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Viesti Associates, Inc. v. McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
FINDINGS OF FACT AND CONCLUSIONS OF LAW AND ORDER RE: MOTION TO INTERVENE 83 FILED BY VARIOUS PHOTOGRAPHERS, by Magistrate Judge David L. West on 07/30/14. (nmarb, )
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLORADO
Magistrate Judge David L. West
Civil Action No. 12-CV-00668-WYD-DW
VIESTI ASSOCIATES, INC.
McGRAW-HILL GLOBAL EDUCATION HOLDINGS, LLC
and McGRAW-HILL SCHOOL EDUCATION HOLDINGS, LLC,
FINDINGS OF FACT, CONCLUSIONS OF LAW AND
ORDER RE: MOTION TO INTERVENE [DOC. #83]
FILED BY VARIOUS PHOTOGRAPHERS
FINDINGS OF FACT
This is a copyright infringement case brought by Plaintiff Viesti Associates, Inc.
(“VAI”), a stock photography agency based in Durango, Colorado. 1st Am. Compl. ¶ 2 (Doc.
No. 34). The suit was filed on March 16, 2012, Compl. (Doc. No. 1), and is the second such
action brought by VAI against MHE and its predecessor entities for copyright infringement. See
VAI v. McGraw-Hill Cos., No. 11-cv-01237-REB-DW (D. Colo. filed May 5, 2011).
MHE publishes, among other things, educational textbooks and other materials
for the pre-K through 12th grade, college, university and professional schools. Doc. No. 34, ¶ 3;
Unopposed Mot. for Substitution of Parties (Doc. No. 63).
Proposed Intervenors are photographers and stock photo agencies that each
originally entered into invoicing transactions with MHE for use of their photos in MHE’s
educational textbooks over the course of over two decades. Doc. No. 34, ¶ 15 (Dennis Cox LLC
& Liu Liqun), ¶ 16 (Victor Englebert), ¶ 18 (Robert Fried), ¶ 20 (Wolfgang Kaehler
Photography LLC & Wolfgang Kaehler), ¶ 21 (Jason Lauré), ¶ 23 (Laurence Parent
Photography, Inc. & Laurence Parent), ¶ 28 (Ulrike Welsch), ¶ 29 (Natural Exposures, Inc. &
Daniel J. Cox), ¶ 30 (Beryl Goldberg) & ¶ 31 (Native Stock Pictures LLC & Angel Wynn).
Each of these Proposed Intervenors issued his or her own invoices to MHE based on separate
invoice requests and communications from MHE, and each had different invoicing terms,
different courses of conduct, and unique business relationships with the MHE defendants over
the course of the more than two decades of transactions at issue in this dispute. Id.; Doc. No. 929. VAI did not issue and was not involved in any of the Proposed Intervenors’ invoicing
transactions with MHE that are the basis for the copyright infringement action here.
Copyright Interests at Issue & Relationship Between Plaintiff VAI and Proposed Intervenors
VAI alleges to have copyright ownership in the photos originally created and
invoiced to MHE by the Proposed Intervenors through “assignment” agreements. Doc. No. 34,
VAI and the Proposed Intervenors communicated regarding the structure of this
litigation (and others VAI has pursued against similarly-situated textbook publishers),1 as well as
VAI v. Pearson Educ., Inc., 12-cv-02240-PAB-DW (D. Colo. filed Aug. 23, 2012); VAI
v. Pearson Educ., Inc., No. 11-cv-01687-PAB-DW, 2014 WL 1053772 (D. Colo. filed June 28,
2011); VAI v. Pearson Educ., Inc., No. 12-cv-01431-PAB-DW, 2014 WL 1055975 (D. Colo.
filed June 1, 2012); VAI v. McGraw-Hill Cos., No. 11-cv-01237-REB-DW (D. Colo. filed
May 5, 2011); VAI v. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publ’g Co., No. 10-cv-01802 (D. Colo. filed
Plaintiff VAI’s role as the sole party to this action, prior to and during the course of this
litigation. E.g., Doc Nos. 92-1, 92-2, 92-3; 90-4, 90-5, 90-7, 90-8, 90-11.
Both VAI and Proposed Intervenors have known that MHE challenged VAI’s
standing to bring its aggregated claims of copyright infringement on the Proposed Intervenors’
photos since early on in this litigation. E.g., Answer to 1st Am. Compl. at 20 (“Plaintiff’s claims
are barred . . . by its lack of standing to assert a claim for copyright infringement due to invalid
transfer, assignment, or other defect in ownership of the applicable copyright in the particular
work or works”) (Doc. No. 37); Joint Proposed Scheduling Order at 4 (“Essentially, this case
involves aggregated claims by at least 21 different licensors . . . [and MHE will demonstrate the]
absence of standing by this plaintiff with respect to many of the photographs placed in issue
because the plaintiff does not hold effective rights for purposes of this suit.) (Doc. No. 27);
Scheduling Order, at 3-5 (Doc. No. 29); see also Def.s’ Resp. in Opp’n to Pl.’s Mot. for Partial
Summ. J. at 2, 11-13, in VAI v. McGraw-Hill Cos., No. 11-cv-01237-REB-DW (D. Colo. 2012)
(Doc. No. 86).
Each of the Proposed Intervenors have known about their potential interest in
pursuing claims in their own names since at least than March 2012 when this case was filed, and
correspondence between VAI and the Proposed Intervenors indicates that many, if not all, of
them likely knew of their potential claims much earlier. E.g., Doc Nos. 92-1, 92-2, 92-3; 90-4,
90-5, 90-7, 90-8, 90-11.
July 29, 2010); VAI v. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publ’g Co., No. 09-cv-02933, (D. Colo. filed
Dec. 15, 2009); VAI v. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publ’g Co., No. 09-cv-01093 (D. Colo. filed
May 11, 2009); VAI v. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publ’g Co., No. 09-cv-00743 (D. Colo. filed
Apr. 2, 2009).
Around January 2012, VAI, through its principal Joe Viesti, communicated with
the stock agencies and photographers from whom he purportedly acquired copyright rights in
photos, including the Proposed Intervenors, and had them execute “Addendum” assignment
agreements because “[a]nother company’s case was thrown out and forced to pay the
defendent’s [sic] legal fees, because their assignment form was not strong enough.” Doc. No.
Around April 2011, VAI communicated with Laurence Parent, one of the
Proposed Intervenors here, explaining that the structure of the litigation involved making VAI
the sole plaintiff against the publishers, including MHE, and that VAI was taking on “great
financial risk” in pursuing these claims on Proposed Intervenors’ behalf. Doc No. 92-3. In
particular, this communication made clear that both VAI and the Proposed Intervenors
understood that there was a potential for the litigation to get “thrown out of court.” Id.; see
also Doc. No. 92-1.
Other communications between 2009 and 2013 make clear that VAI and the
Proposed Intervenors exchanged documents and entered into purported “assignment” agreements
as part of a “formula to give [VAI] legal standing” to bring copyright lawsuits against the
publishers on behalf of the photographers and stock agencies. Doc. No. 90-13 (Viesti Dep. at
248:14-19, 246:20-247:1, 251:21-252:2); see also Doc Nos. 92-1, 92-2, 92-3; 90-4, 90-5, 90-7,
VAI acknowledges that this Court, on March 19, 2014, directly held – in a case
involving a similarly-situated textbook publisher and the identical agreements as those at issue
here – that VAI lacks standing under the Copyright Act to litigate claims of copyright
infringement based on its purported “assignment” agreements with the photographers, including
the Proposed Intervenors here. Doc. 83, at 1, 11 & n.1; see VAI v. Pearson Educ., Inc.
(Pearson I), No. 11-cv-01687-PAB-DW, 2014 WL 1053772 (D. Colo. Mar. 19, 2014) (involving
Proposed Intervenor Natural Exposures, Inc. and its principal Daniel J. Cox and their purported
assignment of copyright rights in photos to VAI); VAI v. Pearson Educ., Inc. (Pearson II),
No. 12-cv-01431-PAB-DW, 2014 WL 1055975 (D. Colo. Mar. 19, 2014) (involving Proposed
Intervenor Wolfgang Kaehler and his purported assignment of copyright rights in photos to
The deadline for joinder of parties and/or amendment of pleadings in this matter
was August 27, 2012. Doc. No. 29 at 9.
Proposed Intervenors filed their motion to intervene, Doc. No. 83, on March 31,
2014, 17 days after close of fact discovery, almost 2 years after VAI filed the Complaint, and
three weeks prior to the summary judgment deadline in this case. See Order re: [Doc. #74] (Doc.
MHE has filed a motion for summary judgment on VAI’s lack of standing under
the Copyright Act, asserting that VAI is barred from pursuing the claims at issue in this dispute
both under principles of issue preclusion, as well as on the merits of the asserted bases for
copyright ownership by VAI. See Defs.’ Mot. for Summ. J. (Doc. No. 89). That motion is fully
briefed and is pending before the Court. An identically-situated motion for summary judgment
is also pending before this Court in VAI v. Pearson Education, Inc., 12-cv-02240-PAB-DW (D.
Colo. Apr. 10, 2014) (Doc. No. 71).
None of the Proposed Intervenors has been subject to party discovery obligations
under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure during the course of this litigation.
There has been only limited and incomplete third-party discovery obtained by
MHE from a handful of the Proposed Intervenors.
17. If this Court grants MHE’s motion for summary judgment on VAI’s lack of
standing in this case, the Court would then dismiss all of VAI’s claims, including all of the
claims that the Proposed Intervenors rely upon in their motion to intervene. In other words, if
summary judgment is granted on MHE’s motion, none of the Proposed Intervenors’ claims, as
pursued by Plaintiff VAI, would remain in this litigation.
18. Since filing the motion to intervene here, the Proposed Intervenors have filed
their own action against MHE in the federal court in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania,
asserting identical or virtually identical copyright infringement claims against MHE on the same
photos and the same textbooks as those that are at issue in this dispute. See Englebert v.
McGraw-Hill Global Education Holdings, LLC, 5:14-cv-02062 (E.D. Pa. filed Apr. 8, 2014).
MHE has filed an Answer to the Proposed Intervenors’ party complaint in that action. Id. (Doc.
No. 7). The district court in Philadelphia has stayed that case pending the resolution of the
Proposed Intervenors’ motion to intervene in this case. Id. (Doc No. 21entered July 8, 2014)
(submitted to this Court by the Proposed Intervenors through their Notice of Supplemental
Authority ( Doc. No. 101)).
CONCLUSIONS OF LAW
Section 501(b) of the Copyright Act provides that the Court “shall permit the
intervention of any person having or claiming an interest in the copyright” that is implicated in
an action for infringement. 17 U.S.C. § 501(b).
Rule 24 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure governs intervention by non-
parties in an existing litigation. The prerequisites of Rule 24 apply even where intervention is
granted unconditionally as a matter of right by statute. NAACP v. New York, 413 U.S. 345, 36566 (1973) (“Intervention in a federal court suit is governed by Fed. Rule Civ. Proc. 24”); Iridium
India Telecom Ltd. v. Motorola, Inc., 165 F. App’x 878, 879-80 (2d Cir. 2005) (“Rule 24(a) by
its own terms requires that, even if an applicant has an ‘unconditional right’ [to intervene] . . .
the application must still be ‘timely’”).
Rule 24(a) provides that “[o]n timely motion, the court must permit anyone to
intervene who . . . is given an unconditional right to intervene by a federal statute.” Fed. R. Civ.
P. 24(a); Jicarilla Apache Tribe v. Hodel, 821 F.2d 537, 539 (10th Cir. 1987) (“One of the
prerequisites to intervention as a matter of right is that it be timely.” (quotation omitted)); see
also NAACP, 413 U.S. at 365-66 (“Whether intervention be claimed of right or as permissive, it
is at once apparent, from the initial words of both Rule 24(a) and Rule 24(b), that the application
must be ‘timely.’ If it is untimely, intervention must be denied.”).
The Tenth Circuit has held that timeliness under Rule 24 is “determined in light
of all circumstances,” including:
length of time since the applicant knew of his interest in the case,
prejudice to the existing parties,
prejudice to the applicant, and
existence of any unusual circumstances.
Ute Distrib. Corp. v. Norton, 43 F. App’x 272, 276 (10th Cir. 2002) (quoting Sanguine,
Ltd. v. U.S. Dep’t of the Interior, 736 F.2d 1416, 1418 (10th Cir. 1984)).
Proposed Intervenors Have Known About Their Copyright Interests in
The test for timeliness is when the Proposed Intervenors were on notice that (a)
their interests were at issue in this case, and (b) those interests would be the subject of a
challenge by MHE as to VAI’s standing to pursue the claims. E.g., Choike v. Slippery Rock
Univ. of Penn., 297 F. App’x 138, 141-2 (3d Cir. 2008) (“‘To the extent the length of time an
applicant waits before applying for intervention is a factor in determining timeliness, it should be
measured from the point at which the applicant knew, or should have known, of the risk to its
rights.’”(citation omitted)); Oklahoma ex rel. Edmondson v. Tyson Foods, Inc., 619 F.3d 1223,
1232 (10th Cir. 2010) (courts “measure delay from when the movant was on notice that its
interests may not be protected by a party already in the case” ).
6. The risk that Plaintiff VAI may not having standing to pursue the infringement
claims based upon Proposed Intervenors’ copyright rights in the photos at issue arose prior to
filing of the complaint in this litigation because decisions under the Copyright Act have
unequivocally held that only the legal or beneficial owners of one of the exclusive rights under
Section 106 of the Copyright Act have standing to pursue copyright infringement actions.
Righthaven LLC v. Wolf, 813 F. Supp. 2d 1265, 1273 (D. Colo. 2011) (holding that “assignment
of the bare right to sue is . . . ineffectual” and does not confer “standing to institute an action for
copyright infringement”); see Goss v. Zueger, 2014 WL 901446, at *3 (D. Colo. Mar. 7, 2014)
(“[A] party asserting standing to sue for copyright infringement in the District of Colorado as a
legal owner under 17 U.S.C. § 501(b) must have the ‘exclusive’ right to do at least one of the
activities in [§ 106]” (citing Righthaven, 813 F. Supp. 2d at 1272); see also Silvers v. Sony
Pictures Entm’t, Inc., 402 F.3d 881, 890 (9th Cir. 2005) (en banc); Eden Toys, Inc. v. Florelee
Undergarment Co., 697 F.2d 27, 32 & n.3 (2d Cir. 1982) (noting the Copyright Act does not
“permit holders of rights under copyrights to choose third parties to bring suits on their
7. Even before this Court’s rejections of VAI’s claims for standing in Pearson I and
Pearson II, courts throughout the country had rejected VAI’s counsel’s efforts to improperly
aggregate copyright infringement claims through ineffectual assignment agreements and other
purported forms of transfer of the bare right to sue. E.g., Minden Pictures, Inc. v. John Wiley &
Sons, Inc., --- F. Supp. 2d ---, 2014 WL 295854 (N.D. Cal. Jan. 27, 2014); Minden Pictures, Inc.
v. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2013 WL 1995208 (N.D. Cal. May 13, 2013); Minden Pictures, Inc.
v. Pearson Educ., Inc., 929 F. Supp. 2d 962 (N.D. Cal. 2013); Visuals Unlimited, Inc. v. John
Wiley & Sons, Inc., No. 11 143 Y 00658 13, Case Order No. 5 (AAA Aug. 14, 2013); see also
Doc. No. 89 at 4.
8. Further, as the Tenth Circuit has recognized, if a non-party has actual notice of the
litigation implicating its interests and instead remains silent for years, as each of the Proposed
Intervenors has, as “a conscious tactical judgment,” such delay is a bar to intervention, even
intervention as a matter of right. Hodel, 821 F.2d at 539 (affirming untimeliness determination
and approving district court’s finding that the applicant’s delay was “a conscious tactical
judgment” based on a desire not “to be exposed to an open-ended series of legal costs”).
9. Because the Proposed Intervenors knew for more than two years of not just the
possibility, but the likelihood, that their agreements with VAI would be deemed ineffective to
grant VAI standing, they were “on notice that [their] interests may not be protected by a party
[VAI] already in the case.” Oklahoma ex rel. Edmondson v. Tyson Foods, Inc., 619 F.3d 1223,
1232 (10th Cir. 2010); see also Hodel, 821 F.2d at 539.
10. This factor weighs heavily in favor of finding that Proposed Intervenors’ motion
is untimely. See Hodel, 821 F.2d at 539; see also In re SEC, 296 F. App’x 637, 639 (10th Cir.
2008) (affirming trial court finding that intervention was untimely where proposed intervenor
knew of lawsuit and its potential impact for more than a year); Gaedeke Holdings VII, Ltd. v.
Mills, 2013 WL 2532501, at *2-3 (W.D. Okla. June 10, 2013) (finding that delay of more than
two years meant the proposed intervenor “has not satisfied the timeliness requirement”); APG
Enters., Inc. v. Money & More, Inc., 2011 WL 6328656, at *1 (D. Utah Nov. 2, 2011) (rejecting
intervention as of right because the proposed intervenors waited “well over a year and a half”
after claims accrued), report & recommendation adopted by 2011 WL 6328615 (D. Utah Dec.
16, 2011); Harris v. Heubel Material Handling, Inc., 2011 WL 1231155, at *2 (D. Kan. Mar. 29,
2011) (finding Rule 24(a) intervention untimely because “over sixteen months elapsed between
when the prospective interveners were informed of the litigation and when they filed their
motion”); Georgacarakos v. Wiley, 2009 WL 1608984, at *3-5 (D. Colo. Apr. 6, 2009) (denying
intervention where motion was filed “nearly two years after the litigation commenced”).
MHE Would Be Prejudiced by Any Intervention at This Stage of the Litigation
11. Proposed Intervenors have not participated fully as parties in the course of the
almost two years of discovery that has taken place in this litigation, and there is evidence that
some of the Proposed Intervenors have failed to or otherwise did not fully attend to their duties
with respect to the third-party discovery practice that MHE did undertake.
12. Motions to intervene that are filed at or after the close of discovery wherein a
party, such as MHE here, has not had a full and fair opportunity to obtain discovery from the
Proposed Intervenors, are typically untimely and impose a prejudice onto the defendant. E.g.,
Werner Invs., LLC v. Am. Family Mut. Ins. Co., 2013 WL 2903400, at *2 (D. Colo. June 14,
2013) (denying motion to intervene where discovery had closed and thus the “intervention would
necessitate further discovery” that would prejudice the defendant); Georgacarakos, 2009 WL
1608984, at *5 (finding motion untimely where “discovery ended . . . the day before the within
motion was filed . . . and . . . [a]lthough [intervenor] attests that he waives any right to file
motions or conduct discovery in this case, Defendants may desire to re-open discovery to seek
information from him, which could further unduly delay this case”).
13. MHE has been hampered by VAI’s litigation tactics and MHE has not had party
discovery from the Proposed Intervenors. Thus, intervention now – after the close of discovery
and after the filing of a dispositive motion that may dispose of the entirety of Proposed
Intervenors’ asserted claims – would unduly delay this case. E.g., Georgacarakos, 2009 WL
1608984, at *5.
14. Not only would intervention delay resolution of this case, this delay would be
distinctly prejudicial to MHE because it obviates the defense strategies and defense preparations
that have been based, to date, on MHE’s understanding that only VAI would be a plaintiff in this
case, and that as such, MHE need not expend resources on developing evidence in response to
the individual photographers acting as plaintiffs. E.g., Hodel, 821 F.2d at 539; D.F. Freeman
Contractors, Inc. v. St. Paul Fire & Marine Ins., Co., 2003 WL 21250670, at *4 (D. Kan. May
28, 2003); see also Fleming v. Lind-Waldock & Co., 922 F.2d 20, 26 (1st Cir. 1990) (“We agree
with the district court that defendants would be seriously prejudiced if intervention were allowed
five years after the commencement of Fleming’s actions . . . . [Intervention] would also negate
the preparation and time spent by the defendants on their motions for dismissal and/or summary
judgment. We hold the definite impression that Breech’s intervention motions were a “last
gasp” attempt by the intervenor and Fleming to erase the handwriting on the wall.” ); Kassover
v. Computer Depot, Inc., 691 F. Supp. 1205, 1209-10 (D. Minn. 1987) (intervention where
discovery was nearly closed and defendants were preparing for summary judgment motion
“would be grossly unfair to the defendants;” plaintiff “offers no further justification” for the
motion “[b]eyond the desire to shore up a crumbling lawsuit”), aff’d, 902 F.2d 1571 (8th Cir.
Proposed Intervenors’ Motion Is Not the Appropriate Vehicle to Cure VAI’s
Potentially Defective Claims
A “motion for intervention under Rule 24 is not an appropriate device to cure a
situation in which plaintiff may have stated causes of action that [it has] no standing to
litigate.” McClune v. Shamah, 593 F.2d 482, 486 (3d Cir. 1979) (affirming denial of
intervention, even where intervention may be “as a matter of right” because “it is axiomatic that
‘intervention will not be permitted to breathe life into a ‘nonexistent’ lawsuit’” (citation
16. This principle is well-established and has been recognized by the Supreme Court,
as well as courts throughout the country. United States ex rel. Tex. Portland Co. v. McCord, 233
U.S. 157, 163-64 (1911) (“[I]ntervention could not cure [plaintiff’s lack of standing] in the
original suit.”); Hildebrand v. Dentsply Int’l, 2011 WL 4528343, at *4 (E.D. Pa. Sept. 30, 2011)
(“[S]tanding to bring an action cannot be achieved via intervention by parties that were not
originally included in the litigation.” (citation omitted)); Disability Advocates, Inc. v. N.Y. Coal.
for Quality Assisted Living, Inc., 675 F.3d 149, 160 (2d Cir. 2012) (“[O]ur recognition that ‘the
right to intervene presupposes an action duly brought,’ reflects the Supreme Court’s long-held
understanding that where a ‘cause of action has not accrued to the party who undertook to bring
the suit originally . . . intervention cannot cure the vice in the original suit.’” (quoting Pianta v.
H.M. Reich Co., 77 F.2d 888, 890 (2d Cir. 1935), and McCord, 233 U.S. at 163-64)); Naartex
Consulting Corp. v. Watt, 542 F. Supp. 1196 (D.D.C. 1982) (“A motion for intervention under
Rule 24 is ordinarily not a proper device ‘to cure a situation in which plaintiffs may have stated
causes of action that they have no standing to litigate’”(citation omitted)), aff’d, 722 F.2d 779
(D.C. Cir. 1983).
17. If this Court grants MHE’s motion for summary judgment, none of the claims on
Proposed Intervenors’ photos would remain in this action, and as such, Rule 24 is not a proper
device to cure or otherwise save VAI’s lawsuit.2
18. This Court therefore concludes that, in light of all these circumstances, Proposed
Intervenors’ motion to intervene under Rule 24(a) is untimely and therefore must be denied.
19. Because Proposed Intervenors’ motion is untimely under Rule 24(a), it is equally
untimely and inappropriate as a matter of permissive intervention. See City of Tulsa v. Tyson
Foods, Inc., 2008 WL 185701, at *4 (N.D. Okla. Jan. 18, 2008) (“[I]f a court finds a motion to
In the event that this Court were to deny MHE’s motion for summary judgment, then no
further need for intervention by the Proposed Intervenors would exist. VAI would then be free
to prosecute the Proposed Intervenors’ claims in VAI’s name. Nevertheless, because this Court
has not yet ruled on MHE’s motion for summary judgment, the decision here denying the
Proposed Intervenors’ motion to intervene is without prejudice as to a later motion to intervene if
the Court later determines that VAI’s claims remain viable and the Proposed Intervenors then
determine that they wish to intervene in their own right.
be untimely under intervention as of right, likewise the motion cannot be timely under
The Proposed Intervenors’ Remaining Bases for Injecting Themselves into
This Litigation Are Improper Under the Law
Because Proposed Intervenors’ motion to intervene is untimely, it would be
similarly inappropriate to permit them to be joined in this action at this juncture.
21. Also, MHE has demonstrated that each of the Proposed Intervenors had his or
her own invoicing relationship with MHE over the course of the two decades at issue. As a
result, apart from being untimely and causing undue delay to the efficient resolution of this
litigation, such joinder now would be improper as it would result in a misjoinder. E.g. Senisi v.
John Wiley & Sons, Inc., No. 13 Civ. 3314, slip op. at 11 (S.D.N.Y. Mar. 28, 2014) (ordering
severance of misjoined claims, finding that the joinder of multiple photographers’ separate
claims was improper, where, as here, the parties “did not take any photographs together and each
allegedly licensed his or her photographs to [the publisher] through multiple stock photography
agencies or through individual direct licensing agreements . . . over a time span of at least twenty
years[, and] [e]ven those claims based on publications that contain more than one allegedly
infringing photograph have different transaction histories”); Patrick Collins, Inc. v. John Does,
2013 WL 1660673, at *4 (S.D. Cal. Apr. 16, 2013) (severing claims where “individual facts and
defenses” would predominate and “joinder would likely confuse and complicate the issues”). It
is also unnecessary as the Proposed Intervenors have already commenced, and MHE has already
answered, their own litigation on the very same claims. See Englebert, 5:14-cv-02062 (E.D.
22. Because Rule 17(a) does not permit a “‘real party in interest’ to ‘ratify’ an action
brought by a party that does not have statutory standing [in the first instance],” Proposed
Intervenors are not permitted to ratify this action brought solely by Plaintiff VAI by virtue of
their motion to intervene. E.g., Minden, 2014 WL 295854, at *11-12 (“To allow a copyright
owner to ‘ratify’ the filing of an action would be to effectively allow after-the-fact assignment of
the bare right to sue”) (citing cases); see Fed. Treas. Enters. Sojuzplodoimport v. SPI Spirits
Ltd., 726 F.3d 62, 83-84 (2d Cir. 2013) (holding that allowing a non-party to enlarge standing by
using Rule 17 would constitute a violation of the Rules Enabling Act, which prohibits the use of
the Rules to enlarge a substantive right under the Copyright Act).
23. Further, because the evidence suggests that VAI’s decision at the outset of this
case not to name the Proposed Intervenors as party-plaintiffs was not an “honest” mistake, but
rather part of a larger stratagem by VAI, its counsel, and the Proposed Intervenors themselves,
Rule 17 does not apply. E.g. Lans v. Gateway 2000, Inc., 84 F. Supp. 2d 112, 122 (D.D.C. 1999)
(Rule 17 ratification does not apply where “failure to sue in the name of [the proper party] was
not “an honest and understandable mistake”), aff’d sub nom., Lans v. Digital Equip. Corp., 252
F.3d 1320 (Fed. Cir. 2001); Live Entm’t, Inc. v. Digex, Inc., 300 F. Supp. 2d 1273, 1277 (S.D.
Fla. 2003) (same).
WHEREFORE, based on the parties’ briefing, the record of this matter as a whole, and
the oral argument held on July 28, 2014, the Motion to Intervene [Doc. #83] DENIED.
DATED: July 30, 2014
BY THE COURT:
s/David L. West
United States Magistrate Judge
NOTICE: Pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 72(a), “[w]ithin 14 days after being
served with a copy of the magistrate’s order, a party may serve and file
objections to the order; a party may not thereafter assign as error a defect in the
magistrate judge’s order to which objection was not timely made. The district
judge to whom the case is assigned shall consider such objections and shall
modify or set aside any portion of the magistrate judge’s order found to be clearly
erroneous or contrary to law.” See 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(1)(A) (“a judge of the court
may reconsider any pretrial matter under this subparagraph (A) where it has been
shown that the magistrate’s order is clearly erroneous or contrary to law.”).
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Meanwhile, with FCC Chair Ajit Pai now under investigation by the FCC Inspector General over the possibility that he communicated improperly with Sinclair Broadcasting shortly before loosening media consolidation rules in a manner that just so happened to benefit Sinclair's effort to assimilate Tribune Media, Common Cause helps you tell your Congressfolk to call upon the FCC to block the propose Sinclair-Tribune merger. The FCC blocking the merger sure would be the sound PR move, given how everything looks and how unpopular media consolidation is across the political spectrum, but this is a federal government that revels in telling us to go fuck ourselves. The President somehow won with 46% of the popular vote, so we do what we want! Look at our balls swing! They'll learn differently, but good people always help people learn their lessons more quickly. And we are good people.
Finally, CREDO helps you tell your Congressfolk to support a pair of bills that would crack down on those credit reporting corporations that don't take proper care of your personal data. You know, like Equifax, which lost the personal info of some 140 million good folks -- and lost rather more of that information than they originally said, because of course they did. But S. 2289, the Data Breach Prevention and Compensation Act, would establish an Office of Cybersecurity within the Federal Trade Commission -- an office that would oversee matters of data security -- and would set penalties for corporations that expose customer data. Meanwhile, S. 1816, the Freedom from Equifax Exploitation Act, would expand fraud alerts and allow Americans to request a free credit freeze from any credit reporting corporation they suspect has exposed their data. After all, we deserve better from credit reporting corporations than they've been giving us.


|Publication number||US7339534 B2|
|Application number||US 11/418,370|
|Publication date||Mar 4, 2008|
|Filing date||May 5, 2006|
|Priority date||Aug 10, 2005|
|Also published as||CN1913222A, CN1913222B, EP1753147A2, EP1753147A3, EP1753147B1, US20070035456, WO2007018359A1|
|Publication number||11418370, 418370, US 7339534 B2, US 7339534B2, US-B2-7339534, US7339534 B2, US7339534B2|
|Original Assignee||Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.|
|Export Citation||BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan|
|Patent Citations (7), Referenced by (1), Classifications (7), Legal Events (2)|
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet|
This application claims the benefit under 35 U.S.C. § 119(a) of a Korean patent application entitled “Antenna Apparatus For Portable Terminal”, filed in the Korean Intellectual Property Office on Aug. 10, 2005 and assigned Ser. No. 2005-73278, the entire contents of which are hereby incorporated by reference.
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a portable terminal. More particularly, the present invention relates to an antenna apparatus for a portable terminal.
2. Description of the Related Art
In general, a portable terminal is an appliance for providing wireless communication between users or between a user and a service provider via telecommunication base stations, for example. In addition to voice communication services, users may be provided with various other services, such as short message transmission, mobile banking, TV viewing, online games, and VODs (videos-on-demand), via the portable terminals.
Portable terminals are equipped with an antenna apparatus to maintain at least a predetermined level of reception ratio and speech quality regardless of varying radio environments. Antenna apparatuses for portable terminals have different specifications, including length, depending on the frequency band used by corresponding service providers.
The antenna apparatuses may be classified into internal antennas that are installed inside the housing of terminals and external antennas that protrude from the housing. Internal antennas include meander-type antennas, loop antennas, inverted L-type antennas, and planar inverted F-type antennas. External antennas include protruding antennas, which have antenna devices (for example, helical antennas) contained in the housings of the antennas, whip antennas, which are installed on the housings of terminals and adapted to extend/retract, and antenna apparatuses combining features of both helical and whip antennas. To improve the performance of terminals, such as portability, the prevailing trend is to use internal antennas.
Meanwhile, portable terminals are equipped with various additional apparatuses to provide more functions. In particular, camera modules have been rapidly developed recently, and, in accordance with current trends, most portable terminals are equipped with camera modules.
As the camera modules incorporate additional features such as an optical zoom function, their size increases. Consequently, the circuit configuration of the circuit boards of portable terminals, on which the camera modules are mounted, needs to be modified. Such modifications have a direct influence on internal antennas.
In conventional internal antenna apparatuses, the antenna device is directly connected with the RF (radio frequency) circuitry on the circuit board. This is because, as in the case of conventional external antennas, internal antennas are mounted on the upper end of the terminal housing for optimal radiation characteristics. Thus, the RF circuitry's position on the circuit board does not need to be changed to accommodate an internal antenna.
However, when camera modules increase in size, such as by incorporating an optical zoom function, the RF circuitry must be moved. More specifically, a mounting space must be secured in the rear portion of the terminal housing to mount a camera module having an optical zoom function. The camera module must be mounted on the upper end of the rear portion of the terminal housing because a battery pack is generally mounted on the lower end of the rear portion of the terminal housing. As a result, the antenna device, which is mounted on the upper end of the terminal housing, must be separated from the RF circuitry which is installed on the circuit board.
When the RF circuitry and the antenna device are spaced apart from each other in this manner, signal quality may degrade due to noise and loss. In an attempt to solve this problem, efforts have been made to move the radiation unit of internal antennas towards the RF circuitry. However, the position of the radiation unit is difficult to change, because such changes make it difficult to provide the stable antenna characteristics (for example, radiation performance) which are necessary for the terminal and affect the terminal design.
Accordingly, there is a need for an improved antenna apparatus for a mobile terminal having an antenna device which may be separated from the RF circuitry, while still maintaining stable operating characteristics.
An aspect of the present invention is to address at least the above problems and/or disadvantages and to provide at least the advantages described below. Accordingly, an aspect of the present invention is to provide an antenna apparatus for a portable terminal which has a stable antenna device that is separated from the RF circuitry.
Another aspect of the present invention is to provide an antenna apparatus for a portable terminal having an antenna device which is separated from the RF circuitry, so that the antenna device has stable characteristics, without changing the position of the antenna device or the design of the portable terminal.
In accordance with an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, an antenna apparatus for a portable terminal comprises an antenna device contained in a housing of the terminal and a coaxial cable for connecting the antenna device to circuitry of the terminal. The coaxial cable connects a power feed and a ground of the antenna device to a power feed and a ground of the circuitry, respectively.
The above and other objects, features, and advantages of certain exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be more apparent from the following description taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, in which:
Throughout the drawings, the same reference numerals will be understood to refer to the same elements, features, and structures.
The matters defined in the description such as a detailed construction and elements are provided to assist in a comprehensive understanding of the embodiments of the invention. Accordingly, those of ordinary skill in the art will recognize that various changes and modifications of the embodiments described herein can be made without departing from the scope and spirit of the invention. Also, descriptions of well-known functions and constructions are omitted for clarity and conciseness.
As shown in
The main circuit board 111 is part of circuitry 01, which performs core functions of the terminal, including communication, information storage, and operation. In addition to the main circuit board 111, the circuitry 101 includes a sub-circuit board 117, a support frame 113 for supporting a display device of the terminal, for example, and providing a ground, and a sub-frame 115.
The main circuit board 111 includes RF circuitry (not shown) and is mounted on one surface of the support frame 113. The display device (not shown) is mounted on the other surface of the support frame 113. The camera module 109 is installed on one side of the main circuit board 111. The antenna device 102 is connected to the RF circuitry of the main circuit board 111.
The sub-circuit board 117 is positioned so as to face the main circuit board 111. When the sub-frame 115 is mounted on the sub-circuit board 117, it is interposed between the main circuit board 111 and the sub-circuit board 117.
The main circuit board 111 and the sub-circuit board 115 have printed circuit patterns formed thereon, which provide them with grounds, respectively. The support frame 113 and the sub-frame 115 are made of a metallic material (for example, magnesium) so that they can provide grounds while supporting the display device and the circuit boards.
The antenna device 102 is mounted on an end of the support frame 113. As a result, the camera module 109 is positioned between the antenna device 102 and the RF circuitry of the main circuit board 111. In other words, the antenna device 102 and the main circuit board 111 are separated and spaced apart from each other.
The antenna device 102 includes a radiation unit 121, a power feed 123, and a ground 125. The radiation unit 121 directly emits and receives radio frequencies. The power feed 123 and the ground 125 are connected to a power feed and a ground, respectively, which are provided by the RF circuitry of the main circuit board 111, for example, via the coaxial cable 103.
The coaxial cable 103, which is connected to the antenna device 102, bypasses the camera module 109 and is routed between the sub-circuit board 117 and the sub-frame 115. The sub-frame 115 has a guide groove 119 formed thereon for receiving the coaxial cable 103. The coaxial cable 103 is disposed in the guide groove 119 and extends through the sub-frame 115 to be connected to the RF circuitry of the main circuit board 111.
Since the coaxial cable 103 is disposed in the guide groove 119, it is enclosed by the respective grounds provided by the sub-circuit board 117 and the sub-frame 115. This suppresses noise generation.
The coaxial cable 103 may have a lead extending from the power feed 123 of the antenna device 102 to the power feed of the RF circuitry, as well as a lead extending from the ground 125 of the antenna device 102 to the ground, which is provided on the main circuit board 111, or to the support frame.
As mentioned above, the antenna apparatus 100 for a portable terminal according to the present invention has an antenna device 102 spaced apart from the RF circuitry on the main circuit board 111, while being connected to the RF circuitry via the coaxial cable 103, so that the ground on the RF circuitry is connected to the ground 125 on the antenna device 102. This stabilizes the antenna characteristics.
Consequently, the antenna apparatus for a portable terminal according to the exemplary embodiment of the present invention is advantageous in that, since the coaxial cable supplies power to the antenna device, which is spaced apart from the RF circuitry, and grounds are provided to the circuitry, which includes the RF circuitry, and to the antenna device, respectively, the connection properties and the antenna characteristics are stabilized. Even when an additional component (such as a camera module) is installed and the circuit configuration is varied, the antenna device, which is positioned on the upper end of the terminal, can still exhibit optimal radiation performance.
While the invention has been shown and described with reference to certain exemplary embodiments thereof, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that various changes in form and details may be made therein without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as defined by the appended claims.
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|U.S. Classification||343/702, 343/846|
|Cooperative Classification||H01Q1/243, H04B1/3833|
|European Classification||H04B1/38P2, H01Q1/24A1A|
|May 5, 2006||AS||Assignment|
Owner name: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., KOREA, REPUBLIC OF
Free format text: ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNORS INTEREST;ASSIGNOR:JEONG, SUNG-HUN;REEL/FRAME:017836/0207
Effective date: 20060502
|Aug 18, 2011||FPAY||Fee payment|
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Metacritic has released their list of the publishers with the highest average metascore for games released in 2020, and it comes at no surprise that SEGA is NUMBER ONE. While other gaming news sites have shared this story and acted like it’s insane to even thing SEGA is number one, no doubt because of some nonsense about how Sonic ’06 was bad 15 years ago or something, we here at SEGAbits have seen SEGA’s 2020 output and can easily see why they’d take the top spot. Release good games, get good results!
Metacritic’s ninth annual game publisher rankings revealed some good news for SEGA fans! Our favorite publisher placed second, beating out heavy weights like EA. On this SEGA News Bits, we discuss the top three and what they did to deserve their spots.
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2018 certainly felt like a great year for SEGA and ATLUS games, and the recently released list of game publisher rankings by Metacritic solidifies it. While SEGA placed 3rd in 2017’s list, 2018’s list sees SEGA moving up a spot to second!
Sega landed in our top 3 for the third time in four years (with the exception coming in a year when Sega failed to release enough games to qualify for our “major” publishers group). That’s especially impressive given that Sega released more distinct titles than all but one other publisher in 2018. Note that all of Sega’s averages and totals include games published by Atlus, a recently acquired Sega subsidiary that (as of 2018) now shares top-level management with the parent company.
The people over at Metacritic has ranked the best publishers of 2017, determined by the quality of titles released during the 2017 calendar year. SEGA came in 3rd only being beaten by Bethesda Software and Nintendo. According to Metacritic, SEGA’s average score for the year was 75.5%! The worse rated game was Valkyria Revolution with a 55% score and the best was Bayonetta on PC with a 90%. SEGA bested big publishers like Activision Blizzard, Capcom, Ubisoft, Sony, and Square-Enix.
This is more proof that SEGA has been heading down the right direction since they had their huge restructure back in 2015 and got their new CEO Haruki Satomi who promised to earn gamer’s trust again by releasing more high quality software. What are your thoughts on SEGA’s output in 2017? Let us know in the comments below!
While SEGA didn’t release a lot of games during their 2015 year, the critics seemed to like the games they did release. From their SEGA 3D Classics to niche Japanese titles like Hatsune Miku: Project Mirai DX. Metacritic ranks SEGA as their #1 publisher of 2015, beating the likes of companies like Sony Computer Entertainment, TellTale Games and yeah, even Nintendo. It seems that people already are calling this unfair due to most of the titles being re-releases, but their really good and add new content. I suggest people having issues with this to ask Metacritic to change the rules. When was the last time you could say ‘Metacritic ranks SEGA #1’?
Here are the list of publishers and how they ranked:
- SEGA – 77.1%
- Telltale Games – 74.6%
- Sony – 74.4%
- Activision Blizzard – 72%
- Devolver Digital – 73.5%
- Nintendo – 71.7%
- EA – 71.9%
- Bandai Namco – 69.5%
- Ubisoft – 69.9%
Seems that SEGA’s new stradegy of releasing fewer titles but making sure the titles that are released are of ‘good to great’ quality might be the solution to rebuilding their brand. This year we have (in the west) games like Valkyria Chronicles Remastered, Yakuza 0 (maybe), 7th Dragon III: Code VFC, Sonic Boom: Fire & Ice, Total War: Warhammer, SEGA 3D Classics Collection, and even that rumored Sonic 25th Anniversary game. If all goes as planned, SEGA might top the list again. Metacritic ranks SEGA #1, how do you feel about this?
Metacritic have released their list of the 25 best reviewed 3DS titles of 2015 where SEGA and Atlus have swept the floor with the competition. Metacritic– for those who don’t know– compiles review scores from major video game critics to find the average score.
SEGA and Atlus boast almost half of the list with 12 of the 25 spots, including two of the highest rated games; 3D Streets of Rage II and 3D Gunstar Heroes both scoring a well deserved 89/100. (Nintendo’s The Legend of Zelda: Majoras Mask 3D also scored 89.)
Also worth mentioning is SEGA and Atlus’ success on the PS Vita in 2015, where they claimed 5 of the top 25 best scoring games.
Unsurprisingly the duo didn’t fair so well on home console, having barely released anything for those systems 2015. Choosing to bump many of their games in 2016 for longer development cycles.
Hit the jump for the full list of 3DS titles in Metacritics 2015 highest scoring list..
How annoying is it to get into an argument about how good a game is, only to have somebody throw a link to Metacritic at you? Well gamers can rejoice, as now that same thing can apply to arguing how good a developer is!
Metacritic has recently added the ability to search for individual developers, with each developer given their own score based on the games they’ve worked on. Of course, this is in no way a proper method of scoring how “good” somebody is, as even an assistant co-co-co-producer credit for an amazing game can bring up the score of an otherwise awful person. Also, some great retro games are not rated or credits are not yet given. For example, Morio Kishimoto is at a 69 but is only rated for his work on Sonic and the Secret Rings. He also directed Sonic Colors but has yet to be credited or scored for that.
After the break, check out the pointless numbers now assigned to our favorite (or least favorite) SEGA devs! It’s like in high school, when you’d rate the boys… or girls. I rated the girls. Yeah…
SEGA came in 9th place for the 2010 publisher rankings over at Metacritic. They take the publishers’ MetaScore for their 2011 line up and place them in order. SEGA averaged 67.4%, with their best rated title being Bayonetta (90%) and their worst being Iron Man 2 (41%).
SEGA delivered some really great software. Some of our favorite titles included After Burner Climax, Phantasy Star Portable 2, Valkyria Chronicles 2, Sonic Colors and Sonic & SEGA All-Stars Racing. So for SEGA fans, it was a pretty good year. Next time SEGA should trim the crap, leave the good stuff.
Check out the full list here.
“Any Sonic game with an average Metacritic has been de-listed. We have to do this and increase the value of the brand. This will be very important when more big Sonic releases arrive in the future.” – Jurgen Post, SEGA’s Senior Vice President of EMEA
Jurgen says they want to keep the number of Sonic titles on shelves lower, only to the best available games. That way users won’t get confused seeing 10 or more Sonic titles on the shelves.
Sounds reasonable. So if you want to get brand new copies of Sonic & The Black Knight or Sonic the Hedgehog 2006, you should go and get them now. Actually don’t, use that money to get Sonic 4.

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While diabetes has been known to humans from a very long time, the earliest texts describing it talk only about the first type of diabetes: Diabetes Mellitus Type 1. This kind is caused when human pancreas do not produce or produce very little of the hormone called insulin. But the more modern Diabetes Type 2 is far more prevalent.
90 percent of diabetics suffer from the modern variant. On an average, around 10 percent of Indians suffer from it, with the numbers being as high as 15 percent in urban areas. It is then apt to call Diabetes Type 2 a modern as well as an urban disease.
Both types of diabetes entail a high level of sugar in the bloodstream. But the reasons for this are different. While the pancreas in Type 1 cannot produce insulin in the case of Diabetes Type 1, in the case of Type 2, insulin gets produced but the body loses its ability to use it. The effects on health are largely the same and equally dangerous: impaired kidney performance, damage to the heart and arteries, vision complications, etc.
Unlike the Type 1 variant, Type 2 is largely due to lifestyle choices. While there is some genetic predisposition involved, studies in recent years have shown that the disease is preventable and controllable. Some experts say about 9 out of 10 incidences of diabetes 2 can stopped by just lifestyle changes. In this blogpost, we discuss this very pernicious disease, its causes, and the lifestyle changes we can make to prevent it.
Obesity has seen a marked increase in India, especially among the female population, in the recent years. Global obesity rates almost tripled for men to 11% of the total from 3.2% in 1975, while among women it nearly doubled to 15% from 6.4% in 1975. This is worrying since data also shows that women are more prone to diabetes than men.
To prevent diabetes 2, and a host of several other conditions, maintaining a healthy BMI is absolutely important. While a BMI of 25 is usually suggested as the upper cutoff, some other doctors and health professionals opine that for South Asians a cut of 23 is more apt. Along with a healthy BMI, maintaining a low abdominal visceral fat is very important. It is seen that this fat affects body’s metabolism, by releasing a type of protein that causes glucose intolerance – a precursor to diabetes 2. Keep your weight down by exercise and healthy diet, and you will never have to worry about Diabetes 2.
Sugar and Simple Carbohydrates
A diet high in sugar and simple carbohydrates like white rice, white flour (maida and also rava) is an indirect but indubitable cause of diabetes 2. The effect is indirect because eating a lot of simple carbs makes you want to eat more. This higher calorific intake causes obesity which is the actual culprit.
There is also a circular effect that activates once you become even slightly insulin resistant. Your body doesn’t absorb the food you are eating and you feel hungrier and more prone to diabetes – a vicious cycle. To never be caught in it, eat protein, replace your white rice and flour with whole grain, cool drinks with water, fruit juice with cut fruit.
Saturated and Trans Fats
Carbohydrates get a lot of attention when talking about diabetes 2. But saturated are equally, if not more, guilty. Eat less than 10 percent of your calories in these fats. But unsaturated fats are great for you. They lower HDL (the bad cholesterol) and more LDL (the good stuff) and keep you safe from heart disease and diabetes.
Smoking and a Sedentary Lifestyle
Smoking increases a lot of risks in life, making it the possibly the biggest risk we can take, health-wise. Recent research has shown people who smoke overlap largely with the group most susceptible to diabetes. Smokers have higher risks for serious complications, including: Heart and kidney disease, and diabetes. Diabetes multiplies, by several times, the risks smokers already face: heart disease, vision complications, proper blood flow. A big problem with smoking is it reinforces a sedentary behaviour. Smoking hinders, because the body’s ability to take in and use oxygen is impaired, the ability to exercise, further upping the risk of Diabetes 2.
A sedentary lifestyle leads again to obesity, which in turn is the almost inexorable, slippery slope to Diabetes 2. Sedentary persons have a higher incidence of the visceral abdominal fat we already discussed, which creates the conditions necessary for insulin resistance to take root. 30 minutes of moderate to intense physical activity at least 5 days a week keeps your heart healthy and the risk of visceral fat low. Research has shown that even one session of physical activity can help improve a person’s ability to use insulin. However, the effect lasts only 12 to 48 hours, which means regular physical activity is needed to keep insulin working effectively.

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text: Today I planned to make a ton of cards, but my little Daisey Mae (my precious Yorkie) had to make a trip to the ER this morning. She was diagnosed with Medial Luxating Patella (her knee popped out of it socket). We are suppose to keep her completely still for the next 48 hours and then very little walking for the next two weeks. So my card making be have to take a back seat for a while. Seeing as how Daisey loves to follow her sister Molly's every move it could be a quite a challenge to keep her quiet for two weeks. I did manage to get one card made for the Close to Cocoa Weekly Challenge found here . Carol challenged us to give her Trips. Triples of anything. I had many thoughts running through my head, but instead I had to come up with a quick idea and execute it as fast as I could today. I picked Candy Cane Rhubarb, I just love him. I decided to go with a blue and brown color scheme this time. I edged the Bashful Blue (SU) card base with gold Kyrlon pen and I embossed the SU designer paper with the snowflake ef although it does not show up in the picture too well at all. I also embossed the card base with the Swiss Dot ef. Then I used three gold snowflakes to tie it all together. I decided not to use a sentiment on this card. Thank you for spending some of your time with me today. See you tomorrow.

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It was a day to neglect for the New York Jets, who had been blown out by the Patriots of their Week 7 matchup in Foxborough. New England jumped out to a fast 17-0 result in start the sport and it was off to the races from that time ahead. The Patriots put up factors on their first six possessions of the day en path to a 54-13 victory. In all, New York allowed 551 yards of complete offense and 7 touchdowns (4 dashing, three passing).
“Prime down,” Jets head coach Robert Saleh mentioned of the staff’s struggles after the sport. “Begins with teaching all the way in which down. Clearly, we have got to be higher. They punched us within the freaking mouth and scored factors, so credit score to them. That is it. I imply, I have been in a part of a few of these in my life. They only do not feel good.”
When requested if there’s a sense of embarrassment following a defeat of this magnitude, Saleh mentioned, “Yeah, clearly. That is the NFL. You quit 50 factors, it is embarrassing. I do not suppose I’ve had this sense after a recreation since 2017 towards Dallas. A helpless feeling the place you are simply watching, you are attempting to determine one thing out. I will be trustworthy.
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“We speak about adversity. Everybody was asking. You possibly can chalk this one up, it is right here. That is from coaches all the way in which down. NFL does not actually give a flying [expletive] — excuse my language — when it comes to scheduling. We received to line up the following week and for the 11 or 12, no matter we received left. I do know we received the fitting males in that locker room. I do know we received the fitting individuals in that locker room. I do know we’ll come again sturdy. However we received to get it going.”
New York allowed Patriots rookie quarterback Mac Jones to finish passes to 11 totally different receivers on the afternoon en path to the primary 300-yard passing recreation of his profession. On the bottom, New England starter Damien Harris rushed for 106 yards, averaging 7.6 yards per carry to go together with two touchdowns.
“There’s all the time a tell-the-truth second when it comes to if you watch movie,” Saleh mentioned when requested if he was going to make any modifications to the protection following this loss. “You all the time wish to take a look at, one, structurally had been we OK. Have been there errors. Was it structurally the place it doesn’t matter what we did based mostly on that decision, had been we going to be within the state of affairs we had been in or was it only a matter of executing.
“As soon as we get to the movie room, examine all that, simply verify it clearly. I do not wish to provide you with wholesale modifications when structurally I believe we had been OK. I believe the blokes for probably the most half had been executing. All it takes is one. So we’ll get a good suggestion
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The Jets fell to 1-5 on the season and can now head again to MetLife Stadium and await the Cincinnati Bengals in Week 8.
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The Rise of the Krays
Ronnie and Reggie Kray are known around the globe for their misdeeds. They have been the subject of a number of movies and documentaries, all chronicling their rise and fall as The Firm. A two-part film, the first of which was released in 2015, is coming to small screens for fans to enjoy tonight, so who will play Ronnie and Reggie Kray?
This film shows the Kray twins in their rise to the gangster ranks from childhood to adulthood, focusing on their relationship with their mother, Violet Kray, played by Nicola Stapleton, as well as their fights against rival gangs.
The Rise of the Krays is a 2015 low-budget film about the Kray twins who terrorised London during the 1950s and 1960s. The film was funded by Terry Brown and David Sullivan and was in development before the production team learned of Legend, the blockbuster scheduled for release the same year.
Rise Of The Krays came out in 2015, and Fall Of The Krays followed one year later - the former depicting the rise to power of the Kray brothers back in the 1950s and 1960s, and the latter showing their downfall.
Not another Kay film, 50 years of fiction not facts. If the mafia wanted in on the casino scam they would of spoken to billy hill who had full control, the krays never had any real money from the scam. The krays were just newspaper gangsters. Billy hill was respected by the underworld and many went to him for advice, the krays just did not listen. I sat in bills flat with the krays many times they were just men never as smart as Billy. Perhaps the richardsons and Nash brothers should of joined forces ? H
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OTTAWA—It was the trade-off that may have saved the deal, but for the NDP’s young justice critic, the “notwithstanding” clause was nothing short of a deal-breaker.
This was back in 1981 and 1982, when high-stakes talks at the top rungs of Canadian politics produced an accord that would ultimately take control of the Constitution from the United Kingdom and enshrine a compendium of rights in the law of the land.
But Svend Robinson thought Section 33 of the brand new Charter of Rights and Freedoms gave governments an escape hatch that was much too large. To his dismay, this so-called notwithstanding clause applied to core elements of the Charter, like legal rights, freedoms from discrimination and freedom of expression.
Robinson couldn’t stomach that. So he voted against prime minister Pierre Trudeau’s constitutional reform package, the only MP to reject it specifically because of the notwithstanding clause.
“It was an assault on the most basic principles of the Charter,” Robinson said Tuesday. “I really felt a sense of betrayal, that this was just a body blow.”
Now the notwithstanding clause is back in the news, after Ontario Premier Doug Ford vowed to use it to protect his bill to slash the size of Toronto city council from being struck down for violating the Charter. But this esoteric section of the Constitution has been controversial since the beginning, when it was included in the Charter during the horse-trading that resulted in the historic Constitution Act of 1982.
“This was really the big compromise,” said University of Ottawa law professor Adam Dodek.
“We wouldn’t have the charter without it, and we probably wouldn’t have patriated the Constitution without it.”
The idea of a notwithstanding clause, also known as the “override” power, was at least 20 years old at the time. A similar provision was included in the Bill of Rights passed by John Diefenbaker’s Conservative government in 1960. The clause was included in Pierre Trudeau’s War Measures Act a decade later, when his government expanded police powers and suspended civil liberties in response to terrorist activity in Quebec. Alberta and Saskatchewan also had override clauses in their provincial bills of rights.
It was those provinces, along with Manitoba, that pushed for a notwithstanding clause in the early 1980s. Patricia Paradis, director of the Centre for Constitutional Studies at the University of Alberta, said the clause was seen as a way to protect the power and authority of provincial legislatures from court rulings that could overturn their laws, she said.
“They didn’t want to be in a situation where there was an errant court, a court that was going in the direction that they felt the public was not.”
The prime minister, however, was not a fan of the idea. In their 1982 book on the constitutional talks, The National Deal, journalists Robert Sheppard and Michael Valpy describe how Ottawa resisted inclusion of the clause but accepted it in the end as a necessary evil. They call the clause a “peculiarly, perhaps embarrassingly, Canadian device.”
“Only Canada could have a Constitution that doesn’t quite have judicial supremacy or parliamentary supremacy,” joked Asher Honickman partner at Matthews Abogado LLP and founder of the legal think tank Advocates for the Rule of Law.
But Honickman said the clause wasn’t intended as a free pass around the Charter. Indeed, Alberta premier Peter Lougheed told the provincial legislature in 1981 that the clause should be used only “when major matters of public policy were being determined by the court.”
Yet in light of Premier Ford’s actions this week, Robinson said Ford’s use of the clause could “embolden” other governments to follow suit on arguably minor issues. “Now my fear is: who’s next?”


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On Thursday we had an early start, leaving home at 5am to head for Heathrow to catch a flight to Geneva. Arriving at around 11am, we picked up our hire car and headed down town to Lake Geneva where we took a boat trip around the lake before enjoying an ice cream in the park. We then headed across the border to France where our hotel was located just outside Annemasse.
On Friday we visited Annecy, a beautiful and genteel town beside a lake, about an hour south of Geneva. Here we wandered through the market set along the cobbled streets of the old town before eating lunch at a creperie. We then headed down to the lake where we hired a 'speed' boat for an hour. Toby & Joshua both enjoyed driving the boat, with Joshua thinking it was great to go round and round in circles - but for a 3 year old he did a pretty good job.
On Saturday we made an early start and arrived at Chamonix just after 9 in the morning. We took the Montenvers train up towards the Mer de Glace, a glacier running down the valley. We walked the mile or so descent down to the valley and then Graham descended the 284 steps down to the glacier to enter the ice grotto - a tunnel dug into the glacier itself. Fortunately there was a cable car to take us back up to the train station ready to catch the train back into Chamonix.
It was then onto the Aiguille du Midi cable car, which was actually two cable cars taking you first to about 7,000 feet, then a second continuing the journey up to 12,000 feet where a cafe and viewing platform were to be found. The last part of the cable car run was near vertical and with about 50 people in each car it made you think how strong the cable holding us up must have been.
On the way up we descended through one layer of cloud and out into the blue sky again, with the viewing platform and Mont-Blanc itself constantly moving in and out of the clouds. At 12,000+ feet the lack of oxygen was noticeable when climbing up stairs or undertaking any other physical exertion.
On Sunday, it was back to Geneva for our noon flight home. All in all, a thoroughly interesting and varied weekend.
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Interpreter of Maladies: Stories
- Author: Jhumpa Lahiri
- Publisher: Mariner Books / Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Published: June 1999
- ISBN-10: 039592720X
- ISBN-13: 9780395927205
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- Copyright: 1999
- Subject: FICTION / Short Stories (single author)
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A debut volume of stories imbued with sensual details of Indian culture, and that ranges from India to New England. The title story selected for both the O. Henry Award & The Best American Short Stories. Winner of the 2000 PulitzerPrize for fiction and the PEN/Hemingway Award. 198p.
India is an inescapable presence in this strong first collection's nine polished and resonant tales, most of which have appeared in The New Yorker and other publications. Lahiri, who was born in London and grew up in Rhode Island, offers stories that stress the complex mechanics of adjustment to new circumstances, relationships, and cultures. Sometimes they re narrated by outside observers like the flatmates of an excited (presumably epileptic) young woman cured by relations with men (in The Treatment of Bibi Haldar ); the preadolescent American schoolboy cared for at Mrs. Sen s, where the eponymous immigrant is tortured by the pressure of adapting to American ways; or, most compellingly, the Indian-American girl emotionally touched and subtly matured by the kindness her parents show to a Pakistani friend who fears for the safety of his family back home amid civil war ( When Mr. Pirzada Came to Dine ). Richly detailed portrayals of young marriages dominate tales like that of an Indian emigrant's oddly fulfilling relationship with his landlady, a bellicose centenarian ( The Third and Final Continent ); This Blessed House, in which the wedge afflicting a young couple is widened when they discover Christian paraphernalia left behind by their home's former owners; and A Temporary Matter, which delicately traces how a pair of academics, continually mourning their stillborn baby, find in an exchange of confessions a renewal of their intimacy. Lahiri is equally skilled with more sophisticated plots, as in her title story's seriocomic disclosure of a middle-aged tour guide's self-delusive romance, or in the complexity of Sexy, about a young American woman who s fascinated not only by her married Bengali lover but by all other things Indian including the manner in which she is and isn t deflected from her passion by an afternoon with an Indian boy victimized by his own father's infidelity. Moving and authoritative pictures of culture shock and displaced identity. Copyright 1999 Kirkus Reviews
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Popular Kamba singer and Producer Toby Bisengo is wondering why other Kamba artists fear him.
In a video shared on his Facebook page, Bisengo narrated that there was a time he was to perform in a certain club alongside other Benga artists.
However, the Benga artist called the owner of the club and said that he could not attend the show if he will perform alongside the ‘Katolo’ hitmaker.
“I have a question for artists from Ukambani, to all fans I ask why do other artists fear me, what do I have that they fear because there is an artist who learned that I will be performing with him at a certain club and called the owner to cancel, “Bisengo said.
“He told the owner that if he will be performing with me then he won’t come. So the owner thought he would lose the band because of me and I became a threat instantly. What is wrong with me?” he questioned.
Bisengo noted that every singer has his or her own fans and he(Bisengo) is a budding artist and there should be no pressure whatsoever between him and other artists.
“I am just an upcoming artist and all the others are pros, stars with great following in the region with an already built name, “The artist went on.


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As a Member of London's Magic Circle, Steve Cohen is a magician who will leave you wide-eyed and thinking long after the show has ended, "How did he do that?" From magic tricks to mind reading, Steve is the host of the very entertaining and mind blowing magic show Chamber Magic every Friday and Saturday at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City. Click here to get your tickets!
1. Who or what inspired you to become a magician? My uncle inspired me. He was an amateur magician. He was born in 1901 and saw Houdini perform live here in New York. My uncle interacted with the magicians in the Society of American Magicians, an organization Houdini founded. He specialized in what were called "pocket tricks." "Pocket tricks" is an old fashioned term describing tricks you can perform out of your pocket. If you walk into a party and don’t have anything to work with, you can take an object out of your pocket, show it to people, and then put it back in. Today we call that close-up magic. To my mind, close-up magic is the most direct form of magic because it's interactive. When my uncle performed it for us, he was very engaging, a very funny guy. Over the years, what stayed with me, even more than his tricks, was his ability to engage an audience. I've tried to keep that ability alive in my show too.
Me: I was going to say I noticed that. Your show is about the magic, but the way you interact with the audience, to make them feel a part of it, really adds so much to the show.
Steve: Thanks. The type of performance I do here is not actually close-up magic, but parlor magic. Parlor magic is a cross between close-up magic and a stage show. In tonight’s audience, we had 55 people and everyone had a good seat. You were in the third row and you could see everything. I think there is something to be said for watching miracles up close. The audience is able to participate in the tricks and be amazed, which is the aspect of magic I enjoy most.
2. You have been performing Chamber Magic at the Waldorf Astoria for more than 13 years. Why did you decide to base your show on parlor magic as opposed to a different style? I was inspired by a famous magician from the late 1800’s, Johann Hofzinser, who presented a show in a salon in Austria for many years. He was the top society entertainer of Vienna. In that age, there was a whole culture of salons where people would gather to drink coffee, debate about politics, and talk about the news of the day. So having a magic salon was not unheard of. I have done a lot of research about Hofzinser's salon. I like to work with people in an intelligent way, so my goal was to re-create these salon shows in New York, a city with its own modern day royalty. I thought it would be interesting and fun to perform for business leaders and high society here.
3. How did you decide to make the Waldorf Astoria Chamber Magic's home? I began the show at my friend's apartment down in the West Village. Then I started doing the show at the National Arts Club in Gramercy Park, where, as a member, I was allowed to use their front parlor, a beautiful mahogany room with a fireplace and Tiffany glass chandelier. I did the show there for about three months and I was starting to get some momentum, but the club, like many private clubs in New York, shut down for the summer.
At that time, I met my manager, who had connections here at the Waldorf; she introduced me to some of the executives here and convinced them to give me a try. That was 13 years ago. Since then, I've performed the show more than 3,000 times for more than 275,000 guests! The show is self-produced and promoted entirely by word-of-mouth.
4. How do you feel Chamber Magic has grown over the past 13 years and what do you enjoy most about performing the show? The show has really changed a lot. The signature pieces have stayed in the show, like the "Think-A-Drink" teapot routine and the "Linking Rings." The part of show I enjoy most is getting immediate feedback because in most jobs, you don't get such a quick response. In this type of performance, because there is such intimate interplay with the audience, I can tell how the show is going. What pleases me the most is knowing that the audience is enjoying the show.
5. You've taken this show around the country as well. Yes, I've traveled around the world with this show. That enabled me to reach further than New York and perform for audiences that, hopefully, would tell their friends and family about the show at the Waldorf Astoria. I enjoy seeing different cities but it's not easy to travel with this show, so I prefer to perform it here in New York, which is already a destination for theater.
Since the beginning, I established a "cocktail attire" dress code for Chamber Magic. This means the audience starts getting ready for the show when they’re still at home. The anticipation builds from the moment they start getting dressed up until the show starts.
Me: That is very true. When I was getting ready for the show, I was very excited. I never really get dressed up like this to see a show, so it's very different and it started the excitement at home and then when I got here and saw everyone else dressed up, it added to the excitement. It's nice to see that everyone does it. I think having everyone get dressed up makes it a real event, so that when they go home they tell everyone about this big event they attended.
6. You are a member of the Inner Magic Circle. What exactly dos that mean? The Magic Circle is probably the most prestigious magician’s organization in the world. Based in London, they have various ranks. Once you join the club as a regular or general member, you can move up in those ranks. The highest level, which I have attained, is Member of the Inner Magic Circle (MIMC) with Gold Star. It was a real honor for me to become a member of the Inner Magic Circle and be acknowledged by my peers.
7. What have you learned about yourself from being a magician? I've learned to be very resourceful. As a magician, you always have to be thinking many steps ahead of the audience, which sometimes means planning years in advance for a single moment. I've learned that I'm willing to practice months for a three-second technique or a year for a single trick that might take 15 seconds. When the audience eventually sees that trick, they have no chance, because they don't know how much went into preparing for that one brief moment.
8. What's the best advice you've ever received? It was an African proverb, "Don't push the river, it flows by itself." There were certain things in my career that I wanted to happen really fast, like my show taking off. I felt I had a great show and I thought everyone should know about it and it just didn't happen, so I had to think in real time. This African proverb really grounded me. I just said to myself, "If you just take your time, pay your dues, and do what you do best, people are going to eventually recognize you, so just let it happen in real time and let the river flow."
9. What's it like performing for celebrities? If you could perform magic for a celebrity of your choice, who would it be? I enjoy having well-known figures in the audience because it's a lot of fun to see them and I love chatting with them afterward. It's very flattering when they choose to come to my show out of all the things they could do in New York City.
To answer your question--ever since I was a boy, I've always wanted to perform for the President of the United States in the White House. I hope I'll get invited to perform there while the present administration is in power.
10. If you could have any super power, which one would you choose? Aside from the ones I already have? [laughs]. I would like the ability to figure out the teenage mind. I have a teenage son and I have no idea what he's thinking. I would love to be able to read his mind. I can read people's minds in this show, but at home it's a different story.
Steve Cohen is the Millionaires' Magician. He performs internationally for celebrities, tycoons and aristocrats. When he is not traveling, Steve can be found at New York’s famous Waldorf Astoria hotel performing his public show, Chamber Magic. Steve recreates the intimacy of 19th century parlor performances by baffling his guests in the close quarters of a private suite. He is the author of the book: Win The Crowd (HarperCollins), and star of the two-hour speical Lost Magic Decoded on the History Channel.
Steve has received widespread media recognition, including: The Late Show with David Letterman, CBS Sunday Morning, CNN, Martha Stewart Living, The History Channel, Forbes Magazine, The Financial Times, The London Sunday Times and The New York Times.
Steve earned a degree in psychology from Cornell University and spent a year abroad studying at Waseda University in Tokyo. He has native-level proficiency in Japanese, and previously worked as an interpreter for the Japanese government. He holds the esteemed rank of MIMC (Member of the Inner Magic Circle) with Gold Star, awarded by The Magic Circle in London.


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About 500,000 locals went to graveyards around the city to pay homage to their ancestors over the weekend, two weeks ahead of the traditional Qingming Festival, also known as Tomb Sweeping Festival.
The cemetery and funeral management division with the Shanghai Civil Affairs Bureau announced nearly 180,000 people joined the tomb-sweeping crowd on Saturday. The figure further rose to 323,000 people yesterday.
"Weather conditions were a big reason for the traffic volume surge," said a division official surnamed Gao, explaining that Chinese people were accustomed to go tomb-sweeping on clear days.
Officials said the figure was fewer compared with the same period last year, but still caused traffic problems. The bureau announced earlier as many as seven million people, with about 520,000 vehicles, were expected at tomb-sweeping.
Peak days were expected on April 4 to 6, the three-day Qingming Festival holidays.
"Traditionally, traffic volume peaks will appear on weekends before and after the Qingming Festival," Gao said. "But since people now have a day off for the festival from this year, it'll be natural for these holidays to become the top choices."
While the weekend turnout was smaller than expected, the city's traffic still experienced difficulties. Hundreds of vehicles clogged the Jiangqiao toll gate for the expressway connecting Shanghai and Nanjing, capital of neighboring Jiangsu Province, from 7 am on Saturday. The vehicle queue lasted five kilometers and it was not until 11 am that the traffic pressure was eased.
Zhang Qiang, one of the tomb sweepers, said he had expected traffic jams and was prepared to wait.
Inside cemeteries, plastic bags and rubbish discarded by tomb-sweepers caused environmental problems, despite eco-friendly garbage bags being supplied at some locations, officials said.
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Cryptocurrency has been conquering all the industries with its effective digital dealings. The security and the fastness in the transactions are attracting different industries to incorporate the modern digital currency. Online Pharmacy is no exception. The market for online pharmacy has been widening as it is offering more convenient methods for the customers to get medicines online. With the increase in the number of traders, more online pharmacies are starting to accept bitcoin payments for their services.
Venezuelan Pharmacy accepts crypto payments
Farmarket is a popular pharmacy group in Venezuela that has announced that they will be accepting cryptocurrencies via XPay. The 22 stores of the pharmacy franchise will now allow customers to pay for their products and services through popular cryptocurrencies like bitcoins, DAI, DASH, BCH and even via Terra, which is a digital currency with the primary goal of eliminating fees and hidden costs in e-commerce. Panda Group has highly promoted cryptocurrencies in both Venezuela and Colombia and also set up 10 cryptocurrency hybrid machines.
Farmarket can accept digital currencies through Xpay and allows the merchants to select the percentage of the money they want to withdraw either in cryptocurrencies or the amount equivalent in local fiat currency.
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Privacy was the major factor one of the online pharmacies in the UK saw as many patients taking treatments for delicate medical conditions wanted privacy in their transactions. MedExpress became the first online pharmacy in the UK to start accepting bitcoins for their products and services. The company also said that when there is no bank statement for the transactions made, patients get the confidence to find treatment for sensitive and delicate medical conditions like herpes, erectile dysfunction, male pattern baldness, etc.
The wide growth of bitcoin is making it clear that bitcoin payments are a viable option with no paper trails when compared to traditional payment methods. As Bitcoin continues its growth, exploring other promising digital assets and staying informed about them can enhance your understanding of the evolving financial landscape. Refer to sites like https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/best-crypto-watch-2024-top-5-cryptocurrencies-high-calsona-f8pve to be informed about the Crypto to Watch in 2024. MedExpress also checks all the identities to make sure that nobody is using false identities to purchase medicines illegally.
Dr.BTC is yet another online pharmacy that allows patients to purchase medicines online using bitcoins. The company has good connections with many international suppliers so that the patients can get quality medicines and the best deals. Dr.BTC finds the anonymity and security options of bitcoin payments to be impressive. The patients get the convenience of purchasing their medicines from the comfort of their homes anonymously without the fear of any risk.
Even though bitcoin payments are a very convenient way for patients to buy medicines, many experts fear that the anonymity feature of digital currencies may be misused by anti-socialists to purchase illegal medicines. Some medical practitioners strongly oppose the use of cryptocurrency for the purchase of medicines fearing huge consequences while others suggest using the platform in a secure way through strict identity checks. If steps are taken to avoid misuses, cryptocurrencies can become the ideal mode of transactions to purchase medicines from the comfort of the home without fearing any loss of money. As mentioned earlier, it also boosts confidence in the patients to take treatment for their sensitive medical conditions without involving others.


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Halab is the ancient name of Aleppo in northern Syria.
Aleppo (/əˈlɛpoʊ/; Arabic: ﺣﻠﺐ / ALA-LC: Ḥalab, IPA: [ˈħalab]) is a city in Syria, serving as the capital of the Aleppo Governorate, the most populous Syrian governorate. With an official population of 4.6 million in 2010, Aleppo was the largest Syrian city before the Syrian Civil War; however, now Aleppo is probably the second-largest city in Syria after the capital Damascus.
Syrian cuisine in general, and especially Aleppine cuisine, has a very wide selection of dishes.[clarification needed] Being surrounded by olive, nut and fruit orchards, Aleppo is famous for a love of eating, as the cuisine is the product of fertile land and location along the Silk Road. The International Academy of Gastronomy in France awarded Aleppo its culinary prize in 2007. But in fact, Aleppo was a food capital long before Paris, because of its diverse communities of Arabs, Kurds, Armenians, Circassians, Arab Christian and Turcomans. All of those groups contributed food traditions, since Aleppo was part of the Ottoman Empire.[clarification needed] The city has a vast selection of different types of dishes, such as kebab, kibbeh, dolma, hummus, ful halabi, za’atar halabi, etc. Ful halabi is a typical Aleppine breakfast meal: fava bean soup with a splash of olive oil, lemon juice, garlic and Aleppo’s red peppers. The za’atar of Aleppo (thyme) is a kind of oregano which is very popular in the regional cuisines.


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