawsuits.
Our professionals carry out a careful collection of proofs , organize complete administrative procedures and develop secure strategies that assure our clients the confidence and peace of mind that their trademark is being looked after and their rights defended by Vilage.
Administrative services regarding the BPO – Brazilian Patent and Trademark Office, such as oppositions, answers to oppositions, compliance with requirements, appeals against rejections, institution of administrative nullity proceedings, responding to administrative nullity proceedings, requests for forfeiture.
This diversity and range of services are provided continuously and efficiently, so that the intellectual property of our clients is protected and guaranteed, independently of geographical limits.
We have built up our credibility over many years, based on the pursuit of quality, swiftness and results supported by the law – a value of VILAGE Marcas e Patentes.
Esta é a informação mais valiosa para quem vai registrar e utilizar uma marca. Nesta fase, realizamos uma pesquisa prévia para avaliarmos as possibilidades de registro e de uso da marca no Brasil.
Protocolo e Emissão do depósito do pedido de registro de marca no INPI.
Aproximadamente após 30 dias da data do protocolo o INPI publica o pedido da marca. Da data dessa publicação, abre-se prazo de 60 dias para que terceiros que se sentem prejudicados com este pedido de marca possam apresentar oposição (argumentos para tentar conduzir o examinador a indeferir o pedido da marca).
Se oposições forem apresentadas contra o pedido de registro da marca, o titular do pedido de registro deverá contestá-los apresentando fatos que levem o examinador a aprovar o pedido da marca.
O exame por parte do Examinador do INPI poderá resultar em uma publicação de deferimento (aprovação) do pedido de registro. O titular deverá realizar, dentro do prazo de 60 dias, o recolhimento da taxa para concessão do registro. Caso a publicação seja de indeferimento (não aprovação), o titular do pedido de registro deverá apresentar, dentro do prazo de 60 dias, recurso com argumentos capazes de modificarem a primeira decisão, de forma que seja deferido o pedido de registro.
Recolhida a taxa para concessão do registro dentro dos prazos previstos em Lei, o INPI publicará a concessão do registro, válido por 10 anos em todo Brasil, a contar da data da publicação da concessão. O certificado de registro da marca é emitido nesta data.
Após a concessão do registro a VILAGE monitorará e acompanhará o seu andamento perante o INPI durante os 10 anos de vigência, e, qualquer movimentação, sobretudo de pedidos de registros de marcas semelhantes, os clientes serão orientados sobre as providências a serem adotadas.
O registro da marca possui validade de 10 anos. No último ano de vigência do registro o titular deve protocolar o pedido de renovação para que o INPI emita novo certificado válido por novo período de 10 anos. É importante manter o registro da marca com empresas idôneas e longevas que possam monitorar e se responsabilizar pelo acompanhamento durante estes longos períodos.
What are the principal risks of not registering my company's trademark?
You will not be assured exclusive use of your trademark to identify the field of activity in which you act; clients could be diverted, prejudicing your company's profits, and you would have to accept unfair competition from third parties. In some cases, you could be obliged to change your trademark.
What are the principal advantages of having a trademark registered?
With the registration of the trademark duly validated before the BPO – Brazilian Patent and Trademark Office, in addition to obtaining exclusivity over the mark requested, the holder will be granted the right to prevent third parties from using an identical or similar trademark to the one registered. An advantage that is highly valued by companies is the possibility of franchising the trademark.
Is carrying out a trademark search obligatory?
Carrying out a trademark search is not obligatory. However, this search informs the existence of trademarks that may have been requested or registered previously and which may present an obstacle to the granting (approval) of your trademark.
Do I have to wait for the registration to occur before beginning to use my trademark?
It is not necessary to await the issuance of the trademark's certificate of registration to being its divulgence. Once it is filed, the owner is granted the right to defend the material integrity or reputation of the requested trademark.
What are the principal stages for registering a trademark?
The principal stages for registering a trademark are: filing, publication, allowance and granting of the registration.
Do I need to have a company to register my trademark?
It is not necessary to have company to register a trademark. It may be requested either by a legal entity or a private individual, provided that the trademark is requested in a class compatible with the activity performed.
From the moment I register my trademark, can anybody else copy it?
With the issuance of the trademark's registration certificate, the owner will be assured the right to its exclusive use to determine the field of activity claimed throughout Brazil. If third parties use a registered trademark, its owner must notify them and sue them for undue use.
Might anything else happen after the conclusion of the process of registering the trademark?
Yes, third parties could file administrative nullity requests, within a term of 180 (one hundred and eighty) days, counted from the date of granting of the registration by the BPO, or a judicial nullity request within the term of 5 years. That is why the constant monitoring of the trademark is so important.
What can I do if I discover that a competitor is using my trademark?
Issue a notification or file an appropriate judicial measure in order to put a stop to the infractions committed by the party.
If a company from another segment uses my trademark, can I do anything in this respect?
No, since the trademark has protection for the field of activity claimed, except in cases where there is affinity between the segments.
Do I have to pay an annuity to maintain my trademark registration with the BPO?
There is no annual payment to maintain the trademark registration. It is sufficient to pay the trademark extension fee at the end of the term of 10 (ten) years extendable for equal and successive periods.
What happens if I alter the logo of my trademark?
It will be necessary to file another registration application to protect the new logo.
Can I open a franchise just with a trademark application or do I need to wait for the registration to be granted?
You can open a franchise simply with the filing of the trademark, but this information must form an explicit part of the Franchise Offering Circular – FOC and the contract, since the trademark is still under judgment before the BPO and may not be granted.
If I have a registration with the Commerce Registry, why is it important to have a trademark registration with the BPO?
These are different institutions, where the registration with the Commerce Registry protects the company name only in the state sphere and, with the BPO – Brazilian Patent and Trademark Office, the trademark protection is national.
Do I need to await the granting of the registration of my trademark to notify a competitor that is using it?
No. With the registration application it is already possible to adopt this measure.
When can I file a lawsuit against another company that is using my trademark in its products or services?
If you possess a registered trademark, as soon as you become aware of the undue use.
My trademark has suffered opposition. Do I need to do anything?
Yes. It is appropriate to present a Response to the Opposition before the BPO, thus increasing the chances of your application's success.
I received a notification to stop using my trademark. What should I do?
After receiving the notification, it is important to contract a company specializing in intellectual property in order to respond to it.
Do you have any further doubts about registering trademarks?


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Analytics show Texas football fighting against odds this season
By Kirk von Kreisler - Updated on November 2, 2018 at 4:57 pm
The chaotic nature of college football brings an avalanche of clichés every season. But, in this case, it applies: Texas is at a "make-or-break" point in its season.
Keys to the Game: West Virginia
By Wills Layton - Updated on November 2, 2018 at 12:29 am
If Texas wins out, it will make an appearance in the game with the chance to make a New Year's Six bowl game and energize the fan base. In order to do that, however, the team will need to take care of business against No. 13 West Virginia at home. Here are your keys to the game:
One More: Williams betting on Texas in final year
By Donnavan Smoot - Updated on November 2, 2018 at 12:26 am
As a sharp-shooting graduate transfer from Texas A&M, Williams had the option between Texas and perennial Final Four participant University of Connecticut.
Week 10: Must-watch games
By Steve Helwick - Updated on November 2, 2018 at 12:20 am
From Baton Rouge to Lubbock, Week 10 brings with it yet another jam packed slate of must-watch games. Here are the matchups you won't want to miss:
'We'll play them in the parking lot': Longhorns look to bounce back versus West Virginia
By Ross Burkhart - Updated on November 2, 2018 at 12:19 am
Last season during this time, the Longhorns were looking at each of their final four games as must-win scenarios in order to reach bowl eligibility. The scenarios are the same this time around, but the stakes are much different.
Big 12 Power Rankings: Week 10
By CJ Vogel - Updated on November 2, 2018 at 12:18 am
We're entering the final stretch of the college football regular season and some teams are beginning to make the jump into the top tier while others are looking to avoid sliding further. Here's where each Big 12 team sits going into Week 10
Buy or Sell: Where to place your bets in Week 10
By Cameron Parker - Updated on November 2, 2018 at 12:10 am
I'm not an expert by any stretch of the imagination. I'm just a college student who watches too much college football and places bets he can't afford — like most of y'all. This weekly column is where I will give you my best bets for the week in college football. I am not responsible for any money lost.
Heisman Watch Week 10: Tagovailoa continues to stand out as frontrunner
After yet another big week for the leaders in the Heisman race, the top candidates are now preparing for some of the biggest matchups of the season. Here's the latest on Tua and everybody else:
Longhorn defense looks to rebound against West Virginia's Grier
By Robert Larkin - Updated on November 2, 2018 at 12:01 am
When No. 13 West Virginia rolls into Austin on Saturday, it will present the most talented team the Longhorns have faced since taking down Oklahoma in early October. And with both teams jostling for positioning atop the Big 12 standings, it has the makings of a competitive late-season clash. Here are the Mountaineers that fans need to know about prior to Saturday's significant contest:
Campbell brothers change meaning of teammates
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From walking on as a free safety, to becoming a scout team staple, West Virginia's starting middle linebacker, Shea Campbell, has done nothing but climb a steep ladder since joining the program in 2015.
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West-central Illinois schools will share in more than $1.2 million designed to help buy books and materials for libraries.
State Librarian Jesse White said 684 public school districts statewide received the grants.
"As a former public school teacher and administrator, I know our school libraries are very important in helping students learn and prepare themselves for the future," White said. "Illinois was the first state to implement a school district grant program and I'm pleased that we can continue to provide school libraries with some of the financial resources they need."
From appropriations approved by the General Assembly and the governor, school library grants were awarded based on a formula of 75 cents a student, with a minimum grant of $750.
School libraries can use the funds to acquire fiction or nonfiction books, educational CDs and DVDs, and library subscriptions to electronic resources, as well as to improve technology by buying new computers or improving Wi-Fi connectivity.
School districts in west-central Illinois awarded grants and the amount received are: Western School District, Barry, $750; Beardstown, $1,039.50; Scott‐Morgan, $750; Carlinville, $1,020; North Mac, $750; Griggsville‐Perry, $750; Illinois School for the Deaf, $750; Illinois School for the Visually Impaired, $750; Jacksonville School District 117, $2,334; Jerseyville, $1,791; Brown County, $750; New Berlin, $750; Pikeland, $858; Virginia, $750; Waverly, $750; and Winchester, $750.
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Biasol has designed the interior of this Melbourne home to evoke a classic Parisian apartment, placing a plant-filled light well at its centre.Casa Atrio is a narrow terrace house in the neighbourhood of Carlton, and has been overhauled to feature a sequence of bright, white-painted living spaces with decadent details.
The property's decorative facade, which features an ornate parapet and iron lacework along its porch, is typical of the Italianate architectural style, which became popular in Melbourne during the late 1800s.However, when it came to the interiors, design studio Biasol wanted to create an atmosphere that was more akin to "a classic Parisian apartment".
At the centre of the home lies a black-framed atrium filled with greenery, illuminating the formally light-starved ground level. Chevron-shaped wooden floors run throughout.French-style wall panelling has then been applied to the long corridor that leads from the front door to the rear living area, which looks out to a small courtyard through full-height glazed doors.
In the kitchen, which the studio wanted to "have the sense of being a furniture piece, rather than built-in joinery", a white marble countertop slightly overhangs the breakfast island.Behind the atrium is a set of steps that goes up to the sleeping quarters. A further panel of glazing that has been incorporated in this stairway offers views of a small terrace that's at the back of the home.
Plush details appear again in the master bedroom, which has a scalloped velvet headboard that curves around the entirety of the rear wall.Emerald green marble lines a vanity stand and display niche in the adjacent bathroom, which also has a black-framed shower screen that mimics the appearance of the atrium.


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Thomas Sowell On The Myths Of Economic Inequality
interview with Thomas Sowell
Recorded on November 15, 2018.
Thomas Sowell discusses economic inequality, racial inequality, and the myths that have continued to falsely describe the system of poverty among different racial and economic classes. He explains the economic theories behind these pervasive myths and proposes fact-based solutions for seemingly intractable situations.
Sowell discusses his early life as a high school dropout and his first full-time job as a Western Union messenger delivering telegrams. He admits to flirting with Marxism in his early twenties as he first tried to grapple with the housing inequality he saw across the neighborhoods of New York City. Marxism, he says, was the only explanation he could find at the time. He went on to serve in the Marine Corps before continuing his education in economics at Harvard and earning a master's at Columbia and a PhD at the University of Chicago.
Sowell's first job after his receiving his PhD in economics was working for the Department of Labor, and he says it was there that he realized Marxism was not the answer. He argues that the government has its own institutional interests in inequality that cannot be explained through Marxism. He began to be discouraged by Marxism and the government in general and began searching for better economic ideas and solutions (the free market).
Robinson and Sowell discuss Sowell's written works, his ideas of racial and economic inequality, the state of the United States today, and much more.
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Questlove Shares Story of Being Held at Gunpoint by Police at 16
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The Roots' Questlove commonly shares stories on social media about things that have happened to him as a celebrity as well as when he was growing up in Philly. On Wednesday evening, the drummer shared a story that should have been a story about a teenager seeing one of his favorite groups on the big screen, but it turned into something totally different.
At the age of 16, Questlove saw a U2 documentary, but things went awry when he and a group of friends were pulled over by police hours later.
"Most people's Rites Of Passage are marked happy occasions like graduation or birth or things you do when in love," the drummer wrote. "Mine was being held at gunpoint at 16."
The Instagram post told the story of how his life changed from that night on.
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Not only was his post poignant, but it also reminds us that unfortunately, these kinds of incidents are rites of passage for black teens. On the heels of Sandra Bland's death, driving while black is a worry more people have expressed. It's unfortunate that he had to experience that then, and it's unfortunate that at this very moment, another black teen, man or woman could be experiencing the same thing.


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Beth Israel Medical Center had its highest-grossing benefit ever earlier this month when benefactors paid almost $3 million to hear crooner Vic Damone.
The gala grossed $2.7 million, including $650,000 in dinner journal ads, and netted the hospital $2.3 million.
The Beth Israel bash outdid New York Hospital's recent gala, where entertainer Liza Minnelli helped the hospital gross $1.5 million.
Lenox Hill's Nov. 4 gala, where Whoopi Goldberg presented honoree Harry Belafonte, netted $1.5 million on a $2 million gross.
With his re-election campaign approaching, Mayor Rudy Giuliani is making the kind of politically astute moves that his onetime political consultant, David Garth, might recommend. He is reaching out more to constituent groups and other politicians whom he ignored earlier in his term.
For example, the mayor went out of his way during the recent campaign to plug the unsuccessful term-limits proposal that was a top priority with the City Council. And individual council members are being invited into Deputy Mayor Randy Mastro's office to talk about specific concerns.
"Obviously, they're concerned about next year," says Councilman Walter McCaffrey, D-Queens. "I think they would like to have a less hostile political environment."
Some observers believe that these moves presage a return of Mr. Garth to the mayor's political camp following a major falling-out two years ago. But knowledgeable sources say that while the men are talking, major differences remain, and it remains unclear whether Mr. Garth will again become Mr. Giuliani's top political guru.
Time Inc. magazine Parenting is coming on strong with a new editor and a move to New York.
Parenting has watched as its archrival, Parents, owned by Gruner & Jahr, beefed up its ad pages 10% this year to 1,387. In the same period, Parenting's ad pages were up 2.5% to 1,183.
Now Parenting is fighting back. This week, the magazine gets a new editor in chief, Janet Chan, the former executive editor of Good Housekeeping. Parenting and its two sister publications, Parenting's Baby Talk and Parenting's Healthy Pregnancy, are also about to move their editorial offices from San Francisco to New York.
Time Inc. is scouting out space to house 60 editorial, circulation and production staffers. The California group might join the publications' ad sales staff at 25 W. 43rd St., or move to the McGraw-Hill Building, where Time Inc. already leases some space.
New York's hotels are bursting at the seams these days, placing some pretty heavy demands on hotel staffs.
In order to keep its staff accommodating, ITT Sheraton is rolling out the big gun. Last week, the company imported the man who has been voted "the best concierge in the world," Tony Facciolo, to provide three days of training for its New York concierges.
Mr. Facciolo, who has personally assisted the likes
of Princess Diana, Queen Elizabeth and Emperor Hirohito during his 41 years of hotel service, is the president of Les Clefs d'Or, the worldwide organization of concierges.
Currently based in Australia at Sydney's Sheraton on the Park, he's the kind of guy who can get you dinner reservations halfway around the world at Monte Carlo's most exclusive restaurant.
In New York, the message Mr. Facciolo is bringing is one that would warm the heart of the Convention & Visitors Bureau: The concierge's main mission is to be an ambassador of tourism for the city in which he's based.
Mr. Facciolo has another purpose to his visit. He's looking to establish a Clefs d'Or school for training concierges here in the United States, and he is hoping to drum up support in New York.
WMXV has finally given up. After watching its ratings tumble while it chased young listeners with a mix of Seventies, Eighties and Nineties music, the FM station has dropped its contemporary hits format.
Now MXV, which called itself Mix 105, will focus on the music of
The Police, Talking Heads and Elvis Costello. Program Director Steve Weed declared
the new format is "100% geek-free music."
The station has changed its call letters and will now be known as 105.1FM, The Buzz. The change in format was much anticipated. The radio station's ratings for adults aged 25 to 54 have dropped to 2.4 from 3.9 in the winter, according to the most recent Arbitron report.
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The First 5 Santa Cruz County Strategic Plan for 2016-2020 describes goals identified by First 5 Santa Cruz County (F5 SCC) for the 2016-2020 time period (FY 15/16 through FY19/20), as well as specific strategies and budget allocations designed to advance those goals. The 2016-2020 plan builds on the previous 2012-2015 plan and reflects a 6-month strategic planning process.


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Why Big Electric Planes Won't Fly, According to Vaclav Smil
The batteries just don't have the energy density to get a plane across an ocean.
Published January 13, 2022 02:00PM EST
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Rolls-Royce's all-electric Spirit of Innovation takes to the skies for the first time.
Treehugger loves the idea of electric planes and has shown quite a few of the new ones. But even Treehugger's Sami Grover, desperate for a decent beer back in the United Kingdom, and admiring this little Rolls-Royce electric marvel, is worried that they won't scale in size or distance traveled.
"The trouble is, of course, that the biggest climate-related challenge in terms of aviation is long-distance commercial travel," writes Grover. "It's hard to see how offering an electric and low carbon option for a new and inherently inefficient application like flying taxis gets us nearer to that goal. And while electrifying and decarbonizing an existing segment of the market like commuter planes may serve as a technological stepping stone, it also runs the danger of distracting us from policy-level efforts at a demand-side reduction."
Vaclav Smil is known to Treehugger for his books: "Growth, from Microorganisms to Megacities," "Energy and Civilization: A History," and most recently, "Numbers Don't Lie." Now, in an article for IEEE Spectrum, he munches on the numbers for electric planes and concludes that all these little electric planes won't make that much of a difference. "The problem is much more fundamental," he writes. Aviation is a giant business, and most of it is in much bigger, heavier planes.
In his book on energy, Smil explained how improvements in energy density, going from wood to coal to gasoline and natural gas, built the world we live in:
"By turning to these rich stores we have created societies that transform unprecedented amounts of energy. This transformation brought enormous advances in agricultural productivity and crop yields; it has resulted first in rapid industrialization and urbanization, in the expansion and acceleration of transportation, and in an even more impressive growth of our information and communication capabilities; and all of these developments have combined to produce long periods of high rates of economic growth that have created a great deal of real affluence, raised the average quality of life for most of the world's population, and eventually produced new, high-energy service economies."
Back in IEEE Spectrum, Smil is back to talking about energy density and says batteries don't have enough of it.
"Large turbofan engines powering these planes are fueled by aviation kerosene that provides nearly 12,000 watt-hours per kilogram. In contrast, today's best commercial Li-ion batteries deliver less than 300 Wh/kg, or 1/40th the energy density of kerosene. Even when taking into account the higher efficiency of electric motors, the effective energy densities go down to about 1/20th. That's more than better batteries can bridge within the next decade or two."
He notes that even if maximum energy density tripled, it still wouldn't be enough to get a plane from New York to Tokyo, and that is before even taking into account the fact that planes running on liquid fuel get lighter as they go and electric planes don't. Read enough Smil and you learn energy density is everything—it's what makes our world.
Comments are dismissive, suggesting that "just like the auto industry, the aviation market will start with smaller aircraft, as that's where the technology is at, it will scale to larger aircraft over time." But Smil has been writing about the nature of technological progress as far back as when people found out that burning wood to cook meat delivered more food energy density. He could respond to the commenters by quoting his conclusion from his book on energy:
"Techno-optimists see a future of unlimited energy, whether from superefficient PV cells or from nuclear fusion, and of humanity colonizing other planets suitably terraformed to the Earth's image. For the foreseeable future (two-four generations, 50–100 years) I see such expansive visions as nothing but fairy tales."
Looking at our much shorter window to cut our carbon emissions to slow and then stop the increase in temperature, it is likely that the proponents of electric planes flying across oceans are like those pushing hydrogen planes: It all seems like a way of maintaining the status quo by promising that someday, somehow, it will all be green and wonderful. But when you look at the real numbers, it just doesn't fly.
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The Division I Board of Directors today rescinded a rule prohibiting Football Bowl Subdivision coaches from holding or working at camps and clinics away from their school, adopted earlier this month by the Division I Council.
The board members also directed the Council to conduct a broad assessment of the FBS recruiting environment.
The camps and clinics rule received widespread attention after its adoption, with supporters contending the rule would keep coaches on campus with current student-athletes and steer recruiting toward the scholastic environment. Detractors believe the camps provide opportunities for previously un-recruited student-athletes to be noticed by high-profile coaches and possibly receive scholarships.
The Board's action means the camps and clinics rule currently legislated is in effect and football coaches may be employed at any camp that follows Division I camps and clinics rules.
"The Board of Directors is interested in a holistic review of the football recruiting environment, and camps are a piece of that puzzle," said Board of Directors chair Harris Pastides, president of the University of South Carolina. "We share the Council's interest in improving the camp environment, and we support the Council's efforts to create a model that emphasizes the scholastic environment as an appropriate place for recruiting future student-athletes."
The board asked the Council to consider the entire recruiting model, including potential modifications to camps and clinics participation.
Council chair Jim Phillips, a board member and athletics director at Northwestern University, said the Board's decision will give the Council an opportunity to review the recruiting environment in a more thorough way.
"It's clear that the membership has differing views on this subject, and the Council appreciates the Board's insights into this important issue," Phillips said. "This review will provide an opportunity to identify the most effective ways prospective student-athletes can have their academic and athletic credentials evaluated by schools across the country."
The new camps and clinics rule was adopted earlier this month by the members of the Division I Council who represent FBS conferences. With weighted voting (two votes each for the Atlantic Coast, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-12 and Southeastern conferences and one vote for Conference-USA, the American Athletic, Mid-American, Mountain West and Sun Belt conferences), the final tally was 10-5.
Historically, coaches used camps and clinics primarily to provide skill instruction to young people and generate revenue. Actual recruiting activities are prohibited at camps and clinics, and the events have not been subject to recruiting calendars. Over time, camps and clinics have increasingly been viewed as a recruiting tool.
Another factor that changed the way coaches use camps and clinics was a 2008 rule change prohibiting FBS coaches from evaluating prospective student-athletes during "live" nonscholastic football activities. Many think the rule was intended to reduce third-party influence in recruiting, but others believe it increased the pressure on coaches to use camps as a place to find future talent. Some coaches broaden their recruiting reach by working at camps held by other schools, including Football Championship Subdivision schools.
The board wants initial recommendations for improving the football recruiting environment from the Council by Sept. 1, the deadline for legislative concepts to be submitted for the 2016-17 cycle.
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The long-sought ability to control the movement of prosthetic limbs with brain waves has edged a little closer to reality.
In experiments published in the June 7 issue of the journal Science, monkeys were able to move balls around in 3D space on a computer screen just by thinking about it. With a little practice, they got even better at it.
"They achieved nearly the same accuracy and speed as normal arm movements," said senior author Andrew Schwartz, Ph.D., of the Department of Bioengineering at Arizona State University and the Neurosciences Institute in San Diego.
To begin with, two monkeys learned a computer game that required moving balls around in 3D space on the screen. The balls moved in response to the monkeys' arm movements. The monkeys were rewarded for playing and were allowed to stop when they tired of it.
Then tiny electrodes were painlessly implanted in the monkeys' brains to record the motor control signals emitted when they moved their arms to play the game. The recorded signals were matched against specific arm/ball movements.
Finally, the monkeys were encouraged to play the game without using their arms. They had to move the balls on the screen using brain signals that corresponded with the appropriate arm movements.
At first they tried to use their arms. But as they realized they could move the balls without moving their arms, they relaxed their arms and continued the game using thought control. As they played, their game skills improved.
Controlling the movement of a prosthetic limb, however, would require learning a wider range of movements, so the two monkeys were given new tasks and 180-degree changes in directions.
"There was no significant difference between the novel and trained target hit rates in either animal, and both monkeys improved their performance with daily practice," the researchers reported.
Even when the monkeys were not allowed to first practice the movements with their arms, they still learned through visual feedback to control the computer images with their brain waves. This suggests that people who are paralyzed and have not had a chance to practice with their arms could still learn to move objects with thought control.
Schwartz's group cited recent case studies indicating that motor control centers are still active in the brain even after years of paralysis. This activity might be harnessed to control a prosthesis, but the technique and the electrodes used in the current experiments are not yet ready for human testing.
Schwartz's group is working in the relatively new area of neuroprosthetics. His earlier research in this area was supported by a Special Opportunity Award from The Whitaker Foundation. The lead author on the current paper is Whitaker graduate fellow Dawn Taylor of Arizona State's Department of Bioengineering.
Other groups have reported some early successes in neuroprosthetic research, mostly in animal experiments. Two years ago, researchers at Case Western Reserve University reported activating a prosthetic implant using human brain waves. The experiments did not require implanting electrodes in the brain.
A quadriplegic wearing a hat dotted with electrodes gained mental control of an arm prosthesis after a series of training sessions in which he learned to regulate his beta-rhythm through biofeedback.
He learned to move a cursor up or down on a computer screen just by thinking about it. Then he was connected to the neuroprosthesis. By thinking about moving the cursor up, he opened his hand, and by thinking "down," his hand closed. He demonstrated using the device to pick up and hold objects like a drinking glass and a fork.
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Before students head home for Thanksgiving dinner with their families, the CSULB Sailing Association hosted a Turkey Day feast of its own on Tuesday Nov 24.
The club rigged up our Capris and sailed from Leeway Sailing Center to Marina Pacifica for Thanksgiving lunch at Chipotle.
Check out the full album of photos on the club's Facebook page.
In addition to the quick lunch, the event gave the club's beginner sailors at chance to get some extra practice before their end-of-semester checkout exams.
It's nice to still sail from a long distance on the bay.


Romeo and Juliet, directed by Downton Abbey's Julian Fellowes, reviewed.
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Carlo Carlei's Romeo and Juliet—a lush, conventional bodice-ripper of an adaptation with a screenplay (by Downton Abbey's Julian Fellowes) that borrows heavily from Shakespeare without quite being Shakespeare—feels like a quaint throwback to an earlier era in which a little-known director could just up and film a Shakespeare play, without big stars or a modern interpretive concept. I'm not sure how appealing this movie will be to the teen and young adult audience at which it seems to be aimed: Kids brought up on the cosmic battles and forbidden passions of Twilight and Harry Potter may find the thwarted longings of the youth of medieval Verona too wanly special-effects-free to hold their interest even for its slim 118-minute running time. Still, there are reasons to see this Romeo and Juliet—it's just a shame that Romeo and Juliet are not chief among them.
Romeo fares even worse—he's played by the model-handsome Douglas Booth, whose magazine-ready looks and polished, slightly stagey manner don't match Steinfeld's more natural style. Though these two actors slightly resemble Olivia Hussey and Leonard Whiting, who played the young lovers in Zeffirelli's 1968 Romeo and Juliet, they have nowhere near the chemistry those performers shared. When the lovers speak that shared sonnet at the masked dance where they meet—"If I profane with my unworthiest hand," etc.—we should be almost swooning for them to lean in and kiss after the final rhyme. Instead, the fatal smooch almost seems to come before we're ready for it—maybe because the sonnet as it appears here isn't quite a sonnet, but a chopped-up mélange of Shakespeare quotes and Fellowes paraphrases that does no favors to the latter writer.
One element of Romeo and Juliet that this interpretation does take literally is its setting, described in the prologue as "fair Verona, where we lay our scene." The film was shot in Verona, Mantua and a few other medieval Italian towns, and the locations are gorgeous: Every scene seems to take place in a different fresco-adorned palace or pristinely preserved church. (In a strange conceit, Romeo is an amateur sculptor and often receives friends while standing in an airy room full of half-carved marble busts.) If you get bored with the familiar travails of the characters in the foreground, you can always focus on what's happening with the painted angels, monks, and saints who crowd the walls behind them.
There's also some fun minor star-spotting to be done in the smaller roles. Stellan Skarsgård gets his Paul Scofield on as the Duke of Verona, sternly admonishing the squabbling Capulets and Montagues from under an awesome hat. Damian Lewis glares and growls and all but rubs his hands together with evil glee as Juliet's martinet of a father (rendered, in this unsubtle version, as a borderline child abuser). Kodi Smit-McPhee, a 17-year-old Australian actor who was memorable as Viggo Mortenson's son in the phenomenally depressing Cormac McCarthy adaptation The Road, stands out as Romeo's loyal cousin Benvolio, whose efforts to make peace only tighten the knot of doom. And Lesley Manville, a favorite actress of Mike Leigh's, shines in the role of Juliet's chatty, adoring nurse.
But it's Paul Giamatti who unexpectedly steals the show as Friar Lawrence, who in this curiously focused adaptation emerges almost as the hero of the story. The lovers—and the audience—log some serious time with this wry, skeptical man of the cloth as he potters among his cloister-garden herbs (one of which will later help Juliet fake her own death), and by the time they meet their final fate in that grim charnel house, it's the Friar's horrified reaction that channels our own. "Go forth, and have more talk of these sad things," urges an unseen narrator in the closing epilogue. I'm not sure this minor adaptation can count on that kind of word of mouth, but the source material should survive until the next round.


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Mr Juhani Damski to be Director-General of the Finnish Meteorological Institute
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On 20 August 2015 the Government appointed Mr Juhani Damski, Doctor of Philosophy, Director-General of the Finnish Meteorological Institute. His term of office will be for the duration of Director-General Petteri Taalas's leave of absence, from 1 January 2016 until 31 December 2019.
Before his current position as Director of the Development Unit at the Administration Department of the Ministry of Transport and Communications Mr Damski worked as Director of the Weather and Safety Division at the Finnish Meteorological Institute, which he joined in 1987.
The present Director-General of the Finnish Meteorological Institute, Mr Petteri Taalas, will take up his post as Secretary-General of the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) in the beginning of 2016.
The Finnish Meteorological Institute is a service and research agency that provides weather, sea and climate services for ensuring public safety and satisfying the requirements of business and industry. The Finnish Meteorological Institute employs around 720 people.
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Environmental NGOs call upon the EU to effectively regulate ship borne pollution
2017 February 28 13:14
From dangerous emissions in ports to hazardous scrapping on South Asian beaches, European shipping companies pollute and put people's health and lives at serious risk. In light of the ongoing European Shipping Week and the failure of the International Maritime Organisation to find solutions, environmental experts are ringing the alarm bell and calling upon European policy makers to urgently adopt policies that effectively target the environmental performance of shipping.
"Every year approximately 50,000 people in the EU die prematurely because of air pollution from ships. While all land-based sources have been gradually regulated in recent years we still face a lack of effective emissions control measures for ships," says Daniel Rieger from NABU.
Burning heavy fuel without any exhaust gas aftertreatment systems is shockingly still standard practice on open sea, despite both regulatory and technical means at hand to limit the threat to human health, environment and global climate caused by such shipping emissions. The EU must take a lead by designating all its waters as emission control areas for ship born sulphur, nitrogen and particle emissions. Such a step would not only lead to a significant uptake of cleaner fuels but also enable the use of particulate filters and nitrogen catalysts, therefore reducing air pollution levels in port cities and along shipping routes significantly. The EU must also back the growing calls for an international ban on the use of heavy fuel oil by Arctic shipping by 2020.
Shipping mind-bogglingly remains the only sector of the economy not contributing to EU climate targets and yet it is uncontestably an industry responsible for emitting significant amounts of CO2. Forecasts show EU-related ship CO2 emissions will increase by 86% in 2050 compared to 1990 levels. By 2050, international shipping could be responsible for 17% of global CO2 emissions if left unregulated. Environmental NGOs therefore welcome that the European Parliament has decided to include shipping in the EU Maritime Climate Fund/ETS from 2023 if the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) fails to deliver on a global deal.
"The IMO has so far failed to give a credible response to the Paris agreement's call for urgent action. The EU ETS will provide important leverage to ensure that the IMO finally delivers what it promised under its own roadmap. EU governments must now follow the European Parliament's lead and agree that ship CO2 emissions must go in the EU ETS if the IMO does not act," says Faig Abbasov from T&E.
Devastating human and environmental impacts are also caused by ships at the end of their operational life. European ship owners shamefully continue to top the list of companies that sell their ships for dirty and dangerous scrapping on beaches in South Asia. A new EU law aims to ensure that EU-flagged ships are recycled in EU-approved facilities. However, in a system where owners can easily swap the flag of their ship and where all vessels sold to South Asia pass through the hands of cash-buyers – middle men specialising in hazardous waste trafficking – legislation based on flag state jurisdiction will be easy to circumvent.
"The scandalous shipbreaking practices of European shipping companies can only be stopped through measures that go beyond flag state jurisdiction. That is why we call on the EU to demand a ship recycling licence from all vessels visiting EU ports," says Ingvild Jenssen of the NGO Shipbreaking Platform. "EU policies need to hit where it hurts. Profits made by exploiting workers and poor environmental law enforcement in South Asia is dirty money."
International shipping laws rest on enforcement by flags of convenience, such as those of Panama and Liberia and Paris MoU grey- and black listed flags at end-of-life. Solutions to curb dirty shipping will need to be ascertained by the EU. Since it controls 40% of the world fleet and is a major trading destination, there is no reason why the EU should be timid in this role.
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The territory of the Achuar, the people of the swamp palm, is a vast and remote territory straddling the long-disputed border of Peru and Ecuador, spanning nearly three million acres of forest.
There are approximately 65 Achuar communities, made up of 50 to 500 people and scattered over a wide area of forest. Among the Achuar, hunting is primarily a male activity, while women are responsible for the communities' gardens. The typical Achuar garden contains many kinds of plants, but the centerpiece of the garden and the staple of their diet is the manioc plant. The dynamic and complex relationship between this plant and its female cultivator is profound.
The garden, or chakra, is the domain of the woman only, and gardening is a fundamentally spiritual activity. The spirit being who created cultivated plants and controls the garden is Nunkui. An Achuar gardener has to develop a relationship with Nunkui as well as with the plants in the garden if she hopes to be successful. To do that, she will sing anents, or magical prayers to the plants, referring to them as her children. These birdlike melodies are intensely personal and deeply spiritual, often sung in private, under the breath, or even silently in her head, as they are not to be heard by anyone but Nunkui. If a women is lucky, Nunkui will appear to her in a dream, revealing to her where to find a special stone, which, when buried in her garden, will enrich the soil, causing her garden to flourish.
The spiritual importance of the garden is not limited to plants: Achuar women typically give birth in their gardens. But the garden is not a refuge. On the contrary, it's seen as a hostile place. According to Achuar belief, when Nunkui first gave cultivated plants to an Achuar family, she was angered by the way the family mistreated her "children," and she cursed the people so that plants would only grow if the people went to extraordinary lengths to care for them. The manioc plant on which they depend is especially hostile. The Achuar believe that the manioc plant is vampiristic, that the leaves of the plant will suck the blood out of anyone who brushes against them. They consider the blood in a body to be finite and irreplaceable, so any loss is a major concern. The anents a woman sings in her garden are intended to placate the manioc plants and keep the woman and her daughters safe in the garden. For the Achuar, anemia in a child is a sure signal to a mother that her manioc plants are not receiving enough attention and prayer.
A typical Achuar woman's garden is made up of plantain, banana, sweet potato, chonta palm, guava, cocoa, papaya, peanuts, melons, caimito (star apple), sweetsop, and avocado. But, of all the abundance in an Achuar garden, the manioc plant is the most prized and depended upon. Therefore, every Achuar woman and girl strives for robust and shiny plants. Every nine months, the Achuar harvest the plant by disinterring long tuberoid roots, which are always replaced by a cutting from the mother plant to grow again. In this way, the supply of manioc root is never depleted.
Chicha is a fermented alcoholic beverage found throughout Latin America and variously made from plants like corn, sugarcane, or pineapple, but the Achuar's chicha, or nijiamanch, is made from manioc root. This yeasty brew is central to the Achuar diet, often substituting for food and water. From the women's very complex relationship in cultivating the manioc plant to the long hours spent harvesting clay and decorating the ceramic pots from which the brew is drunk, the role of chicha is entirely fundamental to Achuar identity.
When chicha is not fermenting in large clay pots on hard dirt floors, it is being cultivated, sung or whispered to, harvested, or doled out in both homes and communal gatherings. Some men drink as many as six bowlfuls in one sitting, or as much as three gallons a day, often skipping meals. In the not-so-distant times of tribal warfare, men would bring only chicha with them for refreshment, foraging and hunting along the way. Though men depend on chicha, the gender issues of cultivation mean that they will neither enter a manioc garden nor come in direct physical contact with the plant itself. In fact, should an insect fall into a man's bowl of chicha, he will wait for his female server to extract the animal, leaving his lips as the only part of his body that meets the drink.
The process of chicha-making is a crucial skill, passed down from a mother to her daughter when the daughter is around 10 years old. A woman first peels, hacks, and boils the manioc in a large pot, then chews it arduously, with her saliva providing the fermenting agent. With cheeks stuffed, she chews until the root has been turned into a fine liquid, which she then skillfully strains through her teeth and spits back into her personal chicha pot. She then uses a paddle to mash the liquid into a smooth paste and leaves the result to ferment under a cover of plantain leaves. Just as each woman has her own chicha pot, so does each woman give her chicha a distinct and personal touch. Taste and texture contrasts vastly from woman to woman. Some women will become admired and sought after for their chicha, while others' brews may seem far too fibrous or sour.
When serving, the women knead the pulp, lifting out the fibers before mixing the paste with water and pouring the creamy liquid into clay bowls, called pinin. Alcohol levels vary depending on the time of the day it is served; sweet chicha is typically consumed in the morning while the more vinegary and intoxicating chicha is reserved for guests, parties, or special gatherings.
When a guest arrives in a Achuar home, the woman of the house immediately offers a large bowl of chicha, and if a man has multiple wives, each wife will offer her own brew in her own bowl. A guest who declines a bowl of chicha gives a serious insult to the woman serving, implying that he distrusts the host. But no Achuar guest would ever make that mistake, knowing the spiritual connections of this most important drink.
Stephanie Hartka is a writer and photographer living and traveling between Latin America and Hudson, New York. Stephanie recently spent six months living with the Achuar people as a co-founder of Wachirpas Volunteer Program.
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Baron Pierre Brice, vlastním jménem Pierre Louis Baron de Bris (6. února 1929 Brest, Francie – 6. června 2015 Paříž, Francie), byl francouzský herec a zpěvák. Pocházel ze staré francouzské šlechtické rodiny. Znám je především jako filmový představitel Vinnetoua ze série západoněmeckých dobrodružných filmů.

Zahrál si v řadě koprodukčních dobrodružných filmů, jež byly natočeny v 60. letech 20. století na motivy dobrodružných románů německého spisovatele Karla Maye.

Ve skutečnosti roli Vinetoua získal jen náhodou. Původně ji mělo získat pár dalších herců, nakonec jej však filmový producent Horst Wendlandt zahlédl na filmovem festivalu v Berline, kdy byl ještě poněkud neznámý. Režisér Harald Reinl mu tuto roli nabídl a nechtěl již o předchozích adeptech ani slyšet. Nejprve sice on sám, který o Vinnetouovi nikdy neslyšel, nesouhlasil, jeho agent ho ale přesvědčil, a tak se zrodila jeho proslulost. Vždy na premiérách filmů, které byly v šedesátých letech minulého století hitem, jej vítaly davy fanoušků a fanynek a smrt jím ztvárňovaného filmového hrdiny způsobila u mnohých zklamání.

Jeho pokrevního bratra Old Shatterhanda tehdy na filmovém plátně ztvárnil americký herec Lex Barker. V dalších filmech hrál po jeho boku roli Vinnetouova přítele Old Surehanda tehdy známý hollywoodský herec Stewart Granger, se kterým si ale údajně nerozuměl, zatímco s Barkerem ano a dokonce se s ním i spřátelil. Nutno dodat, že filmy s dvojicí Barker a Brice jsou ze všech mayovek nejznámější. Oba tito herci si pak zahráli hlavní role v jiném westernu s názvem Peklo Manitoby, ale proslulost z Vinnetoua již nepřekonala.

V českém znění jej daboval Stanislav Fišer. V souvislosti s filmem napsal Karel Deniš (pseudonymem Karel Jordán) dvě knihy Můj bratr Vinnetou a Tenkrát na Západě.

V roce 2008 byl pozván jako host na Trutnov Open Air Music Festival, známý svými odkazy na indiánskou kulturu. Na festivalu se mu dostalo bouřlivého přivítání a byl prohlášen "náčelníkem spřáteleného kmene Apačů". V roce 2013 se na hudební festival opět vrátil.

V roce 2015 se o Pieru Briceovi uvažovalo jako o možném představiteli Vinnetouova otce Inču-čuny v plánovaných nových třech filmech televizní společnosti RTL.

Pierre Brice zemřel 6. června 2015 na zápal plic za přítomnosti své manželky v nemocnici.

Filmy o Vinnetouovi
 1962 Poklad na Stříbrném jezeře
 1963 Vinnetou
 1964 Vinnetou - Rudý gentleman
 1964 Old Shatterhand
 1965 Petrolejový princ
 1964 Mezi supy  1965 Vinnetou – Poslední výstřel 1966 Vinnetou a míšenka Apanači 1966 Old Firehand 1968 Vinnetou a Old Shatterhand v údolí smrti 1998 Vinnetou se vrací (televizní film)

 Knihy o Vinnetouvi
 2008 Můj bratr Vinnetou – Karel Jordán (pseu.), encyklopedie
 2011 Tenkrát na Západě'' – Karel Jordán (pseu.), o filmovém žánru, westerny, profily herců

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Also known as: Isshuukan Friends
Episode 1 also reviewed here: Anime 1st episodes 2014: O
Director: Tarou Iwasaki
Original creator: Matcha Hazuki
Actor: Sora Amamiya, Yoshitaka Yamaya, Asuka Kakumoto, Junji Majima, Mai Nakahara, Rui Tanabe, Rumi Ookubo, Shintaro Asanuma, Yoshimasa Hosoya
Keywords: anime
Review date: 26 June 2015
It's fascinating, delicate and sweet. It doesn't tie everything in a bow for you at the end, but that doesn't mean it's not lovely.
It's about a schoolgirl with amnesia (Kaori Fujimiya) and it doesn't end with all her memories restored. Not even close. She's on a slow path to improvement. That's it. The other main character is a boy she gets very close to (Yuuki Hase), but the series doesn't end with their relationship having moved to a romantic level, even though Yuuki would clearly love that to happen. They're just friends, but that couldn't be a bigger deal for either of them.
You see, Kaori's spent a decade keeping herself friendless and rejecting anyone who tries to get close to her, despite being naturally a warm, kind girl who used to love having friends. She's got a memory reset. Every Monday, she's had a brainwipe. Most of her memories will be retained, fortunately, so in most respects she's a functioning human being. She can walk, talk and speak Japanese. She's actually very good academically, partly because all she does at home is go home and study.
No, the memories she loses are those of friends. Anyone she sees as a friend will have been erased from her brain, along with anything enjoyable she did with them. If you want to be her friend, you'll have to start again from scratch every Monday. Hence the show's title. She remembers non-friends, so you'll be fine if you've been cold and rude towards her. She also remembers her family, fortunately. However at the start of the series it's the devil's own job trying to make Kaori unbend and open up towards anyone. Talk to her and she'll ask you to stop and leave her alone. Go on to the roof where she's eating and she'll get up and walk away. She's painfully aware that her memory wipe is going to look like a slap in the face when Monday comes around and it hasn't even occurred to her to try to explain about her condition to anyone. Most people wouldn't believe her. It is pretty unlikely-sounding, after all.
(By the way, I discussed Kaori with my dad, the clinical psychologist. He'd never heard of a case like hers, which isn't surprising, although he did start talking about hysterical memory and other such real conditions.)
This show is about Kaori's journey to having friends. This is massive for her. It changes her life. The first and most important of them is Yuuki and just being friends with him is far, far more important than any hypothetical romantic relationship they might have one day. (It's impossible to imagine that they won't end up there, though, and at least two other characters in the show appear to be cheerleading for this to happen.)
I like many things about this show, but one crucial thing about it is its intelligence. It both subverts and thinks hard about its own rules. It takes Yuuki almost no time to suggest that Kaori start keeping a diary, for instance, which becomes a proxy memory and lets Kaori catch up on all the stuff she's forgotten. It occurred to me that becoming family (i.e. getting married) might be a way of breaking the amnesia... and then late in the series, the show's ditziest character points this out in dialogue, albeit only as a semi-frivolous throwaway. On the other hand, though, you can't rules-lawyer this show. Question: what would happen if Kaori had a conversation with a friend and a non-friend? Answer: it's fuzzy. She'll remember something involving the non-friend, but the details will be too vague to allow questions like "who was the other person we were talking to?"
Similarly, I was barking up the wrong tree by wondering whether Yuuki was necessarily doing the right thing by trying to be her friend in the first place. She's saying no. Maybe she doesn't want great chunks of her memory erased every week? What if saying hello to her in class were to start wiping her memories of school itself? She'd no longer be able to learn and study, in the long run handicapping her even more in life.
I still don't think this is a trivial question, but the show's answer to it is to point out that Kaori's a person, not a mathematical problem. She herself wants friends. End of discussion. She just thought that was something she couldn't have. The way forward isn't to accept the rules of her amnesia, but to persist and help her heal herself. Her condition is trauma-induced, after all, rather than brain damage or anything congenital. Over time, we see her getting very slightly better. Little things will pop back unbidden, faces start feeling familiar and what she reads in her diary every Monday starts ringing a few, faint bells.
Kaori's lovely. Yuuki is too, essentially, but it's possible to have quite a complicated disussion about him. Some people who've watched this anime dislike him and it's certainly true that he's capable of being jealous, possessive and borderline creepy. For a while, it's almost as if he sees Kaori as his property. When Kaori makes her first new friend who's not him, he's not happy. All that said, there are three reasons why I like him anyway.
(a) He always puts Kaori first. He never, ever tries to push beyond the friendship level that's best for her. He's genuinely trying to help her, even when his judgement leads him to wrong conclusions, and he never lets himself be led by that jealousy. You can't question his kindness or his good intentions.
(b) He's a teenager in an intense relationship with a girl he fancies. For a long time, it's just the two of them. Kaori even orders him to keep it secret so that no one else knows about them. It would almost be more surprising if something like that hadn't come up, especially since Yuuki is a fairly quiet person himself. He's not without friends, but he's no party animal.
(c) This is the important one: he grows. Yuuki develops as a person over the course of the series, just as Kaori does. His less attractive tendencies make Kaori blow up at him in ep.4 and over time he clearly manages to sort himself out. His error in the last couple of episodes (eventually rectified, thank goodness) is the exact opposite of that former jealous possessiveness. He's outgrown it. The existence of her other friends is a comfort for him. He's matured, albeit into someone who can make new mistakes instead.
I like the supporting cast too. Shougo Kiryuu is interesting, being a reluctant friend who regards everything and everyone as a pain in the neck and will say so to your face. He's not actually without compassion, but you'd need a coach and horses to drag it out of him. (Kaori always remembers Shougo.) Saki Yamagishi, on the other hand, is a thematic mirror of Kaori but with a completely different attitude to life. (She even gets a distant but clear parallel to the Kaori-Yuuki relationship.) Saki also has memory problems, but not because of trauma or psychological damage. She's just dozy. She's also awesomely laid back about being a hopeless case and drifts her way invincibly through life, protected in all things by her optimism, her cheerfulness and by generally not giving a damn.
I loved Rumi Okubo's performance as Saki's voice actress, by the way. There's self-awareness and a sense of humour about her scatterbrained laziness. It's distinctive. "Hehehe."
Apparently there's a Hollywood film with a not dissimilar premise, 50 First Dates. It stars Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore, but the reviews I've just skimmed are all very positive. I've never seen it though, personally, and I'm not expecting to prefer it to One Week Friends.
Most of this series has no plot, as such. There's some more overt drama in the final episodes, but for the most part we're just exploring the characters, their situation and their evolving relationship. It's funny and sweet. Kaori's understanding mum made me laugh, for instance. The show's sharp edges stop it from being saccharine (Yuuki's issues, Shougo's coldness and most importantly Kaori's amnesia), but it's basically a charming show that made me like its characters and want them to find happiness. It's delicate. It's another winner from Brain's Base.
"That's a Monday face."


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Q: Making Regular Expression SQL Anywhere I'm trying to make a regular expression to match some specific strings.
Regular expression: (A[\s.AVC]+)
For example:

I need only the words at leading of string like this:
"AA",
"AAVV",
"A.",
"AVENIDA",
"A.V",
"AA VV"

But it sometimes matches more words per line. Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

A: You can use special character ^ at the start of the regex, so it always finds occurrences from the start of the line.
More information here

A: You can use anchor ^ to force you regex engine match the pattern from start also you need a word boundary :
(^\bA[\s.AVC]+\b)

And in SQL you can use [[:<:]], [[:>:]] for word boundaries :
(^[[:<:]]A[\s.AVC]+[[:>:]])

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Q: how automatically perform touch in android programmatically I have a RelativeLayout I want to perform a touch event with out touching the screen want to give a Toast message if its actually touched or not.Please throw I have tried with the below it seems not working
MotionEvent event = MotionEvent.obtain(downTime, eventTime, action,
                                       x, y, pressure, size,
                                       metaState, xPrecision, yPrecision,
                                       deviceId, edgeFlags);
onTouchEvent(event);

A: You should not do that. If you indeed want to "touch" your view programatically, you should wrap whatever happens in your onTouch method in another function(without the MotionEvent parameter) and call that function, when you want to touch your view. Calling the onTouch without a real touch would get you negative stylepoints
@Override
boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent me) {
  return action(me.getX(),me.getY());
}

boolean action(int x, int y) {
  //do some stuff
}

void somewhereelse() {
  //Perform touch action
  action(0,0);
}

If you really want to 'dispatch' a touch event. You do it like this:
View v;
v.dispatchTouchEvent(MotionEvent.obtain(0,0,MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN, 100,100,0.5f,5,0,1,1,0,0));

The values are pretty random. Only the deviceId=0 indicates that it is programatically dispatched Touch.

A: Try This
 Button btnTouch = (Button) findViewById(R.id.btn_touch);
            btnTouch.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
                @Override
                public void onClick(View v) {
                    x++;
                    y++;
                    perFromTouch(x,y);
                }
            });

     private void perFromTouch(float x, float y) {

            // Obtain MotionEvent object
            long initTime = android.os.SystemClock.uptimeMillis();
            long eventTime = android.os.SystemClock.uptimeMillis() + 100;

            // List of meta states found here:     developer.android.com/reference/android/view/KeyEvent.html#getMetaState()
            int metaState = 0;
            MotionEvent motionEvent = MotionEvent.obtain(
                    initTime,
                    eventTime,
                    MotionEvent.ACTION_UP,
                    x,
                    y,
                    metaState
            );
            motionEvent.setSource(inputSource);
            v.dispatchTouchEvent(motionEvent);
        }

A: Find your layout in activity
RelativeLayout layout=(RelativeLayout)findviewbyid(R.id.relativelayout);

layout.setOnTouchListener(new OnTouchListener() {

        @Override
        public boolean onTouch(View arg0, MotionEvent arg1) {
            // TODO Auto-generated method stub
            //do your work
            return false;

        }
    });


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To study the effect of water quality and operating parameters on membrane fouling, a comparative analysis of wastewater (WW) and seawater (SW) fouled reverse osmosis (RO) membranes was conducted. Membranes were harvested from SWRO and WWRO pilot plants located in Vilaseca (East Spain), both using ultrafiltration as pretreatment. The SWRO unit was fed with Mediterranean seawater and the WWRO unit was operated using secondary effluent collected from the municipal wastewater treatment plant. Lead and terminal SWRO and WWRO modules were autopsied after five months and three months of operation, respectively. Ultrastructural, chemical, and microbiological analyses of the fouling layers were performed. Results showed that the WWRO train had mainly bio/organic fouling at the lead position element and inorganic fouling at terminal position element, whereas SWRO train had bio/organic fouling at both end position elements. In the case of WWRO membranes, Betaproteobacteria was the major colonizing species; while Ca, S, and P were the major present inorganic elements. The microbial population of SWRO membranes was mainly represented by Alpha and Gammaproteobacteria. Ca, Fe, and S were the main identified inorganic elements of the fouling layer of SWRO membranes. These results confirmed that the RO fouling layer composition is strongly impacted by the source water quality.


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