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New economic projections show smaller property tax cut. Colorado has oil and gas to thank (or blame).
The December economic forecasts also show a surplus that gives lawmakers more money to spend, but requires taxpayer refunds, too
Brian Eason
2:58 PM MST on Dec 20, 2018
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A statewide property tax cut in 2019 isn't expected to be nearly as deep as initially feared, economists told Colorado budget writers Thursday — a pronouncement that drew some relieved laughter from state lawmakers who were awaiting the latest estimates with dread.
For a year now, the expectation had been that the state's Gallagher Amendment would require the residential property assessment rate to drop as low as 6.11 percent, and give homeowners a 15 percent tax break. But to lawmakers' chagrin, it would also further squeeze public agencies in rural Colorado that rely on the revenue and don't see home values rising as quickly.
Legislative economist Larson Silbaugh told the Joint Budget Committee what they could do with that estimated 15 percent cut.
"That (was) my forecast," he said. "You can crumple it up and throw it away."
The reason for the new outlook is not what you may think. Home values are still rising fast enough to trigger a big tax cut. But oil and gas production shot up by a whopping 30 percent from Silbaugh's last projection. And the way Gallagher works is homeowners only get a cut when their property taxes rise faster than taxes on commercial and industrial properties.
Homeowners will still see a break. The residential assessment rate is now expected to fall to 6.78 percent from 7.2 percent, shaving residential property tax bills by about 6 percent.
But don't hold tight to that number – it'll change again in couple of weeks, when the Department of Local Affairs puts out its own preliminary figure ahead of the official assessment study due in April.
Here are three more takeaways from Thursday's economic forecasts from economists in the state budget office and legislature:
Gov.-elect Jared Polis has been dealt a very different fiscal hand than his predecessor.
Gov. John Hickenlooper came into office in 2011 facing a budget deficit, and he'll hand it to Polis at a point that state economists believe is the peak of a lengthy economic expansion.
The December forecast is the one that helps sets the tone for the coming legislative session when it comes to the money available for the lawmakers to spend.
Colorado is now projected to close out the fiscal year in June with a nearly $300 million surplus, after keeping a 7.25 percent reserve. Under the governor's budget forecasts, the general fund will grow by another 5.9 percent next fiscal year to $13 billion, a $721 million increase in available money to spend or save.
Legislative forecasters expect a larger surplus to end this year, but slower growth next year, leaving lawmakers with a $12.9 billion general fund in the 2019-20 fiscal year.
Polis' primary challenge is he can't spend all the money Colorado collects, because the state's up against the revenue cap set by the Taxpayer's Bill of Rights.
Taxpayers will be owed a refund of roughly $240 million in the current fiscal year, according to forecasts from the governor's office and Legislative Council. Those refunds would go out in 2020.
Over the next two years, the governor's budget office expects the state to exceed the cap by so much it triggers a $575 million income tax cut, on top of another $264 million in sales tax refunds. The legislative forecast is more conservative, projecting a $39 million refund next fiscal year, none the following year and no income tax cut for the foreseeable future.
Jared Polis, the Democrat running for Colorado governor, speaks at the Pro15 candidate debates in Weld County on Friday, Oct. 19, 2018. (Jacob Paul, Special to The Colorado Sun)
With so much owed to taxpayers, there's a limit to what Polis and the Democrats can afford.
And Polis promised big spending — most notably all-day kindergarten and universal pre-school.
The forecast offered some relief for schools. The state owes school districts $79 million less this year than it allocated, because of local property tax growth and enrollment figures that came in lower than expected.
Budget writers could allow school districts to keep that money to help offset the $672 million the state underfunds K-12 each year. Or it could be spent on new programs, such as Polis' pledge to provide all-day kindergarten, which would cost upwards of $200 million a year.
Either way, an extra $79 million won't be enough for all the state programs Democrats want to fund. Expect the TABOR cap to dominate budget discussions next legislative session, as a result.
The state economy is humming. But there's a catch.
Most of the good news about Colorado's economy may have already happened, said Lauren Larson, the governor's budget director.
"I wouldn't characterize our forecast as rosy," she said.
Warning signs abound. The stock markets are volatile. Tariffs imposed by the Trump administration caused a surge in steel prices in Colorado, which can have ripple effects for a number of industries.
And there are already signs that Colorado's growth is moderating from its torrid pace, according to leading economic indicators tracked by the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia.
The economists bottom line: Slow continued growth is still considered more likely than a recession — but the risks of a downturn are rising.
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Pre-requisites: A background in power system analysis (steady-state and dynamic performance) obtained in an undergraduate/graduate electrical engineering curriculum is recommended, but not strictly necessary.
Introduction to the hardware and software aspects of Real Time Digital Simulator (RTDS).
Modelling, Design and Simulation of simple power system networks in RTDS.
Application of RTDS in more complex and sustainable energy systems.
The event will take place at TU Delft's Electrical Sustainable Energy Laboratory.
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MANILA — Doctors in the Philippine capital are battling an acute measles crisis, with more than 4,000 cases and 70 deaths so far, that has been blamed in part on an unwillingness to immunize babies after a scare surrounding a separate vaccination program last year.
The Philippines crisis comes as the United States is also dealing with new measles outbreaks, especially in parts of Washington state where the anti-vaccine movement is strong.
Health and government authorities are now pleading with parents to vaccinate their children, noting that unvaccinated babies have accounted for a vast majority of the deaths.
The number of measles cases last year soared by 547 percent, according to the Philippine Pediatric Society, to more than 5,000 confirmed cases. And that number is climbing even higher in the first months of this year, causing chaos in children's wards and overwhelming doctors in both urban and more rural parts of the country.
The spread of the disease is a huge setback to a country that had been on its way to eliminating measles in 2010, and it underscores the dangers of movements against vaccinations. Just over a decade ago, in 2005, the Philippines had almost no deaths from measles, according to the Philippine Foundation for Vaccination.
It also follows a global wave of measles outbreaks — with 6.7 million cases worldwide in 2017 — including in parts of the United States and Europe, similarly fed by conspiracy theories and misinformation.
The Health Department first declared the measles outbreak in metropolitan Manila in early February and has since expanded it across other areas on the islands of Luzon and the Visayas. Cases have increased 122 percent compared with the same period last year. Manila, a chaotic, crowded city dotted with high-rises and slums, is home to 12.8 million people.
"But it seems like it was not until it reached Manila [that] it was declared an emergency and a very urgent problem," she said.
Health Secretary Francisco Duque and other members of the medical community attribute the newfound fear of immunization to a dengue vaccine scare last year.
The controversy began in 2017, when pharmaceutical company Sanofi Pasteur made a sudden announcement that its Dengvaxia vaccine could lead to severe cases of dengue among those who had not contracted the disease before. This threw concerned parents and the public into a frenzy, as Dengvaxia had been administered to more than 8,000 public school students in a mass immunization program the year before.
The political blame game that followed included an investigation from the Public Attorney's Office into the deaths of 39 children. Its officials prematurely linked a fraction of those deaths to the vaccine, and health professionals later slammed the office for being unqualified to draw such conclusions.
The media, too, has been accused of adding fuel to the fear. The Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility found that three major newspapers concentrated on the "politics" of the scare, and it said a broadcast network sensationalized the issue by running footage of emotionally distraught parents.
What the Health Department identifies as "vaccine hesitancy" also comes amid a resistance to immunization in the West. Lulu C. Bravo, executive director of the Philippine Foundation for Vaccination, said the country has had its fair share of vaccination skeptics — but they never had much impact until the dengue vaccine controversy.
She described how the foundation's health workers were being called "child killers" when they went into communities, because so many people had heard Dengvaxia caused death.
Health authorities say they are focused on a mass immunization campaign to counter the steep rise in measles cases. According to local media reports, they are forming measles "fast lines" in government hospitals. The armed forces are helping to deploy medical personnel to conflict and hard-to-reach areas.
"While we consider it necessary to bring to account those who are responsible for the loss of confidence in the vaccination program . . . it is more important for all of us to come together to support the efforts to get our children vaccinated as quickly and completely as we can," said Esperanza Cabral, a former health secretary and co-organizer of Doctors for Truth and Public Welfare.
UNICEF's Sylwander warned, however, that a massive advocacy campaign, ideally led by well-known personalities in the Philippines, is needed to counter both the mistrust of vaccines in more urban communities and the lack of awareness in more rural areas. While the spike in measles deaths and media coverage have prompted more parents to inquire about vaccinations and their benefits, actual vaccinations continue to lag, she added.
"We don't really see a dramatic increase," Sylwander said.


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Against the binary: finding joy in myself and the freezing cold sea
This year has been hard – especially for trans communities – but I'm taking time to recognise and choose joy, too.
Yas Necati
Hayfaa Chalabi
Welcome back to gal-dem's monthly gender column Against the binary, bringing you Yas Necati's latest reflections on finding gentleness, home and joy as a trans person.
I never thought I would be comfy taking my clothes off in public, but there I was on a beach of a small Welsh city with no swimsuit and a very strong desire to get in the sea. Stripped down to my boxers, I ran into the ocean and was immediately engulfed by waves. I lay in the shallows and felt the sea roll over me – and steal my glasses. I came out blurry eyed and tingling, absolutely freezing in the November air, but exploding with giggles.
This year has been hard. I feel like it's been hard on all of us, and then I look to my trans siblings and we are facing so much grief and loss and fear on top of everything else. I've been mourning two trans people I've lost, carrying them on top of my heart. I've had a bunch of other stuff going on personally that feels too hard to name here. I set out to find joy at the beginning of this year, joy amongst it all. I've been seeking it, leaning into it, practising embracing it.
"Joy doesn't come naturally or easily for me as a trans person. I've felt like I've had to train myself to be at ease with it; to welcome it"
Joy doesn't come naturally or easily for me as a trans person. I've felt like I've had to train myself to be at ease with it; to welcome it. I've been living joy through community, through drag, through spending lots of time outside. I tried to gift myself some things this year – I learnt how to ride a motorbike and stepped into a new drag persona – but recently, I've been wondering what about myself brings me joy. So far, I've been finding joy outside of myself and bringing it in. But I want to discover what I have inside of myself that brings me joy, and how I can let that out.
As I reflect on this, I realise, like everything, it's not so binary. For example, when I remember how the sea brought me joy by embracing me, there were also things about myself that brought me joy in that moment. Like the playfulness and spontaneity that burst through me; that made me want to feel something and go with the moment. And the journey, the journey that has brought me to a place where I'm going to get in the sea if I want to, despite all the shame cis people have made me feel about my body and my autonomy all of my life.
"I'm loving this relationship between what I can give myself and what the outside world can give to me"
It feels powerful to choose joy for myself (also understanding it's not always that straightforward, and there have been many times in my life where my mental health has been so bad there's no way I could have felt like this). I'm loving this relationship between what I can give myself and what the outside world can give to me. And I've been trying to seek it every day.
Over the last few months, I've started living by myself for the first time in my life. It's been a powerful experience of trying to work out how I can take care of myself and uplift myself day to day. I've always had a complicated relationship with food, and most of my life I've only made the effort to cook nice food for other people. But here I am, for the first time, finding joy in cooking up elaborate meals, trying new recipes for myself and baking for myself. I'm trying some of my grandma's recipes at home and it feels so good to gift myself Cypriot food (even if it pales in comparison to hers!), in a small town so distant from my homeland.
I've started jogging regularly and that's a joy because I get to connect with the gorgeous Welsh mountains surrounding me. And twice a week, for the past few months, those jogs have led to jumping in the river. A few days ago, I did my first frosty river swim. And when I say it was absolutely freezing… I spent the whole jog there talking myself up to being easy on myself. Telling myself that if today was the day I only put my toes in, then that was okay. But when I got there, I surrendered my body and my fears to the water. I dunked my head and enjoyed the pull of the river for a bit, before getting out and soothing my poor freezing toes.
"Now I'm not just healing; I'm learning to love myself and my strength, to try new things and thrive in the ways that feel good for me"
I've always hated the cold, and I never in a million years thought I would be someone who talked themselves into getting into a river in December. But I am that person, and that feels so powerful after years of believing I couldn't do things that were challenging. I think underneath it was a belief that I couldn't heal. But now I'm not just healing; I'm learning to love myself and my strength, to try new things and thrive in the ways that feel good for me. And it looks so different for everyone – after years of trying things that didn't work for me (routines, meditation, massages, to name a few), I'm so happy to be finally connecting to some things that are giving me joy.
It's not easy recognising that I deserve joy, and also that I have joy to give to the world, but I'm coming to it slowly, as an act of love and as an act of resistance. And, going into a new year of new possibilities, I want it for all my trans siblings too.
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This Lunar New Year, Asian communities deserve the right to grieve and fear
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Home for the holidays: celebrating Ethiopian and American festive traditions
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Port Sudan Container Terminal's angry workers were surprised by a sudden takeover of the port by a Philippine company.
The surprise foreign takeover of a container port in Sudan has left workers angry and fearing for their livelihoods.
It's the result of a deal between the government and a Philippine company headquartered in the United Arab Emirates.


In 2014, Jarrett Walker + Associates was retained to provide a range of transit planning and policy advice to the Regional Transportation Commission (RTC) of Southern Nevada, which operates the entire Las Vegas area transit network. Interestingly, RTC operates some of the most productive transit routes in the country.
The Resort Corridor consists of two lines – one rapid and one local – that run along the Las Vegas Strip, connecting the Strip to downtown, the Convention Center, and two major outlet malls. The lines are both extremely frequent and jointly produce a 50% profit that RTC invests in the rest of the network.
JWA conducted a thorough analysis of the Resort Corridor services, with special attention to issues of speed and reliability. Our work suggested new ways to think about and measure reliability, and explored the range of causes of reliability problems. We put reliability issues in a more realistic context, developed reliability measures that reflect customer experience, and laid out realistic steps that can be taken to improve reliability in a mixed-traffic environment. We also advised the agency on service design questions for the Resort Corridor, and on how public information and marketing of services could be improved.


Virginia - a resident of Norwalk, CT - came home one day after grocery shopping and felt tired. After resting for a while, she put her groceries away, made dinner for her husband, and then experienced a heart attack without realizing it.
She called 9-1-1 and the ambulance drove her to Norwalk Hospital for emergency heart attack care. After getting a stent, which saved her life, Virginia continues to visit Norwalk Hospital for cardiac rehabilitation and to share her story with fellow heart attack survivors.
Learn about Virginia's story about the importance of recognizing heart attack and calling 9-1-1.


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Thou shalt not steal — Perspex put up to protect baby Jesus
by Paul Reoch
December 8 2016, 2.10pm Updated: December 8 2016, 3.42pm
The perspex screen has been put up to protect the nativity display outside St John's Kirk, Perth.
A perspex screen has been put up to protect a nativity display outside a Perth church.
The move follows the theft of a baby Jesus doll and a lamb from the festive scene beside St John's Kirk on Monday around 11.30pm.
Church elders and a politician hit out at the callous crime, with police later recovering the stolen items and identifying three youths as being the culprits involved in the incident.
The baby Jesus returned to the safety of Police Scotland.
Earlier this week Police Scotland confirmed the life-sized baby Jesus doll had been returned undamaged along with a lamb. A report was sent to the procurator fiscal following three males being identified as being responsible for the theft.
A police spokesperson confirmed they have yet to be charged but added that "inquiries are continuing" into the crime.
On Thursday, Perth residents were taking an interest in a perspex panel that has just been put up to protect the nativity display outside St John's Kirk.
John Ord, 57, of Scone, said: "It's pretty sad that it has come to this to protect a Christmas nativity scene beside a church but the theft seems to be a sign of the times."
Margaret Steel, session clerk of St John's Kirk, had said the theft "takes away all the meaning of Christmas."
St John's Kirk


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The Holy Ghost has hitherto seldom been a topic in religious communication. This is clearly revealed by a detailed analysis of school textbooks and the legal requirements for religious education carried out in Lower Saxony. Also in research relating to child theology, the Holy Ghost has until now hardly been considered. In 33 interviews, therefore, 4th and 8th grade pupils are questioned with regard to their pneumatological concepts, and their own personal spiritual beliefs elicited and examined against the background of academic pneumatology. It becomes clear how differently theologians, school textbooks and pupils treat the subject and how urgent the need is for something to be done from the perspective of religious education if pneumatological content is not to disappear completely from the religious curriculum. The book concludes with new didactic ideas drawn up in the light of the empirical survey for the "Holy Ghost" topic in religious education.


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Will we know when to pull the plug on artificial intelligence? Will we be able to?
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Recently I dreamed that I had fallen asleep in the middle of the night in the back of a recreational vehicle (RV) that was cruising down an empty highway. I subsequently woke up to find the RV owner moving to the back and joining me in my slumber. I objected as no one was driving the RV. The owner, however, explained that we would be fine with the RV on auto-drive. I grudgingly accepted the explanation and went back to sleep. Would you have gone back to sleep?
It was, however, a two-act dream. In Act 2, I awoke and found that it was evening and the RV had entered a village that was crowded with pre-Christmas pedestrians crossing the road in random places and that giant snowflakes were falling. The driver was asleep. I thought about how the sensors in my non-auto-drive care frequently malfunction in snow, the somewhat slick road, the braking distance of an RV, and the potential that we would kill children. There was no time to wake the owner. I had to decide whether I, an inexperienced RV driver with a half-asleep brain, should take control of the vehicle – if only to get it pulled over – or whether I should trust the "intelligent system" to get us through the village without incident and onward to our destination. I deferred my decision by truly waking up. What would you do in such a situation?
You and I will ultimately need to make decisions to trust or override artificial intelligence (AI), just as the pilots Boeing 737 Max planes already have. There were tragically bad endings for the pilots and passengers of two Boeing 737 Max flights.
I am a data lover and believe that AI has and will improve our lives and safety, including via autonomous vehicles. But this dream left the fully-awake me with public health and policy questions:
Will AI have the situational awareness to know its limits?
Will AI take into account the cost of a bad decision such as the particular horror of killing a child?
Will humans be awake when it is necessary to override AI?
Will humans have the skills and confidence to override AI?
Wil AI let humans override AI? (It appears that the pilots in the Boeing Ethiopia crash tried and could not override auto-pilot.)
Who will we hold responsible when AI fails?
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The Perini Navi Group has announced the delivery of project C.2173, the 52nd sailing yacht in the Perini Navi fleet. This yacht is the second vessel in the new 50 metre aluminium series and was launched on April 2nd, 2012.
Hull C.2173, designed by Perini Navi's in-house naval architects in collaboration with New Zealander Ron Holland, has been constructed in aluminium and has sleek, aggressive lines. These, united with a longer waterline and strongly vertical appendages, make for improved sailing performance.
The ketch sail plan, designed and built by the Perini Navi Group's Mast Department, totals over 1,400 square meters and is handled through 11 reel captive winches. The main and mizzen masts measure 56.7m and a 43m respectively, and are in aluminium while the furling boom and spreaders are in carbon fibre.
The hull has an opening transom that becomes an ample beach platform. The 19' main tender is housed under the fore deck in a flush tender well that also houses a catamaran that can be mounted for day sailing. The superstructure has been completely redesigned with two large skylights.


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"Talking about inner demons and romantic troubles, it's far darker than what some may expect from the band. But the most impressive track is "Lots to Hide". Taking of third-person narrative songwriting, the song is the cherry on top to the dark but eternally sunny release, Dreamers."
— The Bay Bridged
"The She's are an indie dream pop surf rock band. They incorporate elements of all into their music. One can hear The Beach Boys, Sleater Kinney and even The Cocteau Twins throughout their music. Dreamers has to be the first step to something bigger and better. A full album with this mix of elements will bring down the walls and wake up the sleeping industry. Please bring it on. "
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Can a Wireless Network eliminate a Wired Network completely?
Implementing a wireless network does not mean that a wired network can be completely eliminated - At best, it can reduce the edge switches/ switch ports and cables/ passive components. In this post, let us try to understand what components are reduced and what components are added to a network, when a wireless network is implemented.
This post gives an introduction to the two types of Antennas used in Wireless Networks - Directional Antennas and Omni-directional Antennas. We also have a look at in-built antennas and external antennas and the options available with Access Points for the same. We discuss the type of coverage provided by either and particular situations where their usage is recommended.
This article gives an introduction to the software applications that manage multi-vendor access points, controllers and other Wi-Fi devices on a huge disparate network. We look at the user, device monitoring, visual heat maps offering live coverage of the Wi-Fi network, security features like rogue access point detection etc. that can be uniformly applied to a large network of multi-vendor access points.
This article discusses the difference between Stand-Alone Access Points (Thick) and Controller based Access Points (Thin) - the basic structural difference, authentication, radio management, security, access control and other management features in both of them.
This article gives an introduction to the Wi-Fi based RFID Tags, how the location of assets can be devised by the combination of Enterprise Wi-Fi and RFID technologies, what can be accomplished by such a system, advantages and limitations of Wi-Fi based RFID Location tracking technology.
This article explores the ways in which the guests can be given access to wireless networks, whether they could be authenticated, whether their access can be restricted to certain services in the network and whether usage statistics and logs can be generated for guests.
How safe is an organization (like a bank) which has prevented the use of Wi-Fi systems in its premisis? That's what we are going to see in this article. We will also see how Wi-Fi infrastructure (Wireless Intrusion Prevention) can be helpful in enforcing the "No Wireless" policy.
This article explains the IEEE 802.11n standard for wireless (Wi-Fi) networks, what is the bandwidth supported by this standard, what is the distance covered by access points employing 802.11n, the advantages of 802.11n, what are the challenges faced by this standard, what steps must someone ensure before upgrading to 802.11n and if it is backward compatible with other earlier standards.
This articles gives a brief description of Femtocells - what they are, why the cellular industry is excited with this concept, what could be the benefit to the consumer and what are the various dis-advantages and technological challenges along with how Wi-Fi compares with Femtocells.
This article attempts to understand what kind of threats a Wi-Fi network could face, especially given the fact that even a person going on a road nearby could reach the enterprise Wi-Fi singals. We look at the vulnerabilities of WEP network, Network sniffers, SSID broadcasting, DOS attacks, De-Auth attacks, Mac-address spoofing, Man-in-the-middle attacks, honey pot attacks, rogue access points and the threat faced by them, Patches in your PC not being up to date, ad-hoc networks, Special Wi-Fi devices like Wireless cameras and wireless phones, loopholes in the authentication protocols, hackers who escape counter scanning by wireless IDS devices.
This article is about Wireless Mesh networks - how they eliminate the wires that connect to the wireless access point, applications of a mesh network, how mesh networks are formed and managed, what is mesh clustering and what are the advantages, what are the dis-advantages of a mesh network and of course, why mesh networks are exciting.


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So here's a scenario for you.
I love your music so much. I have all your CDs and they are constantly on repeat in my car. My ultimate dream is to see you play a live show. Why don't you ever come to Winner, SD?
Today (well, yesterday when I wrote this), I've decided that I'm actually going to put together a comprehensive website that covers all of the various music and internet projects I've started over the past few years. I bought a brand new 13" MacBook Pro about a week ago, so I've been playing with iWeb pretty much all day. I seem to have given up trying to do something creative and I'm just going with their cookie cutter layouts until I figure out how to do something else, but we'll see how long that lasts. I'm not sure where I'm going to host this or which domain name to buy or if I'll even finish the website before I get distracted and start another project, but it's a start.
I realize that I'm probably going to be linking to this site on all of my other various methods of internet expression for a long time before people even consider coming here first for updates, but we'll see how it goes. If I can reach one more fan that would have missed a show update otherwise, then it's worth a try.
And I totally agree with your biggest fan (I consider myself one of them :P) : your music is AWESOME!
Ok the browser thing ate my comment ... no fun -.- So as I was trying to say... Go Lauren. I'm so glad you're making a website and knowing it's going to be from the creative person you are it can only be awesome. I fully support you in your decision yet I can't prevent feeling a little jealous on your macbook pro. It costs like the double of the US price. Ungh.
Funny, every since Nerdapalooza I've been thinking of restarting work on a project that I think would help you out (that's the intention at least). OK, just for you, if I can get my MBP working again (it was my dev environment, but has been acting up recently) I'll see what I can do about finishing things up.
That's a very good idea, Lauren. I also LOVE all your music.
Unfortunately I live in Spain, so I think I will not be able to see you in a live show. But I 'd really love to. If I ever go to America and you're on tour, you can be sure that I will be there to see you and sing your songs!!!
Love the idea lauren! you are so so so cool!
also not to be a stalker or anything i found out that you go to one of the colleges around where i live and i'm super excited now because that makes me love you even more!


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People often purchase poinsettias for Christmas. The red blooms, along with deep green leaves, seem perfect for the season. When it comes to Easter, people are more inclined to pots of tulips, hyacinths, daffodils or lilies.
But my Christmas poinsettia is blooming better now than it did at Christmas time. Because of its perseverance and longevity, I am reluctant to relegate it to the 'wrong season' category. I feel it deserves to be honored for its faithfulness.
That is not to say that I won't also buy some Easter plants. I especially like purple hyacinths both because of their fragrance and that they can later be transplanted into my outdoor flower bed.
Sure, the red-green of the poinsettia may clash with the purple of the hyacinth, but I will overlook that. Both are beautiful and both are treasured by people like me who want to bring live plants inside.
Theologically-speaking, it may also make sense to have both plants. We Christians celebrate both Jesus' birth and his death and resurrection. But we don't want to slice one wondrous mystery from the other. Both the incarnation and the redemption are part of who we are as disciples of the Lord. From his birth to his preaching of the Kingdom to his death on the cross to his resurrection and ascension – all of these together help us realize the power of God's love for us.
The same God created both the poinsettia and the hyacinth. Rejoice in both.


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For over a year now we have seen the rise of chatbots all over the planet and in many different industries. The same trend is being seen in the Cloud and IT market, especially since we've been working with Amazon Web Services very closely. Last year, there has been the "AWS Serverless Chatbot" competition where one tool left the jury absulutely breathless: opsidian.ai.
At Nordcloud, we are working closely with the team at Opsidian.ai to get the latest and best out of using chatbots for both our customers and our own operations teams. Especially in the context of our Managed Cloud Service, this is a highly relevant aspect. We integrate with our customers on a deeper level and partner more closely through the use of chatbots and the related features and functions. In this blog post, we want to describe some of these aspects and encourage all of you to take a look at opsidian.ai in the near future.
Opsidian helps you monitor and manage your AWS Infrastructure from Slack. Opsidian is a part of an increasingly popular trend, called ChatOps. ChatOps is about bringing your DevOps work to your chats and conversations within a team. You can, for example, deploy code, monitor servers, close issues in a bug tracker just by talking to a chatbot, which understands natural language or special commands. We have recognized that trend and Opsidian.ai was born – an AWS chatbot developed jointly with Nordcloud to manage AWS environments directly from Slack channels.
With Opsidian.ai you can bring your everyday cloud management and monitoring tasks to where your team is – a Slack channel. This way, team members gain a better visibility into the discussed items and accelerate change by having a common view of a problem.
Opsidian.ai can do a lot of nifty stuff, it can notify on CloudWatch alerts, display a filtered list of your load balancers, check DynamoDB throughput, start, stop and reboot EC2 instances and even plot metrics. Opsidian can understand free speech thanks to its advanced NLP algorithms but you can also talk to it with the /ops structured command. Now, here's whats really new and interesting! Opsidian can run AWS Lambda functions directly from your Slack channel. The best part is that you can provide your own custom functions and effectively customize and extendOpsidian's functionality! So how's it done?
message = "Hi from a Lambda function !"
As for permissions, make sure that the IAM role of Opsidian has "lambda:InvokeFunction" permissions, as described in http://opsidian.ai/lambda/.
Let's configure some Lambda functions! If you have your own function, feel free to configure it. I will use the summarize-aws-services function, which is already provided by Opsidian in their repository: http://github.com/OpsidianAI/opsidian-lambda-functions.
First, a function needs to be registered with Opsidian, to do that — log in to the Opsidian Dashboard — https://dashboard.opsidian.ai/dashboard and proceed to the View Lambda Function panel.
Now, click the "Add a new Lambda function command". Choose your region, command name and fill in your function's ARN. The command you choose will be used to identify your function within Opsidian, i.e. /ops run COMMAND. Tick "wait for response" if you want to get the result from your Lambda passed back to Slack, Opsidian will wait 5s for the function to finish and wait for whatever is returned.
That's it! You can now test your function. Go to a Slack channel and execute your command, e.g./ops run summarise As you can see, the summarize-aws-services function provides a simple summary of the most common resources used in your AWS Account, such as a number of ELB load balancers, EC2 instances or EMR clusters.
CredentialReport Lambda, also present in the repository generates a credential report and checks when IAM users last rotated their AWS access keys. By default, it checks last 90 days but you can adjust the function to your needs. Parameters may be passed to a function via the event object – Opsidian will place them in the event['args'] field.
Having accomplished all of the above, you are good to go and are ready to explore and enjoy the rich features of opsidian.ai and ChatOps as a concept further on your own.
Clone the https://github.com/OpsidianAI/opsidian-lambda-functions and code your Lambdas!
Meet Nordcloud at the AWS Summit Berlin and talk to us about how you can leverage ChatOps in your cloud!


So. Round four. Unlike the other rounds of editing, I don't usually focus on specific things in round four. Instead, I like to go back and read through the entire draft again without editing. If I find myself editing in my head, I know I need to do another draft. To give you an idea, here are some of the things I like to keep in mind when I go through round four.
Look for things to tighten: Wordy sentences and paragraphs, unnecessary dialogue, and extra words are just a few examples of things that could be tightened up in round four. Just because we focused on these things in previous rounds does not necessarily mean you've gotten everything, so keep an eye out!
Look for telling and not showing: When reading through your draft again, are there any scenes or chapters where you tend to tell the audience things rather than show them? It took me a lot of rounds of editing before I was able to really find a lot of spots where I was telling instead of showing.
Practice makes perfect: Don't get discouraged if you've been editing for a while and it still feels like your book is nowhere near done. It's okay! Some books need to be edited over and over again in order to be shaped and polished. As you keep editing, you'll get better at finding mistakes as well as rewriting.
Don't be afraid to scrap and rewrite: This is probably one of the hardest things I've ever dealt with. For a long time, I kept trying to edit Unperfected over and over, hoping it would make it what I wanted. But in reality, I needed to rewrite the whole book and change the plot around a little. It was hard to accept, but I had to do it--and now I couldn't be happier! So don't be scared if you feel like you need to rewrite. Yes, it's a lot of work, but that's writing. It comes with this job. Just take a leap of faith and see where it takes you!
After round four, repeat, repeat, repeat! Your next rounds of editing are just repeats of these last four rounds until your book is done. You might only need four rounds. You might need ten. You might even be like me, and go through so many rounds you've lost count!
However many rounds you go through, just remember to not let yourself be blinded by perfection. Focus on making your book the best it can be--not perfect and flawless.
Editing can be tough, but it's necessary. So don't stress about it! Just take things on round at a time. Soon enough, you'll have a polished book all ready and sparkling.


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Finding out what's in it: A new study has confirmed that Obamacare caused dramatic cost increases in health insurance premiums in 2014.
Read the article. Its facts are indisputable and quite depressing. Obamacare is destroying the health insurance industry, which in turn will eventually destroy the health care industry.
Why anyone would vote for the people that gave us this law is beyond my comprehension. Unfortunately, millions are going to, and based on my analysis of the trends of recent polls, the Republicans might get a majority in the Senate but just barely. In a sane world (as used to happen in the past), this would instead have been a landslide election, the voters kicking the Democrats out of power and thus forcing that party to clean house and find better people to run as their candidates.
Sadly, too many Americans instead seem to be as disconnected from reality as their leaders, and increasingly choose party over reality and bankruptcy over competence when they vote.
The 13 Democratic Senators up for re-election in 2014 who voted for Obamacare, both in 2009 and last month.
It is time for these politicians to find other work.


The Microsoft Store is having a huge sale on Microsoft-distributed Xbox One video games with some having their price reduced by up to $30.
Both the physical disk version and digital version (ala download code) of Halo 5: Guardians have been discounted from $59.99 to $29.99. The Halo 5: Guardians Limited Edition has also been reduced by $30 to $69.99 as has the Halo 5: Guardians Digital Deluxe Edition which is now $59.99.
The physical and digital versions of Halo: The Master Chief Collection have been reduced by $30 to $19.99, which is fantastic value considering that this collection comes with four full Halo video games.
The physical and digital versions of Forza Motorsport 6 have had their prices slashed by $20 and can now be bought for $39.99 each while the digital version of Forza Motorsport 6 Deluxe Edition is now $59.99 and Forza Motorsport 6 Ultimate Edition is $79.99.
Finally, Rise of the Tomb Raider has been discounted by $10 and is now $39.99 and the recent hit title, Quantum Break, is being sold for $39.99 as well, down from its usual $59.99 price tag.
Xbox One video games are often discounted due to popular promotions, such as Deals with Gold, but these require console owners to be a paid subscriber to the Xbox Live Gold service to get the discount. This sale is run purely by the Microsoft Store and can be enjoyed by anyone whether they have Xbox Live Gold or not.
The Microsoft Store is also holding a special campaign which rewards shoppers with an Xbox Live $50 gift card and a free game when purchasing select Xbox One console bundles. Microsoft could possibly be trying to clear inventory of the existing Xbox One console model as several rumors suggest that the company will be launching an upgraded model sometime in 2016. Do any of these discounts tempt you? Let us know which ones in the comments below.
Which video game is tempting you?


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The start of a new year is when many new businesses and projects within existing businesses are launched. Such initiatives usually need funding and an important source of funds is Innovate UK. Innovate UK is part of UK Research and Innovation ("UKRI") which was established by s.91 (1) of the Higher Education and Research Act 2017. Its website states that it "convenes, catalyses and invests in close collaboration with others to build a thriving, inclusive research and innovation system."
Innovate UK connects businesses to partners, customers and investors that can help them turn ideas into commercially successful products and services and business growth. Since its establishment, it has invested £2.5 billion in 8,500 organizations which investment is estimated to have created 70,000 jobs and added £18 billion of value to the British economy (see the "About Us" page of the Innovate UK website). A spreadsheet listing all Innovate UK's funded projects and some typical case studies can also be accessed through that site.
A good starting point for anyone seeking funding is Innovate UK's Guidance for Applicants page of UKRI's website. The General Guidance page contains an overview and provides links to the following information:
Before you start an application
What happens after you have submitted your application
What happens if you are successful
Funding rules
Categories of research and development
Other funding opportunities, and
Updates to general guidance.
The best way to learn about current funding opportunities is to sign up for Innovate UK's newsletter. This month's edition contains news on the Made smarter innovation: sustainable smart factory, Automotive Transformation Fund expression of interest: round 17. Innovate UK smart grants: October 2021, NATEP helping SMEs innovate in aerospace and Early ideas to improve the delivery of nucleic acid therapeutics. There is also information on Small Business Research Initiative projects.
Established businesses can access assistance through their trade associations, local chambers of commerce, local enterprise partnerships in England, Business Wales in Wales and similar organizations in Scotland and Northern Ireland. Individuals who are not yet in business should approach the British Library's Business and Intellectual Property Centre or its national network of local partners.
Anyone wishing to discuss this article may call me on 020 7404 5252 during normal office hours or send me a message through my contact form.
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Essential Reading for Inventors and Entrepreneurs
IP really can make or break a business. Get it right and you can control entry to your markets or generate substantial amounts of licensing revenue. Get it wrong and you can be ensnared suddenly in complex litigation with draconian remedies and ruinous legal fees. You can try to ignore it but every business in the world has goodwill, some trade secrets, a website with text and photos all of which are likely to be copyright works.
Problems can be avoided and opportunities seized by spotting them in advance. By and large, that is what big companies do. Their executives will have learnt something about IP at business school. They will have attended conferences or read about IP in business journalists. They will also be supported by in-house lawyers and patent and trade mark attorneys with ready access to the specialist bar and law firms. But inventors, designers and business owners rarely have the time, expertise or funds for any of that.
Those who are aware of the problem have often asked me in the past to recommend a manual on IP for startups. I wrote one on IP enforcement in 2009 but it needs updating and it does not cover non-contentious issues such as patent prosecution, design or trade mark registration or licensing. But one book that I can recommend is Enterprising Ideas A Guide to Intellectual Property for Startups which was written by Omer Hiziroglu and published this year by the WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization), the UN agency for intellectual property.
The publication is only 78 pages long and can be downloaded free of charge from the WIPO's website. It consists of the following chapters:
Protecting your innovation
Distinguishing your product in the market
Other strategic ways to exploit IP
Managing risks
Using IP databases, and
IP audit
There are also two annexes.
The Introduction contains an overview of IP. The IP office for the UK is the Intellectual Property Office in Newport. We do not have utility models in this country but we do have unregistered design rights which protect the shape or configuration of articles from copying for up to 10 tears from the first marketing of the articles. Our industrial design law is also complicated because we have overlapping protection by copyright and design registration and now a new supplementary unregistered design right. Product designs that are new and have individual character can be registered with the Intellectual Property Office for 5 consecutive terms of 5 years each. Also in the Introduction is a section on IP generating as opposed to IP consuming startups and a paragraph of technology readiness rating which is "a technique for assessing how close a technology or product is to commercialization". Scattered throughout the book are case studies, and the one in the Introduction is about the Turkish company. Arçelik A.Ş.
The next chapter discusses patents, trade secrecy and copyright. The third covers trade mark registration, domain names and design registration. Going International introduces the Patent Cooperation Agreement, the Madrid Protocol and the Hague Agreement. There is a discussion about licences and assignments of IP rights and funding, the scientific, technical and marketing information that can be obtained from patent, trade mark and design databases and an overview of IP audits. The only area that could be improved is on managing risks. In the UK there are watch services that warn of applications for possibly conflicting IP rights and there is a developing IP insurance market.
Anyone wishing to discuss this article may call me on +44 (0)20 7494 5252 during normal office hours or send me a message through my contact form.
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The Border Innovation Hub
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In UK Innovation Strategy I discussed ways in which the British government proposed to stimulate innovation so that the UK could join China, the USA, Japan and South Korea as a science and technology superpower by 2039, Buried away in the text on free ports on page 78 was this reference to the UK border:
"The innovation activity in Freeports will build on the government's 2025 UK Border Strategy, published in December 2020, which set out a Technology and Innovation roadmap to drive forward innovation at the UK border."
The 2025 UK Border Strategy mentioned in that sentence provided for private sector participation "to design, deliver and innovate around the border."
That strategy aims to achieve 6 "transformations:"
"Develop a coordinated user-centric government approach to border design and delivery, which works in partnership with industry and enables border innovation.
Bring together government's collection, assurance and use of border data to provide a comprehensive and holistic view of data at the border.
Establish resilient 'ports of the future' at border crossing points to make the experience smoother and more secure for passengers and traders, while better protecting the public and environment.
Use upstream compliance to move processes away from the actual frontier where appropriate, both for passengers and traders.
Build the capability of staff and the border industry responsible for delivering border processes, particularly in an environment of greater automation; and simplify communication with border users to improve their experience.
Shape the future development of borders worldwide, to promote the UK's interests and facilitate end-to-end trade and travel."
The 4th of those "transformations" is reminiscent of arguments of the Democratic Unionist and the European Research Group politicians against regulatory alignment or the Northern Ireland protocol during the EU withdrawal agreement negotiations on the ground that it ought to be possible to avoid checks and inspections at the geographical frontier between Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic by carrying them out elsewhere with the appropriate technology.
Whether or not the hope of renegotiating the Northern Irish protocol is the motivation for its interest in the topic or merely coincidental, the Cabinet Office published its "Border Innovation Hub" on 31 Aug 2021 together with a Technology and Innovation Roadmap, a list of APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) and guidance on Opportunities and Funding. The purpose of the Hub is said to bring "together information from across government to help provide industry with the tools needed to innovate at the border." The overview states that
"Technology and innovation to unlock new possibilities for smoother and safer border processes is a key element of the new strategy."
Further information about how the government hopes to achieve that objective is set out in the Roadmap.
The Roadmap is taken from the 2025 UK Border Strategy and includes the following:
"Create a visible first point of contact in UK Government for border innovation suppliers and users"
"Define target use cases with industry.
"Set and collate security and interoperability standards," and
"Work across government to design the border and support border innovation and its uptake."
The "first point of contact" mentioned above is the "Border Innovation Hub".
Possible funders for research and development work by industry include the Defence and Security Accelerator, the Connected Places Catapult, Transport Research and Innovation Grants and Innovate UK.
Any inventions resulting from border innovation would be patentable subject to the provisions of the Defence Contracts Act 1958. The names of businesses, products and services might be registrable trade marks. Anything written down would be protected from copying by copyright. Any commercially sensitive unpublished research could be confidential. Anyone wishing to discuss those matters should contact me on 020 7404 5252 or send me a message through my contact form.
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UK Innovation Strategy
In his foreword to Global Britain in a competitive age which I discussed in NIPC Brexit on 19 March 2021, the Prime Minister wrote: "Our aim is to have secured our status as a Science and Tech Superpower by 2030." The Secretary of State for Business referred to that target in his foreword to UK Innovation Strategy Leading the future by creating it. In my article, I wrote:
"As an intellectual property lawyer, I should love to see the UK become a science and technology superpower with vibrant creative industries attracting investment and expertise from around the world. I just can't see how it is going to happen,"
I read the UK Innovation Strategy very carefully in the hope that it would explain how the UK will become a science and tech superpower in 9 years.
The document is 116 pages long divided as follow:
Secretary of State's Foreword (pages 4-5);
"At a glance": a bulleted list of the steps that the government proposes to take (page 6);
"Introduction: Why do we need an Innovation Strategy?": a summary of the strategy (pages 7 - 10);
Part 1 "Innovation today" covering "What is innovation?", "Why is innovation important?", "The challenge: Innovation created the modern world, but progress is slowing" and "The opportunity: The UK is ideally placed to lead a renewed global spirit of innovation" (pages 11 to 17);
Part 2 " Innovation tomorrow" covering "Learning from the pandemic to create the world's best innovation ecosystem", "Vision 2035: The UK as a global hub for innovation" and "Tracking progress towards our vision" (pages 18 - 21);
Part 3: "Achieving Vision 2035" covering "Pillar 1: Unleashing Business – We will fuel businesses who want to innovate", "Pillar 2: People – We will make the UK the most exciting place for innovation talent", "Pillar 3: Institutions & Places – We will ensure our research, development & innovation institutions serve the needs of businesses and places across the UK" and "Pillar 4: Missions & Technologies – We will stimulate innovation to tackle major challenges faced by the UK and the world and drive capability in key technologies! (pages 18 - 100);
Part 4: "Achieving our ambitions – implementation and next steps" (pages 101 - 107);
Annex A "Innovation institutions" (pages 108 - 113) and
Annex B: "List of Stakeholders Consulted" (pages 114 and 115).
Becoming a "Science and Rech Superpower" in Nine Years
The Introduction states on page 8:
"The Prime Minister has announced our intention to be a science superpower by 2030, placing science, innovation and technology at the heart of his vision for the UK. This involves being to science and technology what we are to finance: a central hub of the global economy, and the country that the world's most innovative people and firms make their home."
Although there are signs that it has lost some business to Amsterdam, Dublin, Frankfurt, Madrid, Milan and Paris as a result of the UK's departure from the European Union, London remains one of the world's leading financial centres rivalled only by New York, Shanghai, Hong Kong and Singapore (see The Global Financial Centres Index 29 Long Finance. March 2021. Retrieved 18 March 2021).
A good measure of scientific and technical activity is the number of patent applications sought in a year. According to the World Intellectual Property Indicators for 2019 published by the World Intellectual Property Organization, applicants in China applied for more than 1.5 million parents from the world's top 20 patent offices in 2018. The United States came second with 597,141. Japan followed with 313,567 and South Korea came fourth with 209,992. Companies from those countries. Huawei, Mitsubishi, Samsung, Qualcomm and Oppo, were among the top 5 applicants. China, the USA, Japan and South Korea can fairly be regarded as scientific and technical superpowers. If the UK is to be in science and technology what it is in finance it should aspire to create a similar number of patentable inventions by 2030.
With 29,941 patent applications in the world's top 20 parent offices, the UK lay number 13th. It was ahead of Mexico but behind Taiwan, Germany, India, Russia, Canada, Australia and Brazil. If the UK is to leapfrog over all those countries to join the USA, China, Japan and South Korea as a scientific and technical superpower it has a lot of work to do.
The government acknowledges the magnitude of that task on page 18 in the section headed "The opportunity: The UK is ideally placed to lead a renewed global spirit of innovation":
"Business investment in R&D has fallen relative to our international peers.
There are low rates of technology adoption by firms that lead to underutilised knowledge.
We are at risk of a 'brain drain', the UK being a net exporter of talent.
Our workforce has skills gaps in some key areas which are at risk of growing in the coming years.
Our regulatory system often favours incumbent businesses over innovative new ones.
Growth is increasingly due to consumption, not due to investment.
Data, research and IP must be safeguarded to maintain competitiveness."
Learning from the Pandemic
Part 2 of the UK Innovation Strategy points to the development of the Oxford/Astra-Zenica vaccine and other medical technologies in response to the pandemic as examples of British scientific and technical prowess and indicators of the way forward to superpower status. The speed with which the Oxford/Astra-Zenica vaccine had been developed and deployed was indeed a substantial achievement despite criticism of its effectiveness and side effects and the delay in obtaining regulatory approval in the USA. However, similar success has been achieved elsewhere. China has developed 7 vaccines that have achieved regulatory approval. Russia has developed another 4. The USA another 3 although the Pfizer–BioNTech and Janssen or Johnson & Johnson were developed in collaboration with German and Dutch scientists. Two vaccines have also been developed by Cuba. Others have been developed by India, Iran, Kazakhstan and Taiwan,
The Four Pillars
On page 21, the UK Industrial Strategy states that the government has four objectives it refers to as 'Pillars' in the document:
"Pillar 1: Unleashing business – We will fuel businesses who want to innovate.
Pillar 2: People – We will make the UK the most exciting place for innovation talent.
Pillar 3: Institutions & Places – We will ensure our research, development & innovation institutions serve the needs of businesses and places across the UK.
Pillar 4: Missions & Technologies – We will stimulate innovation to tackle major challenges faced by the UK and the world and drive capability in key technologies."
These are amplified in "At a glance" on page 6:
Increase annual public investment on R&D to a record £22 billion.
Reduce complexity for innovative companies by developing an online finance and innovation hub between Innovate UK and the British Business Bank.
Invest £200 million through the British Business Bank's Life Sciences Investment Programme to target the growth-stage funding gap faced by UK life science companies.
Consult on how regulation can ensure that the UK is well-placed to extract the best value from innovation.
Form a new Business Innovation Forum to drive implementation of this Strategy.
Introduce new High Potential Individual and Scale-up visa routes, and revitalise the Innovator route to attract and retain high-skilled, globally mobile innovation talent.
Support, through Help to Grow: Management, 30,000 senior managers of small and medium-sized firms to boost their business' performance, resilience, and growth.
Pillar 3: Institutions & Places – We will ensure our research, development and innovation institutions serve the needs of businesses and places across the UK.
Undertake an independent review, led by Nobel Laureate Professor Sir Paul Nurse, Director of the Francis Crick Institute, looking across the landscape of UK organisations undertaking all forms of research, development and innovation.
Allocate £127 million through the Strength in Places Fund to develop R&D capacity and support local growth across the UK.
Invest £25 million of funding to the Connecting Capability Fund to help drive economic growth through university-business innovation.
Pillar 4: Missions & Technologies – We will stimulate innovation to tackle major challenges faced by the UK and the world and drive capability in key technologies.
Establish a new Innovation Missions programme to tackle some of the most significant issues confronting the UK and the world in the coming years.
Identify the key seven technology families that will transform our economy in the future.
Launch new Prosperity Partnerships to establish business-led research projects to develop transformational new technologies, with £59 million of industry, university and government investment."
Those "pillars" are addressed in more detail in Part 3 and repeated for good measure in Part IV.
One of the reasons why there are relatively few patent applications from businesses in the UK is the high cost of prosecution and enforcement.
In 2004 the European Patent Office commissioned Roland Berger Market Research to compare the cost of patenting an invention in the UK and 5 other countries with the cost of patenting it in the USA and Japan (see my article Cost of Patents: EPO Report tells us what most of us already knew 23 Dec 2005). In its Study on the Cost of Patenting Roland Berger reported that the cost of patenting an invention consisting of 10 claims on 3 pages, 11 pages of description designating 6 countries including the UK would be €30,530. The cost of patenting the same invention would be €24,100 in the USA and €5,460 in Japan. The cost of patenting in Europe may have fallen as a result of the Agreement on the application of Article 65 of the Convention on the Grant of European Patents in London (OJ EPO p 560 12 Feb 2001) but it is still believed to be higher than in the USA and Japan.
According to TaylorWessing's Patent Map. the typical costs of an infringement claim are between £200,000 and £1 million in England, €200,000 - €800,000 in France, €100,000 - €200,000 on infringement and a similar amount on validity in Germany, €75,000 - €200,000 in the Netherlands and €2,530 - €375,000 in Switzerland. The costs of litigation in the USA will be at least as much as in England because it is also a common law country but it is unusual for lawyers' fees to be awarded against the unsuccessful party. It is arguable that England is the most expensive and possibly the riskiest jurisdiction in the world in which to enforce an intellectual property right.
Governments of both parties have been aware of this problem for at least the last 20 years (see DTI Innovation Report Competing in The Global Economy: The Innovation Challenge 1 Dec 2003). They have also been aware of the solution which was an EU patent to be enforced by an EU patent court. It is for that reason that the UK ratified the Community Patent Convention in 1975. It supported proposals for a Litigation Protocol to the European Patent Convention, a regulation for an EU patent and later the agreement for a unitary patent. Even after the 2016 referendum, the government believed it would be possible to remain party to the agreement. Mr Boris Johnspn in his capacity as Foreign Secretary actually deposited the UK's instrument of ratification on 26 April 2018. Sadly, Amanda Solway MP gave notice of British withdrawal from the Unified Patent Court Agreement just over a year ago (see UK Withdrawal from the UPCA 20 July 2020).
As I argued in Has the Volte-Face on the Unified Patent Court Agreement been worth it? in NIPC Brexit on 6 April 2021 and in other articles, the sudden reversal by Amanda Solway of a longstanding policy on a unitary patent did British industry and science no favours. It has perpetuated the disincentive to patent in this country. Without adequate legal protection for innovation, investment in research and development can be expected to diminish.
The government might have been expected to respond that withdrawal from the Unified Patent Court Agreement was a necessary consequence of Brexit and that losses resulting from withdrawing from Europe will be more than offset by new opportunities elsewhere. I looked carefully to see whether that was the case but I found nothing in the UK Innovation Strategy to suggest that it was. Though the Intellectual Property Office published a press release on 29 July 2021 promising that IP was at the heart of the new innovation strategy, there is very mention of IP at all. The word "patent" occurs twice in the document's 116 pages and there are a few paragraphs under the heading "Safeguarding Intellectual Property" on pages 39 and 40. There is nothing in those paragraphs on reducing the cost of patenting or the cost of enforcing intellectual property rights.
I am not the only commentator to spot that lacuna. Graeme Moore wrote in his comment New Innovation Strategy for the UK for The Patent Lawyer Magazine:
"However, there is a major factor that the UK government's announcement fails to address satisfactorily – how to better protect the innovations developed in the UK from being copied and exploited by other companies who have not invested in the innovations? This should be at the forefront of the UK government's mind when committing to spend UK taxpayers' money on R&D – it's a key part of ensuring a return on investment."
There are announcements to be welcomed in the Strategy such as the spending promises in Piller 1 and the "new High Potential Individual and Scale-up visa routes" in Pillar 2. But the idea that British companies will be competing with the likes of Huawei, Mitsubishi and Samsung in such fields as artificial intelligence, mobile telecoms, consumer electronics or any other new technology is as fanciful as the garden bridge, an airport in the Thames estuary and a bridge to Northern Ireland.
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US Patent and Trademark Office Webinar - Invention-Con 2021: Capitalizing on your intellectual property
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One of the few good things to have resulted from this pandemic is the live streaming of events that would previously have been limited to the venue where they took place. One of those events is the United States Patent and Trademark Office's webinar Invention-Con 2021: Capitalizing on your intellectual property which will take place between 18-20 Aug 2021. It is billed as an event for inventors, makers and entrepreneurs. There is nothing quite like it in this country or as far as I can see anywhere else in the world.
According to the event web page presentations and workshops will cover:
"Putting your creativity to work
How IP applies in various fields, such as artificial intelligence, robotics, fashion, music, and literature
Types of IP protection: patents, trademarks, and copyrights
Marketing, manufacturing, and building a competitive advantage around your ideas
Fun, free educational resources for kids and teens
Innovation and the fight against COVID-19
And much more"
There are also special events for children and young people, They will include a session with Gitanjali Rao who was named "Kid of the Year" by Time Magazine and several other promising young inventors. Registration Is through Eventbrite. There does not appear to be a charge and it seems to be open to everyone everywhere in the world.
Although American intellectual property law does differ from our own in a number of important respects the basic principles are the same. The USA is this country's biggest trading partner and its importance is likely to increase if HM Government ever concludes a bilateral trade treaty with it. Businesses that wish to trade or invest in the USA will need to be aware of US intellectual property law and should protect their own intellectual assets by taking out utility, design and plant patents (equivalent to patents, registered designs and plant breeders; rights in the UK) and trade marks in the USA,
Businesses wishing to apply for patents and trade marks in the USA can ask their British patent or trade mark attorneys to appoint an American agent or they can approach an American one directly. For those wishing to instruct an American attorney, I can recommend Antoinette M Tease who runs a specialist IP practice in Montana. I have worked with her on a number of occasions over many years and I have received only good reports of her from my clients.
The USPTO offers a large number of other events some of which would be useful to UK businesses. Restaurateurs might be interested in Don't burn your brand: intellectual property for restaurants which takes place this Monday 19 July, Trademark Basics Boot Camp, Module 7: Keeping your registration alive on the following Tuesday, and so on. The USPTO's events page is here.
Anyone wishing to discuss this topic can call me on +44 (0)20 7404 5252 during UK office hours or send me a message through my contact page.
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EPO launches a Competition for Young Inventors
European Patent Office in Munich
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Following the success of its European Inventor Award, the European Patent Office has announced a competition for a Young Inventors Prize, Starting from 2022 the EPO will award cash prizes of €20,000, €10,000 and €5,000 for the top 3 inventions by inventors or teams of inventors aged 30 or less, Entries are invited from every country or territory in the world. They may consist of an idea, project or product in any area of technology so long as it is properly documented which addresses a problem within the framework of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
Entries must be submitted on the EPO's application form before 1 Oct 2021. They will be screened by a multi-disciplinary panel of experts who will send the most promising entries to an international jury chaired by Dr Helen Lee, According to the EPO website:
"The jury will consider the following hierarchy when evaluating the supportive documentation submitted with the nominated initiatives (listed in order of descending importance) ...."
The prizes will be presented at a special award ceremony in June 2022.
The winners of this year's European Inventors Award were Per Gisle Djupesland of Norway for a better nasal drug delivery device, Robert N Grass of Austria and Wendelin Stark of Switzerland for DNA-based data storage, Sunita Mitra of India and the USA for restoring smiles with nanomaterials, Henrik Lindström and Giovanni Fili of Sweden for flexible solar cells for portable devices, Karl Leo of Germany for advances in organic semiconductors and Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic of Serbia and the USA for advances in tissue engineering. I congratulate each and every one of those inventors and wish them continued success in the future.
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Taking your Ideas to Market in Wales
The Atrium of the Menai Science Park
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Yesterday I chaired a webinar organized by the Menai Science Park entitled IP and SME, Taking your Ideas to Market in Wales (see Menai Science Park's Contribution to World IP Day 2021 25 April 2021 NIPC Wales). I have been taking part in events like that for some 20 years but yesterday's was the best ever. The seminar covered a lot of topics in 100 minutes but there are two important takeaways. One is that Wales provides support to new businesses that is no longer available in England. The other is that Inngot Limited provides a range of tools for valuing intellectual assets even when those assets are at an early stage of development.
One of the big differences between business support in Wales and England is that the Welsh government continues to support business centrally through an agency called Business Wales. Business Wales describes itself as
"a free service that provides impartial, independent support and advice to people starting, running and growing a business in Wales. With regional centres across Wales, we offer a mixture of online and face-to-face support, as well as training workshops and individual advice."
To English eyes, that seems to be very much the sort of thing that the regional development agencies and Business Link did before their abolition and replacement by local enterprise partnerships.
Yesterday we heard a presentation by David Wooldridge who is the Intellectual Property Manager of the Welsh Goverbment['s Innovation Team in Swansea. According to Business Wales's Funding page,
"Funding is available for all phases of a research and development, from initial feasibility to market exploitation:
Technical and Commercial Feasibility - help to assess whether your idea is technically and commercially viable.
Industrial Research - help for practical research and to develop basic working models.
Experimental Development - use the results of the industrial research to produce a pre-production prototype.
Exploitation - help with the costs of launching your new product/process on the market."
These include innovation vouchers to
"fund capital equipment that supports a technology step-change
bring in technical consultancy expertise from the private sector
work with universities and colleges to help solve technical problems
improve processes in design and manufacturing
access expertise services for intellectual property (IP) registration."
A service that appears to support new businesses is Expertise Wales which describes itself as
"The online resource for driving collaboration and innovation in Wales."
One of Expertise Wales's services is SMARTCymru. Another is the Small Business Research Initiative. There appear to be many more. I am indebted to Richard Fraser-Williams, Growth Relationship Manager at Business Wales for putting me in touch with David Wooldridge.
Richard also told me that many entrepreneurs require a guide to navigate the various funding schemes and he referred me to BIC Innovation. It is a company that I have known for many years and with which I have collaborated. Mark McGowan of BIC Innovation explained how he and his colleagues assisted businesses to seek funding not only from the Welsh government but also from business angels and venture capitalists. Businesses that are not already in Wales would be very well advised to consult someone like Mark before opening up there.
Like the Welsh Government's Innovation Team. Inngot is based in Swansea. One of its founders is Iwan Davies who held the Sir Julian Hodge Chair of Law at Swansea University and is now Vice-Chancellor at Bangor. He is a distinguished academic lawyer with expertise in both asset finance and intellectual property. For several years, Swansea law school hosted the IP Wales/ED Cymru website which was an excellent resource on intellectual property law. Yesterday's presentation on IP valuation was given by Alison Orr who is Inngot's Business Development Manager. According to Inngot's website
"Alison leads many of Inngot's IP audits and technology evaluations, and provides her expertise to clients requiring training and coaching on IP, assistance with technology scouting, and help exploiting their IP in international markets. She has also helped shape Inngot's intangible asset identification tools."
Alison introduced her audience to Inngot'ss services and focused on the valuation of intellectual assets of startups and other small companies. Obtaining such a valuation right at the start could avid a lot of the personal tragedies that I have witnessed in my career at the bar. It could also assist a business to obtain the right sort of funding and thus secure its future. It goes without saying that Inngot offers its services to entrepreneurs, business owners and investors everywhere and not just in Wales.
Any business not already in Wales that is contemplating a move or expansion there would do well to consider the Menai Science Park or at least the immediate area because the park already hosts a lot of experts. BIC Innovation is there as is Andrea Knox of Knox Commercial Solicitors and Steve Livingston of IP Tax Solutions. Both gave excellent presentations yesterday. Like Alison and Mark, they can be consulted by anyone anywhere and they are also first-class professional advisors.
Anyone thinking of doing business in Wales should find useful material on my IP Wales website at www.nipcwales.co.uk. Contact me on +44 (0)20 7404 5252 or through my contact page if you want to discuss this article or any of the matters mentioned in it
http://www.nipcwales.co.uk
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