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Surprise: AstraZeneca's $39B Alexion buy clears a newly vigilant FTC without a hitch
Just as pharma watchers were bracing themselves for the brunt of renewed antitrust scrutiny around large biopharma transactions, AstraZeneca's mega-acquisition of Alexion Pharma sailed through the much-dreaded review unscathed.
In an anticlimactic announcement Friday, AZ said the U.S. Federal Trade Commission has cleared the $39 billion deal first unveiled in December.
None of the extra antitrust hurdles that analysts had feared for the marriage actually happened. The FTC didn't attach any extra conditions to the deal. In fact, the go-ahead simply followed the 30-day waiting period triggered when the companies refiled their transaction for review on March 16.
Analysts had expected the deal to face tough resistance from the new Democrat-controlled FTC after the agency threatened more aggressive oversight in mid-March, revamping its approach to examining biopharma deals in particular.
As the largest biopharma M&A deal in 2020, the Alexion purchase was one obvious target the new agency could have used to sharpen its regulatory knife. AZ's almost concurrent announcement in March—that it had chosen to withdraw and refile the M&A notification form after "informal discussions" with the FTC—only added further uncertainty to the deal.
In a recent note that reflected the general view among pharma watchers, SVB Leerink analyst Geoffrey Porges predicted a high likelihood that FTC would either block the transaction or saddle it with "onerous conditions."
RELATED: FTC's crackdown on pharma mergers reflects 'tougher' M&A environment under Biden administration: lawyer
As the new FTC works with foreign counterparts and other U.S. agencies to iron out its newly vigilant approach, one likely scenario was that the AZ-Alexion review period would be extended with the notorious "second request," in which the agency asks for additional documents related to a transaction. That apparently didn't happen.
The Biden FTC is now pursuing a view that investigation of biopharma deals shouldn't focus solely on specific product overlap but more broadly on whether the involved companies' practices harm innovation. Previous anticompetitive conduct, such as pay-for-delay settlements, as well as drug-price hikes, could all come into consideration.
From a portfolio perspective, AstraZeneca and Alexion have no obvious overlap. Alexion is viewed as a rare disease expert, whereas AZ isn't involved in that arena. In fact, AZ ranked very low on analysts' lists of possible Alexion buyers before the deal was announced.
AZ is also buying Alexion for the latter's expertise in immunology. There, the two companies don't have products that compete against each other.
RELATED: The top 10 largest biopharma M&A deals in 2020 | 1. AstraZeneca/Alexion Pharmaceuticals
During the Trump administration, the FTC forced product selloffs in Mylan's merger with Pfizer's generic unit Upjohn, AbbVie's purchase of Allergan and Bristol Myers Squibb's acquisition of Celgene.
It also delayed Roche's takeover of Spark Therapeutics as regulators tried to determine whether Roche would sabotage development of a Spark hemophilia gene therapy to prevent competition with its own antibody drug Hemlibra.
Now, AZ and Alexion don't have to worry about any of that. The FTC's go-ahead follows clearances from other anticompetition regulators in Canada, Brazil, Russia and others, with the U.K., EU and Japan still pending, AZ said. The company still expects the deal to close in the third quarter.


The voice of crofter and poet D�mhnall McDonald of Daliburgh, South Uist, is among those captured in the archive. PIC: Glasgow University.
Their songs and stories speak of a different time.
Now an audio archive which documents the traditions of crofters, farm workers and fishermen - in English and Gaelic and some Scots - has opened up to the public for the first time.
More than 40 audio files are being published online by Glasgow University as it works to make traditional Gaelic speech more accessible to speakers and learners of the language.
The majority of recordings in the archive were gathered from residents of North and South Uist, Scalpay, Harris, Barra, Berneray and Benbecula by American storyteller Tracy Chipman during the 1990s and early 2000s.
The recordings tell of everyday life and customs in the Outer Hebrides and cover a vast range of topics from fishing terminology to traditional cures, fairy stories and premonitions.
Among the files include contributions of crofter, storyteller and poet Dòmhnall McDonald of Daliburgh, South Uist.
Archivists at Glasgow University are working to trace relatives of those who feature in the recordings, many who have since died.
Mary Ann Campbell, a great niece of Mr McDonald, said it was "lovely and moving" to hear his voice again.
She said; "He was always very welcoming and looked forward to his many visitors, they used to come from all over the world. He was a kind, softly spoken and modest man and never boasted about any of his work.
The recordings were made in English and Gaelic and will be fully transcribed or subtitled in due course.
In addition, nine of the recordings come from the newly launched Cluas ri Claisneachd Archive, recorded in Campbeltown in Argyll as well as Cape Breton Island.
These recordings were mostly made during the collection phase for the Historical Dictionary of Scottish Gaelic Project (HDSG) in the 1970s. It also includes other reel-to-reel tapes and cassettes donated to Celtic and Gaelic in the College of Arts.
The new audio archive has been created at the university as The Digital Archive of Scottish Gaelic, an online repository of digitised texts and lexical resources for the language, celebrates its 10th anniversary.
It also heralds a new direction for DASG of focusing more on the spoken word to include oral traditions of storytelling, folklore, songs and poetry.
At a symposium at the university to mark the 10th anniversary of the digital archive, it was announced that the family of renowned Gaelic Poet, Tormod MacLeòid/Norman MacLeod, known as Am Bàrd Bochd or The Poor Bard, has donated his life's work to the DASG archive.
The collection includes images, songs, tales and folklore collected in the Isle of Lewis by the bard.
Professor Rob Ó Maolalaigh, the University of Glasgow's Professor of Gaelic and the Director of DASG/ Ollamh na Gàidhlig, Oilthigh Ghlaschu, agus Stiùiriche DASG, said: "Our archive is a living memory connecting us directly through an oral history of storytelling and song to the traditional Gàidhealtachd of previous generations.
"It is a reminder where we have come from and celebrates an important part of Scotland's dùthchas and heritage. All three of Scotland's indigenous languages – English, Gaelic and Scots are contained within the archive.
Abi Lightbody, the senior audio archive and corpus assistant, said: "I am delighted to be able to share these wonderful audio files with the public.


Hi, I am new to this site. I am in trading forex for past 3years. I have lost most of time and still continuing to learn so that One day I would succeed in trading to earn decent and steady income.
I want to know if there is any EA which has a wining rate of 75-90%.
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Hi, there is an EA in the Forex Factory Thread ,under" ASH II". Go through the thread and read, and it will guide you to the correct usage and implemtation of the EA. It got me in one trade this morning profitable.
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It's a misconception that an EA needs to win so many trades simply to be successful. Generally these type of EAs tend to have an average loss size which is higher than the average win size and this can pull the profit factor of the system down. Unfortunately many of them rely solely upon Martingale methods and ignore all trading principles which can be a recipe for disaster.
A friend designs commercial systems for a fund manager to follow their strategies and rules. His view is that the better systems will probably only win around 40% of their trades, but they are successful simply because they cut losses quickly and run their profits.
Unfortunately there isn't a right or a wrong to this, but you do need to keep an open mind.
To understand more, you should perhaps read this article and this article.
Thanks for your replies, I am checking on those articles and also the system, they are quite informative.
Hi everyone. I'm using Megadroid on a demo account and it's working pretty well so far. I'm gonna keep you updated.
My Megadroid live account results are posted in the Trade Journal forum.


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Sir John Desmond Patrick Keegan, OBE (* 15. Mai 1934 in Clapham, London; † 2. August 2012 in Kilmington, Wiltshire), war ein britischer Militärhistoriker, populärer Militärschriftsteller und Journalist.

Leben
Keegan wurde in Clapham als Sohn einer irisch-katholischen Familie geboren; sein Vater war Weltkriegsveteran. Er besuchte das King's College Taunton und das jesuitische Wimbledon College in London. 1949 erkrankte er erstmals an Tuberkulose. 1953 wurde er zum Geschichtsstudium am Balliol College der University of Oxford (M.A.) zugelassen. Zu seinen Lehrern gehörten u. a. Richard Southern und Christopher Hill, ein marxistischer Historiker. Anschließend arbeitete er zwei Jahre für die US-amerikanische Botschaft in London.

1960 wurde er Lecturer an der Royal Military Academy Sandhurst und lehrte dort, zuletzt als Senior Lecturer, für 25 Jahre Militärgeschichte. Er war u. a. Visiting Professor an der Princeton University (1984) in New Jersey und Delmas Distinguished Professor of History am Vassar College (1996–1998) in New York. 1986/87 hielt er die Lees Knowles Lectures an der University of Cambridge.

1986 wurde er Redakteur des Daily Telegraph, zuletzt war er Defense Editor. Außerdem veröffentlichte er u. a. in The New Republic und U.S. News & World Report. 1998 schrieb und präsentierte er die BBC-Reihe War and Our World.

Von 1991 bis 1997 war er Direktor des E. Somerset NHS Trust.

Wie andere Historiker war auch Keegan an der Kontroverse um den Geschichtsrevisionisten und späteren Holocaustleugner David Irving beteiligt. Er hielt das Werk Hitler's War von Irving teilweise für wertvoll, aber ihm missfiel die Amoralität von Irving. Dass Irving behauptete, Hitler habe erst im Oktober 1943 von der Judenvernichtung erfahren, hielt Keegan für pervers.

1995 wurde in Deutschland die Studie Die Kultur des Krieges (1993 in London als A history of warfare) veröffentlicht. In dieser setzte er sich besonderes kritisch mit Clausewitz auseinander und verstand ihn als Wegbereiter des "Totalen Krieges". Politikwissenschaftler und Militärhistoriker wie die Clausewitz-Forscher Michael Howard und Christopher Bassford kritisierten diese Interpretation scharf. Beatrice Heuser sprach in diesem Zusammenhang von einer altbekannten "Clausewitz-Diffamierung".

Er war verheiratet und Vater von vier Kindern.

Auszeichnungen

Preise
 1993: Duff Cooper Prize
 1996: Samuel Eliot Morison Prize, Society for Military History
 1999: Duke of Westminster's Medal for Military Literature, Royal United Services Institute

Orden und Ehrenzeichen
 1991: Officer, Order of the British Empire (OBE)
 2000: Knight Bachelor

Ehrendoktorwürden
 1997: LLD (hon.) University of New Brunswick
 2002: D.Litt (hon.) University of Bath

Mitgliedschaften
 1986: Fellow, Royal Society of Literature (FRSL)
 Fellow, Royal Historical Society (FRHistS)

Werke (Auswahl)
 The Face of Battle: A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo and the Somme. London 1976, ISBN 0-670-30432-8.
 auf Deutsch: Das Antlitz des Krieges. Düsseldorf 1978, ISBN 3-593-34513-7.
 Six Armies in Normandy. 1982, ISBN 0-14-005293-3.
 The Mask of Command. London 1987, ISBN 0-7126-6526-9.
 auf Deutsch: Die Maske des Feldherrn: Alexander der Große, Wellington, Grant, Hitler. Aus dem Engl. von Bernd Rullkötter. Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-88679-283-8.
 The Price of Admiralty. 1988, ISBN 0-09-173771-0.
 The Second World War. Viking Press, 1990, ISBN 0-670-82359-7.
 auf Deutsch: Der Zweite Weltkrieg. Rastatt 1992, ISBN 3-499-61914-8.
 A History of Warfare. London, 1993, ISBN 0-679-73082-6.
 auf Deutsch: Die Kultur des Krieges, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-87134-226-2.
 Warpaths: Travels of a Military Historian in North America. Hodder and Stoughton, London 1995, ISBN 0-340-58655-9.
 The Battle for History: Refighting World War Two. Vintage, 1996, ISBN 0-679-76743-6.
 Fields of Battle: The Wars for North America. 1997, ISBN 0-679-74664-1.
 War and Our World: The Reith Lectures 1998. Pimlico, London 1999, ISBN 0-375-70520-1.
 (Hrsg.) The Book of War. Viking Press, 1999, ISBN 0-670-88804-4.
 The First World War. Knopf, New York 1999, ISBN 0-375-40052-4.
 Deutsch: Der Erste Weltkrieg: Eine europäische Tragödie. Reinbek 2001, ISBN 3-499-61194-5.
 Winston Churchill. 2002, ISBN 0-670-03079-1.
 Intelligence in War: Knowledge of the Enemy from Napoleon to Al-Qaeda. 2003, ISBN 0-375-40053-2.
 The Iraq War. 2004, ISBN 0-09-180018-8.
 The American Civil War: A military history. London 2009, ISBN 978-0-09-179483-5.
 auf Deutsch: Der amerikanische Bürgerkrieg. Aus dem Englischen von Hainer Kober. Rowohlt, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-87134-668-2.

Literatur
 Sir John Desmond Patrick Keegan. In: Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th Ed., Feb. 2013, S. 1.

Nachrufe:
 Sir John Keegan. In: The Telegraph, 2. August 2002.
 David Binder: John Keegan, Historian Who Put a Face on War, Dies at 78. In: The New York Times, 2. August 2002.
 David Binder: John Keegan, 78, English Historian Who Traced Centuries of Warfare. In: International Herald Tribune, 4. August 2002.
 Andreas Kilb: Die Lehren des langen Tages von Waterloo – Ein großer Erzähler des Krieges: Zum Tode des englischen Militärhistorikers John Keegan. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 4. August 2012, S. 37.
 Dennis McLellan: John Keegan dies at 78; military historian wrote 'Face of Battle'. In: Los Angeles Times, 7. August 2012.
 John D. P. Keegan (1934-2012). In: Air Power History 59 (2012) 3, S. 69.

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On Aug 27, 2005, two days before Hurricane Katrina made landfall, officials at the American Red Cross wrote to a top homeland security adviser at the White House, warning that the storm was likely to slam New Orleans as a major hurricane.
The message was sent to Kirstjen Nielsen, whose title was special assistant to the president for prevention, preparedness and response. She was 33 years old.
It was the first of many alarming emails Nielsen would receive over the following days as water poured into New Orleans and the city was deluged. And in the storm of blame that followed the costliest natural disaster in American history, Nielsen's team was widely criticized for its passive and clumsy response.
Twelve years later, President Trump has nominated Nielsen to the top job at the Department of Homeland Security. As DHS secretary, she would be in charge of a 240,000-employee agency with a $40 billion budget whose many responsibilities include managing disasters such as Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico.
"There will be no on-the-job training for Kirstjen," Trump said Thursday as he announced her nomination at the White House, praising her "sterling reputation." He noted she would be the first DHS secretary to have previous experience at the agency.
"She is ready on day one," Trump said.
Nielsen's exact role in the Katrina episode remains unclear, but the ordeal could leave her facing tough questioning during her Senate confirmation hearings, which are likely to be held in the next few weeks.
Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), the ranking Democrat on the House Homeland Security Committee, sent a letter Thursday to Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate committee that will question Nielsen, expressing his "serious concern" about her fitness for the role.
"While I am pleased the President has finally named a nominee for this critical national security position, I am greatly troubled by Ms. Nielsen's record," the letter stated. "Given the ongoing tragedy in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, along with other homeland security challenges facing our Nation, the Department of Homeland Security must have a proven, capable leader as Secretary."
"Unfortunately, Ms. Nielsen's record raises questions about her suitability for such a position," he wrote.
Former DHS and White House officials who worked with Nielsen during Katrina said it would be grossly unfair to hold her responsible for the Bush administration's botched response to a calamity that killed more than 1,800 and drove a million Americans from their homes.
Former colleagues remember her and her small staff of about five aides working around the clock as a torrent of information — some of it erroneous — poured into the White House while the catastrophe played out on live television.
If anything, Nielsen's defenders say, the Katrina episode left her a front-row seat to the country's most notorious case of federal emergency mismanagement. If she can articulate what she learned from the episode to senators at her confirmation hearings, she has the chance to turn a black mark on her career into an asset.
"She started off with the Super Bowl," said Matthew Broderick, the retired Marine Corps general who was in charge of the Homeland Security Operations Center during Katrina, and resigned several months later. "Usually with these things you get a few games to work your way up."
Broderick said Nielsen's job was mostly to serve as a traffic cop for information during the chaotic days following the storm, and he remembers her "doing a great job."
"She wasn't in charge of anything, so all she could do was react to the requests we were making and make sure they were completed as smoothly as possible," Broderick said. "She couldn't control what was going on — only mitigate it."
Nielsen, who is currently the deputy chief of staff at the White House, did not respond to interview requests. But in the post-Katrina autopsies produced by House and Senate bipartisan committees, which together run more than 1,300 pages, Nielsen's name repeatedly comes up.
In the months before the storm, Nielsen was one of a handful of White House officials warned of the so-called "New Orleans scenario": a hurricane rated Category 3 or higher hitting the city and bursting its aging levees.
The 582-page bipartisan House report, "A Failure of Initiative," specifically faults Nielsen's White House team for failing to recognize the threat to New Orleans from Katrina and conveying the gravity of the situation after the storm hit.
"I don't want to underplay it, but she was like the rest of us," said Gail Kulisch, a retired Coast Guard officer who was an aide to then-DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff during Katrina. "We were busy staffers trying to do the king's business."
Even after the lone Federal Emergency Management Agency official sent to New Orleans alerted Nielsen and other White House staffers of broken levees, residents trapped on roofs and corpses floating in the streets, there was little detectable urgency from President George W. Bush and Chertoff. The DHS secretary went to Atlanta to attend a conference on avian flu; Bush gave a speech in California and was photographed happily strumming a guitar.
"It does not appear the president received adequate advice and counsel from a senior disaster professional," the House report concluded.
Nielsen was supposed to be that professional on his staff.
"Despite the clear warnings before landfall that Katrina would be catastrophic, the President and the White House staff were not sufficiently engaged and failed to initiate a sufficiently strong and proactive response," a group of Democratic senators wrote in a section of the 737-page Senate report "Hurricane Katrina: A Nation Still Unprepared."
Nielsen's team was singled out for failing to properly manage the flow of urgent on-the-ground reports sent to the White House.
The White House staff did not fully engage the president or "substantiate, analyze and act on the information at its disposal," the House report concluded, noting Nielsen's team failed to confirm the collapse of New Orleans's levee system on Aug. 29, the day of Katrina's landfall.
Frances Townsend, who was Bush's top homeland security adviser during Katrina and Nielsen's boss, defended her protegee's performance. "You have information coming in from all different places, so you're trying to discern what's true and what isn't, or what were real needs and what aren't," she said. "In fairness to Kirstjen, we were being overrun."
Townsend, who has been a prominent public supporter of Nielsen's nomination to DHS secretary, said Katrina taught Nielsen and others critical lessons about the way the federal government handles emergencies and natural disasters. Chains of command are clearer. Disaster declarations are now made in advance. DHS agencies have learned to "pre-position" abundant supplies into disaster zones ahead of time.
And the biggest lesson, Townsend said, is that the federal government "isn't a good first responder. In Katrina and Maria, the ability of state and local authorities to respond is "the biggest determinant of your success," she said.
The House report on Katrina found exactly that, recommending that the federal government, and especially the Defense Department, must move quickly to fill in for state and local authorities when they are incapacitated by the disaster.
It's the same scenario that has played out once more in Puerto Rico, where DHS and FEMA officials say they did not expect to have to assume so much responsibility.


Two new Ambronay Éditions CDs are coming this fall in stores and on streaming services. They are dedicated to the ensembles from the eeemerging program (Emerging European Ensembles). Two quartets for two universes: classical for the Londoners of Consone Quartet who perform three works by Haydn and Mendelssohn (released on October 26) and baroque for PRISMA who illustrates the seasons in sonatas, dances and improvisations (released on November 16). To be discovered urgently!


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Everyone makes mistakes -- so a University of Nebraska-Lincoln psychologist set out to determine how the human brain responds to the errors of its ways.
"The reason to focus on errors is that they're a really pervasive part of our cognition," said Maital Neta, assistant professor of psychology. "They happen in everything that we do, even the simplest tasks. So if you want to get a sense for how something is structured in the brain -- regardless of a specific mood or a specific task -- then errors are a really good way to do it."
Neta and several colleagues recently published a study showing that even basic errors can trigger neural activity across a much broader swath of the brain than previously thought.
The authors performed functional MRI scans of study participants as they completed 12 diverse tasks that included recognizing parts of speech and mentally rotating three-dimensional shapes to identify matching pairs.
The team found that 41 regions of the brain showed substantial differences in activity following incorrect vs. correct answers on a majority of the tasks.
"Many people in the field of neuroscience have said that there's one primary region of the brain that responds to errors," Neta said. "One of the most interesting aspects of this paper is how it shows that even though that region may be really important, it's not the only one."
The fMRI scans also illustrated that the 41 regions are distributed across several networks of the brain that are otherwise distinguished by differing functions, Neta said.
In addition to analyzing the spatial aspects of error-related activity, the team measured the speed and duration of each region's activation. The researchers subsequently characterized three profiles of neural response: fast, prolonged and delayed. According to Neta, the study revealed that all but one of the brain's networks feature just a single response profile.
Neta's team further discovered that regions of the brain with the same error-related responses also exhibit similar activation patterns while at rest. Even regions residing in separate networks and sides of the brain seem to spontaneously function together when not occupied with an error or task, she said.
"This came out much more clearly than I would have ever expected," Neta said. "It makes a lot of intuitive sense -- it's just that most results don't come out quite so perfectly.
"So there's something about this wiring or connectivity that works not only when you're at rest, but also when you're suddenly thrown into a situation that (might produce) an error. There's still a lot we don't know about the brain."
Though Neta's team focused on documenting and cataloging error-related activity, she noted that other researchers could use the study as a starting point for delving into specific linkages between regions and error-related reactions.
"Identifying all these regions is just sort of the first step," Neta said. "People whose research focuses on specifics of error processing could now look at different tasks individually and determine what these regions might be doing."
The study appeared in the Jan. 7 edition of The Journal of Neuroscience. Neta co-authored the paper with colleagues from Washington University in St. Louis and the Center of Excellence for Research on Returning War Veterans in Waco, Texas.


Facilities and expertise within ChELSI provide the opportunity to bring systems-level approaches to medical research. ChELSI medical collaborations include research on stem cells, cancer, dentistry and fertility.
The use of human embryonic stem cells for generating cell types suitable for therapy depends upon understanding the mechanisms that control cell fate into the different lineages. With the Centre for Stem Cell Biology, ChELSI has developed a new understanding of the cellular processes driving early-stage cell differentiation.
The mammalian oviduct provides an optimal environment for gamete maturation, fertilisation and early embryonic development. With Dr Alireza Fazeli (Academic Unit of Reproductive and Developmental Medicine, Sheffield), Professor Phillip Wright's group revealed for the first time the presence of a maternal gamete recognition system that alters oviduct secretions. This significantly enhances our knowledge of fertility.
With the School of Clinical Dentistry in Sheffield, ChELSI researchers have identified proteomic changes underpinning the persistence and immune evasion of Tannerella forsythia, a prominent bacterial cause of periodontitis (gum disease).
For regenerative medicine, and for ethical reasons, reverting differentiated cells to a pluripotent state is a desirable outcome. Through its proteomics and informatics capacities, ChELSI contributes to research revealing how differentiated epithelial cells can be reprogrammed to pluripotency.
Facilities and expertise within ChELSI provide the opportunity to bring systems-level approaches to medical research. ChELSI medical collaborations include research into cancer, stem cells, dentistry and fertility.
Prostate cancer progression is unpredictable and presents a major clinical challenge. ChELSI has applied proteomic approaches, collaborating with Dr Ishtiaq Rehman and Dr Simon Cross, to compare a panel of prostate cancer cell lines including metastatic variants to uncover protein changes associated with prostate cancer progression. This study was performed alongside analysis of clinical material (serum samples) for identification of a candidate biomarker panel for prostate cancer disease progression.
Glen A, Evans CA, Gan CS, Noirel J, Lippitt J, Eaton C, Hamdy F Wright PC and Rehman I (2010). Eight-plex iTRAQ analysis of variant metastatic human prostate cancer cells identifies candidate biomarkers – an exploratory study. The Prostate 70:1313-1332.
Fibre is chemopreventive in colon cancer and ChELSI has been collaborating with Dr Bernard Corfe to analyse the biochemical mechanisms by which is this is achieved. The work has involved protein profiling of cell lines and colon biopsy material, developing workflows for focused proteomic analysis of intermediate proteins and analysis of protein acetylation. Work has specifically been targeted to analysis of butyrate and other short chain fatty acids, to define their mode of action, including their role as potential inhibitors of histone deacetylases (HDAC) which are druggable targets in clinical trials.
Majumdar D, Rosser R, Havard S, Lobo AJ, Wright PC, Evans CA, and Corfe BM (2012). An integrated workflow for extraction and solubilisation of intermediate filaments from colorectal biopsies for proteomic analysis. Electrophoresis 33:1967-74.
Kilner J, Waby JS, Chowdry J, Khan AQ, Noirel J, Wright PC, Corfe BM, Evans CA (2012). A proteomic analysis of differential cellular responses to the short-chain fatty acids butyrate, valerate and propionate in colon epithelial cancer cells. Mol Biosyst. 8:1146-56.
Kilner J, Corfe BM, Wilkinson SJ (2011). Modelling the microtubule: towards a better understanding of short-chain fatty acid molecular pharmacology. Mol Biosyst. 7:975-83.
Kilner J, Zhu L, Ow SY, Evans CA, Corfe BM (2011). Assessing information loss through application of the two-hit rule in iTRAQ datasets. Journal of Integrated Omics 1:124-134.
Corfe BM, Williams EA, Bury JP, Riley SA, Croucher LJ, Lai DY, Evans CA (2009). A study protocol to investigate the relationship between dietary fibre intake and fermentation, colon cell turnover, global protein acetylation and early carcinogenesis: the FACT study. BMC Cancer 9:332-337.
Corfe BM (2012). Hypothesis: butyrate is not an HDAC inhibitor, but a product inhibitor of deacetylation. Mol Biosyst. 2012 8:1609-12.
Astbury SM and Corfe BM (2012). Uptake and metabolism of the short-chain fatty acid butyrate, a critical review of the literature. Curr Drug Metab. 13:815-21.
Khan AQ, Bury JP, Brown SR, Riley SA, Corfe BM (2011). Keratin 8 expression in colon cancer associates with low faecal butyrate levels. BMC Gastroenterol. 10;11:2.
Khan AQ, Shaw L, Drake PJM, Griffiths GJ, Brown SR, Corfe BM (2011). Application of high content biology demonstrates differential responses of keratin acetylation sites to short chain fatty acids and to mitosis. Journal of Integrated OMICS,1: DOI:10.5584/jiomics.v1i2.57.
Drake PJM, Griffiths GJ, Benson RP & Corfe BM (2009). Application of high-content analysis to the study of post-translational modifications of the cytoskeleton. Journal of Proteome Research 8:28-34.
In patients with cancer treatment related oral mucositis (Dr Lynne Bingle, School of Dentistry), proof of concept study has been performed evaluating saliva for utility in the analysis of appetite (with Dr Bernard Corfe, and Cultech Limited).
CJ Harden, K Perez-Carrion, Z Babakordi, SF Plummer, NJ Hepburn, ME Barker, PC Wright, CA Evans & BM Corfe (2011). Evaluation of the salivary proteome as a surrogate tissue for systems biology approaches to understanding appetite. Journal of Proteomics 6:2916-2923.


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Ariana Grande, Halsey, Kacey Musgraves and John Legend are among the artists set to perform at the 2019 iHeartRadio Music Awards.
The March 14th show will also feature performances by Alicia Keys and Garth Brooks – and Taylor Swift will be on hand to receive the iHeartRadio tour of the year award.
Swift's reputation Stadium Tour, which ended in November, grossed a whopping $266 million U.S.
Canada's Shawn Mendes, Drake and Daniel Caesar are among the nominees for this year's iHeartRadio Music Awards.
Mendes, who has never won despite having earned 11 previous nominations, is up for Male Artist of the Year, Best Lyrics (for "In My Blood"), Best Cover Song (for "Under Pressure" with Teddy Geiger), and Song That Left Us Shook (for "Youth" with Khalid).
Caesar has one nom in the R&B Artist of the Year category.
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Drake has racked up nine previous wins from 22 nominations, including Hip-Hop Album of the Year in 2017.


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Nepal, land of Buddhism and misty mountains, is not a nation whose history one would expect to be filled with blood. And yet, the struggle to gain and keep control of the mountain kingdom is one marked by a long history of violence and murder. The Bloodstained Throne is a translation of Aba Yasto Kahilyai Nahos, a compilation of historic essays that recount some of the bloody battles for power in a tumultuous period a phase that spanned more than one hundred years.
Published posthumously in Nepali, this tale of the machinations, massacre and bloodletting that rocked Nepal s power centre the royal palace will give you a rare and fascinating glimpse into one of the least-known and most violent power struggles that South Asia has ever seen.
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Books, Dalit Readings, Non-Fiction
Ambedkar's World
The Making of Babasaheb and the Dalit Movement
Eleanor Zelliot
'American scholar Eleanor Zelliot shows us the world to which Ambedkar belonged and the worlds he altered'—Mint Lounge
'This is a book from which one learns a great deal without being worn down; her scholarship is worn so lightly. All in all, an excellent book'—The Hindu
Books, Philosophy
Marxism And Philosophy | Karl Korsch
In Marxism and Philosophy Korsch argues for a reexamination of the relationship between Marxist theory and bourgeois philosophy, and insists on the centrality of the Hegelian dialectic and a commitment to revolutionary praxis. Although widely attacked in its time, Marxism and Philosophy has attained a place among the most important works of twentieth-century Marxist theory, and continues to merit critical reappraisal from scholars and activists today.
Publisher : Aakar Publications
No Laughing Matter
The Ambedkar Cartoons, 1932–1956
Unnamati Syama Sundar with a Foreword by Suraj Yengde
This history like no other asks you to consider what you are laughing at.
In 2012, the inclusion of a 1949 cartoon by Shankar showing Jawaharlal Nehru whipping a snail-borne B.R. Ambedkar in a school textbook, evoked dalit protest, and a savarna counter on the grounds of artistic freedom. Scholar and cartoonist Unnamati Syama Sundar then undertook an archival survey of cartoons on Ambedkar in the English language press. The result, a collection of over a hundred cartoons from India's leading publications, drawn by Shankar, Enver Ahmed and R.K. Laxman, among others, lays bare the perverse and thoughtless hostility Ambedkar often contended with. The incisional commentary woven around each cartoon offers a veritable biography of a man historically wronged.
Unnamati Syama Sundar grew up in Vijayawada on a diet of Calvin and Hobbes, Dennis the Menace, Chacha Chaudhary and Amar Chitra Katha. He is doing his doctoral research at Jawaharlal Nehru University on the art featured in Chandamama, the popular Telugu children's magazine founded in 1947. Syama Sundar is well-known for his Ambedkarite cartoons in the non-savarna social media world. His work is featured regularly on the website roundtableindia.co.in.
Books, Non-Fiction
'Angela Davis swings a wrecking ball into the racist and sexist underpinnings of the American prison system'—Cynthia McKinney, former Congresswoman, US.
Davis' central point is worth studying and bringing to the foreground in the prison reform movement. She argues that prisons do not solve crime. Within the last two decades the prison boom simply has intensified the criminalization of certain types of behavior, rather than having brought official crime rates down.—http://www.politicalaffairs.net
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Everything from our brain's metabolic state, genetic disposition through to psychosocial factors can cause an enduring depression. Events that push you to the limit or simply difficult phases in life act like triggers.
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Q: Is there a way to translate dynamic text in Play Framework? I understand that the Play Framework (2.7) allows Internationalization in which to display pre-written text but is there a way that it can translate blocks of text dynamically? For example; suppose that a user has written a review and another user wants to read that review in their own language. It's not practical to manually translate user reviews before making them accessible to other users. Many thanks

A: Internationalization  feature in Play has nothing in common with translation at all, it's just provide infrastructure around ability of you app to show content based on user localisation preferences. See https://www.playframework.com/documentation/2.8.x/ScalaI18N#Externalizing-messages:

You can externalize messages in the conf/messages.xxx files.
The default conf/messages file matches all languages. Additionally you can specify > language-specific message files such as conf/messages.fr or conf/messages.en-US.

Which means that you can have text files like
conf/messages.en-US:
example.message.id=Example message in US English

conf/messages.fr-FR:
example.message.id=Example message in French

and then retrieve particular message by it's id depending on languauge like:
val messagesApi: MessagesApi = //injected API
messagesApi("example.message.id")(lang)

So Play framework for you will choose proper file and read proper message for particular languague.
But content of files is your responsibility, Play does not translate nothing for you.


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The Chronicle of the Czechs
By Cosmas Of Prague
Translated by Lisa Wolverton
The Chronicle of the Czechs by Cosmas of Prague (d. 1125) is a masterwork of medieval historical writing, deeply erudite, consciously researched, and narrated in high rhetorical style. Regarded as the foundational narrative of Czech history, it is the source of the oldest stories about the land, people, and rulers of Bohemia and Moravia. Lisa Wolverton provides the first annotated English translation of this eminently enjoyable and teachable work.
The first of the three books of the Chronicle describes the earliest people to arrive in Bohemia, the first rulers and the origins of the Přemyslid dynasty, the founding of Prague, and the early phases of Christianization. Book Two covers the period from 1037 to 1092, the age of Duke Břetislav I and his five contentious sons. Book III treats events contemporary with the author's writing, a time of great political upheaval, both internally and in relation to neighboring Germans, Poles, and Hungarians. Preeminently concerned with rulers and political life, the chronicle is striking for its narrative brilliance, vivid characters and scenes, dramatic dialogues, evocative soliloquies, and deep classical and Biblical erudition. In composing it, Cosmas sought to define the Czechs as a nation through history, compel them to think about their political culture, and urge reform, justice, and responsibility.
The oldest history of a Slavic people written by a Slav, the work rivals any medieval chronicle in its verve, accessibility, and insight into the very nature of political power. The Chronicle of the Czechs will be indispensable for medieval specialists wanting to extend their reach into Eastern Europe, as well as for college instructors in search of a lively and insightful text on medieval political life generally.
Lisa Wolverton is associate professor of history at the University of Oregon, coauthor of Reinventing Knowledge: From Alexandria to the Internet, and author of Hastening toward Prague: Power and Society in the Medieval Czech Lands.
"The book's clear introduction, well-drawn maps, and generous notes serve as gentle but essential guides for students and scholars alike. Cosmas's medieval masterwork deserves no less than this impressive and accessible translation."—David Mengel, Xavier University
"The first Slavic historian of a Slavic people (as the translator notes, p. 3), Cosmas described in three books the story of the Czechs from mythic prehistory through the early generations of the ruling Premyslid dynasty. His learned and lively history makes the age come alive, and it is absolutely essential for the study of early Czech history... Wolverton has made an important contribution by making this text available in English. Her translation is excellent, and the accompanying notes are extremely useful... A useful bibliography, three maps, a genealogy, and lists of rulers and bishops complement this welcome book... Essential."—Choice
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What a Game! #WILvNY
Tonight Wilmington Hammerheads FC and New York Red Bulls II put on an amazing show. Both teams were relentless, and the disallowed goals and endless slew of corner kicks and free kicks added to the drama.
In the first half, both clubs clearly expressed their disdain for the referees perceived missed calls. By the end of the half, emotions ran so high that play became rather messy. The two teams were still consistent enough to keep each other at bay despite the circumstances.
The goal machine that is New York Red Bulls II struck again in fifty ninth minute. The Hammerheads made several attempts throughout the half to rectifiy the score. Some of the shots were extremely close and others were completely missed opportunities. The most notable attempt to equalize happened in stoppage time. Bruno Perone successfully maneuvered through the crowded box to score a goal, but it was controversially disallowed by the referee. An earlier Red Bulls goal that would have been the club's second was called offside.
Certainly there were things the Hammerheads could have done better (For example, there were string of wasted opportunities in the second half that could have made a difference), but this was by no means a disgraceful loss. New York Red Bulls II has a tendency to win by huge margins, and the Hammerheads kept them down to one goal. The Hammerheads valiantly contended with their opponent until the end of the match.
Nevertheless, the loss is a painful one. There were several close misses, and, most notably, a potential stoppage time equalizer was disallowed. This was game was a "so close but so far" situation.
The biggest positive I noticed from the Hammerheads tonight was the ability to stick to the plan. Although the pace of play was rapid, the Hammerheads had the patience to follow procedure. In most instances, they methodically set up opportunities for themselves rather than cracking under pressure.
This match was the most entertaining one I've watched in a long time. Two talented teams, controversial calls, and just the right amount of scrapiness kept me on the edge of my seat all night. This loss is certainly a tough pill to swallow, but the level of action I saw on the field tonight is what keeps me coming back to Legion Stadium every week.
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Iran: If Israel attacks, Hezbollah will 'destroy Tel Aviv'
Tehran's proxy Hezbollah has more than 80,000 rockets ready to target Israel, says supreme leader's military adviser
By AFP and TOI staff	22 May 2015, 12:21 am 29 Edit
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Senior Adviser to Supreme Leader in Military Affairs, Yahya Rahim Safavi at an inaugural ceremony marking the opening of the 4th international general assembly of the Shiite Ahlul-Bayt in Tehran, Iran, on Saturday Aug. 18, 2007. (AP/Hasan Sarbakhshian/File)
A senior Iranian military official warned on Thursday that any Israeli attack would unleash a firestorm of missiles on its cities fired by the Islamic Republic's Hezbollah allies in Lebanon.
The Shiite militia has more than 80,000 rockets ready to fire at Tel Aviv and Haifa, said General Yahya Rahim Safavi, military adviser to Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
"Iran, with the help of Hezbollah and its friends, is capable of destroying Tel Aviv and Haifa in case of military aggression on the part of the Zionists," he said, quoted on state television.
"I don't think the Zionists would be so unintelligent as to create a military problem with Iran," the general said. "They know the strength of Iran and Hezbollah."
Israeli military officials meanwhile have tacitly conveyed a threat to the Lebanese terror group through international media. Last week, the New York Times reported, based on maps and aerial photography from IDF officials, that Hezbollah has moved most of its military infrastructure into and around the Shiite villages of southern Lebanon. According to the paper, Israeli officials say Hezbollah's move is tantamount to using the civilians as human shields.
The paper quotes Israeli officials saying the IDF will not be deterred from striking at Hezbollah posts, indicating that the villages would be hit even harder than during the 2006 Second Lebanon War.
Hezbollah, meanwhile, is also mired in fights with rebels of nearly every Sunni group opposing Syrian President Bashar Assad, from Islamic State to the relatively moderate militias seeking to remove Assad from power.
Last week, a senior IDF intelligence official warned of a heightened threat of conflict over the next two years as a result of "escalation" in the region.
In a briefing to foreign journalists at the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv, the official referred specifically to Hezbollah, and to Iran's arming of the group. Israel has repeatedly complained to the UN about Hezbollah's violations of UN Resolution 1701 from 2006, which forbids the group from rearming.
"The Iranian threat is a tangible threat to Israel," said the official, whose country has not ruled out the use of military force to block any attempt by Tehran to produce a nuclear bomb.
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But here's the deal: If I were smart, I could figure out curling. If I were even smarter, I could figure out why people would actually watch other people doing it. I have tried. I can't. I can't even figure out the object of the game. Is it like darts? I just don't get it.
There is no point trying to figure out who is guilty or not at un-balancing the planet. I think we need to figure out and solve the problems together and not isolate from each other.
You would hardly believe how difficult it is to place a figure alone on a canvas, and to concentrate all the interest on this single and universal figure and still keep it living and real.
I think it's very much a sort of inner feeling that you get when you figure out exactly what that character is thinking. And I think that if you can do that, which is a lot harder than it looks, that's the moment when you really get it. And if you can get that across to the audience, you've done your job. Sometimes you never really know if you've gotten it, and sometimes you never figure it out until you see the final product.
The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public figure, is a lonely man.
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I would have to work on the song and figure out how they wanted the song done, because they're such high-intensity songs. We figure that out first, then I go back and listen to it and go over and rehearse stuff with it and try to get a feel for the words.
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I personally am fascinated with this trend. All the colors and textures available - stacking them on your arm is to me, beautiful. Beautiful in a fun, casual kind of way. And the fact that Ralph Lauren is doing them too doesn't hurt!
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On May 1 and 2, the BCFS System hosted breakfast events honoring the National Day of Prayer across five regions of Texas: Kerrville, Del Rio, Abilene, Corpus Christi, and the Rio Grande Valley. At each event, local leaders and prominent members of the community joined together in prayer, offering gratitude, hope for the future, and requests for guidance in matters ranging from local to international importance.
More than 1,000 people attended the events in total, where at least 80 community leaders, law enforcement officials, government representatives, members of the military, pastors, business leaders, educators, and administrators offered prayer specific to their home town.
In Kerrville, attendants gathered in the fellowship hall of First United Methodist Church early in the morning, coffee in hand, while a six-man band played acoustic jazz. Small conversations gave the room a friendly Hill Country ambiance before the morning's festivities began in full with the posting of the colors by the Tivy High School Air Force Junior ROTC.
The band at Kerrville's breakfast plays before the start of the event.
Joshua Rodriguez, a young resident from Our House operated by BCFS Health and Human Services-Kerrville, offered a prayer for the nation's youth. Through tears, Joshua asked for a spirit of repentance for himself and his generation, a transition out of rebellion and into growth, and a willingness to come to God and depend on Him alone.
Many others offered prayer with the uniting factor of each being a hopeful spirit of humility and a desire for togetherness.
Corpus Christi's inaugural event was held at a local church with beautiful stain glass accents and a waterfront view.
BCFS Health and Human Services-McAllen and BCFS Health and Human Services-Harlingen teamed up to host the event in the Rio Grande Valley, where over 300 guests enjoyed a plentiful breakfast that included baskets of pan dulce at each table.
Corpus Christ hosted their event at a waterfront venue, First United Methodist Church, where attendees were blessed with a view of the sunrise on the gulf coast and treated to the sounds of classical guitar as played by Zachary Muñoz. This event, the first prayer breakfast for Corpus Christi, included prayers from members of the United States Navy based in the port city, and a distinguished list of local officials.
In Del Rio, the mayor pro tem, Liz Elizalde de Calderon, offered prayer for her city in the presence of more than 100 community members while Asennet Segura, the BCFS System's EVP/COO of Community, International and Residential Services, offered the welcome prayer.
The annual National Day of Prayer events are underwritten by the BCFS System under the direction of Kevin Dinnin, the organization's President and CEO. The events offer a brief reprieve from the demands of everyday life and a focus on matters of eternity, uniting all with a common cause of unity and fellowship.
Kevin Dinnin speaks at First United Methodist Church in Kerrville
In Kerrville, Kevin explained the personal significance of the annual services before he offered his closing prayer: "Since our inaugural prayer breakfasts launched in 2017, I have maintained how important these events are and how they truly have the power to bring communities together," Kevin said. "I promise, for as long as I am president of this organization, we will continue to hold this event every year."
Read coverage of prayer events in Abilene and Kerrville, or learn more about how the BCFS System is helping others.
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George III (; born on May 25, 1949 under the name of Georgios Papachrysostomou in Athienou) is the current Archbishop of Cyprus since 8 January 2023.

He had been the Metropolitan of the Diocese of Paphos since 2006 and, from November 7, 2022, the locum tenens of the Church of Cyprus. On 24 December 2022, he was elected Archbishop of Cyprus. He "formally assumed his new duties" starting Sunday, 8 January 2023, after the enthronement ceremony at Saint Barnabas Cathedral in Nicosia, Cyprus.

Early Life
George was born in Athienou in 1949, a village in Cyprus. He studied chemistry at the Kapodistrian University of Athens between 1968 and 1972, then he took theology courses there between 1976 and 1980. On December 23, 1984, he was ordained deacon in the Church of Cyprus and May 17, 1985, priest and Archimandrite by Archbishop Chrysostomos I of Cyprus.

Clerical Career
In 1994, he became Secretary of the Holy Synod of the Church of Cyprus. Alongside his ecclesiastical duties, he served as a chemistry teacher in Cypriot high schools. He was arrested and abused by the Turkish occupation troops in Cyprus and lodged an appeal in 1989 against Turkey at the European Court of Human Rights (n° 15300/891), which resulted in Turkey's first conviction. (507/3.2.94) for violation of human rights in Cyprus.

In 1996, he was elected Bishop of Arsinois.

On December 29, 2006, he was unanimously elected to replace Chrysostomos II of Cyprus as Metropolitan of Paphos. In the meantime, he became head of ecumenical affairs for the Church of Cyprus as well as head of its bioethics committee.

2022 Archiepiscopal election

On November 7, 2022, following the death of Chrysostomos II of Cyprus, he became locum tenens of the Church of Cyprus pending the episcopal election which were to determine the next archbishop. He announced the Archbishop's death on Cypriot and Greek television and called on all the faithful to pay their last respects to the remains of the late Archbishop.

Chrysostomos II was buried on November 12, 2022 in the Cathedral of the Apostle Barnabas in Nicosia, where the Archbishops of Cyprus are buried. The ceremony was presided by George of Paphos and participated, among others, the President of Cyprus, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, the Patriarch of Alexandria, the Archbishop of Greece and the President of Greece.

He was responsible for organizing the proper holding of the 2022 Cypriot archiepiscopal election.

Archbishop of Cyprus
On 24 December 2022, he was elected Archbishop of Cyprus by the Holy Synod, with 11 votes in favor out of the 16. The Archbishop's enthronement ceremony took place on Sunday, 08 January 2023, at Saint Barnabas Cathedral in Nicosia, Cyprus. In his address, he stated that his goal is to "reinvigorate the Christian message in modern spiritual discourse", continue the "Church's outreach to the poor", and "convey that scientific thought isn't in conflict with the precepts of Christianity".

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Arguments gone with the wind: the EGC upholds a decision concerning a potential one-letter "e" mark
European General Court, Intellectual Property, Trademarks
EGC, one-letter trademark, acquired distinctiveness, Likelihood of confusion
In a recent case, the European General Court (EGC) touched upon several hot potatoes: one-letter marks, acquired distinctiveness and the difference between an identical and a similar good and service.
On 16 November 2011, Eolus Vind AB, a Swedish company involved in wind energy industry, applied to register a figurative mark consisting of a stylized letter "e" (EUTM no: 010420941). The registration covered a wide field of goods and services, from electrical energy deriving from wind power, construction and repair of wind power plants and energy distribution, to insurance and legal services.
On 29 February 2012, the trademark was opposed (case B 001981417) by Edison S.p.A., an Italian company. They are known for electrical power production and sale, as well as their involvement in energy efficiency solutions, gas import infrastructures and storage plants. They claimed that Eolus´ "e" provokes a likelihood of confusion in comparison to their trademark, a figurative trademark resembling a letter "e" (EUTM no: 003490851). In addition, given the reputation Edison enjoys as a company, as well as the notoriety of their trademark, Eolus´ "e" should be deleted for all classes.
The Opposition Division of the EUIPO examined the similarity of goods and services, the similarity of the trademarks and the likelihood of confusion. Starting with the similarity of goods and services, the Opposition Division deduced that it varies from identical (for the distribution of electrical energy and the production of electrical energy) to dissimilar.
Next, the visual similarity of the signs consisted of them both being decorated letters "e". However, while Eolus´ "e" is blue and with an impression of a gush of wind blowing it away, Edison´s "e" is grey and simulating two circles partially overlapping. When spoken, both signs would be pronounced equally, irrespective of the territory of the speaker. Conceptually, the Opposition Division noticed that the analogous note they have is the reference to energy. Therefore, taking all abovementioned into consideration, the signs were similar.
Touching on the topic of the claimed acquired distinctiveness, the Opposition Division stated that the evidence offered by Edison only showed that it was a big company in Italy, and did not demonstrate an enhanced distinctiveness.
In conclusion, the Office mentioned the problematics of a single letter trademark. They stated that the EUIPO does not consider them distinctive, unless sufficiently stylized to overcome the fact that they are, in essence, only one letter. In this case, both "e"s are embellished enough, and done so in a very different manner. Therefore, the likelihood of confusion is small, and the opposition should be rejected.
On 28 November 2013, Edison appealed (decision R2358/2013-1 of 25 February 2015), building the case predominantly around their claim that their goods and services were either identical or highly similar to the applicant´s.
EUIPO´s Board of Appeal stated that Edison´s trademark was more reminiscent of two crescents than the letter "e", but, given the company´s longstanding presence in the energy business, the sign could have been recognized as a letter. This did not undermine the fact that the trademarks in question were visually quite different, both in color and the font. The question if the sign was perceived as a letter was also relevant for the phonetic and conceptual similarities. If seen as a letter, they are phonetically and conceptually identical. However, the Board of Appeal was of the opinion that the consumer would primarily describe the sign, not pronounce it, making phonetic similarity non-existent. As for the conceptual similarity, single letter marks could be backed by a concept if they maintained a link to the goods or service, which in this case, they did. However, the usage of the letter "e" was descriptive, and therefore, limited its importance. The other possible concept, the concept of motion, was only present with Eolus´ trademark, thus differentiating the signs even further.
The Board of Appeal did not fully agree with Opposition Division regarding the one-letter trademarks. They stated that they are not devoid of any distinctive character, unless proven differently. However, their distinctiveness is harder to establish. What does not help is the common and widespread use of a single letter to abbreviate its owner or service, making them frequent and less special. The saving grace are the add-ons and decorations to the letter, which, just as in this case, can augment the mark´s distinctiveness.
As for the contested goods and services, the Board of Appeal restated that the goods and services range from identical to completely dissimilar. However, even for the goods and services which were similar, Edison failed to show that both undertakings were offering them. Therefore, the only services where the consumer might be led into confusion were the identical "Electricity distribution of wind power energy" and "Energy production of wind power energy". In this scope, the Opposition Division´s decision was overturned.
Decision of the EGC
Despite the partial success, Edison decided to take the matter to the EGC. The decision (case T-276/15) was brought on 14 March 2017, with no good news for Edison.
When talking about the similarities of the signs, the EGC agreed in the entirety with the Board of Appeal, stating that the visual one was low, phonetic would either not exist or be identical, and the conceptual one existed only if they were both regarded as an "e", in which case it would also be descriptive.
As for the goods and services, Edison did not offer any additional evidence, but rather relied on the fact that "as a matter of principle" or "is well-known that" the goods were produced or provided by the same undertakings. The ECG could not accept this logic. In addition, the Court argued that, even if they were produced by the same manufacturer, it would make them similar, and not identical.
A second question that Edison raised was the claimed "point-blank" inadmissibility of their evidence showing enhanced distinctiveness. The EGC stated that it was quite the contrary; the Board of Appeal did take all the provided documents into consideration, but deemed them misplaced, as they showed the company´s economic success instead of public recognition of the mark.
All this led the EGC completely to uphold the Board of Appeal´s decision.
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Association of retinoblastoma with clinical and histopathological risk factors
Author(s) Asad Aslam Khan*, Mulazim Hussain Bukhari*, Riffat Mehboob
Department of Ophthalmology, Mayo Hospital, King Edward Medical University, Lahore, Pakistan.
A study was conducted to see the association of retinoblastoma with age, bilaterism, Tumor size, site, grades, involvement of anterior chamber, iris, ciliary body, choroid, sclera and optic nerve, and extraocular extension. This was a retrospective descriptive analytical study. The records of the Institute of Ophthalmology, King Edward Medical University/Mayo hospital, Lahore: Pakistan January 2006-Dec 2011 was analyzed. Five years biopsies (June 2006 to June 2012) of the retinoblastoma, from the Pathology department, was retrieved to see optic nerve involvement in all the retrieved specimens. The mean age was 3.54 ± 1.686 years. There were 15 cases of bilateral retinoblastoma and 37 cases with unilateral neoplasms. The age range of bilateral tumors was 2 - 6 years while the range in unilateral tumor was 1 - 10 years male to female ratio was 1:1.5. Among 52 cases, 37 (71.2%) patients were unilateral retinoblastoma and 15 (28.28%) patients were with bilateral disease. On radiological examination of patients suffering from retinoblastoma by B-Scan (Ultrasound), there were 33 (63.5%) cases with exophytic presentation while 18 (34.6%) cases showed endophytic morphology. On clinical examinations, 28 patients presented with proptosis of (it was the most common presenting sign in our patients, accounting for about 53.8% of cases), 20 cases presented with leucocoria eye with strabismus. 29/52 patients showed involvement with optic nerve, 17 were from 1 - 3 years age and 12 were from 4 - 6 years. Statistically there was no difference in the involvement of optic nerve, disc involvement and extra ocular extension with the age of patients (p = 0.217). There was also no statistical difference seen in age and gender for but a strong association was seen with patient's presentation, symptoms and size of the tumors and anterior chamber, iris, ciliary body, choroid, sclera and optic nerve, and extra ocular extension. We concluded that a positive association was seen with tumor size and tumor extension (optic nerve, and extraocular extension). No Association was seen with age, gender and laterality of the tumors.
Retinoblastoma; Optic Nerve; Optic Disc; Extra Ocular Extension
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Khan, A. , Bukhari, M. and Mehboob, R. (2013) Association of retinoblastoma with clinical and histopathological risk factors. Natural Science, 5, 437-444. doi: 10.4236/ns.2013.54056.
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No visit to Casablanca is complete without a stop at the Hassan II Mosque. It's also a popular part of sightseeing tours and shore excursions, often alongside other Casablanca attractions such as the Royal Palace, Central Market, and Ain Diab Corniche. Many full-day tours from Casablanca or Marrakech combine a city tour with a visit to the Moroccan capital of Rabat. The mosque grounds and prayer halls are open to non-Muslims by guided tour only.
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Don't let people tell you there is nothing to Do in Casablanca. This tour took up a large part of our day and it was excellent. There was no rush so we could engage in questions and dialogue as much as we wished. We visited Hassan V Mosque, a Jewish museum, the Notre Dame Catholic Church, then had tea and sweets outside to further talk. Our guide was very knowledgeable and answered all our questions. We discussed faiths, history, architecture, etc. He even threw in a couple stops because we were interested. (The only advice I would give the guide is That he is hard to hear when in cars or traffic, so little ear phones could be helpful or to speak up, but he was always willing to repeat.)
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Guided tours are held in multiple languages, including English, and last an hour.
Tickets can be purchased from the ticket office at the south side of the mosque.
A strict dress code is applicable to all visitors; shoulders and knees must be covered, shoes must be removed (plastic bags are provided), and women must cover their hair.
The mosque is wheelchair accessible.
The Hassan II Mosque is located along the seafront Sidi Mohammed ben Abdallah Boulevard, about 10 minutes via taxi from the city center.
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The mosque's seafront location makes it a stunning photo opportunity, and the best light can be found at sunrise and sunset. A nighttime visit is equally impressive, when the mosque is dramatically floodlit. It's best to avoid visiting during prayer times, when the mosque can be crowded with worshippers, but multiple tours are held daily, with fewer tours available on Friday.
Architectural Wonders of the Hassan II Mosque
Built to commemorate the 60th birthday of Moroccan King Hassan II, the mosque was designed by French architect Michel Pinseau and was completed in 1993. Hand-carved ceilings, elaborate tilework, marble floors, and Venetian stained-glass windows are complemented by high-tech conveniences like heated floors and a retractable roof. Inspired by a Quranic verse about God's throne being built upon water, the seafront mosque features a glass-floored terrace that reveals the sea washing over rocks below.
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