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March 9, 2012 March 11, 2012 Chris Steinbach
Xi slept here: Could this home on Bonney Drive give birth to new tourism in Muscatine?
MUSCATINE, Iowa — Drive to Chicago, board a jet, fly for nine hours and step off the aircraft in Finland.
Fly for another four hours and you could get to Beijing.
Or, wake up in the morning, stumble down the stairs, make a pot of coffee and fire up the computer. That's what I did today. For the effort, I opened up an email from Mike Montandon in Finland.
But please let me back up for a minute.
Using a new feature on WordPress, I was able to see Thursday night that someone in Finland had read this blog, so I sent out a tweet that said: This shout out is for the person in FINLAND who read my blog today. #SmallWorld.
An hour or so later, Montandon sent a tweet in which he said: "Howdy, Chris. That's gotta be me. 🙂 Drop me a mail. Nice to see the work you do!"
In a follow-up email, he said: "Really like the work you do raising Muskie's profile internationally!"
He went on to say he is a supporter of the Muscatine Sister Cities program and has volunteered in the past as a translator when members of the Sister Cities program in Russia have visited Iowa.
"I'd be interested in (helping with) the Chinese Sister City and visiting Hebei Province with any Muscatine group that would plan on going," he said.
To the best of my knowledge, no one has officially started working on plans for a Muscatine Sister Cities visit to China. But don't bet against a delegation going to Beijing after Vice President Xi Jinping, who paid a visit to Muscatine last month, becomes president in China early next year.
And Yang Guoqiang, the Consul General of People's Republic of China in Chicago, told a Muscatine group Wednesday that more visitors from China are likely.
Cynics will laugh at that promise. After all, why would anyone want to visit Muscatine, right? But it could happen.
A Google search for the words Muscatine and Jinping yields more than 900,000 results. Many Chinese have at least heard of Muscatine. And they have had the world's fastest-growing major economy for the past 30 years with an average annual growth rate of more than 10 percent.
That means there are Chinese who have money to spend. Perhaps they could be encouraged to spend some of it to see the city where Xi made his first trip to the U.S. in 1985.
Inquiries have reportedly already been made by a Chinese resident on the West Coast who is interested in buying the former home of Thomas and Eleanor Dvorchak on Bonney Bonnie Drive, where Xi stayed when he visited Muscatine 27 years ago.
Anyone who has lived five minutes in Muscatine has likely heard or read the Mark Twain quote about the community:
And I remember Muscatine — still more pleasantly — for its summer sunsets. I have never seen any, on either side of the ocean, that equaled them. They used the broad smooth river as a canvas, and painted on it every imaginable dream of color, from the mottled daintinesses and delicacies of the opal, all the way up, through cumulative intensities, to blinding purple and crimson conflagrations which were enchanting to the eye, but sharply tried it at the same time. All the Upper Mississippi region has these extraordinary sunsets as a familiar spectacle. It is the true Sunset Land: I am sure no other country can show so good a right to the name. The sunrises are also said to be exceedingly fine. I do not know.
Don't get me wrong: I like Twain as much — maybe more — than the next Muscatine resident. But maybe it's time to capitalize on the potential presented by 1.3 billion possible tourists from China.
After all, the slogan "Xi slept here" is a lot shorter and easier to remember than that quote from Twain.
And we do live in a Twitter world after all.
Contact me at cs.iowaboy@yahoo.com or on Twitter @csteinbach
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George Fisher says:
Again Chris, a very well stated pice of writing, and I agree.
pice is supposed to be written piece.
Tom Porter says:
Were also have one of the very few Chinese programs in the state.
We're*
Steinbach Chris says:
Thanks, George.
Bob Calos says:
Bonney Drive??
Argh. You're right. It should be Bonnie Drive. Everyone needs an editor and I'm flying without a net, I guess. Thanks for pointing it out.


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UC Irvine Begins New Research Center
IRVINE, CA-The $25-million, 68,000-sf building will provide students and faculty with space and technical equipment to study everything from dust particles to planets.
By David W. Myers | October 04, 2001 at 01:01 AM
IRVINE, CA-Officials from UC Irvine broke ground today on a $25-million, 68,000-sf research center for their Earth System Science department.
The building is expected to be completed in May 2003. It will be named Croul Hall, in honor of Santa Ana business leader John Croul.
Croul donated $6 million toward the cost of the building. University officials say the gift is the largest ever made to the School of Physical Science, which oversees the Earth System Science department.
The new center will provide space and technical equipment for students, faculty and other researchers to study a range of issues involving the Earth, other planets and the atmosphere.

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This man was leading a wild life and drinking too much. When he started getting headaches, doctors gave him some bad news
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Warning: This article contains images that some viewers may find disturbing.
Billy Owen was working as a mechanic. He was married and father to a six-month-old when one day he came down with a nasty head cold. It just wouldn't go away so he finally went to the doctor to put an end to it. But it turned out to be only the beginning of something much worse.
"I had headaches and couldn't breathe because my right nostril was totally plugged. Doctors gave me decongestants thinking it was sinusitis, but my wife finally pushed me to see a specialist."
Ultimately, he got some terrible news: he had a rare form of cancer that impacts the nasal cavity and only has around a 10% survival rate.
The tumor is usually able to be removed at an early stage, but in Billy's case, it was necessary to remove half of his face, including his right eye and surrounding muscles and nerves.
Billy was left with a gaping hole where his eye once was.
This procedure could easily discourage or depress someone. It certainly wouldn't make most people keen to show their face in public. Billy responded differently, however. This experience completely turned his life around.
"I was living a wild and crazy life before, drinking too much. But after my surgery, I was having a hard time in the hospital, going on a rampage and I felt something rubbing my hand; something like the presence of God. I felt a deep sense of peace and knew everything was going to be okay."
Billy decided to rededicate his life to his son and wife. He felt he owed them everything: "I can't imagine what she went through... and my son, he's the only one who never saw me any differently."
The only thing that still really bothers Billy is the phantom itch he has in his missing eye, which unfortunately can't be helped.
He was fitted with a dental plate to maintain his face shape, but if he removes it, he can stick his finger through his eye socket into his mouth. Billy was unable to continue his work as a mechanic. Yet... he had a rare gift now and he decided to make the most of it: he changed careers and started playing zombies in horror movies!
He recently starred in an episode of "Freakshow," a series on AMC.
Many people have since shared that they were deeply moved by his story.
"One guy offered to make me a custom eye patch!," Billy said enthusiastically. "But what I really want is to once again be the main breadwinner for my family."
Billy seems to have a great perspective on life, even if he is short one eye. Most people who know him agree that he seems happier today than before, thanks to his optimistic outlook. His attitude is a good demonstration of that old expression, "if life gives you lemons, make lemonade" — we can all do with more lemonade!
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City mulls plan to charge tourists to take Staten Island Ferry
By NY1 News Staten Island
PUBLISHED August 29, 2017 @4:21 AM
The city is mulling a plan to make some extra money by charging tourists to take the Staten Island Ferry.
Right now, the boat ride is free for all who want to ride.
The mayor says charging out-of-towners has been considered before, but it comes with complications.
Among them is how to implement a fee for tourists without charging residents, and the cost of building and maintaining a fare-collection system.
Still, the mayor and some tourists agree the fee could be a big help for the city.
"I certainly would prefer to have the revenue while making sure nothing that we do changes the sanctity of it being free for New Yorkers," said Mayor Bill de Blasio.
"I look for free, so if you're going to charge me, I probably won't be on it. So you're not going to, it's not going to help me," said one tourist.
"I don't think it's a problem. Because all the other ferries, you have to pay for them," said another.
"New York City could use the funds, and we pay for everything else anyway," said a third.
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Project Profile: GRACE Restaurant
Just awarded two Michelin stars and topping Chicago magazine's list of 2013 Best New Restaurants, Grace underscores the notion that despite recession-induced moves toward casualization and lower check averages, there's still room on the American dining stage for high-end haute cuisine.
That's the specialty of chef-owner Curtis Duffy, who with partner and general manager/sommelier Michael Muser, has created a restaurant that lives up to its name both on the menu and in the quiet elegance of its dining environment.
Duffy's cooking has been described as thoughtful and progressive, inventive and modern but always true to the natural, distinct flavors of the ingredients. Each night, Grace offers a pair of $185 prix-fixe tasting menus, one flora (vegetable-based) and one fauna (meats and seafood included). Menus change frequently — often daily — depending on what's at peak quality. Each dinner consists of 10 to 13 courses that Chicago magazine's critic describes as "modern masterpieces full of esoteric ingredients in brilliantly composed dishes that dance between opposites (cold versus hot, solid versus powder, sweet versus sour) and are served on striking surfaces (such as a slat of a whisky barrel)."
Entry of Grace Restaurant ChicagoThe backdrop for those masterpieces is intentionally muted, neutral and serene. "The inspiration for the design was Curtis' culinary philosophy, his commitment to present the very best ingredients without hiding them behind a lot of culinary tricks," says Christopher Lawton, principal/partner with Micah Stanley of Chicago-based Lawton Stanley Architects (LSA). "We made a conscious effort to present things as they are in the space, as well, without a lot of extra finishes. We didn't want the architectural design to overwhelm the food."
Housed in a brick loft warehouse that dates to around 1900, the Grace space in Chicago's West Loop neighborhood is long and narrow. Measuring roughly 4,500 square feet, plus an additional 800 square feet of basement, it was perfect in some ways and challenging in others, according to Muser.
"We were blessed because we had this big box of a space and we got to sit with Christopher and Micah and look at 20 different layouts of what Grace could be and to work out the kitchen and the service patterns exactly how we needed them to be," Muser says. "But the space had its quirks. For starters, it had once been a pickled herring factory and the floor had about a three-and-a-half-foot pitch from the back of the building to the front for drainage. We had to figure out how to deal with that."
An additional architectural issue was a line of columns running down the center of the space. They're structural supports and, as such, couldn't be removed.
Practical Design Solutions
Using such problems to their advantage was a challenge the team embraced. For the floor, they ultimately used spray foam topped with concrete slabs to provide some leveling. A strategic design built on different height platforms was used as well.
Grace dining room"You enter the restaurant at one level and then you can step up to a small lounge area or walk through a gently sloped hallway to the dining room. The kitchen, which is accessed by another gently ramped hallway at the back of the dining room, is slightly higher than that. We laid out the ramps in such a way that they're very subtle and don't interfere with the flow," Stanley explains. "We didn't want it to appear like a series of different levels, so we did a lot of things to make the slope disappear and work with the theme of the restaurant. Ultimately, we felt there's something nice about entering at one level and going up a slight ramp and through some section changes to get to the dining room. You flow through a series of spaces that lead to something interesting."
The columns presented another opportunity for architectural ingenuity, as well as to support Duffy and Muser's
insistence on having every element of the space serve a purpose. Taking the restaurant's need for high-end wine service into account, LSA transformed the columns into graceful wine decanter stands.
"Fine wine service essentially uses two methods — the little carts that roll across the dining room up to your table or a service credenza located in the dining room that holds all of the tools that the sommelier needs. I didn't want anything rolling around on wheels in the dining room. I also didn't want a big piece of service furniture in there," Muser says. "Christopher and Micah came up with the idea of these big, beautiful American ash pieces that come dripping out of the ceiling in kind of a reactionary architecture theme. Right when they hit about waist level for the sommeliers, they bend into these hockey-stick-looking decanter stands. It worked out in such a way that each table has one of these little moments dedicated to it. The decanter stand allows the bottle to remain a member of the table and have its moment, but not be in anyone's way. We have LED lights buried in the millwork that provide the light that the sommeliers need for service. They're functional, but they also look really cool."
Inside the kitchen of Grace Restaurant ChicagoAs the primary architectural element in the dining room, the decanter stands' design, like so much of the restaurant's character, was inspired by Duffy's cuisine. To maintain ingredient integrity, culinary staff finish many dishes by adding a liquid at the final moment. "For the shape of the stands, we took some of the ideas of the liquid coming down to meet the materials coming up from below," Lawton says. "They kind of look like a drop of liquid hitting the base. And they mask the columns while making them serve a purpose."
Natural, Tactile Materials
The wood used in the stands' millwork is brown ash from trees harvested in Iowa, 100 or so miles from Chicago. "Chef Duffy likes to use local ingredients whenever he can and present them in very natural ways. So we chose a wood that has very little finish. What you see is the natural color of the wood. It's very matte and very tactile without a lot of glossy, heavy polyurethane on it," Stanley adds. "Normally, when they cut wood for veneer they cut the sapwood out, which is the outer layer of the log. We left that in so it makes a striping pattern and you can read the nature of the material."
The same ash veneer is used throughout the space, beginning at the front host stand. It covers sections of wall in walkways and in dining areas, as well as on cabinet fronts in a 12-seat private dining room — even on a section of wall in the kitchen.
The millwork was one of the biggest design risks the Grace team took, and one of the biggest expenses. While the design exudes clean simplicity, getting the right effect was anything but, according to Lawton. "The decanter stands are actually quite complex in their geometry and construction. The curves had to be absolutely precise and all of the panels had to be immaculately matched," he says. "It really took time and care to make sure all of the veneers were from the same source and all of the grains lined up just so. We were fortunate to be able to use master millworkers."
Another materials-related risk was the large, perforated metal panels that line the front hallway leading to the dining room. "It's the kind of thing that's hard to represent visually until it's actually done," Stanley says. "The idea behind it is that it has a true metallic nature, but the effect makes it look almost like a fabric. That comes from the perforation, but also from a layer of polka dots pained on the surface behind it which lends a subtle moiré, dematerializing effect."
Dining Room Serenity
The dining room itself exudes quiet, luxurious comfort. Beyond the decanter stands and some original paintings, the space is unadorned, open and simple. With seating for 64, it includes roomy round tables in the center and deuces tucked into ash-lined indents along one wall. Careful attention was paid to noise control, with ceilings and service areas lined in acoustic tiles and thickly padded carpet under the dining room tables.
Grace's private dining roomGiven the style of service and number of servers required to quickly and smoothly present multi-course tasting menus, plenty of space was allowed between the tables, which further enhances each table's acoustic isolation. "You hear the soft buzz of the dining room behind you, but mainly what you can hear is your own conversation versus that taking place at the table next to you," Muser notes.
Vying with millwork for top interior design splurge at Grace are the dining room chairs, selected after extensive testing for their color, materials, craftsmanship and comfort. Imported from Holland, they're all leather and hand-stitched and had just the right natural yet luxurious look and feel the team was after.
"If you'd have asked me at the beginning of the project for a worst case scenario on what we'd spend on chairs I might have said $800 each. I had no idea what was coming to me. Christopher and Micah would go on chair shopping sprees and bring back 30 samples at a time. We went through 3 or 4 rounds of 30 chairs each. We'd sit, and sit, and sit and they were all just bad. They weren't supportive or comfortable. When we finally found the chair that we wanted, let's just say they were a lot more than $800 each but it was a bullet we all decided to bite so that we could move on."
Kitchen with a View
Comprising as much space as the dining room — each area measuring roughly 1,500 square feet — Grace's kitchen is a pristine, lab-like space situated at the rear corner of the dining room. Enclosed in bright white, low-iron glass on two sides, its design allows guests to see Duffy and his team at work without actually being an open kitchen or a dominant feature. To keep the sightlines on the chefs working and block guests' view of things that might fall between the glass and the prep tables, the lower portion of the glass is painted.
Grace lounge areaMostly white and stainless, a built-in feature within a partial wall at the far end of the kitchen is a custom rack holding glass jars of colorful spices. It's the only real pop of color in the space, and, like everything else at Grace, was designed to be functional. "Nothing is allowed on the rack that isn't being used throughout the day," Muser notes. "But then at night, when the prep is done, it's beautiful to look at."
On any given night, exactly 22 employees work in the kitchen. The front area is devoted to pastry; the right side is the hot food cooking station and the left side is where cold items get picked up. That side also has a salamander, so some limited cooking takes place there, as well. The passes, or stations, in the center are for cold food handling and for plating. The space is laid out and equipped to enable the staff to function with both the artistry and precision demanded of Duffy's cuisine, and to do so with maximum efficiency.
"Just like in the front of the house, the goal was very simple: supply the employees with the tools they need to do their jobs, hold them to the highest standards possible and see what happens," Muser says. "We designed in tons of refrigeration and work space so our chefs don't have to go anywhere to get anything; it's already in the station ready to go."
If Grace's dining room is hushed, so, too, is its kitchen. Although it houses more than 20 separate refrigeration units tucked beneath the work stations, it's "absolutely, pristinely silent," says Muser. That's because all compressors were removed and operate remotely, either from the basement or from a bridge the design team had built between Grace's building and the building next door.
Such attention to detail and insistence on perfection at every turn ultimately made for a unique — and uniquely demanding — project, one with high stakes for all of its principals. "This was Curtis and Michael's first restaurant venture, and a really ambitious one. As a new firm, it was also our first major project," Stanely says. "Our ambitions and engeries matched well together."
Micah Stanley and Christopher Lawton from Lawton Stanley Architects
Design Insights: Micah Stanley, Christopher Lawton, Lawton Stanley Architects
Sightlines.
You can't have doors closing off service areas; it's just too impractical for servers to keep opening doors. But you also don't want guests' views to go to the wait station, the dish area or other distracting locations. We had to make sure that all of those sight lines terminate in a nice material and a space that isn't full of activity, yet offers open access to the staff.
Server Station.
It's located behind one of the dining room walls and has everything a server needs. It's directly adjacent to all of the tables and is accessible from either side, which allows the servers to more easily service tables at both ends of the dining room. Both the need for the station to be invisible to guests and the need to have servers close to their tables drives the station's design. It took several iterations to get the dimensions and the flow just right.
Lighting.
You want it fairly dim so it's relaxing but at the same time you want the food well lit and to be able to see people's faces. So there's a need for a fairly strong downlight onto the table for the food and softer ambient lighting for people and atmosphere. We used slot lights tucked along the ceiling behind the veneer and track lights on the ceiling, which are zoned. It allows us to light the table as close to straight down as possible with a very narrowly focused light spread, and on either side of those lights we can have bulbs with much wider light spreads positioned at angles to give softer ambient light.
Chef Michael Muser
One Great Feature: Restrooms, Michael Muser, Grace
When I go to super high-end restaurants like mine, I'm always excited to see the bathroom, what the sink looks like, what materials they used. LSA designed each of our four restrooms as a season, which had a connection to what we do from an ingredient standpoint. Each has its own custom-designed sink, its own type of tile, color scheme, lighting and flooring. In addition to being beautiful, I wanted the bathrooms to feel secure, like spaces you could take your time in and enjoy. The first time I rode in a Mercedes I'll never forget shutting the door. As soon as that door shut the acoustics inside are so great that your senses are heightened and you're aware of everything. I wanted that in our bathrooms, to hear that door shut and then go, "Oh look at that sink! Oh my god, this place is cool!" We actually did too good a job on the bathrooms. No one takes one pee at Grace; everyone takes four. They want to see all four seasons.
Grace: Curtis Duffy, Chef; Michael Muser, GM and Sommelier
Design/Architecture: Lawton Stanley Architects, Christopher Lawton and Micah Stanley, Principals/Founders; Maria Contreras, Designer
Millwork: Seth Deysach, Lagomorph Design; Scott Patterson, SAP Design
Original Artwork: Vanessa Navarrete, Homa Shojaie, Lonney White
Furniture Sales: Sunny Accarino, Mobili Mobel
Kitchen Design: Tim Harrison, Harrison, Koellner LLC
Kitchen Equipment/Installation: Francois Morin, SML Stainless Steel Group
Segment: Fine dining
Menu: Multi-course, fixed-price; inventive, seasonal, ingredient-focused haute cuisine
Design Highlights: Muted "food spa" environment; custom decanter stands; glass-enclosed kitchen; individual, seasonally inspired restrooms
Size: 4,500 square feet, 64 seats plus 12 in private dining room
Kitchen Size: 1,500 square feet
Buildout: 9 months
Website: www.grace-restaurant.com


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IDB Partners Still at Odds Over Plan to Recapitalize Holding Company
Moti Ben-Moshe is signaling that he opposes Eduardo Elsztain's proposed 800-million-shekel rights offering.
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Edurado Elsztain (L) and Moti Ben-Moshe.Credit: Moti Milrod
The struggle for control of IDB Development is still raging, even though Moti Ben-Moshe recently signed on to his partner Eduardo Elsztain's plan to recapitalize the holding group.
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IDB's board of directors, led by outside and independent directors, has been working to ensure that the 800-million-shekel ($202 million) rights offering moves forward. As board chairman, Ben-Moshe – who controls IDB along with Elsztain – voted in favor of the plan nearly two weeks ago. However, as a shareholder he has not signaled that he will put up his portion of the cash infusion, which amounts to 400 million shekels now and another 150 million shekels six months after the offering is completed.
Sources say Ben-Moshe will have to decide in the next few days whether to join the offering, end the partnership with Elsztain or act on the "buy me, buy you" clause in the two men's agreement sharing control of the holding company, whose assets include Supersol and Cellcom Israel. Whatever option he chooses, Ben-Moshe is still required to inject 200 million shekels into IDB this year, under the terms in which he and Elsztain acquired control of the group.
The stock market may, in fact, be concerned about the continued infighting. IDB Development shares soared after the plan was first unveiled by Elsztain, but since January 4 they have dropped 18.5% – 3.2% alone on Monday, when they closed at 1.62 shekels. IDB bonds are trading at a yield of as high as 20%.
Sources close to IDB say Elsztain's recapitalization plan has pushed Ben-Moshe into a corner. While keeping his strategy a secret, Ben-Moshe has been asking tough questions about the plan – such as why Elsztain isn't going to finance his share of the rights offering through Dolphin, the holding company that controls his IDB shares.
Meanwhile, Ben-Moshe has added a litigation expert to his legal team – attorney Giora Erdinast – and has yet to present a letter from his overseas bank attesting to the fact that he has the capital to join the offering. Elsztain has submitted a letter, although it is unofficial.
Minority retort
IDB has enough cash to repay debt through May and badly needs the injection of capital. Therefore, the board is unlikely to delay the rights offering even without the letter, on the assumption that the two controlling shareholders have come through with their capital commitments until now. These have totaled 1.4 billion shekels since the two men took over IDB in a bailout from Nochi Dankner.
Meantime, IDB is preparing for a possible legal challenge to the rights offering. While IDB bondholders are pressing the board to move ahead with the capital injections as proposed by Elsztain, minority shareholders are fighting it.
The minority shareholders got their IDB Development stock in a debt-for-equity swap of their IDB Holding Corporation bonds. The deal entitles them to payments of 512 million shekels over this year and next, which would be facilitated by the new capital raised in the rights issue. At the same time, however, the minority shareholders are concerned about how much the holding in IDB Development will be diluted.
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Health Catalyst Names Brent Dover as President
Healthcare data warehousing leader to benefit from former Medicity President's track record growing companies into innovative market leaders
Health Catalyst (formerly Healthcare Quality Catalyst), the leader in healthcare data warehousing and analytics, today announced the appointment of Brent Dover as the company's President.
A 21-year veteran of the healthcare information technology industry, Dover will be responsible for all client-facing activities and product development. Health Catalyst helps healthcare organizations harness their data to save money, meet compliance requirements and improve patient outcomes.
Dover joins Health Catalyst after 13 years at Medicity, where he served as Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing and then as President. He helped guide the company from a start-up in health information exchange (HIE) to the leader in connectivity for both public and private HIEs. Medicity was acquired by Aetna in 2011.
"Brent's experience, market knowledge, and executive level business relationships have helped him build an unparalleled track record of results in healthcare IT, not only for the companies he has helped lead, but for the providers and patients they serve," said Dan Burton, CEO of Health Catalyst. "We're confident that Brent's focus on client success in the early HIE market will be a major contributor to Health Catalyst's leadership in the emerging market for health data warehousing and analytics."
"I am thrilled to join the leadership team of Health Catalyst, a company that has flawlessly delivered tangible return on investment for its clients seeking to deploy an enterprise data warehouse and analytics platform," said Dover. "The company is uniquely positioned with the right team, a compelling product and proven client deployments to help healthcare delivery systems quickly roll out data-driven processes for quality and cost improvement."
Health Catalyst has more than doubled in size each of the past three years, while expanding its product line from eight stand-alone solutions to a platform of more than 40 integrated products. In the past year, a majority of Health Catalyst's existing clients have expanded their relationship with the company as a result of the rapid return on investment from using the company's solutions and their need to quickly adapt from a fee-for-service to an outcomes-based payment model.
Based in Salt Lake City, Health Catalyst (formerly Healthcare Quality Catalyst) delivers a proven, agile data warehouse platform that actually works in today's transforming healthcare environment. Health Catalyst's innovative approach allows health systems implement a data warehouse in a matter of month, not years. Currently 81 hospitals caring for 20 million patients utilize Health Catalyst's Adaptive Data Warehousing platform and solutions. Founded by healthcare veterans who developed their solution after struggling for years to try to make non-healthcare data warehousing solutions work, the Health Catalyst data warehouse utilizes an adaptive approach designed specifically to address the complex nature of healthcare data. Health Catalyst's platform combines technology solutions and clinical expertise borne out of repeated successful implementations that significantly improved quality of care and reduced healthcare costs. Health Catalyst's proven solutions are deployed at leading health systems including Allina Health, MultiCare Health System, North Memorial Health Care, Providence Health & Services, Stanford Health Care, and Texas Children's Hospital. Visit www.healthcatalyst.com, and follow us on Twitter.


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Empowering Iran's Hardliners
Willis Sparks
Donald Trump arrived in office vowing to put new pressure on Iran. He has done just that.
Three months ago, Trump walked away from the Iran nuclear deal and then reimposed a number of sanctions. The damage was immediate. Iran's economy is now expected to grow by just 1.8 percent this year before contracting by 4.3 percent next year, according to BMI Research. None of the other governments that signed the deal agree with Trump's unilateral decision to withdraw, but European companies, in particular, continue to struggle to find banks, shippers, and insurers willing to risk confrontation with the US government.
Trump has made his point, but critics have long warned that walking away from the nuclear deal and sinking Iran's economy would undermine those in Iran's government who want better relations with the US and empower the country's hardliners, the very people Trump says he wants to punish.
This is now happening:
Political pragmatist Hassan Rouhani was elected president on promises to boost Iran's economy. The 2015 nuclear deal and Iran's escape from sanctions in 2016 had been his signature achievement. On Sunday, parliament impeached his Economy and Finance Minister. On Tuesday, in response to a falling currency and fast-rising inflation, Iran's parliament voted to formally reject Rouhani's leadership of Iran's economy following a public humiliation on live television.
Rouhani is safe for now; his party's strength in parliament makes impeachment unlikely. But that doesn't mean his hardline rivals won't make trouble for him in other ways.
The empowerment of hardliners will make Iran more unpredictable. On Wednesday, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei warned that Iran might soon renounce the deal that European leaders hoped to continue without the US. That would allow Iran to restart its nuclear program.
Iran has again threatened to disrupt shipping through the Strait of Hormuz and Bab al-Mandab, two of the world's busiest shipping routes. It will make mischief via proxies in Yemen, Iraq, Lebanon, and Syria. And Iran has built a formidable cyberwar capability that can inflict real damage on public infrastructure and private companies.
Despite economic hardship and the protests it's generated, regime change in Iran remains highly unlikely. The Revolutionary Guard Corps' troops and other security forces number close to 200,000, and Khamenei has shown himself willing to authorize violence to quell dissent.
The bottom line: Destruction of the nuclear deal and pressure on Iran's economy have strengthened Iran's hardliners. That makes it even less likely Iran will compromise or surrender—and all but certain that it will lash out.


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The story of the Little Red Hen has been retold many times. First published in 1874, this folk tale teaches children the value of hard work and self-reliance. In the story, a hen finds a seed of wheat, which she decides to plant in order to make bread. Though she seeks the help of other farm animals, they refuse, and the hen must do all the work herself. When the bread is finally made, the other animals wish to partake—but, because they did not help the hen along the way, they are refused the fruits of her labor. The story has been featured as part of the popular "Little Golden Books" series and as a Walt Disney animated film, The Wise Little Hen (1938).
This version, by Florence White Williams, was published in 1918. Do you approve of the Little Red Hen's conduct in this story? Is it really true that only those who work are entitled to the fruits of labor? As the bread was baking, the story tells us, the Little Red Hen was extremely excited, because she had done all the work in making the bread. Do you appreciate food (or anything else) more if you have made it yourself? Is the value of working hard to be found (only or mainly) in the resulting product or (also or mainly) in the activity of doing the work yourself?
A Little Red Hen lived in a barnyard. She spent almost all of her time walking about the barnyard in her picketty-pecketty fashion, scratching everywhere for worms.
She dearly loved fat, delicious worms and felt they were absolutely necessary to the health of her children. As often as she found a worm she would call "Chuck-chuck-chuck!" to her chickies.
When they were gathered about her, she would distribute choice morsels
of her tid-bit. A busy little body was she!
A cat usually napped lazily in the barn door, not even bothering herself to scare the rat who ran here and there as he pleased. And as for the pig who lived in the sty—he did not care what happened so long as he could eat and grow fat.
One day the Little Red Hen found a Seed. It was a Wheat Seed, but the Little Red Hen was so accustomed to bugs and worms that she supposed this to be some new and perhaps very delicious kind of meat. She bit it gently and found that it resembled a worm in no way whatsoever as to taste although because it was long and slender, a Little Red Hen might easily be fooled by its appearance.
Carrying it about, she made many inquiries as to what it might be. She found it was a Wheat Seed and that, if planted, it would grow up and when ripe it could be made into flour and then into bread.
When she discovered that, she knew it ought to be planted. She was so busy hunting food for herself and her family that, naturally, she thought she ought not to take time to plant it.
So she thought of the Pig—upon whom time must hang heavily and of the Cat who had nothing to do, and of the great fat Rat with his idle hours, and she called loudly:
"Who will plant the Seed?"
But the Pig said, "Not I," and the Cat said, "Not I," and the Rat said, "Not I."
"Well, then," said the Little Red Hen, "I will."
And she did.
Then she went on with her daily duties through the long summer days, scratching for worms and feeding her chicks, while the Pig grew fat, and the Cat grew fat, and the Rat grew fat, and the Wheat grew tall and ready for harvest.
So one day the Little Red Hen chanced to notice how large the Wheat was and that the grain was ripe, so she ran about calling briskly:
"Who will cut the Wheat?"
The Pig said, "Not I," the Cat said, "Not I," and the Rat said, "Not I."
She got the sickle from among the farmer's tools in the barn and proceeded to cut off all of the big plant of Wheat.
On the ground lay the nicely cut Wheat, ready to be gathered and threshed, but the newest and yellowest and downiest of Mrs. Hen's chicks set up a "peep-peep-peeping" in their most vigorous fashion, proclaiming to the world at large, but most particularly to their mother, that she was neglecting them.
Poor Little Red Hen! She felt quite bewildered and hardly knew where to turn.
Her attention was sorely divided between her duty to her children and her duty to the Wheat, for which she felt responsible.
So, again, in a very hopeful tone, she called out, "Who will thresh the Wheat?"
But the Pig, with a grunt, said, "Not I," and the Cat, with a meow, said, "Not I," and the Rat, with a squeak, said, "Not I."
So the Little Red Hen, looking, it must be admitted, rather discouraged, said, "Well, I will, then."
Of course, she had to feed her babies first, though, and when she had gotten them all to sleep for their afternoon nap, she went out and threshed the Wheat. Then she called out: "Who will carry the Wheat to the mill to be ground?"
Turning their backs with snippy glee, that Pig said, "Not I," and that Cat said, "Not I," and that Rat said, "Not I."
So the good Little Red Hen could do nothing but say, "I will then."
Carrying the sack of Wheat, she trudged off to the distant mill. There she ordered the Wheat ground into beautiful white flour. When the miller brought her the flour she walked slowly back all the way to her own barnyard in her own picketty-pecketty fashion.
She even managed, in spite of her load, to catch a nice juicy worm now and then and had one left for the babies when she reached them. Those cunning little fluff-balls were so glad to see their mother. For the first time, they really appreciated her.
After this really strenuous day Mrs. Hen retired to her slumbers earlier than usual—indeed, before the colors came into the sky to herald the setting of the sun, her usual bedtime hour.
She would have liked to sleep late in the morning, but her chicks, joining in the morning chorus of the hen yard, drove away all hopes of such a luxury.
Even as she sleepily half opened one eye, the thought came to her that to-day that Wheat must, somehow, be made into bread.
She was not in the habit of making bread, although, of course, anyone can make it if he or she follows the recipe with care, and she knew perfectly well that she could do it if necessary.
So after her children were fed and made sweet and fresh for the day, she hunted up the Pig, the Cat and the Rat.
Still confident that they would surely help her some day she sang out, "Who will make the bread?"
Alas for the Little Red Hen! Once more her hopes were dashed! For the Pig said, "Not I," the Cat said, "Not I," and the Rat said, "Not I."
So the Little Red Hen said once more, "I will then," and she did.
Feeling that she might have known all the time that she would have to do it all herself, she went and put on a fresh apron and spotless cook's cap. First of all she set the dough, as was proper. When it was time she brought out the molding board and the baking tins, molded the bread, divided it into loaves, and put them into the oven to bake.
All the while the Cat sat lazily by, giggling and chuckling.
And close at hand the vain Rat powdered his nose and admired himself in a mirror.
In the distance could be heard the long-drawn snores of the dozing Pig.
At last the great moment arrived. A delicious odor was wafted upon the autumn breeze. Everywhere the barnyard citizens sniffed the air with delight.
The Red Hen ambled in her picketty-pecketty way toward the source of all this excitement.
Although she appeared to be perfectly calm, in reality she could only with difficulty restrain an impulse to dance and sing, for had she not done all the work on this wonderful bread?
Small wonder that she was the most excited person in the barnyard!
She did not know whether the bread would be fit to eat, but—joy of joys!—when the lovely brown loaves came out of the oven, they were done to perfection.
Then, probably because she had acquired the habit, the Red Hen called:
"Who will eat the Bread?"
All the animals in the barnyard were watching hungrily and smacking their lips in anticipation, and the Pig said, "I will," the Cat said, "I will," the Rat said, "I will."
But the Little Red Hen said, "No, you won't. I will."
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Florence White Williams, Illinois Women Artists
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US SENATE STRIKES FOR RUSSIAN EQUALITY – THE OLIGARCHS TARGETED IN NEW SANCTIONS BILL
John Helmer
Not since the German government arranged for Vladimir Lenin to return to Russia, crossing German territory in a sealed train on April 16, 1917, has a foreign state at war with Russia done something as revolutionary as the US Senate did on June 15, 2017. That is when, by a vote of 98 to 2, the senators began the process of attacking the Russian oligarchs. They are the men who have dominated the Russian economy for more than twenty years, concentrating more national wealth in their hands than can be found in any other major state in the world today.
Unremarked by the senators themselves; unreported by the American press; and unnoticed, almost, in Russia, the new measure — if adopted by the full Congress and signed into law by President Donald Trump — will target the oligarchs' lines of credit to international banks; the brokers, repositories and clearinghouses of their shares and bonds; their trade with the US and Europe; their US companies, bank accounts, boats on the high seas and homes abroad. If targeting the oligarchs is followed by formal sanctions, the aim will be to destroy their power at home and abroad. The Communist Party of the Russian Federation hasn't contemplated this much.
Senate Bill S. 722 started in March with Iran as its target. For short, it was called the ''Countering Iran's Destabilizing Activities Act of 2017''. Title I of the bill and 29 pages of its provisions deal with Iran. Then Title II was added. It runs for 94 pages and targets Russia. Read the text in full here.
The Anglo-American business media have reported the bill as an escalation in US economic sanctions against Russian targets, extending beyond the oil and gas sector. The Wall Street Journal interpreted the legislation as an attempt to "wrest more control of Russia policy from the Trump administration". The Financial Times reported the bill would "tighten existing sanctions and threatens to broaden the restrictions from energy and banking to metals, mining, railways and shipping."
The newspaper failed to read the small print, noticing few of the novel details, except for one — the bill's threat to strike at European companies engaged in building and operating the new Russian gas pipeline to Germany, Nord Stream II. According to Section 232, the US will prohibit a company from "mak[ing] an investment described in subsection (b) or sells, leases, or provides to the Russian Federation, for the construction of Russian energy export pipelines, goods, services, technology, information, or support described in subsection (c)— (1) any of which has a fair market value of $1,000,000 or more; or (2) that, during a 12-month period, have an aggregate fair market value of $5,000,000 or more."
In practice, as the text of the bill continues, this is aimed at all Russian exports of energy, including pipelines under the Black Sea and in the Far East, and tanker shipping, particularly the oil and gas tanker company, Sovcomflot. Privatization of part of the state shareholding in Sovcomflot, which has been postponed for years, has been promised by federal property agency officials for later this month.
However, the Senate bill threatens to sanction any company, US or other, which makes an investment of up to $10 million "if the investment directly and significantly contributes to the ability of the Russian Federation to privatize state-owned assets in a manner that unjustly benefits— (1) officials of the Government of the Russian Federation; or (2) close associates or family members of those officials." That puts the kybosh on Gennady Timchenko, front-runner for the Sovcomflot share sale, and father-in-law of Gleb Frank, son of the chief executive of Sovcomflot, Sergei Frank. For background, read this.
But the Senate bill goes much further than attacking foreign investment in share sales for Russian state companies. It attacks the shareholding control of most of the country's resource assets – that's to say, the oligarchs. Section 241 of the new bill is entitled "Report on Oligarchs and Parastatal Entities of the Russian Federation." Read carefully.
"(a) In general.—Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Director of National Intelligence and the Secretary of State, shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a detailed report on the following:
(1) Senior foreign political figures and oligarchs in the Russian Federation, including the following:
(A) An identification of the most significant senior foreign political figures and oligarchs in the Russian Federation, as determined by their closeness to the Russian regime and their net worth.
(B) An assessment of the relationship between individuals identified under subparagraph (A) and President Vladimir Putin or other members of the Russian ruling elite.
(C) An identification of any indices of corruption with respect to those individuals.
(D) The estimated net worth and known sources of income of those individuals and their family members (including spouses, children, parents, and siblings), including assets, investments, other business interests, and relevant beneficial ownership information.
(E) An identification of the non-Russian business affiliations of those individuals.
(2) Russian parastatal entities, including an assessment of the following:
(A) The emergence of Russian parastatal entities and their role in the economy of the Russian Federation.
(B) The leadership structures and beneficial ownership of those entities.
(C) The scope of the non-Russian business affiliations of those entities."
(3) The exposure of key economic sectors of the United States to Russian politically exposed persons and parastatal entities, including, at a minimum, the banking, securities, insurance, and real estate sectors.
(4) The likely effects of imposing debt and equity restrictions on Russian parastatal entities, as well as the anticipated effects of adding Russian parastatal entities to the list of specially designated nationals and blocked persons maintained by the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the Department of the Treasury.
(5) The potential impacts of imposing secondary sanctions with respect to Russian oligarchs, Russian state-owned enterprises, and Russian parastatal entities, including impacts on the entities themselves and on the economy of the Russian Federation, as well as on the economies of the United States and allies of the United States."
The senators voted in favour without deciding on a definition of Russian oligarch, corruption, "closeness to the regime", "relationship to President Vladimir Putin or other members of the Russian ruling elite", or "parastatal". Still, the meaning and intention are as clear as the US Air Force's MOP (Massive Ordnance Penetrator) – the bunker buster.
The targeting of Section 241 includes almost every major Russian corporation, its control shareholders, associated banks, and their offshore businesses. The stated aim is nothing less than to destroy those of them who side with the Kremlin; recruit the remainder for US-backed regime change; and pit each against the other, all against the Kremlin.
Selective oligarch targeting is already in effect; click to open for the current list. Timchenko has been sanctioned by the US and the European Union since 2014. Other oligarchs also proscribed include Sergei Chemezov, head of the state asset holding, Russian Technologies (Rostec); Yury Kovalchuk of Bank Rossiya; Boris and Arkady Rotenberg, who control SMP Bank plus pipeline and infrastructure businesses, and Roman Rotenberg, Boris's son; Igor Sechin, chief executive of Rosneft; Nikolai Shamalov, also of Bank Rossiya and father of Kirill Shamalov, Putin's son-in-law; and Vladimir Yakunin, former head of state-owned Russian Railways.
The Christmas dinner which Putin has hosted each year since the war started in Ukraine identifies by name four dozen potential targets in the latest act of US war. Read the guest list for 2014; for 2015; and for 2016.
The pre-dinner speech-making session at the Kremlin oligarch dinner, December 19, 2016. Source: http://johnhelmer.net/oligarchs-on-the-skids-president-putin-goes-down-market-for-capital-reception-next-year-labour-union-bosses/
Missing from the official sanctions lists so far, but with substantial US assets, are Anatoly Chubais, head of the state high-technology holding Rusnano; Mikhail Abyzov, financial backer of Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev and minister of open government in his cabinet; and Mikhail Fridman of the Alfa Bank, LetterOne and Vimpelcom groups. Vimpelcom has been prosecuted for corruption by the US Department of Justice and fined $397.6 million, the ninth largest such penalty in US history. More recently, Alfa was targeted for allegedly operating clandestine connections with the Trump presidential campaign.
Two of the oligarchs with valuable residential assets in New York, and solid relationships with Putin, are Oleg Deripaska (lead image), who controls the state aluminium monopoly Rusal; and Roman Abramovich, the control shareholder of the Evraz steel group, which runs steel and pipemills in the US and Canada. Deripaska owns at least two homes in Manhattan, but is prevented from living there by a longstanding US visa ban which his Washington lobbyist has been unable to remove. For Deripaska's New York assets, read this ruling of April 25, 2017, by New York Supreme Court Judge Anil Singh.
Source: https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/fbem/DocumentDisplayServlet?documentId=pFEUA7VGZSJVzEDl_PLUS_NHiTg==&system=prod An unredacted version of the text of the order can be read here. This reveals that Deripaska continues to be targeted by a US visa ban. One of the redactions Deripaska lawyers have obtained in the court docket reads: "Deripaska emphasizes that his access to New York is blocked because of a visa problem. Although he has been able to enter New York on a diplomatic visa, his visits to New York since 2009 have been limited to ten trips for a total of less than 30 nights. When he was directed by the court to make an effort to attend a trial as a witness in a case in New York in the Fall of2015, he applied for a visa, but his request was denied."
To view Abramovich's homes on East 75th Street, Manhattan, click to open.
Another way to anticipate who will be informally targeted by the US shortly — formally later — is to look at the concentration of Russian wealth, and identify Russia's ultra high net worth individuals, the multi-millionaires. By world standards, the Russian count is in the top-20, but trails far behind the US, China, and several European and Pacific Rim countries.
Source: http://publications.credit-suisse.com/tasks/render/file/index.cfm?fileid=AD783798-ED07-E8C2-4405996B5B02A32E
But when the count is of billionaires and of concentration of national assets in their hands, Russia leads. In its latest Global Wealth Report for 2016, Credit Suisse reports: "According to our estimates, the top decile of wealth-holders owns 89% of all household wealth in Russia. This is significantly higher than any other major economic power: the corresponding figure is 78% for the United States, for example, and 73% for China. The high concentration of wealth in Russia is reflected in the fact that it has an estimated 96 billionaires – a total exceeded only by China with 244, and the USA with 582."
The combined impact of war, sanctions, devaluation of the rouble, and the collapse of oil and other commodity prices, has been to diminish the value of most classes of Russian assets. Wealth for everyone below the millionaire level has been dwindling because home values have fallen, along with income, while debt has risen in absolute and proportional terms. According to the Credit Suisse report, "we estimate that [debt] now equals 16% of gross assets – up from 12% two years ago."
"Household wealth in Russia grew rapidly in the initial years of this century, as the country boomed along with global commodity markets. Between 2000 and 2007, wealth per adult rose eightfold. Since 2007, however, growth has been slow and uneven – up 14% to date in ruble terms, but down 56% when measured in current USD, due to ruble depreciation. The USD–RUB rate rose from 25 in 2007 to 34 in mid-2014, and then shot up to 60 by the end of 2014 due to the imposition of financial sanctions. The rate was 64 in mid-2016. While household wealth per adult has risen from USD 2,940 in 2000 to USD 10,340 today, the current level is barely above that of ten years ago."
A new study on inequality in Russia, published in February by the Analytical Centre of the Russian Government, confirms that the impacts on income, assets, and net wealth have been bad for the middle class of Russian income earners, and disastrous for the Russian poor. The divide between rich and poor has been getting worse, according to this English summary.
Source: http://ac.gov.ru/files/publication/a/11944.pdf — page 5.
So it is now the calculation of the US Senate, to be followed by the Congress and likely by the President, that Putin's greatest vulnerability in the present situation is not simply cronies like Timchenko, Kovalchuk or the Rotenbergs, but the inequality of the entire Russian oligarchical system.
In the past, there was a brief attempt by the US intelligence services to target some of the oligarchs. In 2010, when Admiral Dennis Blair was Director of National Intelligence (DNI), his annual threat assessment for the US Senate Intelligence Committee reported "[there is] a growing nexus in Russian and Eurasian states among government, organized crime, intelligence services, and big business figures. An increasing risk from Russian organized crime is that criminals and criminally linked oligarchs will enhance the ability of state or state-allied actors to undermine competition in gas, oil, aluminum, and precious metals markets." Implied but unnamed were Alexei Miller (Gazprom), Deripaska (aluminium), and Suleiman Kerimov (gold).
A year later, Blair's successor as DNI, Lieutenant-General James Clapper, repeated the line: "The nexus in Russian and Eurasian states among some government officials, organized crime, intelligence services, and big business figures enhances the ability of state or state-allied actors to undermine competition in gas, oil, aluminum, and precious metals markets." Read more.
The DNI annual reports were no more than that – no action was recommended, and none followed.
S.722 goes much further, codifying the existing Russian sanctions in statute which the White House cannot relieve by presidential decree; imposing new sanctions the same way; and setting up a scheme of reporting of new targets. By itself, the report process will immediately trigger informal sanctions, with or without the formal orders to follow.
In this new Senate bill, the targeting is no longer crimes committed, or even the restraint of competition, but Russian wealth itself, and the oligarchs who have most of it. That is revolutionary. So is the exception in Section 241(a)(1)(A) for "their closeness to the Russian regime". That's a call for the oligarchs to join Mikhail Khodorkovsky in open rebellion.
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Ballard Spahr Names Richard W. Miller Managing Partner of Atlanta Office
Richard W. Miller, a longtime leader in the Atlanta legal community and Practice Group Leader of Ballard Spahr's Intellectual Property Litigation Group, has been named Managing Partner of the firm's Atlanta office.
As Office Managing Partner, Mr. Miller works with the firm's professional administrative staff and lawyers to position the Atlanta office and Atlanta-based professionals for success. He is also responsible for overall office operations. He takes over the role from Lawrence K. Nodine—literally a legend in the Atlanta intellectual property community.
"I can't thank Larry enough for his dedication, service, and efforts to help keep the Atlanta office in a strong position during an extraordinarily difficult few years," Mr. Miller said. "There is so much strength for Ballard Spahr to build on in Atlanta. I think the current climate creates a tremendous opportunity for us to grow strategically here in the business hub of the South."
Ballard Spahr's Atlanta office, with 30 lawyers, is a focal point for the firm's renowned intellectual property practice, which offers a full range of services from patent prosecution and trademark clearance to strategic IP counseling and litigation. The Atlanta office is also home to attorneys skilled in banking, finance, financial services, corporate transactions, and business litigation.
Mr. Miller has practiced in Atlanta for more than 15 years, including more than a dozen years with Ballard Spahr. As Office Managing Partner, he also serves on the firm's Expanded Board. He has handled scores of patent infringement cases in federal courts and in the International Trade Commission (ITC), and has argued appeals before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. He is recognized in the IAM Patent 1000 – The World's Leading Patent Professionals, for excellence in patent litigation. Mr. Miller also has extensive experience litigating copyright, trademark, trade dress, and trade secret cases both in the courts and in private arbitration proceedings. Beyond litigation, he provides Ballard's clients with the full range of intellectual property counseling services.
Among his many leadership external positions, Mr. Miller has served as Chair of the Intellectual Property Section of the Georgia Bar Association and is an officer of the Atlanta Intellectual Property Inn of Court.
"Rich is an outstanding lawyer and leader, with a deep commitment to Ballard Spahr, our Atlanta office, and the people who work there," firm Chair Mark Stewart said. "In addition to the exceptional respect he has earned within the firm, Rich has the outstanding external reputation that will serve the firm well as we work to make our Atlanta presence even stronger."
For media inquiries, please contact Bill Shralow at 215.864.8195.
Ballard Spahr Recognized as a Leader in Life Sciences Law
Lawrence Nodine to Receive 2018 Intellectual Property Legends Award
Eight Ballard Spahr Attorneys Elevated to Of Counsel, Counsel
14 Ballard Spahr Attorneys, 4 Offices Recognized in IAM Patent 1000
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Food Pantry Benefit
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Saturday ~ December 1st 2018
We've started a new sliding scale suggested donation. Music lovers can offer anywhere between $5 and $15 dollars. As always, no one is turned away and seating is still first come, first seated.
Suggested donation $5.00 to $15.00 & 2 cans of food
Show 8:00 PM - 10:30 PM
Doors open at 7:30
Plymouth Church Volunteers provide Coffee Tea and Treats and accept donations to support worthy causes at every Coffee House Event.
This Food Pantry benefit is the annual songwriter round-robin featuring Ann Elizabeth Nagel, John Higgins, and Jym Mooney. The money raised goes to the local food pantry.
Ann Elizabeth Nagel
Ann's music is inspired by insights from her life-long healing journey, in which playing her guitar, writing, and singing were instrumental. Ann's songs can range from the earthy, sensual, and celebratory to themes that include acknowledging the past, feeling feelings, increasing self-esteem, and deepening spirituality. Ann has recorded two wonderful CDs of her own songs, I Surrender and The Only Way Out is Through.
John Higgins is a Wisconsin singer-songwriter and guitarist whose performances illustrate his belief that "music is the great peacemaker and allows us to experience creative hope."
Jym Mooney
There are a few folks that can be said to be at the very heart of the Coffee House's spirit, and longtime singer-songwriter Jym Mooney is surely one of these. His generous help to keep the Coffee House rolling through the years and his encouragement to fellow artists are only part of his contributions. Wisconsin audiences have been delighted by his beautifully crafted songs that are alive with honesty, humor, and compassion, just like the man himself.
Saturday ~ December 22nd 2018
Living Activism Benefit
We've started a new sliding scale suggested donation. Music lovers can offer anywhere between $5 and $15 dollars. As always, no one is turned away and seating is still first come, first seated.
Suggested donation $5.00 to $15.00
Plymouth Church Volunteers provide Coffee, Tea and Treats and accept donations to support worthy causes at every Coffee House Event.
This Living Activism concert is for the benefit of the Frank Zeidler Center for Public Discussion, in honor of Anita Zeidler. For 25 years Anita Zeidler taught cognition, learning and human development courses in UWM's Department of Educational Psychology in the School of Education. She was a longtime member and vice-president of the United Nations Association-Greater Milwaukee (UNA-GM), a chapter of the national organization, UNA-USA. She was also a
member of the Milwaukee Mayor's Committee for the United Nations and served on the board of the Frank Zeidler Center for Public Discussion. The concert will feature Coffee House Board members and some friends of The Coffee House.
Zeidler Center Site
The Coffee House - Milwaukee, Inc.
PO Box 11201, Milwaukee 53211
Show 8:00 PM
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"The suspected militants fired upon the Bullet Proof vehicle (Bolero) of Para, fortunately, he left unhurt," said reports, adding, at least 2-4 bullets hit his vehicle.
Srinagar, Aug 14 (KNB): Suspected militants on Monday late evening carried attack on PDP's Youth President Waheed Para during his visit to Central Kashmir's Budgam district.
Reports reaching Kashmir News Bureau, that erstwhile Secretary of Sports Council Waheed Para had a narrow escape on Monday evening after unknown gunmen fired upon him.
Pertinent to mention here, the attack comes days after Governor Administration asked Para to vacate the accommodation at Gupkar Road.
Meanwhile, confirming the incident Waheed Para while talking to KNB stated that he was there for a condolence meeting.
Pertinently, the VIPs have urged upon authorities to strengthen their security following the assassination of a reputed journalist of Kashmir Valley Dr. Shujat Bukhari on 13th June.


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A Peach of a Poem to Help Your Public Speaking
Poems to Read Aloud , Resources , The Buckley Experience
The Buckley School's founder believed that all public speakers should hone their presentation skills by reading poetry out loud. We keep that worthwhile practice alive by including a poem in our magazine each month for you to read aloud. Above, passport photo showing D.H. Lawrence in 1929, the year before his death.
"Why the groove? Why the lovely, bivalve roundnesses? Why the ripple down the sphere?"
– From "Peach" by D.H. Lawrence
British novelist and poet David Herbert Lawrence wrote nearly 800 poems, in addition to become the (in)famous novelist who gave us Lady Chatterly's Lover.
Born in 1885, D.H Lawrence grew up in rural England, the son of a miner and a teacher. He witnessed industrialization and World War I, and often wrote about the dehumanizing aspects of the early 20th century.
Lawrence married Frieda Weekley, his former professor at University College, Nottingham. The couple traveled extensively, making homes in Taos, New Mexico, and Florence, Italy. Lawrence's travel writing, along with his poems and novels, have earned long-standing admiration.
Lawrence contracted malaria on a trip to Mexico and nearly died from the disease. His health was always precarious afterwards, though he kept producing new work. Lawrence died in 1930, just 44 years old. His friend, the Scottish author Catherine Carswell, wrote after his death:
"In the face of formidable initial disadvantages and lifelong delicacy, poverty that lasted for three quarters of his life and hostility that survives his death, he did nothing that he did not really want to do, and all that he most wanted to do he did."
The Peachoid water tower in Gaffney, S.C., as seen on "House of Cards".
As residents of a peach-growing state that's also home to the famous Peachoid, we found we could not resist offering this Lawrence poem for your read-aloud enjoyment.
BY D. H. LAWRENCE
Would you like to throw a stone at me?
Here, take all that's left of my peach.
Blood-red, deep:
Heaven knows how it came to pass.
Somebody's pound of flesh rendered up.
Wrinkled with secrets
And hard with the intention to keep them.
Why, from silvery peach-bloom,
From that shallow-silvery wine-glass on a short stem
This rolling, dropping, heavy globule?
I am thinking, of course, of the peach before I ate it.
Why so velvety, why so voluptuous heavy?
Why hanging with such inordinate weight?
Why so indented?
Why the groove?
Why the lovely, bivalve roundnesses?
Why the ripple down the sphere?
Why the suggestion of incision?
Why was not my peach round and finished like a billiard ball?
It would have been if man had made it.
Though I've eaten it now.
But it wasn't round and finished like a billiard ball;
And because I say so, you would like to throw something at me.
Here, you can have my peach stone.


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LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Claims for unemployment benefits continued to skyrocket in Michigan last week during the coronavirus pandemic, when 311,000 people filed...
Atlético cuts player salaries by 70% during virus crisis
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Google to Viacom - The Law is Clear, and On Our Side
In a March 24 op-ed, Viacom's general counsel, Michael Fricklas, defended his company's lawsuit against YouTube and Google. Resisting the urge to litigate this case in public, we still thought it useful to reply briefly.
Viacom's lawsuit is an attack on the way people communicate on the Web and on the platforms that allow people to make the Internet their own.
In the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Congress struck a careful balance between the rights of the copyright holder and the need to protect the Internet as an innovative communication frontier, not as another venue for litigation.
Content-hosting sites such as YouTube, Craigslist and MySpace that want to take advantage of the DMCA's safe harbors must promptly remove infringing content if the copyright owner so requests, giving owners a quick remedy that doesn't require going to court. Copyright owners, in return, have the responsibility to identify infringing material they want removed. Viacom's lawyers helped craft this law but apparently don't like it, after all. They want to shirk the responsibility Congress gave them.
Placing that burden on hosting platforms would turn the DMCA on its head.
Viacom is attempting to rewrite established copyright law through a baseless lawsuit. In February, after negotiations broke down, Viacom requested that YouTube take down more than 100,000 videos. We did so immediately, working through a weekend. Viacom later withdrew some of those requests, apparently realizing that those videos were not infringing, after all. Though Viacom seems unable to determine what constitutes infringing content, its lawyers believe that we should have the responsibility and ability to do it for them. Fortunately, the law is clear, and on our side.
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Henri Belleville, a Frenchman faring from the hills of Champagne, has had a lifelong passion for great wines and spirits which he playfully refers to as the 'Art of Love,' a nod to his passion for perfection and his deep knowledge and interest in French history.
Tigre Blanc, the namesake of this tremendous spirit, signifies history, rarity and true passion—a commitment to excellence designed for the truly discerning connoisseur.
The Tigre Blanc recipe has been passed down through Belleville's family for many generations, to its current owner and distant relative, Renaud Dutreil and Maitre Vigneron (master distiller) who lives and works in Champagne diligently overseeing its production and assuring a quality that is fortified by pride and integrity. This is a must try for the serious vodka enthusiast, or anyone desiring to imbibe and share a spirit of superlative quality.
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People who have benefited from CDM projects around the world traveled to Brussels to meet with European parliamentarians and explain how their lives have changed thanks to the CDM.
The event "Meet the Beneficiaries", organised by the International Emissions Trading Association (IETA) in collaboration with the UNFCCC secretariat, took place at the European Parliament on 1 March 2012.
"The CDM has proven that it can change people's lives for the better," said John Kilani, Director of the Sustainable Development Mechanisms programme at the UNFCCC secretariat. "It is now more clear than ever that the challenge of climate change will continue to drive mitigation action, including the development of market-based approaches. In this respect, the CDM will continue to be an important tool to stimulate investment in climate change mitigation and development."


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Sethi, Ashok / Kaus, Thomas
Practical Implant Dentistry offers a practical and pragmatic approach to implant dentistry for the discerning practitioner involved in this very exciting field. The second edition of this book describes in detail the clinical procedures required to carry out a broad range of treatments available in implant dentistry today, illustrated by updated full-colour images.
Vertical and Horizontal Ridge Augmentation
Urban, Istvan
This exciting new book expertly describes key features of vertical and horizontal ridge augmentation, containing chapters on: the surgical anatomy of the floor of the mouth; the steps involved in mandibular ridge augmentation, including the modified lingual flap and the protection of the mental nerve during flap advancement; anterior maxillary ridge augmentation, including eight chapters devoted to the key steps in this process from papilla reconstruction of single tooth defects to papilla regeneration after vertical ridge augmentation in multiple missing teeth; a step-by-step description of severely resorbed complete maxillary reconstruction using guided bone regeneration (GBR) and simultaneous sinus augmentation, with a separate chapter on growth factor applications using BMP-2 and PDGF in conjunction with newly developed GBR perforated membranes; and complications of membrane exposure and the management of different degrees of graft infections. The user-friendly format is underscored by the unique "Lessons Learned" sections, which reflect on most of the cases described, making suggestions about what could have been done differently to achieve even better results. These sections contribute to making this book a useful and honest account of the clinical practice of ridge augmentation with GBR.
TMJ pathology related to occlusion: etiopathology and treatment
Jiménez-López, Vicente
Includes CD-ROM with more than 200 Animations
This book offers a meticulous analysis of occlusion, one of the most important specialties in dentistry, because a healthy stomatognathic system depends on it. The book covers the dentition, tooth and implant bone, gingiva, tooth and implant-borne prostheses, masticatory muscles, ligaments, TMJ, articular capsules, disks, etc.
The problems that can lead to "malocclusion" depend on patient emotional stress, grinding, clenching, and the jaw being out of occlusion and its proper position. The book also covers referred pain, which can mimic joint symptoms caused by neck and masticatory muscle problems. Headaches and facial pain may be diagnosed as being atypical and may be really due to occlusionrelated muscle problems (masseters, temporalis, etc.), including neck muscles. There are many!
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Only one week remains before the early bird price of $399 for the 2018 CHEAC Annual Meeting expires. After July 13, the registration fee will increase to $450 until registration closes on September 1. CHEAC Members are strongly encouraged to register and book a hotel room at the Hyatt Regency Sacramento as soon as possible.
This year's annual meeting will be held from October 17 – October 19 and will provide local health department professionals representing a wide variety of disciplines throughout California with networking and learning opportunities.
For attendees coming to Sacramento on Tuesday, October 16, rooms at still available at the Hyatt Regency. However, CHEAC has met its room block for Tuesday night and the discounted room rate is no longer available; rooms will be offered on Tuesday night at the Hyatt's prevailing room rate. Rooms are still available at CHEAC's discounted rate for Wednesday and Thursday nights. Members are encouraged to stay at the Hyatt Regency as all conference programming will occur at this location.
If the Hyatt's prevailing rate for the night of Tuesday, October 16 is an issue for jurisdictions, nearby hotels, including the Sterling Hotel, the Best Western Plus Sutter House, the Holiday Inn Express Sacramento Convention Center, and the Residence Inn by Marriott, are offering a discounted government rate for a Tuesday night stay.
More information on this year's CHEAC Annual Meeting, including registration, is available here.