Yael is an associate in the corporate and M&A department.
Yael specializes in corporate and commercial law and M&A transactions with a focus and broad experience in high-tech and start-up companies and various types of venture capital transactions. Yael also advises clients on technology and intellectual property matters and transactions.
Yael provides ongoing corporate counseling to emerging companies, as well as mature corporations, through all stages of development, on a wide variety of corporate and commercial matters, including investment transactions, commercial agreements, license agreements, and corporate advice.
LL.B., Université du Québec à Montréal, 2007.
Prior to joining EBN, Yael Benyayer was an associate at the Montreal based firms, Spiegel Sohmer (2010-2013), and Heenan Blaikie LLP (2007-2009).
Representation of ICL, a dual-listed public company and global manufacturer of minerals, in a large investment in a Namibian group of companies controlled by the Leviev Group, for the purpose of forming a joint venture in the marine mining of phosphate in Namibia.
ICL was represented by partners Roy Caner and Viva Gayer, and attorney Yael Benyayer.
"Kwik", an Israeli company that develops a button to quickly order products and services, has raised three million dollars, led by Norwest Venture Partners Fund and other investors.
The new development by Kwik will enable ordering products from a variety of brand by pressing a button – literally. Each product or service that is ordered on a regular basis, can be adapted to the platform (such as coffee capsules, pizza, bottled water and diapers).
Kwik was represented by partners Roy Caner and Viva Gayer and associate Yael Ben-Yair from our firm.


If you want to find the absolute lowest rates, then the best way to find the cheapest price for car insurance rates in Colorado Springs is to regularly compare prices from different companies in Colorado.
First, it will benefit you to learn about how insurance companies determine prices and the things you can control to prevent high rates. Many policy risk factors that result in higher prices such as speeding and an imperfect credit score can be amended by making minor changes in your lifestyle.
Third, compare the new quotes to your existing rates and determine if cheaper Five Hundred coverage is available in Colorado Springs. If you find better rates and switch companies, make sure there is no lapse in coverage.
Fourth, give proper notification to your current agent or company of your decision to cancel the current policy. Submit a completed policy application and payment for the new coverage. Immediately upon receiving it, place the new certificate verifying proof of insurance in your vehicle.
One tip to remember is that you'll want to compare the same physical damage deductibles and liability limits on each quote request and and to get price estimates from as many companies as feasibly possible. This helps ensure a level playing field and a complete price analysis.
Unimaginable but true, most auto insurance buyers have purchased from the same company for at least the last four years, and just under half have never taken the time to shop around. Many consumers in Colorado Springs could cut their rates by roughly 35% a year just by getting comparison quotes, but they underestimate how much savings they would realize if they just switched companies.
Finding affordable auto insurance coverage in Colorado Springs is actually not that difficult if you follow our advice. In a nutshell, everyone who quotes auto insurance will most likely be able to reduce their rates. Nevertheless, Colorado drivers must know how the larger insurance companies determine how much to charge and use it to find better rates.
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The companies shown below can provide free quotes in Colorado Springs, CO. If your goal is to find cheap auto insurance in CO, we suggest you get rate quotes from several of them in order to find the most competitive rates.
Insuring your vehicles can cost a lot, but there may be some discounts that many people don't even know exist. Some discounts will apply at the time you complete a quote, but lesser-known reductions have to be specifically requested prior to receiving the credit.
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Military Discounts - Having a family member in the military may lower your prices slightly.
Defensive Driver Discount - Passing a course teaching defensive driving skills could earn you a small percentage discount and make you a better driver.
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Before you buy a policy, ask all the companies which credits you are entitled to. Savings may not be offered in Colorado Springs. To find companies that provide some of the discounts listed above in Colorado, click here to view.
Lots of factors are considered when you quote your car insurance policy. A few of the factors are predictable like an MVR report, but other factors are not quite as obvious like where you live or your financial responsibility. Smart consumers have a good feel for a few of the rating criteria that go into determining the level of your policy premiums. If you have some idea of what controls the rates you pay, this enables informed choices that could help you find lower rates.
The itemized list below are a partial list of the pieces used by your company to calculate prices.
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Liability insurance limits on your policy - Liability coverage will afford coverage if you are ruled to be at fault for personal injury or accident damage. Your policy's liability insurance provides you with a defense in court which can be incredibly expensive. Liability is cheap as compared to coverage for physical damage, so drivers should carry high limits.
Premiums can be impacted by your occupation - Jobs like doctors, air traffic controllers, and miners generally pay higher rates than average due to high stress levels and long work days. Conversely, jobs like farmers, historians and the unemployed pay lower than average rates.
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Rates go up with performance - The make and model of the car you own makes a significant difference in how high your rates are. The lowest premiums are for lower cost passenger cars, but that's not the only thing that factors into the final price.
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For easy comparison, once you complete this form (opens in new window), your information is transmitted to agents in your area that provide free Colorado Springs auto insurance quotes for your business. There is no reason to even leave your home because quoted prices will be sent to your email. You can find lower rates and work with a local agent. If you want to compare rates from a specific auto insurance provider, just visit that company's website and submit a quote form there.
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When choosing a policy, there really is no best way to insure your cars. Everyone's situation is a little different so this has to be addressed. Here are some questions about coverages that may help you determine if your insurance needs will benefit from professional help.
How do I file an SR-22 for a DUI in Colorado?
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While you're price shopping online, it's not a good idea to buy poor coverage just to save money. There have been many situations where an insured dropped liability limits or collision coverage to discover at claim time they didn't have enough coverage. The goal is to get the best coverage possible at the best price and still be able to protect your assets.
There are still a few companies who do not offer rates over the internet and usually these smaller providers work with independent insurance agencies. Budget-conscious Ford Five Hundred insurance is possible both online as well as from insurance agents, and you should compare rates from both to have the best selection.


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Meet Shelley Marie, the tween goth…
Meet Shelley Marie, the tween goth anti-princess starring in 'Villainous' at Disney's Oogie Boogie Bash
Shelley Marie meets her favorite Disney villains in the new nighttime spectacular debuting Sept. 17 as part of the after-hours, separate-admission Halloween event at the Anaheim theme park.
"Villainous!" is a new "World of Color" show, exclusive to the new separate ticket event, Oogie Boogie Bash. Joshua Sudock/Disneyland Resort)
By Brady MacDonald | bmacdonald@scng.com |
The new "Villainous" World of Color show coming to Oogie Boogie Bash at Disney California Adventure follows the journey of a tween goth girl as she learns what it takes to be a villain and finds out if she's capable of being truly wicked.
Anti-princess Shelley Marie meets her favorite Disney villains in the new nighttime spectacular debuting Sept. 17 as part of the after-hours, separate-admission Oogie Boogie Bash Halloween event at the Anaheim theme park.
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World of Color projects high-definition digital imagery onto mist screens and synchronizes a musical soundtrack to 2,000 dancing fountains in Paradise Bay. The 20-minute water show will be presented twice a night during Oogie Boogie Bash.
"Villainous" features an original character, narrative storyline and new hand-drawn animation —- all rarities for a World of Color show and Disney nighttime spectaculars.
The twisted tale introduces 9-year-old Shelley Marie to the Evil Queen from "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs", Ursula from "The Little Mermaid," Dr. Facilier from "The Princess and the Frog," Hades from "Hercules," Jafar from "The Lion King" and Maleficent from "Sleeping Beauty."
SEE ALSO: Villains Grove haunted walk-through experience coming to Oogie Boogie Bash at Disney's California Adventure
Shelley Marie's name is a knowing wink to "Frankenstein" author Mary Shelley. The young girl in "Villainous" is an alienated outsider who is gung-ho for Halloween, her favorite holiday. Her purple hair has tufts on top dyed blue, teal and lavender. Her purple dress matches her hair and her gothic sensibilities.
The animated star of "Villainous" was created exclusively for the World of Color show by Walt Disney Animation Studios animator Eric Goldberg. Goldberg was the lead animator for the Genie in the 1992 "Aladdin" animated film and worked on "Pocahontas," "The Princess and the Frog," "Moana" and "Hercules."
Goldberg describes Shelley as an amalgam of Wednesday Addams from "The Addams Family," Lydia Deetz from "Beetlejuice" and other delightfully off-kilter female characters. She's weird, devious, funny and vulnerable.
The traditional hand-drawn two-dimensional characters in "Villainous" will have a wispy, smoky style that lend themselves to the show's water mist screens. Early in the show, Shelley transforms into a three-dimensional, computer-generated character. Her animated actions were based on the movements and expressions of a performer in a motion capture suit. Shelley doesn't speak in "Villainous." Her pantomime character uses facial expressions and body language to express herself.
The backstory for "Villainous" presents Shelley with a decision to make: Should she be a princess or a villain for Halloween?
"Villainous" host Oogie Boogie from "The Nightmare Before Christmas" suggests Shelley ask the magic mirror for advice, just like the Evil Queen would do.
Shelley's journey becomes a quest to find the perfect Halloween costume as she faces a host of questions she has about herself. Is she strong enough to play her favorite Disney villain? Is she unique enough to pull off the wicked role?
The celebration of villainy ultimately ends with an upbeat message universal to Disney stories: Be true to yourself and embrace who you are.
The Oogie Boogie Bash Halloween party at Disney California Adventure runs on select nights from Sept. 17 through Oct. 31. The five-hour separate-ticket event runs from 6-11 p.m. with park mix-in beginning 3 to 4 hours earlier. Tickets cost $100 to $145 for annual passholders and $110 to $145 for general admission.
Brady MacDonald | Reporter
Brady MacDonald is a theme park reporter for the Orange County Register and the Southern California News Group. He's covered the theme park industry for more than 25 years. He writes about Disney, Universal, Six Flags, SeaWorld, Cedar Fair and Legoland parks in Southern California, across the United States and around the world. As a member of the SCNG Features team, he also writes about entertainment, travel, pop culture, music, restaurants and craft beer.
bmacdonald@scng.com
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Q: GAE template renders form as html text rather than the form I am working through the GoogleAppEngine Event example and I'm trying to
build a form that I can enter event data
from google.appengine.ext.db import djangoforms

class Event(db.Model):
    title = db.StringProperty(required=True)
    description = db.TextProperty()
    time = db.DateTimeProperty()
    location = db.TextProperty()
    creator = db.UserProperty()

class EventForm(djangoforms.ModelForm):
    class Meta:
        model = Event

class EventsPage(webapp.RequestHandler):
    def get(self):
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            url_linktext = 'Logout'
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        template_values = {
            'events': events,
            'eventform': eventform,
            'url': url,
            'url_linktext': url_linktext,
        }

        template = jinja_environment.get_template('events.html')
        self.response.out.write(template.render(template_values))

----events.html----

  <link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="/stylesheets/main.css" />

 {% for event in events %}

{{ event.content|escape }}

 {% endfor %}
 <form action="/newevent" method="post">

    {{ eventform|escape }}

<input type="submit" value="New Event">

 </form>
 {{ url_linktext }}

When I run my code, the following is rendered on my page as text:

Title:	<input type="text"
name="title" id="id_title" />

Description:	<textarea id="id_description"
rows="10" cols="40" name="description"></textarea>

Time:	<input type="text" name="time" id="id_time"
/>

Location:	<textarea id="id_location"
rows="10" cols="40" name="location"></textarea>

Creator:	<input type="text" name="creator"
id="id_creator" />

I can tell this is table code and I want to the page to render as a tabular form, not as text.    Any ideas why this is happening?  And how to
make it render as a form?

A: I am not that familiar with Jinja, as per Jinja2 documentation it seems to escape all HTML by default.
From looking at your template above, I see that you are using the 'escape' filter on the 'eventform', I was not able to find information about such a filter for Jinja. Also if you want the form to be rendered as a HTML form, then why would we need to escape it?
{{ eventform|escape }}
http://jinja.pocoo.org/docs/api/#autoescaping

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Warped Tour made its last stop at Darien Lake Performing Arts Center on Wednesday, July 25. Despite the heat and humidity, fans came out in droves from all over Central and Western New York for one last Warped Tour experience.
NYSMusic Photographer Meredith Snow and I started the day off catching Warped alums Ice Nine Kills. Even in 79 degree heat, the horror-core band from Boston played the entire set dressed as horror movie icons like Freddy and Jason, with full costume and makeup. The highlight of the set was hearing their new song "The American Nightmare," from their upcoming album The Silver Scream.
The next stage over featured As It Is. The British band doesn't make it stateside often. I first heard band leader Patty Walters when he was a teenager doing solo cover songs on YouTube. Now he's backed by a full band and performing original songs. Gone is the wholesome "boy next door" persona. In its place is an edgier look and sound. After singing "Hey Rachel," from last year's debut album, Walters introduced the band as My Chemical Romance and welcomed everyone to 2005 Warped Tour. They launched into a couple new songs, "The Stigma" and "The Wounded World," off their new album The Great Depression which comes out in a couple weeks.
It's impossible to catch everything at a festival with eight stages, and sometimes we just caught snippets as we raced from stage to stage. We saw the tail end of Tonight Alive's set, as front woman Jenna McDougall told us in her Australian accent, "You have the right to lose your minds," before launching into one of their new songs. I took a much needed break from the heat at the Reverse Daycare tent while my photographer snapped a few pics of Buffalo's Every Time I Die.
Then we were off to see The Maine. A whooshing sound filled the air as they filed on stage in their signature matching outfits. They started with a cover of Blur's "Song 2" which got the crowd singing along. The rest of their set was all originals from their eleven years as a band. On "Girls Do What They Want," they called a random audience member up on stage to help sing the song. This guy Brian came up in his tank top and shorts and made the most of his five minutes of fame, nailing the lyrics and vocals.
One of the bands on my must-see list is Las Vegas' Palaye Royale. These darlings of the Vegas art rock scene are originally from Toronto. The three brothers named the band after the dance hall where their grandparents met. Their last album payed homage to the bands who played The Boom Boom Room and they are set to release a Part B soon. They played the song they just released this week called "You'll Be Fine" as well as a gritty cover of My Chemical Romance's "Teenagers." The high-energy set included singer Remington Leith climbing up to hang upside down from the stage rafters during the song "Get Higher" and crowd surfing on a coffin-shaped raft.
I popped back over to catch some more locals. On The Cinder made their return for a second year at the Korner Stage. The three-piece punk rock outfit drew a lively crowd which danced and moshed throughout the entire set. Some locals were on the Full Sail Stage, too. Lucky33 from Syracuse was upgraded to the larger stage for the day. They put on an energetic set that included a version of CCR's "Bad Moon Rising." Between songs, bass player Red talked about attending his first Warped Tour in '96 and being inspired to start playing music himself.
Following Lucky33 was Rochester's Kaiser Solzie. Rochester native James Jackson has been performing under the moniker Kaiser Solzie for years, and has recently built a full band. Jackson was the driving force behind the creation of the local Korner Stage last year. And all local band members and their fans had migrated to Full Sail to rock out to Kaiser Solzie's set. Donning his pink guitar, Jackson belted out song after song, from one about actor Bill Murray to "Punk Pop Hip Hop" and "Ordinary Average Day," the songs paired a raw punk energy with catchy feel-good messages.
Photographer Meredith Snow caught a few sets that I didn't, including Motionless In White, Digital Afterlife, Doll Skin, Great American Ghost, Of Night and Light, Pros & Icons, and Every Time I Die. See the full photo gallery below for these pics and more.
All in all it was a memorable day, although tinged with sadness about the end of the Warped Tour era. Throughout the day, I spent time with friends from as far flung as Syracuse and Buffalo. I saw people I met at Warped Tour in previous years,and I met some new people. We swapped stories while making new memories. This touring festival successfully brought together some of the greatest alternative musicians from around the world and made them accessible to millions. But it also brought people together and built communal experiences that defined an entire generation.


The Agnew Family aboard the "Dog House"
We were dressed, organized and driving away from the trailer by 7:10am. No, we weren't awake yet. The Lady Rose allowed dogs on board as long as they stayed on the deck. So Zaph and Splash were able to go on the outing today along with the 2 other dogs that also came on board — they all got along fine. The day started cool and cloudy but after about an hour and half it cleared and started to warm up. The boat departed Port Alberni at 8:00am traveling down the Alberni Inlet to the village of Bamfield. Along the way the boat stopped to deliver / pickup mail, freight and passengers. The captain slowed down as we approached a group of seals sunning on rocks and he pointed out various places of interest such as fish and oyster farms, floating homes, a floating Post Office, lumber operations, etc. We saw several black bears on the shore. Upon arrival at Bamfield West we were able to disembark and walk around town – or should we say walk down the boardwalk. We crossed Penny Lane (a short path paved in pennies), saw the tree house public toilets, the local bistro and Liquor Store (they sold everything from food to ice cream cones to alcohol). Across the inlet was Bamfield East — it too had a look of character about it but you needed a mode of water transport to get there. The boat ride back to Port Alberni included a humpback whale siting and a fly-by of 2 eagles. Luckily lots of people on the boat liked dogs — Zaph said he got almost enough pets! This boat trip was certainly worth it.
Seals sunning on a rock.
Looking across the inlet to Bamfield East.
Hey where's our boat going? It did come back and pick us up.


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A program ran by the United States Black Ops Group, that seemed a little out of control. A program ran by a Dr. Smith who was recruited from a local Occult Group who laid claim on the method of shape shifting and learned to control the behaviors of his lycanthropes. This top secret black op kicked off as an success. The government had finally created the perfect soldier. One that could instill fear into the enemy without even conducting excessive missions. However, this same mission ran amuck when the government decided to terminate the program due to possible war time crimes. This is an Occult thriller about shapeshifting and the dark arts. It shows how the government will stoop to any level to succeed to include selling their souls to the devil.


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Court Rejects Late Breaking Wisdom As Too Late in FINRA Arbitration Appeal
In a recent FINRA Arbitration, an associated person Claimant sued his former firm and lost. On appeal to the federal courts, Claimant argues that two of the three FINRA arbitrators were wrongly characterized as "Public Arbitrators," and they should not have been allowed to sit (or remain) on his hearing panel. Frankly, it looks like the facts are on Claimant's side. Ahh . . . but so much for appearances. In the end, it all comes down to a question of timing.
2019 FINRA Arbitration
In a FINRA Arbitration Statement of Claim filed in January 2017 and as amended, associated person Claimant Weber asserted defamation and intentional interference with prospective contractual relations attendant to a termination comment disclosed on his Uniform Termination Notice
for Securities Industry Registration (the "Form U5"). Ultimately, Claimant Weber sought $34,000 in compensatory damages, additional compensatory damages between $251,213 to $1,680,148, and punitive damages between five and nine times compensatory damages. Respondent PNC Investments generally denied the allegations and asserted various affirmative defenses. In the Matter of the Arbitration Between Dominik A. Weber, Claimant, v. PNC Bank and PNC Investments, Respondents (FINRA Arbitration Decision 17-00158 / March 18, 2019).
https://www.finra.org/sites/default/files/aao_documents/17-00158.pdf
Because Respondent PNC Bank is not a member/associated person of FINRA and did not voluntarily submit to the arbitration, the FINRA Arbitration Panel made no determination as to the company.
The FINRA Arbitration Panel is characterized in the FINRA Arbitration Decision as comprising:
Gregory Hunter Matthew, Chair and Public Arbitrator
William Francis Ryan, Public Arbitrator
Peter Vincent Marcoline, Jr., Non-Public Arbitrator
The Decision states that:
On or about February 13, 2019, FINRA Office of Dispute Resolution notified the parties that Arbitrator Ryan was reclassified from public to non-public. The notice further indicated this reclassification would apply only to the arbitrator's future case appointments and does not affect the arbitrator's classification in this case.
The FINRA Arbitration Panel denied Claimant Weber's claims and requested expungement.
2019 Weber Motion to Vacate
On June 14, 2019, Weber filed in the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania ("WDPA") a Motion to Vacate the FINRA Arbitration Award
http://brokeandbroker.com/PDF/WeberMotVacWDPA190614.pdf.
Dominik Weber, Plaintiff, v. PNC Investments LLC, Defendant (Motion to Vacate, WDPA, 19-CV-00704 / June 14, 2019). As set forth in the Motion under "Introduction":
14. Pursuant to FINRA Rules, Plaintiff was contractually entitled to a FINRA arbitration consisting of two public arbitrators (one being the chairman) and one non-public (industry insider) arbitrator. Instead, without his consent, Plaintiff was provided with an arbitration panel that was composed 100% of non-public arbitrators due to misrepresentations and inaccurate disclosures by two of the arbitrators. Resultantly, justice demands that the arbitration award be vacate due to significant procedural irregularities, as well as a complete deprivation of Plaintiff's due process rights in violation of Pennsylvania's Constitution.
2020 WDPA Opinion
In lieu of dragging this out, consider this spoiler-alert via the Syllabus to the WDPA's Opinion
Dominik Weber, Plaintiff, v. PNC Investments LLC, Defendant (Opinion, WDPA, 19-CV-00704 / February 5, 2020) :
Justice Felix Frankfurter once wrote: "Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late." Henslee v. Union Planters Nat 'l Bank & Tr. Co., 335 U.S. 595, 600 (1949) (Frankfurter, J., dissenting). The problem for Plaintiff Dominik Weber is that sometimes the Court is bound to reject late breaking ideas regardless of their wisdom. Weber brought a claim in arbitration against PNC Investments, LLC. He lost that claim, and now asks this Court to overturn the arbitration award because two (2) of the three (3) arbitrators who presided in his case should have been excluded based on the terms of Weber's contract with PNC Investments. For PNC Investments, this is the first its hearing of Weber's concerns. That is because Weber never raised the issue during his arbitration, despite having the opportunity to do so. Under binding Third Circuit precedent, Weber waived the right to object now. And Weber's second ground for vacatur -- that PNC Investments is a state actor bound by the Pennsylvania Constitution's Due Process Clause -- lacks merit. For these reasons, and those that follow, Weber's Motion to Vacate (ECF No. 1), is DENIED, and PNC Investments' Cross-Motion to Confirm (ECF No. 18), is GRANTED.
Months of Substantial Disagreement
As to the underlying facts that prompted Weber's arbitration claims, WDPA offers this summary:
Weber signed the Form U4 in May 2016. (ECF No. 18-1.) What happened in the following months is a matter of substantial disagreement between the Parties. Weber claims that shortly before he was to sit for his Series 66 exam, he complained to his supervisor about what he considered to be improper sales practices occurring at PNC Bank. According to Weber, he became the target of hostility and conspiracy for raising the complaint. (ECF No. 1, at ,¶¶36-125.) PNC Investments, on the other hand, claims that throughout the late summer and early fall of 2016, Weber lied to his supervisors on several occasions about varying topics. His repeated lies, PNC Investments says, led the company to open a human resources investigation into Weber. (ECF No. 18, at ¶ ¶ 5 - 11.) Both Weber and PNC Investments do agree on what followed: PNC Bank fired Weber in early October 2016. (ECF No. 1, at ¶68; ECF No. 18, at ¶11.)
Page 3 of the Opinion
Subject Matter Jurisdiction and Arbitrators' Classification
WDPA discerned that there were two threshold elements to Weber's appeal:
[F]irst, the Parties' motions and answers at oral argument left the Court concerned that it may not have subject matter jurisdiction to hear this case. Second, it became clear that the Court needed to know whether FINRA Rules even provided a way for Weber to object the arbitrators' classification-since whether Weber waived his right to object to Mathews and Ryan's classification appeared to be dispositive to the resolution of these matters. . . .
After a lengthy and diligent analysis, WDPA resolved the thorny subject matter jurisdiction by finding that:
[W]eber is a citizen of Pennsylvania and PNC Investments is a citizen of Delaware. Those two (2) facts-coupled with the Court's determination that Weber's Motion to Vacate pleads an amount in controversy over $75,000, exclusive of costs and interest-leads the Court to conclude that it has subject matter jurisdiction . . .
Page 15 of the Opinion
Colorable Right to Two Public Arbitrators
Initially, the Court's analysis of the arbitrators' classification goes in Weber's favor [Ed: footnotes omitted]:
Based on the briefing and oral argument, it appears to the Court that Weber had a more than colorable right to a panel with two (2) public arbitrators. And it is far from clear that Weber actually received the benefit of his bargain. PNC Investments' first argument, that this Court must defer to FINRA' s classification, no matter how eyebrow-raising, is unpersuasive. . . .
Sooner Rather Than Later
Unfortunately for Weber, that was his high-water mark on the issue, and from thereon, it's all downhill:
It is a principal of our legal system that parties should flag issues sooner rather than later. Applying waiver principles may sometimes seem harsh, but the preference for timely objections rests on sound logic-it gives the tribunal a chance to correct errors early in the process. The alternative is to wait until late in the game, or even after the final buzzer sounds, to raise a gamechanging issue that could have and should have been dealt with far earlier in the process. The same logic applies in the context of arbitration. . . .
Arbitrator Matthews
In addressing Weber's assertions about Arbitrator Matthews' conduct, WDPA characterizes the gist of the issue as asserting that Matthews wrongly answered "NO" in response to a question about whether he had ever been associated with a broker dealer and whether he had ever been employed by a Securities and Exchange Act entity. The "NO" answer placed Matthews on the Public Arbitrator roll, whereas a "YES" answer would have placed him on a Non-Public Arbitrator roll. In support of his contentions, Weber stated that:
First, Weber claims that Mathews "worked for a broker dealer (Wachovia) for ten years." (ECF No. 1, at ¶159.) Second, he claims Mathews "worked at the SEC," which Weber argues is an entity organized under the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934. (Id.) Third, and finally, Weber claims that Mathews represented a group of plaintiffs in Ponzi scheme-related litigation. (Id. at ¶ 160.) In Weber's estimation, each of these facts provides an independent basis for this Court to conclude that FINRA should have classified Mathews as a non-public arbitrator.
In parsing through each of the above-cited three claims by Weber, the Court offers these rejections:
[W]eber's counsel knew all three (3) supposedly incriminating facts about Mathews when he told the Panel he knew of no reason why it could not proceed. Mathews disclosed his work experience with Wachovia Bank and the SEC in his arbitrator disclosure report that FINRA sent to Weber in April 2017. (ECF No. 18-7, at 2.) And FINRA informed Weber of Mathews's legal work in the Ponzi scheme case in January 2019, weeks before the hearing. (ECF No. 18-8, at 9.) So it is difficult to see how Weber can now claim that he had no reason to know of these purported bases to challenge Mathews' s classification as the public chairperson.
In the face of PNC Investments' waiver arguments, Weber tries shifting the goalposts. In his reply brief, Weber moves away from his initial argument that Mathews entirely failed to disclose his experience with Wachovia, the SEC, and the Ponzi scheme case, to instead arguing that those disclosures did not raise any alarm warranting further investigation. (ECF No. 25, at 3- 9.) After this about-face, Weber points to information gleaned from Mathews's law firm website profile, and argues that the website does not match up with Mathews's FINRA disclosures. (Id. at 7; ECF No. 1-36.) But the Third Circuit's opinion in Athena Venture could not be clearer: parties cannot wait until after they lose to look up their arbitrators on the Internet. Athena Venture, 803 F.3d at 150. Yet that is exactly what happened here.
Weber implores the Court to be pragmatic. How could his counsel be expected to investigate all of the potential arbitrators on the FINRA selection list? After all, that would take considerable time and effort. (ECF No. 25, at 5 & n.3.) Weber has two (2) things working against his seemingly pragmatic argument. First is our Court of Appeals' binding precedent in Athena Venture. Second is the fact that roughly a year and a half passed between Mathews being selected for the Panel and the beginning of the hearing. During that time, Weber knew Mathews would be one (1) of the three (3) people hearing his claim. And he should have known that he would be required to affirm the Panel's ability to proceed at the hearing, so his incentive to investigate the arbitrators remained real. FINRA Rules 13410 and 13411 provided a means for Weber to seek Mathews's removal and replacement based on the information known to him before the hearing. But Weber failed to exercise that mechanism. As a result, the Court concludes that Weber waived his right to object to Mathews's status.
Pages 21 - 22 of the Opinion
Arbitrator Ryan
Having resolved the contentions about Arbitrator Matthew's classification, WDPA tackles the somewhat more challenging assertion that Arbitrator Ryan's:
post-hearing, pre-award reclassification as a non-public arbitrator for all future arbitrations also meant Ryan could not serve as a public arbitrator in Weber's dispute with PNC Investments. (ECF No. 1, at , ¶¶165-72.) At first glance, Weber's argument makes sense: if FINRA needed to reclassify Ryan as a non-public arbitrator for all new arbitrations, how could Ryan serve as a public arbitrator during Weber's ongoing arbitration? The problem is that Weber did not voice these concerns during the arbitration-that is, before the award came down. Instead, like his objections to Mathews's classification, he waited until he lost and raised the issue for the first time in this Court.
Weber's argument as to Ryan differs from his argument about Mathews in one (1) important way: Weber did not learn of Ryan's supposedly disqualifying reclassification until after the Panel heard the case. So the fact that Weber did not raise an objection about Ryan's reclassification when the hearing began cannot be held against him. Yet, despite FINRA's late-inthe-game reclassification, Weber still could and should have objected to Ryan's participation. FINRA reclassified Ryan on February 13, 2019. But the Panel did not issue its award until March 18, 2019. So there was ample time for Weber to consider Ryan's reclassification and make a reasoned objection.
In a somewhat testy commentary, the Court admonishes that:
Weber's argument misses the point. The fact that FINRA reclassified Ryan as a non-public arbitrator for future proceedings was itself a pretty big new piece of information. And Weber could have used that fact to seek Ryan's removal under FINRA Rule 13410(b). Weber argues that even if he had sought Ryan's removal, the Director simply would have denied his request. (Id. at 6.) Of course, there is no guarantee Weber's objection would have worked. But Athena Venture does not stand for the proposition that parties must win their objections during arbitration in order to preserve the issue. Instead, our Court of Appeals simply requires that parties fairly raise the issue in the first instance. See Athena Venture, 803 F.3d at 147-150. Weber failed to do so here.
FINRA's post-hearing reclassification of Ryan should have "set off sirens" for Weber. Id. at 144. The reclassification represented a potentially significant change to Weber's panel, and FINRA's complete failure to explain its reasoning should have reasonably caused Weber concern about Ryan's ability to hear his claim. In the Court's estimation, FINRA's rather startling notice- "non-public later, but still public now"-provides exactly the set of facts that the Athena Venture Court had in mind when it adopted the "constructive knowledge" waiver standard. It, too, was a blaring "siren." There is simply no reason why Weber should have stayed silent in the face of FINRA's notice. The time to object was then, not now.
In the end, Weber knew that FINRA reclassified Ryan from public to non-public for over
a month before the Panel issued its award against him. All that time, FINRA Rule 1341 0(b) provided Weber a means to seek Ryan's removal. Yet Weber stayed silent-only now voicing his objection to Ryan's participation after he lost in arbitration. Our Court of Appeals in Athena Venture required parties to raise issues in arbitration about the arbitration process if they later intended to litigate those issues in federal court. Weber failed to heed that directive, and the Court concludes that he waived his right to seek vacatur under 9 U.S.C. § 10(a).
I commend the Court for a patient, exhaustive, and concise presentation of its analysis and rationale. Notwithstanding, I detest the outcome and will never concede that justice was done. Time and time again, we have seen FINRA fail to properly police its rolls of arbitrators. See, for example:
UPDATE: Federal Appeals Court Reverses Goldman Sachs Arbitration (BrokeAndBroker.com Blog / October 2, 2015) (the "Athena Venture" case)
http://www.brokeandbroker.com/2916/finra-arbitration-timban-remand-vacatur/
THE FINRA ARBITRATION DECISION: In the Matter of the FINRA Arbitration Between Athena Venture Partners, L.P. , Claimant, and Goldman, Sachs And Co., Eric W. Gettleman, and Scott T. Sheffer, Respondents (FINRA Arbitration 09-04771, March 13, 2013)
http://finraawardsonline.finra.org/Search/ViewDocument/60252
THE EDPA ORDER: Goldman, Sachs & Co et al. v. Athena Venture Partners, L.P. (EDPA, 13-MC-130, August 1, 2013)
http://brokeandbroker.com/PDF/AthenaFINRA.pdf
THE 3CIR OPINION: Goldman, Sachs & Co., Scott T. Sheffer, and Eric W. Gettleman, Appellants v. Athena Venture Partners, L.P. (Opinion, 3Cir.,No. 13-September 29, 2015)
http://brokeandbroker.com/PDF/GoldmanArb3Cir.pdf
FINRA Humiliated In Federal Court Arbitration Appeal (BrokeAndBroker.com Blog / March 26, 2018)
http://www.brokeandbroker.com/3889/finra-sddco-arbitration/
Federal Court Questions Basis of Appeal. FIRST CAPITAL REAL ESTATE INVESTMENTS, LLC, a California limited liability company, Petitioner-Appellant, v. SDDCO BROKERAGE ADVISORS, LLC, Respondent-Appellee, and FINANCIAL INDUSTRY REGULATORY AUTHORITY, INC., Respondent (Order, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 19-CV-671)
http://www.rrbdlaw.com/4964/securities-industry-commentator/#sddco
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Second Circuit's affirmation of SDNY
http://www.ca2.uscourts.gov/decisions/isysquery/fed4127f-a441-4332-af1e-14ee8e420b93/6/doc/19-670_so.pdf
FINRA Public Arbitrator Conflict Heads For Supreme Court (BrokeAndBroker.com Blog / April 29, 2014)
http://www.brokeandbroker.com/2393/stone-finra-arbitrator/
NOTE: Petition denied by Supreme Court on May 19 2014
Running on Empty: A Proposal to Fill the Gap Between Regulation and Decentralization (Speech by SEC Commissioner Commissioner Hester M. Peirce)
Court Rejects Late Breaking Wisdom As Too Late in FINRA Arbitration Appeal (BrokeAndBroker.com Blog)
ABN AMRO Clearing Chicago Charged With Improper Handling of ADRs (SEC Release)
FINRA Imposes Censure and Fine on Two-Rep Firm for Supervisory Issues. In the Matter of FIMCO Securities Group, Inc., Respondent (FINRA AWC)
FINRA OHO Panel Grants Summary Disposition in Rule 8210 Matter. FINRA Department of Enforcement, Complainant, v. Robert Juan Escobio, Respondent (FINRA OHO Decision)
Public Arbitrator
Motion to Vacate
3Cir
WDPA
Athena Venture


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Wall Street trader Will Shaw (Henry Cavill) races to rescue his family after they're kidnapped while vacationing in Spain, and he exposes a sinister government conspiracy and unearths dark family secrets along the way in this thriller co-starring Bruce Willis and Sigourney Weaver. Directed by Mabrouk El Mechri.
Carrack: Is that you father's gun?
Carrack: Looking for something like this?
I have to disagree with the bourne analogy.I just don't see it ,after watching the movie I felt it went in a bit of a different direction and I actually thought the movie was entertaining,and cavill seemed unaware for the most part what was going on.Was it a blockbuster,or huge like the bourne's ? No.But it had merit and I am I admit,a little into cavill,and think he is on the rise.the thing is though,is that they are doing a lot of movies along this same line.Still,all in all,though its not great,i wouldn't go so far to say that its not worth a watch.There may be a few mistakes and oddities in the show,but still it kept my attention to the end.the storyline seems to lack here and there,but I guess I still think it turns out to be a fairly good watch.


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Authors: Rousse N, Robin E, Juthier F, Hysi I, Banfi C, Al Ibrahim M, Coadou H, Goldstein P, Wiel E, Vincentelli A.
Incidence, Predictive Factors, and Effect of Delirium After Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement.
Authors: Abawi M, Nijhoff F, Agostoni P, Emmelot-Vonk MH, de Vries R, Doevendans PA, Stella PR.
Reference: JACC Cardiovasc Interv. 2016 Jan 25;9(2):160-8.
The purpose of this study was to investigate the incidence, predictive factors, and effect of post-operative delirium (POD) among patients treated by transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR).
Patients undergoing operations that involve valve replacement appear at higher risk of POD than patients subjected to coronary artery bypass surgery alone. In patients with severe aortic stenosis undergoing TAVR, little is known regarding the potential impact of POD on the clinical outcomes.
A retrospective observational cohort study of 268 consecutive patients who underwent TAVR at our institute was conducted. Delirium was diagnosed according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorder, 4th Edition criteria. The primary outcome of this study was the presence of in-hospital POD after TAVR.
Authors: Schmidt GA, Girard TD, Kress JP, Morris PE, Ouellette DR, Alhazzani W, Burns SM, Epstein SK, Esteban A, Fan E, Ferrer M, Fraser GL, Gong M, Hough C, Mehta S, Nanchal R, Patel S, Pawlik AJ, Sessler CN, Strøm T, Schweickert W, Wilson KC, Truwit JD.
This clinical practice guideline addresses six questions related to liberation from mechanical ventilation in critically ill adults. It is the result of a collaborative effort between the American Thoracic Society (ATS) and American College of Chest Physicians (CHEST).
A multi-disciplinary panel posed six clinical questions in a Population, Intervention, Comparator and Outcomes (PICO) format. A comprehensive literature search and evidence synthesis was performed for each question, which included appraising the certainty in the evidence (i.e., the quality of evidence) using the GRADE (Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development and Evaluation) approach. The Evidence-to-Decision Framework was applied to each question, requiring the panel to evaluate and weigh the: importance of the problem, confidence in the evidence, certainty about how much the public value the main outcomes, magnitude and balance of desirable and undesirable outcomes, resources and costs associated with the intervention, impact on health disparities, and acceptability and feasibility of the intervention.
Evidence-based recommendations were formulated and graded, initially by subcommittees and then modified following full panel discussions. The recommendations were confirmed by confidential electronic voting; approval required that at least 80% of the panel members agree with the recommendation.
The panel provides recommendations regarding liberation from mechanical ventilation. The details regarding the evidence and rationale for each recommendation are presented in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine and CHEST.
Central venous catheter insertions may lead to preventable adverse events. Attending physicians' central venous catheter insertion skills are not assessed routinely. We aimed to compare attending physicians' simulated central venous catheterinsertion performance to published competency standards.
Prospective cohort study of attending physicians' simulated internal jugular and subclavian central venous catheter insertion skills versus a historical comparison group of residents who participated in simulation training.
Fifty-eight Veterans Affairs Medical Centers from February 2014 to December 2014 during a 2-day simulation-based education curriculum and two academic medical centers in Chicago.
A total of 108 experienced attending physicians and 143 internal medicine and emergency medicine residents.
Using a previously published central venous catheter insertion skills checklist, we compared Veterans Affairs Medical Centers attending physicians' simulated central venous catheter insertion performance to the same simulated performance by internal medicine and emergency medicine residents from two academic centers. Attending physician performance was compared to residents' baseline and posttest (after simulation training) performance. Minimum passing scores were set previously by an expert panel. Attending physicians performed higher on the internal jugular (median, 75.86% items correct; interquartile range, 68.97-86.21) and subclavian (median, 83.00%; interquartile range, 59.00-86.21) assessments compared to residents' internal jugular (median, 37.04% items correct; interquartile range, 22.22-68.97) and subclavian (median, 33.33%; interquartile range, 0.00-70.37; both p < 0.001) baseline assessments. Overall simulated performance was poor because only 12 of 67 attending physicians (17.9%) met or exceeded the minimum passing score for internal jugular central venous catheter insertion and only 11 of 47 (23.4%) met or exceeded the minimum passing score for subclavian central venous catheter insertion. Resident posttest performance after simulation training was significantly higher than attending physician performance (internal jugular: median, 96%; interquartile range, 93.10-100.00; subclavian: median, 100%; interquartile range, 96.00-100.00; both p < 0.001). CONCLUSIONS: This study demonstrates highly variable simulated central venous catheter insertion performance among a national cohort of experienced attending physicians. Hospitals, healthcare systems, and governing bodies should recognize that even experienced physicians require periodic clinical skill assessment and retraining.
Authors: Vincent JL, Pelosi P, Pearse R, Payen D, Perel A, Hoeft A, Romagnoli S, Ranieri VM, Ichai C, Forget P, Della Rocca G, Rhodes A.
Reference: Crit Care. 2015 May 8;19:224.
A significant number of surgical patients are at risk of intra- or post-operative complications or both, which are associated with increased lengths of stay, costs, and mortality. Reducing these risks is important for the individual patient but also for health-care planners and managers. Insufficient tissue perfusion and cellular oxygenation due to hypovolemia, heart dysfunction or both is one of the leading causes of perioperative complications. Adequate perioperative management guided by effective and timely hemodynamic monitoring can help reduce the risk of complications and thus potentially improve outcomes. In this review, we describe the various available hemodynamic monitoring systems and how they can best be used to guide cardiovascular and fluid management in the perioperative period in high-risk surgical patients.
Cognitive Dysfunction, Delirium, and Stroke in Cardiac Surgery Patients.
Authors: Cropsey C, Kennedy J, Han J, Pandharipande P.
Neurologic injury in the form of cognitive decline, delirium, and stroke are common phenomena in patients undergoing cardiac surgery and continues to be one of the most common complication after cardiac surgery, in spite of improvements in mortality and and improved surgical and anesthetic techniques. These complications lead to a significant increase in length of stay in the intensive care unit, increased length of hospital admission, and functional impairment, resulting in not only profound negative effects on patients who experience these complications, but also to increased costs of medical care and delivery. We discuss each of these complications in regard to their risks factors, incidence, potential therapeutic modalities, and relevant intraoperative and postoperative considerations.
Reference: Crit Care Med. 2016 Oct;44(10):1920-2.
Prognostic Impact of Persistent Thrombocytopenia During Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation: A Retrospective Analysis of Prospectively Collected Data From a Cohort of Patients With Left Ventricular Dysfunction After Cardiac Surgery.
Reference: Crit Care Med. 2016 Aug 5.
Objective: The prognostic impact of thrombocytopenia in patients supported by extracorporeal membrane oxygenation after cardiac surgery is uncertain. We investigated whether thrombocytopenia is independently predictive of poor outcome and describe the incidence and time course of thrombocytopenia in extracorporeal membrane oxygenation patients.
Setting: Cardiosurgical ICU at a tertiary referral center.
Patients: Three hundred adult patients supported with venoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for more than 24 hours because of refractory cardiogenic shock after heart surgery between January 2001 and December 2014.
Measurements and Main Results: Two-way analysis of variance was used to compare the time course of platelet count changes between survivors and nonsurvivors. Using multiple Cox regression with time-dependent covariates, we investigated the impact of platelet count on 90-day mortality. In nonsurvivors, the daily incidence of moderate (< 100 – 50 x 109/L), severe (49 – 20 x 109/L), and very severe (< 20 x 109/L) thrombocytopenia was 50%, 54%, and 7%, respectively. Platelet count had a biphasic temporal pattern with an initial decrease until day 4-5 after the initiation of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation. Although a significant recovery of the platelet count was observed in survivors, a recovery did not occur in nonsurvivors (p = 0.0001). After adjusting for suspected confounders, moderate, severe, and very severe thrombocytopenia were independently associated with 90-day mortality. The highest risk was associated with severe (hazard ratio, 5.9 [2.7-12.6]; p < 0.0001) and very severe thrombocytopenia (hazard ratio, 25.9 [10.7-62.9], p < 0.0001). Conclusion: Thrombocytopenia is an independent risk factor for poor outcome in extracorporeal membrane oxygenation patients after cardiac surgery, with persistent severe thrombocytopenia likely reflecting a high degree of physiologic imbalance.
Echocardiography as a guide for fluid management.
Authors: Boyd JH, Sirounis D, Maizel J, Slama M.
Reference: Crit Care. 2016 Sep 4;20:274.
In critically ill patients at risk for organ failure, the administration of intravenous fluids has equal chances of resulting in benefit or harm. While the intent of intravenous fluid is to increase cardiac output and oxygen delivery, unwelcome results in those patients who do not increase their cardiac output are tissue edema, hypoxemia, and excess mortality. Here we briefly review bedside methods to assess fluid responsiveness, focusing upon the strengths and pitfalls of echocardiography in spontaneously breathing mechanically ventilated patients as a means to guide fluid management. We also provide new data to help clinicians anticipate bedside echocardiography findings in vasopressor-dependent, volume-resuscitated patients.
To review bedside ultrasound as a method to judge whether additional intravenous fluid will increase cardiac output. Special emphasis is placed on the respiratory effort of the patient.
Point-of-care echocardiography has the unique ability to screen for unexpected structural findings while providing a quantifiable probability of a patient's cardiovascular response to fluids. Measuring changes in stroke volume in response to either passive leg raising or changes in thoracic pressure during controlled mechanical ventilation offer good performance characteristics but may be limited by operator skill, arrhythmia, and open lung ventilation strategies. Measuring changes in vena caval diameter induced by controlled mechanical ventilation demands less training of the operator and performs well during arrythmia. In modern delivery of critical care, however, most patients are nursed awake, even during mechanical ventilation. In patients making respiratory efforts we suggest that ventilator settings must be standardized before assessing this promising technology as a guide for fluid management.


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New Price Study Reveals Which NFL Teams Were The Best, And Worst, Values For Fans In 2017
by Douglas Charles January 5, 2018 12:24 pm
Take a wild guess which NFL team was the worst value in 2017 for fans? Take your time, I'll wait. Oh, you already have an answer? Does it rhyme with Clowns?
Well, just to be sure, the fine folks over at HomeToGo used their Football Price Index to reveal the cost of following each of the 32 NFL teams to determine which were the best and worst values for fans in 2017.
Back in September, HomeToGo released what they called their Football Price Index to show which NFL teams were going to be most worthy of a fan's money during the upcoming season.
At that time it looked like Arizona Cardinals and Jacksonville Jaguars fans were going to be getting a raw deal this season.
Via HomeToGo
Turns out the Jags actually ended up being, gasp, good! I know. Who saw that coming? As for the Cardinals? Well, they tried really, really hard.
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Now that the 2017 NFL season is officially over, HomeToGo revisted their Football Price Index and here's what they discovered…
• Fans of the Cleveland Browns had to spend $4,370.30 following their team this season, but as the Browns did not win a single game this season, they were the worst value football team to support in the 2017 regular season.
• Fans of the Pittsburgh Steelers had to spend $3,983.25 following their team this season, and the team won 13 games. This makes the Pittsburgh Steelers the best value football team of the 2017 regular season.
• The Arizona Cardinals were the most expensive team to follow based on cost per point scored in 2017 at $22.96 per point.
• The New England Patriots were the cheapest team to follow based on their cost per point scored at $9.51.
• On average, fans spent $805 for every NFL game won in the regular 2017 season.
Other solid NFL team values were the Eagles who only cost a fan $348.75 per win and $9.92 per point, the Carolina Panthers with a cost of $453.14 per win, the Atlanta Falcons who cost fans $440.54 per win, and the Minnesota Vikings at $381.23 per victory.
When it came to scoring points, the Los Angeles Rams, Dallas Cowboys, Detroit Lions and Kansas City Chiefs were also near the top with a total of less than $12.00 per point scored in 2017.
Check out the entire list from HomeToGo below, especially if you're thinking about dropping a load of cash on some season tickets in 2018…
Douglas Charles
Before settling down at BroBible, Douglas Charles, a graduate of the University of Iowa (Go Hawks), owned and operated a wide assortment of websites. He is also one of the few White Sox fans out there and thinks Michael Jordan is, hands down, the GOAT.
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In addition to his listed fiction publications, Michael Fontana is currently at work on a novel. He has taught writing courses at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and at NorthWest Arkansas Community College in Bentonville, Arkansas. He has read in a variety settings, ranging from a public park to a university auditorium to a bar. His most important work has been in developing writing opportunities for homeless people and people living with mental illnesses.
Individual Artist Fellowship, Ohio Arts Council, 1995; Older Writers Grant, Speculative Literature Foundation, 2015; Sally A. Williams Artist Fund Grant, Arkansas Arts Council, 2015.


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Graphic Recording: Ask your guests a general question and I will illustrate their answers LIVE at your reception! Some example questions are "What are the rules to a successful marriage?" or "What is your best advice for the bride and groom?" Different sizes of canvas are available, and when the night is over, you will have a beautiful, one-of-a-kind illustrated piece that you can frame and display at home!
Guestbook Thumbprint Trees: Having become a popular wedding trend over the past couple of years, thumbprint trees have become a fun and unique way for wedding guests to leave their mark on your special day! Each wedding tree is custom made by hand with hand-lettering. No two trees are the same! Pricing and sizes vary to accommodate the number of guests at your special event. These trees also make great guestbooks for birthday parties, engagement parties, or baby showers! Please allow 3-4 weeks for creation of thumbprint tree templates.
Custom artwork (fine art commissions, illustrations, caricatures) vary in size, style and medium. Each work of art is unique and comes with a free consultation (if needed) to ensure the final piece of art is exactly what you want. Please contact me if you have any questions!
Custom artwork: $45 per hour. Caricature event hire: $100 per hour, plus an additional travel & supply fee. Travel limited to within 50 miles of Ludlow, MA. Events require a minimum of two hours, and are booked first-come, first served. Blackout dates apply.
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Canadian women climb FIFA's rankings ahead of World Cup
Christine Sinclair has helped Canada earn the No. 8 in FIFA's latest women's soccer rankings. The Canadian women moved into a tie with North Korea, which was replaced by Brazil at No. 7.
DARRYL DYCK/THE CANADIAN PRESS
Published March 29, 2015 Updated May 12, 2018
Canada has climbed one spot to No. 8 in FIFA's latest women's soccer rankings.
The Canadian women moved into a tie with North Korea, which was replaced by Brazil at No. 7.
The top six remained unchanged with Germany on top, followed by the United States, France, Japan, Sweden and England. Australia remains No. 10.
Canada will host the women's World Cup starting June 6, playing in a group with China, New Zealand and the Netherlands.
The Netherlands dropped one place to No. 12 in the new rankings while China slipped three rungs to No. 16 and New Zealand was up one spot at No. 17.
Kelly: Canada has their work cut out for them as Women's World Cup hosts
Canadian women's soccer team to close out warmup schedule against England
CSA can't stop thinking about World Cup soccer
Kelly: Canada's MLS teams double as trailblazers in North America
Kelly: Qatar World Cup's move to winter is proof sport need not fear change
Canada beaten 1-0 by England in Cyprus Cup final


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Often asked: How To Renew Abandoned Trademark?
1 Can I refile an abandoned trademark?
2 How do I get a lapsed trademark?
3 Can you renew an expired trademark?
4 Can you revive a trademark registration?
5 How long before trademark is abandoned?
6 Can you claim an abandoned patent?
7 How much are trademark renewal fees?
8 Can Trademark be renewed by paying the renewal fee?
9 What happens if trademark is not renewed?
10 What happens when a trademark expires?
11 What happens to a trademark when the owner dies?
12 Is it hard to get trademark?
Can I refile an abandoned trademark?
Ultimately, if a trademark is truly abandoned or dead, you can refile for the trademark and obtain registration, but you will need to go in and start from scratch. You can 't just take over someone else's application or registration.
How do I get a lapsed trademark?
To claim the dead trademark you will need to complete an application with the USPTO. Provide your name and address, the name of the dead mark, a statement as to the goods and services that you wish to sell under the mark and a statement as to whether you have attempted to register the mark previously.
Can you renew an expired trademark?
There is generally a six-month grace period following the expiry of a trademark. During this time, the trademark can still be renewed.
Can you revive a trademark registration?
You may submit a petition to revive an abandoned application and request that the application be returned to active or pending status if the delay in responding to the office action, or the delay in filing a Statement of Use or extension request, was unintentional. 37 C.F.R.
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How long before trademark is abandoned?
A trademark is abandoned when the owner stops using it for three years in a row without intending to use it again, according to 15 USC 1127. After three years of non-use, the owner must show tangible, solid evidence to counter a registration attempt by someone else.
Can you claim an abandoned patent?
The answer is no as you were not the first to invent whatever is in the abandoned patent. Beware that the patent process in the US is fairly lenient in allowing someone to claim that the failure to act in time to prevent an abandonment was unintentional. With the payment of a fee, a person can restart the process.
How much are trademark renewal fees?
3. Filing Declaration of Use and Application for Renewal every 10 years (Combined §8 declaration and §9 renewal ): $525 per class (if filed before the grace period).
Can Trademark be renewed by paying the renewal fee?
A registered trademark in India expires after 10 years. But, it can be kept permanent by filing a trademark renewal application online or offline by paying necessary renewal fees every 10 years. This application has to be filed on or before 6 months from the date of expiration of the registration.
What happens if trademark is not renewed?
The consequences of not renewing the trademark are severe. In case, no application for renewal has been filed, or in case no fee for renewal has been paid by the proprietor, the Registrar may remove the mark from the register.
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What happens when a trademark expires?
If you let your trademark expire, you leave it open for another company or user to register and use it. If the products or services are different than yours, the other company may have an easier time acquiring your trademark.
What happens to a trademark when the owner dies?
What happens if the trademark owner dies without him assigning the trademark to another entity? Of course, the trademark dies with him. On the other hand, if there exists a will in which he left his assets, including the trademark to a particular individual, then the trademark is transferred to the individual.
Is it hard to get trademark?
Registering a trademark for a company name is pretty straightforward. Many businesses can file an application online in less than 90 minutes, without a lawyer's help. The simplest way to register is on the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's Web site, www.uspto.gov.
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Q: Doesn't on synchronization, multithreaading become non - multithreading? Then why do multithreading in the first place? Multithreading is when multiple threads execute concurrently. But, when the threads are synchronized, multi - threading does not happen. They work as normal thread. Then why do multithreading in the first place, if we have to synchronize it anyways?

A: If you're synchronizing your threads in the way that you describe then there's no point in multithreading. One place where you WOULD use multithreading would be parallel data processing. After you collect all necessary input you can run the threads independently of eachother without need for synchronization.

A: You don't synchronize so that you end up with threads never executing in parallel, rather you synchronize so that certain parts of the code are not executed in parallel.
Imagine two threads progressively reading values from a shared array, running some computation on them and then adding the result into a shared memory location.
The part with reading values needs synchronization to make sure that no two threads read the same value.
The part with adding the data into the memory location should be synchronized so the data is not being written by both threads at the same time.
The part with the computation can be done in parallel, and usually this part will be the most time consuming. Thus, this is how you benefit from multithreading.


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Bobby Nichols Intercollegiate
Bratton named 2018-19 All-American Scholar by WGCA
By Mike Lehman, TTU Sports Information
COOKEVILLE, Tenn. – Tennessee Tech women's golfer Hannah Bratton was recognized as an All-American Scholar by the Women's Golf Coaches Association (WGCA) Monday afternoon.
Bratton's recognition makes it five straight years that the Golden Eagle women's golf team has placed at least one student-athlete on the WGCA's All-American Scholar Team. The criteria for selection to the All-American Scholar Team are some of the most stringent in all of college athletics with a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.50.
"This is an outstanding achievement," Tech head coach Polk Brown said. "Hannah has done amazing work in the classroom and took some huge strides on the golf course throughout her sophomore campaign. We are very proud of her and this accomplishment speaks to her dedication both in the classroom and on the course."
The Golden Eagle sophomore was among a group of 25 from the Ohio Valley Conference included in the 1,097 players chosen throughout every NCAA Division as well as NAIA schools.
A native of Jackson, Tenn., Bratton concluded her sophomore season with a scoring average of 79.60 over 20 rounds of action and seven total events. She was named the team's Most Improved Player following the year by the Golden Eagle coaching staff. Working on her bachelor's degree in marketing, Bratton boasts a 3.90 GPA.
About the Women's Golf Coaches Association
The Women's Golf Coaches Association, founded in 1983, is a non-profit organization representing women's collegiate golf coaches. The WGCA was formed to encourage the playing of college golf for women in correlation with a general objective of education and in accordance with the highest tradition of intercollegiate competition. Today, the WGCA represents over 600 coaches throughout the U.S. and is dedicated to educating, promoting and recognizing both its members and the student-athletes they represent.
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Wed, 04/17 | Women's Golf OVC Championships @ Muscle Shoals, Ala. 6th place / FINAL RC | BX | R
Tue, 04/16 | Women's Golf OVC Championships @ Muscle Shoals, Ala. 6th place / second round RC | R
Mon, 04/15 | Women's Golf OVC Championships @ Muscle Shoals, Ala. 6th place / first round RC | R
Sat, 04/06 | Women's Golf Jan Weaver Invitational @ Murray, Ky. 8th place / FINAL RC | BX | R
Fri, 04/05 | Women's Golf Jan Weaver Invitational @ Murray, Ky. 5th place / second round RC | R
Sat, 03/30 | Women's Golf EKU Colonel Classic @ Richmond, Ky. 13th place / FINAL RC | BX | R
Fri, 03/29 | Women's Golf EKU Colonel Classic @ Richmond, Ky. 13th place / second round RC | R
Tue, 03/19 | Women's Golf Bobby Nichols Intercollegiate @ Sevierville, Tenn. 6th place / FINAL RC | BX | R


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Abstract: This paper attempts to quantify the private and public economic value of reducing obesity through pharmaceutical and medical interventions. We find that the economic value of such treatments, in particular bariatric surgery, is large for treated patients, with incremental cost-effectiveness ratios typically under $20,000 per life-year saved. Our approach accounts for competing risks to life expectancy, health care cost savings, and other non-medical fiscal consequences. Most of the therapeutic value is generated by longer healthy life expectancy, with modest contributions from health spending, taxes and other spending. Obesity treatment generates substantial per-period savings in medical costs, but it also raises lifetime medical and annuity costs by extending life. On balance, treatment generates substantial private economic value and lowers the prevalence of obesity, but the aggregate fiscal effects on the public-sector are small.