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DC Comics Sues Replica Batmobile Seller – Holy Copyright and Trademark Infringement, Batman!
by Milord A. Keshishian
Los Angeles, CA – DC Comics is the owner of the Batman franchise and has numerous copyright registrations for works ranging from comic books, action figures, toy Batmobiles, to movies and TV shows. It also owns numerous USPTO registered trademarks including the word marks Batmobile, Gotham City, and Batman; in addition to numerous design marks, including the Bat Emblem. Since Batman's first introduction in a 1939 issue of "Detective Comics", he was instantly popular and has become of one of DC Comics' "most successful and world-famous comic book super heroes."
Indeed, the Batman movie franchise has resulted in "domestic gross box office receipts in over a billion dollars, not to mention additional revenues from syndication rights and home video distribution." Further, the "Batman motion pictures have proven to be among the most successful licensing and merchandising ventures of all time, with gross retail sales of associated licensed merchandise exceeding $1,000,000,000." That sure is a large number of zeros, Batman!
With that much cash, Brue Wayne obviously needs to have the most advanced Batmobiles to cruise in. There have been several design iterations of the Batmobile vehicles over the years and DC Comics contends that they are all distinctive and original designs that are copyrightable subject matter. DC Comics also contends that all the designs and trademarks are either inherently distinctive or have acquired secondary meaning in the minds of consumers throughout the U.S. and the world. DC Comics' copyrights and trademarks are the subject of numerous licensing agreements for use on Batman merchandise.
Defendant Mark Towle is accused of intentionally copying the various Batmobile designs and selling unauthorized, full-scale replica cars or making car-kits that include DC Comics' intellectual property. Towle sells the cars and kits on his www.gothamgarage.net website, which domain name isn't probably the best choice for selling the subject products. The above picture is of the accused infringing 1966 Batmobile taken from Defendant's website. It also appears that Towle was previously sued for breaching a contract to deliver a 1966 Batmobile after being paid $85,000.
The case is DC Comics v. Mark Towle et al., CV11-03934 RSWL (C.D. Cal 2011).
4 responses to "DC Comics Sues Replica Batmobile Seller – Holy Copyright and Trademark Infringement, Batman!"
I heard there is a company that has a patent for a similar design if that's true and that company was smart they would take over the thing. Or sell their patent rights to dc comics. That's my opinion.
I heard Fiberglass geeks has several cars in for repair only peice of crap
Mark Racop says:
DC Comics licensed my company, Fiberglass Freaks, to build officially licensed 1966 Batmobile replicas: http://www.fiberglassfreaks.com
Looks like some one is speaking about me in the comments section. Yea I do have a patent pending for my design. But my intention to sell any rights or make any deals. I just wanted legal rights to the design I own.
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Crypto-Focused Silvergate Bank Got De Facto Backdoor FDIC Bailout via $4.3 Billion Federal Home Loan Bank Advance
Posted on January 11, 2023 by Yves Smith
Kate Berry in American Banker has done some important sleuthing in her new American Banker story, Silvergate Bank loaded up on $4.3 billion in Home Loan bank advances. Berry gets to the bottom line in her story, but the American Banker exposition style resulted in the really bad stuff that would be obvious only to banking industry regulators and insiders coming close to the end.
The 50,000 foot version is that because Silvergate focused on handling fiat-currency transactions of crypto traders…like FTX, Alameda Research, Gemini, and Coinbase. when it was hit by a bank run, it went to the Federal Home Loan Bank system for a $4.3 billion bailout. Silvergate could do that because in its old boring days as a traditional bank, it was in the mortgage business and hence had access to the Federal Home Loan Bank facilities, and maintained them despite its transformation into an institution with a very different risk profile.
As Berry explained, the Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco rescue was tantamount to a FDIC bailout. From her story:
Another quirk of the Home Loan Bank System is that, if a member bank fails, the Home Loan bank can assert statutory lien priority on other assets — essentially putting the Home Loan bank ahead of all creditors. Because of this protection, no Home Loan bank has ever lost a penny on an advance. Some critics suggest that the priority position of the Home Loan banks, which stands ahead of the FDIC's deposit insurance fund, allows the bank system to ignore the risk of failure when pricing advances. Some critics suggest the Home Loan Bank System creates a moral hazard because the FDIC cannot charge fair premiums to offset the unpriced risk of failure, shifting the downside risk to the FDIC.
"The Home Loan banks love to say that they've never lost a nickel and that's because they have a prior lien ahead of the FDIC," Petrou said. "The $4.3 billion is clearly at risk and it leaves the FDIC holding the bag."…
The Home Loan Bank System, Petrou said, is forcing the FDIC "to rescue the irredeemable."
Already experts are prognosticating what will happen in a worst-case scenario for Silvergate and for regulators. The Home Loan bank stands ahead of other creditors and the FDIC.
"If the FDIC walked in and had to close the bank, the Home Loan bank takes the first $4.3 billion of whatever the bank has that's worth taking, leaving the rest to the FDIC," Petrou said.
This incident may explain the sudden issuance at the start of the year of a strictly-worded joint letter by the three national banking regulators, the Fed, the FDIC, and the Office of the Controller of the Currency. They warned that dalliance with crypto and being a bank didn't fit well together very well. From their missive:
The agencies are continuing to assess whether or how current and proposed crypto-asset-related activities by banking organizations can be conducted in a manner that adequately addresses safety and soundness, consumer protection, legal permissibility, and compliance with applicable laws and regulations, including anti-money laundering and illicit finance statutes and rules.
Issuing or holding as principal crypto-assets that are issued, stored, or transferred on an open, public, and/or decentralized network, or similar system is highly likely to be inconsistent with safe and sound banking practices.
Business models that are concentrated in crypto-asset-related activities or have concentrated exposures to the crypto-asset sector raise significant safety and soundness concerns.
Silvergate is now under serious regulatory scrutiny, which is likely to include whether it participated in money laundering. This is not far-fetched; the Department of Justice's seizure of SBF's Robinhood holdings is in part based on money-laundering allegations.
But aside from that, Silvergate went whole-hog for slip-shod management, just like its crypto customers. It takes some doing have screwed up so badly that you would have gone bust ex an emergency infusion, when your business consisted solely of taking deposits and investing in liquid securities….well and then it turns out derivatives too. From Bloomberg on January 5:
Silvergate Capital Corp. shares plunged after the bank said the crypto industry's meltdown triggered a run on deposits, prompting the company to sell assets at a steep loss and fire 40% of its staff.
Customers withdrew about $8.1 billion of digital-asset deposits from the bank during the fourth quarter, which forced it to sell securities and related derivatives at a loss of $718 million, according to a statement Thursday.
Silvergate was the finance analogue of a guy going through a midlife crisis who divorces his wife, buys a fast car, starts wearing topaz rings and dating women who weren't born with their current physical endowments. It was a tiny La Jolla mortgage lender whose CEO became a Bitcoin enthusiast in 2013 and noticed that even sorta-respectable crypto companies had trouble getting bank accounts to do fiat-world things like pay rent.
Silvergate quickly built up a traditional, plain vanilla banking services business to crypto companies and exited its boring mortgage operations. But it had crazy concentration risk, with 90% its customers being major crypto players and one might suspect, the big names accounting for a large percentage of total deposits and transaction volumes. Still, that was not the craziest thing Silvergate did. This was, per a Wall Street Journal podcast:
David Benoit: So as the money sort of flowed in, Silvergate realized a second issue for the crypto industry, which was it was hard for someone who was investing in crypto to move money between various exchanges.
Ryan Knutzen: Before Silvergate, big investors, like hedge funds and pension funds, had to go through a lot of steps to move cryptocurrency from one crypto exchange to another. It was complicated and slow. So Silvergate stepped in and created the Silvergate Exchange Network. It allowed customers to move money between exchanges instantaneously. Silvergate launched its Exchange Network in 2017, and that's when its business really started taking off.
David Benoit: It became a place where if you wanted to get money into the exchanges, this was a very easy way to do it and their growth expanded pretty quickly and their deposits went from something like 5 billion just a couple years ago to 14 billion last year. So almost all of the big exchanges had accounts at Silvergate and then new investors who wanted to put money into the exchanges started going to Silvergate if only to make it easy to move money back and forth.
Help me. That means Silvergate put itself in the middle of big money movements in and out….which became pretty much all out as the crypto crisis hit. Silvergate's January 5 news statement indicates:
During the quarter, Silvergate sold available for sale securities, as well as certain securities that were previously identified as held to maturity.
That's an admission Silvergate screwed up and misjudged its liquidity needs.
And to make matters worse, according to the American Banker story, Silvergate didn't even stress test their portfolio for interest rates moves! Or if they did, they did it incompetently and/or didn't act on it. From the article:
"This is where risk management is ludicrously bad," [Todd H.] Baker [senior fellow at the Richman Center for Business, Law and Public Policy at Columbia Business School and Columbia Law School]continued. "They weren't thinking about the fact that all these securities — which, when they bought them, interest rates were low — that when rates go up, the value of securities drops. At some point they realized that when they sold the securities, they'd take a huge loss."
That's actually a charitable interpretation. Silvergate may have knowingly taken on excessive interest rate risk because they knew they could use the Federal Home Loan Bank as a backstop.
But back for a second to the Wall Street Journal business overview. Did you catch that word, "instantaneously"? Silvergate assumed that because money was deposited with them, they could safety transfer it between accounts, within the bank. Not such a good assumption when dealing with dodgy customers.
First, as we can see from Silvergate's news release, the $718 million it lost from dumping securities does not represent all of its potential red ink. Investors and customers are still in the dark, since Silvergate isn't publishing its quarterly financials until January 17. Consider:
As of December 31, 2022, approximately $150 million of Silvergate's deposits were from customers that have filed for bankruptcy.
If those customers are FTX and Alameda, or those deposits are mostly from them, Silvergate can kiss that goodbye too.
Second, recall that Silvergate is axing 40% of its staff, which strongly suggests its 4th quarter results will also show a big operating loss.
And as regulators are starting to go full proctological on FTX, they may also find money laundering abuses and could freeze or even seize assets related to that. And Silvergate should also be hit with some fines.
Now Silvergate did have about $1.4 billion in equity as of the end of the third quarter. But IMHO they have to set up a 100% loss reserve against that $150 million of deposits from customers in bankruptcy. So the hit to equity is likely to be more like $900 million and could be higher. And do they even have a viable business going forward?
One silver lining in this mess (pun intended) is that it coincides with a Federal Housing Finance Agency review of the Federal Home Loan Banks. Elizabeth Warren, who learned a thing or two about housing and mortgages back in her time as head of the Congressional Oversight Panel for the TARP, has already taken an interest in crypto implosions. It's not hard to image that she'll have company in asking why a quasi-government mortgage lender was rescuing a bank dedicated to the crypto industry.
This entry was posted in Banking industry, Currencies, Federal Reserve, Free markets and their discontents, OCC, Payment system, Regulations and regulators, Ridiculously obvious scams, Risk and risk management on January 11, 2023 by Yves Smith.
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chuck roast January 11, 2023 at 11:33 am
And the marijuana industry in California is denied standard banking services. Maybe we should put the DEA in charge of securities and investment fraud instead of the SEC and the OCC. At least we could be assured that all of the miscreants would eventually lounge at the Graybar Hotel rather than the 19th hole.
griffen January 11, 2023 at 11:35 am
Hoo boy, that is a doozy to consider. Hoping and I wish to suppose, that a senior risk executive actually did sign off on approving the advance to slivergate…eh, Silvergate. And in so doing, that risk executive becomes quite expendable in the event this goes south even more. Face it, once it hit that "small block of ice" even the HMS Titanic suddenly become quite sinkable.
notabanker January 11, 2023 at 12:18 pm
Thanks for this really interesting post.
Aside from the legitimacy of the deposits, did Silvergate suddenly invent a new way to instantaneously transfer crypto across exchanges that hedgies couldn't figure out? Could there be some risk involved in spreads while those transactions were settling? Crypto price moves are certainly, um, volatile.
Yves Smith Post author January 11, 2023 at 9:08 pm
No, they were not handling crypto.
dftbs January 11, 2023 at 1:04 pm
FHLB advances are secured by "by mortgages held in portfolio and other eligible types of collateral that the FHLB holds." They are a rather expensive way to access funding, I believe that since 2020 the Discount Window has been both cheaper and is more accessible with respect to credit quality of collateral. I doubt that FHLB SF loaned Silvergate funds vs. Crypto assets.
What is more likely is that Silvergate required liquidity and used its "liquid" assets to secure a loan for $4.3bln to meet its cash demands. These demands could most certainly been caused by "crypto contagion." But I think it's hard to characterize FHLB SF's actions as a "bail out" of Silvergate. They are lending money at generous haircuts vs. what is considered good collateral, not crypto. They perform these advances to maintain stability in MBS markets, they have this role because they are the ones that create the securities.
We can certainly question the wrong-way risk of an FHLB lending vs. securities they create in order to maintain market liquidity. We can question if banks like Silvergate paying onerous haircuts to FHLBs rather than liquidating positions and realizing loses puts into question the "highly liquid" characterization of those securities. But I do think its that the story sensationalizes the event and muddles its nature, and the role of FHLB SF, by adding "crypto" without any details to its place in this specific transaction.
Yves Smith Post author January 12, 2023 at 12:20 am
Sorry, if you have to go to a lender of the last resort for funding, which is what happened here, it is a bailout. Silvergate would have failed if not for the FHLB loan. I hate to get annoyed, but why you can't see that is beyond me.
The FHLB loan was over 1/3 of its peak total assets and over 3x its total equity.
Silvergate never held any crypto. It held only dollars and euros (the latter is also really out of band for a small US bank).
Silvergate clearly has large losses due to adverse interest rate movements. And it almost certainly will have 4Q operating losses and may have more deposits clawed back out of FTX/Alameda and potentially other crypto players going BK.
dftbs January 12, 2023 at 6:06 am
I do think that "bail out" implies an action that is beyond that provided for by established institutions/parameters. Certainly the actions following the GFC fit the bill, and the actions of Spring 2020 fit the bill. What Silvergate did appears to be within established parameters, it doesn't indicate that they are a healthy operation, but it's not an action outside of the norm for the FHLB to take.
I apologize if that seems like a pedantic distinction; but I do think that coupled with the inclusion of "crypto" and all the connotations of that word, it makes the story seem more sensational than it is. Judging by some other replies to the story, there is a strong implication that the FHLB SF is taking on explicit crypto risk to "bailout" Silvergate.
I believe there are a lot of questions with respect to risk management that FHLB advances raise. I don't think this story raises them, but for lack of clarity it veers into a sensationalism.
Tommy S. January 11, 2023 at 2:06 pm
Only would see this on NC. disgusting. That cash infusion is enough to house all homeless in California in dense urban REAL housing too, with mental health/social workers visiting……… BTW. But 'we can't afford that'…
Knot Galt January 11, 2023 at 2:55 pm
Any ability for a claw back?
Rip Van Winkle January 11, 2023 at 2:59 pm
Excuse me while I revisit –
STATEMENT OF LANNY BREUER ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL CRIMINAL DIVISION
BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY UNITED STATES SENATE
ENTITLED "INVESTIGATING AND PROSECUTING FINANCIAL FRAUD AFTER THE FRAUD
ENFORCEMENT AND RECOVERY ACT" PRESENTED SEPTEMBER 22,2010
"The Department of Justice is busy investigating and prosecuting financial fraud in all its
forms, including investment fraud schemes, mortgage-related fraud, securities fraud, insider
trading, money laundering, and other crimes. Since the passage ofFERA, in May 2009, we have
re-evaluated the manner in which we investigate financial fraud, the types of investigative
techniques we employ, and the nature of our relationships with our law enforcement and
regulatory partners. The Department's participation in the Financial Fraud Enforcement Task
Force has greatly facilitated this review, and has allowed for improved inter-agency cooperation
with the SEC, the FBI, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), and other
agencies. The Task Force has also improved our ability to ferret out financial crimes using
aggressive investigative techniques.
III. CRIMINAL PROSECUTIONS
The primary work ofthe Department – and ofthe U.S Attorneys' Offices and the Fraud
Section ofthe Criminal Division in particular – is to ensure that we vigorously prosecute fraud
and that those who commit financial crimes go to prison. Our investigations have been aimed at
a wide range of fraudulent activity, including fraudulent investment schemes, securities fraud,
bank fraud, mortgage fraud, procurement fraud, insider trading, and also disaster fraud.
Through the increased resources afforded to the Department and our partnerships on the
Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force, we have made this fight a priority, and we will
continue to do so. I can assure you that we will examine all allegations of fraud closely, follow
the facts wherever they lead, and seek appropriate and tough punishments for individuals and
corporations alike."
You can stop laughing now.
Arizona Slim January 11, 2023 at 3:42 pm
I can only conclude that I'm in the wrong business. Sigh. I'm still looking for that big federal bailout.
skk January 11, 2023 at 4:39 pm
When Marc Cohodes described in detail how FTX was a fraud in Nov, I started looking for their on-ramp/off-ramp guys, the guys who provided the conduits to send dollar money to FTX( and into crypto) and facilitated the reverse journey ( out of crypto and back into dollars in your own grubby hands, not inside FTX). I was certain those guys would be criminals too.
I shorted quite a lot of SilverGate at 36/stock. Its now 12.
Valerie from Australia January 11, 2023 at 5:59 pm
Thank you so much for this post. I wish more people would post this kind of information because many members of the public – if it was broken down and explained to them – would be furious. How many bank bailouts is the voting public expected to fund? I worked on both the Obama and Clinton campaigns and I can say with no reservations whatsoever, that I HATE both of these presidents and their financial administrations. I completely lay the fiasco of the current banking industry at their feet. The fact that "legitimate" banks are able to gamble on a Ponzi scheme like crypto and make loads of money for their shareholders and management while the going is good and then fall back on the taxpayer when things go South, disgusts me as a citizen and taxpayer. I only wish there was a way to claw back all those profits to pay for their carelessness and graft.
jinn January 11, 2023 at 6:39 pm
Dear Valerie from Australia,
Please allow me to inform you that banks are being blamed for the bad things Wall Street does and did.
Its sounds like you don't grasp that banks are the mechanism by which you are able to receive your income and pay your bills and safely save money. Wall Street is a Ponzi gambling outfit. Please do not confuse one with the other.
Maha January 11, 2023 at 8:00 pm
If excessive energy consumption in a time of climate change is insufficient, then surely here is yet another reason to outlaw crypto. You can't adequately regulate the cascade of outrageous behavior. Regulating will, like subprime and payday lending, simply legitimize the abuse.
GaryBless January 11, 2023 at 8:17 pm
So, a while back I put $10 into the bitcoin ATM at my Stop & Shop. The ATM took my money and all I got was an email saying I now owned .0000321 bitcoin. The email said my .0000321 bitcoin was being held for my benefit at a secure, segregated bitcoin exchange called FTX.
I wanted to buy some roast beef at the deli counter – I can only afford half a pound now – so I tried to get my $10 back. I couldn't. Someone called SBF gave my BTC to Alameda. Is this SBF related to KFC?
Why did my $10 end up at a place called Alameda Research run by some mousey Caroline lady doing drugs? Why did Alameda need to research my $10?
Why did Alameda give my $10 to Binance?
Why are the Bahamas involved? – Is that near Alameda CA?
Are the Grateful Dead involved in this too?
Maybe there will be a bailout….?
I want my roast beef….
Karl January 11, 2023 at 11:02 pm
RE: $4.3B Silvergate bailout
How weird is banking in the US? Silvergate, a bank that was created for home finance gets caught in a run due to concerns over exposure to FTX and cryptocurrency operations. Now we get to see what's under the hood of Federal Banking Laws:
Why was a Federal Home bank allowed to engage in cryptocurrency activities in the first place? The whole "prior lien" thing is an invitation to moral hazard at FDIC's expense.
George January 12, 2023 at 12:58 pm
A very good and informative piece. Kudos.
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The great Scottish singer and song writer Jackie Leven passed away on Monday, 14th November, at 8 o'clock in the evening. He had suffered from cancer.
"There are spiritual story tellers and there are soulful story tellers. I hope to be a soulful story teller. I see the two kinds as two different directions. Spiritual is ascending. Sky, God and all that. I hope my story telling is going down into the earth, is wetter, has more moisture." Jackie Leven
For further information please go to www.jackie-leven.com.
In a career stretching over forty years, Jackie Leven has carved an impressive reputation as a uniquely gifted singer-songwriter. From his emergence as leader of the underrated DOLL BY DOLL in the seventies, through well documented addiction problems which Leven overcame with remarkable strength of will, culminating in a solo resurgence through the 1980s to the here and now, Jackie has amassed an amazing body of work – the composer of over four hundred songs, including arguably his greatest song – 'Call Mother', from the album 'Mystery of Love' (ranked by Q magazine as one of '100 Best Albums of All Time'.
If sales didn't always reflect the overwhelmingly positive critical reception his albums received, he nonetheless remained a perceptive writer and performer. Jackie was imbued with a restless creativity, and always searching for new settings for his ruminative lyrical forays, laced with humour and melodic grace. As a performer, Jackie could enthral and entrance the audience with picaresque tales taken from first-hand experience.
Those that have worked with Jackie will know of his mordant wit and very idiosyncratic world view. His latest release, Wayside Shrines and The Code of the Travelling Man, recorded with multi-instrumentalist Michael Cosgrave was yet more proof of Leven's enduring talent and inexhaustible creative energies.
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Says Jackie: 'everybody needs a code to live and die by. Even a non-code is a code. My life is built round hotel rooms and the rigours of touring. A day off in Goethe 87, my favourite Berlin hotel, is an example of the sort of environment where I do my best thinking. When I'm lucky, it's the thought of the heart that shines through in the songs that come forth – these songs are the code of the travelling man.' for lots more info go to Kitchen Confidential
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My father, Group Captain EL McMillan, CBE, AFC, RAF was born a Canadian; his Father died in WWI and the family came to England where he and his sister were sponsored to attend Christ's Hospital School. My father wanted to be a surgeon, but his family was poor and he had to leave school at fifteen to support his mother. He was called up to join the RAF as a night fighter pilot with 409 Squadron flying Beaufighters VI X813. My Grandmother, after the experience of WW1 pilots, was heard to say 'Hah, he won't last long' but he was able to prove her wrong!
Fast forwarding to 2000, my father received a letter from Bill Norman a Canadian historian researching the career of German air ace Willi Schludecker. He had worked out that my father was the pilot of the Beaufighter which shot down Willi's Dornier DO217 E-4 on 23/24 July 1942. Looking through his log book my Father verified his action. Willi's aircraft was badly damaged and limped back to Holland where it crash landed, Willi suffering severe injuries; it took him 6 months to recover in hospital.
Over the years he wanted to thank my father for basically 'saving his life', as after he recovered he became a flying instructor. If he had flown any more operational missions with the Luftwaffe, especially on the Eastern Front, things could well have ended differently for him. Bill Norman pieced together the logbooks of both Willi and my father. The problem he had was that my father had been born in Canada and had thought to have been flying with a Canadian squadron. However, he was able to verify their combat that night and subsequently was pivotal in getting Willi and my father to meet.
Shown here is a photo of Willi Schludecker on 9th March 2000 meeting my father for the first time at Shoreham Airfield. An emotional reunion, with both men being grateful to have survived. They understood that each others role was to support their own Country during war; now all animosity was long gone. Having visited England for the first time after the war, Willi worked out through his maps where he had dropped and jettisoned his bombs and went to apologise to each area for his wartime actions. When my Father died Willi paid his respects – dressed in full Luftwaffe uniform – saluting his grave on 31 August 2017.
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Letter from the US: Malcolm X's revolutionary legacy
Since the protests that erupted over the police killing in Ferguson last August, a new generation of young Black leaders has sou
The 50th anniversary of the assassination of Malcolm X, one of the greatest leaders of the Black liberation movement of the 1960s, was marked on February 21.
Russian revolutionary VI Lenin once wrote: "During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their theories with the most savage malice, the most furious hatred and the most unscrupulous campaigns of lies and slander.
"After their death, attempts are made to convert them into harmless icons, to canonise them … while at the same time robbing the revolutionary theory of its substance…"
Lenin's observation, inspired by the treatment in his day of 19th century socialists like Karl Marx, applies to the way the United States ruling class has sought to turn figures like Martin Luther King Jr and Malcolm X into harmless icons after their deaths.
The ruling class certainly heaped "the most savage malice, the most furious hatred and the most unscrupulous campaigns of lies and slander" on Malcolm X in his own day.
The day after he was killed, the New York Times editorialised: "He was a case history, as well as an extraordinary and twisted man, turning many true gifts to evil purpose…"
The NYT even implied he was responsible for his own death, writing: "His ruthless and fanatical belief in violence … marked him for fame, and for a violent end."
And that was the "respectable" NYT. The gutter press was worse.
But in the decades since, the NYT and other ruling class voices have sought to "canonise" Malcolm. Roads, schools and other institutions have been named after him. The government even issued a postage stamp in his honour.
They have sought, at the same time, to blunt and vulgarise his revolutionary message. Liberals, both Black and white, seek to portray him as a pro-capitalist liberal like themselves.
Since the protests in Ferguson that erupted over a police killing last August, a new generation of young Black leaders has emerged who seek to recapture the real legacy of figures like King and Malcolm.
This was seen in this year's celebrations of King's birthday. The new generation transformed the day with militant actions, a far cry from the staid pro-establishment events of recent years.
Malcolm first rose to prominence as a leader of the Nation of Islam, popularly known as the Black Muslims. He joined them in the late 1940s while in jail for burglary, adopting the surname "X" to emphasise the fact that slave owners removed his ancestors' real names.
Out of jail in 1952, Malcolm, a brilliant public speaker, became the group's highest profile spokesperson. Originally a relatively small religious sect, Malcolm's organisational drive and uncompromising attacks on racism helped transform it into a powerful organisation.
The group was more than just a religious sect. It was a movement that inspired a new generation of Blacks in the 1950s and '60s with its message of militant Black nationalism. This especially struck a chord in the Blacks ghettos of the North, with the civil rights movement centred on the apartheid (legal segregation) South.
Malcolm broke with the Nation in 1963 and began a new course going beyond his earlier teachings. But there were central aspects of Malcolm's stances that he held on to until his death. These included:
• Blacks cannot get their freedom except by fighting for it;
• The racist US government will not voluntarily grant freedom;
• A liberal, gradualist approach will not win equality;
• The Black misleaders, largely tied to the Democratic Party, must be exposed and opposed;
• Blacks must rely on themselves and control their own struggle, determining their own strategy, tactics and leaders;
• Blacks have the right to armed self-defence against racist violence.
This last position has led the ruling class to widely slander Malcolm as an advocate of violence. He stood for the exact opposite — to defeat racist violence with self-defence.
In 1963, the centre of Black struggle began to shift to the northern ghettos, where the message of Black nationalism found a ready audience, and Blacks were taking to the streets.
Shortly before the historic 1963 March on Washington for Freedom and Jobs — one of the high points of the Southern struggle — there was a march as big or bigger in Detroit, a centre of Black nationalism.
It was in this context that tensions arose in the Nation of Islam. The Black Muslims' uncompromising militancy helped push other Black groups to the left. But they also refused to take part in the struggle, merely commentating from the sidelines.
Among younger members of the Nation, there was a desire to join the battle — to move from propaganda to action. Malcolm reflected this desire, which was at odds with the perspective of the Nation's spiritual leader, Elijah Muhammad.
With the growth of militancy and mass action in the Black community, the two main tendencies in the Black Muslims had different views on how to respond to the masses knocking on the doors of their mosques.
When Malcolm X broke with Muhammad, he turned his attention to the broad Black struggle.
So began a new stage in Malcolm's life — his all-too-brief last year, during which his views advanced by leaps and bounds. He travelled to Africa, the Middle East and Europe, and met revolutionaries from many countries and races. He discovered that, unlike the Nation's view that white people were "devils", true Islam views all races alike.
Repudiating racism in all its forms, he resolved to judge people and movements on the basis of their deeds, not skin colour.
Malcolm set about building a new movement of Blacks on a basis of fighting their shared oppression, not religious views, even though he remained a Muslim.
This new group was called the Organization of African American Unity (OAAU). The name was taken from the Organization of African Unity, reflecting his identification with the anti-colonial revolutions in full swing in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
Retaining his Black nationalism, Malcolm moved beyond it to an internationalist stance. This identification with the struggle of all the oppressed could be found in some of his last speeches while in the Nation, but became sharper in his last year.
In his speech to the Oxford University Union, Malcolm X concluded: "And I, for one, will join in with anyone — I don't care what colour you are — as long as you want to change this miserable condition that exists on this earth."
The government was alarmed by his campaign to win international support to bring the US to trial at the United Nations for its racist oppression.
At the same time, Malcolm's denunciation of US imperialism became stronger.
He denounced the US role in murdering socialist anti-colonial revolutionary Patrice Lumumba in Congo, the war in Vietnam and attacks against the Cuban and Chinese revolutions. He sought to place the Black struggle in the US in the worldwide upsurge of oppressed peoples.
Malcolm's thinking also developed towards anti-capitalism and socialism. He emphasised that, in the countries he visited that were recently freed from colonialism, they tended to turn away from capitalism and towards socialism.
Another sign was his deepening relation to the Socialist Workers Party and Young Socialist Alliance, groups I was an activist member of at the time.
The SWP, under the influence of the positions taken by the Communist International in Lenin's time, recognised that Blacks in the US suffered under a form of national oppression.
The SWP embraced the new upsurge of Black nationalism in the early 1960s. In its 1963 convention, the SWP said that Black Nationalism and socialism "are not only compatible but complimentary forces, that should be welded closely in thought and action".
The SWP took note of the militant speeches by Malcolm X when he was still in the Nation. The SWP newspaper, The Militant, covered these speeches positively, often reprinting Malcolm's own words.
This was in sharp contrast to the Communist Party and other left groups, who denounced Malcolm and Black nationalism. Malcolm took note of all of this and praised The Militant, urging people to read it.
Shortly after Malcolm broke with the Nation, in April 1964, he spoke at a large Militant Labor Forum, organised by the SWP, on the topic of "The Black Revolution".
In the speech, he strongly opposed Blacks supporting the Democratic Party, a theme he developed throughout his last year. He warned against the trap of supporting the "fox" — the Democrats — out of revulsion for the Republican "wolf".
He spoke again at the Forum in May, saying of US capitalism: "It's impossible for a chicken to produce a duck egg … The system in this country cannot produce freedom for an Afro-America…
"And if ever a chicken did produce a duck egg, I'm quite sure you would say it was certainly a revolutionary chicken!"
In January 1965, Malcolm again spoke at the Militant Labor Forum, after which I asked for an interview for the Young Socialist newspaper, which I edited. He agreed, and YSA leader Jack Barnes and myself spoke with him just weeks before he was killed.
We asked him about his view of the global struggle between capitalism and socialism, to which he said: "It is impossible for capitalism to survive."
A few years later, before he too was assassinated in 1968, King began to draw the same anti-capitalist conclusions. From different starting points, these two giants began to converge.
[Barry Sheppard is a former leader of the SWP and YSA, and author of the two volume book The Party: The Socialist Workers Party 1960-1988 the first of which discusses the mass Black radicalisation in the 1960s and Malcom X's role. It is published by Resistance Books. You can read Malcolm X in his own words in collections of his speeches published by Pathfinder Press.]
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TIP! Don't pay big fees to invest your money. You mus pay for the fees of investment brokers in the long term.
Do you owe more than you can pay? Are you making too many unnecessary purchases? Getting control of your finances is essential to resolving the debt dilemmas you face. In the following paragraphs you will learn how to save more effectively so you can have better control of your finances.
TIP! When it comes to your personal finances, you should always practice patience. When electronics are first introduced onto the market, there is a mad rush by consumers to purchase them.
When using a broker, it is very important that you choose someone that you can really trust. Make sure they have excellent references, and make sure they are open and honest with you. It is also important to be realistic about your level of experience.
If you often wonder where your money goes, try writing down your daily expenditures for a month to gain a true picture of where you are overspending. Having said that, it is useless to write this down into a small notebook that you usually keep out of your sight. Try listing how much you spend on a whiteboard set up in your office or den. It will be front and center during your daily activities and hard to avoid.
TIP! Stop using your credit card if you find that you are having problems making the payments. Try to lower your expenses as best as you can and look for other payment methods, so that you don't max your credit cards out.
A lot of products will come with a warranty, and chances are, if the product is going to malfunction, it will do it in this time period. Because they rarely have to pay them off, extended warranties are a safe bet for vendors, but for consumers, they are almost always a waste of time.
TIP! In order to establish a nest egg, you need to deposit money on a regular basis into some type of savings account. Having enough savings on hand means you won't have to use your credit cards or take out a loan in cases of an emergency.
You can save a good amount of money if you remain patient. People are usually tempted to run out and purchase the newest electronics. If you can be patient and wait just a little while, you can get the same products for less. It goes without saying that the extra money saved on these purchases can be more wisely applied elsewhere.
TIP! A yard sale can get rid of unwanted clutter and help you earn a substantial bit of money at the same time. If one is also good at working with people they can talk neighbors into letting them sell some of their old items for a nominal fee.
Protect yourself financially with the best health insurance policy for you. It is inevitable that you will get sick some time or another. Because of this, it's important to have good health insurance. If you don't have insurance you will be looking at healthcare bills that could add up to thousands of dollars. If you don't have insurance, you will be responsible for the entirety of that bill.
If you have a spouse, then see who has the better credit and use that to apply for loans. Those with bad credit should build their score with credit cards that can be paid off easily. When your credit score improves, you can start to apply for joint loans and share the debt with your spouse.
TIP! If you are new to financial independence, be cautious about using credit cards, especially if you are under the age of 21. Once upon a time, credit cards were freely issued to college students.
When you travel by air frequently, be sure to be a member of some type of frequent flier program. There are many credit cards that offer rewards for purchases that you can use to get discounted or even free air fare. Miles can add up quickly and then be redeemed at hotels for discounted rates, or even free rooms.
TIP! Use the flexible spending account you have to your advantage. An FSA can mean serious savings if you wind up with medical bills or need to pay daycare.
It can feel hopeless if you have a bad financial situation. It just takes a little bit of hard work to get your life back in order. Use the tips you just learned to manage your finances like a pro. It will not be long before your finance issues will be behind you.


Everyday at 5:45 we play "Five Questions" where Pat Gallen asks Mike Gill five questions that are on his mind. Sports, Pop Culture, Food and more, you never know what questions Pat might ask.
1. Who is the biggest Philly hockey Villain? Tie Domi, Scott Stevens, Sidney Crosby?
2. Would you rather be a head coach or GM?
3. The Philadelphia Daily News and Philadelphia Inquire are about to merge, which was better sports?
4. If you could be punched in the face by one athlete, who would it be?
5. The Green Day Album "Dookie" dropped 18 years ago today. I've never seen them in concert, so what band would you like to see that you havent seen yet?
What are your answers to today's questions? Leave your comments below!


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Sophisticated biostatistics for complex clinical research
Professor Ronald Geskus from our OUCRU unit in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, tells us about the contribution of biostatisticians to complex clinical research.
The role of biostatisticians in clinical research is to contribute to trial design, by calculating sample size for example, and to help draw correct conclusions from the data, discriminating important information from noise. They are instrumental in the translation of a practical problem into a statistical model, and the translation of the result into practice.
Viral infections in Laos
Dr Audrey Dubot-Peres from our LOMWRU unit in Laos and IRD (Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Marseille, France) tells us about her research on viral infections in Laos.
Infectious diseases in the tropics
Professor Tran Hien, founder member of our OUCRU unit in Vietnam tells us about the development of this very successful Clinical Research Unit.
Ronald Geskus
biostatics
OUCRU
Department: Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine


After reading those notes i went to check my configuration. We were using PTA for quite some time (6 or so months). It was working as intended. If a user would change his password, he won't have to wait 30 minutes for a change to be synced to Azure AD. When authenticating it was instantly querying our local AD for a current password. On the downside, you won't be able to authenticate, if AD Connect service was down or your network, containing local AD and AD Connect, was cut off from the internet. We have acknowledged this and decided we can leave with this risk. Using PTA is so much more convenient. Now, when i went to synchronization options, i have indeed found that Password synchronization was still enabled. So, i have disabled it and did a few tests with Office portal, email, Skype etc. Everything seemed to work fine. Until a few days later my colleague had to setup a new user. When trying to login to Skype for Business client for the first time it was giving the "wrong username, password, domain" error. At first we thought there was something wrong with that user and tried many things. Until i have tried this with another new user and got the same result. Then it dawned on me, that maybe PWS (password sync) was to blame. And it was. After enabling it again Skype was able to login just fine. So, it seems that one can't really get rid of Password synchronization. PTA just recently has been promoted from a Preview feature to a final one. I guess MS still has some kinks to work out. Or maybe Skype team is to blame. We are one of the October versions of Office 365 (2016) – middle October most probably.


The State of Minnesota's Economy – What does our state's economist think?
Yesterday, the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis hosted its first Regional Economic Conditions Conference. The event brought in experts from across the Fed's Ninth District – Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, north-west Wisconsin, and the upper peninsula of Michigan – to report on economic developments and prospects (you can find a video of their presentations here).
Minnesota was represented by Laura Kalambokidis, the State's Economist and a professor in the Department of Applied Economics at the University of Minnesota. She made several interesting points.
Prof. Kalambokidis noted that the profile of Minnesota's workforce matched that of the nation as a whole rather closely. This is a good thing. A diverse portfolio of jobs reduces risk as does a diverse portfolio of investments. If any one sector/investment tanks, you still have the others.
But Prof. Kalambokidis also noted that Minnesota has a higher share of employment in Education and Health Services than the nation as a whole, with about 85% of that in healthcare services. This is a point we have made before. It isn't a sign of economic strength for the state, given the relatively low amount of Gross Value Added these jobs tend to generate. Worryingly, the growing share of jobs in these sectors is a long term trend in the state. Prof. Kalambokidis' says that Minnesota has seen "steady and broad based employment growth throughout the recovery from the Great Recession", but this would not appear to be the case in the longer term.
Another area of advantage noted is Minnesotan manufacturing, although "the differential is larger for other Great Lakes states". Again, we have written about this lately. Minnesota taxes its capital intensive industries relatively lightly and reaps the rewards from that in terms of jobs.
Prof. Kalambokidis gave Minnesota's educated workforce as a source of economic advantage for the state. As we have written recently, this is true. But we must work to keep it so. The developments in the Edina school district, where academic standards have fallen as teacher activism has risen, show the potential dangers of losing sight of this.
But this cuts both ways. We often hear that increases in the cost of living are outstripping wage growth. Well, if so, here we have a market mechanism correcting that. Average private sector wages in Minnesota have risen by 4.4% in the last 12 months according to Prof. Kalambokidis. We don't need harmful policies like the minimum wage. Neither should we be trumpeting increased immigration as a way of holding wages down, which is the implicit position of those who argue that we need it to solve a labor shortage.
This, as we have written recently, is key to assessing the economic impact of immigration. GDP per capita (GDP / population) is what matters for living standards. If the immigrants are more productive than the average worker we already have, they will increase GDP more than the capita. If they are less productive than that average they will increase capita more than GDP. In this latter case, they will have increased GDP but lowered GDP per capita. To tout the economic benefits of immigration without having a clear idea of the quality of your immigrants would seem to be somewhat premature.
In the Q&A, Prof. Kalambokidis was asked about the prospects for economic growth given the demographic challenges Minnesota faces. "When you have slow labor force growth and you want economic growth," she replied, "the key is going to be productivity". This is a point we have made recently. She also tied this to rising wages, a point we have also made. The only way to raise living standards is through increased productivity.
Tawni Ferrarini showed how, in the upper peninsula of Michigan, transfer income, such as Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare, welfare, and other government program distributions, had become a more important component of personal income over time. Prof. Kalambokidis was asked if this was the case for Minnesota. She speculated that wage income was a much more important part of personal income than in the upper peninsula. This is not a high bar, given the economic challenges faced by that part of Michigan. But what is happening to Minnesotan personal incomes?
We look at this in our forthcoming report, The State of Minnesota's Economy: 2017. As Figure 1 shows, since 2000, labor income has risen by 9.4% in Minnesota – quite close to the national average. But transfer income has risen by much more, 69.1%. As Figure 2 shows, increases in transfer income account for 47% of the increase in personal income since 2000.
This was the first Regional Economic Conditions Conference. It was an excellent event and hopefully it won't be the last.
Much of what Prof. Kalambokidis highlighted has been highlighted here at the Center. We are less sanguine about employment patterns given the low productivity of the jobs we are gaining. We share her belief in the economic importance of education and are concerned to maintain our advantage. We see rising wages generated by market forces as a good thing, and policies such as minimum wages as irrelevant at best and harmful at worst. We would want more information about the skills of our immigrants before we pronounce them an unmitigated economic boon. We agree completely that increased productivity is vital for future economic growth. And we are more concerned than Prof. Kalambokidis about the growing share of personal incomes derived from transfers.


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Créée en , l'épreuve honore Ovide Moulinet (1863-1942), grand éleveur du début du .

Palmarès depuis 1973

Sources, notes et références

Sources
 Pour les conditions de course et les dernières années du palmarès : site du Cheval français : résultats officiels
 Pour les courses plus anciennes : site du Cheval français : rechercher un prix

Références

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Six middle school students charged with assault after attack on Virginia bus driver
By Daniel Arkin, NBC News
Six students who allegedly assaulted a Richmond, Va., middle school bus driver Tuesday have been arrested and charged, according to the Richmond Police Department.
The unidentified students face felony aggravated assault and assault by mob charges, police said. A seventh student was suspended in connection with the incident.
Richmond City school administrators said the group of students attacked a bus driver on the way to Albert Hill Middle School at approximately 7:30 a.m. Tuesday morning. The alleged assault left the 55-year-old male bus driver with serious face and head injuries, according to NBC12, a station in Richmond.
According to the police report, the alleged attack forced the driver to stop the vehicle and call the police.
"It's a dangerous position to be in," bus monitor Hilda Davis told NBC12. "To be attacked like that is a terrible thing to anybody. I feel all these drivers' pain. You know, it's a risk and somebody needs to be held accountable. I don't like this at all."
For more, visit NBC12.com
The mother of one of the alleged attackers told Richmond's CBS6 station that the incident began when students on the bus threw crayons at the bus driver. She claims that the driver became agitated and started hitting her son, which triggered the assault.
Police have not specified a motive for the alleged attack.
Richmond Public Schools spokeswoman Felicia Cosby said school officials are continuing to investigate the attack in cooperation with local police.
"We are taking this matter seriously and are working expeditiously with the Richmond Police Department to conduct a full investigation," Cosby told CBS6. "Once we complete our investigation, appropriate disciplinary action will be taken. The safety and security of both our students and staff are paramount to our mission of promoting student achievement. The alleged misconduct will not be tolerated and those who exhibit such conduct will meet swift and appropriate discipline."
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In the early 1950s, people in Central Java, especially in Semarang, needed a university for providing higher learning and teaching facilities. It has been purpose to support of government in handling and in conducting all sectors of development, especially in the field of education. At that time, it was only Gajah Mada University as a public university, that providing higher education for people in Yogyakarta and also Central Java.
As amount of senior high schools graduated has been continuously increasing, while existence of universities limited, some graduates could have not been accommodated at higher education facilities in north of Central Java. Considering this situation, MR. Imam Bardjo and his colleagues formed an educational foundation, namely Yayasan Universitas Semarang (Foundation of Semarang University), noted by notary R.M. Soeprapto on Notarial Deed No 59, December 4, 1956. The foundation was a first step to establish a university in Semarang, namely Semarang University, that officially opened on January 9, 1957, and MR. Imam Bardjo was the first President of the university.
When Semarang University celebrated its third Dies Natalis on January 9, 1960, President of Indonesia, Ir. Soekarno renamed the Semarang University as Diponegoro University. Changing the name of Semarang University was intended as a tribute to the university's performance in development of higher education in Central Java. The President's decision was confirmed by the Government Regulation No. 7 1961 and Decree Minister of Education, Teaching and Culture No. 101247 / UU on December 3, 1960.
The decision was retroactive to October 15, 1957, and this date is commemorated as the day of Diponegoro University's Dies Natalis as well as for remembering "Five Days Battle in Semarang", which is part of Indonesian National Revolution war that took place in Semarang City. Diponegoro University choses the date as its Dies Natalis for continuing national heroes' ideals of compiling Indonesia's independence by developing the nation's intellectual life. Diponegoro University is a contribution the next generation to carry on the mandate from national independence heroes.
The year of 1957 was defined as the year of Diponegoro University's establishment, by considering history of Semarang University as a private university founded on 1957 was an embryo of Diponegoro University. The date of October 15, 1957 as Diponegoro University's Dies Natalis was stated in Rector's report on the 13th Dies Natalis of Diponegoro University.
The long reputation of Diponegoro University has delivered it to be among the top national higher education entities, which bring competitive advantage for the alumni and deliver intellectual works of research and publications.
Currently under Government Regulations No. 81 /2014 and Goverment Regulations of Indonesia Republic No. 52/2015, Diponegoro University earns the status of PTNBH (Perguruan Tinggi Negeri Badan Hukum-State Owned Higher Education with a Legal Entity Status).


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Mandy Rose asked about a romance storyline with Sonya Deville
Jul 29, 2019 - by Steve Gerweck
Mandy Rose was recently interviewed by Uproxx. During the interview, Mandy was asked about a potential romance storyline between her and Sonya Deville.
"I don't have many insights to offer on that. I think there's definitely rumors and stuff like that. But it's also hard to say because my character is pretty sexual and pretty sassy, the way I am. So anything I do, it doesn't really matter if it's to Sonya or to anyone else. It's just who my character is, so it's hard to judge. But I guess you're just going to have to stay tuned, right? You never know.
And obviously, if there was ever to be a type of relationship with us, I'm super supportive and WWE is super supportive of inclusion and the LGBTQ community, so I think it would be awesome."
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Scientists repair injured spinal cord using patients' own stem cells
By JCOT
Intravenous injection of bone marrow derived stem cells (MSCs) in patients with spinal cord injuries led to significant improvement in motor functions, researchers from Yale University and Japan report Feb. 18 in the Journal of Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery.
For more than half of the patients, substantial improvements in key functions — such as ability to walk, or to use their hands — were observed within weeks of stem cell injection, the researchers report. No substantial side effects were reported.
The patients had sustained, non-penetrating spinal cord injuries, in many cases from falls or minor trauma, several weeks prior to implantation of the stem cells. Their symptoms involved loss of motor function and coordination, sensory loss, as well as bowel and bladder dysfunction. The stem cells were prepared from the patients' own bone marrow, via a culture protocol that took a few weeks in a specialized cell processing center. The cells were injected intravenously in this series, with each patient serving as their own control. Results were not blinded and there were no placebo controls.
Yale scientists Jeffery D. Kocsis, professor of neurology and neuroscience, and Stephen G. Waxman, professor of neurology, neuroscience and pharmacology, were senior authors of the study, which was carried out with investigators at Sapporo Medical University in Japan. Key investigators of the Sapporo team, Osamu Honmou and Masanori Sasaki, both hold adjunct professor positions in neurology at Yale.
Kocsis and Waxman stress that additional studies will be needed to confirm the results of this preliminary, unblinded trial. They also stress that this could take years. Despite the challenges, they remain optimistic.
"Similar results with stem cells in patients with stroke increases our confidence that this approach may be clinically useful," noted Kocsis. "This clinical study is the culmination of extensive preclinical laboratory work using MSCs between Yale and Sapporo colleagues over many years."
"The idea that we may be able to restore function after injury to the brain and spinal cord using the patient's own stem cells has intrigued us for years," Waxman said. "Now we have a hint, in humans, that it may be possible."
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Materials provided by Yale University
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Villas and palaces in Milan are used to indicate public and private buildings in Milan of particular artistic and architectural value. Milan has always been an important centre with regard to the construction of historical villas and palaces, ranging  from the Romanesque to the neo-Gothic, from Baroque to Rococo.

History

The spread of the construction of patrician villas in Milan has early origins. Archaeological excavations have revealed a complex system of villas from the first imperial age, going back to about the 1st century BCE.

After the fall of the Barbarians and the end of the Middle Ages, a new tradition of aristocratic refinement, chivalry and good taste was established in Milan by the ruling Visconti and Sforza families. Throughout the 15th and 16th centuries the local nobility built luxurious residences to demonstrate their power and influence. Today only a few examples of these can still be seen, such as the ducal apartments of the Castello Sforzesco and other private villas such as Casa Borromeo and Casa Pallavicini. Not only Lombard but also Venetian, Ligurian, Piedmontese and Tuscan artists contributed to their design and decoration, the latter especially in the creation of frescoes.

The subsequent Spanish domination somewhat curbed the carefree enthusiasm of the humanist era, tending to favour the development of private architecture and making way for it by demolishing existing buildings.

The 18th century above all was marked by the construction in Milan of so-called "villas of delight" (ville di delizia). As the concept of the summer residence spread, villas were built there for nobles from Rome, Venice, Turin, Bologna and Naples who conducted their business in Milan.

With the industrial revolution came a new period of growth and an enhancement of the architectural beauty of the city, brought about during the 19th century by the influence of the Habsburgs, who sought to endow Milan with a new visual dimension since at this stage it was the second city of the empire after Vienna.

The 20th century was the last period of the "villas of delight". When it entered the new Kingdom of Italy Milan had become an industrial centre of major importance to the new economy and in particular one of the key points for exchanges with Europe. The bourgeoisie then settled in the city as the new 'aristocrats' of the second industrial revolution, seeking to return Milan to the grandeur of the past.

Despite the extraordinary architectural heritage of the city, what can be seen today represents only a small part of what was created throughout the entire history of the city: the traditional tendency to build after having demolished already existing palaces, together with bombings from the second world war, greatly reduces the heritage of the city.

A list of palaces

Roman
 The Emperor's Palace

13th century
 Casa Panigarola (Piazza Mercanti)
 Palazzo della Ragione or the Broletto nuovo (Piazza Mercanti)

14th century

 Loggia degli Osii

15th century
 Casa Atellani (Corso Magenta)
 Casa Fontana Silvestri (Corso Venezia)
 Casa Parravicini (Via Cino del Duca)
 Cascina (della) Boscaiola or Cascina Boscarola
 Palazzo Acerbi
 Palazzo Carmagnola
 Palazzo Castani (Piazza San Sepolcro), seat of the Questura di Milano
 Palazzo Castelli-Borromeo (Piazza Borromeo)
 Palazzo Isimbardi
 Palazzo Pozzobonelli-Isimbardi
 Villa Mirabello (Via Villa Mirabello, 6), also known as the "Cascina Mirabello"

16th century

 Palazzo di Brera (Via Brera)
 Palazzo dei Giureconsulti (Piazza Mercanti)
 Palazzo Marino, (Piazza della Scala)
 Palazzo Recalcati
 Palazzo delle Scuole Palatine
 Palazzo Stampa di Soncino, Casati
 Palazzo Taverna (Via Bigli)
 Villa Simonetta (Via Stilicone)

17th century

 Casa Buttafava
 Casa Crespi (Corso Venezia)
 Casa degli Omenoni (Via degli Omenoni)
 Casa Toscanini
 Palazzo Annoni (Corso di Porta Romana, 6)
 Palazzo Arcivescovile
 Palazzo del Capitano di Giustizia (Corso Europa)
 Palazzo Cusani (Via Brera, 15)
 Palazzo Dugnani (Via Manin, 2)
 Palazzo Durini-Caproni or "Palazzo Durini" (Via Durini)
 Palazzo Erba Odescalchi
 Palazzo Litta or Palazzo Arese (Corso Magenta, 24)
 Palazzo Olivazzi (Via Bigli)
 Palazzo Orsini (Via Borgonuovo)
 Palazzo Pusterla Brivio
 Palazzo delle ex Scuole Arcimbolde
 Palazzo del Senato (Via Senato)
 Palazzo Sormani (Corso di Porta Vittoria, 6), seat of the Biblioteca Comunale di Milano
 Palazzo delle Stelline
 Palazzo Toscanini (Via Durini)

18th century
 Casa Berchet
 Casa Buzzoni
 Casa Monti (Via G. Verdi)
 Palazzo Belgiojoso d'Este (Piazza Belgiojoso)
 Palazzo Beccaria
 Palazzo Citterio
 Palazzo Clerici
 Palazzo Confalonieri
 Palazzo Fagnani
 Palazzo Gallarati-Scotti
 Palazzo Greppi
 Palazzo Litta-Cusani (Corso Europa)
 Palazzo Mellerio
 Palazzo Morando-Attendolo-Bolognini (Via S. Andrea, 6)
 Palazzo Moriggia (Via Borgonuovo, 23), today the Museum of the Risorgimento
 Palazzo Reale
 Palazzo Serbelloni (Corso Venezia)
 Palazzo Sormani Andreani
 Palazzo Taverna, via Montenapoleone

 Palazzo Toscanini
 Palazzo Trivulzio
 Palazzo Visconti di Grazzano

19th century
 Ca de' Facc (Piazza Baiamonti, 3)
 Ca' de Sass (sede della Banca Cariplo)
 Casa Dell'Acqua
 Casa Alesina (Via Cappuccio, 11)
 Casa Bettoni or dei Bersaglieri (Corso di Porta Romana, 20)
 Casa Borella (Via Berchet 2, junction Via San Raffaele and Via U. Foscolo)
 Casa Bosi Pelitti (Via Castelfidardo, 10)
 Casa Bottelli (Via Dante, 12)
 Casa Broggi
 Ca' Brutta
 Casa Candiani (Via G.B. Vico, 20)
 Casa Castini (Via Dante 4, corner Via S. Prospero)
 Casa Celesia (Via Dante, 7)
 Casa Chicchieri (Via Dante, corner Via San Tommaso)
 Casa Ciani (Corso Venezia, corner Via Boschetti)
 Casa Dell'Acqua (Piazza Castello 27)
 Casa Fasoli (Via Torino, 50)
 Casa Gadda-Portaluppi (Piazza Castello 20, corner Via Lanza 5)
 Casa Grondona (Corso Italia 57, corner Via San Martino)
 Casa Manzoni (Via Morone 1 / Piazza Belgiojoso)
 Casa Negri (Corso di Porta Romana)
 Casa Pirovano (Via Giulini 2, corner with Via Dante)
 Casa and Museo Poldi-Pezzoli (Via Manzoni 12-14)
 Casa Reininghaus
 Casa Rigamonti (Via Solferino, 24-24a)
 Casa Rossi (Corso Magenta, 12)
 Casa Sardi (Via Paleocapa, 3)
 Casa Sartorelli (Via San Raffaele, 4)
 Palazzo Anguissola (Via Manzoni)
 Palazzo Archinto
 Palazzo & Museum Bagatti-Valsecchi (Via Santo Spirito 7)
 Palazzo della Banca d'Italia
 Palazzo Barozzi
 Palazzo Belgiojoso-Besana (Piazza Belgiojoso)
 Palazzo Beltrami
 Palazzo Bonacosa (Via Q. Sella 4 / Piazza Castello)
 Palazzo Borgazzi
 Palazzo Brentani (Via Manzoni, 6)
 Palazzo Cagnola
 Palazzo Carcano-Tondani
 Palazzo Diotti also known as "Palazzo della prefettura"
 Palazzo Ercole Turati (Via Meravigli, 11)
 Palazzo Francesco Turati (Via Meravigli, 7-9)
 Palazzo Haas (Via U. Foscolo, 1-3)
 Palazzo dell'ex Kursaal Diana
 Palazzo Luraschi (Corso Buenos Aires 1 / Piazza Oberdan)
 Melzi d'Eril
 Palazzo del Museo di Scienze Naturali (Corso Venezia, 55)
 Palazzo della Permanente (Via Turati, 34)
 Palazzo Porro-Lambertenghi (Via Monte di Pietà)
 Palazzo Rusconi-Clerici (Piazza Castello, 16)
 Palazzo Saporiti
 Palazzo Savonelli (Via Dante, piazza Cordusio, Via Broletto, Via S. Prospero 1)
 Palazzo Serbelloni
 Palazzo Spinola
 Palazzo della Società per le Strade Ferrate del Mediterraneo
 Palazzo Talenti (Via G. Verdi)
 Palazzo Tarsis (Via S. Paolo)
 Palazzo Taverna
 Palazzo Torelli-Viollier (Via Paleocapa 4-6, corner Via Jacini)
 Palazzo della Veneranda Fabbrica del Duomo
 Villa Belgiojoso-Bonaparte or Royal Villa of Milan

20th century
 Ca' Brutta
 Casa Apostolo
 Casa Caccia Dominioni
 Casa Campanini
 Casa Cambiaghi
 Casa Ferrario
 Casa Galimberti
 Casa Guazzoni
 Casa Laugier
 Casa Morganti
 Casa Piana (Via Sant'Ambrogio 29, corner with Via Lanzone)
 Castello Cova
 Palazzo Berri-Meregalli
 Palazzo Bolchini
 Palazzo Castiglioni (Corso Venezia)
 Palazzo Civita
 Palazzo Crespi
 Palazzo Cusini
 Palazzo di Giustizia
 Palazzo del cinema Odeon
 Palazzo del Toro
 Palazzo del Touring Club Italiano
 Palazzo dell'Arte
 Palazzo della Banca Commerciale Italiana
 Palazzo della Banca d'Italia
 Palazzo della Banca di Roma
 Palazzo della Banca Popolare di Milano
 Palazzo della ex Borsa
 Palazzo della Rinascente
 Palazzo della Società Reale Mutua di Assicurazioni
 Palazzo d'Este (viale Beatrice d'Este 23)
 Palazzo Fidia
 Palazzo Meroni
 Palazzo Mezzanotte, seat of the Borsa d'Italia
 Palazzo Veronesi
 Torre Rasini
 Torre San Babila
 Torre Velasca
 Villa Necchi Campiglio
 Villino Calabresi (Via XX Settembre)
 VIllino Gotico (Via Cernaia)
 Villino Hoepli (Via XX Settembre)

Sources
 I palazzi della vecchia Milano G.C. Bascapé, Ulrico Hoepli Editore, Milano, 1986
 Milano di terracotta e mattoni O.P. Melano, Mazzotta Editore, Milano, 2002

Buildings and structures in Milan
Tourist attractions in Milan
Palaces in Milan


Goods and Services Tax (GST), introduced from July 1, 2017 is more than thirteen months old now but has resulted in operational and implementation disruptions affecting all stakeholders. GST law, as drafted and legislated, is not free from the interpretational hassles. GST Council is however, making regular changes to fix the anomalies and hardships faced by taxpayers. 29 meetings of GST Council have been held till 4th August, 2018.
Taxpayers have already challenged various provisions of GST laws and rules framed thereunder with about 200 writs being filed in different courts. High courts and Supreme court have taken a liberal stand so far in view of the fact that law is new and is yet evolving. However, CBIC may move to Supreme court where the verdict is against the Government. Recently, CBIC has issued directions to be officers to defend the writs. Further, we have now rulings from Authority for Advance Ruling and Anti-profiteering Authority also. Even the orders from Appellate Authority for Advance Ruling have also started pouring in.
Here are few more judicial pronouncements for information and guidance of various stakeholders. It is expected that the litigation by way of writs is bound to go up as time passes by unless the Government comes out with proactive approach and solutions.
In Assistant State Tax Officer v. Indus Towers Ltd. 2018 (7) TMI 1181 - KERALA HIGH COURT, where the assessee transported goods procured by him for own use to site where goods were to be consumed and also issued a delivery challan under rule 55, however no declaration was made under rule 138 of the KGST Rules, before transport commenced, section 129 would operate and confiscation would be attracted, it was held that the assessee would be entitled to an adjudication, but it would have to prove that in fact there was a declaration made under rule 138 before transport commenced. If they do prove that aspect, they would be absolved of the liability; otherwise, they would definitely be required to satisfy tax and penalty as available under section 129.
In Gati Kintetsu Express (P.) Ltd. v. Commissioner,Commercial Tax of MP 2018 (7) TMI 1097 - MADHYA PRADESH, HIGH COURT , where the assessee was a Private Limited company engaged in the business of multi model transportation of shipments, supply chain management and other allied services such as door to door pick-up and delivery of the shipments etc. and was transporting goods from Pune to Noida via different places but had not filed Part-B of national e-way bill giving all details including vehicle number before goods were loaded in vehicle, it was held that since the distance to be travelled was not short but more than 1200-1300 kilometers it was mandatory for petitioner to file said Part-B, Authority had rightly imposed huge penalty of ₹ 19,52,264 under section 122 computed on basis of value of loaded goods of ₹ 1,12,61,419 rejecting petitioner's stand that at time of generation of said bill it could not fill vehicle number in Part-B due to inadvertence and it was a technical error, and, therefore, minor penalty could only be levied as in cases where tax is upto ₹ 5,000.
In Print Vision (P.) Ltd. v. Commissioner of Central Excise, Ahmedabad 2018 (6) TMI 1213 - CESTAT AHMEDABAD , where assessee was engaged in printing of Books, Magazine, Posters, Letter Head, Letter Pad, Envelop, Calendar, Flayers Receipt Book, Product Folders, News Letter, Invitation Cards, Officer Stationary, Pad, Scriber Pad, Lebel, Stickers, Non-Corrugated Box, Diary, etc, it was held that as items manufactured by appellant-printer were partly printed and balance was to be printed/filled by the user, the same to be classifiable as 'stationery items'.
In Zebronics India Pvt. Ltd. v. State of UP ; 2018 (4) TMI 1074 - ALLAHABAD HIGH COURT , where the Proper Officer of the Uttar Pradesh Goods and Services Tax Department had seized the goods (stock transfer) of the assessee under transport from Chennai to Dehradun as well as the vehicle on the plea that the good were not accompanied with the Transit Declaration Form [TDF]. He also imposed the penalty upon the assessee.
The petitioner filed writ to get the release of goods. It was observed that the goods have been detained, seized and penalty has been imposed merely because of TDF was absent and the Proper Officer was himself not satisfied as to the intention to evade tax being present in the facts of the case. There was nothing to dispute the claim made by the assessee that it was effecting the stock transfer of goods from Chennai to Dehradun and therefore, the goods were only passing through the State of V.P. There was no allegation or intention on the part of the assessee to unload the goods with the State of V.P. It was therefore, held that since there was no allegation on intention on the part of assessee to unload goods within the State of UP, seizure order as well as penalty order were wholly unsustainable and deserved to be quashed. Proper officer was directed to release goods and vehicle without furnishing of any security by the petitioner.
In Air Transport Corporation (Assam) Pvt. Ltd. v. State of UP 2018 (6) TMI 108 - ALLAHABAD HIGH COURT , where writ petition was filed seeking a writ of certiorari quashing order and notice passed u/s 129 of CGST Act, 2017 as well as seeking a writ of mandamus for release of goods.
It was held that order of direction to deposit penalty in excess of 50% of the value of goods is appealable before appellate authority. Also vehicle in which goods were found to be loaded was directed to be released forthwith without demanding any security from the assessee.