I'm a nut about preparation when it comes to speaking in public. When I was the managing editor of a newspaper, I did it frequently — quizzing candidates at political forums and emceeing the paper's yearly awards event. Then there are the Q&A's I've done in Taos with visiting authors and writers-in-residence.
I do my research and plan my questions. Then I print them on paper in a large font, say 22 or 24. And I practice.
I'm doing two readings for SOMOS on Thursday, June 30. The lit group of Taos is celebrating its new headquarters aka salon with a marathon reading of about 50 authors from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. The evening will end with noted author John Nichols.
In the morning, Teresa Dovalpage, my collaborator and translator, and I will read from the first book in our los Primos bilingual series — the one about the magic fish. We've done a few of these. Teresa will bring her large, stuffed dog and I have posters of the illustrations my son Ezra did of the cousins (los primos) and their grandfather (abuelo).
I return in the evening for the adult fiction portion of the event. I will read from Peace, Love, and You Know What. Each author will have the floor for 10 minutes.
So what to read? My novel moves awfully fast and a lot happens. So I chose a short chapter, called The Hard Truth. The three-day bash hasn't started. The characters have pulled three all-nighters in a row for finals. One of them is a few credits shy but is figuring a way to fake his graduation so he doesn't disappoint his mother. We meet Lenora. There's lots of dialogue and humor.
I've practiced a few times this week, using the timer on my phone. It's well under 10 minutes. I think it will work.
David's show is called "You Kids Get Off My Lawn." There's some irony there since there is no lawn at KNCE. The station, located inside an Airstream, is surrounded by sagebrush and located next to a brewery.
This time the shoe will be on the other foot, as my mother used to say. I have no idea what David will ask me and that's just fine.
PHOTO ABOVE: That's the poster for the SOMOS open house June 30.
I was charmed when I passed the SOMOS office in Taos yesterday to see a poster on the window promoting my July 8 reading. I am going to read from Peace, Love, and You Know What, answer questions posed by my friend, Teresa, and hopefully sell some books.
I told Teresa I don't want to know the questions ahead of time. That would take the fun — and a little bit of the fright — out of it.
This is a big switch for me. I'm the one who usually asks the questions, and I will be doing it again Wednesday, June 22, with Priscilla Solis Ybarra.
Priscilla is the first of this year's Aldo and Estella Leopold Foundation's "Mi Casita" writers in residence. She is staying for a month at the cabin where Aldo Leopold, one of the great voices for the environment, and his wife, Estella Luna Otero Bergere Leopold, stayed when he worked for the Carson National Forest. The home, their first, is located in Tres Piedras outside Taos.
Interestingly Priscilla's research focuses on Estella and her impact on the writings of her husband, notably A Sand County Almanac. Her goal is to write a biographical portrait.
Priscilla is an assistant professor in the Department of English at the University of North Texas, specializing in Chicana/o literature and theory as well as environmental literature and ecocriticism. She recently released a book, Writing the Goodlife: Mexican American Literature and the Environment.
As a member of the committee that selected this year's writers in residence, Priscilla's proposal was an easy choice. Certainly I have to believe Estella was more than just "the missus" and that she was a major influence on her husband's work. Their five children chose careers as environmental scientists and activists.
To prepare for the Q&A, I am reading Priscilla's book — I am about three-quarters of the way through. I have other material.
I will come up with my list, and I am certain we will open it up to questions from the audience.
From my years as a journalist, I know better than to ask yes or no questions because you will get yes or no answers. There are times when that may be necessary when you want to put somebody on the spot, but I believe open-ended questions are the way to go. My aim is to advance the conversation.
I confess I love doing these Q&A's. During the past few years, I have done them at various venues with such authors as Valerie Plame (twice), Anne Hillerman, and the former fugitive Katharine Anne Powers. I also interviewed last year's Mi Casita fellows.
I met Priscilla at a musical event this week. I assured her it would be a fun experience. From what I've learned so far, I believe those who come to the program will enjoy listening to what she has to stay.
Here is the info: Wednesday, June 22, 6:30-8:30 p.m. at the Harwood Museum of Art. And it's free.
ABOUT THE PHOTO ABOVE: A little levity, at least for me, at the Taos Farmers Market. No, I am not the Joan who makes choke cherry jelly. I am going to have to buy a jar one day.
There's nothing like a book in hand. That's the way I felt when I got the proof of Peace, Love, and You Know What in the mail. Now it's your turn.
The novel's out in paperback. Just now.
Yes, I am big into digital. When I was a newspaper editor, I worked on the computer for many hours. I write my fiction that way. I keep up with friends and the news online.
I even own a Kindle.
But after all that screen action, I like looking at ink on paper. I like touching it.
I'm not alone. I have heard from people asking when they can buy the paperback version.
I hope you feel the same way, too.
I'm keeping the price at $11.95, which is not a large profit margin for me, but I want people to buy the book and recommend that others do the same. Besides I am not a known name — yet I hope — in the literary world.
After the proof arrived early last week, I read it four times. In the process I found problems that needed to be fixed — missing words, inconsistent word usage, and a couple of other things — that I somehow missed in the umpteenth times I read the book before.
It was a relief, however, that I enjoyed the book each time I read it. I even laughed at parts.
This project has been a learning experience s for the both of us — she about design, me about process and promotion. Today I got the A-OK the updated version met CreateSpace's specs.
Michelle and I are going out to lunch to celebrate next week after the copies I ordered arrive. And, yes, we will be talking about more projects for the very near future.
ABOUT THE PHOTO ABOVE: That's the proof copy plunked on top of books from my library.


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On February 14, as the last remain of missing residents was found, the rescue mission at the Weiguan Jinlong apartment complex in Tainan, Taiwan was completed. Thus Tzu Chi's service stations near Tiangong Temple also completed their mission. At the same time, the city government of Tainan began the demolition of a building in the Kuei Jen district that had been damaged by the earthquake. In addition, over 80 Tzu Chi volunteers gathered to clean the Yujing Elementary School that was also damaged.
Since the earthquake, volunteers have been providing care to affected people, as well as on-site services and visits to homes and hospitals. In addition, the volunteers will organize a series of group meetings for psychological support of survivors, family members, rescue workers and volunteers; they will hold prayer sessions in schools and communities.
Feb 14: total of 1,028 volunteer shifts.
From 2/6 to 2/14, a total of 14,351 volunteers shifts, including 174 by medical professionals and 733 by foundation staff.
Feb 14: total of 1,629 hot meals served.
From 2/6 to 2/14, a total of 23,527 hot meals served.
660 Jing Si foldable beds, 1,839 eco-blankets, 560 scarves, 301 hats, 400 pairs of gloves, 3 boxes of disposable hand warmers, 3,591 packs of daily necessities/gift, 117 special music players, 272 prayer beads, 798 red envelopes of wisdom and blessing, 320 boxes of Jing Si mixed congee, 3 tents, 4 bottles of sterile water, 2,600 pieces of light weight raincoat, 5 portable eco-heaters and 2 mobile kitchens.
1. On Feb 14, Tzu Chi provided relief care to 37 affected households and distributed emergency cash to 24 households. From 2/6-2/14, Tzu Chi visited 542 families and distributed emergency cash to 151 households totaling NT$2,640,000.
2. On Feb 14, Tzu Chi visited four hospitalized earthquake survivors. From 2/6-2/14, Tzu Chi cared for 228 wounded and distributed 78 sets of emergency cash, totaling NT$1,465,000.
3. Tzu Chi volunteers conducted home visits to 1,444 families.
Due to the 2/6 Tainan earthquake, there was substantial damage to the Yujing Elementary School. For the safety of students returning to school on 2/15, over 80 Tzu Chi volunteers and school teachers joined hands to clean the school. Concerned that the damaged ceiling might injure students, volunteers carefully removed each damaged ceiling plate and light metal frame. "Today's job is to remove the damaged ceiling frame and tiles." said Tzu Chi volunteer Hui-Chen Tsai.
Tzu Chi volunteers in Philippines started a donation program to help Taiwan. No matter whether they are a humble street vendor or a wealthy entrepreneur, they are all willing to contribute to help those affected by the Tainan earthquake. They remember that Taiwan helped them before, when they were suffering.
When volunteers held the charity box in a traditional market, a vendor selling flowers immediately made a donation. Even housewives, drivers and police officers also contributed money. "Because everyone knows that Tzi Chi reached out to typhoon and quake victims here," said police officer Mr. Roddhi.
"When we were having a tough time, Taiwan people came to help us. It is time for us to pay back," said one resident.
Love that flows between people is the best medicine to soothe pain and suffering.


Migrants sneaking illegally into the United States from countries other than Mexico are renting families — mostly small children — to ensure that if they are apprehended, they won't be deported, but released back into the United States, a top immigration official said yesterday.
"They are passing themselves off as a family, paying to have children smuggled with them across the border, because the smugglers know we're not going to break up a family for the deportation process," Mr. Torres said. "They're renting babies — the younger the better — including those not yet of speaking age.
"They get processed as a family and released together, under the law, pending an immigration hearing," Mr. Torres said.
He said the cost to the migrants for renting a family is in the "thousands of dollars" — in addition to the $1,500 to $2,000 they are paying per person to be taken across the border.
Mr. Torres said the children are being rented out by families along the border, and authorities are not sure how they are being returned after crossing into the United States. But, he said, some of the children are being rented more than once.
He said immigration authorities also are concerned that as the summer months approach and the temperatures in the border areas climb, the children could be in increased jeopardy.
Because of a lack of detention space, most of the other-than-Mexico migrants, known as OTMs, caught illegally entering the United States are given notices to appear at immigration status hearings and allowed to stay in the country legally until their hearing.
OTMs must be flown back to their home countries, a process that often takes months.
But only about 12 percent of OTMs who receive the notices show up, with U.S. Border Patrol sectors in Texas reporting no-show rates as high as 98 percent. The expedited-removal program, as mandated by Congress, is available for non-Mexican migrants apprehended in this country within 14 days of entry and within 100 miles of the border, providing they have no criminal record.
Mr. Torres described the expedited-removal program as a legal process that allows ICE to remove illegal aliens without a formal hearing before an immigration judge if they have no credible claim to asylum or any other relief from deportation. He said non-Mexican migrants who are detained are placed into streamlined proceedings, allowing the government to deport them in an average of 32 days, nearly three times faster than the previous deportation process.
Illegal aliens from Mexico are usually returned across the border within hours if they have no criminal record, and while U.S. immigration authorities — facing a flood of illegal aliens — have not been hesitant to subject individual OTMs to the expedited-removal process, they have been reluctant to break up non-Mexican migrant families because of a lack of detention space to house them as a unit.
"This rent-a-family scheme is simply an effort to defeat the expedited-removal program because it is working," Mr. Torres said.
The numbers of OTMs illegally crossing into the United States has increased steadily in the past several years. More than 160,000 were apprehended last year, Mr. Torres said, compared with 75,000 in 2004. He noted that ICE has about 20,000 detention beds to house the aliens, each costing the government an average of about $95 a day to maintain.


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De Marathon van Hongkong (Officiële Engelstalige naam: Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon), is een hardloopevenement over een afstand van 42,195 km, dat jaarlijks in de stad Hongkong wordt gehouden. De marathon vindt plaats in de maand januari of februari. De hoofdsponsor is de Standard Chartered Bank. De wedstrijd heeft het predicaat "Silver Label Road Race", de een na hoogste status van de Internationale Atletiekfederatie.

De loop werd voor het eerst gehouden in 1981, had toen de naam Hong Kong Shenzhen Marathon en werd georganiseerd door de Amateur Atletiekvereniging van Hongkong. Van 1989 tot 1991 en van 1994 tot 1996 is de wedstrijd niet gehouden vanwege een gebrek aan financiële middelen.

Het evenement in 1997 was het symbool van de terugkeer van Hongkong naar de Volksrepubliek China. Vanaf deze editie namen ook Afrikaanse topatleten deel.

Van 2004 tot 2008 maakte het evenement deel uit van de "Greatest Race on Earth", gesponsord door de Standard Chartered Bank. De andere wedstrijden uit deze race waren de marathon van Singapore, de marathon van Bombay en de marathon van Nairobi.

De wedstrijd was het toneel van het Aziatische marathonkampioenschap in de jaren 2002, 2008, 2013 en 2015.

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RSS' 25,000 Shishu Mandirs 'follow' factory school model of Christian missionaries
By Bhabani Shankar Nayak*
The executive committee of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES) recently decided to drop the KISS University in Odisha as the co-host of the World Anthropology Congress-2023. The decision is driven by the argument that KISS University is a factory school.
The decision has reignited the debates on different forms of factory schools, their origins and impacts on education, culture, economy, society and people. How did factory schools develop? Why did factory school develop? What does factory schools do? What is the relevance of factory schools today?
The history of factory schools reveals its immense impact not only on our educational system but also on our society, culture, economy, politics and individual lives. The historical perspectives are important to understand the predicaments of the factory school model of educational systems today.
The factory schools were established by the Christian missionaries in early 17th century America. The spread of Christianity by 'converting people' and 'controlling their natural resources' were twin objectives of these missionary run factory schools. In the early days of industrial revolution in 18th and 19th century, the factory owners have established factory schools to develop skilled and productive workers for expanding their industrial outputs and profits.
The sense of charity and Christian religious values have also influenced the factory owners to provide basic education and minimal leisure time for token welfare of factory workers. For example, Hannah Greg (née Lightbody) was the wife of Samuel Greg who established a factory school within the campus of the Quarry Bank Cotton Mill.
The mill was established in 1784 on the outskirts of Manchester in a village called Styal, in the banks of the Bolin in Cheshire, England. It continues to run till today. The mill is not only the living witness to industrial revolution in England but also preserved the horrors of working conditions and miserable lives of workers and the history factory school.
Hannah Greg's life was shaped by Presbyterian and Unitarian Christian theology, which inspired her to establish the school and look after the worker's children and large number of pauper and orphaned children, who were working in the Quarry Bank Mill for 18hrs per day.
It helped the mill to develop their own skilled workforce and increased their productivity. The Greg's family was also involved in slave trade and pretended to care for workers in their factory by establishing school for the workers and their children. It was a public relations exercise to control workers.
Robert Owen, the father of utopian socialism and pioneer of cooperative movement has also established factory school near the New Lanark mill and experimented his socialist ideas on educational and social reforms.
He established the Institute for the Formation of Character at New Lanark in 1818, which provided free education from infancy to adulthood. The institute has helped to increase the quality and standard of goods produced in his factory.
Based on his experiments, he argued for radical factory reforms for worker's welfare. His ideals have not only transformed industrial revolution and politics in Europe during 19th century but also continue to have huge significance in contemporary world.
The factory schools have played significant role in increasing productive power of labour and shaping industrial revolution and politics in Europe. The factory owners were the biggest supporters of the Elementary Education Act of 1870, which has expanded the factory schools with the universalisation of education in England.
The essence of factory schools was to produce benevolent, docile, productive, and skilled labour force as per the requirements of the industrial capitalism. The European colonialism has used the experience, spirit and essence of factory school models of education in different colonies in Asia, Africa, Americas and Oceania in the pursuit of interests of the colonial capitalism.
The European companies have sponsored Christian missionaries to help in the expansion of colonialism with the help of setting up religious schools and health centers. The educational curriculum in colonial and Christian missionary schools were designed to uphold European power, dominance and work ethics of Christianity.
The model and location of factory schools were moved from industrial centers to non-industrial rural areas, other religious missionaries have also followed the path to shape the social and moral values of the people concomitant with the requirements of the religious denominations, societies, states and governments.
The state led 'factory school' was originated in the early 19th century Prussia, where educational curriculum, methods of teaching and learning were standardised and regimented as per the requirements of the state and governments. The idea of education was impersonal to promote professionalism and efficiency.
The individual interests, needs, desires, and creativities were domesticated and conditioned as per the requirements of the ruling and non-ruling classes. In this way, the formal and modern educational system has emerged from factory schools, which continue to serve the elites and capitalist classes in different forms for last two centuries.
The Prussian factory school model and the spirit of its educational system survived from class education to mass education in the Lancaster system, Madras system, Glasweegian and Mannian systems to Bologna processes, which promised to bring coherence to higher education systems in Europe.
Alvin Toffler in his book "Future Shock" (1970) has condemned such educational practices, where mass education works like a complaint ingenious machine that teaches collective discipline, crushes creativity and socialises students with repetitive labour and hierarchy.
The RSS-led Vidya Bharati Akhil Bharatiya Shiksha Sansthan runs one of the largest private educational networks of more than 25,000 Saraswati Shishu Mandir schools with over 45 million students in India. It works like Christian missionary schools based on factory models. It is funded directly by corporations and indirectly by the governments in India.
The Hindutva mythology and reactionary ideology of the RSS determines the curriculum of these schools. In the name of Indianisation of education, it promotes Hindutva politics and bigoted cultural outlook devoid of secular and scientific ethos.
The ideals and values of factory school model of education defines the educational system promoted by the RSS. It does not empower people. It domesticates people for its political project that is concomitant with the interests of the Indian and global capitalist classes.
The unfettered growth of capitalist globalisation and liberalisation of economy led to withdrawal of welfare state and rise of privatisation of education in 21st century. Many corporations are opening their own educational and research institutions to pursue both business and create workforce for their industries.
The privatisation and corporatisation of education transformed public education into a business, where educational curriculums were shaped by the market forces as per their requirements. The syllabus of banking, finance and insurance education and training is shaped by banking and insurance industries.
The Computer Science education is shaped by the requirements of the Silicon Valley. The Medical Science and Chemistry curriculum is determined by the requirements of the pharmaceutical corporations. The way Christian missionaries were funded by the colonial corporations, in the same way, NGOs and charities today are funded by the corporations under their corporate social responsibility funds to shape education by establishing schools and research institutes as per their requirements.
Most of the British universities are registered as charities and receiving huge research funds to expand corporate interests and public opinions in support of ruling and non-ruling establishments. There were always aberrations which questions power and stands with people within and beyond the frameworks of modern factory schools.
The factory school model of education has transformed and atomised educational system based on the priorities of capitalism. The marketisation and corporatisation of education has transformed students as cash cows, teachers as shopkeepers and educational institutions as shop floors.
Such an educational system is neither representing the life experiences of people nor their everyday requirements. It produces skilled professionals, who work like orderly objects with disciplined hands and closed lips. The social, economic, cultural and educational alienation is the net outcome of such an educational system practiced worldwide.
Is it possible to pursue objectives of Robert Owen, Gandhi, Ambedkar, Phule and Gopabandhu Das, using KISS University as a platform?
The educational system is designed in such a way that the students from the rich families and urban areas are getting unfettered access to education and educational infrastructure whereas the students from disadvantaged backgrounds in terms of class, caste, tribe, gender, race, region, religion, poor and rural areas suffer greatly.
Such a system produces professional meritocratic society based on inequality. Therefore, affirmative actions are not enough, it needs complete overhauling of this skewed educational system run by the ruling and non-ruling class establishments. The availability and accessibility to education is becoming an impossible mission for the poor in the age of privatisation. It is a structural indictment of class divided society and bourgeois state within capitalism.
The democratisation of education and curriculum based on needs of people, communities and society; accessibility, affordability and availability of scientific and secular education is central to egalitarian social and economic transformation. Education is not only a social desire but an organic need of common people based on their natural and inalienable human rights.
The radical, revolutionary, progressive and democratic forces must use every available opportunity to claim the right to free and scientific education. The radical and revolutionary upsurge was an inadvertent outcome of factory schools, which helped social transformations all over the world.
The radical movements and revolutionary political parties have used education as a tool of revolutionary transformation of society. It is time to shape and decolonise educational institutions and curriculum from Eurocentric worldview, reactionary religious and market forces enforced by factory schools in different forms.
As the onslaught of reactionary religious and market forces grow on education, it is important to use every available opportunity to promote liberal, secular, scientific, rational, democratic and radical agenda of education based on people's needs and desires.
It is within this historical context and contemporary experience, one needs to analyse the KISS University, Bhubaneswar, as a factory school. It is not the first factory school and it is not going to be the last factory school for the indigenous students.
Like many other public and private educational institutions in the world, KISS also gets funding from both governments and corporates to provide home, food, dress and education to the 30,000 indigenous students.
The collaboration between KISS University and the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES) to organise the World Anthropology Congress-2023 was a great opportunity lost to make intellectual, political and cultural intervention in the growth of factory school model of compliant education.
It is up to the anthropologists to make an informed and idealistic judgement like Robert Owen for social and political transformation or to leave the platform like KISS University to the reactionary religious and market forces to further reinforce cultural and economic genocide of indigenous people.
The World Anthropology Congress-2023 would be an opportunity to expose the corporate plunder of natural resources in indigenous areas led by the neoliberal Hindutva forces. It would be a great educational opportunity for indigenous students to learn about the limits of market led factory schools and emancipatory power of anthropological knowledge.
It would be an opportunity to develop partnership with indigenous students to develop educational curriculum based on the linguistic, cultural, social and economic requirements of the indigenous people and their communities.
Industrialist Gautam Adani's wife Priti Adani might sound like Hannah Greg to promote factory schools like the KISS. Can we pursue the objectives of Robert Owen, Gandhi, Ambedkar, Phule and Gopabandhu Das by using KISS as a platform? Is it too late to revisit the decision by the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES)?
Yes, it is time to break away from the factory school model of educational system for the sake of education, people and society. Engagement and progressive interventions are twin keys for student and teacher led educational system, based on local, regional, national and international requirements of people, animals and environment. The anthropologists can use the KISS University as a platform during the world congress for such a mission and vision.
*Senior lecturer at Coventry University, UK
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The boundaries of any property must be clear. As a farmer needs to know where his or her field begins and ends, an innovator must know exactly the definition of his or her invention. But it is more difficult by far to delineate where rights to something intangible begin and end. In addition, intangible assets can be difficult to keep track of, to share, and to use. Yet in a research-and-development environment, intangible assets are often the most valuable and important ones. How then, can they be leveraged to reinforce the mission of an institution? How can the specific objectives be achieved more effectively and efficiently through the incorporation of best practices in IP (intellectual property) management? What are these principles and practices? And how does an IP policy relate to an operational IP strategy?
This section offers insights into achieving and maintaining clarity about the ownership of intellectual property in public sector institutions and stresses the value of IP strategies and IP policies. These are important for achieving success and have been increasingly encouraged—or required—by certain donors as a strategy to ensure global access. Global access, especially by the poor, and ownership of intellectual property go hand in hand. Indeed, the most important aspect of IP protection is that it bestows control over intellectual assets. If an organization—especially a public institution—fails to obtain IP rights for its inventions, it risks losing control over them. Failure to maintain rights may result in private entities appropriating elements of the value without major regard to the mission of public institutions, or it could lead to the intellectual assets becoming useless due to lack of further investment and development. This is the most important reason why the public sector should take IP management more seriously than it traditionally has. IP management is a fundamental element in the public sector's strategy of putting intellectual property to work for the public good.
By extension, IP strategy is an integral part of an overall business strategy that uses IP rights to manage technology.
Viewed in this way, IP rights systems can be instrumental in enabling the diffusion of technological information. For example, patent specifications provide detailed embodiments of inventions, which are available for all to see. Using the Internet, these records can be accessed for free anywhere in the world. This availability of and access to information greatly facilitates innovation, since others will be able to work to improve or invent around the disclosed patented invention. Patents can also be useful sources of information for scientists, since the patent application may be the first and only publication about a competing innovation.
Organizations should have both external and internal IP strategies. Broadly speaking, this is referred to as litigation, licensing, and learning.
An external IP strategy involves exploiting inventions (by developing them in-house, selling them, or licensing them). Litigation denies IP rights to others; licensing allows rights to others. Learning can be a part of technology out-licensing, since it not only gives others access to these technologies but also provides learning opportunities for the organization. This strategy is especially effective if an institution's aim is to diffuse technology as widely as possible and ensure global access.
Some granting agencies also require prospective grantees to explicitly state their IP policies. Kowalski5 reviews and discusses several institutions' policies and concludes that, at a minimum, an IP policy should define IP ownership, outline the patenting policy, describe the manner in which an institution will handle confidential information, set out the principles of its IP licensing and marketing approaches, explain how income arising from intellectual property will be distributed, and delineate the rights and obligations of inventors and the institution, as well as any rights the institution will retain (such as for research and for humanitarian uses).
Any new or revised IP policy (and IP strategy) will have to be "sold" to people both inside and outside an institution. It is important to explain what the policy contains and why the policy is designed the way it is. And perhaps staff at multiple levels should be involved in developing and revising, as needed, the IP policy. This group will be able to have extensive discussions about the role and function of intellectual property in the organization. These discussions will be an effective mechanism for building capacity and staff support of the policy. Some of the most controversial issues can be resolved before they become an obstacle, such as: Who owns what? Who benefits and how?
These sometimes-troublesome questions are discussed by Weidemier,6 who reviews how universities in the United States are handling these aspects. Her chapter examines eight possible cases that illustrate and clarify the somewhat abstract principles of ownership of university inventions and are followed by a series of hypothetical scenarios. Weidemier, among others, concludes that universities should require all employees and visitors to sign invention assignment agreements on their date of arrival. Neither an employee handbook that discusses patent assignment nor a published university patent policy may be enough to ensure that the university is assigned ownership.
With the assignment of ownership rights to an employer comes the duty to disclose that an invention has been made. Indeed, an inventor is responsible for and has much to gain by making timely disclosures of his or her invention to the technology transfer office (TTO), the first step in enabling technology transfer. Di Sante7 points out that successful commercialization is built on a foundation of good relations between inventors and technology transfer professionals. Such relationships should be established long before the transfer services of the technology transfer office are required, since this will enable technology managers to negotiate both faculty and business concerns about licensing agreements whenever the opportunity arises. The role of the inventor in the entire IP protection and IP licensing/transfer process cannot be overstated and should continue throughout the life of the technology.8 For example, years after a patent has been licensed, the inventor may be the best-placed person to alert a TTO that a certain product being sold may infringe the patent.
But dealing with inventors is not always easy.9 Inventors are prone to fall in love with their own creations, and, perhaps unreasonably, anticipate that theirs is the next great thing. It is the technology transfer professional's responsibility to tactfully ensure that the inventors' expectations are kept in line with reality.
Establishing good relationships with inventors is an important way to identify the intellectual property being generated in the research institution. But from an institutional point of view, a more comprehensive perspective on intellectual property is often warranted. This applies particularly to times when an organization develops a strategic plan or IP management strategy. In this context, IP audits can be essential and often form the basis for an internal review and a revision of IP strategy. Blakeney10 provides a comprehensive overview of IP audits. Indeed, the importance of IP audits is becoming more and more apparent, in the private sector as well as in the public sector, as public entities increasingly deal with other parties' intellectual property.
An IP audit seeks to accomplish three broad objectives for an institution. First, it seeks to identify the intellectual property generated by its researchers. This intellectual property is an asset, with value that an institution ought to identify, assess, and manage. Second, an audit seeks to identify and review the management of third-party intellectual property as a way of avoiding liability for misuse. The IP audit is thus a systematic, methodical identification of the intellectual property within the institute.11 As the chapter shows, the audit follows a procedure, from start to finish, so that at the audit's conclusion senior managers are able to frame and implement good IP management practices. This is the third broad objective of an IP audit: to contribute to the formulation and execution of the IP policy and IP strategy.
From a practical point of view, an IP audit reviews a number of existing practices and establishes the context in which intellectual property is being handled. For example, a research institute's ownership and control over any intellectual property will depend on its legal status as an entity. An IP auditor will review the incorporation documents to identify what powers the institute has to own and to deal with intellectual property. For universities and government institutions, such a review will also include the prevailing government policies.
The IP auditors will also scrutinize the IP policy of the institute, if indeed there is a policy. It should ask questions, such as: Where is it posted? What does it say? Are new employees required to read it? IP audits may also uncover potential conflicts of interest. Bennett12 offers a primer on issues related to the management of conflict of interest and conflict of commitment. Conflict of interest occurs when the financial interests of an institution's researchers are incompatible with the institution's mission, policy, or goals. Conflict of commitment may arise when the time a researcher spends in external activities related to, for example, downstream technology development, interferes with his or her attention to duties to the institution (for example, teaching or extension responsibilities).
While conflicts of interest should not be seen in a negative light, making exceptions to the rules is both dangerous and potentially harmful. Someone with a potential conflict of interest is not guilty of anything; rather, he or she may actually be a more valuable "asset" because of the potential conflict. This applies most strikingly when a professor has an interest in forming a spinout company based on university research. Potentially, larger issues will arise due to undisclosed conflicts of interest. What a university needs is to define a clear chain of command and in rare circumstances to establish oversight committees. Committees tend to slow the process with significant delays in time, which typically makes the process unmanageable and useless.
1 Chapter 5.1 by R Pitkethly titled IP Strategy, p. 459.
2 Chapter 5.2 by Z Ballantyne and D Nelki titled Management Policy: A Donor's Perspective, p. 475.
3 The following are reviewed in detail: the development of a typhoid vaccine, malaria drugs, the single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) consortium, and the International HapMap Project.
4 For an example of how global access strategies can be incorporated into product development partnerships and vaccine development, see Mahoney RT, A Krattiger, JD Clemens and R Curtiss III. 2007. The Introduction of New Vaccines into Developing Countries IV: Global Access Strategies. Vaccine 25(2007): 4003–4011.
5 Chapter 5.3 by SP Kowalski titled Making the Most of Intellectual Property: Developing an Institutional IP Policy, p. 485.
6 Chapter 5.4 by BJ Weidemier titled Ownership of University Inventions: Practical Considerations, p. 495.
7 Chapter 5.5 by AC Di Sante titled The Role of the Inventor in the Technology Transfer Process, p. 507.
8 An important exception to this is licensing. A TTO officer typically would not have the inventor participate during negotiations with potential licensees, although rare exceptions may apply.
9 See also Section 8 dealing more exhaustively with inventions and inventors.
10 Chapter 5.6 by M Blakeney titled Conducting IP Audits, p. 515.
11 This may include: patentable biological assets, such as germplasm resources, DNA libraries and enabling technologies (marker genes, probes); technological know-how; confidential information; patents, utility models and industrial design rights in equipment; copyrighted information (database rights, computer programs, and databases); publications; CD-ROMs; video materials; online materials; trademarks; and more.
12 Chapter 5.7 by AB Bennett titled Conflict of Interest and Conflict of Commitment Management in Technology Transfer, p. 527.
13 See Box 1 for M.I.T.'s policy (Chapter 3.13 by L Nelsen titled The Activities and Roles of M.I.T. in Forming Clusters and Strengthening Entrepreneurship, p. 309).
14 Chapter 6.1 by L Nelsen titled Ten Things Heads of Institutions Should Know about Setting Up a Technology Transfer Office, p. 537.


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he objective of the Algal Bioenergy Special Interest Group (ABSIG) is to facilitate the development of a robust and sustainable algal industry in the UK while raising awareness of the important role algae play in the provision of ecosystem services. Ecosystems services are the benefits that humans obtain from ecosystems (for more information see the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment and UK National Ecosystem Assessment). Functions relating to algae include: supporting (eg primary production, nutrient cycling); provisioning (eg food, fuel, nutraceuticals, and pigments); and regulating (eg bioremediation and sequestering pollutants).
Algal derived biofuels and bioenergy remains a nascent technology in the UK (see AUK Roadmap for Algal Technologies) and The Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) supports the translation of such technologies into industry to facilitate the innovation pipeline to commercialization.
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And that would be a great ending to a story which hasn't even got started…but it is not the ending; here is the beginning.
Last year, almost to this date, I had a huge conflict in my life. In my eyes this conflict was life changing. And I had no idea if I would recover the relationship; ever. The first thing I knew, after about a week, was that I was being tested. I knew this deep within my soul as if the angels whispered it in my ear. So I held on. Life did not get easier, life was filled with unbelievable challenges as I tried to bridge this huge, no, gigantic gap that this person had created in our relationship! And I continued to hang on. As the months passed I learned another thing, I wasn't going to get any answers that satisfied my questions. Was that acceptable?
I now realize this was the second time in as many years that this has happened to me. Now granted the one from two years ago was nothing compared to this….but it had the same repercussions as this one in so much as I was never going to get any answers to the "why" of it all.
Again…was this acceptable to me? Could I survive and stay in this relationship?
Yesterday may have been my AHA moment of the year! When I was asked this question I really felt it was a true and honest answer that I gave, But as we talked I realized I did, I do, have an ongoing conflict in my life! I guess I had gotten used to it all. But when I started thinking about it I realized, lately, I have thought it is time to let go of this anger, resentment, and my need to know why. My need to know why always keeps me stuck in anger or hurt (fear) for a lot longer than I should be.
So what was the real lesson here? Forgiveness or learning to "let go?" I think I have the forgiveness down..otherwise I would probably have left the relationship last year after this happened. I believe I am practicing unconditional love and I feel good about that. But my lesson, my big lesson here is the letting go. That is what I needed to learn more than anything. The forgiveness was a validation that I have grown; I am who I claim to be. I can walk my talk!
Ahhhhh…but the letting go! I know how to let go….I just wasn't ready to do it.
And God has told me that the letting go is the only block standing in my way today! The block that is keeping me from realizing exactly who I am and what I can do and will do in this world.
Bottom line here is that the thought of living to my full potential far outweighs any need for answers or any resentment, anger, grudge, etc…….
So this is ME…letting it go!
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Thank you Andy! Thank you for the encouragement. I will keep moving forward…. That is where my future lies; and I'm excited for that!
Forgiveness has always been so much easier to me than letting go because there is a living physical being to forgive. The remaining fear and grief are more subtle….hidden….. It takes time to root them out…then it takes Love to accept them.
So true! hank you for your comment!
Many things happen in our lives that we will never understand and I have learned that letting go is much easier than trying to hang on. I find it hard to forgive people but unforgiveness is such a burden and I know that once I am able to do so, the burden is lifted. God is so faithful!
As always thank you for sharing!


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Wednesday, April 21st, 2010
I was listening to Dream Theater's Metropolis Part Two: Scenes From A Memory the other day, for the first time in a while. It's been almost a decade since I was first introduced to what most fans would agree is Dream Theater's best album (it's either that or Images And Words), but even today, it still sounds as sweet as it did back then. I don't want to understate this: from a purely musical perspective, it is an awesome feat, and demonstrates the ability of metal to convey a wide range of emotions, far apart from the narrow and angst-ridden, anti-social view that most people have of the genre. Indeed, it's one of the main reasons why I first became interested in metal, back in the day.
From a lyrical point of view, however, the intervening years have not been kind.
It is a concept album, recounting a somewhat convoluted story involving hypnosis, past lives, reincarnation, and just in general, what happens after you die. But whilst they might have avoided specific Christian imagery and instead opted for more of a generic spiritual…ness, make no mistake, they are a Christian band, and this album is a fairly transparent representation of their views. I mention this because the end result is actually a conveniently straightforward list of reasons why religion is still a Thing – so it may prove to be a useful resource for anyone who looks at these bizarre monoliths of ancient dogma still attached like barnacles to the whale of our glorious civilisation and asks the inevitable question: WHY?? (Especially if you want your ponderings to be accompanied by excellent music.)
I'm not going to bother with a detailed analysis of the lyrics, because it's all fairly basic stuff (I mean, thematically – trying to follow the actual storyline takes a more concerted effort). If you're pressed for time, though, then just go to the penultimate track, "The Spirit Carries On", because it acts as the summary sheet for everything that you're supposed to learn from this story. LaBrie even states quite unironically that he used to be afraid of death until arbitrarily deciding that some ethereal part of his being will survive into eternity, and then like magic, his fears disappeared. That's religion in a nutshell, my friends.
The line that really gets me, though, is when he says "I may never prove what I know to be true." No. Just… fucking no, man. Not being able to prove something is the exact opposite of knowing it is true. And I have to ask, if you're just going to decide that something is true without any evidence to back it up, then why do you even care about proof at all? If the presence or absence of proof has no bearing on your beliefs, then the whole concept is irrelevant anyway. It's as if he sees proof as some sort of window dressing that he is happy to display when it lines up with his worldview, but if it doesn't, then, you know, whatever. It's not important. Because he knows that he's right.
The significance of this logical trap is somewhat deceptive, I think. People tend to see faith as either a sort of security blanket (the argument I have used in the past) or alternatively, as some sort of noble dedication to higher ideals. But I have come across a better definition: it is the only known cure for that most annoying of existential problems, doubt. In other words, it is one of the dumbest acts of self-sabotage you can inflict upon yourself.
Like most people, I've spent a disproportionate amount of my time searching for ways to get rid of doubt. I can be quite hesitant and indecisive even at the best of times, I have social anxieties and other problems, and it just seems like everything would run a whole lot more smoothly if I could just jettison all that doubt and get on with things. But I've come to realise lately that that would actually be a disastrous achievement. Doubt is good. And the only reason we don't realise this is because the only doubt we encounter on a regular basis is our own. Everyone else keeps theirs safely hidden away in their own minds, because we are all operating the exact same delusion – that everyone is more confident than us, and that our doubt is somehow unique. I can pretty much guarantee that the only people who don't feel this way are those select few who are either too ignorant or too deluded to realise how frighteningly small their own depth of knowledge is compared to the unimaginably vast amount of information that exists in the universe. And while they may seem to be better off, with their false confidence and all the rest, they really aren't. They are trapped in their own vortices of circular logic, which they will in all likelihood never emerge from. They will never get to experience the entirely new and uncharted delusions of the free-thinking individual, amiright lol.
So when you introduce faith into this equation, to quell that quiet voice in the back of your mind that is incessantly asking "but what if I'm wrong?", what you are really doing is shutting down your capacity for growth. This is why religion closes people's minds. You've found a nice little cottage, everything seems to be in working order as far as you can tell, so you just say to yourself, fuck it, I'm going to live here, I don't care if there might be nicer places further down the road. Doubt, as it turns out, is actually the force that keeps pushing you down that road, because even if you passed some decent places along the way, you just want to go and check if there's something better around that next corner.
Okay, yeah, people certainly have a right to set up camp wherever they wish. My main complaint here is just that it is just such a fucking waste. Billions of years of evolution have given rise to an immensely powerful tool which is, right now, decoding strange patterns in the beams of light being emitted from the screen in front of you and translating them into a language of its own devising, triggering a cascade of electronic pulses and chemical reactions which result in you reading a sentence about what is happening when you read this sentence. And that's not even one of its main functions. I don't care who you are, if you have a brain, you can do some amazing things – if you open yourself up to all possibilities, including the ones which make you uncomfortable or fearful. Which means that instead of trying to force everything to fit in with some kind of pre-existing idea, you have to sit back and let your brain do its thing. Your brain is designed to take in information, analyse it, compare it with information it already possesses, and finally, to produce new ideas from this raw data. That is its friggin' job, and the delusions of faith and certainty only serve to hinder that process.
I mean, do you have any idea how incredible brains are? Just think about it, you guys. These things arose through entirely natural processes, with no guiding hand or pre-existing blueprint. That's fucking amazing. Fuck! I'm tripping myself out just writing this, man. I've gotta go lie down for a while.
ETA:
Okay, I feel bad for ragging on Dream Theater in this post (I'm just frustrated because the music I like so rarely has lyrics I can relate to). There are a couple more points I should add: perhaps the most important being that their religious views played a major role in helping singer James LaBrie and drummer Mike Portnoy overcome some pretty serious personal problems (specifically, depression and social anxieties for LaBrie, and alcoholism for Portnoy). When people find a way to deal with such problems, regardless of the nature of that solution, they tend to latch onto it wholeheartedly, and naturally become blinded to any faults present in their newfound beliefs. But for most people, this levels out after a while, and once they begin to feel like they've really put their problems behind them, they may feel comfortable enough to start asking some harder questions about their own views. I think, to their credit, you can see this evolution occurring in some of Dream Theater's later albums, where they start dealing with some of the more problematic issues surrounding religion. They are still operating from a decidedly deistic viewpoint, but they are at least adopting a more questioning attitude, and personally I think there is only one inevitable destination once you start down that road, so long as you pursue it honestly.
So basically, it is interesting to compare Scenes From A Memory with songs like "In The Name Of God" or "The Great Debate" – and even more interesting to think about where these questions might lead them in the future.
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