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Me reading my short, flash-fiction story "Nunchucks! (…and Voyeurism)", at my Summer 2010 MFA residency:
Today, The Best 15 Nonfiction Books I've Personally Ever Read
1) Into Thin Air – Jon Krakauer
2) Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas* – Hunter S. Thompson
3) True Story: Murder, Memoir, Mea Culpa – Michael Finkel
4) A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius – Dave Eggers
5) On Writing – Stephen King
6) The Joke's Over – Ralph Steadman
7) Mentor – Tom Grimes
8) The Snow Leopard – Peter Matthiessen
9) Into the Wild – Jon Krakauer
10) Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself – David Lipsky
11) The Sheltering Sky* – Paul Bowles
12) Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance – Robert Pirsig
13) In Cold Blood – Truman Capote
14) Outlaw Journalist – William McKeen
15) Last American Man – Elizabeth Gilbert
All the President's Men – Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, The End of Faith – Sam Harris, In Patagonia – Bruce Chatwin, The Boys on the Bus – Timothy Crouse, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 – Hunter S. Thompson, The Colossus of Marousi – Henry Miller, Running with Scissors – Augusten Burroughs
Now, for The 15 Best Story Collections I've Personally Ever Read
Again, the only stipulation I used was that I had to have finished the book to include it:
1) Girl with Curious Hair – David Foster Wallace
2) Demonology – Rick Moody
3) Collected Stories – Amy Hempel
4) Where I'm Calling From – Raymond Carver
5) Jesus' Son – Denis Johnson
6) Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned – Wells Tower
7) Lost in the Funhouse – John Barth
8) Stardust, 7-Eleven, Route 57, A&W and So Forth – Patricia Lear
9) Forty Stories – Donald Barthelme
10) Civilwarland in Bad Decline – George Saunders
11) Oblivion – David Foster Wallace
12) Refresh, Refresh – Ben Percy
13) The Elephant Vanishes – Haruki Murakami
14) A Kind of Flying – Ron Carlson
15) Through the Safety Net – Charles Baxter
Airships – Barry Hannah, Five Skies – Ron Carlson, Brief Interview with Hideous Men – David Foster Wallace, The Bus Driver Who Wanted to be God – Etgar Keret, In Persuasion Nation – George Saunders, Slow Learner – Thomas Pynchon, The Book of Ten Nights and a Night – John Barth, Drown – Junot Diaz, The Question of Bruno – Aleksander Hemon, War by Candlelight – Daniel Alarcon, St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves – Karen Russell
Next up will be my favorite nonfiction books.
The 15 Best Novels I've Personally Ever Read
The only stipulation I used was that I had to have finished the book to include it:
1) Infinite Jest – David Foster Wallace
2) The Road – Cormac McCarthy
3) Candide – Voltaire
4) The Corrections – Jonathan Franzen
5) Ishmael – Daniel Quinn
6) The Greenlanders – Jane Smiley
7) Night – Elie Wiesel
8) The Four Fingers of Death – Rick Moody
9) Everything is Illuminated – Jonathan Safran Foer
10) 1984 – George Orwell
11) White Teeth – Zadie Smith
12) The Crying Lot of 49 – Thomas Pynchon
13) The Rum Diary – Hunter S. Thompson
14) House of Leaves – Mark Danielewski
15) The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao – Junot Diaz
Honorable Mentions (because it's my list and I can):
Blood Meridian – Cormac McCarthy, Absurdistan – Gary Shteyngart, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius – Dave Eggers, We – Yevgeny Zamyatan, The Savage Detectives – Roberto Bolano, Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – Hunter S. Thompson The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest – Ken Kesey, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Klay – Michael Chabon, The Human Stain – Philip Roth, Then We Came to the End – Joshua Ferris, The Slaughterhouse Five – Kurt Vonnegut, Invisible Monsters – Chuck Palahniuk, Wieland – Charles Brockden Brown, Less than Zero – Bret Easton Ellis, The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway, The Broom of the System – David Foster Wallace, Angels – Denis Johnson
Next up will be my 10 favorite short story collections.
Literary fiction, Postmodern whatchamacallitism, Short Stories
A Most Dangerous and Mysterious Man
This, in some form or another, is going to be my submission for Opium Magazine's 7-line
short story contest.
[UPDATE 9/9/10: Below is the current iteration that I submitted this a.m. for the contest. Cross your collective fingers!.]
A man on his phone at a urinal says, "I'm being chauffeured around today, honey, because I
keep falling asleep at the wheel." He and I are both relieving ourselves when he says this—both
of us adhering strictly to the unwritten two-men-pissing rule: one empty urinal between us,
eyes forward. But when I overhear his admission of recent—and seemingly chronic—narcoleptic
fits while driving, I cannot help but turn my prying gaze, midstream, toward him. Who is honey?
Should she or he not already know this man is a repeat somnolent driver? I want to ask, but he
absconds before I can adequately shake and zip, leaving me only a wet pantleg to mull over.
Tagged Chauffeur, driving while asleep, Narcolepsy, petnames, Public restrooms, Somnolence, Urinals
Postmodern whatchamacallitism, Uncategorized
The Universe and Language, Creators and Cannibals
The universe cannibalizes itself, recycles itself.
Everything made from everything else.
Ashes to ashes...
Elements fit together like Legos to make everything,
different combinations.
A few molecules,
the only difference between plastic and margarine.
Similarities run amok, abound,
between physics and language.
Discourse alchemy:
Letters combine to create words, phrases and sentences.
Construct, deconstruct and reassemble,
Words, ideas, elements and energy.
Recombined, redistributed — evolution.
Life evolves.
Language breathes.
An organic system of architecture,
assimilating one in-to the other.
Elements constitute the universe.
Words depict the elements, symbolically.
Assembled into different configurations;
Create representations, promote understanding.
Human beings, both part of and other than,
reveling in their affiliation and otherness, simultaneously.
Cognitively conflicted.
Dissonance ensues.
No new ideas truly materialize,
knowledge is only ever re-discovered, re-membered,
discoveries that always were and always will be — there.
We, human beings, perhaps,
use these words, use language, to identify,
to differentiate, to organize and to ostracize.
The ego.
Identify the inferior and the superior,
with affiliation the result.
Elitism is thus bred.
Words used in creation of the other,
determine and detract,
with a terrible and arbitrary swiftness.
Devaluation emerges in kind;
value, likewise.
Gold, silver, tin, rust;
Chemical and physical make-up,
assembled by the universe,
equally insignificant and precious,
unwavering equanimity.
**[Don't forget to check out my latest short story below, "The Black Hole Cometh," or click here.]
Tagged Alchemy, Architecture, Discourse, Evolution, Lego, Molecules, Recycling, Symbolism, The Universe
The Black Hole Cometh: A Short Story, 1st ["complete"] draft
(This is draft "1.1" of my newest short story "The Black Hole Cometh." More revisions will likely follow!)
BUFORDSVILLE RETIREMENT COMMUNITY — aka: The Old Folks' Home, The Home for Oldies, Old Mold's Bar and Grille, McMoldy's, the Stairway to Heaven, The Last Train Stop to Nowhere, The Dead End, Hell, The Black Hole, etc. I've heard them all — was located in a part of town no one would (or could) ever mistake for "the best." This is a simple and inarguable point of fact. The part of town itself in which BRC called home was seedy and old — the phrase abject disrepair springs to mind when one thinks about both subjects either together or separately.
And being that the old part of town is where the more useless… sorry… mature citizens were expected to "retire" — and I use the term retire loosely — the whole situation would be funny and ironic in a kind of way that something truly ironic is funny, but only then some supreme master of the obvious says something like "no pun intended," when, in fact, a pun was mostly obviously intended. The pun itself however constitutes such unimaginably poor levels of quality and creativity that, when uttered, causes standersby to laugh uncomfortably because the situation has taken a turn toward the excruciatingly awkward[1] but that's a whole other story.
The point of this story is that the Black Hole was basically just a weird fucking place to work at or have anything else to do with in the first place. The neighborhood, as I said, was one of the oldest in Bufordsville, and it showed. This area was well known to even those not born and raised in Bufordsville because of the overall poverty, violence and gang activity. There was a shooting just about every night within a few square mile radius of BRC which pretty much meant we were at ground zero.
A few months back, the BRC's man with the plan (and check-signing authority), Bob Delaney, hired a young new guy named Gary — who had the unfortunate last name, Indiana — as a geriatric nurse at Bufordsville Retirement Community. Gary, by the nature of being both male and a nurse — two provisions that only served to double his unfortuity, specifically where he and his general interactions with other members of staff and BRC residents[2] alike were concerned — had a rough go of it from the gun. He was the only male nurse on staff, and he was also the only member on staff under the age of 58, replacing me as the resident spring chicken (as BRC, like the society at large, was where the medical community sent its aging professionals, in the twilight of their careers, as well). Consequently, every corner of the facility had a distinct, unmistakable scent of Brylcreem, Old Spice Original and Youth Dew in spades.
Being 28 and fresh out of nursing school, Gary Indiana may as well have been employed at a retirement facility on Mars for all the familiarity he felt at the BRC.
Bufordsville Retirement Community was also home to a sort of local folk hero, though hero is perhaps not the right word —more like, celebrity — a seemingly ordinary housecat of indeterminate breeding named Blackie[3], whose name, while not exactly adhering to all of the diversity and sensitivity sections of the BRC policies and procedures manual[4], was certainly much better and more appropriate (not to mention far more racial- and culturally-sensitive) than the nine-lived celebrity's first two names: Old Pussy and Mr. Spooks.
No one could really say for sure if it was his half-missing ear or his two disparate-colored eyes that lent him the special abilities that almost everyone's always attributed to him, and which have also garnered him such notoriety, but without adding too much conjecture to the whole mix, the damned cat seemed able to predict a BRC's patient's death with a startling, uncanny level of accuracy that, in truth, kind of freaked more than a few of us out. I mean, you just knew a resident was warming up to cash in his or her chips if someone on the night staff reported seeing Blackie curled up on that elderly resident's pillow.
Blackie isn't the only reported and documented feline allegedly privy to this special, though freaky, ability. Oscar, a tortoiseshell and white cat at the Steere House Nursing and Rehabilitation Centre in Providence, Rhode Island has accurately "predicted" the last days for more than 50 patients. He spends his time pacing from room to room, rarely spending any time with the patients — he's kind of an antisocial little fucker — except those with just hours to live. If Oscar's somehow kept outside the room of a dying patient, he actually scratches on the damn door trying to get in. I believe I read that in one of the British newspapers Gary's always leaving around.
And so Blackie isn't alone in his gifts, but as far as anyone knows, he's got the highest batting average: 100 percent, so far. The inter-facility death pool was even shut down[5] since the hairy little bastard's basically all but eliminated the element of chance and surprise. When rounds would begin the next morning — as sure as death and taxes — if that cat was fast sleep and purring soundly on the resident's pillow (and usually it'd be none other than Gary Indiana who'd find them — both the former patient and the sleeping cat — since no one else wanted any part of actual work that early[6] the patient was for sure guaranteed to have kicked the proverbial bedpan sometime during the night.
But people just really loved that cat. Some of the old birds who had husbands staycationing long-term at BRC — old birds who spent their visiting time crocheting sweaters no one would wear and scarves nobody wanted — would bring knotted balls of yarn for Blackie, even though they only mildly interested him. Some of the more cognitively-questionable patients over in Psych. would "accidentally" turn their dinner trays over after eating only the pureed carrots — god only knows how anyone, even people who spend the vast majority of their day drooling all over themselves comatosely, can eat that mush, but they did. And then Blackie would get several helpings of tuna casserole (tuna that was actually made with the less appetizing parts of a chicken) and mashed potatoes, or whatever side dish the residents were being served.
Why an animal that was seemingly the physical incarnation of the death's own harbinger had remained so popular was anybody's guess. Aside from the fact that, for all intents and purposes, Blackie was pretty adorable with his crazy two-toned eyes and 1.5 ears, not to mention the fact that he was somehow almost completely hypoallergenic to all residents and staff, which of course really endeared him to those residents and staff who'd always loved animals but, due to a myriad of allergy-related problems, had never had any of their own since they loved the act of normal, uninhibited respiration even more.
So as I've said, Gary Indiana would be the one who'd find the dead BRC resident and the sleeping cat and, typically, he would also be the one who'd deliver the bad news to the deceased's families over the phone because — I mean, really — who wants to deliver that kind of news before a person's even had their morning cup of coffee?
To clarify, it wasn't exactly that Gary, himself, was disliked by all of us around Bufordsville Retirement Community; we'd never say that about him. He was just more or less addressed in a way that bore a resemblance to that of Patrick Swayze's character in that movie, Ghost — as if Gary'd somehow found it extremely difficult to physically exist in the world like the rest of us did, trying without much success to interact with people and their surroundings.
The majority of the BRC staff, we just paid Gary as little attention as possible without too obviously coming off, ourselves, like a bunch of old washed- and used- up assholes trying to make his life as unpleasant as possible while he worked there. I mean, that was, in fact, what we were doing — we just didn't want it to seem so… obvious — hence our favoring of more stealth-like tactics we ultimately implemented under the guise of simply ignoring him.
Things didn't get any less weird at BRC once Blackie started following Gary around every-goddamn-where he went, either.
During rounds, Blackie would trot alongside Gary. When Gary went to the break room for coffee, Blackie went right with him. Vending machines? Same deal. Gary couldn't hardly take a piss without that cat on his heels, lickety-split.
We started joking around that Blackie was trying to tell Gary something which, as you can probably imagine, Gary didn't find nearly as amusing. We didn't think Gary found much amusing, actually. The guy was weird even for the BRC.
And what else was weird was that the old people stopped dying around the place once the cat started following Gary. It's like death had given up his attention on everyone else and focused it on the young nurse named after the birthplace of the King of Pop.
No one was dying and Gary's actions began getting stranger and stranger. He stopped taking breaks, so we couldn't rib him as we usually did. He looked like he hadn't slept in weeks and he even started to smell a little funny, which, in a retirement community like the old BRC, was really saying something.
Someone even said one day they heard Gary in one of the bathroom stalls mumbling nonsensically to himself, Blackie was sitting just outside the stall door flicking his tail this way and that, purring. Gary was saying stuff like, "how does it know where I live?" and "Oh god, I think I'm rotting… It's actually making me rot." Gary said a few more things but my colleague didn't stick around to listen, preferring instead to "hold it," as he put it, for six more hours until his shift was over and he could go home. He said that smell we've been associating with Gary was even more unbearable in there where proper ventilation was almost nonexistent, too.
And by "it," we all assumed Gary meant the cat, in reference to making him rot, but the fact that it knew where Gary lived and the effect that particular circumstance had on him just cracked our shit up. Though, with respect to the overpowering smell, he very well may have been rotting — we weren't sure — but that aspect was decidedly less funny.
What was also decidedly less funny was when we arrived at work the next morning after the bathroom incident to a squad of police cars parked in front of the main entrance doors. Some shit of an indubitably serious nature had obviously gone down over night and we weren't sure we wanted to be a part of it — we were all getting too old for this kind of thing. The police were just going to tell us things or ask us questions that would ultimately require us doubling up the milligrams of our ACE inhibitors for a while.
When we walked in, our co-workers' faces told us everything we needed to know. Dying had once again commenced at The Black Hole. The police presence only gave the sullen atmosphere a dark and ominous overtone.
Camera flashes were going off capriciously and police tape cordoned off the men's restroom. No one was talking; their shoes, all at once, had become the most interesting two things in the universe to them.
Three of us who catch the 22 bus from downtown together every morning shuffled a little bit closer to the action. Big Bob Delaney, sat on a bench just outside the breakroom adjacent to the bathrooms with his face in his oversized hands, rocking his head back and forth, the pigment across his balding crown all splotchy, as he was taking whatever terrible news he'd received rather terribly.
We asked the officers standing closest to the yellow tape what happened and they gave us a one word reply as stark and affectless as if this was the type of thing they witnessed on a daily basis: Suicide.
It didn't take a genius to figure out who it was in there beyond the tape, but before we could verbally hypothesize among one another, we heard Bob Delaney behind us say: Gary… before his voice broke up and he reverted into a sobbing mess again.
The other part didn't come out until later when the papers got wind of the story. There were two bodies found dead in the men's restroom that morning: that of both a 28-year-old male and a charcoal gray cat of an unknown age.
Now, I'm no animal lover, but what Gary did to Blackie was just sick and — pardon my French here — but it was just real fucked up, too.
Police determined the color of the cat by the removed and discarded pelt they found balled up in the trash can — Gary'd actually skinned him! We were sure of one thing at that point and that was that Gary'd completely lost his fucking marbles. The cat finally drove him over the edge we figured. All over the walls and the mirror, Gary'd written Follow me now! Follow me now! in what was later confirmed by a team of crime scene investigators as feline blood, and when we heard that part, we all agreed we could almost hear Gary screaming those words at the top of his lungs.
I don't think any of us realized the kind of lunatic we'd been working with for those several months. No one could've foreseen what happened. We all agreed that it was probably best not to tell the investigators that a few of us had the bright idea of hilariously transporting Blackie to and from Gary's house once we realized the cat seemed to really like him. We just thought it'd be funny. That's what we get for thinking, I guess.
But the story's weirdness doesn't stop there. No sir. There was a note — there always is, isn't there? We didn't hear about this part until we read it later in the papers, either.
The note was actually, first and foremost, a sort of confessional. Gary had a guilty conscience he'd wanted to relieve himself of. And some say this is the saddest part: Blackie didn't really have any special abilities, or at least any extra special abilities, so to speak. Though, in my opinion, that's not the saddest part.
Once Blackie had — what we realize now — accidentally predicted a few deaths, people started talking and getting excited about being a part of the BRC. Staff members joked with residents, residents liked Blackie. And hey, if they were in fairly good health, why worry about the cat? He only predicted the sickest resident's death, ones who died in their sleep, natural causes, respiratory failure.
But we were in for a shocker when we read what was in Gary's note: he'd actually killed the majority of the residents Blackie'd predicted. No one else got to work before Gary. The night staff was lean and Gary always seemed pretty affable to them. But the residents who were sick, who were in the last stages of their lives, anyway; Gary was sneaking into their rooms when the BRC was quietest and smothering them with their pillows! Their bodies were just too weak and frail to fight him off.
He'd then locked Blackie in the room with the deceased and an hour or two later during morning rounds, he'd "discover" the scene as if he'd had nothing to do with it earlier. He confessed all this in his note.
However, when the cat started showing up everywhere Gary went — which, as we later found out, basically consisted of the BRC and his house — he just started to lose it, bit by bit. He thought the cat wasn't actually the physical embodiment of death, but of karma.
Paranoia began seizing hold of Gary and, as a consequence, he began not sleeping, not bathing — thus the source of the odiferous odor that followed him everywhere. He also began eating only very little. At the end of his rope, he finally decided he had to get to the cat before the cat got him.
And he did.
Oh boy, did he! What a mess.
After the cat skinning and bloody painting exhibit, investigators said they believe Gary'd more or less panicked and plunged the knife into his own throat, which he immediately realized was a terrible idea by the wounds it left in him as he tried to remove it.
The whole scene was just grisly and I'm not sorry I didn't see it firsthand.
So that probably brings us up to speed, I suppose. Suffice it to say, that was the last day for a majority of BRC employees. There was just no way any of us were sticking around after that. We couldn't be sure who we were really working with anymore, and when you can count the number of years you have left on your own two hands and feet, sometimes early retirement seems like the best course of action in the end.
Most of us didn't work for the money, didn't necessarily need it. We worked for the camaraderie. It beat greeting people at Wal-Mart. But one thing for sure is you can't have any kind of real professional, camaraderie once you've worked with someone who turned out to be a knife-wielding, elderly-suffocating loony toon.
Some of the others put in their two weeks, but not me. I simply said to hell with it. I needed all the time I could get to process how we all played a part in this event and never fessed up to it.
But like my dad — may he rest in peace — always used to say: a guilty conscience beats a prison sentence seven-out-of-seven days a week.
[1] Bad puns are, as a matter of fact, equitable in many respects to passing wind in a stuffy and crowded elevator and will under no circumstances whatsoever make you more popular.
[2] Or just people in general.
[3] Who also was really more of a charcoal-gray hue than black.
[4] Which, all BRC employees were given a 75 question True/False quiz over before commencing employment.
[5] Which had, at one point, been a seriously profitable on-the-side enterprise for me.
[6] And in hindsight, one of the reasons we all probably kind of resented Gary.
Tagged Cats, Elder abuse, Gary Indiana, Nursing and Rehabilitation Centre, Old Folks Home, Predicting death, Providence, Retirement community, Rhode Island, Steere House, Tortoiseshell cat


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Sirius XM Program Management
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In Conversation With Sheila O'Donnell And John Tuomey, 2015 Royal Gold Medallists
John Tuomey and Sheila O'Donnell - recipients of the 2015 Royal Gold Medal. Image Courtesy of RIBA
When Sheila O'Donnell and John Tuomey, who practice in partnership as O'Donnell + Tuomey, were named as this year's recipients of the RIBA Royal Gold Medal, a palpable collective satisfaction appeared to spread throughout the profession. No one could find criticism in Joseph Rykwert and Níall McLaughlin's nomination, nor the ultimate choice of the RIBA Honours Committee, to bestow the award upon the Irish team. Their astonishingly rigourous body of work, compiled and constructed over the last twenty five years, has an appeal which extends beyond Irish and British shores. A robust stock of cultural, community and educational projects, alongside family homes and social housing projects, leaves little doubt about the quality, depth and breadth of their mutual capabilities and the skill of those that they choose to collaborate with.
Read the conversation with the Gold Medallists after the break.
https://www.archdaily.com/595671/in-conversation-with-sheila-o-donnell-and-john-tuomey-recipients-of-the-2015-riba-royal-gold-medalJames Taylor-Foster
Reflections On Álvaro Siza's Seminal Quinta da Malagueira Housing Scheme
In an essay and accompanying mini-documentary film by Ellis Woodman for The Architectural Review, Siza's iconic Quinta da Malagueira housing estate (1973-1977) in Évora, Portugal, is comprehensively explored and examined with a refreshingly engaging critical weight. Rather than develop multi-story housing in the sensitive landscape around the city, Siza proposed "a plan that distributed the programme between two fields composed of low-rise terraced courtyard houses." As a result, the arrangement of these structures adjust to the "undulating topography ensuring that the narrow, cobbled streets along which the houses are distributed always follow the slope."
As is made clear in the film (above), one of the remarkable aspects about the Quinta da Malagueira estate is that it is "governed by a third layer of infrastructure" which takes the form of "an elevated network of conduits that distributes water and electricity [...] much in the manner of a miniature aqueduct." For Siza, this was a logical move as it provided the cheapest means of distributing utilities around the complex. Woodman ultimately concludes that "Siza's work at Malagueira invites a reading less as a fixed artefact and rather as one episode in the site's ongoing transformation."
Read extracts of what Pier Vittorio Aureli, Tony Fretton, and John Tuomey (among others) have said about Siza's œuvre and approach after the break.
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One of the most significant provisions of the recently enacted America Invents Act (AIA), the change from a "first to invent" system to a "first inventor to file" system, will go into effect March 16, 2013. Currently, the first inventor of specific subject matter was entitled to a patent on that subject matter. Starting March 16, a later independent inventor could be entitled to the patent if the later inventor files a patent application before the earlier inventor.
The first-inventor-to-file system expands the scope of available prior art substantially for applications examined under first-inventor-to-file system.
Under the new sections 102 and 103 of 35 U.S.C., there are no geographic limitations on what constitutes prior art. Previously, an offer for sale, sale, or public use in a foreign country, unlike those in the United States, could not be used as prior art. Only printed publications from outside the United States qualified as prior art.
The AIA also expands the scope of available prior art by eliminating the Hilmer doctrine, in which the foreign priority date of a U.S. patent or publication could not be used for determining prior art under section 102(e). New section 102(d) provides that a published application or patent is effective as prior art as of its earliest priority date (including foreign applications).
However, the new section 102(b)(1) provides that a public disclosure within one year of the applicant's filing date will not count as prior art if the disclosure was by the applicant or derived from the applicant.
Further, a patent granted on a first-inventor-to-file application can be challenged through post-grant review ("PGR") in the USPTO. PGR is a new, "EPO opposition-like" proceeding that will enable a third-party petitioner to challenge a granted U.S. patent directly before the USPTO Patent Trial and Appeal Board.
All applications filed on or after March 16, 2013 that include at least one claim with an effective filing date on or after March 16, 2013, will be subject to the new first-inventor-to-file rules, including the expanded prior art provisions and PGR.
In view of the imminent changes noted above, all efforts should be made to file any new applications and continuation-in-part applications before March 16, 2013. Continuation and divisional applications claiming priority to an application filed before March 16, 2013 will be subject to the existing first-to-invent laws, provided the claims are supported by the prior application. Filing new applications and continuation-in-part applications prior to March 16, 2013 will avoid the application of the above-noted expanded prior art and potential PGR proceedings. After March 16, 2013, all patent applications should be filed as soon as possible in order to maximize the potential of being the first inventor to file.


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Biden: Bull Connor's GOP Imperils Democracy
"The next few days … will mark a turning point in this nation's history," said President Joe Biden in his Atlanta speech to reframe the debate in Congress on voting rights legislation and the filibuster.
He went on: "Will we choose democracy over autocracy, light over shadows, justice over injustice? … I know where I stand. … I will defend … our democracy against all enemies — foreign and, yes, domestic."
And on this issue of light over shadows, good versus evil:
"Where will the institution of the United States Senate stand? …
"Will you stand against voter suppression? Yes or no? … Will you stand against election subversion? Yes or no? Will you stand for democracy? Yes or no?"
"I ask every elected official in America: How do you want to be remembered? … Do you want to be … on the side of Dr. King or George Wallace? Do you want to be on the side of John Lewis or Bull Connor? Do you want to be on the side of Abraham Lincoln or Jefferson Davis?"
Reaction was swift. "So much for unifying the country and working across the aisle," said Sen. Mitt Romney.
"Pure demagoguery," said Sen. Mitch McConnell: "The world saw our sitting commander in chief propagandize against his own country to a degree that would have made Pravda blush."
"Perhaps the president went a little too far in his rhetoric," said the Democratic Whip Sen. Dick Durbin.
The Rev. Al Sharpton dissented, describing Biden's speech, which he had urged the president to make, as "monumental."
Well, we shall see.
If Biden's purpose was to add Senate votes to build a majority for ending the filibuster on voting rights, this looks like a loser. Implying that 52 senators, including Democrats Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema, are racists for the stand they have taken on keeping the filibuster does not seem like the way to bring them around.
As for calling the Republican opposition, all 50 senators, racists whose position on voting rights recalls the segregationists of the early 1960s, that would appear only to solidify and harden their opposition.
But perhaps Biden is after another game here. For what this speech did succeed in doing is to temporarily change the subject.
For months, Biden has been bedeviled by crises for which he has had no effective response:
The Afghanistan withdrawal debacle. The bleeding southern border where America is being daily invaded. The surge in shootings, killings and flash-mob, smash-and-grab robberies of elite stores.
A soaring inflation rate that is suddenly at a 40-year high. The possibility the Fed will start raising interest rates to combat it, which could tank the economy by the 2022 elections. The new surge, two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, in infections, hospitalizations and deaths.
Then, there are the polls, all of which show Biden underwater, and one, Quinnipiac, which shows his approval plummeting to 33%.
What Biden's rant against the alleged racism of his former Senate colleagues does, then, is reframe the stakes of the voting rights debate, and change the issue from Biden's transparent failures to the character of his opponents who threaten our "democracy" itself.
Put starkly, what panicked Democrats and their fearful media allies are about now is reframing a 2022 election they look certain to lose into an either/or choice election: Do you wish to see democracy destroyed, or protected, because democracy's survival is on the table now.
Consider the 180-degree turn Biden has just taken:
In his inaugural address, Biden was preaching unity and his resolve to bring it about:
"Today, on this January day, my whole soul is in this:
"Bringing America together.
"Uniting our people.
"And uniting our nation.
"I ask every American to join me in this cause."
Now, at the end of his first year, Biden is saying we are not one nation or one people. Our adversaries on this bill, including presumably all 52 senators, belong in the company of slave-holders, segregationists and rogue cops of yesteryear who used horses, dogs and clubs to beat civil rights protesters.
The change in roles is not easy for Biden to bring off. For Biden's rant in Atlanta seems wildly out of character with the man we knew.
For was it not Biden himself who, during his transition, spoke warmly of old friends, colleagues and mentors from the 1970s — Sens. James Eastland of Mississippi, Strom Thurmond of South Carolina and Robert Byrd of West Virginia — all in their time unapologetic segregationists.
The odd thing about Biden's new position is that, in the short run, it is a loser; he is not going to get a majority for voting rights or for ending the filibuster this way. And, in the long run, it is simply unsustainable.
For if Biden loses the House and Senate this fall, would not the victorious Republicans exact retribution on an unpopular lame-duck president they once thought of as Good Old Joe but who put them in a box with Bull Connor?
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The establishment media handed President Joe Biden negative reviews after his press conference Wednesday, the sixth reported solo presser of his presidency.
As the oftentimes Democrat-allied media have tried to protect the president from his gaffes, miscues, and overt blunders by avoiding certain topics while focusing on others, many of the establishment media's headlines after his two-hour press conference were negative.
"As one Joe builds, another Joe destroys," a Washington Post op-ed headlined about the press conference. The article used language such as, "Biden admitted defeat" and "Biden found himself negotiating with President Manchin through the assembled reporters."
"It's time for him [Biden] to produce — or spare us the naive piety. In democracy's dark hour, he has already done incalculable harm," the article dissected the speech.
The leading opinion article in the New York Times Thursday morning highlighted Biden's polling slide with independents and the president's "weak approval ratings" before acknowledging Biden failed to destroy election integrity.
"Never mind about voting rights or avoiding another Jan. 6. It's the economy, Joe," the article stated, criticizing Biden's 40-year-high inflation.
PBS News titled its response to Biden's press conference, "Biden acknowledges setbacks to domestic agenda in rare press conference."
After noting the solo press conference was his first in ten months, PBS News stressed Biden's answers to the administration's crisis: "anxiety over omicron," "soaring inflation," and the "stalemate on voting rights legislation."
The Post published a second headline that insinuated Biden's presidency is broken. "How Biden can fix his presidency," it read.
"His presidency could use a reset," the article bluntly stated. "[I]n recent weeks, the omicron variant has set records for new cases in the United States, jobs numbers are volatile, inflation is up, and the Democrats' $2 trillion Build Back Better plan has stalled in the Senate."
The Post also published a third negative headline about Biden's press conference, which admitted the media's reviews of Biden's press conference were negative. "The media wants to paint Joe Biden as a failure. He won't let that happen."
"President Biden, while marking the end of his first year in office on Wednesday, met a press corps anxious to paint him as a failure," the article's first sentence began.
Upon the conclusion of Biden's press conference, where he defended himself against polling data that suggests 49 percent believe the president is not mentally fit, the White House had reportedly planned a media "clean up" by Vice President Kamala Harris and White House press secretary Jen Psaki:
MAN! "Kamala" went on The TODAY Show to clean up JOE'S MESSY PANTS from yesterday's DRUG TRIP of a Press Conference. SHE WAS REALLY SNIPPY ABOUT IT! I mean, Savannah is Fake News but SHE didn't screw up that Press Conference, JOE DID!!!! pic.twitter.com/uHof7SOkq5
— Greg Kelly (@gregkellyusa) January 20, 2022
Harris was reportedly scheduled on all three cable news networks: CBS's Morning, NBC's Today Show, and ABC's Good Morning America. Psaki appeared on Fox News. And White House chief of staff Ron Klain had a prerecorded message ready to air on MSNBC's Morning Joe:
Psaki's Fox News appearance was a quite civil interview. This clip gives you the flavor. pic.twitter.com/mV3laviUck
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) January 20, 2022
Reviews of Harris's interviews were also negative. Harris laughed on CBS about Biden's failure to shut down the coronavirus and seemingly ignored questions about election integrity on NBC:
Harris laughs when confronted on Biden's lie that he would "shut down the virus." pic.twitter.com/t9IENDw1po
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) January 20, 2022
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The White House spent Thursday morning trying to clean up comments President Joe Biden made questioning the legitimacy of the 2022 midterms.
"Lets be clear: The president was not casting doubt on the legitimacy of the 2022 election," White House press secretary Jen Psaki wrote on social media.
Lets be clear: @potus was not casting doubt on the legitimacy of the 2022 election. He was making the opposite point: In 2020, a record number of voters turned out in the face of a pandemic, and election officials made sure they could vote and have those votes counted.
— Jen Psaki (@PressSec) January 20, 2022
During his press conference, Biden repeatedly warned that voting reforms passed by Republicans in states could call into question the results of the election.
"Oh, yeah, I think it easily could be — be illegitimate," Biden said when asked about the 2022 midterms, as Breitbart News reported.
Biden repeatedly questioned the legitimacy of the upcoming 2022 election, unless bills were passed in Congress to federalize elections.
"I'm not going to say it's going to be legit," he said. "It's — the increase and the prospect of being illegitimate is in direct proportion to us not being able to get these — these reforms passed."
Psaki claimed Biden was actually trying to support the legitimacy of the election.
Biden questioned the legitimacy of the 2022 midterm elections, after repeatedly lecturing former President Donald Trump and Republicans for casting doubts on the 2020 presidential election. https://t.co/xf5te5BKmg
— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) January 20, 2022
"Let's be clear: The president was not casting doubt on the legitimacy of the 2022 election," she wrote. "He was making the opposite point."
She claimed Biden was challenging Republicans for trying to overturn the 2020 election results on claims of election fraud.
"The Big Lie is putting our democracy at risk. We're fighting to protect it," she concluded.
Psaki also went on Fox News to try to explain Biden's comments.
.@PressSec told Fox News that President Biden "absolutely is not predicting that the 2022 elections would be illegitimate."
In a Wednesday press conference, @POTUS said "it depends" when asked if the midterm elections will be free and fair if his voting rights agenda stalls. pic.twitter.com/enwD3xKSOQ
— Mediaite (@Mediaite) January 20, 2022
Psaki's latest attempt to explain the president is not the only thing she had to correct after Biden's nearly two-hour press conference on Wednesday.
She immediately released a statement on Russia and Ukraine after Biden shocked the world by suggesting Putin "has to do something" on Ukraine and that a "minor incursion" might be allowed.
"President Biden has been clear with the Russian President: If any Russian military forces move across the Ukrainian border, that's a renewed invasion, and it will be met with a swift, severe, and united response from the United States and our Allies," Psaki wrote, insisting that Biden "affirmed today that those acts of Russian aggression will be met with a decisive, reciprocal, and united response."
A massive migrant surge in the Del Rio Sector is threatening to make this the busiest of the nine southwest Border Patrol sectors, according to Chief Patrol Agent Jason D. Owens. With approximately 4,000 apprehended over the Martin Luther King holiday weekend and nearly 1,000 more on Tuesday, the Del Rio Sector is leading the Rio Grande Valley Sector for January apprehensions.
A source operating under the umbrella of U.S. Customs and Border Protection revealed to Breitbart Texas that Del Rio Sector agents apprehended more than 16,000 migrants so far this month. This compares to the approximately 13,000 apprehended during the same period in the Rio Grande Valley sector. If this trend holds through the end of the month, Del Rio will overtake Rio Grande Valley as the busiest sector along the southwest border with Mexico.
Chief Owens tweeted images of more large migrant groups who surrendered to Border Patrol agents immediately after crossing the border from Mexico into Texas. The chief reported five groups crossed the border overwhelming the limited resources available in the sector. One group alone consisted of more than 265 migrants.
Five more large groups in four days for Del Rio Sector, one had more than 265! Groups that give up all at once like this are extremely taxing on resources, especially for Del Rio Sector, the busiest area of the border so far in 2022! pic.twitter.com/qZKBa98rn6
— Chief Patrol Agent Jason D. Owens (@USBPChiefDRT) January 18, 2022
By the following morning, the agents apprehended more large migrant groups. One of these apprehended during the cover of darkness consisted of more than 400 in a single group.
OVERNIGHT: Already a common occurrence, now happening daily. Large groups cross the Rio Grande & immediately turn themselves in to agents in Eagle Pass.
This time, close to 400 in one group! pic.twitter.com/oEGfp9EIGt
The Del Rio Sector appears to be overtaking the Rio Grande Valley Sector as the busiest in the nation. Breitbart Texas's Randy Clark reported agents in this sector apprehended more than 4,000 migrants during the first six days of the new year. Another 4,000 were apprehended over the Martin Luther King holiday weekend. As of Wednesday morning, the number of apprehensions is estimated to exceed 16,000.
Bob Price serves as associate editor and senior news contributor for the Breitbart Texas-Border team. He is an original member of the Breitbart Texas team. Price is a regular panelist on Fox 26 Houston's What's Your Point? Sunday-morning talk show. Follow him on Twitter @BobPriceBBTX and Facebook.
Randy Clark contributed to this article.
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James loves sport and music, but he finds himself much better at sitting than running so it's a good job that he enjoys music. When not working, he enjoys spending time with his family and friends as well as helping a charity called Music in Action which provides education to the island's children and outreach to care homes. If he does have time, he watches football or tennis and is trying to progress from "couch potato to 5k runner". He really enjoys family holidays; watching children splashing in the pool, savouring delicious food with a nice refreshing glass and soaking up the sunshine.
James has seventeen years' legal experience. This includes advising a range of clients on banking, corporate and commercial, litigation and private client matters and playing a major part in the development of Jersey's financial services laws.
James led and participated in working parties on banking laws including bank transfer arrangements, SEPA, the creation of a deposit compensation scheme, and a bank resolution law. In the private client arena he led and participated in the working parties creating the Jersey foundation, and recent trusts amendments. In the regulatory sphere, James has been significantly involved in new legislation over the last 10 years including AML developments, the creation of civil fining powers for the regulator and the creation of the Jersey ombudsman.
James has been an active contributor to the Jersey Bankers Association and Jersey Association of Trust Companies on legal matters, and spoken at many seminars relating to financial services from private client, to banking and insolvency issues. He recently chaired an event at a Cambridge International Symposium on AML and banking matters including senior representatives from the Bank of England and leading UK, European and American lawyers.
James is an Advisor to the Jersey Deposit Compensation Scheme Board and represents the Board on international matters including the International Association of Deposit Insurers.
James previously led a team of lawyers in the Chief Ministers Department as the Director, Finance Industry Development. Prior to then, he was Senior Counsel in the Enforcement Division of the Jersey Financial Services Commission advising on regulatory matters.
Previously employed by Mayer Brown, the Jersey Financial Services Commission and the States of Jersey.


Quicker Determination of Environment and Land Cases?
The Court of Appeal has recently overturned the Malindi High Court's decision in Constitutional Petition No. 3 of 2016, the effect of which was to bar magistrates from hearing cases concerning land matters. The High Court decision also quashed two Gazette Notices by which the Chief Justice had appointed certain magistrates in various stations around the country to hear and determine land matters.
Despite not being a party to the original proceedings, the Court of Appeal also found that the Law Society of Kenya Nairobi Branch was entitled to appeal against the High Court Decision.
Sections 9(a) and (b) of the Magistrates' Court Act, 2015 and Sections 7(3), 8(d), 26 (3) and (4) of the Environment and Land Court Act remain constitutional.
The Court of Appeal's decision means environment and land matters can be instituted for determination before a magistrate's court, provided the value of the property in dispute does not exceed pecuniary limits set out under Section 7 of the Magistrates' Court Act, 2015.
The Court of Appeal's finding that any party aggrieved by a decision may institute appellate proceedings is very significant. It means that a person who is not a party in original trial proceedings may nevertheless institute an appeal against the decision if he/she is directly affected by that decision.
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Muara Bungo Airport  is an airport in Muara Bungo, Jambi, Indonesia. The airport started operating on November 25, 2012.

Until October 2014 only Aviastar used the airport three times a week due to the runway being only 1,350 meters long. Runway extension is still ongoing; it was predicted to be 1,500 meters at the end of 2014 and was expected to reach its final 2,000 meters at the end of 2015.

Around 2016, runway extension for Muara Bungo Airport was finished. On July 3, 2016, Sriwijaya Air inaugurated a four times weekly flight from Jakarta to Muara Bungo using Boeing 737-500 aircraft. Sriwijaya Air later transferred this route to NAM Air and increased flights from four times weekly to daily flights.

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Look around – December colors are red and green. We decorate our houses, inside and out with shades of these colors, and they dominate party attire at holiday gatherings. With this salad you can take red and green to your holiday table. Salad is essential to my holiday meals – a fresh, crisp foil to the rich dishes that typify the season.
And, dare I say "healthy?" Yes, this concoction is brimming with health-promoting nutrients to help you weather the stresses of the season and beyond. Shaved Brussels sprouts, fresh greens and toasted, tannin-rich walnuts balance the sweet pomegranate arils. A dressing of walnut oil, lemon and pomegranate molasses wrap it up with seasonal sparkle.
Pomegranate molasses has become a staple in my kitchen but it can be difficult to locate. I was thrilled to find a recipe in Fine Cooking Magazine (Reference 1) for a DIY version that went into this recipe.
1. Scrub the pomegranate well in running water to clean.
2. Slice off a sliver of rind from the top and bottom.
3. Score the rind, pole to pole, 4 to six times, depending on the size, to make it easier to break apart.
4. Submerge the fruit in a salad spinner filled with water. Pull the pomegranate apart where you've scored it. Remove the seeds from the membranes. Discard the rind and membranes.
5. Drain well. Spread the seeds on a clean kitchen towel or paper towel to dry. Chill.
I use a mandolin or Japanese slicing tool to shave Brussels sprouts for salads, stir-fries and sautés. It's a tasty way to incorporate these controversial yet nutrient-dense "baby cabbages" into meals. Part of the family of cancer-fighting cruciferous vegetables (Reference 2, 3). Brussels sprouts offer dietary fiber, vitamins C, A, B6, K, the minerals potassium and magnesium along with carotenoids like beta-carotene.
Pomegranates are backed by a health story, too. The fruit supplies vitamin C, fiber, and health-protective polyphenols and flavonoids that have antioxidant and anti-inflammatory benefits. Research shows they may protect cardiovascular health and guard against certain cancers. (Reference 4, 5).
There's a body of research to support the health benefits of walnuts (Reference 6), too. They offer fiber, protein, magnesium, antioxidants and are an excellent source of the plant-based omega-3 essential fatty acid, alpha-linolenic acid. Nuts are an excellent way to diversify your diet with more plant-proteins.
Adjust the ratio of greens to dressing to suit your taste. To turn this salad into a light entrée add slivers of roasted chicken and a couple of hunks of a top-quality feta cheese.
1. Make dressing: In a small bowl whisk lemon juice, pomegranate molasses, honey, mustard, salt and pepper until salt dissolves. Whisk in walnut and olive oil. Taste and adjust seasonings to taste. Cover and chill until serving time.
2. To serve salad, combine greens, Brussels sprouts and onions. Add dressing and toss. Sprinkle with walnuts and pomegranate seeds. Toss again. Serve promptly. Makes 4 servings.


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The Legend of Dark Witch 3 Confirmed For December 21 Release
By Alistair Wong December 17, 2017
It has been two years since The Legend of Dark Witch 2 was released for Nintendo 3DS, but Circle Entertainment and FlyHigh Works recently confirmed that The Legend of Dark Witch 3 will be released on December 21, 2017.
The new game has upgradable stats for Zizou, being able to use magical items however many times you want, and another set of 8 bosses to defeat and powers to capture. Once again, Syega crystals will need to be hunted down to upgrade further, and the new Lord Attack (a dash attack) will be key in going through the platforming stages. Finally, this game is the first game in the series to support stereoscopic 3D.
The latest trailer can be found below:
The Legend of Dark Witch 3 comes out for Nintendo 3DS on December 21, 2017. It will cost $9.99/£9.99 and is available through the 3DS eShop.
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Globalism again
Later on it was time to hear Dan Atkinson of the Mail on Sunday and Larry Elliott of the Guardian. This was a much better event. I'd thought that we would be treated to a right-left battle but they'd actually written a book together. Both seemed to agree on the pattern of the financial crisis. Elliott described the five stages of a boom and bust cycle with stage one being the economic expansion.
During questions I suggested that there was an earlier stage zero and that that was the critical one. I meant of course the creation of the fresh fiat money that drives the artificial boom and is the ultimate cause of the inevitable bust. Both authors agreed, and Elliott told the audience that there were only three consistent explanations for the crisis: the Green one, the Marxist one and the Austrian one. It wasn't entirely clear that the man from the Guardian wasn't a closet Austrian...
Chairman Iain Macwhirter of the Herald and the Rector of Edinburgh University said to me that the abolition of well-established fractional reserve banking would lead to deflation. There wasn't time for me to explain quickly to a large audience that moderate deflation was a good thing but I did point out that FRB had led to numerous depressions and that only the Austrians had forecast the one that started in 1929. One never knows: the next Mises may have sitting in the audience!
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Here's the most unlikely preamble to an Edinburgh Rector's speech. "Sadly, Ladies and Gentlemen, our institution is not, as the English believe, one of Scotland's ancient universities. We are, as every properly educated Scot knows, disqualified by virtue of our status as a post-Reformation establishment - but we must massage the egos of Edinburgh's burghers by attracting as many OE's as possible".
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Is Sunderland the Scotland of England, so to speak?
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Item NU 5272 Coin - Threepence, Australia, 1914
Threepence, 1914
Mint: Royal Mint London
A silver coin (16 mm diameter with plain edge) featuring a crowned and robed bust of George V facing left; around, GEORGIVS V D.G. BRITT: OMN: REX F.D. IND: IMP: ; below bust in small lettering the artist's initials B.M. The reverse features the Ensigns Armorial of the Commonwealth of Australia, as authorised by Royal Warrent 7th May 1908 - composed of a simple shield enclosing a cross of Saint George on which are five six-pointed stars, around the outside of which are six small escutcheons, i.e., small shields. The shield is supported by a kangaroo and an emu standing on a grassy mound. Above the shield a crest, the seven-pointed star of Federation on a wreath. Below on a ribbon the motto ADVANCE AUSTRALIA is inscribed. Around above, THREEPENCE and below, between arrow heads, the date, 1914.
Crowned and robed bust of George V facing left; around, GEORGIVS V D.G. BRITT: OMN: REX F.D. IND: IMP: ; below bust in small lettering the artist's initials B.M.
At centre, simple shield enclosing a cross of Saint George on which are five six-pointed stars, around the outside of which are six small escutcheons, i.e., small shields. The shield is supported by a kangaroo and an emu standing on a grassy mound. Above the shield a crest, the seven-pointed star of Federation on a wreath and on a ribbon at the base the motto ADVANCE AUSTRALIA is inscribed; around above, THREEPENCE; below, between arrow heads, the date, 1914.
Royal Mint, London
Obverse: GEORGIVS V D.G. BRITT: OMN: REX F.D. IND: IMP: Reverse: THREEPENCE 1914 ADVANCE AUSTRALIA
16 mm (Outside Diameter), 1.415 g (Weight)
article Early History of London Mints, to 1300 The Roman Empire had a mint in London from about AD 287 until about 337, but for most of the period of Roman control Britain was supplied with its coinage requirements from Europe. The end of Roman rule saw an end to the regular ...
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article The Royal Mint Although there were mints in London in the Roman and early Anglo-Saxon periods, it was not until Alfred the Great occupied the city in 886 that a continuous history down to the present Royal Mint can be established. From 1300 ...
article Royal Mint, London The history of the British Royal Mint is over a thousand years old. The Mint descends in an unbroken link from the scattered workshops of the moneyers of Anglo-Saxon London, through Roman mints to a large modern coining plant in ...


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From Alexander Hamilton to Tench Coxe, 1 May 1790
To Tench Coxe
New York, May 1st, 1790.
I have just received your letter of the 27th of April.1 Yours of the 6th of the same month2 also came to hand in due time; though peculiar reasons prevented an earlier acknowledgment of it.
The appointment of his assistant is, by the act establishing the treasury department, vested in the secretary himself. The conviction I have of your usefulness in that station, and my personal regard for you, have determined me to avail myself of the offer of service which the last mentioned letter contains.3
The state of the public business under my care, is such as to make me desire to see you as soon as may consist with the dispositions which your change of situation will render necessary.
I am, with great regard and esteem, dear sir, your obedient servant,
A. Hamilton
Tench Coxe, Esq.
White, Samuel Slater description begins George S. White, Memoir of Samuel Slater, The Father of American Manufactures. Connected with a History of the Rise and Progress of the Cotton Manufacture in England and America (Philadelphia, 1836). description ends , 180–81; ALS, Papers of the Tench Coxe in the Coxe Family Papers at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
1. Letter not found.
3. H selected Coxe as Assistant to the Secretary of the Treasury to replace William Duer who had resigned. See H to Duer, April 4–7, 1790.
For Coxe's appointment, see "Appointment of Tench Coxe as Assistant to the Secretary of the Treasury," May 10, 1790.
Coxe, Tench
"From Alexander Hamilton to Tench Coxe, 1 May 1790," Founders Online, National Archives, accessed September 29, 2019, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-06-02-0262. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 6, December 1789 – August 1790, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1962, p. 401.]
From Coxe to Hamilton [27 April 1790]
From Hamilton to Coxe [10 May 1790]
All correspondence between Coxe and Hamilton


Home › Is the Government Doing Enough to Be Green?
The UK's coalition government has made some progress towards positioning itself as Britain's 'greenest government' ever. A recently finalised Energy Bill, commits Britain to drastic reduction in carbon emissions over the next 2 decades and could revolutionise the way as a nation we manufacture, live and travel. The bill is ambitious in its reach and currently the UK is leading the charge in the global pledges made to halt climate change.
As part of the bill, the government are putting aside a fund of money designated for energy efficient improvements to be made to over 14 million households across the country. Over 25% of carbon emissions are attributed to homes and buildings across the UK. Poor insulation, ineffecient or ageing central heating systems, draughty doors and windows are all eligible for replacement under the scheme.
The Energy Bill also commits the UK to produce up to 35% of its total electricity from renewable sources such as solar energy or wind power, by 2020. Currently home owners and businesses who install solar pv panels or wind turbines can benefit from the Feed in Tariff scheme. The scheme means homeowners experience reduced energy bills and receive 43.3p for every KW of energy produced from their grid providing energy company. Any excess energy produced can also be sold to the energy company at a higher rate. The scheme makes means that homeowners with large south facing roof space could make around £1,000 a year in energy savings and energy production. In times of economic downturn, this is an excellent return. This tariff has been agreed for 25 years.
The only trouble with the Feed in Tariff scheme seems to be that not enough people know about it. The government has not promoted the benefits at either a local or national level and so many people are sceptical about the fine print and the cost of outlay in the first place. The govenernment has not publicized how the funds for home improvements will be distributed or where the funds are coming. At a time of stringent cuts, this is perhaps a sign of politics at work, (people want jobs not double glazing) but these progressive ideas should be shouted about. It looks like UK could have the 'greenest government' ever, but that no one knew about it.


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A Guide to Anorexia Treatment
Treating anorexia often requires multiple treatments, including cognitive-behavioral therapy. Read about the various eating disorder therapies.
Diane Stresing
Eating disorders are complex conditions and therapists dedicated to anorexia treatment learn "a lesson in patience and tenacity," says Lucene Wisniewski, PhD, co-founder and clinical director of the Cleveland Center for Eating Disorders. "Someone who is treating anorexia is fighting an uphill battle. It's by far the hardest eating disorder to treat."
Why? Modern culture places such great value on being thin and on restricting behaviors that anorexia patients have trouble finding lasting reasons to change their behaviors.
Also, being malnourished affects cognitive (thinking and reasoning) functioning, making the therapist's — and the patient's — job that much harder. Wisniewski describes anorexia patients as "brain starved," meaning that the patients' cognitive abilities aren't functioning properly because they lack adequate nutrition.
Anorexia Treatment: Working as a Team
Because evidence has yet to prove which, if any, therapies are consistently effective, medical practitioners try many approaches to find an appropriate course of anorexia treatment for each patient. While the most common form of anorexia treatment is cognitive-behavioral therapy (which is also an effective bulimia treatment), many different forms of therapy can be used.
Other components of eating disorder treatment include:
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Psychiatric medication prescriptions
A combination of all of these
Most eating disorder treatment professionals agree: You need a multidisciplinary treatment team to combat eating disorders, anorexia in particular. One player on the treatment team is the psychotherapist.
"We most always start with the behavioral approach," Wisniewski says. "We ask, 'How is this illness affecting your life, what can you do differently, and what are you willing to do differently?'"
Another team member is the dietitian or nutritionist, who typically works with patients to help them understand the importance of a varied and balanced diet, and may also teach them food preparation techniques.
Because anorexia can lead to multiple serious medical conditions, close medical supervision by a physician is required throughout treatment.
Anorexia Treatment: Pharmaceuticals
"There are no medicines [specifically] for anorexia, but there are medicines that will help with the rigid thinking" and other symptoms that can contribute to the illness, Wisniewski says. However, meds only work when patients take them. "Anorexia patients are notorious for not wanting to take medications," Wisniewski adds. Some psychiatric drugs, particularly antidepressants, seem to be more effective for bulimia treatment than for anorexia treatment.
Anorexia Treatment: Questions to Consider
When recommending a type of treatment, doctors typically try to select the least restrictive setting that is safe and will allow a patient to improve. Some questions to consider:
Who should be hospitalized? In general, inpatient or residential treatment is recommended for patients whose body weight is 30 percent below their ideal weight, for those who are suicidal, or have other severe medical complications.
Treatment of Antisocial Personality Disorder
Like most personality disorders, antisocial personality disorder is difficult to treat. To date, no medication or behavioral therapy option has consistently been shown to be effective. But treating coexisting mental health issues can help.Learn More
Is drug therapy forever? Most psychiatric drugs are prescribed on a short-term basis, such as a few months. However, some drugs can be continued for many years.
How important is it to get anorexia treatment? It's extremely important — self-help is rarely effective for people with anorexia, and suicide rates are high among people who have the illness.
Anorexia Treatment: Recovery
Whether a person can recover from anorexia and how long it may take depend on two factors: the individual and the seriousness of the illness.
Up to 50 percent of anorexia patients will remain in recovery 10 years after therapy, while the remainder have chronic eating disorders of varying severity throughout their lives. The key to recovering from anorexia and other eating disorders is to get treatment as soon as possible.
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UK-Vietnam free trade pact finalised
Last Friday, Britain and Vietnam finalised a free trade agreement; it is the second deal London has reached in Southeast Asia while the deadlock over post-Brexit European Union arrangements seems to continue.
The deal with Vietnam comes into force January 1, 2021 and will be Britain's third, following Thursday's pact with Singapore and October's first post-Brexit trade deal with Japan.
Vietnam stands to benefit from tariff savings of £114 million on its exports while British exports will be £36 million better off, with 99 percent of tariffs eliminated once the agreement is fully implemented.
As reported on rfi.fr, British International Trade Secretary Liz Truss and Vietnam's Trade Minister Tran Tuan Anh on Friday finalised the deal which basically locks in the benefits of London's existing trading relationship with Vietnam under an EU deal.


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Autun (Saône-et-Loire) and the temple of Porte Saint-André
Temple of Porte Saint-André, Autun (France) © R. Laurent
The city was fortified by the Romans during the 1st century A.D., surrounded by walls comprising 62 towers and 4 monumental gates. The Porte Saint-André, built by the Romans, was turned into a church during the Middle-Ages.
As early as 1541 Autun had its Protestant martyrs. The first Temple was built in 1559. The city was ransacked by Coligny in 1570, but Catholicism was revived between 1588 and 1612. The Protestants were banished in 1683. In 1793 the Porte Saint-André was sold as a house and later used as a municipal storage depot.
Until 1905 there was no place for Protestant worship in Autun. They were then lent a squalid, damp premises.
It was only in 1921 that the headmistress of the school in Autun acquired the whole Porte Saint-André, and sold it back to the Reformed Church to become the present Temple.
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In course of this semester a wood sculpture will be designed. This object should be situated between organic and geometric shape.
We will research botanical geometry. We will look for a botanical inspiration. First step is drawing the crop and learn to under- stand the shape. We analyse the spatial criteria from the select- ed plant. It means, that we try to find the composing system in these natural examples. For a good formal solution we have to establish criteria, or to abstract them. Analyse is the precondi- tion to design a self-contained volume. A small-size working model (made from clay) will be designed before starting work with wood. The sketch should show, that the design is made for wood.
It means, that we try to find the composing system in these natural examples.


Lieutenant-Colonel Sir John Reginald Noble Graham, 3rd Baronet VC OBE (17 September 1892 – 6 December 1980) was a British recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces, "for most conspicuous bravery, coolness and resource when in command of a Machine Gun Section."
Lt. Graham accompanied his guns across open ground, under very heavy rifle and machine gun fire, and when his men became casualties, he assisted in carrying the ammunition.
Although twice wounded he continued during the advance to control his guns and was able, with one gun, to open an accurate fire on the enemy, who were massing for a counter-attack. This gun was put out of action by the enemy's rifle fire, and he was again wounded. The advancing enemy forced him to retire, but before doing so he further disabled his gun, rendering it useless.
He then brought a Lewis gun into action with excellent effect till all the ammunition was expended. He was again severely wounded, and forced through loss of blood to retire.
His valour and skilful handling of his guns held up a strong counter-attack which threatened to roll up the left flank of the Brigade, and thus averted what might have been a very critical situation.
After recovering from his severe wounds Captain Graham, as he had become, was ordered back to Mesopotamia where he continued to serve until January 1918 when his company was transferred to Palestine where he was given command of the unit with the rank of major.
After the war, Graham returned to Scotland to a hero's welcome at his home village of Cardross. He later worked in India in branches of the family firm, William Graham and Company, founded by his great-great-grandfather in Glasgow.
In 1920 Graham married Rachel Sprot, daughter of Sir Alexander Sprot, 1st Baronet. They had one son (who inherited the baronetcy as Sir John Graham, 4th Baronet) and one daughter, Lesley married Jock Wykeham Strang Steel.
Graham succeeded to the Baronetcy on the death of his father in 1936. During World War II he was given a temporary rank of lieutenant colonel and served in Scottish Command. He was awarded the OBE in the New Year Honours of 1946, and King Haakon VII's Cross of Liberty in 1949.
From 1959 to 1979 Graham was Usher of the Green Rod to the Order of the Thistle and participated in many state occasions including the unveiling of a memorial to King George VI in St Giles' Cathedral, Edinburgh in 1962. He died aged 88 in Edinburgh. Lady Graham died in 1984.
His medals are held by the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders Museum in Stirling Castle.
Reginald Graham's Commemorative Memorial Stone was unveiled at the Cardross War Memorial on 22 April 2017, the 100th anniversary of his gallant action. There is a second Commemorative Memorial Stone to him in the National Memorial Arboretum along with Memorial Stones for all the other VCs who were born abroad.
^ a b "No. 30284". The London Gazette (Supplement). 14 September 1917. p. 9532.
^ Memoirs and portraits of 100 Glasgow men: 41. William Graham. This is William Graham, junior, son of the firm's founder. His brother, John Graham of Skelmorlie, mentioned in the article, was father of the 1st Baronet.
^ "No. 37407". The London Gazette. 1 January 1946. p. 20.
^ "No. 38571". The London Gazette (Supplement). 25 March 1949. p. 1530.
^ "No. 17692". The Edinburgh Gazette. 24 February 1959. p. 115.
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Do Jews Really Believe That Lilith Is A Notorious Demon?
Do Jews Really Believe That Lileth Is A Notorious Demon ?
Lilith is listed as an animal Isaiah 34 and as a female monster in the Dead Sea scrolls "Songs of the Sage".
The Babylonian Talmud identifies Lilith with Akkadian and Babylonian female demons.
Mystical Jews in the Middle Age identified Lillith as a female demon who was a wife of Adam older than Eve who was not made from Adam's rib, probably based on Jewish reinterpretations of Babylonian gnostic and mystical traditions. There may be references to Lilith in the Epic of Gilgemesh, etc. but this is disputed by scholars.
Chassidic Jews who are kabbalists may believe in Lilith as a she devil. Scripturally however demons are mere fallen angels and are sexless spiritual bodies, but angels appear In human form as men not as women.
Most Jews who have even heard of Lilith (many and in fact probably most have not) ' regard it as a medieval myth adopted from an older superstition of ancient Babylonian Jewish ' origin ostensibly drawn from the text Isaiah. Except by kabbalists, Lilith is usually seen as a mythologized reinterpretation of a creature from Isaiah 34 or simply as a myth akin to the Golum of Prague (the Jewish equivalent of Frankenstein's monster in Kaballah). The only Jews who believe in Lilith today are kabbalistic mystics and gnostics. Most find it a joke.


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Practical Process: Why Is It So?
Acknowledging that "As Is Analysis" is a powerful tool, Roger exhorts practitioners to go beyond the "how it is" to "why is it so." To do so, he suggests digging into the ancient history of the process to discover how the process has changed over its lifetime, and what internal and external factors caused the changes. You may discover that there was a method to the madness which could have an impact on your process change project.
As a Consulting Director with Leonardo Consulting, Roger Tregear delivers BPM courses and consulting assignments around the world. Based in Canberra (Australia) Roger spends his working life talking, consulting, thinking and writing about analysis, improvement and management of business processes. His work with clients is on short and long term assignments, in organizational improvement and problem solving based on BPM capability development, and business process, analysis, improvement, and management. He is available to help small and large organizations understand the potential, and realize the practical benefits, of process-centric thinking and management. Contact Roger at r.tregear@leonardo.com.au.


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Cherry Blow Dry Bar, Pure Barre Open in Clarendon
Ethan Rothstein February 12, 2015 at 11:00am
Cherry Blow Dry Bar at 1041 N. Highland Street
Pure Barre at 1024 N. Garfield Street
Two new businesses in Clarendon have opened their doors, in the new retail space on the ground floor of 3001 Washington Blvd.
Cherry Blow Dry Bar, which offers blow outs and extensions for women's hair, opened on Jan. 30 at 1041 N. Highland Street, next door to the even-more-recently opened Citizen Burger Bar. Salon owner Jennifer Weiss said last week they offered a $15 blow out special and were booked solid all week.
"We were totally sold out and overwhelmed," she said at her new shop yesterday. "We've gotten great support from women in the community who felt that there was a need for our services."
Pure Barre opened late last year, offering ballet-inspired workout classes and athletic apparel. They have specials for new clients — $100 for 30 days of unlimited classes — and offer six to nine classes a day, starting at 5:50 a.m.
Cherry Blow Dry Bar offers blow outs for $35 and extensions for $395. It is open from 8:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays, 8:00 a.m.-8:00 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Sundays. Weiss said she's considering opening at 7:00 a.m. on weekdays because her customers want to get blow outs before work.
Single classes at Pure Barre are $25, while a 10-class pass is $210. A 12-month unlimited membership is $185 a month.
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