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We all know that we should live healthy lives, even though sometimes it’s easier not to. But research shows there’s an added incentive: Losing weight can lead to a healthier bank account.

Instead of viewing health as a cost, you should see it as an investment, says Dr. Bruce Y. Lee, MD, MBA.

“When you’re actually doing things to maintain or improve your health, you’re actually potentially saving significant amounts of money,” says Lee, executive director of the Global Obesity Prevention Center (GOPC) and an associate professor of International Health at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Lee is one of the authors of a Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health study that suggests weight loss at any age leads to cost savings. The study found that it’s costly when people are overweight – especially as they age.

According to the study:

  • A 20-year-old adult who goes from obese to overweight would save an average of $17,655 in direct medical costs and productivity losses over their lifetime. If that person went from obese to a healthy weight, the savings would jump to $28,020.
  • If a 40-year-old adult goes from being obese to overweight, that person potentially can save an average of $18,262. If that person improves their health from obese to a healthy weight, an average savings of $31,447 in direct medical costs and productivity losses can follow.

Losing weight can save at nearly any age

Cost savings peak at age 50, according to the study. At that age, there was an average total savings of $36,278. Lee says the study found that at nearly any age there can be cost savings.

“Sometimes people think, ‘Oh well,’ once they’ve gotten past a certain point, there’s diminishing returns or some people say, ‘Well, I’ve lived this long with a certain lifestyle, why do I have to change now?’ But this shows that at all these different ages, there (are) benefits to losing weight,” Lee says. “And I think that’s important.”

It’s important to note that the savings calculations are on the conservative side because the study focused only on major obesity-related chronic diseases. Also, the savings figures are not just savings that directly affect individuals. Employers, third-party payers – such as insurance companies and Medicare – and society are all going to pay more or less based on the health of individuals.

Lee says there are many examples of people who lose weight and change their health significantly. Some might be pre-diabetes, lose weight and then normalize their blood sugar. So, losing weight could halt the progression or reverse Type 2 diabetes.

“There are situations where you can see fairly quick effects,” Lee says. “The same thing is true with things like blood pressure, etc. – when people lose pounds, those indicators can stabilize or normalize. And also people start feeling better as well.”

Study finds exercise can lower costs

Research in the Journal of the American Heart Association (AHA), the Open Access Journal of the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association, determined that patients who regularly exercised at recommended levels paid $2,500 less, on average, in health care costs than those who didn’t meet exercise guidelines. The study also found that even if only 20 percent of patients with cardiovascular disease who don’t get enough physical activity met exercise goals, the nation would save several billion dollars annually on health care costs. It also determined that both healthy patients and those with cardiovascular risk factors – as long as they exercised the recommended amount – had lower average medical costs. This 2016 study used data from a 2012 survey that sampled 26,000 people 18 and over.

Large health care costs are a big concern for Americans. A recent Bankrate survey found that 25 percent of women and 18 percent of men said they or a family member living in their household avoided going to the doctor over the past year – even though they needed medical attention – because they thought it would be too expensive.

Improving your fiscal fitness

Carol Craigie, ChFC, certified financial planner, says that physical fitness and fiscal fitness go together.

“If you limit your calories but it’s all chocolate and ice cream, then you’re not going to be healthy,” Craigie says. “And if you limit your spending but it’s all on stuff and not saving for the future, you’re not going to be (financially) healthy.”

Craigie says one of her clubs realized that some millennials spend a lot of money dining out and are gaining weight. So the club came up with 12 days of meals, ordered them through Walmart and picked them up at drive-through. Craigie says this was a triple win.

“They saved time, saved money and lost weight,” says Craigie, who is managing partner and a financial coach at Fiscal Fitness Clubs of America. The group also saved on the impulse buys at the grocery store by preordering and using the drive-through.

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Barcelona Photoblog: Las Arenas in Barcelona, From Bullring to Shopping Center

Monday, August 29, 2011

Las Arenas in Barcelona, From Bullring to Shopping Center

Las Arenas Shopping Mall by Richard Rogers [enlarge]

Inaugurated back in March, 2011 this shopping center that arose from the "ashes" of an old bullring is clearly one the best examples of modern architecture in Barcelona. I took some more pictures of the surroundings and from above that I will post someday but not too many of the building as such. Maybe this link to a gallery published in the Guardian portraying Las Arenas before and after helps. A long time ago, when this project was starting I published a couple of images where you could see the whole building held above the ground by a steel framework: Las Arenas bullring in Plaça Espanya and Las Arenas: A Historic Barcelona Bullring to Become a Leisure Center. The posts are so old that some links are not working. At least this one to architect Richard Rogers' main site still works. 105.000 sq meters of retail and leisure. 12 movie theaters. A fully equipped gym, including a jogging track. A wonderful 360 degree platform around the dome to enjoy one of the best panoramic views of the city, specially Plaza España and the fountains of Montjuic. I suppose the place will be crammed packed for La Merce celebrations in September. Finally here the Las Arenas shopping centre's main site, unfortunately just in Spanish.

  1. Glad they converted it rather than tearing it down! It must be fun to walk around inside!
    Kind regards to you, Carlos!

  2. This is one of the first places I visited in Barcelona when I arrived here from the States. The view from the top is breathtaking!

  3. I watched several bullfights at El Monumental some 10 years ago so your article sure brought back some memories for me.

  4. A wonderful transformation. Well done.

  5. What a fabulous building! I am fascinated by this and amazed by how much it offers. So impressive!

  6. So much nicer than a bullring- a colourful place to wander too, I daresay.

  7. Great pictures. Please continue your great work. Regards, Ralph

  8. Hi Carlos, I'm sure glad I happened upon your blog today!

    That is amazing that the old bull-ring is now this lovely, modern shopping centre! The link I tried did still work too.

    Interesting blog of a very interesting place!

    Duncan In Kuantan

  9. ..a good idea for the Arena....after the end of the bullfightings in Barcelona...

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Canadian trade mark law changes

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The long awaited changes to Canadian trade mark laws have finally been announced and will come into force as of 17 June 2019.

These momentous legislative changes will align Canadian trade mark laws with major international trademark treaties, including the Protocol Relating to the Madrid Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Marks (Madrid Protocol), and the Nice Agreement Concerning the International Classification of Goods and Services.

Some of the biggest changes to Canadian trade mark law may impact on your strategies in terms of seeking to protect your mark in Canada and this is a good opportunity to review that position as there are advantages and disadvantages in filing any new application before the law changes, for example:

Advantages of filing before 17 June 2019:

  • Fees – currently applicants wishing to file before the new laws come into force, can file for any number of classes of goods and services for a single fee. The official costs under the new regime will be payable on a per class basis and so as of 17 June 2019, applications will be more expensive if they cover goods/services in multiple classes. Therefore, if you are thinking about protecting your mark in Canada, the filing fees may be less expensive now.
  • Avoid examination for distinctiveness – At present, the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO) does not examine a mark for its distinctiveness or lack thereof. Once the new law comes into force, distinctiveness will be an aspect on which the CIPO will examine new applications. Therefore, it may be worth applicants filing before the coming into force date to avoid the uncertainty arising from examination for potential lack of distinctiveness. That said the enforceability of such trade marks should be carefully considered.
  • Renewals – Currently, the registration and renewal period of a mark is 15 years. After 17 June 2019 the term of registration will be shortened from 15 to 10 years. The shortened term will apply to any application registered after 17 June 2019 and to any renewal of a registration that expires after 17 June 2019, even if applicants file their renewals before 17 June 2019. However, renewing early before 17 June 209 does allow applicants to take advantage of the current flat renewal fee, a real advantage for registrations covering multiple classes of goods/services as it avoids the higher costs associated with per class filing fees.

Advantages of filing after 17 June 2019:

  • Madrid Protocol – Canada will become a member of the Madrid Protocol system. Applicants interested in seeking to file globally may wish to wait and designate Canada as part of their international registration. This will afford the Applicant significant cost savings compared to filing a national Canadian application.
  • Now possible to file non-traditional marks – Once the new law has been implemented, it will be possible to register non-traditional marks including colour, taste, 3D shapes, sound, scent, taste, and texture.
  • Simplified application procedure – Applicants will no longer have to identify a filing basis (i.e. use in Canada, foreign registration and use, or proposed use). Reference to filing bases will be removed from all applications that are pending at 17 June 2019. For applications filed on the basis of a corresponding foreign registration, it will no longer be necessary to file a certified copy of said foreign registration.
  • Priority claims less restrictive – Applications filed after 17 June 2019 will be able to claim priority from a corresponding application filed in any WTO member country (and not just the applicant’s country of origin).
  • No need to file Declaration of Use – Finally, newly filed and existing pending applications will no longer require the filing of a Declaration of Use in order to advance to registration. Pending applications allowed as of 17 June 2019 will still require payment of the registration fee.

We are well versed in advising on filing strategies and law changes worldwide. If you are contemplating protection in Canada we can work with you to identify the best strategy in light of these imminent changes. If you have any questions please contact your usual trade mark attorney.


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JPMorgan Chase

A 30% drop in investment-banking revenue dragged the bank's January-quarter earnings down by 23% to 90 cents per share. Overall revenue missed expectations.

Despite earnings growth in the past year, the home-furnishings retailer cut its forecast for the year ending January 2012, to $2.16 to $2.26 from $2.21 to $2.26.

Tractor Supply

Tennessee's farm- and ranch-store operator reported a 20% gain in December-quarter sales and expects to report that 2011 year EPS exceeded $2.97.

The purveyor of colorful shoes will mark its 10-year anniversary by topping $1 billion in annual sales when it reports 2011 results in late February.

Hecla Mining

Production was halted at the Lucky Friday mine, due to probes of a recent accident. A clean-up of the silver producer's primary mine may keep it closed in 2012.

Cabot Oil & Gas

Warm-weather forecasts triggered a new plunge in natural-gas prices. Other losing stocks included Southwestern Energy and Range Resources .

The biochemical maker said it is trimming a bioplastics unit after agri-giant Archer Daniels Midland pulled out of the companies' Telles joint venture.

Goodyear Tire & Rubber

Another weather victim. The company warned that replacement and winter-tire sales would be weak due in part to a lack of snow in the U.S. and Europe.

iShares MSCI Europe Financials

Standard & Poor's cut France's credit rating a notch and warned other European capitals of looming downgrades as the risk of recession rises.

Diamond Foods

Two big shareholders cut positions in the snack company, which The Wall Street Journal said is the target of a federal probe of payments to walnut growers.

Urban Outfitters

The CEO resigned, replaced by co-founder Richard Hayne. The trendy teen-apparel retailer is battling deteriorating same-store sales and high inventory.

WebMD Health

The health-Website operator called off its search for a buyer and said its CEO resigned. Drug makers have cut marketing spending to cope with patent expirations.

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雑多な内容が盛り込まれているウェブ記事から最も重要な情報を見つけるにはエンティティの順位付けが不可欠です。Rosette API は、エンティティ（人物、組織、場所）が著名なものであれば Wikidata QIDにリンクし、そのリンクの信頼度スコア[0.0-1.0] を返します。さらに ver.1.8 からは、抽出された個々のエンティティと本文の主題との関連度を0/1で示す重要性スコアを返します。これら２つのスコアから注目すべきエンティティを判断でき、重要で正確な情報だけをフィルタリングできます。

Just the important entities, please

Salience scores and linking confidence scores for extracted entities come to Rosette API

Data scraped from the web is often very noisy and cumbersome to work with. Sorting through it to find the most valuable information is a vital step in converting raw data into actionable insights.

The release of Rosette API 1.8 aims to help users with this data cleansing challenge by delivering entity salience and linking confidence scores for all results, in order to filter out only the most relevant and accurate pieces of data.

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Entity salience scores indicate how relevant each extracted entity is to the main subject of a body of text. Scores are returned as 1 for salient and 0 for non-salient.

For example, following the trade of backup quarterback, Jimmy Garoppolo, to the San Francisco 49ers, the Patriots signed a 3-year contract with Brian Hoyer to back up starter, Tom Brady. Submitting an NFL article about the acquisition to the /entities endpoint identifies “PERSON” “Brian Hoyer” and “ORGANIZATION” “Patriots” as salient, whereas other teams that Hoyer has played with over the years like the Bear, Browns, and Texans, are not salient:

"entities": [

       { "type": "PERSON",

           "mention": "Hoyer",

           "normalized": "Brian Hoyer",

           "count": 9,

           "entityId": "Q912370",

           "confidence": 0.99900001,

           "salience": 1},
       { "type": "ORGANIZATION",

           "mention": "Patriots",

           "normalized": "Patriots",

           "count": 6,

           "entityId": "T2",

           "confidence": 0.99900001,

           "salience": 1},
       { "type": "ORGANIZATION",

           "mention": "Cardinals",

           "normalized": "Cardinals",

           "count": 1,

           "entityId": "T30",

           "confidence": 0.67881167,

           "salience": 0},
       { "type": "ORGANIZATION",

           "mention": "Browns",

           "normalized": "Browns",

           "count": 1,

           "entityId": "T31",

           "confidence": 0.99900001,

           "salience": 0},
       { "type": "ORGANIZATION",

           "mention": "Texans",

           "normalized": "Texans",

           "count": 1,

           "entityId": "T32",

           "confidence": 0.79899311,

           "salience": 0},
       { "type": "ORGANIZATION",

           "mention": "Bears",

           "normalized": "Bears",

           "count": 1,

           "entityId": "T33",

           "confidence": 0.99900001,

           "salience": 0},

Entity salience is particularly useful when analyzing data acquired through simple text scraping which can often include website headers, advertisements, and other irrelevant data. Chances are, if you’re analyzing an article from nytimes.com, you don’t particularly care about the “ORGANIZATION” entity, “New York Times,” but you are quite interested in “Trump,” “Jerome Powell,” and “Janet Yellen.”

Fewer, better connections

The /entities endpoint extracts the people, organizations, and locations in your text, and, if publically known, links them to the appropriate Wikidata QIDs. Entity linking allows you to distinguish between similarly named people such as George Bush Sr. and George W. Bush.

/entities now also returns confidence scores for each link, telling you how likely the link is correct. Confidence scores are on a range from 0.0 to 1.0 with 0 representing low confidence and 1 representing high confidence that the match is correct.

For example, in the above article, “Hoyer” is returned with “entityId”: “Q912370” and “confidence”: 0.99900001. This tells you that Rosette is 99.9% sure that the entity “Hoyer is the same person as the wikidata entry: Brian Hoyer (Q912370), American football quarterback.

Because the article uses his full name and discusses the NFL and Patriots (organizations Hoyer is associated with), it is not surprising that he was linked to the correct QID. However if you had a shorter text like a tweet, there’s a higher risk for error. The name “Hoyer” could be incorrectly linked to Australian rules footballer, Craig Hoyer (Q5181062), albeit with a low confidence score.

Depending upon your use case, you could either automatically eliminate all links under a certain threshold, or flag them for human review, removing false positives and improving data quality.

NOTE: In default mode, salience and confidence scores will not be returned. Turn them on by adding an option to the request:

Clean data is better data

Together, entity salience and linking scores allow users to know more about the entities in their data: how central they are to the meaning of the text, and (with enough context) to tell apart similarly named people (“Hoyer” as in “Craig” or “Brian”), locations, or organizations by linking the name to the real world.

Put salience and linking scores to use today by signing up for a free Rosette API account (no credit card required).


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Universities: Is free speech under threat?

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Free speech is being threatened at British universities by a culture of offence among certain students, according to critics.

A Parliamentary inquiry has reported, regulator the Office for Students has threatened to fine universities that fail to uphold free speech and the Equality and Human Rights Commission is drawing up guidelines for universities.

A small number of incidents have been held up time and again and debated fiercely. But what evidence is there that challenges to free speech are widespread?

At the end of last year, the then Universities Minister, Jo Johnson, claimed that books were being removed from libraries, "undermining the principle of free speech".

BBC Reality Check asked for evidence of this under the Freedom of Information law. The Department for Education shared letters referring to books by Holocaust denier David Irving being moved from history to another section of two university libraries. Nobody provided evidence of books being banned.

We sent Freedom of Information requests to every UK university to find out about:

  • changes to courses
  • books being removed from libraries
  • speakers being cancelled

From the responses of 120 universities, we found that since 2010 there had been:

  • Seven student complaints about course content being in some way offensive or inappropriate - four have resulted in action being taken
  • six occasions on which universities cancelled speakers as a result of complaints
  • no instances of books being removed or banned

We picked these measures as ones that would reveal restrictions at an institutional level regarding what students are learning.

And of the 136 universities and more than two million higher education students in the UK, the numbers of incidents uncovered is small.

What were the complaints?

At the University of Sheffield, Chinese students complained about a film showing state discrimination against Tibetans in China containing an offensive phrase. It was replaced with a different film, still showing discrimination against Tibetans.

The University of Portsmouth received "several complaints" from students about a presentation on the first dinosaur to be scientifically described. It was named Scrotum humanum (because of its apparent resemblance to human testicles) and an image of a "mammalian scrotum" was included for comparison.

The image was removed from the presentation.

Three universities said they had changed course content because the subject matter had been likely to offend (not as a result of complaints):

  • At the University of Sheffield, a law lecturer was advised not to use "cross-dressing" as an example of when an injunction might be sought
  • At Keele University, a tutor stopped teaching a novel that referred to the Hillsborough disaster
  • At Leeds Beckett University, a lecture on "suicide terrorism" was replaced with "alternative content"

Book banning

Only 11 universities said they had received any complaints about the content of library books since 2010. None of them removed books from their library as a result.

Three universities - Central Lancashire, Surrey and Westminster - received complaints over the placement of the Koran in their libraries. There are principles in Islam around how the the central religious text should be stored and handled.

The Universities of Manchester and Surrey moved David Irving's writing to a different section, while Churchill College, Cambridge says it keeps Mr Irving's writings in its archives, where they are available on request.

Those who fear that free speech is being restricted often point to incidences of students protesting against speakers and, occasionally, events being cancelled.

Many of these events are organised by students' unions, not universities.

"No-platforming" - a policy of refusing to host particular speakers - dates back to the 1970s but the practice has become one of the most heated topics of the current free speech debate.

Six organisations are on the National Union of Students' (NUS) official "no platform list":

  • al-Muhajiroun
  • British National Party (BNP)
  • English Defence League (EDL)
  • Hizb-ut-Tahir
  • Muslim Public Affairs Committee
  • National Action

Critics are concerned that others, not included in this list, are being prevented from speaking for fear of causing offence.

Feminist writer Germaine Greer and LGBT rights campaigner Peter Tatchell both delivered talks despite complaints at their presence.

There have been cases - like that of YouTuber Sargon of Akkad, whose talk at King's College London was interrupted by protesters, or ex-Muslim feminist campaigner Maryam Namazie, who was heckled by some students at Goldsmiths - where speaking events have been disrupted by a small number of vocal students. These were not institutional bans.

It was reported that Warwick students' union tried to block Ms Namazie from speaking, and the decision was then overturned.

But the union told a parliamentary inquiry that this had been caused by an administrative error, which resulted in a risk assessment not being completed.

"As soon as this simple human error was brought to our attention, the correct procedure was immediately followed, the supposed 'decision' reversed and the speaker's talk confirmed," the union said.

Formal complaints

Smita Jamdar, a higher education lawyer who has represented universities, says protests or complaints are themselves a manifestation of free speech in action. "The ideal situation is you would see the event going ahead and protests too," she says.

But the problem comes if anticipated protests lead to events being cancelled, as has happened on a small number of occasions, or if fear of protest puts off people from booking potentially controversial speakers in the first place.

Students' unions are membership organisations that do not have a legal duty to promote freedom of speech, and are not subject to Freedom of Information laws. Because universities do have this duty, under the Education Act 1986, we asked them whether they had received complaints about speakers.

Since 2010, 16 universities have received formal complaints about speakers and nine events in all were cancelled.

  • The University of Westminster cancelled an event with controversial Islamic cleric Haitham al-Haddad.
  • Queen Mary's University, London cancelled a speech by prominent professor Tariq Ramadan after he was arrested over rape allegations - which he strongly denies
  • The University of Liverpool cancelled a 2012 mayoral debate, which was due to include panel representation from the National Front and BNP, because of planned demonstrations that caused "concerns for student, staff and public safety".

What the requests don't capture are internal policies, how they are interpreted and whether they are creating bureaucratic hurdles which may lead to certain speakers never being requested in the first place.

Universities tend to have external speaker policies for any event taking place on campus, even ones hosted by students or unions. For example, the University of Westminster has a policy that it "will offer no platform to those who are intolerant of the free speech of others".

Libertarian magazine Spiked ranks universities on how far they are upholding or restricting free speech, using a traffic light system. It believes these policies can shut down critical debate and gives universities amber or red scores for having guidelines for dealing with bullying, bans on transphobic material or zero tolerance to sexual harassment policies.

The NUS argues that, far from restricting free speech, many of these policies are about accessibility - helping people from marginalised groups, who don't always get to speak freely, to have their voices heard.

Whose restrictions?

Universities have other legal duties which can come into conflict with their duty to promote free speech. They must have "due regard to the need to prevent people from being drawn into terrorism" under the Prevent strategy - part of the government's counter-terror laws.

Prof Alison Scott-Baumann, at SOAS University of London, conducted a survey of 2,000 students and said her findings indicate that some Muslim students are shying away from inviting certain speakers or having certain discussions in the first place for fear of being flagged to Prevent.

A Department for Education spokesperson said while there was no evidence of widespread censorship, there were some "genuine problems", including the effect of the "complex web of rules and guidance", as well as the behaviour of protestors and student groups.

New guidance is due to be published this autumn.

Small numbers - big problem?

Absence of evidence does not equal evidence of absence, and these figures are not exhaustive.

They may not capture more informal complaints. We don't know whether pressure was being exerted on lecturers and those booking speakers, affecting what people were and weren't willing to discuss.

Trying to quantify that is "trying to prove a negative", says Simon Perfect, a researcher for Christian think tank Theos. How do you capture the instances of speakers never requested, debates never had and material never taught?

Alistair Jarvis, the head of representative body Universities UK, said: "Universities host hundreds, if not thousands, of events each year, among a student population of over two million. The vast majority of these events pass without incident."

As universities attempt to balance their legal duties and accommodate different groups' rights without challenging free speech, there have been some inevitable sticking points over what should be permitted.

Whether or not new guidance can overcome this confusion should soon become a bit clearer.

Illustrations by Jacqueline Galvin


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QBE Shootout: McDowell and Grillo stay tied for lead in Florida pairs event

2010 US Open champion Graeme McDowell is now 231st in the world rankings
Graeme McDowell combined with Grillo for eight birdies and two bogeys in Saturday's round
QBE Shootout second-round leaderboard
-19 G Woodland & C Hoffman, P Kizzire & B Harman, G McDowell & E Grillo; -18 K Na & B DeChambeau; -17 L List & C Howell III; -16 T Finau & L Thompson; -15 B Watson & H Varner III, S Stricker & S O'Hair
Selected others: -13 L Donald & A Landry

Northern Ireland's Graeme McDowell and team-mate Emiliano Grillo maintained a share of the lead after the second round at the QBE Shootout in Florida.

McDowell and the Argentine fired a six-under-par 66 in the foursomes format on Saturday to move to 19 under par.

That left them tied for the lead with Patton Kizzire and Brian Harman plus another US pairing Gary Woodland and Charlie Hoffman.

Kevin Na and Bryson DeChambeau are one shot off the lead.

Luke List and Charles Howell III are two off the pace with LPGA star Lexi Thompson and Tony Finau three behind going into the final fourballs round.

Bubba Watson and Harold Varner III are four behind the leaders - as are defending champions Steve Stricker and Sean O'Hair.

McDowell and Grillo carded eight birdies and two bogeys in Saturday's round.

They fired an opening 13-under 59 in the first round which was played under the scramble format.

That left them level with Na and DeChambeau plus Kizzire and Harman after day one of the the three-round event which features 12 pairings.


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On Saturday 23 May 2015, thousands of activists gathered across the world to demonstrate against genetically-modified (GM) seeds and foods. There were protests in cities including Los Angeles, Paris, Santiago and Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso.

Yet the majority of scientists argue that GM food is safe. A recent poll from the Pew Foundation found that almost 90% of scientists from America's largest science body think GM food is generally safe, while only 37% of the public agree.

Should we embrace technology that could help feed the world, or are concerns about the impact of global agribusiness and industrial food production justified?

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Pamela Ronald: Humans have modified crops for thousands of years

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Pamela Ronald runs the Lab for Crop Genetics Innovation at the University of California, Davis. Her team won an award for its decade-long work to isolate the gene that makes rice tolerant to floods.

"Everything we eat has been genetically improved or modified in some manner: 8,000 to 10,000 years ago our ancestors took corn mutants and crossed these to develop different types of corn varieties so they could harvest them better."

The ancient Greeks wrote about grafting - attaching the stem of one plant to the roots of another. The specific skills of modern genetic engineering were developed in California 40 years ago.

"That allows genes from any species to be moved into other types of organisms. For example, insulin was the first genetically-engineered medicine, and it's been very useful because insulin used to have to be harvested from animals, but now human insulin can be produced in microbes and used by diabetics.

"Eggplant is a very important crop in Bangladesh, and there is an insect that can devastate the crop. Farmers spray insecticides two to three times a week, sometimes twice a day, [often] using insecticides that are banned in the United States."

This is where BT comes in - a gene from a soil bacterium which produces a protein that is deadly to pests:

"Scientists cut the gene for BT out of the bacteria and inserted it directly into the eggplant genome. It's been very successful.

"Last season, eggplant farmers reported they were able to reduce their chemical sprays by a huge amount, often down to zero."

"After 40 years of commercial use in medicine, cheeses, wine and plants - and after over 20 years of careful study and rigorous peer review by thousands of independent scientists not funded by major corporations - every major scientific organisation in the world has concluded that the genetically-engineered crops currently on the market are safe to eat.

"Discussion about plant genetics is a complete distraction from the goals of sustainable agriculture. We need to stay focused on how farmers and rural communities can thrive, we must be sure everyone can afford the food, and we must minimise environmental degradation.

"I wouldn't use the word 'irrational' [to describe opposition to GM], I would say it's 'non-science based'."

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Risk perception consultant David Ropeik has worked with governments and GM producers.

"I would disabuse people of proposing that we be rational about this. We think we're rational, objective, post-enlightenment 'we can figure everything out with science' thinkers.

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Image caption Research suggests the public fears man-made risks more than natural threats

"What cognitive science has taught us over the last 50 years is no, we're mostly instinctive animals whose job is to survive. Our brain is hard-wired to feel first and think second."

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"There are people who really are upset with what humans have done to nature, the mess we've made of it. And we see new technologies that can interact with nature in a negative way.

"The psychology of risk perception has found we're more afraid of risks that are human-made than risks that are natural. We can blame people for doing the wrong thing, but you can't blame nature or God. Therefore we're more upset by what is done to us by people who ought not to.

"Lots of governments around the world are precautionary about lots of things. The extreme version of the precautionary principle says if there's any evidence at all, or any harm, stop. But we have to weigh the pros and cons and what's in the greatest common good.

"'What's going to happen in 50 years' time?' is an argument that could be used against anything. It's a generic argument, to make something sound scary. But there's a whole lot of modern life that we'd have to scrub out, because we haven't had cell phones for 50 years either."

Haidee Swanby: GM technology is dangerous for small farmers

Haidee Swanby works for the African Centre for Biodiversity based in South Africa, which opposes GM crops. South Africa introduced its first GM crop, maize, in the late 1990s.

"From the beginning, we were very concerned about how much control the biotech industry had in developing our legal frameworks, and how close they were to our government.

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Image caption Campaigners fear large-scale agribusiness threatens smaller farmers who cannot compete

"We would like to see genetically modified organisms (GMOs) banned. Our maize seed sector is owned by just two companies: small players are being cut out and it's producing large volumes of very low quality food for South Africa.

"For small-scale farmers who have very little margin for risk, it's a very dangerous technology. It's extremely expensive, and it must be bought annually and farmers need to make sure they get good prices on the markets to service their debts and small-scale farmers don't have bargaining power.

"[The GM industrial model] has shown itself to be very dangerous, and if people have to buy their food every year and they don't have money, they starve.

"It's like trying to boil a pot of water on a nuclear reactor instead of building a fire; high-tech for its own sake.

"There's a bullying force emotionally blackmailing the world into believing that we need to adopt this technology if we're going to feed the world, but actually what it's creating is an ever bigger divide between the haves and have-nots.

"Perhaps if [GM technology] was within public institutions where there was more control and transparency, it could be useful. Unfortunately we see our governments just focusing on this technological solution when we need a much more nuanced discussion about the kind of food systems we want.

"There's plenty of research around what the problems are with GMOs in terms of democracy, safety issues, environmental impacts, socioeconomic issues, and that discussion has been going on for 30 or 40 years. It's a very sophisticated body of knowledge and work, so I think calling it 'irrational' is just a PR gimmick."

Calestous Juma: GM is an important tool

Calestous Juma directs the Harvard-based Agricultural Innovation in Africa project, which is funded by the Gates Foundation and supports the use of GM crops.

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Image caption Ugandan scientists are trying to genetically modify bananas to resists a damaging bacterial disease

"In 30 years we'll have a population of nine billion people to feed and that will increase demand for the quantity and diversity of the food that we need - that's why we have to consider GM as one of the tools - but not the only tool - that would help humanity to address those challenges.

"[Opposition to GM is] not irrational. Farmers who are opposed to GM crops because they might have negative impacts on their income - you can say they are not being irrational. And then people who think that we are changing the environment in ways that are not predictable, they have reasons for doing that.

"[But] I think it's unhelpful because it's driven by present day observations, but does not take into account long-term considerations. I strongly believe that, as problems expand, you also expand your toolbox.

"I don't think that genetic engineering in itself embodies a particular farming system. Yes, it is true that the way the technology is developed initially could exclude some sections of the population, but the response is not to suppress the technology, it's to make other farmers have access to it.

"By defining this as a product of large corporations, you end up undermining local enterprises who have no connection whatsoever with large corporations. In fact the bulk of the biotech research that's carried out in African countries is funded by local governments and conducted by local researchers."

For example, one bacterial disease wipes out much of the Ugandan banana crop every year. The Gates Foundation funds local scientists' attempts to develop a new resistant variety:

"This is work done by Ugandan scientists themselves on a crop that has no connection with large corporations.

"They did not invent genetic modification but they have taken the techniques and applied them to solve a local problem - and yet there are organisations that are fighting it because it's genetically modified."

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What is a good in trade? It sounds straightforward, but based on the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board's November ruling in In re Apple, Inc., Serial No. 78/521,891, it can be anything but.

In the ruling, which is non-precedential, the Board affirmed a refusal to register Apple's iPod trademark for use in connection with printed materials and publications "sold or distributed in connection with handheld mobile digital media devices," on the ground that Apple's specimens of use did not show the iPod trademark in use as a trademark for "goods in trade." The specimens of use offered by the computer giant were its user manuals.

The Lanham Act defines a trademark as something being used "to identify and distinguish his or her goods" and "to indicate the source of the goods." These definitions "carry the necessary implication that a prerequisite to obtaining a trademark is that the subject matter to which it applies must be goods." According to past precedent, before rights in a term as a trademark can be established, the subject matter to which the term is applied must be “goods in trade.”

The question before the court then became whether Apple's printed materials qualified as goods in trade. In its appeal, Apple argued that its printed materials constituted such goods in trade because they bear Apple's iPod mark, are sold in commerce, and have utility to consumers of Apple's products in that they explain how to use the iPod.

The USPTO disagreed. It argued that the user manuals were provided only incidentally with the iPod, are not sold or distributed independently of the iPod, and have no viable existence apart from the iPod.

Apple faced a high bar at the TTAB as well. The Board has consistently held that items incidental to the conduct of a business, such as letterhead, invoices, and business forms which bear an entity's trademark, do not generally qualify. The test for determining whether an item is merely incidental to a primary product or an actual good in trade considers three factors.

The first factor is whether the item in question is simply a conduit or whether it is a necessary tool useful only in connection with the primary goods. The second is whether the item in question is so inextricably tied to and associated with the primary goods that it has no viable existence apart from the goods. Third is whether the item is neither sold separately from nor has any independent value apart from the primary goods or services.

In its ruling, the Board explained that the general question in such matters is always the same: "What is being offered for sale?" It concluded that all three of these factors supported the USPTO's refusal to register iPod for the applied-for goods. The materials are paper inserts, provided in the same boxes as the goods, that provide nothing more than elementary guidance to iPod purchasers but not to other consumers. There was no evidence that the materials were sold independently. There was no evidence that consumers go to Apple stores seeking these manuals. So the Board affirmed the USPTO's refusal.

The Board's decision does leaves a couple of loose ends, however. According to the USPTO's Acceptable Identification of Goods and Services Manual, an acceptable listing of goods can be "Computers and instructional manuals sold as a unit.” At the same time, when a company sells user manuals together as a unit with its computers, it is allowed to ignore the manuals in its identification of goods and just list "computers". Would it not logically follow, then, that one should also be able to sell computers and user manuals together but identify the goods only as "user manuals"?

Put another way, is it logically inconsistent to say that "Computers and instructional manuals sold as a unit" is an acceptable identification of goods in trade, but "Computers, wires, a keyboard, cardboard boxes, plastic bags, and packaging materials sold as a unit" is not? At first blush, this question may seem suspect, but on such fine points of description often turn important decisions about the essence of a product sold, important peripherals and ancillary materials, and the goods' utility.

In addition, while the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board noted that an iPod's user manual is of no practical use without the iPod, for many users, the computer is of no practical use without the user manual. Both items are costly to make, and both are of real and separate monetary value to the consumer. Used electronic goods sold online ordinarily sell for more money if the listing states that the user manual is included, a tangible demonstration of value that could have been cited in Apple's argument. In addition, many user manuals are sold separately on eBay, as replacements for lost user manuals.

Accordingly, the Board's evaluation of the third factor—that is, that the manuals have no "independent value"—appears incorrect, or to have improperly discounted this aspect of Apple's claims, at least with respect to user manuals in general. Not good—and Apple gets bruised by it.

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Councillor Doug Bushby was born in the area and runs a locally based business.  He served as a very successful Deputy Mayor last year, and has been a councillor on Bideford Town Council for three years.

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With all the negativity in the news lately, it was nice to see the headline, “Keeping Music Alive.” Both West Hawaii Today and the Hawaii Tribune-Herald recently ran articles about the Hawaii Performing Arts Festival and the Hawaii based Music for Life Foundation. These two non-profits came together to improve students’ access to music education by donating 20 Kala “Waterman” ukuleles to Kealakehe Intermediate School in Kailua-Kona.

Research has found that exposure to music at an early age promotes learning other subjects and enhances skills that children use in other areas. “A music-rich experience for children of singing, listening and moving is really bringing a very serious benefit to children as they progress into more formal learning,” says Mary Luehrisen, Executive Director of the National Association of Music Merchants (NAMM) Foundation.

Music for Life Foundation’s Executive Director Leo Daquioag agrees, and says that keeping music alive in our schools is vitally important, not only for the children, but for families and the community as well.

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In a recent interview, Daquioag told me about his organization’s goals. “When it comes to budget concerns”, Daquioag said, “music and art programs are usually the first to be cut in schools. I’m sure you heard about the reports that show how music helps with cognitive learning. I’ve met a lot of executives who refer back to their days of being in a school band, and how music has contributed to their success. When I went to elementary school in Hawaii, music education was a requirement, and we all had the opportunity to play the ukulele. A lot of us enjoyed it and took it up later in life.”

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Genette Freeman, Development Director for the Hawaii Performing Arts Festival, said that Daquioag approached her with the idea of a ukulele donation, and was looking for a deserving Big Island school, but it had to have a music program with music teacher. “Some schools on the Big Island unfortunately don’t meet that criteria,” added Freeman.

Through the Hawaii Performing Arts Festival’s connections, Freeman was able to put Daquioag in touch with Bernaldo Evangelista, Kealakehe Intermediate School’s band, orchestra teacher. As it turned out, Evangelista was looking to start a music program. “Although it took us a year to put it together, it was a perfect fit,” Freeman noted.

In addition to the instrument donation, ukulele virtuoso Jake Shimabukuro has added a private 10-minute lesson for one of Kealakehe’s students who is in the ukulele class. “Through a drawing, the school selected a 12 year-old girl who will come for her lesson before Shimabukuro’s concert on January 12 at the Fairmont Orchid Ballroom.”

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