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2012 Field Biologist: A Documentary by Jared Flesher
This site has been preserved and archived as part of the required reading materials for Craig Mark's Introductory to Film Marketing course. Mr. Mark is an experienced cinematographer having worked in the commercial world promoting brands for his firm Double X Impressions. His work for HampdenMoving.com, a small Baltimore movers service, gained nationwide recognition and was featured on the cover of the July 2012 issue of A Roll Magazine. A family owned business with over 100 years experience moving families in Baltimore, makes this business a local icon and Craig's use of historic footage points out this legacy in his viral campaign. Students may download more info on the course, including the full syllabus, from the Film Department website, or pick up a paper copy from Mr. Mark's office.
This was the official website for FIELD BIOLOGIST.
Content is from the site's 2013-2014 archived pages as well as other sources.
In 2012 Field Biologist was filmmaker Jared Flesher's newest documentary project. That winter Jared traveled to Costa Rica with camera in hand.The film presents the major challenges facing biodiversity on Earth—climate change and habitat destruction chief among them—while also raising some fundamental questions: What makes someone a scientist? How important is a formal education? What risks are worth taking? What should you do with your life?
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Field Biologist
Produced and directed by Jared Flesher
Running time: 53 min.
Field Biologist (Trailer)
The goal of Field Biologist is to create a rollicking nature film in which the star is not an animal but rather human passion for the natural world. If we are to come together to confront the biodiversity crisis on Earth, I believe it is passion, supported by good science, that will succeed in inspiring action.
-Jared Flesher
Field Biologist director
"Field Biologist takes your breath away. First the mindbogglingly beautiful nature shots inspire your awe, and then protagonist Tyler Christensen goes and steals your heart. A must-see for any nature lover."
—Rebeka Ryvola, Festival co-director, Environmental Film Festival at Yale
"Tyler Christensen is no science geek, and his fascination with our planet's natural wonders is infectious, accessible, and inspiring. What comes across is that exploring the natural world is not only fun, but that we can all play our part. This is an engaging and delightful film. I recommend it enthusiastically."
--Sir Peter Crane, Dean, S chool of Forestry & Environmental Studies, Yale
Director's Bio:
Field Biologist director Jared Flesher is an award-winning reporter, photojournalist, and documentary filmmaker. He is also the editor of Edible Jersey magazine.
Jared has directed three documentary films that have screened at film festivals around the world: The Farmer and the Horse, Sourlands, and Field Biologist.
Jared's articles have been published by The New York Times Online, The Wall Street Journal Online, The Christian Science Monitor, Grist.com, and many others.
For fun, Jared enjoys growing food in his home garden, jogging with his dog, and exploring forests.
FILM SYNOPSIS
Field Biologist is the story of 22-year-old Tyler Christensen, a talented but underemployed high school graduate from New Jersey still trying to figure out what to do with his life. Tyler's great love is being outside, chasing birds and studying wildlife. One day he decides—brushing aside his lack of a college degree or scientific credentials—to drop everything and travel to Costa Rica to start doing his own conservation-oriented research on birds in the tropics.
Tyler's adventure takes him from the cloud forests of Monteverde to the mangrove swamps of the Nicoya Peninsula, culminating in a plan to try to help save the highly endangered mangrove hummingbird. The film presents the major challenges facing biodiversity on Earth—climate change and habitat destruction chief among them—while also raising some fundamental questions: What makes someone a scientist? How important is a formal education? What risks are worth taking? What should you do with your life?
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Environmental Film Festival at Yale
Princeton Environmental Film Festival
Barcelona Environmental International Film Festival
Environmental Film Festival Australia
Environmental Film Festival in the Nation's Capital
Colorado Environmental Film Festival
One Earth Film Festival
RVA Environmental Film Festival
Westwood Green Screen Environmental Film Festival
Thunder Bay Environmental Film Festival
Somewhat North of Boston Film Festival
Schiff Environmental Film Festival
1st Blog Post
I've been packing. It's about time — in fewer than 40 hours I leave for Costa Rica. For the next seven weeks, I'll be dodging venomous snakes and chasing songbirds as I shoot my next documentary film, Field Biologist.
And I'll be blogging. This blog will be adventure journal, field notebook, and thoughts on the craft of making a documentary.
Let's start where every great film starts, with a challenge:
My challenge at the moment is to fit everything I need to shoot a documentary (plus live abroad for two months) in a suitcase and two carry-ons. The weight limit for the suitcase is 50 pounds; the weight limit for each carry-on is 40 pounds. Most travelers in my situation could pay extra to bring up to two additional bags, but my extra baggage opportunities are being devoted to the transport of hummingbird feeders that will be used by the research team I'm following. (More on them in upcoming posts.)
I've always enjoyed the challenge of traveling efficiently, with the least amount of equipment required to do the job well. In this case, however, I need to pack light while still making sure I have at least two of everything. (James Cameron preaches "massive redundancy.") So I head into the Costa Rican forest with two DSLRs, a few lenses, three microphones, two ways of recording audio, two external hard drives, two tripods, and lots of extra wires and connectors. Not exactly massive, but it will give me some redundancy in case something breaks.
I'm shooting Field Biologist on the Panasonic GH2, the same camera I used to shoot Sourlands.
After hundreds and hundreds of hours of use, I feel that I know my GH2 intimately. But can it withstand a direct hit from a coconut?
I've got boots, sneakers, and sandals. Shirts, shorts, pants. Socks and underwear. Daylight balanced CFL light bulbs. I hope they let those on the airplane.
I also have reading material, although I had to be choosy. The three books traveling to Costa Rica with me are The One-Straw Revolution, by Masanobu Fukuoka, Driven to Extinction, by Richard Pearson, and Plant Local, by Jared Rosenbaum. They are each about ecology, in one sense or another. The fourth book on my list, the first not to make the cut, was my B&H catalog.
The plane to San Jose leaves Newark on Saturday morning at 7 a.m.
Reprinted from the June 25, 2014, issue of U.S. 1 Newspaper
A Hopewell Field Biologist Follows the Flock
by Lynn Robbins
Tyler Christensen
Tyler Christensen was counting down the hours for his next birding excursion. He would be capturing, banding, and releasing birds that nest and mate in Hopewell's Sourland Mountains. But on this trip, he wouldn't be searching anywhere near Hopewell. He was headed for Costa Rica, a winter home for the song birds who migrate from the Sourlands and throughout New Jersey in the fall.
It was early December, 2012, and Christensen's destination was the Nicoya Peninsula Avian Research Station (NPARS), which he co-founded to protect a species in potential peril and a driving force of his personal nature, curiosity.
Joining Christensen in Costa Rica would be Hopewell film maker Jared Flesher who would be creating a documentary about the adventures and research findings of Christensen and his NPARS co-founding partner Sean Graesser. A Hopewell native, Graesser is a photographer and bander and works for the Connecticut branch of the National Audubon Society. The NPARS team also includes grounds keeper, birder convert and go-to man Dairo Vinasco; and a small group of committed field technicians. The name of the film would become "Field Biologist."
The documentary, a presentation of both the Yale and Princeton environmental film festivals, marks its New Jersey premiere at Princeton Public Library on Saturday, June 28, at 7 p.m.
Flesher, who produced "Sourlands: Stories from the Fight for Sustainability," released in 2012, decided to tell Christensen's story because he saw a connection between Costa Rica and Hopewell's Sourland mountains.
"Migratory songbirds fly thousands of miles each spring to find habitat, breed, and raise chicks," Flesher says in his film journal. "Then they fly ... to winter places like the Nicoya Peninsula ... In Costa Rica, our team has banded Kentucky warbler, ovenbird, wood thrush, chestnut-sided warbler, black-and-white warbler, worm-eating warbler, and yellow warbler. These are all birds found in the Sourlands forest each summer. These birds would cease to exist without intact habitat at each end of the journey."
NPARS exists to keep these habitats intact, protecting them from commercial development. This ornithological research and conservation project is run by volunteers and receives contributions from several organizations, including the Washington Crossing Audubon Society.
For two months each winter, NPARS operates several bird banding stations along the eastern coast of the peninsula, collecting data from migrant songbirds and resident Central American species. Volunteer workers net the birds, band and release them, and record the information for databases maintained by the Costa Rican government and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).
While filming "Field Biologist," both Flesher and Christensen blogged about their planned endeavors and surprises along the way. Flesher's posts range from December, 2012, through early February, 2013. Christensen's posts include two excursions, the first taking place during the filming, and the second during a follow-up visit a year later.
On January 20 of this year Christensen shared an unexpected event on the way home from a grocery store: "Two sounds drifted over the noise of cars. We knew this to be the sound of the enigmatic and renowned three-wattled bellbird, and it was singing from just up the hill from where we stood."
Christensen then describes a farcical struggle to document the bird and has the team listening to treetop songs, racing along pathways through hotel grounds and vegetation, and, at last, finding the "spot where we could see, at the top of an ylang-ylang tree, a brown-and-white bird about the size of a pigeon" and become mixed-up with complications that involved the need for telephoto lenses and the ensuing stalled vehicles, running, cursing, gate jumping, and an eventual victory. "All in all in under 15 minutes (which, believe us, is very good time)," he says.
But not all of Christensen's unexpected discoveries resulted in rollicking road trips — like the time he and Flesher came across a butterfly they had never seen before, or better put, had never heard before. "Hovering just over the log were two white and black butterflies. They were, did our ears deceive us, crackling? Neither of us had ever met a butterfly that makes snap/crack/pop sounds as it flutters. We consulted a field guide as soon as we returned to the research gazebo. Our exact butterfly wasn't listed, but there was a genus that sounded about right: cracker butterfly. The males crack their wings, either to attract females or scare off other males," writes Flesher.
On one of the team's side trips, they traveled to the Monteverde Cloud Forest, famous for its bioperse ecosystems, in Christensen's words, "a world-renowned birding hotspot." There they observed a bird he describes as a poster-species for the conservation of the cloud forests, a bird that has brought attention and funding to the region.
"Without doubt, the most iconic bird found at Monteverde is the resplendent quetzal," notes Christensen. "The quetzal's beauty (shimmering iridescent green, crimson breast, and long flowing tail) and its secretive demeanor make it one of the most charismatic of the cloud forest avifauna. The quetzal is at the top of the 'most wanted' list for most of the thousands of birders who flock to Monteverde each year to enjoy its rich community of highland bird species."
Christensen has been interested in nature ever since he was a child growing up in Pennington. His parents, who operated a roofing business, took Christensen, his brother and his two sisters on frequent outdoor vacations. His father, who died about five years ago, was fascinated with reptiles and amphibians. "He deserves a lot of credit for my passion for biology and nature," Christensen says.
When Christensen was about 13, while on one of their family vacations in Costa Rica, he met a tourist guide who could identify birds just by listening to their songs. "He was a good ambassador to the world of birds. He opened my eyes and ears. I was hooked," Christensen says. Back home, he became a volunteer for Hannah Suthers' bird banding station in the Sourlands and earned his master's banding permit from the U.S. Geological Survey.
After graduating from Hopewell Valley Regional High School, Christensen opted to continue his personal research, deferring a college degree. In addition to co-founding NPARS, he has worked for the Mercer County Park Commission as a nature guide, and today raises chickens and works at farm markets on weekends. He will study at Rutgers School of Arts and Sciences and work as an ornithology teaching assistant at the school of environmental and biological sciences in the fall.
Upon returning to the states after the 2013-'14 excursion, Christensen published the results of the NPARS research. During this "productive season," the team processed a grand total of 529 birds, including 72 banded by early NPARS or other researchers.
Christensen is already planning the 2014-'15 excursion to Costa Rica and is hoping to reach agreements with his Rutgers professors to take exams online.
He hopes that people who see "Field Biologist" will be inspired to get involved. "The natural world is full of interesting and exciting things in need of protection," he says. "To be a conservationist, you need curiosity. You need to follow the scientific method, the way of thinking. But curiosity is the most important thing."
Field Biologist, New Jersey Premiere, Princeton Environmental Film Festival, Princeton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon Street, Princeton. Saturday, June 28, 7 p.m. Free and open to the public. 609-924-9529


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is a district located in central Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. It currently consists of two towns, Ōiso, and Ninomiya. The majority of the area of the city of Hadano and the entire cities of Hiratsuka and Isehara were formerly part of Naka District.

As of 2009, the district had an estimated population of 62,522 and a density of 2,380 persons per km2. The total area was 26.26 km2.

Towns and villages
Ninomiya
Ōiso

History

Naka District was one of the four subdivisions of Sagami Province established by the later Hōjō clan of Odawara during the Sengoku period. In the Edo period, it was nominally part of Odawara Domain, although large portions were tenryō territory controlled by the shōgun in Edo through various hatamoto.

Timeline
After the Meiji Restoration and with the establishment of the district system in 1878, the territory came under the control of  and . On March 26, 1896, these two districts were joined to form the modern Naka District, which initially consisted of five towns and 23 villages. Hiratsuka was elevated to city status in 1932, followed by Hadano in 1955 and Isehara in 1971.

Merger table

Districts in Kanagawa Prefecture

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Competitive Edge: Competition & EU law news - June 2019
By Hein Hobbelen, Pauline Kuipers, Richard Eccles, Ariane Le Strat
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Keeping you up to date on Competition & EU Law developments in Europe and beyond
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EU Regulatory Initiatives and Competition Policy in the Digital Era: What has been completed and what to expect in the next mandate
The tech revolution rages through the world, providing new opportunities and challenges in a globalised world. In Europe, the European Commission (the Commission) has claimed that achieving a connected Digital Single Market (DSM) can contribute EUR 415 billion per year into the economy.
Bird & Bird launches report with WIRED magazine on emerging trends shaping future corporate crises
We have teamed up with tech magazine WIRED to produce a report exploring emerging trends shaping corporate crises in the years to come – and how senior management can equip themselves with the tools to respond.
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EU - Five banks fined for their role in foreign exchange trading cartels
Australia - Australia's competition regulator cracks down on misleading and anticompetitive conduct by airlines
Belgium - Belgian Competition Authority approved acquisition of De Vijver Media by Telenet
Czech Republic - Agrofert is allowed to take over United Bakeries only under conditions
Denmark - Danish Competition Authority establishes center for digital platforms
France - € 900,000 fine for dawn raid obstruction
Germany - Consumer protection – German Federal Cartel Office launches sector inquiry into online user reviews
Hungary - Draft report on sector inquiry regarding card acquiring services
Italy - Still no rest for Google in Europe: AGCM launched an investigation against the tech giant for an alleged abuse of dominant position
Spain - 34 textbook publishers and their association fined with nearly € 34 million for coordination of commercial strategies
The Netherlands - Dutch court provides guidance on FRAND license negotiations (Philips v Asus)
UK - Provisional finding of market sharing by four pharmaceutical companies
Five banks fined for their role in foreign exchange trading cartels
On 16 May 2019, in two settlement decisions, the European Commission ("EC") has fined Barclays, RBS, Citigroup, JPMorgan and MUFG 1.07 billion EUR for participating in two foreign exchange spot trading cartels (see EC press release here).
"Foreign exchange spot-trading activities are one of the largest markets in the world, worth billions of euros every day," said Margrethe Vestager, European competition commissioner. "These cartel decisions send a clear message that the Commission will not tolerate collusive behaviour in any sector of the financial markets."
Description of the cartel
Foreign Exchange, or "Forex", refers to the trading of currencies. When companies (e.g., pension funds, hedge funds, major companies and other banks) exchange large amounts of a certain currency against another, they usually do so through a Forex trader. Forex spot order transactions are meant to be executed on the same day at the prevailing exchange rate.
The EC identified two separate cartels of traders, i.e., "Three Way Banana Split" and "Essex Express", that used online chat rooms to share information about customers' orders, prices, their open risk positions and other details of current or planned trading activities in order to manipulate the Spot Foreign Exchange market for 11 currencies (i.e., Euro, British Pound, Japanese Yen, Swiss Franc, US, Canadian, New Zealand and Australian Dollars, and Danish, Swedish and Norwegian crowns). Most of the traders knew each other on a personal basis (e.g., one chatroom was called Essex Express 'n the Jimmy because all the traders except one called "James" lived in Essex and met on a train to London).
Occasionally they also coordinated their trading strategies, for example through a practice called 'standing down' whereby some of the group would temporarily stop trading to avoid interfering with others.
Under the EC's 2006 Leniency Notice (see here):UBS received full immunity for revealing the existence of the cartels, thereby avoiding a €285m fine.
In the Three Way Banana Split and the Essex Express infringements, banks involved benefited from reductions of their fines from 10% to 50% for their cooperation with the EC investigation. The highest fine was imposed on Citigroup with an amount of €311m, followed by RBS with €249m, JPMorgan at €229m and Barclays at €210m.
Only the MUFG Bank (formerly Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi) did not apply for leniency. The fine imposed on MUFG amounted €70m.
In addition, under the EC's 2008 Settlement Notice (see here), the EC applied a reduction of 10% to the fines imposed on the companies in view of their acknowledgement of participation in the cartels.
Australia's competition regulator cracks down on misleading and anticompetitive conduct by airlines
In May 2019, Australia's competition regulator, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), secured two significant victories in the Federal Court against airlines, one for misleading conduct against Jetstar Airways Pty Ltd (Jetstar) in relation to its refund practices, and one for anticompetitive conduct against PT Garuda Indonesia (Garuda) in relation to colluding on freight charges. Penalties of AUD$1.95 million and AUD$19 million, respectively, were awarded against the airlines. These decisions make clear the extent to which Australia's competition and consumer laws can apply to international businesses' practices and conduct.
ACCC v Jetstar
The case against Jetstar concerned a number of representations that Jetstar had made to consumers about its refund policy, in particular, that:
(a) certain discounted fares were not eligible for a refund if the flight had been cancelled or delayed between April 2017 and March 2018; and
(b) consumers could only get a refund if they decided to purchase a more expensive fare.
The ACCC had alleged that these representations were false or misleading for the purposes of the Australian Consumer Law (ACL) on the basis that they sought to exclude, restrict or modify the operation of a number of the statutory consumer guarantees. In particular, the ACCC alleged that the representations concerning consumers' limited refund rights (described above) contravened the right for consumers to seek a range of remedies (including, in certain circumstances, refunds and compensation for reasonably foreseeable losses) where there has been a failure to comply with a consumer guarantee.
The Federal Court agreed with the ACCC, finding that Jetstar had breached the ACL and ordered it to pay AUD$1.95m in penalties. In late 2018, the ACCC was also successful in obtaining court-enforceable undertakings from other airlines on the same issue, including Qantas, Tiger Airways and Virgin, which required them to amend their refund policies and practices comply with the consumer guarantee obligations under the ACL.
This decision is of relevance to international airlines as it makes clear the ACL applies to refund policies for international flights departing Australia. They also apply to international flights to Australia where they are booked through the Australian website of an airline. Read more about the judgement here.
ACCC v Garuda
The case against Garuda concerned its participation in a global air cartel which had been colluding on fees and surcharges for air freight services. The action against Garuda followed court action being taken against a total of 14 airlines, including Air New Zealand, Qantas, Singapore Airlines and Cathay Pacific, in relation to the anticompetitive conduct.
The Federal Court found that, between 2003 and 2006, Garuda had made and given effect to price-fixing agreements in relation to security and fuel surcharges, in addition to a customs fee from Indonesia. The Court ordered that Garuda pay AUD$15m in penalties in relation to the conduct, and then ordered that it pay an additional $4 million for imposing insurance and fuel surcharges from Hong Kong. The penalties payable by Garuda to the regulator totalled AUD$19m in total. Read more about the judgement here.
Both decisions were handed down on 30 May 2019. These two recent actions are a continuation of the ACCC's ongoing commitment to cracking down on illegal and anticompetitive behaviour engaged in by airlines.
Belgian Competition Authority approved acquisition of De Vijver Media by Telenet
On 13 May 2019 the Belgian Competition Authority ("BCA") conditionally approved Telenet's acquisition of sole control over De Vijver Media, after a referral by the European Commission ("EC"). The deal was originally notified to the EC on 4 October 2018. The EC already investigated Telenet's acquisition of joint control over De Vijver in 2015.
De Vijver is a media company. It has a number of subsidiaries including SBS Belgium which broadcasts Dutch-language free-to-air TV channels "Vier", "Vijf" and "Zes", the content producer Woestijnvis and the advertising agency SBS Sale Belgium. Telenet operates a cable network in Flanders and parts of Brussels, and also operates a number of Pay-TV channels. As a result of this transaction Telenet becomes a fully vertically integrated media and broadcasting company.
The BCA imposed several commitments in particular an obligation to provide FRAND access to De Vijver's channels, commitments related to the ranking of channels in the digital guide of Telenet, commitments regarding distribution fees, obligations on access of TV channels to Telenet's digital platform and to audience data. As a final commitment Telenet has to provide broadcasters access to data gathered by its platform in order to allow them to target advertising on the set-top boxes of Telenet's customers. This commitment is noteworthy since the EC already investigated concerns about the potentially chilling effect of the transaction on innovation in targeted advertising technologies during its review of the joint venture in 2015. At the time these concerns were dismissed by the EC because it had doubts on the feasibility, technical and commercial features of targeted advertising, but now the BCA has taken them on board.
Link to the decision NL and the press release ENG.
Agrofert is allowed to take over United Bakeries only under conditions
On 23 May 2019, the Czech Office for the Protection of Competition ("UOHS") issued a decision approving AGROFERT a.s. ("AGROFERT") to take sole control over UB HOLDING a.s. and its subsidiary UNITED BAKERIES a.s., subject to a number of structural commitments which were accepted by the party to the proceedings in order to maintain effective competition. The decision already came into force.
The expansion of AGROFERT's activities in the wholesale market of fresh bread, bread products and other fresh bakery products, would result in a substantial market share (over 50% of the market), undermining the possibility to exert sufficient competitive pressure on AGROFERT.
In order to eliminate the UOHS's concerns of distortion of competition, AGROFERT accepted structural commitments consisting of an obligation to sell off several production plants of the merging parties. The divestiture will result in substantial reduction of acquirer's market shares in the markets affected by the concentration and creation of a new undertaking or strengthening one of the existing competitors, which will create a real competitive pressure on the merged entity and thereby the competition maintains effective.
Please find the relevant press release in Czech and in English.
Danish Competition Authority establishes center for digital platforms
On 1 May 2019, the Danish Competition Authority ("DCA") increased its focus on digital platforms by establishing a new center for this matter. The DCA has found it necessary to establish this center as digital platforms play an increasing role in trade with goods and services. The purpose of the center is two-folded:
1) to strengthen the enforcement of the competition rules towards digital platforms, and
2) to complete analysis to ensure efficient legislation.
These analyses will include studies of how the behavior of the platform affects the consumer, growth conditions for smaller companies and the consumer's possibilities to navigate safely in the digital markets.
The initiative to put aside funds for the center was made by the Danish Government based on a paper of the Danish Disruption Advisory regarding digital platforms and fair competition.
The center shall among others enforce competition rules on digital platforms, prepare competition analyses of digital platforms and enforce business users' rights in relation to the P2B-regulation. Furthermore, the center aims to be the focal point for DCA's analysis of big data, machine learning, artificial intelligence and algorithms, and the usage of these.
Please find the press release (in Danish only) here.
€ 900,000 fine for dawn raid obstruction
On 22 May 2019, the French Competition Authority ("FCA") imposed a EUR 900,000 fine on Akka Technologies ("AT") for dawn raid obstruction, a first for the FCA.
Since 2008, the FCA can impose a fine of up to 1% of a company's highest worldwide turnover for obstructing its investigations. The FCA already applied this provision in 2017 by imposing a fine of 30 million EUR on Brenntag for failure to respond to FCA's requests for information (more information here).
In the case at hand, the FCA found that several AT's employees hindered the proper conduct of the dawn raids carried out in AT's premises on 8 November 2018 by:
i. breaching a seal (an AT employee opened an office door that had been sealed by the FCA's investigators in the morning);
ii. altering the functioning of a mailbox (one of AT's employee withdrew one of his colleagues from an email chain, while his computer was being inspected).
In support of its decision, the FCA specified that the offence of obstruction covers all conducts which deliberately or negligently tend to obstruct or delay the investigations carried out by the FCA and constitutes as such a very serious offence as it may prevent the FCA from identifying, proving and sanctioning competition law infringements.
AT has already indicated its intention to appeal the FCA's decision, arguing that the breach of seals and the alteration of a mailbox functioning do not constitute an obstruction within the meaning of the French Commercial Code.
Meanwhile, the FCA is pursuing the investigation on the substance of the case.
For more information: please refer to the full FCA's decision available here (in French) or the FCA's press release available here (in English).
Consumer protection – German Federal Cartel Office launches sector inquiry into online user reviews
In its press release of 29 May 2019 the German Federal Cartel Office ("FCO") announced the launch of another customer protection related sector inquiry into online user reviews.
In view of the FCO's new competences regarding consumer protection which were implemented in the German Act against Restraints of Competition (reported in our May edition- see here) the German Competition Authority now further extends its activities in the area of consumer protection. The FCO's attention, thereby, will now focus on online user review systems and on potential manipulations connected thereto.
The sector inquiry was triggered by investigations and media reports which repeatedly pointed out that in many cases user reviews in the internet are not authentic, i.e. computer-generated or written by users paid for giving their review without this being made transparent to the online customers. In the FCO's view consumers could be misled to making wrong purchase decisions triggered by manipulated non-authentic reviews which could violate consumer rights.
Against this background Andreas Mundt, president of the FCO, emphasized that besides prices, user ratings are the most important decision criterion for consumers when buying online. Mundt also stressed that there are indications that user ratings are often falsified or manipulated, so that the primary objective of the sector inquiry would therefore be to find out which review systems are particularly susceptible of manipulation and to what extent there may be violations of consumer rights.
In the coming months, the FCO will conduct oral and written interviews with numerous operators of internet portals that offer user ratings and/or services relating to user ratings. Once the investigations have been completed, the results will be presented to the public in a report.
The FCO's press release can be found here (in German and English).
Draft report on sector inquiry regarding card acquiring services
On 15 May 2019, the Hungarian Competition Authority ("GVH") published the draft of the investigative report on its sector inquiry regarding payment card acquiring services in Hungary (the "Draft Report") investigating the period between 2013 and 2018. The GVH initiated the sector inquiry in January 2017, because of indications from the market and the National Bank of Hungary ("MNB") that payment card acquiring service providers restructured the fees and commission system for card payments to the disadvantage of smaller retailers and merchants following the entry into effect of the Regulation (EU) 2015/751 on interchange fees for card-based payment transactions and the preceding corresponding Hungarian legislation.
The main findings of the Draft Report can be summarized as follows:
the payment card acquiring service market is very concentrated in Hungary with OTP Bank having by far the largest market share resulting in an oligopolistic market with a few recent new entrants;
the number of retailers accepting payment cards increased by 76% since 2013 (with the help of the POS roll-out program of the Hungarian Ministry of Finance), and in terms of the number of transactions per payment card, Hungary is closing the gap with the EU average;
the introduction of the statutory maximum for interchange fees in 2014 resulted in an overall decreasing fee burden on retailers;
although the decrease of the fees was the largest for small retailers, the cost of card payments remain the highest for these retailers in proportion to the volume of card payment transactions;
value based fees slightly tended downwards, while fees based on the number of transactions increased, the latter forming a barrier to the spread of accepting payment cards.
As a conclusion, the GVH did not find market distortions that would require the launch of an investigation. Nevertheless, the GVH identified problems on the card acquiring market that also influence competition, and made the following recommendations to the stakeholders, the financial supervisory authority (being MNB) and the legislator:
extend the POS roll-out program to retailers with quarterly revenues of HUF 1-2.5 million (previously only available under quarterly revenues of HUF 1 million);
consider tax incentives to increase the penetration of payment card acceptance;
facilitate online contracting between the retailer and the acquirer;
launch awareness campaigns incentivizing retailers to accept card and online payments;
acquirers should reconsider their fee structures in order not to put a disproportionate burden on small retailers;
acquirers should adopt an active sales strategy for card acquiring services;
acquirers should speed up the clearing of transactions.
Stakeholders may comment on the Report until 14 June 2019 (see here). The Draft Report is available here (only in Hungarian).
Still no rest for Google in Europe: AGCM launched an investigation against the tech giant for an alleged abuse of dominant position
On 8 May 2019, the Italian Competition Authority ("AGCM") opened an investigation against Alphabet Inc., Google LLC and Google Italy S.r.l. (indicated together as Google) to ascertain an alleged abuse of a dominant position in breach of Article 102 TFEU.
Google, via the Android operating system, holds a dominant position in the market of operating systems for smart devices and allegedly refused to integrate the app "Enel X Recharge", developed by Enel (the Italian multinational energy company that is active in the sectors of electricity generation and distribution), to provide end-users with information and services for recharging electric car batteries, into the Android Auto app settings.
Android Auto allows owners of Android smartphones toF easily and safely use certain apps and mobile phone features when driving a vehicle. Therefore, the exclusion of the app Enel X Recharge from Android Auto is likely to reduce the usefulness of this app by end-users and restrict their ability to exploit the benefit of the app, including booking re-charging columns.
According to the AGCM's allegations, Google has an interest in defending and strengthening the business model of its Google Maps app, which offers a wide range of services to end-users, including information on the location of columns for re-charging electric cars. Google Maps also represents a point of access to end-users as well as to the data stream generated by their activities.
The investigation shall be concluded by 30 May 2020.
For more information please see the press release and the Decisions of the AGCM in Italian here.
34 textbook publishers and their association fined with nearly € 34 million for coordination of commercial strategies
On 30 May 2019, the Spanish Competition Authority ("CNMC") imposed a total fine of 33.88 million EUR on the National Association of Text Books and Teaching Materials Publishers ("ANELE") and 34 publishing houses for the application of a mechanism to restrict trade policies and commercial conditions on the market of non-university textbooks.
As a result of a complaint submitted by another company active in this market, the CNMC has identified two separate practices breaching Article 1 of the Spanish Competition Act ("LDC") and Article 101 TFEU, which constitute two infringements by object:
Agreements and concerted practices for the development and application of a Code of Conduct with the aim of restricting competition on the prescription of textbooks by the education centres. Since 2012, the publishers agreed to eliminate promotional tools used to make its offers more attractive, including discounts, donations, teacher training courses or the delivery of ICT materials to these centres. A "Supervisory committee" chaired by ANELE was in charge of the enforcement of the provisions set out in the Code.
Agreements on fixing prices and other commercial conditions in relation to digital textbooks reached by ANELE and ten publishers between 2014 and 2017. Particularly, among other conducts, the publishers agreed on the minimum price and the limitation of the duration of digital licenses.
ANELE has publically announced its intention to appeal the CNMC's decision before the National High Court on the grounds that the rules provided by the industry's Code of Conduct are needed to prevent unethical behaviours, such as bribery and corruption, which might influence the decision of educational centres to prescribe certain textbooks.
Interestingly, according to ANELE, these practises are contained in similar Codes of Best Practices approved in other countries (such as Italy or the U.S.A.), and they are based on the recommendations of international organizations like the UNESCO's International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP).
For more information, please find the CNMC's final decision here (in Spanish).
Dutch court provides guidance on FRAND license negotiations (Philips v Asus)
On 7 May 2019, the The Hague Court of Appeal ("Court of Appeal") ruled against electronics company Asus in a patent dispute with electronics company Philips. The Court of Appeal found that Philips' patent was valid and had been infringed by Asus. The manufacturer had argued that Philips abused its dominant position ex Article 102 TFEU by not licensing the patent, which is essential for a third-generation mobile standard (UMTS/LTE Standard), under Fair, Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory (FRAND) conditions to Asus.
The Court of Appeal first of all considered that Philips was under no obligation to disclose its patent application as an SEP prior to the finalization of the standard, as Asus argued. The ETSI IPR Policy and ETSI Guidelines mention that the SEP qualification should be disclosed "as soon as feasible" and "in a timely fashion". However, according to the Court of Appeal, a reasonable interpretation is that this should be done shortly after the standard is finalized and it has become clear what technology is included. The Court of Appeal pointed out that the ETSI standards are not designed to be open standards free of IP rights (as was the case in the Commission's Rambus decision), but designed to achieve technically optimal solutions and any user of the ETSI standards should thus expect having to pay royalties.
Secondly, the Dutch court discussed the steps set out in the Court of Justice of the EU's ("CJEU") Huawei v ZTE ruling. According to the Dutch Court of Appeal, these steps should not be considered as strict requirements but rather as guidelines. If the SEP holder has not exactly followed each of the steps as set out in the Huawei v ZTE ruling, this should not immediately and necessarily imply that enforcing its SEP constitutes an abuse of a dominant position. The CJEU rather provided guidelines for good faith negotiations between the parties about a license. Thereby, the factual circumstances of the case must be taken into account.
In this case, the Court of Appeal held that Asus was not a 'willing licensee'. For example, Philips had informed Asus of its UMTS patent portfolio in 2013 and several meetings took place in Taiwan, always at the initiative of Philips. Philips explained the infringements, but Asus never had a technically qualified person present at the meetings and never provided a (technical) response. According to the Court of Appeal, Asus did not show any interest in a license, avoided a discussion on license terms, did not ask about Philips' license agreements with others and never got in touch with Philips after any of the meetings. After Philips sent a proposal for a standard license agreement and received neither a response nor counter proposal, Philips started the infringement proceedings. The court concluded that Asus was thus engaged in "hold-out." According to the Court of Appeal, Huawei v ZTE does not require the SEP owner to always specify why an offer is FRAND but – in contrast with the German Orange-Book case law – to undertake the main step of making a FRAND license proposal before enforcing the SEP. The argument of Asus that Philips' offer did not exactly meet the requirements of Huawei v ZTE were therefore rejected. As a result, Philips was free to seek an injunction against Asus, the court said, which injunction has now also been granted by the Court against Asus. The ruling can be appealed before the Dutch Supreme Court.
Please find the judgment here (in Dutch only) and an informal translation of the judgment here.
Provisional finding of market sharing by four pharmaceutical companies
In recent years, the UK CMA has focussed many of its investigations on the pharmaceutical sector. This is partly due to the fact that in the UK, the National Health Service is a public funded body which bears most of the cost of the majority of medicines. Therefore, going after anti-competitive behaviour in this sector arguably leads to clear benefits for UK tax payers who fund the NHS. The latest example of this focus came on 23 May 2019, when the CMA provisionally concluded that four pharmaceutical companies who manufacture and/or supply the anti-nausea and dizziness drug Prochlorperazine, took part in market sharing arrangements.
The CMA alleges that the overarching agreement between the companies was implemented through two separate agreements, one between Alliance Pharmaceuticals and Focus, and one between Focus, Lexon and Medreich. Alliance Pharmaceuticals agreed to supply Prochlorperazine exclusively to Focus. Focus then paid Lexon a share of the profits it earned on the onward sales of Alliance Pharmaceuticals' Prochlorperazine. Lexon, in turn, shared these payments with Medreich. In its press release, the CMA stated that before entering into this arrangement Lexon and Medreich had discussed launching a jointly developed Prochlorperazine. The arrangement could therefore have been entered into in order to prevent rivals from entering the market.
The CMA alleges that each agreement contravenes UK competition law which prohibits anti-competitive arrangements including market sharing under Chapter I of the Competition Act 1998. The CMA's provisional findings are set out in a statement of objection on which the parties will now have an opportunity to respond
For more information, CMA's press release is available here.
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One of the biggest plastering requests we receive is plastering over Artex ceilings! They are outdated, cheap and quite frankly, offensive to look at! however is it a big job to get involved in and should we be asking is it worth the hassle?
In today's post, we are going to discover how to plaster an Artex ceiling and see if it's worth trying it yourself. I must admit it isn't the easiest thing in the world but with some solid advice and direction, anyone can do it. You just need the right method.
The simplest way is to just plaster over the Artex ceiling. It saves you time and cost in demotion and saves you money by avoiding plasterboard costs. This way is fairly simple but has a series of pitfalls to it. Here is a step by step list of the mechanics behind this method.
Using a scraper simply scrape and hack any protruding sections. This can be the difference between a simple scrape or a lengthy, gruelling task depending on the style of Artex. Some are minimal whilst others require a lot more effort.
However, avoiding this step will only lead to failure. Try your best to get a nice flat ceiling ready for plastering with minimal change of levels. The more effort you put in this step, the easier it is at later stages.
This is an extremely important stage. You need to mix up some PVA (I would recommend a ratio of 2 parts water to 1 part PVA) and roll it over your newly scraped Artex ceiling. When the first coat is dry apply another coat of PVA.
This reduces the rate of suction which prevents your plaster from drying out. Artex is very porous and will absorb any moisture at a very fast rate so putting 2 layers of highly concentrated PVA will give you more time for plastering.
This is where the fun begins. You are now ready to start plastering! As long as your wall is fairly flat and fully prepped you can start skimming.
The process of plastering a ceiling (or anything for that matter) is shown in the video below. It is a full guide on how to plaster a ceiling with times and instructions given throughout. Take your time, watch with care and get ready to begin.
If the Artex in your home is prouder then the norm then you might have to Bond your Artex. A lot of the old school plasterers do this to avoid any issues. Its the exact same process as the method above except you use British Gypsoms Bonding to build and level your existing ceiling.
This way you get over any high spots in your ceiling without any major hassle. It is a method that some people go through but to be perfectly honest I actually think its pointless. Its hard to get right, it can be quite a timely route and is often used by experienced plasterers.
The method I'm going to show is properly the best thing if your Artex ceiling is a bit of a problem. Knock it down and start again!
Sometimes the best thing to do in life is to just start again. If your a beginner who's learning to plaster then this could be an option. Don't get me wrong, it isn't ideal, but it is always easier to plaster onto a fresh, new background then it is to perfect an old one.
This final method does require a bit more work but it is often worth it!
If your Artex is giving you agro then just get rid of it. It can be quite scary if you have never done it before but trust me, its worth it. Using a hammer and a crowbar I would rip the ceiling down!
Make sure you wear a mask because there will be a lot of dust and wear appropriate clothing because it can cause a lot of irritation on the skin. When the ceiling is down and completely clear you are ready for the next stage.
You will need to purchase some plasterboard which is available in most builders merchants. They come in multiple size options but I would recommend you use the 1.8m x 0.9m plasterboards because they are easier to work with. You will also need to buy some plasterboard screws at a length of 32mm.
Plasterboarding is a skill in itself which makes this whole process a lot trickier to deal with. This is why plastering over Artex can be a hard job – its tough to plaster over but its equally hard to start over.
Instead of ripping your ceiling down you can board over your existing Artex ceiling. This saves time, saves waste and still provides a fresh background to work on. You just have to use longer plasterboard screws when your working to give enough grip to the joists.
Find your joists, run a string line from one end to the other so you know where to screw and follow the same process as the last method. It takes more preparation but it is definitely worth the time. You then follow the process of plastering a ceiling and that's it – job done!
Its always a tough scenario but these are the options to plastering over Artex ceilings. You either work on it or get rid of it completely. Thank you for reading and feel free to leave any comments.
If you want to learn more and take a real plunge into plastering then read our ultimate guide on Plastering. It will give you all the information you need!


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Holidays time, but I will be in Dubai soon.
The weather in Europe is absolutely fantastic! I am enjoying the flowers in the beautiful garden, fresh air, and the classy lunches, impressive meal recipes.
2. my tendency to hay fever!
Even after taking the medicine against allergies I still have an itchy nose, and the mosquitos love to "eat me", so it's a pity, but what to do.
For the rest, all is absolutely perfect! I plan to stay few days in Amsterdam also and have some party time over there!
By the way, I do not offer sessions in Europe at the moment, I will inform when I will be ready to do that.
I will be back in Dubai, most probably on June 15th you are very welcome to visit me for a session by then!
P.S. The tripod selfies in the gallery updated!


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Q: codernitydb index with string value I am using CodernityDB in python.
I want to create a table where one of the indices in my table will contain a string and not an integer.
How can I do this ?
Here is the tutorial that I am using :
#!/usr/bin/env python
from CodernityDB.database import Database
from CodernityDB.hash_index import HashIndex

class WithXIndex(HashIndex):

    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        kwargs['key_format'] = 'I'
        super(WithXIndex, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)

    def make_key_value(self, data):
        a_val = data.get("x")
        if a_val is not None:
            return a_val, None
        return None

    def make_key(self, key):
        return key

def main():
    db = Database('/tmp/tut2')
    db.create()
    x_ind = WithXIndex(db.path, 'x')
    db.add_index(x_ind)

    for x in xrange(100):
        db.insert(dict(x=x))

    for y in xrange(100):
        db.insert(dict(y=y))

    print db.get('x', 10, with_doc=True)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

Basically I want to put string values in x instead of integer value and when I try to do so I receive an error message : "Cannot convert argument to integer".
I am sure it is something very easy but I cannot find it in their documentation.
May be I just need to add an str conversion in the make_key_value function but not sure it will work.

A: Here is a condensed version of the mini twit functions, i used it to experiment.
createDB, as the name implies creates a database and allows you to populate it with data.
requestDat, has some example queries to the database.
[ If you come up with more queries for narrowing down the actual data value , lets say from an id index, plz post]
createDB.py
from hashlib import md5
from werkzeug import check_password_hash, generate_password_hash
from CodernityDB.database_thread_safe import ThreadSafeDatabase
from CodernityDB.database import RecordNotFound

#indexTypes

from CodernityDB.hash_index import HashIndex
from CodernityDB.tree_index import TreeBasedIndex

class UserIndex(HashIndex):

    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        kwargs['key_format'] = '16s'
        super(UserIndex, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)

    def make_key_value(self, data):
        if data['t'] == 'user':
            username = data['username']
            return md5(username).digest(), {'user_id': data['user_id'], 'email': data['email']}

    def make_key(self, key):
        return md5(key).digest()

class UserIDIndex(HashIndex):

    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        kwargs['key_format'] = 'I'
        super(UserIDIndex, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)

    def make_key_value(self, data):
        if data['t'] == 'user':
            user_id = data['user_id']
            return user_id, {'username': data['username'], 'email': data['email']}

    def make_key(self, key):
        return key

#Functions
def register(username_input,email_input,password_input):
    """Registers the user."""

    try:
        cdb.get('user', username_input, with_storage=False)
    except RecordNotFound:
        cdb.insert(dict(
                    t='user',
                    user_id=cdb.count(cdb.all, 'user') + 1,  # do not use in production!
                    username=username_input,
                    email=email_input,
                    pw_hash=generate_password_hash(password_input)))
        print('You were successfully registered')
    else:
        print('The username is already taken')

# configuration
DATABASE = 'testDB'
SECRET_KEY = 'development key'
cdb = ThreadSafeDatabase(DATABASE)

#main
def main():
    if cdb.exists():
        cdb.open()
        cdb.reindex()
    else:
        #from database_indexes import UserIndex, MessageAllIndex, MessageUserIndex, FollowerRel1Index, FollowerRel2Index, UserIDIndex, FollowerIndex
        cdb.create()
        cdb.add_index(UserIndex(cdb.path, 'user'))
        cdb.add_index(UserIDIndex(cdb.path, 'user_id'))

    #test insert
    username_input="none"
    print("type 'n' to end database population")
    while username_input != "n":
        username_input = raw_input("new username: ")
        email_input = raw_input("new email: ")
        password_input = raw_input("new password: ")
        register(username_input,email_input,password_input)

#Run Main
if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

requestDat.py
from hashlib import md5

from werkzeug import check_password_hash, generate_password_hash

from CodernityDB.database_thread_safe import ThreadSafeDatabase
from CodernityDB.database import RecordNotFound

#indexTypes

from CodernityDB.hash_index import HashIndex
from CodernityDB.tree_index import TreeBasedIndex

def get_user_id(username):
    """Convenience method to look up the id for a username."""
    try:
        rv = cdb.get('user', username, with_storage=True)
    except RecordNotFound:
        rv = None
    else:
        rv = rv['user_id']
    return rv

def get_id(username):
    """Convenience method to look up the id for a username."""
    try:
        rv = cdb.get('id', username, with_storage=True)
    except RecordNotFound:
        rv = None
    else:
        rv = rv['id']
    return rv

def get_username(user_id):
    """Convenience method to look up the id for a username."""
    try:
         rv = cdb.get('user', user_id, with_storage=True)
        # rv= user['doc']['pw_hash']
    except RecordNotFound:
        rv = None
    else:
        rv = rv['user_id']
    return rv

def get_allRecords(getRecord):
    """Convenience method to look up the id for a username."""
    try:
        #rv = cdb.get('username', user_id, with_storage=True)
        #cdb.all(getRecord)
        rv="\n"
        for curr in cdb.all(getRecord):
            rv = rv+str(curr)
    except RecordNotFound:
        rv = None
    else:
        rv = "all"
    return rv

# configuration
DATABASE = 'testDB'
SECRET_KEY = 'development key'
cdb = ThreadSafeDatabase(DATABASE)

#main
def main():
    if cdb.exists():
        cdb.open()
        cdb.reindex()
    else:
        #from database_indexes import UserIndex, MessageAllIndex, MessageUserIndex, FollowerRel1Index, FollowerRel2Index, UserIDIndex, FollowerIndex
        print("no database pressent")
        quit()

    print("type'n' to advance through prompts")

    useridRequest_input ="none"
    while useridRequest_input != "n":
        useridRequest_input = raw_input("get ID, search username: ")
        print(get_user_id(useridRequest_input))

    usernameRequest_input ="none"
    while usernameRequest_input != "n":
        usernameRequest_input = raw_input("get username, search ID: ")
        print(get_username(usernameRequest_input))

    print ("counting id tags")
    print cdb.count(cdb.all, 'id')
    print("counting user_id tags")
    print cdb.count(cdb.all, 'user_id')
    for curr in cdb.all('id'):
        print curr

#Run Main
if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

A: https://bitbucket.org/codernity/codernitydb-demos/src/1bf5ae166fa5/minitwit/?at=default
there are some examples, look in the minitwit.py calls database_indexes.py
database_indexes.py:
has some methods of storing data in keyValue pairs
minitwit.py calls them and inserts into database, look at the registration function.
i'm trying to figure this out myself

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Words from memory
by Kate Veitch
Kate Veitch with her father.
HERE IS MY father's dictionary, the one thing of his I felt I had to have. The Webster's Collegiate, fifth edition: 1,274 pages, dense as a big old brick in its dark green binding. On the flyleaf is his name, John C Veitch, signed with panache in black ink, and beneath that is the date: Nov 2 1945 – the day the book finally became his. Dad was eighteen. At fifteen he'd started working for Sydney's Daily Telegraph as a copyboy, and by the time he got the dictionary he was a graded journalist. When so many older men were away at the war, those were the kinds of opportunities open to a bright, eager kid.
He's written his address under the date: 31 Sydenham Rd, Marrickville, N.S.W – the ramshackle weatherboard where he lived with his mother and four younger siblings during the war while my grandfather was in the Navy. In 1940 Pop was stationed at Garden Island and the family came up from Melbourne on the train to join him – Nanna seven months pregnant – only to find he'd been shipped out to Darwin the day before. They knew no one in Sydney, had no money left, and, whether from the shock or the long train trip, Nanna had a miscarriage that nearly killed her. During the weeks she was in hospital, the five kids were split up among three different orphanages. If Nanna had died that would have been it, but she survived, rescued her brood, and badgered the Navy till they found her the house in Marrickville. Dad was selling papers on the street corner even before he became a copyboy.
On the dictionary's inside back cover is pencilled its price: nine pounds fifteen shillings. An immense outlay, and most of Dad's pay was going to support his mother and the younger kids. He had it on lay-by for nearly two years, paying it off a couple of shillings at a time. I imagine the day he put down the last few bob, the pride with which he'd have carried it home and shown his mother who'd been a country school teacher before her marriage. Nanna always encouraged his writing. Her clever eldest: handsome Johnny. It's there in the swagger of his signature: I have my tools, I'm on my way.
THE OTHER TOOL was his portable typewriter, which my eldest brother has since restored to mint condition. An uncommon make, a Rheinmetall, with J C VEITCH stencilled in white paint on the front of its hard black case. Snap the precision engineered catches and the lid lifts off, leaving the machine sitting on a padded felt floor. He preferred writing on this machine all his life, or at least for as long as he could write. Pounding away with that furious two-fingered attack common to men who became professional writers in an era when only women actually learned to type. Dad loved that typewriter, but the Webster's was our family's bible, quoted with relish as the final authority. This despite the allowances which had to be made for its American spelling, which my parents seemed to regard as an unfortunate affliction to which one shouldn't draw undue attention.
'Get the dictionary,' either my mother or father would cry after yet another dinner table argument about the precise meaning or etymology of a word. What exactly was the difference between infer and imply? Did thehomo in homosexuality derive from the Greek for same or the Latin for man? Both inclined to the dramatic gesture, they would often rise to their feet, even thump the table. 'Get the dictionary!' And one of us kids would scurry to the bookcase and lug the great thing back, delivering it to whichever parent had made the call. The tense moments of waiting while pages were flipped, until finally there came the triumphant 'Hah!', or the deflated 'Oh'.
BEFORE DAD TURNED twenty-eight he'd become the father of three kids; I was that third, and the only daughter. That same year he also became features editor of the Melbourne Argus – alas, just before it folded. A colleague who'd started a public relations business invited him to join, and for the rest of Dad's working life he occupied, with characteristic brio, that shifting ground between writing and advertising. I never knew my father as a newspaperman, but what he remained proudest of was having been an A-grade journalist.
My mother kept every single thing she wrote, almost down to shopping lists; she left filing cabinets stuffed with paper. Dad had a clippings book, and that was that. But among his few other papers I found a birthday card I'd made for him when I was around seven: a stick-figure girl holding the hand of a stick-figure man, surrounded by flowers, and inside I'd written in my plain and careful hand, Happy Birthday Dear Old Dad. Rest in Peace. He kindly didn't point out my inauspicious choice of words, leaving me to discover at some later date that 'rest in peace' didn't actually mean 'have a nice sleep-in'. Finding it (when I was considerably older than he'd been when I'd given it to him) I wondered why he'd kept that little card. Dad had a sentimental streak as wide as the muddy brown Yarra, but like his temper it was a passing thing, there and gone in an instant, and triggered more by thoughts and stories than mementoes. I decided it must have been the misused catchphrase: it would have amused him, and I was grateful that he had spared, back then, my seven-year-old dignity.
When I was a child I never heard my father swear. Decent men of his generation didn't, at least not in front of women or children. But if one of us insisted on expressing a point of view he thought was nonsense, he would dismiss it with an explosively scornful, 'Ah, bunny-rabbits!' In the new permissiveness of the '70s, that changed and Dad started to say 'bullshit' instead. I remember thinking that I should be pleased he was becoming less straight, swearing like me and my friends, but in fact I felt sad. Something – those idiosyncratic bunny-rabbits – had been lost, and I would miss them.
MY FATHER'S NOTION of life's ultimate achievement was to write a book – and to have it published, obviously: why else would you do it? Writing was his job, not a compulsion and not necessarily a pleasure. But much as he wished to be an author there were obstacles, of temperament as well as finance. For one thing Dad was a sprinter, not a stayer; his instinct was for the short piece, which is what drew him to both reporting and PR. And, while he took great pride in finding 'the story, the human angle' even in a pamphlet on fencing wire, fiction didn't actually engage him. From my mother's voracious novel reading he picked up enough to fake his way through dinner-party conversations that turned to literature, but I don't think he ever tried his hand at so much as a short story. Non-fiction, given the right subject, could have been his strong suit, and when in the late '60s a distinguished Australian businessman approached him to write his life story, Dad threw himself into the task. Over the months of research and interviews, he loved to mention with seeming nonchalance that he'd been down at this man's mansion on the Mornington Peninsula – 'I'm writing his biography, you know'. We visited the place once; Dad pointed out the grand piano and the ocean views with a pride that made me uneasy. One look at the rich man's face was enough to tell you he was not, and never would be, what the eager boy from Marrickville had assumed: his friend.
When the book came out, my father was deeply wounded to find his name on the dust jacket only, not the enduring hard cover beneath. As told to John Veitch; not really the author of a biography after all. Just a hired hack. He never tried to write another book.
Nevertheless, it was to that same part of the Peninsula, albeit a far more modest house, that my parents moved three decades later when their inner city home became too much for them. They knew no one there and it was well over an hour's drive from Melbourne where my brothers and I all lived. My mother was clearly terrified of the move, but Dad insisted, for no reason he could explain. I came to the view that in my father's mind, to live in that area meant that you were unassailably successful. Secure. Safe. Three weeks after they moved in, while he was washing the dishes after dinner he heard a crash in the living room and found my mother collapsed, barely conscious, on the floor. Within hours, she had died.
We assumed Dad's helplessness and confusion was due to shock and grief, but it didn't abate. It wasn't until a few months after Mum's death, when I picked up one of the little notebooks that had started appearing all around that unfamiliar house, that I began to understand. Dad, whose peerless memory had made him seem at times like a human tape recorder, who could instantly recall any of hundreds of phone numbers, was writing down everything. Everything. Not just the names of his new neighbours but our names, mixed up with other family members. Who is Jeannie? Says she's my cousin. Birthday card? Reminders to himself to do the simplest of tasks, poignant in their urgency. If no money go to WESTPAC bank in main street. See ROBYN. Very kind. I stood there staring at the humble little spiral notebook and remembered Mum's complaints about his forgetfulness, his unreliability, over that last year, and how we had dismissed them. I stood there and thought I could foresee how hard the next bit of our lives was going to be. I didn't have a clue.
SIX YEARS LATER, only partway through that long awful journey, I gave those notebooks to a character in my first novel: Alex, the father whose children must reluctantly face the fact of his dementia. Theft? Tribute? Self-therapy? Yes, and yes, and yes. While I was writing the novel, my younger brother Michael began doing a series of interviews with the men who flew planes in World War II, his lifelong obsession. Our books were published in the same month, and together Mike and I took first copies to the nursing home where our father, by then, was living.
Michael had brought his wind-up gramophone and a selection of 78s, as was his wont. While the frail ancients, wreathed in smiles, listened and sang along in phrases and snatches to 'The Road to Gundagai' and 'White Cliffs of Dover', I knelt beside our father's chair, stroking his hand and reading aloud the title of Mike's book, Flak, running my finger under his name on the cover, repeating it, reminding Dad of my brother's fascination with those planes, of the model aircraft he used to make and then arrange in bombing formation, hung by fishing line from the ceiling of his room. My own book, Listen, was beside Flak, of course, but I felt there was more chance of the penny dropping with Michael's, who is not just the youngest of our family but the darling of us all.
And suddenly, a shock of recognition ran like electricity down my father's arm. 'Michael!' he cried. 'Book! Michael, book!' From his post beside the gramophone, across the wide table, Mike waved cheerfully. 'Yep, Dad, me!' Our father started blowing him kisses of delighted congratulation – his boy, an author! – and I burst into tears of joy, and a kind of triumph. Like a runner delivering a vital message to the battlefront, I had, in the nick of time, managed to get through.
For the last year or two of Dad's life, he sat in a wheelchair with the Herald-Sun – the tabloid he'd once scorned – in front of him, and spent the day slowly turning its pages. All memory of family was gone – I, visiting, was no more than a smiling stranger – along with the ability to walk, or feed himself, or have a conversation, but he could still read. From the front page to the back he went, thoroughly scanning each one, and then over to the front again, completely absorbed and apparently content. Occasionally I'd pause in my one-sided nattering and point to a headline. 'What's that say, Dad?' I would ask, and sometimes he'd read it to me. I could tell that by the time he got to the end of the headline the first words had been forgotten, but those black marks on newsprint were still the most compelling things in his world. The printed word remained, right till the end, my father's constant ally and enduring comfort.
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Directions: Read Chapter 4 of The Hope Chest and answer the following questions.
Look at this artwork inspired by The Hope Chest.
How does the illustration reflect the description in the text? Check all the details that apply.
What is the meaning of the word trepidation?
Read this sentence from page 43.
How does Mr. Martin feel about Myrtle and Violet?
D. "It's a very worthwhile cause," said Mr. Martin.
will tell you when you should begin reading aloud.
text with accuracy and expression.
math ..." to the end of the chapter.


The Question Writing Commitee consists of seven volunteers from around the country who are amazingly dedicated to the Mathcounts program. This past weekend, was the last meeting for this particular group of question writers. Before the meeting, they are put into pairs, eith the seventh member pairing up with a Mathcounts staff person to make a total of four pairs. When we entered the workroom, there were four pairs of chairs around a large table. (There were two chairs together, and then a lot of space and then two chairs together and then a lot of space, and so on.) Though we could sit anywhere, we obviously had to sit with the person who was our pre-assigned partner. In how many ways could the eight people have sat around the table ensuring that each pre-assigned pair was sitting at a pre-assigned set pair of the chairs.?
I REALLY don't get this at all. PLEASE help.
I answered basically the same question (without all the unecessary words) yesterday. Did you ask it?
Can the word amazingly be used as a present participle at the beginning of a sentence: Amazingly more players aren't worried about how they affect children like that.
In 1886, the Statue of Liberty was dedicated. What is the meaning of the word "dedicated" in this context? Can't seem to find the meaning from the dictionary.


At the start of any year, plenty of individuals decide to modify anything in their routine. Some like to quick smoking, different want to go on a special diet, or find a beloved person.
But really popular resolution for the individuals, is to start attempting for a gym. Thanks to that, sport centers are very busy in January. When you're about to go to gym for the first time, you have to get a decent pair of shoes.
Gadgets like Adidas sneakers or some other, decent labels are the most important, cause in time you're working out, your foot is all the time under pressure, so it need to be into stable shoe. Because of that, you'll avoid plenty of unpleasant injuries. That is why, a lot of times, sneakers like Nike 606 are really expensive. But you are not paying for label, but for good product. One, better pair would last you for plenty of years, when you will possibly need several pairs of regular sneakers Reebok, another great label, has even dedicated line for exercising at the gym.
And what if we want to buy a pair of Adidas sneakers, and we cannot afford that? First of all, wait for sales. At January and July, in each big store, you can buy each item even 70% cheaper. That is the time, when products from former year are lower, to make a lot of place in warehouses for newest ones. Also, sneakers Reebok or also Nike 606, you may find into outlet. That is type of a market, in which each products are on sale, all around the year. Thanks to that, you don't need to wait until July to find your selected product in good price.
Owning a good pair of boots in time of workout is really important.
So you should not be skimpy while purchasing this item, and you have to invest in popular label. But it do not have to cost you a fortune - choose product of outlet, or wait for season sale in traditional stores.


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The lawsuit has been filed by Uniondale Chemists Inc. in the U.S. District Court in Mississippi. The lawsuit claims that Wyeth, which is now part of Pfizer, fraudulently obtained three patents on extended release versions of its highly-popular Effexor drug. Effexor is used to treat depression and anxiety, and contains the drug venlafaxine hydrochloride.
According to the lawsuit, Wyeth's patent on Effexor expired in 2008. However, the company used fraudulent means to capture the Effexor market after those original patents had expired. The lawsuit alleges that Wyeth misrepresented facts when it claimed that it unexpectedly came across the extended-release formula to secure additional patents.
The lawsuit claims that as a result of the company's exclusionary tactics, generic forms of Effexor XR were blocked from the marketplace between June 2008 and June 2010. According to the lawsuit, Uniondale Chemists paid artificially inflated prices for the extended-release venlafaxine hydrochloride. During this period of time, sales of Effexor in the American market reached $4.5 billion. The lawsuit is seeking class-action status for companies like Uniondale Chemists that suffered losses due to Wyeth's alleged illegal and unethical conduct.
Pfizer has denied any wrongdoing. According to a statement by the company, it denies all claims related to the Effexor XR patents.
The lawsuit also has some tough words for the Food and Drug Administration which, as California business dispute lawyers know, depends heavily on a brand-name manufacturer's account to verify the validity of patents. The agency does not have the authority to independently check the manufacturer's data and verify its accuracy.


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Q: How to conditional format if cell 1 is greater than 8 weeks I have the following;
Expected    Started
25/02/2020  01/01/2020

I want to conditionally format the 'Started' cell (B2) - So basically, the project deadline is the 25/2/20 - but it should be started 8 weeks in advance (by 31/12/19) so if the date is greater than 31/12/19 highlight red
I can't specify the date as there will be other dates later on, so i need to try and work out the formula, would someone be able to help please?

A: try a simple custom formula like:
=B2>A2+56

A: In google-sheets, you would apply the following custom formula onto your B column range:
=($A2-(7*8)) < $B2

See the below image:

Google-Sheets Example: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1sd59bd-fnKNTLoa7qQuBsEqFLki1uWNDLU9m7iOQemQ/edit?usp=sharing
How to article: https://www.benlcollins.com/spreadsheets/conditional-formatting-entire-row/