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Steve Mason – New release
By The 'Eye January 9, 2019 - 12:37 am January 21, 2019 Uncategorized
Always interested in the output of Mr Mason
His new work About The Light lands soon
The new album out 18th January 2019.
— Read on www.stevemasontheartist.com/
Dig this! Liverpool's Dig Vinyl record shop to expand in Bold Street move – exclusive – Getintothis
By The 'Eye January 8, 2019 - 11:20 am January 21, 2019 Comment, Uncategorized
— Read on www.getintothis.co.uk/2019/01/liverpool-dig-vinyl-record-shop-to-move-and-expand-in-bold-street/
Liverpool opens first vinyl pressing plant in 30 years – Big Issue North
By The 'Eye January 5, 2019 - 5:56 pm January 5, 2019 Comment, Uncategorized
— Read on www.bigissuenorth.com/news/2018/12/liverpool-opens-first-vinyl-pressing-plant-30-years/
SEE: IDLES NEWS
By The 'Eye August 16, 2018 - 12:39 am August 27, 2018 Uncategorized
I just cut & paste the press release, does that make me idle!? I know some writers (serious journalistas) would baulk at this & cry & whinge & bang on about 'cut & paste' journalism….but who gives a shit…it was too tempting because it contains the whole SHEBANG (check out the tour dates, video links etc)
Get on the Links at the bottom for more…
IDLES RELEASE NEW SINGLE "GREAT"
WATCH VIDEO HERE
ANNOUNCE POP-UP ART EXHIBITION TO RAISE MONEY FOR SAMARITANS
AUGUST 30TH & 31ST
AT HM ELECTRICS GALLERY, LONDON
'JOY AS AN ACT OF RESISTANCE.' OUT AUGUST 31ST ON PARTISAN RECORDS
PRE-ORDER HERE
WORLD TOUR ON SALE NOW
WATCH VIDEO FOR "GREAT"
WATCH IDLES ON NEWS AT TEN
WATCH ART EXHIBITION TRAILER
Following the single's debut with Steve Lamacq on 6 Music (listen to recent session here) and ahead of a live performance for Annie Mac on Radio 1, IDLES have shared another new song off their much-anticipated new LP 'Joy as an Act of Resistance,' out 31st August via Partisan. "Great" is a pro-immigration black comedy ("Islam didn't eat your hamster/change isn't a crime") as well as a scathing confrontation of the Brexit/Trump era. The song is accompanied by a music video (directed by Theo Watkins), which you can watch here: idles.lnk.to/great/youtube
Singer Joe Talbot says of the track: "Let us go forward with open minds and open hearts into that fuck off fire we've started. No blame, no hate. Just love and a blue passport."
'Joy as an Act of Resistance' bluntly addresses everything from toxic masculinity, immigration, racism, nationalism + more. The band are able to channel those weighty subjects though pure positivity and even biting humor.
Earlier this month IDLES also announced an art exhibition to celebrate the release of their album.
Open for two days, between 12pm and 8pm, and curated by the band, the exhibition will take place at:
HM Electrics Gallery
65 Nile St.
London N1 7RD
The gallery will contain 18 pieces of work across several mediums, with contributions from:
Orlando Weeks
Nigel Talbot
Tao Lapsley
Russell Oliver
Robin Stewart
Tom Ham
Dapper Signs
Chris Nicholls
Ed Barrett
Beth Cater
The gallery will be free entry and artwork on display available to buy, with all proceeds going to the Samaritans charity.
The band have also announced a run of live in-store dates around the album:
30 Aug UK London, Banquet Records, 9pm
31 Aug UK Bristol, Rough Trade, 3pm
03 Sep UK Portsmouth, Pie and Vinyl, 1pm
03 Sep UK Brighton, Resident, 6.30pm
04 Sep UK London, Rough Trade East, 7pm
05 Sep UK Sheffield, Record Junkee, 1pm
05 Sep UK Nottingham, Rough Trade, 7.30pm
06 Sep UK Leeds, Crash Records, 1pm
06 Sep UK Manchester, FOPP, 5.30pm
07 Sep UK Cardiff, Spiller Records, 7pm
"Great" is the fourth song to be released from IDLES's much-anticipated upcoming album "Joy As An Act Of Resistance." Produced by Space and mixed by Adam Greenspan & Nick Launay (Arcade Fire, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Kate Bush), The album takes aim at everything from nationalism and immigration to class inequality – all while maintaining a visceral, infectious positivity. Singer Joe Talbot summarises: "This album is an attempt to be vulnerable to our audience and to encourage vulnerability; a brave naked smile in this shitty new world. We have stripped back the songs and lyrics to our bare flesh to allow each other to breathe, to celebrate our differences, and act as an ode to communities and the individuals that forge them. Because without our community, we'd be nothing."
Read Joe's full statement on the album's inspiration and origins here.
Watch the video for album opener "Colossus"
This autumn, IDLES will embark on their first ever global tour, including their biggest London headliner yet at O2 Forum Kentish Town on 18th October. Their last London headliner, at Heaven, sold out nearly six months in front.
Tickets are on sale now HERE
Watch the video for anthemic single "Danny Nedelko"
'Joy as an Act of Resistance.'
Out August 31st on Partisan Records
1. Colossus
2. Never Fight a Man With a Perm
3. I'm Scum
4. Danny Nedelko
6. June
7. Samaritans
8. Television
9. Great
10. Gram Rock
11. Cry To Me
12. Rottweiler
'Tour of Joy' 2018 dates:
11 Sept – Tokyo, JP – Daikanyama Unit
14 Sept – Chicago, IL – Lincoln Hall
15 Sept – Fort Wayne, IN Middle Waves Music Festival
16 Sept – Columbus, OH – Ace of Cups
17 Sept – Toronto, ON – Lee's Palace
18 Sept – Montreal, QC – Theatre Fairmont
20 Sept – Boston, MA – Brighton Music Hall
22 Sept – Brooklyn, NY – Music Hall of Williamsburg
24 Sept – Philadelphia, PA – First Unitarian Church
25 Sept – Washington, DC – Rock & Roll Hotel
27 Sept – Atlanta, GA – Masquerade
28 Sept – Nashville, TN – The High Watt
29 Sept – St. Louis, MO – Blueberry Hill Duck Room
01 Oct – Denver, CO – Larimer Lounge
04 Oct – Vancouver, BC – The Rickshaw Theatre
05 Oct – Portland, OR – Doug Fir Lounge
06 Oct – Seattle, WA – Sunset Tavern
08 Oct – San Francisco, CA – The Independent
10 Oct – Los Angeles, CA – Teragram Ballroom
16 Oct – Bristol, UK – SWX
17 Oct – London, UK – Roundhouse *
18 Oct – London, UK – O2 Forum Kentish Town
19 Oct – Manchester, UK – O2 Ritz
20 Oct – Glasgow, UK – O2 ABC
23 Oct – Newcastle, UK – Riverside
24 Oct – Leeds, UK – Leeds University Stylus
25 Oct – Nottingham, UK – Rock City
26 Oct – Birmingham, UK – Institute
27 Oct – Brighton, UK – Concorde 2
29 Oct – Oxford, UK – O2 Academy
30 Oct – Lille, FR – L'Aeronef
01 Nov – Brussels, BE – Botanique
02 Nov – Leffinge, NL – De Zwerver
03 Nov – Dusseldorf, DE – zakk
04 Nov – Amsterdam, NL – Melkweg
06 Nov – Groningen, NL – VERA
08 Nov – Copenhagen, DK – Loppen
09 Nov – Hamburg, DE – Knust
10 Nov – Leipzig, DE – UT Connewitz
11 Nov – Berlin, DE – SO36
13 Nov – Prague, CZ – Futurum
14 Nov – Vienna, AT – Flex Cafe
16 Nov – Munich, DE – Ampere
17 Nov – St. Gallen, CH – Palace
18 Nov – Dudingen, CH – Bad Bonn
19 Nov – Zurich, CH – Mascotte
20 Nov – Lausanne, CH – Les Docks
22 Nov – Milan, IT – Circolo Magnolia
23 Nov – Lyon, FR – Epicerie Moderne
24 Nov – Bordeaux, FR – Rock School Barbey
26 Nov – Porto, PT – Hard Club
27 Nov – Lisbon, PT – Lisboa ao Vivo
29 Nov – Madrid, ES – Moby Dick
30 Nov – Barcelona, ES – Razzmatazz
01 Dec – Toulouse, FR – Connexion Live
* Q Awards show with Wolf Alice
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FAN Q&A – TWISTED WHEEL
The Second Coming? You could say that, but we see it as more of a hiatus in what looks to be a long career for Jonny Brown and the band..
And rightly so, you don't get to No1 in the physical charts unless your making sounds that connect with people and evidently that's what they have done with the latest release.
You can catch TWISTED WHEEL on tour now as they roll across the UK – Plus they support Liam Gallagher Ft Richard Ashcroft & Bugzy Malone at Old Trafford cricket ground this Saturday August 18
We sent the best questions we received from you (the fans) and Jonny kindly answered them for you….
1.This could be considered your second coming…what's different this time around?
To start with, I'm more mature in some ways so I've found myself more as an artist. When I was younger, it was more about setting up a band and getting songs, recording an album and I don't think I realized what I was so much. I did you know to an extent but now I've had more time and life experience, I know where I'm going and what I am as an artist. Also, my playing and performance is better and I can sing better live, more confident on stage. A new set of songs makes it more exciting too as it adds a lot more excitement for me which passes on to the audience. Just being back: new songs, new band, new audience and at a time when guitar music now is a bit more relevant. When we first came out, it wasn't so much and we got overlooked a little bit but I think that now we're getting a bit more recognition for being a good British grass-roots rock n roll band.
2. Would you ever try a different approach to writing – electronic beats based?
I already have done and definitely will do.
3. Who inspires you?
David Bowie because of how many times he reinvented himself but came back still being the same person. He had so many different styles and images. I am not so far as him but it's just someone who doesn't stop for anyone.
4. If you could plan the rest of your career – how would it look?
It wouldn't look like anything the past Twisted Wheel career looked like.
5. What's your favourite song of all time?
El Condor Passa by Simon and Garfunkel. Is it like a Chilean folk song originally – not sure although I should be! But I just love its vibe and to sing and play it. I love the lyrics too.
6. Who is your favourite singer?
I think John Lennon solo.
7. If you could write/collaborate with someone who would it be?
Jamie T. Just because he's got a bit of a hip hop background and he's into punk and rock. I think we could write a song together. He's current and I feel he's reachable so I'll say Jamie T.
8. Favourite place on earth?
Deia, Mallorca. In the mountains.
9. What made you pick up a guitar?
Led Zeppelin: 'The Song Remains the Same'.
I did actually pick a guitar up when I was 2. There's a picture of me playing it with my willy! But yeah – Led Zeppelin in Madison Square Gardens. I wanted to be like Jimmy Page. I was 8/9.
10. What was the first song you wrote where you thought – hang on – I wanna do this?
A song by my first band 'The Children', 'Set Me Free'. It was about me being an artist and a songwriter in school trying to write and not succeeding. It was about how the band set me free, I was writing for something and performing. It was about me setting myself free to be an artist.
11. The first time you met one of your heros – who, when and where.
I met Noel Gallagher in Ibiza at the Cafe Mambo, Sunset Strip, San Antonio. He was on the table next to us. I was 15 and went up and said hello. It was funny that seven years later I was touring with them as a support band!
12. Is there a venue/festival you would love to play?
The pyramid stage, late at night at Glastonbury.
13. Are you spiritual?
14. Lad's holiday or romantic break?
Romantic break.
15. If somebody offered you 100 million to leave music forever, would you?
Yeah and then I'd give them 30 million to leave me alone and let me do what I want.
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TWISTED WHEEL FAN Q & A – send us your questions!
By The 'Eye July 6, 2018 - 12:06 am July 6, 2018 Uncategorized
TWISTED WHEEL set sail again this year after hitting stormy waters a few years back. And what a comeback it's turned out to be!
They've hit No1 in the physical charts, supported Liam Gallagher & The Libertines and have a string of summer dates lined up…
They roll into Liverpool courtesy of Vinyl Junkie Live at EBGB's July 14th and we thought we'd ask the fans to fire their questions via us to Jonny & the band…
Email your questions to hello@theliverpooleye.com or via FB or Twitter
Slow watches have been advertising with us for time! (if you're from these parts you'll get it) – Still dig this concept – Stay Slow – TAKE A LOOK
slow watches were created to shift the way people read time. So rather than focusing on the second or the minute we have produced an instrument that measures the moment.
slow does not describe a speed…. It's a mindset that most of us somehow lost. As a result of our busy lifestyles, we often forget that we actually have a choice of how to live. The slow watch (we named it slow Jo) is a subtle reminder that time is the most precious thing we have so we should enjoy everything we do and stop chasing every minute.
In order to be a true symbol of this idea, the slow watch has only one hand that rotates once every 24 hours. It actually moves at half the speed of a normal watch, but allows you to see the progress of your entire day at a glance. This slow way of showing the time is made possible by using a Swiss precision GMT movement that actually has 4 hands and a date (the Ronda 505.24 Swiss Made), but to keep you focused we simply left out the other 3 hands.
Get out of the hamster wheel!
Focus your time on what you really love to do – go for a surf, hang out with friends and family, explore the world, work on something you're passionate about….all these simple pleasures that can be easy to forget. Of course, we realize most of us live in a world where it's unfortunately not always possible to do those things we love, but the slow mindset is here to help you to have fun in whatever you are doing. So no matter where you are slow Jo is made to be your long lasting companion on your journey in hectic modern times.
Check out the detailed photos and we'll let the integrity of the case design speak for itself. slow Jo's innovative construction allows perfect symmetry on all axes and the raised extra hard glass creates a sweet vintage feel – simply an object of sophistication. That's why it only uses the highest quality materials and is manufactured in Switzerland by the guys who do slow.
In accordance with the brand concept, purchasing a slow watch should be a stress free experience. It should be simple and not cost a fortune…that's why slow watches can only be ordered online and will be shipped directly from our factory in Switzerland to you without a middleman increasing the price.
Have a great time and be slow…
Pssst…. the geezer from ZZTOP wears one
DOUBLE FANTASY @ MUSEUM of LIVERPOOL
By The 'Eye May 18, 2018 - 12:27 pm May 18, 2018 Uncategorized
I'm going to keep this simple – Whether you're a Lennon or Yoko fan (or both) Double Fantasy will be right up your street.
The exhibition contains some major iconic pieces. It's beautifully curated/presented, flows well and gives you a good shot of the public view of John And Yoko's relationship – with glimpses into their private life.
Stand Out Pieces – John's New York t-shirt – that army shirt – the Bed – Yoko's ladder – The center of the room has John's round national health specs facing Yoko's sunglasses – which as well as being iconic just represents them so well.
There's lots of footage/interviews to be seen and a couple of really thought provoking pieces included a poster of the number of people killed since John was gunned down…
Large black and white maps of the world adorn the walls – were you are encouraged to colour in countries you think needs peace the most….
The weightier exhibits are balanced by the whimsical pieces displayed and the karaoke booth
where you can belt out you favourite songs…
The exhibition celebrates the meeting of two of the world's most creative artists who expressed their deep and powerful love for one another through their art, music and film. They used their fame and influence to campaign for peace and human rights across the world, transforming not only their own lives, but art, music and activism forever.
The exhibition includes never-before-seen items from John and Yoko's personal collection. Featuring photographs, handwritten lyrics and personal objects, alongside music, film and art produced by both John and Yoko.
Its an emotional journey, at times thought provoking, funny, touching, the themes of Love & Peace run throughout.
John & Yoko's work is still as vital today, if not more so, in our ever decreasing 'peaceful world'
Double Fantasy opens 18.5.18 @ Museum of Liverpool – Albert Dock
Tagged Bagism, John & Yoko, Museum of Liverpool
FEAST – THE RESURRECTION
We've decided to resurrect FEAST
Given the recent upsurge in healthy eating…Vegan & vegetarian in particular, we have brought back an old favourite SO…Expect, great recipes, honed from time well spent in the kitchen, cooking and scoffing delicious homemade food. Possibly washed down with some of the finest booze known to man…..(more on that later).
PROPERGANDER – GET INTO THIS – Liverpool Music Strategy reveals major flaws in Merseyside industry but reveals ambitious new plans
The latest PROPERGANDER points you in the direction of Get Into This who have been covering Liverpool's music scene for over 10 years.
A new Liverpool music strategy is being formulated following consultancy in the city, Getintothis reports on the findings, the faults within Merseyside's creative industry – and what's happening next.
Liverpool City Council has brought together key music industry figures to shape a music strategy which makes the most of its UNESCO City of Music status.
External sector experts have used ground-breaking analysis to get an understanding of the scale and significance of the music sector, which includes live music events, production services, recording studios and music publishing – which generates more than £100m turnover annually.
BOP Consulting, a creative industry leader, has researched Liverpool's music scene, and found that:
· There are approximately 341 music venues across the city region.
· The region's music sector supports 2,360 jobs.
· There is a live music audience of 937,000 per annum – made up of 520,000 local visitors and the remainder from the rest of the UK and overseas.
· Live music is a significant part of the City Region's music economy – live music accounts for 44% of music sector turnover in Liverpool, as opposed to an average of 23% for the UK.
They went on to make a number of recommendations which will be discussed at a special meeting hosted by Mayor of Liverpool Joe Anderson and Mayor of Liverpool City Region Steve Rotheram, which is to take place in March.
These recommendations include:
The creation of a Liverpool City of Music Board to develop an overview of the music industry and develop a strategy for investment and development.
The establishment a Liverpool Music Office which creates a single point of entry for the music sector, based on the successful Liverpool Film Office.
To engage with Apple Corps in a partnership relating to the heritage of The Beatles, including securing an agreement to use Beatles-related materials to optimise and build on the existing visitor offer in the city.
When analysing Liverpool, BOP found the city has a vibrant live music scene with extensive heritage, the low cost of business premises makes the city an attractive option and there is a strong music-related offer at city universities.
In terms of weaknesses, the research found:
The region is not seen as an industry hub.
Homegrown talent leaves for London.
Overall the music scene is fragmented with no leading sector voice.
A lack of diversity in programming
Significant commercial pressures on venues.
The 'next steps' meeting to look at the recommendations will coincide with the launch of UK Music's "Wish You Were Here" report on the contribution of music tourism to the economy of Liverpool City Region which will take place in the near future.
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Mayor of Liverpool Joe Anderson said: "Liverpool's rich music history is undeniable and draws millions of visitors to the city annually – whether it's people experiencing our Fab Four attractions, taking in the enviable talent of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra or enjoying the gigs or music festivals which dominate our cultural calendar.
"When it comes to other UK cities, we stand out, and our UNESCO City of Music title is an acknowledgement of that. However we want to make the most of this sector and get an accurate picture of today's music scene and understand what we can put in place to ensure it reaches its potential.
"This is the first time a report of this scale and detail has been undertaken, and working in partnership with creative experts is a significant step to achieving a city region-wide strategy which will invest and enhance all aspects of our music sector.
"Working with Steve will ensure this infiltrates across Merseyside and together we can build on the incredible legacy already in place to ensure Liverpool, and the wider region, remains a key player in the music industry – nationally and internationally."
City Region Metro Mayor Steve Rotheram said: "We are generally very good at celebrating our musical heritage, but this is about recognising and exploiting the full potential of an important and flourishing economic sector. The city region continues to develop outstanding and innovative musical talent, but we have to develop the infrastructure that enables us to support our musicians, develop the sector and exploit its appeal to global visitors.
"It's another area where we can grow our economy and build our international reputation by focusing on something where we have a unique and exceptional offer."
UK Music chief executive Michael Dugher said: "UK Music welcomes this report and the positive determination of Mayor Joe Anderson and Liverpool City Council to support the local music scene which brings so much enjoyment to so many people from the city and indeed from across the world, and one which makes a significant contribution to the Liverpool economy.
"Liverpool truly is a world music city and the findings of this report will help inform an important ongoing discussion about how the music industry in Liverpool and the wider City Region can best be protected, supported and strengthened in the future."
Read the full article over on GIT site HERE
Tagged Bido Lito, Get Into This, Liverpool Music, LJMU, UK Music


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Philippa Robinson elected to OMNI Board
Philippa Robinson has joined the OMNI Board. She was officially voted to the position by the OMNI membership at the network's annual conference in Seville in April.
Philippa, and her brother Anthony, are the fourth generation to run the family business Robinsons Relocation in the UK. The company was started in 1895 by her great grandfather in Manchester and grew quickly both generically and through acquisition. In her youth she wasn't particularly interested in joining the business however, while in her gap year between school and university, she decided to pay for herself to attend FIDI in Athens and OMNI in Corfu, and this experience opened her eyes to the moving industry. "I thought, it's crazy, how can you all be competitors and yet such good friends?" she said.
After completing her degree in geography she went travelling in Africa before doing a ski season in France. Her father, Peter, had suggested she should look up Tom Ansley at Elliott while she was there. Whilst talking to Tom, he invited her to train with his company and after her ski season, Philippa took up Tom's offer. A year in South Africa at Elliotts and Philippa was hooked. "I really loved the business but wanted to be back in the UK," she said.
Robinsons had recently bought Cantay and acquired some major corporate clients, so Philippa joined the family firm in Birmingham as a corporate move manager. A couple of years later, she moved to Robinsons Abingdon office where she spearheaded the merging of the group's corporate departments and the shift into a one point of contact move management-driven approach. "When making decisions we always had a very practical approach," she said. "We just asked whether what we were doing was right for the business."
Robinsons was one of the founding members of OMNI and by joining the Board Philippa is following in her father's footsteps. "We always had very close relationships with OMNI companies and when the request for me to join the Board came through I felt it was right for me," Philippa explained. "It's not for my personal self-esteem or my company, it's just my time to step up a gear and take on some responsibility in the industry. OMNI provides something unique. It gives business owners some time together to share ideas with people who understand, treat each other with respect and are discreet. That's the real benefit of OMNI for me."
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Are we our own worst enemies? Part 1 of a series on ageism in the workplace.
Add to such negative stereotypes the mistaken perception that people working into their 60s and early 70s are taking jobs from younger workers. Although arecent Pew study soundly debunked that, as does Kevin Cahill, a research economist at the Sloan Center, the belief is pervasive. Cahill says although people are retiring later, the idea that older workers need to move out of the way for younger workers is a misperception. "The argument breaks down pretty rapidly if you look beyond individual firms and over time," he says.
But prejudice of any type, of course, isn't based on fact, and much of the age bias we see in hiring is unconscious, says Jacquelyn James. That's due, at least in part, to the fact that ageism is the least studied or examined form of discrimination. A recent paper on ageism from psychologist Susan Fiske and Michael North at Princeton University, called ageism "the most socially condoned" form of prejudice. And it has intensified. By the time people reach their mid-60s, two out of three have retired, either voluntarily or because they weren't able to keep or find a job, according to research from Gary Burtless, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. By age 75, nine out of ten are out of the workforce.
Among the long-term unemployed, the situation is most severe for those over 55, who face the longest period of unemployment. Carl Van Horn, director of the John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers University, says although the number fluctuates, at least two million people over age 55 have been out of work more than six months and at least half of those for more than a year.
See also: How Can I Compete With People Younger Than My Kids?
Because ageism is often unconscious it's tough to disarm. With any bias, the key to mitigation is awareness, says James. Fact is, people generally don't think of themselves as biased. In order to fight the stereotypes—say, that older workers don't embrace new technology—James advises job candidates be explicit with interviewers that they are eager to learn, and have history of learning and embracing new technology.
With the right strategies, job seekers can combat age-related stereotypes rather than buying into them, says James, and take steps to adapt to the changing culture of the workplace.
It may also help to simply swim in the same water as those under 40. On Facebook, impressions of older people among those in their 20s are very negative, according to a new study, "Facebook as a Site for Negative Age Stereotypes," authored by Becca Levy, director of the Division of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Yale School of Public Health, as well as researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, Hunter College and the Hopkins School. Levy's research, which was published online in the journal The Gerentologist, found negative stereotypes of older people were rampant. "One of the conclusions we had from the research was that social networking could be a way to break down intergenerational barriers and a great resource for older adults," she says, making connections that could help with their job search and illustrating publicly that they are comfortable with technology younger people use.
Nicole Williams, LinkedIn's career expert, says midlife job seekers often think they need to look younger, when what they really need is to look relevant. "Get your hair cut so the style is modern, wear something that makes you feel confident. You want to convey vibrancy, passion and energy," she says. That goes for the photo on your LinkedIn profile too.
Remember that behind every job description lies a problem. As a candidate your questions should come early—rather than at the end of the interview as is traditional—to unearth the problems a company is trying to overcome. "Too often older candidates are preoccupied with trying to sell themselves, rather than trying to understand the issues facing the company," says Palubiak. By offering ways you can contribute, you become a problem solver, she says, and that's when age doesn't matter.


Sales of all properties in the Greater Vancouver Area reached 24,619 in 2018, a 31.6% decrease from the 35,993 sales recorded in 2017, and a 38.4% decrease compared to the 39,943 residential sales in 2016.
2018's sales total were -25% below the region's 10-year sales average.
December saw a 46.8% decrease in sales volume compared to December 2017.
What's more, December 2018 sales were 43.3% below the 10 Year Average.
December also saw a 33.3% decrease in sales volume over the previous month, November.
Sales of detached properties in December 2018 reached 34, a -8.1% decrease from December 2017. The benchmark price for detached properties is $3,135,400. This represents an -11.8% decrease from December 2017.
Sales of Townhomes in December 2018 reached 16, a 27.3% decrease from December 2017. The benchmark price for Townhome is $1,236,500. This represents an 0.5% decrease from December 2017.
Sales of Condos in December 2018 reached 139, a 44.6% decrease from December 2017. The benchmark price for condo properties is $783,700. This represents a 2.9% decease from December 2017.


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Week in Review 03/27 – 4/02
1 Comment / Movies / By Jeannette
This was an interesting week of oldie but goodie type of movies. I watched so much this past week–some things which aren't in this post–I cannot believe I had time to get anything else accomplished! This post includes The Green Hornet, Mr Mom, Kingpin, Tootsie, and Speed. (Half of these were my son's picks! I love watching movies with him. He has a great laugh and we are often in sync with our reactions.)
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Written by Seth Rogen & Evan Goldberg and directed by Michel Gondry. Britt Reid, a spoiled rich lazy adult, teams up with his father's assistant, Kato, after his father–owner of a large newspaper– dies from an apparent bee sting. Kato not only makes the best coffee Britt has ever tasted but he also is a genius car mechanic and engineer and street fighter, too. Britt and Kato go out in disguise to deface the statue of his late father, only to "save" a couple from some thugs which inspire them to use their disguises and souped up car to fight crime. What they don't know is, the big crime boss and the local DA were in cahoots with Britt's dad and the newspaper to keep the city in order. Britt becomes The Green Hornet and Kato his sidekick (who does 90% of the work) and they enlist the beautiful Lenore as Britt's secretary to give them ideas about crime fighting and reporting it in the newspaper. There's a lot going on here. What's important to note: Britt, played by Seth Rogen, is the perfect whiny spoiled rich guy who doesn't know how to do anything himself, takes credit from those who do, and also emerges –after a solid character arc–as a new and improved human being. Kato, played by Jay Chou, is solid as Kato– a bit stereotyped with the accent– but still solid as the true hero doing all the mechanics, fighting, and essentially the thinking. Lenore, played by Cameron Diaz, is tough, smart, and unimpressed by either of them which is important as she remains out of the loop–somehow–until the end. The villian Chudnofsky, played by Christoph Waltz, is the crime kingpin who doesn't seem to be scary until he is–which is often because he's not like the usual crime boss–he does the killing himself. Anyway, all things work out.
The cool things about The Green Hornet are the cars, the fight scenes, and Chudnofsky's mundane sounding diatribes. The cars are so amazing! They have car doors which are really machine guns when opened, the mass amounts of weapons, the bullet proof glass, and green glow. The fight scenes are well choreographed with some cringy kills perfect for this type of film. Chudnofsky delivers is speeches right before he kills with such emotional detachment as if he is giving boring instructions which adds depth to his "to be feared" quotient. Overall, I thought this movie was super fun to watch, everyone was perfect in their roles, and even though some of the plot points were a bit thin, it was still a viable story. I watched on dvd. Watch the trailer below:
Written by John Hughes and directed by Stan Dragoti. This story follows the Butler family as Jack adjusts to be a stay at home dad while his wife Caroline enters the workforce. This movie has so many great moments, it isn't uncommon to hear someone in my house quote it from time to time. A gem! Jack, played by Michael Keaton, gets fired from his car assembly job. He struggles with his ego as well as his ability to learn how to be a stay at home dad. (South to drop off, north to pick up.) He learns quickly how tiring and challenging it is to raise young kids. Caroline, played by Teri Garr, is Jack's wife who tries to fit in at her new job in marketing selling tuna campaigns while staving off advances from her boss Ron, played by Martin Mull. Meanwhile, Jack makes friends with Caroline's girlfriends–playing coupon poker, going out, and fielding home repairmen. As Caroline moves up in her job, Jack loses his foothold at home and just as he's about to make a grave mistake, he comes to and makes the change within himself to set things right. (He gets himself mentally back in charge.) Full of comedic moments and some super sweet ones. These child actors are perfection!!!
Quintessential John Hughes, complete with 80s score reminding you of an after school special or movie of the week, dialogue and situations they just don't write anymore. I miss those days… Anyhoo, we watched on dvd but you can see on Amazon Prime 🙂 Watch the trailer below:
Written by Barry Fanaro & Mort Nathan. Directed by Bobby Farrelly & Peter Farrelly. So, a kid is raised to be some crazy amazing bowler–who also isn't very street smart–and gets into a situation by a mentor which changes his career trajectory in a major way. Later, he finds a similar bowler, takes him under his wing, and they set off to win the championship worth $1 million. A bunch of wacky events occur, a lot of innuendo, a couple of the MOST amazing comb-over hairstyles, and a lot of bowling. A Farrelly brothers film, which should explain all you need to know about the level of humor and where it's derived from. This film is funny, to be sure. The match up of Woody Harrelson as the has been bowler Roy Munson, Randy Quaid as the Amish up and comer bowler Ishmael, and Bill Murray as Roy's bowling nemesis Ernie McCracken is perfection. Of course the token female hottie, Vanessa Angel as Claudia, adds to the story to a degree but the best parts are really between the three bowlers. There are some cringe worthy scenes–sex with the landlady, the hand in the ball return–but all in all, it's silly romp comedy centered around the riveting world of professional bowling. On Netflix. Watch the trailer below:
Writing led by Larry Gelbart & Murray Schisgal and directed by Sydney Pollack. An actor struggles to find work in New York, so he poses a woman and gets a gig on a popular soap opera only to fall in love with a co-star while the world falls in love with him/her. Dustin Hoffman plays Michael Dorsey, the actor / acting coach who can't get work due to being difficult to work with. as well as his female alter ego, Dorothy Michaels, who tough cookie persona lands her a job on a popular soap. Jessica Lange plays Julie, Dorothy's co-star, and Micheal's crush. A sweet subplot as we see Micheal fall in love with Julie through the developing friendship between Julie and Dorothy. Teri Garr plays Sandy, a semi-neurotic actress and friend of Michael's who accidentally becomes Michael's girlfriend due to him keeping his alter ego a secret. Bill Murray plays Jeff, Michael's roommate and quasi-therapist trying to keep everything straight. Dabney Coleman plays Ron, the director of the soap and sexist boyfriend to Julie to whom Dorothy confronts on a regular basis. And sweet Charles Durning who plays Julie's father Les who has fallen in love with Dorothy.
Dustin Hoffman really pulls this character arc off with perfection. He is clearly Micheal and conversely Dorothy. Both fully realized characters and manages to come full circle when the reality sets in and he needs to come clean. The reveal scene is a masterpiece monologue which could only occur on a soap opera. Jessica Lange, amazing as usual, received an Oscar for supporting actress for this role. Dorothy Michaels was ahead of her time in the sexism, misogyny, and inequality in the workplace theme. She stood up for what was right and she rallied a lot of women to do the same. This film came out in 1982, people. It's 2020 and we're still working on this? Anyhoo, everyone is fantastic and beloved in this film. A total classic. My teenage son even liked it! Available on Netflix. Watch the trailer below:
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Written by Graham Yost. Directed by Jan de Bont. This action adventure follows LAPD officer Jack Traven trying to save the 13 lives aboard a city bus when it's discovered a bomb has been planted underneath it by his nemesis. Keanu Reeves plays Jack Traven, a bomb expert, who thinks the bomber Howard Payne, played by Dennis Hopper, was killed after he and his partner Harry, played by Jeff Daniels, saved the hostages from a rigged elevator. Huh? Okay, Harry and Jack save a bunch of people from an elevator rigged with a bomb placed by Howard. Howard is mad, makes it look like he gets exploded but then comes back with a new plan to bomb public buses until the city agrees to pay him $3 million. The catch is no one can get off the bus and the bus has to stay above 50 miles an hour or it will explode. Jack manages to get on board the bus–while on the freeway–and after some chaos–the bus driver becomes unable to drive–Annie, played by Sandra Bullock, steps in or slides over to drive the bus.
This movie is fun for the sheer illogical premise of a bomb rigged bus full of passengers maintaining a speed of 50 miles an hour or greater through the metro area of Los Angeles. Having lived there, I can attest to the traffic it had to deal with as well as the 105 freeway which had not yet been completed. Keanu is so good as the tough talking invincible character Jack who keeps everyone basically together and who manages quite a bit of small talk/flirting with Sandra Bullock's Annie who is smiling as if this is all bs until it isn't and then is appropriately sobered up to the reality. One of the greatest stunts is the bus jumping the gap. A HUGE amount of suspension of belief is required here, I mean, there are lots of moments which need this, but this scene in particular, yes. A fun throwback action film as well as see our favorites when they were young and fresh in their careers. Available on Amazon. Watch the trailer below:
What an action-packed week! If you like these, let me know in the comments!
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Privacy Best Practices Guide
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What are lean data practices and how can you adopt it for compliance? How do you handle user data deletion requests at an exobyte scale? How can you anonymize PII while also sharing data with third party tools and services? What data governance strategies do the best organizations in India follow?
The Privacy Mode Best Practices Guide is a compendium of answers to these, and other questions around privacy and data security. Compiled from talks, interviews, focus group discussions, the BPG guide is a practitioner's view of implementing better privacy from the design stage, and ensuring compliance with national and international laws.
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Best Practices Guide: GDPR Compliance at Intuit
Name of Organization: Intuit #
Domain: Financial Software Company #
Talk by Kalusivalingam Thirugnanam #
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Intuit uses important financial information about their customers which requires them to be compliant with GDPR and CCPA. In practice, this requires them to enable their customers to access their information as well as request deletion of their information.
To comply with these requirements, Intuit built a system with four components - the request manager, the queue or topic, data managers, and the central document management platform. For access requests, information is archived and provided to the customer through the central document management platform. Deletion requests go from data managers to their individual services.
Competing compliance requirements, distributed status tracking, scaling requests, organising content, and receivable offline processing were the key challenges that Intuit solved for.
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GDPR: General Data Protection Regulation
CCPA: California Consumer Privacy Act
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Intuit is a software company in the financial domain, and their products include TurboTax (tax automation software), QuickBooks (accounting automation software), and Mint (personal finance management software). In all of these products, Intuit uses key financial information about their customers from across the world. Hence, they are required to comply with GDPR and CCPA to protect their customers' data.
In order to comply with the regulations, Intuit has to enable their customers with:
The right to access information - Enable customers to be able to know what Intuit knows about them. This information is made in a simple archive in an easily consumable form. This is done in a time bound manner.
The right to request deletion of information - Customers can request to delete all the parcels of their information. The customer can also selectively choose what information they want to delete.
There are four components in the approach that Intuit has used to solve this problem. The first component is the request manager. This manages the requests that come from customers to either access or delete their information.
When the request manager receives this request, it employs a queue or a topic where the information is published. This is the second component.
The queue or topic then goes to the third component which are the data managers. There are many domains within personal finance products such as QuickBooks that handle the data of customers. These individual domains keep a data manager to carry out requests such as these. So, there are multiple data managers involved in this flow.
The data manager for individual domains collect the data and publish it to the central document management platform, which is the final component. Here, the information is archived and sent back to the customer in the case of an access request.
In the case of a delete request, the same flow happens from the request manager to the data managers. The data managers in turn connect with their individual services for which they are responsible and perform the delete operations.
The following are the top five challenges that Intuit went through and their solutions:
Competing compliance regulations for information access and deletion - They keep each data element and the document with an attribute that can let them know whether the data is required to be kept for another compliance or not. For example, when a CCPA request comes in, the QuickBooks capital offering would request to delete that information. Before they delete the data, it is made sure whether there is any other compliance for which this data is to be used. If so, the data is kept till the compliance requires it.
Distributed status tracking - They built an infrastructure where they can keep track of the status to fulfil the complete request for a customer.
Scaling for the requests provided with message bus and message queues - Intuit tunes their system in a way that they compute the consumers' processing speed and the amount of messages that individual brokers can bring in, so that they equally distribute messages to all the consumers to effectively process their request. Apache ActiveMQ is leveraged to process this work order request.
Organising content from different data managers - They organise the contents in folders and sub folders and within the folders they also provide a ReadMe file. This ReadMe file provides the structure of the content in individual files, and explains how this data can be understood.
Receivable offline processing - The status tracking mechanisms were extended to the data managers, services, as well as the output records that the services brought in. This enables them to track whether or not each individual's file has been successfully archived. In case they run into problems and have to restart, they start from the place where they left instead of from the beginning.
Tech stack/Tech solutions:
Apache ActiveMQ


UEFA President Michel Platini has highlighted the measures that referees are allowed to take in the event of racist incidents at UEFA matches – including the empowerment to stop a game definitively.
Speaking on French radio station RTL, Mr Platini also welcomed AC Milan and Ghana midfielder Kevin-Prince Boateng's move to leave the field of play as a result of racist conduct by opposing supporters during a friendly match earlier this month. Boateng was followed by his Milan team-mates and the game was abandoned.
"We have put rules in place with the referees in the UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League," Mr Platini explained. UEFA was the first football body to provide match officials with guidelines on what steps to take in the event of racist abuse during games. In July 2009, the UEFA Executive Committee approved guidelines for match officials to deal with racist incidents in stadiums, which gave referees the power to abandon games in serious cases.
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As a third and final step, if the racist behaviour persists, the referee will definitively abandon the match.


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I have received a number of inquiries from friends and readers recently regarding Unified Patents and whether their model of attacking patents would be welcome in China. I do not represent Unified Patents or any party that has been attacked by Unified, but I do have some thoughts on this issue.
Unified Patents is a relatively new form of patent troll that works as a "Troll of Trolls" or "ToT." They file IPRs (inter-partes reexamination requests) to kill patents. While they purport to only attack "bad patents," their definition of a "bad patent" is simply any patent asserted against their clients. So who are their clients? Good question – that is a large part of the problem. They keep most of their clients' identities secret. Unified does identify a handful of their members on their website such as Adobe, Google, NetApp, Roku, and Salesforce.
However, in litigation before the PTAB Unified has (so far successfully) claimed that its member list is a trade secret and should not be disclosed, even in IPR proceedings and even to the owner of the patent Unified is seeking to invalidate. The only persons allowed to see the member list in the Dragon IP LLC Case before the PTAB were experts not employed by the patent owner. It seems remarkably unfair for a patent owner to not even know who is the funding source behind an effort to kill their patents that they rightfully obtained. But that is the state of the US patent system right now.
So while no one knows the list of members, it is likely to include many of Silicon Valley's largest companies. How is this different from what Kingston has asserted Samsung and WiLAN are doing in the US? Good question. Kingston's main assertion appears to be that NPEs can provide "shade" for Samsung's patent attacks against Kingston. While my understanding is that the assertions underlying Kingston's complaint is nonsense, Unified Patents is, in fact, working for secret clients to attack patents held by competitors and litigation opponents.
Why do these companies not want to file IPRs on their own? Another good question, and another problem. Among other reasons, Unified Patents' clients do not want to be seen as killing innovation via attacking patents. Rather, they pay Unified Patents to do their dirty work. Plus, if Google files an IPR on a particular patent and is unsuccessful (unlikely given the PTAB's "death squad for patents" label) then it would look bad for Google (notwithstanding the Federal Circuit's ruling in Shaw Industries) to again challenge the patent in litigation. Unlike an administrative PTAB judge who likely will eventually go back to private practice (to represent the large companies filing the IPRs), a jury would see that "a second bite at the apple" is unfair. That is why Unified Patents' clients are so scared of juries.
In short, Unified Patents makes money by attacking innovation. Unified would say it is trying to defeat the so-called "patent trolls" (see the pitch on their website). But even when true "trolls" – which I define as parties that filed suspect lawsuits seeking damage amounts far less than litigation costs – existed, at least they were on the side of innovators. The troll entities may have been problematic, but they were representing inventors. The original "patent troll" definition was non-practicing entities, or NPEs. Unified and their supporters would say that any company that does not produce any actual product should not be involved in the patent system. But this is exactly what Unified does!
Unified Patents is an NPE. It creates nothing and produces no hard product. Worse yet, it is on the wrong side of innovation. When Unified Patents kills patents in the name of the biggest of the big corporations, they are siding against innovation. This makes them worse than the patent trolls ever were. Thus, the term Troll of Trolls or ToT. For those who are upset by this, recall that when Kyle Bass attacked pharma patents to lower costs of prescription drugs, he was maligned as a troll. But Bass was targeting large companies that have on their side billions of dollars and significant market leverage. The reason so many large tech companies are anti-patent is that they simply do not need patents since they can squash small inventors with their cash reserves and cross-license with other tech behemoths.
As you can tell, I am not a fan of what Unified Patents is doing: killing innovation on behalf of huge companies and allowing such companies to remain anonymous. The U.S. has been killing patent rights for the last ten years, and Unified Patents' existence is merely symbolic of the stance that our government has taken: for them, BigCo pays better than small inventors.
But China is different. Here, a mercenary third party attacking innovation via patents is problematic. China, unlike America, has made innovation a top priority. China's government has also, over the last few years, created the best patent enforcement environment in the world. Unlike the U.S., that makes decisions based on the next fiscal quarter, the Chinese government plays a long game. They make plans of 5, 10, and 25 years. For instance, while China's economic growth has "slowed" (the quotation marks are because the United States would be euphoric with half of China's 6.5% growth), this is because such a lull is a natural consequence of a shift from a manufacturing-based to an innovation- and consumer-based economy.
Because China thinks long-term, its government will be very unlikely to accept attacks on patents by proxy – especially by a foreign company such as Unified. First, patents are essential to China's growth as a technology powerhouse. Chinese companies are no longer the copycat wannabes of yesteryear. They are leading the world in many areas of technology. Not only are they now directly competing with foreign companies, they are beating their foreign competitors. Huawei, ZTE, Alibaba, Baidu, Tencent, Xiaomi, Oppo, Vivo, Haier, and many others are not just more more efficient, they are better. These new hometown heroes need patent protection, as do the next generation of Chinese innovators yet to be created. The Chinese government is not going to be happy if a foreign Troll of Trolls comes in to kill patents on behalf of American companies.
I can hear you thinking, "But what about NPEs in China?" Well, for one thing, NPEs are absolutely necessary to China's continued tech growth and dominance (see my additional articles describing this here and here). China's government and courts are not likely to take kindly to any action by a foreign ToT, at least regarding NPEs that are doing the right thing and are acting as a Friend of China. Additionally, the large Chinese tech companies in China are already working with the "evil" NPEs that Unified Patents and its clients want to destroy in several ways. Further, although there are no major Chinese-owned NPEs at present, that will change within the next year.
Most important, though, is the very nature of the Unified Patents Model. The Chinese Anti-Monopoly Law and China's Anti-Monopoly Agencies forbid unfair manipulation of markets via misuse of patents. Unified Patents' refusal to name its clients and funding while attacking patents would likely be considered to be prima facie unreasonable. If Unified Patents were to file a validity challenge in China, it would probably be required to turn over its client list to the court (and possibly to the anti-monopoly agencies) and these clients would quickly become public. In fact, Unified would probably be required to inform the court for which party or parties it is acting. If Unified tried to be cute and say no one, the court could assume that it was acting for all of its clients. Then not only would Unified Patents itself be ripe for an antitrust and potential criminal investigation, but so would its then-public clients.
My guess is that clients of Unified Patents would not be interested in taking a risk of getting on the wrong side of the Chinese government (and possibly going to prison). While certainly none of these consequences are guaranteed, they are a plausible risk.
In the end, Unified Patents would probably fail miserably in China. If they – or other ToTs do engage the Chinese market, it will be interesting to see their executives (and possibly executives of their clients) threatened with prison. I'm always a fan of a little schadenfreude, so I hope they come on over. China is waiting.
The ideas and opinions expressed in this article are my own as of the time of posting, have not been vetted with my firm or its clients, and do not necessarily represent the positions of the firm, its lawyers, or any of its clients.
Erick Robinson is Director of Patent Litigation at a top Chinese firm, Beijing East IP Ltd. Before his current role, he served as Chief Patent Counsel in Beijing for an international law and consulting firm. Previously he was Director for Patents for Qualcomm in Asia, as well as a trial lawyer for top US law firms Weil Gotshal and McKool Smith. Based in Beijing he manages patent litigation, licensing, and prosecution for Chinese and foreign companies. He also has experience in antitrust, unfair competition, and governmental affairs issues in China. As a US patent attorney and trial lawyer working in China, Erick provides insight and strategy for companies to achieve success in China and the US. He is also the author of the ChinaPatentBlog.com, a resource on Chinese patent litigation. He can be contacted at Erick.Robinson@BeijingEastIP.com.
In Europe, at the EPO, opposition by a strawman is explicitly allowed (G4/97).
You write: "In short, Unified Patents makes money by attacking innovation". But UP makes money by attacking patents. If they are succesful, it didn't describe an innovation. If they fail, they wasted a lot of money.
Of course, an incorrectly revoked patent is as bad for innovation as an incorrectly granted one. But it's the government organization making the wrong decision that is to blame there.
UP has a right (and to it's clients an obligation) to attack patents. Just like a 'normal' NPE has the right to sue patent infringers. It only becomes trolling when they threaten to attack a perfectly valid patent with the intention to settle for an amount of money smaller than the expected litigation costs. For what I'm aware of, that's not what UP does.
1. I never said what UP does is not technically allowed. As in the US and EU, third parties can challenge patents. My point is that China and its government place more emphasis on innovation and invention than protecting large companies than does the US these days.
2. The idea that a successful IPR at the "Patent Death Panel" means the patent was guaranteed to be bad is as silly as saying any patents that brought about litigation settlements were guaranteed to be good. The problem is with the IPR process and UP's abuse, much like typical trolls operated in the mid-2000s.
3. In effect, UP is. It spending its own money. It is spending its clients' money. Worse, it hides its clients from the public, including the owner of the patent it is trying to kill. That will not fly in China.
I'll push back here. According to Unified Patents any patent owner who enforces a patent is a patent troll regardless of whether the patent is good, bad or ugly. They characterize independent inventors, universities, R&D companies, everyone as an NPE and then define NPEs as patent trolls. So if every patent owner who seeks to enforce a patent through licensing or litigation is a troll, then what Unified Patents is doing would seem to properly be characterized as its own form of trolling using their own standard… at least in my opinion.
When did China get IPRs? Sounds like they ripped off the AIA's greatest innovation in troll fighting…and apparently added government threats of prison! What a great foundation for the next generation of IP and innovation policy!
All kidding aside, if there are no IPRs, then a "Troll of Trolls" model would be moot in that jurisdiction. Innovators need to fix our system, not pack up and head for China.
Thank you for an accurate assessment of what is happening here in China, Eric. The rise of China's IP system and the momentum behind its rush to innovate will catch many in the West completely off guard as the fruits of China's long-term vision grow. The rapid decline of IP in the West is a reason why some innovators and financial backers of innovation in the US are calling it quits and looking to other nations to have a fighting chance. There is hope for change in the US, but it will take persistent grassroots efforts and a long time as gargantuan companies get their way in Washington. Sadly, Trump shows no interest in fixing the patent system and seems unaware of how severe the problem is. When it comes to IP, now it's time for the US to learn from China, not the other way around. Ironic but not inaccurate.
I'm not advocating that anyone be sent to prison and honestly doubt it would happen. But when GSK and IDC got on the wrong side of the patent world in China, bad things happened. This is more advice.
Further, this is China They get to make the rules they want to protect their people and industry as they see fit. I have not been asked to opine nor will I. I am a guest of this great nation.
To assert that the PTAB is the only problem and not the ToTs such as UP is as silly as saying that the patent system in the mid-2000s was the only problem and the trolls (who would settle for far less than litigation costs) were blameless. Abuse is abuse.
As for the SME argument, there is no possibility that NPEs or anyone else suing small companies for pocket change in china will be successful. In most ways, the Chinese system makes a lot more sense than the US system. It is based largely on the German system but with a healthy dose of common sense thrown in. There is uncertainty as within any legal system. But some things are clear, and one is that ToTs killing patents on behalf of unknown large companies would not fly. That's the point of my article.
This is a great follow-up article and it should be noted that the "follow-up" is in relation to an exchange between Mr. Quinn and one Shawn Ambwani.
Mr. Ambwani provided his perspective in the comment section of a recent thread, and I could not help but notice that his perspective appeared to be a "professional" one aligned with the mission of Unified Patents.
I also could not help but notice that this mission goes against one of the original core beliefs that our founding fathers had in relation to patents: the property aspect of full alienability of a granted patent.
The ability to be solely (or even merely mainly) an innovator and NOT an innovator and the one who put that innovation into the market with goods that reflect the innovation is a critical pillar of the US patent system.
Quite the opposite should be our diligent aim – to make sure that the full alienability aspect of the property of a granted patent is maintained.
1. I never said you said that.
2. Blame the PTAB (based on facts and arguments, not mere assertions), not the companies who use the PTAB for what it was designed for.
3. It is up to UP and their clients whether they want to waste money and whose money they want to waste. A patent (rightfully) restricts the rights of everyone except the patent proprietor himself. Why should then not everyone be allowed to challenge its validity? All companies invest money without wanting the whole world to know what they are investing their money in. Why shouldn't it be allowed to invest in a third party who wants to invalidate a patent?
I cannot speak for UP and am not going to defend or even confirm their definition of what a troll is. You appear to assume that I share an opinion that "every patent owner who seeks to enforce a patent through licensing or litigation is a troll", but in my original comment I say the opposite; An NPE is only a troll when it threatens with expensive lawsuits using clearly invalid and/or not infringed patents.
TL;DR – In my opinion, a good functioning patent system can have (and maybe even needs) NPEs that enforce valid patents as well as NPEs that invalidate invalid patents. Both types of NPEs should refrain from trolling PEs by threatening them into needless and expensive litigation. But do you have any examples in which Unified Patents has shown such behaviour?
It is a subtle twist – but a twist nonetheless to speak of "restricting rights of others" as if there was an actual right that infringers have.
Methinks that the kool-aid of "efficient infringement" stains thy lips.
@8 Before and after the patent, everyone has the right to use the patented technology. During its lifetime, they don't. Hence, the restriction.
Before the patent, this right to use the technology may sound somewhat hypothetical, but especially in the event of an invalid patent that right does exist.
When you consider the patent invalid and the restrictions it causes unjust, you can challenge it. If you want to use the technology before you have successfully challenged the patent, you can only do so on your own risk.
(b) What makes Chinese patent protection allegedly strong is the lack of IPRs–not the lack of ToTs–and certainly not an ability for a government to strong-arm and pierce the veil.
(c) Are we presuming that banning the "ToT" model would reduce patent deaths at the PTAB? Like 90% of asserted patents are thrown into IPR.
Doesn't this post lose sight of the real issues? Is IP Watchdog giving up on advocating to alter/eliminate IPRs?
"before" the patent, there is NO "the patented technology" FOR anyone to use.
The attempt to weasel with "in the event of an invalid patent" is thus rejected.
The notion of "when you consider" places an untoward – and legally nonsensical – "right" where one just does not exist. One can challenge anything, whether or not the item being challenged is valid. And it is merely a truism unrelated to any desired state of "right" that using a technology prior to a successful challenge is done so at one's own risk. The use of the truism is merely an attempt to lend some "credibility" to the first part of your response, and that too is rejected.
"restriction" simply does not fit for what you want it to fit. As I stated – this is a subtle but nonetheless real manipulation and it is one that seeks to avoid the actual state of law of a granted patent (the presumption of validity) with somehow placing on "equal footing" the mere possibility of an improvident grant – and the "right" of an infringer thereof – and the actual right – by law – that a patent creates.
Your spiel comes across as a script from the "efficient infringement" lobby.
I will have none of it, as I know better.
at 12. You appear to assume that the USPTO has never granted a claim for innovation which was public prior to filing the application. I can easily prove that assumption to be false.
Your characterization is patently false.
It simply is not a matter that improvident patents have been granted – and no one is arguing thusly.
Quite in fact, my response elucidates that such a charge is nothing but a smokescreen, and attempts to place on "equal footing" a non (legal) right and an expressly written legal right.
Love the article Erick and thanks for the warning. We will take it to heart! Unified Patents and I loved it so much that I shared it in LinkedIn to make sure as many people will take a look at it. Rest assured if we were ever to file in China it will be with the backing of many innovative Chinese companies.
American arrogance is the root of much failure in China. If only it were true in the US.
Won't work. The Chinese simply don't give a damn re patents.


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Band Name Augury (CAN)
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Data de aparición 14 Septiembre 2004
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Cosmic Migration 05:56
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Alien Shores 04:13
In Russian Dolls Universes 04:40
Becoming God 04:00
The Lair of Purity 07:27
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Well after I saw them live a couple of weeks ago when they were one of the opening acts for Soilwork, I was so blown away by their performance that I just had to get their first album. Concealed was released all the way back in 2004. The long period of time in between album releases was probably because they weren't signed on to any label for a couple of years. Then they signed on to Nuclear Blast and released Fragmentary Evidence in early 2009. The lineup back then was pretty close to what it is now, obviously not exactly. I'll tell you, listening to this album was a very unique and interesting experience; I can't tell you if it was a positive or negative one, it was just nothing that I've ever experienced before while listening to music.
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My favorite song off the album is Beatus. It has also come to be one of my very favorite Augury songs. In the very technical and pretty intro, the lead guitarist is playing all of the notes just by pressing down on the strings with his hand that is on the neck of the guitar. His other hand is on the volume knob on the guitar turning it up and down to give it a really cool sound. Halfway through the intro, the other guitarist and eventually the bassist join in doing the exact same thing. The overall sound structure is very Avant Garde and unique. In Russian Dolls Universes is a very abstract song. Probably because in several parts of the song, the way that the female vocals are sung reminds me of how the choir from 2001: A Space Odyssey sounded. Augury's very experimental, futuristic sound will definitely be remembered for a long time, and will influence many bands in the future. Anyone who enjoyed reading my review on Fragmentary Evidence should go out and buy this album. Not only them, but anyone who is into progressive music, and enjoyed reading this review should go out and buy this album. This album gets 15/20.
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Other productions from Augury (CAN)
Illusive Golden Age
Fragmentary Evidence
Albums in Progressive Death
Persefone (AND)
Back to Where You've Never Been
Fallujah
The Great Misdirect
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Q: Animation options ambigious without more context I've created a hide function, which is hiding a specific view. however i keep getting following error: "Type of expression is ambiguous without more context". What kind of more context do i need to provide?
func hide(toFrame:CGRect, delay:NSTimeInterval) {

    UIView.animateWithDuration(animationSettings.duration,
        delay: delay,
        usingSpringWithDamping: animationSettings.damping,
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        options: (.BeginFromCurrentState | .AllowUserInteraction),
        animations:{
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        }, completion: {
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A: UIViewAnimationOptions is OptionSetType which is able to set syntax to define the options. Therefore, above codes need to be changed the options from (.BeginFromCurrentState | .AllowUserInteraction) to [.BeginFromCurrentState, .AllowUserInteraction].
UIView.animateWithDuration(animationSettings.duration,
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    usingSpringWithDamping: animationSettings.damping,
    initialSpringVelocity: animationSettings.velocity,
    options: [.BeginFromCurrentState, .AllowUserInteraction],
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        self.frame = self.offScreenFrame
    }, completion: {
        (value: Bool) in
        self.delegate!.didNotifyFinishedAnimation(true)
        self.canNotify = true
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The federal tax overhaul and stock market volatility help to explain some recent income tax revenue trends.
Income tax collections in December were short of expectations and prior year levels in New York, California and other states, Moody's Investors Service noted in a brief last week.
The trend is not entirely surprising and underscores the uncertainty state revenue forecasters face as taxpayer behavior changes in response to the 2017 federal tax overhaul, and recent stock market volatility potentially shakes up collections tied to capital gains.
"Revenue estimators will say, particularly with personal income tax, there's a lot of uncertainty around taxpayer behavior," he added.
States in December 2017 saw personal income tax revenues swell. The uptick has been widely attributed to high-income taxpayers making early payments so they could claim tax breaks that would be curtailed under the changes to federal tax law enacted that year.
So, in other words, because income tax revenues in December 2017 were unusually high, it makes sense that December 2018 collections would be lower by comparison.
At the same time, how the 2017 federal tax overhaul will affect state income tax revenues in the long run is still coming into focus.
In New York gross personal income tax collections were not only $2.8 billion less than a year earlier, according to the Moody's brief, but also $500 million shy of the state's revenue forecast. Total gross personal income tax revenues in New York through December were down about 1.6 percent for the same period during the prior year.
State income tax collections around December are generally seen as a barometer of how income tax receipts will stack up when they're totaled up in April, Moody's points out.
NASBO has said previously that in fiscal 2018 states funded on average nearly 46 percent of their budgets with income taxes.
California, Massachusetts and New Jersey were among the other states that reported lower than anticipated income tax collections in December, according to Moody's. In California, for instance, receipts for the month were down $4.7 billion from the prior year.
Hicks said that running up to December, personal income tax growth was generally strong across the country. "It's not to say that people aren't watching closely," he added.
A key factor affecting state income tax revenues in the December-January timeframe are what's known as "estimated payments," which are typically made by taxpayers with sizable income from sources other than wages—like stock market gains.
Moody's says January collections could make up for the slide in December income tax revenue in some states, but also highlighted that New York reduced its personal income tax forecast for its current budget cycle and future years.
Bill Lucia is a Senior Reporter for Route Fifty and is based in Washington, D.C.