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Estonian Air and KLM Royal Dutch Airlines will start cooperation on Amsterdam-Vilnius-Amsterdam route
Press release issued by Estonian Air
Starting from 12 February 2010, Estonian Air and KLM Royal Dutch Airlines will start code share cooperation on Estonian Air flights on Amsterdam-Vilnius-Amsterdam route. Estonian Air will serve the route as a through flight to/from Tallinn with six weekly frequencies on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Sundays.
Successful cooperation that started in spring 2009 between Estonian Air and KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, one of the biggest airlines in the world, has been leading to further development. In the very beginning of 2010, Estonian Air and KLM Royal Dutch Airlines decided to sign an agreement according to which KLM Royal Dutch Airlines will start code sharing on Estonian Air flights between Amsterdam and Vilnius.
“Estonian Air and KLM Royal Dutch Airlines have a good interlining cooperation from spring 2009, when Estonian Air started direct flights on Tallinn-Amsterdam route, allowing passengers to use competitive fares combining the two airlines’ routes on one ticket. Expanding the cooperation and entering into the Lithuanian market together with one of the biggest airlines in the world, is strategically important for developing Estonian Air’s operations. Increased cooperation between the two airlines enables offering convenient flights for Lithuanian customers through a codeshare cooperation, and Estonian customers through an interline cooperation, with good value for money into and from KLM destinations all over the world,” says Andrus Aljas, President and CEO of Estonian Air.
Amsterdam Schiphol Airport is one of the biggest and busiest hubs in Europe, though convenient and user-friendly airport, serving more than 100 airlines and offering a wide choice of flights into the entire world.
For tickets and more information please visit our website www.estonian-air.com, contact Estonian Air Customer Service +372 6401 163 or contact your travel agency.
About Estonian Air:
Estonian Air, Estonia’s national carrier, was founded on 1 December 1991. Estonian Air, with head-quarters in Tallinn, provides for both business travellers and tourists direct air link from Estonia to many European cities. Altogether Estonian Air offers tickets to 160 destinations, including Estonian Air direct and its partner airlines flights.
In spring 2007 Estonian Air established a subsidiary company Estonian Air Regional which operates Estonian Air’s domestic and short-haul flights to neighbouring regions.
Estonian Air is owned by the SAS Group, the State of Estonia and the Estonian investment bank Cresco.
About KLM Royal Dutch Airlines:
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines was founded in 1919, making it the world's oldest airline operating under its original name. In 2004, Air France and KLM merged to form AIR FRANCE KLM. The merger produced the strongest European airline group based on two powerful brands names and hubs, Amsterdam Airport Schiphol and Paris Charles de Gaulle. The two airlines collaborate on three core activities - passenger transport, cargo and aircraft maintenance - while maintaining their own identities
KLM serves 146 destinations in 63 countries using a modern fleet of 112 aircraft and employs 33,000 people around the world. KLM is a member of SkyTeam, an airline alliance offering a network of 856 destinations all over the globe. In the Netherlands, KLM comprises the core of the KLM Group which further includes KLM Cityhopper, Martinair and Transavia.com.
Further information about Estonian Air:
Ilona Eskelinen, PR Director
Phone: +372 6401 178,
Further information about KLM Royal Dutch Airlines:
Joyce Veekman, Head of Mediarelations
Phone: +31 206494545.

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(Des Moines, IA) -- The Des Moines Police Department continues to investigate Monday's shooting, that resulted in the death of two teens at a non-profit organization for at-risk students. The founder of the organization, Will Keeps, remains hospitalized and is recovering from injuries during the shooting.
Des Moines Police Chief Dana Wingert has released a statement to the community:
“On January 23rd, an all-too familiar scenario played out in the City of Des Moines. Unfortunately, this scene has become increasingly common across the country, and our community is no different. Tragic loss of two young lives at the hands of gun violence, with a third person seriously injured, is something we should never accept as “normal” or “acceptable”. It can only be viewed as tragic, sad and pointless each and every time. Monday’s incident took this disturbing trend to a new level, as the violence was brought the very institution created to provide hope and opportunity to some of our most troubled youth, and its founder, Will Keeps, who has made it his life’s work to ensure their success. As troubling as this is, it would be a mistake to underestimate the passion and energy that he will bring to this important work upon his recovery. The response to this incident was impressive, to say the least. The first officers on scene rushed into the building without hesitation or delay. Fire medics arrived quickly to provide aid and livesaving measures. A traffic stop with the armed suspect in the vehicle was conducted minutes into the incident. Detectives and CSI technicians worked tirelessly well into the night to find the answers and file the appropriate charges on the shooter. This collective response brought a horrible tragedy to a quick resolution. Our partners from local, county, state and federal law enforcement agencies were there quickly to provide resources and support to this effort, something we’ve come to expect from these valued partners in Central Iowa. There are resources and a collective will in this City to tackle challenging issues such as this, and I can assure you that those resources will be put into play in the continued fight against violent crime. There is no other way."
- Chief Dana Wingert

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Consultation on a proposal to decommission the speech and language Resourced Provision at Gledhow Primary School
This survey is being run by the Learning Systems service at Leeds City Council
Leeds City Council is proposing to decommission the speech and language resourced provision at Gledhow Primary School from August 2022.
Over the last few years, the nature of SEND provision for speech and language communication difficulties within Leeds has changed dramatically. Previously specialist Speech and Language provision was only available through the limited number of established Resource Provisions within mainstream primary and secondary schools.
The NHS Speech and Language Therapy Service (SALT) has since improved to allow children to access direct support from a Speech and Language Therapist whilst being on roll at their local mainstream school. The children can now remain within their local community rather than transporting them across the city, away from their peers, to receive the support that they need.
This has led to speech and language specific Resourced Provisions in Leeds schools reducing in number, due to the lack of demand for these specialist school places. This demonstrates the effectiveness of the new offer and the confidence of parents and families in choosing their local mainstream school for the delivery of SALT provision.
Currently there is only one pupil attending Gledhow Resourced Provision and they are due to move into secondary school this academic year, ahead of the proposed decommission. Therefore, no pupils would be directly affected by this change.
In ceasing the provision at Gledhow Primary school there would be no impact on the types and amount of provision children with speech and language communication difficulties would receive, due to the improved SALT offer within Leeds schools.
Have your say
This public consultation is an opportunity for you to find out more and have your say. Your views will help the school and the council decide next steps so it’s important that you share your thoughts with us now before any decisions are taken. We would like to encourage you to share your views about the proposal to decommission the speech and language provision by completing this online survey by 4pm on 3rd February 2022.
Please note, questions marked with a red asterisk(*) are mandatory.


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In about two weeks, many retailers will decide whether to do seasonal hiring as job-seekers anxiously await the news, the Texas Workforce Commission said.
While Toys R Us announced Wednesday that it's hiring 35,000 seasonal workers nationally, many other big-name retailers have remained mum.
"The retailers were hiring, but hiring in much smaller numbers than they have in years prior," he said.
He said the 60 percent decrease reflected a national trend, and any seasonal hiring may be an improvement over 2008's numbers.
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Hair and Fiber Microscopy (1207)
COURSE OUTLINE & SYLLABUS
This is an introductory, survey course. Students characterize human and animal hairs, naturally occurring fibers, and man-made fibers. Methods for collection, screening, mounting and detailed characterization of hairs and fibers are covered, but the emphasis is on microscopy.
There is no prerequisite for this course, and it satisfies the same prerequisites as course 1201.
• Geometrical and physical optics, Koehler illumination, numerical aperture, resolution, contrast, and micrometry
• Sample preparation of hairs and fibers, human and animal hair morphology, measurements (diameter, medullary ratio, ellipticity ratio, scale count from casts).
• Crystallography of fibers, isotropy vs. anisotropy, polarized light, refractive index, color and pleochroism
• Characterization of synthetic fibers
• Dispersion staining
• Crossed polars, birefringence, extinction characteristics, extinction angle, sign of elongation
• Human hair comparison, color, treatment, pigment shape and distribution, damage, disease, medulla, root, tip
• Animal hair diameter, medulla, color banding, scale casts
• Vegetable fiber characterization
• Mineral fiber characterization
• Unknowns and sample handling
Note: An advanced and focused course in Forensic Fiber Analysis (1507) is also available.

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There is a global aggrement that seat belts reduced fatalities in cars. And there is an emerging aggrement that MEMS with all the inertial sensors are doing same in modern cars with the stability control and air bags. Gyros and XLs will continue to shape car safeties for a long time.
What are the engineering and design challenges in creating successful IoT devices? These devices are usually small, resource-constrained electronics designed to sense, collect, send, and/or interpret data. Some of the devices need to be smart enough to act upon data in real time, 24/7. Specifically the guests will discuss sensors, security, and lessons from IoT deployments.


The Nigeria Centre for Disease and Prevention Control (NCDC) has said that recent experiences in the country with the arrival of the COVID-19 omicron variants showed that travel restrictions did not have any public health benefits but were disruptive for persons and businesses.
Director-General, NCDC, Dr Ifedayo Adetifa, said this on his official Twitter handle while addressing Nigerians who raised concern over the rising COVID-19 cases in China, the UK, U.S.A and other countries.
He said COVID-19 has and continues to follow a different course (epidemiology) in Nigeria and most of African nations.
“Other omicron progeny that was associated with increases in cases, admissions and deaths elsewhere did not cause the same in Nigeria as confirmed by our genomics surveillance.
“Our population is significantly protected from a combination of natural infection and vaccination,” he explained.
Adetifa said the COVID-19 Emergency Operations Centre (EOC) met on December 31, 2022, noting that going forward, they would continue to review the ongoing COVID-19 situation over the coming week.
“At the next review and if deemed necessary, a range of actions, not limited to enhanced surveillance of travellers at airports, may be implemented,” he said.
The NCDC boss said that the agency follows global COVID-19 epidemiology, including genomics data, as part of the ongoing pandemic response.
Adetifa said the NCDC COVID-19 EOC continues to function at level two alertness, including weekly risk assessments to inform the need for action.
“Our COVID-19 EOC is tracking COVID-19 trends in China, the US, UK, South Africa, India and other destinations with high volume traffic to and from Nigeria,” he said.
The NCDC boss said the COVID-19 resurgence in China was not surprising, given their recent transition from a zero COVID-19 strategy.
He said this was against the backdrop of a population that neither has high levels of natural immunity nor high levels of coverage with vaccines with the greatest impact against severe disease, hospitalisation, and death.
“Cases, admissions and deaths in England and the US have increased significantly.
Government agency data show 28.8 per cent, 36.3 per cent and 1.6 per cent increases in cases, admissions and deaths as of December 22, 2022, compared to the previous period.
“The Centre for Disease Control reports 57.0 per cent, 23.2 per cent and 66.0 per cent increases in cases, admissions and deaths as of Dec. 22, 2022, compared to November 20, 2022.
UNICEF, NGO Train Youth Activists On FGM Elimination
A Non-Governmental organisation, Trailblazer Initiative Nigeria (TBI) in collaboration with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Nigeria, has commenced training of some youth activists to end rising cases of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) in Nigeria.
The three-day training which involved reporting on the elimination of Female Genital Mutilation(FGM), Gender Based Violence(GBV), violence against women and children as well as child marriage was to further strengthen youth participation in policy advocacy.
The Executive Director, TBI, Dare Adaramoye, said that the pilot phase of the project, funded by UNICEF, would be implemented in three Local Government Areas (LGAs) of Oyo State due to high prevalence of FGM in the selected locations.
According to him, the LGAs selected included Ibarapa East, Ibarapa North and Kajola LGAs.
Adaramoye said that the selected youths from the LGAs were identified during community mapping and due also to their previous efforts in making changes in their localities.
“FGM brings complications such as intense pain, excessive bleeding, urinary inconvenience, difficulties during menstruation, clitoral neuroma and difficulties during sexual intercourse and childbirth, among others.
“We noticed that the state has many policies on FGM and other GBV, kept on the shelves, while many people are not aware of as their rights.
“We are engaging youths from different communities because of the peculiarities of each community.
“So, the youths residing in these communities would be trained to advocate for the policy makers, traditional leaders, religious leaders and other decisions maker in their localities on issues that concern FGM and other forms of GBV.
“They will also be documenting stories of change because we need to monitor events and see the effectiveness of UNICEF programmes in the state.
“This is to bring it to the awareness of the public, for people to know the changes, challenges, the lessons learned and the way forward,” he said.
The UNICEF facilitator noted that the 10 youths activists were picked from the three LGAs; including one participant from state level for the pilot phase of the project with the aim of extension to other LGAs of the state in subsequent phases.
He urged the people to always speak up and report whenever they noticed cases of FGM around them to build safer society for every girl child in the state.
Speaking, the Director, Child Welfare, Oyo State Ministry of Women Affairs and Social inclusion, Lateef Ariori, said that FGM was still on rise in the state and attributed it to issues such as traditional and religious beliefs as well as monetary gains of local circumcisers who sees FGM as their daily business.
Ariori stated that State Ministry of Women Affairs, in collaboration with UNICEF and TBI, would continue to organise sensitisation programmes with relevant stakeholders such as legal practitioners, security agencies and religious bodies among others.
He urged the selected youth activists to put in their best to the project to achieve the set goal of thesociety; with no cases of FGM and other forms of violence against women, children and girls.
2023 Polls: FG Deploys New Firefighting Trucks In Lagos, Kano, Others
Ahead of the 2023 general election, the Federal Government has deployed eight new fire trucks to Lagos, Kano, Kwara, Oyo and Edo states.
Controller General of Fire, Engr. Abdulganiyu Jaji disclosed this at a one day session on, “Providing Fire Cover for the Forthcoming General Election” organized for top management, Heads of Departments and Commanding Officers at the Force Headquarters, Wednesday.
According to him, the recent fire attacks on offices and personnel of the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC nationwide have heightened the need for the meeting.
“It is essential that we come up with solutions to these problem in order to ensure the safety of INEC infrastructure, personnel and the integrity of the electoral process.
“This brainstorming session will provide an opportunity to have a robust engagement, drawing from your resources and experience, strategies and stratagem.
“By coming together to brainstorm, we can create a safe and more secure environment to forestall future attacks on INEC infrastructures, personnel and to safeguard the electoral process from political hoodlums and enemies of the state, who now use fire attacks as a tool to frustrate INEC in the discharge of her statutory mandate.
“We must ensure that our resources are properly allocated and be prepared to respond to any potential fire related issues that may arise.
“I am confident that with the hard work and dedication of my officers and men of the Federal Fire Service, we will be able to ensure the safety of polling units, ward, local government and state collation centres, as well as providing a secure environment for citizens to cast their votes”, he stated.
According to him, it is the duty of the Service to ensure fire cover for all and sundry, before, during and after the election.
Jaji said the recent attacks on INEC offices across the country places a burden on fire officers to ensure that the ugly situation is nipped in the bud.
On plans for the election, he said; “Fire personnel will be on standby to respond to any fire incident that may occur during and after the election.
“Fire safety education and awareness campaigns will also be conducted to ensure that citizens are well informed on fire safety measures and protocols.
“The Federal Fire Service will work closely with local fire departments and other emergency services to ensure that all fire incidents are dealt with swiftly and effectively.
“It is worthy to note that President Muhammadu Buhari led administration has extended unwavering support to the FFS. This was again demonstrated when the FFS received 8 no. of the state-of-the-art Fire Trucks, whilst expecting 15 no. of Rapid Intervention Vehicles in the coming days”.
Institute Challenges States On LG Autonomy Bill Passage
The National Institute For Legislative and Democratic Studies (NILDS) has called for sustained activism for the passage of 1999 Constitutional alteration pending bills, especially bills on local government financial and administrative autonomy.
NILDS Director- General, Prof. Abubakar Suleiman, made the call at the Capacity Building Workshop for Clerks, Deputy Clerks, and Legal Directors of State Houses of Assemblies, in Abuja, Wednesday.
He said the two related bills stood at the very core of Nigeria’s democracy, adding that Nigerians have a solemn patriotic duty to our country to ensure their passage.
“It is not flattering to us as a people that twenty-four years since the transition to democratic rule, we are still debating the merit or otherwise of such fundamental issues.
“We are all aware of the pressure from some governors to scuttle this significant reform.
“Still, I challenge us to rise above individualistic short-term interests and focus instead on our children’s future and those after them.
“The bill on local government financial autonomy seeks to abrogate the State Joint Local Government Accounts and provide for a special account into which shall be paid all allocations due to local government councils from the Federation Account and the government of the states and for related matters.
He said 15 states have considered and approved the bill, listing the states to include , Abia, Akwa-Ibom, Anambra, Bauchi, Cross-River, Delta, Edo, Enugu, Kano, Kogi, Nasarawa, Niger, Ogun and Osun.
He, however, listed 10 states that rejected the bill, to include Benue, Borno, Ebonyi, Ekiti, Imo, Kaduna, Lagos, Ondo, Rivers and Yobe while two other states of Adamawa and Bayelsa, abstained.
According to him, nine states which included Gombe, Jigawa, Kebbi, Kwara, Oyo, Plateau, Sokoto, Taraba and Zamfara were yet to transmit the bill.
“We must do everything to stop history from repeating itself all over.
“Recall when state houses of assembly voted against their own financial autonomy at the behest of their governors.
“Today, many of those lawmakers are living with the guilt of that poor choice. It is my contention that state assemblies are yet to recover from that initial setback.”
He said Nigeria has made tremendous progress in strengthening its democratic processes, as attested to by the Electoral Act, 2022, adding that states also have an obligation to continuously support efforts being made at the centre and contribute to nation-building.
Suleiman said the workshop was specifically targeted at providing refresher knowledge to clerks, their deputies and legal directors on some of the essential requirements of their work during a legislative transition.
“The responsibility of managing transition rests with you, and it is crucial that you understand the essentials of concluding one assembly and starting another. In addition, you will have to deal with issues of finalising legislative business, payment of severance, and inducting and inaugurating members-elect.
Suleiman lauded participants for their determination and commitment in facilitating consideration and passage of the Constitutional Alteration Bills which he said have been transmitted to President Muhammadu Buhari for assent.
The NILDS boss further encouraged the participants to pay close attention to the topics, given the expected high rate of legislative turnover in 2023.
He thanked NILDS partner, Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (KAS), and the Resident Representative, Marija Peran, for the sustained partnership with the Institute towards deepening democracy in Nigeria.
In his remarks, Peran said the workshop would be tasked with part of constituting the new state houses of assembly, stating that KAS and NILDS have once more teamed up to deliver a timely training that was designed to be practical.
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(St. Louis, MO) - The number-10 Butler Bulldogs committed 23 turnovers and trailed by double-digits most of the game during a 75-58 loss against the Saint Louis Billikens at Chaifetz Arena in Saint Louis, Missouri.
Butler trailed by 11 at the break after shooting 37 percent from the field in the first half, and did little to mount a comeback against the Atlantic 10's best scoring defense.
The sellout crowd stormed the court after the Billikens secured their second win over a ranked opponet since the passing of their head coach, Rick Majerus, on December first of last year.
Majerus, a former head coach of the Ball State Cardinals, died of heart complications after taking a leave of absence from the team in late August.
Jordair Jett came off the bench to lead all scorers with 19 points and Dwayne Evans added 15 points for Saint Louis.
Rotnei Clark had 17 points and six turnovers for Butler and starting forward Khyle Marshall, had five turnovers and two points in ten minutes of game action.
Saint Louis is 15-5 overall, 4-2 in conference play, and host the Dayton Flyers Sunday at Chaifetz Arena.
Butler is 17-4 overall, 4-2 in the Atlantic-10, and host the Rhode Island Rams Sunday at Hinkle Fieldhouse.
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NORFOLK, VA. (WAVY) — Norfolk police are investigating a double shooting that happened Monday night.
Police said the call came in around 11:50 p.m. on O’Keefe Street and Washington Avenue.
One of the men has life-threatening injuries, police said. One victim was transported via ambulance and another in a personal vehicle.
There are no other details, but the crime scene wrapped up around 2:30 a.m.
Police detectives ask that if you have information about the double shooting investigation to call the Crime Line at 1-888-LOCK-U-UP or submit an anonymous tip with the p3tips.com/1126.
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As you may already know, the Xpedition VX.1 release is now available to customers. I encourage you to take some time to evaluate it because if there is one thing to mention about this release, it is that you will be able to increase your productivity significantly.
We have added some new interactive routing styles that complement the existing ones quite well. The differences between these styles are found in the amount of automation applied to the action, and the type of user control. Looking at Editor Control/Plow, the methods are listed:
You can set a style for routing with the Mouse Up (clicking when needed) and for the Mouse Down (dragging as you route). I recommend trying the default style using Real Trace for a couple weeks to really get a good feel for its value.
Real Trace Plow
This is the new functionality. Real Trace is what can be called a “One-Click” interactive router. All you need to do once you are in Plow mode is to click on a route object and start routing. The trace is added as you move your cursor – no need to click again. It even finishes the route automatically when it gets close to the end of the netline.
Delayed Option – This option allows you to delay the application of push & shove until the trace being added is in an open space. Why? We have found that by waiting to apply the push & shove, the quality of the traces being pushed is much better because we consider a longer length of trace and smooth it and those little unnecessary jogs are eliminated.
Dynamic Option – With this style, push & shove is applied dynamically as the trace is being added. You might be thinking, after I described the value of the Delayed option – why would we come back and enable you to have the push & shove done dynamically? Sometimes it is desirable to immediately see how a trace will fit through a tight area. The good news is that all you have to do is hold down the left mouse button and push & shove will be applied as long as you are dragging. Rumors that the push & shove is more effective if you press harder on the mouse button are not true; however, I do understand that sometimes this method may be useful to release some pent-up emotions during stressful days.
The Hockey Stick style works as it has in previous releases; however, the Local Gloss has been improved significantly to provide higher quality routing. For those who want to click-click-click-click to create every segment, the Segment style for ultimate control is still available.
Other New Items
Active Clearances – This feature dynamically displays a shadow around objects that shows you the design rule clearances to the trace being plowed. This is especially useful when Plow fails and it is not easy to understand why.
Fixed & Locked Patterns – You can now set your own patterns for fixed and locked objects in the Display Control / Graphic tab.
Route Object Appearance – Another feature that may be useful is the ability to set a specific pattern on general Traces, Pads and Plane Data. This is also on the Display Control / Graphic tab.
As time goes on, we continue to make both big and small enhancements to our design tools. Many of the enhancements are driven by customer requests and we often go out-of-the-box with things like the Sketch Router.
What do you think would be a good improvement in our interactive routing tools? Maybe it has already been done in the Xpedition VX.1 Layout product and all I need to do is show you where it is.


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Not all patent owners agree the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) is a fairer forum for vetting patent quality today.
While some believe that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) board is no longer the “death squad” that it was described as by the former Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals, most patents subject to multiple inter partes reviews are, with an uncanny frequency, either invalidated or severely weakened. Few, emerge as clear winners.
The USPTO established the PTAB, an administrative law body, as part of the America Invents Act in 2012 to eliminate issued patents that should not have been granted because prior art way overlooked. IPRs are said to be a patent office “second look,” but while patent office re-examinations (an earlier review process superseded by IPRs) eliminated many patents that should not have seen the light of day, they also strengthened some, making them easier to license. To date, IPRs effectively have been a one-way street, eliminating many patents that should not have been issued but ineffective at identifying good ones.
An article that appeared last week, “How IPR Gang Tackling Distorts PTAB Statistics,” takes the recently reported data to task for misleading about the ultimate effect of multiple IPR filings on a single patent.
“If you use the PTAB published statistics, they’ll tell you that the institution rate was 50% – because only 1 of 2 petitions was granted. That’s true, as far as it goes. But from the patent owner’s perspective, they used to have 10 claims, and now they have 0. That’s a 100% kill rate!”
“Assume 10 petitions and one institution,” wrote Peter Harter in IP Watchdog. “A 10% institution rate seems terribly biased towards [in favor of] the patent owner. But if all 10 claims get killed, that’s still a 100% kill rate – pretty good for challengers. When both sides think the deck is egregiously stacked against them, it’s easy to see why there’s no middle ground for compromise and improvement. And the way the PTAB is reporting statistics is to blame.”
An article that appeared recently in Law 360, “Inter Partes Reviews Becoming Friendlier to Patent Owners,” argues that holders whose patents are subjected to IPRs today have a better chance of survival than in the past.
“The PTAB also now institutes inter partes reviews less frequently,” writes Law 360. “Looking at all institution decisions made by the PTAB, the board decided to institute trials more than 85 percent of the time in the first year after inter partes reviews became available (2013) according to data from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, but only 68 percent of the time in its 2016 fiscal year.”
The decline in the institution rate may be statistically valid, but some patent holders argue that it does not tell the whole story. The statistics do not explain that some of the worst, most easily invalidated patents came before the PTAB in the first year of its existence, so the institution rate was destined to go down as it became clearer the weakest patents had been terminated.
Results from a November-December 2016 Bloomberg Law and AIPLA research study asserts that “progress has been made in patent owner attitudes towards IPRs.” However, it really depends on which patent owners you ask: those that have large portfolios that they rarely enforce or those with a small number of quality patents that they wish to license.
Brad D. Pendersen, former chair of AIPLA’s IPR Committee and co-author Bloomberg Law-AIPLA’s Patents After the AIA: Evolving Law and Practice (2016) believes that there is an opportunity for patent holders subject to IPRs to strengthen their patents, despite evidence to the contrary.
“Given the potential gold-plated downstream advantages (in litigation and/or settlement) of surviving an IPR (either at the Decision or Institute stage, at the Final Written Decision stage), and given that one-third of patents survive at the Decision to Institute Stage, it is surprising – but not completely unexpected – that some portion of patent owners are starting to look more favorably on the IPR process.”
It is not clear that most patent owners who license would agree with the “gold-plated” reasoning. If it were true, there would be even fewer patent suits and more owners seeking IPRs of good patents. In fact, it is a bit of a mystery what happens to patents that pass PTAB muster. A significant number appears to move on to district court litigation, and there is little data analyzing if they have greater value or fare any better licensing than patents that are less successful running the IPR gauntlet.
Leading IPR Target
Finjan is an example of an IP holder that engages in licensing whose patents are frequently subject to IPRs. The company has fared surprising well in defending itself at the PTAB, but that success does not seem to have translated into significant shareholder success for the cybersecurity company which also frequently out-licenses its patents.
On March 15, 16 and 17, as reported in The Patent Investor, Finjan won three more IPR rulings, involving Palo Alto Networks. Shares of Finjan (FNJN) currently sell at just $1.54. The company has a micro market capitalization of $35M, $18M on 2016 revenues. Its shares are up significantly over 12 months vs. for the S&P 500 Index, but the company, which lost $12.6M in 2015, showed its first profit in 2016, $350K or .02 per share. Finjan has executed a difficult IP strategy. If successful IPRs have gold-plated its patents, the value has yet to shine through.
Finjan was the fourth most IPR’d patent holder in 2016 and the third most in 2015. It is the most successful company in successfully defending against IPR petitions. Of 47 total IPRs against Finjan patents to date, 32 have been denied institution.
With that track record at the PTAB, one would think Finjan would have a field day licensing its patents, but the IPRs continue to come, and it still must win hard-fought victories in district court litigation. In September, a California jury found that cybersecurity firm Sophos infringed all eight patents asserted in a lawsuit brought by Finjan over software that identifies new computer viruses, awarding the company $15 million in damages.
“We have a portfolio of patents that has been proven durable in light of the increasing number of administrative pathways to challenge validity largely due to two factors,” says Finjan CEO, Phil Hartstein. “First, our patents were developed jointly and alongside product development of technology that was disruptive to a market. Second, we do not deviate from the intrinsic record of the assets themselves and vigorously defend our patent rights on the merits.”
Editor and patent attorney Gene Quinn of IP Watchdog believes that Finjan and other businesses that attempt to out-license their patents are frequently subject to repeated, coordinated attacks.
“At least several patent owners, including Finjan, are routinely subject to serial, harassing IPR challenges,” writes Quinn. “The Patent Office doing something about harassing IPR challenges is long overdue. If the Director is not going to exercise the discretion vested in that Office by the America Invents Act (AIA) hopefully more panels of the Board will take it upon themselves to do just that.
“Patent owner harassment needs to stop. Patent owners shouldn’t have to be subjected to many dozens of IPR challenges before someone recognizes there is coordinated harassment – perhaps even collusion – against certain patent owners who have the audacity to want to be paid for blatant, ongoing, willful infringement.”
23 IPRs Filed on a Single Patent
Zond makes plasma generators, the kind used in manufacturing semiconductors. Pulsed DC plasma generators for magnetron discharge were first introduced in the late 1990s to reduce arcing during for the purpose of improving the quality of thin-film materials. A big breakthrough came in September 2002, when Zond applied for what it describes as a “revolutionary” pulsed technology approach.
Zond is a Massachusetts-based company that wholly owns Zpulser LLC, which commercializes its patent technology by making and selling high-power plasma generators. The patent at issue relates to methods for generating magnetically enhanced plasma.
Over the last three years, Zond’s patents have challenged an average of 12.5 times in IPRs and as many as 23 times. The patent research firm, Patexia, writes that it is difficult for holders of good patents to survive multiple IPR challenges. In the case of Zond, it has made licensing pretty much impossible.
A study last year, reported in Law 360, showed that Zond’s patents have been challenged in AIA reviews more than those of any other patent owner, including largest patent licensing company, Intellectual Ventures, which owns more than 70,000 patents and took second place on the list.
Zond’s large number of infringement suits, reports Law 360, spurred many companies to band together to challenge the patents in AIA reviews. In addition to Fujitsu and Gillette, petitioners have included Toshiba Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd.
Were potential licensees and defendants in patent suits lining up against Zond’s patents because they were bad and its case without merit, or did they want to destroy some potentially good patents that would have cost them to license?
For IPRs the devil certainly is in the details, as Patexia’s Pedram Sameni points out in a case study, “Can Patents Survive Multiple IPR Challenges?”
“Some have been suggesting that solely relying on the denial rates reported by the patent office is not enough to conclude that patents are surviving the IPR challenge,” writes Sameni. “Many have called PTAB, the patent death squad. Our study shows that in some cases, patents are challenged many times.
“The reality is that it only takes one successful IPR to completely kill all the claims of one patent. Therefore, the case-level status is not the best indication of PTAB performance and patent survival rate. While as IPR’s Final Written Decision usually means that some of the claims were invalidated, it does not necessarily mean that all claims were canceled.”
Not the Full Story
If claims still exist, they could be threats. And potential licensees/defendants will go to lengths to “kill” a patent to avoid paying a license or being dragged into court, including teaming on multiple petitions. Repeat IPRs are an efficient way to make a potential infringement suit or royalty payment disappear for multiple parties.
“The statistics that show that the PTAB is becoming fairer for patent holders do not tell the full story,” a prominent NPE told IP CloseUp. “IPRs are frequently unfair fights between several, well-funded petitioners and a single patent owner who has to run the gauntlet, repeatedly. Surviving an IPR doesn’t mean anything if subsequent challenges can be filed at any time, especially in coordinated fashion.”
Once a patent is challenged multiple times with different prior arts, it is highly unlikely that any of its claims will survive – no matter how good it is.
“The PTAB may not be a death squad, but challenged patents are put in a kind of headlock that can render them useless. Where are the patents that emerge from IPRs generally intact or whose petitions against them for review are not instituted? They should be eminently licensable, but they are nowhere to be found. The ‘normalization’ statistics that are being cited to show that the PTAB is becoming a fairer forum for patent holders are highly misleading.”
Lack of Uniformity
Another patent licensing business, one whose petitioned patents have survived multiple IPRs, still believes that the lack of uniformity among the many PTAB panels and administrative law judges is a major factor in the continued unfairness that has effectively destroyed patent licensing for many companies and independent inventors.
“It’s difficult to predict how the PTAB will rule,” says the executive, a lawyer. “The first year or two that patents were subjected to IPRs there was a lot of low-hanging – really, rotting – fruit. Those petitions were almost universally instituted, and many bad patents were appropriately eliminated.”
“But anyone can file and IPR and they can keep filing them. Reliable patents don’t seem to emerge from the process, only ‘bad’ ones, which are eventually neutralized. Few patent holders have the time or money to repeatedly defend themselves in IPRs. This has made otherwise licensable patents pretty much worthless and daily infringement, at least to some, an acceptable way of doing business.”
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Allen-Greenough: A Manual of Instruction in Latin
A Manual of Instruction in Latin
by Joseph Henry Allen and James Bradstreet Greenough (1881)
The readings begin on p. 139 with fables, then dialogues, anecdotes, the Kings of Rome, the war with Porsena, and then some stories from Pliny and Cicero. There are notes and a comprehensive vocabulary in the back.
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TNT Bears its ‘Claws’
The TNT network has just unveiled the first teaser for their upcoming Rashida Jones-produced dramedy Claws. The one-hour series will debut this summer and stars former Scream Queens actress Niecy Nash, Judy Reyes, and Karrueche Tran.
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With Scream Queens rumored to be on Fox’s chopping block, it’s a good thing co-star Niecy Nash has already lined up future employment. Per The Hollywood Reporter, Niecy will star in the upcoming TNT Rashida Jones-produced dramedy Claws.
Casting News: Niecy Nash Joins ‘Masters of Sex’
Another Scream Queens actress is set to appear on the hit Showtime series Masters of Sex. Keke Palmer was the first to crossover during the show’s second season back in 2014, and now actress Niecy Nash is set to do the same when the show returns for its fourth season this fall.
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To the shock of absolutely no one, TNT has renewed their hit freshman drama Claws. The show stars Niecy Nash and has been a solid performer in both demo and viewership since it premiered on the network five weeks ago. Resonating with both critics and fans alike, the series debuted to just over one million viewers and has continued to ascend ever since. It is cable’s #4 new drama among the advertiser coveted 18-49 age group, and draws the youngest audience of any TNT drama.
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Despite recent hardships, New Orleans voters decide to scrap tax for housing programs
By Ben Myers
December 11, 2021
New Orleans voters on Saturday narrowly rejected the renewal of a 0.91-mill property tax housing programs that had been in effect since 1991. The “no” vote prevailed with less than 51%, and the 940-vote difference amounted to 1.7% of the 56,098 people who cast ballots on the measure.
The tax, which generated about $4 million per year, is relatively small compared with other city property taxes, but housing advocates and Mayor LaToya Cantrell’s administration say it is a critical source of funding — especially when responding to emergencies like the pandemic and Hurricane Ida.
The tax also helped pay for affordable housing development, blight reduction and other homeowner assistance programs.
The revenue helped feed the Neighborhood Housing Improvement Fund, which Cantrell tapped to help with insurance premiums after Ida and for a 2020 rental assistance program almost immediately after the pandemic struck — months before federal assistance became available.
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This is part three of a three-part series exploring the environmental lifecycle analysis completed by Divergent. It will get into some technical detail, but is intended for anyone who has an interest in total system environmental and health damages for manufacturing.
There are obviously many ways to create and modify models. Thankfully, by using GREET and AP2, we were able to leverage decades of existing work. These peer-reviewed, published, and transparent models have inputs, calculations, and outputs that have been highly vetted.
When modifying an existing model, it behooves the modeler to make as few changes as possible. That is the philosophy we used at Divergent when making modifications to include our vehicles in the existing models. By reducing changes, you’re reducing chances for error and reducing the number of assertions you need to make. It’s also easier to delineate the full set of changes you made so that others can review and understand your work.
We based our modeling on the method used in the 2009 report by the National Academy of Science (NAS), Hidden Costs of Energy: Unpriced Consequences of Energy Production and Use. They used GREET for lifecycle emissions calculations and APEEP (the predecessor to AP2) for health and environmental system damage cost calculations.
We used updated versions of those same two models, GREET and AP2. The models have not fundamentally changed in structure since 2009, though some of the content has been updated with more recent calculations (e.g., the environmental cost of CO2 emissions).
We updated GREET to include modern electric vehicles with 85 kWh batteries and to also include the Divergent vehicles, both compressed natural gas (CNG) and gasoline.
In keeping with the modeling philosophy above, we limited the set of changes in the GREET model to only those changes necessary to include modern EVs and our Divergent vehicles. We used the existing lightweight car vehicle type in GREET and modified it to suit the Divergent Blade. No changes were made to AP2, as it takes inputs from GREET. Below is a table delineating the exact changes we made.
That’s all. By limiting the number of changes, we have a strong and defensible modeling technique. Divergent vehicles drastically reduce the environmental and health damages compared to existing, traditional vehicle manufacturing. Keep in mind that we modeled the Divergent Blade, a 0-60 in 2.5 seconds 700 horsepower supercar. We can expect that future Divergent vehicles will have even lower total system damage numbers.
Thank you for joining us in our mission to reduce the environmental impact of automobile manufacturing. We hope this blog series has been informative, and welcome your thoughts and comments in the space below.
This is part two of a three-part series exploring the environmental lifecycle analysis completed by Divergent. It will get into some technical detail, but is intended for anyone who has an interest in total system environmental and health damages for manufacturing.
In Part 1, we introduced the Argonne National Lab’s GREET model. Developed over the last 20 years, it is a complicated and deep model that outputs greenhouse gas and particulate emissions.
AP2, formerly called APEEP, is a model developed by Nicholas Muller, Associate Professor of Economics at Middlebury College and Visiting Associate Professor at Carnegie Mellon University. AP2 takes the outputs from GREET and translates them into a dollar figure – the environmental and human health cost of those emissions.
From the AP2 website: “The Air Pollution Emission Experiments and Policy analysis (APEEP) model is an integrated assessment model that links emissions of air pollution to exposures, physical effects, and monetary damages in the contiguous United States. The model has been used in many peer-reviewed publications,” including a paper in Science in August 2014.
For example, in our recent analysis of various vehicle types, AP2 received a total CO2 count from GREET for the manufacture and operation of a vehicle. AP2 translated this CO2 count to an environmental and health system damage cost for the lifetime of the vehicle. To standardize this number, we then divided the cost across the total miles that car will be driven in its lifetime (estimated to be 160,000 miles per vehicle). The output from AP2 is then a cents (US dollars) per vehicle mile traveled (VMT).
The 2009 National Academy of Sciences report “Hidden Costs of Energy: Unpriced Consequences of Energy Production and Use” used this same dual-model approach, connecting GREET and APEEP to show the combined damages. This report was one of the first to show the full lifecycle emissions of various types of vehicles and their environmental and health system cost. It revealed costs that were previously hidden, bringing into question some of the policies and trends in vehicle manufacturing.
This report was one of the founding inspirations for Divergent. Seeing this report, we believed we could and should do better: build a more environmentally sustainable car.
GREET and AP2 have a fairly simple point of connection. We analyzed six vehicle types:
For each of these vehicles, we used GREET to calculate greenhouse gas and particulate emissions over the lifetime of the vehicle, both for manufacture and operation. The chart below shows the conceptual connections between the models.
We then used the outputs from GREET as inputs to AP2. The table below shows the most important outputs from GREET.
Using AP2, costs for each of the various pollutants were calculated and then tabulated. We also include the cost of the greenhouse gases directly, estimated by the US government at $39 per ton of CO2 equivalent.
The Vehicle production, Fuel production, and Operation lines under the Health Damages (per VMT) are the numbers that are used in the graph below.
In the next (and last) posting in this series, we’ll discuss the input variables to GREET, as well as our philosophy of changing as few of those variables as possible.
This is part one of a three-part series exploring the environmental lifecycle analysis completed by Divergent. It will get into some technical detail, but is intended for anyone who has an interest in total system environmental and health damages for manufacturing.
Before reading this section, please read our lifecycle analysis overview, which sets the context for the discussion here.
My name is Nick Hofmeister. I have a computer science degree from Northwestern and an MBA from MIT. I’ve worked in fairly diverse industries, starting at Microsoft, followed by Bain & Co., an algae biofuels company, and three biotech/software startups I’ve founded. Over the years, my teams and I have raised about $260 million for early stage companies. I started making environmental analyses about 7 years ago to demonstrate the lifecycle value of a fuel made directly from a photosynthetic plant.
Around 2 billion cars have been built over the last 115 years; twice that number will be built over the next 35-40 years (Emmott, Stephen, Ten Billion, p. 95, New York, New York: Random House, Second Edition, 2014). The environmental and health impacts will be enormous. The automotive industry has $9 trillion a year in revenue and employs 11 million people. And that doesn’t include oil & gas, a $4 trillion industry employing another 1.3 million people. These giants greatly affect the world’s material flows and all the consequences thereof. Unfortunately, very little has changed in the manufacture and use of vehicles in the last 100 years – our cars are getting bigger, heavier, and often less efficient at using energy. At Divergent, we intend to change this trajectory.
There are many types of environmental analyses, and they vary in both scope and kind. For this discussion, we are focused on environmental lifecycle analyses. Lifecycle analysis follows the path of an object through a system for its full lifetime, looking at its environmental impact at each stage of life. Lifecycle analyses can be performed on cars, toasters, a strawberry, or even a human being.
The exact scope of a lifecycle analysis is one of the trickiest questions: which parts of the life cycle do you include, and which not? For the strawberry, do you include the cost of making its fertilizer, the cost of its transportation to the grocery store, the cost of its disposal (e.g., the green tops, the rotten berries), and the cost of its packaging? The total cost of environmental and health system damages varies widely depending on the scope.
In vehicles, thankfully, the Argonne National Lab has set the gold standard through a model called GREET (Greenhouse Gases, Regulated Emissions, and Energy Use in Transportation Model). The first use of GREET was in 1995, and it has been peer- and industry-reviewed very thoroughly in the intervening 20 years. The scope of this model is quite wide – it looks at both vehicle operation and manufacture (vehicle cycle) and fuel manufacture and use (fuel cycle). It is also quite deep, capturing emissions down to the extraction and manufacture of materials (e.g., aluminum, lithium), as described in the image below:
The Argonne GREET model was also used for the 2009 National Academy of Sciences report “Hidden Costs of Energy: Unpriced Consequences of Energy Production and Use”, mentioned in the introductory article of this series).
This model is very detailed and robust. It contains more than 100 fuel production pathways, such as corn ethanol, gasoline from algae, and cellulosic ethanol from switchgrass. It contains more than 70 different vehicle types, from a standard gasoline car, to an electric car, to a lightweight compressed natural gas vehicle.
GREET also looks backward into the manufacture of a vehicle quite deeply. As an example, consider the chassis of a vehicle. In GREET, even the transmission system (i.e., gearbox) is broken down into 8 major material types, each of which is accounted for separately in the model: steel, copper, cast iron, magnesium, wrought aluminum, cast aluminum, average plastic, and rubber.
This level of detail, both in breadth and in depth, is necessary to create an accurate picture of the emissions of the vehicle across both its manufacture and its operation.
GREET is free and publicly available for download. It is also, essentially, open source: if you download the Excel version, you can change any variable in the system that you wish.
However, to reduce the complexity in the model and variations in the answers, there are a limited number of inputs that are commonly changed. These include:
Vehicle type has options such as standard internal combustion gasoline vehicle, electric vehicle, and lightweight compressed natural gas vehicle. Fuel type is tied with vehicle type, but there are many variations for each vehicle type. For example, an electric vehicle can use only electricity, but that could be electricity from the U.S. National Grid or from a coal-heavy region like the Midwest. A gasoline vehicle can use fuel with 15% corn ethanol or 5% cellulosic ethanol.
Total weight is a high-level, summarized factor that greatly affects the outcome of the GREET model. A Tesla Model S weighs approximately 4,700 pounds: every foot traveled by that vehicle is a result of moving 4,700 pounds of material. And at least 4,700 pounds of material needed to be manufactured in order to make the car (in reality, due to wasted materials, it is much more than that). In contrast, the Divergent Blade is 1,400 pounds, which makes it easier to move and easier to manufacture from an environmental standpoint.
There is also a common set of outputs created by GREET, showing the emissions of a vehicle across both its fuel cycle and its vehicle cycle. These are calculated on an energy/mile or grams/mile basis, depending on the output. Here are the most common outputs:
If you look at the examples included in GREET, it’s worth noting that a gasoline car uses a fair amount of natural gas. Why? Natural gas is used to make electricity, and electricity is used to make the materials that comprise a gasoline car and is used for its assembly. An electric vehicle typically uses a fair amount of coal, since coal is a major factor in the U.S. electricity grid.
In the next posting in this series, we’ll discuss AP2 (formerly known as APEEP), which translates the output of GREET into environmental and health system damages.


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Matt Hite scored two touchdowns to lead Chapin past Clinton 21-14 on Friday night.
Chapin (3-3) won the Region 3-3A opener, with Clinton falling to 1-5.
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Update: My colleague Rob Gavin reports the GOP has tapped Roemer and Cholakis, despite some discontent from Columbia County delegates. Here’s Rob’s full story on the convention.
Columbia County Judge Jonathan Nichols was the first Republican to announce his candidacy for state Supreme Court, but as the GOP’s judicial nominating convention nears this year afternoon, it sounds like Republicans in the two largest counties in the district may not be supporting him.
Albany County Republican Chairman Don Clarey told me this morning that he and his former Rensselaer County counterpart, Neil Kelleher, are backing the duo of Albany County attorney Guy Roemer and Rensselaer County Family Court Judge Catherine “Kiki” Cholakis.
While it’s not clear what the delegates from the two counties or the other five in the district — Columbia, Ulster, Sullivan, Greene and Schoharie — will do when they convene at the Albany County Courthouse at 1 p.m., Clarey was plain about his logic.
“We want to win. I think it’s a stronger ticket,” Clarey said. “It’s nothing against Nichols; he’s a very good judge. We just think it’s a stronger ticket to win. We’re going to put serious money into this race.”
There are two vacancies on the bench, seats currently held by retiring Democrats Edward Spain and Anthony Cardona, both of whom are assigned to the Appellate Division.
Backing Cholakis over Nichols would give the GOP a female candidate with big name recognition in Rensselaer County to match up against Democrat Raymond Elliott, a North Greenbush town justice.
The ticket would also pit Roemer, a well-known Republican attorney believed to be willing to put significant money into his own campaign, against Albany County Judge Thomas Breslin.
This is, of course, assuming that Breslin and Elliott both get the Democratic Party nod tomorrow. They’ve both already been endorsed by the Independence Party.
Columbia County GOP leadership was not immediately available for comment this morning.
We’ll see what happens.


Tactical Solutions Introduces the AR-LT Bolt and Barrel Combo
TacSol has built a reputation for lightweight firearms that consistently deliver accuracy and precision. This AR-LT Bolt and Barrel Combo is an ultra-lightweight and accurate 0.920 diameter aluminum barrel that comes threaded ½" x 28. It is designed to fit most centerfire AR-15 uppers and handguards. It also features precision machined stainless steel bolt assembly with tool steel guide rods.
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The taskforce on the implementation of youth empowerment model says youths must target value addition in their empowerment projects.
This comes as the Ministry of Youth, Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment is set to bank roll projects in all the country’s provinces to create employment.
Chairperson of the taskforce on the implementation of youth empowerment model, Mrs Theresa Chifamba said youths must embark on projects that are aimed at import substitution for the benefit of the economy.
She said the Ministry of Youth, Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment will be funding projects that add value to our Zimbabwean products for the purpose of reducing imports.
While the government has been making efforts to fund the youths, repayment of loans remains a challenge that need to be addressed if the programme is to achieve the desired goals.


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The brain behavior relationships that underlie both challenging behaviors and mental disorders are intimately connected to physical health and well-being. Medical illness can have a profound effect on brain functioning. Being aware of these conditions can improve the quality of life for many individuals with IDD.
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- Demonstrate knowledge of common causes of cognitive/behavioral changes or the intensification of emergence of symptoms similar to those see in primary mental disorders.
Success in this 0.5 credit hour course is based on the expectation that students will spend, for each unit of credit, a minimum of 7.5 hours over the length of the course in direct instruction as provided by the instructor and an additional 15 hours outside of class reading, reflecting, and evaluating the topics for a total of 22.5 hours.
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Check out the 2 new spices from Pereg: Spanish Paprika and Poppy Seeds.
Did you know that Paprika is the fourth most consumed spice in the world?
All paprika starts life as a type of red Caspicum annum, otherwise known as the bell pepper. Spanish cuisine being a huge trend these days, you may have come across Spanish paprika on a recipe's ingredient list. Also known as pimentón, this spice is becoming very popular in the United States. But what exactly is Spanish paprika and what makes it so special?
There are two types of Spanish paprika: smoked and non-smoked. Spanish paprika is commonly made with smoked peppers, which brings a deeper, smokier flavor to the table. That earthy essence comes from smoke-drying the peppers with oak wood for two weeks before they are ground. Per Joy from Pereg, "It's a great spice for adding flavor and depth to vegetarian and vegan dishes, she says, and to dishes that are light on fat. It’s a must for everyone’s spice cabinet.”
Poppy Seeds come in three different colors: white, blue, and black. There are no distinct differences between these types aside from their color, with the choice mainly depending on the color preference of the baker or the cook and its availability. Poppy seeds add a floral, earthy, and nutty flavor and pleasant color and crunch to all sorts of dishes, from savory and sweet to airy pastries.
According to Pereg’s resident spice expert, “Poppy seeds are often associated with bagels and breads, but they tend to be forgotten among the other seeds we use when cooking.” For cooking and baking, she recommends adding poppy seeds to muffins, cakes, scones, and sweet rolls, and brushing them on top of bagels, buns, crackers and eggs. Poppy seeds can be added to buttered egg noodles, fruit salad dressings, yogurt and yeast breads, even pancakes too.
You’ll even gain nutrients from these tiny seeds – they contain some niacin and folate and are also a great source of minerals including calcium, iron, phosphorus, magnesium, and zinc.

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the exhibition might bring them out, especially as the Museum values them & their finders.
Back in the 70s when I was wandering along a beach, I found a worn piece of glass & a not-so-worn ceramic piece so I thought I might have a look at them. They live on a plastic plate at the end of my bath along with other finds picked up over the decades, including several other bits of glass & ceramics & a little bit of pumice(?) I don't remember where or when I found them, apart from a piece of coral which was in a street planter near a shop that sold mixed bags of pretty shells! Some kid must have tossed it away as it wasn't pretty.
getting back to our topic - another Guardian story Fruit baskets from fourth century BC found in ruins of Thonis-Heracleion


Use the DFT formula to manually perform the Discrete Fourier Series (DFT). It is a tool used to convert the finite sequence of equally-spaced samples of any function into an equivalent-length sequence. It transforms a sequence of complex numbers into another sequence of complex numbers. The Discrete Fourier transform formula is derived from the Euler's formula. To derive the discrete fourier series, compute the nth value series and number of period (N) in the formula.
Fourier analysis is a technique used in mathematics. It is generally used for decomposing signals into sinusoids. Discrete Fourier series is a part of discrete fourier transform but it uses digitized signals. Discrete fourier transform (DFT) formula is also used to efficiently solve partial differential equations, and to perform other operations such as convolutions or multiplying large integers.


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As if the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump wasn’t already shaping up to be a chest-thumping, partisan-trumpeting circus of chaos and manufactured, overhyped drama, now Americans won’t even get complete news coverage.
The Capitol press corps, the fully credentialed reporters and photographers interacting every day already with senators and others, have been declared a “threat” for these proceedings, according to Roll Call and others’ coverage. Rather than allowing the journalists to work as they normally do, they will be confined to a “press pen.”
“No movement will be allowed outside the corrals, and reporters and photographers will need to be escorted to and from the pen,” Roll Call reported. “Journalists’ time-honored practice of ‘strolling’ with lawmakers — the walking, talking, and relationship-building considered necessary by many resident reporters in the Capitol — is one that the new security apparatus will squelch during the trial.”
Americans can rally behind the Society of Professional Journalists in calling out this unprecedented crackdown on media access, put in place by the Senate sergeant-at-arms and Capitol Police. Put simply, it is an “unacceptable and an outrageous breach of press freedom,” SPJ said in a statement received by the News Tribune Opinion page.
Last week, the Standing Committee of Correspondents, which represents the daily press galleries in the U.S. House and Senate, formally asked the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration to do the reasonable thing here by reconsidering these media restrictions and restoring the corps’ normal level of open access. SPJ quickly announced its support for the Standing Committee’s “stance against the ridiculous restrictions (on journalists who simply are) trying to document this historical event for the American public.”
These restrictions aren’t against rogue reporters, fringy bloggers, or unknown online writers planning to parachute in for a splash-and-dash and who’d pose legitimate security concerns. These restrictions are being put on the Capitol press corps, which is exhaustively vetted and well-known and respected among newsmakers and others in D.C.
Even more disheartening, when the unreasonable restrictions were being set, the press corps’ reps were snubbed from the process, the Standing Committee said. All of its suggestions were rejected “without an explanation of how the restrictions contribute to (senators’) safety rather than simply limit coverage of the trial.”
SPJ National President Patricia Gallagher Newberry used even stronger words. Her alarm can be shared by all freedom-supporting Americans interested in preserving their right to know.
“The new security measures are unnecessary and will do nothing but harm the coverage and documentation of this historic moment,” Newberry said. “The press is charged with holding the government accountable. It is through its access that the public is informed. When the public is informed, it can make better decisions. The American public should also be outraged about these restrictions.”
The legitimate free press and its commitment to accuracy, fairness, and inclusion of all viewpoints is critical to our representative democracy. Limiting press coverage shortchanges the public’s right to be informed participants as much as it hampers journalists’ constitutionally protected right to document and report.
Such action taken by our government is especially concerning at a moment as historically important and as vulnerable to spin as a presidential impeachment trial.
The Senate Committee on Rules and Administration can do the reasonable and right thing here and rescind any plans for a “press pen.” Let the press corps do its job on behalf of the American people.


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Vegan Chocolate Marble Bread
- 45 grams bread flour
- 1 cup water
- 440 grams bread flour
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon (optional)
- 2 grams instant yeast
- 30 grams light brown sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon fine sea salt
- 45 millileters soy milk, room temperature
- 100 millileters water
- 2 tablespoons cocoa powder, mixed with 1 tablespoon water
- 30 grams vegan butter, room temperature
- vegan butter, melted, to brush
Make the roux. In a small pan over medium heat, whisk the water and flour. Cook over medium heat, whisking constantly, until the mixture starts to thicken. Let cool completely.
In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the hook attachment, combine all dry ingredients, except the cocoa powder. Add water, milk and tangzhong and knead until just combined. Cover the dough with plastic wrap and let rest for 5 minutes.
Add butter and knead until smooth and elastic (about 10 minutes). Divide dough into thirds. Shape two of the pieces into a ball and place into a greased bowl. Cover and set aside.
Add cocoa powder and water to the remaining 1/3 dough and knead to combine. Cover and let rest until doubled in size (1-1.5 hours).
Roll out the plain 2/3 dough into a 20 x 30 centimeter rectangle. Roll out the chocolate dough into a 20 x15 centimeter rectangle. Place the chocolate dough over one half of plain dough and fold the remaining plain dough over. Roll out to into a 20 x 30 centimeter rectangle again. Cut dough cross wise and stack the two doughs. Roll out again. Repeat two more times.
Cut dough into 3 equal stripes, lengthwise. Roll out each stripe into a rope and braid the 3 ropes together. Fold ends under so that the bread fits the pan. Let rise for 1.5-2 hours until nearly doubled in size.
Preheat oven to 350ºF (175ºC) and bake for 25 minutes until top is browned slightly. Brush with melted butter. Let cool in the pan for 15 minutes then transfer to a rack to cool completely.


The US announcement lifting travel restrictions to the country from early November for fully vaccinated foreigners is clearly a welcome news – not only for hard-pressed airlines, but also for the wider travel and tourism industry, which has been decimated by Covid-19.
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) has honoured Doha Bank CEO Dr R Seetharaman during the ‘ICAI International Research Awards 2021’ hosted recently by the research committee of the ICAI and viewed by nearly 3,000 chartered accountants across the globe.
Driven mainly by increased affordability in the mid and high-end categories, there has been a marked rise in tenant movement in Qatar’s residential segment in first (Q1) and second quarters (Q2) of this year, KPMG has said in a report.
The proposed merger of Indosat Ooredoo and PT Hutchison 3 Indonesia is "credit positive" for Ooredoo as it will result in a slight decrease in its net debt to Ebitda (earnings before interest taxes, depreciation and amortisation), according to Moody's, a global credit rating agency.
Ooredoo has participated in Dell Technologies Forum Middle East 2021. The event explored the growing importance for businesses to engage on social and environmental issues, both from a business perspective and as a contributor to human development.
Qatar First Bank extraordinary general assembly yesterday approved increasing QFB’s paid-up nominal share capital to QR1.12bn from QR700mn, representing a growth of 60%.
Qatar’s small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) stand to gain from today’s wide range of technological advancements, especially those available within the country, according to an official of the Ministry of Transport and Communications (MoTC).
A Booking.com global survey released in June laid bare the new expectations of travellers: Some 83% of 29,000 respondents said they found sustainable travel to be vital, with 61% noting that the pandemic has increased their interest in travelling sustainably.
Iraq warned that oil demand will probably rise as the supply crunch in natural gas markets forces consumers to look for alternative fuels, echoing the views of fellow Opec member Nigeria.


More than 140 detainees freed in Bahrain accuse security forces of abuse and torture
Authorities in Bahrain released more than 140 detainees, including two former ranking opposition members of the Parliament and a prominent opposition lawyer, on Monday.
Majority of the detainees who have been released included suspects who have remained imprisoned without being given a fair trial. The length of time that they served in prison, according to authorities, was the same length of time that they would have spent should they have been given one and have been found guilty.
Upon their release, nearly all of the former detainees began to cry out allegations of torture and abuse they had experienced in the hands of officials that guarded them since they were detained during protests held in the country back on February 14. Nabeel Rajab—president of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights—told reporters that he believed about 98 percent of the people that were held in custody suffered physical abuse ranging from beatings to electrical shocks as well as instances of sexual assault.
“No one was immune,” he told reporters. “Very rarely will you find someone who was not abused.”
Former Al Wefaq MPs Matar Matar and Jawad Fairuz were among the many detainees that claimed they have been tortured while being held under the custody of Bahraini security forces. In an interview with reporters following his release, Matar said that he, Fairuz and a few other detainees were brought to an open area and told to raise their hands before five men began to beat them with sticks in an ordeal that lasted for about 30 minutes. He also claimed that he was also physically abused in another occasion, and was often denied sleep as he was often interrogated for long hours at a time.
“The security forces didn’t want information,” he said. “They wanted to send a message that [they] have a green light to do whatever they want [to us].”
The Bahrain government has not responded to the said allegations.
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Mayor’s State of the City Address
An annual luncheon the entire community can look forward to is the State of the City Address. Packed with updates, reports and various useful municipal information, each attendee will walk away more knowledgeable about the fair city in which they live and work.
Join us this year as Mayor Jerry Mouton shares the current State of the City.
Thursday, Feburary 27th, 2020 11:30AM


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Story Matters: Forgive Your Characters, Empower Yourself
An Online Class on Forgiveness for Memoir Writers
Instructor: Lisa Ellison, Ed.S
Eight Tuesdays, 9/24/19 – 11/12/19
7:00 PM – 9:00PM EDT
Registration for this class is now closed.
This class will be offered again in the winter of 2020.
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All memoirs are journeys of transformation. The best ones are told by a narrator who reports the story without placing judgment on it. But how do writers find this place of equanimity when exploring their deepest wounds? They practice forgiveness.
Forgiveness is a radical act of self-empowerment that helps you release the pain of past experiences. Freed from old stories, you can explore deeper levels of your memoir-in-progress. During this eight-week course, you will learn a model of forgiveness based on the works of Fred Luskin, Desmond Tutu, Brene Brown, and Tara Brach. This approach will help you identify where your scenes fall on the forgiveness continuum and what can help you see your story from a different angle.
While this course is open to all memoir writers, it’s perfect for memoirists who’ve made substantial progress towards a first memoir draft and want to find ways to deepen their narrative arcs.
This synchronous online course meets for 2-hour sessions using Zoom. Class meetings will include writing exercises, experiential activities, and discussions designed to further your understanding of forgiveness and how it relates to your manuscript. In-class activities will be supplemented with reading assignments and additional writing exercises.
Required Text: The Book of Forgiving: The Fourfold Path for Healing Ourselves and Our World by Desmond Tutu and Mpho Tutu
Technology Requirements: Computer with audio and a webcam and access to high-speed internet. All students must download the free version of the Zoom app.
Lisa Ellison is a freelance writer, editor, and writing coach with a background in mindfulness and mental health. She teaches classes in memoir and creative nonfiction as well as experiential seminars for writers on grief, forgiveness, and trauma. Her work is forthcoming or has been published on NPR’s With Good Reason, and in The New Guard Review, The Kenyon Review Online, Huffington Post, The Rumpus, and The Guardian, among others. Lisa runs the Heart Speak advice column for the Moving Forewords memoir collective, She is currently working on Lucky Me, a memoir about how traveling with a heavy metal band into post-Bosnian-War Yugoslavia helped her survive her brother’s suicide.
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The further and continuing adventures of the girl who sat in the back of your homeroom, reading and daydreaming.
Wednesday, June 13, 2012
Diary Entry From A Parallel World
Day 14, aboard the Suburbia et Suborbia, somewhere over Lower Ohio - Every hour, the howling and grabbing becomes worse, and it is all over bacon grease. On the zeppelin's main deck this morning, two of them were fighting over a cooked sausage skin while neglecting essential work. I fear I have fallen into the hands of cheesemongers and incompetent monkey smugglers. I will never book a flight through Ed's Bait & Travel again. Never!
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"I saw to what extent the people among whom I lived could be trusted as good neighbors and friends; that their friendship was for summer weather only; that they did not greatly propose to do right; that they were a distinct race from me by their prejudices and superstitions."