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Desjardins Lowers Royal Gold (RGLD) to Hold
Posted by Brian Himes on Apr 16th, 2019
Desjardins cut shares of Royal Gold (NASDAQ:RGLD) (TSE:RGL) from a buy rating to a hold rating in a report issued on Friday, Benzinga's Daily Ratings Newsletter reports.
A number of other equities analysts have also weighed in on the company. TD Securities boosted their target price on Royal Gold from $94.00 to $98.00 and gave the stock a hold rating in a research report on Tuesday, February 26th. B. Riley raised Royal Gold from a neutral rating to a buy rating and boosted their target price for the stock from $86.00 to $100.00 in a research report on Monday, April 1st. Raymond James reissued an outperform rating and issued a $95.00 target price on shares of Royal Gold in a research report on Friday, February 8th. BidaskClub raised Royal Gold from a hold rating to a buy rating in a research report on Tuesday, December 25th. Finally, Zacks Investment Research raised Royal Gold from a sell rating to a hold rating in a research report on Monday, January 7th. Seven equities research analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating, four have given a buy rating and one has given a strong buy rating to the company. Royal Gold has a consensus rating of Buy and a consensus target price of $94.61.
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RGLD opened at $92.79 on Friday. The company has a quick ratio of 5.27, a current ratio of 5.48 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.17. The stock has a market capitalization of $5.99 billion, a PE ratio of 52.57, a P/E/G ratio of 6.01 and a beta of 0.14. Royal Gold has a 1 year low of $70.16 and a 1 year high of $98.53.
Royal Gold (NASDAQ:RGLD) (TSE:RGL) last issued its earnings results on Wednesday, February 6th. The basic materials company reported $0.36 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the Zacks' consensus estimate of $0.35 by $0.01. Royal Gold had a positive return on equity of 4.56% and a negative net margin of 20.57%. The business had revenue of $97.60 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $100.80 million. During the same quarter in the previous year, the firm earned $0.41 EPS. Royal Gold's revenue was down 14.6% on a year-over-year basis. Sell-side analysts forecast that Royal Gold will post 1.54 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.
The firm also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Friday, April 19th. Shareholders of record on Friday, April 5th will be given a $0.265 dividend. This represents a $1.06 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 1.14%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, April 4th. Royal Gold's dividend payout ratio (DPR) is 60.23%.
A number of large investors have recently modified their holdings of the business. Vanguard Group Inc. increased its position in shares of Royal Gold by 1.8% during the 3rd quarter. Vanguard Group Inc. now owns 6,410,978 shares of the basic materials company's stock valued at $494,029,000 after purchasing an additional 113,273 shares during the last quarter. Vanguard Group Inc increased its position in shares of Royal Gold by 1.8% during the 3rd quarter. Vanguard Group Inc now owns 6,410,978 shares of the basic materials company's stock valued at $494,029,000 after purchasing an additional 113,273 shares during the last quarter. Van ECK Associates Corp increased its position in shares of Royal Gold by 20.9% during the 4th quarter. Van ECK Associates Corp now owns 4,811,625 shares of the basic materials company's stock valued at $412,116,000 after purchasing an additional 831,019 shares during the last quarter. Oregon Public Employees Retirement Fund increased its position in shares of Royal Gold by 8,465.0% during the 4th quarter. Oregon Public Employees Retirement Fund now owns 2,209,941 shares of the basic materials company's stock valued at $26,000 after purchasing an additional 2,184,139 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Norges Bank purchased a new stake in shares of Royal Gold during the 4th quarter valued at about $82,113,000. 78.55% of the stock is owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.
Royal Gold Company Profile
Royal Gold, Inc, together with its subsidiaries, acquires and manages precious metal streams, royalties, and related interests. It focuses on acquiring stream and royalty interests or to finance projects that are in production or in development stage in exchange for stream or royalty interests, which primarily consists of gold, silver, copper, nickel, zinc, lead, cobalt, and molybdenum.
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NZ MX Nationals 2014
CAPTION: Mount Maunganui's Cody Cooper (The Honda Shop Racing Team CRF450), on his way to another overall win in the 2014 New Zealand Motocross Championships. Photo by Andy McGechan, BikesportNZ.com
MARCH 10, 2014: The pressure may be off for The Honda Shop Racing Team's MX1 class rider Cody Cooper, but nobody in the slick and professional motocross team will consider relaxing just yet.
The 2013 New Zealand MX1 motocross champion from Mount Maunganui installed himself top of the podium for a third consecutive time at the weekend, dominating the day at Pukekohe's third round of four in this year's New Zealand Motocross Championships on Sunday, just as he had as round one near Timaru last month and at round two at Tokoroa a fortnight ago.
And so, at the rate the Honda star is going, he will clinch the title again in 2014 with a race or two to spare.
Cooper left the track at Tuakau on Sunday with a massive 37-point lead over visiting Scottish former Grand Prix star Billy MacKenzie, Cooper's 1-1-2 results on Sunday easily enough for him to claim the top step on the day's MX1 podium and boost his championship advantage.
"The lead is good but we are not taking anything for granted," advised his team boss, former world and New Zealand motocross champion Ben Townley.
"We will still focus race by race. Cody won two out of three holeshots today and that was good because we have placed a lot of emphasis on that.
"But we are not relaxing as we head to Taupo (for the final round in two weeks' time). If we do what we always do, we should get the same results (victories), but it's not over yet."
Cooper was similarly circumspect.
"It's always good to get a couple of wins ... I would have liked three actually," he laughed. "But I can head to Taupo with a race up my sleeve.
"But these guys are getting faster each week and they were pushing me today. I pass on my congratulations to (Australia's) Kirk Gibbs for winning that last race today. He rode well.
"I like racing at Taupo, so hopefully it will all work out for me there."
Cooper's MX2 class team-mate, Rotorua rider John Phillips, also finished the day on the podium at Pukekohe.
Phillips finished 3-3-5 in his three MX2 (250cc) outings to take the No.3 podium spot and improved his championship standings to fourth overall.
The 2014 senior nationals wind up with the fourth and final round set for Taupo on March 22.
Credit: Words by Andy McGechan, www.BikesportNZ.com

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Shine () is a Burmese singer and musician.

Shine debuted in 2018 with the R&B album Perfect. In 2019, he sang the theme song "Lu Yaung Hsaung" () for Christina Kyi's film Now and Ever (). In June 2020, he released a self-composed single called "1990," written for his father, who died when Shine was in the eighth grade. In September 2020, he released another popular single, "Existence" ().

Discography
 Perfect (2018)
 PERFECT - AG2021 (2021)

Personal life
Hailing from Rakhine State, Shine (born Aung Prae Sone) is of Rakhine descent.

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21st-century Burmese male singers
Burmese singer-songwriters
Burmese people of Rakhine descent
Living people
1997 births

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Amtrak: A Lesson in Government Takeovers
January 23, 2011 August 18, 2017 / L. M. Walker
– By: Larry Walker, Jr. –
The Quest for Affordability
"They say it's a government takeover of health care, a big lie just like Goebbels. You say it enough, you repeat the lie, you repeat the lie, you repeat the lie, and eventually, people believe it." ~ Rep. Steve Cohen (A Government Employed Psychotic)
"If it ain't broke, break it, and then when it's broke, nationalize it." ~ A Wayward Progressive
When facing a régime hell-bent on government takeovers, one must first understand exactly what a government takeover is, how one occurs, and whether or not a takeover is good for the nation. Once we understand what a government takeover is, how one occurs, and how it will end; and once convinced that a takeover is indeed occurring, we can make up our own minds about how to handle it. Of course, proponents of government takeovers will always deny that one is occurring. Such denial is generally accompanied by calling anyone who would so hint a liar, or Nazi propagandist.
According to advocates of government takeovers, any private entity which makes a profit is bad and worthy of increased regulation, and once bankrupted, in certain cases, worthy of takeover. Under the rules for government takeovers, the objective is government control of everything, from private industry to personal lives, and everyone is a loser. The only thing that matters for most politicians is that they keep their own government backed jobs, retirement security, and benefits; and the best way for them to ensure this is through increased government control.
The Government Takeover of Passenger Railroads
For example, before the National Railroad Passenger Corporation (a.k.a. AmTrak) existed, there was a profitable private passenger rail industry. But profits being deemed a bad thing by both big government and unions, meant that its days were numbered. "Bring them down", they decried. "Top down, bottom up, inside out." While unions pushed for higher pay, greater retirement security, and more benefits, big government tightened regulations — limiting the amount railroads could charge for their services. The attack came by big government from the top, and unions from the bottom. The only thing lacking was a thrust from the inside out.
The first line of attack would come from the Interstate Commerce Commission which prevented increases in the amounts that privately owned railroads could charge both shippers and passengers. This meant that the only way in which railroads could become more profitable was through cost-cutting. But the ability to slash costs was greatly hampered by agreements with aggressive employee unions. Eventually, the railroads turned to mergers as the only way of escape. What else can an industry do once it has been obstructed from responding to changing market conditions?
In 1968, the New York Central and Pennsylvania railroads merged creating Penn Central, which would result in a virtual monopoly within the U.S. passenger rail industry. But the nation would be shocked when only two years later, in June of 1970, Penn Central declared bankruptcy. At the time, it was the largest corporate bankruptcy in American history. But this was only the beginning. Behind the scenes a government takeover was being staged from the inside out.
In May of 1967, the National Association of Railroad Passengers (NARP) was founded to lobby for the continuation of passenger trains in the United States. Imagine that, a few months before the railroads were forced to merge, and just three years before they would go bust; a government takeover was already in the works. This was the missing link, an attack from the inside out. It was big government from the top, employee unions from the bottom, and now passengers themselves (at least in name) were demanding continued services, profitability be damned. The man-made crisis was complete and there was now enough force to justify a full blown government takeover.
The NARP's lobbying efforts were successful at dividing both political parties. The Democratic Party was opposed to any sort of subsidies to privately-owned railroads, and the Republican Party feigned opposition to the nationalization of the industry. Sound familiar? But in the end, both Democrats and Republicans would compromise for fear of being responsible for the extinction of passenger trains. So what did big government do? What they always do, they agreed to both subsidize and nationalize the passenger rail industry.
In 1971, the federal government stepped in and created Amtrak, a virtual government agency, which began to operate a skeleton service on the tracks of Penn Central and other U.S. railroads. Today, the federal government owns all of the preferred stock in AmTrak, has invested $32.4 billion of taxpayer's money into the government owned corporation over the past 40 years, and in return, AmTrak has netted total losses of $27.1 billion. In fiscal year 2010, the federal government pumped in an additional $2.4 billion, and AmTrak promptly lost $1.4 billion of it, before the red ink dried. Besides the federal government, the only other shareholders in AmTrak are the old railroad companies themselves, which are now consolidated into other private companies.
The Fate of Shareholders
AmTrak initially issued 10,000,000 shares of common stock, with a par value of $10 per share, to the bankrupt railroads in exchange for their assets. In fact, American Financial Group (AFG) still owns 5.2 million shares which were acquired directly from Penn Central. Although Congress, in 1997, ordered AmTrak to buy back all of its common shares by the year 2002, AmTrak has yet to have the funds, and has in fact been totally dependent on additional government subsidies just to remain viable.
In 2002, AFG filed suit against AmTrak seeking $52 million, plus interest (5.2 million shares @ $10). Two years prior, AmTrak had offered to buy back all of its common shares for a measly three cents per share. Of course none of the common stock holders accepted such a ridiculous offer. Who in their right mind would settle for $156,000 in return for a $52 million investment made some 40 years prior? This is a fine example of what private stock and bond investors may expect in the wake of a government takeover. The original stockholders would have gotten a better deal through normal bankruptcy proceedings, but because of the government's takeover, everyone got screwed, including generations of unborn taxpayers. It would be wise to remember this as the government attempts to takeover the health care industry.
The Government Takeover of Health Care
And that brings us to the main point of this post, the government's attempted takeover of the health care industry. The only difference between what I will call AmHeal, and AmTrak, is that the health care industry isn't broke (yet). But regulations are coming which will attempt to restrict the amount that health insurance and health care providers may charge their customers, while increasing the burden of services they must provide. These regulations will naturally cripple the industry from the top down and from the bottom up.
Health care insurers and providers will quickly realize that the only way they can remain profitable is through cost-cutting, yet their ability to cut costs will be restricted by the increased amount of services they will be required to provide. With millions more customers having been mandated by the federal government, and with restrictions on the amount which may be charged, companies will begin to consolidate in order to achieve economies of scale. But just like the railroads, their attempts will fail. In the meantime, labor unions and progressive community organizers are seeking to stir up public support by way of demanding that health insurers and providers do more with less, profitability be damned. In the end, we will wind up with government run health care, just like many have warned all along.
Unless a poison pill strategy is implemented to derail this insidious disaster, we will soon see the AmTrak of health care, AmHeal. And AmHeal will be just as disastrous as AmTrak in every way. Over time, AmHeal will not only lose billions of dollars per year, but potentially trillions, and will eventually bankrupt the United States of America. Investors in health care companies will be among the first to get burned, as health care companies begin filing for bankruptcy. This will be the final blow to the $2.3 trillion health care industry, and the end of 1/6 of our free market economy.
So how do we derail AmHeal before it reaches the tarmac? In dealing with a government takeover, a poison pill must be taken from within the government itself. We must takeover the government with a top down, bottom up, and inside out approach. We the people must elect politicians dedicated to defunding all regulatory aspects of the affordable health proposal, and then put pressure on the political system from the bottom up. Then all private industry must place additional pressure on the government by requesting waivers, thereby opting out of the government's proposed mandates. Tea Party advocates, moderates, centrists, conservatives, State governments, lobbyists, and proponents of the free-market must band together. We know that we must stop the government takeover of health care, and that is precisely what we are doing, and what we will accomplish.
Penn Central Transportation
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Major Acts of Congress – Rail Passenger Service Act
AMTRAK REFORM AND ACCOUNTABILITY ACT OF 1997
History of U.S. Gov't Bailouts
Amtrak management = worthless Amtrak stock
RAILROADS: Perils of Penn Central
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You know that the Affordable Care Act has an opt out provision, don't you? All a state has to do is offer the same (or better) coverage in their own plan, and they don't have to mess with 'AmHeal'.
So, where are the conservative, free-market plans that are so superior? Why is making sure every American has access to quality, affordable health care (the lack of which kills ~40k Americans a year) such a horrible idea?
And do you really think Obama and the Democrats have the intelligence, insight and intestinal fortitude to coordinate such a massive 'government takeover' operation? Please. That's as ludicrous as suggesting that Bush 42 was smart enough to plan and execute the 9/11 attacks.


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Housatonic Museum of Art will host a benefit stand-up comedy show starring the Lovable Queen of Mean, Lisa Lampanelli, on Saturday, May 16, at 8 p.m. in the Events Center in Beacon Hall. The show will follow a VIP champagne reception and special exhibition of artwork by Leonard Lampugnale, Lisa's father and an alumnus of Housatonic Community College, in the Burt Chernow Galleries at 6 p.m.
The Women Gather at Housatonic Museum of Art is hosted free of charge. These public readings by emerging and established poets is organized by Shanna T. Melton and sponsored by the Housatonic Museum of Art. The series highlights the poetry of women and encourages writers from different aesthetic disciplines and traditions in order to broaden our community's understanding of contemporary poetry.
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Nyrasia Lomax's academic path has been strewn with rejection and uncertainty. But, with grit, determination and support from faculty and staff at HCC, she's a handful of credits away from graduation.
Connecticut legislators met with Housatonic Community College officials recently to discuss a wide variety of subjects, including HCC developments and the college's budget outlook.
The Housatonic Museum of Art presents Rick Shaefer: Drawing the Line! on view in the Burt Chernow Galleries, 900 Lafayette Blvd., Bridgeport, from Feb. 12-March 27, with a reception open to the public on Thursday, Feb. 12, from 5:30-7 p.m. The Burt Chernow Galleries are free and open seven days a week. Visit housatonicmuseum.org for gallery hours.


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Village Council Meeting - May 3, 2016
The Miami Shores Village Council held their regularly scheduled Council Meeting on Tuesday, May 3, 2016. The meeting was called to order at 6:30 PM with the following individuals present:
PRESENT: Alice Burch
Steven Zelkowitz
Mac Glinn
Herta Holly
ALSO PRESENT: Tom Benton, Village Manager
Barbara Estep, Village Clerk
Richard Sarafan, Village Attorney
Doctors Charter School student and faculty representatives provided information and a video depicting their recent attendance at the Global Student Leaders Summit, held in Reykjavik, Iceland.
Coral Gables Sustainability Coordinator, Matt Anderson provided information on Coral Gables' initiatives relating to climate change and sea level rise.
APPROVAL OF THE APRIL 19, 2016 COUNCIL MEETING MINUTES.
Vice Mayor Zelkowitz moved approval of the April 19, 2016 Council Meeting Minutes. Councilwoman Holly seconded the motion and the vote was unanimous in favor of the motion.
2) VILLAGE COUNCIL
DISCUSSION AND POSSIBLE ACTION REGARDING DOG PARK LOCATION AND FUNDING. Mac Glinn
Councilman Glinn provided background information regarding the dog park idea and indicated that he is very cognizant and sensitive of adjacent homeowners. He reiterated his idea, originally spoken of at the previous Council Meeting, of developing a dog park on the parcel in the southeast corner of the Aquatic Center. He stated that due to his background in construction management, he drew up a very conservative cost estimate of approximately $140,000 to $150,000.
Councilman Glinn moved to include funds for the dog park in the fiscal year 2016-2017 budget but would like to start the process now, using surplus funds to fund the development. Vice Mayor Zelkowitz seconded the motion. Council Members expressed their views on the location and discussed some of the details and issues still to be considered, i.e. drainage, resident only restrictions, parking, approval of site plan, etc. Councilwoman Ledesma urged Staff to consider contacting Alberto Ruder who has successfully worked to open dog parks in neighboring municipalities.
Mayor Burch opened the floor for public comment.
Elizabeth CowenMs. Cowen spoke in support of the dog park and began to read a letter received from Mr. Ruder into the record.
Sylvia Peraza Ms. Peraza also spoke in support of the dog park and completed reading the letter from Mr. Ruder into the record.
Mary Benton Ms. Benton spoke in support of the dog park to bring the community together.
Bob Smith Mr. Smith thanked the Council for their consideration on the dog park and thinks the location is a great spot. He talked about the possibility of charging an annual fee for a card which would help identify residents.
Janet Goodman Ms. Goodman talked of Waterways Park in Aventura which uses a chip embedded card for entry.
Miriam Rojas Ms. Rojas thanked the Council and spoke of the future use of Constitution Park.
Steven Shulman Mr. Shulman thanked the Council and especially Councilman Glinn for spearheading the dog park effort.
DISCUSSION AND POSSIBLE ACTION REGARDING REDUCING DOCTORS CHARTER SCHOOL ANNUAL RENT PAYMENT TO THE VILLAGE.
Councilwoman Ledesma introduced Mr. Steve Mumby, Doctors Charter School Board Treasurer, to discuss the rent negotiation issue. Mr. Mumby provided the Council with information regarding the School's anticipated funding from the State and reviewed a number of necessary maintenance issues and repairs. Mr. Mumby outlined the School's proposal regarding the rent reduction as well as the Village's counter-proposal. Mr. Mumby clarified that the original proposal from the School is what is presently being offered. Council Members discussed the proposals and the School's circumstances and requested hearing from the Village Manager or Village Attorney. Mr. Sarafan spoke of the negotiation process and the uncertainty of the financial picture for the School and the Village's budgeting process. He spoke of the market value of the building and the fact that the $180,000 rent falls far below the rental value. Mr. Sarafan indicated that he and Mr. Benton had been under the impression that Mr. Mumby was going to recommend approval of the Village's proposal to the remainder of the Board. The Village's proposal had included funding for needed school text books and this subject was briefly discussed.
Council Members further discussed the School's finances and they agreed that a rent reduction is in order. However, they indicated that there is not enough information being provided in order to make an informed decision regarding the rental fee. Subsequently, Vice Mayor Zelkowitz moved to table the rent reduction issue. Councilman Glinn seconded the motion and the vote was 4 to 1 in favor of the motion with Councilwoman Ledesma dissenting.
Vice Mayor Zelkowitz then moved to provide $100,000 in reimbursement funding for text books. Councilwoman Holly seconded the motion.
David Benjamin Mr. Benjamin stated that the School needs more money and the community needs to understand that education is the community's responsibility.
Abeer Jadallah Ms. Jadallah echoed Mr. Benjamin's comments indicating that the School needs additional community support.
Kelly Jackson Ms. Jackson talked of the difficulty of putting a price tag on the School that is a jewel in the community.
Due to time constraints in that he needed to leave the meeting, Vice Mayor Zelkowitz called the question which resulted in a unanimous vote in favor of the motion.
Vice Mayor Zelkowitz left the meeting following this vote.
DISCUSSION AND POSSIBLE ACTION ON MAKING AN ACCELERATED CHARTER SCHOOL BOARD APPOINTMENT DUE TO AN ANNOUNCED VACANCY.
Mayor Alice Burch
Mayor Burch spoke of Mr. Mumby's resignation from the Board in order to move back to New York. She indicated that due to his position on the Board, she would like the Council to consider expediting the appointment process. Council Members discussed the issue and reviewed the current appointment time-line which is scheduled for the second meeting in June. There was no motion made and the Council consensus was to leave the appointment schedule as is. No further action was taken.
4) PUBLIC COMMENTS (3 Minute Time Limit Per Speaker)
Laura Annese Ms. Annese spoke of the possibility of a Bed & Breakfast facility in Miami Shores.
Sylvia Peraza Ms. Peraza spoke of the Charter School and the need for them to operate within their allocated budget. She indicated that the School does not serve all of the residents of the Village as she has a special needs child for which the Charter School does not have programming.
Abeer Jadallah Ms. Jadallah spoke of the past mismanagement of the School yet their continued excellent grade averages. She reminded the public that the School is a municipal charter school, not a for-profit school.
MacAdam Glinn Councilman Glinn thanked everyone for their attendance and their contacts regarding the dog park.
Ivonne Ledesma Councilwoman Ledesma acknowledged Vice Mayor Zelkowitz for suggesting the visioning session and spoke of Mr. Mumby's move back to New York, thanking him for his work and support of the Village.
Herta Holly Councilwoman Holly congratulated Ms. Jadallah and the students that attended the Global Student Leaders Summit. She further spoke about the dog park and its location. She reminded the residents that the Council has a responsibility for the budget of the entire community and that it is impossible for the Village to do everything that everyone wants at the same time.
Alice Burch Mayor Burch thanked the residents for attending the meeting and spoke of the Walk/Bike to School/Work day. She announced the Chamber of Commerce event scheduled for Thursday, May 5th recognizing the outstanding students of local schools.
The Tuesday, May 3, 2016 Council Meeting was adjourned at 8:30 PM.
Alice Burch, Mayor


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On June 11, 2018 the United States Federal Court of Appeals (the "Court") heard the case of Medtronic Inc. v. Mark Barry. Medtronic is a global manufacturer of various medical devices including spinal surgery tools and devices. Spinal surgeon Dr. Mark Barry sued Medtronic, alleging that some Medtronic products infringed a group of his patents that were directed to methods of improving spinal column deviations using pedicle screws to correct conditions such as scoliosis.
Medtronic sought to disprove infringement by alleging that Barry's inventions were not patentable because they were anticipated by Medtronic's prior art. Medtronic cited one of its own patents as prior art against Dr. Barry 's patents, as well as a video demonstration and a slide presentation of de-rotation surgeries, including with pedicle screws, to correct scoliosis (the "Materials"). Medtronic first presented the Materials to 20 spinal deformity experts at a Spinal Deformity Study Group ("SDSG") meeting in Scottsdale as part of Medtronic's sponsorship of medical education courses at industry meetings and conferences. It subsequently presented the Materials at two additional conferences; the first in Colorado Springs, attended by 20 SDGS surgeons, and the second in St. Louis, attended by 55 SDSG surgeons. Notably, at least 75 non-SDSG surgeons also attended the Colorado Springs and the St. Louis meetings.
Medtronic initiated Inter Partes Review (IPR) proceedings against Barry's patents though the U.S. Patent and Trade Mark Office's Patent Trail and Appeals Board (the "Board"). The Board determined that the Materials were not prior art citable against Barry because they were not 'publicly accessible', and therefore were not 'printed publications'. While an inventor who disclosed un-protected material at a conference would have been elated with this determination, Medtronic, wishing to invalidate Barry's patents, hoped for the opposite result so it sued Barry in Court. Medtronic argued that Barry's patents were invalid because, while the Scottsdale disclosure of the Materials may not have been to the public, its disclosure of the Materials at the Colorado Springs and St. Louis meetings did constitute a public disclosure and the Materials were publicly accessible. Therefore, the questions before the court were whether (i) the distribution of certain materials to groups of people at one or more meetings renders such materials printed publications and (ii) the materials were sufficiently disseminated at the time they were distributed at the two conferences to have been made available to the public.
The crux of the prior art evaluation analysis depends, subject to some exclusions, on whether the Materials became public before the date on which the patent application for the invention was filed. Section 102(b) of 35 USC requires that an invention must not have been (i) described in a printed publication, (ii) in public use, (iii) offered for sale, or (iv) otherwise available to the public. Similarly, section 28.2(1) of Canada's Patent Act, requires that a patentable invention must not have become "available to the public in Canada or elsewhere".
To determine whether a piece of prior art (also referred to by the courts as a reference) is a printed publication requires a legal exercise based on the underlying facts and the circumstances under which the reference was allegedly disclosed to the public. The courts have used 'public accessibility' as a proxy to determine whether the dissemination of a reference constitutes a printed publication (re Hall, Fed. Cir. 1986).
In this case, the Court determined that the Board did not address the potentially critical difference between the SDSG meeting in Scottsdale and the conferences in Colorado Springs and St. Louis so it remanded the case to the Board for re–evaluation. The Board must now determine whether the dissemination of the Materials to a set of "supremely-skilled experts in a technical field precludes finding such materials to be printed publications and were publicly accessible". In its re-evaluation, the Board must determine whether the Materials were published without restrictions at the Colorado Springs and St. Louis meetings and whether the SDGS members were expected to maintain the confidentiality of the Materials or whether they were permitted to share or publicize the Materials and the insights they may have gained at the meetings. In addition, the Board must treat the relatively exclusive nature of the SDSG membership as only one factor in the public accessibility analysis and it must consider the purpose of the meetings.
By way of a review of other factors to be considered in a prior art analysis, the Medtronic Court reiterated that a printed publication need not be easily searchable after publication if it was sufficiently disseminated at the time it was published. Divulging the existence of a paper, and then proceeding to inform a captive group of persons of ordinary skill in the art of its contents in an oral presentation, can be a factor in determining public accessibility. Similarly, although not dispositive of the inquiry, the length of time any material is exhibited, the ease with which the material presented or displayed could have been copied, and the expertise of the intended audience can help determine how easily those who viewed the material could retain it.
Additional analysis factors include the presence or absence of an expectation of confidentiality between the presenter and the audience. Importantly, even without a formal notice or requirement of confidentiality, such as "Confidential" marking or a non-disclosure agreement, the Court noted that one must still determine whether any policies or practices associated with a particular meeting, or any academic or professional norms, may give rise to an expectation that a disclosure would remain confidential.
Although this case outlines a few potentially exculpatory factors against a finding of public disclosure, if inventors themselves were to disclose the information, they may avail themselves of the applicable grace period in a few jurisdictions. However, the grace period is no saving grace in a first to file jurisdiction if a third-party were to race to the patent office to file an application before the inventors do. Using the facts of this case as a hypothetical example, if Barry learned about the use of pedicle screws at Medtronic's first conference, then filed patent applications for a Medtronic invention in his name and applying the Board's finding that Medtronic's Materials did not constitute prior art against Barry's patents means that Barry's patents stand. As the Medtronic case demonstrates, an inventor's disclosure at a meeting may or may not constitute prior art against a third party so, in the words of the prolific inventor Ben Franklin, "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure". There is no better substitute for inadvertent disclosure of patentable information than filing at least a provisional patent application to protect it before presenting it anywhere.
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Divorce is one of the most stressful things that people can go through during their life. Apart from the emotional and mental toll that a divorce can take, splitting up a marriage can also have a big impact on a person's finances. From hiring a lawyer, to paying for court costs, relocation expenses, a house sale, and more, there are many different yet unavoidable ways in which a relationship split takes money from the pocket.
However, there are also a variety of ways to save money during the process of a divorce, as long as you're aware of them. If you want to spend as little cash as possible when splitting lives and assets, it's important to do some research and planning so that you don't have to outlay any more funds than necessary. Read on for some top tips to help you spend less during a divorce.
For any divorce proceedings, you'll want to hire a specialist divorce law solicitor to help you through the process. However, if you're angry about your relationship split, it can be a good idea to put off selecting a lawyer until you have your emotions under control (or at least more in hand).
Obviously you will want to hire the best lawyer for the job, but it's hard to think clearly when your emotions are clouding your judgement. Take some time before you jump into making decisions. This will help you properly determine what kind of legal aid you require, what options you have, and what questions you need to ask a potential consultant.
Once you have chosen a lawyer, utilise their services to educate yourself on the process of divorce, and the ins and outs of finalising financial settlements and custody agreements. You will want to clearly understand what your rights are, what you need to discuss with your ex, and how long the whole thing might take to get sorted.
To keep legal costs to a minimum, go into any meetings or phone conversations with your solicitor well prepared. Don't waste their time (and your money, since they charge by the hour) dithering. Instead, have all your questions and paperwork in order before the meeting begins.
By being prepared as possible, particularly when it comes to lists of financial assets and liabilities, you'll not only save yourself cash but also help your lawyer quickly and more easily determine what your next step should be.
As well, whenever you can, ask your lawyer questions via email rather than on the phone or in person. Putting things in writing is generally always quicker than having a conversation which can take longer than expected. Similarly, whenever possible, communicate directly with your ex to determine information, rather than asking your solicitor to contact them. This can be a big money saver over time.
In addition, it's a good idea not to change lawyers unless it's truly unavoidable and you think your current representation is inept. Any time you have to brief a new attorney on your case and all the background information that goes with it, you have to pay expensive legal fees. Stick with the one lawyer/law firm to keep costs to a minimum instead.
Other people it pays to contact for advice are tax specialists and financial planners. If there's a decent amount of money at stake in the financial settlement, you'll want to talk to a tax advisor to find out the implications of a proposed agreement, as well as any beneficial tips for minimising tax costs.
A financial planner can also give you advice on how much money you'll feasibly need to support yourself and any dependents. They can help you determine if you'll be able to cover the cost of the house you want to keep, or what to do with any settlement proceeds you receive.
One of the quickest ways that people spend more money than they need to during a divorce is by letting their emotions get away from them. It's important not to fight with your ex over things you don't care about — after all, the more the two of your argue over belongings, the more your legal bills will add up.
It also pays to settle out of court wherever possible. A litigated divorce (where a judge has the final say on the division of a couple's assets, payments, and visitation rights) can be incredibly expensive. Most cases that end up in court cost many thousands of dollars, and can often end up being more than the property involved is even worth. Try to come to an agreement with your ex so you can steer clear of any court involvement.
Speaking from experience divorce was more like death and you're right about keeping your feeling in check. It seems during that time everything is so much exaggerated and over the top. Keeping a level head and focusing on what is the right financial decisions that need to be made I think is very important.
Even the most civil divorces can be very costly. Mine left me feeling like I was starting back at square one financially. I agree that getting your emotions under control is key to avoid expensive escalation of your proceedings. Try to be as fair as possible and decide what will truly matter in your future rather than how you can get back at your soon-to-be-ex. Settling out of court is ideal, just make sure you have it all documented so there's no questions or problems later.
I didn't realize just how expensive a divorce can get if it ends up going to court. I've got a close friend that's planning on getting a divorce pretty soon, and I'm sure they wouldn't be able to afford letting the situation go that far. Here's to hoping that they can each work with their lawyers to settle everything outside of court so they won't have to spend more than they can afford to!
I didn't realize that bankruptcy was so common during or after a divorce. I can see how that would end up being a burden in a lot of cases though. It's probably good to talk to an attorney throughout the process to know if you need to file for bankruptcy in order to get back on top of your finances.
I thought it was interesting that you suggesting using a lawyer to help save money during a divorce. As you suggest, however, a lawyer will help you to understand the legal process and be prepared for your case. Hiring a lawyer makes things go a lot more smoothly so that the legal process of the divorce will go quickly. In the long run, this definitely saves money. Plus, it helps you stay sane and keep your peace of mind during a stressful event like a divorce. Thanks for the insight!
I've been trying to find a good family lawyer and I want to do it as cost effective as I can. I actually hadn't thought about getting advice from tax consultants. It seems like they could really help with that. I'll be sure to look more into that.
My wife and I are divorcing and going our separate ways. We have four kids together. It will be hard to figure out how I can provide for four kids on one income. Throughout our marriage, we had two incomes. My ex-wife makes more than me. Can I expect her to pay more in child support?
My friend is currently going through a divorce and has two kids. He's emotional about the whole thing, which is to be expected, but thanks for your tips on keeping a clear head. After reading this I think a good lawyer, who knows the ins and outs of custody agreements, is exactly what he needs.
Divorce can be really expensive. I think a good point is made, that with a good lawyer you can help keep the costs down. You can still get a good lawyer that will help you with your case, but just get someone with reasonable prices.
Thanks for sharing this advice on saving money while you are going through a divorce! Right now, my husband and I are in the early stages of divorce, but I want to ensure we don't waste any money. I'll definitely be sure to try hiring a financial consultant to see what can be done to ensure we don't waste money. We will also be sure to be prepared before we search for attorneys to save a bit!
Thanks for sharing these tips, especially because divorces can be so expensive. I have a cousin who has gone through two divorces, and it's insane! I especially like how you included doing your own preparations so that you save time and money. I think a lot of people don't realize that hiring a lawyer doesn't mean the lawyer does all the work!
I agree with you that divorce doesn't only cause mental and emotional stress but has a big impact on your financial situation. I had a friend go through a divorce and he was left with little money after all was said and done. I think an important part is picking a good divorce lawyer, and I like what you said about taking your time before jumping into making decisions. Thanks for posting!
Excellent article! I'm going through a divorce, so I'm glad that I stumbled upon your post. I think you're absolutely right: it's important to save money with attorney fees by only utilizing their services when you need them. I'll be sure to follow your suggestion by being as prepared for the divorce as possible. Thanks for the great tips; you've been very helpful!
Divorce is definitely something that is hard and can be really stressful and emotionally draining. That is why it is so important for you to get all the help you can get when it comes to things like this. You really want to take the time to find the best possible lawyer for you. By doing that you can be more educated on the subject, and you can take a lot of stress off of your shoulders.
I've never been through a divorce, and hope I never have to. However, I know it's a reality for some people. Like the article says, I would hire a specialized lawyer. They've always helped me save a lot of money and stress in the past.
My spouse and I recently made the decision to get a divorce and money is definitely a concern for me. I am taking my time with looking for a family law attorney because I want to be able to find someone that will fight for me but won't break the bank. Your tip about keeping emotions in check is really great because that is definitely something that I have struggled with. Hopefully these tips can help me with the divorce, thanks for sharing!
Choosing the right lawyer will make or break your bank account. Doing your research will help you find the best lawyer for the lowest price. Fantastic advice. Thanks so much for sharing!
Taxes are already so confusing in general. I can't imagine how much more crazy and difficult they would be after a divorce! That's not something I think most people consider when getting divorced, so I'm really glad you included it in this article.
Going through a divorce would be awful and expensive. It's good to see that there are ways to save money during a divorce. On top of that, I'm sure having a good divorce attorney that will be able to represent you well.
Thank you for sharing this helpful advice Some people believe that they will save money by not hiring a lawyer. While this might be true in some cases, most of the time it will be at your disadvantage to not hire a divorce lawyer. Lawyers are trained to help people through legal processes that are difficult to understand.
Oh hey, the part that talks about financial planning sure had me thinking about my brother's situation. His current situation is that he's facing a property tax settlement with his previous spouse that has been calling him about selling and evicting him from the house that he lives in. In this situation, how would a lawyer deal it out and prevent my brother from getting his house sold and evicted?
Lee, the other day a friend of mine said that she is thinking of hiring a divorce lawyer. The tip about educating yourself on the process of divorce and custody agreements with the lawyer seems like a good idea. I will have to show her this information. She might find it useful.


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Allied Energy Corporation Reviews 2021 Oil Leases Progress to Production and Provides 2022 Outlook
Posted byDennis Mutua January 20, 2022
Carrollton, Texas, Jan. 20, 2022 — McapMediaWire — Allied Energy Corp (OTC Pink: AGYP), an energy company focused on leasing and reworking oil and gas reserves in the most prolific hydrocarbon areas of the United States, is pleased to provide a 2021 year-in-review detailing progress and production at the Company's Green Lease, Gilmer Lease, and Prometheus Lease Sites.
The Company received their P4 and P5 permits in the spring of 2021 under the name, Allied Operating LLC, from the Texas Railroad Commission to operate oil and gas wells in the State of Texas.
GILMER LEASE 2021 IN REVIEW
The Annie Gilmer lease is a 300-acre site in the small community of Crystal Falls, Texas on the banks of the Clear Fork of the Brazos River, approximately thirty miles north of the town of Breckenridge, Texas. An executive summary of the Gilmer Lease was commissioned by the Company and completed by Petroleum Engineer Mark D. McBryde: https://www.otcmarkets.com/otcapi/company/financial-report/293640/content
During Q3 and Q4 of 2021 at the Annie Gilmer Lease, Allied reworked Well #1 and Well #5 and subsequently connected the wells to a gas powered generator for electrical power to run the pumps. The Company chose to work with gas generators initially because Tri-County estimated that it would take up to 5 months to bring upgraded electrical power (3-phase) to the site. Based on the production data received during several months of pumping during September through November Allied assessed that the gas driven motors did not provide sufficient power to effectively pump the Wells down, it was also not cost-effective based on our models.
GILMER LEASE 2022 OUTLOOK: Initial production data indicates that the pumping set up was insufficient to move the amount of fluids required using the gas bleed from the Wells. The current pump set-up yielded between 160 and 300 barrels of total fluids per day; however, the company discerned to achieve maximum potential at the Mississippi formation a pump setup that attains 1000 barrels of fluid per day, per well is required. The wells were showing between 2% to 5% oil cut even with these low pumping volumes.
Allied is currently in discussions with Tri-County to schedule installation for a 3- phase/200 amp service to the Gilmer Lease in Q1. As soon as electrical power is installed Allied will set an electrical submersible pump (ESP) in one of the wells to handle 1500 barrels of fluid per day. Allied will pump the well down and assess the data over a period of 60 days. Based on the results, we will repeat the process on each well until the lease is fully operational.
GREEN LEASE 2021 IN REVIEW
An executive summary of the Green Lease, located in Balor County, consisting of 980 acres was commissioned by the Company and completed by Petroleum Engineer Mark D. McBryde: https://www.otcmarkets.com/otcapi/company/financial-report/279883/content
Allied successfully reworked Green Lease Well M-1 and Well X-3 and both wells came online in September, 2021. After several weeks of pumping fluids it was assessed that high-capacity ESP pumps are required at both of the wells to achieve maximal oil production. In late November the Company began the process of installing one high-capacity pump and upgrading the electric supply to handle the ESP on Well M-1. The Well M-1 was brought back online in late December and the Company is currently assessing the draw down rate of fluids with the high-capacity pump.
GREEN LEASE 2022 OUTLOOK: In the coming weeks once the assessment of Well M-1 is complete, Allied will install the second ESP on Well X-3. Based on the success of Wells M-1 and X-3, Allied plans to evaluate three other Wells of interest at the Green Lease site. After achieving favorable production numbers over a 5-6 month period, Allied will plan a 3D seismic survey of the site to identify additional drilling targets.
PROMETHEUS LEASE 2021 IN REVIEW
The Company completed the acquisition of the 325 acre Prometheus Lease located in Garza County, Texas. This well was originally tested and submitted to the Texas railroad commission by Apache Corporation in 2014.
Allied successfully completed all scheduled rework of Well 1H and this well is currently online and performing as designed. Currently, Allied continues to draw the fluid down at a rate of 2000 to 2400 barrels per day. At the end of Q4, 2021, Allied has sold a total of 3 loads (approximately 160-170 barrels per load) of oil from the Prometheus Lease.
PROMETHEUS LEASE 2022 OUTLOOK: Prometheus Well 1H continues to pump as Allied refines the processes to maximize the potential of Well 1H. In order to improve the oil production from Well 1H, Allied is currently in the process of installing a transfer pump and will flare all the gas to reduce the pressure in the well. Accomplishing this will result in an increase in oil production for the well. Since the start of Q1, there have been continued oil sales from Well 1H as we look forward to seeing continued growth in numbers from this site.
CEO George Montieth summarized 2021 as a year of laying foundations: "Yes, 2021 was a foundational year for Allied in which the Company successfully achieved initial production at three of our lease sites. I am genuinely proud of my team in the field for their hard work and dedication. In less than a year our team has done almost everything we set out to do. Sure, there have been hiccups and challenges along the way, but there are with every company. We enjoy meeting these challenges head on every day, it's what we love about building Allied Energy. From a practical side we also understand that whether it's getting power to the Gilmer Wells sooner or the weather delays we were met with throughout the spring season, some things are out of your control timing wise. We now go into 2022 as a producing oil company that is selling oil to our contracted agent. Our initial production numbers have barely scratched the surface of the real potential of Allied's six existing well projects. Now that we have this foundation of six active wells, I intend to build upon that throughout 2022 by maximizing production at each well, adding new wells and leases along with other strategic ventures to benefit the company and its shareholders. Allied is a producing all-American oil company that is in the right place at the right time in history. I could not be more excited about the prospects for the upcoming year and again remain proud that we accomplished the majority of our 2021 goals as outlined to our shareholders, most notably becoming a producing oil company!"
The Company invites any and all interested parties to check back regularly at https://alliedengycorp.com/ and the corporate Twitter account https://twitter.com/AlliedEnergyCo1
About AGYP: Allied Energy Corp. is an energy development and production company acquiring oil & gas reserves in some of the most prolific hydrocarbon bearing regions of the United States. The Company specializes in the business of reworking & re-completing 'existing' oil & gas wells located in the thousands of mature oil & gas producing fields across the United States. The Company applies its knowledge, experience, and effective well-remediation technologies to achieve higher production volumes, longer well life, and more efficient recovery of the proven and available oil and gas reserves in the fields/projects in which it has acquired an ownership interest. The Company will utilize updated technologies such as hydraulic fracturing ("fracking"), drilling of lateral ("horizontal") legs in productive zones, and utilizing new cased hole electric logging to locate bypassed pays, all to enhance daily rates and oil & gas recoveries. By acquiring interests in a growing number of selected projects in various regions, Allied Energy Corp. is diversifying its exposure and effectively minimizing risk as it pursues corporate growth, top line & bottom-line revenues to the benefit of all stakeholders. There are proven, recoverable reserves contained in the many aging oil & gas fields that have been bypassed by companies moving away from these fields in search of deeper, more plentiful, but more costly reserves. The Company plans to concentrate on bypassed oil and gas as there is less competition and as mentioned above, the costs are considerably less. Additionally, the company will acquire interests in marginal wells that can be acquired at minimal cost, of which there are 420,000 wells in the U.S. Quoting Barry Russell, President of the Independent Petroleum Association of America ("IPAA") – "With approximately 20 percent of American oil production and 10 percent of American natural gas production coming from marginal wells, they are America's true strategic petroleum reserve."
Safe Harbor Statement: This Press Release may contain certain forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. The Company has tried, whenever possible, to identify these forward-looking statements using words such as "anticipates," "believes," "estimates," "expects," "plans," "intends," "potential" and similar expressions. These statements reflect the Company's current beliefs and are based upon information currently available to it. Accordingly, such forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which could cause the Company's actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from those expressed in or implied by such statements. The Company undertakes no obligation to update or advise in the event of any change, addition or alteration to the information catered in this Press Release including such forward-looking statements.
Contact: Allied Energy Corporation
Email: info@alliedengycorp.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/AlliedEnergyCo1
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*Psst. In case you're wondering, my rolling file drawer which I have found to be absolutely perfect for teaching is available on Amazon here.
Grab some cheap containers at your local Dollar store to help separate items like paperclips, coins, and rubber bands.
Buy a "For Deposit Only" stamp for all those checks (I'm still old school on payments) or refill the ink on your old one.
Replenish your printer paper and cardstock inventory. Buy paper in bulk to save money and avoid having to grab a new ream every month at the store.
Wrap things up – clear away all those piles. Either finish it, put it away, or gather what's there into a neat stack so it doesn't look so overwhelming when you return.
See the set of 6 brown drawers on my work table? Those drawers house all my office supplies.
Stock up on paper towel, kleenex, sanitizer, bathroom cleaners, and all those office supplies we talked about earlier.
Wrap up headphones and put away anything that might have to do with student lab assignments.
Take inventory of and order incentive prizes as needed. Even tidying up your prize boxes can help resurface items that may have been overlooked by students.
You don't have to spend hours tidying your space, sometimes just a quick 5-15 minute power pick-up can make a world of difference.
Stay tuned for more Tidy Teacher Tips coming in 2018!


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'I'll Be Fine' is a noticeable turn towards the indie pop end of the folk/pop road travelled so far by Byron Bay four piece The Lucky Wonders. I'll Be Fine builds on a musical thread first spun with debut single Happy Pill, released in November 2009 to an impressive response, with airplay on Triple J, hitting No. 1 on Unearthed Roots, and remaining in the Top 25 for seven weeks. I'll Be Fine is a moody, airport love-longing song, a little reminiscent of Angus and Julia Stone after a late night goodbye and several short blacks.
Songwriters Emma Royle and WAMI Award winner Jessie Vintila first came together to create live music for a puppet show in the 2009 Adelaide Fringe Festival. Expanding to a four piece, they enlisted ARIA nominee Anthony Lycenko (Pete Murray, Busby Marou, Xavier Rudd) to engineer and co-produce Thirteen O'Clock at Byron Bay's Rocking Horse studios.
Their trademark quality songwriting was rewarded when their last single Anyway, a folksy, Waifs-like pep-talk-to-self about chasing the music dream, was a semifinalist in the International Songwriting Competition.
After opening for Pete Murray in June and a sell-out stint in the Top End in July, The Lucky Wonders are now embarking on their third national tour for the release of 'I'll Be Fine'. Rotation on Radio National, regional ABCs, community, country and commercial radio, and a stint as Artist of the Week on ABC North Coast have made The Lucky Wonders an increasingly familiar sound on the Australian indie music landscape. I'll Be Fine is the third track released from their highly anticipated second album, expected out next March.


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American hedonism closes its eyes to death, and has been
incapable of exorcising the destructive power of the moment
with a wisdom like that of the Epicureans of antiquity.
- Octavio Paz
Death is un-American, and an affront to every citizen's inalienable
right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
- Arnold Toynbee
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"As long as such self-serving hypocrisy
motivates America's response, Ukraine will
only sink further into needless bloodshed,
and that blood will be on America's head."
In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors,
since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors,
for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal
applies only upwards, not downwards.
― Bertrand Russell
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"What those 'racists' are reflexively and rightly reacting
to is the soulless chill as the fire goes out beneath the
melting pot. Those who think America can thrive as a
'cultural mosaic' are worse than fools; they're Canadians."
Two centuries ago, a former European colony decided to catch up with Europe.
It succeeded so well that the United States of America became a monster,
in which the taints, the sickness and the inhumanity of Europe
have grown to appalling dimensions.
― Frantz Fanon
What the United States does best is understand itself.
What it does worst is understand others.
- Carlos Fuentes
Poor Mexico, so far from God
and so close to the United States.
- Porfirio Diaz
"Indeed, everything about the American southland was magical
and exotic to the young Canadian musicians, from the sights
and smells to the drawling manner of speech to, especially, the
central role that music played in people's everyday lives."
America is a mistake, a giant mistake.
America is an adorable woman chewing tobacco.
- Auguste Bartholdi
"This is the tone of the China Century, a subtle
mix of Nazi/Soviet bravado and 'oriental'
cunning -- easily misunderstood, and never
heard before, in a real enemy, by the West."
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"And for the others who argued for English-only
patriotism, I note that there are more than
57 million Americans (about 20% of the nation)
whose first-language is not English...."
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"This is the behavior, and the fate, of paranoid
old-world tyrants like Hitler or Saddam, not liberal new-world democracies like America pretends to be."
America is the only nation in history which
miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.
- Georges Clemenceau
I found there a country with thirty-two religions and only one sauce.
- Charles–Maurice Talleyrand
A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle,
and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.
- Edmund Burke
America is the only country ever founded on the printed word.
- Marshall McLuhan
"The removal of racist sports nicknames (and mascots) seems outrageously belated
-- why, exactly, has this civil rights cause
taken so long to gain momentum?"
The atom bomb is a paper tiger which the
United States reactionaries use to scare people.
It looks terrible, but in fact it isn't.
- Mao Tse-tung
They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but
they kept only one; they promised to take our land, and they did.
- Red Cloud
In America sex is an obsession,
in other parts of the world it is a fact.
- Marlene Dietrich
I would rather have a nod from an American,
than a snuff-box from an emperor.
- Lord Byron
One day the United States discovered it was an empire.
But it didn't know what an empire was.
It thought that an empire was merely the biggest of all corporations.
- Roberto Calasso
Americans are so enamored of equality, they would rather
be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.
- Alexis de Tocqueville
"No one, I thought, could watch those scenes, of young children slaughtered en masse, and so many parents grieving, without thinking that this, finally, would tip some kind of balance in the country."
If you are prepared to accept the consequences of your dreams
then you must still regard America today with the same naive
enthusiasm as the generations that discovered the New World.
- Jean Baudrillard
I am willing to love all mankind, except an American.
- Samuel Johnson
America, thou half brother of the world;
With something good and bad of every land.
- Philip Bailey
"What can be more powerful than disinformation in the Information Age?"
England and America are two countries separated by the same language.
- Sir Walter Besant
Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by
posterity because he was the last to discover America.
- James Joyce
Now, from America, empty indifferent things
are pouring across, sham things, dummy life.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
If the United States is to recover fortitude and lucidity,
it must recover itself, and to recover itself it must
recover the "others"- the outcasts of the Western world.
The youth of America is their oldest tradition.
It has been going on now for three hundred years.
- Oscar Wilde
"America really is, for most Americans, all things considered, a good place to be, and all they really want is for everyone to enjoy the same privilege and pleasure."
When good Americans die they go to Paris;
when bad Americans die they go to America.
jobs drug dealer
They're nothing more than traffickers; and as the smart traffickers'll tell you, you don't use the merchandise. They are just inoculating their kids with a tech-drug serum, to immunize them against the very merchandise that put the **** bowling alley in their basement.
America is therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that
lie before us, the burden of the World's History shall reveal itself.
- Georg Friedrich Hegel
America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room.
Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair.
Americans always try to do the right thing after they've tried everything else.
The thing that impresses me most about Americans
is the way parents obey their children.
- Edward, Duke of Windsor
Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering
what average opinion believes average opinion to be.
- John Maynard Keynes
Europe was created by history.
America was created by philosophy.
- Margaret Thatcher
America is God's crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of
Europe are melting and reforming!... The real American has not yet arrived.
He is only in the crucible, I tell you - he will be the fusion of all races.
- Israel Zangwill
American dreams are strongest in the hearts of those
who have seen America only in their dreams.
- Pico Iyer
America: It's like Britain, only with buttons.
- Ringo Starr
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer.
It has never yet melted.
― D.H. Lawrence
I have two conflicting visions of America.
One is a kind of dream landscape and the other is a kind of black comedy.
― Bono
The American mirror, said the voice, the sad American mirror
of wealth and poverty and constant useless metamorphosis,
the mirror that sails and whose sails are pain.
― Roberto Bolaño
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Aerlyn1
Novice Their American
Language, emojis and globalization
on: April 5, 2017, 14:36
http://www.aljazeera.com/blogs/americas/2016/12/world-emojis-display-york-moma-161226184836568.html
Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year 2015 is…
An article for Al Jazeera covers the use of emojis as a bridge to the globalization of language. Recently MOMA had a display of early emojis acknowledging that the use of pictures to communicate by phone has become accepted into our culture and has a significance to the way language is used. The article talks about the ease with which emojis translate, as well as the increase in cultural representations within emojis. In 2015 the Oxford Word of the Year was the emoji 'Face with Tears of Joy'. This prize was commented on by Casper Grathwohl, President of Oxford Dictionaries, "You can see how traditional alphabet scripts have been struggling to meet the rapid-fire, visually focused demands of 21st Century communication. It's not surprising that a pictographic script like emoji has stepped in to fill those gaps." The cultural significance of this for language is interesting. Throughout globalization narratives by Adichie, Achebe, Shteyngart and many others, languages are mixed within the narratives creating a quasi-hybrid narrative, perhaps emojis serve a similar function in personal communications.
RachelMorr-
Re: Language, emojis and globalization
Given the emphasis in this class towards researching and exploring the complexity and obscurity of words, it is interesting that a new form of language that does not even contain words has become so important in our day to day lives. Emojis are entirely based on a universal meaning and interpretation. Each company, be it Apple, Samsung, Windows, etc. has their own emojis which, although slightly different in their appearance, showcase the same images which are all interpreted the same. The 'Face with Tears of Joy' is personally one of my favourite emojis because I have interpreted it as a carefree expression of pure enjoyment. When I asked one of my closest friends who also uses this emoji frequently what this particular emoji means to her, she told me that she interprets it as a moment of absolute hilarity in which a simple laugh would not express how she feels strongly enough. Although we interpret the emoji slightly differently, we can both use this emoji in the same context and get the same conclusion from its use. Although symbols have been used before in order to express ideas, for instance the Egyptian hieroglyphics which dictated specific words or short phrases, the emojis are based on interpretation and the global understanding of a small image.
eyeofthesk-
This is a very interesting article and I think it speaks directly to the globalization of language. It allows people to communicate across cultures and language barriers. While this development is in many ways a positive step for the future of language, it could also pose problems for clarifying communication in encounters where a person cannot see facial expressions or describe emotion. The true meaning behind many emojis is vague and often people are not aware of the intended message. While these emojis allow people to speak across cultures, it does not account for the lack of clarity that words define for a conversation. For example, when using the popular "poop" emoji, a person could intend the image to translate as "SHIT" or as a lighthearted goofy message. In turn, this creates a problem that the use of words often clarifies. It also takes away from the depth of conversation with words. A person may be able to explain an emotion or idea in 2-3 emojis but the recipient only gets a brief glimpse of what would have traditionally been an in-depth explanation. Maybe I am similar to the protagonist (Lenny) of Gary Shteyngart's novel Super Sad True Love Story, but I cherish the eloquence of words and language (as opposed to abbreviations and emojis) because for me it offers so much more depth to a conversation. Similar to how he collects and holds onto paperback novels I continue to fight against the use of too many abbreviations and emojis. I suppose there will be a day when all language has been adapted and shortened to suit our busy lifestyles and I will be scolded for treasuring the intimacy of the English language.
Prudence13
on: May 29, 2017, 05:51
Several years ago adults were baffled over teenagers' use of popular acronyms on social media which happened to be a new language in the making. Years have passed and now the 21st century is known for the improvement of that particular language. The once scarce use of words has now been replaced with the use of emojis - tiny ideograms and smileys used in the virtual world as expression of emotions. It is interesting how both youngsters and adults quickly pick up the habit of following and practicing the new trends. There are many reasons why these emojis have become part of the one's everyday life:
1)	When having a busy schedule and no time to always check the phone, the possibility to answer a call or a message with emojis is considered as a salvation since it takes you only couple seconds (your girlfriend will never get annoyed because you haven't answered her 5 pending text messages :D)
2)	some people find texting as an easier way of communication since they avoid being confronted with others vis-à-vis. Consequently, for them the emojis are an upgrade of the word texts which significantly simplify their life. Now they can easily express each emotional state they would never be able to show in real life.
3)	People can now expand their social circles even outside their geographical borders. Today you can live in Germany yet have a best friend from Thailand living in France. Language barriers can no longer be the major obstacle in creating new relationships. Every single thought (sentence) can be translated in the emoji language.
Whether this globaliazation of language helps humanity or not is a debatable question. Some find the invention of emojis as an improvement needed in their social lives, some find it as the reason why their social relations die.
Brian-
Experienced Their American
on: June 16, 2017, 16:26
Perhaps, ideally, emojis are seen as that ultimate goal for a universal language. It may not appear to have a colonial insidiousness associated with languages such as English. At the same time, as already stated, it is still subject to misinterpretation. Just the other day, I sent a message to someone about how I'd seen their name in the liner notes of a music album, and their response was simplified into a "thumbs-up" emoji. Am I to take that as an acknowledgement, or sarcasm?
I feel it is merely too much simplification at hand. I feel like there has been a shift from the emoticons that were meant to be supplementary for text-based communication, now changing into the emojis that serve to replace. Sure, it has its perks to communicate with other cultures regardless of language barriers, but I am also skeptical that it may depreciate language. Personally, I am not sold by the idea that it is a time-saver - would such a notion undermine the thought and feeling behind the words people articulate? Would I as a recipient feel somewhat undervalued if the person I'm communicating with resorted to a simplified image as opposed to making time to send a few words?
I am not a person who practices such short-forms, anyway. I feel as though it facilitates a social society warned against from writers such as Harlan Ellison, and succumbed to schedule in the dystopian metropolis of Georg Simmel's design - but that is merely my eloquent perception.
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Norihiro Naganawa is Professor of Central Eurasian Studies at the Slavic and Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University, and at the Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA), Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (cross-appointment). Based on the local knowledge of Russia's Volga-Urals region, his research interests cover global circulation of Islamic knowledge, nationalism, and radicalism, as well as entangled history of Russia and the Middle East. His works have appeared in Slavic Review, Kritika, Ab Imperio, and Religion, State & Society. His book Islamic Russia: Empire, Religion, and Public Sphere, 1905-1917 received the 2019 Mishima Kaiun Memorial Award given annually to a distinguished contribution to the study of Asian history. Currently he is editing a volume titled Dreams of Emancipation: A Transnational History of Revolutionary Russia (under contract with Academic Studies Press).
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Ever heard of Shuabang? It's a scam, says guest writer Yang Wang, to game Apple gaming and app ratings in China. Here's how United Mobile Games is dealing with it and why it should matter to you and your business.
They call it Shuabang. And it's one of the most troubling gangs of system gamers facing mobile game developers in China today.
Shuabang is the practice of using what I consider to be ultra shady methods to hype up apps to the top of the Apple App Store rankings. That's why a group of top independent mobile game developers and mobile game companies in China are banding together to form United Mobile Games.
They say it will help expose and fight Shuabang — and enable indie developers to get more exposure for their games while doing it.
A closer look at Shuabang reveals it has spawned an entire industry of people who specialize in hyping Apple iOS games. Android, because of its fragmented market is not as vulnerable to ratings hype schemes. But the situation is particularly dire in the Apple iOS arena. Shuabang practitioners allegedly have created millions of phantom Apple iTunes accounts — in China you don't need a credit card number to start an account.
Shuabang adherents have the labor force, expertise and necessary software to get the job done. What makes matters worse, app makers go along with it in spades. Some consider Shuabang to be a corrupt way of marketing, sure, but it's a necessarily corrupt one, they think. And the scheme evolves over time. Almost as soon as Apple adjusts its algorithm, Shuabang experts offer new downloads, ratings or whatever measurements required to fudge the numbers. Shuabang is a sport, and it isn't a cheap one.
No wonder it's getting push back. Faced with rising legitimate advertising costs and Shuabang fees that start at $1,500 to get into a top 100 list — a top 10 listing costs as much as $10,000 per day — 10 top notch independent mobile game developers and five CEOs of top mobile game companies are banding together to cross-promote their titles. That's United Mobile Games.
Helping budget-minded indie developers market their games more efficiently and at a lower cost than traditional advertising will also help developers resist the temptation to game the ratings system with Shuabang, says Neo Zhang, founder of and CEO of Guohe MIX, a cross promotion platform for mobile games that created the United Mobile Games consortium.
It's a group made up of some of the best mobile game teams. The point is to attract indie developers and get them to combine their resources and promote within each other's games. Game developers need a deeper understand of how Shuabang-aligned companies game the system.
Shuabang works like this: You pay up — the fee lets the company hire and subcontract 150 to 200 agents who log on using the Shuabang company's millions of iTunes accounts to download and review the apps as often as is needed to fulfill the order. If they fail to deliver — be it downloads, the desired ranking or the period over which the ranking is maintained — the customer's money is refunded.
Shuabang companies even have a choice of different styles for how they will game the system. Shuabang methods include: jacking up ratings all at once within a couple of hours, doing it on a Friday to maximize exposure during the weeks or spreading it out over a month, yanking ratings up whenever they slip. In China, few options remained for those who didn't want to participate in rating gaming via Shuabang until now.
Bootstrapped developers had few choices — they should succumb to Shuabang or ignore it completely in a ratings environment increasingly distorted by marketing hype as opposed to product quality. In the interest of keeping a healthy market going to for independent developers, as it was with the guilds in the Middle Ages, a union of trusting app developers creates a better climate for legitimate app promotion, recognition and growth.
Author bio: Yang Wang is a guest commentator for aNewDomain.net. He has previously written about Shuabang and United Mobile Games. Yang Wang is author and translator of seven books translated widely in such Asian regions as Taiwan and in South Korea. Based in Beijing, he is a contributor at The Beijing News.


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Q: React Router changes the url but does not load the component React Router is changing the url but is not loading the component.
And once the url is changed and if the page gets refreshed, the correct component corresponding to the url is shown.
This is the code :
import React from "react";
import { Route, Switch } from "react-router-dom"
import {  Link, BrowserRouter as Router } from 'react-router-dom'
import {Home} from '../src/Views/Home';
import {Test} from './Views/Home';
import App from '../../../src/App'

const Root = () => (
<Router>
<Switch>
<Route exact path="/" component={Home}/>
      <Route exact path="/test" component={Test} />

</Switch>
</Router>
);

export default Root;

There are no console errors.

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We get choked up about that #LadiesOfLondon hospital moment just thinking about it.
One of the sweetest moments involving a Bravoleb's husband occurred in Tuesday night's Season 3 premiere of Ladies of London when Marissa Hermer's husband Matt Hermer burst into tears of relief after finding out that the birth of the couple's third child, daughter Sadie, went smoothly following a difficult pregnancy (clip above). Yeah, we're kind of tearing up just thinking about it.
And apparently, we weren't the only ones sobbing at the scene. "It was SO emotional," Marissa tweeted Thursday. "[I] cried when i saw the episode - and am SO thankful for @MattHermer."
And pretty much everyone is as in love with Matt as Marissa is after that emotional Ladies of London moment.
Marissa also explained on Twitter that because of the surgeries and blood transfusions needed, Matt wasn't able to be in the delivery room as he had been when the couple's sons, Max and Jake, were born.
After Marissa became pregnant with her third child, she was diagnosed with placenta accreta, which can cause excessive bleeding. "It was a pretty traumatic time but thankfully we all made it through it," she tweeted Thursday.
Marissa also tweeted that the family is "very lucky," and she called Sadie "such a miracle."
Now that Marissa and Matt have welcomed their new bundle of joy home, the Ladies of London cookbook author said it was all worth it. "[At] the end of the day, we all have these tough moments," Marissa tweeted. "[M]om life is not easy but a prize at the end."
See Matt living the dad life, below.


#4 Dixie State at #6 Point Loma: Trailblazers can go out with a bang as a win will give them the PacWest title outright. Lose and they likely have to share with Cal Baptist. Our top two seeds are the two with one foot out the door. Go figure.
#11 Concordia at #26 Academy of Art: The homestanding Urban Knights are tied with Chaminade (both 10-9 in conference play), but lost the only head-to-head meeting with the 'Swords in San Francisco. They need a win and an APU victory to get the 6 seed.
#2 Cal Baptist at #32 Holy Names: Lancers can get a tie for the conference title with a win and a Dixie loss. Since they split their regular season meetings, I think the tiebreaker will come down to whomever is ranked higher in the regional rankings on Tuesday (advantage CBU).


Daniel Salazar was born in Del Rio, Texas in 1956. In June of 1974, he was hired as a glass grinder by Nouveau Glass, later to become Lundberg Studios. By 1975, he was working with hot glass as a helper or pontil-man there.
It soon became evident that he had a unique flair for design. By 1978, he had begun producing and designing his own paperweights. He was also influential in developing some of the techniques used in the California-style paperweight lampworking process.
Today Daniel has earned a fine reputation for his delicate and natural look in floral paperweights, as well as birds, underwater scenes and abstract glass works. These designs have also been produced in perfume bottles, vases and jewelry jars. The paperweight shown here is his representation of barrier reef life forms under the sea.
Much of Daniel's work has been inspired by his interest in botany and Asian art and antiques. Since childhood, his passion for sketching and water color has contributed to his unique artistic development, and he attended art classes at Cabrillo College in color, design and life drawing.
Daniel's work has been exhibited at major museums in the USA and overseas and has become part of many permanent collections. He works from the Lundberg Studios in the small coastal town of Davenport, California (131 Old Coast Road Davenport, CA 95017) and he can be contacted on 333pullo@gmail.com.


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Glendale - November 2017
[Back to Glendale]
Glendale — Burbank Link to be Studied
The Los Angeles Times reported that Glendale is one step closer to its vision of installing a regional streetcar that may connect to Burbank after the Glendale City Council agreed to award a contract to a consultant to begin a feasibility study on the project.
The city wants to study the impacts of reestablishing a streetcar route connecting the Glendale Transportation Center in the south to the Hollywood Burbank Airport with routes along Brand and Glenoaks boulevards.
The Glendale-Burbank Feasibility Study is now in the hands of the HNTB Corp., an engineering firm out of Kansas City that has worked on the Metro Crenshaw Light Rail and the Metro Purple Line Subway Extension in Los Angeles.
The company should also be familiar to some Glendale residents, especially those living in the Pelanconi Estates neighborhood, because HNTB has contributed planning and designs for the ongoing grade-separation project to improve safety at two troublesome railroad crossings along San Fernando Road.
According to city documents, the budget for the study is $450,000, with $250,000 coming from the Community Development Department's urban design and mobility budget.
The additional $200,000 will come from the Southern California Assn. of Governments, or SCAG, which in February awarded funds to the city of Glendale as part of $4.5 million in grants for transit and green initiatives in L.A. County.
During the council meeting, Justin Robertson, a planning assistant with the city, said a transit gap exists in the region, and city officials would like to better connect major resources in the Glendale area."[The study] will look at what it will take to get a streetcar up and running in Glendale," he said.
Analysis of potential streetcar routes as well as traffic and parking impacts is expected to take about 12 months and should begin as soon as next month. The study will also look at funding resources.
Currently, only the Glendale portion of the possible streetcar route will be studied, but the city may add Burbank to the agreement with HNTB, according to Robertson.
Councilman Ara Najarian, who also serves as vice-chair of Metrolink, asked that the study look at running the streetcar using off-wire technology, which eliminates the need for overhead wires and expands the possibilities of where it can operate.
The estimated cost for the streetcar project is between $97 million and $243 million for about 9.5 miles, or about $10 million to $25 million per mile. The high-end estimate takes into account the possible three miles through Burbank that would lead to the Hollywood Burbank Airport.