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American Family Care Inc., a network of walk-in medical clinics with offices in Alabama, Tennessee and Georgia, agreed to pay $1.2M to resolve allegations under the False Claims Act that it knowingly submitted claims to Medicare for outpatient office visits that were billed at a higher rate than was appropriate. The settlement resolves a qui tam lawsuit filed by Anita C. Salters, a former employee of American Family Care under the whistleblower provision of the False Claims Act. DOJ
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Florida-based hospital system Halifax Hospital Medical Center agreed to pay $85M to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act and Stark Law by executing contracts with six medical oncologists that provided an incentive bonus that improperly included the value of prescription drugs and tests that the oncologists ordered and Halifax billed to Medicare. The allegations were first raised in a qui tam lawsuit filed by Halifax Hospital employee Elin Baklid-Kunz under the whistleblower provisions of the False Claims Act. She will receive a whistleblower award of $20.8 million. DOJ
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Ocean shipping companies Sea Star Line and Horizon Lines agreed to pay $1.9M and $1.5M, respectively, to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by fixing the price of government cargo transportation contracts between the continental US and Puerto Rico, the Department of Justice announced today. The allegations were first raised in a qui tam lawsuit filed by former Sea Star Line executive William B. Stallings under the whistleblower provisions of the False Claims Act. He will receive a whistleblower award of $512,719. DOJ
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Shands Teaching Hospital & Clinics agreed to pay $26M to settle allegations that six of its health care facilities submitted false claims to Medicare, Medicaid and other federal health care programs for inpatient procedures that should have been billed as outpatient services. The allegations were first raised in a qui tam lawsuit filed under the whistleblower provisions of the False Claims Act. DOJ
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Larry Lehmann has agreed to pay $400,000 to settle allegations that he violated the False Claims Act in connection with the Federal Communications Commission's E-rate Program. The E-rate Program subsidizes eligible equipment and services to make Internet access and internal networking more affordable for public schools and libraries. The allegations were first raised in a qui tam lawsuit filed under the whistleblower provisions of the False Claims Act. DOJ
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Pharmaceutical Case Presents Novel Use of False Claims Act
(As reported in Thomson Reuters) When you think of a whistleblower, you might think of an employee reporting on the misconduct of some giant corporate employer -- a David versus Goliath scenario. On Friday, Reuters reminded us that this is not always the case, reporting on a False Claims Act lawsuit brought by a very different kind of whistleblower -- a corporate competitor. In this case, Amphastar...
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Lance Armstrong's Legal Woes Mount as Justice Department Considers Joining Fraud Case
By Jason Enzler A False Claims Act complaint filed against Lance Armstrong by former teammate Floyd Landis has leaked, despite the fact that it was filed under seal and the Department of Justice has not publically decided whether it will intervene. Although the DOJ was expected to make that decision last Thursday, there have been widespread reports that the decision would be postponed because DOJ officials are...
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More Trouble for Orthofix
By Marlene Koury Medical device maker Orthofix, Inc. this week obtained court approval for its June 2012 settlement proposal to resolve civil and criminal allegations that it defrauded Medicare through kickback schemes and overbilling for its bone-growth stimulators. Click here for the original government press release. The company will pay approximately $43 million for its misdeeds. This payment follows on...
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CVS Sub Caught Duping Consumers in Prescription Drug Purchases
By Marlene Koury In one of the first False Claims Act settlements involving Medicare's "Part D" prescription drug program, CVS Caremark subsidiary, RxAmerica, agreed to pony up $5.25 million to resolve charges that it submitted false pricing information to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). This is the government body that oversees the Medicare and Medicaid programs. It also makes available the...
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ATK — Government Contracting Fraud/Defective Product ($37 million).
One of our whistleblower attorneys led the representation of Kendall Dye, an engineer with what was formerly ATK Thiokol and is now ATK Launch Systems, who brought a qui tam action under the False Claims Act against ATK for selling defective flares to the United States military. According to the complaint, company testing revealed the flares could accidentally ignite if dropped from a height of as little as 11 inches. The flares burn at thousands of degrees, and are capable of burning through the hull of a ship, creating a significant safety risk. The government joined Mr. Dye's case, and ATK ultimately settled for $37 million, with Mr. Dye receiving a whistleblower reward of $9 million. See NY Times for more.
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ADMINISTRATIVE PANEL DECISION
Yahoo! Inc. v. Jorge O. Kirovsky
Case No. D2000-0428
1. The Parties
The complainant is Yahoo! Inc. a Delaware corporation with its principal place of business at 3420 Central Expressway, Santa Clara, California 95051, and represented by David M. Kelly ("the Complainant").
The respondent is Jorge O. Kirovsky, an individual with an address at Artigas 601, Colonia, Uruguay ("the Respondent").
2. The Domain Name(s) and Registrar
The domain names at issue are "yahooemail.net", "yahoofree.net", "yahoofree.com" and "yahoochat.net" (the "Domain Names"). The Registrar of the Domain Names is Network Solutions Inc. 505 Huntmar Park Drive, Herndon, Virginia 20170 – 5139, USA ("the Registrar").
3. Procedural History
A complaint was submitted with the World Intellectual Property Organization, Arbitration and Mediation Center (The "WIPO Center") on May 12, 2000 ("the Complaint"). The WIPO Center sent an Acknowledgement of Receipt to the Complainant on May 17, 2000.
On May 17, 2000, a Request for Register Verification was transmitted to the Registrar. On May 19, 2000, the Registrar confirmed by e-mail that the domain names "yahooemail.net", "yahoofree.net", "yahoofree.com" and "yahoochat.net" are registered with the Registrar and that the Respondent is the current registrant of those domain names.
On May 23, 2000, a Notification of Complaint and Commencement of Administrative Proceedings (the "Commencement Notification") was transmitted by email to the Respondent setting a deadline by which the Respondent could make a response to the Complaint.
On June 9, 2000, Respondent submitted to the WIPO Center its response ("the Response"). Respondent's response identifies himself as respondent and as the person to whom communications should be sent, confirms that Respondent is the owner of the domain names "yahoomail.net", "yahoofree.net", "yahoofree.com", "yahoochat.net" and agrees that the dispute is decided by three members of the approved list of panellists ("the Panel").
On June 23, 2000, Complainant submitted to the WIPO Center a Supplemental Submission ("the Supplement"). On June 28, 2000, Respondent submitted to the WIPO Center a Response to the Supplement ("the Second Response"). The Panel accepted these documents on [July 27, 2000].
On July 20, 2000, the WIPO Center sent a Notification of Appointment of Administrative and Projected Decision Date to the parties, in which Wolter Wefers Bettink, Mayer Gabay and Frederick Mostert were appointed as the Panel. The Panel finds that the Panel was properly constituted and appointed in accordance with the Rules and Supplemental Rules.
4. Factual Background
On the basis of the documents submitted by the parties the following facts can be established as agreed between the parties or insufficiently disputed.
The Complainant is the owner of nine US federal trademarks for the trademark YAHOO! (also stylized). The first was issued on February 25, 1997, and the last on August 24, 1999. The trademarks are registered for goods and services in the international classes 9 (computer software and networks, 16 (books regarding computer networks), 35 (promoting goods on an electronic site) and 42 (computer services).
Complainant began its web directory in early 1994 and now offers a wide variety of services using the YAHOO! Trademark, also in combination with a descriptive name of its services, such as YAHOO!Mail and YAHOO!Chat. Complainant offers various, popular websites under the YAHOO! trademark. For example, it offers free e-mail services at the YAHOO!Mail portion of its YAHOO! website. Complainant offers sites specific to particular countries, such as YAHOO.COM.FR and YAHOO.COM.UK, or directed to particular cities. Complainant also offers sites specific to particular population groups, such as ESPANOL.YAHOO.COM, directed to Spanish speakers around the world.
In most parts of the world YAHOO! is a well-known mark, by virtue of the millions of visitors to the YAHOO! network every day worldwide. Complainant currently has a market capitalization value of approximately U.S.$70 billion.
Complainant has 45,000 registered users in Uruguay, the country of domicile of Respondent. According to figures for April 1999, Uruguay had 90,000 Internet users. Yahoo! is therefore known by most part of the Uruguay's population that is a Internet user. This is supported by evidence of the number of page views of Yahoo! Websites from .uy addresses, which exceeded 4 million per month in May 2000.
Respondent registered the domain names "yahoomail.net" and "yahoofree.com" on March 8, 2000. It registered the domain names "yahoofree.net" and "yahoochat.net" on March 26, 2000. On February 15, 2000, Respondent had already registered the domain name "yahoo.com.uy". Respondent has linked the Domain Names to its Spanish language website on pets under the yahoo.com.uy domain name.
After the Complaint was submitted, Respondent registered the domain names "yahoochat.cl", "yahoofree.cl" and "miyahoo.cl". These also connect to the website offered under the domain name "yahoo.com.uy".
Also after the Complaint was submitted, Respondent on May 30, 2000, registered the trademark "YAHOO" in Uruguay and on June 2, 2000, established a business called "yahoo S.R.L".
Respondent has not offered any of the Domain Names for sale.
In June, hundreds of emails intended for Complainant have been received at Respondent's postmaster address at "yahoo.com.uy"
5. Applicable Rules
Paragraph 4(a) of the Policy directs that Complainant must prove each of the following:
(i) the domain name in issue is identical or confusingly similar to Complainant's trademark, and
(ii) Respondent has no rights or legitimate interest in respect of the domain name, and
(iii) the domain name has been registered and is being used in bad faith.
Paragraph 4(b) of the Policy sets out, by way of example, four circumstances, each of which, if proven, shall be evidence of the registration and use of the domain name in bad faith for the purpose of paragraph 4(a)(iii) above.
Paragraph 4(c) of the Policy sets out, by way of example, three circumstances, each of which, if proven by Respondent, shall demonstrate Respondent's rights or legitimate interest to the domain name for the purpose of paragraph 4(a)(ii) above.
6. Parties' Contentions
A. Complainant
In the Complaint and its further Submission, Complainant states that it uses the name Yahoo through its trademarks YAHOO!, mainly through websites on the internet. Complainant's trademark is famous, also in Uruguay.
The grounds for the Complaint are:
(1) the Domain Names "yahooemail.net", "yahoofree.net", "yahoofree.com" and "yahoochat.net" are confusingly similar to Complainant's trademark YAHOO! in accordance with Article 4(a)(i) of the Policy;
(2) Respondent has no rights or legitimate interest in respect of the Domain Names as provided in Article 4(a)(ii) in connection with Article 4(c) of the Policy. Respondent is not using and has not used or is not demonstrating and has not demonstrated an intent to use the Domain Names legitimately for providing goods and services in commerce. Respondent failed to illustrate its claim that it is commonly known by the name "yahoo" in Uruguay;
(3) the Domain Names "yahooemail.net", "yahoofree.net", "yahoofree.com" and "yahoochat.net" were registered in bad faith as provided in article 4(a)(iii) in connection with article 4(b) of the Policy. Respondent has registered the trademark "yahoo" in Uruguay and has set up the Uruguayan company "Yahoo S.R.L", after the filing date of the Complaint. Furthermore, Respondent has registered YAHOO-formative domain names in Chile and Mexico subsequent to the filing date of the Complaint. Given the uniqueness and fame of Complainant's trademark YAHOO!, Respondent merely uses the Domain Names with the intent to mislead and divert consumers or to tarnish Complainant's YAHOO! trademark for commercial gain.
Additionally, Complainant provides evidence of the fact that Uruguay had 90,000 Internet users as of April 1999 (Exhibit 24) and of the substantial traffic it receives from Uruguayan visitors.
In the Complaint, Complainant requests that Respondent transfers the ownership of the domain names in issue to it.
B. Respondent
In his Response and Second Response, Respondent states that since 1995 he has a business engaged in the sale of veterinary products and services, accessories and similar products. Respondent also states that he named his business "YAHOO" because that is the name of a dog in Uruguay, and it also is a word in Spanish meaning "beast". On February 22, 2000, he registered the domain name "yahoo.com.uy" and subsequently the Domain Names. Because of its prior use of the name "YAHOO", Respondent argues that he has a legitimate interest in the Domain Names.
Respondent also states that Complainant's trademarks are not famous in Uruguay, since of only 3,000,000 inhabitants less than 1% of the population are internet users [figure does not match Yahoo's figure above at 6A]
The trademark YAHOO! is therefore unknown for the greatest part of the population. Respondent was unaware of Complainant's trademark. Consequently, it has not registered its Domain Names in bad faith.
7. Discussion and Findings
a) Identical or confusingly similar
The Domain Names "yahooemail.net", "yahoofree.net", "yahoofree.com" and "yahoochat.net" are clearly confusingly similar to Complainant's trademark YAHOO!.
Moreover, "email" and "chat" are so closely associated with YAHOO!'s business that the combination with YAHOO! cannot be but confusing.
b) Rights or legitimate interests
Article 4(c) of the Policy states circumstances which demonstrate a Respondent's right or legitimate interest to a domain name. The article sets out by providing:
"Any of the following circumstances (…) if found by the Panel to be proved on its evaluation of all evidence presented, shall demonstrate your rights or legitimate interest to a domain name (…)".
Therefore, on the basis of this article, Respondent has the burden of proof of its rights or legitimate interest in the Domain Names.
Respondent argues to have a legitimate interest given its use of the domain name "yahoo.com.uy" for 'offering in good faith , products and services, before receiving notice of the dispute' (article 4(i) UDRP).
Respondent supports this by stating :
it has used the name "yahoo" since 1995 for a business engaged in the sale of veterinary products and services, accessories and similar products;
the name was chosen because of it being the Spanish translation for "beast";
its business is commonly known under that name in Uruguay;
in early 2000 Respondent decided to create a website to provide information on his products and services;
on February 22, 2000, it registered the domain name "yahoo.com.uy" for that purpose and thereafter the Domain Names;
all of these domain names were 'created in order to attract users to its main site to provide them information on its veterinarian services and products exclusively'.
As evidence thereof, Respondent has provided the Panel with a copy of the webpages of its website "yahoo.com.uy". According to the date at the bottom of the document, it was printed on June 1, 2000.
The website is in Spanish. On the home page, the name "yahoo" is used twice. Once, as part of a banner for Yahoofreemail and once as part of a disclaimer, indicating that "yahoo" is a registered trademark. No mention is made of Yahoo as the name of a shop for veterinarian products.
The website features information on pets. The menu on the home page comprises of ten categories, each leading to a single webpage. Some pages have photos of dogs; there is a picture of dog leashes and other accessories ; there are pages with information on Dog Training Schools, Veterinary Doctors and dog food. On none of the webpages mention is made of a shop for veterinary products and accessories, either under the name "yahoo", or any other name.
Respondent has provided evidence in the form of prints of web pages that each of the Domain Names leads to the website of Respondent under yahoo.com.uy. The print date at the bottom of these documents is June 1, 2000.
As further evidence, Respondent has provided, inter alia:
a copy of its registration form for the domain name "yahoo.com.uy", dated February 15, 2000;
an undated copy of an English translation of its Uruguay trademark registration form of the word "yahoo";
an undated copy of its company registration form for a business under the name Yahoo S.R.L.;
a copy of an English translation of a Limited Partnership agreement for a company under the name Yahoo S.R.L, dated June 6, 2000. In article 17 it is stated that the company will start business on June 10, 2000.
From the above and from evidence provided by Complainant which is either (1) not disputed or, (2) not disproved by any formal -evidence provided by Respondent- it appears that:
1) "yahoo" is not a common word in the Spanish language for "beast";
2) the domain name "yahoo.com.uy" was registered on February 22, 2000;
3) The trademark "yahoo" has been registered in Uruguay on May 30, 2000, therefore after Respondent received notice of the Complaint on May 23;
4) The company registration was made on June 2, 2000, again after the Complaint was notified to Respondent.
5) The Domain Names on May 3, 2000, led to websites "under construction", whereas the website under "yahoofree.com" allowed for the creation of a free email account which could be used to send emails.
From the above, it is clear that the facts submitted by Respondent to demonstrate its rights or legitimate interests are not proven, but are mere allegations unsupported by evidence. In particular, Respondent has not provided evidence that it used the Domain Names in connection with a bona fide offering of goods or services, prior to receiving the notice to him of the dispute on May 23, 2000, because the print date of the relevant web pages submitted by Respondent is June 1, 2000.
To the extent that the possibility to open a free email account on the yahoofree.com website – which was found and explored by Complainant on May 3, 2000, therefore prior to filing the Complaint - could be considered an offering of services, it is considered that this apparently was not bona fide. This conclusion is drawn from the many unproven, disproven and contradictory allegations of Respondent referred to above and the fact that he applied for the company and trademark registrations on which he relies as well as a number of other domain name registrations under the .cl and .mx ccTLD's after the Complaint was notified to him.
From the facts referred to above it is also clear that Respondent has not provided evidence that he was commonly known by the domain name (article 4(c)(ii) UDRP), nor that he was making a legitimate non-commercial or fair use of the domain name without intent for commercial gain to misleadingly divert consumers or to tarnish the trademark or service mark at issue (article 4(c)(iii) UDRP).
In conclusion, under the circumstances of this case, it should be held that Respondent has no right or legitimate interest in the Domain Names "yahooemail.net", "yahoofree.net", "yahoofree.com" and "yahoochat.net" in accordance with Article 4(c) of the Policy.
c. Bad faith
Article 4(b) of the Policy states circumstances which are found to be evidence of the registration and use of a domain name in bad faith. Article 4(b) (iv) of the Policy determines that evidence of bad faith is found if:
"by using the domain name, you have intentionally attempted to attract, for commercial gain, Internet users to your website or other on-line location, by creating a likelihood of confusion with the complainant's mark as to the source, sponsorship, affiliation, or endorsement of your website or location or of a product or service on your website or location."
Complainant has submitted evidence that in its opinion proves Respondent's bad faith.
Complainant has used its trademark YAHOO since early 1994 and it has become famous and well-known internationally. Complainant's trademark is also well-known within a substantial segment of the Internet sector of the public in Uruguay. Respondent registered the Domain Names in the beginning of this year. It is unlikely that Respondent was unaware of Complainant's trademark at that time.
This impression is reinforced by the fact that Respondent argues to have consulted the website "www.nameprotect.com" before registration. The main object of this website is to check a domain name for corresponding trademarks.
Respondent has admitted that it checked that website for domain names containing the word YAHOO. However, when it subsequently found some 200 domain names with that word, Respondent did not check the existence of corresponding trademark registrations. As Complainant has submitted, the first option on the "nameprotect" website is to check for corresponding US federal trademark registration. If one fills out YAHOO and enters the "search" command, a list appears which includes the nine trademark registrations submitted by Complainant in this case.
On the basis of the above, it is likely that Respondent knew or should have known of the existence of the trademark rights of Complainant.
This in itself is insufficient to conclude that the Domain Names were registered and used in bad faith. There are, however, other circumstances which make it likely not only that Respondent knew of Complainant's trademarks, but also that he used them to attract Internet users to his website for commercial gain by creating a likelihood of confusion with Complainant's mark.
First, while Respondent professes to trade only in Uruguay, he has also registered several domain names and trademarks containing the word "yahoo" in Mexico and Chile.
Second, these registrations took place after the Complaint was notified to him.
Third, Respondent has in fact provided direct evidence of confusion, i.e. that Internet users are actually confused, since Respondent has received hundreds of emails on its site "yahoo.com.uy" which were apparently intended for Complainant. Although Respondent alleges that this was a consequence of actions of Complainant, no evidence thereof has been provided..
In conclusion, The Panel finds that by having registered the Domain Names, it should be held that Respondent has intentionally attempted to attract, for commercial gain, users to its site, by creating confusion with complainant's well-known mark YAHOO!.
The Panel has, accordingly, based its conclusion that the Respondent registered and used the domain names at issue in bad faith on Section 4(b)(iv) of the UDRP. Nonetheless, it is important to note that Section 4(b) specifically stipulates that: "...the following circumstances, in particular but without limitation..." (emphasis added) shall be evidence of bad faith. The Panel is, therefore, not limited to rely on these four circumstances enumerated in Section 4(b). Additional circumstances from which bad faith can be inferred are particularly relevant in the present case and will, therefore, in the interest of thoroughness, be examined.
In accordance with the international legal principles relating to famous and well-known marks, it has been recognized that bad faith will, more often than not, be inferred from the circumstantial evidence, since intent is a subjective state of mind 1. Circumstances on which tribunals have tended to focus include such factors as to whether there is a close similarity between the respective marks; whether the mark at issue is inherently distinctive (being arbitrary, fanciful, coined or invented) or has acquired distinctiveness (i.e. become famous or well-known); whether the mark was adopted by a defendant as a foreign language word in the local jurisdiction, whether a defendant's explanation of why it chose a mark that "coincidentally" is very similar to a famous or well-known mark defies all credulity 2 and whether (in a UDRP case) the Respondent filed a trademark after the Complainant had objected to the domain name registration by Respondent 3. In weighing such circumstances, a case-by-case approach is usually adopted since each case will depend upon its own special circumstances. It is unlikely that the trier of fact will find the presence or absence of any one factor to be determinative but the overall picture that emerges from the totality of the evidence may be dispositive.
In the present case, the Panel finds that the circumstances from which bad faith on the part of the Respondent can be inferred are compelling. The series of domain names registered by Respondent (YAHOOEMAIL.NET, YAHOOFREE.NET, YAHOOFREE.COM and YAHOOCHAT.NET) are almost identical and certainly similar to the Complainant's YAHOO! mark. In fact, the Complainant's YAHOO! mark is not only fanciful but also an international well-known mark constituting one of the most famous marks in the on-line world today (see the Panel's decision above at 7c.; see also WIPO decisions Yahoo! Inc. v. David Ashby, Case No. D2000-0241 and Yahoo! Inc. v. Eitan Zviely, et al., Case No. D2000-0273 and Yahoo! Inc. v. Akash Arora & ANR, High Court of Delhi, February 19, 1999). Respondent's explanation of coincidentally registering a series of almost identical domain names is not convincing. If anything, Respondent's own evidence tends to point in the opposite direction. Not only is there no evidence to support the statement that a "dog" with the same name gave Respondent the idea to adopt YAHOO as a name for his business and, accordingly, his domain name, but the only evidence tendered by Respondent demonstrates that his business and company under the name "Yahoo S.R.L." was, in fact, only formally registered after the filing of the complaint. In addition, as pointed out above, the Respondent applied for several other YAHOO formative domain names and trademark applications after the Complainant filed this case. Furthermore, the Complainant has provided evidence to demonstrate that the word YAHOO has no known meaning in the Spanish language in Uruguay. Consequently, the registration of the word YAHOO as a series of domain names by Respondent in Uruguay in an almost identical format to a foreign well-known mark requires the Respondent to explain such similarity to justify the coincidence. A mere allegation unsupported by evidence, by Respondent that the word YAHOO means "beast" in Spanish is not sufficient to explain the coincidence. Moreover, it is inconsistent for the Respondent to rely on an alleged Spanish meaning for the word YAHOO when the domain names registered by him also just happen to prominently feature foreign English words such as "EMAIL" and "CHAT" which, in turn, constitute services for which the Complainant is known amongst internet users. Use of these domain names also appears to be inconsistent with the fact that, according to his own allegations, Respondent is only in the business of veterinarian products and services. As set out above under 6B. Respondent's other arguments and actions also contradict each other, such as the fact that his website does not prominently depict the name YAHOO - allegedly Respondent's company's name 4.
In the opinion of the Panel, all these coincidences do accumulate in hoc casu. As Lord Denning once remarked: "the arm of coincidence may be long but it does not reach to infinity". In sum, based on the overall evidentiary circumstances, it is the view of the Panel that there are a sufficient number of circumstances present from which to infer that the Respondent registered and used the domain names in bad faith and intended to trade upon the reputation of the Complainant's famous and well-known mark YAHOO! to confirm the Panel's decision under the Section 4(b)(iv) on this issue.
In sum, the Panel believes that the pre-emption and interception of a famous and well-known foreign mark by simply registering it first as a domain name in the local jurisdiction , should not be sanctioned or seen to be sanctioned in the interest of preserving the integrity of the global trading system of the new economy 5.
8. Decision
In light of the foregoing, the Panel finds that the Domain Names "yahooemail.net", "yahoofree.net", "yahoofree.com" and "yahoochat.net" are confusingly similar to Complainant's trademark YAHOO!, that Registrant has no legitimate interest in respect of the Domain Names and that the Domain Names have been registered and used in bad faith and consequently, the Panel decides that the Domain Names be transferred to Complainant.
Wolter W. Bettink
Presiding Panelist
Mayer Gabay Frederick Mostert
Dated: August 9, 2000
1. James A. Carney (1991) "Setting Sights on Trademark Piracy: The Need for Greater Protection Against Imitation of Foreign Trademarks" 81 TMR 30 at 41, 55-56; J. Thomas McCarthy (4th Edition) "McCarthy on Trademarks and Unfair Competition" at paragraph 23.113.
2. See, for example, RH Macy & Co Inc. v. Trade Accents (Singapore High Court, 27 June 1991) [1992] 1 SLR 581 at 589.
3. Lion Nathan Limited v. Wallace Waugh (Case No. D2000-0030).
4. Primaily, the fact that Respondent received through the Domain Names hundreds of e-mails intended for Complainant, evidences the bad faith nature of Respondent's use of those Domain Names, deliberately distracting internet traffic from Complainant.
5. In this context the observations of the court in the VACA QUE RIE "Laughing Cow" Fromageries Bel SA v Ivaldi, Enrique, La Ley (Argentine Supreme Court, Federal Chamber, Buenos Aires, June 26, 1963) case is noteworthy to the effect that the law "…should not allow slavish copies of trademarks registered abroad". (Reported by E.D. Aracama Zorraquin, La Piraterie Des Marques En Droit Argentina, La Propriйtй Industrielle 339 at 342-343 (November 1982).
Источник информации: https://internet-law.ru/intlaw/udrp/2000/d2000-0428.html

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Gursky might be the most influential and successful photographer you never heard of.
Andreas Gursky might be the most influential and successful photographer you never heard of. He has created a new aesthetic where flat, dull, nothingness is magnified. To many, he may appear ordinary but he is far from that. His images can be epic and monumental. The son of a commercial photographer, he was born in Leipzig, Germany in 1955 and grew up in Düsseldorf. Using a large 4×5 format camera, he creates a world where the individual is tiny and insignificant. Coming from the "Düsseldorf school", Gursky approaches his art methodically and constructs his images with great detail using standard photography and digital manipulation. Before the 1990's, Gursky did not manipulate his images digitally but since then, he has been open about his reliance, to enhancing his work digitally. Typically, he shoots multiple images of a subject. Sometimes, he may shoot at different times of the day to get the look and composition for which he is striving. Known for his large-scale prints of architecture, landscapes, environmental and urban patterns, he often employs an elevated vantage point.
Gursky has a very neutral objective approach that strives for a linear structure and it's that linear structure that first captured my respect. He said, "I'm looking for moments when reality corresponds to the composition of a painting". New York's Museum of Modern Art described the artist's work as, "a sophisticated art of unembellished observation".
The 1999 "Rhein II" is one of Gursky's favorite photos. He said, "It says a lot using the most minimal means. For me, it is an allegorical picture… about the meaning of life and the way things are…and about the fullness and emptiness".
Art history was made when an anonymous buyer paid a record-breaking $4.34 million for Andreas Gursky's photograph of the Rhein II. Incidentally, he also owns the record for the second most expensive photograph called "99 Cent", which sold for $3.3 million. The Rhein II may very well be his favorite when you consider the amount gained by its sale at New York's Christies in November 2011.
First, I could not believe this image was so ordinary although I was attracted to the linear lines and was amazed that the land was so straight. I believed it to be natural and not manipulated.
Second, after reading that he manipulated the photo, my feelings of a "rip off" came to mind.
Third, I was curious, who this guy was and I asked myself why his photographs were selling for more money than the great masters I have always respected. How could this be? His photographs are selling for more than Edward Steichen, Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Weston, Ansel Adams, Walker Evans, Roy DeCarava, etc.
The art and photographic worlds were buzzing about the photograph and its merits. People declared this justification that photography is now cemented as an art medium banishing any naysayers. That statement alone aggravated me because I think Alfred Stieglitz already proved that point in the early part of the 20th century. The first photograph was made by the "camera obscura," in 1814 by Joseph Niépce. Are we still having this discussion in 2012? I digress. Others say it's a random snapshot and just didn't understand the fuss.
Now months later, I finally did my homework and reviewed Gursky's work. To appreciate him, you need to look at his body of work. Looking at one image will not sell you on his greatness. I agree that he is a great artist but my enthusiasm for him is not extreme. By that I mean, I'm in no rush to purchase a print because his work is just not my style. Nevertheless, I recognize his impact and cannot help to be inspired by what his work represents.
I'm reminded by my first blog, "The Rules of Art" and how there are none. I put the question to you. What do you think of his work and his influence? Great artists are often misunderstood, however, Gursky does not appear to have that problem. Is there something the art world knows that the general public is unaware of? I can tell you I have used a 4×5 camera and there is nothing snapshot about it. It is a labor-intensive piece of equipment. He is composing his work and there are no accidents. Is the Rhien II a piece of art worth $4.34 Million above all the great masters? Please join the conversation and tell me what you think?
Much of my education on Gursky came from this video A Gursky World by Ben Lewis. Ben's enthusiasm for Gursky is so great it made me want to like Gursky even more. I highly recommend this video if you want to learn more about Gursky.


The Ralf coffee table is a new design item signed by the famous company Meridiani, that once again has introduced a high quality product during the Milan Design Week 2016.
The Italian designer Andrea Parisio, combining basic shapes, succeed in creating a small table characterized by simple and clean lines, but with a strong personality. The Ralf small table consists of two round tops held together by a light metal frame (bronzed brass or matt black painted). The base is in marble and the top is available in wood (matt or glossy lacquered), or in marble. The Ralf small table is a refined design piece of furniture perfect to be mathced a seating system of the Meridiani collection or to enrich every environment.


Whenever any regex action is performed, there is a required step of processing the textual regex pattern and producing the 'machine' that actually applies the instructions provided by the pattern.
If the regex is a single use one, this is simply an unavoidable step, but when a regex is going to be used more than once, it is inefficient to repeat this identical event multiple times.
To help solve this problem, cfRegex introduces a Regex Object, allowing the regex pattern and modes to be compiled once into a variable, which can then be re-used as many times as necessary, with different actions, input text, and/or parameters.
This can allow both performance improvements and greater readability.
For all three of these examples, only pattern is required - the modes are optional. For the tag syntax, the comment mode is on by default, which means whitespace is ignored (except in some situations, see the documentation on comment mode for full details).
Where action is any of the methods on the object, as listed on the Actions page.


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Middle Jurassic monster discovered for the first time in Germany
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Like the T-Rex, it stood on two legs, but lived a few million years before the famous predator. Researchers have just identified the "Minden monster", a formidable predator, but also the largest carnivorous dinosaur ever discovered in Germany.
Its genus was previously unknown, but it appears to have undergone rapid diversification during the Middle Jurassic, around 160 million years ago. The « Minden monster » is not only the first carnivorous dinosaur from this period to be unearthed in Germany, but it is also the largest ever unearthed in the country. Which calls into question the spread and development of the large groups of carnivores that we knew before, and which came only from China or North America.
The specimen discovered here measured between 8 and 10 meters in length, weighing around two tonnes – but it was, according to the researchers, probably not fully developed at the time of its death. The fossilized bones and teeth were discovered in 1999 during a routine inspection in a disused quarry in the Wiehengebirge, a mid-mountain massif, located on the borders of Lower Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia. The fossilized remains were recently re-examined by paleontologists Tom Huebner and Klaus-Peter Lanser, in collaboration with Oliver Rauhut of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.
Credits: palaeo-electronica
Among the fossils were found a maxillary bone, an incisor bone, two caudal vertebrae, ribs and teeth of exceptional size, with a root length measured at nearly 30 centimeters. All remains were embedded in marine sediments. But it is known, however, that in the Middle Jurassic large areas of what is now central Europe lay below sea level, and that the shallow waters of this sea were dotted with he is.
These islands therefore seem to have been the refuge of a wide range of carnivorous dinosaurs, some of which reached very large sizes. We know that most of them belonged to the group known as Megalosaurus, which is the first large carnivorous dinosaur that we know of. The tyrannosaurus will only appear 80 million years later.
An ancient river in Jordan polluted by humans 7,000 years ago
Strange hydrogen particles detected in the upper atmosphere
On this gas giant, it's hell despite a sky made up of the same mineral as sapphires and rubies
Against planned obsolescence, a company creates a wear-resistant autonomous solar motor
How to properly clean the tongue?
He survived two months of drifting in the Pacific Ocean
Pirahã, the "strange" language in the world according to this linguist
In Tasmania, these blue, bioluminescent waves are as beautiful as they are disturbing
Stephen Hawking announces he will soon be going to space
From a cosmic point of view, humans were born « premature »
Online courses to learn how to survive on Mars!
New creatures discovered at the bottom of the ocean


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Women and men are different right down to their toes! Women tend to have more foot problems than men. Why is that? Your shoes may carry some of the blame, but biology also plays a role in causing your foot pain.
Women not only cram their feet into every fashion fad, they also go through pregnancy that changes many parts of the body, not excluding the feet. Hormones cause your body to function differently and estrogen can both help and hurt your feet throughout your lifetime.
At Milwaukee Foot & Ankle Specialists, we have a female podiatrist in Milwaukee that understands every ache your foot can experience. There are a number of common foot and ankle problems in women that we see frequently and know how to solve for you.
Women wear a variety of shoes like heels, ballet slippers, flip flops, clogs, boots, and more. Most shoes do not have good arch support and many women's shoes don't have enough space to allow for an orthotic. The lack of support for your arch puts extra stress on your plantar fascia and Achilles tendon. Eventually, that stress turns into pain.
Women with heel pain tend to ignore it longer than men because they grow accustomed to having pain related to shoe wear. If you have plantar fasciitis or Achilles Tendonitis, you shouldn't wait to treat your pain – it only gets worse and harder to cure.
A bunion is a bump on the side of the great toe. It can cause pain in your joint and decreased motion. Bunions are caused by mechanical instability and genetics – blame your mom, not your shoes! A woman's bunion is not much different than a man's bunion, but it tends to cause more problems. Women often wear narrower shoes, therefore your bunions may cause irritation and pain.
There are many reasons why women have hammertoes. Some common causes for hammertoes are genetics, poor foot alignment, and nerve disease. Shoes with wide toe boxes are typically not considered fashionable. Even if you don't care about foot fashion, wide toed shoes are hard to find. This results in women squeezing their toes into shoes without enough room. Many women suffer from hammertoes and this condition is seen among all ages.
A Morton's neuroma is inflammation of a nerve in the ball of your foot. The main cause of a neuroma is compression of the nerve between the bones. Once again, your footwear is a common culprit for this problem. Narrow shoes will squeeze your foot and cause irritation to your nerve over time. As your nerve becomes inflamed, it can cause burning, tingling, or pain in your toes.
Pregnancy will change your body in many ways, but you should never ignore your feet during this time of your life. You have enough on your plate and you don't need foot pain to make things more complicated.
Pregnancy most commonly causes swelling in your legs and feet. Many women will even notice a change in shoe size. While buying baby supplies, new moms often neglect making sure their own shoes fit properly. Nine months later, you may have a new baby and a new foot problem. Ingrown toenails are very common due to tight shoes and nail trimming habits inhibited by a baby bump.
That extra bundle of joy is also an extra bundle of weight you are putting on your feet. Without proper arch support, your feet are going to take a severe beating. Plantar fasciitis and Achilles tendinitis are common ailments for pregnant feet.
Women are always on the go! Combine that with shoes with no shock absorption and your bones are going to take a beating throughout the day. Heels, ballet slippers, and most sandals provide little cushioning between the hard floor and your feet. Over time, that constant pounding can cause stress fractures. Women are at an even higher risk of stress fractures because of low bone mass. This becomes even more prevalent after menopause when women have less estrogen protecting their bone health. Women athletes are also at high risk for stress fractures.
At Milwaukee Foot & Ankle Specialists, we take a comprehensive approach to treating your feet. As a female doctor, I've taken on the critical role of training and teaching our staff about women's foot health. Our office also carries a number of products that will help keep your feet and toenails healthy and looking great.
If you are a grandmother, mom, professional with a dress code, or a female athlete, you will find solutions to your foot and ankle pain with our compassionate staff and doctors.
To make an appointment at any of our four conveniently located podiatry offices in Wisconsin (WI), call 414.257.0676 today. We offer same day appointments, as well as a $25 Initial Savings Certificate for your first visit.
While our podiatry offices are conveniently located in Wauwatosa, New Berlin, Mequon, and Oak Creek, WI, we offer services to patients in and around Milwaukee, Wisconsin (WI) including Franklin, Brookfield, Fox Point, Hales Corner, Waukesha, West Allis, Menomonee Falls, and South Milwaukee.
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Today it was announced that Beyonce has been cast as Nala in the upcoming live-action remake of The Lion King. When I first heard Disney was making a live action Lion King , I was super excited! This is because I made the assumption that there would be either live people or animals performing the action of The Lion King for me. This assumption was wrong.
Who wouldn't want to see a Milo And Otis-style Lion King in which Pumbaa disappears halfway through the movie because Simba kept eating him in real life? Or a Lion King cast with real people where the lion is a metaphor and it's mostly just Hamlet. Either scenario sounds pretty great to me, but what I'm apparently getting instead is a CGI version of The Lying King.
Calling it "live-action" is just a fancy rebranding of CGI because everyone is sick of CGI. None of the things happening in that movie will be happening live. What will be happening live is Beyonce and Donald Glover running around in Gollum mo-cap suits. At least, that's what I hope will be happening, because I would pay a lot more money to see that. I need to know how Beyonce would manage to make green spandex look good. At least Disney's "live-action" Jungle Book movie had one real person in it. Unless they're planning to expand Simba's friend group to include a dope human kid named Jeremy who skateboards around the Savannah, there's not going to be a single real thing in this film. So how can Disney call it live-action?
It's like someone asking me if I want a cookie, which sounds great, and then they say, "Well, it's a cookie, but it's made entirely of eggs." That's not a cookie, you monster! It's food, but it's not a cookie. You can call Jon Favreau's Lion King a movie, but you can't call it a live-action movie unless they bring in a bunch of real lions, which I'll admit sounds like a bad idea.
What are our standards for an event being live now? If I made a computer simulation of Donald Trump kicking a baby dressed as Uncle Sam and called it a live-action video, that would not be accurate. So why does Disney get to call The Lion King live-action? We can call it a slightly more realistic Lion King, but that's the most I'm willing to give it.
I understand why it can't actually be live-action. The Pumbaa budget alone would be massive. But if we're going to call something live-action, can we have footage of at least one actual living thing in it? And can that living thing be Beyonce? Please?


Don't miss out on an impeccable 10.73 acres of lakefront land in the great city of Auburndale. Two story home with 4 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms. This property also features a HUGE workshop with plenty of room for your toys, storage, and much more. Also featuring a balcony on the second floor, attached to the master bedroom to display the gorgeous view of Lake Arietta. The possibilities are endless with this hidden gem.


Wordless Wednesday – Beach Models – It's a Pibble's Life!
Looking good whatever way you look at it!
So cute! Tippy won't look at the camera either. I can't even imagine trying to get 3 to look at the same time.
It was impossible! There was too much going around us and Wilhelmina just wanted to play with the other dogs!
I think all these shots are great! You are all beautiful dog models, good job!


The method described gives clear, clean visualisation of dual reporting functionality by using standard OrgVue functionality.
The following is a worked example.
Create two datasets in the Lookup tab.
In the main dataset, you will need to ensure that Line Manager ID is a text property (from the property dialog).
In the property dialog for Line Manager ID in the main dataset, click on the eye until it says dataset, then select from the drop down list the correct lookup dataset.


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import java.util.Set;

import net.onrc.onos.api.flowmanager.FlowBatchId;
import net.onrc.onos.api.flowmanager.FlowBatchOperation;
import net.onrc.onos.api.flowmanager.FlowBatchState;

/**
 * Interface of the flow batch map.
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interface FlowBatchMap {
    /**
     * Gets {@link FlowBatchOperation} object having {@link FlowBatchId} as its
     * ID from the map.
     *
     * @param id the {@link FlowBatchId} to be used for getting the object
     * @return {@link FlowBatchOperation} object if exists, null otherwise
     */
    FlowBatchOperation get(FlowBatchId id);

    /**
     * Puts {@link FlowBatchOperation} object to the map.
     *
     * @param id the {@link FlowBatchId} to be used for the object
     * @param flowOp the {@link FlowBatchOperation} object
     * @return true if the object was successfully added
     */
    boolean put(FlowBatchId id, FlowBatchOperation flowOp);

    /**
     * Removes {@link FlowBatchOperation} object from the map.
     *
     * @param id the {@link FlowBatchId} to be used for removing the object
     * @return the removed {@link FlowBatchOperation} object if exists, null
     *         otherwise
     */
    FlowBatchOperation remove(FlowBatchId id);

    /**
     * Gets all {@link FlowBatchOperation} objects existing in the map.
     * <p>
     * The changes to the returned set does not affect the original map.
     *
     * @return a set of {@link FlowBatchOperation} objects
     */
    Set<FlowBatchOperation> getAll();

    /**
     * Sets {@link FlowBatchState} to the specified {@link FlowBatchOperation}
     * object.
     *
     * @param id the {@link FlowBatchId} of the {@link FlowBatchOperation}
     * @param state the {@link FlowBatchState} to be set
     * @param expectedState the {@link FlowBatchState} expected as the previous
     *        state
     * @return true if the ID existed, the previous state was the expected state
     *         and successfully updated the state
     */
    boolean setState(FlowBatchId id, FlowBatchState state, FlowBatchState expectedState);

    /**
     * Gets {@link FlowBatchState} of the specified {@link FlowBatchOperation}
     * object.
     *
     * @param id the {@link FlowBatchId} of the {@link FlowBatchOperation}
     * @return the {@link FlowBatchState} of the {@link FlowBatchOperation} or
     *         null if the object does not exist
     */
    FlowBatchState getState(FlowBatchId id);

    /**
     * Adds a listener for listening events related to the map.
     *
     * @param listener the {@link FlowBatchMapEventListener} to be added
     */
    void addListener(FlowBatchMapEventListener listener);

    /**
     * Removes a listener for listening events related to the map.
     *
     * @param listener the {@link FlowBatchMapEventListener} to be removed
     */
    void removeListener(FlowBatchMapEventListener listener);

    /**
     * Checks if the specified flow batch operation is stored in local storage.
     *
     * @param id the ID of the batch operation
     * @return true if the specified batch operation is stored in local storage
     */
    boolean isLocal(FlowBatchId id);
}

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I am a mechanical engineer graduated from India.I have 2 years of experience as a production engineer in a tyre manufacturing industry.Now I am studying in university of Windsor for Masters.I have classes only for two days in a week. I am available at all other days at any time.I can assure that my student successfully learn maths and can also support physics and chemistry .
I have a strong academic background.I have scored 97 percent in my high school final exam and have cgpa of 8.2/10 in my bachelor's program.My love for Maths helped me achieve this.
In my experience ,Mr sebin has a good knowledge in the field of mathematics and moreover he is good teacher. He knows how to deal with students and make them understand the subject without any difficulties.
Teaching or the ability to teach is an innate talent. And I personally feel this guy is blessed with it. One of the best teachers I have come across. He understands our level of grasping speed pretty well and structures our basics carefully. You will definitely fall in love with Mathematics if he is your tutor.
I know Sebin for the past 5 years. He is excellent in Maths. I used to get a lot of help from him whenever I had doubts while studying maths. He used to describe the equations and methods beautifully and that helped me a lot in my academics. I am sure that Sebin can very well teach students and make them fluent in Maths.
He is very successful in his academics.He had a keen interest in maths and had participated in many Maths quizes in district and state level.He uses uncomplicated methods while approaching complex problems.
He taught me mathematics during my master's ,I had forgotten all the basics of calculus and he helped me gain good marks.
I know him very personally since my childhood and has been a great support in learning maths.He taught me easy methods to solve lengthy problems and several mathematical tricks.My fear for Maths has reduced with his help.
I know him personally . He taught me a section of my engineering maths. It really helped to understand the topics thoroughly and the fear of maths is taken away from my mind and his class helped me to love the subject very much.
My teaching methods are based on chalk and board and presentation.I also give home work and assignments to the students.


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Q: Use Chatbot script in Index.html with a condition I am working on a chatbot module and I want to show the chatbot on the website for a certain condition
this is my index.html file and the marked script is the chatbot script. I want to detect a word (new-york) from the URL and on the basis of that toggle its visibility.

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Most men hate shopping; at least for clothes. It is pure torture. So we have no resistance to someone making those episodes far and few in between. Your female counterpart, who loves to shop, has much frustration trying to get you to liven up your wardrobe. However, following one simple rule can give both of you satisfaction in the shopping arena. That rule is: less is more. It is widely known within fashion circles that the best way to revitalize a look is with accessories. A man's closet can benefit from those minuscule wonders as well as a woman's. Follow along as we work together to give your wardrobe a facelift.
The first step in deciding what to include with this makeover is who are you dressing for. If it is just for your personal satisfaction, it calls for one way. If you are trying to impress others, you may want to try something totally different. Right out of the gate, you want to spend some time reviewing your clothing inventory. It is not out of the way to take each item out of the closet and lay it on the bed or hang it on something to get a better picture of what you are working with. You may find that mixing tops and bottoms from different outfits create a look that is pleasing. Once that is done, you can go about choosing your accessories.
Start with your most popular dress style. If you are a casual kind of guy, then look for accessories that enhance that look. Something as small as a lapel pin on the collar of your shirt will make a huge impact. Men wearing ear rings is widely accepted now. Most designs don't blend with the skin tone. In order to stand out they contrast the gem and metal color. Likewise, a lapel pin with a bright stone or metal against a soft color will bring newness to any basic shirt. Another item is a tie. Yes, the tie is carving a strong presence in the casual world. There are ties that are made just for such wardrobes. In keeping with the leisure look, you don't want to cinch it up to your neck as you would with a suit. You want to let it hang just below second button. If you find it difficult to let it all hang loose like that with your ties, then consider investing an ascot. It is the grandfather of ties, but it easily lends itself to the casual scene. The best for you is that it can be worn close to the neck just how you like it. It is also worn as a scarf.
Speaking of scarves, the old air plane pilot style of draping a scarf over your shoulders with one hanging to the front on one side while the other hangs toward the back on the other side never went out of style. Though it is not seen much, it doesn't cause stares when it is seen. Don't forget about handkerchiefs. They are no longer reserved just for blowing your nose and then returned to your pocket. Believe it or not, some bold souls are using them as shoe laces in their hi tops and flats. With the gender boundaries being challenged and erased, it opening up new styling cues. A less daring but equally stylish move it letting corner of the handkerchief hang out of your pocket about four inches. Who knew that insignificant items like ties, lapel pins, scarves and handkerchiefs could do so much in the way of bringing life back into a drab dress code.


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Tweet The Heat
Earthwatch Institute
Twitter - the missing link between citizen science and climate research.
Image credit:IGOR Cesar Daeuble
What do you get when you mix a global environmental non-profit, volunteers going on 19 climate change research projects around the world , a scientist on one of them studying permafrost that's becoming oxymoronic, a renewable energy company, a local environmental non-profit that greens urban, underserved neighborhoods, a steel drum band, and Twitter (www.twitter.com/tweettheheat )?
Here at Earthwatch, we're not exactly sure, yet.
But we'll know by August 13, when our annual Beat the Heat Climate Change Campaign kicks off at Boston's Museum of Science.(If you're in the area, a legal beer drinker, and have lots of friends who are, get your tickets online by August 7 and you might win a private tasting tour for up to 80 people at Boston's esteemed Harpoon Brewery. Who says there can't be beer in the battle against climate change?)
You may remember that last year I got put in a skirt and stood in a washtub in uncomfortable proximity to my boss and another colleague, all for the cause. This year, I'll be keeping my pants on, but we're still trying new things by launching a Twitter follower challenge to support the campaign.
(I'm also told that our CEO wants to set up a kiddie pool full of ice and get committed climate change warriors to donate to see who can stand in it the longest. This being August, in Boston, I'll go first.)
If we can reach just 350 followers (why does that number sound so familiar to you?) on www.twitter.com/tweettheheat by August 13, First Wind-a wind-power company based in Newton, MA-will make a donation to support Earthwatch's climate change research worldwide and to support a community-planting effort organized by Roxbury, MA-based EarthWorks Projects, Inc. (No connection to Earthwatch save the similar name).
Then, if we meet the challenge, Beat the Heat Climate Change Campaign volunteers from both the Earthwatch and First Wind communities will work together with EarthWorks and their neighborhood partners this fall on a tree planting, community garden, or other greening project in the Boston area.
(As you may know, Boston is in the midst of an ambitious campaign to increase its forest canopy cover-and thus help fight climate change, improve air and water quality, boost biodiversity, and enhance neighborhoods-from 29% to 35% by 2030. Efforts are being focused on the city's poorest, least-green neighborhoods.)
If all of this-a fundraising party, a Twitter challenge, a three-way partnership between two non-profits and a green company, a tree planting, 19 different research expeditions, beer, steel drums, me risking frostbite a year after risking gender confusion-sounds like we're throwing everything at the wall to see what sticks in our climate change efforts, that's because we are.
We've got to. There's no time left to dither over the perfect strategy, and too much work to be done, with too many people-especially new people-to be engaged in the struggle in basically any way possible.
Dr. Peter Kershaw, the Earthwatch scientist who will be the featured guest at this year's Beat the Heat event, tells us that the variety of studies he's been leading with the help of Earthwatch volunteers who journey to the Churchill Northern Studies Center in Manitoba, Canada, or to a second site in the Mackenzie Mountains, provide troubling signs of the rapidly changing climate (pdf file). The depth of permafrost thaw at a Goose Flats study site in the Mackenzie Mountains has doubled, and the site is about to become permafrost-free. Tree ring studies in the Hudson Lowlands near Churchill confirm growth rates and origin dates linked to warming events. Also in Churchill, higher amounts of accumulating snow atop permafrost in summer means that the permafrost retains more the heat of the warmer months, leading to more of it melting, which in turn makes it easier for more snow to accumulate. Accumulate, melt, and repeat. If climate models are right, the first two steps will happen in greater and greater quantities.
And so it goes until the perma ain't. When you factor in the theory that as permafrost melts it releases vast amounts of stored CO2 and methane which, as greenhouse gases, could in turn accelerate global warming trends and lead to more melting permafrost and more released gases, ad globus nauseum, you've got two very frightening feedback loops potentially in play.
Unless we do something-anyway we can-seeing how long you can stand in a pool of icy water isn't going to be much of a party trick anymore. It'll be the daily grind for lots of people.
So, yeah, bring on the climate change cocktail parties (this one's carbon-neutral for the third year running, by the way, outside with no AC, and near public-transit), the silly photo-ops, the brewery tour contests, and the Tweets-in addition to all the hard work being done by scientists and volunteers in communities worldwide. The more the merrier.
Follow Beat the Heat today at www.twitter.com/tweettheheat , spread the word, and thanks. I hope you can make the climate change party, wherever you are. I'll be the guy in the ice, checking Twitter.
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Sweat Summary: Here's your chance to bend it like a ballerina. Trained dancer Donna Flagg developed Lastics as a method of improving flexibility, based on techniques dancers use to stay limber and toned. The 60-minute DVD is based off her popular stretching workout class in NYC.
1 Remote: Skip it. This workout left us feeling more like a couch potato than a small-screen exercise queen.
2 Remotes: We might rent, but not buy.
4 Remotes: Who needs a gym when we have access to this all-star fitness workout on demand.
Full Review: It took a few days to finally pop in the Lastics stretching workout DVD; whenever there was an hour to exercise, sweaty boot camp classes were calling our name. But after a few days of back-to-back workouts, the body needed a break—and a good stretching session.
It's a no-sweat, low-calorie burning routine, but that doesn't mean it wasn't an effective workout. The full-body session includes prop-free stretches that use your natural bodyweight to lengthen muscles and relieve tightness. It's a tune-up for your body to keep it working properly and feeling great.
The first half of the routine included lots of standing stretches and forward bends, which were great for reliving tension in the hamstrings and back. (Be sure to drink water and eat something light beforehand—going into forward bends on just a cup of coffee can leave you feeling a little lightheaded.) The second half featured stretches performed sitting and lying down, including a creative hip flexor and quad stretches as well as a twisting series that will leave you feeling perfectly aligned and elongated, immediately.
Lastics is slow-paced, and concentrates on developing body awareness, but stretching isn't yoga. Movements are small, and Flagg's instructions and cues are superior. If you're new to stretching, or it's been awhile since you've dusted off your tights and tutu, be sure to watch the special segment dedicated to common stretching mistakes. Available at lastics.com ($20).
1. Sit with knees bent, hip-width apart, feet flat on the floor, keeping hips aligned with shoulders and core engaged.
2. Wrap arms underneath legs, and get a strong grip on opposing wrists. Push hamstrings down into arms while pulling arms up into hamstrings so that you're pushing and pulling at the same time.
3. Use that leverage to sit up tall, lengthen and straighten spine, reaching top off the head toward ceiling. (Don't hunch over knees or lean into them).
4. Keeping spine lengthened, lift ribs up and slide them forward into thighs. (Think of pushing ribs forward by using the muscles in your back). Lift chest slightly getting even taller and take a deep breath in (pictured).
5. Round back as you exhale, rolling back onto sits bones and hollowing out chest, creating C curve with spine. Lower chin to chest. Take 3 slow breaths; return to sitting with a tall spine. Repeat 2-3 times.
What To Wear: No shoes, but you'll need a yoga mat. Wear a semi-to-fitted tee or tank top to prevent material from inhibiting range of motion in your shoulders and to serve as a reminder to keep the core engaged.
Editor's pick: The Fly-By Mesh Stretch Tank from Under Armour; it's snug without being too tight (underarmour.com, $30), and the non-slip Prosperity Print Yoga Mat will help keep you steady during stretches (gaiam.com, $22).
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Fast-growing Indian E‑commerce Attracts Businesses
Resilient and growing online sales piques interest of European brands
By Federico Piazza
While in China Alibaba is facing a government squeeze and tax investigations, things are not going well for Jack Ma in India either. In fact, Delhi's ban on many Chinese apps continues, one result of the diplomatic and commercial dispute between the two countries after the clashes on the Himalayan border in the summer of 2020. Among the businesses affected is AliExpress, Alibaba's branch handling online exports for Chinese companies.
In fact, in India Alibaba is struggling to catch on. And that's no small matter, considering that India is the world's fastest growing online market. From 2018 to 2020, its value has risen from 50 to over 60 billion dollars.
This in a country that has 665 million internet users, of which 140 million buy online, 80% of whom do so from a mobile. This is a market that will be worth 150 billion in 2022 and 200 billion in 2026, when internet users are projected to top 800 million.
At this rate, in fifteen years India will become the second largest e‑commerce market in the world.
"In recent months we have seen an exponential growth in online transactions made through the major Indian e‑commerce giants. Online sales in India have largely recovered the ground lost in the period of the lockdown imposed by the authorities in March and, according to recent estimates, has grown by 20% compared to January 2020," observes the Italian ambassador in Delhi, Vincenzo De Luca.
Today the two e‑commerce operators competing for leadership in India are the American Amazon and the Indo-American Flipkart, controlled by the U.S. firm Walmart. Then there is the third wheel, JioMart, launched a few months ago with very ambitious objectives by one of India's largest retailers Reliance, which has 12,000 physical stores on the subcontinent.
Reliance is part of the eponymous conglomerate, headed up by billionaire Mukesh Ambani, which boasts the largest stock market capitalization in Mumbai, with a business diversification that also includes energy, petrochemicals, telecommunications and textiles. We should also remember that there is a fourth operator with important ambitions in online commerce, Tata, also a large conglomerate operating in various sectors.
"Indian e‑commerce will grow from 80 billion in 2021 to 200 billion in 2027," assure Abhishek Shankar and Kundan Kumar, business consultants with over 15 years of experience in the Indian market and founders of AdStuck, a Mumbai company specializing in e‑marketing and e‑sales strategies as well as technologies for digital business transformation.
In India they assist various brands with positioning in the online market, including companies like the German shoe manufacturer, Birkenstock, for which they have overseen the creation of the first digital store in the country. Other European brands also boast a substantial presence in India, both on generalist online portals and with their own e‑commerce sites; Zara and Marks & Spencer in clothing, for example.
Amazon, Flipkart, and Reliance-JioMart are making many acquisitions of both sector-specific online platforms and operators with physical stores, in a challenge to consolidate in an Indian retail market that is currently worth 850 billion dollars, and which is forecasted to rise to 1300 billion by 2025.
A market still fragmented and poorly organized, especially for the majority of physical stores. In the online arena, Shankar and Kumar offer the example of the Myntra and Jabong portals "which were leaders in the fashion category and were acquired by Flipkart."
Flipkart is also the partner chosen by ICE-Agenzia to develop the Made in Italy marketplace in India. The Italian Mall online store has been operational since 11 December, with 300 available spots and an unlimited number of products for Italian companies in eight different categories: food (excluding wine and spirits, not marketable online in India), personal care, jewelry, design and furniture, household items, eyewear, fashion, and leather goods. As of now, 160 Italian companies have applied and 22 are already online.
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I usually use Comply tips for my um2's but I feel like trying something different. I've also heard stories that comply tips are not good for bass and I'm a bass addict. Anything you can recommend?
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Custom tips are the next step if you have decided you have gone as far as you can using Comply. These are custom made from impressions taken by an Audiologist of the inside of your ear. It is a weird experience having your ears filled with goo but the eventual results are fantastic, the best isolation and a very comfy fit with no chance of falling out.
Although you can have a good look at the sleeves we currently offer, ACS no longer make sleeves for Westone. You can still get a good idea of how these work and there are other custom sleeve manufacturers out there.
There are other solutions but this is the one I know best.
Customs are *the* best option. Comply Foam Tips are the next best thing; they act like a custom ear injection with every use, filling the ear canal to provide an excellent seal that isolates noise and is extremely comfortable.
Our tips actually help improve bass. By sealing the ear canal, the bass that is normally lost with silicone tips is funneled into the ear. So unless you go the custom route, you're in a very nice place for sound. The next thing to examine is the earphone set you're using. What are you using?


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Paper Dreams
Research into thinner-than-paper carbon-based electronics opens new ways of living in the world — and it isn't science fiction anymore
By Robert Price
Imagine sensors that attach to the body like a second skin and detect biomarkers that come out of sweat. Paper-thin television screens that roll up like blinds. Comic books with animated pages. Heart monitors that attach directly to the heart. Medical sensors that dissolve inside the body.
Some of these applications of carbon-based electronics are still a dream away. Others are already happening in a laboratory run by Benoit Lessard, where the paper-thin circuitry rolling off printers has the potential to change the daily lives of Canadians in countless ways.
Super Thin, Super Team
Organic electronics, also known as carbon-based electronics or printed electronics, differ in important ways from their silicon sisters. Unlike traditional silicon chips that need temperatures of thousands of degrees and high purity, carbon-based electronics can be manufactured faster and at a much lower cost. Functional conductive inks can be produced with inkjet printers on paper or specialty plastics that bend and stretch.
If it sounds like science fiction, it's because it is—or has been. Ultra-thin, bendable, wearable, ubiquitous tech has been a staple of science fiction for about as long as the genre has existed. The tech is finally reaching maturity for mass market deployment. But researchers still have a lot of work to do before anybody's using a newspaper with moving images to swat flies.
"One of the challenges is that [printed electronics] are less efficient and so therefore a lot of the research is on trying to increase its efficiency or to tune it for a certain application," says Lessard, who is an associate professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the University of Ottawa.
For Lessard, who is a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Advanced Polymer Materials and Organic Electronics and a world expert on the technology, the unresolved problems of this computer circuitry fascinate and challenge his research team. The team includes chemists and engineers who work together to test new materials and creative applications. They constantly experiment. A chemist will make five different molecules—all slightly different—and hand those molecules to the engineers who process them into film and use the films in an application.
"And then we optimize in that way and go through, you know, hundreds of molecules and figure out which one is the one that's great," says Lessard.
What the team produces is baffling. Some of the electronics are so super-thin–one tenth the thickness of a single hair and transparent to boot—the group needs high-power imaging technology, like the synchrotron at Canadian Light Source, to make sense of what's happening inside the materials.
When the group discovers cracks—literal cracks in the ink that carries currents—they work to solve the problem. That might mean going back to the chemistry to align molecules better or change the process so that the inks dry in a way that leads to better performing applications.
A daily question for the lab, Lessard says, is "How do we mitigate those cracks and how do we make better-performing materials?" The joy comes through trying to get the molecules exactly right.
Testing Food, Testing Pot
Carbon-based electronics sound sci-fi, but they're already on the market.
One recent example uses organic electronics as sensors for cannabinoids, like THC and CBD. Sensors on the market are expensive and require a lab run by a PhD, since the THC and CBD molecules are structurally similar. It's a costly affair that can't be avoided, either. Growers growing for medicinal cannabis want a high CBD ratio and low THC content, and those growing for recreational uses want high THC and low CBD. And the hemp industry doesn't want any THC in their plants because otherwise they're no longer categorized as hemp.
To lower the cost of testing, Lessard's group spun out a start-up company called Ekidna Sensing. Launched in 2022, the company sells a test kit that uses printed electronics to test samples for cannabinoids. The precision in the printed sensors is impressive. Ekidna Sensing's kits can differentiate the molecules and determine the quantity of each present.
It's a small example, but it demonstrates the revolutionary potential that inexpensive, highly calibrated organic electronics can have on an industry.
Another example—one closer to home for most people—is smart packaging. Smart packaging is the kind of application that might, in a few years, be so commonplace that it becomes invisible, the sort of tech that children will assume has been around forever. It's also one Lessard's group is championing through its research.
Smart packaging has enormous potential to reduce food waste, save billions of dollars in food production, and help consumers across the globe save at the checkout lane by fine-tuning best before dates. As it happens right now, the best before date on a loaf of bread, a carton of milk, or a block of cheese is a statistical average. "And actually, it's quite inaccurate," Lessard says. Milk that goes directly from the grocery store, into a cooler, and then into the fridge, has a best before date that is far more accurate than milk that rides the bus in a plastic bag in 35C weather—which is how many Canadians get to and from the grocery store.
Lessard says he's spoken to bread companies who say that if they can extend the best before date by one day, they'd save billions of dollars.
"It's huge because 50 percent of food is thrown out," says Lessard.
Smart packages with smart sensors can show the best before date in real time. One day, Lessard says, a person will be able to run a phone over the pack of ground beef they found in the back of their fridge. The app will activate a printed sensor that detects amines that come off decaying meat. If the sensors detect any amines, the app will alert the consumer that the meat is close to spoiling or spoiled. With a series of sensors available across the food supply chain, retailers and suppliers will be able to determine exactly where along the chain food spoils, allowing them to burn only what needs to be burned, rather than burning everything.
Applications like sensors for amine, E. coli, salmonella, and other bugs aren't available yet, but other applications, like temperature sensors for pharmaceuticals, are nearly there, and smart wine labels have already arrived.
Wine collectors spend a lot of money on their collections. The average $5,000 bottle of wine will travel some 5,000 kilometres before it's consumed.
"But if you're actually the person who wants to drink the $5,000 bottle of wine, you want to make sure that it isn't spoiled, and you want to make sure that that bottle in all that flying and travelling never went above 35 degrees or below zero. You want to make sure," says Lessard.
Enter smart labels that change colour if the bottle ever goes above a set temperature, giving wine collectors accurate information about whether that $5,000 bottle of wine is a $5,000 bottle of vinegar.
Lessard says that working with such a malleable technology delivers the versatility he craves.
"I don't know if it was an insult, but someone called me a scientific mercenary once, and I think that's what's sort of beautiful about this," he says. "I love that one day I can talk to a biochemist who wants to research concussions and we can make a concussion sensor that can do the scans he needs. And then the next day I'm making better batteries, and then the next day it's making flexible displays."
Like a mercenary, Lessard dives into any challenge and fights all battles.
"The fact that I get to touch so many different things, and I can tell so many different stories, is quite appealing to me. I never get bored."
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Throughout the year, the campus and community are home to numerous art exhibitions where the talents of both faculty and students are on display. Many are organized and coordinated through the Rosemary Berkel and Harry L. Crisp II Museum.
Check the Museum Calendar and the University Calendar to locate a complete listing of art displays, exhibitions and receptions.
Here is just a sample of some of the annual art exhibits sponsored by Southeast.
Created by students in the Computer Art Summer Workshop and is displayed during August.
Southeast has an outstanding and talented art faculty, including the 2003 Missouri Art Educator of the Year, Dr. Edwin Smith. Each year, an exhibition is held in the Southeast Missouri Regional Museum which features the various media works of the faculty. The exhibition traditionally is held in January.
This annual keystone exhibition features the works of graduating majors from the Department of Art. The exhibition includes painting, sculpture, graphic design and drawing.
The best, most recent artwork created by 10th, 11th and 12th grade promising young artists from area schools in Southeast Missouri, Southern Illinois and St. Louis may enter up to 50 pieces of their artwork to compete for inclusion in this exhibition. The event is held in February.
Installation art is putting an art piece up in a specific site with attention to its surroundings and to interact with the environment. Displays of installation art occur throughout the campus during the academic year.
This annual exhibition is held in the Southeast Missouri Regional Museum and is a showcase for works created by students in their classes during the academic year. From more than 300 entries of paintings, sculpture, drawings, fine crafts, graphic designs, prints and illustrations, a non-Southeast professional juror chooses 30 to 40 works to display at the museum.
The works from the culmination of a four-week summer workshop in which individual students and artists develop original, creative designs.


Amid reports of covert efforts to mobilise support for the convention of the Odisha Jan Morcha (OJM) of dissident BJD leader Pyarimohan Mohapatra, the BJD leadership in Sundargarh district is watching aides of sacked minister SP Nayak like a hawk.
Sources said Nayak who returned from Bhubaneswar on Saturday is in a fix as he seems to be under compulsion to prove his unflinching loyalty to BJD supremo Naveen Patnaik.
While Nayak has time and again distanced himself from Pyari, names of his aides are being raised with suspicion by Nayak's detractors.
Scores of posters of OJM were found in Uditnagar, Amabagan and Bondamunda areas.
However, the BJD leaders seem to attach little significance to Pyari's support base in the district. They said lesser-known entities of the Nirman Mazdoor Sabha and a few others having little acceptability are seeking to take some construction workers for the head count.
Rourkela BJD president A Mohanty said the impact of OJM is negligible and estimated that hardly 150 labour class people from the district would participate in the convention. Mohanty said that Minister Subrat Tarai, Nayak, Rajya Sabha member Mangla Kisan and a host of elected BJD leaders are camping in the district to keep BJD flock together.
While dozens of OJM followers are reportedly left for Bhubaneswar by the Puri-Rourkela passenger train, remaining are likely to leave in the night by train and buses.
Meanwhile, BJD workers on Saturday evening burnt the effigy of Pyari at Biju Patnaik Square. Similar programmes have been scheduled for Sunday at different locations of the district.


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Q: error=216, This version of %1 is not compatible with the version of Windows you're running I'm having issues with running my first project in Android Studio.
My system information is:

I installed Android Studio 3.3 for Windows 64-bit from here:
https://developer.android.com/studio/?gclid=Cj0KCQiAj4biBRC-ARIsAA4WaFghk17DIUiHKwmX4-yiQfRpBRkxKqR8beYvgZE2mN5hmgAi2uWtFYQaAgpSEALw_wcB
However, when I create a new empty project and try to run it I get the following error:
error=216, This version of %1 is not compatible with the version of Windows you're running
I tried using the embedded jdk and also changing it here (using jdk I installed previously for other purposes):

I also get the following error:
Emulator: Warning: restoring GLES1 context from snapshot. App may need reloading.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Thank you.