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April 27 Zodiac Sign, Love Compatibility
From a global standpoint of view, Western astrology as we know it today has many "roots" such as Astrology of Hebrew Astrology, Kabbalah, and others perhaps less significant and familiar to the common reader, but still there, present and meaningful in a certain way. All of these influences gave a special touch to the science of Astrology and our understanding of fate and impact of the stars on people.
And by western Astrology, we mean Astrology that most of us feel like defines what astrology and Zodiac signs are in its core, it is the knowledge that we feel IS Astrology. This astrology functions on the basis of the division of the Zodiac into the twelve fields (houses) and the horoscope signs through which the Sun, the Moon and all the other planets that create the known Solar System.
This "western" Astrology is based on the movement of the Sun through the Zodiac, so that each of us based on its date of birth (the data necessary for the precise creation of the Natal horoscope are: day, month, year, hour, minute and place of birth), with the exact position of the planets in that specific time.
The essence of this is that every person at its birth has his own "personal card" – that represents "the image of the sky" at the time of one's birth. Amazing, right? Well, in this article we are speaking of birthdate April 27 and Zodiac sign Taurus. You could see that date of birth is very important and inseparable part of an astrological analyse, and extra attention is mandatory to it.
Personality and character
People born on April 27 leave a substantial impact on their environment, they are influencers, people who have something meaningful to say, they are those charming individual who others like to follow. They have great projective power, and their ideas are respected so their presence can be felt even when they are not there – people of the April 27 are those people who have a strong energetic field that attracts everything that is around it. In principle, these persons like to be on the side, and the position of the leader is not very tempting for them, even if it is very clear that these people are born to be the leaders and society's greatest humans.
Sometimes they are not aware of this fact, and they can spend their lives in neglecting their primary need – to lead and to make changes in society.
It is rare that they are preoccupied with social life so that these people usually get into relationships within an organisation they work with; people who are born on the April 27 don't have time to look for social partners outside their work environment in which they spend a lot of time. If they work alone at work, they are not lonely; they are occupied with their work. They are neither jealous of those who are more prosperous and more popular than they are – we could even say that these people are entirely deprived of these feelings, and sometimes their environment can underestimate them. They do not need to admit others because they know exactly whether they have succeeded or not. They have the ability to stick with their own flaws and to turn very quickly to other projects. In essence, these are people who are enough for themselves, but we could not say that these people are loners, because they are not; they are always surrounded with many people, close and distant.
When personal relationships are concerned, these people from their love partners seek great understanding of their privacy; and more importantly, they need to be left alone while they are working especially.
Some representatives of this date have to bear in mind that such behavior can lead to overwhelming isolation as well as intolerance towards others, but this situation rarely happens.
We have already said that people who are born on April 27 often find their love partners in the work environment since they can develop close ties to their co-workers. But in their case, this is a right thing and maybe the best possible love solution for them.
In their core, these people belong to the Taurus Zodiac sign that is an earthly sign, and as such, they love everything that is tangible and material. They are the people who in love like obvious demonstrations of passion, they like to be adored, and they give the same treatment back to their lovers. Of course, what is mandatory for their partners is to be aware that people of the April 27 need to have a free space, even in a long-term relationship.
They are very tactical but pleasing to their lovers and like to treat them with things like quality and delicious food, good wines, luxurious furnishings, artwork, good cars and tangible goods. They like to be surrounded by comfort and luxury, and it is the perfect environment for them and their lovers.
Deep inside, those who are born on April 27 are incredibly sensible and responsive to subtle touches rather than roughness, and even if they can seem like they are the people who enjoy roughness, they don't.
When these people are in love, can forget about their wisdom, and in certain situations can sink into some madness. They love being in love and having someone next to him, and it is a strong motive in everything [it works. His temperament is, in fact, the result of a deeply-based passion.
Purpose and Career
As all Taurus people, those individuals who celebrate their birthdays on April 27 dedicate themselves to their work, wholly and entirely; if they have a specific idea, they will pursue that dream until their make it their own reality.
In work and business environment people of the April 27 are traditional and wise. As we have said, these people are adorned with a certain charisma, and they are those who are followed; they are the leaders of any team, even if that part is not the basic idea and their primary goal in their work. On the contrary, these things are far from what these people want but are also something that regularly happens to them. They are excellent in any job that requires reliable and effective presentation of a particular idea or a business plan that is why they are excellent public relations people, managers, etc. Careful in their lives and work also, they like to plan things, and if something does not go as they expected, they will make things better with their charm. His goal in life is to have a comfortable home, a warm fireplace, a real partner and a good life. It loves safety in every sense, both in work and in love, in career and in other lifespan.
Symbols, Colors, Lucky numbers
The time has come for the symbolical analyses of this date, and part of that process is an examination of the numerological influence of a ruling number that is, in this case, a numeral 9. It is a significant number in numerology, and also in the astrological sense, and it is the number that gives people who are under its impact a strong influence on people in your environment. Passing through the experience of all other numbers that is the number 9; it gives wisdom and tolerance. They often know what's best for everyone, and they often play each other's father and everybody's mother.
Their ruling planets are Venus, that is responsible for all Taurus people, and under the government of the planet Mars. Under the great influence of the energetic Mars who is ruling this day as well as the feminine Venus who dominates the Taurus, these people have a well-constructed male-female principle and are very easy to function both in male and female society.
From this, all of that charm and attraction comes, even if it is an attraction that they don't want, or is not their primary goal.
Their number is 9, and their color is magenta – purplish-red, reddish-purple color.
Historical events on April 27
These are events that happen in the past and made a permanent impact on humans, so these occurrences were recorded, and they all happened on the April 27.
1521- Archbishops from the Philippine island Maktan killed Portuguese sailor Ferdinand Magellan, who led the expedition on the first voyage around the world.
1810 – Ludwig van Beethoven composed a miniature For Elizabeth, a birthday gift for a girl because he had forgotten to buy her a gift.
1813 – The US military, under the command of General Price, occupied by Toronto during the Anglo-American War.
1908 – Fourth Summer Olympic Games opened in London.
1909 – The group "Young Turks" fell back to the rule of Turkish Sultan Abdul Hamid.
1941 – The World War II: German troops entered Athens.
1950 – The United Kingdom acknowledged Israel.
1960 -Independence of the African state of Togo, a former French colony, was declared.
1978- The Afghan military forces took power in the country and established a government based on Islamic principles.
1992 – The Zambian military aircraft, that carry a football team of the African country, fell into the Atlantic Ocean. All 30 passengers died.
1993 – Eritrea gained independence from Ethiopia after three decades of prolonged civil war and a referendum in which its citizens voted for independence.
1994 -The African National Congress won the first black election in South Africa's history.
1997 – Hong Kong, officially opened the longest floating railroad bridge in the world, connecting the city with a new aerodrome.
2005 – Airbus A380 had its first trip as the world's largest passenger plane.
Famous people born on April 27
In the section below take a look at the people who rise from anonymity and made something out of their lives, and what they all share is their birthday – April 27. See who they are and what did they do in their lives, or still do.
1737 – Edward Gibbon, an English historian.
1759 – Mary Wollstonecraft, an English writer of Irish origin and a woman rights fighter.
1791 -Samuel Finley Breese Morse, an American painter and inventor of the telegraph.
1820 -Herbert Spencer, a British philosopher and one of the founders of sociology.
1878 – Mary Guadalupe Garcia Zavala, a Mexican saint.
1891 – Sergei Prokofiev, a Russian composer and pianist.
1935 – Theodoros Angelopoulos, a Greek filmmaker, and screenwriter.
1952 -George Gervin, an American basketball player.
1963 -Russell T. Davies, a British screenwriter and producer.
1971 – Arturas Karnishovas, a Lithuanian basketball player.
1976 – Walter Pandiani, an Uruguayan football player.
1986 – Dinara Safina, a Russian tennis player.
1995 -Nick Kyrgios, an Australian tennis player.
There are many words, phrases and attributes that we could use to describe people who are born on April 27, and they can be in a first place described as typical Taurus people. They like security, comfort, and are dedicated to their work.
What is different in their lives, is that they are incredibly charming people who can make their success just by using their charm; they are the people who others gladly follow in whatever they do or say.
But as all Taurus, these people like to have safety and security in their life (work and love), they are true hedonists, they like to indulge in all the blessings. Often they find their perfect lover in their work environment, but it is out of great importance that their long-term partner follows them in everything they do, simultaneously giving them freedom and independence.
Some people say that those who are born on the April 27 are people who seek the attention, that can sometimes be counterproductive, but we will not agree to this statement, we think that these people don't seek the attention, it finds them, and they successfully use it for their own benefit.
In the end, we can maybe conclude that their goal in life is to have a comfortable home, a warm lover, a real partner and a good life. It loves safety in every sense, both in work and in love, in career and different lifespan, and they direct their actions in this direction.
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Blaklion heads 16 runners for Randox Health Becher Chase at Aintree Racecourse
Nigel Twiston-Davies' eight-year-old set to bid for Aintree glory on way to return to Merseyside for Grand National
Chris WrightRacing Reporter
Nigel Twiston-Davies' Blaklion and the past two winners - Vieux Lion Rouge and Highland Lodge - head the final 16 entries declared for Saturday's Randox Health Becher Chase at Aintree Racecourse.
Blaklion, who was a fine fourth in the Randox Health Grand National in April on his first try over the famous Aintree fences, is now a best-priced 11-4 favourite with Skybet, Betfred and totesport for the 3m2f feature.
He was put through his paces at Twiston-Davies' Grange Hill Farm stable earlier this week and is ready to try and enhance his claims for Grand National glory on April 14 in the new year. The eight-year-old, who is also 20-1 favourite for the world's greatest steeplechase, will carry 11st6lb in the Becher and is set to be ridden by Gavin Sheehan.
Dual Grand National winner Twiston-Davies is the most successful trainer in the Becher Chase, having sent out five winners with the most recent, dual scorer Hello Bud in 2012.
Left to right: The Last Samuri, Vieux Lion Rouge and Highland Lodge in the 2016 Becher Chase at Aintree Racecourse on Saturday, December 3 2016
The first three home from last year's renewal of the Aintree feature - Vieux Lion Rouge, Highland Lodge and The Last Samuri - are among the entries in the £145,000 Grade Three contest.
David Pipe's Vieux Lion Rouge is a best-priced 8-1 with Boylesports, Unibet and Betway to become only the third dual winner in the race after Into The Red (1994 and 1996) and the aforementioned Hello Bud (2010 and 2012).
He is set to be partnered by regular rider, Everton FC fan Tom Scudamore, and the eight-year-old will carry 11st5lb this time.
Jimmy Moffatt's Highland Lodge, who was only beaten a short-head by Vieux Lion Rouge, is also back for a fourth crack at the race and will carry 10st5lb.
Henry Brooke is again in the saddle and he is a best-priced 10-1 with Ladbrokes and Coral.
Kim Bailey's The Last Samuri must shoulder top weight of 11st12lb under David Bass. He was third in the Becher in 2016, having been runner-up to Rule The World in the big one prior to that effort.
He is an 8-1 chances with several bookmakers including William Hill and Betfred to finally land a success over the famous Aintree fences.
Fergal O'Brien's Viva Steve will be making his debut over the Grand National fences.
The nine-year-old, who will carry 10st5lb in the Becher, won a three-mile handicap chase at Ayr last November on his debut for the stable.
He finishing fourth on heavy ground in the Kerry National at Listowel in September and is a 16-1 chance with Skybet, Betfred and bet365 for the Becher.
Trainer O'Brien said today: "Viva Steve had a little break and seems in good old form. "He ran well in the Kerry National and seems to go well fresh, so it was always the plan to head straight for the Becher after Listowel.
"We will have to wait and see how he takes to the fences, but he is a nice, straightforward horse who will handle the ground. "Johnny Burke has done plenty of schooling on him and knows him well."
As De Mee (right) on the way to finishing fifth behind winner Ultragold (left) in the Randox Health Topham Handicap Chase at Aintree Racecourse on April 7 2017 Picture by Alan Crowhurst/Getty Images
Another Grand National-winning trainer Paul Nicholls has won the Becher Chase three times and this year relies on As De Mee, who is a 10-1 chance with most bookmakers
The seven-year-old, who will carry 11st2lb and is set to be ridden by Sean Bowen, won over the National fences on Becher Chase Day in 2016, when taking the 188bet.co.uk Grand Sefton Chase over 2m5f. He was also fifth over the same trip in the Randox Health Topham Chase at the Grand National Festival in April.
There are four Irish-trained contenders this year looking to build on the Emerald Isle's four success in the Becher. They are Jim Culloty's 2014 Cheltenham Gold Cup hero Lord Windermere; the Mouse Morris-trained 2016 Irish Grand National victor Rogue Angel; Eogham O'Neill's Westerner Point and Portrait King, from the Patrick Griffin stable, who will carry just 10st.
Portrait King is owned by Liverpool-born Jim Beaumont and former Blundellsands resident, Scot Douglas Pryde - who won the Grand National with Auroras Encore in 2012.
Colin Tizzard's Sizing Codelco, who won valuable handicaps at both the Grand National and Punchestown Festivals in the spring, is also entered; as are soft ground specialists Goodtoknow, from the Kerry Lee stable and the Venetia Williams-trained Vic De Touzaine; plus 2016 bet365 Gold Cup winner The Young Master, for trainer Neil Mulholland and Aintree specialist, amateur rider Sam Waley-Cohen.
Completing the field are two more for Grand National-winning handlers - Donald McCain's recent Kelso winner Federici and the Sue Smith-trained Straidnahanna.
Declared runners for the other six races on Becher Chase Day, including the 188bet Grand Sefton Handicap Chase over the Grand National fences, will be known tomorrow (Friday).
The first race at Aintree is due off at 11.55am with the finale - the Grand Sefton - scheduled for 3.10pm.
The going at Aintree is currently soft, heavy in places on the Mildmay and hurdles course and heavy, soft in places on the Grand National courses.
There was 12 millimetres of rain on Wednesday night going into today, but the rain has cleared and it has been a brighter today.
There is a chance of sleet and snow showers overnight into Friday, with colder temperatures.
Further sleet and snow showers are also forecast on Friday but Saturday is expected to be brighter, with temperatures of around five degrees Celsius.
Vulnerable areas of the course were covered today.
Tickets and hospitality for Becher Chase Day are available to purchase at www.aintree.thejockeyclub.co.uk or by calling 0344 579 3001. General admission tickets are £20 per person, while there are a number of hospitality packages available.
If you are 18-24, you can go FREE to this Aintree fixture by signing up and purchasing a RacePass ticket online at www.racepass18to24.co.uk
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Q: having trouble with java programming and toString() Okay, so I am completely new to all this Java programming stuff, and my knowledge of it is very little, but for my work, I am to:

Create a class that represents a rectangle. A rectangle is specified
  by the coordinates (x, y) of its top-left corner and its width and
  height. This class will be used to create many rectangle objects, and
  it must feature

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*dynamic fields (variables) to store x, y, the width and height as fractional numbers;

*a constructor with parameters that provide x, y, the width and height;

*a function that returns the area of the rectangle;

*a function that returns the length of the perimeter of the rectangle; and

*a function that returns the string representation of the rectangle, the four numbers, within a pair of parenthesis, separated by commas
  [this function must be named toString()]

  Write, in a separate class, a main method that accepts the four
  numbers as command line arguments, instantiates a rectangle object,
  and prints the string representation of the rectangle, the area, and
  the perimeter.

so basically if it works, it should look like :

java TestRect 1 2 3 4
  rectangle = (1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0)
  area = 12.0
  perimeter = 14.0

okay, sorry, for before, but umm, after reading your answers, ive made some changes, im still not entirely sure if this is what you guys mean, but:
i added
TestRect1 r = new TestRect1();

to TestRect (the main class) made the changes :
  System.out.println("rectangle = " + r.toString());
  System.out.println("area      = " + r.area(w, h));
  System.out.println("perimeter = " + r.perimeter(w, h));

to TestRect1 (the other class with all the formulas), and i got rid of the "static" stuff
and added :
   public double x;
   public double y;
   public double w;
   public double h;

so when i compile them, they both compile, no errors, but when it comes to actually running the program, where i type in
java TestRect 1 2 3 4

the error pops up saying:
javac: invalid flag: 1
usage: javac <options> <source files>
use -help for a list of possible options

A: Since this is homework we shouldn't give you the full answer. You've obviously learnt what a class is and what an instance of a class is.
Your current problem is that you are not actually creating an instance of a Rectangle class. What you have is a simple class with nothing but static methods.
So as a hint to get you on the right track:
You need a class that you can create an instance of like so:
Rectangle rect = new Rectangle(x,y,width,height);

A: Since you are trying to learn Java, i would refrain from posting the complete code. instead let me point out issues in your code.

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*You have not followed the first two instructions in your spec.

Declare member variables in the Class for x,y,width and height
Create a constructor which takes these 4 variables as arguments and assigns the class members to them

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*All the methods in the class can then be declared non-static and need not take any arguments because you have those variables stored as class members.

A: Your TestRect1 class is a little lacking.

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*It should have four member fields representing x, y, width, and height.

*The toString() method should be an instance method (not a static method like you have) and it should take no arguments. It should construct the string from the field values.

*The area() and perimeter() methods should likewise be change to be instance methods and to take no parameters.

Then your main() method should be modified to construct a TestRect1 object and use its methods and fields to do what it needs to do. For instance, once you have a TestRect1 object, you can call its toString() method:
TestRect1 rect;
// initialize rect
System.out.println("rectangle = " + rect.toString());

A: As you are a beginner so I would recommend that you should try to write with your own and if you feel any query then post your problems with your code so that it will be easy to understand. But by the way I'm just posting few parts of my solution.
First define a class called Rectangle inside this class write one constructor and three methods
1. area(width,height)
2. perimeter(width,height)
3. @Override toString() method and write like this.
public String toString()
{
      return "("+x+","+y+","+width+","+height+")";
}

Take command line argument as TestRect 1 2 3 4
I would also recommend to look for previous answers. Hope this help you.

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Trump Promises "Peace in Our Time"
Campus Conservatives and Pro-lifers Fight for Truth
Generals Warn of Russian Aggression As Trump Cozies Up To Putin
by Cliff Kincaid on May 2, 2016
While Republican presidential candidate Donald J. Trump is talking about cooperation with Russia, The Wall Street Journal is reporting that one of America's top generals, NATO Supreme commander General Philip Breedlove, is saying that the United States and its allies have to immediately address Russian military aggression.
"We see that Russia has not accepted the hand of partnership but has chosen a path of belligerence," Breedlove is quoted by the paper as saying. "We need to readdress where we're heading." Breedlove is retiring as NATO supreme commander and commander of U.S. European Command.
By contrast, Trump recently gave a foreign policy address that completely ignored Russian aggression in Ukraine, leading to a warm reception in Moscow for the Republican candidate.
The curious omission by Trump is one of several actions or statements he has made on Russian affairs that led Jonathan Chait to write an article for New York magazine entitled, "Why Is Donald Trump a Patsy for Vladimir Putin?" Attempting to explain Trump's statements of support for Russian President Putin, he cited evidence of "Russia's campaign to cultivate influence in the West by corrupting members of the American media and political Establishment."
In addition to Russian aggression in Europe and the Middle East, Breedlove's successor, Army General Curtis Scaparrotti, says that U.S. military leaders "should keep everything on the table," including a military response, if Russia engages in more military provocations directly against U.S. forces. Such incidents have included Russian fighter jets harassing U.S. Navy ships.
The general said that Putin "is deliberately trying to break up NATO," a pro-American alliance that Trump has suggested is "obsolete."
In its story on how U.S. military leaders are getting increasingly concerned about Russia's aggressive intentions, the Journal explained, "In the wake of Russia's stealthy invasion and annexation of Crimea, the U.S. intelligence community, in particular military intelligence, came under withering criticism for having failed to adequately warn policy makers and military leaders."
The term "military intelligence" is mostly a reference to the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), whose former director, Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn, has come under fire for his close relationship with the Russia Today (RT) propaganda channel.
AIM was the first to report that Flynn, after stepping down from DIA, went to Moscow to participate in the 10th anniversary celebration of the Moscow-funded and English-language channel known to its critics as KGB-TV. He sat at a dinner table with Putin and RT editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan.
In a major embarrassment for Flynn, a recent article in Politico by Michael Crowley cited Flynn's relationship with RT as "the most intriguing example of how the Russians have gone about recruiting disaffected members" of the Washington, D.C. foreign policy establishment.
The term "recruiting" suggests using Flynn for anti-American propaganda purposes.
Crowley, senior foreign policy writer at Politico, said that Flynn's attendance at the RT gala, which also included remarks on world affairs, "appeared to inaugurate a relationship with the network—presumably a paid one, though neither Flynn nor RT answered queries on the subject. Flynn now makes semi-regular appearances on RT as an analyst, in which he often argues that the U.S. and Russia should be working more closely together on issues like fighting ISIL and ending Syria's civil war."
In addition to his relationship with RT, Flynn has described himself as an informal adviser to Trump, who already has several pro-Russian aides and advisers.
"We weren't focused on Russia when I came in three years ago because we were still trying to cast a paradigm that brought Russia into the fold of Western values," said Breedlove, in an attempt to explain why the Pentagon was caught off-guard by Russia. He said, "Russia chose a different path or they were on that path and we didn't recognize it."
What he is describing is a massive intelligence failure that could stem from the work of agents of influence for Russia, or actual Russian spies.
Trump, however, continues to preach cooperation with Russia.
The scope of the intelligence failure regarding Russia was addressed recently by the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA), who admitted to CNN's Jake Tapper on April 12 that the U.S. government has badly "misjudged" the intentions of Putin "for many, many years." He declared, "The biggest intelligence failure that we have had since 9/11 has been the inability to predict the leadership plans and intentions of the Putin regime in Russia."
After the Russian invasion of Georgia in 2008, Rep. Nunes noted, the U.S. continued to engage diplomatically with the Russians, and "we continued to talk to the Russians, and then they invaded Eastern Ukraine." "We missed that," he said. "And then we completely missed entirely when they put a new base, a new base with aircraft into the Mediterranean, into Syria. We just missed it. We were blind."
While Trump's speech was given to an audience of foreign policy experts, including Russia's ambassador to Washington, Sergey Kislyak—who was sitting in the front row—the former DIA director's pro-Moscow actions and statements are also generating controversy. The Politico article on Flynn's visit to Moscow said, "At a moment of semi-hostility between the U.S. and Russia, the presence of such an important figure at Putin's table startled current and former members of the Obama administration. "
Politico's Michael Crowley quoted a former Pentagon official as saying about Flynn, "It was extremely odd that he showed up in a tuxedo to the Russian government propaganda arm's party."
Even more significant is the verdict delivered by New York magazine's Chait regarding Trump himself. He says that while Trump's style and bombastic statements on foreign policy and other areas are considered controversial by some, the much bigger scandal may be that "Trump is Vladimir Putin's stooge." The story carried the implication that Trump is acting like an agent of influence for Putin's Russia.
The failures in the intelligence community regarding Russia and the alleged penetration of the Washington, D.C. foreign policy establishment by Russian agents seem like topics that need to be addressed by the House and Senate Intelligence Committees.
Ultimately, however, the American people may have to weigh the evidence, since presidential candidates don't have to pass FBI background checks to determine their suitability for public office.
Chait described the Trump-Putin relationship as "campaign-threatening," a charge that could hand the November election to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton if Trump secures the GOP nomination, and if he is perceived to be friendly with a U.S. adversary or enemy.
If Trump is perceived as an agent of influence for Putin, the Republican Party could be greatly embarrassed and Mrs. Clinton could come across as more solid in her knowledge and conduct of foreign affairs, despite her classified email scandal and foreign policy failures such as Benghazi.


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Motiva Patents, LLC v. HTC Corporation
Motiva Patents, LLC v. Facebook Technologies LLC f/k/a Oculus VR, LLC
On October 3, 2018, Motiva Patents (Motiva) filed three lawsuits against Sony PlayStation, HTC Corp., and Oculus VR claiming the three companies infringed upon five Motiva patents, U.S. Patent Nos. 7,292,151 (the '151 Patent), 7,952,483 (the '483 Patent), 8,159,354 (the '354 Patent), 8,427,325 (the '325 Patent), and 9,427,659 (the '659 Patent). The asserted patents all describe systems for tracking a user's movement, positioning, and/or orientation by using one or more hand-held transponders that are in communication with a processing system. According to the complaint, the defendants have directly infringed by making and selling the PlayStation VR, Vive, and Oculus Rift with hand-held controllers that also track motion. Also, the complaint alleges the defendants indirectly infringe the asserted patents by inducing third-parties to directly infringe the patents. Motiva is asking the court for a permanent injunction or ongoing royalties for future infringements plus money damages for past infringements.
Claim 1 of the '151 Patent reads:
1. A system for tracking movement of a user, comprising:
a first communication device comprising a transmitter for transmitting signals, a receiver for receiving signals and an output device, said first communication device adapted to be hand-held;
a processing system, remote from the first communication device, for wirelessly receiving said transmitted signals from said first communication device, said processing system adapted to determine movement information for said first communication device and sending data signals to said first communication device for providing feedback or control data; and
wherein said first communication device receives and processes said data signals from said processing system and wherein the output device provides sensory stimuli according to the received data signals. ('151 patent, col. 35, line 39-54).
The current trio of cases is not the first time Motiva has gone after a video game company for using a motion tracking controller. In 2008, Motiva claimed Nintendo's Wii Fit infringed the '151 Patent. In that case, only the '151 Patent was asserted against Nintendo. The case eventually found its way to ITC because Motiva alleged Nintendo had violated section 337 by importing infringing products. The administrative law judge found there was no violation of section 337 and terminated the ITC proceeding on January 4, 2012. After the ITC's decision, the two parties settled the original lawsuit in 2014. For more information on Motiva v. Nintendo and the ITC proceedings click here and here.
Motiva's lawsuits against Sony, HTC, and Oculus has just begun. Most likely, the defendants next step is to petition the Patent Trial and Appeal Board to institute Inter Partes Review proceedings on the asserted patents. We will continue to follow these cases and provide updates when available.
P.S. Check out Johnny Lee's video on head tracking using a Nintendo Wii back in 2007. It doesn't beat the patents' earliest priority date, but it just goes to show this has been going on a long time.
Case Update: Motiva v. Nintendo – Officially moved to Washington
Motiva LLC v. Nintendo Co. Ltd.
United States District Court for the Western District of Washington (originally Eastern District of Texas)
Case No. 10-cv-349, Filed March 2, 2010 (originally November 10, 2008)
Case Update 05/24/2012:Not much new to report. Just ongoing discovery formalities. For example, ALJ Rogers granted-in-part Nintendo's motion to compel the production of documents from Motiva back in May of 2011, however the public version of this order has now been issued as of March 21, 2012. Motiva asserted that the documents Nintendo requested were privileged, that Motiva did not waive privilege, and that the privilege log and accompanying documents Motiva had provided were sufficient. The first piece of information discussed concerned a freedom to operate opinion ("Standley Opinion") prepared by the Standley Law Group for Motiva. ALJ Rogers determined that Motiva waived its attorney-client privilege when it shared this opinion with a business partner, and thus ordered the company to produce this document and other related communications.
ALJ Rogers further determined that Motiva waived privilege with respect to documents underlying Motiva's domestic industry assertions. Again, Motiva had waived privilege with respect to the Standley Opinion since it had put its contents at issue with respect to its domestic industry claims. It was decided that Motiva had further waived privilege with respect to documents that related to patent prosecution and litigation because of its domestic industry claims. Nintendo argued that it could not determine the accuracy of Motiva's domestic industry investments without certain supporting documents. ALJ Rogers agreed and ordered Motiva to produce documents related to billing and the subject of the work performed. ALJ Rogers further ordered Motiva to produce certain documents on its privilege log that were identified as invoices or billing records in addition to its fee arrangement regarding its present litigation. Nintendo's request for production of Motiva's privileged communications related to patent litigation and prosecution were denied, however, since they were not put at issue.
The last issue decided upon was the privilege log that Motiva had produced earlier. Nintendo argued that Motiva violated Ground Rule 4.10.1 while Motiva asserted that Nintendo was referring to an old privilege log, and that its amended privilege log complied with this rule. ALJ Rogers found Motiva's privilege log to be insufficient in many regards. For example, many of the authors or senders of each document were omitted from the log. ALJ Rogers further found that documents omitted from the log and documents relating to corporate formation were not adequately explained to be withheld as attorney work product. Nintendo also argued that communications were being withheld even though there was no indication that an attorney was involved. For this reason, and because of all other deficiencies found with the privilege log, ALJ Rogers ordered Motiva to produce a privilege log that complies with Ground Rule 4.10.1.
Case Update: June 2011
Initially in the Eastern District of Texas, this case was referred to mediation on March 17, 2009, and then transferred to the US District Court for the Western District of Washington on March 3, 2010. The parties are concurrently litigating a related case in front of a judge at the International Trade Commission. On June 2, 2011, the ITC judge denied Nintendo's motion to force Motiva to turn over documents that Nintendo alleged Motiva was improperly withholding as privileged.
After reviewing the items ALJ Robert Rogers found that while Motiva did not meet the burden to show that the documents were protected by attorney client privilege (because they did not "in any way reflect or relate to a fact of which the attorney was informed by the client"), they did successfully prove that the documents were protected by the attorney work product doctrine.
This is the latest chapter in the suit's progress through the ITC. The ITC probe was initially terminated in February because Judge Rogers initially determined that there was no domestic industry that existed to allow Motiva to proceed with this patent-based suit. Prior to filing this ITC complaint Motiva had been involved in district court proceedings in the US against Nintendo but the judge initially found that this was not enough to constitute "domestic activity." The ITC vacated this determination in April 2011 saying 1) that it was a genuine issue of material fact as to whether Motiva's district court litigation against Nintendo was related to its licensing activities and thus a "domestic activity," and 2) that Judge Rogers erred in declining to consider Motiva's activities in the US before the issuance of their patents (this included substantial amounts of time spent on product development.) The case was remanded to Judge Rogers.
Additional coverage at Law360.
As we previously reported here, Motiva LLC sued Nintendo for allegedly infringing U.S. Pat. No. 7,292,151, which is directed to a "Human Movement Measurement System." The patent relates to "a system and methods for setup and measuring the position and orientation (pose) of transponders. More specifically, for training the user to manipulate the pose of the transponders through a movement trajectory, while guided by interactive and sensory feedback means, for the purposes of functional movement assessment for exercise, and physical medicine and rehabilitation." The suit was filed in the Eastern District of Texas.In early 2009, Nintendo filed a motion requesting that the case be transferred to the Western District of Washington, the location of Nintendo's principal place of business. Nintendo argued that not only were portions of physical and documentary evidence located in that district but also neither Nintendo nor Motiva were incorporated in Texas, had offices in Texas, or had any witnesses from Texas. On June 30, 2009, the Texas district court denied Nintendo's request. Nintendo filed a motion asking the court to reconsider its decision, and also petitioned the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ("Federal Circuit") to vacate the district court's decision.
Specifically, Nintendo petitioned for a writ of mandamus alleging that the district court clearly abused its discretion when denying Nintendo's request to transfer the suit to Washington. Citing the mounting pile of decisions transferring cases out of the very same district, including Volkswagen (545 F.3d 304), TS Tech (551 F.3d 1315) , and Genentech (566 F.3d 1338), the Federal Circuit held that "the district court clearly abused its discretion in denying transfer from a venue with no meaningful ties to the case." In fact, the Federal Circuit indicated that "[t]his case appears to repeat the erroneous methodology that led this court to grant mandamus in TS Tech." The decision continued to elaborate on the errors made by the district court, including:
(1) applied too strict of a standard to allow transfer;
(2) gave too much weight to the plaintiff's choice of venue;
(3) misapplied the forum non conveniens factors;
(4) incorrectly assessed the 100-mile tenet;
(5) improperly substituted its own central proximity for a measure of convenience of the parties, witnesses, and documents; and
(6) glossed over a record without a single relevant factor favoring the plaintiffs chosen venue.
Specifically regarding the plaintiff's choice of venue, the court again reiterated that the:
Fifth Circuit has unequivocally rejected the argument that citizens of the venue chosen by the plaintiff have a 'substantial interest' in adjudicating a case locally because some allegedly infringing products found their way into the Texas market.
This is especially pertinent to the gaming community, as it would be hard to imagine any given district in the United States where a gaming product (such as Nintendo's Wii and/or its related peripherals) did not find its way into the local market. Similarly, the Federal Circuit took issue with the district court asserting Texas was an acceptable centralized location for witnesses, when in fact, no witnesses resided in that district. While not expressly stated in the decision, the court appeared to recognize that applying such a rule would affect several suits in which one witness resided west of Texas while another witness resided east of Texas. Again, given the nature of video game development and usage across the Internet, applying the district court's rule could prevent a large portion of transfers for infringement suits involving video games.Specifically regarding the 100-mile tenant, the Federal Circuit cited the Volkswagon decision, stating: "[w]hen the distance between an existing venue for trial of a matter and a proposed venue under [the relevant statue] is more than 100 miles, the factor of inconvenience to witnesses increases in direct relationship to the additional distance to be travelled." The Federal Circuit's decision can be read here.
It is important to note that several issues, including: 1) the appropriateness of Nintendo's methods seeking review of the district court's denial to transfer the suit, and 2) the forum non conveniens factors to consider when deciding a motion to transfer venue, did not relate to substantive patent law, thus the Federal Circuit applied the law of the circuit which the district court is located, in this case the 5th Circuit.
On March 1, 2010, the district court vacated its June 30, 2009 order that denied Nintendo's Motion to Transfer and transferred the matter to the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington.
We will continue to follow the case as it resumes in the Western District of Washington.


Microsoft SQL Server 2008 RC 0 can be downloaded from Microsoft Downloads since June 10, 2008.
For detailed information about Microsoft SQL Server 2008 RC 0 system requirements, please visit this web site.
Rename the .Net Framework 3.5 folder located in C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v3.5 to v3.5old.
Rename the .Net Framework 2.0 folder located in C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727 to v2.0.50727old.
Rename the .Net Framework 1.0 folder located in C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v1.0.3705 to v1.0.3705old.
Remove the folder "Microsoft SQL Server" from the "Program files" folder, or at least remove the following files from the "C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL10.MSSQLSERVER\MSSQL\DATA" directory: ReportServer.mdf, ReportServer_log.LDF, ReportServerTempDB.mdf, ReportServerTempDB_log.LDF.
Install Microsoft SQL Server 2008 RC 0. Setup will install .Net Framework 3.5 prior installation.
The following images show how to install SQL Server 2008 RC 0 from a self-extracting executable file downloaded for a 32-bit system. Once you download the file, execute it and you will be prompted to choose a location to extract the files to, which you can change as we did.
Click OK to proceed to the installation of the prerequisites specified.
The above is a welcome screen that shows a license agreement. Read the license agreement and if you agree with it, select the "I have read and accept the terms of the License Agreement" radio button, and then click the Install button.
The above screen shows that Setup has started to download software needed to start the installation.
Once the Setup program completes the Framework installation, the screen above will appear on your screen. Click the "Exit" button to complete this stage.
The above screen belongs to the wizard used to install the Windows Installer 4.5, required by Microsoft SQL Server RC 0. For more information about this update click here. To continue the installation of this update on the "Next" button.
On the screen shown above, read the license agreement and if you agree with it, select the "I agree" radio button and click on Next.
If you receive the above screen just click on "Continue".
The page above announces that installation of Windows Installer 4.5 has finished and your computer need to be restarted. Click on the "Finish" button to restart your machine.
After restarting your computer, run Microsoft SQL Server 2008 setup again. The SQL Server Installation Center screen will show up.
The above screens belong to the first set of Setup Support Rules.
Microsoft recommends you to specify an individual account for each service. The service accounts used for this configuration must have a strong password, otherwise you will get the error "Invalid or missing username or password. To continue, provide valid credentials for the SQL Server Agent service". A strong password is one that has a combination of letters in uppercase, lowercase, numbers and special characters.
For the purpose of this article, we chose to use the same service account for all services, except for the SQL Server Integration Services, thus we click on the "Use the same account for all SQL Server services" button.
After the password was provided, we change the account name for SQL Server Integration Services to its default service account, which is the Network Service account.
On the Database Engine Configuration page, choose the authentication mode to use for your SQL Server installation. If you select Mixed Mode, Setup creates an sa account.
You will get the error "Missing system administrator account. To continue, provide at least one Windows account to provision ...", if you fail to provide SQL Server administrators and try to continue with the next page of Setup. The error message "There are validation errors on this page ..." will also appear. Click the buttons "AddCurrent User" or "Add ..." to provide at least one account that will have unrestricted access to the SQL Server instance.
Now, you can click on "Next".
The above dialog belongs to the Setup Installation Rules.
On the Installation Progress page, you can monitor installation progress as Setup proceeds.
Click on the "Next" button, when Setup process complete.
Please wait until this dialog disappear.
On the Completing the Microsoft SQL Server Installation Wizard page, you can view the Setup summary log by clicking the link provided on this page. To exit the SQL Server Installation Wizard, click Close.
Close the SQL Server Installation Center and open the SQL Server Configuration Manager.


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Texas wide receiver Lil'Jordan Humphrey published a poem last week about systemic racial inequality in the United States.
The poem is dated July 10 and Humphrey tweeted it on Friday. In it, he brings up protests for racial equality, the election of President Donald Trump, slavery and his college football career.
Whether you agree with any or all of the premises of Humphrey's poem, you can't argue that it wasn't thought out or didn't come from the heart. And isn't it nice when athletes express their thoughts and show themselves to be well-rounded humans?
The Athletic's Bruce Feldman asked Texas athletic director Chris Del Conte about Humphrey's poem at Big 12 media days on Tuesday and Del Conte said he applauded Humphrey's poem and wanted to talk with him about it.
Humphrey was Texas' second-leading receiver in 2017.


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Philosophy Essay
Why does J. A. Fodor think that there must be a language of thought Is he right Essay Example
Why does J. A. Fodor think that there must be a language of thought Is he right
This conceptual thinking has a computational nature that extracts thinking from processing the series of mental symbols according to algorithms.Jerry Fodor specifically implements representational theory in supporting his position (Fodor 1987). According to representational theory, thinking occurs in the form of symbols that are actually the propositional attitudes described earlier (Fodor 1987). While Fodor argues that propositional attitudes should be represented not only as symbols but also as a language, he believes this 'language of thought' is different from spoken and written languages like English, French or German (Fodor 1987). Consider the following: 'I don't want to eat ladyfingers, so I'd better tell mom to make me French fries.' According to representational theory, there is a state of a section of this individual's brain that represents his or her unwillingness to eat ladyfingers (Fodor 1987). There is another section of this individual's brain that represents his or her way of avoiding ladyfingers; namely, to tell their mom to cook something else (Fodor 1987). Thirdly, there is a small piece of brain circuitry that is linking these two states and instigating an action (Fodor 1987). LOTH asserts that the representation of the decision in this example here has to be structured. That is, it has to be structured just like a sentence articulating that decision.Fodor's LOTH further states that the structure of symbolic representation in the mind and the linguistic representation of that symbolic representation must be related. That is, the structure of the brain state matching the decision of eating French fries will be equivalent to the structure of the sentence articulating the decision. One considers another example: 'There is a suspicion crossing my mind that a rat is under my bed'. The 'suspicion' is expressed in a sentence: 'A rat is under my bed.' According to LOTH, there is a physical state inside the brain that gives rise to this suspicion. This physical state is further divisible into sub-states. Rat is one sub-state, bed is another sub-state, and the other words that are parts of the sentence are other sub-states. The decision of eating French fries and the suspicion of having a rat under the bed is what Fodor calls beliefs. An individual has a belief that the best way to avoid ladyfingers is to ask his or her mom to cook something
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U.S.-China Relations
2005-04-17T08:36:58-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/0da/186291-03-m.jpgMr. Mitchell talked about Chinese military capabilities and arms sales to China. He also talked about Taiwan, the security situation in Asia, and U.S. policy towards the region. He responded to telephone calls, faxes and electronic mail from viewers.
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Massachusetts Appeals Court Reverses Defective Product Ruling Against Injured Pelvic Mesh Patient
Published on: September 13, 2016 | The Law Office of James K. Meehan
In medical treatment, patients depend upon doctors and nurses to provide the best care available under the current standards of care. Patients also hope and expect the instruments and devices used by medical staff to work, aiding in their recovery. If one of these instruments or devices fails, a patient may experience a greater injury than the condition from which they suffered originally. When this occurs, civil relief is available through a product liability lawsuit, as seen in Albright v. Boston Scientific Corporation (15-P-633). The injured patient, a lady from Ohio, filed suit against the manufacturers of the pelvic mesh surgically implanted to treat her Pelvic Organ Prolapse (POP). The injured woman had the mesh implanted to assist with weakened tissue in her pelvic area after a previous surgery provided minimal to no relief. Her surgeon implanted one of BSC's devices, which was advertised as safe for treatment of POP. The FDA had cleared the device for sale, but through the § 510(k) process in which the device is substantially equivalent to another already on the market. Under the § 510(k) process, the device does not have to undergo clinical tests for approval. At trial, the injured patient provided expert testimony that concluded the mesh oxidized and reacted with the patient's tissue in an unexpected, untested way. The trial court, however, excluded two letters from the FDA sent to the manufacturer, as well as the medical application caution sent by the supplier of polypropylene material, which addressed some of the potential issues with the mesh.
The injured patient appealed the exclusion of this evidence, which was offered for the limited purpose of showing knowledge and notice on the part of the manufacturer that they were aware of potential problems with the mesh's material. Both sides offered witness testimony and opinion as to what caused the injury to the patient and whether the manufacturer should have known of the risks, based on the type of materials used. The injured patient and the manufacturer also presented evidence regarding whether or not the manufacturer advised her surgeon of the known risks in its use.
The trial court used Ohio law in its ruling on the substantive claims. In Ohio, a manufacturer is liable for foreseeable harm stemming from a product defect that would have been avoided if reasonable care had been used. A manufacturer is not expected to completely ensure or guarantee the safety of its products, but it is expected to acknowledge and notify of any reasonably foreseeable risks.
The Supreme Court pointed out that the injured patient had the burden to prove the manufacturer created a product for which the foreseeable risks exceeded the benefits, and the jury was tasked with scrutinizing whether or not the mesh design was suitable or appropriate for its intended use to treat bladder POP. The court ruled that the exclusion of both the caution and the letters was prejudicial to the injured patient. Without these, the jury had an imbalance of information regarding the product to determine whether or not the manufacturer was liable. The court specifically pointed to the inclusion of the FDA's approval of the product, which was heavily emphasized in closing arguments by the defendant's counsel. The verdict in favor of the manufacturer was reversed and remanded for a new trial.
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On June 4th 2012, a unique performance will take place at the historical setting of Bärensaal Berlin, celebrating The Power Of Creation by Dom Pérignon.
Leo Kuelbs, an international curator spent several days together with the video mapping artists of Glowing Bulbs, in Hautvillers and Versailles. Letting their imagination take flight, the artwork crew gained precious inspiration by visiting the birthplace of champagne and a private tasting with the creator of Dom Pérignon vintages, Richard Geoffroy.
The result: Many, many photos were taken.
Two weeks before, a stunning photoshoot with opera singer Nadja Michael took place in Leo Kuelbs studio in Brooklyn, NYC. Having debuted as Lady Macbeth at the Metropolitan Opera New York in March 2012, Nadja Michael is meant to be the artistic counterpart, enriching the video art orchestration and therefore the "Divine Coalescence" of Dom Pérignon with her self composed song "Day of the Days".


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Married recruitment manager lived double life as paedo calling himself 'The Devil' and raping a baby for sickos to watch
Hana Carter
Updated: 7 Jul 2020, 6:43
A 'HAPPILY' married man who called himself 'The Devil' has been jailed for 18 years after he filmed himself raping a baby and shared the sickening video with nearly 40 fellow child abusers.
Recruitment manager Barry Hudson-Muscroft, 33, who had been married for 16 years, called himself "The Devil" and bragged that he enjoyed abusing infants because they "couldn't talk".
Barry Hudson-Muscroft, 33, from Manchester said that he was "into anything from 0-15 years" on the sick paedophile chatroomCredit: Cavendish Press
He had collected over 5,000 indecent images of children over a four year periodCredit: Cavendish Press
The 33-year-old, who was known to raise money for cancer charities, revealed that he is into children from the "age of 0-15".
He used the online profile ''Diablo-1987'' to boast of his preference for abusing young children.
During one incident Hudson-Muscroft filmed himself raping a baby then shared images of horrific abuse across the world during online Kik messages on a paedophile group named "Share Bears (No Limits).''
He bragged of abusing babies as they ''couldn't talk'' and added: ''I'm into all sorts, young, anything from 0 – 15 mainly into girls but have been with guys before…but the guys were older. Not into pain stuff really. Also like panties".
Hudson-Muscroft who works in the hospitality sector was arrested after a US deputy sheriff working undercover to expose paedophiles alerted the FBI to his horrific pictures and messages and British detectives swooped on his £220,000 home in Prestwich, Manchester.
Inquiries revealed he had been secretly communicating with youngsters as young as 12 from the UK and the US over a four year period and swapped explicit messages and images with them.
'DEPTHS OF DEPRAVITY'
Hudson-Muscroft's wife, who has since left him, said her husband's dark secret had had a "devastating impact" and that her life had been "torn apart by his deception."
At Minshull Street Crown Court, Hudson-Muscroft was branded an ongoing danger to the public by a judge and told he had ''plumbed the depths of depravity'' after he admitted rape, sexual assault, making and distributing indecent images and attempted sexual communications with children.
He will be on licence until 2044 under the terms of an extended sentence and was ordered to sign the Sex Offender Register and abide by a Sexual Harm Prevention Order for life.
He was further banned from contacting his estranged wife under the terms of a restraining order.
The offences were discovered after university educated Hudson-Muscroft led an apparently respectable life - formerly working as an events manager for a top hotel chain before moving into recruitment.
Mr Alaric Bassano prosecuting said: ''His wife, with whom he had been in a relationship for 16 years - 10 years living together and married for two and a half years - described their relationship as a normal, happy one without any problems at all."
The rape occurred after Hudson-Muscroft managed to get access to a baby. He abused the child before sending images of the attacks to 37 other people online.
His phone was examined and found to have 5000 indecent images of children downloaded over the previous four years.
He was branded a danger by the judge and had ''plumbed the depths of depravity'' after admitting the horrifying incidentCredit: Cavendish Press
His wife, who has now left him, said she had no idea of her husband's double life and that their marriage was "happy"Credit: Cavendish Press


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Media Release: Project aims to bring warmth to thousands of local families
A CHARITY in Dumfries is set to provide warmth for over 8,000 vulnerable people after being granted almost £100,000 by the ScottishPower Energy People Trust.
Dumfries Welfare Rights, which assists vulnerable families in the area who are having financial difficulties, in particular those with young children, was given the grant recently to fund a duo of advice workers specialising in fuel poverty.
The workers are aiming to increase the household income of around 2,000 homes in the area, through advice on energy efficiency and benefit health checks.
The two year project – the Fuel Poverty Income Maximisation for Families with Young Children in Dumfries and Galloway – is one of 138 across the UK to benefit from the ScottishPower Energy People Trust's funding since its inception in 2005.
Ann Loughrey, ScottishPower's head of Corporate Social Responsibility and The ScottishPower Energy People Trust's company secretary, said:
"It's inevitable that over the cold winter months, heating will be on for longer, resulting in higher fuel bills. By offering advice on how to be more efficient with heating, as this project does, households can reduce bills and therefore lower the risk of living in fuel poverty.
"Also, by highlighting the availability of government energy efficiency packages and potential benefits to individuals, this could boost income and cut the risk of fuel poverty."
The two full-time advisors have been in post since May, working hard to deliver an innovative income maximisation project to families in the Dumfries and Galloway area.
The project's main aim is to deliver benefit health checks and energy efficient advice / measures to parents – the main target group – by leafleting all 106 primary and 17 secondary schools in the area. The workers have now directly accessed all school-age children in the region, by working with nurseries and other relevant agencies, and as a result are now reaching out to most parents throughout Dumfriesshire in need of assistance.
Working alongside the local Council, the project aims to have the advice leaflets delivered to all schools before the Christmas holidays. This will result in parents being informed on possible missing benefits and the new Government energy assistance package.
Bill McCormack the manager of Dumfries Welfare Rights, said:
"We are delighted to have received the generous grant from the ScottishPower Energy People Trust and are pleased with the progress of the project since the workers have come on board.
"We have been busy setting up benefit surgeries across the region in order to target groups who are a little more difficult to reach. So far, we have set up regular surgeries in Stranraer, Kelloholm, Dumfries, Northwest Dumfries and Newton Stewart. We are also contacting every toddler group in the region to offer the information leaflets, again to target vulnerable parents.
"Even at this early stage of this project, many families have seen an increase in their household income due to the additional benefits we have identified. Many local people have now had free loft and cavity insulation fitted, with some waiting on central heating and other measures to help reduce the risk of fuel poverty."
If any voluntary organisation, school, nursery or toddler group would like the project to set up a surgery, please contact Fiona Buckley for more information, on 01387 266888 or email Fiona@welfarerights.co.uk.
For more information on the ScottishPower Energy People Trust, log on to www.energypeopletrust.co.uk.
Gillian Hamilton, at The BIG Partnership, on 0141 333 9585 / 07734 656 676 or email gillian.hamilton@bigpartnership.co.uk
ScottishPower has published its CSR Annual Review 2008 online. Following feedback from its stakeholders, this year's Review is very much led by the community groups ScottishPower works with. To hear first hand from them as they tell their story about working with the company, tune in to ScottishPower's innovative CSR TV station at: www.scottishpowercsrannualreview.com.
The ScottishPower Energy People Trust does not provide funding directly to individuals but provides funding to not for profit organisations which represent the vulnerable/fuel poor. People described as living in fuel poverty are those who spend more than ten per cent of their income on energy bills.
The decisions on the awards to organisations are made independent of ScottishPower by the Board of Trustees of the charity.
To apply for a grant from The ScottishPower Energy People Trust, log onto www.energypeopletrust.co.uk or email enquiries@energypeopletrust.co.uk or call 0141 568 4727.
The ScottishPower Energy People Trust is just one of a number of ScottishPower initiatives which assist some of the UK's most vulnerable people. As well as working closely with the Citizen's Advice Bureau, ScottishPower employs Community Liaison Officers who visit people in their homes. The energy supplier has also insulated thousands of homes across the UK through its Energy Efficiency Commitment.
ScottishPower has delivered 70 per cent of its Carbon Emissions Reduction Target (CERT). This means that ScottishPower has now installed energy efficiency measures equivalent to insulating over 580,000 homes across the country. CERT – which came into effect on 1 April 2008 and is due to run until 2011 – is an obligation on energy suppliers to achieve targets for promoting reductions in carbon emissions in homes across the UK. 40 per cent of the CERT spend is directed towards customers believed to be the most vulnerable therefore also making a contribution to eradicating fuel poverty.
In the Ofgem Monitoring suppliers' social programmes 2007-08 December 2008, The Energy People Trust was identified as implementing best practice by providing support to trusted third party intermediaries and organisations to target assistance to those in fuel poverty, particularly those who are the most difficult to identify and hardest-to-reach.
Established in November 2005, the ScottishPower Energy People Trust provides vital funding for not-for-profit organisations that help vulnerable people including families, young people, the disabled and the elderly, who need to spend more than ten per cent of their income on energy bills.
To date the ScottishPower Energy People Trust has awarded £6,520,139 to 138 projects, helping over 772,403 individuals in 606,280 households throughout Britain.
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So I have often looked at folks who post up regarding "how do I get higher dps?" Its not always their spec or their gear. Sometimes its simply a matter of spell or ability rotation and having as little downtime as possible. So where does ABC come in? Well ABC stands for in this case Always Be Clicking. By this we mean you should never not be pushing some ability on your bar.
Many times you will hear someone say "but all my spells are on cooldown", or "their is the GCD (Global Cool-Down)". Well yeah there may be that, but sometimes if you look hard enough there is always something that Blizzard's class developers have given you that is not affected by the GCD or even a spell cooldown. This even goes for when you are locked out of a spell type.
So first off, if you cast one spell, and know what the next spell is coming up next, you want to start hammering that next button while your spell is being cast, this way even with lag and latency, you are sure to start casting your next spell the moment it is feasible to do so. Never ever wait until your cast goes off to start clicking your spell/ability, you are wasting precious time if you are not doing this. Remember the more spells and abilities you get off the more damage you will do.
The next thing you may say is, "but all my spells are on cooldown now, there is no other spell to hit". Is that really true? Sometimes a self buff ability is available, maybe this is a good time to pop a potion, or choose an ability to regain mana or health. The fact is very rarely is there a time when there is not at least 1 ability available. For example look at the Death Knight. In their rotation they hit "Horn of Winter". It is a self buff, but most of the time if there is a warrior in the group, it is never put up because there is a more powerful spell available. But wait, its secondary function is to give runic power, now while not enough to do anything with, add it up with everything else, and you may have given yourself the ability to do an extra damaging ability because you found something that was not on a cooldown like your other abilities.
The fact of the matters is during boss battles especially you hear oh but I have to move, I have lag, my latency is bad. Well guess what most classes not only have instant cast abilities you can do while on the run, but if you keep hammering those keys or as I like to put it the ABC of DPS, you should be constantly hitting something and thus improving your damage output per second even if you are only doing a self buff.
So remember ABC, Always Be Clicking, and your DPS should go up.
This is a very good point and I think it can be applied to TPS as well. If you do ANYTHING you'll be doing more DPS/TPS than if you're standing there doing nothing at all.
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'Combinatorial' approach squashes software bugs faster, cheaper
A team of computer scientists and mathematicians from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Texas, Arlington is developing an open-source tool that catches programming errors by using an emerging approach called "combinatorial testing." The NIST-Texas tool, described at a recent conference,* could save software developers significant time and money when it is released next year.
Studying software crashes in a variety of applications from medical devices to Web browsers, NIST researchers obtained hard evidence to support long-held conventional wisdom: most software failures result from simple events rather than complex ones.** Even for Web browsers containing hundreds of different variables, most failures were caused by interactions between just two variables. Nonetheless, in the applications that the researchers studied, additional failures could result from interactions of up to six variables.
Based on that insight, the NIST-Texas team went beyond the popular practice of "pairwise testing," or exploring interactions between only two variables at a time, and designed a method for efficiently testing different combinations of settings in up to at least six interacting variables at a time. Their technique resembles combinatorial chemistry in which scientists screen multiple chemical compounds simultaneously rather than one at a time.
For example, imagine a word-processing program that features 10 different text formats. Certain combinations of settings (such as turning on superscript, subscript and italics at the same time) could cause the software to crash. Trying all possible combinations of the 10 effects together would require 1,024 tests. However, testing all possible combinations of any three effects requires just 13 different tests, thanks in part to the fact that if the tests are selected judiciously the 10 different variables allow you to explore 120 combinations of "triples" simultaneously.
The new tool generates tests for exploring interactions among the settings of multiple variables in a given program. Compared to most earlier combinatorial testing software, which has typically focused on testing interactions between just two variables, the tool excels at quickly generating efficient tests for 6-way interactions or more.
The researchers plan to release the tool early next year as open-source code. They currently are inviting developers to participate in beta testing of the tool before release. This new approach for finding bugs to squash may be particularly useful for increasing the reliability of e-commerce Web sites, which often contain many interacting variables, as well as industrial process controls, such as for robotic assembly lines of high-definition televisions, which contain many interacting software-controlled elements that regularly turn on and off.
Ben Stein | EurekAlert!
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1. That developing a really well focused and clearly understood Supply Chain strategy is not only essential, but easy.
2. How critical the right customer service policy is, to the structure, processes and costs in your Supply Chain.
3. That Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) is not some costly black art, but a simple and very effective communication discipline.
4. That your Supply Chain network is built on simple logic not the rise and fall in property prices!
5. That Outsourcing if done well can really boost your business. Done badly it can kill it!
6. That full trucks and full warehouses, is a good thing…..generally.
7. That what you measure, gets managed. And the right way to measure performance.
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I have a British accent. I may not sound like Giles in Buffy, but you can bet your bottom ten pound note that everyone thinks I drink tea. When I first moved to the USA, I thought my accent would never let me blend. Now, since I've come out as non-binary, my accent seems to shield me. It's the first thing people recognize, while my gender lies quietly behind it, quietly unseen.
So. There we are in AT&T, having just moved back to the USA, setting up a phone line. The guy runs J's social security number and finds there's a lock on it— it seems we'd forgotten that J set this up after some company accidentally gave his data away. The lock, it turns out, takes 24 hours to lift. "Well," says the AT&T guy, "I can set you up for a pay-as-you go plan, if you like?"
J has a couple of questions about that.
I remain silent.
It's an old and familiar story. I arrived in the US over fourteen years ago with a partner who was on an H2 visa. My own visa, the dreaded H4, only entitled me to be a dependent. I wasn't allowed a social security number (which, in case you don't live in the USA, is the key to everything financial—you can't even call about your gas supply without being told to give the last four of your social). I wasn't allowed to work. I couldn't be self-employed. Even collecting my prescriptions was a problem at the time, because if you don't have a social, are you really a person?
So I worked at home, unpaid, and did voluntary work at MAB in Cambridge, helping to record audio for blind readers. I also took writing classes and wrote stories and books. I built up my list of fiction publications. My marriage was crumbling, but all the same, I did my best not to feel alone. But when you can't earn, and your immigration status puts you at the mercy of a cis guy who is pissed off at you for being you, it's enough to drive you bonkers. Especially, when you're beginning to realize you're sexually attracted to basically everyone except the majority of cis men.
It was easy to feel invisible. Easy to fade away.
As a childhood sexual abuse survivor, who was abused by my primary caregiver, I spent most of my childhood feeling invisible. I'd sit in front of the mirror and watch my facial features swim around, as if they were floating on oil, trying for a better fit. When I'd look down, my hands seemed as if they were made of putty. They didn't feel like mine. They refused to look real. Sometimes, everything felt so fake that I'd try spinning around suddenly, thinking the real world lay just behind me, out of sight but close enough, waiting to show itself. So of course, since I didn't feel real, it makes sense that I believed nobody saw me at all.
The first essay I wrote as a fifteen year-old was called "Can we rely on our senses, or is life a myth?" My teacher marked our pieces out of 40—she was a hard marker. For that particular essay, she gave me full marks, and she told me she'd only given that score once before in her decades as a teacher.
In that area, I really knew my stuff.
But the closest I have felt to dissociation—which I still experience, though only when I'm triggered—is in coming out as non-binary. People "she" me constantly, but I fear coming out as "they." Perhaps I will grow stronger at this, but right now, in terms of my identity, I am an infant. I walk down the street, and feel unseen. Everyone who passes me likely believes I'm female. Being queer and pansexual was one thing, but this is quite another.
I have to learn, all over again, to not give a damn, only this time, no stranger seems to see my identity. I instantly read as female, which is a blending privilege, for sure. It is time for me to grow, and grow I will.
Anais Nin taught us, "We don't see things as they are. We see them as weare." And this occurred to me, sitting in AT&T.
"I suppose," I told J and the AT&T person, "we could run my social." I looked at J and shrugged. "Is there any reason why not?"
J was affirming, of course. "I don't know why I didn't think of it!" Turns out, he was caught up in the whole stressful situation with the social security number. Plus the fact the account had been in his name, when we last had phones in this country.
But what was harder to explain was my reaction. Why had it taken me so long to offer? Why had I felt like my social wouldn't be valid? Why, now I'm finally a citizen of the US, did I not feel my own power?
Because invisibility, it seems, comes naturally to me. It's an old friend. A place of retreat, where my face is not my own. Sure, my power is sometimes a stranger. Even so, I have privileges that I am lucky to have. Slowly, but surely, I take my steps into the light.
I'm present. Run my social.
I'm right here.
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Watching the safety videos below.
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Completing the Safety Training Checklist.
Please read the SOP's and watch the videos below. Then proceed to either the 3T/7T Safety Quiz or 9.4T Safety Quiz.
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CALGARY • Barely a year after completing its takeover of Nexen Inc., China's state-controlled CNOOC Ltd. is putting its stamp on the Canadian oil and gas company by appointing Fang Zhi as CEO, replacing Kevin Reinhart, who has left the company.
Mr. Fang, executive vice-president of Beijing-based CNOOC and a member of Nexen's board of directors, was instrumental in locking up Nexen in a controversial takeover that prompted Prime Minister Stephen Harper to tighten rules for investment in Canada's oil sands by state owned enterprises.
A spokeswoman for Nexen, which has become a wholly owned subsidiary of CNOOC now known as Nexen Energy ULC, said CNOOC dismissed Mr. Reinhart because new skills were required at the top.
"To fully unlock the full value of Nexen's assets, in terms of both optimizing current production as well as achieving exploration and discovery success, it was determined that a different capability from the Nexen CEO role is required going forward," Diane Kossman said in an e-mailed statement.
Mr. Reinhart, a chartered accountant who rose to chief financial officer in his 20 years at the company, took the controls as interim CEO at the start of 2012. He replaced Marvin Romanow, who was ousted following the disappointing startup of Nexen's Long Lake oil sands project.
The changing of the guard is part of a pattern of increasing Chinese presence at the Calgary-based company as it integrates Canadian operations, shifts the focus to improving results, and comes despite promises by CNOOC CEO Li Fanrong that it would keep all of Nexen's staff and management and that it had no plans to change how Nexen was run.
"We want all of the employees, including senior management, to stay with us," Mr. Li said in a July 2012 interview, when CNOOC was campaigning for federal regulatory approval of the $15.1-billion takeover bid, China's largest to date.
Ms. Kossman said Nexen's senior management team is continuing to lead the organization and organizational changes are common in business.
Meanwhile, several parts of Nexen are being restructured, she said.
Among them is the business development unit, which has been centralized in Beijing to create a more effective global team and maximize collaboration with other businesses, Ms. Kossman said.
Nexen is continuing to grow its staff to support major projects, she said. They include the Golden Eagle development in the U.K. North Sea that is due to produce first oil in late 2014, and Aurora LNG, a joint venture with INPEX Corp. and JGC Corp. looking into building a liquefied natural gas export terminal on the coast of British Columbia.
The company said Mr. Fang, a senior reservoir engineer and 30-year CNOOC veteran, has considerable operational and technical depth, executive-level leadership experience, knows Nexen through intensive integration activities, and has detailed knowledge of CNOOC's organization and processes.
Mr. Fang was not available for an interview. In a statement, he said he's pleased to take on the new role.
"Nexen is well-positioned to create significant value for CNOOC; we've made tremendous gains on integration, our portfolio of assets is world-class, and we have an outstanding team of employees who are committed to driving our success," he said.


We have developed highly sensitive electrometers and electrostatic fieldmeters (EFMs) that make use of micromechanical variable capacitors. Modulation of the input capacitance, a technique used in macroscale instruments such as the vibrating-reed electrometer and the field-mill electrostatic voltmeter (ESV), moves the detection bandwidth away from the 1/f-noise-limited regime, thus improving the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). The variable capacitors are implemented by electrostatically driven resonators with differential actuation and sensing to reduce drive-signal feedthrough. The resonators in the electrometer utilize a balanced comb structure to implement harmonic sensing. Two fabrication methods were employed - a hybrid technology utilizing fluidically self-assembled JFETs and SOI microstructures, and an integrated process from Analog Devices combining 0.8-/spl mu/m CMOS and 6-/spl mu/m-thick polysilicon microstructures. All devices operate in ambient air at room temperature. Measured data from one electrometer with an input capacitance of 0.7 pF indicates a charge resolution of 4.5 aC rms (28 electrons) in a 0.3 Hz bandwidth. The resolution of this electrometer is unequaled by any known ambient-air-operated instrument over a wide range of source capacitances. The EFM has a resolution of 630 V/m, the best reported figure for a MEMS device.


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This edition is exclusively designed for foreign visitors to our country. We have reduced the subject matter of the corresponding Greek book to include only those subjects which may be of interest to the average foreign reader.
We believe that most visitors to Greece, are aware of the range and importance of the role, which this country has played in the development of world civilization. They also know the dimension (both metaphorically and literally) of the country's history. Consequently, they must appreciate the attempt we have made to condense the elements of the history of Evia, which was and still is one of the most significant areas of Greece.
Is it possibile for a recipe book to be placed under a different light than that of a plain tool in the hands of the modern consumer? Sometimes these books, which at first glance seem colourless and dull with texts and guidelines for the production of various recipes, may actually have a touch of romanticism and nostalgia for the past. This can be similair to old photographs, which on their own can tell a story. It is these stories and memories that help in keeping alive the traditions and the identity of a nation and society. This book deals with the society of Evia, the most beautiful Greek area, which according to Isokrates, .. was superior to all the other Greek islands in its dominance at sea and in many other virtues.
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In fact, due to their beauty, variety, cost-effectiveness & easy buying & stitching benefits, formal dresses that are worn specifically at parties are fast becoming the number one choice for the formal traditional wear of women from Pakistani & India. It is, however, worthy to first define what this party wear really is and what is it used for?
Typically, a party apparel or dress is described as specific types of Pakistani or Indian apparel that is mostly worn as a "formal" clothing reserved for special occasions such as weddings, Mehndis, birthday parties, college / dorm celebrations and other similar occasions. Let's share some interesting facts about these. Most of such dresses or suits consists of 3 pieces i.e. a shalwar (a type of trousers), dupatta (a long, thin piece of matching cloth) & kameez (shirt) and come with or without sleeves.
Who is the most fond of such apparel?
According to the Pakistani women clothing society statistics, girls and women from the age group of 14 to 40 years grab the largest share of online party wear shopping.
What geographical areas are on top?
Interestingly enough, most online shoppers for party wear come from Europe (including UK & Scandinavian countries) & North America (both USA & Canada). Also, a significant client base of Pakistani or Indian party wear is from New Zealand & Australia as well.
Specific party wear such as shalwar (trousers) & Kameez (long shirt) is the national traditional dress of Pakistani & Indian Muslim women. Therefore, majority of party shalwar kameez buyers consist of the same population and Pakistani and / or Indian immigrants.
What do they want to see in their choice?
1- They prefer a price range from 60 USD to 200 USD.
2- They prefer darker colors such as maroon, red, hot blue, dark green, velvet and black in winters & spring seasons.
3- They like to wear materials like linen, corduroy and cambric in winter & 100% pure cotton & khaddar in summer.
4- Because of safe and secure online shopping and a variety of online stitching options available on certain party wear websites, more and more women are turning towards online shopping of party shalwar and kameez.