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The Turkish passion
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Paz y Cooperación2019-12-11T18:57:16+00:0027 November 2019|United Nations Forum|
The Centro Riojano in Madrid welcomed for the first time the presence of the Turkish ambassador Cihad Erginay, a diplomat with the appearance of an international negotiator or John le Carré, who has a great gift for words and excellent clarity of presentation. He gave a brilliant lecture in perfect English, very didactic, on regional security in Turkey within the framework of the II United Nations Forum for Peace and Cooperation and the Centro Riojano.
A bouquet of ladies from Madrid's social life such as Roxa Ortiz, Julia Moreno and Georgia Hristea and brainy gentlemen such as the Spanish ambassador Arturo Pérez Martínez, Carlos Uriarte the pan-European and Enrique Gaspar the silk man with the stupendous staff of the Ángel center and Charo with the director of communication Juan Antonio Mardomingo shone with their own light. Among my students my assistant the beautiful Ester Garcia, the Italian brain Alessia Busi, Molly que Mola from the United States and the promising Olena from Ukraine.
The table was composed with Ambassador Renata Vázquez – a formidable translator, Joaquín Antuña, President and Founder of Peace and Cooperation, and José Antonio Rupérez President of the Centro Riojano: who stressed Turkey's key role in the Middle East peace process and the links that exist with Spain, ranging from past misunderstandings to the present Alliance of Civilizations, whose Commissioner is former Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos.
Using humor and detailing neighbors in both the Black Sea and the Mediterranean, he said it would have been easier to be New Zealand's ambassador. He detailed the millennia-old border with Iran. The Syrian problem and Cyprus's pending resolution.
He outlined the "Heart of Asia" project and focused his lecture mainly on the fight against terrorism and humanitarian foreign policy.
Terrorism is defined as a crime against humanity and a global threat: Turkey as Spain has suffered it with more than 50 thousand victims in 40 years. For this reason, it is part of many organizations and operations to combat it, such as Operations Euphrates Shield and Olive Branch, the Global Forum against
Terrorism, the Horn of Africa Working Group and the Anti-Daesh Coalition.
He assured that one of the greatest threats is the PKK (Partiya Karkerên Kurdistanê – Kurdistan Workers Party), recognized as a terrorist organization by both the European Union and the United States, and its derivatives, the PYD and YPG: according to the ambassador's presentation, they share the same cadres using the same training camps and have the same financial resources.
He dissociated himself from the belief that Turkey's policy is directed against the Kurdish people by emphasizing that terrorist organizations do not represent the Kurdish community, the great majority of which does not support them. He also listed as a terrorist group the FETÖ, which was responsible for the attempted coup d'état in 2016.
Speaking about Syria, a key piece of his foreign policy, he explained that his mission is primarily humanitarian and reconstruction of the country, facilitating the return of millions of refugees to their homes
He said that his country had almost entirely covered the high cost of this operation, which amounted to more than 40 billion dollars, and that Turkey had thus provided a great deal of aid to the European Union.
Turkey is also combating international Daesh terrorism and preventing thousands of international terrorists from returning to their countries without guarantees of reception.
The ambassador defined humanitarian and entrepreneurial foreign policy as one of the priorities of Turkey's foreign policy: among his plans are the improvement of strategic and commercial relations, the development of links with all geographies and the strengthening of cooperation with regional and world organizations with soft power. The country is also a NATO ally and a reference point for Euro-Atlantic and national security, as one of the largest contributors, the sixth.
The conference ended with a vision of the impact of the regional situation on the European Union: the words of fo
rmer NATO Secretary General Javier Solana were quoted: "Europe will only be a peaceful and happy continent when the security of its neighboring regions is assured". He also reminded us of the agreements between the Union and Turkey, which are still not fulfilled after three years, but which have at least given relevance to the human drama of the refugees.
In conducting the debate, I stated that in the Centro Riojano there is tasting and thinking and that as a result of this Forum there will be a tasting of Turkish and Rioja wines, as Jose Antonio Ruperez said, the gallant Riojano and the ambassador will give a lecture at the Caude school in Majadahonda on the mythical figure of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, all this in the spring.
Thus, was sealed an evening of Turkish passion and friendship between the peoples who always promote the Centro Riojano and Peace and Cooperation.
After a lively colloquium with intelligent questions, an excellent wine from Rioja, Turkey and Spain was offered, which contributed to leave a pleasant memory in those who were lucky enough to participate in this magisterial conference within the framework of the II United Nations Forum.
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Christmas Day in Chile in 2019
How long until Christmas Day?
Dates of Christmas Day in Chile
2021Chile Sat, Dec 25National Holiday
2020Chile Fri, Dec 25National Holiday
2019Chile Wed, Dec 25National Holiday
2018Chile Tue, Dec 25National Holiday
2017Chile Mon, Dec 25National Holiday
Christmas celebrates the Nativity of Jesus which according to tradition took place on December 25th 1 BC
Christmas Day in other countries
Christmas Day internationally
When is Christmas Day?
On this day, over 2 billion people (over a third of the world's population) will celebrate the birth of Christ.
Christmas Day celebrates the Nativity of Jesus which according to tradition took place on December 25th 1 BC. December 25th will be a public holiday in most countries around the world. If 25 December falls on a weekend, then a nearby week day may be taken as a holiday in lieu.
History of the holiday
Whilst the holiday has a strong grounding in the story of the birth of Jesus, many of the traditions we associate with Christmas have evolved from pre-Christian beliefs and certainly, the traditions have evolved beyond purely a Christian holiday to have a wider secular significance.
The celebration of Christmas in late December is certainly as a result of pre-existing celebrations happening at that time, marking the Winter Solstice.
Most notable of these is Yule (meaning 'Feast'), a winter pagan festival that was originally celebrated by Germanic people. The exact date of Yule depends on the lunar cycle but it falls from late December to early January. In some Northern Europe countries, the local word for Christmas has a closer linguistic tie to 'Yule' than 'Christmas', and it is still a term that may be used for Christmas in some English-speaking countries. Several Yule traditions are familiar to the modern celebration of Christmas, such as Yule Log, the custom of burning a large wooden log on the fire at Christmas; or indeed carol singing, which is surprisingly a very ancient tradition.
Under the Julian calendar, the winter solstice was fixed on December 25, and this date was also the day of the popular Roman holiday of Saturnalia, in honour of Saturn, the god of agriculture; which was later superseded by Sol Invictus, a day that bundled up the celebration of several sun based gods into one easy to manage festival.
As Christianity began to take hold across the Roman empire and beyond, the date of when to celebrate the birth of Christ became a bit of an issue, with several different dates proposed.
It wasn't until 350 AD, when the then Bishop of Rome, Pope Julius I, fixed the official Christmas day on December 25. Unfortunately, Julius, I didn't show his working out on how he reached this date; some scholars later suggested that it was calculated as nine months after the Annunciation (March 25), when the angel Gabriel is said to have appeared to Mary and told her she would bear the son of God. Whatever the reasoning, it is clear that, just as key pagan sites were being chosen for new churches, so too the date was chosen with the intention to catapult Christmas into becoming a major festival by placing it over the pre-existing pagan festivals.
Kissing someone who happens to be stood under a sprig of mistletoe is seen as a tradition popularised in Victorian England. However even this relatively modern tradition has much more ancient echoes in that Mistletoe bears its fruit around the time of the Winter Solstice, and its supposed mythical ability to heal and increase fertility.
In Norse mythology, an arrow made from mistletoe killed Balder, who was a brother of Thor. Frigga, Balder's mother brought him back to life shedding tears that changed the red berries on mistletoe to white. Frigga then blessed the mistletoe and promised a kiss to anyone who passed beneath it.
A hint of Mistletoe' s integration from pagan ceremonies into Christmas tradition is said that the mistletoe plant used to be a tree, and its wood was used to make the Cross on which Jesus was crucified. After the Crucifixion, the plant shrivelled to became the parasitic vine we know today.
Carol Singing
As mentioned earlier, the tradition of singing of songs can be traced back to the pagan festivals before the advent of Christmas. Indeed, the word carol is derived from the Greek word choraulein, which meant "an ancient circle dance performed to flute music."
As carols were already an established custom, early Christians made the shrewd decision to integrate Christian songs into the tradition rather than ban the singing.
Most new Christian Carols were written in Latin, which was by the middle ages, a language only used by the church, thus reducing the popularity of the custom.
However, carols received an injection of popularity when St. Francis of Assisi started his Nativity Plays in Italy in 1223, which included songs written in the local people's language.
The tradition of 'Modern' Carol singing flourished in England. Known as Wassailing, it was a chance for peasants to get some much-needed charity from their feudal lords. This singing for money developed in a custom involving travelling musicians who would visit wealthy homes, singing in the hope of receiving money food or gifts in return.
There was a short interruption in 1647 when the Puritans come to power after the English Civil War. The Puritans, under the leadership of Oliver Cromwell, disapproved of the celebration of Christmas. There was even a fine of up to five shillings for anyone caught singing Christmas carols. When King Charles II came back to the throne in 1660, the public singing of Christmas carols was permitted again.
Three facts about Christmas Day
The use of 'Xmas' isn't necessarily a secularisation of Christmas; it is said to date from the ancient practice of using a cross as a symbol for the word 'Christ'.
After each Christmas, Britons return £207 million worth of unwanted gifts
The first artificial trees were made in Germany in the 19th century from goose feathers dyed green.
More facts about Christmas Day

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Afghanistan : The Slaughter of Innocents Is an American Policy
Posted on October 4, 2008 by RagBlog
The War to Promote Terror: What it is, indeed, is racism
By Robert C. Koehler / October 2, 2008
The "necessary war" in Afghanistan, which both presidential candidates support — the one, you know, that's really about terrorists and Osama and all — raises as many troubling questions about who we are as the other war we're fighting and losing.
Consider the details of this war. The aggregate civilian death toll, at the hands of the U.S. and NATO — between 6,800 and more than 8,000, according to economics professor Marc Herold of the University of New Hampshire — is a start. But Herold's about-to-be-released report on the bombing campaign in Afghanistan, "The Matrix of Death," is a disturbing analysis not only of the collateral damage churned up by our terrorist-hunt in this broken nation, but of the attitude and rationality that are driving it. The report is subtitled: "The (Under)Valuation of an Afghan Life."
This is a report on the flawed premise from which ultimate failure flows — the flawed premise that keeps hell active and guarantees an endless supply of enemies. And the more of these "enemies," and their children, that we kill, the less safe we are, and we know this, so we lie about the numbers of dead. Most of all we lie about what we are, in fact, doing, which is fighting an irrational war, most accurately called the war to promote terror. We will not win it unless we revert to the morality of Ancient Rome: "create a wasteland and call it peace." But that's not winning, either.
What it is, indeed, is racism, especially the use of what is called close air support: In order to protect the lives of American and NATO (mostly white) troops, we do much of our fighting from the air, with 500- and 2,000-pound bombs, lacerating a (non-white) Afghan population we don't even have to face.
Herold quotes John MacLachlen Gray in the U.K. Globe and Mail: ". . . the slaughter of innocent people, as a statistical eventuality is not an accident but a priority — in which Afghan civilian casualties are substituted for American military casualties." Herold adds: "What I am saying is that when the 'other' is non-white, the scale of violence used by the U.S. government to achieve its stated objectives at minimum cost knows no limits."
This is a description of U.S. policy stripped of the pretense in which it is usually cloaked. Not only are the numbers of dead downplayed significantly in official military statements and the sympathetic (mainstream) media, but those civilian dead who are acknowledged are instantly rendered "regrettable, but not our fault" by the circular, all-purpose justification that they were not deliberately targeted.
When you bomb a village, the dead are random and anonymous — and therefore, thanks to some legalistic moral loophole, no one's fault. And this is one of the military advantages of air war, as far as I can tell. However horrific the results it produces on the ground — "I saw pieces of bodies scattered around . . . I couldn't even make out which part was which . . . it was just flesh everywhere" — the perpetrators maintain an easy moral purity that forestalls self-doubt and revulsion.
Aerial bombardment, therefore, because of the psychological insulation of distance that it provides — especially when added to the psychological insulation of racism, which makes non-white deaths matter little or not at all — is a particularly insidious form of warfare, and its perfection is in and of itself a dire threat to humanity's future.
And, as Herold writes: "The recent increasing reliance upon unmanned drones to dispense death and destruction in the border regions is in a sense the penultimate disconnect between killing them and saving ours."
To put this all another way, the simple math of conventional national security — the zero-sum game of kill or be killed, our lives matter and theirs don't — is terrifyingly counterproductive in the 21st century. It always has been, of course, but we used to be protected from its consequences by distance and ignorance. Humanity is connected now like never before, and possesses the technology of self-annihilation. Such technology cannot be contained, and thus true security has nothing to do with national borders. We cannot afford to devalue any portion of the human race.
For that reason, the most disturbing part of Herold's report may have been his discussion of the "condolence" money paid, occasionally, to the survivors of Afghan civilians killed by our actions. These payouts have ranged from as low as $400 per dead civilian to several thousand dollars.
Herold puts this into perspective: "Approximately $80,000 was spent on the rehabilitation of every sea otter affected by the Exxon Valdez oil spill, that is, ten times the condolence amount offered by the U.S. military to the family of an Afghan killed."
This does not make me feel safe. I can't even fathom the values that are operating here, even though they are stamped: "U.S.A." We are already reaping what the Bush legacy has sown, but there's a lot more that awaits us, and we have no right to be surprised when it comes.
Robert Koehler, an award-winning, Chicago-based journalist, is an editor at Tribune Media Services and nationally syndicated writer. You can respond to this column at bkoehler@tribune.com.
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THE GIRLFRIEND EXPERIENCE Exclusive Interview Louisa Krause Season 2
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Louisa Krause is Anna Greenwald in THE GIRLFRIEND EXPERIENCE - Season 2
THE GIRLFRIEND EXPERIENCE: Actress Louisa Krause on Season 2 – Exclusive Interview
The actress talks playing a woman falling in love for the first time
Posted: December 16th, 2017 / 02:03 AM
Louisa Krause is Anna Greenwald in THE GIRLFRIEND EXPERIENCE – Season 2 | ©2017 Starz
The second season of THE GIRLFRIEND EXPERIENCE, which has its finale on Starz this Sunday, December 17, is divided into two parts. Each half is written and directed by one of the series co-creators, Lodge Kerrigan and Amy Seimetz.
Louisa Krause stars as Anna Greenwald, who offers "the girlfriend experience," GFE for short, in Kerrigan's portion of Season 2. The GFE involves a woman selling services of full companionship, as well as sex, to clients who can pay for it and who she deems acceptable. Anna's life becomes exponentially more complicated when she falls in love with Washington, D.C. power broker Erica Myles (Anna Friel), who has some risky ideas about how Anna can use her business to achieve political ends.
Actress Krause, originally from Virginia, has a recurring role on BILLIONS and has been in a multitude of feature films, including the acclaimed MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE and YOUNG ADULT. She's happy to talk about her own experience making GIRLFRIEND.
ASSIGNMENT X: With the same director – Lodge Kerrigan – directing all your episodes, does that make it feel like doing a three-and-a-half-hour movie instead of an episodic series?
LOUISA KRAUSE: Yes. And we had all seven scripts ahead of time. I did the work so I could orient myself, because sometimes we would shoot parts from three different [episodes] in the season in one day, and you just really have to have the details of those, so I knew where I was at every moment. It's quick-paced, but it's really good. I knew I was making some great cinema. I think it's great art, and it did feel like a film.
AX: What is Anna's attitude towards her work, offering the Girlfriend Experience?
KRAUSE: The character I play loves what she does and is empowered by her job. And she loves having sex.
AX: Is Anna a lesbian by preference when she's not working?
KRAUSE: I never thought of her as a lesbian. She is an individual who finds herself falling in love for the first time, and she services both male and female clients.
AX: I was just wondering, because Erica is a woman, if Anna sees that relationship as something very different from work …
KRAUSE: I don't think that ever crossed her mind. I think it's a surprise when she finds herself opening up to someone when it's not quite clear if it's work or not. And that's a surprise. But it's a new experience she's having, and it's a surprise for her, to open up, become vulnerable.
AX: Although Erica exercises her control over the people she advises in a different way than Anna exerts over her clients, they are both essentially being paid to control others. Do they sort of bond over the idea that they like people paying to be controlled by them?
KRAUSE: I think that's in there, and you can make that connection, but that's never something that's stated. But in their chemical makeup, I feel like there's a similarity in that they are both powerful women in what they do, and that they're able to be manipulative and manipulated, and they're able to control and be controlled. They're powerful women, and they're confident in what they do, and I feel like that is the ultimate attraction.
AX: Do you have any other projects going on that we should know about?
KRAUSE: Yeah. I'm working on an animated feature right now that will probably be a couple of years in the making called THE CRYPTOZOO. I'm voicing animated character. I have a few films that are coming out, a movie called NEW MONEY, another one called THE SUPER and another one that just received distribution called WE'VE FORGOTTEN MORE THAN WE EVER KNEW.
AX: And what would you most like people to know about THE GIRLFRIEND EXPERIENCE?
KRAUSE: You will see raw, unapologetic truth. And THE GIRLFRIEND EXPERIENCE is a hundred and ten percent times infinity what it is, so get ready [laughs].
This interview was conducted during Starz's portion of the Television Critics Association (TCA) press tour.
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El Libro de Jasher (también deletreado Jashar, hebreo: ; transliteration: sēfer hayyāšār), el cual significa el Libro del Íntegro o el Libro del Hombre Justo es un perdido libro no canónico mencionado en la Biblia . El Libro "de traducción del Hombre Justo" es el griego tradicional y traducción latina, mientras la forma transliterada "Jasher" está encontrado en la Biblia de James del Rey, 1611.

El libro es mencionado dos veces en la Biblia hebrea. Una tercera referencia posible existe con una ortografía de variante.

Según el Libro de Josué, mientras Josué ganaba una batalla contra Adonizedek (rey de Jerusalem) y sus aliados oró para que el sol y luna se detuvieran. La presencia de este acontecimiento en un libro de poesía ha sido interpretado como descripción poética de la batalla prolongada.

Según el Libro de Samuel, cuando David habló su lamento sobre las muertes de Saul y Jonathan, empiece como sigue:

Una tercera referencia posible aparece en #I King 8. En el Septuagint (aun así no en el texto hebreo o en más traducciones), verso 8:53 dice que la oración de preceder de Solomon está escrita "en el libro de canción" (ἐν βιβλίῳ τῆς ᾠδῆς). La versión hebrea de "el libro de canción" podría ser ספר השיר, el cual es el mismo tan "Sefer HaYashar" con dos letras transposed. Esto sugiere que el nombre de "Sefer HaYashar" podría ser relacionado con su función como libro de canción, y la segunda palabra de "Sefer HaYashar" poder originalmente ha sido שיר ("canción") o ישיר (" cante").

Referencias

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Issue Number 33
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The Ladies Men ...
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Consultant and former Head Greenkeeper, Andy Boyce, says it's good to talk. He explains how opening lines of communication with the members, whether out...
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Michael Curtis - prison for the idiot who brought the idea of cap cones and ladders into the pre-match warm up!
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Q: Sstableloader Exception in cassandra I created a sstable using csv file.I wanted to those sstables into cassandra data folder using sstableloader option in windows. The sstables is created in the fallowing folder.
D:\Itopcode\cassandrasstablel\sampledemo\users.
This sstables is created using SSTableSimpleUnsortedWriter class.
Those keyspace and sstable or columnfamily schema also defined in cassandra using cqlsh3.0.
My cassandra version is 2.0.
My Keyspace is
  CREATE KEYSPACE sampledemo
     WITH REPLICATION = { 'class' : 'NetworkTopologyStrategy' };

My sstable is
  CREATE TABLE sampledemo.users (
        key uuid,
        firstname ascii,
        lastname ascii,
        password ascii,
        age ascii,
        email ascii,
        PRIMARY KEY (key));

I run the following
D:\cassandra\bin>sstableloader -d 127.0.0.1 D:/Itopcode/cassandrasstablel/sampledemo/users
And Exception is
Established connection to initial hosts
Opening sstables and calculating sections to stream
Streaming relevant part of D:\Itopcode\cassandrasstablel\sampledemo\users\sampledemo-users-jb-1-Data.db to []

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They say that colors are the way nature smiles ... And, apparently, nature has dozens of shades to smile on the different beaches around the planet.
Beyond romanticisms, the truth is that the color of the sand varies because it is formed by rocks. These, over time, have been crushed by different elements like water, wind and even the same steps of the human being. These rocks come from cliffs near the coasts, which with erosion, are deposited on the beaches along with other sediments thanks to the eternal movement of the sea.
The composition of the sand depends, therefore, on the geological conditions of the surroundings and the local minerals that make up the rocks.
The most common sand type (so common that there is even a shade that is called "sand color") is known as silica and tends to form grains. The beaches of yellow sand, which are very common in southern Europe, are made up of a lot of iron and quartz. Those with more reddish sand also contain iron ore, but include in their composition glauconite, a mineral of marine origin. And what about the black beaches? Those contain magnetite and volcanic obsidian, so that their color is darker.
However, not everything in the composition of the sand is based exclusively on rocks and minerals. Marine life also brings its share. This is the case of beaches with pink sand (such as the Bahamas), whose pigmentation is due in large part to the corals that grow in the area.
The white sand (which gives the name to Playa Blanca, by the way), also owes its color to the fauna of the area, thanks to the combination of crustacean remains.
But not only that: in fact the white sand comes, to a large extent, from the excrement of the parrot fish. These types of fish use their teeth (which resemble the beaks of the parrots) to scrape the surface of the corals and extract their food. They then digest the algae found there, as well as chunks of coral, and dispose of the remains by expelling inorganic compounds in the form of white sand. It is estimated that each parrotfish can produce up to one ton of sand per year.
However, it is not only the fish that is responsible for producing sand in such an unattractive manner. Every year there is always new sand that accumulates, mainly, during the rainy season, when the rivers increase their flow and carry more sediments towards the sea. So, do not worry about walking on the paradisiacal sand of Playa Blanca. It has a not very glamorous origin, true, but it does not stop being beautiful.
And to you which sand color do you like best? Tell us the comments.


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Bergkamp's EMCAD System Technology
BY AsphaltPro Staff
To create the most efficient environment for quality control/quality assurance (QC/QA), original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) offer automation technologies to contractors. The use of such systems often takes the guesswork out of calculations for equipment operators and/or reduces the number of steps operators must take to complete a task. To that end, the team at Bergkamp Inc., Salina, Kan., developed the Electronic Mix Control and Diagnostic (EMCAD) system, which is standard on its M1E and M310 slurry seal and micro surfacing pavers. Here's how it works.
A designated operator inputs the set points of the ingredients—aggregate, asphalt emulsion, water, additive and fines—for the mix design at the operator terminal of the EMCAD system. Using a fixed gate, the system calibrates at a single-gate setting.
A mobile support unit backs up to the front of the M1E to ensure the paver receives a constant supply of aggregate, asphalt emulsion and water. This arrangement makes it possible for continuous paving and fewer transverse joints.
Next, the self-propelled, continuous slurry seal paver moves forward with the support truck. Sensors keep track of the engine speed, pumps, drive motors and temperature to calculate the rate at which ingredients are fed into the pugmill. A single-pump delivery method compensates when speed changes are detected. From the pugmill, material is sent to the spreader box.
The system ties material ratios of aggregate, asphalt emulsion, water, additive and fines together with an electronic signal to automatically maintain the ratios. The onboard display shows current and average material ratios, total material used and material application rates. The production, additive and water controls located at the rear console allow the operator to fine tune water and additive ratios when adjusting for changes in ambient temperature and humidity. EMCAD provides the set point configuration for aggregate, asphalt emulsion and fines to ensure overall mix design integrity.
Finally, the system can print out reports to track production as needed.
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When Trump Pits Journalists Against Each Other, He's Won
In a rambling press conference, he offered lame answers on his business conflicts of interest and alleged Russian hacking.
By Joan WalshTwitter
President-elect Donald Trump calls on a reporter during a news conference in the lobby of Trump Tower in New York on January 11, 2017. (AP Photo / Evan Vucci)
What a farce.
Donald Trump's first press conference in almost six months showed that the narcissistic bully is still the media's master. Like a lounge act, the press conference opened with warm-up talent: Press secretary Sean Spicer attacked the media, particularly CNN and BuzzFeed, for their Monday night stories reporting that the intelligence community warned Trump and President Obama that the Russian government has damaging information on the president-elect. Vice President-elect Mike Pence whipped up the crowd's excitement, reminding viewers that there are only nine days before Trump can "make America great again."
Yes, there was a crowd. In addition to more than dozens of reporters, there was an audience consisting of Trump staffers, who cheered for their boss at bizarre times—like when he went after the media, who were the ostensible reason for the odd Wednesday morning pep rally.
Trump appeared rattled by the late-night disclosure of alleged Russian "kompromat" known to intelligence agencies, and again seemed to compare the intelligence community to players in "Nazi Germany." (My colleague D.D. Guttenplan has a sober take on the revelations here.) Like Guttenplan, I think the allegations of specific contacts between Trump, and his campaign, and Russian government sources are the most important charges; the sexual details are irrelevant. But it must be said that there's never been a presidential moment as bizarre as Trump insisting he couldn't have taken part in the sexual activities described in the dossier because "I'm also very much of a germaphobe, by the way, believe me."
While Trump seemed to finally accept claims that Russia was behind the hacking of Democratic Party figures, he also appeared to praise the leaks for getting out the truth. "Hacking's bad and it shouldn't be done. But look at the things that were hacked, look at what was learned from that hacking. That Hillary Clinton got the questions to the debate and didn't report it? That's a horrible thing. That's a horrible thing. Can you imagine that if Donald Trump got the questions to the debate — it would've been the biggest story in the history of stories. And they would've said immediately, 'You have to get out of the race.' Nobody even talked about it. It's a very terrible thing." That "nobody even talked about it" is a trademark Trump lie; the supposed revelation dominated the news for days.
The ostensible purpose of the press conference was to finally unveil Trump's plans for his businesses—how he would avoid conflicts of interest and even possible constitutional violations. After reminding viewers, at length, that as president he couldn't be found to have a conflict of interest, Trump told the press that he would turn over management of his businesses to his sons. "What I'm going to be doing is my two sons, who are right here, Don and Eric, are going to be running the company," he told the crowd. "They are going to be running it in a very professional manner. They're not going to discuss it with me. Again, I don't have to do this." Then he turned the podium over to attorney Sheri Dillon, who made a long, confusing presentation, heavy on legalese, about how Trump would avoid conflicts—at least partly by arguing he couldn't have a conflict because he's the president. He would not be selling his business, Dillon said, because "President-elect Trump should not be expected to destroy the company he built."
Shortly after Dillon wrapped, Common Cause released a statement saying Trump's proposal "falls far short of what's necessary to avoid conflicts of interest and Emoluments Clause violations." Obama ethics watchdog Norm Eisen told The Washington Post's Greg Sargent: "The Trump plan falls short in every respect. Trump did not make a clean break with his business ownership interests as his predecessors for four decades have done. Trump's ill-advised course will precipitate scandal and corruption."
Then Trump returned to the podium, and answered a few more questions from journalists. Drama flared when Trump refused to take a question from CNN's Jim Acosta, denouncing his network as "fake news" and calling the correspondent "rude." For a while Acosta's competitors seemed to pause to let him continue to press Trump, and then the waters closed over him, as reporters ignored the insult to a colleague and just jumped back in the scrum. For the record, Acosta said later that an ABC reporter actually asked the question he was trying to, about whether the Trump campaign had any contacts with Russian officials during the campaign; Trump didn't answer her, either, but later answered "no" when getting on an elevator. So there you have it. Trump then turned to Matthew Boyle, a reporter at what amounts his own private news agency, Breitbart, and took a question about how he planned to reform media.
Making things worse was the fact that while networks covered Trump, as they of course had to, senators were grilling secretary-of-state nominee Rex Tillerson, the Vladimir Putin friend who heads Exxon-Mobil, while witnesses testified for and against the dangerous-to-civil-rights attorney-general nominee Jeff Sessions. Many of us covered a press conference in which we learned little, rather than hearings at which we could have learned a lot. (Ari Berman will be reporting from the Sessions hearing later.)
I thought reporters in the room ought to have shown more solidarity with CNN's Acosta. Any of them could be next. But I was then dismayed to watch CNN attack BuzzFeed's decision to publish the entire intelligence dossier—a controversial decision in journalism circles, to be sure, but a defensible one. "CNN's decision to publish carefully sourced reporting about the operations of our government is vastly different than BuzzFeed's decision to publish unsubstantiated memos," the statement read in part. "The Trump team knows this. They are using BuzzFeed's decision to deflect from CNN's reporting, which has been matched by the other major news organizations."
It seemed as though CNN was bending over backward to make clear that it wasn't really the news agency Trump had a beef with, it was those low-lifes over there. (For his part, BuzzFeed editor Ben Smith declined to respond.) When Trump gets journalists fighting among themselves, he's won the news cycle. Once again, a frightening political performance by an unprepared president-elect will avoid the full-force media outrage it deserves.
Joan WalshTwitterJoan Walsh, a national affairs correspondent for The Nation, is a co-producer of The Sit In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show and the author of What's the Matter With White People? Finding Our Way in the Next America.
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Colombian vehicle importers and distributors sold 6,094 new cars in October, the second consecutive month this year that the 6,000 mark was reached, writes Juan Carlos Vargas. Month-on-month sales grew 3.3 percent. General Motors sold over 1,900 units for a market share of 31.2 percent. Next came Renault with 1,192 units (19.6 percent), Mazda (668; 11.0 percent), Daewoo (503; 8.3 percent) and Hyundai (420 units; 6.9 percent).


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Jim McDermott (D. WA) was on Crossfire the other night, and is now my new hero:
NOVAK: Congressman McDermott, you're a psychiatrist by profession, and although you've been on the Ways and Means Committee for many years, with all due respect, I don't think you've learned a lot. So I want to give you a good lesson in economics by somebody who did major in economics in college, and he's going to explain to you why repealing the tax on dividends is important. Let's listen to him.
BUSH: Double taxation is bad for our economy. Double taxation is wrong. Double taxation falls especially hard on retired people.
About half of all dividend income goes to America's seniors. And they often rely on those checks for a steady source of income in their retirement. It's fair to tax a company's profits. It's not fair to double tax by taxing the shareholder on the same profits.
NOVAK: Congressman McDermott, can you...
MCDERMOTT: Is that "Saturday Night Live"?


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Is ignoring the press an emerging political strategy? Texas' Rick Perry, others may pave the way.
Wednesday, Nov 03, 2010, 07:20AM CST
Now that Rick Perry has won an unprecedented third term as Texas governor, there is a temptation to answer 'no' to the question of whether it is worth it for a candidate to try to win newspaper endorsements.
Not only did Perry decline to meet with every editorial board in the state, but he repeatedly refused the invitation of the major newspapers to a televised debate. But Peter Brown, who has two decades of reporting experience covering Washington and originally posed the question in a column for the Wall Street Journal, says the answer is better found in the results of a dead heat in Florida featuring another Rick, this one a challenger rather than an incumbent.
Rick Scott, a multi-millionaire Republican, made a point at the outset of his Florida gubernatorial campaign to tell editorial boards he would not be taking the time to sit down with them. Alex Sink, Florida's chief financial officer and a Democrat, has included the endorsement of at least 17 newspapers on every piece of campaign literature and in most of her television and radio commercials.
Both Texas Rick and Florida Rick are playing on the natural conservative antipathy toward a mainstream media they see as sympathetic to liberals and Democrats, Brown, the assistant director of the much respected polling institute at little, private Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Conn., told Texas Watchdog. Both are part of what has for several election cycles been a more general and bi-partisan trend to sidestep or ignore altogether traditional news outlets that may ask inconvenient questions at critical times in campaigns, he said. Politico has called this the year of the missing candidate.
But if Scott wins, Brown says, this year could be much more. "In Perry's case you have an easier call not to do editorial boards. He's an incumbent, he has plenty of money. The people who voted for him before are going to vote for him again. Scott is a challenger who has implied that the media is part of the crowd in Tallahassee. If he wins he shows the influence of the media has clearly diminished. Just as clearly he sends a message to other Republicans that avoiding the media can be a campaign strategy in Florida."
As of Wednesday morning Scott was ahead by 75,000 votes in a neck-and-neck race. We will update later today.
John Kennedy, who is in Fort Lauderdale today covering Scott for the News Service of Florida website, said that although Scott has never said it, the Florida governor's race is, among other things a referendum on the media's role in politics in the state.
Kennedy, who spent 25 years in newspapers, much of it at the Tallahassee statehouse for the Orlando Sentinel, said he and other longtime news people have been shocked at the success of a candidate who did not win an endorsement from a single major newspaper. In contrast, his opponent, Sink, had to be cut off during a televised debate on Oct. 27 in Tampa when she departed on a tangent about her newspaper endorsements.
"Newspapers, in part, have played a role in building her story. She has built whole ad campaigns around these endorsements. Scott was asked again this week by USA Today about the editorial boards, and he said what he has from the beginning: 'I'm taking my message directly to the voters,'" Kennedy says. "It's an anti-media message. The question is, does it resonate with independents? We'll see tonight."
How the candidates have sided on the media in Florida is a tidy illustration that suggests it can be effective for political outsiders -- Tea Party candidates preeminent in this election -- to fight government and the press as the same entrenched, sclerotic enemy.
Gov. Perry's signature moment in this campaign may have been his decision, months before other major elected figures in this country, to speak with empathy at Tea Party rallies. Perry told the Associated Press he had decided, even before the March primaries, to forego interview sessions with editorial boards. "It was a calculated decision," Perry told AP, "but you know the world is really changing, I mean, the way people get their information, who they listen to, etc."
It was this insight and the Perry campaign's successful use of social media to build its organization and deliver its messages that is the subtle but significant development in this election, according to David Guenthner, director of media and government relations for the conservative Texas Public Policy Foundation.
Whether or not Perry's decision was a self-fulfilling prophesy, he received not a single endorsement from a major newspaper in Texas. Among those papers who endorsed White after endorsing Perry in 2006 were the Dallas Morning News and the San Antonio Express-News. Standing out among the vitriolic, indignant editorials was a rare editorial run across the front page of the Sunday, Oct. 8, Tyler Courier Times-Telegraph scolding Perry for his "unacceptable and undeserved silence."
"I think in Rick Perry's case, you're going to say he made the right choice," Brown says. "I think that over time you're seeing candidates making the choice of limiting their exposure in the media, which has fewer organizations and fewer resources."
But while it might be small consolation to Texas editorial writers, avoidance might be preferable to confrontation. Security guards working for Joe Miller, a Tea Party Republican running for the U.S. Senate in Alaska, handcuffed a reporter they said was trespassing at one of Miller's town hall meetings in mid-October. Miller was leading in the last poll taken before election day.
Carl Paladino, Republican gubernatorial candidate in New York, Sharron Angle, Republican for U.S. Senate in Nevada, and Christine O'Donnell, U.S. Senate candidate in Delaware - all outsider upstarts - have within the last weeks of the election had angry run-ins with the press. Rather than the year of the missing candidate, this election might better be described as the year of the passive-aggressive candidate.
Whether or not candidates accelerate their treatment of the press as nuisance or outright threat depends largely on whether the strategy is seen as successful on election day, Brown says. These candidates, he says, will be paying close attention in Florida to Rick Scott.
Contact Mark Lisheron at 512-299-2318 or mark@texaswatchdog.org.
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Not only newspapers - Republican candidates have also increasingly declined to be interviewed by TV news outlets this election season. This is an excellent article, but you left out the most obvious reason: the surge in ad income following the Supreme Court's Citizen United decision gives candidates, especially business-friendly ones, unprecedented access to media with messages under their own control. They can afford to be seen often by the public, even to respond quickly to any negative publicity, without involvement by troublesome journalists. Add Fox News to this and you have a powerful new situation. In fact, discrediting real journalism is not just possible in this new environment, it is strategically smart.
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Not all candidates who avoided the press won on Tuesday night. Sharron Angle and Christine O'Donnell both made a point of not talking to the media and they both lost. In California both the Republican candidates for governor and U.S. Senate made a point of hand picking reporters they would talk to and they lost as well. In Oakland, CA the frontrunning candidate in the mayor's race embraced the political mantra of "front runners don't give challengers the opportunity to debate" to the hilt, coming up with various reasons not to debate other candidates or to discuss details of his campaign with the media. That candidate, as of November 6, was losing. Media outlets should be more proactive in harshly criticizing candidates who won't sit for editorial board or talk to reporters.
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Jackson, Mich.-based solar energy provider, Harvest Energy Solutions is the first provider of solar energy to a utility in Lenawee County, Mich., via three large scale solar array projects in the region.
The installations are owned by Stateline Farms, Gerken Paving, and Harvest Solar Lenawee. Each of these systems is capable of 1.0 MW of AC output. The power generated by these systems will be sold to Cassopolis, MI – based energy provider Midwest Energy & Communications (MEC) thanks to a program offered by Wolverine Power Co-op.


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Riley Reid is an actress in adult films who has won numerous awards. Her credits include numerous X-rated features and she has won over 45 awards. She was awarded the XBIZ Award in 2014 for Female Performer and in 2016 the AVN Award in Best Pornstar. In 2021, she will be inducted into XRCO's Hall of Fame.
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Photo of Laquan McDonald courtesy of Twitter.
Laquan McDonald was killed in 2014.
On Tuesday (January 17th) a judge found three Chicago police officers not guilty of covering up for the colleague who shot and killed teenager Laquan McDonald in 2014.
The prosecutor on the case, Patricia Brown Holmes, said while the three officers gave the same account, their details were different than the footage found on the dashcam. The officers claim that McDonald lunged toward them with a knife, something that the footage contradicts.
We are here because these officers and others tried to make the case against Van Dyke go away. Laquan McDonald was a human being. He deserved due process in the law and not to have police officers write false reports and shape a false narrative to justify his killing.


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Chilean Senate approves Madrid Protocol; UKIPO publishes new corporate plan; Anaqua acquires Actio IP – news digest
Bridget Diakun, Tim Lince, Trevor Little and Victoria Arnold
Every Tuesday and Friday, WTR presents a round-up of news, developments and insights from across the trademark sphere. In our latest round-up, we look at Alt Legal partnering with Clarivate, a brand incubator landing $70 million in funding, the USPTO announcing new covid-19 pilots, and much more. Coverage this time from Victoria Arnold (VA), Bridget Diakun (BD), Tim Lince (TJL) and Trevor Little (TL).
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Alt Legal partners with Clarivate – Alt Legal, an IP docketing software company, has teamed up with Clarivate in a partnership that will see it integrate CompuMark's international trademark data into its own platform. Alt Legal will now provide customers with updates on trademark filings and registrations in every jurisdiction, thereby creating more efficient workflows. "Clients have long viewed Alt Legal as the premier docketing platform for US-centric portfolios and have been asking us to broaden our international reach," said Alt Legal CEO Nehal Madhani. "With our direct connections to the USPTO and CIPO and now our international integration for all remaining jurisdictions, we are answering that call. We are thrilled to take the reputation we've built around making trademark professionals' lives easier through automation, design, and support and combine it with CompuMark and its best-in-class international trademark data for complete international portfolio management." (BD)
Anaqua acquires Actio IP from Acapo AS – Anaqua has announced the acquisition of tech-enabled IP services company Actio IP from Acapo AS. The deal strengthens the platform's line of IP management solutions, in particular making it easier for clients to manage their Patent Cooperation Treaty national phase and European patent validation filing processes. "Both companies share a deep commitment to leveraging technology to optimise the IP workflow process," said Christine Jennings, president of Anaqua Services, who will lead the new business unit. "We believe this combination will enhance the customer experience by pairing our existing payments business with another high-quality service that can be seamlessly integrated with our software platforms and other offerings." This is the latest in a string of M&As, being Anaqua's second acquisition this month, its third in 2021 and its fourth within the past 12 months. (BD)
GSK Consumer Healthcare and Vizient join coalition to combat online sale of counterfeit medical supplies – The Buy Safe America Coalition – a group of retailers, consumer groups, wholesaler distributors, manufacturers and law enforcement officials that support efforts to prevent the sale of counterfeit and stolen goods – has announced that GSK Consumer Healthcare and healthcare performance improvement company Vizient have become its newest members. "Consumer safety is of paramount importance to GSK Consumer Healthcare. The counterfeiting of healthcare products represents an unacceptable threat to consumers' welfare," said Dennis Curran, chief customer officer at GSK Consumer Healthcare. "Consumers should always feel confident that the items they purchase have not been tampered with or altered in any way. We look forward to working with the other members of the Buy Safe America Coalition to keep consumers safe from counterfeit and stolen health care products." Shoshana Krilow, senior vice president, public policy and government relations at Vizient, added: "Many bad actors have exploited the COVID pandemic for their own financial gain. Legislative action is necessary to curb the flow of these counterfeit and potentially hazardous health care products. Vizient is proud to join the Buy Safe America Coalition and to also support the INFORM Consumers Act. It is a logical, but measured, approach to address an escalating problem." The legislation, which would require online marketplaces to collect and verify basic seller information and require high-volume sellers to provide that information to consumers, is currently the focus of intense lobbying. (TL)
CBP and Nike team up against counterfeit imports – US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has announced a new formal partnership with Nike Inc to help prevent the import of counterfeit goods into the United States. Established as part of the Donations Acceptance Programme, the partnership will see Nike donate proprietary technology to aid in the authentication of various products, which will shortly be tested at a limited number of international mail and express consignment facilities. "As criminal organizations use proceeds from counterfeit sales to fund other illegal activity, our partnerships help strengthen our border security posture through innovation and resource optimization," said Diane Sabatino, deputy executive assistant commissioner of the CBP Office of Field Operations. "Our partnerships with stakeholders are vital to CBP's enforcement mission and continued success in protecting US businesses and consumers from counterfeit goods." CBP seized over 26,500 shipments of counterfeit goods estimated to be worth nearly $1.3 billion last year – demonstrating the real-world effect that stakeholder collaboration can have on enforcement efforts around the country. (VA)
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Brand acquirer and incubator lands $70 million in funding – Heyday, a San Francisco-based start-up founded last year, has secured $70 million in a Series B round of funding, reports Crunchbase. The company works with entrepreneurs to acquire, launch and incubate brands, and is currently developing a marketplace-native technology, data and operations stack. Heyday has grown rapidly since its first round of funding to amass more than 100 employees and surpass $100 million in revenue. "Acquiring and incubating brands takes capital," Sebastian Rymarz told Crunchbase. "We got through our initial funding and wanted to turbocharge our growth." Rymarz did not reveal how many brands the company has added to its portfolio, but he said that the new cash would be invested in bringing more brands onto its marketplace, be it through partnership, acquisition or incubation. (BD)
Legal radar:
California woman arrested over counterfeit store coupons – A California woman has been arrested and charged with fraudulently selling over $700,000 worth of counterfeit Catalina coupons used at various retail stores across the United States for the purchase of household items, acting US attorney Rachael A Honig announced this week. According to documents filed in the case and statements made in court, Tong Lor sold the counterfeit coupons via invitation-only internet groups associated with her businesses. Honig credited postal inspectors at the US Postal Inspection Service, under the direction of acting inspector in charge Rodney M Hopkins, in Newark, with the investigation leading to the arrest. (TL)
Chilean Senate approves Madrid Protocol – The Chilean National Institute of Industrial Property (INAPI) has announced that the Chilean Senate Chamber has approved the Madrid Protocol, meaning that the country is on the verge of implementing the international trademark system. INAPI director Loreto Bresky described the move as "great news, because it leaves local entrepreneurs who are committed to internationalization in an advantageous position and is part of the reactivation plan promoted by the executive, which has a special focus on SMEs". The draft agreement passed with 30 votes in favour, zero against and three abstentions. Back in December, WTR spoke with a number of local attorneys in Chile who expressed concern that the country's existing legal structures may not be equipped to handle international registrations. With this Senate vote, it will now be up to INAPI to ensure that the country is ready. (TJL)
Epic Games sues AR company for UNREAL infringement – Fortnite developer Epic Games is suing augmented reality (AR) company Nreal over claims that the company's name infringes on its UNREAL trademark. The filing before the US District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina claims that Nreal made the intentional branding decision to give itself a name that "looks and sounds virtually identical" to Epic's own game engine, Unreal. The filing also points to similarities between the two companies' products and the subsequent risk of consumer confusion. According to Epic: "Nreal was and is well aware of Epic and its Unreal marks. Nreal does not just sell glasses, it has already developed and sold a game to be used with those glasses. Nreal is willfully trading off Epic's rights, causing confusion, and acting with callous disregard for Epic's prior rights." No stranger to high-profile courtroom action, Epic is also currently embroiled in an antitrust suit against Apple and it's alleged monopoly of the market through the iOS App Store. Clearly, IP enforcement will also be vital if the video game developer is to achieve its long-term ambitions for the so-called 'Metaverse'. (VA)
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(For more of the latest coronavirus-related updates from national IP offices, please read our dedicated article which is being continuously updated.)
UKIPO looks to the future with new corporate plan – The UK Intellectual Property Office has published its annual Corporate Plan for 2021, outlining its planned activity and targets for 2021 and 2022. These include achieving an average overall customer satisfaction of 85% or more in Q4 2021-22, to consult on changes to (and make recommendations on) patent and copyright law to meet the future challenges and opportunities of AI, and to achieve efficiencies worth at least 3.5% of its core operating costs. As a priority, the office will also offer financial support to SMEs and innovative businesses to recover from the covid-19 pandemic. A release explained: "The aim is to foster growth and help the UK economy build back better and ensure UK industry receives the support it needs. The financial scheme will be targeted to UK regions and will be focussed on supporting both recovering and growing SMEs." UKIPO CEO Tim Moss said: "IP touches everything that makes modern life more enjoyable, easier, safer, and more prosperous. It gives researchers, inventors, creators and businesses the confidence to invest their time, energy and money in doing something new. We face a once in a generation opportunity to help businesses to recover from the economic shock of Covid-19. Intellectual property is essential to building a better future: IP will enable our creative and technological industries to confidently deliver the economic growth we need. The IPO Corporate Plan sets out how we will contribute to making this happen in 2021-22." (TL)
DPMA launches new functions to prepare goods and services – The German Patent and Trademark Office (DPMA) has introduced new functions to its DPMAdirektWeb tool to help users select goods and services more effectively. According to the registry, goods and services "are now sorted by topic, which creates and shows the links between the generic terms and the individual terms assigned to them". This allows "a specific search for groups of goods and services, and it makes clear that a number of goods and services can be claimed with a few generic terms", the office says. (TJL)
USPTO announces new covid-19 pilots – In June 2020 the USPTO initiated the Covid-19 Prioritised Trademark Examination Programme in response to the global pandemic. The office has now announced that, to further support efforts to combat covid-19, it is initiating the Pilot Prioritised Review Programme For Appeals Related to Covid-19, under which the TTAB will expedite the review and issuance of ex parte appeal decisions for applications examined under the original prioritised programme. Additionally, it is initiating the Conference Pilot Programme for Oppositions Against Applications Related to Covid-19. Under this scheme, a TTAB attorney or judge may participate in the parties' mandatory settlement and discovery planning conference, as is always available upon request of a party, if the involved application was examined under the Covid-19 Prioritised Trademark Examination Programme. Additional information on these programmes is available in the USPTO's official notice. (TL)
On the move:
O'Melveny hires senior USPTO official – William Fink, a senior legal adviser to the director of the USPTO, has joined O'Melveny as a partner in the IP and technology practice. The IP litigator will be based in the firm's Washington DC office. During his time at the USPTO, Fink also served as vice chief judge, lead judge and judge at the PTAB. "It is a great pleasure to welcome Tim to the team," said Ryan Yagura, chair of O'Melveny's IP and technology practice. "He will be an invaluable asset to our clients on USPTO matters and increasingly complex PTAB petitions. He will also help lead high-stakes patent litigation for major clients in district court and before the US International Trade Commission. He is a highly accomplished and versatile advisor." (BD)
WTR launches major new Special Report series – Whether they are specific individuals or particular jurisdictions, the rise to prominence of mass filers over the past few years has had a significant impact on the trademark landscape. For the first of our new quarterly Special Reports, WTR has taken a deep dive into the data behind the trend, charting the rise of mass filers, analysing their activity, investigating the real-world effect that they are having and, crucially, exploring how rights holders and registries can mitigate their impact on brand development and protection efforts. The report is the first of a new series of quarterly offerings, which will deliver an in-depth exploration of a key theme or topic, with practical takeaways and unique insights. The full report is available exclusively to WTR subscribers here, and in the WTR Report Centre.
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Following the Lights in Vegas: A Trip through Sin City's History
published December 9, 2016 September 28, 2017
Even before I officially arrived in Las Vegas, the Strip — visible from miles away on a dark night — immediately demanded my attention. No matter where I looked, there were glittering attractions for every personality, and enough wattage to make sure I spotted them all: the famous Welcome sign, the Bellagio's dancing fountains, the High Roller Ferris wheel, all packed with a vibrant rush of people visiting from all over the world.
But while I was eager to immerse myself in all this celebrated glitz and glamour, I didn't want to head straight for Sin City's bedazzled heart without first understanding how and why it became an always-on entertainment mecca. As I would soon find out, the rich history of Vegas has never stopped pumping throughout the city's veins — and its historic signs, which are being revived and re-illuminated, are the key to discovering it.
A Landmark Beginning
What better place for me to start than at the seminal Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign on the south end of the Strip? Built in 1959 and based on a career-defining Betty Willis design, the landmark earned a long overdue spot in the National Register of Historic Places 50 years later. Mayor Oscar Goodman and former Playboy model Holly Madison marked the occasion by hosting the World's Largest Bikini Parade (A little showy? Of course. But after all, this is Vegas!).
As I pulled into a parking spot on the street leading up to the local fixture, I was struck by the timeless look that's landed it in Hollywood fantasies like Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and The Hangover. I also noticed the growing line of gawkers — including at least three wedding parties — who simply wanted to swing by for selfies. Me, I couldn't help but see this sign as the foreword to a forgotten story told through lights.
To put the city's many chapters in perspective, I booked an 11 a.m. tour — the break of dawn in Vegas terms, maybe, but it's also before the desert heat and natural light get too harsh — at The Neon Museum. Now celebrating its twentieth year of preserving, restoring and displaying Sin City's beloved signage, this passionate nonprofit offers 60-minute guided surveys of its beautiful "Neon Boneyard."
Since photos are encouraged and there are more than 200 monuments here, I'd like to point out a few Instagram-worthy pieces. Let's start with the steel "mullet man" who once stood atop Doc 'N' Eddy's Pool Hall. At ten feet tall, he's a striking symbol of how small Vegas businesses have used showy metal sculptures — not just neon — to attract a steady stream of tourists. Also of note: a nearby skull from Treasure Island's massive pirate marquee. Former massive pirate marquee actually; after opening in 1993, Treasure Island was rebranded as "TI" ten years later and lost its skull-and-crossbones facade in favor of a giant video screen.
Sacrilege, I say! This is why the Neon Museum is an essential stop: It's a crash course in Vegas culture shaped by our collective imagination, not just technology. And it reaches as far back as the '50s, when the Stardust was the world's largest resort hotel and the Moulin Rouge became Vegas's first integrated casino — a major supporter of African-American artists like Duke Ellington, Sammy Davis, Jr., and Sarah Vaughan. Did I mention who designed its short-lived sign? Why, none other than Betty Willis, whose work on the Moulin Rouge and the aforementioned welcome sign helped define the city's now-iconic look.
Field Trip down the Strip
The trivia tips and nostalgia trips don't stop there. They spill onto the streets through the Las Vegas Signs Project, an ongoing public-art partnership between the Neon Museum and the city itself. Across the street from the museum's main building on Las Vegas Boulevard, I spotted a display stand topped with the Silver Slipper casino's namesake sign, a shell of the neon shoe that once drove Howard Hughes mad. (It used to rotate, fueling Hughes's fear of being watched; he reportedly bought the casino as part of a multimillion-dollar deal, and then shut down the sign's motor.)
This stretch of road spanning from Sahara Avenue and Washington Avenue is now a National Scenic Byway, one of only three urban byways in the United States. A map is downloadable online and includes the Silver Slipper and eight other lovingly restored signs. It's an enjoyable three-mile drive (stop by Eat for elevated brunch fare between 8 a.m. and 3 p.m., or if you're taking the trip in the evening, hit Atomic Liquors — a favorite of Barbra Streisand, the Rat Pack and Clint Eastwood back in the day).
A walk down the "Urban Gallery" of signs will land you at the door of our last stop: the Fremont Street Experience. Today it's an unabashed tourist mecca: An LED-lined canopy hangs over the entire area, and a zip line, the World's Largest Video Screen and street performers all but erase downtown's sordid rep as "Glitter Gulch."
Look closely, however, and you'll find prime examples of Vegas's past. Take Vegas Vic, for instance. The Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce first created his character in the late '40s to welcome tourists with a smile and a catchphrase. Sketches of the cigarette-chomping cowboy were turned into an animated neon sign on the side of the Pioneer Club in 1951, and his iridescent love interest, Vegas Vicki, went up across the street 30 years later. (The happy couple was "married" before a crowd of confused guests in 1994.)
One thing you won't find — or rather, hear — here anymore is Vic shouting his catch phrase ("howdy podner!") every 15 minutes, like he did for decades. Actor Lee Marvin was so appalled by this buffoonery during the filming of The Professionals in the 1960s that he asked the Pioneer Club to mute its mascot. The casino complied, and while Vegas Vic was turned back on during the '80s, he was muted once again in 2006.
Thankfully, through the tireless efforts of countless Vegas fans and preservationists, the rich past of this raucous city is still speaking — through these beloved icons of the city's early years. You just need to know where to look.
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