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Moon Flashes
Weird Flashes Keep Appearing on the Moon and Scientists Don't Know Why
May 31st 19__Victor Tangermann__Filed Under: Off World
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Strange Flashes
Several times a week, short bursts of light appear on the surface of the Moon — and so far, scientists have only been able to guess as to why. But a team of German astronomers have a new theory, and it could provide crucial information for humans who want to settle the Moon.
"Seismic activities were also observed on the moon," said Hakan Kayal, professor of space technology at Julius-Maximilians-Universität (JMU) Würzburg in Germany in a statement. "When the surface moves, gases that reflect sunlight could escape from the interior of the moon. This would explain the luminous phenomena, some of which last for hours."
Scanning the Skies
The strange flashes were actually first observed in the 1950s, but have received little attention from the world of science. But the team of JMU wants to change that with their newly built lunar telescope in southern Spain that started scanning the night sky in April.
Two cameras watch for the strange flashes at night. If both see the same flash, they take a series of photos and videos. But the software for their new telescope still needs a bit of work. Kayal and his team are planning to upgrade it with a neural network that can filter out false positives like birds and airplanes.
Understanding the phenomenon could be paramount to keep human settlers on the Moon safe.
"Anyone who wants to build a lunar base at some point must of course be familiar with the local conditions," said Kayal.
READ MORE: Flashes on the moon [Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg]
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Doctor Who: Pirate Planet (Target Collection)
Douglas Adams James Goss
Pirate Planet (Target Collection)
Douglas Adams, James Goss
Science fiction; Doctor Who Novel; Science; Space; Aliens; Time Travel; Fourth Doctor
Series: Doctor Who
The classic Doctor Who adventure by Douglas Adams, now part of the Target Collection.
This all-new Target novelisation is based on the televised version of The Pirate Planet The hugely powerful Key to Time has been split into six segments, all of which have been disguised and hidden throughout time and space. Now the even more powerful White Guardian wants the Doctor to find the pieces. With the first segment successfully retrieved, the Doctor, Romana and K-9 trace the second segment of the Key to the planet Calufrax. But when they arrive at exactly the right point in space, they find themselves on exactly the wrong planet - Zanak.
Ruled by the mysterious 'Captain', Zanak is a happy and prosperous planet. Mostly. If the mines run out of valuable minerals and gems then the Captain merely announces a New Golden Age and they fill up again. It's an economic miracle - so obviously something's very wrong...
For a much expanded version based on Douglas Adams' first draft scripts, check out BBC Books' hardback edition of The Pirate Planet .
By: Douglas Adams, James Goss
Imprint: Penguin
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 177mm, Width: 110mm, Spine: 12mm
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Publisher's Status: Active
Douglas Adams (Author) DOUGLAS ADAMS was born in Cambridge in March 1952. He is best known as the creator of The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which started life as a BBC Radio 4 series. The book went on to be a No. 1 bestseller. He followed this success with The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (1980); Life, The Universe and Everything (1982); So Long and Thanks for all the Fish (1984); Mostly Harmless (1992) and many more. He sold over 15 million books in the UK, the US and Australia. Douglas died unexpectedly in May 2001 at the age of 49. James Goss (Author) James Goss is the author of the novelisation of Douglas Adams' City of Death, as well as several other Doctor Who books. While at the BBC James produced an adaptation of Shada, an unfinished Douglas Adams Doctor Who story, and Dirk is his award-winning stage adaptation of Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency. He won Best Audiobook 2010 for Dead Air and his books Dead of Winter and First Born were both nominated for the 2012 British Fantasy Society Awards. His novel Haterz has been optioned as a movie.
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In a low growth, low return environment even relatively small interest rate changes can have a meaningful impact on investments. So the recent move by the US Federal Reserve (Fed) to increase interest rates by 0.25% should be a consideration for investors looking to invest in listed infrastructure.
So why is it important? Firstly, infrastructure companies tend to be able to carry more debt than other companies due to the relatively sustainable and secure nature of their cashflows. As at the end of December 2016, the weighted average of total debt to total assets was 23.5% for global equities compared to 42% for infrastructure. This raises the concern that with their higher level of debt, infrastructure companies will have more sensitivity to increases in interest rates and their earnings will be negatively impacted. Secondly, if interest rates rise investors will move away from the currently appealing strong yield of equities and especially infrastructure companies and back into bonds and cash, impacting the companies' share prices and therefore capital returns.
There is little doubt that being overexposed to debt when real interest rates rise quickly will have a negative impact on many companies' returns, however we are currently very near the bottom of the interest rate cycle. As these charts show there has been little appetite for interest rate increases in the US or any other developed market, in fact the major economies of Japan and Europe are still operating funding programs to provide liquidity to their markets, Australia and New Zealand have recently just cut interest rates and the UK's gradual recovery has been knocked by the vote to leave the European Union. Inflation remains stubbornly low across the world and it is hard to see this as a landscape for rapidly rising interest rates. Our expectation is that central banks are unlikely to significantly increase interest rates until there is a pickup in inflation so that nominal interest rates will not run far ahead of inflation and should remain relatively stable.
Yields on treasury bonds are extremely low and in some cases negative (Switzerland, Germany and Japan), and it will take several years of sustained increases in rates across the world to make these investments look appealing again to investors who are seeking an inflation beating level of yield. To achieve these returns in fixed income and cash, investors need to go up the bond risk curve and accept far lower quality investments. Equities look appealing in this scenario despite the potential volatility, and a defensive equity investment, like infrastructure, looks even more appealing. The relatively stable cashflows, the solid dividends alongside the lower drawdowns and diversified returns when compared to global equities or property make a sound investment case. The graphs below show firstly how the yields from infrastructure companies are consistently higher than global equities and secondly how much extra yield they generate when compared to the local market returns on cash.
Also worth mentioning is that certain infrastructure companies can offer protection against increases in inflation. A sizeable portion of Redpoint's portfolio is invested in regulated utilities. These companies are able to shield investors from rising inflation by passing through higher interest rate costs to their end consumers through inflation linked price increases. Regulators understand the needs of these companies to continually reinvest in their operations. The essential services they supply include; electricity, water, gas and waste disposal. Utility companies also tend to have very long term debt agreements, and the better managed companies have been taking advantage of the low rate environment by reducing the rates of their long-term debt facilities to lock in lower rates for longer.
We are acutely aware of these potential risks and opportunities and shape our portfolio to reflect them. As part of our portfolio construction process we rank companies on their sustainable quality. Sustainable quality uses traditional measures of financial strength such as free cashflow growth coupled with measures of management quality, such as the corporate governance structure, and handling of environmental and social concerns. We also rank companies on their levels of debt to enterprise value and we downweight those that we view as poor quality and those carrying excessive debt compared to their peers. In addition, our process ensures a lower level of stock specific risk than a typical active manager or indeed an Index manager. We hold around 120 companies in our portfolio, which is four or five times more than many active funds and our largest exposure is less than half the size of the largest in the Index. Our portfolio is therefore less exposed to the downside risks of any one company's poor performance and truly does capture the essence of the asset class. The chart below illustrates how our investment process differentiates our returns from the Index by increasing the amount of stocks driving the outcome as well as highlighting the reduced stock specific risk embedded in both the Index and our peer group.
Investors are right to be wary of a rising interest environment but should consider their investment objectives and portfolio strategy in light of a slowly rising nominal interest rate environment and even slower rising real interest rate environment. We believe well managed infrastructure companies will continue to offer investors; inflation-linked income flow above most other asset classes, lower volatility than broader equities and the potential for strong capital growth. Redpoint's carefully considered investment approach is designed to mitigate the downsides of a rising interest rate environment while using it as an opportunity to add value for investors.
While investing in infrastructure is usually associated with government spending or private equity companies, astute Australian investors have also benefitted from the asset class by accessing quality listed infrastructure companies.
However, while Australia is home to a few of these companies there are simply not enough of them and there is too little variety to make it an attractive stand-alone investment. There are currently 153 companies in the FTSE Developed Core Infrastructure Index of which only 8 are Australian companies. By expanding the universe to include all developed markets the investment characteristics of global infrastructure are far more appealing both in the context of diversification benefits and in delivering less volatile retirement income streams. The table and graph below shows the geographic diversification and number of holdings within the Redpoint strategy at the end of December 2016.
Interestingly, listed infrastructure is a relatively small subset of global equities, yet these companies are still a highly investible universe with $2.2 trillion of market capitalisation. This is considerably larger than the Australian listed equity market at $1.5 trillion.
Also, the benefits usually associated with infrastructure assets, namely a stable and growing dividend stream, and lower volatility, means the asset class is particularly suited to a wealth preservation-focused, ageing demographic moving from accumulation to retirement.
Investors can choose direct investment or through the listed equity market. There are significant benefits of investing through the listed market, namely; daily liquidity, daily valuations, no drawdown or lock up periods and increased diversification. While investors in listed markets are likely to experience more short-term price volatility, (due to the daily mark to market of listed securities versus unlisted), long term returns will be driven by the nature of the underlying assets.
 Average weights of a representative sample of five (5) managers in the listed infrastructure peer group.


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My most favorite rendition is of George Kahumoku on his 12 string guitar playing this. Awesome! Thanks for sharing. And by the way your "Old Time Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar" book has really enlightened my skills. Many mahalols to you!!


SAN LEANDRO, CA--(Marketwired - Sep 30, 2015) - Opinionmeter International (OMI), a leading provider of advanced survey and data capture solutions, today announced the addition of business intelligence dashboard capabilities to its survey platform. The new functionality is the result of a partnership with Dundas Data Visualization, Inc. which supports full integration between the OMI platform and Dundas' Business Intelligence (BI) and Data Visualization solutions.
"At OMI, we've spent the last 40 years being an innovator in the field of survey and opinion polling technologies -- always looking for new ways to bring leading-edge capabilities to our customers," said Morgan Strickland, CEO of Opinionmeter. "Our customers must be able to see the big picture and drill down into the details to find answers to questions posed at the high level. The Dundas BI solution enables our survey customers to expand their data mining capabilities while not overburdening them with unnecessary complexities. This allows them to follow their train-of-thought and find the answers they're looking for with a few simple clicks."
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Big Red: Memoirs of a Texas Entrepreneur and Philanthropist
By Red McCombs, as told to Don Carleton
This autobiography by prominent Texas entrepreneur and philanthropist Red McCombs offers fascinating insights into the building of a business empire, the troubles that have beset the U.S. auto industry, and the development of the highly successful Clear Channel Communications.
Publisher: Dolph Briscoe Center for American History
Book Details: 252 pages, 6 x 9 inches, 30 illustrations
Publication Status: In Print
Red McCombs has, in his words, "dabbled in automobiles, cattle, oil and gas, broadcasting, insurance, racehorses, motion pictures, real estate, politics, minor league baseball, and pro football." The successful businessman is also the co-founder of Clear Channel Communications, the former owner of two professional basketball teams, and a noted philanthropist. Published by the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, Big Red is a candid first-person account of the life and times of an extraordinary Texan.
Written in collaboration with Dr. Don Carleton, the book begins with an account of McCombs's childhood in the West Texas town of Spur, where he first went into business for himself at the age of ten by selling peanuts to farm workers. McCombs started selling cars in Corpus Christi in 1950, and before long he was one of the most successful Ford dealers in the country. He moved to San Antonio in 1958 and built a business empire, always looking for his next great deal. Through all of his wheeling and dealing, however, McCombs says he's signed only one lifetime contract—with his wife, Charline.
McCombs's candid views on why U.S. automakers floundered, as well as his insights on the development of the highly successful Clear Channel Communications, are among the many behind-the-scenes accounts he relates about his remarkable life.
Car dealer and businessman Red McCombs is co-founder of Clear Channel Communications, the former owner of several professional sports teams, and a noted philanthropist.
Dr. Don Carleton is executive director of the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at the University of Texas at Austin. His recent publications include Dolph Briscoe: My Life in Texas Ranching and Politics and Conversations with Cronkite.
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I found an easy and delicious recipe for roasted chicken that I want to share. Its quick enough to make on a weeknight but looks nice enough to serve on the weekend. We often reserve the best looking and tasting meals for the weekend don't we? This recipe has got it all. I just love when things work out. It looks gorgeous on a platter – perfect for when you have guests over.
I got this recipe from a new cookbook I bought by Gordon Ramsay called "Healthy Appetite". Say what you will about Chef Ramsay but his recipes make for consistently great meals. They will not let you down. This book is uncomplicated and incorporates ingredients that you probably already buy regularly. No hard to find chutneys, apple butter or wood chips from the Amazon.
Gordon starts right off by saying that this is not a diet book. It is a cookbook that promotes healthy eating. I preach about this all the time. Eat good fats, vary your diet!! Don't eat all the 0% fat stuff, the disguised cardboard snacks, they're not good for you. Your body just stores it most of the time because it doesn't know what to do with it. i.e. evil Margarine. Also, most diet foods are loaded with salt or chemicals which can be harmful to you in the long term.
Back to the chicken. Maybe you're thinking "I know how to roast a chicken" or "why would I do this when I could buy a roast chicken at the grocery store"? To that I say, this recipe could be different and its definitely worth doing it yourself. I've made it twice so far and it comes out juicy with a crispy skin. The entire dish has several dimensions of flavour which cannot be achieved with a store bought rotisserie chicken. I love to bite into a a warm potato and taste a little lemon, rosemary and the juices from the chicken.
And lastly, since the veggies cook with the chicken, its a one casserole meal. Less dish washing!! You can just make a simple salad to accompany it.
Ok. Here we go with the recipe….no wait!…read my little notes first.
Buy a meat thermometer please! It is a tool you will use time and again. You should always use one when cooking chicken and minced meat. You don't need a fancy digital one and you can find one in most grocery stores.
Weeknight: If making this during the week I have found it helpful if my carrots are scrubbed and potatoes rinced ahead of time & placed in the fridge. Then when I get home from work it gives me a little head start.
Rub the chicken all over with salt and pepper, and a little drizzle of olive oil. Place in a large roasting pan and stuff the cavity with half the head of garlic, 2 or 3 lemon halves and a few herb sprigs.
Roast the chicken for 20 minutes, then take it out of the oven and lower the setting to 400F. add the vegetables to the roasting pan and turn to baste in the juices. Put the remaining garlic, lemon halves and herbs around the chicken. Drizzle a little olive oil over the bird and vegetables and sprinkle with salt and pepper.
Roast for 35-40 minutes* or until the bird is golden brown and cooked through. (minimum internal temp is 160 degrees for chicken) The juices should run clear when the thickest part of the thigh is pierced with a knife.
*Note: I like my chicken cooked to an internal temperature of 180. I like it when the legs are practically falling off and the skin is super crisp. So I cook my chicken for longer than stated. I insert my thermometer in the thigh, making sure not to hit bone. I learned that it's the legs and the thighs that take the longest to cook.
Meanwhile skim off any fat from the cooking juices in the roasting pan, then place on the stove over medium heat. Add the wine scraping up the sediment from the bottom of the pan to deglaze and let bubble until reduced by half. Pour in the chicken stock and again , reduce by half. Strain and serve with the chicken.
I have skipped the gravy because I didn't have white wine suitable for cooking. The chicken was juicy and just fine without it.
Made this recipe last night but with two Free Range chickens since we eat a lot and love to have leftovers. Amazing! The lemons give the meat and vegetables a wonderful flavour. I put small potatoes, baby carrots, half a turnip and herbs from my garden. It was absolutely delicious! I usually use a recipe that I have where you rub you chicken, between the skin and the meat, with a mixture of soft butter (lots of it!) and herbs. Also very goo but this one is definitely a keeper!


Passage of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (AIA) includes many changes to U.S. patent law. This article focuses on one change that might be overlooked: Prioritized Examination ("PE") of patent applications. The PE program allows an applicant to pay an additional $4800 fee ($2800 for small entities) to place an application on a prioritized track where the patent office has a goal to provide final disposition of the application (i.e., final rejection or allowance) within a year on average. Interestingly, the AIA retains the Accelerated Examination ("AE") program established on August 26, 2006, as discussed in MPEP 708.02(a). While the PE program prioritizes an application for prosecution ahead of standard filings, the AE program prioritizes and accelerates the actual prosecution of the application. The prioritized examination and accelerated examination programs co-exist as of September 26, 2011.
We recently had a chance to discuss co-existence of the AE and PE programs with Robert W. Bahr, Acting Associate Commissioner for Patent Examination Policy, during a recent MarcusEvans? IP Law Summit in September, 2011. Mr. Bahr stated there are no current plans to make changes to the AE program to align it with the PE program, or vice versa. He sees both programs as viable examination routes for applicants, and that applicants are expected to make a business decision as to which program should be taken. Therefore, it is up to the applicant to work with their patent practitioners on how best to align patent filing tactics with clients' business objectives.
How do these programs compare and which makes the most sense to use? The AE program and PE program are far from identical and have many differences, which gives rise to possible benefits in aligning patent application filing tactics with a client's business strategy.
One of the major differences is that the PE process does not require a pre-examination search document ("PESD") and an accelerated examination support document ("AESD") whereas these documents are required for the AE program to illustrate how the claims of an AE application are allowable over known related art. Preparation of the PESD and AESD documentation requires significant searching and analysis on part of the practitioner. Following the PE program can save an applicant $10,000 or more over the AE program in searching and analysis costs, but that doesn't necessarily mean the total cost is less expensive over a lifetime of an application's prosecution. Within the AE program, the time spent in searching for related art and in improving/focusing the claims tends to yield stronger claim sets, which contributes to faster allowance possibly within months of being accepted into the AE program. Without such thoroughly analyzed claim sets, an applicant could spend $10,000 and many years going back and forth with the examiner to achieve allowance for an application filed within the PE program.
Other than PESD and AESD considerations, the basic requirements for putting an application on file are the same for AE and PE applications, (e.g., formal drawings, no missing part, correct margins, etc.) except that the AE process allows only 3 independent claims and 20 total claims, while the PE process allows 4 independent claims and 30 total claims subject to excess claim fees. In both cases failure to follow the filing rules will result in the petition being dismissed or denied.
There is also a significant difference in fees. The filing fees of an AE application for a large entity are $1380, which includes $130 in petition fees, $1250 in filing fees, plus any excess page size fees. Corresponding small entity filing fees are $660 plus any excess page size fees. In contrast, the filings fees of a PE application for a large entity are $6480, including $4800 in petition fees, $1250 in filing fees, a $130 processing fee, and a $300 publication fee, plus excess claim and page size fees. The corresponding total for a small entity is $3630, plus excess claims and page size fees. From purely a filing fee point of view, the AE program is less expensive. Micro entity discounts do not apply to a PE application petition fee.
Prosecution is also different. AE turnaround is one month on non-final office actions, and failure to meet that strict time requirement results in abandonment of the application. Within the PE program turnaround is the normal three months. The three month deadlines can be extended as usual, but doing so results in the application falling out of the PE program. Applications that have fallen out of the PE program are placed on an examiner's standard docket. Thus, the AE program returns faster results than the PE program, but also has more severe consequences when the response dates are missed.
There are also some inconsistencies in availability of AE and PE applications. For example, one can file a PE application for a plant, while the AE program can not be used for plant patent applications. At least initially, the PE program is also being limited to 10,000 applications per USPTO fiscal year. There doesn't seem to be a formal limit on the number of AE applications, but there have only been an average of about 800 AE applications filed per year so there is little concern with respect to the USPTO limiting AE submissions.
With the introduction of the AE program, the PE program, and other prosecution tracks, the USPTO appears to be developing a full spectrum of possible approaches for prioritizing patent applications rather than a one-size-fits-all approach. Clients can select a style of examination based on their business needs or available budgets. If a cost-effective immediate feedback is required, the PE program might be a proper path for clients wishing to get prosecution started early. If a strategic set of claims are required, the AE program would likely be the best approach for clients wishing to obtain issued claims quickly. We expect the PE program to likely fill their allocated 10,000 applications per fiscal year quickly. In fact, our office has already started filing application with PE petitions. When the allotted yearly slots are taken, the AE program will remain available.
Our office has substantial experience with the AE program, and, although we are strong advocates of the AE program, we believe that PE program also offers other benefits to clients. Clients now have a greater selection of filing options to meet their business goals or filing budgets. A detailed analysis that one would conduct for an AE application would still have merit when filing an application within the PE program. There may even be cases where an applicant might strategically decide to file an application, or a family of applications, in both programs to obtain an optimized result.
The AIA also allows for changes to other prioritized programs including petitions to make special or important technologies, and patent prosecution highways. These programs can also be leveraged to prioritized examination and offer benefits to clients as well. We encourage readers to explore all the programs currently offered or that will be offered over the next 18 months.
It's good to know that the USPTO's fast-track programs are back in action. Though I wish the patent reform legislation had ended fee diversion, at least the bill is allowing the USPTO a fee hike, which among other measures will permit the patent office to implement initiatives (like the prioritized programs and the Detroit satellite office) that had been back-burnered.
I've used it a number of times and it's been very effective.
You need a vacation. And when you get back, a new line of work.
Under the new First to File regime,there you wait the time required to do the extensive search and prepare the reporting documents before filing an application in order to use the AE route? Have you increased your insurance to cover the chance that a 30 day response deadline is missed to do illness, injury or other form of mayhem?
I suspect the sanity of anyone who would use AE.
Most particular patent cases – especially the ones not lititgated to conclusion do not merit a blip on my radar screen.
That is a far cry from the assumption you impart that anyone involved in deciding that these are mere blips cuts corners and ignores knowledge.
This is just like the other "specialty" programs that get a little fanfare and are largely meaningless.
I'm sure you'd be disappointed if you did hear them.
Why not invite him to lunch?
Hmm, I'd use the Accelerated Examination program if (1) I want to obtain an issued patent within a year and (2) I want the claims of my issued patent to be incredibly strong and reviewed against the most relevant prior art so that they won't be easily invalidated during litigation.
Why not just file under the prioritized examination with a solid IDS? Even with the fees it'd cost less than preparing the papers for an old-school AE. As long as you don't dilly dally with responding to the OA and are reasonable with your claims, the prioritized exam should get you a patent pretty quickly.
The cons are that the claims are reviewed against the most relevant prior art…so they may be more narrow than what you'd get if you didn't have a such a thorough search.
That's a "con"? Oh, right. I forgot for a moment that invalid claims can be quite "valuable" when they are backed by $$$$ and "enforced" by rabid, ethically-challenged bulldogs.
So few patent cases are litigated to conclusion (based on percentages) that I advise my clients not to worry about the corners I cut and knowledge I ignore.
A man whose views on 101 I would be interested in hearing.
This is total take over for corperations and cival rights violations for the indegent and brightest youthful inventors disgusting. Merits of the invention for producing a valuable marketable invention should be the basis for accelerated examinations not cash in the governments pockets shoving cival rights out the door.
4,400 AE peitions since 2006 (five years).
What is the percentage of total submissions that this number represents over the same time period?
The number is so small as to tell me that this does not merit a blip on my radar screen.
Contrary to some early speculation that Fast Track might be filled up quickly, it appears that less than 1,000 Track 1 cases were filed last week. We will see based on this week's numbers whether this relatively slow start was due to (i) the relatively short time after the announcement, (ii) the fact that the 10,000 filing initial limit was effectively reset this week for FY2012 (last week's 10,000 filing limit was under FY2011) and so filers were not under as much immediate pressure to get their cases on file, or (iii)that the filing of these type of Fast Track cases will be much more gradual than anticipated.
The USPTO releases AE statistics at the end of the calendar year and does not track or release AE application information beyond review of an AE petition. At the end of 2010, there were just over 4400 AE petitions submitted since 2006, of which just over 1500 applications received NoAs. Unfortunately, we haven't been able to find a way to identify the 1500 applications and the USPTO has not offered any insights after our requests, so we work from our office's statistics.
Our sole office has filed over 50 AE petitions to date and continues to file more. Our average time for allowance (date of filing the application and petition to date of NoA) is 10 months for applications making it through to issuance as a patent. Our office record is 27 days. Yes, there is a fairly long tail to the distribution. So, we feel we have sufficient experience and statistics with respect to AE applications to make the comparison, especially in view the PE program represents a a "standard" utility application without a full fledge a priori analysis.
Is anyone else here a fan of the accelerated examination program? In what situations do you use it?
I have never used it and have never advised a client to use it. I find it hard to justify the risks posed by the required search and examination support documents.
How big is the data set used to make these timing comparisons? Isn't it a bit too early to draw any conclusions about the process time on either, much less be drawing conclusions on both and comparing the two?


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The team from Specsavers Cheltenham showed their support on the day of Bradley Lowery's funeral by donning their favourite football or sports strip.
This was a request from the family in celebration of Bradley's life and the fact that he was a huge football fan.
Each member of staff paid £1 each to wear their tops and this was donated to the Bradley Lowery Foundation which was set up to in Bradley's honour during his illness. It will now go on to help others with Neuroblastoma, a cancer which affects fewer than 100 children a year.


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Death from General Anesthesia
No wedding ring, only suffer-ring
By Manopriya Gunasekara
A man who underwent cosmetic dental surgery at a private hospital in Colombo three months ahead of his proposed marriage has ended up being partially paralyzed prompting him to file action in Courts claiming damages.
Harshana Nayana Jayasekere of Gintota in Galle had decided to undergo cosmetic dental surgery to fix his protruding teeth and gums prior to his wedding which was scheduled for August, 2010, according to his petition field in the Colombo District Court.
He said that after the cosmetic dental surgery, he suffered from multiple and permanent disabilities forcing him to postpone the wedding because he now needs the assistance of another person to get on with his day-to-day life.
Mr. Jayasekere is claiming Rs. 26 million as damages from the hospital, the surgeon and the anaesthetist stating his partial paralysis was due to their negligence. Mr. Jayasekere said he first contacted the surgeon in April 2010 for advice and was told that cosmetic treatment would help him. On this advice he entered hospital in May 2010 and his physical condition at that stage was good.
Before the surgery, he was given general anaesthesia, being told it was a simple operation and he could go home after two days. But he was unconscious for several days. When he gained consciousness he was paralysed and had to undergo a second surgery by neurosurgeons, Mr. Jayasekere said.
After this surgery he gained some movement in his body but remained permanently disabled on the left side. He is also suffering from neurological problems as well as problems in his bowel and bladder movements.
Mr. Jayasekere said he was now unable to use public transport and was dependent on his family members for travel. He also required frequent medical treatment and was unable to return to his job at the Employees Trust Fund office.
He said that besides the loss of his income, he had to spend Rs. 18,600 a month on medical treatment and transport in addition to Rs. 41,000 a month for special diet he required. His bill during his hospitalization amounted to Rs. 2.1 million. His marriage too had to be called off due to these problems and the mental trauma.
Having booked the hotel for the wedding, he had to cancel the booking and bear further financial losses.
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A beer hall bound for 265-276 Bowery has become involved in a dust-up that could hurt its chances of snagging a liquor license.
Last Wednesday, Vanessa Solomon was working in her loft apartment on the second floor of the building between Stanton and Houston Streets when a cloud of brown dust came up from the storefront space where the Paulaner Brauhaus plans to open. Her floors, bed, clothes, and papers were covered in dust, she said. She and her live-in partner, Timothy Davis, spent the rest of the day scrambling to find a clean place for their five school-aged children to sleep that night.
"It looked like Pompeii," Mr. Davis told The Local.
After dust began coming up from the first floor, Paulaner project representatives sent a cleaning service. But that was nothing compared to the carpet of brown powder that rose up July 25.


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Costa Rica: Government threat to the right to strike
The National Association of Nursing Professionals (ANPE) in Chile is fighting new legislation which aims to abolish the right to strike. The action started when the union exposed that big business was receiving fiscal advantages while public services struggle. Now they are fighting against four bills removing the right to strike. Union officer María Esther Hernández Solís presents the union's position.
A bill on "Legal Security Regarding Strikes and Associated Procedures" is before the Costa Rican legislative assembly. The government aims to abolish the right to strike, if it is passed into law. The bill is backed by a president who has demonstrated his contempt for the people and a legislative assembly ready to remove hard-won labour rights, including the right to protest.
The background is a strike that began on 10 September and lasted 90 days. The strike was called against government proposals for fiscal consolidation and reducing the fiscal deficit. The only ones to lose out were public service workers, while big companies continue to evade and avoid their responsibility to pay tax.
This bias towards big business was unmasked when the Constitutional Court forced the finance ministry to present a list of companies that submitted tax returns indicating zero profit and therefore no tax liability.
The list was made public and showed that one in four big companies claimed zero profit even though these companies had a turnover of 8.1 billion colons (US$13,900,000) during the period of 2010-2016 and their assets were valued at 15.5 billion colons (US$25,240,000).
It was equally alarming to find out that, in the period 2010-2014, the tax authorities did not examine the accounts of 76% of the big companies that declared net losses in two or more consecutive financial years. Despite these figures, the government is threatening the pay and working conditions of public service workers, who have their taxes deducted at source and thus no tax liabilities.
In the current legislative session, four bills under consideration all argue that protests should not affect the general public and all of them remove the right to strike. The bills arbitrarily classify a range of services as essential and are drafted in such a way as to make workers afraid to go on strike. They even go so far as to threaten the dissolution of individual unions.
Our union was called on to respond at the legislative assembly's Economic Affairs Committee. Dr Rodrigo López García, our general secretary, and Dr Ma. Esther Hernández Solís, a member of our executive committee, emphatically expressed their opposition:
"We do not agree with this bill.
It removes the right to strike, which is a basic right for workers who feel under threat at any particular moment. It is contrary to the country's constitution and violates international instruments. It goes against decisions made by the Committee on Freedom of Association and the Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations. It is therefore a regressive measure.
As for what is an essential public service, the authorities should specify what exactly is essential about the services in question and define the concept in relation to those particular services. The CCSS[1] provides an essential service but it is the administration's negligence and not strikes that have paralysed the provision of specialist services, causing delays in operations and long waiting lists and forcing insured parties to make claims against the institution on the grounds of negligence. Workers have taken action on behalf of patients rather than to win benefits for themselves."
The government should respect the social dialogue mechanism and promote decent work to curtail industrial conflict instead of resorting to strategies that undermine workers and trade union rights, even if this is with laws. Such a law, if passed, is unjust. Our union is therefore ready to defend public service workers' right to strike, including health workers in Costa Rica.
[1] Costa Rican Social Security Fund.
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Women can sometimes behave in a way that can be really amusing or funny and totally opposite to a man's behavior. Here are the list of some funny and unknown facts about women.
Women speak about 20,000 words a day. That's 13,000 more than the average man.
Women cry on average between 30 and 64 times a year, while men cry between 6 and 17 times.
Women spend over 4 years (in total) of their lives menstruating.
Women experience significantly more nightmares than men and have more emotional dreams, a research found.


Will 'First Man' live up to Purdue memories of Neil Armstrong?
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Whether "First Man" will rate against the likes of "The Right Stuff" we won't know until the biopic looking to capture Neil Armstrong and his famous first steps on the moon is released Oct. 12.
But the first peek, offered Friday when "First Man" star Ryan Gosling ("La La Land,""The Notebook," "Blade Runner 2049") took the trailer to ABC's "Jimmy Kimmel Live," goes all in on the uncertainty of a NASA mission that made the Purdue University graduate a national hero.
Based on James Hansen's biography, "First Man: A Life of Neil A. Armstrong" – a book that balanced the astronaut's feats with his deeply private nature – the movie, directed by Damien Chazelle, is scheduled to arrive less than a year shy of the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11 in July 1969.
The trailer tries to put the peril of the race, both in terms of national ambition and around the Armstrong family dinner table, into a capsule of a little more than two minutes. Action-packed, for sure.
Reminders of Armstrong's heroics rarely need anniversaries – or A-list casting – to be recounted at Purdue, where a statue of him as a student sits between an engineering hall named in his honor and boot-shaped, concrete replicas of the steps he took on the moon's surface.
On a campus where the stories of 24 Purdue-educated astronauts are celebrated without pause, stories about Armstrong and that mission – almost always told by others, even before his death in 2012 – are coveted.
In 2014, two years after Armstrong's death, Purdue gathered a reunion of seven of its astronauts on the Elliott Hall of Music stage for a reunion, featuring stories ranging from trips to the moon and those aboard space shuttles. There, Gene Cernan – the bookend complement to Armstrong as the most recent person to leave a footprint on the moon – lamented that Armstrong couldn't be there. Cernan, who also would be gone less than three years later, told about how Armstrong carried himself, never denying the action but rarely betraying a sense of humility of making the Apollo 11 mission seem more than doing the job he'd been sent to do.
Cernan said traveling with Armstrong was to understand the term "world icon." ("Boy, when Neil walked in a room, it lit up.") But, Cernan said, Armstrong "was the most human, easy to know, easy to talk to guy in the world." Cernan told a story about stopping at a military base in Afghanistan with Armstrong and Apollo 13 commander Jim Lovell, about a year or so before Armstrong died in 2012.
"Ladies and gentlemen, that's your Neil Armstrong. He belongs to America, he belongs to the world. But he belongs to Purdue University."
We'll find out in October whether "First Man" captures that Neil Armstrong.
FOR MORE: Go to jconline.com and click on this link to this story to see the trailer for "First Man."


JEANNETTE GINSLOV is Medea's artist-in-residence this spring. Her roots are as a performer, choreographer and artistic director in South Africa, but her currant work centers around affect, haptic and digital materiality on several platforms: stage, screens, online and new media applications. On May 14, Ginslov gave a Medea Talk. Video inside.


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Category: SWPL Team News
"Best days of your life"
Today marks a significant moment in the history of Forfar Farmington as two stalwarts of the club play their final games as they bid farewell to the SWPL team having amassed over 1,200 games between them over a near 29 year period, which must be a record in the women's game!
We caught up with Club Captain Nicola Davidson and her long time team-mate & friend Alana Bruce as they took part in their final training sessions before their retirement today.
Keen to learn more about their journey with Farmington they shared the following memories and highlights :
Q – what was your earliest memory of playing football?
Nicola – playing with my big sister and brothers then first team memory playing for Dundee West Boys (what a team) then age of ten signing for Forfar Farmington in 1993
Alana – Playing at Martin Park in Kirrie with my cousins Gav and Dougie, before joining Forfar Farmington in 1992
Q- What have been your career highlights as individuals and as part of team?
Nicola –
I have many great highlights one at age of 12 being the only female player out of 16 international teams playing in the FIFA Fair Play Tournament in France – I got a nice gift and funny moment when one of the team managers approached my mum and asked to buy me!
U13's for Forfar can I just say what a team, we had to play 3 games in the one day to win the league and to celebrate we done a Klinsmann through the biggest puddle.
Being part of the Farmington exchange twice and meeting some awesome people and on my second trip getting joint player of the trip with Avril.
Another highlight has to be finishing second in the league and being in a Scottish cup final against Glasgow City where we just lost out 1-0
Being Captain for so many years is obviously an honour as well!
Alana –
As an individual I'd have to say making the full National team. I was in the squads since I was15 so 1997 till 2003, 16's, 18's and A squad.
With Farmington it would be the session we were second in the league and Scottish cup finalists running Glasgow City close
Q – Best player played with and against?
Nicola – Too many to name – I've had the privilege of playing with some very talented players.
Against – again lots of very good players I've shared the pitch with but Suzanne Lappin, Leanne Crichton and Fara Williams.
Alana – Nicola Davidson / Fara Williams
Q – Sure we know the answer to this but what will you miss the most when you retire?
Nicola – I will miss playing for sure miss seeing everyone and especially the changing room banter
Alana – The banter with the girls!
Q – What pieces of advice would you give to the young players at Farmington who look up to you?
Nicola – Train hard, play hard, learn & listen to your peers, be coachable but most importantly have the best time and cherish every moment!
Alana – Train hard, play hard and enjoy every minute of your Farmington days! They will be some of THE best days of your life!
Whilst Alana & Nicola are departing the 1st team scene we certainly hope to see them around the club as role models for the next generation of players coming through. The committee, coaches, team mates, parents and every other player at the club thanks them both immensely for their undying commitment to the club over the years and wish them all the very best for the future!
They are pictured receiving momentos from Club President Colin Brown to mark their 600+ appearances and we will be having a further presentation at the Clubhouse on Tuesday evening this week.
Alana Bruce and Club President Colin Brown
Nicola Davidson and Club President Colin Brown
Summer Christie arrives on loan
Forfar Farmington have added to their squad ahead of a busy run-in of games with Summer Christie arriving at Forfar until the end of the season from Celtic.
Christie is a midfielder and played a full game in last night's 1-0 defeat to Motherwell with a trialist appearance in the 2nd half against Hibernian on Sunday.
The midfielder is looking at the move to Farmington to play in a competitive environment with the abundance of talent that there is in the SWPL1, "I am looking to get some minutes here at Forfar & it's a great opportunity for me.
"We play against some of the top teams in the league including Rangers & Glasgow City and it's a real challenge for me & the team, it's a good team and a good set-up here at Forfar.
"Kevin has been great with me since I've came into the door, hopefully this move benefits both Forfar & Celtic.
On the game last night against Motherwell, Christie said, "It was a disappointing defeat for the Girls but I enjoyed it out there.
"Donna Paterson in particular has been great with me since I have came in at Farmington, she keeps me right and is an experienced player in this league.
"I'm really glad to get the challenge here at Forfar and we have some challenging games coming up, I am travelling up continuously from Larbert but this is a great opportunity and playing games is what I want to be doing."
Club Statement : Leontia McVarnock
We are disappointed to see Leontia leave Scotland to return home after a long 4 months for her, waiting on the green light which never came due to errors at SFA Registrations department. It is very frustrating when clubs such as ours with voluntary staff all doing a very good job in making sure the correct paperwork is submitted on time to the relevant bodies however this was not followed up.
Our request was made on the 10th December ahead of the transfer window but not processed even after many attempts to chase this up with Sandy Bryson Head of SFA Registrations department at the time, including resending relevant copies of documents. A request was then made by SFA for special dispensation on the transfer given all clubs and associations were in support of this however with no success.
We have since been informed of an oversight by SFA/SWF in that all SWPL clubs did not have access to the TMS (Transfer Matching System) to allow players to transfer freely from FIFA member Associations, in this case was IFA to SFA.
Leontia arrived after we had the green light to return to football in March having been told her case was being dealt with and just waiting on the confirmation. At this point we could have been told it wasn't going to happen as the window had closed but were led to believe as she was an amateur player then this window didn't apply, however not the case as Leontia required International Clearance. The club have progressed this matter personally with FIFA to see what needed to be done by SFA to progress her application through the system, having the support of SWF, and all 7 SWPL clubs, this support was much appreciated.
It seemed the only way to resolve the error made by SFA was to revert the status of the league to amateur, but this has not been agreed due to other factors involved. We therefore say farewell to Leontia while we continue to follow up the appeal process taking this as far as we can for her. We do hope we may see her return for the new season given we can perhaps have better success with the process for a second time, giving her the chance to gain the experience she is desperate to have within SWPL1.
We wish her well as she returns to Ireland and to see her part of the squad in the future.
White praises the youth ethos at the club
Leah White is a player & coach known by many around FClub circles & the left back certainly knows her way around the youth corridor into the Premier Team at Forfar Farmington.
White came through the youth system at the club before joining the Prem Team tasting success back in 2017 winning the SWPL2 title.
The left back has struggled with game time of late & was happy to be given the chance last week by head coach Kevin McGreskin, she looks ahead to tomorrow's televised game with Glasgow City by saying.
"It's going to be a hard game but we're up for it and have been training hard, if we can get something then it would be great, hopefully we can build on her performance.
"Glasgow City are good & pacy with the ball and are always dangerous, we will focus on ourselves though and we are looking to make a good account of ourselves.
"Kevin has been brilliant with myself & the players, he fits in great with the team and is a great coach, he demands standards from players.
"I struggled for game time last season, and I was happy to get a start with the resumption of competitive football last week, hopefully I can build on this and help the team out as much as I can.
"There is a family ethos about this club and we are like a family, I know everyone says it but it really is, we get on well together. When we are enjoying good moments like we did last week & being successful then it's always positive.
Charlotte Taylor, Alix Saddler, Rachel Neave & Zoe Bruce were in the squad last week for the 3-2 victory over Motherwell with White dedicating last week's victory to the work that gets done behind the scenes to the youth development programme at the club.
White added, "The junior set-up at the club is good, it's great when players come into the Prem Team and also stick around with the club for a very long time which has been proven in the past.
"Players like Alix, Rachel, Zoe, Charlotte & Beth Mowatt (GK) have been through the youth development pathway before making the step-up to the Prem Team.
"Young players look up to players like myself when we are taking sessions, with more media coverage and attention towards the women's game, it will only help the pathway moving forward.
"The message to the young players is stick in & work hard, you don't always get to play 90 minutes but opportunities will come when you get them, you just have to believe in yourself."
Three 1st half goals see Farmington defeated at Hibs
Hibernian did their business in the 1st half overcoming Forfar Farmington 3-0 at Ainslie Park, the hosts deserved their victory with a dominant 15-20 spell from Hibs was enough for the hosts to get all 3 points & get the outcome they desired.
Dean Gibson's side showed their intent straight from the off trying to create openings from the word go in the aim of breaking up the Farmington defence, on 6 minutes, Ellis Notley had an effort from 30 yards which went wide of the left post.
Hibs took the lead on 15 minutes, a corner came in from the right side which wasn't dealt with properly by the Farmington backline and there was Leah Eddie 18 yards from goal who guided the ball into the bottom right hand corner beyond Perry.
Siobhan Hunter made it 2-0 to the hosts shortly after getting on the end of a lovely cross to jump above London Pollard & Donna Paterson to guide the ball into the net past Perry who enjoyed a good afternoon in goals making some good stops despite coming out on the losing end.
A speculative effort by Carla Boyce on 28 minutes completed the scoring with her effort rocketing into the top right hand corner from distance past Perry, Farmington were struggling to adapt & a break couldn't come quick enough for the visitors.
Farmington captain Cassie Cowper had a few stern words with her team-mates after the 3rd goal went in & it brought to an extent a response, there was more of a desire to get forward & strive to get a goal, Cowper found Erin Rennie with the midfielder keen to get on the scoresheet but her effort went wide of Emily Mutch's goal.
Half Time – Hibernian 3-0 Forfar Farmington
Forfar Farmington Gaffer Ryan McConville alongside the rest of the coaching staff used the interval to sort a few things out & it brought more stability at the back in the 2nd period.
The changes then came thick & fast with Molly-May Ramsay, Eirinn McCafferty, Leah White & Cheryl Kilcoyne all coming on alongside our Number 10 Nicola Davidson. What a pity that we couldn't get supporters into the ground to see the return of a Farmington stalwart in Nicola Davidson.
All subs brought a different approach to the game, especially Eirinn McCafferty always looking to get on the ball & pose a threat to the Hibs defence, she had an effort midway through the 2nd half go wide.
Davidson used her experience to control proceedings in midfield & her replacement Donna Paterson also did well alongside Kathryn Pender before the latter was also replaced by McCafferty.
London Pollard had a quieter afternoon than usual however still gave Hibs some problems, with time running out in the game, she did very well to get past Charlotte Potts showing some excellent skill before finding McCafferty who fired wide.
Cheryl Kilcoyne has found game-time hard to come by so far this season however the Farmington favourite gave 100% for the cause and almost scored a fantastic goal with a long range strike which Mutch had to tip onto the bar before the rebound by Nicola Davidson was caught offside.
A defeat is always tough however the 2nd half performance deserves praise for a more defensive organisation against a side of Hibs's quality. Well done to Hibs on the win who picked up all 3 points after a tough period without a result recently.
Great to see our Number 10 Nicola Davidson back on the park after a curtailed period out with injury, a real stalwart of Forfar Farmington Football Club.
Forfar Farmington: Lauren Perry, Lisa Ryan (76 Leah White), Kirsty Fraser, Jade Lindsay, Alana Bruce, Cassie Cowper, (76 Cheryl Kilcoyne), Donna Paterson (68 Nicola Davidson), Kathryn Pender (58 Eirinn McCafferty), Erin Rennie, Charlotte Gammie (58 Molly-May Ramsay), London Pollard: Subs not used: Annalisa McCann, Billie Simpson
McConville: We have the underdog tag again
Forfar Farmington Gaffer admits that Farmington once again have the underdog tag again in tomorrow's match against Rangers however admits that he & his players have to embrace it all.
McConville said, "It will be a difficult game, there is no hiding place that the investment put in by Rangers for the women's programme has been a high profile & have recruited some quality players.
"We have the underdog tag again which we can accept however I want us to give a good account of ourselves, Rangers in both mens & womens carries a big name, reputation & history. The mens team have been successful over the decades & the womens team are now trying to emulate that.
"Heart & desire costs nothing & you will see that from our women tomorrow, Rangers will be hurting after the 1-0 defeat to Celtic, they will look to bounce back straight away.
"For us, it was a sore one last week & was disappointing, we have to understand we are a small club & scraping for every point possible, Lauren Perry had a nasty facial injury with 8 stitches across her head & 2 black eyes & misses out.
"Fiona McNicoll is a proven goalkeeper in this league and will be an asset for us tomorrow."
McGreskin: Proud of the players
Forfar Farmington assistant coach Kevin McGreskin admitted after the game that he's proud of his players despite the 8-1 loss to Glasgow City. Farmington played well for the majority of the game & competed with City for the opening 40 minutes until Scott Booth's side playing some free flowing football which led to the more superior outcome from their point of view.
McGreskin said, "To be fair, the players worked really hard & put in a really good shift against a top outfit in Glasgow City who have a host of international players in their squad & been league champions for the last 13 years.
"I felt our players made them work hard enough during the game but with them having more fitness & sharpness it told in the end, there at the top of the tree in Scottish Women's football.
"We are proud of the players as they put in a good performance against a top side, we created good opportunities & a few half chances & Fiona McNicoll made some great saves in the 2nd half at the other end, it might sound silly after an 8-1 defeat however the players played well.
"I wouldn't say we capitulated as we competed really well, it was a mad spell a few minutes before half time conceding 2 goals which puts a different complexion on the game. On the whole, Glasgow City were just able to take advantage of extra half yards in terms of movement & sharpness.
"Donna Paterson has been in great form for us, we worked on a few set-pieces & was unlucky not to add another goal in the 2nd half."
City beat spirited Farmington 8-1
Glasgow City maintained their fine start to the season with an 8-1 win over a motivated & enthusiastic Forfar Farmington side who were hit by sucker punches regarding goals in periods of the game however the competitiveness was definitely showcased at a windy Broadwood Stadium this afternoon.
Forfar Farmington head coach Ryan McConville made 2 changes to the win over Motherwell with Alana Bruce & Fiona McNicoll coming in for Jade Lindsay & Lauren Perry.
Glasgow City took the lead on 11 minutes when Zaneta Wyne's cross was parried by Fiona McNicoll & there was Kirsty Howat to bundle home into an empty net from 4 yards out.
Forfar Farmington levelled on 19 minutes, a fantastic free kick by Cassie Cowper was met by Donna Paterson who headed home a fine effort into the bottom left hand corner beyond Erin Clachers. Farmington had been losing at this moment in time possession wise however they were organised & got an equaliser which they worked hard for.
A thunderous strike from Rachel McLaughlan made it 2-1 to Glasgow City finding the bottom left hand corner past McNicoll from 30 yards out, Kirsty Howat then got her 2nd of the game after McNicoll lost control of the ball & there was Howat to put the ball into the net.
Jo Love showed her experience in this game once again & made it 4-1 with 9 minutes before half time turning Kirsty Fraser before keeping her composure to slot into the net.
Half Time – Glasgow City 4-1 Forfar Farmington
Glasgow City added a 5th with Aoife Colvill finding the bottom corner with a good finish before a 6th followed soon after thanks to a Mairead Fulton header.
Head Coach McConville brought on Jade Lindsay in place of Billie Simpson with the former adding a new dimension to avoid any hope of serious capitulation. When she came on, she gave Forfar positivity and got into good areas. Aimee Anderson also played well when she came on & gave Forfar something different in attack despite the game being wrapped up by that point.
Forfar almost pulled one back when a Cassie Cowper ball found London Pollard however the striker pulled the shot over the bar. Glasgow City added a 7th with Leanne Ross sending Fiona McNicoll the wrong way.
The visitors remained positive on the ball with Anderson giving Glasgow City something to think about, she played a good ball into sub Jade Lindsay however a good save by Erin Clachers denied Lindsay, it was an afternoon in which Farmington could've added to their tally however it wasn't to be.
Howat then got her hat-trick after a Shannon Wojcik shot wasn't properly dealt with by the Forfar goalkeeper & there was Howat to seal her hat-trick, from a period in which they competed with City, it was turning into complete capitulation for Forfar however they all gave 100% to the cause which was fantastic for everyone associated with Forfar Farmington Football Club.
Not the result anyone wanted however everyone played well & that was a big positive for everyone involved, the defeat is a blow however next week at home to Hearts is a great opportunity to bounce back, there was a lot of young players featured & they will learn & develop as a result of this.
Glasgow City showed their strength & depth & the movement on & off the ball was pleasing from their point of view, Farmington competed for large periods of the 1st half against City & that will be a plus sign for the management team to reflect over.
Full Time – Glasgow City 8-1 Forfar Farmington
Glasgow City: Clachers, McLauchlan, Wyne, Love, Fulton (Wojcik), Howat, Toland (Crichton), Clark, Ross, Colvill (Davidson), Wade. Subs not used: Alexander, Lauder, Kerr, Foley
Forfar Farmington: McNicoll, Ryan, Cowper, Fraser, Bruce, Simpson (Lindsay), Paterson (Paterson), Rennie (McCafferty), Pollard, Pender (Ramsay), Gammie (Anderson). Subs not used: Perry, White.
Kirsty Fraser: No pressure for City game
Forfar Farmington centre back Kirsty Fraser is one of the new players at the club however has settled into the back-line very well putting in a solid performance a fortnight ago against Motherwell.
A different assignment follows for Forfar Farmington tomorrow when they take the trip to Broadwood Stadium to face Glasgow City (3pm kick off) who have been a dominant force in Scottish Women's Football for many years.
Fraser admits that there is no pressure on Forfar Farmington for the upcoming task against City, "There is no pressure on us to get anything out of the game against Glasgow City, Glasgow City are a good side however we will be going out to perform, play well & give them a good game.
"There is nothing to fear prior to this game, we had a good result against Motherwell a fortnight ago which will give us momentum heading into the game.
"It will be a good challenge for us but we know that Glasgow City are talented all over the park, we are capable of doing well & everyone within the club is looking forward to the game."
"Following the Motherwell win, it gives us that oomph, the game plan went well & the aim is to build around the positivity tomorrow."
McConville: Glasgow City will be a big challenge
Forfar Farmington got off to the dream start just under a fortnight ago in the SWPL1 Premier League with a 4-2 win over Motherwell. A different assignment follows with a tricky encounter to face Premier League champions Glasgow City who have dominated Scottish Womens football for over a decade.
Farmington Head Coach Ryan McConville is looking for his players to embrace the challenge against a side of Glasgow City's calibre on Sunday which is filled with experience & quality all over the park despite upcoming & recent departures from the club.
McConville said, "We're playing against the champions from last year who have dominated womens football in this country for a very long time, we are playing against a lot of international players & players with a bit of pedigree.
"Glasgow City have recruited well despite losing some players, Scott Booth has done a great job with the club who is one of the best managers in the league, it's a big challenge for the coaches & players.
"The pressure isn't on us, it's important that we perform & give a good account of ourselves but Glasgow City will be favourites to win the game, we'll be trying to give them difficult hurdles & at the end of the day it's a David v Goliath task.
"Sunday will give us that indication of where we're at, the outcome of the game won't define the season however we need to try & give it our best shot & be positive."


BARCELONA, Spain, Apr 15 – Four years have passed since Lionel Messi last reached a Champions League semi-final and his drought has become a source of unease for Barcelona ahead of their latest attempt on Tuesday.
Manchester United are the ones looking to emulate Atletico Madrid, Juventus and Roma by sending Barca out in the quarters for a fourth year running but for the Catalans, another failure would be unforgivable, not least because of the implications for their captain.
Barcelona's dominance in Spain has been shaped by Messi, who only this month overtook Iker Casillas as the player with the most La Liga victories, 335, in its history.
Those wins have helped them capture seven of the last 10 league titles, a figure that will surely become eight from 11 next month, given their nine-point lead at the top of the table.
There could be an historic fifth consecutive Copa del Rey too if Ernesto Valverde's side beat Valencia on May 25.
But in Europe, Barca would appear under-marked, with only one success in the last seven years, three in 10 since Pep Guardiola took charge in 2008 and set in motion what has felt, in playing terms at least, like an iconic era.
The list of clubs etched onto the cup hoisted at the Wanda Metropolitano on June 1 will instead show a decade swallowed up by Real Madrid, whose domestic failings in that period have been exonerated by four Champions League triumphs in five years.
Messi's record is similarly unbalanced. He has nine La Liga titles and is by a distance the competition's top scorer, with an astonishing 414 goals. Cristiano Ronaldo, closest in second, has 311.
But in the Champions League, Messi has lifted the trophy four times, a relatively modest return given it puts him on a par with 11 current Real Madrid players alone, including Nacho, Casemiro and Dani Carvajal. This year, Ronaldo is hunting his sixth.
And while Messi dwarfs the Portuguese for goals in La Liga, the opposite is true in Europe, where Ronaldo has 125 goals to his 108.
The game's most illustrious pair could yet meet in this year's final, should Barca capitalise on their 1-0 first-leg win over United and then overcome either Liverpool or Porto in the semis.
Ronaldo and Juventus, meanwhile, would have to beat Ajax, and then either Manchester City or Tottenham.
A showdown in Madrid would throw an even brighter glare on Messi's record compared to Ronaldo, whose sensational hat-trick against Atletico Madrid last month only enhanced the sense this tournament belongs to him.
Messi is not one to complain, particularly given he cannot be blameless in Barca's underachievements in Europe.
But the fans are frustrated, with last season's double doing little to ease the disappointment of the collapse against Roma.
And his teammates feel it too, the weight of history on their shoulders from a need to square arguably the game's greatest ever player with a Champions League haul that befits that status.
It means the pressure on Barcelona in this competition runs deep, a psychological burden that perhaps United, or their next opponents, will use to their advantage. For Messi, there is work to do.


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Charles E. Shannon '11 & A. Faith Kniffley
By Lauren D. Kiel, Contributing Writer May 24, 2011
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Charles E. Shannon '11 & A. Faith Kniffley. Courtesy of Charles E. Shannon
Charles E. Shannon '11 and A. Faith Kniffley are well versed in the laws of chemistry—and physics and biology and calculus.
The couple met at (MS)squared, a math and science summer program for minority students held at Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass., where she was the 16-year-old girl who spent all her time with a popular clique of five girls, and he was the "goofy" 15-year-old guy who always showed up late to their tennis class.
The two did not interact much during their first summer at camp, but he decided to call her that fall on Sept. 25, according to Kniffley, who remembers the couple's important dates with precision. A discussion about Usher's new CD, "Confessions," led to an instant friendship and frequent telephone chats.
After nine months of talking, the couple first saw each other in person again when they returned to camp the next summer. They became a couple, much to the surprise of their fellow campers, who had no idea the two had become so close.
That October, she went to visit him in Memphis, his hometown, which Shannon said marked the start of their long-distance relationship. The following fall, she began attending the University of Louisville, and he headed north to Harvard a year later.
"I really wanted it to work out, so when we started we would always look forward to the next time we would meet," Shannon said. "The plan was always about how are we going to see each other next, whether it was one of us hopping on a Greyhound or flying back from Harvard."
The couple briefly parted ways a few times, once when Kniffley first went to college—"he was under this impression that I was going to meet some guy," she said—and again during Shannon's freshman year at Harvard, as he struggled to adapt to the Harvard workload. But each time, they reconnected.
Kniffley spent her senior fall semester at Bridgewater State University in Bridgewater, Mass. to give the couple the opportunity to see if their long-distance relationship could also work in person.
"We just needed time to be together," Shannon said. "And we were like, 'This works!'"
And after graduating last year, Kniffley relocated to Boston, where she is working in a first grade classroom with City Year.
On May 1, Shannon took Kniffley back to Andover, Mass. While Kniffley had dreamed of getting engaged where the couple had first met, they had visited Andover last fall with no proposal. Shannon threw her further off the trail by having his younger brother, Christopher A. Shannon '13, suggest the trip (though the brother backed out at the last minute).
After eating lunch and wandering around the campus, they made their way to the spot outside of a dorm where they had shared their first kiss. A very nervous Shannon dropped to his knee and pulled out a Tiffany ring box, to the excitement of Kniffley, who recalled, "It was exactly what I wanted." Fittingly, they ran into their program director from (MS)squared just minutes after getting engaged.
They plan to wed in Louisville, Ky. in the spring or summer of 2012. Next year, both Shannon and Kniffley will be working with Teach for America; he will teach sixth and seventh grade math, and she will teach science. Ironic, they pointed out, as they met studying science and math.
"That's our story, start to finish," Shannon said.
"No," Kniffley said, "start to beginning."
—LAUREN D. KIEL
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De marathon voor mannen op de Olympische Zomerspelen 1904 op het stratenparcours in de Amerikaanse stad Saint Louis. De wedstrijd vond plaats op dinsdag 30 augustus 1904. Er werd gelopen met een temperatuur van 32°C. Het parcours had een lengte van 40.000 m. Er was slechts een drankpost op het parcours, namelijk een waterput bij 12 Engelse mijl. Van de 32 gestarte atleten liepen 14 deelnemers de wedstrijd uit.

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De condities waren slecht: een smerig parcours, grote stofwolken van de begeleidende voertuigen. Hicks kwam die wedstrijd niet als eerste over de finish. Nummer één was Fred Lorz, maar deze had op het 14 kilometerpunt wegens kramp een auto genomen en was 8 kilometer voor de finish weer begonnen met lopen, omdat de motor stuk ging en hij niet in de zon wilde wachten. De officials hadden dit ontdekt en diskwalificeerden Lorz, die zei dat hij slechts een grap wilde maken.

Was de race onder de huidige regels gelopen, dan was ook Hicks gediskwalificeerd. Op het 24 kilometerpunt smeekte hij om water, maar hij kreeg (bij een temperatuur van 28° Celsius) alleen desinfecterend water om zijn mond te spoelen. Drie kilometer later kreeg hij een ei, ongeveer 1 mg strychnine en een slok brandy, omdat hij er zo slecht uitzag. Toen dit niet bleek te helpen, werd deze procedure op het 32 kilometerpunt nogmaals uitgevoerd, maar dan met één ei meer. Ook werd zijn lichaam met warm water ingewreven, dat uit de radiator van de auto van de verzorger was getapt. Op de laatste mijl gaf men hem nog een ei. Na de finish stortte hij in elkaar en moest hij op een brancard worden afgevoerd. Urenlang sliep hij totdat hij de volgende dag ontwaakte en de prijs alsnog in ontvangst nam. Men weet nu, dat als men hem nog een dosis strychnine zou hebben gegeven, dit zijn leven gekost zou hebben. Strychnine is vandaag de dag verboden voor atleten.Hicks had intussen zijn lesje geleerd. Na zijn overwinning kondigde hij, eerder opgelucht dan gelukkig, zijn afscheid aan: 'Mijn grootste wens was de kampioensbeker van de Marathon te ontvangen, en nu ik hem heb, wil ik anderen de kans geven hem ook te winnen.'

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Voor deze wedstrijd waren het wereldrecord en olympisch record als volgt.

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Mannen 42000
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