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Marks Lab Members and Collaborators
Lab Members Collaborators Alumni
Debora S. Marks
Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School
Associate member at the Broad Institute.
Contact Kevin Chimo, Debbie's faculty assistant for all non science related questions:
Debora is a mathematician and computational biologist with a track record of using novel algorithms and statistics to successfully address unsolved biological problems. She has a passion for interpreting genetic variation in a way that impacts biomedical applications. During her PhD, she quantified the potential pan-genomic scope of microRNA targeting and combinatorial regulation of protein expression and co-discovered the first microRNA in a virus. As a postdoc she and her colleagues cracked the classic, unsolved problem of ab initio 3D structure prediction of proteins using a maximum entropy probability model for evolutionary sequences. She has developed this approach to determine functional interactions, biomolecular structures, including the 3D structure of RNA and RNA-protein complexes and the conformational ensembles of apparently disordered proteins. Her new lab at Harvard is interested in developing methods in deep learning to address a wide range of biological challenges including predicting the effects of genetic variation and sequence design for biosynthetic applications.
NIH Biosketch
Professor at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI) and Harvard Medical School (HMS)
The Marks lab works very closely with the Sander lab. Find all our collaborators from the Sander lab at: sanderlab.org
Kelly Brock
Postdoc (joint with Chris Sander)
Kelly spent her PhD studying the evolution of protein stress response in the England group at MIT. As a joint postdoc between the Marks and Sander groups, she applies evolutionary couplings analysis both to predict protein structures de novo and to enable better fold and alternate conformation analysis from NMR and X-ray crystallography. Additionally, she works on Pathway Commons biological applications and analysis tools. When not trying to bend computers to do her bidding, she enjoys playing pub trivia and coaching cheerleading.
Jonathan Frazer
Jonny's background is in theoretical physics. His previous work included developing computational tools for testing theories of the very early universe, as well as pioneering the use of information theory and probabilistic modelling for studying cosmic inflation in string theory. His love of high-dimensional probability and information theory has now brought him to the data-rich world of genomics.
Jonny's webpage
Mafalda Dias
Mafalda is a theoretical physicist who recently became interested in computational biology. Before joining Debbie's lab she worked at the border between cosmology and string theory, developing computational tools and studying complex models as a way to learn about the first instants of the Universe. She now develops new statistical models to address the link between biological sequence and function, for both proteins and whole genomes.
Mafalda's webpage
Nikki Thadani
Nikki spent her PhD applying synthetic biology principles to the task of engineering viruses for gene therapy. Years of synthesizing and testing capsid mutants inspired her interest in data-driven protein engineering and synthetic evolution. Outside of lab, she enjoys taking her mini-schnauzer on pup adventures around Boston.
David Ding
Contrary to appearance, David was born and raised in idyllic Austria, and educated in even more idyllic Oxford. David somehow ended up being interested in how protein interactions evolve, and travelled across the pond to work with Debbie. When David is not troubleshooting experiments, he likes to move around even more, preferably on a bike and somewhere in nature.
Eli Weinstein
Harvard Biophysics
Email » Eli received his undergraduate degree in Chemistry and Physics from Harvard College. He is currently writing new search algorithms to find interesting things in big sequence databases.
June Jung-Eun Shin
Harvard Systems Biology
June is a first year Systems Biology PhD student rotating in the Marks lab. Broadly, she is interested in the use of computational methods applied to therapeutics-related research and intends to spend her rotation working on computational drug screens.
Nathan Rollins
Graduate Student (joint with Silver lab)
Nathan is a joint student with Debbie and Pam Silver. With Pam, he's modeled enzyme mechanisms and designed anti-cancer proteins. Lately he's been scrounging around in viral genomes with Debbie. Outside the lab, he can be found in the middle of a biking accident, compulsively acquiring more craigslist furniture, or hanging too many things from his ceiling.
Tessa D. Green
Tessa studied Physics as an undergraduate at MIT, where she spent far too much time in dark rooms trapping ions. After a brief flirtation with molecular biology and some quality time spent pipetting, she decided to return to her mathematical roots. She is now a Biophysics graduate student interested in how cells and scientists interpret noisy data.
Aaron Kollasch
Aaron is a PhD student in the BBS program. He is interested in learning from observed sequences to design new biomolecules.
Joshua Rollins
Joshua studied applied and computational math sciences along with electrical engineering at University of Washington. He now absorbs knowledge of our tiny friends the tardigrades, while creating bioinformatics software. Enticed by candles, bamboo, and coconuts he can often be found drawn into Filipino folk dance.
Ada Shaw
Ada is a graduate student in the School of Applied Science and Engineering. She comes from UC Berkeley where she worked on raising Ammonia-Oxidizing Bacteria. After spending her first year in graduate school with atmospheric chemistry models she decided to apply her modeling experience to her original interest in biology.
Amy Tam
Amy studied Computational & Systems Biology as an undergraduate at UCLA. There, she developed a deeper appreciation for interdisciplinary approaches to advancing our understanding of biomedical sciences. Her enthusiasm for learning and desire to develop a big-picture understanding of biology and research has led her to the Marks Lab. Outside of lab, Amy can be found in a library or wandering the streets of Boston.
Trenton Bricken
Trenton is a rising senior at Duke University majoring in Biological and Artificial Intelligence. He is interested in applications of machine learning to pressing problems in biology and hopes to contribute to the Biostasis and FunGCAT projects this summer. If the world was free of pathogens, you'd find him backpacking around the world with his Grandfather's vintage Leica M3 film camera taking mediocre photos.
Siranush Babakhanova
Ed Boyden's Synthetic Neurobiology Group
MIT Media Lab and McGovern Institute for Brain Research
Siranush is studying Physics and CS at MIT'20. She is interested in creating new tools to study and augment complex biological systems. Outside of lab she can be found trying to marry physics, neuroscience and art, engaging in work on human enhancement, or spotted dancing or writing in books.
Alan Amin
Alan is a first year PhD student in the Systems Biology program rotating in the Marks lab with a background in mathematics and biochemistry.
Rose Orenbuch
Coming from a background in computer science and biology, Rose is a first year Systems Biology graduate student rotating in the Marks lab.
David Yang
David is an undergraduate at Harvard studying Statistics and Biology and joining the Marks lab for his senior thesis. He is broadly interested in using statistical methods to guide protein design. When he's not in the lab, you can find him ballroom dancing or biking along the Charles.
Kasia Kready
Sharifa Sahai
Sharifa was born and raised in Queens, New York. She went to Union College for her Bachelor's and was a dual major in Computer Science and Biology. Before starting her PhD, she did a one-year software-engineering residency at Google in NYC. Sharifa has previously done summer research in the Jarosz Lab at Stanford University School of Medicine and in the Planetary Protection Group at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. She is also scuba certified and did marine conservation research in Fiji at the Shark Reef Marine Reserve. Sharifa enjoys cycling, weightlifting, playing board games and listening to podcasts / audiobooks.
Nicolas Gort Freitas
Nico studied biology and data science at Minerva, a traveling university that allowed him to live in six countries throughout his undergrad studies. His previous work includes inferring the presence of post-translational modifications from mass-spectrometry data and modeling the evolution of cell composition in bacteria. Nico's interests range from systems and synthetic biology to linguistics and philosophy. In his free time, Nico sings at the Longwood Chorus and plays soccer. He also enjoys hiking, dancing tango, playing board games, and making high-quality memes.
Naama Barkai
Doug Fowler
Rachelle Gaudet
Brad Hyman
Roy Kishony
Allon Klein
Oliver Kohlbacher
Andrew Kruse
Elizabeth Libby
Gaetano Montelione
Philip Pearce
Aviv Regev
David Rudner
Pam Silver
Jeff Way
Elizabeth Wood
Anna G. Green
Anna received her undergraduate degree in molecular and cell biology from the University of Connecticut, where she worked on the evolution of optimal growth temperature and gene flow in thermophilic bacteria. During her PhD, she studied he evolutionary constraints on protein-protein interactions. After graduating, Anna began a post-doc fellowship in Maha Farhat's lab.
Hailey Cambra
Hailey rotated in the Marks lab working to understand how evolutionary couplings can be used to predict protein structure. In her spare time, Hailey likes to read, cook, run, hike, watch Netflix programs, and learn new things.
Christian Dallago
Rostlab
Christian completed his Master of Science at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), in Germany. He has spent two years working on different software tools for Rostlab, the chair of Bioinformatics at TUM, and wrote his master thesis on adverse drug reaction prediction. Passionate about software engineering in the field of Bioinformatics, Christian joined the Marks lab to spread the tools developed by fellow lab memebers to the community.
Adam Riesselman
Harvard BIG Program
In the Marks lab, Adam made predictive, interpretable mathematical models for biology.
DOE CSGF
John Ingraham
John studied Applied Math and Biochemistry at Arizona State University, somehow avoiding proteins with research on vaccines, howler monkeys, and brain cancer. The flash cards of biochemistry class got back at him eventually, though, as he spent his PhD in the Marks lab developing predictive, interpretable models for sequence variation that are grounded in biophysics and genetics. Away from the keyboard & whiteboard, John likes being outside, in the forest or desert, and preferably on a bike.
Benjamin Schubert
Benni's background is in computer science and computational biology. In his undergraduate studies, Benni became interested in applying advanced optimization and machine learning approaches to tackle immunological questions. During his PhD at the Univesity of Tübingen, he continued his undergraduate work in computational immunology and made important algorithmic contributions to NGS-based HLA genotyping and to personalized cancer vaccines design. He also became fascinated by co-evolutionary models used for protein structure inference. He combined these models with his previous work to tackle the problem of anti-drug antibody formation in biotherapeutics in close collaboration with the Marks Lab at Harvard Medical School. As a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard Medical School, Benni continued his work in cancer immunology and related areas.
Rohan Maddamsetti
Rohan defended his PhD on the evolution of laboratory and natural populations of Escherichia coli at Michigan State University in 2016. His main interest is molecular evolution. Rohan is especially interested in whether coevolution at the molecular scale is sufficient (or not) in driving the evolution of complex cellular lifeforms.
Rohan's Weebly page
Anastasia Leshchyk
Anastasia's pursuing Master's degree in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. She was a Fulbright student from Belarus and Edmund S. Muskie Internship Program Fellow
David E. Rollins
David is a student at the University of Texas at Austin double-majoring in Software Engineering and Nanotechnology. He is particularly interested in the development of algorithms for Biology applications as well as the production of microscopic electronics that hold potential for direct manipulation on a cellular level. In his spare time, David enjoys reading articles on the implementations of artificial intelligence (particularly in Biology), binging Netflix, and training for the U.S. Olympic Swimming Trials.
Charlotta Schärfe
Hattie Chung
Sophia Mersmann
Bioinformatics, Imperial College in London
Chan Kang
Thomas Hopf
Eli Draizen
Currently at National Institute of Health(NIH)
Li Yang
Currently working at Mathworks
Ruomu Jiang
Senior Bioinformatics Scientist
Currently working at Helix
Sikander Hayat
Postdoc(2013 - 2014)
MSKCC in New York
Torsten Gross
Institute for Theoretical Biology
Humboldt University, Berlin
Jörn Schmiedel
Berlin University
Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona
Agnes Toth-Petroczy
Ben Alemu
Summer Undergraduate Student
Duncan Mitchison-Field
High School Intern & Summer Intern
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The U.S. State Department has approved possible military sales worth $2.6 billion to South Korea, including six P-8A Poseidon maritime reconnaissance aircraft and 64 Patriot anti-ballistic missile weapons, the Pentagon said on Thursday.
The Boeing-made Poseidon aircraft, which are used for hunting submarines and conducting maritime reconnaissance, are worth up to $2.1 billion, the Pentagon's Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) said.
At the time, the contract was worth around $1.71 billion. Thursday's DSCA authorization included training, logistics, support equipment and services that could affect the price.


Stone gave the example of the staple of magic tricks, the "double lift," where two cards are presented as one. It's how a magician can seemingly bury a card that you have selected at random and then miraculously retrieve it. Stone has done the double lift countless times in his career, and he says it is kids—overwhelmingly—who see through it. Why? The magician's job is to present a series of cues—to guide the attention of his audience—and adults are really good at following cues and paying attention. Kids aren't. Their gaze wanders. Adults have a set of expectations and assumptions about the way the world works, which makes them vulnerable to a profession that tries to exploit those expectations and assumptions. Kids don't know enough to be exploited. Kids are more curious. They don't overthink problems; they're more likely to understand that the basis of the trick is something really, really simple. And most of all—and this is my favorite—kids are shorter than adults, so they quite literally see the trick from a different and more revealing angle.
The two briefly revisit their famous argument from their first book about the link between the surge in abortions in the 1970s and the fall in violent crime twenty years later. Their point is not to reargue that particular claim. It is to point out that we shouldn't avoid arguments like that just because they leave us a bit squeamish. They also tell the story of the Australian doctor Barry Marshall, who overturned years of received wisdom when he proved that ulcers are caused by gastric bacteria, not spicy food and stress. That idea was more than heretical at first. It was absurd. It was the kind of random idea that only a child would have. But Dubner and Levitt's point, in their utterly captivating new book, is that following your curiosity—even to the most heretical and absurd end—makes the world a better place. It is also a lot of fun.


Registration is now open for the 2018 Alaska Rural Energy Conference. The 2018 conference will be held April 10th - 12th in Fairbanks, Alaska at the Westmark Fairbanks Hotel and Conference Center. For more information on our sessions, take a look at the conference agenda.


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Buckle up, NBA fans. After months of inactivity, you're about to get a heavy dose of basketball.
The NBA's Board of Governors approved a plan Thursday to resume the 2019-20 season under a 22-team format.
The format reportedly has each team playing eight regular-season games at Walt Disney World in Orlando to determine seeding for a 16-team playoff, which the Boston Celtics already have clinched a spot in.
So, when does the season resume, when will the NBA playoffs start and how soon will offseason events like the NBA Draft and free agency begin?
Download the MyTeams app for the latest Celtics news and analysis
ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski and The Athletic's Shams Charania reported several key dates Thursday on Twitter. Here's the reported rundown:
June 15: Players outside of the U.S. return to their local market.
June 21: All players report to their respective teams.
June 22: Coronavirus testing begins for players and staff.
June 30: Training camp begins for the 22 teams involved in the format.
July 7: The 22 teams travel to Orlando.
July 31: The 2019-20 season resumes with teams beginning their eight-game schedule to determine playoff seeding.
Aug. 25: The NBA Draft Lottery will be held.
Oct. 12: Proposed date for Game 7 of the NBA Finals (still TBD, per Wojnarowski).
Oct. 15: The 2020 NBA Draft will be held.
Oct. 18: Free agency for the 2020-21 season begins.
Blakely: What NBA restart plan means for Celtics
The NBA also is targeting a Nov. 10 start date to training camp for the 2020-21 season and a Dec. 1 start date to begin the regular season, per Charania, who noted those dates remain fluid.
That's a lot of action over the next several months, with just three days between the draft and free agency and under two months between seasons.
The NBA has been on hiatus since March 11 due to the coronavirus pandemic, however, so the league is doing everything it can to get back on track by compressing the schedule.
The Celtics were allowed to return to their team facility in Boston this week and reportedly have just over a month to shake off the rust before heading down to Orlando.
Forsberg: Who should C's want to face in Round 1?

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Intellectual Property Law Institute 2016
Speaker(s): Charan J. Sandhu, David Bender, Douglas (Chip) A. Rettew, Howard J Shire, Joel Wolfson, John Macaluso, John W. Hamlin, Lateef Mtima, Lindsey J. Canning, Lisa T. Simpson, Pauline Wen, Robert Greene Sterne, Robert P. Taylor, Siegrun D. Kane, Steven C. Bennett, Steven M. Gruskin, Stuart E. Pollack, Susan Progoff, Teri Wilford Wood, Victoria A. Cundiff, William A. Tanenbaum, William Sloan Coats
Recent Developments in Privacy Law
Intellectual Property Exhaustion
Trademark Hot Topics
Oracle v. Google: Refining Copyright Protection for Software Programs
How the Latest Developments in Trade Secrets Law Will Affect Your Business
Dealing with Standard-Essential Patents
Corporate Counsel Panel: Protecting Trade Secrets and Other Confidential Information in the Digital Age
Critical Ethics Issues for the IP Lawyer
David Bender is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Houston Law Center, and also at Pace University Law School, where he teaches Privacy Law. Mr. Bender is a Distinguished Fellow of the Ponemon Institute. He has had extensive Privacy, Intellectual Property, and Information Technology litigation, counseling, and transactional experience. He was a founder of the IP practice, and co-founder of the Privacy practice, at White & Case. Before retiring from White & Case, he headed the firm's privacy practice.
Mr. Bender served in-house at AT&T for ten years, during the latter half of which he was responsible for all IP litigation brought by or against any Bell System company. Before that, he spent five years engaged in antitrust litigation. And before turning to the law, he served as an engineer with the Ford Motor Company's aerospace division, and as a mathematician with Hughes Aircraft.
Bar Admissions: New York; US Patent and Trademark Office
Publications: Bender on Privacy and Data Protection (Rel.12 2018 LexisNexis); Computer Law published in 1978 and presently in Release #73 (LexisNexis, 6 loose-leaf volumes); and over 100 articles in law reviews and conference proceedings.
International Association of Privacy Professionals
International Technology Law Association (President, 1999-2000)
Association of the Bar of the City of New York
Super Lawyers:
New York City Metro Super Lawyer in Information Technology (2006 -- 2011).
One of the 25 best lawyers in the Westchester Co., NY Area (2009 - 2011)
Over 300 presentations across the United States and in 19 other nations at conferences sponsored by numerous organizations.
Bob Taylor is the founder and owner of RPT Legal Strategies PC in San Francisco and Palo Alto, providing legal and business advice to companies and investors with respect to all aspects of intellectual property and related fields of endeavor. He also serves as a Venture Advisor to New Enterprise Associates and as a patent law expert for the National Venture Capital Association.
For more than 30 years, Bob focused primarily on intellectual property litigation, serving as lead trial counsel and/or appellate counsel in dozens of patent, copyright, trade secret and antitrust cases involving a wide range of technologies and industries. He is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, a former chair of the Antitrust Section of American Bar Association, and a Lifetime Member of the American Law Institute.
Bob has written and lectured extensively on the business and legal problems associated with both intellectual property protection and the laws related to competition. He served for several years as the co-chair of the Antitrust Committee of Intellectual Property Owners Association and also as a Member of IPO's Amicus Committee. Bob also served as a member of the 1992 Commission on Patent Law Reform.
Bob holds a J.D degree from Georgetown University Law Center and was a member of the editorial board of the Georgetown Law Journal. He holds a B.S.E.E degree from the University of Arizona and was elected to Tau Beta Pi.
John Hamlin is Chief Counsel, Employment, Benefits and Governance for Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc., one of the world's leading professional services firms with over 60,000 employees in approximately 90 countries. The firm's operating companies include Marsh, Mercer, Guy Carpenter, and Oliver Wyman. Prior to joining Marsh & McLennan, he was Of Counsel with the law firm of Paul, Hastings Janofsky & Walker LLP. While in private practice, he represented employers in all aspects of labor and employment law, before various state and federal courts and administrative agencies, and provided advice on an array of personnel-related issues. Mr. Hamlin served as a Law Clerk to the Honorable B. Avant Edenfield, Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Georgia in Savannah.
Mr. Hamlin is a fellow of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers. He has published various articles on employment law and has presented at numerous seminars on assorted employment-related topics. In 2014 he was recognized as one of The Legal 500's GC Powerlist "Corporate Counsel 100: Rising Stars," which recognizes leading in-house lawyers for innovation, quality and excellence. He was selected by the International Law Office and the Association of Corporate Counsel as the recipient of the 2015 ILO Global Counsel Award for Employment Counsel of the Year. He is the recipient of a 2016 First Chair Award for Top Employment Counsel.
Mr. Hamlin earned a J.D. with honors from the University of Connecticut School of Law, where he was Editor-in-Chief of the Connecticut Journal of International Law.
John Macaluso is a member of Gibney's Intellectual Property Practice Group. He focuses primarily in trademark and copyright protection and enforcement, as well as in computers & new media, corporate and sports law.
Mr. Macaluso has successfully litigated scores of trademark counterfeiting and copyright infringement cases, as well as civil and administrative proceedings under the UDRP, DMCA and ACPA. Mr. Macaluso also counsels clients in the luxury goods, fashion, sports and entertainment industries in developing nationwide programs to protect and enforce intellectual property rights. In furthering that goal, he advises federal, state and local law enforcement agencies on procedures to combat the counterfeiting of trademarked goods, and trains members of these agencies as an expert in the identification of counterfeit merchandise.
Mr. Macaluso is the co-founder of Gibney's Online Brand Protection Group and supervises a staff devoted exclusively to protecting and enforcing clients' rights online. He has extensive experience drafting and negotiating website development and hosting agreements and advises clients on matters relating to new technology, computers and the Internet. He is also experienced in business planning and financing, and has negotiated licensing and distribution agreements with teams in several professional sports.
International Anticounterfeiting Coalition (IACC)
International Trademark Association (INTA)
New York Bar Association, Entertainment, Arts & Sports Law Society
Articles, Publications and Lectures
Mr. Macaluso is a frequent author and speaker on international anticountefeiting and internet liability issues, and has addressed audiences at IACC, INTA, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, and the U.S. Customs & Border Protection agency.
Eastchester Blue Devils Football Association, Head Coach
Eastchester Little League, Head Coach
J.D., St. John's University School of Law, May 1990
B.S., Fordham University, College of Business Administration, May 1986
United States District Court, Eastern District of New York – July 30, 1991
United States District Court, Southern District of New York – July 30, 1991
United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit – June 1, 2004
United States Court of Federal Claims – June 1, 2004
United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces – June 1, 2004
United States Supreme Court – June 1, 2004
Pro Hac Vice Admissions
United States District Court for the:
Central District of California
Northern District of California
Eastern District of Illinois
District of Massachusetts
District of Nebraska
Northern District of New York
Eastern District of Pennsylvania
District of Puerto Rico
Lateef Mtima is a Professor of Law at the Howard University School of Law. After graduating with honors from Amherst College, Professor Mtima received his J.D. degree from Harvard Law School, where he was the co-founder and later editor-in-chief of the Harvard BlackLetter Journal. He is admitted to the New York and Pennsylvania bars and has practiced intellectual property, bankruptcy, and commercial law, including a decade in private practice with the international law firm of Coudert Brothers. Currently a member of the Advisory Council for the United States Court of Federal Claims and the BNA Patent, Trademark & Copyright Journal Advisory Board, Professor Mtima has held the post of Distinguished Libra Visiting Scholar in Residence at the University of Maine School of Law, is a past President of the Giles S. Rich Inn of Court for the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and was a member of the founding Editorial Board for the American Bar Association intellectual property periodical Landslide. Professor Mtima is the Founder and Director of the Institute for Intellectual Property and Social Justice, an accredited Non-governmental Organization Member of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).
Pauline Wen is Senior Vice President and Chief Privacy Officer for 21st Century Fox, Inc. She oversees data privacy for 21st Century Fox, Inc. and its business units, such as the Fox Networks Group. She is CIPP/US certified.
Prior to joining 21st Century Fox, she was Senior Vice President, Chief Privacy Counsel for Viacom Media Networks, a division of Viacom International Inc., responsible for data privacy for VMN and its brands, such as MTV and Comedy Central, and prior to that role at VMN, she specialized in digital media law at VMN, negotiating deals and providing related advice in a variety of areas in the digital space, such as advertising technology, operations and sales.
Prior to joining VMN, she was Special Counsel at Fried Frank Harris Shriver and Jacobson LLP, where she specialized in intellectual property and technology law, handling a wide variety of matters for individuals and corporations. Prior to joining Fried Frank, she specialized in technology-related commercial litigation and intellectual property litigation at Friedman Siegelbaum LLP. Prior to becoming an attorney, she worked as a systems consultant and computer programmer at Deloitte & Touche LLP and its affiliate and AT&T Bell Laboratories.
She earned her J.D. from Rutgers Law School, Newark, and received a Bachelor of Science degree in Information Systems from Carnegie Mellon University. She is admitted to the Bars of New York and New Jersey.
In addition to membership in the International Association of Privacy Professionals, she is also a member of the Steering Committee of the Association of Corporate Counsel Greater New York's Diversity Group.
Siegrun D. Kane is a partner in Kane Advisors, LLP. She received her J.D. from Harvard Law School and specializes in litigating trademarks in the federal courts and the USPTO.
Siegrun is the author of Kane on Trademark Law published by PLI now in its 6th Edition' and updated bi-annually.
Siegrun also acts as a consulting and testifying expert. She has been repeatedly listed in The Best Lawyers in America, New York Super Lawyers and other "Who's Who" publications. The Wall Street Journal has reported her views on trademark issues.
Siegrun lectures frequently for PLI, and other CLE organizations.
Steve is a partner in the Washington, DC office, and is a member of the electrical-mechanical practice group. He has more than 20 years of experience in all aspects of intellectual property law, including federal district court jury trials, appeals to the CAFC, bench trials at the ITC, patent prosecution, reissue, re-examination, opinions relating to validity/ infringement/enforceability, general client counseling and the strategic management and enforcement of large domestic and international patent portfolios.
He handles patent matters in the electrical and mechanical sciences, including vehicle lighting, on and off road tire construction, vehicle body and vehicle information systems, and a broad range of other automotive technologies. Steve also has significant experience in sports related technologies, especially in golf ball/club construction.
Steve continually works with clients to maximize and leverage the value of their intellectual property portfolios and to assist them in taking full advantage of US laws. He provides frequent lectures and seminars on topics relating to U.S. Patent law and USPTO practice and procedure.
Primary Areas of Practice: Intellectual Property pertaining to Electrical/Mechanical patents, including IP Litigation, Inter-Partes and Post Grant Review (IPR/PGR) proceedings under the AIA, ITC Section 337, Patent Counseling and Patent Prosecution
Law School/ George Washington University School of Law
Under Graduate School: University of Miami
Work History: Steve has more than 20 years of experience in all aspects of intellectual property law, including district court jury trials, appeals to the CAFC, bench trials at the ITC, IPR/PGR proceedings under the AIA, patent prosecution, reissue, re-examination, opinions relating to validity/infringement/enforceability, client counseling and strategic management and enforcement of large domestic and international patent portfolios.
International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI)
Tau Beta Pi
Pi Tau Sigma
International Intellectual Property Law Association
District of Columbia Bar Association - Patent, Trademark and Copyright Law Section
Steven C. Bennett is a partner at Scarola Zubatov Schaffzin PLLC in New York City, where he practices commercial litigation and arbitration. Steve is former Co-Chair of the New York State Bar Association E-Discovery Committee. He co-founded the Sedona Conference Working Group on International Discovery. He has taught E-Discovery Law at: Hofstra Law School, New York Law School and Rutgers Law School. Steve is on the Commercial Arbitration and Mediation panels of the American Arbitration Association. B.A., Macalester College; J.D., New York University School of Law.
Teri Wilford Wood is Of Counsel in the New York, New York office of Jackson Lewis P.C. Her practice focuses on representing employers in global workplace law matters, including preventive advice and counseling.
At Jackson Lewis, Ms. Wood focuses primarily on international employment issues, corporate governance and investigations, workplace training and restrictive covenants worldwide. She is a member of the Corporate Governance and Internal Investigations Practice Group and the Non-Competes and Protection Against Unfair Competition Practice Group.
Previously, Ms. Wood was chief global labor and employment counsel advising Fortune 100 technology and financial services corporations worldwide. In this role, Ms. Wood served as Associate General Counsel of International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) for most of her two-plus decade IBM career. In this position and previously as Managing Counsel of American Express Company, she had responsibility for employment, labor, immigration, pension, benefits and executive compensation law.
Ms. Wood has also served as a member of IBM's retirement plans Investment Committee, served as legal counsel to the plans fiduciary committee and was Co-Chair of the Law Department Education Committee. While at American Express Company, Ms. Wood served on the Supervisory Committee of the Federal Credit Union and acted as its General Counsel.
Prior to her time as in-house counsel, Ms. Wood was an Administrative Judge for the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and, earlier was an associate at a national law firm, both based in New York City.
Ms. Wood has served on the Board of Directors of the Association of Corporate Counsel, Greater New York Chapter, and is a past President of the Association's New York Chapter and Chair of its Employment Law Committee. She has also served as a member of the Board of Governors of Washburn University School of Law and is currently a member of the law school's Transactional Law Center. In addition to membership in the Association of Corporate Counsel, Ms. Wood co-founded the Westchester-Fairfield Counsel Roundtable and has served as Co-Chair of the ACC Westchester-Fairfield Employment Law Committee. She is also a member of the New York State Bar Association.
Ms. Wood volunteers with the Lupus Research Alliance on its Executive Leadership Council. She also serves as a pro bono attorney through the firm's Pro Bono Partnership. She holds an "AV Preeminent" rating with Martindale-Hubbell, and is a previous recipient of the Association of Corporate Counsel's Distinguished Service Award.
Ms. Wood is a frequent speaker for both domestic and international programs including Practicing Law Institute, Chief Litigation Officers Summit, Center for International Studies (Salzburg, Austria), NYU, Fordham Law School, ALI-ABA Wage and Hour Seminars, HR Conference Board, Association of Corporate Counsel.
Ms. Wood earned her B.A. in 1972 from the University of Missouri, and her J.D. in 1978 from Washburn University School of Law. In 2019, Washburn University named Ms. Wood an honorary Doctor of Law for her contributions to Washburn University School of Law and the legal profession.
Victoria Cundiff is a partner at Paul Hastings resident in New York, where she is a leader of the Firm's nationally ranked global trade secrets litigation practice. She works with clients in industries including technology, software, media, financial services, insurance, pharmaceuticals, chemicals and sales and distribution organizations. She has tried trade secrets and related commercial and intellectual property disputes throughout the United States and before a variety of arbitration and mediation tribunals. As important is her work to help organizations avoid litigation. She has designed confidential verification protocols for resolving intellectual property use and ownership disputes in and outside court.
Ms. Cundiff is a Visiting Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School, where she teaches intellectual property law and at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where she teaches trade secrets law. She is listed in The Best Lawyers in America; Chambers; Legal 500 (which has named her a "Leading Lawyer" nationally in Trade Secrets Litigation); and New York Super Lawyers, among other directories. She is the Vice Chair of the IPO's Committee on Trade Secrets.
Lindsey has extensive experience advising clients on intellectual property and technology matters in the context of M&A transactions, IPOs and joint ventures. She also frequently advises clients, on both the customer and supply side, on a wide range of commercial agreements, both in relation to business separations and on a standalone basis. These include IP licenses, supply and distribution agreements, outsourcing contracts and agreements relating to transformational IT projects.
Many of the transactions on which Lindsey advises are cross-border in nature. She is qualified in both the UK and NY, having spent five years working in NYC with her previous firm.
Orrick Partner Lisa T. Simpson represents retail, entertainment, technology and pharmaceutical companies in intellectual property matters, focusing on copyright, trademark, false advertising, right of publicity and licensing disputes.
Representative Engagements
Oracle America, Inc. Lisa represented Oracle in its recent copyright fair use jury trial against Google over the use of Oracle's Java source code in Google's Android operating system.
Coorstek Medical LLC. Lisa served as trial counsel, securing judgment in favor of Coorstek, in this trial concerning trade dress rights in the color pink for ceramic hip ball replacements.
Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Lisa obtained a victory in the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of Petitioner Kirtsaeng concerning the application of the Copyright Act's first sale doctrine to foreign-manufactured goods.
DISH Network, LLC. Lisa represented DISH in its highly publicized copyright and breach of contract disputes with FOX, NBC, ABC and CBS in NY and California concerning DISH's Hopper DVR. She defeated Fox's and ABC's three separate motions for a preliminary injunction on DISH's PrimeTime Anytime, AutoHop and Sling features. Lisa and the DISH team also defeated Fox's two separate appeals in the Ninth Circuit and obtained a favorable summary judgment decision which considered Aereo as it relates to DISH's Sling feature.
MGA Entertainment, Inc. Lisa represented MGA in its Ninth Circuit appeal regarding its copyright and trade secret dispute with Mattel over the Bratz dolls, obtaining a complete reversal of the District Court's order in MGA's favor. On retrial to a California District jury, Lisa and the team obtained a complete victory for MGA. The jury held that MGA owned the Bratz dolls and Mattel was liable to MGA for $309m on its counterclaims.
IP Department of the Year 2016, American Lawyer
IP Group of the Year, Law360, 2014, 2016
"Top 250 Women in IP," Managing Intellectual Property, 2014
"Future Star," Benchmark Litigation,2015-2016
List of Top Women Attorneys in the NY Metro Area, New York Times Magazine, 2012-2016
"IP Star," Managing Intellectual Property, 2014
U.S. Copyright Firm of the Year 2014, Managing Intellectual Property
Named as New York Super Lawyer - Metro, 2012-2016
Editor, Duke Journal of Law & Contemporary Problems
Member, Moot Court Board, Duke Law School
J.D., Duke Law School, 1994, with high honors
A.B., English, Duke University, 1991, cum laude
Sue is a nationally recognized expert on all facets of trademark, copyright and related unfair competition law. She has handled all aspects of these areas of the law, including major litigation and major transactions.
Sue is an experienced litigator who has handled many trademark, trade dress, copyright, false advertising, domain name, keyword and other Internet disputes and unfair competition matters, some of which have made new law. She has acted as lead counsel in suits for such clients as Carter's, Lever Brothers Company, Snapple Beverage Corp., Toy Manufacturers of America, Inc., The Coca-Cola Company, Ford Motor Company, Burberry Limited, Bell's Brewery, Inc., Purdue Pharma L.P., Huntsman Gay Capital Partners and Half the Sky Foundation. She has also designed and implemented anti-counterfeiting programs for clients in such diverse fields as fashion and accessories, semiconductor chips and automotive parts, and represented clients in a multitude of industries in oppositions and cancellation proceedings in the United States Patent and Trademark Office and in ADR proceedings.
In addition to her extensive experience in contested proceedings, Sue brings a pragmatic approach to trademark clearance, prosecution and enforcement in the United States and internationally. She applies a litigator's perspective to helping clients minimize the risk of receiving a third party's objection to the adoption of new marks, while also creating strategies for building brands that strengthen the client's ability to enforce its rights against infringers. She has also handled the trademark and copyright aspects of many complex corporate transactions that have depended on the parties' intellectual property rights, and advised clients on designing and implementing trademark and copyright licensing programs.
Robert Greene Sterne is a founding director of Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C., a premier intellectual property law firm based in Washington, D.C. Mr. Sterne has extensive expertise in AIA post issuance proceedings and concurrent patent litigation, USITC 337 investigations, Federal Circuit appeals, EU enforcement, reexamination, patent monetization and licensing, and corporate intellectual property best practices (CIPO and Board of Directors). He is a registered U.S. patent attorney, has spoken and written extensively on these topics, was named in 2015 by the Financial Times as one of the "Top Ten Legal Innovators in North America," was named in 2015 by Law360 as one of "The Top 25 Icons of IP," and was named in 2014 by The National Law Journal as an "Intellectual Property Trailblazer and Pioneer." He is editor in chief of Patent Office Litigation (2012), and Patent Office Litigation 2nd Edition (2017)(Thomson Reuters). In his practice, Mr. Sterne holds a BSEE and a MS and specializes in electronics, computers, software, communications, semiconductors, wireless, medical devices, nanotechnology, and business methods technologies. He is counsel in more than 196 PTAB contested proceedings at the USPTO and has played a key role in precedent-setting U.S. case law, including: In re Beauregard, (Fed. Cir. 1995), KSR (SCT. 2007), i4i (SCT. 2011), In re Jung (Fed. Cir. 2011), ETG (Fed Cir. 2012), and Hear Wear (Fed. Cir. 2014). Mr. Sterne is highly rated in peer-review rankings, including a consistent "Band 1" patent prosecution designation by Chambers & Partners. Among many honors, he is the recipient of the Sedona Conference Award for Excellence in Advanced Legal Education (2004), the Sedona Lifetime Achievement Award (2012), and the 2012 Attorney of the Year "Good Scout" Award for his leadership in community service. He has been at the forefront of software patent protection, having represented IBM in the precedent setting In re Beauregard case that produced the 1996 USPTO software patent guidelines and having delivered in 1985 the seminal AI and Expert System Legal Protection presentation before the AIPLA. Sterne Kessler is ranked in 2018 as the 5th largest US IP boutique and 337th largest US law firm.
William A. Tanenbaum is recognized as one of the Who's Who Legal "Thought Leaders Global Elite" and is ranked in top tiers by Chambers, Legal500, Best Lawyers and Who's Who Legal in technology, outsourcing, IP and data law. Bill is a shareholder in the 40-lawyer Technology Transactions & Data Privacy Practice at Polsinelli, an AmLaw 100 firm with 850 lawyers in 22 cities. He is the Practice Co-Chair of the Health Care Technology & Innovation Group, which is the second largest of its kind in the country. Polsinelli was named as the 2018 Health Care Firm of the Year by US News & World Report, and its Health Care Practice is the largest in the country.
Bill's practice includes the Industrial Internet of Things, Body Area Networks, AI, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing and data analytics, including data generated by networks of sensors and created by machines, as well as technology and IP transactions, and he leads teams that serve as IP counsel and as health care counsel in technology and M&A transactions. Health Care is an early adopter of IoT and data analytics, and clients call upon Bill to use leading practices from that industry in other industries.
Bill is a past President of the International Technology Law Association and was previously named as the IT Lawyer of the Year in New York by US News & World Report. Clients and legal researchers find that "he has expertise in technology transactions that puts him at the very top tier of the market [and] he is a font of knowledge on creating new IT structures," (Who's Who Legal) and "that he brings extremely high integrity, a deep intellect, fearlessness and a practical, real-world mindset to every problem," "provides savvy, zealous representation," and understands the market and uses his expertise to help [clients] successfully navigate negotiations" (Chambers). Bill is a graduate of Brown University (Phi Beta Kappa), Cornell Law School and the Bob Bondurant School of High Performance Driving.
Charan Sandhu is a partner in Weil's Technology & IP Transactions practice and is based in New York. Ms. Sandhu concentrates on the areas of complex technology transactions and intellectual property. She represents clients in matters relating to technology transfer, and the development, acquisition, use and commercial exploitation of technology and intellectual property. She has extensive experience in a wide variety of complex technology transactions, including technology development and licensing agreements, joint ventures, strategic alliances, professional services agreements, outsourcing arrangements, distribution agreements, and settlements of IP litigation.
Ms. Sandhu is consistently recognized by Chambers USA as a leading lawyer for Technology & Outsourcing, where clients have praised her for "consistently producing work of the highest order." She is also recognized by Legal 500 US; IAM Licensing 250's "World's Leading Patent & Technology Licensing Lawyers;" and IAM Patent 1000. She was also named an "IP Star" for licensing in New York by Managing Intellectual Property's IP Stars; recognized as a Financial & Transactional Life Science Star by LMG Life Sciences Guide; named among the 2015 "Top Women" for Intellectual Property in New York by Super Lawyers; and shortlisted in the "Best in Technology" category at the Americas Euromoney Women in Business Law Awards 2016.
Ms. Sandhu is a member of the Firm's Diversity Committee. She is also actively involved with the Firm's pro bono efforts and regularly represents Kids in Need of Defense. Ms. Sandhu was inducted into the YWCA's Academy of Women Leaders for her outstanding professional achievement, civic commitment and leadership. She was also featured in Profiles in Diversity Journal's 11th Annual WomenWorthWatching® issue.
Douglas (Chip) Rettew is a partner in the Washington, DC office of Finnegan Henderson. He has been recognized in World Trademark Review WTR 1000 as "[o]ne of the best litigators in the country with an unbelievable success rate," and "a go-to litigation lead for world-famous consumer brands." He focuses his practice on trademark, false advertising, and unfair competition litigation and disputes.
Doug litigates cases involving a broad range of issues, including traditional trademarks, false advertising, product disparagement, rights of publicity, unfair competition, trade dress, design patents, and domain names. Doug is also involved in advertising issues and counseling, right-of-publicity matters, and trademark and copyright prosecution and licensing. Clients include Under Armour, Bridgestone, the NFL Players Association, Capital One, Subaru, the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), and PNC Bank.
Doug has first-chair jury and bench trial and appellate experience and has argued appeals before the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Federal, Fourth, and Eighth Circuits. He also litigates oppositions, cancellations, and ex parte appeals before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Doug has significant experience in obtaining (and defeating) temporary restraining orders (TROs) and preliminary injunctions, including those involving counterfeiting and ex parte seizures. He previously served as leader of the firm's trademark and copyright practice and is currently serving on the firm's compensation committee.
William Sloan Coats is a veteran intellectual property lawyer in Silicon Valley. He has many accolades and triumphs and is AV rated by both lawyers and judges. He was the former Chair of the Science and Technology Section of the ABA and has represented the United States in various international IP treaty negotiations.
Dr. Stuart Pollack concentrates his practice on patent litigation as well as patent prosecution and patent counseling and opinion work.
With extensive trial experience in federal court, Dr. Pollack has helped obtain favorable judgments in several suits on behalf of pioneer drug companies, including suits brought under the Hatch-Waxman Act against potential generic entrants. His work has focused on pharmaceutical products and drug substances, polymers, optics and chemical reactors, and he has also worked on cases involving mechanical inventions.
Dr. Pollack has successfully represented companies in suits at the International Trade Commission. He has also helped obtain patents for his clients in pharmaceutical and chemical technology at the Patent and Trademark Office.
COURTS AND FORUMS
United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York
United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
Dr. Pollack was named a 2013 Super Lawyer by New York Metro Super Lawyers Magazine. Euromoney / Institutional Investor's 2009 Benchmark: America's Leading Litigation Firms and Attorneys lists Dr. Pollack as a national "Star" in the area of Intellectual Property.
Columbia University School of Law (1998) J.D.Kent Scholar
Northwestern University (1991) Ph.D., Physical Chemistry (specializing in metallic systems, including metal clusters)
Northwestern University (1987) M.S., Chemistry
University of Rochester (1986) B.A., Chemistry
Mr. Wolfson is a Director and Associate General Counsel in the Office of General Counsel for the Bank of America Merrill Lynch business in New York City. He concentrates on bank/broker-dealer contracts, computer contracts, intellectual property, commercial, and corporate matters.
He had been a partner in Blank Rome's Washington, D.C. office, with a concentration in transactions, intellectual property, corporate law, and public policy for the: financial industry, information provider, biotechnology, software, and computer fields.
Prior to that, Mr. Wolfson was Vice President and Associate General Counsel and head of The Nasdaq Stock Market's e-Commerce and Intellectual Property Practice Group.
His publications include (1) a multi-volume treatise on high-technology contract law; and law review articles on: (2) First Amendment protections against liability for incorrect information; (3) express warranties and published information; (4) the ability of licensing law and copyright law to peacefully co-exist; and (5) class action suits in bankruptcy court.
With more than 30 years' experience, Howard is a skillful litigator who protects and defends his clients' products and IP rights against infringement. Examples include his successful representation of Toyota as defendant in a well known trademark dilution and infringement case involving the LEXUS mark; his spearheading a trademark and copyright counterfeiting case for MuscleTech, a leading nutritional supplement company, which resulted in a multi-million dollar judgment and criminal indictments and convictions brought by the US Attorney; his successful representation of BASF Corporation in a trade dress litigation, which at the time established the Ninth Circuit's rule that a single color is not generally protectable under the US Trademark Act; his role on behalf of Heidelberg Harris in a case that resulted in a jury verdict of infringement of two printing press patents and a multi-million dollar damages award for Harris; and his representing Ozzy Osbourne in a litigation concerning ownership of the well known Black Sabbath trademark. The 2015 edition of World Trademark Review 1000, which ranks trademark attorneys worldwide, says that he is an "enforcement master who has 'operated at the top level for years.'" He has extensive experience in litigating actions to obtain domain names under ICANN's dispute resolution procedure.
He is also an experienced mediator and member of the International Trademark Association's Trademark Mediators Network, and has served as an arbitrator under the auspices of the American Arbitration Association.
Howard also has an active counseling and prosecution practice. For example, he has developed and implemented worldwide trademark registration programs. Howard also coordinates major corporate acquisitions involving the worldwide transfer of patents, trademarks and copyrights and negotiates a wide variety of intellectual property agreements, such as licenses, trademark coexistence agreements and joint ventures. In addition, Howard counsels clients on intellectual property matters relating, for example, to Internet issues and the selection of new trademarks and domain names. He represents clients from a wide range of industries, including computer hardware and software, consumer electronics, solar energy, financial services, apparel, nutritional supplements, publishing, personal care products, alcoholic beverages and pharmaceuticals.
Howard's sophisticated ability to help clients achieve their objectives with respect to their intellectual property opportunities and disputes is consistently recognized by legal referral guides that rank attorneys according to recommendations received from others in the legal community. He is ranked as a leading intellectual property lawyer by legal referral guides, such as U.S. News and World Report – Best Lawyers (2015), New York Super Lawyers – Metro Edition (2013) and The International Who's Who of Business Lawyers (2013).


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So. We Were 100% Right About Mueller. Again.
As we predicted more than a year ago, the only thing that Chief Witch Hunter Robert Mueller will be prosecuting people for at the end of the Russia investigation are people who had nothing to do with Russia or the Trump campaign, or people who fell victim to the bogus "lying to federal investigators" trick. Meanwhile, the Democrat fantasy that Trump-Russia collusion actually happened is allowed to continue.
For those who missed our earlier descriptions of the "lying to federal investigators" scam, here is how it works. Democrats sic the Department of Justice on their political enemies. The investigators then sit the Republican victim down in a room and interview him endlessly.
It's not unusual for these things to drag out for several weeks of full 8-hour interrogations, day in and day out. If the victim gets a single detail incorrect – not through malice, but through a genuine mistake or incorrect memory – then the feds nail them for the crime of "lying to federal investigators."
Gotcha! Now, plead guilty to "lying to federal investigators," otherwise we'll keep digging until we find something else. Oh, and we'll make sure that the judge seals the details on this case, so that if you tell anyone about how we railroaded you, you're in even bigger trouble. This allows the Department of Justice to tell the media that they caught a Republican "lying to federal investigators."
It sounds like a spooky and mysterious crime, as if the "guilty" person is covering something up. The reality is often that they recollect that they bought Cheerios on the third Tuesday in March of 1994, when it was actually a box of Wheaties. Your tax dollars at work!
So, to date, the crack Department of Justice has charged Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn with… what was it? Oh, right, "lying to federal investigators." Minor Trump campaign figure George Papadopoulos, who was grilled by Mueller's team for weeks, just began a 14-day jail sentence for… wait for it… "lying to federal investigators." Paul Manafort was busted for alleged financial crimes that happened years before the 2016 campaign.
The liberal run media desperately reassures us that author and investigative journalist Jerome Corsi is somehow related to the Russia collusion conspiracy. The real reason why Corsi is being investigated is because he spent 8 years asking uncomfortable questions about Barack Obama's birth certificate.
Corsi was famously denied a White House press pass, but somehow Jim Acosta of CNN and the rest of the Obama-smitten media never seemed to feel that this was an assault on the First Amendment.
Mueller's team of witch hunters spent 60 hours grilling Corsi about the meaning behind text messages that he sent back and forth with Roger Stone and other people in 2016 which mentioned WikiLeaks.
60 hours in a sweatbox with aggressive prosecutors. Corsi described it as like being interrogated for 60 hours by the North Koreans… during the Korean War. And at the end of all that, Mueller's team said, "Gotcha! Now plead guilty to 'Lying to Federal Investigators,' otherwise we'll keep digging!"
This is what the media and the Department of Justice dishonestly describe as a "plea bargain." In an actual plea bargain, the prosecutors drop certain charges in exchange for a guilty plea to a lesser charge that they can prove. But with the Department of Justice, they offer to "let" you plead guilty to the bogus "lying" charge, otherwise they'll just keep searching for another crime.
Unlike George Papadopoulos, Corsi was smart enough to refuse this "deal." He says he didn't lie to investigators, but that he made an honest mistake on some point during his 60-hour interrogation. His real crime was that he made himself an enemy to the Obama administration and they are finally getting their revenge against him.
Hillary Clinton faced no charges for running an illegal, off-books server while she was Secretary of State. She lied about it and we absolutely know she lied about it. No charges. Not even a piddly little "lying to federal investigators charge."
The Obama administration jailed Dinesh D'Souza for five months for donating slightly over the campaign limits to a personal friend in a local election. Rosie O'Donnell admitted on national television that she blatantly violated campaign finance laws by giving double the federal limit to five separate incumbent Democrats. No charges.
Senators Lindsey Graham and Chuck Grassley sent a criminal referral to Rod Rosenstein at the Justice Department back in January for Hillary's British spy Christopher Steele, the foreign meddler who authored the fictitious "Russian dossier." The DOJ obviously jumped right on that. But here we are almost a year later, and Mueller is still investigating Obama's enemies and charging them with "lying to federal investigators."


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Planning Committee B - Thursday, 11 August 2022 4.30 pm
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Venue: The George Hudson Board Room - 1st Floor West Offices (F045)
Declarations of Interest (16:33)
At this point in the meeting, Members are asked to declare any
disclosable pecuniary interest or other registerable interest they
might have in respect of business on this agenda, if they have
not already done so in advance on the Register of Interests.
Members were asked to declare at this point in the meeting any
disclosable pecuniary interests or other registrable interests that
they might have in the business on the agenda, if they had not
already done so in advance on the Register of Interests. None were declared.
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To approve and sign the minutes of the last Planning Committee B meeting held on 08 June 2022.
Resolved: Subject to the checking of the timings of the agenda items, that the minutes of the last meeting held on 8 June 2022 were approved and to signed by the Chair as a correct record at a later date.
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Plans List (16:34)
This item invites Members to determine the following planning applications:
Members considered a schedule of reports of the Development Manager, relating to the following planning applications, outlining the proposals and relevant policy considerations and setting out the views of consultees and officers.
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Erection of 21 dwellings and associated works. [Rural West York]
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Members considered a major full application from Rob Martin for the erection of 21 dwellings and associated works on land to the east of Middlewood Close, Rufforth, York.
The Development Management Officers gave a presentation on the application detailing the site plan, aerial photographs, and access roads.
[Cllr Douglas arrived at 16:37].
The Development Management Officers then gave a verbal update on the application noting that additional objections and comments had been received. They explained the location of the site and the updated recommendation to approve the application subject to:
1. Referral of the application to the Secretary of State under the requirements of The Town and Country Planning (Consultation) (England) Direction 2021, and should the application not be called in by the Secretary of State then:
2. Approve the application subject to the planning obligations and conditions set out below; and
3. The Head of Planning and Development Services to be given delegated authority to finalise the terns and details of the Section 106 obligations and conditions.
In response to Member questions, Officers clarified that:
· There were no traffic calming measures on the site and there was sufficient parking on the site for each dwelling.
· A condition would require a dilapidation survey.
· Air source heat pumps were being indicated to be used to meet the requirements of CC1.
· There was now a requirement (under Building Regulations) for all dwellings with a drive to have EV charging.
· Regarding local amenities, there was a school adjacent to the site and a village shop with a post office within it.
· Officers were confident that approval of this application would not lead to a precedent with regard development of this nature within the Green Belt.
· Housing officers had examined and were satisfied with the mix of housing.
· Officers explained why members were advised against refusal on prematurity grounds (in respect of NPPF paragraph 49)
Daniel Russell, neighbour to the site, spoke in objection to the
application. He explained that his family lived next door to the site. He noted that the application being in Green Belt land was undisputed and if approved it would set a precedent for development to the east of the site. Regarding his horse riding facility next to the site, he explained that if the development went ahead this would impact the amenity and utility of the land and to move the riding area would cost £100k. When asked whether he had concerns about the construction or development itself he noted that they would be deemed a safety risk. He was also asked if his concerns could be mitigated and explained that there needed to be distance between the development and the horse riding facility.
Peter Rollings (Chairman of Rufforth with Knapton Parish Council)
spoke on the application on behalf of the Parish Council. He explained that whilst the Parish Council did not object to the application they had a number of concerns, which included the application setting a precedent by being considered before the adoption of ... view the full minutes text for item 11.
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Single storey side and rear extensions after demolition of existing garage, and loft conversion with hip to gable roof, dormer to rear and 2no. rooflights to front (part retrospective). [Dringhouses and Woodthorpe Ward]
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Members considered a full application from Roy Grant for Single storey side and rear extensions after demolition of existing garage, and loft conversion with hip to gable roof, dormer to rear and 2no. rooflights to front (part retrospective) at 29 Moor Lane, Acomb, York.
The Development Management Officer gave a presentation on the application, explaining the scale and layout of the dormer and single storey L shape extension. Members then asked questions to which officers responded that:
With reference to a previous application for a similar development, both applications were both in the Green Belt. The NPPF guidance on inappropriate development in the Green Belt was explained to Members.
The change to the footprint on the site was a bigger L shape and in terms of the Green Belt, they needed to look at the context which was the dense urban character of that section of the Green Belt.
There was no public footpath behind the property.
Cllr Douglas proposed the officer recommendation to approve the application. This was seconded by Cllr Looker. On being put to the vote with Members voting unanimously in favour, it was;
Resolved: That the application be approved.
Reason: Taking into account relevant Green Belt policy and design guidance approval is recommended. The proposed extensions are not considered to result in a disproportionate addition to the existing dwelling, and would not impact on the openness of the Green Belt. The extension would have no undue effect on visual amenity and would not have a significant, or undue impact on neighbour amenity.


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Q: can i move the extended pertition and resize the ext4 partition to the rest of the disk i have cloned my 60 GB hard drive to a 640 GB but i can't resize the ext4 partition because the extended partition is in the way, so i would like to know if i can move it without braking something and how to move it??
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i am running Ubuntu 14.04 desktop on a Lenovo G500 laptop
i have lookit in gparted but coundt finde out how to move a partition
i have tried to google it put could't find it, so i desidet to ask here

A: You can only merge partitions that are next to each other.
If you want to ditch the extended partition you also will need to ditch the swap partition. That will remove the extended partition. And only after sda5 is gone you will be able to merge the unallocated with the primary.
This will result in 1 big disk, and you will need to recreate the swap file with the mkswap.

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2020 has been a miserable year for Charlie Brown restaurants in New Jersey.
Spurred by the coronavirus pandemic, 13 Charlie Brown Fresh Grills have closed statewide this year. Only one restaurant remains, in Union County.
Charlie Brown's, a casual steakhouse chain that at one time enjoyed dozens of eateries across New Jersey and the East Coast, is now down to just one spot in Scotch Plains.
At the start of 2020, there were 14 Charlie Brown's restaurants in the Garden State.
After Charlie Brown closed its Lakewood spot, the last one left is at 2376 North Ave. in Scotch Plains.
A company spokesman told NJ Advance Media that the COVID-19 pandemic was the primary cause of the abrupt closures.
"New Jersey was shut down longer than any state in the U.S., then only reopening at 25% capacity for indoor dining is not enough as we lost outdoor dining with winter," the spokesman said. "So, many people think that full-service restaurants can make it on take-out and third-party, but that is not the case."
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The Scotch Plains location was one of three to reopen following COVID-19 shutdowns in mid-March. The other two — in Edison and Lakewood — were the most recent to close after short-lived re-openings.
Before the coronavirus arrived in March, Charlie Brown's also had locations in Chatham, Denville, East Windsor, Forked River, Oradell, Toms River, Washington Township, Wayne, Westampton and Woodbury, along with one in New York, according to its website.
Prior to the pandemic, several Charlie Brown locations had closed --- in Old Tappan in January and in Millburn in 2018, a restaurant that had thrived for 39 years.
Originally known as Charlie Brown's Steakhouse, the first location opened in Westfield in 1966.
Charlie Brown's, savored for its wide selection of steaks and plentiful salad bar, has been sliding ever since its bankruptcy filing in 2010 when the chain had 49 locations.
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Schumer Proposes Federal Legislation to Decriminalize Marijuana
By Emma Newburger, CNBC	• Published July 14, 2021 • Updated on July 14, 2021 at 9:59 am
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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer proposed legislation to legalize marijuana at the federal level.
The Cannabis Administration and Opportunity Act would remove marijuana from the Controlled Substances Act and introduce regulations to tax cannabis products.
It would also expunge federal records of nonviolent cannabis offenders.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer proposed legislation Wednesday to legalize marijuana at the federal level, a move aimed at easing restrictive drug policies that have disproportionally impacted communities of color and the poor.
The proposal would expunge federal records of nonviolent cannabis offenders and allow people serving time in federal prison for nonviolent marijuana crimes to petition a court for resentencing.
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The plan would also create an Opportunity Trust Fund from new cannabis tax revenue in order to invest in programs for communities most affected by the "failed War on Drugs," according to a draft of the bill.
The plan to decriminalize marijuana will likely face a contentious battle in the Senate, as it's generally opposed by Republicans and some moderate Democrats and has not received an endorsement from President Joe Biden. Schumer will require 60 votes, including at least 10 GOP votes, to pass it through the Senate.
So far, 37 states and the District of Columbia have legalized the medical use of cannabis and 18 states along with D.C. have legalized recreational use of the drug by adults. However, the drug remains illegal under federal law.
Public polling shows that nearly 70% of Americans support legalizing the drug.
"For decades, our federal government has waged a War on Drugs that has unfairly impacted low-income communities and communities of color," Booker said in a statement. "While red and blue states across the country continue to legalize marijuana, the federal government continues to lag woefully behind. It is time for Congress to end the federal marijuana prohibition and reinvest in communities most impacted by the failed War on Drugs."
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Bury St Edmunds: Businessman Graham Pitcher jailed for his involvement in a �52million pension fraud
By Amie Keeley
Published: 6:40 PM July 12, 2012
A SUFFOLK businessman will spend eight years in prison for his involvement in a �52million pension fraud scam.
Graham Pitcher, 51, of Bury St Edmunds, was convicted of 'conspiracy to defraud in the misuse of pension scheme funds' managed by GP Noble.
He was sentenced last year but reporting restrictions were in place until yesterday, following the conclusion of the trial of Tony Morris and Peter Malstrom for their alleged involvement. Both were acquitted of all charges following the trial at Southwark Crown Court.
Another defendant, Gary Cordell, the former operations manager of GP Noble, who was tried alongside Pitcher, was acquitted of any criminal involvement.
GP Noble, now in liquidation, was an independent pension trustee company registered in the UK and based in Nottingham.
At the time of the offences, its principal director was Pitcher.
GP Noble administered a large number of occupational pension schemes. Many of the schemes related to companies which had become insolvent or had gone into liquidation.
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Pitcher hid transfers from other GP Noble directors and broke industry rules by failing to inform the pension authorities of the change in investment strategy. He effectively handed over control of the pension funds to entities with no assets or track record.
During the trial, the jury heard evidence that Pitcher received substantial personal benefit for his role in the fraud and expected to receive a further �1 million per year from Multiple and Unilateral Financial Futures Limited, a company registered in the British Virgin Islands.
Serious Fraud Office case manager Jane de Lozey, commenting on Pitcher's conviction and sentence, said: "Graham Pitcher held a position of enormous responsibility. He abused his position as a guardian of other people's money and his dishonest actions left pension funds completely unprotected. The lengthy sentence handed down by the court reflects the severity of the fraud perpetrated."