8 Rs Net

The United States works differently than other countries
when it comes to giving patents. In the U.S., it doesn’t
necessarily matter who first applied for the patent (the
process may take up to a year to complete).

What does matter, however, is who came up with the original
composite for the invention first. If an inventor can prove
that s/he came up with a tangible product before someone
else, then they will be granted the right to the patent.

It’s best, given the information above, to sketch your idea
for a product with descriptions on how it works. Then, the
inventor, along with two witnesses should sign and date it
in front of an official notary.

Following, keep the composite in a safe location while you
are applying for the provisional or regular patent, while
working on your invention.

A provisional patent application from the U.S. Patent and
Trademark Office provides a confirmation to the date when
the invention was first invented, or when the composite was
completed. This way the inventor doesn’t have to
necessarily have completed the invention in its entirety.

The inventor needs to file a regular patent application
with the USPTO within one year of the provisional
application.

An inventor, once ready to fully patent his invention, may
have to hire an official patent attorney or agent. Then,
the patent attorney or agent can conduct a search which
checks to see that the invention is original, and that it
hasn’t already been filed. Once the uniqueness of the new
invention is confirmed, the inventor has to fill out a
specification (or description), two or more composites and
an official claim form.

Once the application is received at the Patent and
Trademark Office, an examiner will complete another search
of records to be sure that the invention hasn’t already
been patented. If there are no problems, the inventor will
receive a “notice of allowance”. This means that the
inventor will soon receive his/her patent number once
certain fees are paid in full.

If there are problems with determining the original quality
of a product or composite, then appeals can be made within
the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences. Following,
if this proves no avail, claims can be taken to court.
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Public liability indemnity is vital as all organisations are at danger to some amount. If nothing appalling has yet occurred to your corporations assets does not promise that it won’t sooner or later. If a group of people are wounded, or their assets missing, it is your legal requirement to suitably reimburse them. This expenditure could be remarkably pricey, depending on each & every case.

Still, you do have a number of methods to secure yourself against this emergency. Going for public liability insurance permits you to breathe a bit easier. Even if a specific claim is very expensive, the insurance organisation will be there to supply a protection net. Its their responsibility to guarantee that you are shielded from any claims and legal fees brought against you. This leaves you free to focus on actually doing business, rather than thinking about what may possibly happen. The following are good instances of times when public liability cover have come in useful.

Owners of plumbing companies more often than not get the job completed fast & easy. Nonetheless, at times something may possibly go dreadfully wrong. For instance, if you smash up a client’s tubes while on the job, damaging property like that of PCs and flooring, public liability insurance will be there to pick up the expense. Check out Insured Risks for Public Liability Insurance.

An additional case study is that of a marketing business. If a customer were to sprain an ankle in your workplace, even if it’s not your fault, you would be held legally answerable. Fortunately, with public liability insurance you would not have to pay the claim whatsoever.

In a comparable circumstance, physical injury caused to a passerby by a member of staff on a building site is the duty of the company’s manager. This type of claim can become very expensive indeed, unless you buy the suitable cover.

The Club of Rome:

Eugenics is a lot like all the other arrows in the quiver of the social engineer. Francis Fukayama’s book The End of History and The Last Man is a powerful reminder of how much ‘absolute religions’ are mere tool for the elite, and I think everyone should read what he bluntly states. In order to design or engineer a quality environment we must have ethics or principles that allow decisions to be made that benefit all life on earth rather than a few elites who operate to benefit their cronies and share a little with their paladins in some Physiocratic ‘trickle down’ approach to the governance and resources or opportunities that humanity has the duty to fulfill according to some over-riding purpose. That purpose might be divine but it must make sense and be commonly apprehended or shared. I happen to think there is an intelligence and collective conscious design. I also think we are part of this design and can make mincemeat or a thorough botchery of it. We are individually responsible for being like gods as Jesus (John 10:34) and all so many adepts have made eloquently apparent. We are part of God and should help she/he/it achieve what is RIGHT.

Is that an elitist attitude? Maybe it is at some point, because I am not one who caters to the destruction of the human gene pool or one who thinks anyone deserves a free ride at the heart of it. That is not to suggest that I think everyone should not be enabled and encouraged far more than has been done in the WASP world of history in the last two millennia and more. I probably share more with Thomas Paine and his New World Order types than I share with bleeding heart nave do-gooders who seek something they have not fully examined. I think helping babies exist and take food from the mouths of others in India was not a godly or good thing, for example. The Club of Rome and I share a great deal in terms of how we view the opportunities and problems that our leaders must address. Here is a good point they make.

“Systems of education are less and less adapted to the new issues, to the new emerging global society we are presently involved in. New priorities force us to redefine the role of education, which should be conceived as a permanent learning process. Transmission of knowledge is no longer sufficient, and new objectives such as developing one’s own potential and creativity, or the capacity of adaptation to change are becoming essential in a rapidly changing world.

The Club of Rome considers that education is both part of the global problematique and also an essential tool to become an effective actor in control of one’s own life and within society. If there are “Limits to Growth”, there are “No Limits to Learning” (titles of two Reports to the Club of Rome).” (1)

Their recommendations to limit population growth can be seen from many points of view but their prognostications of doom and gloom have not considered various technologies which continue to make it possible that the outcomes their reports have predicted will occur. In fact there are technologies I think they are not even aware of if you go by what they say on their web site.

About the Author

Columnist in The ES Press Magazine
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Author of Diverse Druids

The Caribbean Single Market and Economy (CSME) involves the free flow of labour, goods and capital among participating Caribbean Community (CARICOM) members states. The emergence, of this single market means that legal and administrative restrictions affecting trade, labour and technology within the CARICOM region will generally be a thing of the past.

But one of the greatest advantages is that it will encourage intra-regional trade and allow CARICOM states to negotiate as a single entity. This will afford them a better opportunity to influence policies concerning global trade. Perhaps the region may soon be a force to reckon with in the next round of World Trade negotiations.

The major issue for each state is whether its existing businesses and workforce can survive the increased competition when businesses that are more successful enter the local market. Many states are uncertain as to whether their local economy can survive the transition. From all indications, it appears that the CSME is about survival. Businesses that do not have the resources or capacity to compete will surely whither away. States that fail to develop their capacity must prepare to deal with economic calamity.

But the most debated issue is the implications for employment. The free movement of labour is limited to qualified and skilled persons. Therefore, the idea that with the emergence of the CSME will result in mass movement of unskilled persons to more prosperous member states seems far-fetched.

Of major concern to the Governments and people of the region is the potential for an increase in local unemployment as a result of more persons competing for the few available jobs. Another concern is the increased pressure that may be placed upon social and economic institutions, in the event of mass migration, and their ability to cope. Governments of the region are exploring various measures to assist the public and private sectors to adapt. However, many are of the view that, the question of whether these states have the resources to deal with negative externalities including increases in crime, poverty and unemployment levels is yet to be strategically addressed.

Whatever the issue, the CSME is a reality that all member states must confront. At the end of the day, sink or float, it’s all about survival of the fittest.

About the Author

Eldonna Lendor is a Corporate Attorney and Small Business Strategist. She is the CEO of http://www.patantconsult.com and publisher of eXplosion!, an ezine which provides advice to small business entrepreneurs. She is the co-founder of http://www.talkcsme.blogspot.com, a blog, which discusses issues affecting persons and businesses in the Caribbean Single Market and Economy (CSME).

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About the Author

As a social scientist and specialist in international cooperation, Glenn Brigaldino’s writing focusses on international affairs. He is a member of Canadian e-book authors and also a contributing writer to the online venture newtopiamagazine.net.

BUILDING BRIDGES?

By William Fisher

America’s acute shortage of Arabic speakers is in danger of crippling the nation’s efforts to counter terrorist threats, communicate with prisoners, and build bridges to the Muslim world.

The numbers of Arabic language students in U.S. universities has skyrocketed since the terrorist attacks of September 11th 2001. But it still ranks behind classical Greek, Latin and even American Sign Language.

The shortage has spurred an aggressive campaign of recruiting – including generous sign-on bonuses — by all U.S. intelligence agencies, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the State Department (DOS), the Defense Department (DOD), and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

The CIA has taken out ads in local newspapers that feature a photo of the Statue of Liberty with the words: “For over 100 years, Arab Americans have served the nation. Today we need you more than ever.” The agency is offering bonuses of up to $25,000 for new hires who are fluent in Arabic and other crucial languages.

And last year’s intelligence reorganization law authorized the agency to study so-called ‘heritage communities’ such as metropolitan Detroit’s Arab populations with foreign language abilities. It also earmarked money for a pilot program to recruit foreign-language speakers into a civilian linguist reserve corps.

All U.S intelligence services report substantial increases in employment applications. But the ratio of applications to job offers remains low. One reason is the high standards set by these agencies. Another is the unwillingness of many Arab and Muslim-Americans to apply to agencies they see as having contributed to creating an ‘Islamophobic’ environment. Still another is the security clearance process, which can take up to a year or longer.

One result of the shortage is that analysts at the CIA, the FBI, the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and the National Security Agency (NSA) are awash in untranslated gleanings of intelligence in Arabic. Nor are there enough interpreters to handle detainees in Iraq.

The FBI says that since Sept. 11, the agency has processed 30,000 applicants for jobs as linguists in Arabic, Farsi, and other tongues. But it points out that “out of 20 applicants, we’d be lucky to get one or two.” The FBI now has more than 1,200 linguists, an increase of 50 percent since September 11th.

The shortage is having no less an effect on U.S. efforts in public diplomacy.

A Pentagon advisory panel known as the Defense Science Board reported recently, “The United States today is without a working channel of communications to the world of Muslims and Islam.”

And the bipartisan U. S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy appointed by President Bush concluded late last year that the American campaign to communicate its ideas and ideals, particularly to Muslim audiences, was “uncoordinated and underfunded, and risks sending contradictory messages about U.S. intentions.” It said that one successful initiative — exchange programs between U.S. and foreign students — has been burdened by ”redundant” security measures and ”excessive” visa fees.

Adam Clayton Powell III, Visiting Professor and Senior Fellow at the University of Southern California Center on Public Diplomacy, told IPS, “There are only a half dozen or so U.S. spokesmen who have a sufficient grasp of the Arabic language to appear on radio or television in that part of the world. That means the U.S. is not even part of the dialogue there.”

The language situation appears to be improving, but for a number of reasons it can only improve slowly. One of them is that, for Americans, Arabic is one of the most difficult languages in the world.

For example, Arabic has its own alphabet and is written from right to left. Written Arabic differs from the many dialects spoken on the streets of Arab countries, and people from different Arab countries often have a hard time understanding one another. To master Arabic takes significantly more time than Romance languages such as Spanish or French, which are more closely related to English.

The U.S. State Department rates Arabic, along with Chinese and Korean, as a “superhard” language, a designation formalized late last year.

Colleges in the United States report rising demand from Americans to study Arabic, and are attempting to beef up their curricula to accommodate the surge. More schools are adding programs and hunting for teachers, but that is a challenge because many of the U.S. professors who specialize in Arabic and fields related to the Arab world are at or nearing retirement age.

Nonetheless, “Today we have more teachers of Arabic than we had students 10 years ago,” says Michael Lemmon, dean of the U.S. State Department’s School of Language Studies.

But the 10,584 students who were studying Arabic in 2002 are still a tiny group
compared with those studying Spanish, Italian, French and other languages.

Another problem with recruiting Arabic speakers is that many of the students who graduate with proficiency in the language choose not to teach it. And working for the U.S. government is by no means the sole motivation for many students of Arabic.

Juan Cole, professor of history at the University of Michigan and a fluent Arabic speaker, told IPS, “Not everyone studying Arabic is thrilled with U.S. policies in the Middle East. Many students are critical of certain U.S. policies toward the Middle East, especially regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,” he added. “If the Feds want more Americans to study Arabic, they should give money for undergraduate scholarships. ”

Cole says government funding for the study of Arabic by graduate students “has fallen dramatically since 1980. The Reagan administration zero-budgeted the program every year in the 1980s, but Congress put the money back. But the program has not kept up with inflation. In 1984 the University of Michigan was giving out nearly 20 awards to grads every year. I don’t think they can support more than three or four graduate students with the current Federal grant. It is pitiful.”

The acute shortage of Arabic speakers needs to be viewed not only as a critical piece of the counter-terrorism agenda, but also as an absolutely indispensable component of America’s public diplomacy effort.

President Bush has nominated one of his closest advisors, Karen Hughes, to lead those efforts at the State Department. But, to paraphrase Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld’s famous remark, “You go to war with the army you’ve got, not necessarily the army you want.”

How Karen Hughes – or any of the U.S. intelligence and security agencies – can successfully fight their wars with ‘the army they’ve got’ remains a mystery. And remains to be seen.

About the author:

About the writer: William Fisher has managed economic development programs in the Middle East for the U.S. State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development. He served in the international affairs area in the Kennedy Administration.

If you have a brother, husband, son, nephew or a friend in the military, insist to contact them every 48 hours. If they fail to be contacted, act immdeiately. The American administration is lying to you!
Right after conquering Baghdad, Bush Jr went on TV addressing the Iraqi people, promising that :”Iraq is for Iraqis; and that (they) would not stay one moment more than necessary”. To the Western media, Bush explained that it is “necessary’ to stay in Iraq for a few years!!! The reason? To restore peace, of course – a word the Americans gave a totally original sense to.

The Americans who they invaded Iraq, destroyed its infrastructure, killed and arrested its people, looted its historical treasure, bankrupted its economy, dismantled its structure, spread like cancer among its political movements, closed its borders, and bombarded its history starting from the Tree of Adam to The Garden of Babel claimed to have done it all in the name of freedom! Crucifying you for having an infected finger is an accepted American logic (to the American people). The American troops, on Iraqi soil, is regarded as one thing by all Iraqis and all Arabs: OCCUPATION! In face of any occupation, nationals resist, resist, and resist. They kidnap, kill, torture, rape, burn and do whatever a civilian can to push that cancerous foreign disease out of their land. Please help Mr. Bush brainstorming why the Iraqi people cannot just be friends with American marines.

Two American soldiers, kidnapped last week, were found murdered in the North of Iraq. Both were identified. In response, 900 Iraqi civilians were arrested! What for? The ‘terrorists’ were suspected of intercepting American efforts ‘rebuilding’ Iraq!!! I need to buy an American dictionary to grasp this logic; alas, all I got was British education… I thought Bushisms only belonged to that son-of-Barbara -who-could-not-walk-in-high-heels-who-happens-to-be-married-to-a-teacher-writing-a-book-on-her-dog’s promotion to the White House. Far from it, Bushism seems to be the Zeitgist of contemporary America.

Resistance attacks on American troops are escalating. Kidnapping, using white weapons (knives used for sheep slaughter), basic guns and rudimental home-made bombs are used by the Iraqi civilians in face of the well-equipped occupation. Yet, we know that before the collapse of Baghdad, Saddam had distributed 7 million RPJS to 7 million homes in Iraq! His reason? He said : “It is your country; you will defend it”. An RPJ- equipped Iraqi attacked an American ‘War machine’ (?), as per Al Jazeera TV, at the entrance of al Falooja, West of Baghdad. The American vehicle burnt completely.

The American administration is screening information pertaining to American lives lost in those ‘operations’ in Iraq. First, they were burying their dead in Iraq; then after they discovered their corpses to be tampered with by the Iraqis, they decided to deposit the dead in a morgue in Saudi Arabia. A Saudi source that refused to be identified confirmed that the figure quoted to be 800, 8 weeks ago are much more that 1200, in the Saudi morgue. He refused to give a specific figure for security reasons.

On the political level 36 Iraqi personalities representing national movements issued a Formal Warning to both Washington and London warning the Anglo-American occupation of ‘consequences’ of trespassing on Iraq’s sovereignty and depriving Iraqis from ruling their own land, using violence and terror to subjugate the “masters of Iraq”. The Warning added that occupation will pay dearly for this ignorant adventure, erratic policy and their disrespect for the wish of the Iraqi people.

The Warning re-iterated the un-constitutionality of having the Iraqi Army dismantled by a foreign force and confirmed that such a provocation gives civilians freehand to defend their country a la Palestiniene!

This official Warning declared that all national Iraqi parties will act as one in face of the occupation, hinting that there is very little hope of pitting one against the other in America’s favour. Their motto? Iraq, its soil, its history and its freedom. Alas, I think they are deferring their clashes until they are together alone , in their free homeland.

About the Author

Al Seidi, Nevine, Egyptian-born (1961) obtained her BA in English Literature(Honours) from Alexandria University Egypt. She grew up in an artistic literary home where her dad acted and wrote scripts while keeping a private office of law as a Solicitor. To please him, she had to read the concise version of Shakespeare at 8 for her summer holiday. She trained as a painter at 6 under the patronage of world-famous Seif Wanli. At the age of 13, she started composing poetry in both English and Arabic. She won many contests as a painter and a poet. She has been a writer to her own circle of literary society, eversince. At the age of 18, she started getting interested in fashion seriously.She was determined to follow a career in fashion albeit studing literature. Highly, interested in theology, philosophy,sociology, economics, politics and very well informed in fashion, beauty and business. She tapped into various professions, before a career in fashion that ended at the threshold of creative writing again.Her moment of initiation was the birth of her only son Omar,now3. “Suddenly, the fashion world seemed a little too selfish a pursuit; motherhood anchored me to the reality of things. Unfortuanately, reality is not as beautiful as the fashion world” – She explains. She is an active journalist writer and poet with a deep interest in political and social affairs. She writes on many web sites on various subjects as well as various publications and periodicals. As a poet, she is published in the US. Some of her work appear in an anthology published by the L ibrary of Congress entitled: Nature’s Echoes One of her most interesting poems is published in Millennium Poets by Cader Publisheing. The Poem is titled : Surrogate God . Though amusing, it hardly expresses the poet’s belief. It is rather an expression of a mood. She is presently writing her first book: The Cultural Predicament of the Third World The Ethical vs. the Ethnical

Combine the two of man’s favorite leisure actvities and you have got is a mania we title a web based sportsbook. Would you know of anything that could believably be more original? If you picture a clique of fanatics clapping for a given favored local club, and incessantly stakes are proclaimed adding to the tumult. Intent to get a bit of the action, onlookers recurrently attempt to anticipate who will win in the running match. Put together, all of this evolves into a friendly, good humored match named web based sportsbook.

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It may well appear overwhelming, though actually sportsbook wagers is really only an amusement and of forging a bond with fellow sports enthusiasts. You can bet a an inconsequential amount of chips and yet have a incredible time. Below, you’ll find a small number of basic instructions to get going sportsbook wagers.

In order to place that bet, you will probably want to search for a web based sportsbook, i.e. a place which admits web based sportsbook. In the United States, we currently have no less than four states where to do sportsbook wagers in a lawful manner, but if you don’t care for legality, you may go for it essentially anywhere provided you find a bookie and happen to be legally an adult. Included among the sports you can choose to bet on are professional and, furthermore, college basketball + college football, pro hockey, pro hockey, and, furthermore, wagers on both horse and dog racing. Visitors could choose to wager on the overall results of a game or fight, when exactly any given party will be defeated, and even if a coin toss in a game or fight will come out heads or tails.

The sportsbook provider count on number make it easier for you discern which club you deem will win. First off, there’s the spread, i.e. advantage assigned to a inferior lineup presumed to go under by a defined number points. This describes the bookmaker’s style of organizing lays for a sportsbook. As an example, we can bet on a party presumed to go under and and yet profit from the wager provided the lineup does actually get beaten by a defined number of points.

So why not try it out, and enjoy the recreation in tandem? Simply be on the guard so that you won’t get seized and spend your total income on a quirk… For you might be caught contrite all life long…

Don’t you love politics?

Me, neither. But I do like thinking about politics. And wouldn’t you know it? Just when you think you’ve come up with a dazzling opinion, you find
out someone else had that same idea hundreds of years ago. So much for being original.

Still, it’s delightful to discover that you share opinions with great thinkers.

Political pundits have a fabulous time skewering politicians and demanding accountability. Talking heads analyze failing policies and discuss alternatives in every form of the media.

Me? I take it all in, and then I go back to my man, Plato. It’s surprising how little has changed in politics.
You’d think there would be a little more enlightenment in our leadership after more than 2000 years.

Plato made some observations regarding politics that are amazingly relevant today. Political columnists are
simply rehashing the same ideas Plato discussed with his cronies in Athens.

Don’t believe me? Take a look at what Plato had to say back in the third century B.C.

#1 “One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your
inferiors.”

The smartest people take one look at political office and run the other way. Well, that may be smart, but it
doesn’t do much good when it comes to changing the world. We end up with leaders who have the power and money and ego required to win an election. That’s way too much like running
for student body president in high school, if you ask me. The really smart kids laughed at the whole
process, rolling their eyes and shaking their heads in disgust. Okay, that’s fun, but it doesn’t help. We need to figure out how to get our best
thinkers in leadership positions, and we need to develop a system that rewards integrity.

#2 “The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.”

This is standard fare. In virtually every paper in the world, you’ll find an editorial bashing the “Act now,
think later” approach.

I love to see truly thoughtful leaders. You know–those who refrain from knee-jerk reactions. Those who
take the time to think. It is thinking–not planetary alignment–that will change the course of mankind and
launch us into an era of consciousness.

Oh, wait. Plato thought of that, too. He said:

#3 “There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, until philosophers become kings in this world, or until those we now call kings and rulers
really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.”

Philosophy needs to become an integral part of our culture–in politics, business, art and entertainment.
What will it take for us to value thinking? More of it.

#4 “Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.”

Ah, yes. This one is hauled out every time a new measure is proposed. So much time is spent on legislation aimed at a tiny percentage of people who
are bound and determined to get around the system. What if we spent our time and money on building better people? This is a perennial theme, and one worth pondering.

#5 “When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up
some war or other in order that the people may require a leader.”

Sound familiar? If not, you haven’t seen the movie, “Wag The Dog”. Real, choreographed or simply imagined, conflicts tend to stir up a hornet’s nest of controversy. This idea is the foundation for all conspiracy theorists.

Plato isn’t my only political guru. There are plenty of great thinkers whose opinions are shared by
newsmakers and newswatchers today.

“Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.”

Albert Einstein said that, but you don’t have to be a genius to see that rabid patriotism leads to conflict.
Socrates agreed. He said:

“I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.”

We need more of that Big Picture thinking. It’s critical that we develop the ability to think beyond ourselves, our backyards, and our nation’s political borders.

But most of all, we simply need to think. Of all the quotes about politics, here’s the one that really
stops me in my tracks:

“What luck for rulers that men do not think.”

Who said it? Adolf Hitler.

Enough said.

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