Good afternoon, Chairman Berman and members of the subcommittee. I am the former senior vice president for research and technology of the Xerox Corporation. Together with Richard Levin, President of Yale University, I chaired the Committee on Intellectual Property Rights in the Knowledge-Based Economy of the AffiliateMarketIngtools, comprised of the AffiliateMarketIngtools of Sciences, AffiliateMarketIngtools of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine, originally chartered by Congress in 1863 to advise the government on matters of science, technology, and health.
Although most Academy studies are conducted in response to an agency's or a congressional request, the study I will describe was initiated by the Academies' standing Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy (STEP), because it recognized that the breakneck pace of technological change across many industries was creating stresses in the patent system that needed to be examined to ensure that it continues to be a stimulus to innovation and does not become an impediment to it.
I want to underscore that our panel began work in and we completed our report, A Patent System for the 21st Century, nearly three years ago in the spring of 2004. I realize that there has been much discussion of strengths and weaknesses of the patent system since then and some legislative activity and considerable judicial attention, and new issues have emerged in the course of that discussion. Nevertheless, I believe that the concerns that motivated our recommendations, several of which were incorporated in bills introduced in the last Congress and paralleled recommendations of the October 2003 Federal Trade Commission report, remain the principal reasons for moving forward on patent reform. I may have personal views on some of the issues that have become contentious in the past couple of years, but of course I cannot speak for the committee or for the AffiliateMarketIngtools on matters we did not consider in depth.
Since 1980 a series of judicial, legislative, and administrative actions have extended patenting to new technologies (biotechnology) and to technologies previously without or subject to other forms of intellectual property protection (software and business methods), encouraged the emergence of new players (universities), strengthened the position of patent holders vis-à-vis infringers domestically and internationally, relaxed other restraints on the use of patents (antitrust enforcement), and extended their reach upstream from commercial products to scientific research tools and materials.
As a result, patents are being more zealously sought, vigorously asserted, and aggressively enforced than ever before. There are many indications that firms in a variety of industries, as well as universities and public institutions, are attaching greater importance to patents and are willing to pay higher costs to acquire, exercise, and defend them. The workload of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has increased several-fold in the last few decades, to the point that it is issuing approximately 100 patents every working hour. Meanwhile, the costs of acquiring patents, promoting or securing licenses to patented technology, and prosecuting and defending against infringement allegations in the increasing number of patent suits are rising rapidly.
In spite of these changes and the obvious importance of patents to the economy, there had not been a broad-based study of the patent system's performance since the Depression. Accordingly, the Academies assembled a committee that included three corporate R&D managers, a university administrator, three patent holders, and experts in biotechnology, bioengineering, chemicals, telecommunications, microelectronics, and software, as well as economists, legal scholars, practicing attorneys, and a former federal judge. This diversity of experience and expertise distinguished our panel from nearly all previous commissions on the subject, as did our study process. We held conferences and public hearings and we commissioned original empirical research on some aspects of the system. The resulting report provides a thoroughly researched, timely perspective on how well the system is working.
High rates of technological innovation, especially in the 1990s but continuing to this day, suggest that the patent system is not broken and does not require fundamental changes. Nevertheless, the committee was able to identify five issues that should and can be addressed now.
First, maintaining consistent patent quality is important but difficult in fast-moving fields. Over the past decade, the quality of issued patents has come under frequent sharp attack, as it sometimes has in the past. One can always find patents that appear dubious and some that are even laughable – the patent for cutting and styling hair using scissors or combs in both hands. Some errors are unavoidable in a system that issues more than 160,000 patents annually, and many of those errors will have no economic consequence because the patents will not be enforced. Still, some critics have suggested that the standards of patentability have been lowered by court decisions. Other observers fault the USPTO's performance in examining patent applications, variously attributing the alleged deterioration to inadequate time for examiners to do their work, lack of access to prior art information, perverse incentives to grant patents rather than carefully evaluate applications, and inadequate examiners' qualifications.
Because the claim that quality has deteriorated in a broad and systematic way has not been empirically tested, conclusions must remain tentative. But there are several reasons to suspect that more issued patents are substandard, particularly in technologies newly subject to patenting. One reason to believe that quality has suffered, even before taking examiner qualifications and experience into account, is that in recent years the number of patent examiners has not kept pace with the increase in workload represented by the escalating number and growing complexity of applications. The result, in part, has been longer pendency, but in all likelihood there has also been inadequate scrutiny. Second, patent approval rates are higher than in some other major nations' patent offices. Third, changes in the treatment of business method and genomic patent applications, introduced in and 2001 as a result of criticisms of the quality of patents being issued, reduced or at least slowed down the number of patent grants in those fields. And fourth, there does appear to have been some dilution of the application of the non-obviousness standard, particularly in biotechnology, and some limitations on its proper application, for example to business methods patent applications. Although quality appears to be more problematic in rapidly moving areas of technology newly subject to patenting and perhaps is corrected over time, the cost of waiting for an evolutionary process to run its course may be too high when new technologies attract the level of investment exhibited by the Internet, biotechnology, and now nanotechnology.
What are the costs of uncertainty surrounding patent validity in areas of emerging technology? First, uncertainty may induce a considerable volume of costly litigation. Second, in the absence of litigation, the holders of dubious patents may be unjustly enriched, and the entry of competitive products and services that would enhance consumer welfare may be deterred. Third, uncertainty about what is patentable in an emerging technology may discourage investment in innovation and product development until the courts clarify the law, or inventors may choose to incur the cost of product development only to abandon the market years later when their technology is deemed to infringe. In sum, greater certainty about patent validity would benefit innovators, technological followers, and consumers alike.
Second, differences among national patent systems continue to result in avoidable costs and delays. In spite of progress in harmonizing the U.S., European, and Japanese patent examination systems, important differences in standards and procedures remain, ensuring search and examination redundancy that imposes high costs on users and hampers market integration. In 2003 it was estimated to cost as much $750,000 to $1 million to obtain comprehensive worldwide patent protection for an important invention, and that figure was increasing at a rate of 10 percent a year. Important differences include the following: Only the United States gives preference to the "first to invent" rather than the "first to file." Only the United States requires that a patent application disclose the "best mode" of implementing an invention. U.S. law allows a grace period of one year, during which an applicant can disclose or commercialize an invention before filing for a patent, whereas Japan offers a more limited grace period and Europe provides none.
Third, some U.S. practices seem to be slowing the dissemination of information. In the United States there are many channels of scientific interaction and technical communication, and the patent system contributes more to the flow of information than does the alternative of maintaining technical advances as trade secrets. There are nonetheless features peculiar to the U.S. patent system that inhibit information dissemination. One is the exclusion of a nontrivial number of U.S. patent applications from publication after 18 months, an international norm since 1994. A second U.S. idiosyncrasy is the legal doctrine of willful infringement, which can require an infringer to pay triple damages if it can be demonstrated that the infringer was aware of the violated patent before the violation. Some observers believe that this deters an inventor from looking at the patents of possible competitors, because knowledge of the patent could later make the inventor subject to enhanced damages if there is an infringement case. This undermines one of the principal purposes of the patent system: to make others aware of innovations that could help stimulate further innovation.
Fourth, litigation costs are escalating rapidly and proceedings are protracted. Surveys conducted periodically by the American Intellectual Property Law Association indicate that litigation costs, millions of dollars for each party in a case where the stakes are substantial, are increasing at double digit rates. At the same time the number of lawsuits in District Courts is increasing.
Fifth, access to patented technologies is important in research and in the development of cumulative technologies, where one advance builds on one or several previous advances. Faced with anecdotes and conjectures about restrictions on researchers, particularly in biotechnology, we conducted a modest survey of diverse participants in the field to determine whether patent thickets are emerging or access to foundational discoveries is restricted. We found very few cases although some evidence of increased research costs and delays and much evidence that research scientists are largely unaware of whether they are using patented technology. During our study, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled that university researchers are not shielded by the common law research exception against infringement liability. This combination of circumstances – ignorance of intellectual property on the one hand and full legal liability on the other – represents an exposure that universities are not equipped to eliminate by the kinds of due diligence performed by companies and investors.
1) Preserve an open-ended, unitary, flexible patent system. The system should remain open to new technologies, and the features that allow somewhat different treatment of different technologies should be preserved without formalizing different standards; for example, in statutes that would be exceedingly difficult to draft appropriately and equally difficult to change if found to be inappropriate. Among the tailoring mechanisms that should be exploited is the USPTO's development of examination guidelines for new or newly patented technologies. In developing such guidelines, the office should seek advice from a wide variety of sources and maintain a public record of the submissions. The results should then be part of the record of any appeal to a court, so that they can inform judicial decisions.
This information could be of particular value to the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, which is in most instances the final arbiter of patent law. To keep this court well informed about relevant legal and economic scholarship, it should encourage the submission of amicus briefs and arrange for temporary exchanges of members with other courts. Appointments to the Federal Circuit should include people familiar with innovation from a variety of perspectives, including management, finance, and economic history, as well as nonpatent areas of law that bear on innovation.
2) Reinvigorate the nonobviousness standard. The requirement that to qualify for a patent an invention cannot be obvious to a person of ordinary skill in the art should be assiduously observed. In an area such as business methods, where the common general knowledge of practitioners is not fully described in published literature likely to be consulted by patent examiners, another method of determining the state of knowledge needs to be employed. Promising experiments are underway to encourage the submission of relevant prior art during the examination, but turning examination into an adversarial process could be counter-productive and very likely unacceptable to applicants. Nevertheless, the open review procedure we describe next provides a means of obtaining expert participation if a patent is challenged.
Gene sequence patents present a particular problem because of a Federal Circuit ruling making it difficult to apply the obviousness test in this field. This is unwise in its own right and is also inconsistent with patent practice in other countries.
3) Institute an "Open Review" procedure. Congress should pass legislation creating a procedure for third parties to challenge patents after their issuance in a proceeding before administrative patent judges of the USPTO. The grounds for a challenge could be any of the statutory standards—novelty, utility, nonobviousness, disclosure, or enablement—or the case law proscription on patenting abstract ideas and natural phenomena. . The time, cost, and other characteristics of this proceeding need to make it an attractive alternative to litigation to resolve questions of patent validity. For example, federal district courts could more productively focus their attention on patent infringement issues if they were able to refer validity questions to an Open Review proceeding. The result should be much earlier, less expensive, and less protracted resolution of validity issues than we have with litigation and of a greater variety of validity issues than we have with re-examination even if it were used.
4) Strengthen USPTO resources. To improve its performance, the USPTO needs additional resources to hire and train additional examiners and implement a robust electronic processing capability. Further, the USPTO should create a strong multidisciplinary analytical capability to assess management practices and proposed changes, provide an early warning of new technologies being proposed for patenting, and conduct reliable, consistent, reputable quality reviews that address office-wide as well as individual examiner performance. Since our report congressional appropriations have approximated USPTO receipts from application and maintenance fees. This is a positive development, but additional resources will be needed, for example to operate an efficient open review system.
5) Modify or remove the subjective elements of litigation. Among the factors that increase the cost and reduce the predictability of patent infringement litigation are issues unique to U.S. patent jurisprudence that depend on the assessment of a party's state of mind at the time of the alleged infringement or the time of patent application. These include whether someone "willfully" infringed a patent, whether a patent application included the "best mode" for implementing an invention, and whether a patent attorney engaged in "inequitable conduct" by intentionally failing to disclose all prior art when applying for a patent. Investigating these questions requires time-consuming, expensive, and ultimately subjective pretrial discovery. The committee believed that significantly modifying or eliminating these rules altogether would increase the predictability of patent dispute outcomes without substantially affecting the principles that these aspects of the enforcement system were meant to promote.
6) Harmonize the U.S., European, and Japanese patent examination systems. The United States, Europe, and Japan should further harmonize patent examination procedures and standards to reduce redundancy in search and examination and eventually achieve mutual recognition of applications granted or denied. The committee recommended that the United States should conform to practice elsewhere by adopting the first inventor to file system, dropping the "best mode" requirement, and eliminating the current exception to the rule of publication of an application after 18 months. The committee also recommends that the United States encourage other jurisdictions to adopt provisions for a grace period for filing an application. These objectives should be pursued on a trilateral or even bilateral basis if multilateral negotiations do not progress.
7) Consider enacting a narrowly drawn exception from infringement liability for some research activities. Here we do not propose specific legislative language, but we do suggest some principles for Congress to consider in drafting a narrow research exception that would preserve the intent of the patent system and avoid some disruptions to fundamental research.
In making these recommendations, our committee was mindful that although the patent law is designed to be uniform across all applications, its practical effects vary greatly across technologies, industries, and classes of inventors. There is a tendency in discourse on the patent system to identify problems and solutions to them from the perspective of one field, sector, or class. Although the committee did not attempt to deal with the specifics of every affected field, the diversity of the membership enabled us to consider each of the proposed changes from the perspective of very different sectors. Similarly, we examined very closely the claims made that one class of inventors—usually individuals and very small businesses—would be disadvantaged by some change in the patent system. Some of the committee's recommendations—universal publication of applications, Open Review, and shifting to a first-inventor-to-file system—have in the past been opposed on those grounds. The committee reviewed very carefully, for example, how small entities currently fare in interference proceedings, examination, and re-examination. We also studied how European opposition proceedings impact small businesses. We concluded they eAffiliateMarketIngtools little protection and in fact are often at a disadvantage in the procedures we propose to change. In short, we believe that our recommendations, on balance, would be as beneficial to small businesses and individual inventors as to the economy as a whole.
I appreciate the opportunity afforded by the subcommittee to testify on our conclusions and would be happy to answer any questions.


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I just recently learned about this baking phenomenon known as the dump cake. A couple cans of pie filling, a box of cake mix, a bit of butter, and voila–dump cake. It sounds kind of disgusting, doesn't it, but it is actually quite delicious! The great thing about it is the recipe just cries out for adaptation, so you can be as creative as you desire.
It resembles a cobbler. A little dab of ice cream alongside it, and you will be begging for more!
My version is an adaptation of this recipe from recipe source.
Preheat oven to 350F. Place the cake mix into a bowl and cut in the butter until mixture is crumbly. Dump about half the mixture into the bottom of a 9×13 baking pan and press down gently. Bake at 350 for about 15 minutes, or until the crust is golden. Remove from the oven and dump the cans of pie filling over the crust. Spread evenly. Sprinkle the frozen berries over the filling layer. Sprinkle the remaining cake mix mixture on top. Return the pan to the oven and bake another 30-40 minutes, or until the top is lightly browned and the filling is bubbly. Don't forget the ice cream!
Note: Many recipes just have you put the pie filling in the bottom of the pan and then just dump the cake mix over the top. I like the extra step of creating the bottom crust because you end up with a chewy gooey crust.
Oh my gosh, I was just thinking about dump cake and then I surf on over here and see one. Wierd. The recipie I use is very different, I will have to try this one.
Oh my gosh, I was just thinking about dump cake and then I surf on over here and see yours. Wierd. The recipie I use is very different, I will have to try this one.
I saw this on that show 'cookin in brooklyn' on Discovery Home channel and thought it looked good (and easy)! Gotta try it for my next party! p.s. glad you made it to PDX safe and sound.
I had never heard of this before but I'll have to try it now. It sounds (and looks) SO good!
Oh, come on. Even I knew about dump cake. You need to hang out with trashier people and quit reading Martha all the time.
I like one can of apple pie filling and one can of peach. YUM!
A whole stick of butter?! Whew.
Dump cake is an old favorite around these parts. You might also like to try Dump Salad.
*apple or peach does not fair as well in the freezing process – berry based pie filling is best.
Dump all ingredients together in a large bowl and mix thoroughly. (Pat yourself on the back for getting through the grueling preparation stage – hee!) Put into a freezer container and freeze. Take dump salad out of the freezer to thaw about 30 minutes before you want to eat it.
This is delicious and a great item to take to potluck dinners, because it is frozen and thaws on your way to the dinner. When taking to a potluck dinner, I normally do NOT add nuts as many people have nut allergies. It's a great dessert treat for family gatherings too, as it thaws while you eat the main course. Also try it still mostly frozen – yum.
Whoa. This sounds like something I'd first turn my nose at but the gobble up greedily. Sounds sinfully good. Scary, but good.
Oh yeah, my friend's mom taught me that one! I love it, but you're right it does sound a bit disgusting.
Where I'm from, it's called "Lazy mans Pie", and it's simply wonderful!!
Bake 350 1 hour or until brown.
I'll try yours next time as it sounds fab.
My son loves spice cakes, so I made him a dump cake with a spice cake mix and a large can of cinnamon apple pie filling. Completely different from the cherry, but equally excellent.
mmm…I usually don't comment on food stuff (I'm more craft oriented) but man that looks scrumptious, and I like that it's easy…cool.
Gotta love dump cake! We make it alot while camping. Try using chocolate cake mix instead of the yellow one. Yummy!!
i would use all fresh or frozen berries and skip the cans…especually if you are going to have icecream, sounds like desert tonite!
Gotta love dump cake. It is especially good with whipping cream on top. It was a favorite of mine when I was pregnant and could eat as much as I wanted.
It's sounds like Paula Deen's Oohey Gooey Pumpkin cakes. So good!
I was so inspired by your dump cake that I ran out and got some supplies to try one of my own. I went for chocolate cake, raspberry pie and canned pinneapple. The chocolate cake turned out like a brownie — it was delicious! I agree, forget Martha, I'm through with shunning these kind of recipes!


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Costa Rican author Dr. Quince Duncan, who is regarded as the country's first Afro-Caribbean writer in Spanish, earned the President's Awards at the 2016 St. Martin Book Fair. The award was presented at the closing ceremony for the 14th edition of the festival.
"The Presidents Award is presented to persons and institutions, in some instances pioneers, whose work is noted for its excellence and for combining literary, cultural, and liberation components in the service of the progress of their people or nation, and of humanity," said Lasana M. Sekou, co-founder of the St. Martin Book Fair.
"It is exactly for his ongoing literary, cultural studies, and human rights work that Dr. Quince Duncan was presented with the Presidents Award," said Sekou, explaining that Duncan was being recognized for his scholarly and organizational work on human rights and ethno-racial relations.
Duncan has authored and co-authored over 40 books. His novels and short stories have been awarded Costa Rica's National Literature Prize (Premio Nacional de Literatura) and Premio Editorial Costa Rica. His works typically concern the Afro-Caribbean population living on Costa Rica's Caribbean coast, particularly around the city of Puerto Limón.
Duncan's novel A Message from Rosa is available in English. It is one of his four bilingual titles (English, Spanish, and/or French). Professor Duncan has taught English, Literature, and Latin American Studies at the National University, Costa Rica, and at the University of Alabama, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, and Purdue University.
The St. Martin Book Fair 2016 took place June 2-4. It included the screening of Poetry is an Island as well as appearances by Jean Breeze, Nalo Hopkinson, Lysanne Charles Arrindell and Yvonne Denis-Rosario.


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Maples Pavilion
Home of the Stanford Cardinal
Stadium Guide
The Stanford Band and Stanford Tree are one of the best bands and mascots in the nation, who alone make a trip to Maples Pavilion worth the price of admission. There are few if any bands who put on a better show than the Stanford Band. This wild group of musicians is a hoot and a must-see for any college sports fan. The Tree is no slouch either and is a big part of any Stanford sporting event, so enjoy the performances of these two groups when attending a Cardinal basketball game.
At a Stanford basketball game, you'll also be able to experience the unique opportunity to see a basketball game outdoors. Well only somewhat, the concourse and court are located in two separate buildings creating a one of a kind indoor-outdoor feel you'll only find at Maples Pavilion. The weather in Palo Alto is usually beautiful, so it's quite refreshing to experience a nice breeze while walking the concourse.
Stanford has one of the most beautiful campuses in the country, and Palo Alto is also quite pretty, so take some time to explore the nearby area. There are also lots of restaurants, bars, and shops to check out as well. The Patio and The Old Pro are the favorite sports bars among Stanford fans, but if you're looking for something different try Pampas Brazilian steakhouse.
The fun atmosphere created by Stanford superb band and mascot along with the excellent location of Maples Pavilion making attending a Cardinal basketball game an incredible experience for any college basketball fan.
Things to check out
At most college basketball venues you'll find only standard stadium fare such as hot dogs and fries, but at Maples Pavilion there are a wide variety of concessions options. The "From the Farm, For the Farm" stand has a bunch of premium options including a spicy black bean burger and Gordon Biersch garlic fries. If those options don't excite you there are is also a California Pizza Kitchen stand, so no matter what you have a taste for you'll likely find it at Maples Pavilion.
Hanging in the corners of Maples Pavilion are banners showing off all the accomplishments of the Stanford sports that play there. The men's basketball banner celebrates the Cardinals two national championships and two final four appearances, so make sure to check it out.
The Stanford Tree
The Stanford Tree is one of the more colorful mascots in all of college sports as it is the official mascot of the Stanford Band rather than the university. The Tree is also the only mascot in all of sports that is rebuilt every year rather than having a fixed costume. Keep your eyes peeled for the Tree as it will surely provide plenty of entertainment throughout the game.
Stanford Band
No matter what the venue, the Stanford band is one of the wildest and craziest bands in all of sports. In the past, the band has been reprimanded several times for pulling pranks and has even been banned from other arenas. When attending a Stanford basketball game keep your eyes on the band as you never know what crazy stunts they'll pull next.
Nerd Nation
This is the what the legion of Stanford student fans call themselves when supporting their team. The students in the student section show their love and support for the Cardinal by wearing fake nerd glass and nerd nation T-shirts, so if you're looking to take in a Cardinal game with some of the wildest fans then look no further than the student section.
Fight Songs
"Come on Join the Band"
"Come on Join the Band" has been the official Stanford fight song since 1907, so join in on its singing the next time you attend a Cardinal football game. The song pumps up the fans and is a great way to get in on the Stanford spirit.
Come join the band
And give a cheer for Stanford red
Our banner waving overhead
Stanford for you
Each loyal comrade brave and true
With might and main sings this refrain
"Forever and forever Stanford red."
When Stanford red has won the day
Praising her name
Down to the field we'll force our way
And on the green
Each man who joins the serpentine
"All Right Now" has become somewhat of a de facto fight song for the Cardinal as it is often played throughout the game. It even has gotten so popular that it has displaced the official fight song at football games.
Whoa-oh-oh-oh-whoa
Smilin' from her head to her feet;
I said, "Hey, what is this?
Now maybe, baby,
Maybe she's in need of a kiss."
I said, "Hey, what's your name?
"Now don't you wait, or hesitate.
All right now, baby, it's a-all right now.
(Let me tell you now)
I took her home to my place,
Watchin' every move on her face;
She said, "Look, what's your game?
Are you tryin' to put me to shame?"
I said "Slow, don't go so fast, don't you think that love can last?"
She said, "Love, Lord above,
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Yorkshire man 'takes stand' against parking fine at petrol station - and wins in court
YP Letters: May must stand firm over Brexit and with her own party
From: Wendy Abbott, Boulsworth Avenue, Hull.
Wednesday, 11th October 2017, 5:44 pm
Updated Tuesday, 12th December 2017, 9:20 am
Theresa May arriving at 10 Downing Street. How long will she remain as Prime Minister?
OPPONENTS of Prime Minister Theresa May claim to have gathered together "the support of up to 30 MPs to demand that she stands down".
However, 48 signatures are required to force her hand. Back in 2008 a similar plot to unseat Labour Prime Minister Gordon Brown was unsuccessful.
The media are constantly suggesting that Mrs May cannot survive. She can be over- optimistic at times and has seriously misjudged her position on occasion, but Mrs May is a strong and formidable woman, she will not resign voluntarily.
I believe if she listens to her critics and acts swiftly, it is possible for her to bounce back. For example, the Brexit situation is a priority for our country.
Here we are four months on from submitting our letter of resignation from the EU, too little progress has been made and we appear to be no further on with the negotiations than when we started. She must stand firmly against the EU leaders who undermine her authority as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
If she fails, not only will her leadership be terminated, but the Conservative Party will probably lose the next election. The fate of the party is in her hands.
From: Nick Yates, Laverock Lane, Brighouse.
THERESA May won the election and, in doing so, bought time and decimated the SNP. She is effective, diligent and hard working – there is no credible alternative leader.
If she had not called an election, she would have been condemned by those who criticise her now. The British people voted for Brexit to extricate themselves from the EU bloc.
Mrs May has support from the rank and file of Conservatives. Under her leadership, we have the best prospect of disengaging ourselves from the sorry mess that is the EU and whose representatives do not negotiate but simply obstruct.
From: Peter Hyde, Driffield.
BORIS Johnson and the others who try to undermine the Prime Minister should remember that they were elected to serve the country and the constituencies they represent, and not to constantly try to put their own agendas first.
Personally I am fed up with reading in the Press, and hearing on TV, about which member of the government is trying to unseat Mrs May.
Self-aggrandisement is no indication of worth.
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One of the more celebrated orders by Gov. M. Jodi Rell was freezing any new hiring in the state, except for emergency personnel -- police, fire and the like.
It's a tack many states have taken, so it's not extraordinary. What may be extraordinary is what has been reported elsewhere, that since May 2008 the state has added almost 1,000 new em-ployees, not all of an emergency nature.
A hiring freeze makes for a great head-line, but it needs to become a reality.
Perhaps the freeze was merely a chill.


The turbine is of a spherical shape with a single axis of rotation going through it. It makes use of Bernoulli's principle for its mechanical motion.
O-Wind takes advantage of horizontal and vertical winds without requiring steering.
Our concept was originally developed as a way of taking advantage of cross-winds to make an exploratory vehicle travelling in a pre-set direction. A prototype proven in the Atacama Desert showed that it works, travelling more than 7km in straight line. The concept was recently redeveloped as a wind turbine by taking advantage of its capacity of making use of omnidirectional winds to achieve rotation over a single axis. This capacity allows it to face changing winds in urban environments.


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Q: Specifying lower priority backup IP for a nameserver Let's assume that I use EasyDNS as a DNS service provider.
There I have an A-record entry for ns-at-premises.example.com pointing to the IP address 192.0.2.123, where a DNS server is located, at my premises, listening on port 53.
There's also a CNAME-record entry for ns.example.com with the value of ns-at-premises.example.com (I read somewhere that NS-Records should get CNAMEd).
example.com has an A-record of 192.0.2.234, a VPS hosted on AWS and www.example.com has a CNAME of example.com, but that is irrelevant.
There is a subdomain dynamic.example.com which has a NS-Record of ns.example.com, which will send any request for *.dynamic.example.com or dynamic.example.com to be resolved at 192.0.2.123, where * can be anyting.
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What I now want to do is add a backup nameserver in case 192.0.2.123 goes down. This means that a port-53 server at 192.0.2.124 should get queried in case 192.0.2.123 is not reachable.
I would add an A-Record for ns-backup.example.com pointing to 192.0.2.124, and a CNAME for ns2.example.com with the value of ns-backup.example.com
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The question is, how can I now tell EasyDNS that dynamic.example.com should query or redirect to ns2.example.com when ns.example.com is not reachable?
I read that just adding a second NS-Record with the value of ns2.example.com to dynamic.example.com would result in clients using ns.example.com and ns2.example.com for lookups in a Round-Robin fashion, but what I actually want is that ns2.example.com only gets queried if ns.example.com is down.
So I am actually looking for a way to add weights to the nameservers, like MX-Records are able to provide.
Is this possible? Or must I settle with the idea that none of those two nameservers will be a primary and deal with them as loadbalanced non-prioritized servers?

A: The DNS protocol does not provide a mechanism to designate primary and backup name servers.
You can set up multiple name servers that are authoritative but each of them is expected to respond (and usually to return identical responses to identical queries)  and all of them will be queried.

A: You don't need to be fixed with ns1.example.com and ns2.example.com. You just need to have valid record for NS so even directly ns-at-premises.example.com can be set up as name server and no ns1.example.com cname is needed to be set up.
As has been already mentioned here there is not available use case you are asking about... What you can do is set up master on ns1 which would notify the changes to ns2 which would pull the changes to local cache so "standard" master/slave configuration.
At that moment you can have both DNS resolving the same response so at the end you don't need to care which DNS server has provide the answer. Even ns1 would be temporarily unavailable the ns2 would have still valid cached information for the time of ns1's outage.
What may be also the case is to have "hidden" nameserver at premisses which would not be even propagated to the DNS. There could be just handled the changes and act as master. Other DNS server which would be located in DC (for example) can be announced in DNS as NS for the domain. Any changes done during at-premises online status could be directly propagated to (pulled into) publicly known NS server. In case of outage the changes will be propagated with next successful check once ns1 is up.
There is nowhere required that "real master" where the zone records are handled have to be all the time publicly available. It has to be available enough to not expire the zones cached on the slaves. For DNS functionality all NS listed in the domain definition (mainly upper NS - for example.com it is NS for .com) can be even all slaves as for resolving purpose there is no difference. The role of master/slave is just for zone maintenance purpose (where it is handled).

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The Battlefield 2042 Update 1.2 includes bug fixes, balance changes and Quality of Life improvements, also the first map reworks. As a reminder, Renewal is the next map we are reworking. That work is still ongoing, and the revised version will be available for.
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Seznam polkov z zaporedno številko 41.

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 Pehotni
 41. pehotni polk (Avstro-Ogrska)
 41. pehotni polk (Kaiserliches Heer)
 41. pehotni polk (Wehrmacht)
 41. strelski polk (ZSSR)
 41. tankovskogrenadirski polk (Wehrmacht)
 41. grenadirski polk (Wehrmacht)
 41. Reiter polk (Wehrmacht)
 41. pehotni polk (ZDA)

 Oklepni/Tankovski
 41. tankovski polk (ZSSR)

 Artilerijski
 41. poljskoartilerijski polk (ZDA)
 41. lahki artilerijski polk (ZSSR)
 41. artilerijski polk (Wehrmacht)

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Five talking points from stage 14 of the Vuelta a España
Majka defies the odds, Froome holds his nerve and Astana mess it up
Stephen Puddicombe September 2, 2017 7:19 pm
2 September 2017 72nd Vuelta a Espana Stage 14 : Ecija - Sierra de La Pandera MAJKA Rafal (POL) Bora - Hansgrohe, at Sierra de La Pandera Photo : Yuzuru SUNADA
Rafal Majka
Majka defies the odds
Rafael Majka goes solo on stage 14 of the Vuelta a España (Sunada)
Heading into the stage's huge final climb up Sierra de la Pandara, the gap of less than two minutes held by the breakaway over the peloton looked unlikely to be enough for any of the escapees to contend for the stage win.
>>> Chris Froome fends off attacks as Rafal Majka wins Vuelta a España stage 14 summit finish
Yet, even as the group disintegrated as one-by-one each rider hit the wall and were swallowed up by the peloton, Rafal Majka (Bora Hansgrohe) soldiered on, even surviving a flurry of accelerations by the chasing GC riders to claim a very impressive victory.
Given his past record, perhaps we shouldn't have doubted his chances. In past Tours de France Majka has found himself alone at the front of the race on similarly difficult mountain top finishes, at Risoul and Pla d'Adet, and on both those occasions he also managed to pull off stage wins.
He's one of the very best climbers at this Vuelta and the only reason he isn't up there racing for GC is a bout of illness that saw him lose time at the start of the race. That misfortune has at least freed him up to get into breaks, and we doubt this will be the last time we see him out on the attack – his tally of one stage win, and Poland's tally of three, may yet get bigger.
Poels plays a crucial role for Froome
Wout Poels leads the main contenders on stage 14 of the Vuelta a España (Sunada)
Whereas Gianni Moscon played the most eye-catching supporting role for Chris Froome in recent days, the familiar face of Wout Poels again emerged as Sky's most valuable super-domestique on the race's first especial mountain top finish.
Froome was not as bullish as he had been earlier in the race, and at one point seemed under pressure as the dangerous trio of Vincenzo Nibali (Bahrain-Merida), Esteban Chaves (Orica-Scott) and Alberto Contador (Trek-Segafredo) formed a group a handful of seconds up the road on the final climb.
When Mikel Nieve finished his turn at the front of the chasing group, Poels was the only Sky domestique left to support Froome, so it was essential that he had the legs to look after his leader.
As we've seen so often in the past, the Dutchman was resilient as ever, keeping the attackers in check with a steady pace, and ensuring that they were in sight when he finally had to swing a few kilometres later, allowing Froome to bridge up to them himself.
Poels even managed to catch back up to the group of favourites once the pace slowed down and put in one final turn near the summit, just to discourage the others from trying to attack again.
With other, similarly sized mountain finishes to come, Poels will continue to play an indispensable role in Sky's race.
Froome's rivals are still full of fight
Vincenzo Nibali finished third on stage 14 of the Vuelta a España (Sunada)
Given how Froome has dominated this Vuelta up to now, it wouldn't come as much of a surprise to see the other GC riders already start to turn their attentions towards securing a podium spot rather than continue to chase overall victory.
But today suggested that was not the case, as the leader was put under pressure by several attacks, even if nobody managed to make any serious inroads on his lead.
By digging deep and attacking him early on the climb, Nibali, Chaves and Contador all risked blowing up and instead losing substantial time.
Indeed, that's exactly what happened to Chaves, who despite instigating the move ended up falling back and ceding nearly half a minute.
Froome may have again come out on top today, but if his rivals remain bold and continue to work together to put him under pressure, his position at the top of the GC remains precarious.
Cream rises to the top on the Sierra de la Pandera
As the first especial category summit finish, the Sierra de la Pandera confirmed which riders we can expect to see fight it out for the top places on GC, and which riders will fall away now the serious climbing has started.
Froome and Nibali were once more in the thick of it, and look like the race's two most likely overall winners, while Contador and Miguel Angel Lopez (Astana) again produced attacking performances that suggested they will continue to climb up the top ten and push for sports on the podium.
Wilco Kelderman (Sunweb) and Ilnur Zakarin (Katusha-Alpecin) will both also be eyeing up a podium finish, after stealthy yet impressive performances that saw them finish in the same group as the red jersey, and thus move up a place on GC ahead of Chaves to third and fourth respectively.
The likes of Fabio Aru (Astana), Michael Woods (Cannondale-Drapac) and David de la Cruz (Quick-Step Floors), however, all struggled on the climb and were dropped early, meaning that a top-10 finish may be a more realistic goal.
A mixed day for Astana
Fabio Aru climbs on stage 14 of the Vuelta a España (Sunada)
Astana was one of several teams – including Bahrain-Merida and Katusha-Alpecin – to put domestiques to work at the front of the peloton with the intention of bringing things back together
The team will be left lamenting their failure to do so, given that the explosive attack put in by Lopez towards the top of the summit to take second would otherwise have been a stage-winning move.
The team will also have been disappointed by the form of Aru, who lost time on the climb and was dropped, ironically, when his team-mate Pello Bilbao was setting the pace.
The fact Bilbao continued to press on suggests that Lopez is now the team's designated leader, and, on the plus side for Astana, the Colombian's ride was very encouraging – both in terms of being further confirmation of his sensational talent, and a sign that he can push for a podium finish, now that he lies just 1-31 down on third overall.


We had planned to hike Mt. Hallasan on the second to last day of our Jeju trip. With the weather turning warmer and all the walking of the previous day sapping our energy levels, we cancelled the hike. If we felt better rested and the weather cooled down, we hoped to hike on the last day. There was still a lot to explore and discover in Seogwipo (South Jeju). Jeongbang Falls was a half hour bus ride away from Jungmun Beach (where we stayed) and seemed relaxing enough for a day trip.
Getting to Jeongbang Falls seemed relatively easy on the map. We had to walk, from where got off the bus, for roughly a kilometre to reach the falls. The route took us through towering residential apartments and ended at quaint coffee shops. As we approached the sea, the street was lined with seafood eateries and scuba diving rental shops. By 12:30 pm, the sun was out, the sky painted blue, and the day was turning out to be pretty scenic.
Before we crossed the street, we took some time to admire the work of an artist who had carved models of the human hand. If the sun wasn't shining as brightly, I would have wanted to stay a little longer, and even try to interpret his/her vision titled, "The Dream".
The signboard, on the main road, gives you multiple options to choose from. There's Chilsimni Food Street — with the stunning view of the sea, Cheonjiyeon Falls, Natural Stone Art Museum, and Jeongbang Falls. It was tempting to see them all. Fortunately, good sense prevailed, and we let our our stomachs take the call.
There's a boardwalk that hugs the coast and coils inwards and disappears into another trail. Tempting as it looked, we skipped it, and read the description boards instead.
Given our luck with Olle Trails, we were happy to have stumbled on Route 6. Clearly, there was no way, we could have completed this trail, but it was good to keep in mind — if we ever came back. The entrance to the falls can be a little confusing, as all the printed signs were in Korean. We overshot the entrance and walked for 20 minutes, almost trespassed private property, and came back to the start.
Never underestimate the importance of an online translator. Especially, if the script is something you cannot make sense of. The arrows should have marked a trail that lead to the falls, instead, we saw Olle Trail markers and an exhibition hall. We continued walking hoping to find the entrance to the waterfall somewhere. En route, we saw manicured gardens, stone statues, and small rivulets — probably the source of the falls.
We finally reached one of the entrances of Jeongbang Falls. A description board gave a background of the waterfall. We were too tired, maybe a bit frustrated, to read it and we continued to the ticket counter. The parking lot was filled with cars and a steady stream of Korean tourists. A long winding staircase leads you to the base of the waterfalls and it's some effort to avoid bumping into people coming up.
At the base, there was a frenzy to click photographs. I could imagine many families were building their memories here. As Basil struggled to get his shots, without people in it, or slipping on the rocks; I sat in silence, and observed the sea. Gradually, the crowds faded, I could only hear the waves crashing on the rocks, taste the salty water of the sea, and hope that I could complete the hike on the next day.
Thanks, Miriam. 🙂 We know we have to go back someday. Travel transforms us into adventurers…We're so normal in the real world. Haha!
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Glad you liked them, Zainab! 🙂 Thanks for stopping by.
Looks like a beautiful place Cheryl!
It certainly is, Arvind. 🙂 Quite a gem.