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SIMENON SIMENON. SMUG GUESS? SOUR GRAPES?
The author and the Nobel Prize: did he want it or not?
SIMENON SIMENON. UNE CONJECTURE PRETENTIEUSE ? OU DU DEPIT ?
L'auteur et le prix Nobel : le désirait-il ou non ?
SIMENON SIMENON. UNA CONGETTURA PRETENZIOSA? O UNA DELUSIONE
L'autore e il premio Nobel: lo desiderava o no?
George Simenon became one of the most popular, widely read authors in the world. But how did he view himself as an author? Or how did he want to be viewed? Aware of commentary that reported feelings Simenon had expressed over time about being recognized (or not) as a literary figure, I decided to try and uncover some of what he actually said. Since becoming a Nobel laureate stands as a major symbol of success or, at least, importance, below is a chronological listing of some verbatim (although translated) statements Simenon made about winning that award. They reflect a transition in feelings over time. To my ear, Simenon's attitude about winning the prize evolved progressively from being smug to being sour.
In a 1937 interview with Pierre Lagrade, although Simenon was only a young 34-year-old writer, he announced: "At 40, I will publish my first true novel. At 45, I will have the Nobel Prize. […] Everything I have forecast up to now has happened. So, I will have the Nobel in 1947." Ironically, it turned out when the time came, André Gide, his admiring correspondent, was the one who won the prize.
In a 1951 letter to his long-term publisher Sven Neilsen, Simenon penned this: "I confess I would be enchanted to have it [the Nobel prize]. It is actually the only distinction to which I have always attached some value."
In 1957, the year that Albert Camus won the Nobel Prize, according to journalist Matthew McAlister, an "outraged" Simenon declared: "Can you believe that asshole got it and not me?" He then kicked over his television set. Biographer Pierre Assouline cites similar words coming from Simenon's mouth at that time, but reports the strongly pejorative term as the milder "little idiot" and, in addition, questions the believability of the verbal statement made directly to him by his second wife, Denyse Simenon.
In 1961, Simenon dictated this statement: "The Nobel would have pleased me some years ago. Now, I am not sure I would accept it." The "not sure" hedge stands out here. This phrasing appeared in print when his dictée was eventually published as When I Was Old in 1970, which suggests that his uncertainty, if not ambiguity, was lasting. Later on in 1961, according to literary critic Julian Barnes, the writer "was still thinking about the prize and telling his diary he did not care." Barnes quotes Simenon this way: "Let them fuck off and leave me in peace." This suggests a man with shifting feelings. Was he angry or disappointed?
In 1964, according to biographer Patrick Marnham and again Julian Barnes, Simenon was "abusing" the Nobel jury as "the cretins who still haven't awarded me their prize." This sounds as though Simenon not only wanted the prize but also thought he deserved it.
In 1973, shortly after Simenon announced he would no longer be writing, journalist Henri-Charles Tauxe obtained an interview about his reasons for this decision. The retiree explained himself in detail, concluding firmly that he was now "a man without a profession." Tauxe pushed on: "Even if they offered you the Nobel Prize in Literature?" Simenon responded first, "At 45, I would have accepted it," but immediately added, "In recent years, [when] the Germans and Americans began work to nominate me for the Nobel, I cut it off. I would not, in any case, have accepted it." True or not, this sounds like a man who might have, at least, changed his mind.
In 1981, during an interview with journalist Bernard Pivot, Simenon recalled his long-ago prediction of winning the prize in ten years, specifically in 1947, but this time he amplified what had happened then: "It was almost done. So, I announced in the American newspapers […] that if they gave it to me, I would refuse it." Pierre Assouline, after reporting the earlier version of the prediction in his biography, slyly observes: "He was correct; it was done. Not for him, but for Gide, who was crowned with the Nobel Prize that year. Simenon did not have to refuse a distinction they had not offered to him."
I was unable to determine if, at this late date, Simenon was being truthful or lying to himself. I did not uncover further statements in the subsequent period before his death in 1989.
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For the next four weeks we are focusing on weak openings, ie preemptive hands. For the first time, I have assembled a panel of expert bridge players to share their thoughts about a hand related to the topic. The way to think about a hand is often the key to bidding it correctly. And as you'll see experts sometimes have different opinions too!
If you have more time to spare, you can also complete the first Weak Two-Bids lesson, or watch the original lesson video.
You are the dealer, not vulnerable, vs vulnerable.
What would you bid with this hand and why?
I pass. I try to have what partner expects. I usually have an agreement of suit quality in my preempts to make partner's life much easier in coping with them. It is a balance of destructive versus constructive. If I were to open and partner ended up on lead, I would expect partner to lead from Kx in my suit, after all. And sometimes this turns out badly, if I have opened a bad suit!
I bid 2❤ or maybe even ♥3. Not vul versus vul, it's our turn to push the opponents around. I don't like passing when at favourable vulnerability. Opponents generally don't try for penalties when we're not vul and they are. They very often bid 3NT for a safe 600 rather than defending 3♥X and getting a much better score of 800!
3❤ can force the opponents to find fits at the three and four level, and sometimes they have a disaster!
I pass. I have sympathy for a 2♥ opening but don't think that is a winning bid with this hand as often as many players might believe. Having an Ace and a King on the side is not good for pre-empts. Several things can go wrong when pre-empting with weak suits and defensive values. Partner can sacrifice when it is wrong. And with this suit partner may lead from holdings he shouldn't have led from. But of course, the upside with a pre-empt is that you are putting pressure on the opponents.
Summing Up: The boys all agree that vulnerability is an important factor when deciding whether to preempt or not, and here (not vul versus vul) is the perfect time to be "wild", because the opponents won't get rich by doubling you. Matt, a fearless young player, would open 2♥with the goal of causing havoc with the opponent's bidding. David & GeO have more concern about lack of suit quality, ie the A & K that make up your seven points are outside the suit you're preempting in (if the hand had been ♥AK10965 there would be nothing to discuss!), and they are concerned that partner will get off to a poor lead if they lead away from an honour in hearts, thinking you had a better suit. I especially like the point that sometimes partner will bid one more (called "sacrificing"), planning to score a small minus, in the hope that the opponents' game was making. Then this hand turns out to be a disappointment because your honours would have taken tricks in defence, and you might have beaten the opponent's game, but couldn't properly judge this.
What are your views? You can share your thoughts below or in the Golds Facebook Group.


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The scenario seemed simple enough, but it took days of planning and rehearsals at the Pohakuloa Training Area to pull it off. Even the radio chatter was practiced, so that everyone would know what to expect.
An Army 60mm mortar team sets up and begins to drop rounds on a target at the Big Island's Pohakuloa Training Area yesterday.
After simulated ground strikes by A-10 jets, Bravo Company of the 3rd Battalion 35th Infantry Regiment dropped in by helicopter to Landing Zone Maine, and dashed through the small hills surrounding the target in columns.
The company quickly threw machine gunners, mortars and snipers into position, using live rounds in a rare training exercise that combined helicopter, jet, artillery and ground attacks in a single operation.
With that firepower rattling and thumping and forcing the imaginary opposition to duck, combat engineers used plastic explosives to tear a hole in the perimeter wire.
Attacking foot soldiers then sprinted through the hole in the wire in pairs or small groups, attacking and clearing a complex of bunkers linked by trenches.
This was just the kind of operation troops from the 101st Airborne Division are launching in Iraq, and the soldiers involved said the use of live ammunition gives the exercise a seriousness and an adrenaline rush that can't be faked.
"It's necessary because it keeps us on our toes," said Staff Sgt. Ricky Salinas, who led two fire teams into the bunker complex. "We could get the call later tonight saying we have to do this, so we're always training and we're always preparing ourselves, so when the call does come, we have no doubts in our mind. We can go anywhere and do what we have to do."
Spc. Stephen Pezzullo, who served with the 1st Ranger Battalion in Afghanistan last year, said he trusts the men in his new unit to watch his back. "Oh, yeah, this unit's there," he said.
"The time comes, we'll be over there. That's why we're out here," said Pezzullo, 24. "I don't know what to expect. Anything can happen when your country calls."
In the pause that followed the assault on the bunker complex, battalion command Sgt. Maj. Arthur Coleman paced the hilltop overlooking the bunkers, checking to be sure a heavy machine gun and wire-guided anti-tank rocket were in their proper places on the company's left and right flanks. They were.
"I wouldn't call it perfect," Coleman said of the first phase of the action, but he was clearly pleased. "Pretty near. They've done well. I'm proud of them."
A squad of TV and newspaper reporters and photographers were granted close access to the training exercise yesterday at a time when the U.S. Army is planning to expand Pohakuloa by 23,000 acres, expand the landing strip there and build a new tank trail at the complex.
There has been no groundswell of opposition to that proposal yet, but the plan does have its critics, and County Councilman Bob Jacobson introduced a resolution supporting creation of a citizen advisory panel to offer input on activities at Pohakuloa.
With the nation at war, the clear underlying message from the military yesterday was that the training area is critical for troop readiness. At a groundbreaking ceremony for a new range control complex at Pohakuloa yesterday, Col. David L. Anderson, commander of the U.S. Army Garrison Hawai'i, called Pohakuloa "the perfect training area for our forces."
"Pohakuloa and our training area out here is what we owe our soldiers as they prepare for combat," he said.


President Trump said he's ready to give "an unlimited supply" of immigrants held at the southern border to mostly Democratic sanctuary cities in an effort to make liberals who don't like his policies "so happy."
The comments, unleashed across Twitter and during a brief media appearance at the White House Friday, completely contradicted statements from his own administration, which a day earlier denied that Trump was considering the plan as a way to punish his perceived political enemies.
"We are looking at the possibility, strongly looking at it to be honest with you," Trump told reporters in a head-spinning change of position.
"We'll bring them to sanctuary city areas and let that particular area take care of it," he said. "We can give them a lot. We can give them an unlimited supply."
Democrats don't agree with his immigration policies, Trump added, so he'd do things their way.
"They say, 'We have open arms.' They're always saying they have open arms. Let's see if they have open arms," he said.
His remarks came after a flurry of tweets in which he said Democrats were unwilling to change "our very dangerous immigration laws" and this was his way to stick it to them.
"The Radical Left always seems to have an Open Borders, Open Arms policy," he wrote.
The Washington Post first reported late Thursday that the administration was mulling the plan, but the White House and the Department of Homeland Security pushed back, claiming the policy was no longer under consideration.
"This was just a suggestion that was floated and rejected, which ended any further discussion," the White House said in a statement.
But by Friday — after Trump's complete 180 — a White House spokesman said Democrats need to accept migrants into their districts and work with the administration to make it happen.
Unless they can be quickly deported, immigrants detained for being in the U.S. illegally have to by law be released, except in cases where violent crimes are involved.
Generally, detainees are able to settle wherever they want while awaiting deportations or court decisions.
But Trump's plan would mandate they can only move to "sanctuary" jurisdictions — states and cities like New York, where politicians have pledged to not cooperate with federal authorities trying to deport undocumented immigrants without criminal records.
Mayor de Blasio on Friday said he was unmoved by Trump's efforts at retaliation.
But many advocates were aghast at Trump's position that sending immigrants to a region would be a threat or a punishment.
Over the past week, the president pushed out his Homeland Security Department Secretary, Kirstjen Nielsen, then yanked his nominee to head the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, and ousted the head of the U.S. Secret Service with a promise to move in a "tougher" direction.
A U.S. official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told the Daily News that the abrupt shakeup has left the various agencies operating under the DHS umbrella "confused" and "broken in half."
Meanwhile, U.S. Customs and Border Protection reported this week that more than 53,000 migrant families were apprehended at the southern border in March, the highest number recorded in a single month since the agency began tracking that figure in 2012. A majority of the migrants are fleeing violence and poverty in Central America in hopes of finding better lives in the U.S.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi — whose Democratic district in San Francisco is among the sanctuary jurisdictions that would be targeted by Trump's plan — ripped the proposal as another sign of the president's failure to meet the "challenges that we face" as a nation of immigrants.


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The Mule in Their Eyes Were Watching God
The Mule in Their Eyes…
Within the novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, there are several inanimate objects which relate to the development of the main character but also the overall story. These inanimate objects reflect several aspects of the setting and of the time period in general. One of these inanimate objects is the mule which is referred to numerous times within the novel. This mule serves many purposes, each of which relates to one another, and overall to the protagonist: Janie Crawford.
In the novel, Janie Crawford lives an extremely difficult life, especially in several instances. When Janie was in her teenage years her grandmother had her married off to an older man by the name of Logan Killicks. One day Logan said, "Ah needs two mules dis yeah" (Hurston 27).
Logan then left to go to Lake City in order to purchase a second mule which he would later use for farm work. This mule relates very to Janie because Logan later criticizes Janie for not helping him out enough on the farm and subsequently attempting to work her like a mule. As a result of this abuse, Janie leaves Logan for another man who she believes would treat her better.
Zora Neale Hurston: Biography & Author
The man Janie fled to was called Joe Starks and the two moved to Green Cove Springs together. There Joe takes control of the town and asserts himself as mayor after having improved the town and gained the trust of its citizens.
Soon after becoming mayor, Joe reveals his true intentions for having married Janie. He had required a "trophy wife" who would act as a mule to him. A mule is both silent and loyal and in this case, Joe required Janie to be just that. Joe said, "She's uh woman and her place is in de home" (Hurston 43). In the end, Joe never got what he wanted because Janie would not be controlled by another man or person after she had already been for the majority of her life.
Later during Janie's time with Logan, she witnessed a group of men harass and tease a mule. This mule had been worked its entire life and as a result, is almost dead. The mule which served its purpose of performing hard labor again relates to Janie because she too had been working her entire life so far. But the mule relates to Janie in another way. The mule was being verbally abused similarly to how Logan abused Janie. Logan said, "Ah'll take holt uh dat ax and come in dere and kill yuh!" (Hurston 31). Shortly after all of this the mule had died and was given a funeral by Joe.
Their Eyes Were Watching God: Marriages & Analysis
Overall the object of the mule was used many times within the novel. It performed various tasks related to labor, was abused, and also controlled just as Janie had been by her two husbands. Janie's grandmother had said, "He hands it to his womenfolks. De nigger woman is de mule uh de world so fur as Ah can see" (Hurston 15).
Janie's grandmother clearly illustrated what Janie would become and how the mule clearly symbolizes and relates to her granddaughter. Janie also relates to the mule characteristically. The expression: "as stubborn as a mule" can be applied to Janie's decisions. She is too stubborn to simply submit to the will of others and be controlled by those who oppress her. She would rather fight or leave them in order to liberate herself and finally attain the freedom she vies for.


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Q: using Selenium: how to use output from one test as input to another test I'm a Selenium n00b... it's clear how easy it is to run a test and verify a particular response, but how can I take a value from one response and use it in the next test?
an example might be a contact creation form...

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*type in name/email and click submit

*response arrives with new ContactID

*grab the ContactID that was returned and put it into "get" textbox and click "submit"

*response arrives with contact details

*verfy the name/email match the first set

how might I go about doing this in Selenium?

A: And now something completely different:
Now I understand when you say "test", you mean a single assertion within one test case. So you want to use a value returned from a request as input for another request in the same test case.
Assuming you use selenium ide: To do this, use one of the "store..." commands in selenium ide and store the value into a variable. The contactID can be found using a matching selector with the storeText command. For example:
command: storeText
target: selector for element containing contactId
value: contactId

Then, use variable substitution and the type command to insert that text somewhere else.
command: type
target: selector for target input box
value: ${contactId}

Hope this helps :)

A: (This answer is still correct I think if you interpret "test" as "test case". For another, totally different answer see below.)
You don't do this. Each test should be independent from all other tests. For your second test, just repeat the steps in the first test. This way, you can reproduce test success and failures in a reliable way.
If you have many tests which all start from a certain application state which requires many steps to reach, just write a private helper method to reach that state.
The alternative: All steps you describe can be put into a single test. There is no reason not to have several asserts in one test.


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50+ World > Entertainment > Biography > Boomer TV Trivia: Magnum, P.I.
Boomer TV Trivia: Magnum, P.I.
Q1. What was the make and model of the red sports car that Private Investigator Thomas Magnum often drove on Magnum, P.I.?
Q2. Both Tom Selleck (Thomas Magnum) and John Hillerman (Jonathan Quayle Higgins III) were each nominated 5 times for Emmy Awards in the Drama Series categories (Outstanding Lead Actor and Outstanding Continuing Performance by a Supporting Actor, respectively). How many Emmy Awards did they each win for their work on Magnum, P.I.?
(Tom Selleck with the Ferrari 308 GTS in Magnum P.I. Photo: Culture Culte | Flickr)
Set in lush Hawaii, Magnum, P.I. (1980-1988) was series star Tom Selleck's first big acting break after small roles in movies and television. By the time the series ended Tom Selleck, his bushy moustache, and his red Ferrari sportscar, were all cultural 80's icons for the baby boomer generation. The series gave a heavy nod to the Navy and Marine Corp during the Vietnam War, as the backstory for Thomas Magnum emphasized his Navy Seal service in Vietnam and the Vietnam War U. S. Marine service of his two sidekicks, T. C. and Rick.
Roger E. Mosley played helicopter pilot T.C. (Theodore Calvin), Magnum's sidekick and sometime muscleman, while nightclub owner Rick Wright was portrayed by actor Larry Manetti. This emphasis on a military background for the main characters fit beautifully into the Hawaii locale for Magnum, P. I., given the WWII US military history in Hawaii and Pearl Harbor.
Below, a funny clip from Magnum, P.I. featuring regulars Tom Selleck, Roger E. Mosley, and John Hillerman.
The very British majordomo Higgins was played by then Texas native and 48-year-old veteran stage, television and film actor John Hillerman. On Magnum, P.I., Higgins manages the estate (Robin's Nest) that Thomas Magnum lives on as a permanent guest, courtesy of the never-seen-but-sometimes-heard owner, Robin Masters (Orson Welles). Higgins too had a "war" backstory, but his was in the British Army infantry; in real life, actor John Hillerman had enlisted in the U. S. Air Force during the Korean War.
By the time the series ended, John Hillerman was in his late 50's and his acting career post-Magnum P. I. was sporadic. He was last seen in the made-for-television movie A Very Brady Sequel (1996). Now an 82-year-old octogenarian senior citizen, John Hillerman has been retired since 1999 and once again living in Texas. Below, a younger John Hillerman with Betty White on The Betty White Show in 1977.
(The Betty White Show 1977 Photo: CBS Television)
Baby boomer Tom Selleck played his almost real age (Selleck was 35, Magnum was 34) when Magnum P. I. started in 1980, and had real-life military experience to draw on as well – Selleck had been a soldier in the California Army National Guard infantry from 1967-1973.) While filming the series, Selleck divorced his first wife Jacqueline Ray and married his second and current wife, Jillie Mack. Now a septuagenarian senior citizen, Tom Selleck has had a long successful career in acting, including starring in two more long-running television series – the Jesse Stone movies, and the weekly CBS series Blue Bloods (2010-current) as family patriarch and New York City Police Chief Frank Reagan. Below from left, Blue Bloods cast members Will Estes, Tom Selleck, Donnie Wahlberg, and Bridget Moynahan.
(Blue Bloods Cast Poster Photo: Jamie Luther)
A1. Thomas Magnum had the unlimited use of Robin Master's cars including this favourite Ferrari 308GTS (in later years, the GTSi models)
A2. Tom Selleck won Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series in 1984 and John Hillerman won Outstanding Continuing Performance by a Supporting Actor in a Drama Series in 1987.
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Coulter unsheathes her blades on neocons. we yawn.
Kelley Beaucar Vlahos Posted on July 8, 2010 July 8, 2010
Ann Coulter went Jungle Red* on neoconservatives Bill Kristol and Liz Cheney this week over their demands that GOP Chair Michael Steele resign. The fun stuff comes at the back end of her WorldNetDaily column on Wednesday. First she seems shocked that her fellow Republicans would even suggest one's support for war is tied to his support for the troops. Then she goes right for the throat, Bill Kristol's throat:
But now I hear it is the official policy of the Republican Party to be for all wars, irrespective of our national interest. What if Obama decides to invade England because he's still ticked off about that Churchill bust? Can Michael Steele and I object to that? Or would that demoralize the troops? Our troops are the most magnificent in the world, but they're not the ones setting military policy. The president is – and he's basing his war strategy on the chants of Moveon.org cretins. Nonetheless, Bill Kristol and Liz Cheney have demanded that Steele resign as head of the RNC for saying Afghanistan is now Obama's war – and a badly thought-out one at that. (Didn't liberals warn us that neoconservatives want permanent war?) I thought the irreducible requirements of Republicanism were being for life, small government and a strong national defense, but I guess permanent war is on the platter now, too. Of course, if Kristol is writing the rules for being a Republican, we're all going to have to get on board for amnesty and a "National Greatness Project," too – other Kristol ideas for the Republican Party. Also, John McCain. Kristol was an early backer of McCain for president – and look how great that turned out! Inasmuch as demanding resignations is another new Republican position, here's mine: Bill Kristol and Liz Cheney must resign immediately.
Matt Cockerill over at The American Conservative blog calls this an "antiwar column." Maybe. That would be hopeful. Certainly James Antle thinks the Tea Party movement is ripe for it. And it is refreshing to hear a Republican hatchet decry unconditional support for war after nearly ten years of unconditionally supporting war. But it's her terrifying interpretation of history that splashes ice cold water on the whole fantasy:
Yes, Bush invaded Afghanistan soon after Sept. 11. Within the first few months we had toppled the Taliban, killed or captured hundreds of al-Qaida fighters and arranged for democratic elections, resulting in an American-friendly government.
Then Bush declared success and turned his attention to Iraq, leaving minimal troops behind in Afghanistan to prevent Osama bin Laden from regrouping, swat down al-Qaida fighters and gather intelligence.
Having some vague concept of America's national interest – unlike liberals – the Bush administration could see that a country of illiterate peasants living in caves ruled by "warlords" was not a primo target for "nation-building."
By contrast, Iraq had a young, educated, pro-Western populace that was ideal for regime change.
Cockerill asks if Coulter's outcry "is progress or mere partisanship? Time will tell." My gut is this is Ann lashing out at the enemy in her own Long War against the conservative elite at the Weekly Standard and National Review. It is Ann making sure that Obama completely owns the disaster in Afghanistan by rewriting current and past history on a fourth grade reading level. It is Ann making sure we don't forget she is still around and is one tough broad.
But it is not a step forward, but a shuffle in place, her stilettos still kicking out at the usual "cretins" in her universe, a place where Bush is Popeye and Obama is Olive Oyl, and where Coulter spits, "no grass grows, ever."**
* From The Women (1939): "I've had two years to grow claws mother. Jungle red!"
** Also from The Women: "You're passing up a swell chance, honey. Where I spit no grass grows ever!"
32 thoughts on "Coulter unsheathes her blades on neocons. we yawn."
DICKERSON3870 says:
RE: The Women (1939) – "I've had two years to grow claws mother. Jungle red!"
MY COMMENT: Mommies Dearest!
E. A. Costa says:
"Canada sent troops to Vietnam."
Here :http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmcZG87Fmxc
Great specimen: runs over and over quite pleasantly.
If she'd had any brains she would have just smiled sheepishly and taken her clothes off.
Good luck says:
Individual Canadians did join the US military.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_and_the_Vietn…
The number is put at 30,000 which is likely larger than what the Canadian gov would have sent. Which is interesting as it means it did not matter what the Canadian gov policy was.
Norwegian Guy says:
Is/was it legal for Canadians to join the armed forces of a foreign country?
At least it was volunteers and not conscripted people. Plus Canada did not have to pay for it!
pendulum says:
no not illegal
Canada did not join the Us in the Veitnam War, did not send combat troops to Vietnam, and welcomed US draft resisters.
They did send a small contingent of troops near the end in a strictly neutral role.
What individual Canadians did is irrelevant. There were many individual Canadians but nowhere near 30,000. Many of them became US citizens.
Ann Coulter had not idea what she was talking about–she was clearly completely ignorant of Vietnam and was spewing her usual imaginary Jingo, with an implied threat.
30K came off Wikipedia. I did not research it so it may be BS.
Canada's Secret War: Vietnam http://archives.cbc.ca/war_conflict/vietnam_war/t…
many draft dodgers ended up in BC refining cross pollination to eventually come up with BC BUD our biggest export
lesterness says:
Maybe she's confused Canada and Australia.
Yes, that is about Coulter's speed.
Canada was a member of the Geneva Truce Accords actually and thus officially neutral throughout the war.
Gene Berkman says:
Great column, Kelly! Yours that is, not Coulter's.
At first I wasn't sure it was fair to say Coulter was writing at a fourth grade level. Then I remembered what public schools have done to our fourth graders.
The most attractive aspect of any woman (or in reverse, man for that matter) is high intelligence.
There may be many other assets and talents but they seldom emerge from the actively brain dead.
On the other hand it may be relative.
Thus unnumbered Right Wingers consider Coulter incredibly attractive. But then look at her competition–they also think Sarah Palin is presidential timbre.
Palin and Coulter may be attractive to miners who have not seen a woman in six months. Not to me, whatever their politics.
Coulter and Geraldo Rivera–one or the other of them, or both–mentioned that they were once a hot number.
You really have to see Polanski's Rosemary's Baby again to get an idea of the potential cosmic holocaust that congress risked.
live competition for penthouse & playboy
Drain 52 says:
Ah, Avenging Annie. Another 30 lbs. and 30 I.Q. would make her a toothsome conservative indeed. And by golly, looks like her disputing the neocons over the doctrine of all war all the time might just be the beginning of the tiniest flaw in her own neocon-like armor. Baby steps, folks, baby steps.
rts111 says:
Coulter's acidic and abrasive spittle usually lubricates the Neoconservative rhetoric, which burns while it slides against their lies, but somehow still gives unholy pleasure to both parties.
richard vajs says:
Why do so many Americans think that "our troops are wonderful". I was in the military myself for 4 years+ during the VietNam War. My own experience was that the "troops" were no different than anyone else. Some were good guys (none were particularly "wonderful"), but there were also barracks thieves, homosexual rapists, perverts, malingerers, etc. About the same composition as you would find in any county jail. This "worship" of the troops is very unhealthy for this country. Leads to a love of war, which is just death coated with shit.
I had much the same experience in the US Navy, early '70s.
Lear K says:
To illustrate your point.
I saw a car with these two bumber stickers:
1 :Choose Life.
2: Support our troops.
skulz fontaine says:
Would Coulter's rant be illustrative of the 'circular firing squad' motif?
Sounds like Coulter just wants people to talk about her again. And she succeeded. She'll slink back into the shadows quickly enough.
Michael Shanklin says:
Don't be fooled, Ann IS a Neocon…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pT9XQgSVdIg
She has not changed,and still repeating the same non sense and lies.
"By contrast, Iraq had a young, educated, pro-Western populace that was ideal for regime change.
If Saddam Hussein had been a peach, it would still be a major victory in the war on terrorism to have a Muslim Israel in that part of the globe,
"But Iraq also was a state sponsor of terrorism; was attempting to build nuclear weapons (according to endless bipartisan investigations in this country and in Britain — thanks, liberals!); nurtured and gave refuge to Islamic terrorists — including the 1993 World Trade Center bombers; was led by a mass murderer who had used weapons of mass destruction; paid bonuses to the families of suicide bombers; had vast oil reserves; and is situated at the heart of a" critical region"
Critical region:Israel..
Peaceful_Idiot says:
If Petraeus were to become president she'd be right back on the war wagon. She is a sanctimonious bigot with no heart, a rotten brain, and a lying mouth.
hawaiiisnostate says:
Coulter is a psyop operative for the New World Odor. Her scathing stupidity is there to remind the rest of us that reason and facts are useless in stopping America's descent into fascism. Yes she is misinformed and a conspicuous liar but notice; she is promulgated throughout the media as credible.
I bet under the 'right' circumstances, her bobbing adam's apple would tickle. She might then even sound like she was attempting to make some sense and finally coming to terms about serving mankind. Then, anyone blind enough could finally mumble, "Oh Ann, don't stop!"
Deleuze and Guattari analyze antiproduction and the flow of stupidity as integral part of Capitalism as an economic and psychological system.
That is the general case.
Though they do not discuss it, how it actually operates in specific contexts does indeed hinge in part in characterizing "reason and facts as useless", and also in erasing or suppressing memory.
RememberingYourSins says:
http://www.parkybill.com/2010/07/09/ann-coulter-o…
R/T says:
It was a Pavlovian Response , anything , anybody tagging Obama …is a good thing , therefore Steele , no matter how absurd , stupid , or just plain dumb of a remark he makes , should be praised simply for calling it Obama's war , makes no difference whether it's true or not .
And by golly, looks like her disputing the neocons over the doctrine of all war all the time might just be the beginning of the tiniest flaw in her own neocon-like armor. Baby steps, folks, baby steps.
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Beazley es una estación ferroviaria ubicada en la localidad del mismo nombre, Departamento Juan Martín de Pueyrredón, Provincia de San Luis, República Argentina.

Servicios
No presta servicios de pasajeros. Por sus vías corren trenes de carga de la empresa estatal Trenes Argentinos Cargas.

Historia
En el año 1910 fue inaugurada la Estación, por parte del Ferrocarril Buenos Aires al Pacífico, en el ramal de Justo Daract a Paz.

Véase también
 Beazley
 Ferrocarril General San Martín
 Ramal Justo Daract - La Paz

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Beazley
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Estaciones de Trenes Argentinos Operaciones
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Borough Hill is now a very pleasant country park.
Daventry is a historic market town in, more or less, the middle of England. Its central location proved to be very important in the 1920s when the BBC began looking for a site for a new long wave radio transmitter that could broadcast programs to most of the population of England.
Borough Hill in Daventry was found to be the most suitable site and at 7.30 in the evening on the 27th of July 1925 the Post Master General opened the new transmitter, 5XX. As part of the opening celebrations the BBC's Director General, John Reith, read a poem written by the poet laureate John Noyes.
Daventry calling … Dark and still.
Over the graves on the silent hill.
Daventry 5XX would become a household name, it was able to reach 85% of the population, and booster stations made it possible for many of the households to 'listen in'.
In 1932 another new service opened from Borough Hill. The first short wave transmitters of the Empire Service, now known as the BBC World Service, were based there. Daventry called the world, and was an important source of news during the Second World War, and later during the Cold War. The powerful transmitters at Daventry were also used in the first practical test of Radar in 1935.
Although the 5XX transmitter aerials were demolished in the 1990s, the concrete blocks they were mounted on still remain.
The BBC ceased their broadcasting from Daventry in 1992, and demolished the two 500ft aerial masts that had sat on top of Borough Hill. Borough Hill itself is now owned by Daventry District Council and is a very pleasant country park. Visitors can walk around the site, which has a long history prior to the BBC's arrival. The original transmitter buildings can still be seen, and the large concrete blocks that the aerial masts had been mounted on are still in place.
Aside from the site's significance as an important site for the BBC, Borough Hill has a long history. It is a designated National Monument due to the evidence of one of Britain's largest Bronze Age hill forts and evidence of Roman settlement. The old Dane Tree that Alfred Noyes named his poem after is an oak tree that grew on the summit of Borough Hill. Local legend had it that Danish settlers planted the tree there to mark the center of England. Sadly the tree died, probably as a result of damage caused by the BBC's building works. All that can be seen now is a sorry looking stump next to the original transmitter building.
Some of the artefacts from Borough Hill have been preserved at Daventry's volunteer run museum. The museum opens on the first Saturday of every month and several items from the radio station are on regular display. Even for those who aren't interested in radio and broadcasting, Borough Hill also commands some spectacular views of the surrounding area and is a haven for wildlife. It is well worth a visit for that reason alone.
A trip to Borough Hill on a pleasant day is worthwhile for the views alone.
Daventry's volunteer run museum opens from 10-4 on the first Saturday of every month.
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Jiří Tetiva (* 31. května 1933) je československý basketbalista (někdy v tisku uváděný jako Tětiva), účastník předolympijské kvalifikace 1960 a bronzový medailista z Mistrovství Evropy 1957. Je zařazen na čestné listině mistrů sportu.

V československé basketbalové lize s týmy ÚDA Praha a Slovan Orbis Praha jako hráč byl v letech 1954 až 1961 pětkrát mistrem a jednou vicemistrem Československa a má jedno třetí místo. V letech 1953-1967 celkem odehrál 14 ligových sezón.

Za Slovan Orbis Praha hrál dvakrát v Poháru evropských mistrů, v roce 1960 se probojovali až do semifinále, kde podlehli vítězi poháru ASK Riga.

Za reprezentační družstvo Československa hrál na Mistrovství Evropy - 1957 v Sofii, Bulharsko, kde získal bronzovou medaili. Dále hrál na předolympijské kvalifikaci v Itálii pro účast na Olympijských hrách 1960, v kvalifikaci Československo bylo první mezi 18 týmy a kvalifikovalo se na OH 1960.

Sportovní kariéra

Hráč klubů
 1953-1956 ÚDA Praha, 3x mistr Československa (1954, 1955, 1956)
 1956-1967 Slovan Orbis Praha, 2x mistr Československa (1957, 1959), 1x vicemistr (1958), 1x 3. místo (1961), 3x 4. (1960, 1962, 1965), 2x 5. (1963, 1964), 9. (1966), 10. (1967)
 československá basketbalová liga celkem 14 sezón (1953-1967), 7 medailových umístění:
 5× mistr Československa (1954-1957, 1959), 1× vicemistr (1958), 1× 3. místo (1961)
 Pohár evropských mistrů - Slovan Orbis Praha: 2x účast (1958, 1960), v roce 1960 postup až do semifinále (vyřazeni vítězem poháru ASK Riga)

Československo
 Za reprezentační družstvo Československa v letech 1956-1957 hrál celkem 17 zápasů, z toho na světových a evropských soutěžích v 5 zápasech zaznamenal 20 bodů.
 Předolympijská kvalifikace - 1960 Bologna, Itálie (1. místo), postup na OH
 Mistrovství Evropy - 1957 Sofia (20 bodů /5 zápasy) 3. místo, bronzová medaile

Odkazy

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Související články
 Československá basketbalová federace • basketbalová liga • basketbalová reprezentace • statistiky

Externí odkazy
 Legendy v pardubicich web basket-nymburk.cz
 DALŠÍ SLAVNÍ ORBISÁCI web basket-nymburk.cz
  Jiri TETIVA (TCH) participated in 2 FIBA / FIBA Zones events web archive.fiba.com
 1960 Pre-Olympic Basketball Tournament web archive.fiba.com
  Tetiva, Jiri web fibaeurope.com
  Champions Cup 1959-60 Slovan Orbis web linguasport.com
  Czech Republic, Slovan Orbis web linguasport.com

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Narození 31. května
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Editor's Letter February 2017
Tuesday 28th February, 2017
ON A BRIGHT THURSDAY MORNING about two weeks ago, while browsing through our Instagram feed over coffee, happened upon a photo of the Mercado Colón by Giancarlo Giammetti, Valentino's longtime partner, and wondered what he was doing in the city. Not only was he in our city, but he and Valentino were also right in our neighbourhood. Do you remember when we showcased a few behind-the-scenes glimpses of the new Sofia Coppola-directed classical Opera La Traviata? Well as it turns out, the production is by Valentino Garavani and Giancarlo Giammetti with the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma. Valentino, along with Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Piccioli designed all the costumes for the production, and everyone was in Valencia for the upcoming opening night, which would also include Plácido Domingo and Queen Sofía of Spain. The production was to play for seven nights only, with the final night being this past Thursday. Of course, by the time had found out, tickets had already sold out, and despite our disappointment in missing what was to be a stunning production, had realised yet again, as in Edinburgh, that we always seem to know, long before it becomes fashionable, which are the best cities to live ...
While in Edinburgh, we accomplished a great deal, launching Belgrave Crescent (January 2014), the redesign of This Is Glamorous (March 2014), and the launch of shop.thisisglamorous.com (April 2015). The year 2016 was a hallmark one for us, one of change and growth, and also one of letting go. We, P & I, have both been interested in the philosophy of David Hume lately, whose general thought was that all human knowledge is ultimately founded solely in experience. More on that later, but in hindsight, we can see that the experiences we've had in the past year have prepared us for our best year yet.
Our fashion editor, Victoria, will be graduating from the London School of Economics soon, and afterward, she has already secured two internships, at The Times and WWD -- congratulations, Victoria! She is also entering the Vogue Talent Contest, and all while continually sharing her beautiful fashion musings here at TIG.
Back to Hume again, P began a new series in February, You Are What You Consume, based on the philosopher's notion that our concept of self is really nothing more than an illusion of perceptions and memories in a seemingly continuous narrative: "We are nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other with inconceivable rapidity, and are in perpetual flux and movement."
From this philosophical perspective, what we choose to consume from television, music, art and film influences our notions of who we are, the ideas we have, and our levels of creativity. In his new series, P will cover the books, music and films that have influenced successful artists, musicians, actors, directors and authors. You can read the first in the series here.
Louise, our Interiors Editor, celebrated her one-year anniversary with This Is Glamorous in February, and we can't wait to see what she was in store for us this year. From quaint cottages in the Cotswolds to villas on Lake Como, Louise fills our daydreams with the most lovely spaces.
In November of last year, Louise came to visit, and during the trip, we dreamed up a brand new collection of cushion covers for The Shop, The English Garden Collection, the first of which, a shimmery vintage chintz by Sanderson, is available now, with the rest of the collection to follow.
And finally, running three websites is no easy feat, so of course we have a great tech team to keep things operating smoothly and who we couldn't live without (we love you, Tarik!). The month of February has been particularly fraught with technical difficulties as we prepared for the relaunch of The Shop, and moved two of the three sites to a new server, but things are settling into place now and the month of March will be one of new beginnings. We can't wait show you all the things we've been working on.
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First I've heard of this comp. Guess it has been staged before? Is this the biggest prize pot yet?
A first down this way for a comp with that kind of set-up and that much prize money.
With only 1 charter boat working out of Ballycotton it will interesting to see where the other boats will come from.
Maybe the big prize money will get the Cork harbour boats to travel east.
Best of luck to the organisers.
someone makes a nice €350,000 out of that.
I am told that they do not expect to fill this entry with Irish Anglers and expect entry from teams from abroad.
It will make for some logistical spectacle - 20 charter boats leaving and returning to Ballycotton each day (I am assuming 6 anglers per boat).
According to this article it has been called off due to "unforseen circumstances"


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Masters of Sex: Story of My Life
by Heather
"I'm doing the right thing, aren't I, by trying to fix myself?"
We've returned to the source that inspired 'Fight', the concept that people are the most unreliable narrators of their own lives. But the stakes are much higher in 'Story of My Life'. In some cases, the highest.
Masters of Sex is sort of going from a balance beam to a tight wire. Whereas Bill and Virginia in their bubble of a hotel room role-playing and redefining what's true carries a degree of difficulty, the difference between a functional life (or even one lived in freedom) for, say, Barbara or Frank or Leonard Gilroy, well, the truth's crucial. As is the art of saying something audibly.
These things are complicated, I'm just learning myself how complicated.
The time spent with Dr. Madden is so well-designed. (Oh how I love John Billingsley, going back to The X-Files days through True Blood and beyond.) Virginia is actively knowingly an unreliable narrator, she even feigns mild indignation at the idea that she's not for real so they can keep playing this pretend game because they both know she's not for real. And while the advice doled out by the doctor is for Barbara, it's still effecting. (Her "No!" to the mirror in the hotel room bathroom as she attempts to stand up to her mom is just adorably awesome.) Before too long, Dr. Madden (well he is the best in St. Louis) drives the examination to Virginia and who she is in her world. You get the sense she's never said some of these things out loud to anyone before, or even to some inside place within herself.
I know -- the Masters charm.
Pauline Masters (Marin Ireland) is sure a welcome addition to this world. She's comfortable in her skin in ways Libby can only dream. But remarkably, it's not intimidating or even particularly envy-producing, and Pauline's all the more lovable for it. It's like she and Libby are having an alt-universe experience with these brothers. There's definite crossover (it's not a coincidence that both boys learned how to lie from their parents and one channeled it into the survival of an addiction and the other a survival of an affair). Some of it eerie. I did wonder just how the wheels in Libby's mind were turning when she silently checked off impulsivity and secrecy in her own Masters experience.
You tunneled under the wall, I went over it. We both escaped.
My favorite scene was Bill and Frank, post-AA meeting. It's equally incredible and entirely believable that Bill could have lived this long without the realization that Frank suffered the same hell he did. (Michael Sheen, every week, just plays the shit out of this role it's borderline heart-stopping.) More walls and more getting past them someway. Even more than the tender handling of human sexuality, I credit Masters of Sex with showing the brilliant impeccable aptitude of the human psyche to construct whatever architecture it takes to prop up our own self-image. The sophistication for such an undertaking not to mention the sheer nerve deserves awards that have yet to be created.
What we do in this room doesn't make a damn bit of difference to anybody but us.
And by the same way, it's just as believable that Virginia hasn't allowed herself the realization that Bill's suffering some kind of sexual dysfunction. That she'd actually rather chalk it up to one drink too many or the odd winner of an excuse that he's just been with his wife. If you think about it, Bill's impotence throws a rope to whatever it is they're doing. And the timing really is impeccable. (Oh, psychotherapy.) So another scaffold is built on top of whatever crossover image it is they share about the necessity of their relationship. You know, maybe it's in fact sex that gives the worldview of our transforming proclivities such a spectacular platform since without having to interface with other people (or the occasional moment of self-reflection), our view of ourselves would be impervious.
*I read a lot of reviews about this show and a common criticism I see is that each episode amounts to 'a collection of scenes'. Well, that's true of every show but more obvious when the scenes are driven by dialogue (Downton Abbey, anyone?). Moreover, when a show is as character-driven as this one, breaking each episode is not going to involve mapping out beats of action that push the characters through but rather beats of character interaction that create an action through-line.
*I'm loving Lester (Kevin Christy) and everything going on with him. There was a quick moment I wondered if he would end up with Barbara at some point?
*Libby's arc from unreliable witness to intern at CORE had me cheering. And I loved her talk with Virginia in the diner.
*Frank's monologue at the AA meeting was riveting, expertly delivered -- just thoroughly enjoyable.
*There's a cool juxtaposition of dialogue at times in 'Story of My life' where the only two people in the room are having a conversation with someone else who is not currently in the room. I think the point of showing it stems from the idea that sometimes just putting words to something is necessary, relevancy be damned, but it's also a manifestation of this thing that happens when we're not really listening, therefore informed only by our own experience.
Bits and Pieces: The 1960s edition
*AA was largely a men's club when it first started in the late 1930s but even once women were welcomed, meetings were segregated by gender for many years.
Bill: "I enjoy watching you enjoying yourself." (I'm sorry that had too many 'enjoys' in it.)
Barbara: "Couldn't it be a holiday? Doesn't it sound like a holiday? The feast of vaginismus!" (I love you, Betsy Brandt.)
Libby: "I'm trying to remember the last time something I said mattered this much."
Frank: "My dad – the greatest magician of them all."
Bill (to Lester's suggestion that he'd prefer to know the woman he's with even if she's inept sexually): "That'd be tantamount to the blind leading the blind.
Lester: "Not if they're already a couple. If they know each other's bodies, have feelings for each other. So many subjects have come through your door. Don't you know a couple like that?" (Do you, Bill? Know a couple like that?)
Virginia: "I don't read instructions, I just take things out of the box and I plug them in. To hell with the consequences. Too hell with blown fuses. The fingers almost lost in the spinning blade." (This line of dialogue is pure writers'/word porn and I love it!)
Francis: "I was reintroducing myself to you. I needed their support. It's in rooms like that I found the courage to tell the truth. My truth."
Bill: "Well, which is it? The truth or your truth?"
Frank: "What makes you think that the same thing didn't haven to me after you were gone? That I was your replacement?"
Bill: "Because if I thought that was possible, I – I never would've left you behind."
Virginia: "Then tell me, Bill, what sexual dysfunction are you proposing we treat?"
Bill: "Mine."
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ChrisB said...
This episode moved me so much I struggled to breathe. Bill's story made me ache as did Virginia's realization, finally, of what it is they are really doing. Beautiful writing and beautiful acting.
There was a quick moment I wondered if he would end up with Barbara at some point? Me, too! I would love to see these two damaged people find a way to reach each other. They are both so sweet and charming, yet in so much pain.
Monday, September 15, 2014 at 2:53:00 PM PDT
I am frequently on my living room floor in a heap after each episode. Especially as the season progresses.
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Daniel O'Brien named NSCAD's acting president
NSCAD University's Board of Governors has confirmed the appointment of Daniel O'Brien as acting president of NSCAD University.
With a year-long contract, Dr. O'Brien takes over from David B. Smith effective May 15, 2012. The Board of Governors' search committee will continue to look for a permanent replacement.
"Dr. O'Brien is an experienced administrator with a proven track record at St. Thomas University," says Michael Donovan, Chair of the Board of Governors. "We expect he'll be able to step right in and hit the ground running."
The former president at St. Thomas University in Fredericton, Dr. O'Brien says he's looking forward to working with the campus community and the provincial government on the implementation of NSCAD's "Framework for Sustainability," which was recently submitted to the provincial government.
"I've had the privilege of gaining an in-depth understanding of NSCAD over the past few months," he says. "Part of that understanding was the development of an appreciation for the truly unique role the university plays in post secondary education in Nova Scotia. I am committed to its value and am looking forward to doing my part, in conjunction with the Board of Governors, faculty, staff and students to continuing the work already started."
Dr. O'Brien was the president and vice-chancellor of New Brunswick's St. Thomas University from 1990 to 2006 and is St. Thomas's first President Emeritus. A member of the Order of Canada and the Order of New Brunswick, he is also the chair of Capital Health's board of directors and a longtime board member of the Beaverbrook Art Gallery in Fredericton. Prior to his appointment at NSCAD as facilitator, Dr. O'Brien served as acting president of the Atlantic School of Theology.
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Supreme Court Will Review Doctrine of Assignor Estoppel
Eileen McDermott
January 11, 2021, 04:15 PM 3
"'It is time for this court to consider en banc the doctrine of assignor estoppel as it applies both in district court and in the Patent Office' in order to clarify this 'odd and seemingly illogical regime in which an assignor cannot present any invalidity defenses in district court but can present a limited set of invalidity grounds in an IPR proceeding.'" – CAFC Judge Kara Stoll in underlying decision
On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court granted a petition for certiorari filed by Minerva Surgical, Inc. asking the Court to clarify questions around the doctrine of assignor estoppel. Specifically, the petition presents the question: "Whether a defendant in a patent infringement action who assigned the patent, or is in privity with an assignor of the patent, may have a defense of invalidity heard on the merits."
Hologic, Inc. and Cytyc Surgical Products, respondents in the case, also filed a cross-petition for certiorari in November. That petition asks the Court to address "whether an assignor of a patent may circumvent the doctrine of assignor estoppel by challenging the validity of the assigned patent in administrative proceedings before the Patent Office, and then using the Patent Office's finding of invalidity to collaterally estop the assignee from relying on the patent in infringement litigation in district court."
Reluctant Federal Circuit
In April of last year, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC), in Hologic, Inc. v. Minerva Surgical, Inc., affirmed—with some hesitation—a decision of the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware holding that assignor estoppel did not bar an assignor from relying on a CAFC decision affirming a Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) decision invalidating asserted claims in an inter partes review (IPR) proceeding. With respect to a second patent-in-suit, the CAFC affirmed the district court's summary judgment that assignor estoppel barred the assignor from asserting invalidity of the assigned second patent in district court. Read more about the underlying case here.
Judge Stoll wrote separately in that decision to note that the case highlighted an "odd situation where an assignor can circumvent the doctrine of assignor estoppel by attacking the validity of a patent claim in the Patent Office, but cannot do the same in district court." Stoll noted that the Court's precedent in Arista Networks, Inc. v. Cisco Sys., Inc., 908 F.3d 792,803– 04 (Fed. Cir. 2018) held that the doctrine of assignor estoppel does not apply in the context of an inter partes review (IPR), while precedent such as Mentor Graphics Corp. v. EVE-USA, Inc., 851 F.3d 1275, 1280–83 (Fed. Cir. 2017) continues to preclude assignors from challenging the validity of their assigned patents in district court. Thus, Stoll suggested that "it is time for this court to consider en banc the doctrine of assignor estoppel as it applies both in district court and in the Patent Office" in order to clarify this "odd and seemingly illogical regime in which an assignor cannot present any invalidity defenses in district court but can present a limited set of invalidity grounds in an IPR proceeding." However, the Court denied en banc rehearing and the parties petitioned the Supreme Court.
Minerva: Assignor Estoppel Must be Nixed
In its petition, Minerva argues that the judicially created doctrine of assignor estoppel should be eliminated altogether. "Assignor estoppel undermines, rather than serves, patent law values," says the petition. "Nonetheless, the Federal Circuit not only has continued to apply this textually groundless doctrine, it has expanded it at every opportunity." Minerva notes that, despite its self-made rule on assignor estoppel, the Federal Circuit held in Arista that assignor estoppel does not apply in IPRs, leaving the court "at odds with itself." A similar doctrine, "licensee estoppel", was also rejected by the High Court in Lear, Inc. v. Adkins, 395 U.S. 653 (1969).
If the Court declines to reject the doctrine completely, it should still accept the case to "define its very limited contours," says the petition. In the present case, Minerva says, "the Federal Circuit expanded assignor estoppel to bar petitioner Minerva from raising invalidity defenses that arose only because the ultimate assignee of the patent rights, respondent Hologic, had broadened the scope of the patent beyond anything the inventor had claimed." Rather than asserting that what the inventor assigned was worthless–the stated rationale for the doctrine in the first place–Minerva's defense is that, "more than ten years after the inventor assigned the patent…. Hologic took the old assigned patent specification, drafted and prosecuted a new patent claim broader than what the inventor had claimed or assigned, and wielded that claim against Minerva," says the petition.
Hologic: It's Intuitive
In their separate cross-petition, which has not been granted, Hologic/Cytyc argue that "[b]arring this Court's intervention, the decision below will eviscerate the assignor estoppel doctrine and encourage duplicative litigation, forum shopping, and other forms of gamesmanship." And in their opposition to Minerva's petition, Hologic and Cytyc argue that assignor estoppel is "a simple, intuitive rule" that "precludes inventors who have assigned (i.e., sold) the rights to an invention from later challenging the validity of the rights they sold." Granting Minerva's request to abrogate the doctrine would represent a "revolutionary step" and eliminate "a baseline protection that this Court first endorsed almost a century ago and against which Congress has legislated."
Amici Back Minerva
Amicus briefs have been filed by Intellectual Property Professors (authored by Mark Lemley) and Engine Advocacy thus far, supporting Minerva's position. Lemley's brief contends that "[t]he doctrine has expanded far beyond the metes and bounds of this Court's increasingly narrow precedent, including to cases lacking any bad faith during negotiations and to cases where not only the inventor herself but also her privies are precluded from challenging an invalid patent."
Engine Advocacy argues that the doctrine's expansive application shields "low-quality patents (e.g., patents that are vague, overbroad, claim what is known in prior art, or otherwise cover inventions that ought not be considered patentable) from scrutiny." The brief continues:
The doctrine of assignor estoppel, by design, limits the courses of action one may take when seeking to challenge low-quality patents. Such patents are often the bane of a startup's existence, to the extent that they frequently stand in the way of innovation. For that reason alone, if it has any proper place in the law, assignor estoppel should be very narrowly-tailored.
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@Joel #2: If the decision had been taken up by the same court that wrote the Alice decision then I believe it would be highly likely that assignor estoppel would be a dead letter. Similar to licensee estoppel, it prevents courts from addressing the boogeyman that is "bad patents."
However, the composition of the court has changed dramatically and it is entirely possible that the new court is less hostile to the patent system in general (at least until Biden packs the court).
So who's winning this one so far?
1. Lemley supporting Minerva?
Shockin', I tells ya'; shockin'!
2. Engine Advocacy: "patents that are vague (so kill 'em with 112), overbroad (so kill 'em with 112), claim what is known in prior art (so kill 'em with 102 / 103) or otherwise cover inventions that ought not be considered patentable (sorry bucko; but SCOTUS' extrajudicial eligibility limits are — as everyone except SCOTUS and the CAFC know — unconstitutional)"
Inventors should not — under any circumstances — be able to destroy that which they have created.


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Coors Field ready for baseball after overnight…
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Coors Field ready for baseball after overnight snow
PUBLISHED: May 10, 2015 at 12:00 am | UPDATED: September 13, 2018 at 12:00 am
DENVER (AP) — Coors Field is shoveled out from a May snowstorm in time for the Colorado Rockies to play the Los Angeles Dodgers.
An overnight storm dropped up to 5 inches in parts of the Denver area. The grounds crew spent Sunday morning shoveling the outfield and taking the snow out of the stadium in small bulldozers.
An hour before Sunday"s first pitch, the sun was shining, the field was completely clear of snow and the infield was dry and ready for baseball. The series finale began on time after the first two games were affected by the wet weather that has socked Colorado for the last week. Temperatures were in the low 40s at the start Sunday.
A similar scene played out at Coors Field two years ago after a much bigger storm hit Denver in mid-April. Rockies owner Dick Monfort and other team executives were shoveling so Colorado could get in a doubleheader with the New York Mets.
"I was shocked that we played a couple of years ago when we had that much snow," Rockies manager Walt Weiss said. "Today I"m not. The weather is nice enough today I figured it was going to melt."
Dodgers manager Don Mattingly wasn"t worried about the field conditions jeopardizing the players.
"Most fields are so good now with draining, it soaks in, so by game time it will be pretty good footing, I"m assuming," he said. "The umpires at some point will walk the field to make sure that it"s good. Anything can happen, but it can happen any day."
Friday"s game was shortened to five-plus innings because of heavy rain. Saturday"s was postponed by rain that turned into snow in the early evening. The snow stopped early Sunday.
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Гласная полусловица — это разновидность тайнописи полусловица, в которой сокращению подлежат только гласные буквы, а согласные остаются на своих местах без изменения.

Этой тайнописью написан ключ к письму «в квадратах» и «Лаодикийское послание», начало которого может выглядеть так (Рис. 1).

Таким же способом гораздо позднее в XVIII веке сделана небольшая запись на «Поморских ответах» в рукописи N 3006 Исторического музея.(Рис.2)

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 М. Н. Сперанский «Тайнопись в юго-славянских и русских памятниках письма», Л., 1929 г.

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James Hurley holds George the weta at the Otago Museum Bug Fair on Saturday. Photo by Linda Robertson.
Dozens of children - and their parents - were bugging out at the sight of creepy-crawlies at the weekend.
The Otago Museum hosted a Bug Fair on Saturday to support its free exhibition ''Bugs: the Mega World of Minibeasts''.
Everything from bees to beetles to the Bugman were on display.
Entomologist Ruud Kleinpaste had children mesmerised with his assortment of grubs, beetles and wetas.
For 8-year-old James Hurley, of Dunedin, it was the highlight of the fair.
James handled the weta with great composure - at least until it ''kept jumping off''.
''It kind of felt like something grasping on to me and then jumping off,'' he said of the experience.
As a self-proclaimed bug fan, meeting the Bugman was an occasion to remember.
''I have even got a DVD of the Bugman,'' James said.
He was also quick to point out his favourite bug.
''It would have to be the dung beetle because they roll around in dung,'' he said, laughing.
However, despite his admiration for the creature he did not envy its living situation - ''I would not want to do it''.
Otago Museum public programmes manager Vicki Lenihan said she hoped the fair would instil enthusiasm, such as James', into others.
''I just hope that everyone that comes along goes away with a renewed or new admiration for their arthropod buddies,'' she said.
She hoped the fair, and the exhibition, would break down people's fears and phobias when it came to our creepy-crawly living mates.
Judging by the smiles on the faces of children and adults alike at the fair on Saturday, she was winning the battle.
The free exhibition ''Bugs: the Mega World of Minibeasts'' runs until May 10.