Native American tea: a website to visit!
What is the Native American tea company?
Well as the name says it is a tea company that offers teas made with traditional native medicinal ingredients. Each tea is made with a native story, legend or myth in mind. Further, each box sports an artwork to match the tea's name (above you can see the one for the Chief's delight tea). Each tea also comes with that legend/story on the box, such as the one for Teepee dreams below.
Further, the current owners (since 2007), the Aman family, have a connection with Sitting Bull's band. Indeed, shortly after chief Sitting Bull was killed in 1890, the Aman family established roots on the Standing Rock reservation (Sitting Bull's reservation) in South Dakota. In present day, the family has a long standing history of assisting in the economic development of the reserve. The Native American Tea company wears its name and heritage proud and is dedicated to the preservation of the native culture.
Moreover, the company is associated with the Sitting Bull college, a four year tribal accredited college located on the Lakota Sioux Standing Rock reservation (I need to visit that reservation!). The Native American Tea company donates 5% of its earnings to the college. An all around stand up company that is dedicated to the culture and traditions.
I first discovered the company's teas in a local shop where I live. If you have visited this site or like my Facebook page, you know at attend Pow wows at the Aboriginal friendship center in Vancouver, BC. In that center, there is a little shop with wonderful native art and products (where I buy a lot of my sage and feed my native scarves addiction….) by the name of Cedar Root Gallery. This is where I discovered the Native American teas. I just thought the boxes were so intriguing! With the art work and the stories on the back.
Most of their teas are caffeine free but in recent years, due to popular demand, the company has added green and black tea. They are all hand packaged and include all natural ingredients. The blend of ingredients in each tea is unique and based on the ingredients' properties. You can see a list of ingredients they use here. You can also read a former post of mine on the healing properties of herbs here. Indeed, each tea has its own purpose, all different. For example, the Teepee dreams tea is to facilitate sleeping and relaxation. The one I am drinking as I am writing this is the Indian Love tea, to help with general health, containing natural stimulants.
In the Indian culture, when a young man fell in love with a woman he went through certain procedures. First, he would go to her father with gifts, as was the traditional way. If the father approved of the young man, and consented to give his daughter to him, the young brave would start his courtship. He would use his flute to play courting songs while the woman was inside her teepee. Often this would go on at night. Each brave had its own songs he would play for a woman, usually a special song played only for her. If the woman liked the young man, she would prepare a special blend of tea, Indian Love Tea. She would then come out of her teeppee to the sound of the music and offer the young brave a cup of tea, a sign of mutual admiration.
Well I still have to find my young brave to give the tea to (Michel Spears or Rick Mora comes to mind :)) but I love the taste of the tea. It has a sweet but earthy taste, in which you can taste the licorice root it contains. I have also tried the Chief's delight, a fruity blend to help you make clear decisions, like a chief would.
The Native American tea Company is a culturally sensitive proud and ethical company. They provide very good quality products at a good price with natural meaningful ingredients, based on our ancestors' recipes. if it worked for them, it works for me! The only reason I gave it a 4 star rating is that I wish there would be more teas! However, it could be argued that it's better to focus on limited products but do it very well. The Native American Tea Company has mastered that one! Drink up!
Have you tried their teas? Are you interested in them? Leave a comment below!
This entry was posted in Recipes and healing remedies, Reviews and tagged herbal native teas, Native American Tea Company, natural ingredients on March 29, 2015 by Emily.
Wonderful information on your site. Just spent about an hour reading. Too warped up in the information, I didn't realize how late it was.
Bookmarked it so I can show the Wife tomorrow. She has spend considerable time collection stone implements used by Native Americans.
Back in the 1900's my Granpa, Peguis First Nation band member Kenneth Parisian, no longer with us here on Earth, had an ol heavy tea cup and watching him enjoying tea from the bush, fresh on my mind to this day. Good medicine.
Hi you have a very interesting site, loved the story about the young man, keep up the good work, all the best .
I just love your site, it's very pleasing to the eye!
Having been raised in Canada, I have allot of Native American friends and miss them so much.
I can vouch for all you've said on Native American tea, it is a great product and I have experienced many benefits from drinking it.
Ooh, I do love a good herbal tea! Caffeine makes me go funny. Their Victory Tea looks right up my street, can't wait to try it out, thanks Emily. The boxes are a work of art too!
glad you enjoyed it! They are all very good I have to say! And sooo good for you too!
Thank you for the kind words about our site and products Emily. It was a pleasure to read.
oh you are welcome Joe! Love your products!
I love tea and Native American tea sounds like good stuff. I enjoy Chinese tea, and I would wonder if the herbs used are similar to herbs used in traditional Chinese medicine teas. My guess is yes.
they are somewhat similar because there are resemblances between the philosophy. And Mother Earth does offer use the greatest medicine.
Hi Emily, I really enjoy browsing through your site – so many interesting articles that whisk us away to what feels like another world. I found this post on teas which I really enjoyed. I do enjoy a nice cup of tea in the morning, but I am always looking for a good evening cuppa with soothing or healing properties. I love the fact they have artwork and stories on their packaging, and that they are an ethical company using natural ingredients. I would be much happier supporting this venture then a huge corporation churning out billions of ordinary tea bags to the masses. I am definitely interested in learning more about the various teas they produce, and the benefits I can hope to experience. Thank you for sharing this with us.
I am so glad that you found this company to be interesting! I love Native American tea. I love the stories of the teas on the boxes and the paintings. And bottom line: their teas are really good!


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Cornelius Ubbo Ariëns Kappers (Groningen, 9 augustus 1877 - Amsterdam 28 juli 1946) was een Nederlands medicus en neurologisch en neurowetenschappelijk onderzoeker. In 1908 werd hij de eerste directeur van het Nederlandsch Centraal Instituut voor Hersenonderzoek. Daarnaast was hij lid van de Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen (KNAW). Hij werd in het bijzonder internationaal bekend door de publicatie van Die vergleichende Anatomie des Nervensystems der Wirbeltiere und des Menschen, gepubliceerd in Engelse vertaling in 1936 als The Comparative Anatomy of the Nervous System of Vertebrates Including Man. Van 1943 tot aan zijn overlijden was hij voorzitter van het Nederlandsch Nationaal Bureau voor Anthropologie.

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Na geneeskunde te hebben gestudeerd aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam wijdde Ariëns Kappers zich aan de studie van het zenuwstelsel. Op dat gebied behaalde hij zijn grootste successen. Ariëns Kappers' mentoren waren anatoom Louis Bolk en neuroloog en psychiater Cornelis Winkler. Laatstgenoemde vertelde hem over een door de medische faculteit in Utrecht uitgeschreven prijsvraag over de ontwikkeling van zenuwscheden. Ariëns Kappers deed hiervoor onderzoek op Winklers laboratorium. Met zijn inzending haalde hij de eerste prijs. Kort daarna haalde Ariëns Kappers zijn doctoraalexamen (1901). Zijn voorkeur voor het zenuwstelsel stond daarmee vast.

Specialisatie
De Groninger haalde zijn artsdiploma (in 1903), maar werd nooit arts. Voor hij slaagde deed hij al microscopisch onderzoek naar tumoren in de kliniek van Jacob Rotgans. In de nachten schreef hij aan zijn proefschrift De banen en centra in de hersenen der Teleostiërs en Selachiërs. Daarmee promoveerde hij cum laude (1904). In de volgende jaren deed hij onder meer onderzoek op het Zoölogisch Station in Napels (1904/1905) - wat hij al eerder deed toen hij zijn artsdiploma nog niet had - en werkte hij bij professor Ludwig Edinger, de grondlegger van de vergelijkende anatomie. Daar concludeerde Ariëns Kappers dat in de loop van de evolutie vier hersenzenuwkernen onderling van plaats wisselden. Daarover schreef hij Phylogenetische Verlagerungen der motorischen Oblongatakerne, ihre Ursache und Bedeutung (1907). Zijn theorie van de neurobiotaxis was hier een uitvloeisel van. Later richtte Ariëns Kappers zich meer op de ontwikkeling van de hersenschors en naar schedelmeting.

Centraal Instituut voor Hersenonderzoek
Toen de Groninger werd benoemd tot directeur van het Nederlandsch Centraal Instituut voor Hersenonderzoek creëerde en onderhield hij gedurende de rest van zijn leven een grensoverschrijdend netwerk van hersenonderzoekers.

Hulp aan de Joden
Tijdens de bezetting in de Tweede Wereldoorlog hielp Ariëns Kappers naar schatting 200 Joden aan vervolging te ontkomen. In die tijd probeerden veel Joden deportatie te voorkomen door een schriftelijk bewijs te laten maken dat ze niet als Joods gezien konden worden.
Die papieren werden alleen als aannemelijk beschouwd als er een antropologische verklaring bij zat dat die persoon geen joodse kenmerken had. Arts en antropoloog Arie de Froe onderzocht dit en liet iedereen nakijken door Ariëns Kappers, die de verklaringen ook ondertekende. Ariëns Kappers' krabbel bleek op basis van zijn goede reputatie overtuigend genoeg voor de bezetters. De Amsterdamse advocaten Nino Kotting en Jaap van Proosdij en de Haagse advocaat Martien Nijgh dienden de bezwaarschriften tegen vervolging in.

Ariëns Kappers stierf kort na de bevrijding. In 2018 kreeg hij postuum de medaille Rechtvaardigen onder de Volkeren van Yad Vashem, het centrum voor de Holocaustherdenking, voor het tekenen van deze verklaringen.

Het Joods Historisch Museum in Amsterdam beschikt nog over een originele 'verklaring van arische afstamming' van de hand van Ariëns Kappers, waarin in juni 1943 wordt 'getoond' dat Franz Karl Sinek maar ' één vierde Joods ' is.

Ariëns Kappers naam leeft voort
De Ariëns Kappers Medal en C.U. Ariëns Kappers Prize zijn huidige naar hem vernoemde medische prijzen op neurologisch en neurowetenschappelijk gebied. Ariëns Kappers was de oom van Hans Ariëns Kappers, hoogleraar neuroanatomie aan de Universiteit van Groningen.

Zie ook
 Nederlands Herseninstituut
 Ariëns Kappers Medal

Externe links
 Kappers artikelen (Engels)
 Enkele van Kappers vertaalde artikelen (Nederlands)

Neurowetenschapper
Natuurwetenschappelijk genootschap
Nederlands persoon in de Tweede Wereldoorlog
Lid van de Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen

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Q: An example of an infinite open cover of the interval (0,1) that has no finite subcover I've been having a hard time solving this problem that I was given in class. The problem states
" Give an example of an infinite open cover of the interval (0,1) that has no finite subcover."
I know that the set has to be compact and that both 0 and 1 are limit points. Aside from those two known factors I'm at a complete loss as to how to go about solving this problem.

A: Think about...
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\bigcup_{n=1}^{\infty}\left(0+\frac{1}{n},1\right)
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A: Since you have the real analysis tag, I'm assuming you are using the standard topology on $\Bbb{R}$, so open sets look like intervals of the form $(a,b)$. An open cover of $(0,1)$ could look something like $$\bigcup_{i=1}^\infty \left(0,1-\frac{1}{i} \right)$$ But you need to verify this is an open cover. That is, show $$(0,1) \subseteq \bigcup_{i=1}^\infty \left(0,1-\frac{1}{i} \right)$$ and further show that if $K \subset \Bbb{N}$ is any finite subset of $\Bbb{N}$ that $$(0,1) \not\subseteq \bigcup_{i\in K} \left(0,1-\frac{1}{i} \right)$$ which demonstrates that the open cover has no finite subcover.

A: You can take the open cover $\{(0+\frac{1}{n}, 1-\frac{1}{n})\mid n>2\} $. It has no finite subcover because if it does simply take the largest $n$ and $\frac{1}{2n}$ is not included.

A: Actually, if you haven't already learned this, you will learn that in $\Bbb R^{n}$, a set is compact if any only if it is both closed and bounded.
The set $(0,1)$ is bounded, but it is not closed, so it can't be compact.
The solution to your exercise of finding an open cover with no finite subcover proves that $(0,1)$ is not compact, because the definition of a set being compact is that every open cover of the set has a finite subcover.
So, the whole trick to finding an open cover with no finite subcover is this:
$(0,1)$ is not closed, and so it doesn't contain all of its limit points (it's easy to see that the two it doesn't contain are $0$ and $1$).  Well, can you construct an open cover whose open sets get closer and closer and closer to at least one (or maybe both) of these end points, but never quite reaches them?  Hint: since we are in $\Bbb R$, think about how you would get closer and closer to a real number $r$ without ever actually being $r$.  If you want to get closer from above, then $\{r + \frac{1}{n} \}_{n = 1}^{\infty}$ is a sequence that gets closer to $r$ from above.  What would be a sequence that gets close to $r$ from below?  You should hopefully say $\{r - \frac{1}{n} \}_{n = 1}^{\infty}$.
Anyway, so maybe we can construct our open intervals so that the end points get closer and closer to the limit points $0$ and $1$, but finitely many of the sets would always have gaps between them and $0$ and $1$... hmm...
Well, we could do $(0 + \frac{1}{3}, 1 - \frac{1}{3}) \cup  (0 + \frac{1}{4}, 1 - \frac{1}{4}) \cup (0 + \frac{1}{5}, 1 - \frac{1}{5}) \cup \ldots$.
These open sets are in $(0,1)$ and have end points getting closer and closer to $0$ and $1$, but any finite number of them won't contain all of $(0,1)$ (why?).  If we use a formula to define these open intervals, it would be $\{ (0 + \frac{1}{n}, 1 - \frac{1}{n}) \}_{n = 3}^{\infty}$.

A: In case you are still interested. Abbot's has this problem as Example 3.3.7. For each point $x\in(0,1)$ consider the open interval $0_x = (x/2,1)$. The infinite union of $O_x$'s forms an open cover of $(0,1)$. Take any finite subset of such $O_x$, and set $x'=\operatorname{min}(x_1,x_2,\dots,x_n)$. You can still find a number $0<y\leq x'/2$ not in any subfinite union.

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Justia Dockets & Filings Fifth Circuit Texas Eastern District Eolas Technologies Incorporated v. Adobe Systems Incorporated et al Filing 295
Eolas Technologies Incorporated v. Adobe Systems Incorporated et al
FIRST AMENDED ANSWER to 285 Amended Complaint,,, COUNTERCLAIM against Eolas Technologies Incorporated by Frito-Lay, Inc..(Yee, Jeffrey)
IN TTIE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS TYLER DIVISION Eolas Technologies Incorporated, Plaintiff, v. Adobe Systems Inc., Amazon.com, Inc. Apple Inc., Blockbuster Inc., CDW Corp.n Citigroup Inc., eBay Inc., Frito-Layr Inc.o The Go Daddy Group,Inc., Google Inc., J.C. Penney Company, Inc., JPMorgan Chase & Co., New Frontier Mediar Inc., Of�ice Depot, Inc., Perot Systems Co"p, Playboy Enterprises Internationa[ fnc., Rent-A-Center, Inc., Staples, Inc., Sun Microsystems Inc., Texas Instruments Inc., Yahoo! Inc.o and YouTube, LLC, Defendants s s $ $ $ s $ s $ S s s s s $ Civil Action No. 6:09-cv-00446-LED s s s s $ DEFETIDANT FRITO-LAY, INC.'S FIRST AMENDED ANSWER TO PLAINTIFF'S FIRST AMENDED COMPLAINT Defendant Frito-Lay, Inc. ("Frito-Lay") hereby submits its First Amended Answer to Eolas Technologies Incorporated's ("Eolas" ("Complaint," Dkt. 285): or "Plaintiff') First Amended Complaint ANSWER I. 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Moreover, Frito-Lay lacks sufficient knowledge or information to form a belief as to the truth of the allegations contained in Paragraph I I I and, therefore, denies them. l. Frito-Lay is not required to answer to the allegations contained in Paragraph I I of the Complaint because the allegations are not directed to Frito-Lay. Moreover, Frito-Lay lacks sufficient knowledge or information to form a belief as to the truth of the allegations contained in Paragraph I I and, therefore, denies them. 12 12. Frito-Lay is not required to answer to the allegations contained in Paragraph of the Complaint because the allegations are not directed to Frito-Lay. Moreover, Frito-Lay lacks sufficient knowledge or information to form a belief as to the truth of the allegations contained in Paragraph 12 and, therefore, denies them. 13. Frito-Lay is not required to answer to the allegations contained in Paragraph l3 of the Complaint because the allegations are not directed to Frito-Lay. Moreover, Frito-Lay lacks sufficient knowledge or information to form a belief as to the truth of the allegations contained in Paragraph l3 and, therefore, denies them. DEFENDANT FRITO-LAY,INC.'S FIRST AMENDED ANSWER TO PLAINTIFF'S FIRST AMENDED COMPLAINT Page 3 14. Frito-Lay is not required to answer to the allegations contained in Paragraph 14 of the Complaint because the allegations are not directed to Frito-Lay. Moreover, Frito-Lay lacks sufficient knowledge or information to form a belief as to the truth of the allegations contained in Paragraph 14 and, therefore, denies them. 15. Frito-Lay is not required to answer to the allegations contained in Paragraph l5 of the Complaint because the allegations are not directed to Frito-Lay. Moreover, Frito-Lay lacks sufficient knowledge or information to form a belief as to the truth of the allegations contained in Paragraph 15 and, therefore, denies them. 16. Frito-Lay is not required to answer to the allegations contained in Paragraph l6 of the Complaint because the allegations are not directed to Frito-Lay. Moreover, Frito-Lay lacks sufficient knowledge or information to form a belief as to the truth of the allegations contained in Paragraph 16 and, therefore, denies them. 17. Frito-Lay is not required to answer to the allegations contained in Paragraph l7 of the Complaint because the allegations are not directed to Frito-Lay. Moreover, Frito-Lay lacks sufficient knowledge or information to form a belief as to the truth of the allegations contained in Paragraph 17 and, therefore, denies them. 18. Frito-Lay is not required to answer to the allegations contained in Paragraph l8 of the Complaint because the allegations are not directed to Frito-Lay. Moreover, Frito-Lay lacks sufficient knowledge or information to form a belief as to the truth of the allegations contained in Paragraph l8 and, therefore, denies them. 19 19. Frito-Lay is not required to answer to the allegations contained in Paragraph of the Complaint because the allegations are not directed to Frito-Lay. Moreover, Frito-Lay DEFENDANT FRITO-LAY,INC.'S FIRST AMENDED ANSWER TO PLAINTIFF'S FIRST AMENDED COMPLAINT Page 4 lacks sufficient knowledge or information to form a belief as to the truth of the allegations contained in Paragraph l9 and, therefore, denies them. 20. Frito-Lay is not required to answer to the allegations contained in Paragraph 20 of the Complaint because the allegations are not directed to Frito-Lay. Moreover, Frito-Lay lacks sufficient knowledge or information to form a belief as to the truth of the allegations contained in Paragraph 20 and, therefore, denies them. 2I. Frito-Lay is not required to answer to the allegations contained in Paragraph 2l of the Complaint because the allegations are not directed to Frito-Lay. Moreover, Frito-Lay lacks sufficient knowledge or information to form a belief as to the truth of the allegations contained in Paragraph2T and, therefore, denies them. 22. Frito-Lay is not required to answer to the allegations contained in Paragraph 22 of the Complaint because the allegations are not directed to Frito-Lay. Moreover, Frito-Lay lacks sufficient knowledge or information to form a belief as to the truth of the allegations contained in Paragraph22 and, therefore, denies them. 23. Frito-Lay is not required to answer to the allegations contained in Paragraph23 of the Complaint because the allegations are not directed to Frito-Lay. Moreover, Frito-Lay lacks sufficient knowledge or information to form a belief as to the truth of the allegations contained in Paragraph23 and, therefore, denies them. II. 24. fully set forth here. JURISDICTION AND VENUE Frito-Lay incorporates its responses contained in Paragraphs l-23 as though DEFENDANT FRITO-LAY,INC.'S FIRST AMENDED ANSWER TO PLAINTIFF'S FIRST AMENDED COMPLAINT Page 5 25. Frito-Lay admits that the Complaint includes claims of patent infringement that arise under the patent laws of the United States, 35 U.S.C. $ 101 er seq.Fnto-Lay admits that this Court has subject matter jurisdiction over this action. 26. Frito-Lay admits that it is subject to this Court's personal jurisdiction. Except as expressly admitted herein, Frito-Lay lacks sufficient knowledge or information to form a belief as to the truth of the allegations contained in Paragraph26 and,therefore, denies them. 27. Frito-Lay admits that venue is proper with respect to Frito-Lay. Except as expressly admitted herein, Frito-Lay lacks sufficient knowledge or information to form a belief as to the truth of the allegations contained in Paragraph2T and, therefore, denies them. III. 28. 29. fully set forth here. PATENT INFRINGEMENT Frito-Lay incorporates its responses contained in Paragraphs l-27 as though From the face of the United States Patents Nos. 5,838,906 ("the '906 Patent) and 7,599,985 ("the '985 Patent"), the title and date of issuance appears to be as alleged in Paragraph 30 of the Complaint. Except as stated herein, Frito-Lay lacks suflicient knowledge or information to form a belief as to the truth of the allegations contained in Paragraph 29 and, therefore, denies them. 30. 31. Frito-Lay lacks sufficient knowledge or information to form a belief as to the truth of the allegations contained in Paragraph 30 and, therefore, denies them. Frito-Lay is not required to answer to the allegations contained in Paragraph 3 I of the Complaint because the allegations are not directed to Frito-Lay. Moreover, Frito-Lay lacks sufficient knowledge or information to form a belief as to the truth of the allegations contained in Paragraph32 and, therefore, denies them. DEFENDANT FRITO-LAY,INC.'S FIRST AMENDED ANSWER TO PLAINTIFF'S FIRST AMENDED COMPLAINT Page 6 32. Frito-Lay is not required to answer to the allegations contained in Paragraph 32 of the Complaint because the allegations are not directed to Frito-Lay. Moreover, Frito-Lay lacks sufficient knowledge or information to form a belief as to the truth of the allegations contained in Paragraph 33 and, therefore, denies them. 33. Frito-Lay is not required to answer to the allegations contained in Paragraph 33 of the Complaint because the allegations are not directed to Frito-Lay. Moreover, Frito-Lay lacks sufficient knowledge or information to form a belief as to the truth of the allegations contained in Paragraph34 and, therefore, denies them. 34. Frito-Lay is not required to answer to the allegations contained in Paragraph 34 of the Complaint because the allegations are not directed to Frito-Lay. Moreover, Frito-Lay lacks sufficient knowledge or information to form a belief as to the truth of the allegations contained in Paragraph 35 and, therefore, denies them. 35. Frito-Lay is not required to answer to the allegations contained in Paragraph 35 of the Complaint because the allegations are not directed to Frito-Lay. Moreover, Frito-Lay lacks sufficient knowledge or information to form a belief as to the truth of the allegations contained in Paragraph 36 and, therefore, denies them. 36. Frito-Lay is not required to answer to the allegations contained in Paragraph 36 of the Complaint because the allegations are not directed to Frito-Lay. Moreover, Frito-Lay lacks sufficient knowledge or information to form a belief as to the truth of the allegations contained in Paragraph 37 and, therefore, denies them. 37. Frito-Lay is not required to answer to the allegations contained in Paragraph 37 of the Complaint because the allegations are not directed to Frito-Lay. Moreover, Frito-Lay DEFENDANT FRITO-LAY,INC.'S FIRST AMENDED ANSWER TO PLAINTIFF'S FIRST AMENDED COMPLAINT PageT lacks sufficient knowledge or information to form a belief as to the truth of the allegations contained in Paragraph 38 and, therefore, denies them. 38. Frito-Lay denies the allegations contained in Paragraph 38, including but not limited to the allegations that it has directly and/or indirectly infringed (by inducement and/or contributory infringement), or is continuing to infringe, directly and/or indirectly, the '906 Patent and/or the '985 Patent. 39. Frito-Lay is not required to answer to the allegations contained in Paragraph 39 of the Complaint because the allegations are not directed to Frito-Lay. Moreover, Frito-Lay lacks sufficient knowledge or information to form a belief as to the truth of the allegations contained in Paragraph 4l and, therefore, denies them. 40. Frito-Lay is not required to answer to the allegations contained in Paragraph 40 of the Complaint because the allegations are not directed to Frito-Lay. Moreover, Frito-Lay lacks sufficient knowledge or information to form a belief as to the truth of the allegations contained in Paragraph 4l and, therefore, denies them. 41. Frito-Lay is not required to answer to the allegations contained in Paragraph 4l of the Complaint because the allegations are not directed to Frito-Lay. Moreover, Frito-Lay lacks sufficient knowledge or information to form a belief as to the truth of the allegations contained in Paragraph42 and,therefore, denies them. 42. Frito-Lay is not required to answer to the allegations contained in Paragraph 42 of the Complaint because the allegations are not directed to Frito-Lay. Moreover, Frito-Lay lacks sufficient knowledge or information to form a belief as to the truth of the allegations contained in Paragraph 43 and, therefore, denies them. DEFENDANT FRITO-LAY,INC.'S FIRST AMENDED ANSWER TO PLAINTIFF'S FTRST AMENDED COMPLAINT Page 8 43. Frito-Lay is not required to answer to the allegations contained in Paragraph 43 of the Complaint because the allegations are not directed to Frito-Lay. Moreover, Frito-Lay lacks sufhcient knowledge or information to form a belief as to the truth of the allegations contained in Paragraph 44 and, therefore, denies them. 44. Frito-Lay is not required to answer to the allegations contained in Paragraph 44 of the Complaint because the allegations are not directed to Frito-Lay. Moreover, Frito-Lay lacks sufficient knowledge or information to form a belief as to the truth of the allegations contained in Paragraph 45 and, therefore, denies them. 45. Frito-Lay is not required to answer to the allegations contained in Paragraph 45 of the Complaint because the allegations are not directed to Frito-Lay. Moreover, Frito-Lay lacks sufficient knowledge or information to form a belief as to the truth of the allegations contained in Paragraph 46 and, therefore, denies them. 46. Frito-Lay is not required to answer to the allegations contained in Paragraph 46 of the Complaint because the allegations are not directed to Frito-Lay. Moreover, Frito-Lay lacks sufficient knowledge or information to form a belief as to the truth of the allegations contained in Paragraph 47 and, therefore, denies them. 47. Frito-Lay is not required to answer to the allegations contained in Paragraph 47 of the Complaint because the allegations are not directed to Frito-Lay. Moreover, Frito-Lay lacks sufficient knowledge or information to form a belief as to the truth of the allegations contained in Paragraph 48 and, therefore, denies them. 48. Frito-Lay is not required to answer to the allegations contained in Paragraph 48 of the Complaint because the allegations are not directed to Frito-Lay. Moreover, Frito-Lay DEFENDANT FRITO-LAY,INC.'S FIRST AMENDED ANS\ilER TO PLAINTIFF'S FIRST AMENDED COMPLAINT Page 9 lacks sufficient knowledge or information to form a belief as to the truth of the allegations contained in Paragraph 49 and, therefore, denies them. 49. Frito-Lay is not required to answer to the allegations contained in Paragraph 49 of the Complaint because the allegations are not directed to Frito-Lay. Moreover, Frito-Lay lacks sufficient knowledge or information to form a belief as to the truth of the allegations contained in Paragraph 50 and, therefore, denies them. 50. Frito-Lay is not required to answer to the allegations contained in Paragraph 50 of the Complaint because the allegations are not directed to Frito-Lay. Moreover, Frito-Lay lacks sufficient knowledge or information to form a belief as to the truth of the allegations contained in Paragraph 5l and, therefore, denies them. 51. Frito-Lay is not required to answer to the allegations contained in Paragraph 5 I of the Complaint because the allegations are not directed to Frito-Lay. Moreover, Frito-Lay lacks sufficient knowledge or information to form a belief as to the truth of the allegations contained in Paragraph 52 and, therefore, denies them. 52. Frito-Lay is not required to answer to the allegations contained in Paragraph 52 of the Complaint because the allegations are not directed to Frito-Lay. Moreover, Frito-Lay lacks sufficient knowledge or information to form a belief as to the truth of the allegations contained in Paragraph 53 and, therefore, denies them. 53. Frito-Lay denies the allegations contained in Paragraph 53 of the Complaint to the extent that the allegations are directed to Frito-Lay. Moreover, Frito-Lay lacks sufficient knowledge or information to form a belief as to the truth of the allegation contained in Paragraph 53 directed at Defendants other than Frito-Lay, and therefore, denies them. DEFENDANT FRITO-LAY,INC.'S FIRST AMENDED ANSWER TO PLAINTIFF'S FIRST AMENDED COMPLAINT Page l0 54. Frito-Lay denies the allegations contained in Paragraph 54 of the Complaint to the extent that the allegations are directed to Frito-Lay. Moreover, Frito-Lay lacks sufficient knowledge or information to form a belief as to the truth of the allegation contained in Paragraph 54 directed at Defendants other than Frito-Lay, and therefore, denies them. 55. Frito-Lay denies the allegations contained in Paragraph 55 of the Complaint to the extent that the allegations are directed to Frito-Lay. Moreover, Frito-Lay lacks sufficient knowledge or information to form a belief as to the truth of the allegation contained in Paragraph 55 directed at Defendants other than Frito-Lay, and therefore, denies them. 56. Frito-Lay denies the allegations contained in Paragraph 56 of the Complaint to the extent that the allegations are directed to Frito-Lay. Moreover, Frito-Lay lacks suff�cient knowledge or information to form a belief as to the truth of the allegation contained in Paragraph 56 directed at Defendants other than Frito-Lay, and therefore, denies them. PLAINTIFF'S PRAYER FOR RELIEF 57. Frito-Lay. Frito-Lay denies that Plaintiff is entitled to any of its requests for relief against DEFENSES 58. Frito-Lay's Defenses are set forth below. Frito-Lay undertakes the burden of proof only as to those defenses as required by law regardless of how such defenses are denominated herein. Frito-Lay reserves the right Defenses. to amend its Answer to add additional DEFENDANT FRITO-LAY,INC.'S FIRST AMENDED ANSWER TO PLAINTIFF'S FIRST AMENDED COMPLAINT Page I I FIRST DEFENSE 59. Frito-Lay has not and does not directly or indirectly (bV inducement, contributory in�ingement, or otherwise) infringe any of the claims of the '906 Patent or the '985 Patent either literally or under the Doctrine of Equivalents. SECOND DEFENSE 60. The '906 Patent and the '985 Patent are invalid or void for failing to satisff the conditions ofpatentability as set forth in 35 U.S.C $$100, l0l, 102, 103 and/or 112. THIRD DEFENSE 61. Plaintiff is estopped from construing any valid claim of the'906 Patent orthe '985 Patent to be infringed literally or by the Doctrine of Equivalents by any act of Frito-Lay due to the disclosures of prior art or to the admissions or statements made to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office during prosecution of the patents in suit or because of the disclosure or language of the specifrcation or claims thereof. FOI]RTH DEFENSE 62. Plaintiff is not entitled to recover any damages to the extent that Plaintiff, or any predecessors in interest to the '906 or the '985 Patent, or licensees thereof, failed to properly mark any of their relevant products as required by 35 U.S.C. $287 or otherwise give proper notice that Frito-Lay's actions actually infringed the '906 or the '985 Patent. Frito-Lay is not liable to Plaintiff for the acts alleged to have been performed before Frito-Lay received notice that it was allegedly infringing the '906 and/or the '985 Patent. DEFENDANT FRITO-LAY, INC.'S FIRST AMENDED ANSWER TO PLAINTIFF'S FIRST AMEN DED COMPLAINT Page l2 FIFTH DEFENSE 63. herein. Frito-Lay incorporates its responses as set forth above as though fully set forth 64. To the extent that Plaintiff asserts that Frito-Lay indirectly infringes, either by contributory infringement or inducement, Frito-Lay is not liable to Plaintiff for the acts alleged to have been performed before Frito-Lay knew that its actions would cause the indirect infringement. SD(TH DEFENSE 65. Plaintiff s claims against Frito-Lay are improper to the extent that any allegedly infringing products are directly or indirectly provided to Frito-Lay or by Frito-Lay to an entity having an express or implied license to the '906 and/or the '985 Patent. SEVENTH DEFENSE 66. On information and belief, Plaintiffs patent rights with respect to any allegedly infringing products are exhausted by virtue of an express or implied license to the '906 and/or the '985 Patent to one or more third parties. EIGHTH DEFENSE 67. Plaintiff is not entitled to any injunctive relief as demanded because any injury to Plaintiff is neither immediate or irreparable, and Plaintiff has adequate remedies at law. IIINTH DEITENSE 68. The '985 Patent is invalid and/or unenforceable under the doctrine of prosecution laches. DEFENDANT FRITO-LAY,INC.'S FIRST AMENDED ANSWER PLAINTIFF'S FIRST AMENDED COMPLAINT TO Page 13 TENTH DEFENSE 69. On information and belief, and subject to further amendments as Frito-Lay obtains a more information during discovery, the '906 Patent and the '985 Patent are unenforceable as result of inequitable conduct. 70. On information and belief, as recited in Eolas Technologies, Inc. v. Microsoft Corp.,399 F.3d 1325 (Fed. Cir.2005), Michael D. Doyle (Doyle), one of the inventors of the'906 Patent, knew of a browser named Viola ("Viola Browser") yet failed to disclose any information regarding that reference to the United States Patent and Trademark Office (PTO). 71. On information and beliet on August 31,1994, Doyle asserted in apress release that researchers at the University of California had "created software for embedding interactive program objects within hypermedia documents." That same day, V/ei contacted Doyle via e-mail in response to the press release. Wei alleged that his demonstration of Viola (version DX34) to Sun Microsystems engineers in May 1993 exhibited a way to embed interactive objects and transport them over the web. Wei directed Doyle in his August 31, 1994 e-mail to a document he had prepared about Viola (the "Viola paper"), which was available on the Internet at least by August 13,1994. Doyle downloaded and read the Viola paper. In a later email exchange, Doyle attempted to obtain Wei's concession that he was not the first to invent the method for embedding interactive program objects within hypermedia documents. Additionally, Doyle asserted in the email exchange that Wei's invention was different from Doyle's invention. 72. The Federal Circuit has held that "Wei's May 7,1993 demonstration to two Sun Microsystems employees without confidentiality agreements was a public use under [35 U.S.C. $102(b)1." Eolas Technolog�es,399 F.3d 1325, 1335. Moreover, the Federal Circuit held that a reasonable jury could find at least claims I and 6 of the '906 patent obvious in light of the Viola DEFENDANT FRITO.LAY,INC.'S FIRST AMENDED ANSWER TO PLAINTIFF'S FIRST AMENDED COMPLAINT Page l4 Browser; and a district court could find that Doyle had committed inequitable conduct by failing to disclose the Viola Browser to the PTO. Id. at 1335-36. 73. On information and beliet on October 17,1994, the University of California filed the'906 patent application. In 1998, before issuance of the'906 patent, Doyle performed more research on Viola and made a folder labeled "Viola stuff." This folder included press releases of two "beta" versions of Viola from February and March of 1994. 74. Mr. Doyle and the attorneys prosecuting the application for the '906 Patent owed a duty of candor to the United States Patent and Trademark Office ("PTO") in connection with the prosecution of the '906 Patent. Mr. Doyle and/or the attorneys prosecuting the application for the '906 Patent violated their duty of candor by, on information and belief, intentionally failing to disclose the Viola browser to the PTO during the prosecution browser would have been material to the prosecution Patent is unenforceable. of the '906 Patent. The Viola Patent. Therefore, the '906 of the '906 75. This violation of the duty of candor carries through to each of the applications claiming priority to the application for the '906 Patent, including the '985 Patent. The '906 Patent and the'985 Patent share the same specifications. On July 20, 2004, the PTO rejected the claims pending in the application that issued as the '985 Patent under the doctrine of statutory doublepatenting and obviousness-type double patenting. The owner of the '985 Patent cancelled one pending claim and filed a terminal disclaimer for the remaining claims in order to overcome the double-patenting rejections. It was not argued that the pending claims were patentably distinct from the claims of the '906 Patent. Therefore, the '985 Patent is unenforceable. DEFENDANT FRITO-LAY,INC.'S FIRST AMENDED ANSWER TO PLAINTIFF'S FIRST AMENDED COMPLAINT Page l5 ELEVENTH DEFENSE 76. To the extent that Plaintiffs claims are based on acts performed by the Microsoft Explorer browser or a user's use thereot there can be no direct, and, therefore, no indirect infringement due to Microsoft's purported license to the '906 Patent and/or the '985 Patent. TWELFTH DEFENSE 77. hands. Plaintiffls claims are baned by the equitable doctrines of laches and/or unclean COUNTERCLAIMS 78. herein. Frito-Lay incorporates its responses as set forth above as though fully set forth 79. Frito-Lay has not directly or indirectly infringed, contributed to or induced infringement of any valid or enforceable claim of the '906 Patent or the'985 Patent, and has not otherwise committed any acts in violation of 35 U.S.C. �271. 80. and,l12. The '906 Patent and the '985 Patent, and every claim thereof, are invalid for 103 failing to meet the conditions for patentability as set forth in 35 U.S.C. $$100, l0l, 102, 81. An actual controversy exists between Frito-Lay and Plaintiff concerning the alleged infringement and validity of the'906 Patent and the '985 Patent by virtue of Plaintiffs Complaint herein. 82. 83. Frito-Lay is entitled to judgment from this Court that no claim of either the '906 Patent or the '985 Patent has been infringed by Frito-Lay, and that all claims are invalid. This is an exceptional case entitling Frito-Lay to an award of its attorney's fees incurred in connection with this action pursuant to 35 U.S.C. $285. DEFENDANT FRITO-LAY,INC.'S FIRST AMENDED ANSWER PLAINTIFF'S FIRST AMENDED COMPLAINT TO Page 16 84. Frito-Lay continues to investigate this matter and reserves the right to amend its Answer and/or Counterclaims to assert any additional defenses or counterclaims that come to light upon further investigation and discovery. PRAYER FOR RELIEF V/HEREFORE Frito-Lay prays that: 85. 86. 87. 88. 89. 90. the Court dismiss the Complaint against Frito-Lay with prejudice; the Court declare that Frito-Lay has not and does not infringe the '906 Patent or the'985 Patent; the Court declare that the '906 Patent and the '985 Patent are invalid; the Court declare that Eolas is not entitled to any remedy or relief whatsoever against Frito-Lay; the Court award Frito-Lay its costs, together with reasonable attorneys fees and all of its expenses for this suit because this is an exceptional case under 35 U.S.C. $285; and the Court award Frito-Lay such other relief as this Court may deem just and proper at law or in equity. DEFENDANT FRITO-LAY,INC.'S FIRST AMENDED ANSWER PLAINTIFF'S FIRST AMENDED COMPLAINT TO PagelT Dated: June 3,2009. Respectfully submitted, /s/ Je.{fre:t F. Yee Jeffrey K. Joyner (admittedpro hac v�ce) joynerj@gtlaw.com Jeffrey F. Yee (admittedpro hac vice) yeej@gtlaw.com GREENBERG TRAURIG LLP 2450 Colorado Avenue, Suite 4008 Santa Monica, California 90404 Telephone: (3 I 0) 586-7700 Facsimile: (3 I 0) 586-7800 Christopher M. Joe chris j oe@bj ciplaw.com Brian Carpenter brian. carpenterb @bj cipl aw. com Eric W. Buether eric.buethere@bj ciplaw. com Buether Joe & Carpenter, LLP 1700 Pacific, Suite 2390 Dallas, Texas 75201 Telephone : (21 4) 466- I 27 0 Facsimile: (21 4) 63 5-1842 ATTORNEYS F'OR DEFENDAI\T FRITO-LAY, n',{C. DEFENDANT FRITO-LAY,INC.'S FIRST AMENDED ANSWER PLAINTIFF'S FIRST AMENDED COMPLAINT TO Page l8 cERTrrrcArrc oFsERvrcn The undenigned hereby certifies that all counsel of record who are deemed to have consented to electronic service are being served with a copy of this document via the Court's CIv�/ECF system per Local Rule CV-5(aX3) this 3rd day of June 2010. Any other counsel of record will be served by facsimile transmission and/or electronic mail pursuant to Local Rule CV-5(d). /s/ Jeffrev F. Yee Jeffrey F. Yee DEFENDANT FRITO-LAY,INC.'S FIRST AMENDED ANSTVER TO PLAINTIFF'S FIRST AMENDED COMPLAINT Page 19


Ok, so there is good reason why Lync should not be accessible over the Internet similarly to any single factor system. BRUTE-FORCE will usually prevail!!!!
I installed burp's certificate on my Windows host and attempted to login from Lync (From this I was an HTTP NTLM Login request to https://lyncwebact.customer.com/WebTicket/WebTicketService.svc).
NTLM like many other services is made fairly simple to brute-force or attempt one password guess against many accounts. I have used hydra for this once before but a colleague recently wrote a pretty decent python script that makes it even easier and you don't need to know all the switches etc (https://github.com/strawp/random-scripts/blob/master/ntlm-botherer.py).
On every internal pentest I perform I always find myself searching through lots of Nessus findings to actually get the output I want, so I wrote a script. This script is piggy backed of a cool python class called dotnessus_v2 parser (http://code.google.com/p/pynessus/). Basically my script takes a Nessus file as the input and parses the RMI Registry and RMI Object detection plugins and creates you a nice easy Metasploit RC file that runs the auxiliary module against all affected hosts and ports without any user interaction, allowing you to crack on with other stuff while you wait for positive results, e.g. Pwnable services that allow remote class loading.
The reason I did this was because in a standard /24 cidr range your likely to get around 30-50 ports on 20 or so hosts if the environment if fairly populated. This speeds the pwnage process up ten fold. In addition to this it will also create you a webhosts.txt file that lists all the HTTP/HTTPS services that Nessus finds so that you can later run more scripts against these, e.g. I often use my screenshot script to take a screendump of all available web services or nikto each host etc.


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NICE draft guidance on adult hearing loss: Consultation response
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has published a draft guidance on the assessment and management of hearing loss in adults for consultation. We would like to know your views in three key areas to include them in our formal response to the draft.
By: Tahrima Choudhury | 08 December 2017
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is an independent organisation, set up by the Government in 1999, to provide national guidance and quality standards on treatments and care for health and social care practitioners and commissioners.
NICE has published their draft guidance on the assessment and management of hearing loss in adults for consultation. NICE draft guidance can be found here.
We will be submitting a formal response to the guideline and want to ensure that people with deafness and hearing loss have their views included in our response. We would like to hear your views on recommendations on the following areas:
Hearing aids:
NICE has recommended that hearing aids should be offered to adults whose hearing loss affects their ability to communicate, two hearing aids should be offered to adults with hearing loss in both ears.
We support this recommendation. There is significant evidence on the improvements to health and well-being from using hearing aids. Research shows that fitting two hearing aids improves speech clarity and reduces listening strain, and enables better localisation of sound.
Role of GPs in referring to audiology services:
NICE has recommended that GPs should refer all adults, regardless of their age who present for the first time with hearing difficulties, or whom hearing difficulties are suspected.
We support this recommendation. GPs play a crucial role in the NHS for people with hearing loss, however evidence suggests that often GPs can act as a barrier to people getting help for their hearing loss, by failing to make referrals to audiology services.
Removing earwax in primary and community care:
NICE has recommended that removal of earwax in primary or community care is offered to adults if it is contributing to hearing loss or other symptoms, or prevents examination of the ear.
We support this recommendation. Excessive earwax has a negative impact on the ear, hearing and hearing aids. It also affects delivery of services by audiology and ear nose and throat (ENT) departments.
Our response to the draft guideline will reviewed by NICE, and changes will be made to the guideline if considered appropriate. The final version is due to be published in May 2018.
To have your views included in our response, please read the guidance and share with us your views by commenting below or emailing Tahrima Choudhury at tahrima.choudhury@hearingloss.org.uk by the 5th of January 2018.
Developing an objective test for tinnitus
Our new PhD students started their research projects in October, studying topics from a new way to measure tinnitus to improving cochlear implant surgery.
By: Ralph Holme
Research breakthrough in hair cell regeneration
Researchers in the US recently discovered a way to 're-programme' inner ear cells to produce cells similar to the sound-sensing hair cells in adult mice. This is an important step forward in research to develop treatments for hearing loss, as cells in the adult inner ear do not naturally replace themselves when they are damaged.
By: Tracey Pollard
Lloyds Bank launches sign language support for online Customers
Lloyds Bank has announced they are the first UK organisation to offer Signly, a pioneering website translation tool for Sign Language customers.
By: Kevin Taylor
International Symposium on Inner Ear Therapeutics
Earlier this month Action on Hearing Loss joined scientists, pharmaceutical companies and clinicians from around the world in Hanover, Germany, to discuss the latest developments in treatments for inner ear-related diseases, including hearing loss and tinnitus.
By: Cláudia Gonçalves
Understanding hearing loss in the workplace
Recruiting people who are deaf or have hearing loss
Supporting employees with hearing loss
We're really proud of everyone who's a part of Action on Hearing Loss, and hope you'll feel inspired to become a part of our community.
We campaign for changes that make life better for people who are confronting deafness, tinnitus and hearing loss.
Our ears are our organs of hearing and balance. They have three parts: the outer, middle and inner ear.


My husband and I spent our weekend in the garden. The unseasonal warmth and sunlight brought out the neighborhood children, including ours, and offered a false sense of impending spring. I fell for it and bought plants. I'll never be sorry for hoping too soon, for spring or anything else.
We have talked of my back story and the winter within. We've talked of war and loss. We've visited the weavers hut and heard the faint promise of a season to come, whispered of from far beneath the snow. But even as the narrator, I cannot tell you what is behind the Weaver's smile, cannot look onto his loom and tell you what the tapestry will be- my interest lies beyond his small house, in the garden, under the frozen layer where a tendril, strong and green, has begun to stir and spin and melt the snow around it with the warmth of its hope.
I was raised on five acres. As an adult, that doesn't seem like much. But from the vantage of childhood, that small piece of property was a wilderness of possibility. I knew every tree and path and crossing and spent a good portion of my youth covered in the dirt of that land.
The house itself sat far back from the winding country road, surrounded by ornamental cherry's and the deep green of cedar and fir. In the winter, the quarter mile walk from the end of our drive where the school bus picked us up and dropped us off, was long and snow covered. My brother and I didn't walk those accumulated miles together. He jumped off the bus and trudged ahead, not wanting contact. I let him go.
We walked in silence, his gate so much faster than mine that soon he was out of sight, down the hill and around the bend towards home. I took my time, kicked the snow, watched the sky change to afternoon gray, went carefully so I didn't spook the heron that sometimes stole the bullfrogs from the duckpond. Down the hill and past the lower pasture where our horses stood ankle deep in frozen mud and manure, breathing in the cold air and letting it bellow out of their great lungs like ghostly apparitions in the late afternoon chill. It was a walk in silence and frost and darkness. A walk alone, the way we both preferred it.
As the years passed, season changing into season, I learned which tree's showed springs earliest growth, which lilies woke first and broke through frozen ground. I learned to watch carefully, and listen carefully, for the signs. A relationship formed between myself and that land, those tree's, the row of weeping birch that ushered the child home, the dignified Iris at the corner of my horses barn, the deep foliage of Hosta beneath the deck stairs where it was shady in summer's heat. When I think of a garden, this is what I know; season after season, when it is loved, it remains faithful. It always returns.
At the end of that stand of Birch along our drive, stood a solitary tree. It wasn't a birch and it stood out horribly against the backdrop of those enormous, towering giants. Small and slim and ordinary, it appeared never to grow, remaining a sapling for what seemed like decades. I don't know who planted it or where it came from, but it sprouted right in line with all those glorious birch, wise with their fifty plus years, casting their shade over the smaller. It never blossomed, never twisted, never did anything other than just stand there and be ordinary. But of all my fathers garden, out of all his specimen plants and roses and Japanese Maples and Lilies, this tree was my favorite.
When all the garden was still sleeping in winters ice, this tree began to grow. It became ritual to stop and examine on my way down the long road towards home, to look in on the little tree where she stood in line, proudly defiant, to pull her branch down and feel along the curve for the evidence of buds, the slight lift of bark. And it would always be there, in early February, tiny breaks that would be leaf and branch and spring. Within weeks those breaks were embryonic leaves, tightly curled against the cold. And then, as if they'd had enough and were just going to face the frost, they exploded into green. And that little tree, alone in a line of older, wiser peers, was life, and breath, and promise. It held my hope in it's branches.
When my father left and I began to move from place to place, I left that tree and all the others, all those relationships, behind me. Fall came, and all the once loved leaves of spring and summer, released and fell to die, and it seemed for some time that spring would never come again. I steadied myself from heartache, from orphanhood, and walked forward into a winter that endured indefinitely. No tears would fall, no smile lay fully open to joy, the heart would sit dormant and chilled and wait for peace or hope to find it, beating quietly in this half breathed life.
For some it's cancer, for others it's death or divorce or Jesus, the thing that awakens them to the life in which they live and walk and speak and are. Something happens and then it's as if they know something that everyone else has missed somehow and suddenly they're flooded with something...life maybe...or joy...or understanding. And they are quite suddenly alive.
For me, it's been different. It's been quiet at times and screaming at me at others. It's been laughter over coffee. It's been Long Island Iced tea's on a dark deck, the smell of a friend's pipe tobacco reminding me of my grandfather and simpler times. It's been running, literally, in the middle of winter when it's fourteen degree's and so cold I lose feeling in my face, running and running, miles at a time, and wondering what I'm running from.
When that first tear fell in November, over something small and delightful, a tear of joy, I panicked, worried that it would be like breaking a dam, the flooding destructive, and I struggled for control. When it happened again, I wrote my pastor a letter of concern and told him something horrible was happening.
When we cleaned our basement and I realized I'd wasted ten years of my life storing away my hopes and dreams and 'valuables' on shelves in a basement and not in the people that I truly care about, I wept. In public. In front of actual people as I told the story at a friends house. And as a sign of loyalty, my friend wept with me.
Behind these moments, there has been a sound, steady, continuing, strong. The sound of ice breaking, that eerie groaning that signals danger. And it does, to some extent, signal that for me. But I'm not standing on that frozen tundra. I'm beneath it. And that sound is freedom, too. It's the sound of life returning to the garden, the rush of the creek, the song of finch, the silent growth of that little tree at the end of the Birch stand, unfurling her leaves in spite of the barren winter around her, the steady drip of melting ice falling away, rushing away, in the light of hope.
I can look back now with peace, into that tiny, childish bedroom where my father used to sit and tell me stories. I can see him sitting there even now, head lowered, voice quiet and the child watching every word with eyes full of wonder. I'm a woman at the door. And I can reach, and slowly close it, can say goodbye to that sweet girl who didn't deserve to be left. And goodbye, too, to the man who hurt too much to stay.
It's usually only with time that I can look back and see clearly, as if I have to get a certain distance away before the past really makes sense. I'm happy to say that I think I've finally gotten to that point, made peace with my old hauntings and let them drift back where they belong permanently. I'm an orphan of sorts, and I've found balance in that. I wouldn't want to change it now, even if I could. It's my story. As much a part of me as that tiny tree.
At this discovery, sunlight spills across the floor and beckons to warmth. To hope.
It's too nice to stay inside. Spring is here. And I want to spend it in the garden.
At the Weaver's hut, the snow is gone. That tiny tendril has grown tall in the corner of His garden and has stretched into a strong sapling, ordinary, but lovely. And still defiant. She is the first to open her leaves in winter. She will never be sorry for hoping too soon. For spring, or anything else.
I wonder if any of your blog followers have heard of/read The Shack by Wm. Paul Young. If I may be an encouragement to read it, so be it. I have only just read it today and I am amazed and delighted. Plus, this person is from Oregon! Ta-da! My other favorite is by another Oregon author "Heaven" by Randy Alcorn. He is from Gresham.


-- Lemmas related to application.
-- The wk substitution and the weaken function are equivalent.
-- wk-subst is equivalent to composition with wk.
-- TODO: Prove this lemma using /⊢-/⊢-wk?
-- A variant of suc-/∋-↑.
-- wk ↑⁺ Γ⁺ and wk commute (more or less).
-- using, among other things, this lemma.
-- Another lemma used in the proof of /⊢-/⊢-wk.


Standup was definitely born in a face-to-face context. Having participated in both face-to-face and by remote, I would say that there are some serious coordination issues in the remote version. It's often difficult to hear exactly what some one else is saying — and there is somehow a high barrier to asking them to repeat it (it seems against the rules and spirit of standup somehow – although, interestingly, when present I would have had no problem telling some one that they couldn't be heard…).
Another helpful modification with remote participants might be a coordinator role — some one to call out specifically what is going on, who's up and to begin and end the sesssion. I'd have to give it some thought, but it seems like this might address a lot of the problems with remote participation. The moderator could even quickly summarize in bullet-point form the content of what each person says as they "move the token" from person to person (or just name the projects the person has worked on and is working on, for example).
I think that – regardless of group size – with a remote standup, starting with one's name is a very good convention to promote. It's only "obvious" who is speaking to those "in the room".
I think the 3 or more way phone conference stand-up is difficult to coordinate. The timing has to be just right for everyone to participate. I agree with Tom that IM may work better in this instance. I meeting organizer can easily invite everyone that is available into a chat. The downside is that it's less personable. Video IMing would be ideal, but I don't think we have the hardware in place to do that yet.
Everyone should be required to tell a short joke, like a knock-knock joke, because, after all, this is called "Stand-up." Actually, knock-knock jokes are ideal, because then everyone can participate.
Also — if this isn't already being done — if two people present as a pair, they should both hold onto the token at the same time, as though they were holding hands.
However, although I think that the meetings need more coordination as a result of off-site participants, there are pros and cons to having an actual coordinator due to the probable insecurities of various individuals. If it is feasible, I would suggest creating a randomizing program which assigns a speaking order to each meeting. People would simply need to remember who presents before them. No personalities are hurt. It may also be of benefit to include "(off-site)" after the names of those who won't be physically present, so that it won't take anyone off-guard when a disembodied voice begins talking through the speaker phone.


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#86 of the year and #6 of the Reel East Film Festival is the area premiere of the new Jason Schwartzman film 7 Chinese Brothers. It's a slacker slice of life where Jason gets fired from a job, gets another and seems to care only about his grandmother (Olympia Dukakis) and his bulldog Arrow (his real pet bulldog). There is very little plot here as nothing really dramatic or terribly funny happens. And when something happens that could be dramatic - it isn't. 7CB seems to veer into obvious improv once in awhile, which is always a bad sign for me. Stephen Root is the funniest thing in this film as his grandmother's lawyer who always ends up doing the inappropriate thing! Opens in theaters and on ITunes on August 28th.


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IoT in the shadows
Source: http://www.btc.co.uk/Articles/index.php?mag=Network&page=compDetails&link=9120
BYOD is a thing of the past - or is it? Gary Cox, Technology Director for Infoblox in Western Europe, explores the troubling rise of Shadow IoT and how to detect it.
With the Internet of Things (IoT) continuing to grow, and with employees connecting an increasing number of consumer devices to enterprise networks, IT teams find themselves faced with greater complexity and more security issues than ever before.
The scale of the problem was illustrated by the findings of a recent Infoblox survey which revealed that, while three quarters of businesses have over 1,000 approved devices such as PCs and company mobiles connected to their networks, more than a third reported at least 5,000 non-approved devices, including personal phones, laptops and e-readers.
Typically offering very poor security, many of these consumer devices provide cybercriminals with an ideal point of entry to an organisation's network, and this represents a very real threat to that organisation and its business.
Identifying prey
Many businesses reported having a significant number of non-business IoT devices such as fitness trackers, Smart TVs, and digital assistants connected to their enterprise network. There are, however, a number of tools readily available that will enable cybercriminals to exploit the control of such devices. In 2017, for example, details of a CIA tool dubbed 'Weeping Angel' were published on WikiLeaks. Here, it was explained how the tool was used by agents to transform Samsung smart TVs into live microphones.
The identification of vulnerable devices can be achieved with worrying ease. A basic search on sites such as Shodan, a search engine for internet-connected devices, can deliver a wealth of information, including details of a device's banner, along with their open ports including HTTP, SSH, FTP and SNMP.
It's worth noting that the site is not, in itself, illegal. The details it provides, however, could be used by even the lowest level criminals as a means of identifying potentially vulnerable devices connected to corporate networks.
Social media is being used as a means of spreading malware. Cybercriminals often exploit the fact that users tend to lower their guard on social networks, making them more likely to click on links with unknown sources. The fact that around two in five employees claimed to have accessed social media on their personal devices while connected to their organisation's network should therefore ring alarm bells.
Equally worrying is the claim by a quarter of the survey's respondents that they downloaded apps to their personal device while connected to an enterprise network. This is especially concerning when you consider that even apps from legitimate download sites have been found to contain malware.
Introducing a security policy for connected devices is a sensible first step in managing the threat that they pose although, according to the report, employees can't necessarily be relied upon to follow it. IT administrators should therefore be able to enforce policy, restrict access to certain sites and types of content, and review non-compliant activity throughout the organisation.
By providing unified visibility into all devices, IP Address Management (IPAM) will enable IT admins to manage those devices more effectively, and DNS-based security will provide essential context and visibility, alerting IT admins of any network anomalies, and enabling them to identify and block malicious activity more quickly.
What's more, with threat intelligence data integrated into their DNS management, security teams will be able to monitor and prevent access to Newly Observed Domains, the creation of which tends to indicate that an attack is forthcoming.
A plethora of connected devices, approved and otherwise, have made Shadow IoT a reality, and one which affords cybercriminals the opportunity to exploit vulnerable devices. To minimise this risk, enterprise teams must discover and identify what's lurking on their networks, and take the steps necessary to protect it from external threats.
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Last Night in Soho (English)
Avneet Kaur looks like an absolute hottie in a black embellished dress
Hoye Ishq Na song from Tadap OUT: Ahan Shetty's fiercely in love avatar is intriguing; Tara Sutaria is a treat to sore eyes – watch
Producer of 83 offers clarification on the legal hassle around the upcoming film starring Ranveer Singh
A few days back it was reported that a UAE-based financier company approached a Mumbai court seeking judicial interference against Vibri Media, the producers of the soon-to-be-released Bollywood film 83, alleging conspiracy, cheating, and conniving to siphon funds from it to produce the film. Now, a spokesperson from Vibri Media has issued a clarification denying […]
Jacqueline Fernandez releases first statement in relation to Sukesh Chandrasekar controversy and viral photos – "I'm currently going through a rough patch"
Bollywood actress Jacqueline Fernandez has released her first statement in relation to her alleged involvement with conman Sukesh Chandrasekar. The latter is allegedly a prime suspect in the Rs. 200 crore money laundering case and has been under investigation. His involvement with Fernandez has been widely reported in media and in recent times, many of […]


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Forthcoming. Can the Aim of Belief Ground Epistemic Normativity? Philosophical Studies.
2015. Epistemic Instrumentalism and the Too Few Reasons Objection. International Journal of Philosophical Studies. 23 (3): 337-355.
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Judge Henry Boroff followed through on his plan to release previously sealed documents in the GT Advanced Technologies bankruptcy case that it and Apple had both agreed should stay secret. The documents paint Apple as a strong-arm bully imposing onerous terms on GTAT and its sapphire glass production, and claim the iPhone and iPad maker engaged in bait-and-switch tactics during contract negotiations.
According to GTAT COO Daniel Squiller's testimony, Apple told the company to not waste its time trying to negotiate contract terms because the it doesn't negotiate with suppliers. He added that when GTAT pushed for what it saw as better terms, Apple said the terms were standard for its suppliers, and it needed to "put on [its] big boy pants and accept the agreement."
Those terms included demands that GTAT fulfill Apple's purchase orders on whatever date Apple set, or buy the additional material to complete the order at its own cost. The contract also included a US$50 million per incident penalty for disclosing confidential information.
GTAT signed the deal with Apple a year ago to produce synthetic sapphire glass for the Apple Watch, iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus. The company wasn't able to follow through on its commitment, leading to spiraling expenses, missed deadlines, and ultimately bankruptcy. The company previously called Apple's terms "oppressive and burdensome."
Apple had agreed to front US$578 million in a series of payments so GTAT could ramp up its sapphire production. Apple also bought and leased factory space to the company to house the furnaces needed to produce the glass.
Mr. Squiller went on to say that GTAT didn't have any input in the Mesa, Arizona, sapphire manufacturing plant Apple financed, and that Apple put some of its own staff in the factory who then tried to boss GTAT's own workers.
The contrat GTAT ended up signing was the result of what he called "bait-and-switch" tactics, and that it was an "onerous and massively one-sided deal" in Apple's favor. Mr. Squiller said their relationship became unsustainable after Apple refused to take responsibility for cost overruns resulting from its efforts to control GTAT's production process.
He added that the manufacturing equipment Apple purchased for the sapphire production couldn't "economically produce a product that Apple would accept."
Other documents Judge Boroff released today paint a different story where Apple continued to fund GTAT's production despite the company's failure to deliver sapphire in the quantities it needed.
Regardless of Apple's negotiating tactics, GTAT wasn't obligated to sign on the dotted line. The company could've walked away at any time and carried on with business as usual, but instead Mr. Squiller said GTAT said the company felt it had to sign because it had already invested so much time in working out a deal.
The outcome of that decision was that Apple didn't have sapphire glass to use for the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus display, GTAT is in bankruptcy court, and over 700 employees are looking for new jobs. If the terms were that onerous, maybe GTAT should've turned the deal down.


Timed to coincide with President Clinton's visit to China this week, American and Chinese doctors plan to perform a live consultation over the Internet tonight to discuss two severely ill children in China. It will be the first real-time medical consultation between China and the United States over the Internet.
The event is less a practical medical move than a show of diplomacy. Members of the Clinton Cabinet are expected to be on hand with doctors at the Medical University in Xian, a city in central China, as they consult pediatricians at the Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford University about a 12-year-old girl with inflammation of the heart and a newborn with brain damage.
There have been other experiments with telemedicine in China, relying mainly on E-mail among doctors. Several hospitals in China, including Peking Union Medical College Hospital, have acquired sophisticated video-based teleconferencing systems, but such systems are not available for the rest of China's population.
''Everyone in the world has satellite links to Beijing, which is not a very real test of medicine to China,'' said John Reuling, director of information technologies at Stanford University's School of Medicine. Mr. Reuling said the group had chosen to use widely available Internet tools rather than state-of-the-art video-conferencing systems because they wanted to focus on what was actually available to doctors in Chinese cities outside the capital.
High-performance computers provided by Sun Microsystems will be left in Xian so further exchanges between doctors from both countries can take place. The consultation was organized by Bridge to Asia, a nonprofit group.


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What does this mean for our current and future users?
Well, first off, CentOS 6.8 is the most recent release in the CentOS 6.x distribution, which is based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.8, without the cost of purchasing licensing/support directly from Red Hat. This doesn't mean CentOS isn't supported, mind you. Quite the contrary. At Rogue Wave Software, we offer various levels of support for CentOS and include 9×5 email support for every Rogue Wave CentOS instance running on AWS EC2. For users who want additional support, Rogue Wave offers additional service contracts to meet business needs.
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A Tang Dynasty mural is more than a pretty picture.
The mural artist was akin to an ancient paparazzi, dedicating his craft to the lifestyles of the rich and famous via the medium of dazzling frescos that bedecked the walls of imperial palaces, aristocratic residences, Buddhist and Taoist temples. And what lifestyles. Aristocrats, monks, guards, maidservants, architects and foreign diplomats frolic, feast, march, cavort, hunt and prance across the murals maintained in the purpose-built, moisture-controlled, glass-encased basement showroom of the provincial museum, the temperature maintained at a steady 18-20 C.
Their golden time - the Tang (608-907) - comes top in all popular polls for best dynasty, revered by Chinese of all stripes and persuasions for its 288 glorious years of global greatness, commercial and technological exchange, art and poetry. The women of this era enjoyed unprecedented freedom. They conducted themselves in business, expressed themselves, sung loudly, and drank to their heart's content. They learned politics, economics, history and military skills, even participating in battles and other things that they could not do during former – or subsequent – dynasties. Even divorce was possible.
First Tang Emperor Li Yuan established his capital in Changan, the most populous city in the world at the time, a magnet to scholars and artists throughout the country, home to poets Du Fu and Li Bai and painters Zhang Xuan and Zhou Fang. It was the Dark Ages in Europe but in China, woodblock printing was taking off. The Diamond Sutra was printed using this technique in 868 as Buddhism, imported from India via the Silk Road, became firmly entrenched in Chinese culture.
Today a suburb of Xian, Changan remained capital for 13 dynasties and a trade apex with the rest of the world. The exquisite murals grant a rare glimpse into the life of people living through one of the most prosperous periods of Chinese history, making a museum visit a must.


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Junior Match Play
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Start/End Dates—Season Courts 2021-2022
SC Day
No Play (Club closed)
SC End Date
12/25, 1/1
NO COURT PLAY (Club Closed)
Thursday, November 25 -Thanksgiving
Friday, December 24 through Saturday, January 1, 2022. The Club will reopen on Sunday January 2, 2022
FEBRUARY BREAK -2/19/2022 through 2/25/2022---Season Courts are on—NO PRO ON COURT
APRIL BREAK- 4/18/2022 through 4/24/2022--- Season Courts are on—NO PRO ON COURT
Season Court Rates Schedule 2021-2022 Season
Season Starts Thursday, September 9, 2021 and ends April 30,2022
1.5 HR
6:00am – 9:00am
PRO ON COURT FEES
$1,380/Season
Rental Conditions:
Each group reserving a specified seasonal time shall appoint a captain to remit the entire seasonal court fee for all members of the group. The captain shall remit a deposit of $500.00 for each reservation by April 9th. The deposit is not refundable. After this date, reservations will be accepted in order of receipt.
All court fees and pro on court fees shall be due and payable in full prior to September 9, 2021. Late payments will be charged at 1 1/2 % per month. On Thanksgiving Thursday, November 25th, the club will be closed. The club will be closed for seasonal play on Friday, December 24, 2021 through Saturday, January 1, 2022. The Club will reopen on Sunday, January 2, 2022
Players and guests use WTC facilities at their own risk. All playing time lost due to unscheduled court closing will be made up at the end of the season. Court time not paid in full by October 1, 2021. may be resold.
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Social Democrats USA
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Social Democrats USA (SDUSA) (Rightweb Profile) is a successor to the Socialist Party of America. SDUSA was formed in December 1972 when the followers of Trotskyist veteran Max Shachtman gained control of the Socialist Party of America. (For the earlier political party, see the Social Democratic Party (USA).)
SDUSA is a member of Socialist International.
Norman Hill - National Vice Chairman
David Jessup - President
2 Cold War hardliners, work in Reagan Administration
3 George W. Bush Administration, influence on Neoconservative movement
4 Links to the National Endowment for Democracy
5.1 National Committee
5.2 National Advisory Council
As a result of the Shachtmanite takeover the Socialist Party USA split into two factions in the early 1970s: Carl Gershman led the right wing grouping alongside Tom Kahn, and Rachelle Horowitz (this later became the Social Democrats USA); the left wing faction became the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee, presently called the Democratic Socialists of America.
In the 1970s. the right faction was associated with Democrat Sen. Henry "Scoop" Jackson, whose staff was made up of several key neoconservative figures, including Richard Perle, Frank Gaffney, and Elliott Abrams. [1]
Although most of SDUSA's members are Democrats, the organization has maintained ties with both major political parties and has, in the past, supported a strongly interventionist foreign policy. It has been unwavering in its support for the State of Israel, and also strongly supported the 2003 war in Iraq.
Letter advocating the removal of Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq
Cold War hardliners, work in Reagan Administration
In the 1970s and 1980s, members of the SDUSA were sometimes derisively referred to as "State Department socialists" for their support of hard-line Cold War policies. Prominent SDUSA members served in the Reagan Administration on the staff of the State Department, Labor Department and on Jeane Kirkpatrick's staff when she was US Ambassador to the United Nations. SDUSA members have long been prominent at the National Endowment for Democracy and Freedom House.
George W. Bush Administration, influence on Neoconservative movement
A number of former members of the SDUSA serve in the current administration of George W. Bush including Paul Wolfowitz.
Although some former members are now neoconservatives, and some current members are widely regarded as linked to neoconservatives (for instance, historian Ronald Radosh), they profess to have many differences with neoconservatism. For instance, they strongly support workers' rights at home and overseas and oppose many of the Bush administration's domestic policies. In the 1980s the SDUSA was perhaps best known for its support of Poland's Solidarity trade union. One of its leading members was the late civil rights hero Bayard Rustin.
Links to the National Endowment for Democracy
Carl Gershman, President of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) since 1984, was executive director of Social Democrats-USA from 1974 to 1980. [2] Many of the members of their National Advisory Council (see below) are also linked to the work of the NED.
Accessed October 2008: [1]
National Committee
Mark Awieser - Jeffrey Ballinger - Martin Berger - Roger Clayman - Daniel M. Curtin - George Curtin - David Dorn - Philip Fishman - Joel Freedman - Rita Freedman - Eugene Glaberman - Marguerite Glotzer - Velma Hill - Ted H. Jacobsen - Pat Jones - Dwight W. Justice - Adrian Karatnycky - Eugenia Kemble - Israel Kugler - Herbert Magidson - Mihajlo Mihajilov - Bruce Miller - Emanuel Muravchik - Irving Panken - Douglas W. Payne - Charles Perkel - Michael S. Perry - David Peterson - Ronald Radosh - Joseph Ryan - Hugh Schwartzberg - Jessica Smith - Mary Temple - David Twersky - Richard Valcourt - Ruth Wattenberg - Richard C. Wilson
(Members of Advisory Committee are not necessarily members of SD, USA)
Elliot Bredhoff - Edward J. Cleary - Charles Cogen - William C. Doherty, Jr. - Evelyn Dubrow - David Evanier - Sandra Feldman - Ann Fishman - Charles Gati - Feliks Gross - John E. Haynes - Thomas Y. Hobart, Jr. - Sol Hoffman - Jiri Horak - Rachelle Horowitz - William Jay Jacobs - John T. Joyce - Jakub Karpinski - Irena Lasota - Robert Leiken - Green Lewis - Leon Lynch - Jay Mazur - Frank Meyers - Joyce D. Miller - Joshua Murvchik - Cleo Paturis - Herman Rebhan - Edgar Romney - Barry Rubin - Oscar Sanchez - William Stern - Jackson Toby - Miro Todorovich - Herb Weiner - Lynn R. Williams - William Julius Wilson - Morley Winograd
Web: http://www.socialdemocrats.org
For further information, see relevant NeoCon Europe page Social Democrats USA
↑ Officers and National Committee Members, Social Democrats USA, accessed October 14, 2008.
Retrieved from "https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Social_Democrats_USA&oldid=420040"
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