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Kentucky vs. Kentucky?
By Kevin DoyleJul 1, 2013, 7:30 PM EDT
Criticize John Calipari all you want, but there aren't many coaches in the college game that open themselves up to their fan base quite like Cal. Whether it's through his Twitter account — over 1.2 million followers and 7,000+ tweets — his website (coachcal.com), or the John Calipari Basketball Fantasy Experience — a three day camp that is sure to satisfy all the needs for even the biggest fans — John Calipari opens himself up to Big Blue Nation exceedingly well.
On the fantasy experience website, there are five images that stream across the homepage advertising what the camp offers: 1) Live the life of a UK basketball star for a weekend. 2) Attend the annual VIP party at Coach Cal's home. 3) Receive an elite swag bag of Nike branded UK apparel and gear. 4) Play against and interact with former UK stars. 5) Compete for the championship at Lexington Center's Rupp Arena.
The 2013 version of the John Calipari Basketball Fantasy Experience may feature another segment that is sure to captivate the attention of not just Big Blue Nation, but all college basketball fans, as well.
According to a report from Kentucky Sports Radio, there is speculation that the 2010 Kentucky Wildcats will play against the 2012 Kentucky Wildcats during the fantasy experience this September:
KSR has learned that UK is working to get the two teams to settle the debate on the court, in Rupp Arena. DeMarcus' 2010 team will likely play Kidd-Gilchrist's 2012 team as the alumni game during the fantasy camp this fall.Time to settle it once and for all.
This is a "fantasy experience," after all, so why shouldn't a game like this be played?
Oftentimes, fans engage in arguments that are impossible to settle: Would the 1927 New York Yankees have defeated the 1998 New York Yankees? Would the Golden Bear have beaten Tiger when both were in their prime? How would John Wooden's best UCLA teams have matched up against the top teams the college game has to offer today?
Well now, assuming the game is played, we may uncover which Kentucky team was better: the 2010 team featuring DeMarcus Cousins, John Wall, and Eric Bledsoe, or the 2012 team with Anthony Davis, Michael Kidd-Gilchrist, and Marquis Teague?
The only question is: Which team does Darius Miller play on?
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RENFREW FC – Match Programme
League – September 8th 2018 – Irvine Meadow XI
The recent incident where Celtic fans unfurled a huge banner declaring that Dedryck Boyata was unfit to wear the shirt of Celtic Football Club, no doubt proved an embarrassing episode for all parties concerned. Certainly, from the brief highlights I watched on TV, the player looked very subdued and sheepish. I didn't see the faces of those fans bearing the banner after their anti-hero scored the only, and winning goal of the game, but surely they must have been a picture of confusion?
That a group of fans would go to such lengths (and it was a lo-o-o-ong) banner) and expense (unless they had all roped their grannies into a week's worth of communal needlecraft) to express their feelings, raises several points of worthy debate.
The pragmatic response would be to point out that a footballer's career is short, and could indeed be shortened even further by the next tackle. Surely it's in their interest to get the best deal they can, when they can?
We all need look after our families. If another prospective employer offered us double money, would we not move? Why should football players be any different to those of us working in Civvy Street?
The thing is – they're not.
The key words are as mentioned just above: 'when they can.' Boyata, and others before him like Payet, Costa, Tevez et al. were all under contract to their existing clubs when they developed mysterious injuries that led to them withdrawing their services until such time as they eventually got their way.
And this is what I can't get my head around.
A football club has shown faith in a player's ability, and offered a sum of money over a given number of years. Now whether that player happens to be Ronaldo or Billy Dane (he of the Magic Boots, remember him?) it matters not. At the time of signing that contract, the player is happy at both the financial reward and job security on offer. That they may, over the course of the next few months, hit a hot patch of form or indeed, play in the World Cup Finals, is a direct result of that Club showing belief and helping the player further develop.
Under contract? Then 'now' is not 'the time.'
The contract is there to protect the player. Would they have signed for their present club were there no contract and the security it gave not been on offer? Absolutely not. So surely it cuts both ways and the player should respect that same contract, unless there is a mutual consent from both parties that it be rescinded?
Bottom line – who pays these players' wages? Yes, some of the funding may come from sponsorship; and some will come from television monies dispersed to Clubs. But drill right down, and the money emanates, somewhere along the line, from football fans. So who are dissenting players letting down when they declare themselves unavailable for selection?
Never has the expression 'biting off the hand that feeds," been more relevant, and for once in my life, my sympathies definitely lie with those Celtic fans.
And so, the question needs asking: is 'loyalty' a forgotten word in football parlance?
Certainly not from a fan's perspective. We are proud to stick with our team through thick and thin. Indeed, you may not be considered a true fan of a club, have you not experienced a period of the 'thin' nature. Until then, you are simply a 'glory hunter,' in the eyes of some.
But players? When I were a lad, every end of / beginning of a season, there would a testimonial match in honour of some player or other. Generally, the recipient of this honour had served ten years or more with that club. Of course, I may be wrong here as I don't watch 'senior,' football these days, but I'm not conscious of many of these games being played nowadays.
Fans love these players though. Their blood runs the colour of the shirt; they have the Club at their heart, and play 'for the badge.'
But do they? Really? I mean, really?
Let's face it – if a player is good enough, there will be offers to take him away from his existing club. And if he's valued, they will do all they can to keep him. Like offer him more money, a longer term contract and security. This is exactly what happened in the cases for Messi and Ronaldo. Ok – the latter has moved on now, but he did spend nine years at Madrid.
Fans often ask why Scott Brown hasn't played in England. Rangers fans will say it's because he's not good enough; Celtic fans will say it's because he loves his present club. I suspect it's a combination of the latter and the old-school Scottish pecunious attitude of, 'how much does one really need?' I'm quite sure he'll have been amply rewarded for his 'loyalty.' Which is fine and most definitely merited.
My point here is that now money plays such a large point in our game, 'loyalty' is so hard to define. As I've said before, I am most definitely no lover of Celtic (though I concede I seem to talk about their players a lot) but Scott Brown at his best could certainly have cut it to the same extent as Van Dijk; as Boyata; and as I write, Dembele. The difference is he is a throwback to the good old black and white days of Scottish football. The days of Billy McNeill and my hero, John Greig etc.
No toys out of pram situations with Scott. Though having both toys and pram bought for him by his club has helped.
So, the question is: where does 'loyalty' live in present day football?
The answer, my friend, is right here in Junior football – where money matters less than being a local hero. A very unscientific and random survey of a few clubs highlighted most had granted 'ten year testimonials' to at least one player. In some cases, like ourselves here at Renfrew FC, several. From memory, I can count, in recent times, John Hammond, Jimmy Quigley and Neil Farquharson.
Dedryck Boyata remains a Celtic for the time being, which will upset many fans, I know. But he owes them, big time. And football fans in general. This is going to stick in my throat, but good on Celtic for not bowing to player power. And in fairness, good on the lad himself for at least bearing a permanently contrite look.
Maybe this is the start – maybe the tide has turned. Maybe everyone is fed up to the back teeth of prima donna players getting it all their own way. More power to the clubs and their supporters, I say!
(Uh oh! Did someone just mention Moussa Dembele?)

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Q: How can I show that any two versions of $P(A|X)$ differ in a set of probability zero? Given these two definitions(Probility - Breiman):
Definition 4.7. The conditional probality $P(A|X=x)$ is defined as any $\mathcal{B}_1 -$measurable function satisfying $$P(A,X\in B)=\int_B P(A|X=x) \hat{P}(dx)$$ all $B\in\mathcal{B}_1$.
Definition 4.8. The conditional probality of $A$ given $X(\omega)$ is defined as any random varible $\Omega$, measurable $\mathcal{F}(X)$, and satisfying$$P(A,X\in B)=\int_{\{X\in B\} } P(A|X) P(dx)$$all $B\in\mathcal{B}_1$
How can I show that any two versions of $P(A|X)$ differ in a set of probability zero?

A: There's a significant amount of context missing from this question.   While it's possible to fill in most of it by making reasonable guesses for the meanings of all the undefined symbols, I found some aspects of the quoted definitions sufficiently puzzling to consult the reference cited.  Comparison of Breiman's   definition $4.8$ with the version given here reveals that there's a typo or misquotation in the latter.  The equation in the definition Breiman gives is
$$
P(A,X\in B\,)=\int_{\{X\in B\ \}}P(A|X)\,\color{red}{dP},\ \ \ \text{all }\ B\in\mathcal{B}_1\\
$$
rather than with the $\ \color{red}{P(dx)}\ $, given in the question here, as the infinitesimal increments of measure with respect to which the integral is being taken.  If the notation $\ P(dx)\ $ is not merely an inadvertent typo, its use tends to suggest that you might be thinking of the integral as being with respect to a probability measure on the real numbers, which would be a fundamental misunderstanding of what's going on here.
To fill in some of the missing context, $\ \mathcal{B}_1\ $ is the $\ \sigma$-field of Borel sets of $\ \mathbb{R}\ $, $\ X\ $ is a real-valued random variable on some probability space $\ (\Omega,\mathcal{F},P)\ $—that is, $\ X:\Omega\rightarrow\mathbb{R}\ $ is measurable with respect to $\ \mathcal{B}_1\ $ on $\ \mathbb{R}\ $ and $\ \mathcal{F}\ $ on $\ \Omega\ $—and $\ \mathcal{F}(X)\ $ is the $\ \sigma$-subfield of $\ \mathcal{F}\ $ defined by $\ \mathcal{F}(X)=\big\{X^{-1}(B)\,\big|\,B\in\mathcal{B}_1\,\big\}\ $.
A slightly different way of writing the above equation, which makes the applicability of the Radon–Nikodym theorem more immediately apparent, is
$$
P(A\,\cap\,F)=\int_FP(A|X)\,dP,
\ \ \ \text{for all }\ F\in\mathcal{F}(X)\ .
$$
Since $\ P(F)=0\Rightarrow P(A\cap F)=0\ $, the measure $\ P_A\ $, defined on $\ \mathcal{F}(X)\ $ for every $\ A\in\mathcal{F}\ $ by $\ P_A(F)=P(A\,\cap\,F)\ $, is absolutely continuous with respect to $\ P\ $. The Radon-Nikodym theorem therefore tells us that:

*

*$\ P_A\ $ has a Radon-Nikodym derivative $\ \frac{dP_A}{dP}\ $ with respect to $\ P\ $, which is measurable with respect to $\ \mathcal{F}(X)\ $ on $\ \Omega\ $ and $\ \mathcal{B}_1\ $ on $\ \mathbb{R}\ $, and satisfies the equation $$ P_A(F)=\int_F\frac{dP_A}{dP}\,dP\ $$ for all $\ F\in\mathcal{F}(X)\ $. The conditional probability $\ P(A|X)\ $ is thus just this Radon-Nikodym derivative.

*If $\ \phi_1:\Omega\rightarrow\mathbb{R}\ $ and $\ \phi_2:\Omega\rightarrow\mathbb{R}\ $ are measurable with respect to $\ \mathcal{F}(X)\ $ on $\ \Omega\ $ and $\ \mathcal{B}_1\ $ on $\ \mathbb{R}\ $, and satisfy the equation $$ P_A(F)=\int_F\phi_i\,dP\ $$ for all $\ F\in\mathcal{F}(X)\ $, then $$\ P\big(\phi_1\ne\phi_2\big)=0\ .$$
Your question is how to show that the second bullet point above is true.  The most succinct way  of doing so is simply to invoke the Radon-Nikodym theorem, one half of which is just the assertion of that fact. Presuming you're looking for a more informative demonstration, though, here's a fairly typical way of proving it.
For each positive integer $\ n\ $, let $\ U_n=\left\{\phi_1-\phi_2>\frac{1}{n}\right\}\ $ and $\ V_n=\left\{\phi_2-\phi_1>\frac{1}{n}\right\}\ $. Then $\ U_n,V_n\in\mathcal{F}(X)\ $,
$$
\big\{\phi_1\ne\phi_2\big\}=\bigcup_{n=1}^\infty U_n\cup\bigcup_{n=1}^\infty V_n\ ,
$$
and
\begin{align}
P_A\big(U_n\big)&=\int_{U_n}\phi_1\,dP=\int_{U_n}\phi_2\,dP\ ,\\
P_A\big(V_n\big)&=\int_{V_n}\phi_1\,dP=\int_{V_n}\phi_2\,dP\ .
\end{align}
From these equations, it follows that
\begin{align}
0&=\int_{U_n}\big(\phi_1-\phi_2\big)\,dP\ge\frac{P\big(U_n\big)}{n}\ \ \text{ and}\\
0&=\int_{V_n}\big(\phi_2-\phi_1\big)\,dP\ge\frac{P\big(V_n\big)}{n}\ ,
\end{align}
and then, since $\ P\big(U_n\big),P\big(V_n\big)\ge0\ $, that $\ P\big(U_n\big)=P\big(V_n\big)=0\ $ for all $\ n\ $.  Since a countable union of events of probability $\ 0\ $ also has probability zero, it follows that
$$
P\big(\phi_1\ne\phi_2\big)=P\left(\bigcup_{n=1}^\infty U_n\cup\bigcup_{n=1}^\infty V_n\right)=0\ .
$$

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NAFTA is a Terrible Deal. Don't Scrap NAFTA.
This guest post is published around the Joint Annual Meeting of the Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society and the Association for the Study of Food and Society in Madison, WI, occurring June 13-16, 2018. #foodstudies18
By Alyshia Gálvez, author of Eating NAFTA: Trade, Food Policies, and the Destruction of Mexico
NAFTA is a bad deal for most of us who are not billionaires, parts manufacturers or factory farmers. Trump is wrong that with the deal Mexico is "winning" at the US's expense; it's mostly the wealthy and powerful conglomerates who are winning and the little guy who is losing.
One underreported problem: the consequences of NAFTA for the health of the Mexican people. In the two decades since its implementation, diabetes and diet-related illness have become an epidemic, claiming more lives each year than in the whole of the drug war. It's almost as if the bellies of Mexican people were offered up as storage space for the surplus produced by the US's distorted factory farm system—industrial corn, soy and wheat. Ironically, for the US consumer, the deal has brought us an unprecedented bounty of tomatoes, peppers, mangoes, citrus, and our adored avocados. We're eating better with NAFTA in this country, while we offload junk on our southern neighbors.
But you won't hear me endorsing Trump's threats to scrap NAFTA. Instead, we should think about what NAFTA would look like if it put the people of the three countries at its front, instead of corporations. NAFTA is premised on consolidation and growth of industry. The bigger the operations of a given company, the more feasible it is for them to reap the rewards of NAFTA currently. But what if instead the deal created a matchmaking system connecting small scale producers to consumers, so that they had a better shot of distributing their products across borders? There are a lot of people interested in eating tacos with fresh ground corn tortillas and ancestral ingredients like huitlacoche, cactus, and escamoles in the US now, but no program by which producers of these items can participate in NAFTA. If amaranth producers, for example, had a more viable market, that superfood might be more widely available in both countries, supporting health more than the empty starches of industrial corn and wheat. Likewise, US fruit and vegetable producers—"specialty" farms under our ag policy—don't see the same favorable distribution and subsidy structure that corn, wheat and soy do. They would benefit from more support, too, and people in both countries would reap—and eat—the benefits.
Further, NAFTA never included mobility for workers. Farmers in the US are desperate for workers. Many people in Mexico would like to work, but are not willing to risk their lives facing the brutal gauntlet of enforcement at the border. Mobility for workers and support of small scale farmers would bring us a more just and fair partnership. And all of us would eat better and more healthfully as a result.
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is Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies at Lehman College of the City University of New York. She is the author of Guadalupe in New York: Devotion and the Struggle for Citizenship Rights among Mexican Immigrants and Patient Citizens, Immigrant Mothers: Mexican Women, Public Prenatal Care, and the Birth-weight Paradox.
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Deadpool: Oh Marvel you've done it again. I find Marvel movies aren't merely filled with action but also extremely hilarious. And the Deadpool trailer looks like so much fun. Cannot wait for this movie to hit theatres and dear lord please let marvel not disappoint me again! Fingers crossed this will be a good one.
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: When I first heard that the Harry Potter fandom was getting another movie I was completely beyond myself. And Eddie Redmayne is such an amazing actor. I cannot wait to see what they created and if the movie is worth its place within the fandom. The trailer looks really promising so far even though I'm not so sure about the fact that it's set in New York.
Civil War: Oh my god I literally cannot wait for this movie to finally come out. Even though I was extremely disappointed by Avengers Age of Ultron, I'm definitely looking forward to their newest addition to the Avengers series. Captain America never was my favourite superhero but him against Ironman sounds really promising. Plus I cannot wait to see more of Black Widow, that woman just slays!
Star Wars Rogue One: Ok I gotta admit that I only just recently realized that this years Star Wars movie will not be a sequel but in fact a prequel. Doesn't change my anticipation though. The storyline sounds so intriguing and after having watched the whole Clone Wars series within a week I cannot wait to see more of the Star Wars Universe.
Alice in Wonderland 2: Honestly, I'm a big Tim Burton fan and Alice in Wonderland was one of my favorite movies for the longest time. Johnny Depp was simply mesmerizing as the Mad Hatter and I'm obsessed with the Cheshire cat, so creepy and yet utterly cute. Also I'm a sucker for great cinematic effects and the first Alice movie definitely had plenty of that.
Which movies are you excited for in 2016?
Und auf Alice freue ich mich auch schon!
Oh Alice im Wunderland will ich auch unbedingt sehen!
I have to admit that I haven't read the book yet – will definitely have to do that before the movie comes out!!
oho, filmvorschauen mag ich immer gerne, weil ich selber immer so gaaaar nicht up to date bin!
Alice in Wonderland 2 will ich auch unbedingt sehen!
Ja The Danish Girl möchte ich auch unbedingt noch sehen – mal schaun, vielleicht ja bald schon :) Da soll Eddie ja wieder mal richtig gut spielen!
Und als Harry Potter Fan kann ich natürlich auch auf den Film garnicht mehr warten :) bin schon Soo gespannt auf die Umsetzung!
"Fantastic Beasts and where to find them" ist klasse. Ich habe das Buch dazu gelesen und habe mir eben auch den Trailer angeschaut. Jetzt bin ich schon ganz gespannt, wie der Film so werden wird. Ich kann es kaum erwarten.
I am really excited about Alice in Wonderland 2 too! I love Disney movies. They are always so sweet and make me smile.
Those looks like some great picks. Will have to check it out.
Ah cool I did not even know that there was another Alice movie coming out. And yes, I am so excited for Deadpool as well!
I'm also very excited for DeadPool! Looks like such a entertaining movie!


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Business, Internet & Online, Law, Management, Marketing, Media, Small Business
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Westborough, MA, 2020-Jul-30 — /REAL TIME PRESS RELEASE/ — Virgin has targeted to attack over 300 small companies & non-profit charities. Common sense says that the word 'virgin' cannot be owned by one individual or organization but Virgin has deep pockets to destroy those who dare to fight for their rights.
"Opposing trademark registrations in unrelated fields is the classic behavior of a trademark bully," says Mike Atkins, an attorney at Atkins Intellectual Property who teaches trademark law at the University of Washington, School of Law.
That's why it came as a surprise that Branson decided to send a threatening cease-and-desist letter (where he tells the small start up to either commit a business suicide right away or else Virgin lawyers will destroy it within 30 days) to I Am Not A Virgin, a small eco-friendly denim label, claiming that the company's name infringes on his copyright, as the Telegraph's Laura Hubbert reported on the case.
Richard Branson's lawyers demanded environmentally friendly start up jeans label 'I Am Not A Virgin' to cancel their trademark (a trademark they have been lawfully granted and owned for almost 4 years before they received the threat letter from Branson – reports Ms. HUBBERT in her article.
"I guess I could rename my jeans Not Made By Richard Branson" – comments sarcastically the founder of the brand. Branson also demanded the small business owner cease to sell current stock of the jeans and removes them from the stores which for a small business is a financial suicide and a loss of all start up investment costs essentially leading to the end of a business.
"Common sense says that the word 'virgin' cannot be owned by one individual or organization. In other words, it's stupid to claim a colour of your own, let say a word. Branson, who's also well known for his support of environmental causes, apparently has failed to see that" – says Anderson Antunes in his Forbes article about Virgin's abuse on small entrepreneurs.
Attorney at law, Widerman Malek, summaries in his comments: "If Richard Branson has his way, it might be. " He adds: "Although sometimes considered a bully in the trademark office, they remain unapologetic for their stance."
According to multiple news reports, in the past several years, the Virgin group has targeted over 300 companies who used the word Virgin in their name, URL or marketing slogan. Unfortunately, many of these 300 companies are small businesses who do not have the resources to fight back against a multi-billion dollar company with hundreds or even thousands of lawyers on their retainer. These small businesses almost always settle simply because they cannot afford to fight.
Widerman Malek brings up some of the companies Virgin attacked:
Virgin Vapors – a small vapor company located in California whose owner currently refuses to change its name despite being threatened by Virgin.
The owners of domain names virginthreads.com, virginpublishing.com, virginstar.net, and virgincigar.com. The Virgin group alleges cyberpiracy for any company using the name virgin in their domain, even if it is not their business name.
Author Cristina Crayn, who named one of her published books, "Tales from the Virgin Vault."
Virgin Valley Cab – a cab company in the Virgin Valley geographic location of Northwest Arizona, who recently came to an agreement with conglomerate to stop using the name.
Las Virgenes United Educational Foundation – a nonprofit organization in the Las Virgenes School District. The Virgin Group attempted to block the trademark application. Evidently, any virgin will meet their criteria – no matter which language it's in and if destroying charities for children is to take place.
I Am Not A Virgin – a New York clothing company which specializes in creating and selling denim products.
Virgin Air, a small airline in the American Virgin Islands, which no longer exists under this name due to Virgin's lawsuits.
CBS Studios, who may be opposed by the Virgin Group in an attempt to trademark the name Jane the Virgin, which they will use as a sitcom name.
Last year, the Virgin group attempted to stop Valle Grande from trademarking a phrase that contained the words "virgin olive oil", using the argument that Valle Grande currently only sells vinegar.
In 2004, the conglomerate sued a tiny apparel retailer called Virgin Threads in federal court in New York; the retailer dropped the name a year later as they could not afford to battle with Virgin any longer.
VIRGINIC – Purity Perfected – small cosmetics brand, selling "beyond organic", handcrafted, allergy-free face creams in small batches. Virgin has been suing them with malicious, aggressive litigations, on the ongoing basis from 2018-2020 in multiple countries to starve them financially to business death, as Virgin did with other start ups. Interestingly, Virgin abandoned selling cosmetics years ago making public statements on their own website that they have no intention to sell beauty products. As of July 2020, VIRGINIC still refuses to be bullied and to give up their name.
The statement raised by all victims by Richard Branson and Virgin Group seem to be constant: they don't feel it's morally right to give up their start-up brands, hard work and dreams, just because there is a bully that says so.
"Why is Richard Branson trying to put us out of business?" – denim jeans company founder Peter Heron asked in this video posted to YouTube where he reads the harassment letter he has received from Richard Branson.
His video got over 13,000 supporters signing under it with their own name, encouraging Mr. Heron to not give up. Sadly, his brand was forced to surrender a year. Well done, Virgin lawyers, one more target destroyed.
Andrew Griffin
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Louisville, Kentucky, 2020-Jul-16 — /REAL TIME PRESS RELEASE/ — When it comes to big business versus small business, the deck is, and always has been, heavily stacked in favor of the giants, making sure it stays that way. Yes, there will always be David and Goliath stories held up as the reason for hope in these battles, but reality dictates that they are almost insurmountable obstacles in the path of a small entrepreneur.
There is, however, a more insidious and corruptive side to the competition that few, if any, really see or understand at all. The legal teams.
Companies like The Virgin Group and Sir Richard Branson retain the type of law firms that see no ethical issue in destroying anything and anyone on their way, no matter the cost, the merits and the human lives and dreams destroyed along the way.
Take billing, for example. Virgin Enterprises uses Norvell IP and A. A. Thornton, type of companies that sees fit to charge by the half hour for anything that they do, including a single phone call, running up bills of around $300 per call. Yes, you read that correctly…$300 PER CALL! Equally absurdly, they charge the same to write a letter, to attend a meeting or to send an email!
Ok, so Virgin and Sir Richard is worth billions, they can afford these costs and who cares? It's their choice and their wallet, right?
Well, no. They make their pray pay for it.
The thing is, as the relentless (and oftentimes frivolous) stream of trademark infringement lawsuits are filed across the globe, those costs are, almost exclusively borne not by Virgin, but by the small business that they are making their claim against.
Take the case of Wyoming start-up, VIRGINIC LLC. Virgin decided, as they have done on so many occasions in the past, that they were unhappy with the UK Intellectual Property Office awarding VIRGINIC LLC their own brand trademark "VIRGINIC". For a little context, let's not forget that this is the same company that sued a Virgin Olive Oil producer, the TV show "Jane The Virgin" and even a Non-profit Educational Foundation, "Las Virgenes" for children, staffed entirely by volunteer parents! If you're like most people, this alone can leave anyone speechless. Clearly, Virgin is not afraid to throw their litigation budget around even against non-profit children care foundations.
So, Virgin took umbrage to the idea of a company VIRGINIC LLC, regardless of the fact that the UKIPO had already awarded their trademark for their name to them. Virgin attacked and yet again the UK courts decided that there was no case to be heard and VIRGINIC should keep their own trademark.
Virgin lost the case, and the subsequent appeal, with VIRGINIC being awarded the princely sum of £300 in costs, and that, in any sensible judicial process, should have been that. However, Virgin's lawyers managed to get the UK High Court of Appeals to agree to review the appeal of the case which, upon doing so, intrestingly awarded in favor of Virgin this third time around.
And here is the fun part; When VIRGINIC, a small "David" went up against the behemoth "Goliath" of Virgin and managed to not only show that common sense is still alive and well in some legal systems, but managed to do it on a shoestring budget, whilst a mammoth task and stupendous result given the odds, it appears that the ultimately necessary penny-pinching that all start-ups are likely to be forced to adopt, is the largest chink in their armor.
The reason for this is simple: Virgin lose and the judge awards costs in the order of £300 to the start-up. £300 which Virgin never actually saw fit to pay, regardless of the fact that they spend so much time in courtrooms arguing that their rights are being infringed upon and crowing for justice. This in itself is a pointer towards where this all goes wrong. You see, they cry foul and plead for justice as if the courtroom is a sacred place where all shall find their truth. In reality, when that truth is contrary to their opinion, they simply disregard the orders of the court and find somebody else to cry to.
Now, what happens when, at the third time of asking, they manage to find themselves a "friendly" judge? Well, their costs are awarded against VIRGINIC in the sum of…
£33,000 + £10,000!
With no right to appeal any further, conveniently.
So, Virgin "loses" and the bill is £300. I would guess that the lawyers charging $300 to make a phone call would probably be happy to pay that off themselves with the cash that they dropped down the sofa last night. However, when VIRGINIC loses, all those cups of coffee that the world's most expensive secretaries were making suddenly add up to a sum of £43,000, so exorbitant, so utterly defiant of anything even approaching a reality that is in any way sustainable, that all suddenly becomes so very clear.
Virgin and, more importantly, Virgin's lawyers LOVE finding random reasons to drag volnurable, small businesses (and apparently non-profit foundations too) into a courtroom because it is a no-loss situation for them. They literally don't even bother paying the measly costs generated if they lose (Virgin pays) whilst running up such absurd bills themselves that, if they win, the small business is basically financially crippled to the point where it either ceases to exist or exists only for the purposes of paying off the legal bills. Small educational foundations like "Las Virgenes" for children, staffed entirely by volunteer parents are a no match with this malice legal practice backed by deep pockets of Virgin.
Is there a happy ending here? VIRGINIC is well off its knees trying to write one as we speak. Keep your fingers crossed and maybe the Wyoming case will prove more uncorrupted justice system in the US than the UK one.
Zac Andrews
International Consortium of Investigative Journalism
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Consumer Services, Internet & Online, Retail
SendBestGift.com delivering Rakhi and Friendship Day Gifts during Lock Down
Gurgaon, India, 2020-Jul-15 — /REAL TIME PRESS RELEASE/ — Coronavirus pandemic has presented numerous challenges in front of the world since it's outbreak at the fag end of the last year. As the world wrestles with these challenges, many green shoots have emerged as well. Having been locked up in our own homes, it seems like the fast paced life of the twenty-first century has come to a standstill. This much needed break has made everyone realize how disconnected they were with their beloved ones. These days loved ones are certainly on everyone's mind. People cannot go out and hug their loved ones; however they sure can present their beloved ones with heartwarming gifts to reassert their love.
SENDBESTGIFT, one of the leading online gift shops, has taken upon itself to ensure that people can reach out to their near and dear ones from anywhere in the world. Keeping the upcoming festive season and COVID-19 lockdown in view, the website has updated its product portfolio and has upgraded its services to meet the gifting needs of millions of households in the nation.
Gifting has been used since ancient times to express the feelings of love, care and support. Today, people need love, care and support more than ever. And thus, the importance of gifting multiples mani-fold in these testing times. It now forms an important part of social lives. And why just social, it treads into the realms of personal life as well.
With just a few weeks left for Raksha Bandhan 2020 and friendship day, the company has started its Rakhi and Friendship day gifts delivery services despite the coronavirus advisory issued by the government. The website offers a wide array of unique gifts for friends. These friendship day gifts include friendship band, greeting cards, personalized gifts, cakes, chocolates, soft toys, combination gifts, and much more. For Rakhi gift ideas for brother & sister, the online gift portal offers designer Rakhi, chocolates, Rakhi with dry fruits, flowers, gift cards, sweets, cakes, Rakhi gift hampers, and so on.
"Online gifting is the future of gifting in India. This pandemic has shown us how important it is to go digital, do as much as we can from our homes. Understanding the need of the hour, SENDBESTGIFT has stepped up to the task of connecting hearts. We strive to deliver the best services to our customers and doing so has become more important in these difficult times. We have geared up for the massive demand during the upcoming festival season. From exclusive and extensive gift collections to a varied range of delivery services like the same day Rakhi gifts and same day friendship day gift delivery, we are ready with it all. Come shop with us, use our services to reach out to your dear ones and we promise to deliver excellence on your behalf. Stay home, stay safe and take care of yourself and your beloved ones," says the founder and Chief Executive Officer of SendBestGift Narender Kumar.
The website has a very systematic approach to gifting and thus making it easier to place an order for gifts. It offers gifts for best friend boy as well as gifts for best friend girl. The website believes that there is a bond of friendship in every relationship and thus it offers friendship day gifts for girlfriend, boyfriend, wife, and husband too.
A delight for people looking to indulge in hassle free online gift shopping, the website offers separate sections for Rakhi gifts for brother and Rakhi return gifts for sister. Sisters can go to the Rakhi gifts for brother and choose gifts for their brothers and brothers can visit the Rakhi return gifts for sister section to place an order for the same.
SendBestGift has a range of gifts for various occasions and festivals. From numerous Rakhi variants like kundan Rakhi, kids Rakhi, rudraksha Rakhi, mauli Rakhi, beads Rakhi, zardosi Rakhi, fancy Rakhi and other to a plethora of Rakhi with gifts like Rakhi with dry fruits, Rakhi with sweets, Rakhi with chocolates, and Rakhi with personalized gifts, the website offers it all. In fact, this online gift shop offers pair Rakhi for brother and sister-in-law like the lumba Rakhi for bhaiya bhabhi.
Customers can send Rakhi with sweets, place an order for Rakhi with dry fruits, purchase Rakhi with cakes and soft toys or buy Rakhi with chocolates online from the comfort of their homes. The fast and precise provision of online Rakhi delivery ensures that the gifts are delivered to their respective destinations within the specified time.
Similarly, the website boasts of a diversified assortment of Friendship day gift ideas to help everyone commemorate the bond of camaraderie. One can use the platform of SENDBESTGIFT to titillate the taste buds of his/her friends with delicious friendship cake, amaze their best friend with a beautiful friendship flower delivery, present them with thoughtful personalized gifts, or satiate the cravings of his/her dear friend with an online friendship day chocolates delivery.
The website provides a customizable range of delivery options as well. Their delivery options include normal gift delivery, same day gift delivery, fixed time gift delivery and the midnight gift delivery in India. Customers can shop for gift for friendship day or other occasions and opt for any of these delivery options. In addition, customers can customize these delivery options to meet their personal gifting goals.
SENDBESTGIFT is a trusted online gift store serving its loyal customers since 2015. The company aims for 100% customer satisfaction and takes a customer centric approach for the same. Driven by a passion for innovation and a promise to achieve operational excellence, the company has come a long way from where it started. Today, the company is present in all parts of the nation and has many satisfied customers all over India. The website offers same day Rakhi delivery and same day gifts delivery in more than 1000 cities across India. In addition to it, the company offers midnight gift delivery in more than 100 cities. Operating round the clock, the company intends to make online gifting a household name.
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Escazu, Costa Rica, 2020-Jul-04 — /REAL TIME PRESS RELEASE/ — With betting accessible on eSports, recreated sports, one-on-one rivalries, for example, boxing or tennis, horse dashing, computerized gambling club gaming, live vendor club, and even political decision results, individuals are as yet wagering as a type of entertainment.
Studies have demonstrated that during times of financial downturn, war, or emergencies, individuals go to diversion to ease tension and stress. Books, films, betting, computerized gaming, and internet based life are on the whole ways that individuals "look at" of their present reality, regardless of whether for only a couple of long stretches of relief.
Likewise, considers show that resigned grown-ups, whose every day exercises may be the most like jobless residents or residents who are protecting set up during social removing conventions, are bound to bet for incitement and for fatigue alleviation as opposed to for winning cash. In interviews, card sharks have shown that weariness is among the essential sparks for taking part in betting activity. With barely any games accessible to guess on nowadays, associations like PayPerhead.net, a sportsbook programming organization, have gotten progressively inventive in giving their clients the betting amusement their players crave. Simulated sports and eSports, two newcomers to the betting field of play, were at that point set to become multibillion-dollar enterprises some time before COVID-19 upset customary games betting. eSports (additionally called electronic games, e-sports, or Esports) is a type of rivalry by computer games.
Esports regularly appear as sorted out, multiplayer computer game rivalries, especially between proficient players, independently or as teams.
Unlike esports, which are constrained by people, reproduction sports are involved exclusively of games between a PC's AI (man-made brainpower) and are commonly founded on customary games, for example, b-ball or football.
In expansion to the previously mentioned advanced occasions that speculators can wager on, PayPerHead bookies are likewise ready to offer pony race wagering, computerized gambling club gaming, and live seller club gaming on blackjack, baccarat or roulette.
Unlike conventional games wagering, the new advanced gaming, horse hustling, and online club gaming permit players to wager on a much lower financial plan, and can some of the time convey huge payouts. Therefore, PayPerHead.net bookmakers are seeing this downturn in sports wagering as extra invaluable, on the grounds that already sports-wagering just players are currently adding an entirely different collection to their standard betting activities.
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America's Illicit Affair with Torture
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Talk by Dr. David Luban given at the 5th annual symposium of the National Consortium of Torture Treatment Centers, on February 13th, 2013, in Washington, DC.
Dr. Luban is University Professor and Professor of Law and Philosophy at Georgetown University, with an extensive background in international criminal law and legal ethics. His writing includes more than 150 articles on international criminal law, moral and legal philosophy, professional ethics, law and literature, just war theory, and issues surrounding the U.S. "war on terrorism." He has testified before both houses of the U.S. Congress on the torture debate. For more on Dr. Luban, see his Georgetown bio page.
The National Consortium of Torture Treatment Programs (NCTTP) is a non-profit, U.S. based network of 34 programs which exists to advance the knowledge, technical capacities and resources devoted to the care of torture survivors living in the United States and acts collectively to prevent torture worldwide.
http://www.ncttp.org
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Assessment and Trauma Focused Treatment for Children
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Dr. Ernestine Briggs-King presents on assessment and trauma-focused treatment for children, particularly for children who are primary or secondary survivors of torture. This presentation was recorded at the National Capacity-Building Institute held in Chapel Hill, NC in 2012.
Torture Survivors and Mental Health EBK.pdf
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Case Management 101: Client Boundaries
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Featuring Joan Hodges-Wu, MA, this video describes how to set boundaries as a case manager working with survivors of torture.
This video was produced by the National Capacity Building Project, a project of the Center for Victims of Torture.
This video defines boundaries and their role in the professional setting, identifies five categories of boundaries, recognizes common boundary violations, and establishes best practices to use in setting and maintaining boundaries.
This video is the first in the Case Managment 101 video series, featuring Joan Hodges-Wu, MA. Don't miss the second video, Case Management 101: Writing Case Notes.
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Case Management 101: Writing Case Notes
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Featuring Joan Hodges-Wu, MA, this video advises case managers for torture survivors on writing good case notes. This video was produced by the National Capacity Building Project, a project of the Center for Victims of Torture.
This video includes what case notes are and why good case notes are important, what makes a good case note, provides a structure for writing good case notes, and introduces the concept of the mental status observation, which can be useful in writing case notes.
This video is the second in the Case Managment 101 video series, featuring Joan Hodges-Wu, MA. Don't miss the first video, Case Management 101: Client Boundaries.
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Case Note Checklist.pdf
SOAP Breakdown.pdf
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Chasing Freedom
Fictional film about a pro bono lawyer taking her first asylum case (reluctantly) and the emotional impact it has on the attorney & the client. (2003, 88 min.) New and used copies available from Amazon.com and other retailers. Also available for rent through iTunes for a small fee.
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Disrupted Attachments: How Torture Threatens the Fabric of Family Life
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Dr. Laura Bennett-Murphy speaks about working with children who are primary or secondary torture survivors and how this trauma affects their family lives. This presentation was recorded at the National Capacity-Building Institute held in Chapel Hill, NC in 2012.
Disrupted Attachments.pdf
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Frequently Asked Questions from Adjudicators
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Panel discussion with Karen Grisez, Stuart Lustig, and David Gangsei. The panel addresses questions from adjudicators about mental health evaluations of torture survivors seeking asylum.
Recorded live at the 2011 National Capacity Building training institute, Torture Survivors Seeking Asylum: the Intersection of Forensic Mental Health Evaluation & Legal Representation.
Additional related resources may be found on www.HealTorture.org/legal-training
This video is slightly over one hour in length.
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From Terror to Healing, Part 1
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Terror to Healing is a two-part video produced by the National Capacity Building Project of the Center for Victims of Torture. It is intended for the general public to learn about and understand the journey that torture survivors undergo.
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Healing and the Pursuit of Justice: Challenging Sexual Assault as an Instrument of War: Introduction
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This video was made by the Center for Victims of Torture (of which HealTorture is a project). The entire video is comprised of the Introduction, Part One, Part Two, and Part Three.
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Healing and the Pursuit of Justice: Challenging Sexual Assault as an Instrument of War: Part One
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Rape and Sexual Assault as a Weapon of War
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Healing and the Pursuit of Justice: Challenging Sexual Assault as an Instrument of War: Part Three
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A Human Rights Approach to Sexual Assault Prevention
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Healing and the Pursuit of Justice: Challenging Sexual Assault as an Instrument of War: Part Two
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The Effects of Sexual Assault on Refugee Women
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Intro to Roadmap to Data Analysis Series
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The introduction to the Roadmap to Data Analysis series, which is designed for staff members at torture treatment programs who find that they must do evaluation and data analysis work without the relevant training.
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Motivational Interviewing Part 1: Introduction to Motivational Interviewing
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In part 1 of this four-part series on Motivational Interviewing, the presenter, Ed Stellon (MS, MA, CADC), provides an introduction to the topic. Stellon introduces the audience to the eight stages of learning motivational interviewing, and to the concept that for change to occur, the individual must be ready, willing, and able. Emphasis is placed on the spirit of motivational interviewing versus using a particular list of specific techniques. Stellon works with a volunteer to provide a quick demonstration of what motivational interviewing is NOT, and then debriefs to give a perspective of how our natural enthusiasm for change, and the "Righting Reflex", can be damaging to motivation. He then works with another volunteer to demonstrate briefly what motivational interviewing IS. Stellon reviews the underlying assumptions of motivational interviewing. Finally, Stellon provides a tool for motivational interviewing, the "Readiness Ruler", and demonstrates it with another example of motivational interviewing.
This presentation was recorded at the Meeting Social Services Needs in the Current Climate training institute held in Evanston, IL in August 2012.
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Motivational Interviewing Part 2: Key Concepts of Motivational Interviewing
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In part 2 of this four-part series on Motivational Interviewing, the presenter, Ed Stellon (MS, MA, CADC), provides a thorough explanation of the key concepts of motivational interviewing. Using examples from real life, he discusses the stages of change: precontemplation, contemplation, preparation, action, maintenance, and relapse; he also examines readiness to change. Stellon reviews the four basic principles of motivational interviewing: express empathy, develop discrepancy, roll with resistance, and support self-efficacy. He introduces the concept of decisional balance, and applies it using the tool of the decisional balance worksheet.
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Motivational Interviewing Part 3: Tools & Techniques
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In part 3 of this four-part series on Motivational Interviewing, the presenter, Ed Stellon (MS, MA, CADC), provides several tools and techniques for effective motivational interviewing. He begins the presentation by reviewing "RULE" - Resist the righting reflex, Understand your client's motivation, Listen to your client, and Empower your client. Stellon continues by describing and demonstrating the OARS tool: Open-ended questions, Affirmations, Reflections, and Summaries. Stellon leads the audience through an extensive application of these skills using real-life case studies and examples. He concludes the presentation with a session on identifying and evoking change talk, including providing another useful acronym with the many forms of change talk, such as desire, need, and commitment.
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Motivational Interviewing Part 4: Motivational Interviewing Role Plays
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In part 4 of this four-part series on Motivational Interviewing, the presenter, Ed Stellon (MS, MA, CADC), works with audience members to role play two different motivational interviewing scenarios, and debriefs the participants following each role play.
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Part 1 - Introduction to Solution Focused Counseling
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In part 1 of this three-part series on Solution Focused Counseling, the presenter, Mary Bunn (LCSW), defines solution focused counseling and reviews its key features and applications.
Mary Bunn defines solution-focused (or task-focused) counseling as a short-term, practicel, strengths-based approach that focuses on identifying client concerns. She goes on to address the key features of this approach:
* It is resilience- and strengths-focused
* It's action-oriented, not insight-focused
* It is present-focused rather than examining the client's past
* It uses a collaborative relationship
* It breaks problems into manageable pieces, and focuses on only one problem at a time
Bunn notes that this approach is especially helpful in the initial stage of treatment.
Make sure you watch the other two videos in this series:
Part 2 - Solution Focused Counseling and Torture Survivors
Part 3 - The Steps of Solution Focused Counseling
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Part 1: Domestic Violence Among Refugee and Immigrant Women
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For Women's eNews, Bijoyeta Das reports on the impact of the recession on domestic violence among immigrant women, including refugees and undocumented women, in Massachusetts.
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July 15, 2016 – Singing Out, Toronto's LGBTQ+ community chorus, is grateful to acknowledge generous support from the Ontario Arts Council (OAC) for the 2016-17 performance season.
Since 1963, Ontario Arts Council has fostered the creation and production of art for the benefit of all Ontarians. This $10,000 operating program grant will strengthen Singing Out's capacity to engage, welcome and support an even more diverse and inclusive membership (including queer youth, newcomers and transgender individuals), and to promote pride – both in who we are and in musical excellence – to the communities where we live, perform and find mutual support. Within the choir, we shall foster a positive image of our common goals of belonging, unity, and empowerment: a reflection of our lives.
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Rakhi Sawant visits mother amid her cancer treatment; receives support from celebrities – Republic TV
Last Updated: 26th February, 2021 13:21 IST
Rakhi Sawant visited her mother amid her cancer treatment and received support from celebrities from Kashmera Shah and Sambhavna Seth.
Rakhi Sawant recently completed her stint on a popular reality show, where she was at her usual quirky best, entertaining audiences galore. While she could not bag the winner's prize, she was among the two, apart from winner Rubina Dilaik, who did not return empty-handed, taking home the Rs 14 lakh suitcase. After stating that she needed the money for her mother's cancer treatment, she was overwhelmed with the support coming in from the celebrities.
READ: Rakhi Sawant Shares Pictures Of Her Mother Undergoing Chemotherapy, Celebs Pour In Support
Celebs support Rakhi Sawant on mother's treatment
Rakhi Sawant visited her mother at the hospital where she was being treated. Four of her chemotherapy sessions have been completed, and two more sessions are left, after the doctors will perform a surgery.
Many celebrities arrived to express their solidarity with Rakhi at the hospital. Her housemate from the show, Sambhava Seth and another former contestant on the show Kashmera Shah gave the actor-dance strength.
READ: Is Rakhi Sawant's Ex-boyfriend Abhishek Awasthi Married To Ankita Goswami?
Speaking to media persons, Rakhi Sawant said, "My mummy is in critical condition. The chemotherapy is going on. However, she is talking smilingly."
"She is experiencing stomach pain and vomiting and other symptoms after chemotherapy. It was a shock for me after returning. It is not easy to bear, she is very strong," she continued.
Sambhavna praised Rakhi for showcasing the power of women. The duo urged her followers to pray for her. Kashmera urged her followers to pray for her.
The hosts of the show also helped Rakhi, and she conveyed her gratitude to them.
Another contestant, Vindu Dara Singh even shared a post, praising Rakhi for her spirit, while praying for her mother's speedy recovery.
READ: When Rakhi Sawant Was Called 'biggest Mistake And Shameful Past' By Ex Abhishek Awasthi
READ: Rakhi Sawant's Net Worth, Property And Other Business Ventures She Owns
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Reviews - Fringe 2014
Fringe Review: A Home for Margaret
By Mackenzie Kristjon Jenkyns
Haywain Theatre (Hamilton, ON)
Playwright: David B. Fraser
Director: Julian Nicholson
Cast: Luis Arrojo, Patti Cannon, Trista Heron
Show Type: Drama
The first of many fringe plays I have seen thus far was the opening night for A Home For Margaret.
Anyone (and by "anyone" I mean increasingly everyone) has dealt with family members who, for one reason or another, find themselves in a retirement home. Clearly this has an impact on the entire family in terms of both their current realities and also their memories of the past and it is these themes that David Fraser's script explores.
The play itself has a minimalist set (a few chairs and table) and minimal lighting effects and as such relies primarily on the dialogue and interplay between the four characters, Margaret and Robert - the aging parents, their daughter, and the intern at the facility.
As the play went along, I found myself drawn into the characters in unexpected ways. The fact that the set was so small on such a large stage emphasized the feeling of being confined, which was reiterated in the dialogue as Patti Cannon's character Margaret referred to this new environment as a prison.
Luis Arrojo's Robert was a perfect foil and completely believable as a resigned, fairly practical husband who deals with a cantankerous wife that he loves but cannot placate.
Margaret continually plots to leave the facility and is riddled with memories of past homes where she feels things could have gone slightly more right and perhaps caused them to avoid this unenviable fate of life, in what she imagines is a prison where her daughter doesn't want her (not true), her freedom is lacking (slightly more true), and the staff will not bow down to her every whim (completely unrealistic).
A poignant script with a timely theme. A Home For Margaret is home sweet home at the Citadel Theatre.
Mackenzie Kristjon is an Icelandic-Canadian singer-songwriter and all around creative force. He has published numerous books including the award-winning Culinary Saga of New Iceland. He also has roots in community radio at CFRU 93.3 FM in Guelph. To hear/see/download his music, you can visit thismaddesire.bandcamp.com.
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Dirty harry the ultimate outlaw
DIRTY HARRY - THE ULTIMATE OUTLAW
Dirty Harry Wiltshire, racing for Planet X has SMASHED the Outlaw Ironman distance triathlon this weekend, in his first full distance triathlon (2.4mile swim, 112mile bike, 26.2mile marathon).
It's been a difficult year for Harry, after his ban that even made The Sun, twice! He's treked around the world trying to gain points for Olympic selection, only to be overlooked. What he pulled out this weekend is truly a big "take that!" to the selectors.
Leading "from gun to tape", Harry dominated the swim (always his speciality), hammered the bike section aboard his Planet X Exocet 2 Dura Ace, then increased his lead over 2nd place Chris Goodfellow during the marathon distance run.
We're compiling a race report and full background story today, but for now, here's one of the best race reports we've found. More to follow.
Harry Wiltshire won the long distance Outlaw Triathlon at Holme Pierrepont, Nottingham, in a time of 9 hours 06:16 for the 2.4mile swim, 112mile bike ride and 26.2mile marathon run. Despite having never completed the distance before, and only deciding to enter a few days ago, he led from start to finish.
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Impressive, I was racing although no where near Harry at Blenheim and he was strong there. To go fromt sprint to LONG course with a massive win is remarkable. I'm racing Challenge Henley in September and would love to be able to do the same... I don't think it'll happen though. Good work!!
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CROSCO JV achieves 10-year safety record
On 17 December, CROSCO Integrated Drilling & Well Services' joint venture company Midwesco achieved 10 years of slickline services in Oman without a lost-time incident (LTI). During this period, more than 15,000 wireline/slickline operations were conducted, equivalent to more than 1.4 million hours worked and more than 5 million km driven. Slickline services were provided with up to eight CROSCO wireline crane units for two clients.
"Our results reward our efforts of implementing various safety initiatives, including STOP cards, rewards and incentives, as well as our efforts to introduce new wireline tools and technologies on an ongoing basis," said Boris Lazar, CROSCO CEO and president.
ExxonMobil/XTO deal augurs strong promise for natural gas
ExxonMobil and XTO Energy announced on 14 December a $41-billion all-stock transaction that would enhance ExxonMobil's position in the development of unconventional natural gas and oil resources. XTO's resource base is the equivalent of 45 trillion cu ft of gas and includes shale gas, tight gas, coal bed methane and shale oil.
"Despite current gloom and doom on natural gas fundamentals, this merger is a strong indicator that the longer view for US natural gas is promising," commented IADC group vice president/publisher Mike Killalea. "The environmental benefits of natural gas are far and away superior to other energy sources, such as coal, both in terms of resource exploitation and in greenhouse gas generation. Drilling for natural gas is a far less intrusive – and safer – process than mining for coal. Further, natural gas is a 'just in time' fuel and does not require the enormous infrastructure investment or lengthy time line of nuclear power."
"XTO's strengths, together with ExxonMobil's advanced R&D and operational capabilities, global scale and financial capacity, should enable development of additional supplies of unconventional oil and gas resources, benefiting consumers both here in the United States and around the world," said Rex W Tillerson, ExxonMobil chairman and chief executive officer.
Following the transaction closing, ExxonMobil intends to establish a new upstream organization to manage global development and production of unconventional resources, enabling the rapid development and deployment of technologies and operating practices to increase production and maximize resource value. The new organization will be located in Fort Worth, Texas, in XTO's current offices.
Atwood's Irwin retires, succeeded by Saltiel
Robert J Saltiel is succeeding John R Irwin as president and chief executive officer of Atwood Oceanics. Mr Irwin, a longtime IADC supporter and a past IADC chairman, retired on 14 December but may remain employed by Atwood through 31 July 2010 to provide for an orderly transition, the company said.
Mr Saltiel previously served as executive vice president and chief operating officer of Transocean. Transocean president Steve Newman is assuming the duties of chief operating officer while the company considers alternatives. Previously, Transocean announced that Mr Newman will become CEO in 2010 when Bob Long retires as CEO.
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The aerospace sector locations some uniquely difficult calls for on electronics designers – even compared to other purposes where reliability is the important thing precedence. This strategy is relatively inexpensive, but can threaten the reliability of deployed navy electronics. The seek for materials that conduct warmth nicely has turn out to be essential for the design of the subsequent era of built-in circuits and three-dimensional electronics.
Scientists have appeared to piezoelectric supplies in recent years as a possible energy supply for wearable electronics. Designers, meanwhile, must discover intelligent methods to dissipate warmth from important components to make sure the electronics meet stringent reliability requirements. There are also a number of cool gadgets for kids whether they be devices for women or devices for boys, many crazy devices have been made obtainable to assist hold your kids entertained for hours.
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Lightning Force was an American action television series starring Matthew Walker, Meat Loaf, George Takei and Guylaine St-Onge.
Conclusion. Joan kills Kimbal (Jim Byrnes), then finds that she must pose as the new cult leader in order to prevent a mass suicide by its followers.
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Release Date: 26 April 1992.
Running Time: 30 minutes.
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Country: US.
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YA Novel TANTALIZE Adapted to Graphic Novel From New POV
By Zack Smith, Newsarama Contributor August 9, 2011 08:52am ET
TANTALIZE With New YA Graphic Novel
It's time for a different take on Young Adult werewolves with Tantalize: Kieren's Story, a new graphic novel from Candlewick Press that shows a YA favorite from a different point of view. Author Cynthia Leitich Smith retells her own novel from an all-new perspective, teamed with artist Ming Doyle, who's making her graphic novel debut after earning a loyal following from cons and online illustrations showcasing her lush, character-heavy work. We spoke with both creators to find out just why this new GN will Tantalize comic readers and YA fans alike.
Nrama: Cynthia, tell us a little about the story for the book.
Cynthia Leitich Smith: When the beloved chef at a vampire-themed Italian restaurant is murdered, the crime scene suggests that killer was a werewolf. Unfortunately for our hero Kieren Morales—a teenage human-Wolf hybrid, he happens to be the person who discovers the body and calls the police. That makes Kieren a prime suspect.
But in an underworld where vampires can take wolf form and other shifters (the werecat, werebear, werevulture…) stroll Austin's streets, who's to say the killer was a Wolf at all? While Kieren tries to solve the murder, his best friend Quincie is courted by a new, too-charming chef who baits the young Wolfman at every turn.
This romantic-suspense horromedy is a graphic-format adaptation of a prose novel called simply Tantalize, which is told from Quincie's point of view. The biggest influences on the novel were Bram Stoker's classic Dracula and Joss Whedon's Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Nrama: Ming, how did you come on board for this script? Were you familiar with Cynthia's work before?
Ming Doyle: I was a stranger to Cynthia's work before Candlewick approached me about this project, but as soon as I heard the pitch along with enthralling key words such as "vampires," "werewolves," "werearmadillos," "multiculturalism," and "Texas," I was more than ready to sign on.
Nrama: Cynthia, what made Ming the right artist for the project?
Smith: While the final decision was made by Candlewick Press, my editor did give me the opportunity to offer feedback on various prospective illustrators' online portfolios.
Ming's work really resonated with me. Although my story has its horrific moments, they're balanced by humorous ones, and I wanted someone with tonal range. In addition, I was wowed by Ming's strength in conveying emotion in character faces and body language. Her art draws you in.
Nrama: Ming, what did you most enjoy drawing in the book?
Doyle: I had the most fun visualizing Cynthia's unique supernatural creations, such as the aforementioned werearmadillos, as well as the werecats and werepossums. But in general it was just a treat to create an entire cast of characters based on her compelling descriptions.
I was also very aware that these were characters that people were already familiar with via the written word, so it was a neat challenge to try doing them justice over the course of such a prolonged sequential piece.
Nrama: So what makes this different from them other tales 'bout vampires and werewolves an' all that?
Smith: First, as a creature feature, it's more than vamps and Wolves. The universe includes a myriad of shifters, two kinds of vampires, two kinds of angels, faeries, ghosts, ascended souls, demons, etc.
That said, the Tantalize series is a tribute to Stoker's Dracula. When I started working on the first book, back in 2000, I was interested in talking back to the Gothic master. So many of his themes—alienation, plague gender and power, the "dark" other (which used to mean Eastern European)—still resonate with readers today.
However, the series in general (and Tantalize: Kieren's Story in particular) differ from much of what's published today in the sense that it's grounded Gothic fantasy. There are strong romantic elements (in much the same way Dracula had romantic elements) and readers who cherish them, but these aren't paranormal romance stories per se.
The central question isn't how with the leads get together. Instead, the plots are driven by the mystery/suspense elements. This has given the series a solid dual-gender appeal.
Beyond that, we offer up a diverse (defined broadly) cast, and, though subsequent stories travel a bit, they're all firmly launched by the funky, eclectic southwestern setting that is Austin. Inspired by Stoker's Texan hero, Quincey Morris, I brought the tradition home, so to speak, and that history/sensibility greatly influences the larger whole.
Or put another way: Not a lot of writers go straight to werearmadillo.
Doyle: Everything that Cynthia said, of course! Though I'll also add that the genre elements really distinguish this work from a lot of other pieces on the market. It's not primarily a romance.
In fact, one of the things I liked most of Tantalize on my first read through was how much it reminded me of a Holmesian adventure, with a healthy and intriguing dose of the mythical and bizarre thrown in for good measure.
Additionally, significant relationships permeate every plot point, but they don't define the plot. The story's much more than a rote matchmaking quest, and typical romance is almost the last thing any of the characters have on their minds, considering everything else they have to contend with.
Nrama: Cynthia, what made you want to do the story from a different POV, as opposed to a straight-up adaptation?
Smith: I wanted to give something new to the existing reader—new scenes, a new perspective. I also strongly felt that Kieren had a story to tell. In fact, he was the original protagonist in the earliest drafts of the prose novel.
Nrama: Could you two tell us about how your collaborative process worked on this book?
Smith: First, I translated the story into a script form and created art notes on the characters, setting, etc. From there, I compiled some visual images of Austin for Ming's reference.
In terms of the editing process, I offered notes (AKA gushing) on the initial character sketches as well as the various renderings of the novel in graphic form.
Big picture, once I saw the art, my main goal was to get my words out of Ming's way. Some of what I'd written was no longer necessary once we had images to do the talking, and beyond that, there were illustrations I asked to be enlarged for impact.
We did all of this communicating through the editor and art director.
Doyle: While Cynthia and I only ever communicated through editors, she was incredibly supportive, always offering bolstering feedback and invaluable reference material. It was also a unique and incredibly interesting opportunity working from Cynthia's screenplay-style script, which is something most artists working in the comics industry never get to do.
I really enjoyed reading the whole story through, envisioning it like a movie, and then breaking it down storyboard style!
Nrama: Cynthia, what was the biggest thing you learned from working in a graphic novel format? What are some things you can do that you couldn't do in a prose novel, and vice-versa?
Smith: What helped me most was already being a published picture book writer—another form of visually-oriented writing—and having a real appreciation for the importance of showcasing the illustrator's work.
What I learned was to pare down my text even more. To go leaner while maintaining layers, depth. Much of that happened during the editing process, but in turning to my next graphic novel script, I found myself doing it automatically.
In terms of graphic versus prose, I could probably do a lecture on that topic. But what stood out most was the difference in pacing the language and resulting scenes. One illustration can do so much for the reader.
The biggest challenge was in conveying the fantasy world, its rules and mythology constructs. Consistency becomes even more important because you can't offer much exposition. Readers must fill in those blanks via the images in front of them.
Nrama: Ming, this is your first extended published work! What did you learn from this experience?
Doyle: A more concise answer would encapsulate the things I didn't learn, since I was granted such an amazing opportunity to explore, grow, and challenge myself on this project. I brought the best I could to every page as I was working on it, but looking back I mainly feel excited to get cracking on the next volume so I can bring those 190 pages of experience to bear on a new volume.
But probably more than anything, I learned how important a strong, supportive, and involved editorial staff can be, and I feel extraordinarily lucky to have been able to rely on the people at Candlewick. I received a lot of helpful guidance that I'm positive helped showcase the best aspects of my work on this project.
Nrama: Okay, would you rather be a vampire or a werewolf, or some other type of classic monster/mythological figure? Explain your choice.
Smith: I'm fond of my werecats, if only because I have four real-world felines staring at me as I type. (I think they want to be fed.) But I should mention that in my fictional world, shape-shifters aren't magical. They're natural creatures like human beings, off-shoots from another evolutionary path that traces its origins to the Ice Age.
Doyle: As much as I'm a dog person, I'd have to say vampire! I just can't pass up that opportunity to have perfect hair.
Nrama: Cynthia, do you see yourself doing more graphic novels in the future, either set in this universe, or from all-new premises?
Smith: Right now, Ming and I are hard at work on Eternal: Zachary's Story, which is a graphic adaptation of the second book, Eternal, from the Tantalize series. It's told from the point of view of the most popular character in the series. The GN includes new scenes as well as those previously framed from another character's perspective.
I just sent notes on the initial sketches to my editor, and I'm completely blown away by what Ming has already done. The action and emotion spring from the page.
Nrama: What characters in comics would you like to write/draw a story with?
Smith: I've always been fond of Tim Drake/Robin. I suppose it's the YA writer in me. I enjoy the intensity of young, smart heroes. I'd love to write him in either graphic or prose form.
Doyle: Tim Drake's actually a character I have a lot of interest in as well! In general, I've always been drawn to the Bat family and its associates. Though of course I would never turn down a chance to work on anything featuring Storm or Jubilee either, since they were favorite characters and incredible heroes of mine as a child.
Also, Namor. Did I mention him? Haughty and imperious king of the deep, he of the risque clothing choices and scathing tongue? What I wouldn't give to draw that widow's peak on the regular.
Nrama: And what's cool about getting to do a self-contained graphic novel in a genre other than superheroes?
Smith: Big picture, it's amazing to create characters and see them brought to life in the art. And to love that art. But I especially enjoy writing a character with heightened powers that aren't especially useful to him. For Kieren in this story, being a Wolf is mostly a liability.
Doyle: I'm a huge fan of the superheroes, of course, but there are so many different kinds of stories that shine in the sequential format. There aren't a ton of chances to tell fun, dark, intelligent tales in other genres these days, but that's something I see changing more and more.
And that can only be for the better, as far as I'm concerned. Spending so much time around Sanguini's has only taught me that variety is the spice of life... and death! It's spicy, either way. Keeps things interesting.
Nrama: What's next for both of you?
Smith: As I mentioned, we're working on Eternal: Zachary's Story.
More personally, I look forward to the release of Diabolical in January 2012. It's the fourth story in the Tantalize series, and it brings together all four previous protagonists in the "biggest" story to date.
From there, the next book will be Smolder, and it's a response to readers asking that I tackle a particular character/question introduced back in Book 1.
On the realistic writing front, I'm honored that my essay "Isolation" will be published in Dear Bully: Seventy Authors Tell Their Stories, edited by Megan Kelley Hall and Carrie Jones. Look for it this August from HarperTeen.
In addition, my short story, "Mooning Over Broken Stars," will appear in Girl Meets Boy, edited by Kelly Milner Halls. My contribution is a companion to a short by Joseph Bruchac. The anthology will be out next January from Chronicle.
Doyle: I finished thumbnailing Eternal: Zachary's Story last month, and I'll be spending the next year refining and inking the over 150 pages in the next installment of Cynthia's sumptuous and twisty story arc!
I'm also writing and drawing a two page story for the Womanthology project, organized by Renae de Liz and to be published by IDW [Newsarama Note: Which ended its Kickstarter with over 4 times its goal, totaling over $100,000!], which I'm quite excited about. Aside from that, I'll just be trying to pick up shorter standalone stories and one shots whenever I can!
Tantalize: Kieren's Story is in bookstores August 23, 2011.
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Key Valuation Metrics of the Media Sector
By Shirley Pelts
Valuation metrics
In this final part of the series, we'll look at some key metrics investors can use to compare values of media companies. We'll specifically look at media valuation multiples, which may be used to value conglomerates.
Some of the usual valuation multiples for companies are PE (price-to-earnings), EV-to-EBITDA (enterprise value to earnings before interest, tax, depreciation, and amortization), PCF (price-to-cash flows), and PFCF (price-to-free cash flows).
The price-based multiples take into account value from a shareholder's perspective. The EV-based multiples help investors understand the value of the company from the point of view of a company's holders of sources of capital. These are forward multiples based on expected values of the denominator after a year.
Cable companies are trading at a discount
We prefer EV-to-EBITDA and PCF over the other multiples when comparing valuation of media conglomerates with different structures. One of the reasons we use these multiples is to take out the impact of various capital investments made by distributors such as cable companies and satellite TV providers. As you can see in the above chart, cable companies are trading at a discount to media producers and aggregators.
Among the three media content producers, the Walt Disney Company (DIS), 21st Century Fox (FOXA), and Time Warner (TWX), TWX appears undervalued based on EV-to-EBITDA. Among cable companies, Comcast (CMCSA) appears to be undervalued based on both the EV-to-EBITDA and price-to-cash-flow multiple as compared to Time Warner Cable (TWC).
Notably, Comcast makes up 2.9% of the PowerShares QQQ ETF (QQQ). For investors interested in getting exposure to the television and radio sector, QQQ has 4.9% exposure to TV and radio.
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Q: WCF reference not found when doing dependency injection In have a WinForms application which, recently, has started to show a design-time error when opening some forms:

Could not find default endpoint element that references contract ...

You can see the winforms designer screenshot here.
It's a well-documented problem (here, here and here for example), except that my problem has only appeared since I have tried to introduce dependency injection.
I have a business layer object calling this webservice. I have changed some methods like such:
public class Stocks : BusinessObjectBase
{
    private readonly IAxReferenceService axService;
    private readonly IDALStock dalstock;

    public Stocks()
    {
        this.axService = new AxReferenceServiceClient();
        this.dalstock = new DALStock();
    }

    public Stocks(IAxReferenceService axService, IDALStock dalStock)
    {
        this.axService = axService;
        this.dalstock = dalStock;
    }

    public IEnumerable<Model.Stock> GetStock() {
        return this.axService.GetStock();
    }
}

When I remove my dependency injection for this service, it suddenly all works:
public class Stocks : BusinessObjectBase
{
    private readonly IDALStock dalstock;

    public Stocks()
    {
        this.dalstock = new DALStock();
    }

    public Stocks(IDALStock dalStock)
    {
        this.dalstock = dalStock;
    }

    public IEnumerable<Model.Stock> GetStock() {
        using (var axService = new AxReferenceServiceClient()) {
            return axService.GetStock();
        }
    }
}

My webservice is configured like this (and yes, it's both in the business layer project and the main project):
<binding name="BasicHttpBinding_IAxReferenceService"
         maxBufferSize="2147483647"
         maxBufferPoolSize="2147483647"
         maxReceivedMessageSize="2147483647" >
  <readerQuotas maxDepth="32"
                maxStringContentLength="2147483647"
                maxArrayLength="2147483647"
                maxBytesPerRead="2147483647"
                maxNameTableCharCount="2147483647" />
</binding>
...
<endpoint address="http://.../AxReferenceService.svc"
          binding="basicHttpBinding"
          bindingConfiguration="BasicHttpBinding_IAxReferenceService"
          contract="AX.IAxReferenceService"
          name="BasicHttpBinding_IAxReferenceService" />

What is the problem I introduced with my injection?

A: I haven't found a way to successfully fix this particular problem (except by catching this particular exception in my constructors and checking if it's design time).
I assume Visual Studio design-time compiles at a separate location, and does not copy the app.config files.
However, I have found that I am doing user control dependency injection wrong (see: here and here)
So, for my specific buggy control, I have replaced my constructor injection with a property injection (actually through a method, but hey).
public ucSelectStock()
{
    InitializeComponent();
}

public void LoadControl(
    IStocks stocks,
    IStockFactory factory)
{
    this.stocksBll = stocks;
    this.stockFactory = factory;

    // these were creating many problems because they're badly designed.
    // moving them from constructor to method fixes the design-time problems
    this.SelectorProduct = new GridCheckMarksProductSelection();
    this.SelectorSupport = new GridCheckMarksSupportSelection();
}

And then I call LoadControl in the Form_Load event of the container forms.