Notre Dame's Te'o is defensive player of the week
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Notre Dame's defensive star, Manti Te'o is already raking in the honors this season.
On Monday, the senior linebacker was named the Football Bowl Subdivision's defensive player of the week.
Te'o had an exceptionally outstanding game against Navy on Saturday. He collected his first career interception and first career fumble recovery. Not to mention, the numerous solo tackles against Navy's notorious triple option offense.
But, the highest praise for Te'o came from Irish head coach Brian Kelly, who likened Te'o to the legendary Ray Lewis.
“A lot of people talk about Ray Lewis being demanding about the defensive core and the linebacker core for the Baltimore Ravens," said Kelly. "Manti’s taken on that kind of role and he’s demanding and making sure his players play at a high level and it’s exciting to watch.”
Other players receiving FBS honors this week included Bringham Young University's quarterback Riley Nelson, BYU's tight end Kaneakua Friel and BYU's punter/kicker Riley Stephenson.
Notre Dame will play BYU this season on October 20.


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Canadians run afoul of U.S. law over interests in American cannabis producers
Cannabis is legal in Washington, Oregon and California, but Canadian business people are finding out the hard way that U.S. federal laws still bar them from crossing the border to service that flourishing industry.
U.S. immigration lawyers are regularly hearing from Canadians, including people who have invested in U.S. marijuana companies and professionals and service providers seeking to do business with those companies, who have been turned back from the border and sometimes issued lifetime bans on entering the U.S. because of their business dealings.
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“I see one or two of these (a week),” said Len Saunders, a lawyer in Blaine, Wash. “I see either simple denied entries or I see lifetime bans.”
Saunders said the cases started cropping up suddenly a couple of months ago, and unlike more typical refusals, where a Canadian citizen simply admits to having used cannabis in the past, these zero in on business travellers.
Sam Znaimer, a Vancouver venture capitalist, is one of the Canadians who made the uncomfortable discovery in early May at the Pacific Highway crossing.
“That particular day, I came to the border, I was asked some perfunctory questions, but immediately referred to secondary inspection,” Znaimer said.
In that four-hour examination, Znaimer said officers informed him his name had been flagged, but didn’t say why, and officers were only interested in his business dealings.
“It was clear this was entirely because I am an investor in cannabis companies,” Znaimer said. “I was never asked about my personal consumption (of cannabis),” which is typically the reason Canadians are denied entry.
“What’s kind of crazy about that is, first of all, Americans (invest in cannabis companies) in the thousands and 10 of thousands,” without any repercussions, Znaimer said.
In an emailed statement, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection spokesman said the agency enforces the laws of the United States.
“Although medical and recreational marijuana are legal in some U.S. states and Canada, the sale, possession, production and distribution of marijuana remain illegal under U.S. federal law,” wrote Jason Givens. “(The agency’s) enforcement of the law will remain unchanged.”
No one from U.S. Customs and Border Protection was made available for an interview.
However, emerging news of the denials has opened up a level of uncertainty for business people with the potential to put a chill on Canadian involvement in the legal U.S. cannabis business.
The issue that Railton sees it is that while sentiments towards legalization have evolved at the state level, “the statute for U.S. immigration hasn’t changed.”
“So you’re seeing more friction at the border, and that’s just how it’s going to be, and sometimes the results don’t seem fair,” Railton said.
Saunders advises Canadian business people to “either get out of the marijuana business or stop travelling to the U.S.”
Denying business people entry to the U.S. seems to counter recent indications that federal authorities would honour state legalization of cannabis, said Stephen DeAngelo, a California dispensary owner and co-founder of the Arcview Group, an organization that researches and promotes investment in the industry.
“They have not harassed the legal industry within the U.S.,” DeAngelo said, so targeting Canadian investors “seems anomalous.”
As long as Canadian investors are putting their money into U.S. operations by way of Canadian companies, DeAngelo hopes they won’t run afoul of the U.S. law, but admitted that the potential for that is a concern to his industry.
“It’s disturbing to think that this policy is going to be enforced and certainly it would have an impact on Canadian investors who have interest in direct investments in U.S. companies,” DeAngelo said, adding it seems like federal authorities “putting ideology ahead of science and basic common decency to our neighbours.”
Znaimer said his only recourse is to apply to Customs and Border Protection for a temporary exemption from the ban, which he expects to do, but his experience has given him pause.
“I’m certainly reconsidering investing in the U.S.,” Znaimer said.
“I believe this was intended to put a chill on investors and business travellers from outside of the U.S.,” Znaimer said. “In my case, it has done that very successfully.”

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What is a Storm Hazard?
Storm hazards are common all around the world. They can be defined as specific weather conditions that bring about calamity upon the population. Parameters like temperature, pressure, wind speed and humidity are used to anticipate storm hazards. Scientists are researchers have been collecting data for quite a while for the sole purpose of anticipating these storm hazards. Weather conditions like tornados, hurricanes and droughts are a part of storm hazards. Every continent is prone to these calamities, and even though the governments try to avoid substantial structural losses, the damage is still significant.
The formation of a tornado
What are the Types of Storm Hazards?
Tropical Storms/Thunder Storms:
Typhoons/Thunderstorms are the most ruinous climate marvel. Numerous pieces of the earth experience these storms. Thousands of thunderstorms happen each day for the most part in the tropics. Their number is little over the seas than over the land, inferable from the absence of severe convection above the water surface. Thunderstorms once in a while happen in the polar territories.
These are connected continuously with temperamental air and strong vertical movements that produce cumulonimbus clouds. They get their power from the arrival of inactive warmth of buildup in the rising sticky air.
The typhoons create in those zones of the seas, where the temperature at the ocean surface surpasses 26°C. High-temperature conditions lead to the development of a low weight territory. Therefore, the breezes get sorted out as cyclonic dissemination. A low-pressure region gets heightened into a downturn because of the accessibility of plentiful water fumes.
Later on, pressure diminishes quickly, and depression changes into a violent whirlwind known as a cyclone. The hurricanes happen in the Bay of Bengal and the Arabian Sea. They cause harm to the farming yields, and sometimes the hurricanes carry required downpours to the dry spell influenced rural zone.
Conditions for the creation of thunderstorms are given beneath:
- Strong convection because of the severe warming of the land surface.
- Passage of cold, damp air mass over the warm water surface.
- The forced rising of restrictively unstable air along the combination zone or the slant of the mountains.
- Radiational cooling at upper levels.
- A cold shift in weather conditions on a high and warm change in weather conditions at the surface.
For the most part, thunderstorms brought about by the surface warming over land are generally regular during a summer evening and an early night. Yet, thunderstorms happen over the sea during the evening since the water surface is hotter than the air up high.
Hailstorms are the most exceedingly terrible climate hazards. Large hail storms come from the cumulonimbus clouds. Enormous hails are connected continuously with thunderstorms. Hails are commonly limited to a little zone of the storm. Huge hailstones cause incredible harm to life and horticultural harvests. In India, hailstorms happen during the winter season.
Their force rises during the long stretches of March and April when the wheat crop arrives at the reaping stage. In this way, crops worth crores of rupees are harmed each year.
Residue storms, by and large, happen during the summer season when the air pressure diminishes abruptly. The breeze speed can reach up to 100 km/hr, and now and again, the rate may even surpass 100 km/hr. The residue storms seriously influence trees, and the electric power lines are disrupted.
Ordinarily, dust storms don’t cause precipitation because adequate water fumes are not accessible for the arrangement of the clouds. In any case, if the measure of water fumes increments and gets sufficient for the development of the clouds, thundershowers may happen.
Tornadoes and Water Spouts
The tornado is, for the most part, connected with cumulonimbus clouds. It broadens descending from the base of the cloud as a chimney. This chimney has both translatory just as a rotatory movement. Along these lines, it tends to contact the land surface.
The pressure inside the chimney falls quickly and might be uncommonly low at the focal point of the stack when contrasted with the bordering barometrical air outside the tornado.
Subsequently, immense power is produced inside the tornado. Any place it contacts the ground, the energy inside the tornado can suck or lift the large objects over the ground surface and break the items going ahead of its way.
The width of the tornado fluctuates from 10 meters to 100 meters or even 1km to 2km. The harm brought about by the tornado is additionally boosted by the active surface breezes related to the storm.
Tornadoes happen in numerous regions of the world. The most extreme number of tornadoes is found in the U.S.A. The word tornado alludes to the most savage storm wherein the speed of the surface breeze can surpass 400 km/hr over a little region. The most extreme breeze speed in a tornado has never been estimated. The vertical rate can exceed 250 km/hr. These tornadoes cause harm to life and property and agrarian structures.
There has been no general hypothesis of tornado development. The significant impact of two different air masses may prompt the creation of a tornado. Instability happens, when a dry, cold (overwhelming) polar air mass pushes the warm, moist (light) air mass upwards. The rising warm, sticky air mass loses temperature at the dry adiabatic slip by rate.
The air mass gets cold and soaked, which prompts buildup. A gigantic measure of idle warmth discharged during an increase keeps the rising air mass warm. This causes the air flows to arrive at more prominent statures prompting low pressure in the focal point of the air segment, which turns into a site of firm breezes.
Subsequently, a cyclonic course alongside strong updraft prompts the development of a pipe formed storm. This lead to cyclonic flow alongside strong updraft prompts the arrangement of a pipe formed storm cloud-related with amazingly uproarious thundering clamour and bizarrely extreme helping.
At the point when a tornado happens on the water surface/surface of the sea, it is called water sprout. At whatever point the stack of the tornado contacts the water surface, it sucks water upwards and once in a while, it might lift little vessels in the seas. In any case, the harm brought about by the water sprout is less when contrasted with the tornado over the land.
Lightning is likewise a natural cataclysm, and it is continuously connected with a cumulonimbus cloud. The vertical degree of this cloud may reach out up to 10-16 km stature over the ground surface. Such clouds comprise of positive charge, or even potential distinction is made between the cloud and the earth.
Therefore, a monster shimmer of lightning is produced. In some cases, a lightning blaze may hit any object like a tree or a structure on the ground.
In the United States, lightning represents a more significant number of passings than some other climate hazard. The lightning setbacks, for the most part, happen toward the evening. Lightning can strike the airplane causing substantial harm. It additionally causes a significant measure of property harm. Woodland fire, by and large, happens on account of lightning under dry conditions. Lightning Flash Hitting a Tree and Earth Surface
Blizzards are another climate hazard that causes overwhelming harm to life and property. The mix of low temperatures and strong breezes and blizzard is called a blizzard. These are commonly found in high scopes where extratropical typhoons are pervasive during the winter season.
Frost happens when the air temperature close to the ground surface falls beneath 0°C. Low temperatures, by and large, retard the development of the harvest plants. The cold shift in weather conditions is increasingly harmful during the winter season since it makes a common hazard when the field crops are in their seedling stage.
Be that as it may, wheat yield can withstand frosty temperature; however, the plants are slaughtered if the roots are upset by frost to hurl. Frost events are increasingly regular in the center and high scopes. It happens once in a while in the tropical districts. Nonetheless, it might happen on the high mountains in the tropical areas. Sub-frigid temperatures can diminish the nature of the development yields.
Frost is damaging to the vegetable harvests. Harvests in north-west India experience frost of moderate to extreme force. This way, consistently potato and tomato crops are harmed worth crores of rupees because of low-temperature wounds.
These yields are defenceless to ice damage straight up to the development. The blooming stage is a fundamental period for the more significant part of the field harvests, and young natural product plants endure genuine harm because of low-temperature wounds.
To shield the plants from the frost, there are numerous systems wherein the temperature isn’t permitted to fall beneath frost level:
(I) The temperature of the plant is controlled by controlling the dirt temperature. The dirt temperature can be changed by offering a water system to the yield.
(ii) By covering the plants with glass or plastic spreads. Right now, the temperature of the plants rises.
(iii) The sprinkling water system likewise builds the temperature of the air.
High temperatures are experienced during the summer season in numerous pieces of tropical and sub-tropical locales. Drawn out high-temperature conditions can prompt warmth wave conditions. For the most part, heatwave conditions can happen during the long stretches of April, May and even June.
On the off chance that the highest temperature stays better than average by 6-7°C, moderate heatwave conditions are said to happen. If the most extreme temperature stays better than average by 8°C or progressively, at that point, it might be named as a severe heatwave.
Heatwaves regularly create over Rajasthan, Haryana and Punjab territories, which are far away from the seaside regions. Simultaneously, hot and robust north-westerly breezes may cause heatwaves over the seaside zones of Orissa and Andhra Pradesh. Be that as it may, heatwave occurrence is uncommon over the landmass south of the scope 13° north on account of the oceanic impact and genuinely damp conditions.
For the most part, heatwave conditions may continue for 4-5 days. Yet, in some cases, they endure for another week. The force of heatwave is seen as the most extreme during the long periods of May and June. Heatwave, for the most part, reaches out from north-west India straight up to Orissa and Andhra coast. Consistently most extreme heatwaves are found in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar states.
Numerous territories experience hot breezes on the planet. For the most part, these breezes are produced in those territories which are situated affected by the anticyclonic flow. Their seriousness is additionally upgraded by the shift in weather conditions of hot air from other tropical zones.
These hot breezes are additionally caused when the air mass plummets down the slants. Foehn is one of the hot breezes, which is created by adiabatic warming when the air mass falls on the leeward side of the mountains.
These hot breezes are commonly experienced on the northern side of the Alps mountain in Switzerland. These breezes are relatively hotter and drier than the overall air mass of that territory. These warm and dry breezes can dissolve the snow quickly.
Thus, adequate water gets accessible to the harvests, which are become under rainfed conditions. Then again, the appearance of these hot and dry breezes can build the air temperature out of nowhere, coming about the unfriendly impact on the standing harvests.
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- Tornadoes and the Enhanced Fujita Scale. (n.d.). Retrieved from National Geographic: https://www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/tornadoes-and-enhanced-fujita-scale/View of Yesterday’s Hailstorm in Greeley From My Garage. (n.d.). Retrieved from NEW99.1 Country: https://newcountry991.com/view-of-yesterdays-hailstorm-in-greeley-from-my-garage-picturesvideo/

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Jerry Sandusky Still Says He Didn’t Do Anything Wrong; Sentenced to 30 Years
I suppose Sandusky is going to deny he did any wrongdoing until he dies in jail.
The amount of evidence against him is so staggering, I don’t think even think his wife or lawyers believe him. He was sentence to a minimum of 30 years in prison.
He is appealing the conviction.

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I love art and illustration. My childhood obsession with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood led to hours with art history texts. I’d need a fortnight just to properly do the Met. And so I love it when SFF books engage with art and culture, providing insight into the history of the world, their aesthetic, and their values. There are plenty of literary works revolving around art, and artists, but SFF provides a number of stories where art matters—to the story, to its society, and to its character.
The Golden Key by Melanie Rawn, Jennifer Roberson, and Kate Elliott
This deeply written novel starts with a series of descriptions of paintings. It’s art nerd heaven—the descriptions are delightfully layered with art criticism, the story of the war, and most of all, the centuries of enmity between the Serranos and the Grijalvas, the foremost painting families of Tira Virte. History is painted by the winners as art serves as the official record of legal treaties, births, marriages, and deaths, and the limners of Tira Virte employ sorcery to manipulate time, history, and people.
Passing Strange by Ellen Klages
A novella written with the delicacy of the pastel chalks favored by Haskel herself, Passing Strange tells a magical story about a pulp magazine illustrator and a nightclub singer who meet at Mona’s, a queer nightclub where tourists trample through to gawk at the regulars, who glitter and shine anyway. Haskel and Emily’s connection is at once gentle and electric, and the collision of art and magic makes this story one that lingers in the memory.
Mortal Love by Elizabeth Hand
Hand’s sublime book leaps from one century to another, from one artist to another, exploring the popular and often destructive ideas around art, madness, drugs, and visionary creativity. Through every thread of narrative is a woman—chestnut haired, green-eyed, irresistible and dangerous. She’s drawn to artists and leaves devastation behind her as she tries to find her way. When I read it, the part of me that staunchly believes that magic is real, fey, and dangerous wakes up and glides a finger down the nape of my neck.
Carnival by Elizabeth Bear
Bear’s super spy SF novel begins with two operatives reuniting after many years to deliver a shipment of stolen artwork to a matriarchal colony planet after years of diplomatic tension—but really they are there to get intelligence for old earth’s government. Don’t walk into this book expecting good vs. evil or any simple, reductive morality—everyone possesses virtues beside their flaws. Come for the art reclamation, stay for the culture building, which won’t be anything like you expect.
Borderline by Mishell Baker
When I heard a friend describe Borderline as “Faerie Muses in Hollywood,” I was one-clicking Baker’s book a minute later and reading all about Millie, a woman who lost her legs in a suicide attempt that ended her run at becoming a filmmaker. After years of therapy and institutionalization, she’s invited to work for The Arcadia Project, a mysterious group who do their best to maintain the treaty between the filmmakers of the mortal world and Faerie. While telling a story with enough investigation to keep me turning pages, Baker has sharp things to say about mental health—and she doesn’t romanticize the image of the tortured artist one bit.
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Re: Pickup along the East River
World's Fair Marina...assuming they allow free entry to a pickup point.
But a spooky walk through a mile of industrial wasteland from the subway, and the stadium station is a local stop only except during rush hour. And the boat will probably lose close to two hours, getting in there and back out again to the main course.
I'd still buy the gallon of gas on the east river proper, save the two hour detour and the crew getting lost out there.


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CALGARY — While we won’t know the full cost of Swoop charges and destinations until February – when tickets for WestJet’s new ULCC go on sale – the discount airline has made its target markets clear: millennials, young families and frugal travellers.
Speaking to the media and investors yesterday at WestJet’s Investor Day presentation, WestJet Executive Vice-President Bob Cummings, who is overseeing Swoop’s launch, says about 60% of Swoop passengers are expected to fly for leisure travel, 30% to visit friends and family and 10% for business or in groups.
“The core of the brand is going to be low fares and enabling people to travel that wouldn’t be able to travel otherwise or travel more often,” said Cummings.
Earlier this fall WestJet said it expects to offer fares for Swoop that are about half the level of WestJet’s fares. Ancillary revenues meanwhile are set to double. WestJet estimates the net savings should be 30 to 40%.
Cummings said yesterday that WestJet “ripped apart” discount airline models used in the U.S. and Europe and looked at lessons they learned when designing Swoop.
The key is to cut costs to their absolute lowest by outsourcing jobs where possible, obtaining low airport charges and restricting sales to online transactions.
However WestJet sees opportunity in eliminating the need for Canadian travellers to cross the border to access cheap fares.
Fares from Canadian airports like Hamilton and Abbotsford, B.C. are expected to be similar to those at U.S. border airports, while saving hours in traffic.
“We believe this is a substantive tried and true opportunity for us to go after,” Cummings told analysts.
Swoop will compete against Flair Airlines, which said this week it was lifting carry-on fees, Canada Jetlines and the prospect of Air Canada Rouge and FlyToo joining the field.
Meanwhile WestJet is going after business and international travellers by adding premium cabins with hot food, Boeing 787 Dreamliners for global destinations and new lounges at key airports such as Calgary, Vancouver and Toronto.
The partnership, which has yet to be approved, is expected to be in operation in the first half of 2019. It would increase travel choices between Canada and the U.S. along with enhanced frequent flyer benefits.
WestJet and Delta said their preliminary agreement anticipates co-ordinated schedules for new destinations and expanded codesharing.
The deal with Atlanta-based Delta was announced as WestJet unveiled financial targets through 2020 that analyst Doug Taylor of Canaccord Genuity said “echo well-received guidance provided by Air Canada several months ago.”
“We believe this guidance should be seen positively on the margin as it confirms that WestJet’s multiple expansion programs are not going to come at the expense of near-term profitability and balance sheet,” Taylor wrote in a report.
WestJet said it expects annual revenues will increase by between $300 million and $500 million through 2022 from ancillary fees, an enhanced revenue management system and broadened fare products.
It has also identified annual cost savings opportunities of $140 million to $200 million over the five years from fleet reconfigurations, airport operations cost savings, optimized maintenance plans, digital self-service and sales and distribution channel efficiencies.


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US rapper 6LACK has today announced he will bring his From East Atlanta, With Love world tour to Australia this year.
The two-time Grammy-nominated artist is set to hit the country in October, with shows confirmed in Perth, Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney, where he'll be supported by US duo THEY. and newest Shady Records signee, BOOGIE.
The tour comes in support of 6LACK's forthcoming second studio album, East Atlanta Love Letter, due out this year.
General public tickets for all shows go on sale from 10am local time on Monday 20 August; for more details, click on theGuide.
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No one ignores the importance of playtests and the majority of studios integrate them into their development cycle. Traditional formats are still relevant, but two new trends are emerging: The integration of playtests very early in the development cycle and the multiplication of their formats, from the most economical to the most expensive and complex. Let's review three formats that illustrate these trends.
I set up and managed the playtest structure of the Ubisoft studio in Annecy where the multiplayer modes of Splinter Cell - Pandora Tomorrow and Chaos Theory were developed. As a game designer, I very quickly apprehended the immense effectiveness of playtests to improve the experience of the players but also to improve the work of the game designers themselves. Since that time, I have continued to follow this field and have had the opportunity to discover, through my clients' consulting assignments, three new ways to conduct playtests.
Self-confrontation - Understanding what's going on in players' minds is essential to building a good game experience. Questioning them while they're playing is not the best way to do it, because they are then focused on the action. And do it after their game session is not because the players are no longer in the context. Self-confrontational techniques, derived from analytical methods in occupational psychology, provide a better solution. Individual self-confrontation consists first of all in letting a player play but in filming his gaming experience and, if possible, the player himself. Then, the video is replayed in front of the latter and the person in charge of the session asks questions when the filmed sequence shows a hesitation, frustration or on the contrary a flash of pleasure. This playtest technique can be used right from the prototype stage and can be applied to a large number of themes to study: Gameplay, menu navigation, controls, navigation in an open world.
Cloud testing - Good playtests require ... good playtesters, players that match your target, available and in sufficient numbers. How to find them when one is a small studio? Cloud testing involves testing a game by a community of players. For a team developing a mobile game, the most economical solution is to build a community that follows its development and offer its members to test an advanced version of the game through app like Testflight (iOS) or HockeyApp (iOS and Android). But if you want to target your playtesters, sites offers this type of service: PlaytestCloud, GBTN (Global Test Network Beta), Stardust Testing, etc. They are mostly paying but they offer many advantages: profiling of the playtesters, choice of the country and of platform, follow-up of the results. Cloud testing allows small organizations to run playtest campaigns that only large studios could afford before.
Paper prototypes - The sooner you go about evaluating a game concept, the less expensive it is to correct the weak points. Let's not forget that the evaluation of a concept also covers its potential to attract players. A paper prototype makes it possible to evaluate many aspects of a concept before even writing the first line of code. It is simply a simulacrum game developed with a presentation software like Powerpoint or Keynotes. We can present to a panel of players a representation of the game experience, including the graphic style, the sound environment, the main and secondary gameplays, navigation and menus. Of course, a paper prototype is not suitable for all genres and its degree of interactivity is low, but it allows to test the attractiveness of a concept for a very limited budget and in a few weeks. Zynga used this format to test concepts and I personally developed one for a client. The feedback from the playtesters was very useful for correcting several aspects of the design.
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Hyderabad: Central Government financially supported scheme, the Women Helpline 181, aimed to provide protection and safety to the women effected by domestic violence, harassment, trauma,
distress and violence both in private and public places, family, community and workplace was launched by the Women and Child Welfare Minister Tummala Nageshwara Rao at the Telangana Secretariat on Saturday.
The Minister said that the effected women across Telangana from any remote area, wherever there is telephone connectivity either BSNL or private, the women can call this number 181 and seek help.
The Helpline will function 24-7 and provide service to women affected with any kind of violence be it physical, sexual, emotional, psychological and economic abuse, will be provided support irrespective of their age, class, caste and other social identities.
It would facilitate during crisis and intervene through referral to One Stop Centres or Sakhi Cenres, Police, Hospital, Ambulance services and women seeking shelter, it will link them to Short Stay Homes and Swadhar homes.
The Women Helpline will have a comprehensive referral database to provide information about the appropriate support services available to the woman affected by violence within the local area in which she resides or is employed.
The Technical support is being provided by GVK-EMRI who specialises in Emergency Management Services and has extensive experience of setting up similar helpline in other states as well.
The Minister said that Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao is giving more priority for women for their protection and development, all the schemes such as double bed room, land distribution scheme, pensions to lonely women, health care,
drop out women who has not completed School education or discontinued their higher education for them arrangement will be made to continue their studies in the Residential Schools, Junior and Degree College, he claimed with the success of KCR Kits, more and more pregnant women are coming to the government hospital for the institutional deliveries,
He said all these schemes are meant for the upliftment and empowerment of women, if women is empowered the state will develop, he said.
SC Corporation Chairman T. Ravi, Women & Child Welfare Director Vajender Boi, Joint Collector of Hyderabad Prashanti and other officials were also present. (INN)


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Is expectation keeping you from living your most authentic life?
Our upbringing, the media, our friends, and our selves are all constantly pressuring us for more, better, or different.
“By now, I should ________.”
Many of my patients finish that sentence with:
- be married
- have more money
- have children
- be happy
- have better work
- be having fun
- be on vacation
- be retired
- own a home
- have no debt
- feel better
It’s one thing to recognize something as uncomfortable or as going against your desires. It’s an entirely different thing to witness this “bad” thing and then, on top of it, judge yourself for the existence of this “imperfection.” Now, this one weight upon your mind has become two. And this can snowball if you consciously know that you’re judging yourself, and then—you guessed it—you start to judge yourself for judging yourself. Since we’re all striving to feel comfortable in life, why create all this undue pressure?
Step 1: Roll back the judgement.
See if you can stop yourself once you notice that first “should” popping up in your mind. If you feel today that your life isn’t the way you wished, stop right there! We often go the extra step in criticizing ourselves in an attempt to learn something from our situation, hopefully sidestepping these “bad” feelings in the future. But does this work? Simply try not doing this for a period. (Easier said than done, of course.) The practice here is simply awareness. When you feel out of place or that something hasn’t happened to your liking, ask yourself, “What am I thinking right now?” As you regularly ask yourself this question, you’ll begin to see the pattern of “shoulds” popping up in your life. It’s this pattern that needs breaking. Simply asking yourself, “What am I doing right now? What am I thinking right now?” may be just enough to break this cycle of pressure building upon pressure.
Step 2: Embrace the “bad.”
Now that we’re seasoned question-askers of our mental reaction to these various “shoulds,” we should be left with the one thought that started the mental snowball in the first place. Of course, many of us have “shoulds” spanning many aspects of ourselves. So, possibly you’re cycling between your most popular “shoulds” about family, finances, health, emotions, or career instead of the seemingly endless number of thoughts, feelings, and reactions that abound when trying to justify the existence of all these “shoulds.” Simply, those popular “shoulds” could, if you deemed them, be seen as your life’s guides instead of a perceived list of curses. We are so hard-pressed, consciously and unconsciously, to achieve the impractical goal called “perfection” that anything in the way can appear a nuisance. But, if your current method of life refinement isn’t bringing you lasting relief, let alone regular joy, then try something different. Start by giving yourself permission—permission to allow these nuisances and icky thoughts to exist in your life as they are. You’d be surprised that regularly allowing these unsightly thoughts to simply exist in your mind will give them less energy and power. Without this wind behind their sails, these “shoulds” will have less ability to cause you to dwell so much on what is perceived as “good” or “bad.”
Step 3: Love your life.
The “love” I speak of here is an emphasis on the passionate actions put forth into your life. Regularly doing things for yourself and your community will help build new habits, physically and mentally. This will eventually replace the old habits of repeatedly seeking out what’s “bad” and the added mental commentary that comes alongside.
Spend time around people, maybe even a new group. Spend time outside, breaking up our habitual indoor nature; enjoy the seasons. Get creative; find an outlet for your expression with color, words, sound, movement, and community.
This is all in an effort to show you that your life is happening right now. The forward progression of your self doesn’t take a nap while you sort through all these “shoulds.” Rather, embracing the totality of yourself, “shoulds” included, is what could propel you more than you’ve ever imagined.
Jason Moskovitz, L.Ac., Dipl.O.M. is the author of Arthritis: Secrets of Natural Healing. Jason is a board-licensed acupuncturist, national diplomat of oriental medicine, herbal physician, nutritional counselor, and Tai Chi instructor at Tao Of Wellness. He has administered thousands of successful treatments in areas of women’s health, infertility, elder care, and joint pain. Jason teaches his patients how to embrace their ever-changing condition and all the ways in which the body can heal itself. Connect with Tao Of Wellness on Facebook and Twitter.
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Casa Maravilha is a wonderful country villa, set in large impressive gardens close to the village of Messines, in the Albufeira countryside. It mixes modern with traditional, and classic with contemporary to create a stunning villa, and with the fantastic gardens it's the perfect base for a taste of rural Algarve, yet it's only 15-minutes from a selection of beaches and resorts.
The villa stands in large private grounds, and as soon as you enter through the grand, pillared entrance you can see that this house has carefully and lovingly been created and designed by its owners. On the ground floor there's a fully-fitted kitchen with light-wood units, tiled floors and a breakfast bar and stools. The main dining area has a glass-topped wooden table and eight chairs but there's also a second dining area with a smaller round table and four chairs at the back of the lounge. The lounge itself is a cosy and comfortable area, with comfortable seating, a TV, DVD player and patio doors leading to the garden. There's also a wc-cloakroom on the ground floor.
All four bedrooms are on the first floor, and are a mixture of styles. The two double bedrooms are classically decorated with soft colours, dark wood floors and traditional furniture, including a beautiful four-poster bed and an en-suite bathroom in one of them, the other double bedroom shares a bathroom with one of the twins. The two twin bedrooms also have dark wood flooring but both of these bedrooms are vibrant and colourfully decorated. One of the twins has an en-suite bathroom and the other shares the house bathroom with the second double. Two bedrooms - one twin and one double - have patio doors accessing a terrace, and the other two bedrooms have windows overlooking the grounds.
The exterior is just as special as inside - there's a large lawned garden between the house and pool terrace, and the pool is a large and L-shaped with Roman-style steps into the corner of the shallow end. The covered barbecue is a real feature of the villa and is a wonderful area for al-fresco cooking and dining. Almost the size of a small villa, the fully covered 'barbecue-casita' has a large wooden table and chairs, an excellent built-in barbecue and sink, and there's even a shower bathroom here too. There is also a swing suspended from the wooden beam of the casita.
The nearest village is Messines which is a five minute drive from the villa. Here you will find a supermarket and restaurants, and an amazing fish and vegetable market where you can get fantastic local, fresh produce to create your own restaurant atmosphere in the comfort of your villa! If you like to sightsee whilst on holiday then it's worth the 15-minute journey to nearby Silves, where there's an amazing castle and cathedral. If the beach is more your thing then there's a choice of beaches within fifteen minutes as well as the resort of Albufeira.
Casa Maravilha is a wonderful base for those who want a high quality villa with superb facilities, a large garden and pool, in a quiet location whilst being able to access the local villages and resorts quite easily.

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SPINAL NERVE CONNECTIONS
Otherwise known as the “Meric Chart” from the early days of chiropractic, but still valid in many cases. Beautiful in its simplicity…
Link: Meric Chart
If you have upper or lower limb pain, numbness, tingling, or weakness, check out our dermatome and nerve-root charts for an idea of what may be the source. Remember, this is no substitute for a healthcare professional!

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Buenos Aires, Aug 17 (EFE).- Pro-government unions expressed support for Argentine President Alberto Fernandez’s administration at a large-scale rally Wednesday in this capital, but they also called for urgent action to get inflation under control.
The Confederacion General del Trabajo (CGT), Argentina’s largest labor federation and an organization dominated by union leaders aligned with Fernandez, blamed “speculators” and “price makers” for the country’s sky-high annual inflation rate, which surged to 71 percent in July.
At the conclusion of the mass demonstration, one of the organizers said at a press conference that he is worried about inflation, “financial speculation” and also “political speculation” by opposition sectors ahead of the 2023 general election.
“This rally is about generating the necessary muscle to solve problems for the benefit of the most vulnerable sectors,” Hector Daer, a CGT leader, said.
Pablo Moyano, a truckers’ union and CGT leader, called for his part on the government to exert control over large grain and mineral exporters.
“The government must stand up to the powerful. Those are the measures we’ll side with if the government has the determination to do it,” he said.
Other participants in Wednesday’s rally included the CTA labor confederation, social movements and political organizations allied with the ruling Peronists.
“We’re here (to fight) against the financial coup of the local oligarchy, against the International Monetary Fund and the despotic actions of the price makers, who by devaluing the currency and hiking prices have caused great harm to the Argentine people. We’ve come to back the government against these sectors,” said Luis D’elia, president of the FTV unemployed federation and chairman of the leftist MILES party.
Wednesday’s rallies by unions and social organizations were held amid political tensions within both the leftist Frente de Todos coalition and the main opposition coalition, which are expected to face off in the October 2023 general election.
Those tensions have soared due to a deteriorating macroeconomic situation in the South American country, which is racked by high inflation and a rise in poverty rates, a large budget deficit and the depletion of foreign-currency reserves.
The country has had three economy ministers over the past month and a half.
Sergio Massa, who took over that portfolio on Aug. 3, has pledged to ensure greater fiscal discipline and bring inflation under control. But he faces growing pressure to boost purchasing power and preserve government subsidies for the most vulnerable sectors.
Leftist political groups and labor union also marched Wednesday to the Plaza de Mayo, where the presidential palace is located, to protest the government’s belt-tightening measures.
Argentina reached a deal in March with the IMF, the terms of which include a lowering of the country’s primary budget deficit (the budget deficit excluding interest payments) and a reduction in monetary financing of the budget deficit.
Leftist lawmaker Myriam Bregman accused Massa of devising a “neoliberal” (laissez-faire) plan to shrink the deficit and hike rates for gas and electricity services while keeping the country “tied to the IMF.”
Those leftist groups called, among other things, for an immediate, inflation-adjusted hike in salaries, pension payouts and social welfare payments and pressed for guarantees that no family be forced to live below the poverty line. EFE

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Innoson has today admitted that there was no Supreme Court Judgement Against GTBank. After falsely claiming a victory at the Supreme Court of Nigeria, Chairman of Innoson Motors, Dr. Innocent Chukwuma has admitted to completely distorting the directive of the Supreme Court and publicly apologised for spreading fake and malicious news. Innoson had earlier deleted his declaration on social media that the apex court has ordered GTBank to pay him N14bn within 14 days.
This was followed by a statement by his spokesman Cornelius Osigwe in which Innoson walked back from his false declaration stating instead that “There have been a lot of misinterpretations on the Press Release published by Innoson Group on the decision of the Supreme Court”. This retraction, judicial analysts believe, was advised by Innoson’s lawyers who fear that contempt of court charges on defaming the Supreme Court may be brought against the embattled businessman.
Last week Thursday, Innoson caused a social and online media storm by claiming that the Supreme Court had ruled in his favour for GTBank to pay him N14bn. However, records of the court proceedings showed no such ruling. Instead, what the Supreme Court had directed was for both parties, Innoson and GTBank, to return to the Court of Appeal, Enugu Judicial Division, for a hearing on GTBank’s appeal scheduled for the 14th of June 2018.
However, Nigerians on social media did not miss this. “I cannot believe this, how can someone have total disregard for the highest court in the land and go on a rampage spreading fake news. This Innoson and his team of lawyers and advisers have no shred of credibility” wrote one Twitter user.
What he’s done is punishable by law, and I’m sure the Supreme Court won’t take it lightly,” another Twitter user said.
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One Watchtroll author showed his professionalism just moments ago (promoting that baseless conspiracy theory about Google and Kushner):
Summary: Shooting the messengers (even wrongly associating yours truly with Google) in an effort to undermine patent reform when it is so desperately needed due to serious injustices
The news about Michelle Lee — truly good news which we mentioned here last night and again this afternoon — has made it into corporate media (e.g. [1, 2]) and more blogs that focus on patents, e.g. Watchtroll citing this latter article to state: “Some are speculating that a meeting between Eric Schmidt, the executive chairman of Google’s parent company Alphabet, and Jared Kushner, the influential son-in-law of President-Elect Trump, may be the reason why Lee will be asked to remain as head of the Patent Office.”
Remember that Watchtroll and his swamp like to blame Google for everything (they did some nasty pieces about it), if not insult Lee directly. They want us to believe that patent reform is the fault of Google and that Google is some kind of “pirate”. They would rather see corruption at the top (with rumours about Rader) as long as it serves their agenda. “I would expect significant shake-up in PTO Senior Staff in the coming months,” Patently-O wrote several days ago, but that didn’t quite happen as far as the Director was concerned. To quote:
Recognize that these transitions and traditions are subject to immediate adjustment by the incoming Trump Administration. I would expect significant shake-up in PTO Senior Staff in the coming months: General Counsel, regional PTO Directors, and perhaps Solicitor and PTAB Director. However, every president struggles through how to deal with career federal employees loyal to the efforts of the prior administration.
When we speak about patent corruption we speak about all sorts of things, ranging from nepotism to vastly worse thing. One issue that emerged some days ago in Patently-O was akin to privateering. “The Bayh-Dole Act,” explains this new post, “allows private entities to patent inventions developed through federal funding.”
Sometimes they even sell these to trolls, as we showed here before. “The [James Love-run] KEI filing,” the above notes, “is in the form of a letter to Inspector General of HHS (parent of NIH) asking for an investigation and action.”
For those who are not aware of what’s wrong with the above(not just privateering), basically it’s about enriching someone using public (taxpayers’) money and then letting that same someone get patents and tax the public (taxpayers) yet again. It is an incredibly huge injustice that ought to be tackled by the government. Another new example of privateering-like practices came from IP Watch just yesterday. To quote: “A range of civil society organisations have issued a public statement opposing the United States Army’s proposed grant of an exclusive licence on technology necessary to produce a Zika vaccine to French pharmaceutical company Sanofi. The letter cites concerns that the exclusive licence might violate US law and could lead to high priced medicines as consumers buy back taxpayer-funded research.”
Also see yesterday’s article “Why Patent Protection In The Drug Industry Is Out Of Control” (not exactly what it sounds like).
It sure sounds like more journalists and observers out there are starting to ‘get’ it. All these issues need to be tackled. Blaming “Google” for every bit of patent reform is immature — possibly infantile enough only for Watchtroll to actually do. █
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Summary: The President of Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (patent troll) leaves and the founder of Intellectual Ventures, Microsoft’s largest peripheral patent troll, joins Sherpa Technology
TECHRIGHTS has been writing about Microsoft’s patent attacks on GNU/Linux for just over a decade. It was the primary focus of this Web site.
The head of Microsoft’s “IP licensing operation” (i.e. patent extortion), according to this new report, is leaving, only months after Horacio Gutierrez left. As a bit of background IAM says this:
A Microsoft veteran who joined the company back in 1998, Psyhogeos’s most recent position prior to taking over the IP monetisation reins was vice president of OEM licensing, where he held overall responsibility for Microsoft’s licensing and pricing arrangements with its original equipment manufacturer partners worldwide. In November 2013, Psyhogeos was appointed general manager and associate general counsel of IP licensing by then-head of IP Horacio Gutierrez (now general counsel at Spotify) as part of a reshuffle in the wake of chief patent counsel Bart Eppenauer’s move into private practice (which also saw Minhas take over the chief patent counsel role). The following year, Microsoft span patent monetisation activities out into a separate entity, Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC, with Psyhogeos as its president.
When IAM says “patent monetisation” it means patent trolling. IAM is funded by some patent trolls, so it’s inherently biased and always sympathetic towards trolls, not just towards Microsoft (the site is purely Microsoft-based and Microsoft is habitually quoted as an ‘expert’, especially Bart Eppenauer).
“Microsoft officials made it clear that the patent war against Android was still on.”“Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC,” as the above puts it, “with Psyhogeos as its president,” is basically Microsoft’s PURE patent troll, which has engaged in patent blackmail against OEMs that sell ChromeOS (GNU/Linux), Android (Linux), and more…
What does the above mean for Microsoft’s patent troll? We don’t know for sure yet, but even after Gutierrez had left the company Microsoft persisted in patent extortion against Linux. Microsoft officials made it clear that the patent war against Android was still on. It’s just 'dressed up' a little differently (face-saving PR tactics), as we last saw in the Xiaomi settlement.
But wait, there’s more…
“Is Detkin seeing the writings on the wall? What/how about Nathan Myhrvold?”After massive layoffs and financial issues at Intellectual Ventures, Microsoft’s biggest and most vicious patent troll (which habitually attacks Linux and Android device makers) we now learn that its founder moves on. We mentioned this earlier this week, but MIP has some further details. To quote: “Advisory firm Sherpa Technology Group has appointed Peter Detkin as senior advisor. This coincides with Sherpa Technology Group’s rebrand from 3LP Advisors. Detkin is a founder of Intellectual Ventures and holds more than 40,000 patents. He will remain involved with the company. Before founding Intellectual Ventures, Detkin was a vice-president at Intel Corporation, where he oversaw Intel’s patent, licensing and litigation departments. “We have decided to rebrand ourselves as Sherpa Technology Group to emphasise our role as an experienced guide that enables our clients to reach the peak and achieve their ultimate objectives,” said Ralph Eckardt, managing partner of Sherpa Technology Group.”
The founder of world’s largest patent troll (Microsoft-connected) did not finally leave Intellectual Ventures, but with one foot out one might suppose he is gradually walking out, sort of. It remains to be seen just how much trouble Intellectual Ventures will have now that software patents are collapsing. A few months ago Intellectual Ventures lost a major case at the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC). Quite a few of its software patents got shot down by the judge, who extrapolated and clarified that software patents are a threat to free speech and are therefore in conflict with the pillars of US law. Is Detkin seeing the writings on the wall? What/how about Nathan Myhrvold? █
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When so-called ‘cross-licensing’ with patent purchases (the latest Microsoft method) is actually a disguise/cover for patent settlement after extortion [1, 2, 3, 4]
Summary: The patent lust at IBM, which is suing if not just shaking down companies using software patents, earns plenty of puff pieces from the corporate media
THE notion that the greater the number of patents, the better — a notion so ludicrous that also fails to recognise the raison d’être of patents — is quite a disease. Some people would have us believe that because China created a patents production line in SIPO it's actually at a position of advantage. It’s false and it’s rather infantile to repeat such claims.
One new article, seemingly from an author who is not a fan of software patents (see the short part about it), says today that:
The best ratios I found (i.e., most patents per person) were in very rich Bedford, adjoining Manchester, and almost-as-rich Hollis, adjoining Nashua. Each town had slightly more than 2.7 patents per 1,000 people.
So keep that in mind when you hear people pointing to patent numbers as a reflection of the braininess of a community, state or country or a company or industry. Take it with a grain of salt.
It’s often just a reflection of which companies are based around that area. But some towns take it out of context and equate patents with innovation or wisdom. The above article came just shortly after a heap of IBM puff pieces. IBM, as our readers are probably aware of by now, bets its future and the whole farm — so to speak — on being more like a patent troll (patent enforcement and shakedown). It has already done that to Twitter, a much smaller company, and it keeps doing that to other Internet companies. “IBM scores a record 8,000 patents in 2016,” enthusiastically screams this headline from Dean Takahashi (or his editor), who just repeated the ‘official’ story as follows:
IBM has proven it is once again dominant in earning patents, as it closed the year with 8,088 U.S. patents granted to its investors in 2016. That’s the 24th consecutive year that the company has earned the most patents of any company.
The second-ranked company, Samsung, had 5,518 U.S. patents granted. About 2,700 of IBM’s 2016 patents covered inventions related to artificial intelligence, cognitive computing, and cloud computing. The patents covered a diverse range of technologies that also included cybersecurity and cognitive health.
We have compiled a list of nearly 20 ‘news’ articles [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17] about IBM claiming 8,000 so-called ‘inventions’ in a single year. Almost all these articles are from yesterday and they add no new information; they’re puff pieces void of any analysis. IBM got many of these patents probably by just calling old stuff “cloud” and “AI” (buzzwords). Is “AI” the new “on a machine”? And “cloud” the new “over the Internet”? When it comes to bamboozling patent examiners (so as to be granted software patents) there are all sorts of tricks, many of which boil down to semantics. IBM is nowadays firing a lot of employees, selling large portions of its physical products divisions to China (notably Lenovo). Is this the future of IBM then? Just ‘hiring’ patents, which it already uses to attack and extort far smaller companies? “Samsung Second & Google Fifth In 2016 Patent Race”, an Android news site said yesterday, so IBM isn’t alone among Linux-oriented firms when it comes to the patents gold rush. Samsung and Google, however, are not patent aggressors. Unlike the above IBM puff pieces, a writer in Fortune published “These Firms Won the Most Patents in 2016″ — a list that shows Microsoft falling down quite sharply. As a Microsoft propaganda site puts it, “Microsoft ranked 8th on the list of companies awarded with most patents in the US” (a lot lower than before).
Well, Microsoft is having issues. Software patents are getting more difficult to get, so it is not managing to keep up with patent filings. Financial issues are not helping either. In the coming years we expect IBM to become more and more like a patent troll whose actual products (if not jobs too) sailed away to China. █
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Nokia is now a de facto patent troll that just licenses the brand
Summary: Nokia’s saber-rattling (and now lawsuits) against Apple are a worrying sign of what’s to come, impacting Android OEMs as well as Apple, which is why the post-Microsoft Nokia is dangerous
TAKING advantage of USPTO-granted patents (for the most part), Nokia started a patent war against Apple just before Christmas [1, 2] and many journalists/pundits were already on holiday, so they did not have a chance to comment. Maybe this was Nokia’s intention as the timing of the press release was at the very least suspicious. Few were even around to cover the followup action, for instance, this complaint that got covered by Matthias Verbergt who said “Nokia Corp. said Thursday [two days before Christmas] it has filed additional complaints against Apple Inc., alleging the iPhone maker has infringed 40 of its patents.” Florian Müller said “Nokia suing Apple over 40 patents in 11 countries” (yes eleven!).
“Nokia is a European company, so there is a concern here that US culture of litigation is spreading to Europe already (the UPC would make a trolling culture even more prevalent if it ever became a reality).”When Nokia/trolls pick on the industry of mobile phones everybody loses, not just Apple. Android too tends to be affected, sooner if not later (than Apple). Nokia is a European company, so there is a concern here that US culture of litigation is spreading to Europe already (the UPC would make a trolling culture even more prevalent if it ever became a reality).
Florian Müller told me that “during the Apple v. Nokia antitrust lawsuit in California” some interesting information is likely to surface. “With Conversant,” he explained, “formerly known as Mosaid, being one of the defendants, I guess MSFT’s involvement will be at issue and MSFT witnesses will be deposed.”
As a reminder, MOSAID received patents from Nokia, at Microsoft’s instruction. This may become very relevant a piece of evidence at a trial/antitrust probe.
“Android too tends to be affected, sooner if not later (than Apple).”“Nokia Is Playing With Fire With Its Patent Infringement Case Against Apple,” one report explained, and another said “Apple and Nokia Could Each Score Victories as Their Patent Battle Unfolds” (usually only the lawyers win in such scenarios). Android sites rightly treat this as Android news because if Apple loses, then expect Nokia to go after Android OEMs too. The latest developments were barely (if at all) covered by the media, probably just as Nokia had hoped. There are now several articles about this in English alone, but if it didn’t happen shortly before Christmas, we’d expect hundreds of reports if not thousands. Matt Levy wrote a poem about this and today (Boxing Day) Müller said that “Nokia’s litigation tactics and privateering ways are, without a doubt, vexatious. So I couldn’t disagree with Apple if it made the case that it’s just not reasonably acceptable for Apple to have to do “business as usual” with a Nokia subsidiary under the present circumstances.”
“Apple should invoke Alice,” Benjamin Henrion (FFII) wrote, “especially for H264 compression algorithms where captive patent courts still allows them…”
Henrion, a Belgian, is well aware of Nokia’s history of patent aggression — a subject we have been covering here since 2007. Take note of this news from Belgium that speaks of “85% tax deduction for qualifying income from patents, copyrighted software, breeders rights, orphan drugs and data or market exclusivity” (sounds like Patent Boxes, but not exactly the same).
“Henrion, a Belgian, is well aware of Nokia’s history of patent aggression — a subject we have been covering here since 2007.”Apple should definitely move to invalidate Nokia’s patents. All patents (there are 40 of them) should be susceptible to criticism, as examiners are not perfect and there are no flawless examinations. Incidentally, Patently-O has just written about “The “Right” to Challenge a Patent” in an antitrust context. “In his recent article,” it says, “Antitrust Economist (and lawyer) Erik Hovenkamp argues that the “right to challenge a patent” should also be an important consideration in antitrust analysis. Hovenkamp defines these “challenge rights” as “the (statutory) rights of third parties to challenge patents as invalid or uninfringed.” Antitrust comes into play when a license or settlement agreement includes challenge restraints that would contractually prevent the exercise of the challenge rights.”
Sounds very much applicable to the case above and as we have said from the very start, we hope that Apple will demolish those patents of Nokia, which might otherwise be asserted against Android OEMs (if this hasn’t been done in out-of-court settlements already). █
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When all else fails, throw patents at the competition (through trolls so as to avert counteraction)?
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Summary: With billions of dollars at stake (maybe over a trillion in the long run), the attempt to claw revenue using patents rather than actual sales has become complicated because of plurality of intermediaries, which Apple is trying to tackle with a new antitrust complaint
“In a major antitrust lawsuit Apple charged that Acacia is illegally breaking terms of patents acquired from Nokia,” according to The Street. This is pretty major news and definitely something that warrants a 2 AM article. Florian Müller has already produced a long blog post about it, accompanied by or coupled with the relevant documents.
“Readers can find details like a detailed history in our Wiki page about Acacia, including the hiring (by Acacia) of people from Microsoft and this troll’s repeated attacks on GNU/Linux.”As a reminder to our readers, Acacia is a Microsoft-connected troll. Readers can find details like a detailed history in our Wiki page about Acacia, including the hiring (by Acacia) of people from Microsoft and this troll’s repeated attacks on GNU/Linux.
“For a long time,” Müller wrote today, “I had hoped someone would finally do this. Last year I called out Nokia and others on their privateering ways, and it turned out that Nokia had industrialized the concept of privateering to a far greater extent than anyone else. My list of PAEs fed by Nokia contained all of the defendants in Apple’s antitrust suit–Acacia and Conversant (technically, Apple is also suing particular subsidiaries of those)–and more. That post prompted attempts by Ericsson and Nokia to explain away their privateering ways.”
Nokia‘s patents have also been passed to another anti-Linux/anti-Google troll called MOSAID (renamed “Conversant” since). These were, for a fact, passed at Microsoft’s instructions, as reported in the mainstream media at the time. There’s more on that in the Korean media. When it comes to patents, Nokia is still enslaved by or subservient to Microsoft.
“What does the future of dying mobile giants have in store then?”The full story isn’t just Apple hitting back at Nokia. “Breaking news,” Müller wrote later, “Nokia sues Apple in US and Europe over alleged patent infringement […] Venues: Eastern District of Texas, three German courts: Düsseldorf Mannheim Munich…”
Europe is a growing and increasingly attractive hub for patent parasites already, I’ve told Müller (who probably agreed). Germany and sometimes the UK (London) are favoured among those parasites (see Ericsson's troll choosing London for legal attacks — quite unprecedented a move for such an entity). “For the troll that Nokia is now,” Müller noted, “suing Apple in the ED of Texas is very appropriate. […] When Nokia was still making mobile devices, it had a predilection for the District of Delaware. Now: Eastern District of Texas. Times change…”
I told him that BlackBerry does the same thing now, having lost the market (to which Müller nodded with a retweet). We wrote about this earlier this week and earlier this year.
What does the future of dying mobile giants have in store then? Passage to trolls (the PAE type) that will tax everyone, everywhere? “Something big always seems to happen at Christmas in the patent market,” IAM wrote. “Remember the RPX Rockstar patents purchase a couple of years ago?”
Remember that IAM is partly funded by MOSAID/Conversant, i.e. part of the same ‘gang’. As for Rockstar, we wrote quite a few articles about it, e.g. [1, 2]. It’s like a front for Microsoft (Rockstar Consortium is a patent troll owned by Microsoft, Apple, BlackBerry, Ericsson, and Sony). As for RPX, it’s also a patent troll, with Microsoft having joined it 6 years ago.
“My list of PAEs fed by Nokia contained all of the defendants in Apple’s antitrust suit–Acacia and Conversant (technically, Apple is also suing particular subsidiaries of those)–and more.”
–Florian MüllerNina Milanov, an occasional EPO sceptic, told Müller, “I hope Apple sees it through. Every time you settle, to some extent the troll has won.”
“Last time Nokia sued Apple in Germany,” Müller responded, “it was extremely lucky. Key patents have expired. Will be more interesting this time around.”
If Apple gets to the bottom of all these satellite proxies that are patent trolls, it will be a good service not just to Apple but also to Android/Linux. iOS and Android command the market and all that the losers can do right now is attempt to tax those two. Even Oracle is trying to accomplish that. █
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Just like Microsoft’s modus operandi, being a malicious company whose phone business simply became “tax the Hell out of Android/Linux”
Summary: Large companies, once their importance and leadership fade away, turn into nothing but a pile of patent lawsuits, as BlackBerry serves to show
THE USPTO or the US patent system as a whole (including courts) is quickly becoming more hostile towards patent trolls, but even a company as large as BlackBerry acts like a patent troll now, having just filed lawsuits once again in Texas (BlackBerry is Canadian). The company now doubles down on this misguided strategy. It should alienate a lot of BlackBerry loyalists.
Today, what the troll’s mouthpiece (IAM) calls “monetising its patents” (euphemism for shakedown and litigation; like Mafia “monetising” its firearms) is actually bad news for all. BlackBerry recently said it would stop making phones (just license the brand instead; see our daily links for press coverage about it) and it is now officially a patent troll (once the sales come to an end). Here is the spin from IAM:
BlackBerry has effectively completed its transition to a technology services and licensing-focused business model after signing a global brand and software deal with TCL. At the same time, BlackBerry patents are at the centre of a new litigation campaign that is kicking off in the United States.
Under the terms of an agreement announced last week, Canada’s BlackBerry will license its wireless device-relevant “security software and service suite, as well as related brand assets” to Huizhou-based TCL, which will “design, manufacture, sell and provide customer support for BlackBerry-branded mobile devices”.
The Finnish phones guru put it like this: “The Smartphone Bloodbath still continues its consolidation. Blackberry has just ended its run as a handset maker. They’ve signed their hardware rights to TCL of China. It covers all countries except India and a few neighbors like Bangladesh, where Blackberry had already sold those rights to local suppliers. And TCL, we know the brand as ‘Alcatel’ but the company is TCL and a couple of years ago they became the proud latest owner of Palm via HP.”
BlackBerry loves patents and also wants to participate in Android (while attacking it), much like Sony did. It is going after leading companies that sell Android, not just directly but also indirectly. “2 New patent cases filed in EDTX [Eastern District of Texas],” IP Hawk writes. “$BBRY BlackBerry patents. TnT IP looks like the entity asserting patents. Defendants are Huawei & LG…”
Huawei is the world’s largest Android OEM now, at least by some criteria. Not too long aso IP Hawk called BlackBerry "patent troll". And that’s coming from somewhat of a patents maximalist…
Benjamin Henrion told me about BlackBerry that “ironically, they were one of the first to be attacked with NTP back in 2006 […] and not even a mention of the term “troll” in the IAM article, no surprise here.” Well, they almost never say "troll" (except in scare quotes).
We actually foresaw this lethal strategy from BlackBerry several years back and wrote almost a dozen articles about it. The end result or the outcome for ordinary people would be more expensive phones everywhere and slightly richer patent lawyers in Texas. █
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A ‘master’ troll, Boris Teksler
Credit: Japanese media
Summary: Leadership shuffled in ever-changing (morphing) patent satellites that typically prey on Linux/Android
EARLIER THIS MONTH we wrote about patent trolls of Microsoft and Ericsson “trying to tax everything, especially Linux devices.”
Watch who’s in the news again after a rename, which is a common practice among notorious patent trolls that are a front for someone else (usually a large company). It’s Ericsson’s patent troll that already operates in Europe (London) as well, thanks to the EPO which repeats the USPTO‘s errors.
IAM is writing about this patent troll that paid IAM (without disclosure in the article). This is the second time in about a month (without disclosure) and the latest blog post says that “former boss of Unwired Planet, Boris Teksler, has been appointed the new CEO of Conversant, in a move that sees the Candian NPE’s current head John Lindgren step down after more than nine years in charge.”
Conversant is the new name of MOSAID, which Microsoft passed many of Nokia‘s patents to. We also wrote a great deal about Unwired Planet, back when it was known as Openwave. “Openwave has changed its name to Unwired Planet,” as Wikipedia puts it.
Speaking of Linux-hostile trolls, IAM writes about more of them today. To quote one relevant part:
Whether it’s Microsoft’s link-up with Xiaomi or Huawei’s surprising partnership with InterDigital, licensing deals with value-added components were the major theme of 2016.
InterDigital is an anti-Android troll (we have many articles about that) and Xiaomi did not have a “link-up” with Microsoft. It was more like patent extortion, as we explained at the time.
The shell game of patent trolls is extremely important to keep abreast of. Names keep changing; the same goes for Microsoft front groups that lobby on patent law, e.g. Association for Competitive Technology, which goes (and went) by several other names (ATL or stuff with “App” and “FRAND” in it). █
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Ignore the old and tired myth of large businesses ‘stealing’ ideas of the ‘little guy’…
“Small enterprises generally adopt a rather negative position towards the current increasing granting of patents for software and algorithms because they fear that these will hamper or eventually even impede their work (more than 85%).” —German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), Study of the Innovation Performance of German Software Companies, 2006, p. 86
Summary: The US patent system helps discrimination against small businesses or family-owned businesses — a problem which is likely to exacerbate/deepen under the next administration
THE USPTO has long been run by people from big industry and big companies. Watch what David Kappos has turned into. It remains to be seen where Lee will go after her time at the Office (Trump will pursue her removal, with high level of certainty).
Timothy B. Lee, a critic of software patents for about a decade now, has this new article about Trump in which he says “Google [is] also advocating reforms to rein in low-quality software patents” (we wrote about this the other day). Here is the key part:
In recent years, Google and Microsoft have both been actively lobbying for patent reforms to rein in litigious patent trolls, with Google also advocating reforms to rein in low-quality software patents. Trump will not only choose a new director for the patent office, he will also have influence over patent reform legislation over the next four years.
What about the views of small companies? As many people have already pointed out, Trump seems to be giving his ears only to billionaires and companies that rake in billions. It’s oligarchy on steroids. And watch this truly terrible advice from a truly terrible news site that famously glorifies billionaires. Big corporations’ media is now misleading small businesses on software patents by saying:
Why Patents Should Be Part Of Every Startup’s Risk Mitigation Strategy
The debate over whether software should be patented goes back to the beginning of software, but a good example is looking back to when Microsoft was a young company with almost no patents. Now they are one of the most prolific patent filers.
Actually, to quote Microsoft’s chief at the time, “[i]f people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today’s ideas were invented, and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete standstill today.”
Gates, who actually said that, complained that patents were harmful to small companies (like his at the time). Why pretend that, as Forbes put it, “Perhaps somewhat surprisingly, companies in industries that are seeing some of the most rapid innovation — like software and tech companies, particularly those focused on content delivery — often ignore the problem and don’t focus on future risk mitigation until they have a problem, and the result can be costly” (they actually cite Watchtroll!!!).
What they mean by “risk mitigation” is pursing patents of their own. What a terrible advice.
See this new article titled “The biggest threats to the free web” whose first section is “Software Patents”. To quote:
No one can own the web, but many companies are attempting to slice it up and own the very concepts that form the web. Software patents, unlike standard patents for inventions, do not actually involve the creation of tangible objects. Instead the U.S. patent office has handed out patents for ideas like the double-click or the use of a single button to make a purchase.
While the European Union has taken a more aggressive stance against software patents, the U.S. is now entangled in them with major companies like Google and Apple battling it out through proxy lawsuits. One firm, Eolas Technologies, claims to own the patent for the “interactive web” and threatens to undermine the very freedom of the web itself.
As history shows, and basically throughout the whole history of patents, the system was used as a mechanism of protectionism. Large companies used it to keep small companies from being able (or allowed) to compete. Why pretend that any of this has changed? And moreover, why on Earth cite propaganda from Watchtroll in an effort to urge small companies to hop on the patent bandwagon? It is widely known that for small companies to read patents only makes them more vulnerable (willfulness of infringement), patent applications make them poorer and enforcement of patents against trolls is impossible; enforcing patents against giants like IBM is worse than stupid because IBM can then retaliate with far more patents, so it’s not hard to see who this system really serves (by design, by persistent lobbying). █
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On Saturday, Dulwich Hamlet travelled to Tonbridge where they held their play off rivals to an entertaining 0-0 draw, marred by an appalling pitch and an equally dire ref.
Hamlet’s travelling support pushed the attendance to 656, Tonbridge’s highest league gate of the season.
Tonbridge have got a lovely ground – there’s plenty of covered seating and standing and they have no less than two tea bars in attendance. It seems ridiculous that Dulwich – who regularly get attendances four times bigger than Tonbridge – can only manage one.
Back to the game, the ref was someone who appeared to love shirt pulling. Players were invited to tug away at any passing piece of fabric that took their fancy, safe in the knowledge that the ref wouldn’t mind.
Coupled with a pitch that seemed to be modelled on an meteor-splattered part of the Moon, the game proved frustrating for both players and spectators at times.
Fans of wooden huts would find a lot to admire at Tonbridge, with this elevated, high-rise uber-shed being the star attraction.
Great to see some Maidstone fans coming along to support Hamlet.
The first half was dominated by Hamlet, and Tonbridge were lucky to escape when defender Sonny Miles sliced the ball over his own goal.
The travelling Hamlet faithful.
A ball flies into the stand.
The main tea bar has to be commended for providing a great veggie burger option for just £3. Again, Hamlet please take note.
A fine condiments table.
I was rather hoping that the urinals would continue to decrease in size in a comedy fashion.
Hamlet kept up the pressure but the home defence kept them at bay.
Half time: Tonbridge 0 Dulwich 0.
Everyone loves a red roller.
Given that banging a large drum is likely to draw attention to yourself, this fella was remarkably coy when he saw the camera.
A fine pooch.
I do like a non league ground with this kind of thing going on at the sides. It makes you appreciate the work that goes into keeping the club going, with most of the labour being done by volunteers.
Tonbridge has a splendid covered seated area running the length of the pitch.
Gaze at the majesty of the Director’s Box. No VIP pass = no entry. Not even if you’re Kanye West.
Hamlet fans after the traditional half time end-swap.
Bobble of the Day.
Things were tighter in the second half, with Tonbridge pushing forward.
The whiff of rain was in the air all afternoon, but happily ne’er a drop landed on my bonce.
Preston Edwards is called into action.
Divot Of The Day.
Not sure what this wooden owl thing is for.
The VIP shelter.
The game was to end 0-0, garnering Hamlet a useful point in their play off push.
On the forums, PP added his report:
That referee, who appeared quite young, was depressingly weak and looked out of his depth. He clearly decided he just wasn’t going to penalise anyone for shirtpulling, no matter how obvious, and Tonbridge’s defenders just used this to their advantage.
A stronger referee prepared to give what he saw could have awarded us three penalties for such offences.
There were also a couple of shouts for penalties from the home crowd at the other end; a rather optimistic one for handball when a shot was blasted straight at Drage, and a very loud and spontaneous one when two players went up for a high ball, although I couldn’t tell what happened from 100 yards away.
There was another incident in the first half when Drage stood next to their keeper as we were about to take a corner and a defender began trying to pull him away; instead of letting us take the corner then giving a penalty the ref stopped us, gave the defender a fingerwagging, then he was still holding onto Drage as the corner was taken, but less obviously.
Hamlet were fairly dominant in the first half and this was when we really ought to have got our noses in front, but Tonbridge are the most difficult side to break down that I’ve seen this season.
Their whole team defends in depth when the opposition has the ball, and the man with the ball has two opponents closing him down and stifling his options.
Our best first half chances were an angled low drive from Green that would certainly have tested the keeper, only for a defender to lunge in with a block and deflect the ball inches over the crossbar.
Akinyemi his the crossbar with a near post header from a Green cross, Tomlin just cleared the bar with a chip that may well have beaten the keeper, and Carew had a similar effort turned over the bar by the keeper.
Tonbridge were more assertive after the interval, possibly not fancying their chances of holding out if they allowed us too much of the ball, but on a dreadful bumpy pitch their main tactic seemed to be to hit long balls towards the corners in the hope of forcing set piece opportunities.
Their right footed left winger Nick Wheeler is one of the best dead ball specialists in the league, as well as being a dangerous crosser of the ball in open play, and he’s successfully unlocked our defence on more than one previous occasion, but not this time.
There were a number of corners, free kicks from out wide, and near the end a couple of long throws into the six yard box, but the way we defended these was probably the most encouraging aspect of the whole afternoon.
Team (3-4-1-2): Edwards – Weatherstone, Drage, Chambers – Ming, Kargbo, Beaney(c), Green – Carew – Tomlin, Akinyemi. Subs: Dumaka (for Tomlin), Camara (for Carew), Sekajja (for Akinyemi), Taylor, Erskine (not used). Attendance: 656
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