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Justia Dockets & Filings Ninth Circuit California Southern District Obesity Research Institute, LLC v. Fiber Research International, LLC et al Filing 433
Obesity Research Institute, LLC v. Fiber Research International, LLC et al
Filing 433
ORDER: (1) Granting Motion to File Documents Under Seal (ECF Nos. 426 , 428 ) and (2) Granting In Part and Denying in Part Motion to File Documents Under Seal (ECF No. 430 ). Signed by Judge Cynthia Bashant on 12/8/2017. (mxn)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 11 SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 12 13 OBESITY RESEARCH INSTITUTE, LLC, 14 Plaintiff, 15 16 17 18 Case No. 15-cv-00595-BAS-MDD v. FIBER RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL, LLC, et al., ORDER: (1) GRANTING MOTIONS TO FILE DOCUMENTS UNDER SEAL (ECF Nos. 426, 428); AND Defendants. 19 (2) GRANTING IN PART AND DENYING IN PART MOTION TO FILE DOCUMENTS UNDER SEAL (ECF No. 430) 20 21 AND RELATED COUNTERCLAIM. 22 23 Presently before the Court are three motions by the parties to file documents 24 under seal. (See ECF Nos. 426, 428, 430.) The motions were filed following this 25 Court's previous Order on the parties' motions to seal. (ECF No. 420.) Plaintiff 26 Obesity Research Institute, LLC's ("ORI") filed a renewed request for leave to file 27 three documents under seal. (ECF No. 426.) Defendant Fiber Research International, 28 –1– 15cv0595 1 LLC's ("FRI") filed two renewed requests for leave to file various documents under 2 seal. (ECF Nos. 428, 430.) 3 Consistent with its previous orders, the Court will refer to each motion by its 4 Electronic Case Filing number ("ECF No.") on the docket for the purposes of this 5 order. 6 7 I. LEGAL STANDARD 8 "[T]he courts of this country recognize a general right to inspect and copy 9 public records and documents, including judicial records and documents." Nixon v. 10 Warner Commc'ns, Inc., 435 U.S. 589, 597 (1978). "Unless a particular court record 11 is one 'traditionally kept secret,' a 'strong presumption in favor of access' is the 12 starting point." Kamakana v. City & Cty. of Honolulu, 447 F.3d 1172, 1178 (9th Cir. 13 2006) (citing Foltz v. State Farm Mut. Auto Ins. Co., 331 F.3d 1122, 1135 (9th Cir. 14 2003)). "The presumption of access is 'based on the need for federal courts, although 15 independent—indeed, particularly because they are independent—to have a measure 16 of accountability and for the public to have confidence in the administration of 17 justice." Ctr. for Auto Safety v. Chrysler Grp., LLC, 809 F.3d 1092, 1096 (9th Cir. 18 2016) (quoting United States v. Amodeo, 71 F.3d 1044, 1048 (2d Cir. 1995)). 19 A party seeking to seal a judicial record bears the burden of overcoming the 20 strong presumption of access. Foltz, 331 F.3d at 1135. The showing required to meet 21 this burden depends upon whether the documents to be sealed relate to a motion that 22 is "more than tangentially related to the merits of the case." Ctr. for Auto Safety, 809 23 F.3d at 1102. When the underlying motion is more than tangentially related to the 24 merits, the "compelling reasons" standard applies. Id. at 1096–98. When the 25 underlying motion does not surpass the tangential relevance threshold, the "good 26 cause" standard applies. Id. 27 "In general, 'compelling reasons' sufficient to outweigh the public's interest 28 in disclosure and justify sealing court records exists when such 'court files might –2– 15cv0595 1 have become a vehicle for improper purposes,' such as the use of records to gratify 2 private spite, promote public scandal, circulate libelous statements, or release trade 3 secrets." Kamakana, 447 F.3d at 1179 (quoting Nixon, 435 U.S. at 598). However, 4 "[t]he mere fact that the production of records may lead to a litigant's embarrassment, 5 incrimination, or exposure to further litigation will not, without more, compel the 6 court to seal its records." Id. (citing Foltz, 331 F.3d at 1136). The decision to seal 7 documents is "one best left to the sound discretion of the trial court" upon 8 consideration of "the relevant facts and circumstances of the particular case." Nixon, 9 435 U.S. at 599. 10 Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(c), generally, provides the "good cause" 11 standard for the purposes of sealing documents. See Kamakana, 447 F.3d at 1179. 12 The test applied is whether "'good cause' exists to protect th[e] information from 13 being disclosed to the public by balancing the needs for discovery against the need 14 for confidentiality." Pintos v. Pac. Creditors Ass'n, 605 F.3d 665, 678 (9th Cir. 2010) 15 (quoting Phillips ex rel. Estates of Byrd v. Gen. Motors Corp., 307 F.3d 1206, 1213 16 (9th Cir. 2002)). Under Rule 26(c), only "a particularized showing of 'good cause' . 17 . . is sufficient to preserve the secrecy of sealed discovery documents[.]" In re 18 Midland Nat. Life Ins. Co. Annuity Sales Practices Litig., 686 F.3d 1115, 1119 (9th 19 Cir. 2012) (emphasis added); see also Kamakana, 447 F.3d at 1180 (requiring a 20 "particularized showing" of good cause). "Broad allegations of harm, unsubstantiated 21 by specific examples or articulated reasoning, do not satisfy the Rule 26(c) test." 22 Beckman Indus., Inc. v. Int'l Ins. Co., 966 F.2d 470, 476 (9th Cir. 1992). Moreover, 23 a blanket protective order is not itself sufficient to show "good cause," let alone 24 compelling reasons, for sealing particular documents. See Foltz, 331 F.3d at 1133; 25 Beckman Indus., 966 F.2d at 476; San Jose Mercury News, Inc. v. U.S. District Court, 26 N. Dist., 187 F.3d 1096, 1103 (9th Cir. 1999). 27 // 28 // –3– 15cv0595 1 II. ANALYSIS 2 A. ECF No. 426 3 In ECF No. 426, ORI seeks leave to file under seal Exhibit 86, Exhibit 90, and 4 an unredacted version of Exhibit 130 to the Declaration of Henny den Uijl, filed in 5 along with its consolidated motion for summary judgment and opposition to FRI's 6 motion for partial summary judgment. FRI did not file a response to ECF No. 426. 7 Exhibits 86 and 90 contain propriety business or product information. Exhibit 8 86 is an email chain between ORI and its suppliers, and ORI argues that it contains 9 proprietary information regarding its product sourcing and pricing. (ECF No. 426 at 10 4-5.) ORI argues that, if this information became public, it would cause "severe 11 business harm and competitive disadvantage." (Id. at 4.) Exhibit 90 is a "formulation 12 and product specification" information sheet that ORI argues contains Lipozene's 13 proprietary composition and product specifications. (Id. at 5.) ORI argues that a 14 competitor could use this information to "reverse engineer" Lipozene, causing a 15 "significant business disadvantage" to ORI. (Id.) ORI's explanations appear to be 16 consistent with the Court's assessment of these exhibits. 17 ORI proposes to seal proprietary information, such as "formulations, sourcing 18 information, supply quantities, and marketing strategies," and financial information 19 in Exhibit 130, which is the Expert Report of Neil Beaton and has been partially 20 redacted. (ECF No. 426 at 3-4.) ORI argues that failing to seal the proprietary product 21 information will cause ORI "irreparable harm." (Id. at 3.) ORI additionally argues 22 that it is a privately held business, making the redacted financial information ("highly 23 sensitive figures") "extremely closely guarded." (Id. at 4.) ORI further states that the 24 disclosure of this specific financial information is "not crucial" to public interest 25 because the unredacted, publically available portions of Exhibit 130 provide the 26 relevant foundation in this case. (Id.) ORI's current request is more narrowly tailored 27 than its previous request to seal the entire report, and the Court's assessment of the 28 redactions is consistent with ORI's explanations. –4– 15cv0595 1 Having reviewed ORI's requests, the Court finds that ORI provides 2 compelling reasons to seal the aforementioned documents. See Kamakana, 447 F.3d 3 at 1179. Therefore, the Court GRANTS ORI's motion to file documents under seal. 4 (ECF No. 426.) 5 6 B. ECF No. 428 7 In ECF No. 428, FRI refiled its request to file under seal an unredacted copy 8 of ORI's memorandum of points and authorities in support of its motion to exclude 9 Dr. Fahey and Exhibit D to ECF No. 428, which is the unredacted deposition 10 transcript of Medallion Labs representative Timothy Peters and Exhibit 10 to the 11 Declaration of Sean D. Flaherty in support of ORI's aforementioned memorandum. 12 Originally, on March 17, 2017, the Court considered these documents, denied FRI's 13 request, and granted FRI leave to refile its request. (ECF No. 324.) The Court denied 14 these requests two more times (ECF Nos. 417, 420), ordering FRI to correct certain 15 deficiencies before it would consider its requests. The Court will now review its 16 amended requests. ORI did not file a response to ECF No. 428. 17 FRI requests to seal portions of Mr. Peters's deposition transcript (Exhibit D) 18 that contain testing methodologies and parameters. (ECF No. 428 at 4-5.) FRI argues 19 that this testing information is propriety and disclosure could cause irreparable harm. 20 (Id.) The redactions applied to the deposition transcript are narrowly tailored, and 21 FRI's explanations appear to be consistent with the Court's assessment of this 22 exhibit. 23 FRI argues that the unredacted version of ORI's aforementioned memorandum 24 should be sealed for the same reasons as above, as well as those reasons stated in the 25 Court's earlier Order (ECF No. 420), because it incorporates the same proprietary 26 information contained in the related documents. (ECF No. 428 at 6-7.) FRI appears 27 to have applied redactions in the memorandum consistent with the Court's 28 assessment of the relevant exhibits as stated in its orders. –5– 15cv0595 1 Having reviewed FRI's requests, the Court finds that FRI provides compelling 2 reasons to seal the aforementioned documents. See Kamakana, 447 F.3d at 1179. 3 Therefore, the Court GRANTS FRI's motion to file documents under seal. (ECF No. 4 428.) 5 6 C. 7 In ECF No. 430, FRI seeks leave to file under seal Exhibits 109, 112, 114-115, 8 and 149 to ORI's consolidated cross-motion for summary judgment and opposition 9 to FRI's motion for partial summary judgment. ORI did not file a response to ECF 10 ECF No. 430 No. 430. 11 FRI narrowly tailors its request to seal information in Exhibits 114, 115, and 12 149. FRI only seeks to redact and seal information identifying current or prospective 13 customers of FRI or relating to Propol A pricing information. (ECF No. 430 at 7.) 14 FRI argues that competitors could use this information improperly, damaging FRI's 15 business and sales efforts, by either diverting clients, adjusting pricing, or tailoring 16 marketing strategies. (Id.) FRI's explanations appear to be consistent with the Court's 17 assessment of these exhibits. 18 Exhibit 109 is a supplemental interrogatory response that lists the names of 19 FRI's owners and "sub-owners." (ECF No. 430 at 4.) FRI tailored its renewed request 20 by requesting to seal only the specific names of the "sub-owners"—thirteen of fifteen 21 individuals' or entities' names listed. (See ECF No. 430-2.) 22 First, FRI misinterprets the Court's previous Order regarding a lack of case 23 law to support its reasoning. (ECF No. 420 at 9 ("FRI argues that Nevada State law, 24 which does not require public disclosure of a corporation's ownership, justifies 25 sealing this document. FRI provides no case law to support its reasoning."); ECF No. 26 430 at 6 ("The Court should thus seal the identities of the holding companies . . . 27 because . . . [FRI] has an interest in maintaining that information as confidential, as 28 permitted under Nevada law . . . .").) FRI cites to a string of cases stating that –6– 15cv0595 1 propriety business or commercially sensitive information is appropriate for sealing, 2 but this does not cure the deficiency the Court noted. (ECF No. 430 at 6.) What FRI 3 fails to do is to provide legal support explaining why Nevada corporate law allowing 4 companies to keep their ownership structure confidential supports sealing that 5 information in federal court. In other words, FRI has not shown that "removing 6 protections" afforded by state law amounts to a "compelling reason" to seal. (See 7 ECF No. 430 at 4-6.) Moreover, FRI has not shown that a corporate ownership 8 structure is the type of propriety business or commercially sensitive information that 9 merits sealing. See Kite Shipping LLC v. San Juan Nav. Corp., No. 11CV02694 10 BTM WVG, 2012 WL 6591579, at *2 (S.D. Cal. Dec. 17, 2012) (declining to seal 11 information relating to corporate structure); In re Hydroxycut Mktg. & Sales 12 Practices Litig., No. 09MD2087 BTM AJB, 2011 WL 1135114, at *2 (S.D. Cal. Mar. 13 29, 2011) (same). 14 Second, FRI has failed again to provide any other compelling reason for why 15 this limited information in Exhibit 109 should be sealed. (See ECF No. 420 at 9 16 (finding that FRI failed to provide "any other reasons, injuries, or risks to support 17 sealing this document.").) Instead, FRI continues to assert conclusory statements that 18 it "has an interest" in keeping this information confidential, and focuses on the 19 irrelevancy of the redacted names. (ECF No. 430 at 5-6.) While a court may consider 20 the relevancy of the information sought to be sealed, a party still must articulate some 21 reasoning for why the information should be kept confidential. See Ctr. for Auto 22 Safety, 809 F.3d at 1096-97 ("Under this stringent 'compelling reasons' standard, a 23 court may seal records only when it finds 'a compelling reason and articulate[s] the 24 factual basis for its ruling, without relying on hypothesis or conjecture.'" (quoting 25 Kamakana, 447 F.3d at 1179)); see also Apple Inc., 727 F.3d at 1225-26 (analyzing 26 both parties' arguments that making their "detailed product-specific information" 27 public would cause competitive harm before considering public interest and 28 relevancy). Thus, the Court finds FRI's reasoning inadequate. –7– 15cv0595 1 FRI applies many of the same arguments as above to Exhibit 112. (ECF No. 2 430 at 4-6.) Exhibit 112 is FRI's operating agreement. FRI tailored its renewed 3 request by requesting to seal only the specific names of entities mentioned throughout 4 the agreement. (See, e.g., ECF No. 430-3 at 3.) FRI previously argued that this 5 agreement "contain[ed] confidential business information, 'including, but not limited 6 to, detailed financial information about Defendants' business, such as the allocation 7 of net income and net losses.'" (ECF No. 430 at 4 (quoting its previous motion to 8 seal, ECF No. 364).) As discussed above, FRI fails again to provide any compelling 9 reason for why this limited information should be sealed. See Berkeley Research 10 Grp., LLC v. United Potato Growers of Am., Inc., No. CV C 16-07205 WHA, 2017 11 WL 1650582, at *5 (N.D. Cal. May 2, 2017) (finding that an operating agreement 12 should not be sealed); Ne. Series of Lockton Companies, LLC v. Bachrach, No. 12 13 CV 1695, 2013 WL 3989295, at *2 (N.D. Ill. Aug. 2, 2013) (same). Instead, FRI 14 continues to assert conclusory statements that it "has an interest" in keeping this 15 information confidential, and focuses on the irrelevancy of the redacted names. (ECF 16 No. 430 at 5-6.) For the reasons stated above, the Court finds FRI's reasoning 17 inadequate. 18 Having reviewed FRI's requests, the Court finds FRI failed to carry its burden 19 to demonstrate that sealing Exhibits 109 and 112 is appropriate under the compelling 20 reasons standard. See Kamakana, 447 F.3d at 1179. Otherwise, having reviewed 21 FRI's requests, the Court finds that FRI provides compelling reasons to seal Exhibits 22 114, 115, and 149. See Kamakana, 447 F.3d at 1179. Therefore, the Court GRANTS 23 IN PART AND DENIES IN PART FRI's motion to file documents under seal. 24 (ECF No. 430.) 25 // 26 // 27 // 28 // –8– 15cv0595 1 III. CONCLUSION & ORDER 2 In light of the foregoing, the Court: 3 (1) GRANTS ORI's request to file documents under seal in ECF No. 426. 4 The Clerk of the Court is directed to file the following exhibits under 5 seal: ECF Nos. 341-26, 341-28, and 347-21. 6 (2) GRANTS FRI's request to file documents under seal in ECF No. 428. 7 The Clerk of the Court is directed to file the following exhibits under 8 seal: ECF Nos. 429 and 429-1. 9 (3) GRANTS IN PART and DENIES IN PART FRI's request to file 10 documents under seal in ECF No. 430. The Clerk of the Court is directed 11 to file the following exhibits under seal: ECF Nos. 431-2, 431-3, and 12 431-4. 13 If FRI wishes to re-file any denied request, addressing the defects identified in 14 this order, it may do so no later than December 22, 2017 after the issuance of this 15 Order. Otherwise, FRI is instructed to file the unredacted versions of the 16 aforementioned documents as directed by the Court in this Order on the public docket 17 no later than December 22, 2017 after the issuance of this Order. When filing the 18 documents on the public docket, FRI must strictly adhere to the relevant Federal 19 Rules of Civil Procedure, this district's Civil Local Rules, this Court's Standing 20 Order for Civil Cases, and this district's Electronic Case Filing Administrative 21 Policies & Procedures Manual. Non-compliance with this order or any relevant rules 22 may result in sanctions pursuant to Civil Local Rule 83.1. 23 IT IS SO ORDERED. 24 25 DATED: December 8, 2017 26 27 28 –9– 15cv0595


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module CanTango::Adaptor
  module Relational
    def attribute_condition attribute, candidate
      { attribute.to_sym => candidate.send(attribute) }
    end
    alias_method :include_condition, :attribute_condition
  end
end

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HOUSTON - A veteran is out thousands of dollars after thieves stole his welding truck and his livelihood.
Nick Derden fought for his country and now he said that he is fighting to get back on his feet after someone stole his welding truck from outside of his employer's business in Deer Park.
Derden said he filed a report with the Deer Park Police Department and made an insurance claim but he said he is now in a holding pattern, waiting to see if his truck is found. Some in the community have donated equipment, but in order to replace everything, it would cost well over $15,000.
"It's not the truck they want, it's the tools on that truck," Derden said.
said Derden' wife, Melissa Derden.
If you have any information about the stolen truck or tools, contact the Deer Park Police Department.


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Accident → Vancouver Olympics 2010
Nodar Kumaritashvili, a Georgian luge slider competing at the Vancouver Olympics, died today after crashing during a training run and hitting a metal pole. He was 21.
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Nodar Kumaritashvili lost control of his sled during training, went over the track wall and struck an unpadded steel pole near the finish line at Whistler Sliding Center. Paramedics and doctors were unable to revive the 21-year-old luger, who died at a hospital.
Rescue workers were at Kumaritashvili's side within seconds. Chest compressions and mouth-to-mouth resuscitation started less than one minute after the crash, and he was quickly airlifted to a trauma center in Whistler.
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'Ghastly' reality on SA roads
For many South African truck, bus and coach drivers, little has changed in their generally harsh working conditions over the past 25 years. For some, conditions have worsened.
Since I mentioned the problem — and extreme danger — of driver fatigue, in this column in March, many more allegations and much more evidence has surfaced from drivers. And driver fatigue is only one of a plethora of complaints that often highlight extremely dangerous practices.
This also comes at a time when the carnage on South African roads reached ghastly proportions at the Easter weekend with 235 deaths, and more than 1 000 people injured. What then came to the fore was a problem I first raised publicly 20 years ago: the huge number of "fake" licences.
In 1997 the transport ministry estimated that there were more than 1 million drivers licenses that had been "improperly issued", with drivers not having undergone the required tests. At that time the most prominent case of a "fake licence" to come to light was that of one issued to Baleka Mbete, now the Speaker of parliament.
According to truck drivers interviewed, little has changed. The "going price" for an upgrade to a "Code 14" licence to drive a heavy motor vehicle of more than 16 tons, towing a trailer of more than 750 kg is between R4,000 and R5,000. However I have been unable yet to verify this.
But there is plenty of evidence that drivers of these juggernauts often suffer fatigue at levels that would make them just as dangerous on the roads as if they were they well over the limit for alcohol consumption. The "trip sheet" for March 5 to March 8 provided by Code 14 driver Donovan Leibrandt is a classic example.
Leaving Cape Town at 7 pm on a round trip via Port Elizabeth, he and his non-driving assistant covered 3 333 km and handled 27 deliveries in a period of 55 hours. His first rest break came after 24 hours.
In most cases, such rest or sleep breaks are taken in the truck, there being no properly equipped truck stops. Pressure to make deliveries on time also often means that drivers have to speed and, when fined, usually have this amount docked from their pay.
That drivers and their assistants are also responsible for loading and offloading the trucks, sometimes carrying individual items weighing 80kg or more is another regular complaint, along with overloading — "We are told to avoid the weighbridges," one driver noted.
This sometimes means drivers being told to take little policed back roads, doing considerable damage both to the roads and the trucks. There is also the issue of dangerous goods, so-called "Hazchem" transport. Only drivers with hazardous goods certification are supposed to transport such material.
Leibrandt has this certification, but admits that many drivers transporting dangerous goods do not. However, traffic officials are often not aware of the nature of the goods being transported because the legally required "Hazchem" placards have been removed from the trucks.
"The trucking side is crazy," says Duncan Ford, a Cape Town bus driver and president of the Transport and Omnibus Workers' Union. He also points out that the only benefit the long distance coach drivers gained from the recently concluded pay and conditions negotiations was a R400 "standby allowance" for each trip.
Until the latest deal was struck, the two drivers undertaking the perhaps 16-hour journey between Johanneburg and Cape Town, would only be paid for the time "the foot is on the pedal". The "resting" driver, usually relaxing on a back seat, was not considered to be "at work" and was not paid.
"But some of the drivers, for the love of money, do back to back trips," admits Ford. While he sees this as a problem, he is not concerned that the "split shift" system still applies with local bus services. This means drivers driving for three hours in the morning, having a perhaps a six-hour break and then driving again for a further five hours.
"It was like that when I started 25 years ago and it is still like that," says Ford. His main concern is that drivers coming to work, perhaps in a taxi, and who are injured in an accident, are not regarded as having a work related injury. "They are not covered," he says.
This is one of the many complaints in an industry where employers complain that profit margins are being squeezed; that a 3% return is the best that can be hoped for. But the problem is compounded by rogue operators, labour brokers and the increasing move by companies to finance single owner-operating trucks that compete against one another.
However, according to Leibrandt, even in good companies with decent practices, there can still be managers who bend the rules in order to perhaps impress their superiors or to improve their personal bonus payments. Clearly, both government and the unions have fallen down in protecting and improving the conditions of the men — and the few women — in this vital distribution chain.
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Terry when I travel by the Combi from Durban Berea Station to Umkomaas , KZN South Coast, the taxi driver brings us the passengers in 30 minutes to our destinantion. How he does it I dont know? Its a miracle. In Smith Street the taxis zig zag around the cars and pick up passengers all over the street with no concern for other vehicles. When the former mayor wanted to fine them they went in a group to the Ethikwini Council offices and broke the door and entered with mayors office and wentto beat him up. Mahatma Gandhi and Albert Luthulis principles enshrined in his book and call for Freedom via the Cross has no value to them.


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"Cautionary Tales" sails from one generation to the next, read by enthralled parents to children who are often perplexed and sometimes bored by the verses, rarely as amused as we hope they will be.Illustration by Basil Blackwood
The Inexplicably Enduring Appeal of Hilaire Belloc's "Cautionary Tales"
By Calvin Tomkins
The enduring appeal of the writer Hilaire Belloc's "Cautionary Tales for Children" defies explanation. First published in London, in 1907, with pen-and-ink illustrations by Belloc's friend Basil Blackwood, they have never been out of print. According to Belloc, the rhyming verses were "designed for the admonition of children between the ages of eight and fourteen years," but their slyly satiric assaults on upper-class Victorian society have always appealed primarily to adults. They went right by me when I heard them for the first time, read aloud, in the summer of 1934, by my parents' friend Harry Holmes, who had brought the first American edition of the book when he came to visit us at our rented house in the Adirondacks. The occasion and the reader are somewhat dim in my memory—I was nine at the time—but I recall hearing gales of laughter from the assembled grownups over the tale of Jim, "Who ran away from his Nurse, and was eaten by a Lion." The poem's closing lines were:
And always keep a-hold of Nurse
For fear of finding something worse.
Belloc had the bad luck to mistake himself for a serious writer. In his long and frantically busy life, he published more than a hundred and forty books and pamphlets—histories, biographies, novels, poetry collections, economic tracts, fervent defenses of the Catholic faith—few of which were widely read during his lifetime, and almost none of which are in print today. But, the "Cautionary Tales," in a collected edition that includes his earlier "Bad Child's Book of Beasts" and "More Beasts for Worse Children," sails along from one generation to the next, read by enthralled parents to young children who are often perplexed and sometimes bored by their verses, but rarely as amused as we hope that they will be. What my own children mostly remember is how much I enjoyed reciting them aloud. Belloc's "Henry King, Who chewed bits of String, and was early cut off in Dreadful Agonies," for instance, is short, and easily delivered whole.
The Chief Defect of Henry King
Was chewing little bits of String.
At last he swallowed some which tied
Itself in ugly Knots inside.
Physicians of the Utmost Fame
Were called at once; but when they came
They answered, as they took their Fees,
"There is no Cure for this Disease.
Henry will very soon be dead."
His Parents stood about his Bed
Lamenting his Untimely Death,
When Henry, with his Latest Breath,
Cried—"Oh my friends, be warned by me.
That Breakfast, Dinner, Lunch and Tea
Are all the Human Frame requires . . . "
With that the Wretched Child expires.
Note the concision with which our poet skewers children's annoying habits, the practice of medicine, aloof parents ("stood about his Bed"), and British alimentation. At nine, I didn't get it. Satire, to children, is uncool—they much prefer the macabre cruelties of the Brothers Grimm, where witches are pushed into ovens and Cinderella's mean sisters (in the original version) cut off their own toes to get into the golden slipper. What I remember most clearly about Harry Holmes's reading of Belloc is that it was interrupted by Ivan, our highly moral black Lab. Dinner had been frankfurters roasted on long forks in the vast stone fireplace—my parents had planned a picnic, but it was raining—and at some point my Uncle Cotty, a natural humorist from the deep South, directed our attention to Ivan. The dog was standing stock-still in the doorway, facing us, an uncooked frank sited so perfectly in his mouth that it stuck out evenly on both sides. He knew that he'd done wrong, and his conscience-stricken expression upstaged the reading.
Belloc had five children of his own, whom he doted on when he was at home, which was seldom. He travelled extensively, served two terms in Parliament, spent his evenings drinking with friends at clubs and taverns, and did a backbreaking amount of what he called "hack-work" to support his family. His light verse, which was often compared favorably to that of Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear, may have seemed like hack-work to him; he certainly never imagined it would eclipse his prose writings. For a man of his mixed background and unique gifts, however, light verse proved the perfect outlet. Belloc was half French. His British mother had married a French solicitor named Louis Belloc, and both Hilaire and his older sister, Marie, spent their first years in the Belloc family house in La Celle-Saint-Cloud, twelve miles from Paris. Louis Belloc lost his modest fortune in the stock market, and died when Hilaire was two. His widow took the children back to London, and Belloc went to English schools and had five very happy years at Balliol College, in Oxford, where, according to his classmate E. C. Bentley, "His personal magnetism, his cascade of ideas, of talk, of fervid oratory, his exuberant and irreverent humor, his love of bodily activity and adventure, carried all before them." Every summer, though, Belloc and Marie went to stay in La Celle-Saint-Cloud, and he remained a French citizen all his life, assuming dual nationality after becoming a naturalized British subject, in 1902.
From Oxford onward, Bellow viewed British life through the double lens of Gallic irony and Catholic disapproval. His political views embraced immense contradictions: he was anti-imperialist, but skeptical of parliamentary democracy; opposed in equal measure to capitalism and socialism; anti-Semitic, but violently scornful of Hitler. He infuriated his enemies (H. G. Wells among them) but so charmed his admirers (Gilbert Chesterton, Max Beerbohm, and George Bernard Shaw, among others) that they forgave him every excess. "He made his friends laugh until they ached," his biographer, A. N. Wilson, writes. "He was ebulliently well-informed, spontaneously hilarious, mischievous and, at the same time, tough." Just the man, in other words, to mock the crumbling pillars of the British Empire.
Peers of the realm were his chosen victims. Belloc's Lord Lundy had every advantage and one major flaw—a tendency to shed tears at the slightest provocation. His family "shoved him into politics," where he sank from one inconsequential Cabinet post to another, shedding copious tears at every turn, until the Duke, "his aging grand-sire,"
. . . rallied his declining powers,
Summoned the youth to Brackley Towers,
And bitterly addressed him thus—
"Sir! You have disappointed us!
We had intended you to be
The next Prime Minister but three:
The stocks were sold; the Press was squared:
The Middle Class was quite prepared.
But as it is! . . . My language fails!
Go out and govern New South Wales!"
The bad things that happen to Belloc's bad children don't teach us lessons; they make us laugh. Take the unfortunate Jim, who slipped away from his nurse at the zoo:
He hadn't gone a yard when—
Bang! With open Jaws, a Lion sprang.
And hungrily began to eat
The Boy: beginning at his feet.
Now just imagine how it feels
When first your toes and then your heels,
And then by gradual degrees,
Your shins and ankles, calves and knees,
Are slowly eaten, bit by bit.
No wonder Jim detested it!
In place of fearsome gore, the wonderfully inappropriate "detested" gives deep satisfaction.
A similar sangfroid attends the misfortune of several other miscreants. Young Algernon, "The Doctor's son, / Was playing with a Loaded gun. / He pointed it toward his sister, Aimed very carefully, but / Missed her." George's generous Grandmama buys him an "Immense BALLOON," which explodes, killing or maiming most of the household staff, "While George, who was in part to blame / Received, you will regret to hear / A nasty lump behind the ear." John Vavassour de Quentin Jones, who stands to inherit his uncle Bill's great fortune, is undone by his love for throwing stones. ("Like many of the Upper Class / He liked the sound of Broken Glass.") When he accidentally launches one that hits his benefactor in the eye, Uncle Bill disinherits him on the spot, and wills his estate to his young nurse-companion, the lovely Miss Charming, "Who now resides in Portman Square / And is accepted everywhere."
Matilda, a compulsive liar, amuses herself when her parents are out by summoning "London's Noble Fire Brigade."
They ran their ladders through a score
Of windows on the Ball Room Floor;
And took Peculiar Pains to Souse
The Pictures up and down the House.
Until Matilda's Aunt succeeded
In showing them they were not needed
And even then she had to pay
To get the Men to go away!
Inevitably, when the house does catch fire and Matilda screams for help, no one believes her.
The verses in Belloc's "Bad Child's Book of Beasts" and "More Beasts for Worse Children" are clever, but, to me, they lack the inspired nonsense of the "Cautionary Tales," and the only one I still quote with irritating frequency is "The Crocodile," whose closing six-line crescendo spreads over five illustrated pages. Its subject is a Missionary in "some far Coptic town" who sits down to breakfast by the Nile.
Why does he start and leap amain,
And scour the sandy Lydian plain
Like one who wants to catch a train,
Or wrestles with internal pain?
Because he finds his egg contain—
Green, hungry, horrible and plain
An infant crocodile.
Kids do giggle a bit at this one, especially if they're looking at Basil Blackwood's antic illustrations.
Belloc's life, one feels, was more happy than not. He adored his American wife, an Irish Catholic girl from California named Elodie Hogan, and her death, in 1914, of influenza, was a cruel blow. He mourned her with Victorian rigor, closing the door to her bedroom in their West Sussex house and never reopening it during his lifetime. He did not remarry, and in time he was able to resume his hyperactive schedule—writing three or four books a year, sailing his boat, travelling, and lecturing in the United States whenever his funds ran short. A series of strokes in his last decade took the edge off his effervescence, but until the end he was still capable of self-mockery. He often entertained his visiting children and grandchildren after dinner by shouting old English drinking songs and reciting the "Cautionary Tales."
His death, in 1953, just a few days short of his eighty-third birthday, was peaceful. He had escaped the fate of Mary Lunn, a lady in one of his later poems, who
Died suddenly, at ninety-one
Of Psittacosis, not before
Becoming an appalling bore.
Calvin Tomkins is a staff writer at The New Yorker. He most recently published "The Lives of Artists," a six-volume collection of his profiles.
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Social Reach vs. Engagement, which is better?
There is much talk about social reach vs. engagement on Facebook. Although there is something to be said for both as a goal. At a base level if your main goal is to generate awareness for a product or service then Reach should be your main metric. If Buzz is your main goal then Engagement may be more important. But as with all things in life and business, the base level seldom takes you all the way.
While Likes are nice, they don't translate into much gain for the brand other than an indicator that you are having some resonance. Comments could be an indicator of engagement but depending on your industry, comments can be filled with customer care issues, spam and just plain pissed off customers. You should do a monthly analysis of your comments to see what percentage of comments are discussing the topic vs. negative sentiment and are off-topic. Shares are arguably the truest indicator of fans liking your post since it requires more of a lift by the fan to Share a post than to simply Like it.
With Facebooks new lockdown on your ability to get reach of even your fan base, your best way to get to fans for less cost is through Social Shares. Of course creating a Shareable post is easier said than done but it should always be a big topic in discussion for any post that does not involve lots of media dollars and a goal of Reach. Important to remember is that Facebook will let "some" of your fans friends see your Share but not all. Just like brands, users have the same restrictions on how many folks will see their posts and shares. That said, shareability should always be something you ask yourself when concepting your message.
If you want to engage a smaller group of influencers for instance, then overall engagement and type of engagement might be much more important than simple reach.
It's up to you to determine based upon your overall goal. But here is an approach that might help.
Even if reach is your goal, consider Sharability of your post. Would YOU share it?
If Engagement is your goal, then the "is this sharable" question should be the first one you ask.
What do You Want from Your Social Channels?
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As the spotlight is on celiac disease in the month of May, it gives me great pleasure to announce our partnership with the Gastrointestinal Society (GI) Society. The aim of this registered charity is to provide patients and professionals with the best information on gastrointestinal diseases and disorders and to support medical research in this field.
Our specialized meal plans for gastrointestinal conditions, which are developed based on the recommendations of respected organizations, including the GI Society, have been reviewed and approved by the latter.
Those who use our meal plans for gastrointestinal conditions will now contribute to financing the activities of the Gastrointestinal Society, through the subscription cost to these meal plans,a percentage of which shall be donated by SOSCuisine to the GI Society.
Gluten sensitivity (with Lactose-free version available).
N.B. We are officially launching the Gluten-free meal plan today to celebrate Celiac Awareness Month in May!
There are as many as 6 million Canadians with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), more than 9 million with functional dyspepsia, there could be as many as 8 million with Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), and a further 170,000 suffering from chronic inflammatory bowel disease (Crohn's and ulcerative colitis). These are only a few examples of the conditions that the GI Society covers. Despite these alarming statistics, the gastrointestinal field is critically under-funded. That's why it is all the more important to support the efforts of this organization.
I invite you to visit their website badgut.org to obtain information, to subscribe to "The Inside Tract" newsletter and to make a donation.
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Canadian Transport Lawyers Association – AGM & Educational Conference 2018 | Panel Presentation: Reviewing Recent Cargo Cases
The following is prepared as part of a panel presentation reviewing recent cargo cases. In addition to involving cargo, the cases below also share a common theme – invoking certain procedures to dispose of claims before the conclusion of trial. While summary judgment motions may represent the most commonly-known method of disposing of a matter prior to trial, only one of these cases involved a summary judgment motion. In two other cases, the claims were struck due to the Federal Court's lack of jurisdiction. Finally, a recent cargo decision presents as a rare example of a motion for non-suit.
1. Limits to the Federal Court's Jurisdiction
Certain Underwriters at Lloyd's and Soline Trading Ltd. v. Mediterranean Shipping Company S.A.1 involved a motion to dismiss a third-party claim on the basis that the claim disclosed no reasonable cause of action over which the Federal Court had jurisdiction. The central issue was whether the activities underlying the third-party claim were sufficiently connected to Canadian maritime law, so as to fall within the scope of the Federal Court's jurisdiction pursuant to section 22(1) of the Federal Courts Act 2.
The Federal Court is a court lacking inherent jurisdiction. It has concurrent jurisdiction over certain claims against the Crown, and exclusive jurisdiction for certain claims against the Attorney General of Canada, or for relief against a federal board, commission or other tribunal. It also has express jurisdiction concerning "navigation and shipping" by virtue of section 22 of the Federal Courts Act. Therefore, if a matter comes within this section of the Federal Courts Act (i.e. navigation and shipping generally or the enumerated categories of s. 22(2)), the Federal Court can have jurisdiction. If the matter does not fall within Canadian maritime law, the Federal Court lacks jurisdiction.
In this case, the plaintiff contracted with the defendant to move a cargo of frozen shrimp from a port in Ecuador to the port of Montreal. The defendant was a carrier offering transportation of goods by sea. Once the cargo arrived in Montreal, the container sat in a container yard awaiting pickup.
At that point, a numbered company doing business as Trans Salonikios, entered the picture. Trans Salonikios was a trucking company that had somehow acquired release codes for this cargo. Trans Salonikios picked up the cargo at the terminal yard, and the goods were not seen afterwards. The plaintiff sued the defendant Mediterranean Shipping Company ("MSC") as carrier for wrongful delivery of the cargo.
MSC defended by asserting that the carriage contract ended once the cargo was discharged at the terminal. MSC also third partied Trans Salonikios on the basis that Trans Salonikios be held liable to it, should the plaintiff succeed in obtaining a damage award against MSC.
Trans Salonikios brought its motion to dismiss the third-party claim on the basis that the Federal Court had no jurisdiction over the third-party claim, as the matter did not fall within the Court's jurisdiction over Canadian maritime law. Trans Salonikios contended that its involvement could only be as a trucker taking a container from a terminal yard. Conversely, MSC alleged that Trans Salonikios was sufficiently linked to the marine adventure because of its relationship with the marine terminal.3 MSC attempted to tie the "navigation and shipping"-related operations of a marine terminal to the transport activities conducted by Trans Salonikios. MSC essentially argued that the transport of goods by sea to a marine terminal is interwoven with the subsequent transport of goods by land away from the marine terminal.
However, Prothonotary Mireille Tabib rejected MSC's theory. The Court concluded that the cause of action against Trans Salonikios solely arose from its actions as a trucker (or perhaps as an alleged thief). The mere fact that the object of the theft were goods recently carried by sea did not bring Trans Salonikios' own actions within the field of Canadian maritime law. In the reasons, the Court cited earlier cases of Matsuura Machine Corp. v. Hapag Lloyd AG, Sio Export Trading Co. v. The "Dart Europe", and Marley Co. v. Cast North America (1983) Inc.4, which all suggested that a land carrier's transport roles are not so "integrally connected to maritime matters as to be legitimate Canadian Maritime Law within federal legislative competence."
The third-party claim could not be saved on a theory of judicial economy either; this notion of judicial economy – on a theory of similar fact – would not serve to cloak the Federal Court with jurisdiction over a land actor, being the transport company, that it never held.
MSC appealed the prothonotary's decision. Mr. Justice LeBlanc heard the appeal and upheld the earlier result. The essence of the claim against Trans Salonikios was that of trucker, or thief. The relation to a marine terminal was too tenuous to bring the matter within Canadian maritime law. MSC conceded that its claim against Trans Salonikios did not fall within one of the classes of claims listed within subsection 22(2) of the Act. And Justice LeBlanc did not accept that the facts of this claim or, perhaps more generally, that the nature of transport companies interacting with port terminals, warranted an expansion of "Canadian maritime law" as defined in section 2(1).
In the decision, Justice LeBlanc commented on:
the Federal Court of Appeal's standard of review applicable to discretionary orders made by prothonotaries;
the statutorily-defined authority proscribed to the Federal Court;
the test to determine whether the Federal Court has jurisdiction over a subject matter;
the balance between matters that are in 'pith and substance' of local concern (involving property and civil rights or other matters within exclusive provincial jurisdiction) or whether a claim's subject matter is so integrally connected to maritime matters as to legitimately be a subject of Canadian maritime law (and thus within federal competence);
factors that could enhance the maritime nature of the case, including proximity of the operation to the sea, the connection between the activities and the contract of carriage by sea; and
the importance of a uniform legal regime pertaining to navigation and shipping in light of the intrinsically multi-jurisdictional nature of maritime matters.
Ultimately, Justice LeBlanc wrote "…the integration of the logistics between a terminal operator and a trucker, as is the case here according to MSC, does not bring the matter of the trucker's activities within federal jurisdiction."
The next case is that of Elroumi v. Shenzhen Top China Imp & Exp Co., Ltd China5. The plaintiff received damaged goods after shipping them from China to Montreal. The goods travelled by sea from China to Vancouver, by rail to Montreal and then by Entropot Canchi's truck from the train terminal to the plaintiff's residence. The plaintiff learned the goods were damaged after clearing customs. She sued the vendors/shippers, the insurer, the transport agent and the land storage and transportation company but did not name the ocean carriers.
Entropot Canchi, as the land carrier, third partied the ocean carrier, and then both moved to dismiss claims against them on the basis that the Federal Court lacked jurisdiction, and specifically that the Federal Court lacked jurisdiction of the plaintiff's claim against the land carrier, Entropot Canchi.
The Court acknowledged that the through bills of lading covered the adventure from the port of loading in China to the port of discharge, in Montreal, and so the Court's jurisdiction would have included claims involving those parties. But the Court ruled that the fact that the ocean carriers were responsible for the segment covered by the bills of lading does not extend the jurisdiction of the Federal Court over claims against parties to other contracts of carriage, such as the land carrier, Entropot Canchi. The claims against Entropot Canchi and the third party were both struck.
2. Evidentiary Woes in Summary Judgment
The next case started as a coverage case, Broadgrain Commodities Inc. v. Continental Casualty Company6, and was resolved using a summary judgment procedure.
The insured, Broadgrain, sought coverage for 26 containers of sesame seeds after the seeds were found to have been damaged. The seeds were in transit from October 15, 2014 to December 17, 2017 between Nigeria and China. Broadgrain contracted with its client Beidahuang for the sale. The contract was C.I.F.7 and so involved Broadgrain purchasing insurance for Beidahuang with title passing to Beidahuang upon payment. Beidahuang paid the Broadgrain for the goods on December 12, 2014. The timing of the damage was undetermined. Upon arrival in China, the goods were unfit for consumption, sold for salvage and Beidahuang kept the salvage proceeds.
The insurer paid damage for two of the containers but denied coverage for the remainder. The insurer denied on the basis that the cause of damage was "condensation and/or sweat," which was not a "transit related fortuity" and thus not an insured risk under the insurance policy. Broadgrain commenced an action by statement of claim to recover.
The insurer brought a summary judgement motion asserting two grounds: (i) Broadgrain did not have an "insurable interest" in the goods at the time of the loss; and (ii) Broadgrain did not sustain any loss since, despite the damage to the goods, it was paid in full by the Buyer for the shipment in question.
The Court first considered the threshold elements of summary judgment motions. It then acknowledged "there are certain areas of disagreement with respect to the facts, the record before me is largely undisputed." The Court added further that the "The motion largely turns on the proper interpretation of key provisions in the contract, considered in the context of the Canadian Marine Insurance Act (the "CMIA"), and certain undisputed facts.
The Court then found Broadgrain had an insurable interest in the shipped goods. On this issue, the Court addressed a fulsome "interpretation of key provisions in the contract, considered in the context of the Canadian Marine Insurance Act" and concluded that Broadgrain had an insurable interest.
However, the Court granted the insurer's summary judgment on the basis that Broadgrain did not sustain any loss, given that it was indisputably paid in full by Beidahuang for this shipment. Broadgrain had filed affidavit evidence asserting that after the loss Beidahuang had shorted other payments to Broadgrain to make up for the loss.
The Court refused to accept what it deemed Broadgrain's "bald assertions" on the shorting of other payments. The Court did not outline how the assertion of the shorted payments was at all challenged. Yet, it concluded Broadgrain had not delivered sufficient evidence to demonstrate the shorting. The Court wrote:
"No explanation has been provided as to why similar documentary evidence was not available in respect of the other shipments where Broadgrain claims to have been short-paid. The absence of any supporting detail or documentation means that I can give little or no weight to the self-serving assertion in Ms. Cruz's affidavit."
Broadgrain appealed and attempted to introduce fresh evidence. Before the Court of Appeal8, the primary issue was whether Broadgrain could introduce fresh evidence and the status of evidence appears to have turned against the appellant.
A secondary issue was the insurer's cross appeal and whether Broadgrain actually had an insurable interest (and so whether it had the right to advance the coverage claim against the insurer). The Court of Appeal upheld the earlier decision, and so did not need to address the insurable interest issue.
This presents a somewhat cautionary tale concerning summary judgment. The case reminds us that with a summary judgment motion, a court may be framed by a strict evidentiary record. What may be apparent to the parties and seemingly continues unchallenged (i.e. that a loss occurred, and short payments ensued) does not necessarily come across that way to a Court on a limited evidentiary record.
Reminders from the Court of Appeal include:
the parties are expected to put their best foot forward and the court will assume that all necessary evidence has been tendered;
the motion judge is entitled to presume that the evidentiary record is complete and there will be nothing further if the issue were to go to trial; and
the motion judge is not required to resort to the summary judgment enhanced powers to remedy a party's evidentiary shortcomings.
Stepping back, the allegations suggest that Broadgrain was shorted future payments, and in that manner, it may have suffered a commercial loss directly attributable to this incident. It also had insured this load on its own behalf as well as on the behalf of its client. Thus, that may suffice to address and conclude the insurable interest point. The result is that the insurer was aware of an insured loss but avoided payment because of a limited evidentiary record at summary judgment. The judgment did not address the issue of the original coverage denial that was derived from an exclusion.
3. Evidentiary Woes at Trial
The last case is Harvestone Inc. v. Park Towing9. This is a case from the Superior Court of Ontario, in Hamilton. It also presents as a shortcoming of evidence.
This action involved a load of stone within a shipping container. The plaintiff packed the container using its own support and securement. One defendant then used a crane to load the stowed container onto the other defendant's flatbed truck. The container was then moved to another location and offloaded from the truck. When the container was opened, the stone was broken and the plaintiff brought a claim in negligence, and sought damages for the alleged value of the stone.
The matter proceeded to trial and the essence of the plaintiff's claim was that the resulting damage was itself proof of negligence. However, there was no evidence of any accident or incident while on route. Once the plaintiff presented its claim and closed its case, the defendant carrier moved for non-suit. The Court refused to accept that the fact of damage demonstrated negligence, or res ipsa loquitur. The motion for non-suit was granted.
4. In Closing
In conclusion, the cases above demonstrate effective means to close out actions by challenges to the Federal Court's jurisdiction, by summary judgment, or by motion for non-suit. In each instance, had pleadings or evidence been developed differently, the outcomes arguably may have been different. As they stand, the cases caution practitioners to ensure that pleadings are fulsome, and that evidence is thoroughly considered and advanced on any potentially contentious issue.
1 2017 FC 460 (CanLII).
2 RSC 1985, c. F-7.
3 MSC based its assertion on the case ITO – International Terminal Operators v Miida Electronics Inc., 1986 CanLII 91 (SCC), [1986] 1 SCR 752.
4 [1997] FCJ No. 360, [1984] 1 FC 256 and [1995] FCJ No 489, respectively
5 2018 FC 633.
6 2017 ONSC 4721 (CanLII)
7 Cost, Insurance and Freight
8 2018 ONCA 438 (CanLII).
9 2018 ONSC 5006.


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BDO's national leader for Cyber Security, Leon Fouche, says public awareness about cyber issues has never been higher – in part due to the numerous ransomware attacks in recent months.
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Heathrow has announced a new partnership with technology provider AOE, to offer enhanced digital services including an expanded Reserve and Collect offering.
The airport says it will launch AOE's OM3 suite of technology, which will help to "strengthen its digital services and infrastructure to create a simple process for the 300 brands to share their products with customers, leading to greater choice within the current Reserve and Collect service".
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AOE recently announced a similar partnership with Auckland airport, and Heathrow said that OM3 would ultimately integrate with "numerous additional features including loyalty programmes, lounge access, parking and VIP services", as well as providing passengers with real-time information.
Chris Annetts, Heathrow's retail and service proposition director that the airport had a long-term vision to deliver "a seamless digital experience for all our passengers, both inside the airport and in the comfort of their homes".
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The top 24 are named and for the first time ever, it's an uneven number in terms of gender. There are 13 women, 11 guys. Six of the women are teens. Seven of the guys are 23 or older. Thirteen of the 24 are from the South.
Is there a future Kelly Clarkson in the bunch? I doubt it but we keep watching and hoping.
Atlanta has only one representative and he is identified as coming from Raleigh: Jordan Sasser.
The big twist next week is the use of "Idol" alum to duet with the contestants. Unfortunately, America won't be able to vote.
The next "Idol" is scheduled for Wednesday, February 10 for just one hour. To squeeze the first 12 performances in one hour, they can't possibly do it live. The Thursday episode will be two hours long and be a results show. That's when we'll hear the duets as the 12 get trimmed to seven.
The 12 who are performing next week are MacKenzie Bourg, Emily Brooke, Gianna Isabella, James VIII, Jeneve Rose Mitchell, Stephany Negrete, Jenna Renae, La'Porsha Renae, Jordan Sasser, Thomas Stringfellow, Sonika Vaid and Avalon Young. Six former "Idols" will perform duets with them: Ruben Studdard, Fantasia, Scotty McCreery, Lauren Alaina, Caleb Johnson and Nick Fradiani.
A week later, the next 12 semifinalist will go through the same routine: Jenn Blosil, Amelia Eisenhauer, Trent Harmon, Lee Jean, CJ Johnson, Adam Lasher, Tristan McIntosh, Dalton Rapattoni, Olivia Rox, Manny Torres, Kory Wheeler and Shelbie Z. The six "Idol" duet partners: Constantine Maroulis, Chris Daughtry, Kellie Pickler, Jordin Sparks, David Cook and Haley Reinhart.
The following week, on Wednesday, February 24, the judges will name the first eight semi-finalists to make it into the Top 10, leaving six to sing for America's vote and the final two spots in this farewell season's Top 10.
Those final two slots will be named on Thursday, February 25. The top 10 will then perform with Kelly Clarkson as guest judge.
That means likely double eliminations March 3, 10 and 17 to get to four. March 24 will get us to three. March 31 will get us down to the final two. And the winner will be named April 7. In other words, "Idol" has snipped about six weeks of live shows from the docket.
In early December, I happened to be in Los Angeles and found out the showcase round was happening at the time. So I went to the Dolby Theatre (formerly called the Kodak Theatre) and Fox allowed me to see half the show.
There were just four of us media folks there, including my long-time friend Fred Bronson of Billboard magazine who has appeared on the show many times and is a huge fan. (Plus, he's close personal friends with Diana DeGarmo, Snellville's own from season three.) We sat about four rows back on the left side. I never made it on camera.
Each contestant in tonight's episode sang maybe 90 seconds of a song with Rickey Minor and his six-piece band supporting, along with three back-up singers. Some went out of their way to create a concert atmosphere when introducing themselves and running around the stage before a few hundred extras, family members and friends. As usual, a couple of hundred young 'uns were placed at the front standing. I was about 10 rows back to the left. I am fairly certain I will not be seen.
The judges were placed on the second level. I'd occasionally turn back to see what their reactions were.
The names in bold face are in the top 24.
Michelle Marie ("Little Toy Guns")) - The rather annoying teen is a super fan who really needs to move forward for her family. Unfortunately, she isn't quite ready. She is no Carrie Underwood. I love her energy but her pitch is all over the place. She is the first no we see. She leaves with grace. "I've had the time of my life," she said before she left.
Colette Lush ("I'm Gonna Love You" Meghan Trainor ) - She sounds a little weak and off pitch at moments. She didn't bring it. And the judges agree. HCJ said he loved her initial audition but "something happened along the way. It's slightly removed from connecting with us."
Surprise! Jessica Cabral was cut. We never hear why. (I don't recall if I saw her.) Other cuts: Jessica Clark, Ameet Kanon, Terrian.
Others through: Jenna Renae, James VIII, Kory Wheeler, Adam Lasher.
Malie Delgado ("Little White Church" Little Big Town) - The radio DJ got her voice back and she sounds powerful. But competition is rough and tumble. She misses the cut.
The weirdest person in the top 51 Jenn Blosil ("The Hanging Tree" Jennifer Lawrence). I don't get her at all. But she's in. Whatevs.
Others gone: Christian Eason (I heard his version of "Try a Little Tendersness" and Fred Bronson and I agreed it was the best we saw of the 24 we watched. Both JLo and Keith gave him a standing ovation. What happened????), Ariel Sprague, Kelsie Watts, Shevonne Philidor.
The final two guys compete for a male slot: Jordan Sasser ("Love Runs Out" OneRepublic) - Good vocalist but I don't see any real star quality. Kayce Haynes (""Hold On We're Going Home" Drake) - He isn't quite as good a singer as Jordan but has more stage power. I would have picked Kayce. But the judges choose Jordan.
The final two women for the female slot: La'Porsha Renae vs. Lindita Halimi. I find Lindita ("Bang Bang" a showboat and a shouter. I'm glad they pick La'Porsha. I remember her bracing "House of the Rising Sun" live and she has a genuine presence on stage.
NEXT WEEK: Twelve of the contestants sing solos and duets with a former "American Idol."
The 12 former "Idols" include seven of the winners: Scotty McCreery, Constantine Maroulis, Jordin Sparks, Chris Daughtry, Kellie Pickler, David Cook, Fantasia, Ruben Studdard, Lauren Alaina, Haley Reinhart, Nick Fradiani, Caleb Johnson.
But we the public will not get to vote. They have already eliminated five of the 12! What the...?