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VQ059 Tuccillo – Full Time EP
Tuccillo returns to Visionquest this summer with his 'Full Time' EP, comprised of three compositions from the Italian producer.
Beatport deejay
Over his 15-year career, Tuccillo has established himself as one of the most recognised, in-demand producers and DJ's of the underground, combining distinctive analogue and digital sounds to create a blend of deep, stylish and unique house music. With a number of notable releases on his own imprint Unblock and various other releases being snapped up by labels like Holic Trax and Get Physical, Tuccillo's return to Visionquest with his latest EP is a welcome addition to his already acclaimed discography. Having previously released collaborations with Shaun Reeves and Visionquest for the label, Tuccillo's solo project for the label, the 'Full Time' EP is a worthy soundtrack aimed squarely at the dance floor.
The opener 'Keep It Down' sets the tone with a crisp, hypnotic bass line, gradually layering percussive grooves and retro chords – creating a stripped-back, infectious rhythm that gradually concludes with resonating rugged drum lines. Next up, 'Take DB' takes the EP in a slightly darker direction – employing a rumbling bass line and haunting vocals, building up to sun-soaked soulful synth lines, but quickly returning to grittier, robust sounds, resulting in a 7-minute trip of diverse and intriguing soundscapes.
The closing track on the EP is 'Full Time' – the heavyweight title track fuelled by an echoing moody bass line and accentuated with distorted glitches and a heady, captivating rhythm to round off the EP with a punch.


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Today, friends, I have the honor of introducing our VERY LAST DEB LAUNCH. Yes, that's right: Deb Susan's engrossing debut, CLAWS OF THE CAT, comes out today, and it is the perfect (or should I say purrrfect) summer read! For a lot of people, summer means travel and vacations, but if you're me, and you have a four-month-old munchkin demanding your constant attention, exciting vacations aren't exactly in the cards….


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Meeting Coverage > AES
Texting Triggers New Type of Brain Wave
— Video EEG monitoring reveals "texting rhythm" in some epilepsy patients
by Kristina Fiore, Staff Writer, MedPage Today December 7, 2015
PHILADELPHIA -- It's not often that researchers detect a new waveform on electroencephalography (EEG), a technology that's been around for about a century.
But that's exactly what happened to EEG technicians at two academic medical centers who highlighted what they saw as test abnormalities. When they went to the video replay, they saw that these strange waveforms occurred when patients were texting, and only then.
Note that this study was published as an abstract and presented at a conference. These data and conclusions should be considered to be preliminary until published in a peer-reviewed journal.
Video EEG monitoring of 129 patients seen at Mayo Clinic Florida and Rush University Medical Center, revealed that a quarter of the population showed a waveform, a frontocentral monomorphic burst of 5 to 6 Hz theta, that was uniquely and consistently induced by active text messaging on personal electronic devices.
This finding needs to be validated in larger, more controlled studies.
Why active text messaging would induce a unique waveform remains unclear, but researchers hypothesize it may relate to emotional reward systems involved in this type of communication.
"We think active text messaging actually creates an electrophysiologic potential that's unique to some type of personal electronic device," said William Tatum, DO, of the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Fla., who reported the findings during a press briefing at the American Epilepsy Society meeting here.
Tatum first detailed some of the cases at a neurophysiology meeting last year, where Michael Stein, MD, of Rush University also presented similar findings. They pooled their updated results for the current study.
Video EEG monitoring is commonly used to diagnose epilepsy, and since it's done over several days, patients carry on with their typical daily activities, which tend to involve smartphones.
Tatum and colleagues evaluated data from 129 patients seen at Mayo Clinic Florida and Rush University Medical Center, finding that nearly a quarter of the population (24%) showed this "texting rhythm" on video EEG monitoring. He defined it as a "reproducible, stimulus-evoked, time-locked generalized frontocentral monomorphic burst of 5 to 6 Hz theta, consistently induced by active text messaging."
The waveform was highly specific to active texting (P<0.0001), and it didn't occur with other activities such as voice calls, speech, or movement. Nor was there any association with age, gender, epilepsy type, MRI results, or EEG lateralization in patients with focal epileptic seizures, Tatum said.
He noted that the wave pattern itself isn't exactly new: "It's a new biorhythm in terms of where it appears and what causes it," he said. "It's not a new rhythm relative to the EEGs that people have been analyzing since the early 1900s."
Instead, it's a "technology-specific waveform previously reported in both normal and abnormal conditions, but with a different twist," Tatum said. "It looks a little different, it appears in a different location, and it's intrinsically locked to an electronic stimulation to the brain."
It's not clear exactly why the pattern emerges during texting, but might reflect some kind of brain reward system, Tatum said.
"It could be some type of emotional property, be it the emotional context of interacting with someone in non-verbal communication, or some potential biomarker that might speak to a specificity important to industry, perhaps reflecting a heightened level of emotion that might be garnished in terms of identifying special skill set," he said.
It could also support the idea that texting interferes with concentration -- as many state legislative bodies have suggested by passing laws against texting and driving, Tatum said.
Why, then, did three-quarters of patients not have this waveform while texting?
Tatum speculated that the degree of emotion while texting may fluctuate, although he added that there were no differences in generation of the texting rhythm between younger patients -- who are thought to be more emotionally variable -- and older patients.
He noted that the findings likely extend outside of those with epilepsy and likely occur in "normal" patients as well.
Tatum did caution that the overall study was small and would need to be repeated at other centers; nor did the researchers control for drug or caffeine intake, and future work will also control the level of emotion in texts, Tatum said.
Marvin Rossi, MD, PhD, of Rush University Medical Center, who was not directly involved in the study, said the findings are intriguing and further research should be done.
"We see unknown variants that haven't been described, but they're often pieces of variants that have been described, whereas this is unique and interesting," Rossi said. "We did bring up the possibility of using this in the gaming industry or some methodology to ... interface with the brain."
Tatum disclosed no financial relationships with industry.
American Epilepsy Society
Source Reference: Tatum W, et al "A new waveform identified during video EEG monitoring" AES 2015; Abstract 3.114.

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Welcome to a world awash with Gotham's bygone glamour. Here, gentility is alive and well and smashing Art Deco style is still in vogue. A dramatically re-envisioned "baby grand" hotel, The Chatwal has emerged as the Great White Way's newest leading light. Master architect Thierry Despont has beautifully restored and modernized this iconic midtown Manhattan address, ensuring no detail has been overlooked and no luxury spared. Your guestrooms and suites are themselves works of art, capturing the romance of the past while looking to the future. Pairing New York City's signature sophistication with a luxury all our own, this five-star hotel is a glamorous toast to the golden age of travel.


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July 4, 2019 By Marcus Tibesar
We are proud to fly the American flag!
The Betsy Ross flag is an early design of the flag of the United States, named for upholsterer and flag maker Betsy Ross. The pattern, which was in use as early as 1777, uses the common themes of an alternating red-and-white striped area with stars in a blue canton. Its distinguishing feature is thirteen 5-pointed stars arranged in a circle to represent the unity of the Thirteen Colonies. As a historic U.S. flag, it has long been a popular patriotic symbol.
The "Betsy Ross" flag is featured on the seal of the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, together with the modern United States flag to represent veterans throughout United States history.
Go Veterans!


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Q: ArcEngine in WPF -> publish -> creates .msi install file -> installer fails I am trying to install my custom ArcEngine application on another machine.  I just uninstalled and reinstalled ArcGis Engine Runtime 10 and authorized it.
"Unable to install or run the application.  The application requires that assembly ESRI.ArcGIS.Framework Version 10.0.0.0 be installed in the GAC first"
The weird thing is that a previous version of my application still runs.
Even the most long-shot type advice is welcome.  I'm hitting a wall.

I removed the reference to ESRI.ArcGIS.Framework, I guess I wasn't using it.  So I thought that would fix the problem, but actually the problem persists.  So I assume that one of the assemblies I use is dependant on Framework.  On the target machine, I went to the assembly directory and there is no Framework assembly on that machine and there is on my machine.  So short term quick fix is to get the assembly on that machine, I am installing devkit on the target to see if that gives me the assembly I need.

A: I installed the SDK to get the assemblies, although I think maybe I could have copied them.  Once I had the necessary assemblies I used the gacutil program to put them into the GAC.  I found it unusual that the ESRI installer did not auto register the necessary DLLs into the GAC.

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Great post. Those early Bethlehem's had classy sleeves.
Terrific article! Bethlehem made so many fine recordings that are still fun to hear today that I'm surprised no company has acquired the catalogue for purposes of creating serious reissues.
I'm not aware of the exact figure, but I guess it would be something around 250. However you should note that for instance some of the material released in "Deluxe" 12 inch series are identical to what had been released on 10 inch, or there are some compilation albums produced and so on. In another word, like any other label, the number of released albums doesn't show the amount of recorded music as there is lots of repetition.


Yesterday Google started to connecting individuals to their Gigabit home Internet service that has been dubbed "Google Fiber". Google's blog specific to Google Fiber mentioned they have been conducting preliminary tests with specific homes to insure the network was functioning properly. The speed Google Fiber will provide people will dwarf the average home in the United States.
Google's product page for Google Fiber states "Google Fiber starts with a connection speed 100 times faster than today's broadband". Reports so far have shown that the download and upload number are accurate. To provide a little perspective, I just conducted a speed test on my network and I am currently at 16Mbsp which I consider to be fairly quick. I would consider anything over 100Mbps as amazing but Google Fiber has far have exceeded this feat.
Currently Google Fiber is only available in Kansas City, Google has spent the last several month building the network and hopefully they spread to other major cities soon.
The best part about is the price. The 1-gigabit-per-second service will only cost a staggering $70 per month. These speeds are available for both uploads and downloads and come with 1 terabyte of data storage and a network box to deliver the service?
*image credit goes to Google Fiber.
As the worlds population continues increase and technology continues to progress the world is becoming smaller. Fast cars, luxury boats, stunt planes are become more and more common and as a result the play ground is getting more and more crowded. This means that finding unique places to explore and play are becoming harder to find. Under the oceans surface in the last environment that has been left fairly untouched.
Scuba diving has always been a popular hobby because it allows one to explore the ocean floor and see a different world. Scuba diving is extremely fun and gratifying but there are those who would prefer to explore not only in style but also with a friend while still remaining dry in a personal submarine.
With the latest advancements in personal submarine technology, the small submarines can now go faster, deeper and stay submerged for longer periods of time. These personal submarines are different from the submersibles typically seen on the history or discovery channel, which are linked by a teaher line to a boat or platform on the surface. The personal submarines are launched a boat or dock but are completed independent and are free to explore the ocean floor on their own accord.
Some refer to our ocean as the last frontier. Why not explore the remaining frontier in your own personal submarine.
LG has come out with an amazing piece of technology, the LG 55EM9600 OLED TV. This TV made its debut at the 2012 International CES. We at Premium Posts decided to feature it not only because we really like it but because it won C-Net's "Best of Show" award at the CES convention.
Stretching 55 inches from corner to corner (more sizes promised in the near future) makes any TV respectable but the depth of the TV is an impressive 4mm. MM is more millimeters if you thought we just made a mistake. Even though the TV has a depth of only 4mm, the specs of the TV are what make it truly impressive. LG decided to use OLED versus the common LCD or LED setups. This does increase the overall price of the TV but as a result the contrast ratio is a ridiculous 100,000,000:1. Images are said to be beyond life like and with the TV's ability being more than 40 times greater than the next best LED TV currently available in stores today it is no surprise. The 55EM9600 is also 3D capable but glasses are still required.
An announcement by LG stating the price and the launch date has not been set yet but we are hopeful that by early 2013 we will see the LG 55EM9600 emerge onto the product floor.
Thinner and lighter than a typical paperback the new Amazon Kindle is a groundbreaking new reading device that allows you to store and read all your books and newspapers on one device. The Kidle only weighs 10.3 ounces and uses a revolutionary electronic-paper display which provides a sharp, high-res screen that has the look of real paper.
The Kindle can hold over 200 books, has a battery life of about 2 to 8 days (depending on wireless usage) and best of all, you do not have to pay any monthly service fees to connect online.
At $399 the Amazon Kindle is still a bit too expensive for most people (as most new technologys are) but hopefully this will help lead to an economy that doesn't rely as heavily on paper!
Wow… a portable beer pong table that inflates and floats in the pool! This has to be one of the best inventions ever. The only thing I don?t like about it is that I didn't think of this myself. 😉 (Evan after all those years of beer pong and pool parties the thought never crossed my mind). I must say, a floating beer pong table is a must have all those who enjoy the sport of Beirut. For those that are unfortunate enough to have never played beer pong (AKA Beirut) you can click here to get caught up: beerpong crash course.
I think that one of the greatest thing about having an inflatable beer pong table is that you can take it anywhere and it cleans up easy! No more having to buy expensive ping pong tables just to have them warped and beer soaked within a matter of months. No more having to make frantic runs to Home Depot to buy a sheet of plywood for your party. But perhaps best of all… if you play in the pool you can have uninterrupted beerpong tournaments without having to stop for bathroom breaks!!!!!
So you have been playing around with your friends iPhone and wish you could get one right? The only problem is that you want the iPhone without "THE PHONE". Well… your prayers have been answered because Apple is about to release its new "Ipod Touch". The iPod touch will have the same look and feel as an iPhone but it wont have a phone or camera. In addition it will be lighter and smaller than the iPhone and it will have built in WiFi for internet access in wifi hotspots! You will even be able to access iTunes to preview and buy music directly from the ipod Touch! The Ipod Touch will set you back $399 ($100 less than the iPhone) and it will come with 8 gigs of memory.
A few weeks ago Microsoft announced a pretty amazing new product called "Microsoft Surface" technology. Microsoft surface is a touch screen table that basically turns your coffee table into an interactive computer monitor. The touch screen table allows multiple users to interact with their hands to flip through pages, move and resize images, draw, navigate maps… and it also interacts with objects that you place on the table. (As an example, you could place your camera down on the table and the images on your device will spill out onto the table were you can edit and resize them). I could go on and on about how amazing this is but the video does a much better job so take a look.
If you haven't seen this yet, take a look. Its crazy!
Best of all, Microsoft has announces that these touch screen tables will be available by the end of 2007. At $5,000 to $10,000 a pop they are still too expensive for home use but we can expect to start seeing them in select Casinos and Restaurants within a few months!


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Jack wrote,
That grouping verses in Acts 10 doesn't state anything about salvation but just an outpouring of tongues. Verse 43 says that whosever believeth in him shall receive remission of sins. So it's pretty clear to me that the tongues weren't a part of the salvation, but part of the workings of worship
Back to Pressing-on's example, which is a very good example. The whole of Acts 10 and 11 is all about salvation.
The angel told Cornelius to send for Paul, for what purpose?
Acts 11:13 And he shewed us how he had seen an angel in his house, which stood and said unto him, Send men to Joppa, and call for Simon, whose surname is Peter;
:14 Who shall tell thee words, whereby thou and all thy house shall be saved.
:15 And as I began to speak, the Holy Ghost fell on them, as on us at the beginning.
:16 Then remembered I the word of the Lord, how that he said, John indeed baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost.
:18 When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, Then hath God also to the Gentiles granted repentance unto life.
Until a person is 'born again' by repenting, being baptized in Jesus name, and receives the Holy Ghost, they do not have the "life" in them, which is the 'divine nature."
Cornelius was a very good man, he would put a lot of Christians to shame, but he was not born again. The angel didn't tell him to send for Peter so that a group of people could experience the "outpouring of tongues. But that a group could be saved the very same way that "those that believe as the scriptures has said, " are being saved today.
Yes, I do believe the Gospel is Acts 2:38.
Why do I believe that?
Because, Paul in Galatians 1:15-18 says,
15 But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace,
16 To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood:
17 Neither went I up to Jerusalem to them which were apostles before me; but I went into Arabia, and returned again unto Damascus.]"Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter, and abode with him fifteen days.
Paul later goes on to preach in II Thessalonians 1:8 "In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:"
And in I Peter 4:17 "For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?
I believe that the Apostles so closely tied in the "Good News" to what Peter preached on the Day of Pentecost that they made no distinction as we do today. How do you OBEY the death, burial and resurrection? You listen to what Peter preached and OBEY that. Therefore, it is the Gospel for me.
Funny how PO is trying to make II Thes 1:8 fit with Gal 1:18.
Let's ignore the CONTEXT of Acts 10 where evidence of tongues was a sign to Peter confirming the vision to eat the unclean animals, signifying that God was going to save Gentiles. No, CONTEXT means nothing.
Why would you want to overlook that what Peter preached in Acts 2 was evident in Acts 10? Why would you want to overlook that Peter and those with him, "of the circumcision which believed were astonished, as many as came with Peter, because that on the Gentiles also was poured out the gift of the Holy Ghost. For they heard them speak with tongues,"
Why is the confirmation of the vision the only thing you can see here? I can see both. Did you think that Peter was wasting his breath in Acts 2?
And what do you think Paul and Peter talked about for 15 days? Do you think that Peter ever related the events in the upper room to Paul during that 15 day period?
JEWS were ASTONISHED because GENTILES were getting saved. Tongues was a sign to the UNBELIEVING Jews. They were no longer the cream of the crop and God confirmed it to them.
THAT is why there was the evidence of tongues. Do I need to draw a picture in crayola's for you?
What Peter and Paul discussed is not relevant as it is not recorded in scripture.
Yes, please draw a crayola picture. I have no idea what it would look like and I want to see it!
Well, I am glad you realized that the Gentiles were getting saved. What if they had not spoken in tongues at all? Would the Jews have realized they were being saved?
What was tongues a sign for concerning the Jews in the upper room on the day of Pentecost?
Here, I finished a drawing of you. I put it on your shirt. You don't have to thank me.
There are no "what if's." Please stick to the text.
So, you can't or won't answer the question.
You could at least answer my third question. That is sticking to the text.
Okay, where is my crayola drawing?


E37: Who is Satch Purcell?
In the early days of the show, our co-hosts interviewed one another and those recordings have only been available for listening on the homepage of our website with their bios... until now! You now get to listen in as we release Satch's full interview as an episode for the first time, which includes the story of how the Authenticity Show was born.
"My upbringing, and I think my training as an Acupuncturist and my training as an Occupational Therapist gave me the skills that I needed to be able to handle the situation. It has not been easy, but I feel very fortunate that my particular training has given me skills that I can use to give Taniya a better life.
"I like to use perspective." ... "Compassion fatigue is something that caregivers have to deal with. All I have to do is flip the script and say, what if I was the one? She'd do so much better than me. Or, what if I wasn't here? What if she had to face this problem by herself?"
"Our church is the night sky. The congregation is the plants, and the crickets, and the frogs, and the coyotes, and the skunks." ... "The running that we do feels like a sacred experience and when we're sharing it we go into a sacred space because of all the trust and authenticity that we share. This show was born while we were running."


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Q: Using dot notation vs OpenQuery from SQL Server to Oracle Trying to bring data from Oracle into SQL Server. SQL has a linked server defined. I need to filter data out on the Oracle side, so there is a WHERE clause that limits the data, based on the value of one column (time period).
Tried performance with two different methods:
OpenQuery:
select * INTO T2 from OpenQuery(LinkedSrv,'select * from SCHEMA.TAB')

dot notation (LinkedServer..Schema.Table):
select * INTO T2 from LinkedSrv..SCHEMA.TAB

Both perform kind of slow, pushing about 5-6k rows/second. For 20M row table, this is not ideal. And then discovered something rather interesting:
select * INTO T2 from LinkedSrv..SCHEMA.TAB WHERE col >= Value

This pushes the throughput up to almost 100k rows/second
Specifying criteria with OpenQuery does not affect the throughout. Explain plan shows
RemoteQuery -> ComputeScalar -> Filter (WHERE) -> TableInsert in the dot notation scenario with WHERE.

Other than that, explain plans are the same. So... How does adding a WHERE clause locally (because this is where it does it) improve throughput by a factor of 10???
... And what can I do to achieve (the desired outcome) the same fast throughput when using OpenQuery?
Thank you!

A: The difference between the dot notation and the OpenQuery methods is that the first uses client cursor engine and most things are evaluated locally while the second send the Query to the remote server and read the output.
Not always filtering data in the dot notation query is faster from OpenQuery approach. It is based on each the local and remote server resources.
Check out the following stackoverflow question they will give you more information:

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Insider: Spotify strikes $20 million podcast advertising partnership with Omnicom
4:51 PM MDT on Jul 9, 2020
The deal begins this week, and runs through to the end of the year.
This development marks a notable forward for Spotify's efforts to substantiate its ad tech machinations, at the very least because it opens up a pipeline for Spotify to get a steady flow of ads to run and test across its emerging podcast advertising products.
Omnicom, by the way, is one of the largest advertising holdings firms in the world that manages about $35 billion in global media spend every year, and it serves major clients like PepsiCo, McDonald's, and State Farm through its various media-buying agency businesses. Which is to say, while $20 million sounds big, it's more experimental chump change for the holdings company, though it is nonetheless a get for Spotify looking to validate its pod ad tech efforts.
A few threads to keep in mind —
(1) The Wall Street Journal's write-up with:
It isn't the first plan for significant spending ahead of time for the fast-growing podcasting industry. iHeartMedia Inc. has been handling much of its podcast sales through upfront negotiations for almost a year, according to Conal Byrne, president of the company's iHeartPodcast Network.
But advertisers typically sponsor individual series when it comes to podcasts, where advertising is growing rapidly but remains relatively small.
The emphasis being the building of an on-platform marketplace. This is somewhat of a non-sequitur, but I imagine that if there are to be any more chatter on Spotify acquisitions moving forward, I reckon it's more likely that we'll see an advertising or ad tech-related pick-up, as opposed to another content company. Just a thought.
(2) From the press release I received about this: through this deal, Omnicom clients "will have first-mover access to the platform's exclusive podcast content." Which is to say, this arrangement will drive advertising only towards Spotify originals and exclusives on the platform, at least for now.
Of which there are many on the way, need I remind you. Tie those all together — the upcoming Joe Rogan exclusivity, the Warner Bros/DC Comics stuff, the Kardashian Parcast show, the Higher Ground stuff, the Paul Bae stuff, the Jordan Peele stuff, and so on — and hook it up to the recent product announcements, like the interactive ads piece and the video piece, and you can begin to see the web of what the Spotify podcast advertising universe feel like a few years from now. YouTubification? Maybe.
Anyway, I thought The Verge's Ashley Carman had an interesting read on a possible macro-effect of this specific development:
This might be the start of podcast budget reallocation to Spotify. From what I can tell, these companies haven't pulled ads from Facebook during the boycott, but still, it'll be interesting to watch how ad spend changes with Spotify working on its podcast ad tech.
Again, my sense is that this is more experimental than anything else, but that doesn't negate Ashley's read, particularly if this hefty trial run ends up producing intended results.
I also saw some chatter about the fact that these ads are limited to Spotify programming, and how it seems indicative of something that they are keeping those possible advertising gains to themselves at this juncture. I'd reframe the observation: this being an experiment, I reckon the company wants to keep things simple at this point by using their own stuff as the guinea pig first. The long-term intent seems pretty clear to me — they'd want to open these advertising products and ad dollar pipelines up for third-party content at some point in the future.
On a related note… Here's a dissenting view on Spotify's podcast gambit, courtesy of Bloomberg Opinion. It argues that the company's podcast efforts — while currently valued positively by investors — ultimately won't by itself be able to solve its biggest problem: the fact that it still has to pay a major slice of its revenues to the record industry for royalties.
The piece emphasizes that advertising is "still likely to remain a small slice of total revenue," and so whatever gains it can get through pure podcast advertising dollars will still probably not be enough to off-set the load.
Big picture, though: I think it's fairly clear, at this point, that podcasting represents a stepping stone for Spotify towards its so-called broader "audio-first" strategy. In addition to riding the growing podcast advertising revenue wave, the company also seems interested in the other non-music audio categories: talk radio and audiobooks.
As a side note… I keep noticing Amazon being evoked in these general write-ups of the big podcast picture. Am I the only person who's unconvinced that there's any "there" there?
Another thing to consider… Spotify may very well be the buzziest (and most technologically interesting) of the at-scale podcast advertising competitors, but they're not running in an open lane. As alluded to in the Wall Street Journal piece, iHeartMedia is continuing to serve as another suitor for ~Big Podcast Advertising Dollars~, and with the Stitcher deal in process, SiriusXM will be another player in that competition as well.
Indeed, the only major pushback that I got for my analysis of the Stitcher-SiriusXM deal — specifically, my characterization of their podcast efforts as being "piecemeal" so far — was the notion that SiriusXM has actually been pretty good on the monetization side, particularly through the acquisition of AdsWizz. I mean, sure, but there's a reason I didn't talk about podcast monetization in the analysis: you can't monetize audiences you don't have. And with Stitcher, I suppose you can say they're about to actually get podcast audiences too.
That said… To my knowledge, the SiriusXM-Stitcher deal has actually closed yet. Keep an eye out.
Stray thought… It's kinda weird to me that, in the general write-ups about the Stitcher-SiriusXM deal, there's tremendous emphasis on Stitcher the App, as opposed to Stitcher the Overall Business. I suppose that rebrand effort didn't end up going as smooth as one would've hoped.


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Politics and the Church – The Hypocrisy of Politics in the Church [Part 39]
The full Council of Bishops met for three days at the United Methodist Church Center for the United Nations in 1971 to discuss how the church could help make the UN "the force for peace, justice, and progress which it ought to be." Bishop Lord declared: "The United States has no choice but to support the UN, for if we did not and the UN were allowed to die, the chances that man would blow himself from the face of the earth would be vastly increased." ["Bishops Spend Entire 3-Day Meet on UN", Christian Advocate (April 1, 1971) Page 22]. When the bishops met later in San Antonio, they commended President Nixon for his diplomatic overtures to communist China. ["Bishops to Propose Peace Emphasis", Christian Advocate (April 29, 1971)]. Overall, Methodist political concerns remained focused on Vietnam. A United Methodist minister in 1971 joined a Protestant Leaders' Consultation on Vietnam that journeyed to Paris to visit with peace talk negotiators, including a Viet Cong representative. The minister noted, " Whereas we have been withdrawing our forces…the war has grown in intensity and scope". ["Peace Talk Visitor Sees War End Hope", Christian Advocate (April 15, 1971) Page 21]. Another Methodist minister in Paris observed, "Our government is being less than candid with us…to put it mildly…at all levels", while admitting the North Vietnamese were "not negotiating in good faith." ["Churchmen Conduct Peace Talk Inquiries", Christian Advocate April 15, 1971) Page 24].
Bishops James Armstrong, Gerald Kennedy, and James Mathews in 1971 endorsed the presidential candidacy of antiwar Senator George McGovern, a fellow Methodist. The bishop called McGovern a moderate who conformed to Judeo-Christian ideals. ["Three Bishops Support McGovern Candidacy", Christian Advocate (December 12, 1971) Page 21]. (All this, while a voter guide produced by a Christian organization placed in the Narthex of a church for anyone to pick up as desired was too much!). The Council of Bishops, in late 1971, asked every United Methodist minister to "lead his people into an ecumenical call to 'Prayers for Peace'", as part of an interfaith "witness concerning the moral issues in the Indochina war", that began with prayers of protest outside the White House. ["Religious 'Witness' Formed on War Issues", Christian Advocate (December 23, 1971)]. This "Ecumenical Witness" campaign concluded in 1972 with a call…with Bishop Armstrong as a drafter… for churches to give sanctuary to draft avoiders…dodgers, to withhold some taxes…a violation of law, to publish congressional voting records in church bulletins…politics at church expense, to focus on the Vietnam War during the presidential campaign, and to urge the US Congress to end all war funding. ["Anti-War Witness Plan Grows", Christian Advocate (February 3, 1972) Page 23]. An "aghast" Bishop John Wesley Lord asked President Nixon, in response to a resumption of US bombing of North Vietnam, "Is there no decency left? Are we worse than savage? Is there not a more excellent way?" He wondered if Americans felt "betrayed by such madness." ["Bishop Lord Scores US Bomb Raids", Washington Post, Times-Herald (January 8, 1972) Page C10].
The 1972 General Conference, meeting in Atlanta, endorsed the "Bishops' Call for Peace and the Self-Development of Peoples", which denounced the Vietnam War as "immoral." They admitted that "many nations" continued to arm North Vietnam and the Viet Cong. They acknowledged that most US troops had been withdrawn. But they asked United Methodists to admit "complicity" for the ongoing deaths of many Asians. They confessed: "We have paid our taxes without protest; we have closed our eyes to the horror of our deeds; we have driven families from their homes into endless lines tracking across the pockmarked earth." They denounced the war as a "crime against humanity", demanded the end of all support for "military activities in the war in Southeast Asia", and urged "reparations to victims of the war." [The Book of Resolutions of the United Methodist Church 1972 (Nashville: United Methodist Publishing House, 1972) Pages 9-21]. ( I look forward to researching what the Methodists did in the fight against abortion.)
Later that year, the Board of Missions reiterated the call for US withdrawal from Vietnam and told President Nixon in a telegram, "We share co-responsibility with you for American involvement in Vietnam and all of Indochina." ["Antiwar Views Pressed on Churches, Firms", Christian Advocate (June 8, 1971) Page 24]. Bishop John Wesley Lord complained of his inability to visit with the president to transmit his colleagues' disapproval of renewed bombing of North Vietnam. He contrasted Nixon with presidents Kennedy and Johnson, who "asked for the church's voice and were willing to listen, even if they disagreed." Three Women's Division staffers were arrested when protesting at the office of US Speaker of the House Carl Albert, a United Methodist himself. Forty-two Methodist missionaries endorsed a Japanese newspaper ad demanding President Nixon end the war. ["Bishop Raps President Following Rebuff", Christian Advocate (July 6, 1972) Page 24]. Five United Methodist theologians endorsed an ecumenical antiwar manifesto claiming US policies in Indochina had caused a "human disaster comparable to the Nazi Holocaust." ["Indo-China War Deplored by Theologians", Christian Advocate (December 21, 1972)].
In late 1972, the United Methodist New York Conference dispatched a lawyer to investigate US war crimes in North Vietnam, where he was introduced by Hanoi's mayor to a celebratory audience. (I can't help but wonder if "Hanoi Jane" Fonda was present?) "You never saw such an enthusiastic response for Americans who are supposed to be enemies", he recalled. "We were handshaken, backslapped, and kissed." He saluted the North Vietnamese for their practical application of Christian principles, even if they denied the "epithet" of Christian. ["Lawman Visits North Vietnam, Reports War on Civilians", Christian Advocate January 4, 1973)]. After US bombing of North Vietnam resumed when North Vietnam quit peace negotiations, three bishops, with Board of Christian Social Concerns officials, telegrammed President Nixon. They denounced the suffering of Southeast Asians and the state of America's spiritual health, while doubting that North Vietnam was entirely to blame. Six bishops, along with officials of the Women's Division, implored the US Congress to end war funding. ["Church Leaders Protest Escalation of War", Christian Advocate (January 18, 1973) Page 24]. The Council on Evangelism also called on President Nixon to "end all hostilities now." Bishop James Armstrong accompanied an ecumenical delegation to Europe to create pressure against US support for South Vietnam. ["Six Clerics, War Critics, Plan Tour", Washington Post, Times Herald (January 6, 1973) Page A1]. After returning, he insisted Americans "must refuse to be further manipulated by the most politicized administration the nation has known and further dehumanized in our response to people on the other side of the world." He later told a New York meeting of 160 missionaries that the US had allowed the "military-industrial complex to become the overriding presence in our national life…" Further he stated "there are other Vietnams, places where we presume to impose our will, protect our dollars, and flaunt our political and military power." The missionaries declared the "present exercise of US power is a perversion of the Gospel." They heard a speaker praise the accomplishments of communist China, despite its "dictatorial, atheistic and Maoist government," which challenges Christians who think "we have the superior and only answers to questions." ["Diverse Groups Express Opposition to War", Christian Advocate (February 1, 1973) Page 20]. Separately, retired Bishop Kenneth Pope suggested the US president should have limited power to wage war, and "he should be locked up" if he exceeds it. ["Churches' Next Assignment in War Areas: Rebuilding", Christian Advocate (February 15, 1973)].
Next week we will see a move toward peace terms but not without Methodist involvement and not without opinion commentary after the war's conclusion. I still search for that time in history when politics no longer belonged in the church. It would appear the church leadership certainly did not hold that opinion.
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Cancelled? Not yet
Columbus: Have you been cancelled?
Perhaps I should change the punctuation on that opening: Columbus, have you been cancelled?
Statues of Christopher Columbus in Columbus, Ohio, have been damaged and removed from prominence and sent to purgatory (storage barn). Will all towns and cities across the country named "Columbus" be forced to change? What about Columbia University, the Columbia River, Columbia Broadcasting System?
Something called "Cancel Culture" has leaped onto the national scene. Maybe "leaped" is the wrong word. It's more like it dug through the dirt and crawled in through the sewer.
Now, there have been serious, important "cancels" in our past: Slavery, Segregation, Hitler, the USSR. I'm sure you could name others. The Prohibition Amendment (#18) seemed like a good cancellation at the time, but fourteen years later we had to pass the 21st Amendment to cancel the cancellation.
Recent cancellations include Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn, Aunt Jemima, Uncle Ben, and Mr. Potato Head. Others threatened with cancellation include Sir Francis Drake, Girls' sports, The Eyes of Texas, and the Jeep Cherokee. (Yes, the Chief of the Cherokee Nation in Oklahoma wants Jeep to drop the name. I suggested he do the opposite; advertise and promote the Cherokee in return for Jeep providing a new one to each elected official.)
Dr. Seuss presents an interesting situation, a "partial cancel." Somebody intent on digging up dirt, especially on heroes, went back in history to the first Dr. Seuss books and found a few negative images. Before we go any farther, here's a question: are there any images in any Dr. Seuss book that look realistic, like your pets, or like someone you know? No way.
I think most of us have read, seen and heard words and images that we object to. But if the other 99 percent is not racist or anti-women or full of cuss words, for example, we usually ignore those and enjoy the book, movie, music or conversation.
Personally, I'm not concerned about cancellation because I have no culture.
New York would like to cancel Florida. All the rich New Yorkers are moving to Miami. I heard that the most expensive house ever sold was one in Palm Beach for $110 million. There's an island called Indian Creek (will that be canceled?) across a bridge from Miami Beach. It is 300 acres with a golf course surrounded by about forty multi-million-dollar estates. Apparently, these wealthy folks do not believe in global warming because the value of beachfront property keeps rising much faster than sea levels. And no fear of a major hurricane either.
"Senator [Tom] Heflin of Alabama held up all Senate business yesterday for five hours. That's a record for narrow views. Tonight, in his home capital [Montgomery] I am pleading with Alabama to please not exterminate all Catholics, Republicans, Jews, negroes, Jim Reed, Al Smith, Wadsworth, Mellon and Coolidge and the Pope. Of course, my plea will do no good, for Tom knows the intelligence of his constituency better than we do." DT #174, Feb 18, 1927
"See this morning where the Supreme Court says negroes in Texas have the right to vote at Democratic primaries. Certainly will seem funny to see the negroes and the whites voting the same ticket. First thing you know they will be allowing a white Republican to associate with a white Democrat in the South." DT #191, March 8, 1927
"[VP candidate Charlie Curtis] is a Kaw Indian and me a Cherokee and I am for him… Come on, Injun! If you are elected let's run the white people out of this country." DT #589, June 15, 1928
[Interesting fact: Will Rogers was quarter-blood Cherokee, grew up in Indian Territory and became a world-class trick roper. Will learned to rope, starting about age 4, taught by a former slave, Dan Walker, a ranch hand working for Will's dad. Yes, a Cherokee got his start toward stardom in a "white" world thanks to a black man.]


Don Perlin is responsible for a great deal of the early Marvel comics, and is regarded as one of the originators of the Transformers aesthetic, at least on the page. He's been out of the Transformers loop for several years, until now. As a commission for longtime Friend of the Allspark Tim Finn, Don provided a really fantastic battle piece featuring Prime, Megatron, King Grimlock, as well as some of our favorite humans from the Marvel comics series, The Mechanic, Robot Master, and Circuit Breaker. What's the significance, you might ask? Well, Don's not drawn anything Transformers-related in nearly 18 years, and his work can be seen in IDW's current Transformers: Generations reprints. You can read Tim's thread and view the piece here.


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LAKELAND, Fla. - Drew Jackson's ability to handle the outfield corners, with today marking his first game in right, could influence manager Brandon Hyde's roster construction prior to opening day.
Jackson figures to make the club as a second Rule 5 infielder along with Richie Martin, but he's been used in a utility role in camp and the resume is expanding.
"He's so versatile. He can play a lot of different positions," Hyde said this morning while the Orioles took batting practice.
"We're still evaluating that. I'm going to continue moving him around. He's going to play a little bit of infield, he's going to play multiple spots in the outfield and we're just going to continue seeing his versatility, as well as some other guys.
One of them is whether Hyde's willing to use Jackson as the fourth outfielder rather than carrying someone more experienced such as Eric Young Jr. or Dwight Smith Jr.
So Rickard and Mullins have made the team?
"No," he said. "I haven't told anybody that they're on the team. I'm waiting to see if ... I haven't told anybody they're on the team.
"You never know what's going to happen. There's a waiver wire that happens every single day and in our situation we're always trying to add talent, so I'm not making any promises to anybody right now.
Hyde said he hasn't spoken to catcher Jesús Sucre about his March 22 opt-out.
Hyde chose to bring along Ryan Mountcastle today and use him as the designated hitter. One reason is tied to third baseman Renato Núñez, who has some mild soreness in his right arm.
Mark Trumbo isn't on the trip today after getting two more at-bats yesterday to raise his spring total to eight. He's still a possibility for opening day.
Richard Bleier will pitch again today and appears certain to be in the bullpen on March 28.
Among the data available to Hyde is how starters fare the third time through the order, which can dictate when he goes to his bullpen.
The latter is easier for a manager to implement with the starters aren't resistant to it.
"I don't think any pitcher is happy to come out of a game," Hyde said, "but I think there's so much written now and so many teams use that stat as something that's important that I think guys are very aware of that, so I don't think it's a surprise anymore when maybe four years ago it would have been.
A rainy forecast for Sarasota threatens Tuesday afternoon's game and could bring the first cancellation of the spring.
"You always have a Plan B rainy day schedule. That will be a cage day," Hyde said.
Update: Nicholas Castellanos hit an opposite-field home run off Andrew Cashner with one out in the first inning to give the Tigers a 1-0 lead.
Update II: Jonathan Villar delivered a three-run triple into the right field corner with the count full and one out in the fifth and pinch-runner Jace Peterson scored on Trey Mancini's triple to center to give the Orioles a 4-1 lead and end Jordan Zimmermann's day.
Mancini scored on Mountcastle's single up the middle. Chance Sisco singled for the second time today and Mountcastle scored on Rickard's sacrifice fly for a 6-1 lead.
Update III: Smith hit a two-run homer in the seventh for an 8-1 lead.


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Damages-Related Issues Addressed by the Federal Circuit in Summit 6 v. Samsung
In the patent infringement dispute between Summit 6, LLC ("Summit") and Samsung, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ("CAFC") considered a number of issues related to damages. The CAFC's opinion addressed issues related to the standard judges consider in their determination of the admissibility of damages experts' testimony, the sufficiency of the evidence in supporting the jury's damages award, and whether the jury's damages award compensates the Summit only for Samsung's past infringement or for Samsung's past and future infringement.
This article provides background regarding the case, Summit 6 v. Samsung, the CAFC's reasoning regarding these issues, and key takeaways to keep in mind as a result of the ruling.
In 2011, Summit filed suit in the Northern District of Texas alleging patent infringement against a number of parties, including Samsung, Research In Motion ("RIM") and Facebook. Summit alleged that the parties infringed U.S. Patent No. 7,765,482 ("the '482 patent"),1 which describes an "improved web-based media submission tool." The embodiment of the invention described in the patent specification focused on a tool (software) that enables a user to submit a photo to a website by two means:
dragging and dropping the photo from the user's computer, and
clicking within a website. The patent also involved certain "intelligent preprocessing" of the photo prior to its uploading. Summit accused Samsung specifically of infringing the '482 patent when photo were transmitted via multimedia messaging service ("MMS") on Samsung's smartphones and tablets.
Following the court's claim construction ruling in May 2012, RIM settled with Summit. Likewise, Facebook settled following the court's summary judgment rulings in February 2013, leaving Samsung as the only remaining defendant. A six-day trial began on May 29, 2013.
Summit's damages expert testified to a running royalty of $0.28 per phone, which amounted to a reasonable royalty of approximately $29 million. Based on two license agreements, Samsung's damages expert testified that a lump-sum royalty of $1.5 million was appropriate. The jury ultimately found that the asserted claims of the '482 patent were not invalid and were indeed infringed by Samsung. The jury awarded Summit $15 million in damages, which it specifically identified as a lump-sum award.
Damages-Related Issues
The parties appealed three damages-related issues:
Samsung appealed the district court's denial to exclude the Summit damages expert's testimony,
Samsung appealed the district court's denial of its motion that substantial evidence did not exist to support the $15 million award, and
Summit appealed the district court's ruling that the $15 million award reflected compensation for both past and future infringement.
Should the Testimony of Summit's Damages Expert Have Been Excluded?
Summit's damages expert utilized what is generally known as an income approach to arrive at his damages opinion. An income approach typically involves determining a royalty based on the profit attributable to the patented invention.
After considering Samsung's annual reports, internal cost and revenue documents, and interrogatory responses, Summit's expert determined that 6.2% of the phone's overall production cost was related to the camera component. As such, he attributed 6.2% of the revenue generated per phone to the camera, concluding that carriers pay $14.15 to include a camera component in Samsung's phones.
To apportion the camera-related revenue further, the damages expert relied upon surveys Samsung commissioned in the ordinary course of business and one survey he found independently. Based on the surveys, he found that:
65.3% of people who used the camera on their device used it regularly to capture only photos (rather than video);
of the people who used their camera to capture only photos, at least 77.3% shared the photos;
at least 41.2% of the users who shared their photos did so by MMS (rather than email or web storage); and
100% of the photos shared by MMS were resized (i.e., intelligently preprocessed prior to transmission). In light of these findings, he concluded that the infringing features accounted for 20.8% (65.3% x 77.3% x 41.2% x 100% = 20.8%), or $2.93, of Samsung's $14.15 in camera-related revenue.
Using Samsung's annual reports, Summit's damages expert estimated that of the $2.93 of apportioned revenue, $0.56 reflected profit attributable to the patented invention. He reasoned that a portion of the $0.56 profit (the benefit from the patented invention) would go to Summit in the form of a royalty, and Samsung would retain the remaining portion. He considered the parties' bargaining positions, found that neither had a stronger bargaining position, and concluded that the parties would have split the benefit evenly, resulting in a reasonable royalty rate of $0.28 per device.
Samsung argued that the testimony of Summit's expert should have been excluded for three reasons:
his methodology was unpublished, created specifically for this litigation, and had never been employed previously;
his methodology was based on the flawed assumption that a feature's use is proportional to its value; and
the expert's use of the surveys was unreliable because he is not a survey expert and because he failed to take basic steps required for a secondary expert to give an opinion based on a third party's survey.2
The CAFC disagreed with Samsung.
After discussing the legal underpinnings of the trial judge's role as gatekeeper with regard to expert testimony, the CAFC summarized its view, indicating that "where the methodology is reasonable and its data or evidence are sufficiently tied to the facts of the case, the gatekeeping role of the court is satisfied, and the inquiry on the correctness of the methodology and of the results produced thereunder belongs to the factfinder."3 Given this standard, the CAFC found that methodology employed by Summit's expert was "based on reliable principles and was sufficiently tied to the facts of the case."4 Moreover, the CAFC found that because a methodology is not peer-reviewed or published does not necessitate its exclusion.
The CAFC also did not agree that Summit's expert based his opinion on the flawed assumption that a feature's use is proportional to its value. The opinion cited its ruling in Lucent v. Gateway & Microsoft and Georgia-Pacific factor 11 (which considers the use of the invention and any evidence probative of the value of that use) as bases for its opinion and its disagreement with Samsung.
Finally, the CAFC was not persuaded by Samsung's argument that the expert's use of the surveys was unreliable. Rather, the CAFC found that one "need not be a survey expert to testify about the information compiled by third-party surveys, so long as the information is of a type reasonably relied upon by experts in the field to form opinions upon the subject."5
Was the $15 Million Award Supported by Substantial Evidence?
Subsequent to the jury verdict, Samsung filed a JMOL motion, arguing that the $15 million award was not supported by substantial evidence. The judge denied Samsung's motion, so Samsung appealed the denial to the CAFC. Samsung argued that the award lacked substantial evidentiary support because
the testimony of Summit's damages expert should have been excluded and therefore could not support the award, and
settlement agreements with Facebook and RIM do not support the damages award because they are not sufficiently comparable.
As indicated previously, the CAFC found that the district court acted appropriately by not excluding the testimony of Summit's damages expert.
With regard to the Facebook settlement agreement, the court agreed with Samsung. Because Summit did not provide evidence at trial regarding its comparability or relevance for determining a reasonable royalty in the instant matter, the agreement did not support the award. The CAFC, however, found that the settlement agreement with RIM did support the award.
Samsung did not challenge whether the RIM settlement was admissible, only that it did not support the award. The CAFC reasoned that the RIM settlement supported the award because
Summit's expert testified that the RIM license conveys rights to the '482 patent;
he testified that RIM and Samsung are similarly situated because both sell camera phones that contain the accused MMS functionality, and
the jury heard evidence about the royalty amount from the RIM settlement and about Samsung's sales volume in comparison to RIM's.
The CAFC, therefore, disagreed with Samsung, finding that the testimony of Summit's expert and the RIM settlement provided sufficient evidence to support the $15 million jury award.
Did the $15 Million Award Compensate Summit for Future Infringement?
As indicated previously, although Summit's damages expert testified to a running royalty amounting to approximately $29 million and Samsung's damages expert testified to a lump-sum royalty of $1.5 million, the jury awarded $15 million and specifically wrote the words "lump sum" on the verdict form.6 The district court interpreted the "lump sum" wording to indicate a one-time payment that would compensate Summit for Samsung's use of the patented technology through the life of the patent and therefore denied Summit's request for an ongoing royalty. Summit appealed to the CAFC, contending that the award provided compensation only for Samsung's past infringement and that Summit was entitled to recover additional damages for Samsung's future infringement. Summit argued that
relevant evidence, arguments, instructions and the verdict form were all limited to damages for past infringement; and
Summit's equitable claim for future damages was not an issue for the jury.
The CAFC found no basis for reversing the district court's ruling. It pointed to three facts:
Samsung's damages expert testified that a lump-sum award was appropriate,
Samsung's damages expert testified regarding the weight the jury should give the agreements introduced into evidence, and
Summit's damages expert admitted that a lump-sum award would compensate Summit through the life of the patent. Moreover, the CAFC admitted that although it had not directly addressed the issue as to whether a jury could award lump-sum damages through the life of the patent, it had permitted such relief in at least two cases: Telcordia Technologies, Inc. v. Cisco Systems, Inc. and WhitServe, LLC, and Wesley W. Whitmyer, Jr. v. Computer Packages, Inc.7
The CAFC's opinion in Summit 6 v. Samsung touched on a number of issues pertinent to damages. Damages experts and attorneys should take away the following key points from the case:
In considering the admissibility of expert testimony under Daubert, a judge may consider
whether the expert employed a methodology that is reasonable, and
whether the expert used evidence/data sufficiently tied to the facts of the case. If these criteria are satisfied, the opinion should be admissible and the fact finder correctness of the methodology and the weight to be afforded to the expert's opinion.
A methodology for determining damages need not be peer-reviewed or published to be considered reasonable or admissible under Daubert.
A damages expert is not required to be a survey expert in order to rely on third-party surveys, as long as the survey information would be reasonably relied on in the subject field.
It is critical to provide sufficient guidance and clarity in both jury instructions and the verdict form in order to ensure the jury understands the distinction between compensation for past and future infringement and to ensure the intent of the jury's award (i.e., whether it compensates only for past infringement or also for future infringement) is properly communicated to the court.
Facebook was also accused of infringing U.S. Patent No. 6,895,557 ("the '557 patent").
Ruling of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in the matter of Summit 6, LLC v. Samsung Electronics Co., LTD, and Samsung Telecommunications America, LLC, September 21, 2015 ("The CAFC Opinion"), p. 16.
The CAFC Opinion, p. 20.
Jury Charge (and verdict/award), April 5, 2013, p. 47.
Telcordia Technologies, Inc. v. Cisco Systems, Inc., 612 F.3d 1365, 1378 (Fed. Cir. 2010); WhitServe, LLC, and Wesley W. Whitmyer, Jr. v. Computer Packages, Inc., 694 F.3d 10, 35-38 (Fed. Cir. 2012).
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August 29, 2021 Sports
Everton In Talks Over Return To Juventus For Italy Striker Kean
Everton are in negotiations with Juventus about bringing forward Moise Kean back to the club. It's unclear whether the loan for the Italy international will be accompanied by a purchase obligation.
After leaving Juventus in 2019 for an initial sum of £25.1 million, the 21-year-old still has three years left on his five-year contract with Everton.
He has appeared twice for new manager Rafael Benitez this season, but was sent off in the EFL Cup win over Huddersfield on Tuesday.
After a mixed first season at Everton, in which he scored two goals in 33 games, he went on loan to Paris St-Germain last season, where he scored 16 goals in 36 appearances.
Once Cristiano Ronaldo returns to Manchester United, Juventus will be without a forward and will have extra finances.
Source: BBC Sport
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Q: Get all the test run details executed against test plan id Is there a way I can get the test runs executed against a test plan id
programmatically ? Also i want to get the results for say last 30 day or last X days?
To get the test case results for a particular test run, I am using below query,
var results = proj.TestResults.Query(string.Format("SELECT * FROM TestResult WHERE TestRunId =" + testRunId + ""));

A: To get test runs against a test plan id:
TfsTeamProjectCollection tfctc = new TfsTeamProjectCollection(new Uri("http://tfsservername:8080/tfs/DefaultCollection"));
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        var testruns = testmanagementService.QueryTestRuns("select * From TestRun");
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Luis Antonio Baraona Fornés (Santiago, 19 de julio de 1885) fue un agricultor y político chileno, quién sirvió como tercer y séptimo alcalde de la comuna de Pichilemu entre 1924 y 1925, y luego como diputado de la República por la 10.º Agrupación Departamental de Caupolicán, San Vicente y San Fernando desde 1926 hasta 1930.

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Nació el 19 de julio de 1885, en Santiago. Hijo de Luis Antonio Baraona Calvo y de Concepción Fornés García Reyes. Medio hermano del también exparlamentario Jorge Baraona Puelma. Se casó en esa ciudad el 25 de diciembre de 1911 con Constanza Ortúzar Fornés. Sus hijos fueron Concepción, Enriqueta, María Eugenia, Carmen, Luis, Valentina, Antonio, Fernando, José, Constanza y Ester.

Fue miembro  del Partido Conservador de Chile. Elegido Alcalde  de Pichilemu en 1924, y mantuvo esa posición entre el 4 de mayo de aquel año y el 24 de diciembre de 1925, cuando  dimitió para ser candidato a diputado. Fue elegido para el período 1926-1930; durante su tiempo como miembro de la Cámara de Diputados fue miembro  de la Comisión Permanente de Presupuestos y Decretos Objetados.

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Diputados de Chile
Nacidos en Santiago de Chile
Diputados por Colchagua
Diputados del XXXV Período Legislativo del Congreso Nacional de Chile

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Q: Disable Control+Scroll on trackpad with xbindkeys I have a problem with Ubuntu zooming in/out on Chrome web pages or enlarging/reducing text size in code editors whenever I scroll while holding down Control (it happens a lot when working with hotkeys so I can't avoid this).
This article found a solution using xbindkeys, a program that links shell commands (performs certain action) to keys or mouse buttons (on certain hotkey combination, scroll, click) using a configuration file. Basically it "successfully does nothing" when Control + Scrolling by binding Control+Scroll to /bin/true. I've done exactly what the article said and (most likely) it doesn't work for trackpads, only mouses. I've emulated Control + Scrolling by holding down Control and pressing either of the Up or Down and it successfully does nothing (doesn't zoom or enlarge).
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Newswise — Shortly after giving birth to her son Brandon in 2011, Tara Hansen – while still in the hospital – told healthcare providers her body didn't feel right. But they considered her a healthy post-partum patient and sent her home.
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Typically the October Hunters Moon eludes me. This year the sky was generous. The weather cooperated the day before and the day after the Blood Moon eclipse.
With the Full Moon approaching I was able to capture the Hunters Moon on the rise the night before.
As the sun began to set on the evening of October 7th the colors in the sky allowed the Hunters full Moon to rise above the horizon in beauty. As I was capturing the allure of the evening sky I noticed the moon appearing.
The moon rose above, through, and between the lines of clouds in the sky creating changes by the minute.
Under a darkening sky there was a glow upon the water.
As twilight faded the Full Moon was clearly visible.
Lighting the water in gold.
Fast forward to the occurrence of the Lunar Eclipse which transformed into the Bloodmoon.
As I was watching the transformation in the sky I looked to my left and saw I had a friend along side me watching the eclipse. Both Rabbits and the Moon are symbols of regeneration, abundance and rebirth. The Romans believed rabbits watched over everything just as the moons appears to. In folk belief the phases of the moon can be seen in the eye of rabbits.
The total eclipse was about to begin.
With the red changes in the sky the Bloodmoon was appearing.
Maximum Eclipse occurred as the Moon was closest to the center of the shadow.
Shortly after the maximum eclipse the moon began to get low in the west.
As twilight appeared before the sun was to rise, the moon began to fade off in the distance.
There was a faint glimmer of light at the top edge of the moon as I took my last photo in the series.
Having just witnessed the beauty of the moon's transformation from rise to set and seeing the intense colors in the morning sky I was inspired to catch yet another sunrise.
Feeling that my series was now complete I did not intend to go out for another moonrise. Yet as evening fell the Hunters Moon was too intriguing not to photograph.
It appeared with a halo of light.
With the view through the trees it was the October Moon full of mystery.
Surrounded in a purple halo with the green shadow of the moon the trees were illuminated with stillness.
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Virat Kohli is a famous Indian cricketer known for his bold and aggressive game. The right-handed drummer is currently captain of the Indian national team with the highest average wins. Kohli is among the list of the highest paid cricketers and the most salable athlete in the world. This exclusive article provides all the details about Virat Kohli, including his biography, childhood, career, height, weight, body measurements, girlfriend, family, net worth, cars and funny stories.
1) Private life
2) Physical statistics
3) Professional statistics
4) Style Quotient
5) Virat Kohli net worth
6) Achievements / Rewards
7) Virat Kohli Favorite
7.1) Social Media Portfolio
8) Facts of Virat Kohli
Anniversary / Date of birth
Kohli was born on November 5, 1988 in Delhi to a Punjabi family.
He is currently 30 years old.
Sign of the sun
Virat attended Vishal Bharti Public School in Delhi. At the age of 9, he joined the Cricket Academy from West Delhi to Delhi, and then enrolled at the Savier Convent School in Delhi where he distinguished himself in the fields. academic and sports.
Indian (Punjabi)
Father – Prem Kohli (lawyer)
Mother – Saroj Kohli
Brothers and sisters – Vikash Kohli (older brother), Bhavna (older sister)
Virat started dating actress Anushka Sharma in 2013 after their first encounter in a commercial shoot. The couple has been married for over 4 years and was married on December 11, 2017 during a private ceremony in Florence, Italy. His personal life has received considerable media attention, like Anushka's.
Virat Kohli dates the next –
Sarah-Jane Dias – Rumor has it that Virat would be attending actress Sarah-Jane Dias.
Sanjana – rumor
Tamannaah Bhatia – Again, he would have had a relationship with actress Tamannaah Bhatia.
Izabelle Leite – Kohli has already attended the Brazilian model Izabelle Leite.
In feet – 5 feet 9 inches
In meters – 1.75 meters
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In kilograms – 69 kg
Measurements – 42-15-32
Chest – 42 inches
Biceps – 15 inches
Cut – 31 inches
Virat Kohli can wear shoes size 10 (US).
Straight ahead
Professional statistics
ODI debut
Virat debuted at One Day International on August 18, 2008 against Sri Lanka at the Pallekele International Cricket Stadium. He made 12 races on 22 balls playing in the second.
First test
In 2011, he played his first test match against the West Indies at Sabina Park from June 20th to 23rd. He scored 4 points out of 10 balls in the match.
Debut T20
On June 12, 2010, Virat Kohli played his first international match against Zimbabwe at the Harare Sports Club. His shot, 26 races on 21 balls in the match helped India to win the match by 6 wickets.
IPL start
Virat Kohli made his IPL debut for the Royal Challengers Bangalore on April 18, 2008 against the Kolkata Knight Riders. He was able to score only one point, his losing team in the end.
Medium right arm
Drummer (and part time bowler)
18 (all forms of cricket)
Gameplay style
Covered driving
Royal Challenges Bangalore (IPL)
Endorsements of the mark
Virat is the most valuable godfather of celebrities in the sport. He has had several brands and affiliates, including 3C Company, Adidas, Boost, PepsiCo, Nike, TVS Motors, Fastrack, Royal Challenge (United Spirits), Fair and Lovely, Herbalife, Flying Machine, Red Chief Shoes, Toyota Motors, Cell phones Celkon, Cinthol, Munch and Sangam Suitings.
Style Quotient
A celebrity cricketer, he leads a luxurious life and owns houses of different styles in all major Indian cities. Virat, however, prefers to stay in his luxurious homes in Mumbai and Delhi. He recently bought a luxury stamp worth 34 crores in Worli, Mumbai. This 7,171 square foot apartment is located on the 34th floor of Tower C, which offers breathtaking views of the sea and offers boats all the amenities one could imagine.
Kohli is a big fan of cars, his favorite car brand is Audi and has five. It has two Audi R8s – a R8 LMX Limited Edition, powered by a 5.2-liter V10 engine, but it is tuned to produce 570 hp as well as 540 Nm and a yellow R8 V10 powered by the same engine, but generates 530 Nm It also has the Audi A8L W12 Quattro, Audi S6, Audi Q7 4.2 TDI, Toyota Fortuner and Renault Duster.
Virat Kohli net worth
He accumulated immense net worth in the space of a few years. Its net worth is estimated at $ 60 million starting in 2017, including its valuable assets and luxury car collections. His annual earnings were $ 19 million last year. Kohli is one of the highest paid sportsmen in the country as well as the highest paid cricket player of IPL. Its sources of income are cricket, endorsement contracts, advertisements and personal investments.
Achievements / Rewards
We have listed some of his records / achievements in cricket.
He was the first Indian to mark a century at the World Cup debut (2011).
He is the third Indian after Sachin Tendulakr and Suresh Raina to strike two centuries before his 22nd birthday.
He is the first Indian to reach 7500 points and 25 centuries in ODI.
First Indian skipper to win 5 sets of consecutive tests and 9 test wins in one calendar year.
First IPL player to hit 4 tons in one season and reach the highest score of 973 points in the ninth season.
Virat Kohli Favorite
Favorite Cricketers – Sachin Tendulakr, Chris Gayle, Shane Watson, Shane Warne, David Warner, Joe Root
Favorite Restaurants – Megu at Leela (Delhi), TK at Hyatt (Delhi), rolls of Khan Chacha (Delhi), Royal China (Mumbai), Shiro (Mumbai), Brick Lane (Bangalore)
Favorite food – Slamon, Suchi, lamb chops
Favorite actors – Johnny Depp, Robert Downey Jr. Aamir Khan
Favorite actress – Aishwarya Rai, Kareena Kapoor, Katrina Kaif, Penelope Cruz
Favorite adventure sport – Rafting
Favorite vacation destination – Barcelona, Paris
Favorite movie – Rocky 4, Border, 3 Idiots, Southpaw, The Warriors
Favorite TV shows – Fatherland, Narcos, Breaking Bad
Favorite rapper – Eminem
Favourite book – Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda
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Social Media Portfolio
Facts of Virat Kohli
He was awarded the 2012 ICC ODI Player of the Year and the BCCI International Cricket Player for the 2011-12 and 2014-15 seasons.
Virat Kohli is a recipient of the Indian Government's Arjuna Awards (2013) and Padma Shri's (2017) Fourth Highest Civil Award.
In addition to cricket, he enjoys playing video games and football.
Along with his career in cricket, Kohli is co-owner of Goa FC in ISL, the IPTL franchise UAE Royals and the PWL team, Bengaluru Yodhas.
While playing for the Delhi team, Virat played 90 points in the Ranji Trophy match against Karnataka on the day of his father's death.
He has 4 tattoos inked on the body, one on the upper right arm showing his own zodiac sign Scorpio, the second being a little lower on the same arm. His favorite is the tattoo of a Japanese samurai warrior with a lifted sword.
Chris Gayle and AB de Villers are his favorite friends in the IPL locker room.
This world-renowned cricketer is afraid of heights.
In 2013, he created a charity foundation called Virat Kohli Foundation, which aims to help disadvantaged children and organizes events to raise funds for charity.
The UK SportsPro magazine named Kohli as the second most salable athlete in the world in 2014, behind Lewis Hamilton.
In 2016, Virat Kohli was named best cricketer of Wisden in the.
In 2016, the value of the Kohli brand was estimated at US $ 92 million, like the Bollywood actor, Shah Rukh Khan.
Virak Kohli signed about 17 lucrative endorsement contracts with reputable brands in September 2017.
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UK bank LLoyds TSB is axing hundreds of jobs by closing 31 branches operated by its mortgage lender Cheltenham & Gloucester (C&G) and shifting 210 IT roles to offshore centres.
According to a report by UK newspaper The Guardian, the 210 tech jobs being offshored amount to nearly half of C&G's IT staff and will come from offices in London, Cardiff and Manchester.
Around 100 are permanent jobs and 110 are contract positions, says the report. All IT staff will be offered voluntary redundancy.
In a statement C&G says 31 branches will be closed, resulting in 315 job losses.
Jon Pain, managing director at C&G, said: "Closing branches is never a decision that we take lightly but, with more customers taking advantage of technology, the number of customers coming through the doors in these particular branches has fallen. By closing these branches where customer use has dropped, we can invest in the branches that customers do use."
Unite, the newly formed union which incorporates finance branch Amicus, branded the decision to close the C&G branches as "needless".
John Bancroft, Unite officer, says: "We will oppose any compulsory job losses and will continue to challenge the business rationale for this decision. We believe local branches are the financial lifeblood of the company. This decision could affect a number of local communities in terms of banking facilities."
But Pain says customers will not be disadvantaged by the move: "There is generally a C&G branch in a neighbouring town and there is a Lloyds TSB branch within one mile where impacted customers will be able to transact on their C&G account."
Last year Lloyds TSB closed a UK administration and customer service centre operated by C&G and moved all 350 jobs to its offshore centre in India.


This past weekend saw many of our teams competing in various Memorial Day Tournaments around the Long Island area. Overall, the teams compiled a 35-22-1 record with two teams winning their respective championships. Congratulations to Coach Okon and his Seminoles team who won the Boys of Summer 13u Division. Rob Cavallo's squad won the 14u Division by defeating the Buscemi/Shacca 14u Seminoles in their championship game. Several teams made it to the finals but came up just a bit short. Coach Montesano's 15u team lost a 1-0 heart breaker in the finals at Baseball Heaven while Coach Valerio 11u Seminoles lost in the finals at Plainedge. Outstanding pitching and defense lead the 5-0 Rinaldi 17u Seminoles into the finals at Boys of Summer but the team would finish runner up.
Great job to all our teams. The BOS Summer Season and Nassau County Leagues are now under way. Play Ball.


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Reckon by Steve McOrmond
Reckon, Steve McOrmond's first book of poems since his acclaimed 2010 collection The Good News about Armageddon, hones in on those fugitive moments when the parts of ourselves that have not been entirely subsumed by consumer capitalism escape their cages and come out to play—a photographer's lifelong desire to collect snowflakes, an adolescent's game of show-me-yours, the small, defiant act of letting a cellphone call go to voicemail. "The whole world has gone straight to voicemail," McOrmond writes a line later.
With one foot in the physical world and one in the virtual, these poems embody the often-tense negotiations between "I" and a collective "we." Concerned with the sweep of history and the rush of the now, McOrmond demonstrates a knack for bringing the vast and amorphous down to human size, making it personal: "How gone?/ Real gone. All our gift cards unredeemed."
Responding to a poem from Reckon that appeared on Poetry Daily, comedian Patton Oswalt tweeted a perceptive one-liner review: "Steve McOrmond's new poem, 'Pure Outrage,' is really funny and, if you read it right, kind of scary." While at times these poems reach out from a place of isolation, across a distance greater than words, one always senses an earnest desire for connection and engagement: Here, take my hand. Maybe it's not too late.
"Creeping dread, bemused wonder, and a species of headlong incredulity inform Steve McOrmond's processing of the new century's prodigious cultural jetsam, its 'wilderness of signs'. Reckon apprehends the strangeness in the commonplace, and the anxiety humming in everyday chatter, fact and argument, whether it be live or digitized. 'What do they open, the keys that come rotoring down from the maple trees?' Turns out it's complicated." —Kevin Connolly
"The isolation and confusion of the modern age come to life in Steve McOrmond's new book Reckon in a way that is disquieting and strangely comforting at the same time." —Ron Sexsmith


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If you asked our mechanics, other Porsche enthusiasts, and even your everyday joe who doesn't care much about cars what the most popular Porsche is, you'd get the same answer time and time again: the 911. It's no secret that Porsche's most iconic model is also their best-looking and fastest, and it's also no secret that the 911 has, by far, the most variations of itself. Heck, according to a February 2018 article from Business Insider, there were 24 distinct versions of the 911 available for purchase. Twenty-freaking-four of them.
Of course, that doesn't include any of the old, classic, or simply no-longer-brand-new models out there. There are hundreds and hundreds of 911 variations since the inception of the Porsche's flagship, and now our mainstay automotive brand has another series of brand new models for your driving pleasure.
That's right — Porsche's back with the 992-generation 911 that's leaner, meaner, and better-equipped than ever before. Though we haven't seen one of these bad boys roll through our independent Porsche repair shop in Los Angeles quite yet, we're sure to see one sooner or later…and we can't wait for that day.
Let's take a high-level look at the new generation of the 911.
For those who enjoyed or are currently enjoying the 991.2 generation of the 911, you'll likely appreciate that the 992 platform is similar, but improved. Now, you would expect any new version of a vehicle to be improved at least somewhat, and we see that with an updated drivetrain, interior, exterior details, technology/features, and overall design with the 992 generation.
We'll admit; that last line sounded like it came from a YouTube car reviewer.
Until this point, Porsche's PDK transmission system was only fitted with seven individual speeds that shift with the mere blink of an eye. While we'd argue that a true manual always provides a better driving experience (and more control), there's no argument that automatic transmissions shift significantly faster than humans can.
As the world progressively "shifts" into two-pedal-only transmissions, Porsche themselves have seemed to embrace this automotive trend by sticking another speed into their PDK system. The 2020 911 will be the first of the 911s fitted with this new PDK transmission. We'll see how reliable it is!
While technical specs are limited at this point in terms of engine displacement or torque production, major publications are reporting that the 992 produces about 23 more horsepower compared to the current generation of the 911. This is most likely due to improvements in turbo efficiency, in addition to a larger intercooler and redesigned fuel injection system. If there's one thing the Deutsch are obsessed with, it's efficient engineering (and we love it).
Going back to transmissions, unfortunately, the 922 won't be available in a true seven-speed manual for a little while, as the first 911 Carrera S and 4S variants to hit the market will be equipped with the eight-speed PDK system.
In the world of sports cars, width generally translates to aggressiveness in both looks and handling. Porsche has incorporated this in the new 911 design, as the front body width is stretched by about 1.7 inches. The rear is an extra 1.4 inches wider, and to help reduce the extra weight with more…well, car, the bodywork in the new 911 is now completely aluminum-based.
Porsche continues to make interior improvements in their line of vehicles that make the driving experience that much more pleasurable. The brand has always done a great job at combining luxury and performance, and that's evidenced with the new 922 generation 911 adopting some of the interior upgrades pioneered by the Panamera and Cayenne.
There's an analog tachometer in the front and center of the driver's view, with digital screens on both sides providing the driver with everything else that they need to know (and could ever wonder about). Like most (nearly all) new cars these days, there's also a giant screen in the center of the dash between the passenger and driver that lets you control almost everything.
As for the best interior improvement of the newest 911? There's a real cupholder up front! That's right; it's not one of those crappy, flimsy ones. It seems that the Europeans have finally embraced the American way of the mobile soft drink.
That's all for now. Thanks for stopping by! Whether your Porsche is new or used, clean or dirty, we'll happily service it with a smile on our faces. It's all part of our commitment to you as our customer and fellow Porsche lover. Schedule an appointment today with HOUSE Automotive for genuine, independent Porsche service in Los Angeles.
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