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Wednesday, October 31, 2012

The IPKat: AIPPI calls for CJEU status quo in unitary patent matters

? The AmeriKat has just returned from a whirlwind trip in Asia which found her dancing Gagnam style in Seoul at this year's AIPPI (Association Internationale pour la Protection de la Propri?t? Intellectuelle) Congress and recovering from the post-AIPPI fun by climbing seemingly vertical hills in Hong Kong. As she landed in Hong Kong on Thursday, news came that the controversial resolution of Special Committee Q165 on the proposed unified patents court, which?had been passed on?Tuesday, had been published on AIPPI's website. AIPPI's resolution (found here) resolves the following:

1) AIPPI acknowledges that the process of creating a legal framework for a Unified Patent Court, and for the creation and exercise of European Patents having unitary effect, is well advanced.
2) AIPPI believes that the proposed system will not provide an improved experience for patent users. This is particularly the case if individual patent cases are subject to a third or fourth level of appellate review, with the General Court or the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) being asked to consider substantive questions of patent law. AIPPI accepts that the proposed system is within the legal framework of the European Union and its existence and structure are subject to the review of the CJEU. It believes, however, that the Draft Regulation should be amended so as to make it clear that under the new system the CJEU will have no greater role concerning the grant or exercise of unitary patents than is presently the case for EP patents.
3) To that end, AIPPI reiterates its support for the deletion of Articles 6-8 from the currently proposed Draft Regulation on the Unitary Patent as agreed by the Council of the EU on June 28 / 29, 2012. It is recalled that the content of those articles already appears within the Draft Agreement on the Unified Patent Court and it is proposed that these provisions should apply to unitary patents as well.
4) AIPPI is of the opinion that it is essential for the acceptance and success of the Unified Patent Court that the original goals of the project which promised judges "with the highest standards of competence and proven experience in the field of patent litigation to ensure expeditious and high quality decisions and thus enhance legal certainty" should not be put at risk. To that end, it should be ensured that appropriate programs for the selection, training and ongoing support of such judges are put in place as soon as the Draft Agreement is approved.
5) AIPPI notes that the Committee for the Rules of Procedure of the proposed Unified Patent Court is presently working to provide a further draft set of procedural rules. AIPPI resolves that a public consultation period of at least 3 months should be allowed following the publication of this draft before any further steps are taken to adopt any text.

Having been privy to the committee's deliberations during drafting and the subsequent voting session, the AmeriKat was surprised that although strong objections were raised in relation to the proposals (complaints as to the legislative process, transparency, etc) an agreement on the resolution was formulated and passed relatively quickly ["Could it be because this is one area of patent law that most practitioners are in agreement on?", muses Merpel]. She also notes and welcomes?the relatively strong position AIPPI has taken in respect of the involvement of the CJEU and the call that there be a proper consultation period on the Rules of Procedure.

Meanwhile, rumours still abound that Articles 6 to 8 will be removed from the Draft Regulation and replaced with a provision that does not subject substantive patent law to the CJEU's preliminary reference mechanism. What shape such a provision will take remains a mystery to the AmeriKat.

Courtesy of eagle-eyed IPKat friend, Chris Stothers, the AmeriKat can report that the agenda for the next JURI meeting on 6 November 2012 does not contain any mention of the unitary patent. This leaves the Amerikat surmizing whether the European Parliament will be prepared to vote on the proposals during their session at the end of November. She considers it highly unlikely?that the current?proposed timetable to adopt and sign off on the package by December will remain, especially with the need for some national governments, including the UK,?to consult their?respective governmental institutions?on the package.

Indeed, the AmeriKat's favorite governmental institution, the House of Commons European Scrutiny Committee?is expected to review the final regulations before the Council Meeting on 10 December 2012. The AmeriKat is doubtful whether the Scrutiny Committee will release the proposals from their scrutiny or whether they will take the opportunity to request the presence of new IP Minister Lord Marland in order to quiz him on the status of the proposals?(which the AmeriKat hopes they do just so the IP community has an opportunity to observe his performance in a matter of vital importance to the future of patent law).

In the meantime, those who love reading pages and pages of procedural rules better get their red pencils sharpened, as the AmeriKat understands that the Rules of Procedure Committee will make their final (10th) draft Rules available on 20 November 2012.

Source: http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2012/10/aippi-calls-for-cjeu-status-quo-in.html

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Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Casinos Pour Millions into Table Games Question - GoLocalProv

Monday, October 29, 2012

Twin River and Newport Grand have now poured more than $4 million into the campaigns to convince Rhode Islanders to vote in favor of bringing table games such as blackjack, craps and roulette to the state?s two casinos on next week?s ballot, according to a review a campaign finance reports.

The majority of the $3,987,711 Twin River has spent has gone toward toward polling, advertising and consulting fees, spending $3,987,711. Twin River?s political action committee (PAC) had contributed $7,700 to more than 20 lawmakers, including every member of House and Senate leadership, since the beginning of the year, but the PAC hasn?t filed a campaign finance report since June.

Meanwhile, Newport Grand?s has spent $379,314, which has Providence public relations firm Duffy and Shanley running its campaign. The slot parlor has spent nearly $130,000 with Warwick-based PriMedia on newspaper and radio ads and at least $80,000 on direct mailings.

The spending is not unprecedented. In 2006, Las Vegas-based Harrah?s Entertainment spent more than $12 million in an attempt to open a casino in West Warwick, but voters overwhelmingly shot down the proposal.

In August, Twin River spokesperson Patti Doyle said the casino?s board chairman John Taylor has attended Rotary and Chamber of Commerce meetings from across the state, talking about the importance of approving the table game question in order to bring jobs to Rhode Island. She said the campaign was working on ?building an online community via our website where you can register to volunteer, and via Facebook and Twitter.?

?The education campaign isn't just about the paid media,? Doyle said at the time. ?We've spent the summer months employing a street team of college students to be visible with education materials at a host of community events throughout the state.?

Campaigns Promise Hundreds of Jobs

The two ballot referendums (questions 1 and 2) will need to be supported by the majority of voters statewide as well as the town of Lincoln (for Twin River) and Newport (for Newport Grand) in November. It is possible for only one of the referendums to earn support.

Both campaigns have touted the benefits of voting in favor of table games, with Twin River claiming it will create 650 new jobs while preserving 900 jobs. Newport Grand says voting to expand to table games will preserve 200 jobs and create 50 more while protecting the $30 million the casino contributes in taxes to the state annually.

But with Massachusetts committed to building three resort-style casinos and a slot parlor over the next decade, supporters of full-fledged gaming say the state could face economic peril if the referendum fails.

Gambling related revenue is the state?s third-largest source of income, at more than $300 million each year and Twin River has provided the state with over $2.5 billion since 1992. A report issued earlier this year by the Rhode Island Public Expenditure Council (RIPEC) suggested that table games would benefit Rhode Island, but it also noted that the state will not be able to depend on gambling income as much once the casinos are built in the Bay State.

?The advent of casino gaming in the commonwealth of Massachusetts ? under any scenario ? will likely negatively impact both revenues for the casino operators in Rhode Island, and the state of Rhode Island itself,? the RIPEC report stated. ?While it appears that the opening of casinos in Massachusetts may occur later than originally anticipated, they will open in the next few years, and that Twin River, Newport Grand and the state will all see revenues decline. Allowing Twin River and Newport Grand to operate table games will offset some of these projected revenue losses; however, it is also clear that the state can no longer rely on gaming revenues to support the same share of government services once casinos open in Massachusetts.?

Opponents Line Up

Still, not everyone is convinced table games are the answer for Rhode Island. In Lincoln, District 17 State Senate candidate John Cullen, a Democrat, is urging voters to oppose the plan, claiming the town may now receive acut from table games.

?What's good about zero percent for Lincoln,? Cullen wrote in an op-ed earlier this year. ?The bankers and the [General Assembly have a seat at the table games, while Lincoln and Newport get thrown under the table! This time Lincoln's no casino vote will get us a seat at the table!?

Cullen is joined by former Lincoln Town Council President Dean Lees Jr. in opposition to the proposal. Both men argue that the town will not benefit from table games.

?It is important for Lincoln?s voters not to be intimidated,? Lees Jr. said earlier this year. ?For years, state and local officials have said that we may lose revenue to other states and that we need to compete. With Foxwoods facing an over 2.3 billion dollar deficit, Mohegan Sun laying off 346 employees and Vegas Casinos in the red, these only show me that gambling is not the answer to compete with other states, nor to put false hopes on increasing our revenues to manage our ever-failing economy.?

Dan McGowan can be reached at dmcgowan@golocalprov.com. Follow him on Twitter: @danmcgowan.

Source: http://www.golocalprov.com/news/casino3/

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French implant boss released from jail pending trial

MARSEILLE, France (Reuters) - The Frenchman who sparked a global health scare by selling substandard breast implants has been released from jail under court supervision pending a trial next year, a judicial source said on Friday.

Jean-Claude Mas, who faces charges of causing involuntary bodily harm and aggravated fraud, spent eight months in prison after he failed to post bail.

Mas, 73, was released from a penitentiary in southeastern France on condition that he remained within the Var and Bouches-du-Rhone regions and checked in once a week at the police station in his home town.

The former head of Poly Implant Prothese (PIP) has admitted using a non-medical form of silicone in implants but rejects allegations that the gel was more dangerous than forms which have passed testing.

In the first part of what is expected to be a multi-stage trial, Mas will appear in Marseille next year on charges of fraud in a special facility that seats between 4,000 and 10,000 people. Some 4,500 complaints of aggravated fraud have been filed against Mas.

Half a dozen senior PIP executives will also stand trial over their responsibility for producing faulty breast implants. If found guilty, they face maximum prison sentences of five years and hefty fines.

The bodily harm charge carries a possible jail sentence of one year plus a fine.

A lawyer for women in France who have filed complaints over PIP implants said he was not surprised at Mas's release.

"For the victims, we are satisfied that judges in Marseille kept Jean-Claude Mas in custody for as long as the law permitted," Laurent Gaudet said. "Today, we're worried that Mr. Mas will not appear for his trial."

Some 300,000 women around the world carry implants made by PIP, which was founded in 1991 and went into liquidation in 2010.

(Reporting By Jean-Francois Rosnoblet; Writing by Nick Vinocur; Editing by Robert Woodward)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/french-implant-boss-released-jail-pending-trial-195529926.html

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Warsaw museum to celebrate Jewish life in Poland

WARSAW, Poland (AP) ? The box-like glass building rises from soil marked by tragedy in the heart of Warsaw's former Jewish district. At certain angles, its luminous facade reflects the outlines of a dark memorial to those who fought and died in the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising against the Nazis.

Yet despite reminders of Jewish suffering all around, the modern building will soon open as a key remembrance site of a mostly upbeat Jewish story, becoming home to the Museum of the History of Polish Jews, a major new museum dedicated to the 1,000 years of Jewish existence in Polish lands.

"It is a museum of life," said Sigmund Rolat, a Polish-born Holocaust survivor and American benefactor who has helped bring the museum to life. "We are showing 1,000 years of a magnificent history."

Construction of the building is nearly finished and the museum is scheduled to open in 2013 after nearly 20 years of planning. It will be a celebratory moment for those who have struggled to build a home for this story, among them Polish-born Holocaust survivors with a deep affection for their land of birth: Men like Rolat, 82, and Tad Taube, 81, a Krakow-born entrepreneur who leads two California-based philanthropies that have given $16 million to the project.

The museum fulfills a dream of Jews from around the world to preserve the rich legacy of their ancestors by creating what will be the first-ever museum of Polish Jewish history. Meanwhile, the Polish government, a major partner, also seeks to celebrate both the country's Jewish past and its own past eras of cultural tolerance and diversity. In doing so, the young democracy hopes to burnish its Western credentials and shed a reputation for anti-Semitism that has hung over it in recent decades.

Jewish history was largely ignored in the communist era, and the fact that the museum has risen with the help of the Polish government makes it a monument to a new consciousness and wealth.

"No doubt it is thanks to democracy in Poland that this museum could be created," said Warsaw Mayor Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz.

The project has faced a number of delays, some caused by the global financial crisis that for a time discouraged donations needed to complete the more than $100 million project. A public-private initiative that relies heavily on private funding, the museum has also struggled at times to persuade Jews abroad to help a project "in a country which they feel has not been particularly friendly to Jews," Taube said.

"This was not a slam dunk," Taube said. "But it got easier as the project rose from the ground. Doubts began to be erased."

Museum officials say it will open in stages, with educational and cultural programs starting in April to mark the 70th anniversary of the doomed Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Then in December the heart of the museum is scheduled to open: a core exhibition of eight interactive multimedia galleries organized chronologically. Using diaries, memoirs, film footage and other original sources, the story will unfold in the voices of those living in the historical moment.

With its opening, the museum is expected to join the ranks of world-class Jewish history museums like Yad Vashem in Jerusalem and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington.

What will set it apart will be its focus not on tragedy, but on creation, achievement and life. In keeping with that theme, the Warsaw museum will devote just one of the eight galleries to the Holocaust. Visitors, in fact, will not be able to access the Holocaust gallery without passing first through at least one other gallery, a reminder of the life that came long before and which still exists today in Poland's small but growing Jewish community.

The museum will show that the Holocaust ? carried out by Adolf Hitler's Germany ? was never the inevitable result of relations between Poland's Jews and Christians, despite periods of conflict. Still, museum creators say they will not shy away from showing ugly episodes of Polish anti-Semitism that led to economic boycotts, persecution and even massacres in the 19th and 20th centuries.

The complex message can be expected to challenge stereotypes held by some Poles and some Jews.

Poles, many of whom view their nation exclusively as a land of heroism that resisted the Nazi occupation, have reacted with defensive outrage in past years when acts of anti-Semitic violence during and after the war came to light. It's easy to imagine new controversies erupting when the museum opens and the Polish public is again confronted with oppression of Jews.

Meanwhile, many Jews across the world carry an image of Poland that ignores some nuances. Some view Poland exclusively as a land of suffering for their people, and remembrance trips to Poland tend to consist mostly of visits to Auschwitz, Treblinka, the Warsaw Ghetto memorial and other memorials to tragedy. In many cases their forefathers left Poland in the worst possible moments, with memories of suffering lingering in families. They will be asked to see that Poland, over 1,000 years of history, was for long eras a land that welcomed Jews and where they thrived.

"You don't live in a place for a thousand years and create a great civilization if it's one unmitigated disaster, which of course is one of the perceptions of the history of Polish Jews," said Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, the program director of the core exhibition. "It's a perception that was largely created by the cataclysmic events of the Holocaust. But we don't start with the Holocaust, and we don't end with the Holocaust."

There is much to commemorate. The uninterrupted existence of Jews in Poland over a millennium brought great achievements to Hebrew and Yiddish culture, to science and the arts. Polish Jews also contributed in significant ways to the larger Polish culture, with poets like Julian Tuwim still loved today, studied in schools and remembered in streets names across Poland.

On the eve of World War II, the country was home to Europe's largest Jewish community, with 3.3 million people, or 10 percent of the entire Polish population. Most were killed in the Holocaust.

"This museum honors those who died by remembering how they lived ? and how they lived for a thousand years," Kirshenblatt-Gimblett said.

The flourishing of Jewish culture and learning had an influence that reached far beyond Poland, and the museum will celebrate this legacy too. Israel's early leaders included Polish-born Jews like David Ben-Gurion and Menachem Begin. Poland was also the homeland of many who contributed to American and global culture: Albert Sabin, who developed a vaccine for polio; Isaac Bashevis Singer, the Nobel-winning writer whose books powerfully evoke the lost Yiddish world of his youth; Hollywood pioneers Harry Warner and Samuel Goldwyn; pianist Arthur Rubinstein and entrepreneurs like Max Factor and Helena Rubinstein.

The museum's central story of long life interrupted by tragedy is also carried in the striking architecture of the building, designed by Finnish architect Rainer Mahlamaki. On the outside, it is a square box of glass panels and perforated copper that emits a sea-green hue across a vast park-like square. Its lines are simple, sharp. On the inside, visitors enter a soaring hall with undulating sand-colored walls rising in curves. The chasm shape stands as a metaphor for both the parting of the Red Sea ? a reference to the Jewish Biblical past ? and the rupture in history created by the Holocaust.

To reach the core exhibition, visitors descend a staircase and enter an installation of sounds, light and graphics that evoke a poetic forest, a reference to the primeval forests of Poland that the first traveling Jewish merchants would have encountered 1,000 years ago. They will hear the word "Po-lin," which is the Hebrew word for "Poland" and also means "rest here," a reminder of how Poland became a land where Jews did indeed find rest after persecutions and expulsions from Spain and the German lands.

Visitors then leave the space of legend to enter a history that began in the 11th century, passing through periods that held both good and bad.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/warsaw-museum-celebrate-jewish-life-poland-090839505.html

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Monday, October 29, 2012

Hospitals should make flu shots mandatory for health-care workers ...

A new Canadian study suggests the flu vaccine significantly lowers the risk of heart attack, strokes and dying from heart disease.

Photograph by: Henry Romero, Reuters , Postmedia News

TORONTO ? The Canadian Medical Association Journal has added its voice to calls for mandatory flu shots for health-care workers.

In an editorial published in this week?s issue, the journal said hospital workers ought to be vaccinated to safeguard frail, elderly patients whose immune systems are so weakened they don?t get much protection from a flu shot themselves.

?We would like individual hospitals to think about taking the initiative,? said Dr. Ken Flegel, senior associate editor and a general internal medicine specialist at Montreal?s McGill University Health Centre.

Flegel acknowledged there will likely be pushback from health-care workers, the majority of whom do not get a flu shot.

?I don?t want anyone to make me do something I don?t believe in or I don?t agree to do to my body,? he said.

?I think that?s a sort of fundamental right. On the other hand, I think the hospital has to say ?That?s fine by us but don?t come near our patients because you?re a hazard to our patients.??

In recent years there has been a growing movement towards requiring health-care workers to take a flu shot, especially in the United States. Earlier this year British Columbia became the first Canadian jurisdiction to require health-care workers to be vaccinated against the flu.

The B.C. policy applies to hospital workers, staff of long-term care homes and community-based health-care workers. It does not cover doctors in private practice. Health-care workers who forgo a flu shot will have to wear a mask on the job from Dec. 1 to the end of March.

Dr. Perry Kendall, the province?s chief medical officer of health, said health-care worker vaccination rates ? which were never high ? have been dropping since 2007.

?If we really think it will make a difference, why do we keep on sitting on the fence and accepting declining levels? It either is important enough to really do it or it isn?t,? Kendall said.

Health-care unions, which had supported B.C.?s efforts to raise flu shot rates among members, were not happy about the new policy.

?They would rather it is a voluntary program and so would I, frankly. But that just hasn?t worked,? Kendall said.

The call to make flu shots mandatory comes at a time when serious questions are being asked about how effective flu vaccine actually is. And some of the studies the journal editorial cites in making its case are among those that have been called into question.

It suggests, for instance, that flu vaccine is about 86 per cent effective at preventing flu when the strains in the shot are well matched to circulating viruses. But the study cited as the source of that information doesn?t actually make that claim. Flegel said he got the number from another study, which credited the study Flegel cited.

A recent comprehensive review of influenza vaccine written by the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP) at the University of Minnesota said the scientific literature on flu vaccine is littered with mistakes ? studies that misconstrue what previous research has found or which have design flaws.

The result has been an over-estimation of how much protection current flu vaccines can offer, the CIDRAP report said.

In the last couple of years many expert groups have quietly toned down their language on flu shots, lowering the efficacy estimates to 50 to 70 per cent from the 70 to 90 per cent that was previously claimed.

(It should be noted the studies that assess efficacy are typically done in healthy adults, the people whose immune systems are most likely to respond well to a flu shot. That means those efficacy estimates are a best-case scenario.)

Michael Osterholm, senior author of the CIDRAP flu vaccine report, said public health officials need to be careful not to over sell flu vaccine.

?I fully support the vaccination of health-care workers. But we must be held to a standard of science that we expect anyone who opposes vaccination to also be held to,? he said.

Flegel acknowledged that may be a problem. ?We probably have been too enthusiastic about the protection rate available from the flu vaccine,? he said after learning of the problem in his citations.

But he said even if the vaccine offers only 50 per cent protection, minimizing the risk that health-care workers sick with the flu will pass it to their vulnerable patients makes sense.

The fact that the vaccine doesn?t work as well as people would like can actually be used as an argument for requiring health-care workers to get flu shots, said Dr. Kumanan Wilson, a Canada Research Chair in health policy at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute.

Wilson, who researches vaccine acceptance issues, recently co-wrote an article exploring the issue of mandatory influenza vaccination for health-care workers in the publication Health Law Journal.

?The fact that the vaccine is not so good actually necessitates a high percentage of health-care workers getting the vaccine in order to create some level of herd immunity,? Wilson said in an interview.

?So as long as it has some effectiveness, a reasonable level of effectiveness, you could use that as an argument ?This is why we have to mandate everybody get it.??

Still, Wilson said requiring workers to take a flu shot isn?t something hospitals or governments should do lightly. ?Because people will perceive it as a major infringement on their liberty. It?s actually putting a needle into someone. So you really need to be careful how you proceed with this.?

Wilson said mandatory flu shot programs should include commitments from the authorities making the policy that they?ll review emerging scientific data on the safety and efficacy of flu vaccine on an ongoing basis.

As well, he said, authorities should commit to studying whether the program is actually working. They should also monitor for any vaccine-induced side-effects and commit to compensate any health-care worker who sustains a health injury that can be linked back to the flu shot.

?If you do bring it in, you have to do it respectfully and showing that you understand the concerns of health-care workers,? said Wilson, who noted that he supports the idea of vaccinating health-care workers against influenza.

?If you don?t do that, then it comes across, I think, as a bit heavy handed.?

? Copyright (c) The Calgary Herald

Source: http://www.calgaryherald.com/entertainment/Hospitals+should+make+shots+mandatory+health+care+workers/7465314/story.html

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Tri-ton is among the last releases published by the excellent underground Russian label Observatoire (Observatory Records). This effort can be considered as reunion between three musical personalities in the field of sonic dark ambient music. The sound morphologies provided in this release are extremely intense, mesmerizing, complex and ultra immersive. Five Elements Music (solo project of Exit in Grey's member) starts the musical ceremony with a wavering bleak sound manifest based on large buzzing and massive monophonic droning textures and others subterranean and disembodied cycled resonances. Gorgeously tripped out and physically absorbing. From his side, Andrea Marutti delivers a primordial and cryptical magmatic array of lugubruous droning frequencies, moving bass lines and dense sonorous psych-acoustic effects. Deep sense of spaciness. In the musical direction of the most efficiently ecstatic and vertiginous sound materials from Andrea Marutti's past releases as Amon and Never known. A Dantesque and ravishing entrance into the demonic and golden unknown. This music completely reaches you on a new orbit. Jim Haynes closes the album with a definitely abstract and mesmeric archetypical hellscape. Tri-ton provides an homogenous musical orchestration made of substantial darkly evocative dronescapes that will ravish fans of swooshing doom atmospheres. Twisted mystical backness.

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When internet marketers set out to make money online, eventually they all run into the same problem ? and come to the same realization. You need lots of traffic to succeed online. For some people, blogging is their main source of income online. For others, a blog becomes a tool to help expand their online business ? whether they?re an affiliate marketer, network marketer, product creator, and so on.

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There are many blogging platforms out there to choose from, some free and some paid. Typepad, Blogger, Tumbler, and WordPress.com (free version), just to name a few. But self hosted WordPress (where you pay for hosting costs and domain name), stands out in the crowd for a number of reasons. WordPress, as a general rule, is a lot easier to attract traffic to than other blogging platforms. Why?

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Search engines prefer WordPress for multiple reasons, the main being site structure and the addition of ?tags? (which some CMS?s such as Blogger don?t have). In addition to having content arranged into both categories, and tags, with WordPress, you have complete control over the SEO of your blog. For example, with WordPress, you can easily individually adjust the meta tags for each individual blog post (Title tag, description tag, keywords tag). This is much more difficult on a free platform such as Blogger or Tumblr. With WordPress you also have more control over categories, menus, and pages ? which helps boost your search engine optimization as well. In addition, you can set up breadcrumb navigation, prevent search engine indexing of categories, tags, and other areas of your site that would be considered duplicate content.

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With WordPress you have the addition of add-ons called plugins. Plugins are basically having code added to your blog that performs a variety of functions. The great part though is that you don?t have to edit any code yourself! You just install the plugin with a few clicks, then adjust the settings to customize it. Plugins can do just about anything you think of to your blog. Specifically help you drive more traffic . For example, with WordPress there are countless SEO plugins which let you have full control over the SEO of your blog. Most WordPress themes have built in SEO settings, but with a plugin you go beyond that into the realm of complete control.

With plugins, you can also add social bookmarking share buttons to your blog with just a few clicks ? once again fully customizable. Letting your blog readers promote your content for you through social media can mean the difference between your success and your failure.

Blog Design

This kind of goes without saying, but having a clean, professional blog design makes all the difference. If a blog looks sloppy and unprofessional, do you think you?ll return to it very often? Would you tell your friends about it? WordPress has countless clean, professional looking blog themes for you to choose from, some free and some paid. It?s true that you get what you pay for.

As you should be able to see by now, when you choose WordPress as your blogging platform, you have complete control over your blog. WordPress is superior and is clearly the number one choice if you want to be able to drive traffic substantial traffic to your online business.

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Sunday, October 28, 2012

Another church bombed, sending tremors along Nigeria's religious dividing line

A suicide bomber rammed an SUV loaded with explosives into a Catholic church holding Mass on Sunday in northern?Nigeria, killing at least seven people and wounding more than 100 others.

By Godwin Attah and Jon Gambrell,?Associated Press / October 28, 2012

St. Rita's Catholic Church in Kaduna, Nigeria, was the target of a suicide bombing on Sunday that further inflamed sectarian tension in the African nation.

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A suicide bomber rammed an SUV loaded with explosives into a Catholic church holding Mass on Sunday in northern?Nigeria, killing at least seven people and wounding more than 100 others in an attack that sparked reprisal killings in the city, authorities and witnesses said.

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As rescuers tried to reach the wounded in the Malali neighborhood of Kaduna, angry youths armed with machetes and clubs beat to death two Muslims passing by the still-smoldering ruins of St. Rita's Catholic church. An Associated Press reporter saw the men's corpses outside the worship hall, as police and soldiers ordered those in the neighborhood of Christians and Muslims to go home before more violence broke out.

The car bombing, the latest high-casualty attack targeting churches, comes as people fear more reprisal killings and religious violence could follow in this city and elsewhere along?Nigeria's?uneasy religious fault line separating its largely Christian south from its predominantly Muslim north.

The attack happened around 9 a.m. as the reverend of the parish conducted Sunday worship. Witnesses said the suicide bomber plowed his SUV past a gate and a security guard before ramming into the church's wall and detonating the explosives hidden inside the vehicle. The blast left shattered glass and blood across the floors of the church's sanctuary. One of the brown walls of the church caved in and bore scorch marks from the blast.

Rescuers found the bodies of seven worshipers and the suicide bomber after the attack, said Yushau Shuaib, a spokesman for?Nigeria's?National Emergency Management Agency. Shuaib said more than 100 others suffered injuries in the blast and had been taken to local hospitals.

Kaduna state police commissioner Olufemi Adenaike told journalists at the church that authorities had urged those living in the religiously mixed neighborhood to return home and stay indoors to halt any further revenge attacks. Saidu Adamu, a spokesman for Kaduna state government, said the rest of the city was peaceful.

Reuben Abati, a spokesman for President Goodluck Jonathan, said the nation's leader condemned the attack.

"The persistence of messengers of evil will not prevail over the will of the government and the people to secure peace and safety," Abati said.

Source: http://rss.csmonitor.com/~r/feeds/csm/~3/eRRCp2MFmco/Another-church-bombed-sending-tremors-along-Nigeria-s-religious-dividing-line

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