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A Very Mad WSJ Editorial
Purcellville, Virginia
I don't often agree with Mister Jenkins and today is no exception. His column below is more of a rant than usual. After my first reading, I was confused as to how a blackout in California was worthy of a WSJ editorial - or more broadly, how issues in California are worthy of Mister Jenkins time. After a second reading, I realized it's a backhanded way for him criticize Kamala Harris and by extension Joe Biden.
My beefs with his column:
Too much renewable power?
Mister Jenkins seems to think that SCE and PG&E are vertically integrated utilities. They haven't been since the 1990s. California is a deregulated generation marketplace that relies on an Independent System Operator to match supply and demand. He implies that in Edison and PG&E' service territories, the amount of renewables are greater than 80 percent of the generation. That's BS. It might be around 35 percent. I am open to correction here but while there was no singular cause for the blackouts, the lack of availability of imported power played a large factor. He wants you to believe that it is news that solar and wind are subject to nature. That fact is well understood which is why California has a large number of gas fired power plants. They can quickly ramp up and run when solar and wind are not available. (Note that in the Midwest the wind is much more consistent throughout a 24 hour period than it is in California.)
Minimal Impact on Emissions
Following Mister Jenkins advice, none of us should worry about our carbon footprint because individually we are nothing in the stack of overall emissions. I prefer to think we should all do our share. California has been a leader in our renewables industry since the late 1970s. California's pollution is less because of that. I note that California is unusual in that it has so many renewable resources - solar, wind, geothermal and biomass. I applaud the state for using its indigenous resources.
California's Problems
Bitch, bitch, bitch. Californians are free to move out of the state if it gets too bad. I don't know enough about the politics to comment. I'm not sure Mister Jenkins does either.
California As A Laboratory
This is not a point that Jenkins brings up directly but does in a roundabout way. I applaud California for being innovative and thinking outside the box. It doesn't bat 1000 but we shouldn't expect it to. Homelessness is an awful problem that the state hadn't resolved. But it seems to me that is a state that is willing to try new approaches - and we all benefit by learning from its failures and its successes.
In the comments to his editorial there are a number of comments saying nuclear power is the solution to California's electricity needs. Currently new plants are not economic - they cost too much to construct. And not principally due to over regulation. My friend Steve assures me that next that smaller, modular reactors are the answer. I'm from Missouri. All new technologies take time to become commercially viable. I believe that is true of SMRs. In the near term it may be that California needs some more natural gas fired plants if the goal is near certainty of no blackouts.
BidenHarris
I get it Mister Jenkins - you are not a fan of the Democratic presidential ticket. No need to hide behind California's electricity supply situation or dismissal of climate change due to humans to make your point.
I will probably regret putting my thoughts out there. I can't match Mister Jenkins eloquence. I'm just glad this column wasn't about the Russia hoax. 🤪
Here's the editorial that set me off:
No climate policy is available that would operate on a time scale relevant to California's hellish wildfire challenge, except throwing enough opaque particles into the atmosphere to cool the Earth.
Anything that greens might favor, such as subsidizing green energy or taxing fossil fuels out of existence, is irrelevant. The effect would only manifest itself imperceptibly over many decades. To boot, it would require the participation of the world's major economies, including China's and India's, which leaders answerable to California's voters are in no position to deliver.
I make these points to underline an absurdity. California politicians spend much of their time obsessing about a climate change problem they can't fix. Their state accounts for less than 0.1% of global emissions. There's nothing they can do. Last year's blackouts were theoretically linked to climate change through a dry spell but California has always had dry spells. Asserting a connection between passing weather phenomena and global climate is fraught. With this year's blackouts, at least the connection is easy to draw. Even Democrats agree the outages were partly due to the state's wind and solar mandates. Yes, there were blunders too. Enough power was technically available to meet a demand surge well short of an all-time high. But the fact remains: With wind and solar, nature controls the "off" switch. Man doesn't.
Less noticed is the fact that customers of municipally owned utilities in Los Angeles and Sacramento were spared any outages. Because local politicians are directly in line for blame if the lights go out, the unheralded corollary is that these utilities insist on keeping fossil fuels a big share of their mix. The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power gets 48% of its power from coal or gas. The Sacramento Municipal Utility District gets 54% from gas.
Compare this with 15% to 17% for the giant private utilities, such as Southern California Edison and Pacific Gas & Electric, that cover much of the state. Why? Maybe because their CEOs and shareholders are more easily bullied into signing up for the state's green goals. Maybe because political accountability is attenuated across their sprawling, multi-jurisdictional service areas.
No, this is not a plea for public ownership or small-is-beautiful, but political accountability is needed where market accountability is legislated out of existence by monopoly regulation. If 200,000 PG&E customers across 30 counties lose power, as they did last week, more than five million others don't. So who is the responsible politician the losers can effectively vote out of office to register their unhappiness? Nobody.
Which introduces our larger theme. The only hope for the many, many things ailing the Golden State is better governance. California has the costliest and least reliable power of any large section of the country; the highest poverty (thanks to towering housing costs), high taxes, a substantial number of working people living in their cars. In its priciest neighborhoods, residents step around syringes and human waste. A new study finds that, in the general flight of working- and middle-class families, the state's African-American population has shrunk to 5.5% from 7.7% in 1980
Last week the environmental writer David Wallace-Wells used the right word when he said that California's wildfires make an especially superb "propagandist" for climate change. The only problem is that greens aren't interested in propagandizing for controlled burns or forest management, which might actually help, but for wind and solar subsidies, which wouldn't. California would be infinitely more sensible to let its utilities make their own fuel choices. If the state wants to make a statement about climate change, enact a carbon tax to reward low-carbon practices across the economy. Use the revenues to cut taxes on workers and job creators. Such an approach still won't fix any climate problem but might ring bells with China, India and others whose emissions actually matter.
Unfortunately, the people running the state, including Joe Biden's prospective veep, have been mostly meme-chasing, pose-striking calculators. Their only career plan: nurse their standing with Hollywood green activists, trial lawyers and public-sector unions. In a one-party state, there is no serious clash of policy prescriptions. That's how Kamala Harris could reach middle age with a giant vacancy in her résumé where one would normally find some connection to policy ideas.
If the state is to dig out of its deepening hole, it will need something else. It will need, you know, ideas. In fact, only a revolution of ideas can save it from the path it's on. And the first idea is easy to see. The state will have to wake up from the sheer ludicrousness of devoting so much of its politics to a problem its politics can't fix at the expense to those it can.


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On June 4, Lyu Zexiang, General Manager of CGGC International and Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee, warmly received Abdelkader Aamara, Minister of Equipment, Transport, Logistics and Water Resources of Morocco, and his delegation. Both parties reached broad consensus on strengthening practical cooperation in ports and other infrastructure fields, and achieved positive results. Aziz Mekuan, Morocco's Ambassador to China, was also present.
During the meeting, Lyu Zexiang warmly welcomed Minister Aamara and his delegation, and detailed the international development achievements made by CGGC and the development of CGGC in Morocco market. He noted that Morocco is an important country along the "Belt and Road", and CGGC has always attached great importance to Morocco market, extensively participated in its economic construction, earnestly implemented the important consensus reached by heads of the two countries, and actively promoted pragmatic cooperation in key planning projects in Morocco. CGGC is willing to give full play to its core expertise in investment and financing, construction and project management, and deeply participate in economic construction and investment in Morocco's port channel, industrial park, highway, new energy, environmental protection and other fields. CGGC hopes to establish deep communication and cooperation with the Ministry to boost the economic development of Morocco.
Minister Aamara highly appreciated the outstanding achievements made by CGGC in global engineering construction, and extended the sincere gratitude to CGGC for its active involvement in the Moroccan market. He noted that the international businesses of CGGC were highly consistent with the development needs of Morocco's economic construction. He hoped that Gezhouba Group CGGC could extensively and deeply participate in the construction and investment of Morocco's ports, industrial parks, new energy, sewage treatment & seawater desalination, and could also provide support for Morocco's economic development relying on its own expertise and international business development experience, so as to improve and enhance the well-being of the Moroccan people.
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Using a large saucepan, melt one stick of butter over low heat. Add 1 chopped onion, and saute in butter until soft. Add lemon juice, vinegar, and worcestershire. Let it simmer on low as long as your ribs are cooking.
This is the preferred method, but it takes more work. It takes lots of practice to master the pit, but if you know what you are doing, this is not too difficult. If you don't have a good heavy barbecue pit with a fire box, thermometer, and good quality oak lump charcoal (something like B & B Lump Charcoal), you might as well use the oven method, described below. The oven method still produces excellent results, but you wont get that smokey flavor that gives the ribs that extra je ne sais quoi. If you don't know how to handle your pit, or if you use that garbage charcoal you get at the grocery store, you can ruin the ribs with creosote (black, bitter, and burnt).
Also, everyone with a barbecue pit has an opinion. If you have a strong opinion, then you probably have your own recipe. I'm going to describe the way I do it, and I have never had complaints or leftovers.
Start with cool beef ribs. Turn the ribs upside down, remove the membrane to the best of your ability. Trim any excess fat from the ribs. Pat the ribs down with a handful of paper towels so that they are moist, but not wet. Generously coat all sides of the ribs with course salt and pepper. Let the ribs sit on a cookie sheet until they get to about room temperature. While the ribs are resting, you can begin to work on your fire.
Soak about 10 - 15 lumps of charcoal with lighter fluid, and let them sit for a few minutes. Stack them in a pyramid in your fire box, then light them. The flame will get high as the fluid burns off, but will quickly subside leaving your charcoal burning at the edges. Open the air vent to allow plenty of air into the fire chamber. Let the lumps get completely hot - they may flame up again, which is ok. Let the second flame subside, then push the hot coals to the front of the fire box (the side of the fire box closest to the cooking chamber). Now fill the rest of the fire box with lump charcoal, and close your vent and smoke stack by 1/2. Shut the lid on the fire box and on the cooking chamber to let it heat up.
What we are trying to produce here is a low and slow burn. The fire should stay at the front of the box. You push the unburned coals into the fire as necessary to keep the fire going and the temperature constant.
You want the heat in the cooking chamber to reach 250 degrees, and stabilize. This gets easier the longer the fire is going, because the iron in the pit heats up which helps regulate the temperature. You want to adjust your vent and smoke stack so that a good deal of smoke stays in the pit, but you are letting enough air flow through the pit to keep the fire going.
Once the heat has stabilized in the pit, place the ribs into the cooking chamber right side up, then close the lid. Don't leave the lid open for too long or you will lose your heat.
Now start making your basting sauce. You don't need to baste the ribs for about 45 minutes, so you have plenty of time. I like to keep my basting sauce warm by leaving it on the warming tray above my fire box.
After about 45 minutes, open the lid. Using a sauce mop, baste both sides of the ribs make being careful not to wash away the salt and pepper. Turn the ribs over, and close the lid. We will let this go for another 45 minutes before basting and turning again. Cook this way for about 4 1/2 hours. Finally, remove the ribs from the heat and let them rest on a clean cookie sheet covered loosely in foil for about 30 minutes.
I find that cooking with this method requires no finishing sauce. The ribs are tasty, easy to eat, and the smoke-cured meat will keep for several days in a refrigerator if you happen to have leftovers.
Basically the exact same as above without the charcoal. Bring your oven up to 250 degrees. Put the ribs directly onto the rack in the center of the oven (you can spray the rack with pam first if you want). If you have a convection oven great, but not necessary. Put a cookie sheet on the bottom rack to catch any drippings. I find the oven method does not require as much basting because the sealed oven keeps much of the moisture trapped inside. Baste when you feel it is necessary, but don't go crazy or you will make a mess in your oven. Cooking time is again, about 4 1/2 hours. Once done, remove the ribs and let them rest for about 30 minutes.
This method will not work with pork ribs without some modification. Pork is naturally salty, so salting them up in this manner will produce a very salty end product. Brisket can be cooked this way, but the cooking time is much much longer. I usually cook my briskets for about 24 hours. I'll probably post a brisket recipe this Spring, so I can get some good pictures. Stay tuned!


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US using Taiwan to maintain hegemony in East Asia: Analyst
Fri Jan 25, 2019 06:50PM [Updated: Sat Feb 2, 2019 07:24AM ]
Keith Preston
The passage of two US warships through the Taiwan Strait on Thursday is part of Washington's efforts to compete with China and preserve its domination in the Asia-Pacific region, says an American political analyst in Virginia.
"What we see here is a geopolitical conflict because China certainly wishes to maintain its influence in East Asia, China sees itself as likely being the dominant power in East Asia," said Keith Preston, chief editor of AttacktheSystem.com.
"And the Americans of course see themselves as wanting to maintain hegemony in East Asia as well," Preston told Press TV on Friday.
"The two powers are probably testing each other; they're trying to see how far they can push before the other side reacts," he added.
PressTV-Two US Navy ships pass through Taiwan Strait near China
Two US Navy warships have passed through the Taiwan Strait in the third such operation this year.
The US Navy dispatched two warships through the Taiwan Strait on Thursday in the third such operation in the past four months amid tensions with China, which regards Taiwan as a breakaway republic.
The US Navy also sent two warships through the sensitive Strait last October and November as well as in July. Previously such transits only took place approximately once a year.
China's Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying once again called on Washington during a Friday press briefing to abide by its "one China" principle, adding that Chinese forces were closely monitoring the passage of US warships through the Strait.
Taiwan is only one of a growing number of flashpoints in the US-China relationship, which also include a trade war, US sanctions and China's increasingly muscular military posture in the South China Sea.
China's President Xi Jinping called on Taiwan earlier this month to reject independence and embrace "peaceful reunification" with the mainland in a conciliatory, yet firm, speech that challenged the island's political sovereignty.
The Chinese leader further vowed that "we make no promise to renounce the use of force. We reserve the option for all the necessary means."
In a strong reaction to Xi's remarks, Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen insisted that the island will "never accept" a "one country, two systems" arrangement with China.
Beijing has stepped up pressure on Taiwan since Tsai took office in 2016. It has regularly deployed military aircraft and ships for drills near the island in the past few years.
US President Donald Trump recently signed into law the Asia Reassurance Initiative Act reaffirming the US commitment to Taiwan, including weapons sales.

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Columbus, Genocide & Climate Change
by David Sunfellow | Feb 8, 2020
European settlers killed 56 million indigenous people over about 100 years in South, Central and North America, causing large swaths of farmland to be abandoned and reforested. The increase in trees and vegetation across an area the size of France resulted in a massive decrease in carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere. Before this study, some scientists had argued the temperature change in the 1600s, called the Little Ice Age, was caused only by natural forces. But by combining archaeological evidence, historical data and analysis of carbon found in Antarctic ice, the UCL researchers showed how the reforestation — directly caused by the Europeans' arrival — was a key component of the global chill. The depopulation of the Americas may have inadvertently allowed the Europeans to dominate the world. It also allowed for the Industrial Revolution and for Europeans to continue that domination…


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Lobbyists See a Billion-Dollar Boon in Tax Rewrite's Lack of Detail
The sweeping tax rewrite unveiled by President Trump and Republican lawmakers this past week leaves many of the details to Congress; but two sentences in the nine-page framework have Washington lobbyists salivating over a payday that some industry experts predict could top $1 billion.
That language has prompted concerns among a wide range of businesses and industries about the prospect of losing valuable tax breaks — from preferential tax treatment for insurers to credits for renewable energy to a prized tax treatment used by the commercial real estate industry.
And those fears are being stoked by lobbyists, who are urging clients and prospective clients to get out in front of any changes that could eliminate or weaken sections of the tax code that benefit them.
"You're either going to be at the table, or you're going to be on the table," said Thomas M. Reynolds, a former Republican congressman from New York who served on the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee and is now a lobbyist at Holland & Knight focusing on tax issues.
Most businesses that could be affected by the tax overhaul "will not have to be encouraged to engage,"Reynolds said.
Read more: http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/lobbyists-see-a-billion-dollar-boon-in-tax-rewrite%E2%80%99s-lack-of-detail/ar-AAsEweM?OCID=ansmsnnews11
The swamp will be busy tonight.
Posted by sandensea | Sat Sep 30, 2017, 10:30 PM (5 replies)
Justice Department nominee with ties to Russian bank voted out of committee
Source: Washington Examiner
The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday approved President Trump's nominee to lead the Department of Justice's Criminal Division.
Brian Benczkowski, a Republican lawyer who once served as a staff director of the committee for former Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-AL, was advanced in an 11-9 party-line vote and will soon head to the Senate floor for a confirmation vote.
Benczkowski admitted earlier this year that he worked for Russia's Alfa Bank during his time as a partner at the law firm Kirkland & Ellis. He also ran the Trump transition team at the Justice Department.
The New York Times first reported that Benczkowski represented the bank, one of Russia's largest with ties to President Vladimir Putin. The FBI investigated the bank last year after it was mentioned in a dossier containing unproven allegations about the Trump campaign and possible collusion with Russia, but it ultimately concluded there was no wrongdoing or misconduct.
Benczkowski also downplayed his role in the Trump campaign during his confirmation hearing.
Read more: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/justice-department-nominee-with-ties-to-russian-bank-voted-out-of-committee/article/2635920
Criminal division nominee Brian Benczkowski; 'criminal' being the adjective in this case.
Posted by sandensea | Thu Sep 28, 2017, 08:52 PM (14 replies)
Trump defaulted on his Puerto Rico golf course, leaving the territory a $33 million debt
Long before Hurricanes Irma or María decimated much of Puerto Rico, the island was already in trouble. Earlier this year, faced with $123 billion in debt (and growing), the U.S. territory took the unprecedented step of essentially declaring bankruptcy.
Trump made it clear that he had little interest in helping Puerto Rico's debt situation, tweeting on April 27 that "Democrats want to shut government if we don't bail out Puerto Rico and give billions to their insurance companies for OCare failure. NO!"
But according to PolitiFact Florida, Trump only exacerbated the problem.
The Trump International Golf Club Puerto Rico, which, according to Fortune, borrowed $26.4 million in government-backed bonds in order to pay for improvements, later defaulted on a $119,814 bondholder payment. In 2015, the club filed for bankruptcy, which is when Trump (who licensed his name to the property) desperately tried to distance himself from the place bearing his name.
"We have zero financial investment in this course," Eric Trump told Bloomberg News in July 2015. "This has absolutely nothing to do with Trump. This is a separate owner. We purely manage the golf course."
Except that Trump, according to BuzzFeed News, did pocket the hundreds of thousands of dollars in fees from the resort. And when the club defaulted on those bonds and declared bankruptcy, it left Puerto Rico taxpayers with a hefty $32.7 million bill to pay in order to clean up the soon-to-be-president's mess.
At: https://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/346335/trump-golf-course-puerto-rico-default-33-million-tax-debt/?utm_source=share-fb&utm_medium=button
Posted by sandensea | Tue Sep 26, 2017, 10:12 PM (8 replies)
Saudi Arabia driving ban on women to be lifted
Saudi Arabia's King Salman has issued a decree allowing women to drive for the first time, state media say.
Government ministries are to prepare reports within 30 days and the order will be implemented by June 2018, the Saudi Press Agency reported.
Saudi Arabia is the only country in the world to forbid women from driving. Under the current system, only men are allowed driving licences and women who drive in public risk being arrested and fined.
Because of the law, many families have had to employ private drivers to help transport female relatives.
At: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-41408195
Buenos Aires students and scientists stage sit-ins to protest unpaid internships, cutbacks
Students from over 30 public high schools in Buenos Aires, Argentina, have been staging sit-in strikes this month to protest municipal educational reform proposals that would force high school seniors to participate in unpaid internships.
Budget cutbacks have also prompted over 330 laid-off fellowship holders at the National Research Council (CONICET) to do likewise at the Ministry of Science and Technology, in Buenos Aires' upscale Palermo neighborhood.
President Mauricio Macri's right-wing administration has repudiated the sit-ins, with Justice Minister Germán Garavano calling them "illegal" despite a court ruling last week that authorized them.
Students are mainly protesting proposals to have senior-year students spend "50% of their time in businesses and organizations, applying what they learned based on their talents and interests." They argue that this is in fact a cover to provide companies free labor, while leaving little time for their studies.
The proposals, moreover, were not submitted to public comment from teachers, students, and educational NGOs, as current law mandates. Student leaders note as well that the unpaid internship clause was left out of the city's original draft - but discovered only because it had been accidentally published in the city's own website.
High school representatives met with municipal Education Minister Soledad Acuña last week; but negotiations failed. No further meetings have as yet been announced.
The Macri administration has come under fire from teachers' unions and much of the nation's progressive political spectrum for attempting to impose curriculum changes by decree and for cutbacks of 20% in real educational spending since taking office two years ago.
Former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, currently running for the Senate, sided with students. She encouraged students to fight for what they consider right, arguing that "everyone has a right to express their views."
"You don't have to say 'yes' to everything," she said in a rally last Friday. "It's not democratic, and don't let yourselves be pushed over - because they (the government) will try to."
At: http://www.thebubble.com/education-reform-justice-minister-says-occupying-schools-is-illegal-as-students-begin-fifth-week-of-protests/
No to "high schools of the future" - the euphemism used by the city government to describe its educational reform decree.
Posted by sandensea | Mon Sep 25, 2017, 04:15 PM (4 replies)
The GOP Health Care Bill Is Near Collapse With Rand Paul Still Opposed
Source: Time
A spokesman for Sen. Rand Paul says the Kentucky Republican remains opposed to the GOP bill repealing the Obama health care law. Paul's opposition would almost certainly doom the measure.
Just three Republican opponents would kill the bill in the narrowly divided Senate.
Arizona GOP Sen. John McCain opposes the measure and Maine Republican Susan Collins seems almost sure to do so. Alaska Republican Lisa Murkowski is undecided but voted against earlier versions this summer.
Spokesman Sergio Gor says Paul wants a "significant" reduction in the law's $1 trillion in spending, elimination of its coverage requirements and establishment of broad health plans consumers could join.
Gor calls meeting those demands "the only way" Paul votes yes.
Read more: http://time.com/4955799/rand-paul-health-care-bill-opposition/
Posted by sandensea | Mon Sep 25, 2017, 01:49 PM (21 replies)
Eight Lessons from Germany's Elections
Angela Merkel is back for a fourth term, the Social Democrats are wounded and a right-wing populist party has been elected to parliament for the first time in decades.
First: The right-wing populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) is the third-strongest political party in the country and will be taking seats in the German parliament, the Bundestag.
It marks the first time since the early days of postwar Germany that a far-right party will be represented in the Bundestag. That will have consequences in the form of clashes, provocations and scandalous rhetoric.
Second: Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives (the CDU and its Bavarian sister party, the CSU) have suffered significant losses; but Merkel has still been returned to the Chancellery for a fourth term.
Creating a governing coalition this time around will be complicated. The Social Democrats (SPD) no longer want to be part of a grand coalition with Merkel's conservatives, which leaves Merkel with only a single option: a coalition with the Green Party and the business-friendly Free Democrats (FDP).
There are, however, several hurdles to such a constellation: For one, it would include four separate parties, placing a premium on the amount of day-to-day coordination among them. Plus, it remains to be seen if the Greens are interested in joining forces with a suddenly reanimated FDP.
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Eighth: The parliamentary opposition will be polarized between the SPD on the one hand and the AfD on the other - at a time when the governing coalition will likely be one (a "Jamaica" coalition between the CDU/CSU, the FDP, and the Greens) that Germany has never before seen at a federal level.
In the best case, that could be an opportunity for renewal - and when it comes to confronting the AfD, Germany's fundamental values, including freedom and democracy, are at stake.
More at: http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/angela-merkel-afd-spd-eight-lessons-from-germany-s-elections-a-1169606.html
Chancellor Angela Merkel confers with the runner-up, SPD leader Martin Schulz. Schulz has indicated the SPD will not stay on as junior partners in Merkel's grand coalition, thus forcing her to govern through an as-yet undetermined minority coalition.
Posted by sandensea | Sun Sep 24, 2017, 04:40 PM (0 replies)
Stanley Rother, Oklahoma-born priest killed during Guatemala's civil war, is set to be beatified
Few religious pilgrimages lead down a dusty, unpaved Oklahoma roads. But the unusual destination of this trek from Central America to a rural farmhouse seems an appropriate honor for the Rev. Stanley Rother, a martyred Roman Catholic priest celebrated for his unassuming nature and hard work.
Rother was beatified Saturday at Mass in Oklahoma City, moving him one step closer to possible sainthood. Thousands of people attended the ceremony at a downtown convention center to honor the church's first U.S.-born martyr and the first priest from the United States to be beatified. This is only the second beatification ceremony held in the United States.
The native of Okarche was a 46-year-old missionary in Guatemala when he was killed in 1981, one of several priests slain during the country's civil war between a right-wing dictatorship and liberal guerrillas. His name first appeared on a death list, and then he was shot to death in his mission.
"I feel like his brother — that we lived together, that we share the bond of brotherhood," Juan Pablo Ixbalan said in Tzutuhil, which is spoken by a subgroup of Mayans, through an interpreter. "He became one of us. He learned the language."
Ixbalan, 63, was a young teen when he first met Rother at his church in Santiago Atitlan, situated on a lakeshore between two volcanoes in the Guatemalan highlands where he grew up.
Rother started a radio station, worked alongside farmers and pushed for locals to make and sell knitted clothing. In helping translate the New Testament, Rother is credited with helping start the written form of Tzutuhil. He helped install an irrigation system and brought in crops such as wheat and soybeans, dissuading farmers from using chemicals. He brought in tractors to till the land, and repaired vehicles when they broke down.
Rother was born in 1935, a descendent of German immigrants who homesteaded on the outskirts of Okarche, Oklahoma. While much of the state remains largely protestant, Okarche — population 1,300 — has held to its Catholic heritage. It's still home to the Holy Trinity Church and school Rother attended.
At: http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/thousands-attend-beatification-mass-for-american-priest/ar-AAsn4gT
Father Stanley Rother, 1935-1981.
Bernie Casey, Football Star Turned Actor, Poet and Painter, Dies at 78
Source: Hollywood Reporter
Actor Bernie Casey, who appeared in numerous films after a career as a standout NFL wide receiver, has died. He was 78.
Casey, who also starred in Cleopatra Jones and several other blaxploitation movies of the 1970s, died Tuesday after a brief illness at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, his representative told The Hollywood Reporter.
Not long after he unexpectedly retired from the Los Angeles Rams, Casey portrayed Chicago Bears player J.C. Caroline in the 1971 ABC telefilm Brian's Song. In Brothers (1977), Casey distinguished himself by portraying a thinly veiled version of George Jackson, a member of the Black Panther Party who was killed in San Quentin in 1971.
Casey played a heroic former slave and train robber in Martin Scorsese's Boxcar Bertha (1972); CIA agent Felix Leiter (a recurring Bond film character) in Never Say Never Again (1983); fraternity president U.N. Jefferson in Revenge of the Nerds (1984); and Col. Rhumbus, tasked with training Dan Aykroyd and Chevy Chase in John Landis' Spies Like Us (1985). He also wrote, directed, starred in and produced The Dinner (1997).
A true Renaissance man, Casey also was a published poet as well as a painter whose work was exhibited in galleries around the world.
Read more: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/bernie-casey-dead-actor-nfl-910749
Bernie Casey, 1939-2017.
Posted by sandensea | Wed Sep 20, 2017, 10:49 PM (8 replies)
Roberto Navarro, Argentina's top rated news anchor, forced out by alleged government pressure
Cable news anchor Roberto Navarro, host of Argentina's top-rated current events program Economía Política, was fired yesterday. Executives at Channel 5, according to Navarro, admitted receiving pressure from the government to force his removal.
Navarro had reportedly drawn ire from the authorities as a result of a number of investigative exposés into alleged corruption and other wrongdoing by the two year-old Mauricio Macri administration, of whose trickle-down policies he's been critical.
His weeknight show had been the first to reveal Macri scandals such as:
·The dollar futures case (in which officials and relatives profited from a 40% devaluation a week after taking office)
·Th partnership between Macri and disgraced contractors Lázaro Báez and Brazil's Odebrecht
·Alleged vote buying to secure congressional approval for a $9 billion payout to vulture funds and other holdout bondholders in March 2016
·Numerous undeclared Macri family offshore shell companies (beyond those uncovered by the Panama Papers leaks)
·Plans for the secret purchase of $2.5 billion in U.S. military equipment
·And the attempted unauthorized sale of the ARSAT-3 satellite to Hughes Electronics this July.
Navarro, 57, has no intention of leaving investigative journalism however.
"We have important denunciations to publish in (online journal) El Destape that concern Vice President Gabriela Michetti's role in laundering money from state banks through her foundation for use in campaign finance," he said in a radio interview today.
He revealed that another top Macri ally, congressional candidate Gladys González, solicited a bribe through WhatsApp. "I wanted to air it and was told that I couldn't mention her," he said.
Channel 5's parent company, the Indalo Group, is currently facing 10 billion pesos ($570 million) in back taxes and penalties from its 'Oil' service station chain. Navarro alleges that the group's news division director, Mariano Frutos, informed him that if he was not dismissed, he (Frutos) would "go to jail."
"A government minister informed me on August 13 that I would be removed, that it had been decided, and that they expected more sympathetic journalists," Navarro said. "Economía Política, which I produce, was then limited as to its content - even the headlines."
"This is happening in the context of (indigenous activist) Milagro Sala's arbitrary imprisonment and the disappearance of Santiago Maldonado - of a democracy that has become precarious."
At: https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=es&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.politicaymedios.com.ar%2Fnota%2F9306%2Froberto_navarro_fue_el_gobierno_quien_exigio_mi_salida%2F
Argentine news anchor Roberto Navarro in one of his last broadcasts. Behind him a reference to activist Santiago Maldonado, who disappeared on August 1.
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And it's June already! Wow. Can you believe it? Time has been flying by. 2015 is nearly half over!
Did you feel that rush of energy last week with Mercury retrograde meeting Mars? There has truly been so much coming and going, so much to do, so much activity, so much to think about and reconsider. With so much happening people have generally been all over the place, even confused and unable to have clear focus with Neptune squaring Mercury, Mars and the Sun.
You may also enjoy our previous 2 Horoscopes discussing Mercury retrograde here and here.
This has seriously been one of the busiest times I've witnessed for so many. Communications, computers and technology issues needed to be dealt with, and a slow computer has no place in this fast paced environment, that's for sure. Amidst the fast paced activity people have been losing and misplacing things left and right. It's truly been a whirlwind for many. Forgetfulness is the new norm these days. An extra dose of coffee can only lead to erratic thinking.
Financial transactions can also be beyond comprehension now and before you know it you've spent more than expected. I know a lot of people's minds have been all over the place and multitasking has been the norm. If this hasn't been true for you, you certainly are an exception.
Well, the Moon enters Sagittarius on Monday June 1st and heightens our activity levels. Fire signs have a way of doing that. But, later in the day the Moon meets Saturn in Sagittarius.
Saturn has been retrograde in Sagittarius for months now and can certainly bring a slow down to the usual enthusiasm and fast paced energy of Sagittarius. Saturn is the planet of restriction, while Sagittarius is ruled by Jupiter, planet of expansion. But, there is wisdom in this configuration because contraction and expansion are truly what the universe is all about. Every breath you take, every stride you make, every blink represents the interconnection of these seeming opposites of contraction and expansion, and truly they are essential to the processes of life. Together they create balance.
So, as the Moon enters Sagittarius on Monday and meets up with Saturn, we can get an appreciation of where in life we are limited and how those limitations can give us motivation to choose new directions that allow us to expand and grow in our lives. Limitations can often be gifts in disguise.
Saturn gives us the chance to learn through experience and gives us focus, while Sagittarius loves to be philosophical and grow by expanded awareness and understanding concepts that are big and encourages wisdom.
It's officially a Full Moon in Sagittarius on Tuesday, June 2, 2015 at 12:19 p.m. ET.
This Full Moon really is all about how we have come to grow in our wisdom and understanding of life and the big picture. How did we get to where we are now and how much further do we want to go? What have you learned?
The Moon now passed Saturn at the time of the Full Moon can demonstrate to us that as we move forward through time and overcome our obstacles we have a greater appreciation of what life is all about. We only have a limited amount of time here on earth as the person we are in this lifetime. This encourages us to not take time for granted, to love the time we have, and to grow and to fulfill our potential.
No matter what anyone has ever made you believe about yourself that has held you back, you can move above and beyond it, knowing that you have gifts and talents that are worth experiencing and sharing with the world. We all have baggage. We all have a past. We all have pain from areas of our lives that we need to deal with, but that is a part of what makes our souls grow so we can fulfill our potentials and become more than what we've been conditioned to believe.
Whatever is holding you back, or has for a long time, whatever doubts you've had about yourself and life, this is a time to recognize in yourself that you are more than the limiting beliefs and concepts you hold about yourself. You are a divine, purposeful, meaningful, wise being that can raise the vibration of yourself and the world around you and you deserve to grow and be whoever you wish to be. It is having faith in yourself that can change everything.
Explore. Explore your life. Explore who you are. Explore bigger ideas. Look at the world around you and learn from it. Enjoy the broad culture and diversity the world has to offer. Interact with philosophies and ideas and people that show you new ways of understanding the world and reality. This is a large part of what life offers us. To learn, to grow and to participate in the unfolding of the universe playing our role in helping each other evolve and to bring more love, light and abundance into the world.
With Mercury retrograde and dreamy Neptune connecting with this Full Moon, you may not understand all that you explore, but it's great to not know everything. The mystery and not knowing is what keeps life interesting and inspires us to look deeper, explore further and to learn. What have you learned in your life? What do you have to share and contribute? What wisdom does your heart want to give to others?
In everyday mundane aspects of life, if you're renovating your home, redoing that manuscript, or recalculating your budget, whatever it is that are you are looking at again, give yourself room to know that not all will fall into place perfectly yet. Patience is being humble and honoring the cycles of life as they unfold. Give yourself space to explore and reconsider things. Explore perspectives and use this time of Mercury retrograde to look within. Mercury teaches us that so much of life is all about perspective.
This isn't a Full Moon where everything falls into place and is a final conclusion, but rather it is a step past the hurdles so you can reach higher and step up to the next level, a step above and beyond what was. It's about moving into your future without worrying about being held back by the petty details that don't really matter in the grand scheme of things.
It is certainly an active Full Moon and the energy of last week leading up to it is proof, but luckily Saturn is there to give us pause, and respect the cycles of time. Saturn reminds us that doing the work to get to that next level is usually worth it. Through the trials and errors we can learn so much, and that learning can take us places we never would have known otherwise.
Sagittarius wants us to have faith and to search for meaning in all our experiences, and see the humor in the ways of the world too.
Venus enters Leo this week too, which adds some flavor to the week and starts the weekend off with an extra dose of creative energy. Appreciation of how all things in life are an expression of the creative force can raise your level of joy. It's a great time to encourage others to express themselves and to show love for the unique qualities that the people in your life have. Being a loyal friend and partner is encouraged. Optimism attracts more optimism.
With Venus in Leo it can definitely be easy to spend money especially on the fun stuff. Whatever is luxurious and beautiful will be extra noticeable. It can be a good time to play the lotto, but in the spirit of fun such as having a night out with friends at a casino, having a game of poker at home, or grabbing a few scratch tickets. Making a game out of it is best. If you really need money, that's a different kind of energy you'd be putting out there than playing for fun. It's best to listen to Saturn in fellow fire sign Sagittarius, and put on the breaks so you don't spend too much. Responsible fun can be the best kind of fun.
Mars in Gemini having a pleasant connection with Jupiter in Leo just adds more to the fun. A great way to enjoy Venus in Leo and Mars reaching out to Jupiter in Leo would be to share your talents. Bringing optimism and a loving, enthusiastic attitude can make for a great weekend with friends and people you care about.
On Saturday, Venus connects with Saturn, and so that is the breaks I mentioned a moment ago. If you go out and have too much fun on Friday, you may end up paying for it on Saturday. Know your limits. Your wallet will thank those of you who are responsible.
Take a much needed break on Sunday. With all the erratic energy over the past few weeks it's time to unwind and collect your thoughts and feelings. We could all use some Zen moments.
I hope you all have a wonderful, abundant week. Thank you for reading and sharing the love. Namaste.
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Aries: Chances are, it's going to be another busy week for you. Thinking a lot, multitasking, being active are pretty much the common themes for you now. Just know that all that you do is valued. You do have to be careful you don't burn yourself out though. Have some personal time to yourself. Lively conversations can get your mind off your tasks and duties. Traveling and exploring new cultures can open your mind this week.
Taurus: There's no place like home. Whether it's your current home, or if you're traveling to where you once lived, this is a great time to appreciate how lovely home life can be. Work life is one thing and home life can be a whole other world. Enjoy it. If you've been making errors in how you handle your money this week will give you more chances to realize how on top of your wallet you should be.
Gemini: If you don't think too highly of yourself, this is a good week to take a look in the mirror and reflect on how you talk about yourself. You may say some things about yourself to others, but how you really think about yourself is often held in secret. Nobody is reading your thoughts but you. Take some time to slow down the pace and affirm your worth. Also, try your best to be clear on what something costs and why before you make that transaction.
Cancer: This is a great week to tune into your self worth. The pleasures money can afford can present to you what you feel you deserve. Buying yourself something beautiful without feeling guilty says a lot. It's a great week to pay attention to your habits. Does your routine hold you back or let you flourish? Live abundantly and feel good about what you're doing day to day and you'll glow.
Leo: It can certainly be an awesome week for you. There's lots of energy and a Full Moon in fellow fire sign just gets your creative energy flowing. Plus you have Venus entering your sign later in the week too. Focus on your creativity and being a co-creator in the world. Bring forward the beauty that you hold. Consider new styles that allow you to express yourself and have fun with it.
Virgo: You may feel like you're taking a step backward this week, perhaps in your career or in your other ambitions and goals but those steps back are important. After reconsideration you could end up leaps forward soon enough. Worry is something most Virgos have to deal with and learn from, but this week know that it's ok to slow down and not rush so much. Try to enjoy yourself at home this week. Feeling good in your comfort zone is so good for you.
Libra: If you have goals you love, awesome! If you have friends that you love to be around that's fantastic! This week pay attention to how your thoughts and feelings give you room to grow. You are the creator of your life for the most part, so you should love what you are creating and expressing in the world. Joy is something to cultivate and grow. It starts with a vision and working with those you love and trust to make it become a reality.
Scorpio: Now you get bright, beautiful spotlight shining on how you are able to feel good about yourself. Have you built a strong foundation that gives you a sense of security? No matter how much of a frenzy is going on out there in the world, the real question is how do you feel comfortable, confident and secure in yourself? With so much confusion happening this week, don't get caught up in risks. Step back and think through your plans as best you can. A focus on responsibility leads to your empowerment.
Sagittarius: You get a big, beautiful Full Moon in your sign. How do you feel? Do you feel good about yourself? How do you assert yourself as an individual in the world? Your trials and tribulations in life have made you grow so much. Bring your wisdom forth and show it to the world by being honest, open minded and culturally aware. When you're in your element, confident, humorous and have faith in yourself, you bring meaning to the world all around you.
Capricorn: Is the cup half full or half empty? You get a dose of wisdom this week, one that inspires you to raise your vibration and to see the world through brighter glasses. You could have a growth spurt in spiritual awareness now that takes you to another level. All the challenges that have tested your spirit are there to get you to go deep within to find that spark of light that deserves to shine. You can be a light in the world you never knew possible. It takes work but is worth so it.
Aquarius: All the frenzy of life can be confusing but has it's own way of being fun when you can look beyond the stress. Life is an active force that gets us to think and rethink, to act and react. It is when you shine among friends being your authentic self that you create emotional bonds that can inspire the world around you. Enjoy the adventures. Hold the vision, and growth is inevitable.
Pisces: Neptune in your sign is doing a real doozy on just about everyone these days. But you know how to navigate the fog like nobody else. It is in your spiritual, dreamy, fantastical and magical ways that you can shift consciousness. Use your gift to see what others can't to create your highest aspirations. It is your depth of perception that can manifest goals, elevate careers and inspire ambitions. Faith in yourself can move mountains.


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Cussy-la-Colonne
Cussy-la-Colonne is a town situated in the Côte-d'Or département (Bourgogne région). The town of Cussy-la-Colonne belongs to the canton of Bligny-sur-Ouche and the district of Beaune. The inhabitants number of Cussy-la-Colonne in the 1999 population census was 41. The town's surface is 6.1 km². Cussy-la-Colonne has the following code INSEE: 21221 and is associated with the following postal code: 21360. It is situated at an altitude of about 490 meters.
Département: Côte-d'Or (21)
Density (in 1999): 7 inhabitants/km²
Longitude East: 04°38'29'' 4.6414° 0.081008 r
Latitude North: 47°02'26'' 47.0406° 0.821013 r
Other towns next to Cussy-la-Colonne
1 Ivry-en-Montagne (21) 1.4 km
2 Montceau-et-Écharnant (21) 2.6 km
3 Santosse (21) 4 km
4 Jours-en-Vaux (21) 4.1 km
5 Saussey (21) 4.2 km
6 Molinot (21) 4.9 km
7 Écutigny (21) 5 km
8 Thomirey (21) 5.9 km
9 Champignolles (21) 6 km
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Kimberly-Clark v. First Quality Baby Products: No CAFC en banc resolution of standard for preliminary injunctions
October 6, 2011 Injunctions, Patent, Patent Cases 2011Federal Circuit En BancJason Rantanen
By Jason Rantanen
Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc. v. First Quality Baby Products, LLC (precedential order denying rehearing en banc) Download 10-1382 order
Newman, O'Malley and Reyna dissenting
During the last few years a significant intra-circuit split has developed at the Federal Circuit over the appropriate standard to apply to likelihood of success determinations made in the context of requests for a preliminary injunction. Last week the Federal Circuit declined to take the issue en banc in a move that prolongs the uncertainty but perhaps paves the way for Supreme Court review.
As in other areas of the law, the determination of whether to grant a preliminary injunction requires the applicant to establish four factors: a likelihood of success on the merits, irreparable harm in the absence of preliminary relief, that the balance of equities tips in the applicant's favor, and that an injunction is in the public interest. The judges of the Federal Circuit disagree, however, about the standard for demonstrating a likelihood of success on the merits, as well as whether such a showing is a necessary prerequisite for entry of a preliminary injunction.
On this issue, several of the judges (including Judges Dyk and Prost, who participated on the panel in this case) apply the standard that an applicant fails to establish a liklihood of success on the merits if the accused party raises a defense that "does not lack substantial merit," and that such a failure precludes entry of a preliminary injunction. This was the standard applied in the Kimberly-Clark opinion itself, in which the panel vacated a district court's entry of a preliminary injunction with respect to three patents (although it did affirm an injunction based on a fourth patent, concluding that the accused infringer "failed to raise a substantial issue of patentability"). Download 10-1382
Other judges, most vocally Judge Newman, take the view that a defense that does not "lack substantial merit" does not equate with a failure to establish a likelihood of success on the merits, and in any event should not automatically preclude entry of a preliminary injunction. In her dissent in the denial of rehearing en banc in Kimberly-Clark, for example, Judge Newman – joined by Judges O'Malley and Reyna – criticizes the alternate rule as an absurdity. "This standard essentially negates the possibility of grant of a preliminary injunction to preserve the status quo during patent litigation, for in today's complex patent law it is hard to imagine a case in which a defense that is "not substantially meritless" cannot be devised at the preliminary stage." Dissent at 5-6. In support of her view, Judge Newman points to the disconnect between "lacks substantial merit" and the standard applied by everyone besides the Federal Circuit. "The panel's approach is in conflict with not only the Supreme Court, but with every other circuit." Id. at 6. Nor should a defense that lacks substantial merit automatically preclude entry of a preliminary injunction if the balancing of the four factors necessitates otherwise. See id. at 10-12. Judge O'Malley, writing separately, expressed her strong agreement with the points raised by Judge Newman, as well as concerns about the difficulties faced by district courts in resolving the court's precedent in this area.
Regardless who is correct on the appropriate standard for a preliminary injunction, it is apparent that a sharp split exists within the Federal Circuit that it will be unable to resolve on its own in the near future. The denial of the en banc request suggests two possible outcomes: (1) that success of a preliminary injunction appeal to the Federal Circuit will continue to be heavily panel-dependant for foreseeable future, or (2) that the Supreme Court will intervene in this case or another to resolve the split and restore some predictability to the area of preliminary injunctions.
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16 thoughts on "Kimberly-Clark v. First Quality Baby Products: No CAFC en banc resolution of standard for preliminary injunctions"
basics says:
"could you provide some specific examples for which the eBay tests would not apply?"
You are asking the wrong question.
It is not a matter of saying "eBay tests would not apply."
It is not even a matter of understanding the differences of when the tests apply.
It is a matter of understanding the purposes of preliminary injunction versus the purpose of permant injunction.
Throwing in an eBay question as you do only kicks up dust and obscures the fact that the two are simply different.
Do you understand the differences?
Dubya_Tee_Eff_Again_CAFC? says:
CAFC blows it again. Suh-prise, Suh-prise, SUHPRISE! As Gomer Pyle, USMC used to say.
On the record, clearly, the injunction is warranted.
(non-disclaimer: NOT a KMB employee or stockholder, etc.)
No One in Particular says:
The report says:
" From the inception of the survey in fall 2006 through the end of Fiscal Year (FY) 2009, perceptions of examination quality changed very little among survey respondents, with reports of good/excellent examination quality barely outnumbering the reports of poor/very poor examination quality. Beginning in FY 2010 (October 2009), the Office started seeing significant improvements in the perceptions of examination
quality, and recent survey results (Spring 2011) indicate that there are now three (3) times as many
respondents that rate patent examination quality as "good" or "excellent" as there are that rate patent examination quality as "poor" or "very poor". Customers may also rate examination quality as "fair".
Even if their conclusion were justified, all it means is that the Patent Office got its data by sending its questionaire to those they thought would return a favorable response.
The Patent Office is famous for cooking its statistics to make itself look good.
It is really a matter of credibility.
The Patent Office doesn't have any, and won't have any, as long as 6 is an examiner.
I would also like to note that the book that just came out "about time"
link to amazon.com
also advocates the old time view which I subscribe to that time is simply something we've been making up, but does not really exist.
TJ, I think the rule requires that the plaintiff prove a likelihood of success on the merits. Of course, this likelihood has degrees. The more likely, the more the equity favors the granting of the preliminary injunction.
I think the point of the dissenters was this, that the Federal Circuit essentially held that there was no likelihood of success if the defendant could allege a meritorious defense to validity, regardless of the merits of that defense and regardless of the burden of proof that the defendant has when patent validity is involved, and that is clear and convincing evidence.
Good point there, anon.
Paul F. Morgan says:
Its a lot more than just semantics if the court fails to force the patent owner to post a bond sufficient to cover the entire damages of the defendant being put out of business, if the patent suit is not ultimately sucessful, or if the court does not then award it all to the defendant.
RECORD BREAKING QUALITY … Perceptions?
link to uspto.gov
TJ,
There is a big difference when a "per se' rule swollos the other factors to be balanced.
I think your slam against Judge Newman is clearly oout of touch with her written opinion.
Let's stay focused and have a meaningful discussion, shall we?
How do you feel about the opinions expressed in the dissents from the denial of en banc (in the provided link)?
In particular, what part of the eBay decision quoted below would not or should not apply to preliminary injunctions?:
"That test requires a plaintiff to demonstrate: (1) that it has suffered an irreparable injury; (2) that remedies available at law are inadequate to compensate for that injury; (3) that considering the balance of hardships between the plaintiff and defendant, a remedy in equity is warranted; and (4) that the public interest would not be disserved by a permanent injunction. The decision to grant or deny such relief is an act of equitable discretion by the district court, reviewable on appeal for abuse of discretion."
TJ says:
In many ways this is just a play with semantics. Every circuit has a "per se" rule that if the defendant is likely to win, then the preliminary injunction is to be denied. The only question is how likely is likely enough to trigger this per se rule. The panel majority uses the word "substantial," which probably means something like 40%. Judge Newman would like it to be much higher, say 51% or even 99%. But it is a useless fight to accuse the panel of creating a "per se" rule as if it were somehow doing something very wrong. Every rule is per se once applied to concrete facts.
Since you are suggesting that preliminary injunctions could and should be granted with LOWER standards than those required by eBay, could you provide some specific examples for which the eBay tests would not apply?
If E-Bay stands for anything, it stands for the proposition that patent law is not exempt from the normal rules that apply to injunctions.
The point of the dissenters here appears to be that the Federal Circuit does have just that sort of special rule here, a form of per se rule that pertains only to patent preliminary injunctions and to no other subject matter. They are denied on a basis that amounts to an effective per se rule that if a colorable defense to validity is raised, the injunction is to be denied.
"Logically, the standards for preliminary injunctions can only be different than that for final injunctions"
While the two are similar actions, the context of the two are different. It is clearly not a matter that a preliminary injunction must have a greater standard to be met to be levied.
As I recall, only the IBM amicus brief even addressed the specific issue of preliminary injunctions (versus final injunctions) in eBay, Inc. v. MercExchange, L.L.C., 126 S. Ct. 1837, 1841 (2006). Even though the situation in eBay was not that of a completely final injunction, and the Sup. Ct. did not specifically indicate that it was limiting its overruling of prior Fed. Cir. precedents only to final injunctions. Yet, some Fed. Cir. members since then still seem, from some opinions, to somehow not consider eBay to be controlling as to preliminary injunctions? Logically, the standards for preliminary injunctions can only be greater than that for final injunctions, since there has been at that point in time little if any discovery, no trial, and no final decision, as to infringement, validity or enforceability.


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Home Business Education What should operator have to reduce chances of accidents, causalities during kayaking and rafting trips?
1. 12-20-foot-(3.65-6.0 meters)-long self-bailing inflatable raft: This raft has a buoyant (floating) floor allowing automatic draining of water if the raft gets unwanted water.
7. Flip line: A rope tied around the bottom of the raft.
Each life jacket should have proper straps.
16. Wetsuit: A body hugging garment of rubber keeps rafter's body warm while negotiating cold water rivers.
What are kayak and raft specifications?
Use kayaks and rafts built by well-known manufacturers.
Each raft should have at least 4 buoyancy chambers. Each chamber should have same volume. The construction design ensure that deflation of one chamber does not deflate the other chambers.
Each chamber should have a topping valve. The valve is used in inflatable and deflatable rafts. The valve has two cylindrical bodies and a protective cap.
Safety line should cover the entire length of the raft. A bow line in the front of the raft is a must. The bow line should feature 6-10 D rings.
Each raft should have one foot cone for each rafter. A foot cone / foothold is a pocket on the raft floor for securing the feet.
The raft floor should be of an I-beam made of soft material or a drop stitch. The floor should not be stuck. It should be tied. The floor should have a provision for a pressure release valve.
Having good quality equipment is not just a legal formality. In fact, this will save your business and you from embarrassment and guilty feeling during kayaking and rafting trips.


For me one of the most difficult kinds of endgames to win are those with just knights and pawns.
White to move and win. How quickly can you find white's plan in this position?
The usual plan for thee endings is to keep offering the N to deflect the defending N from preventing the advance of the pawn. That requires using the K to keep the defending K from joining the fray. Alena's v2 is a good example of this.
I spend an hour and a half to solve this problem. I will be reviewing my solution for a couple of days more for deeper understanding.
It's a win for white.


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FBI and CISA Caution of APT Attack that Already Exfiltrated Data from Government Systems
The FBI and the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued an advisory about Russian state-sponsored advanced persistent threats (APT)...
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Officials in Jackson County, a rural area in the southeastern US state of Georgia, were forced over the weekend to pay hackers almost half a million dollars...
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Hints Increasingly Point to Impending Launch of Apple's 27" LED Cinema Display
Wednesday September 15, 2010 8:47 pm PDT by Eric Slivka
In late July, Apple announced a new 27" LED Cinema Display, set for launch in the "September" timeframe to replace the existing 24" LED Cinema Display and 30" Cinema Display, which are seeing remaining stock being depleted before being officially discontinued. With September now half over, customers have been anxious for an update on the possible release of the new 27" display, and signs are beginning to appear hinting at a release in the near future.
Apple's Mac Pro customization page as it appeared earlier this week
As noted by 9 to 5 Mac a few days ago, the customization pages for Mac Pro orders placed through Apple's online store were displaying updated descriptions advertising the 27-inch display as an option, despite the fact that only the 24" and 30" models remained available as selections. While Apple's site has since been reverted to omit descriptions of the 27" display, it is clear that some adjustments were going on behind the scenes that suggest preparations for launch of the new display may be underway.
Apple's 30" and 24" displays currently unavailable in Australian online store
That hint has now been followed by the apparent complete discontinuation of the 24" and 30" displays in several international online Apple stores such as those for Australia and New Zealand. While the models showed availability of "within 24 hours" just a day or two ago, the stores now list the models as "Currently Unavailable".
Officially, Apple continues to list the 27" display as "Coming September" in the U.S. and a number of other markets, while Apple's sites for Australia and New Zealand simply note that the new model is "Coming Soon". It appears, however, that based on the continuing changes to Apple's online store listing and availabilities, Apple may be preparing to take orders for the new 27" LED display in the very near future.


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Q: Best way to handle signUp and Edit Sign up Functionality I am working on Android. I'm just trying to optimizing my code. Generally I have noticed so many issue which is optimize but due to some limited time we are not optimizing that. Here I have share my problem. basically in all application I have facing this same Issue.
Problem
What is the best way to handle signup Fragment and EditSignUp Fragment?
Description
Generally in my case I am making one single registration.xml and making two different Fragment RegistrationFragment.java and EditRegistrationFragment.java. Just like below.
RegistrationFragment.java
public class RagistrationFragment extends BaseFragment {

private TextView tvEmail;
private TextView tvLeaveIn;
private TextView tvUserName;
@Nullable
@Override
public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container, Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    View view = inflater.inflate(R.layout.registration, container, false);
    return view;
}

public void inilialization()
{
    tvUserName=(TextView)getView().findViewById(R.id.tvUserName);
    tvLeaveIn=(TextView)getView().findViewById(R.id.tvLeaveIn);
    tvEmail=(TextView)getView().findViewById(R.id.tvEmail);
}

EditRegistration.java
public class EditRagistrationFragment  extends BaseFragment {
private TextView tvEmail;
private TextView tvLeaveIn;
private TextView tvUserName;

@Nullable
@Override
public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container, Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    View view = inflater.inflate(R.layout.registration, container, false);
    return view;
}

public void inilialization()
{
    tvUserName=(TextView)getView().findViewById(R.id.tvUserName);
    tvLeaveIn=(TextView)getView().findViewById(R.id.tvLeaveIn);
    tvEmail=(TextView)getView().findViewById(R.id.tvEmail);
    tvEmail.setEnabled(false);
}

So here code is not reused. It's just a Example.Here I have define one method for initializing UI but this method is not reused. I know you can reuse this kind of method putting in BaseFragment but it's not proper way because baseFragment will extend by all Fragment in Application.initialization() is just one example.
I hope you are clear with my problem
Please give me proper suggestion.
Thanks,

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Steve Wynn has stepped down from his hotel company, but the RNC will keep his money for now
By A.P. Joyce
Steve Wynn is stepping down from his job as chairman and chief executive of his company Wynn Resorts, amid allegations of sexual harassment and misconduct, it was reported late Tuesday. The move comes about a week after the casino magnate was forced to resign as finance chair of the Republican National Committee.
In a story first reported by the Wall Street Journal, Wynn has been accused of having created a hostile environment for women at his casinos for decades and of pressuring employees to perform sex acts for him.
Despite the fact that the RNC and Wynn's own company have cut ties with the accused harasser, the RNC does not have immediate plans to give back the considerable amount of money Wynn has handed to them and other Republican party organizations.
This stands in contrast to the reaction of some within the GOP after Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein was accused by multiple women of sexual assault. RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel, for example, tweeted on Oct. 6, "If the DNC truly stands up for women like they say they do, then returning Weinstein's dirty money should be a no-brainer."
When allegations against Wynn began to surface, McDaniel suddenly changed her tone, saying in a Fox News interview that Wynn would have to be found guilty of a crime before the RNC returns his donations.
"Steve has denied these allegations," McDaniel said. "There is an investigation that is going to take place. He should be allowed due process. If he is found guilty of any wrongdoing, we will absolutely return 100% of the money."
That standard apparently did not apply to Weinstein, in her view, as the accused rapist has yet to be found guilty by any criminal or civil court.
The DNC came under fire for donating only a portion of the nearly $300,000 that Weinstein gave the group to the progressive political group Emily's List. Other Democrats and Democratic organizations donated the entirety of their Weinstein contributions.
Wynn has donated nearly half a million dollars to the RNC itself, as well as over $761,000 to the National Republican Senate Committee — the organization in charge of electing more Republicans to the Senate. Wynn Resorts also gave $729,217 to Donald Trump's presidential inauguration in 2016. Wynn has previously donated to some Democrats, including giving $30,500 to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.
While some Republicans have been proactive in donating their contributions for Wynn — Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) gave his contributions from Wynn to an anti-sex-trafficking charity — the RNC has chosen not to do so, and the NRSC has so far been silent.
As the allegations eventually led Wynn to step down from his position and as the RNC's top fundraiser, the committee's position remained the same. When discussing his resignation from the RNC, McDaniel reportedly became emotional, tearing up and saying Wynn was "like family."
Now Wynn's own company appears to have decided that the allegations are serious enough to distance themselves from the man whose name is plastered across the side of their famous Las Vegas casino.
But the RNC is still waiting for more proof.


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Students & Lawmakers Seek to Set Standards to Protect Student Journalism
by Senator Susan Kent
Saint Paul, Minn. – State Representative Cheryl Youakim (DFL – Hopkins) and State Senator Susan Kent (DFL – Woodbury) have authored a bill that helps clarify the important role student journalists have in their school communities.
"With my own children's experience, and now working in a school setting, I've enjoyed watching student journalists build skills and engage in the most critical tool of our democracy, the free press," said Rep. Youakim. "Press freedom creates an environment where students are empowered to make decisions and ask questions about the content they know is important to their school communities."
State Senator Kent agreed. "The sooner students and possibly one day journalists can learn the importance and gravity of their jobs to society – the better. I like that this bill helps foster civic engagement – that's something we should all be encouraging in our high school students. Nurturing these concepts of free speech, investigation, and integrity will make better citizens out of our students."
The bill makes the limits of protected speech clear to budding journalists, and it will update Minnesota law on the topic similar to the eight other states that have implemented student journalist laws.
Students will have control over the content in all of the media they publish with set guidelines in the bill (HF 2537) that include:
The need for journalism advisors to teach journalist standards set forward by the society of professional journalism: including the principles of—truthfulness, accuracy, objectivity, impartiality, fairness and public accountability.
Set standards for school administration to follow regarding student's ability to publish.
If a student's story is deemed libelous, slanderous, disruptive of the school day and profane or obscene, an administrator would have the ability to say no.
Lori Keekley, a Master Journalism Educator and the newspaper advisor at St. Louis Park High School, also sits on the board of the Journalism Education Association's Scholastic Press Rights Commission.
"By empowering students to make content choices, they learn so much more than if I or an administrator were to dictate decisions to them," said Mrs. Keekley, "We have many, many more robust conversations examining all sides of the issues while applying legal statutes and journalism ethics."
"We know that where students are more empowered through press freedoms, they are more civically engaged in their schools and in the communities they move into as adults," added Rep. Youakim. "I am focusing on K-12 students because that is where we see the greatest variance in policy and practice across the state. We need to be engaging these students, they are the future of a healthy democracy in Minnesota."
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Home » Bollywood News » Happy Birthday Aamir Khan: The Box Office Records We Know, The Perfection Behind It We Don't!
Happy Birthday Aamir Khan: The Box Office Records We Know, The Perfection Behind It We Don't!
Let's take a look at the milestones achieved by Aamir Khan at the box office
The man of transformation and the record maker, Aamir Khan turns 54 today. One of the three Khans who are ruling the industry for over two and a half decades. Over the years, the actor has decrypted a formula of critical and commercial success, which many of the reigning stars have failed to obtain.
Aamir known for delivering one movie per year, is the epitome of perfection and very much justifies the tag of 'Mr.Perfectionist'. Speaking about the box office number game, it's the trend which has been started by none other than, Aamir.
Let's take a look at the milestones achieved by Aamir Khan at the box office:
Inauguration of the 100 crore club at the domestic box office
Aamir Khan's Ghajini was the first Indian movie to cross the celebrated mark of 100 crore in the domestic market. After taking a flying start, the action-thriller hit the century during the third-week run. Though Ghajini was a risky bet due to the experimental genre, the dedication of Aamir paid in a big way.
And the saga continues with 3 Idiots!
Breaking the 100 crore barrier, Aamir managed to surprise with his college guy looks in 3 Idiots. Scoring full marks in every department, the movie proved to be a record breaker of all sorts and was the first one to collect over 200 crores in India.
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First 300 crore club entrant
After delivering first 100 and 200 crore movies, Aamir Khan's satirical comedy, PK shattered the box office by raking over 300 crores. It was the first movie to entered the 300 crore club in India.
Highest grossing Indian movie worldwide
It took about 2 years for the making of Dangal, with the major reason being the physical transformation of Khan. The wrestling drama collected over 380 crores in India and performed way beyond the expectations in overseas, especially after the release in China. With a gigantic total of over 1800 crores, Dangal continues to be unbeatable.
All time highest opening of Bollywood
Last year's Diwali release Thugs Of Hindostan clocked the blockbuster start in India by making 50.75 crores (Hindi). It toppled Shah Rukh Khan's Happy New Year to become the highest Bollywood opener in the history.
Wishing the box office emperor on his birthday, we hope the actor establishes many more box office records with his upcoming projects.
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enior Master Sergeant William T. Tortolano is a violinist and Assistant NCOIC with The United States Air Force Strings, Bolling Air Force Base, Washington, DC, and Director of Operations for the Air Force Chamber Orchestra.
He holds a Bachelor of Music degree from Oberlin Conservatory and a Master of Music degree from Yale University. He was a scholarship student at the Aspen Music Festival and the Tanglewood Music Festival, and served as concertmaster at the Spoleto Festivals in the US and Italy.
He taught at Phillips Academy in Andover MA and was a Visiting Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge University.
Sergeant Tortolano enlisted in 1996 and was appointed Principal Second Violin, USAF Orchestras from 1997 – 2002.
Sergeant Tortolano graduated from both the USAF NCO Academy and the U.S. Navy Senior Enlisted Academy where he received the Naval Heritage Award and the Award for Academic Excellence. His military decorations include the Air Force Meritorious Service Medal, Air Force Commendation Medal, Air Force Achievement Medal with oak leaf cluster, National Defense Service Medal and the Global War on Terrorism Service Medal.


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: 10.0pt"> Peace talks between Israeli and Palestinian officials continue. Although Islamic militant groups refuse to consider stopping attacks or shifting to just army and settler targets, apparently Palestinian Authority officials do have something to offer. Israel has been turning over chunks of the $600 million in taxes and fees collected by Israel for the Palestinian Authority, and has been loosening some of the restrictions on Palestinian movement. What the Palestinians are giving in return is left vague, but may be information that makes it easier for Israel to go after the Islamic militants.
Israel is upgrading protections for the population against nuclear, chemical or biological weapons attack. Israel expects an attack from Iraqi rockets if Iraq is invaded.
Raids into West Bank towns and Gaza continue, as do arrests of suspected terrorists.


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Zlatko Dragosavljević (; 8 August 1967 – c. 18 June 2022) was a politician, administrator, and mining engineer in Serbia. He served in the National Assembly of Serbia from 2013 to 2014 and held high political office at the municipal level in Despotovac. Originally a member of the Democratic Party (Demokratska stranka, DS), he was later a leading figure in the breakaway Social Democratic Party (Socijaldemokratska stranka, SDS).

Early life, private career, and academic career
Dragosavljević was born in Požarevac, in what was then the Socialist Republic of Serbia in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. He graduated from the University of Belgrade Faculty of Mining and Geology in 1993 and received a master's degree from the same institution in 2002. In 2006, he also graduated from the Faculty of Service Business at the European University in Belgrade. He received a Ph.D from the Faculty of Applied Ecology "Futura" at Singidunum University in 2011 and worked as a lecturer at the same institution.

From 1993 to 2010, Dragosavljević held a variety of engineering and administrative positions at the Resavica public coal mining company in Despotovac. At the time of his death, he was director of the Grot lead and zinc mine.

Politician and administrator

President of the Despotovac municipal assembly
Dragosavljević became president of the Despotovac municipal assembly in 2004. In June 2006, he led the assembly in voting to impeach the community's mayor, Miroslav Pavković, by a vote of forty-five to two. According to his obituary notice, Dragosavljević continued to serve as assembly president until 2008.

Secretary of State
In 2010, Dragosavljević was appointed as a secretary of state in the Serbian government's ministry of mining and energy. Following a restructuring of Serbia's ministries, he became a secretary of state in the newly formed ministry of environment, mining, and spatial planning in 2011. In this capacity, Dragosavljević oversaw contracts for mining and geological research. His term ended when the DS left government in 2012.

Parliamentarian
Dragosavljević received the seventy-seventh position on the DS's Choice for a Better Life electoral list in the 2012 Serbian parliamentary election. The list won sixty-seven mandates, and he was not initially elected. The Serbian Progressive Party (Srpska napredna stranka, SNS) and the Socialist Party of Serbia (Socijalistička partija Srbije, SPS) formed a new coalition government after the election, and the DS moved into opposition. Boris Tadić later stood down as DS leader, and a split occurred in the party, with some elected members leaving to form a new parliamentary group called Together for Serbia (Zajedno za Srbiju, ZZS).

Dragosavljević was awarded a parliamentary mandate on 12 June 2013 as the replacement for Milica Delević, who had resigned to take a position at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. When he entered the assembly a few days later, Dragosavljević joined the ZZS group, citing disagreements with the DS's direction since Tadić's departure.

He was not a candidate in the 2014 parliamentary election. He later joined the SDS under Tadić's leadership.

Local politics after 2012
Dragosavljević appeared in the fourth position on the DS's electoral list for Despotovac in the 2012 Serbian local elections and was re-elected to the assembly when the list won a majority victory with twenty-three out of forty-five seats. The local DS and SDS organizations ran a combined list in the 2016 local elections; Dragosavljević led the list and was again re-elected when it won eleven seats, finishing second to the SNS.

The SDS boycotted the 2020 local elections, and Dragosavljević's term came to an end that year.

Social Democratic Party official
Dragosavljević was chosen as one of the SDS's vice-presidents in February 2022. He appeared in the seventeenth position on the SDS's list in the subsequent 2022 Serbian parliamentary election; the party did not cross the electoral threshold to win representation in the assembly.

Death
Dragosavljević died suddenly in June 2022.

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1967 births
2022 deaths
People from Požarevac
People from Despotovac
Members of the National Assembly (Serbia)
Democratic Party (Serbia) politicians
Together for Serbia politicians
Social Democratic Party (Serbia) politicians

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