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When Lewis Yablonsky was growing up in New Jersey in the 1930s, he was beaten by poor whites for being Jewish and by black gangs for being white. He committed petty thefts, ran crooked card games and carried a switchblade for protection. Some of his closest friends wound up behind bars.
"I wasn't sure where I belonged," he told The Times years later. "But when my best friend went to prison for hijacking a fur truck … I realized I had to get on one side of the law or the other."
Yablonsky chose the straight path, using his rough-and-tumble youth as a springboard to a distinguished career: He became the "Sociologist With Street Smarts," as one headline described him, an authority on youth gangs, hippies and drug addicts whose personal experiences gave him insights other scholars lacked.
A longtime professor of sociology at Cal State Northridge, Yablonsky, who gained national prominence as a sociologist, criminologist and author, died Jan. 29 of natural causes at his home in Santa Monica, said his son, Mitch. He was 89.
A leading figure in sociology in the 1960s and '70s, Yablonsky was known for his practical approach. He worked with members of New York street gangs in the tense "West Side Story" era of the 1950s, producing a socio-psychological study of "losers trying to be winners" in his first book, "The Violent Gang" (1962).
His work treating drug addicts in Santa Monica with reformed alcoholic Charles Dederich resulted in "The Tunnel Back: Synanon" (1965), a provocative early study of the rehabilitation program before it took on cult overtones and became associated with violence.
He also worked extensively in prisons to rehabilitate inmates and in later decades testified in court cases as an expert witness. In 1993 his testimony rebutting a theory about the behavior of individuals in a mob helped put Damian Williams in prison for the brutal beating of truck driver Reginald Denny after the L.A. riots of 1992.
"He was very committed to the idea that sociology had a practical side to it and could make a contribution to society," said Vince Jeffries, a Cal State Northridge emeritus professor of sociology. "He was a very caring person, particularly toward those who made mistakes or were disadvantaged and could be helped toward a better life."
Born Nov. 23, 1924, in Irvington, N.J., he was the son of Harry Yablonsky, a Russian Jewish immigrant who drove a laundry delivery truck, and his Romanian wife, Fannie. In Irvington he endured anti-Semitic taunts ; in elementary school in Newark, he was victimized because he was white.
"I learned early in my life the lesson of the sociopathic characteristics of senseless violence — and this understanding has served me well in my later work as a criminologist and gang expert in the judicial process," he wrote in a 2010 memoir called "Confessions of a Criminologist: Some of My Best Friends Were Sociopaths."
In high school Yablonsky became a card and dice sharp. He was also a star athlete, who went to the University of Alabama on a baseball scholarship. He left after a year to serve in the Navy during World War II.
Kicked out of officer training for running card games, he served stateside and was honorably discharged in 1946.
In 1948 he earned a business degree from Rutgers University, then drove to California, where he found a job inspecting lockers in bus and train terminals. Dismayed by the anti-Semitism of his co-workers, he quit and enrolled at New York University to study sociology, earning a master's degree in 1952 and a doctorate in 1957.
While working on his doctorate he counseled juvenile delinquents in Newark.
"Lots of social workers came from a sterile background," he told The Times in 1985. "But I felt right at home with jailed kids.... I figured it was my responsibility to tell society why these kids were violent, and at the same time to explain the attitudes of civilized people to the kids in jail."
In 1961, after teaching at the University of Massachusetts for three years, Yablonsky accepted a position at UCLA and began to study Synanon, which was gaining attention for its innovative treatment of drug addiction. He helped introduce Synanon members to psychodrama, a role-playing therapy he learned at NYU from its leading practitioner, Jacob Moreno.
He was married for 17 years to Donna King, a former addict he met during a psychodrama session at Synanon. Their marriage ended in divorce. Besides son Mitch, of Santa Monica, Yablonsky is survived by a brother, Joseph, of Lady Lake, Fla.
In 1963 he began a 30-year career on the sociology faculty at what is now Cal State Northridge. In 1967 he was one of two state college instructors honored for outstanding teaching by the system's board of trustees. In 2000 he received a career achievement award from the American Sociological Assn.
"He was an unconventional scholar," said retired Cal State Northridge sociologist Nathan Weinberg. "He wasn't somebody who was conducting statistical work. He was very hands-on."
Yablonsky's research on the hippie movement was an example of what he called "live non-statistical research." After finishing the book on Synanon, he spent three years visiting communes from San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury to New York's East Village. He described his experiences in the counterculture and its effect on lifestyles and morality in "The Hippie Trip" (1968), which critic Robert Kirsch in a Los Angeles Times review called "a penetrating examination of the movement."
Although Yablonsky was opposed to recreational drug use, he tried marijuana and went on an LSD trip as part of his study. But he had limits.
When he found himself in a romantic setting with a young woman who had shed all her clothes, "middle-class square uptightness" came over him. "I got up," he recalled, "and took a walk."


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Trends We Noticed at the Manhattan Cocktail Classic 2013
Highlights from beer festivals and cocktail celebrations.
My, that was a long weekend.
The Manhattan Cocktail Classic was held this weekend in New York. The five-day conference kicked off with the Gala on Friday evening. From there, it branched off into two days of public events, held at restaurants and bars around the city on Saturday and Sunday, and three days of the Industry Invitational, a group of seminars and tasting sessions held for members of the trade and the press, Saturday through Monday.
Surrounding the Classic were various ancillary events, not officially part of the Classic. Most notable were the Speed Rack finals, Thursday night, which I attended. I then bookended the weekend with the Independent Spirits Expo, Tuesday afternoon.
Now that it's over, I wanted to step back and observe a bit, tallying up the trends and themes I noticed throughout the festival.
You could hardly turn around at the Classic without finding punches—bourbon punches, gin punches, rum punches, mezcal punches, and even vodka punches. It's not hard to understand why. They're easy to make for a crowd and even easier to serve when you have a couple dozen people crowding your table, waiting for a drink.
Some of them were great; others, not so much. The great ones were balanced between the base spirit, citrus, and sweetening agents. The not-so-great were too sweet or too tart from citrus. I had a few that were probably delicious at the beginning but were just out too long. The ice had melted, and the punch was insipid. The best punch I tasted was the mezcal punch at the Del Maguey table at Speed Rack. Smoky, tart, and complex, it tasted as good at the end of the glass as with the first sip.
Low-Alcohol Boozing
As I get older, I find that I'm starting to appreciate less-boozy drinks all the more. One highlight of the weekend was tasting through the Haus Alpenz portfolio of vermouths and aromatized wines. Alpenz imports Dolin's vermouths and Cocchi's aromatized wines. Keep an eye out, though, for Cappelletti Americano Rosso, a product new to the U.S. market that should hit shelves by the end of summer. (Americano, in this context, has nothing to do with the continents or the nation. It's derived from amer, or bitter, the same root that brings us amaro/amari.)
The Americano Rosso is a treat for restaurants who have beer and wine licenses and can't make cocktails with hard booze. It's bitter enough to stand in for Campari and other bitter liqueurs, so it should provide a little extra flexibility for low-alcohol mixed drinks.
Another highlight was the vermouth seminar offered by Atsby, a brand of vermouths from New York. There, we sampled two cocktails featuring Atsby along with straight pours of the vermouths, and it was all paired with treats from NYC's Murray's Cheese. Each cocktail or pour was matched with a cheese from the board. We all know that wine and cheese are perfect cocktail-party pairings. Next time, why not stir up some vermouth cocktails to supplement your wines?
Bottled (and Canned) Cocktails
One trend I was surprised not to see more of was the individually sized bottled cocktail. The idea behind these drinks is simple. You batch up a cocktail, pour it into single-serving bottles, and cap it off. You can carbonate them, but you don't have to. I found only two (although had I gone to a class at Pouring Ribbons, I'd have enjoyed others). Xanté pear-brandy liqueur offered a tasty bottled cocktail of mezcal, Xanté, and citrus at Speed Rack, and most notably, Campari offered a really fun idea at the Gala: a Negroni in a can.
A Gin-Soaked Party
One of the highlights of the Industry Invitational, held Saturday through Monday at the Andaz Fifth Avenue, were the tasting rooms in various locations throughout the hotel. I was happy to find a number of new gins to sample, including bottlings from the Chase Distillery, Victoria Spirits, Brooklyn Gin, Berkshire Mountain Distilleries, and Right Gin. And, if I may say, I'm happy to see that most of them have walked away from the idea that juniper is scary. You are gin! Be gin! I'm tired of gins in which the juniper is fourth behind lavender and cubeb and bergamot. Be gin, dammit. Embrace the juniper.
I was initially disappointed not to see more mezcal around the festival. I had a mezcal punch and straight shots of Del Maguey while at Speed Rack, but I didn't see much of it at the Gala or Invitational. The Indie Spirits Expo, however, more than made up for it. Among the brands represented were Wahaka, Fidencio, and El Buho. At another booth, Mezcal from Oaxaca represented an affiliation of 12 independent mezcal brands.
The diversity of mezcal is immediately obvious when you're tasting so many at one time. Mezcal uses 100% agave, of course, but from there, the families who make mezcal have freedom. Most mezcal is made from espadin agave, which is commonly cultivated in Oaxaca, but some producers use wild or semi-wild agaves, each of which provides a different character to the product.
I tasted whiskeys with rice, millet, and quinoa used in the mash bill. The subtle differences in those whiskeys reminded me of the distinctions I tasted between mezcal made of various agaves.
Some mexcals were smokier than others (one, from Fidencio, isn't smoked at all); some more herbal; some bone-dry, and others creamy in texture.
Did you attend the Classic this week? What trends did you notice?
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Hubble Pinpoints Distant Supernovae
These Hubble Space Telescope images pinpoint three distant supernovae, which exploded and died billions of years ago. Scientists are using these faraway light sources to estimate if the universe was expanding at a faster rate long ago and is now slowing down.
Images of SN 1997cj are in the left hand column; SN 1997ce, in the middle; and SN 1997ck, on the right. All images were taken by the Hubble telescope's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2. The top row of images are wider views of the supernovae. The supernovae were discovered in April 1997 in a ground-based survey at the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope on Mauna Kea, Hawaii.
Once the supernovae were discovered, the Hubble telescope was used to distinguish the supernovae from the light of their host galaxies. A series of Hubble telescope images were taken in May and June 1997 as the supernovae faded. Six Hubble telescope observations spanning five weeks were taken for each supernova. This time series enabled scientists to measure the brightness and create a light curve. Scientists then used the light curve to make an accurate estimate of the distances to the supernovae. Scientists combined the estimated distance with the measured velocity of the supernova's host galaxy to determine the expansion rate of the universe in the past (5 to 7 billion years ago) and compare it with the current rate.
These supernovae belong to a class called Type Ia, which are considered reliable distance indicators. Looking at great distances also means looking back in time because of the finite velocity of light. SN 1997ck exploded when the universe was half its present age. It is the most distant supernova ever discovered (at a redshift of 0.97), erupting 7.7 billion years ago. The two other supernovae exploded about 5 billion years ago. SN 1997ce has a redshift of 0.44; SN 1997cj, 0.50. SN 1997ck is in the constellation Hercules, SN 1997ce is in Lynx, just north of Gemini; and SN 1997cj is in Ursa Major, near the Hubble Deep Field.
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WThRemix Entries InMarch 08, 2003
Wow. 'Underwhelmed' comes to mind. The entries for the W3C redesign contest are in, and it's pretty clear that the goals of the contest weren't entirely met.
The theory: redesign W3.org to be far more attractive, useful, and organized than its current incarnation. Not officially sanctioned by the organization itself, but still a worthwhile goal.
In web design there are three camps these days: the amateur hack (who rarely cares about standards), the hardcore W3 geek (who rarely has a lick of design talent), and the designer (who creates beauty that seldom validates). The contest represents the second category in spades. It's obvious the latter category, the people who were supposed to enter, didn't.
Let's be clear — pure CSS and XHTML design can be quite effective, but due to the boxy nature of DIVs and the lack of diversity in available fonts, they all tend to be unified by a certain style. There's a distinct look to CSS–based design, and while some are far better than others, it's generally not hard to tell at a glance whether a site was mocked up in Photoshop first or coded from the ground up.
So it seems that the designers this contest targetted collectively shrugged it off. Why? Lack of exposure? It hit K10k and others. Lack of interest? Quite possibly. Many designers would rather work with the uniform consistency of Flash than the tricky tinkering of CSS. Lack of payoff? The prizes weren't exactly drop–what–you're–doing–and–bang–off–an–entry calibre. Whatever the reason, it happened.
Pretty high and mighty position for someone who didn't submit an entry? Maybe, but am I wrong? I'd have liked to enter, in hindsight, but in my case I just had better things to do.
There are a few great entries though, this one and this one are quite strong, and while busy, even this one is a step up from the rest. Familiar with the work of about half the judges on the list, I'd guess I have picked at least two of the top three finishers. My money is on Radu.
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sweet mother of god, most of those entries are hideous. i think only out of work, crappy programmers entered that contest.
I was really looking forward to the entries in this contest. I remember seeing it promoted on some of the major design sites, advertising it as "a way to make W3 standards sexy so designers start supporting them."
I tend to see W3 cheerleaders as being code jockeys, accessibility freaks, and people who generally don't use Photoshop much. There's overlap, since a lot of great designers are also really supportive of the idea and use structured XHTML and valid CSS, but they're generally the exception rather than the rule.
Which is probably why this contest failed. If the goal is to lure more designers into using CSS et al, then you need designers who have already bought into it to enter, not code geeks. Most of the entries focused on the 'organizing the navigation' side of it and completely missed the 'make it beautiful' part.


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Michael R.
Sunday, October 13, 2013
By: Michael Ranieri
I was 19 and on January 15th 2012 I drove myself to the hospital cause I was having trouble moving my arm and leg. When I got there they ran a bunch of tests and scans and told me I was having a stroke. What little I can move my hand was gonna disappear. I was transferred to Jefferson hospital in Philly where the nurse in the neurological icu unit told me I was probably never gonna walk again. I have a cavernous malformation in the center of my left side of my brain. That burst opened and was filling my brain with blood. It's right where all the motor functions are controlled. I lost every movement of muscles on my right side. I couldn't uncurl my hand from a ball, couldn't move my arm, and couldn't walk at first. But I walked outta the hospital with a cane giving that nurse the middle finger. I went home having trouble talkin and couldn't move my right side. I felt stupid, couldn't think straight, focus, remember what I was saying in the middle of a sentence. I had constant headaches throughout recovery and still do, and the worse kind of pulsing headaches you can get. I had to go for an MRI every 3 months to see if it went down. I went to physical and occupational therapy for a while then my father who I lived with said he wasn't takin me anymore. He wasn't helping me anymore or payin for therapy. So I just started doin therapy myself at home, and once I could move my arm I started playin basketball. It was very hard but the tripleing and shooting were very helpful for getting my arm back. I went it the hospital that June cause my brain bled a little, and for some reason my dad kicked me out when I got home. I moved in with my aunt and it was the best thing for me, I don't feel like I'm alone. I don't feel like I could die in my room and no one would know til they smelt me. I was fine all summer I was basically 95% healed and the thing in my brain was down 8 times the size it was when I first had my stroke and January . The doctors were surprised that I recovered and were relived that they didn't have to do a risky surgery. I returned to working about 8 months after my stroke and it felt great to do something productive again. It felt great that my life wasn't over, that I can built a life even with all the things my stroke has stolen from me. But after 3 weeks of my job I had an MRI and my neurologist called and told me my brain was bleeding. The thing in my head grew and I got 2 opinions on what's next. I have to wait til I have another stroke then get brain surgery to remove the cavernous malformation. This surgery is likely to leave me paralyzed on my right side permanently. So I'm just waiting til it happens. Checking every morning if I can open my hand. It gets weaker everyday and my legs goin too.
I'm just thankful for my family. Without them I couldn't get through this. The only thing that is getting me out of bed anymore is my 2 baby nieces who I love watching them grow and devolve personalities. I never told anyone this, but my stroke mad me angry. It stole my life. But I realized that after all is said and done, I just have to steal it back.
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North to the night: a spiritual odyssey in the Arctic
Broadway Books, Sep 14, 1999 - Nature - 336 pages
In June 1994 Alvah Simon and his wife, Diana, set off in their 36-foot sailboat to explore the hauntingly beautiful world of icebergs, tundra, and fjords lying high above the Arctic Circle. Four months later, unexpected events would trap Simon alone on his boat, frozen in ice 100 miles from the nearest settlement, with the long polar night stretching into darkness for months to come. With his world circumscribed by screaming blizzards and marauding polar bears and his only companion a kitten named Halifax, Simon withstands months of crushing loneliness, sudden blindness, and private demons. Trapped in a boat buried beneath the drifting snow, he struggles through the perpetual darkness toward a spiritual awakening and an understanding of the forces that conspired to bring him there. He emerges five months later a transformed man. Simon's powerful, triumphant story combines the suspense ofInto Thin Airwith a crystalline, lyrical prose to explore the hypnotic draw of one of earth's deepest and most dangerous wildernesses.
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ATHENS, Georgia – Lipscomb's track and field athletes wrapped up the regular season at the Georgia Invitational Saturday with one victory and several personal records.
"We had a solid meet today," said Bill Taylor, director of track and field. "Some good personal records, which are a good sign heading into conference."
The team used the final meet of the regular season as a tune-up for the Atlantic Sun Outdoor Championships.
Gemikal Prude proved to be rested and ready for the championships finishing first in the high jump with his leap of 2.15 meters.
Kayla Droessler and Kaitlyn Llewellyn finished third and fourth in the 3000 meters respectively. Droessler crossed the line in 10:13.14 while Llewellyn finished in 10:36.52.
Droessler's time earned her a new personal record in the event.
The Georgia Invitational provided the opportunity for other Bisons to set new personal records as well.
Juan Gonzalez set a personal record in the 800 meters after posting his time of 3:56.59.
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Other personal bests posted were Colin Dempster in the 100 meters (10.72), Aaron Beckwith in the pole vault (4.60 meters), Jalen Thompson in the triple jump (13.59 meters), Annika Backlund in the javelin (26.28 meters), Joe Sanderson in the javelin (41.93 meters), and Abby Newby in the javelin (29.91 meters).
Freshman Jazmyne McGill snagged two new personal records Saturday in both the shot put (12.12 meters) and the hammer throw (39.43 meters).
Madi Talbert picked up third in the 1500 meters with her time of 4:32.02.
The men's 4x400-meter relay team closed out the running events with a second-place finish. Kenny Smith, Brian Gentry, Nelson Scott, and Dempster each contributed to the final time of 3:13.56.
"The spirit of the team was good," Taylor said. "I think we are ready to step it up in a week. All in all it was a worthwhile competition for us."
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Show off your photographic talents and share your corner of the county with others in The Brunswick Beacon's 2012 "Brunswick Life" photo contest. Winners will receive cash prizes and inclusion in future Brunswick Beacon publications including the 2013 calendar.
There are three divisions to include all ages. The kids' division is for ages 12 and younger. The teen division includes ages 13 to 18 years old, and the adult division is for photographers who are 19 years old and older.
Pick up your camera and show us what makes life in Brunswick County unique.
The deadline for entry is noon Friday, Oct. 19.
There is an entry fee of $5 per photo in the adult division. Kids' and teen divisions are free. Participants may enter as many photos as they wish.
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GASTONIA � Former Gastonia Post 23 American Legion and Gastonia Grizzlies standout Tyler White has already gotten a promotion from the Houston Astros organization after a fast start to his professional career.
White, a 2009 Chase High graduate who was a four-year standout at Western Carolina, began his pro career with the Gulf Coast League Astros after being a 33rd-round draft selection.
And after hitting .365 with one home run and 15 RBIs in 18 games for the GCL team, White was promoted to the Greeneville, Tenn., Astros of the Rookie Appalachian League. In White�s first game with his new team, he went three for four with one RBI.
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Three former local standouts are having good summers in different leagues.
In the New England Collegiate League, Jeffrey Springs (South Point 2011) is 3-2 with a 1.95 ERA in six appearances (five starts) for the Plymouth Pilgrims (11-19).
In the Northwoods League, Reilly Hovis (Forestview 2012) is 1-1 with a 3.20 ERA in three appearances (two starts) for the Madison Mallards (24-13).
And in the Valley League, Jordan Edgerton (South Point 2011) is hitting .290 with one home run and 14 RBIs in 31 games for the Woodstock River Bandits. The River Bandits (21-12) are atop their league standings.
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Jeff Hall (North Gaston 1987) and Johnny McCraw (North Gaston 1988) helped Team USA roll to a 25-10 victory over Canada last week in the Border Battle in Oklahoma City.
Hall had a single in a six-run second inning that gave Team USA the lead for good and McCraw slugged a home run later in the game.
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Blake Lalli (Gardner-Webb 2002-06) is hitting .274 with six home runs and 19 RBIs in 51 games for the Nashville Sounds. Nashville is the Milwaukee Brewers� Class AAA Pacific Coast League affiliate.
Alex Castellanos (Belmont Abbey 2007-08) is hitting .277 with 13 home runs and 44 RBIs in 64 games for the Albuquerque Isotopes. Albuquerque is the Los Angeles Dodgers� Class AAA Pacific League affiliate.
Mitch Harris (South Point 2004) is 1-0 with a 0.73 ERA in eight appearances for the State College Spikes. State College is the St. Louis Cardinals� Class A New York-Penn League affiliate.
Devin Harris (Ashbrook 2006) is hitting .256 with 18 home runs and 60 RBIs in 89 games for the San Jose Giants. San Jose is the San Francisco Giants� Class A California League affiliate.
Jake Buchanan (North Gaston 2007) is 1-2 with a 5.00 ERA in three starts for the Oklahoma City RedHawks. Oklahoma City is the Houston Astros� Class AAA Pacific Coast League affiliate.
Emilio Pagan (Gardner-Webb 2010-11, Belmont Abbey 2012-13) is 1-0 with four saves and a 0.00 ERA in six appearances for the Pulaski Mariners. Pulaski is the Seattle Mariners� Appalachian rookie League affiliate.
And Julian Ridings (Crest 2010) is hitting .222 with one RBI in 18 games for the Hudson Valley Renegades. The Renegades are the Class A New York-Penn League affiliate of the Tampa Bay Rays.
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Julian Rauch (Ashbrook 2003) has converted 47 of 59 extra points and made one of seven field goal attempts in 10 games for the Pittsburgh Power (3-13), who visit the Tampa Bay Storm on Saturday.
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Pratt wins women's U.S. oyster shucking title
Virginia Oyster Shucking Champion Deborah Pratt of Jamaica in Middlesex County won the Women's Division of the National Oyster Shucking Contest at St. Mary's County, Maryland, last Saturday. Pratt finished first by beating Cathy Millikin of Supply, N.C., with a time of 3:22.81.
In the finals between the men's and women's champions, Pratt lost to world champion William Chopper Young, who was representing the state of Massachusetts.
Last month, Young won the World Oyster Shucking Title in Galway, Ireland. On Saturday, Young defeated Pratt in the U.S. Championship with an adjusted time of 2:49.03. Pratt finished second in 3:49.6.
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Tom Apple, Chancellor-Designate of the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, arrives on campus Monday, June 18. "We welcome Tom to the UH Mānoa campus, where it has been my pleasure and privilege to serve as Chancellor for the past five years," said Chancellor Virginia Hinshaw. "I look forward to working with him to facilitate a smooth leadership transition over the coming weeks."
Said Apple, "My wife, Anne, and I are touched and overwhelmed by the aloha we have experienced, not only from the campus-wide UH Mānoa 'ohana but the greater Hawai'i community. I'm a firm believer that effective leadership begins with listening and plan to launch a 'listening tour' to learn more about needs, aspirations and desires for the Mānoa campus. I will be focusing on three priorities: (1) pursuing student success/transformation, (2) increasing research, and (3) grounding UH Mānoa in the traditional values of the Native Hawaiian culture."
The UH Board of Regents selected Apple from among five finalists. Dr. Apple, a distinguished chemist and academic leader, will assume leadership of the Mānoa campus on Sunday, June 24.
Hinshaw, a noted virologist and experienced administrator, will return to the faculty at the John A. Burns School of Medicine at the end of the month. Under her tenure, UH Mānoa has earned full WASC accreditation for the maximum term of 10 years. The campus has increased financial aid to ensure access for Hawai'i's students and provided a smoother transition for transferring students from UH community colleges to continue their higher education. She has been credited with elevating community engagement to new heights through numerous partnerships locally, nationally and internationally, and effectively communicating the value that UH Mānoa provides to Hawai'i and the world.


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"Kill them all slowly and painfully," the artist rapped at a 2004 anti-U.S. protest concert.
South Korean pop sensation PSY, aka Park Jae-sang -- might have won Americans over with his infectious breakthrough single, "Gangnam Style," but has America won him over? The singer will be forced to face those kinds of questions as several anti-American protest performances from his past have begun to surface.
At a 2002 concert staged in opposition to 37,000 U.S. troops stationed on the Korean Peninsula, Mediate reports, PSY took to the stage in gold face paint and a glittery red outfit, then lifted a model U.S. tank over his head before smashing it to pieces on the ground. The performance was a response to the death of two Korean school girls, killed in an accident with an American military vehicle, according to Korean website BusanHaps.com.
Then, two years later, a South Korean missionary was executed in Iraq -- a revenge killing for the country's support of the U.S. war in Iraq. During a protest concert, PSY rapped on the song "Dear American," "Kill those f---ing Yankees who have been torturing Iraqi captives/Kill those f---ing Yankees who ordered them to torture/Kill their daughters, mothers, daughters-in-law and fathers/Kill them all slowly and painfully."
PSY has appeared on Ellen and the Today show in support of his smash hit song, which has been downloaded 3 million times on iTunes, is the most-viewed video in YouTube history and has earned him more than $8 million, according to some estimates.
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SAN JOSE, Calif. - WirelessComm, a distributor for the Metro PCS cell phone service provider, will pay $97,000 and provide other relief to settle a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today.
According to the EEOC's lawsuit, a male store manager subjected then-19-year-old Deisy Mora to abuse throughout her employment, including offensive sexual comments and unsolicited texts and photos. Mora's complaints were not addressed and she eventually quit her job when she could no longer endure the harassment.
Sexual harassment violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as well as state laws. The EEOC filed this suit (EEOC & Mora v. WirelessComm et al Case No. C 11-04796 EJD) in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California after an investigation conducted by EEOC investigator Rosa Salazar and first attempting to reach voluntary settlement out of court. Mora also intervened in the EEOC's lawsuit as an individual plaintiff represented by private attorneys Jonathan Gettleman and Eric Nelson of Santa Cruz, Calif.
Under the consent decree resolving this lawsuit, WirelessComm has also agreed to hire an equal employment opportunity consultant and a human resources consultant to revise its EEO policies; train the owner and staff regarding anti-discrimination laws; monitor the workplace; respond to any allegations of harassment arising during the pendency of the decree; and report harassment complaints to the EEOC. The court will retain jurisdiction of the decree for three years.
"It is critical for employers to ensure that their managers do not step outside the law," said EEOC San Francisco Regional Attorney William R. Tamayo. "Employers should be particularly vigilant in protecting teenagers from discrimination given their vulnerability in the work force."
EEOC San Francisco District Director Michael Baldonado added, "We are happy that WirelessComm has taken steps to make sure that its employees understand their rights and to create an infrastructure to prevent future harassment."
The EEOC recently updated its Youth@Work website (at www.eeoc.gov/youth) , which presents information for teens and other young workers about employment discrimination. The website also contains curriculum guides for students and teachers and videos to help young workers learn about their rights and responsibilities in the work force.
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Review of Acupuncture for Dogs and Cats
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Book Title: Acupuncture for Dogs and Cats
Editors: Christina Matern
Publisher: Thieme Publishers; 2011, $79.99*
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- Atlas of Acupuncture: This consists of fourteen chapters spanning 280 pages. Its atlas layout displays a double-page spread with text on the left side and, on the right side, detailed photographs demonstrating the different acupuncture points. The drawings are precise and show both bone and muscle groups. Each channel and the relevant acupuncture points are discussed systematically and this makes for easy reference. Additionally, each acupuncture is discussed for its effect, indications, localisation and technique.
This book focuses solely on small animal acupuncture, mainly intended for dogs and cats. It contains practical knowledge complimented with easy pictorial referencing, that introduce the principles of TCM and acupuncture. All chapters are well marked and the print is on glossy paper and the photographs are in colour. This manual is intended for veterinarians and acupuncturists as their reference atlas.
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Dr. Shen's service with the firm dates back to 2004, including his years with Barclays Global Investors (BGI), which merged with BlackRock in 2009. At BGI, he was the Head of Asia and Emerging Market equity investment. Prior to joining BGI, he was the global head of asset allocation research and macro absolute return investment at JP Morgan Asset Management. Dr. Shen began his career in 1997 and worked in fund of hedge funds, risk management research and macro investment functions for JP Morgan in New York and London. In addition, he is an adjunct professor at NYU and UC Berkeley teaching MBA/MFE classes on international investment.
Dr. Shen earned a BA degree in economics from Hobart College in 1993, an MA degree in economics from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1995, and a PhD degree in finance from New York University in 2000.
Ph.D., Finance and International Business, 2000
New York University Stern School of Business
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Structuring your company around safe environmental practices is becoming a necessity
By Neil Bolding, Steven Abbott
The drain is the ubiquitous black hole where waste goes, and, once it's gone, most of us tend to think nothing more about it. Out of sight is out of mind. Well, not anymore. The drain-disposal route is a significant waste outlet we must consider in our environmental best practices journey. We encourage printers to be aware of their responsibilities to their drain systems and to the ever increasing restrictions on what can go down them.
Among the various catch phrases prevalent in our industry today, one is "drain safe," which is a misleading term at best. Water can be thought of as drain safe, but too much of it down a drain can cause problems. Assurances made about the safety of products that will inevitably find their way to the drain are meant to offer printers wrestling with disposal issues a sense of security. But ignorance of true waste-disposal requirements is no safety net when the local water authorities decide to inspect your company.
Every region has focuses on different aspects of what goes down a drain, but these aspects are all variants of four key factors:
• volume of effluent
• percent solids and biological oxygen demand (BOD) and chemical oxygen demand (COD) of the effluent
• effect on bacteria in the effluent system
• effect on the outflow of the sewage system
We'll discuss each in turn after a short description of how an ideal sewage system functions.
A stable sewer
The basic idea is that any waste sent down the drain should get converted into harmless byproducts by the bacteria in a sewage system. This degradation takes time, so a balance must be found. A very large sewage system will cope with nearly anything you can throw at it—but such systems represent a large investment, and regulators will still control what you can send down the drain. A small sewage system might cope well with average loads of effluent, but they can be overwhelmed by big surges of waste. So the ideal waste stream is a steady, modest load that gives the bacteria ample time to do their job.
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Reading 3: Preserving the Landscape
Roads in parks were not simply engineering projects, they were also works of "landscape engineering." This concept was rooted in fundamental National Park Service policies: first, that the landscape be preserved, and, second, that all necessary construction harmonize with nature. The Glacier highway project helped define the role of Park Service landscape engineers. "Landscape protection" needed to be central to the fundamental civil engineering decisions that now loomed large in plans for development at Glacier and at many other parks.
The section of the route for the Going-to-the-Sun Road over the Continental Divide was the first test. In 1918, National Park Service Chief Engineer George Goodwin proposed a route that followed the Logan Creek Valley, ascending about 2,600 feet to Logan Pass. The proposed route crossed Logan Creek seven times in a series of hairpin turns, or switchbacks, ascending the steep slope. Goodwin claimed that this direct route would "meet every requirement for park travel or commercial hauling"--requirements that he assumed were more or less identical.1
Stephen Mather, Director of the National Park Service, went to Glacier during the summer of 1924 to inspect the proposed route with Goodwin, Park Service landscape engineer Thomas Vint, and the park superintendent. Dismounting a few miles west of Logan Pass, the group took in the view of Logan Creek and the summits of the Livingston Range that marked the Continental Divide down the center of the park. Dominated by the huge, almost vertical cliff called the Garden Wall, the green valley of Logan Creek provided the foreground of a stunning panorama of the Glacier high country. Thomas Vint complained that building switchbacks up the valley would make it look "like miners had been in there." Instead, he urged the director to replace the series of switchbacks with a road carved directly into the rock of the Garden Wall. This relatively straight roadway would preserve the valley below completely untouched. The solution called for a much longer road benched into solid rock for many miles. Although more challenging and expensive, it resulted in a simple and elegant design.
Mather faced an important choice. Considering the dramatic views from the approaches to Logan Pass, there were expectations that the Glacier road would be the most spectacular scenic drive in the country. But the potential for failure was great. If the road permanently scarred the scenic heart of Glacier National Park, or if the project was merely bungled through bad management, the reputation of the Park Service might never recover. Two days later, Mather enlisted the aid of the Bureau of Public Roads, a federal agency whose high standards of highway construction he admired. The Bureau assigned Frank Kittredge to survey the route.
In his 1925 report to the Park Service, Kittredge presented three alternatives. Goodwin's 1918 proposal was the first; the second was a revised version of the 1918 proposal. The third alternative was the Garden Wall route that Vint had suggested the previous summer. Kittredge "strongly recommended" this alternative, since it "met the requirements more than any other." The route would "permit safe grades and curvature," would be "capable of future improvement," and could be kept free of snow for the longest possible season. Beside these practical considerations, the engineer added that the third alternative would "exhibit the grandeur of the park to the maximum."2 In Kittredge, Vint had found an ally who could validate landscape preservation not only as good policy, but also as good engineering.
In April, representatives of the Park Service and the Bureau of Public Roads met to lay out the ground rules for how the Service and the Bureau would cooperate on Going-to-the-Sun Road. The interbureau arrangement allowed the Park Service to take advantage of the expertise and organization of the Bureau of Public Roads without giving up control over where, when, and how park roads would be built. Park Service landscape engineers retained the right to review and alter location surveys and contract specification to assure that construction met their standards for landscape preservation, as well as the Bureau standards for sound and economical engineering. In January 1926, these arrangements were formalized in a memorandum of agreement between the National Park Service and the Bureau of Public Roads that defined park road projects for the next 25 years.3
The construction of the western portion of the Going-to-the-Sun Road guided the evolution of the interbureau arrangement. The construction contracts had been written to prohibit blasting that would scar trees over a wide area. Excavated materials were to be thrown over the side of the road only in areas where roadsides and trees were less likely to be damaged. Both clauses were sometimes ignored. In one case, the blasting crew packed 12 and a half tons of black powder and 80 boxes of dynamite into a series of large holes. When the charge was ignited, an eyewitness reported that he "saw, or had the impression of seeing...what looked to be a half of a mountain slowly rise, crumble, move out, and drop over a cliff...[leaving] a horrendous scar on the mountainside."4 Only after Kittredge became chief engineer of the Park Service in 1927 was he able to ensure enforcement of provisions intended to protect surrounding landscape features, even at the cost of convenience and economy.
Park Service commitment to "preserve the landscape" at any cost and the high construction standards of the Bureau of Public Roads greatly increased the expense of building the road. When Going-to-the-Sun Road was finally dedicated in 1933, it had been eight years since Kittredge re-surveyed the western approach to Logan Pass, and 11 since the first Congressional appropriations. The road that Goodwin had estimated at about $600,000 had cost over $2,500,000. But it was, according to Superintendent Scoyen, "the most beautiful piece of mountain road in the world." And the road had helped inspire a policy for roads in other parks, as the letter from National Park Service Director Albright that Scoyen read at the dedication made clear: "The major portion of Glacier Park will always be accessible only by trail....Let there be no competition of other roads with the Going-to-the-Sun [Road]. It should stand supreme and alone."5
Questions for Reading 3
1. What were the alternate proposals for the route over Logan Pass? How did they differ?
2. Why was the Garden Wall route selected?
3. One historian of Park Service landscape design said that "finalizing the location of the route over Logan Pass presented the most important single road-building decision yet faced by Mather and the Park Service." Why do you think he might have thought so?
4. Look again at the quote from Director Albright. What do you think the new park policy on road building in the parks was?
Reading 3 was adapted from Ethan Carr, "Going-to-the-Sun Road" (Glacier and Flathead County, Montana) National Historic Landmark documentation, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, 1996; and Kathryn Steen, "Going-to-the-Sun Road" brochure, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, n.d.
1 George Goodwin to A. J. Breitenstein, August 17, 1921, Glacier National Park, Central Files, Entry 6, RG 79, National Archives, Washington, D.C.
1 George Goodwin to A. J. Breitenstein, August 17, 1921, Glacier National Park, Central Files, Entry 6, RG 79, National Archives, Washington, D.C.


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How many more of these right wing hypocrites are out there? Wow!
How many more of these right wing hypocrites are out there? Wow!
We agree.
One of the problems that the New Republican Party has faced is that they wanted to get involved in every part of everyone's life.
The Conservative Principles of less government, less taxes makes great sense. But, somehow, the word conservative has been misused by the Far Right Christian agenda.
I don't want government in my life. I want my children to participate in the religion of his or her choice, not state sponsored Christianity. I want my children to marry the person of her or his choice, not a person who's sex is mandated by the government.
I don't want a government that is only going to get involved when it is good for pure capitolism either. That's just as dangerous.
My government should be there to look out for my safety. In areas like National Defense, Air and Water Quality, Food Safety, Civil Rights. Air Control, Highway and Automobile Safety, and so on. The New Republican Party seems to want to control my thinking and Rights while they turn a blind eye to my safety and support the unregulated growth of Capitolism.
Let's hope that the Republican Party can get back to normal someday and give us some candidates that the American People can support.


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audioio wrote:Paul Maybury wrote: It was in poor shape and nobody wanted it.Too big and everything it does can be done with a laptop now. It was about to go in a skip. I had to rescue it from such an ignominious fate.
That we should all make such discoveries. I move in the wrong circles!
There are numerous stories of Pultecs being thrown into dumpsters 30 plus years ago when they were deemed old technology and past their use by date. And how many EMT plates were being shoved out the door when Lexicon started rolling out their new fangled digiverbs in earnest?


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Private foundations help make new drugs and therapies possible by funding research at all stages, from initial discovery through clinical trials. Landmark scientific achievements begin as high risk pilot projects, and foundation support of these endeavors can be pivotal in their ultimate success. As research progresses, private support is crucial to expanding studies, testing hypotheses and laying the groundwork for clinical trials. Foundation support also leverages scientific knowledge, promoting the translation of basic investigations out of the laboratory and into the clinic.
The following list of recent Fred Hutch breakthrough discoveries provides examples of the impact of foundation support:
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You know it's coming.
It's the most feared question during any job interview: Do you think I would look good in a cowboy hat? Just kidding. The real question is: Can you tell me about yourself?
Blecch. What a boring, vague, open-ended question. Who likes answering that?
Unfortunately, hiring managers and executive recruiters ask the question. Even if you're not interviewing and you're out networking in the community — you need to be ready to hear it and answer it. At all times.
Now, before TheLadders shares a list of 10 memorable answers, consider the two essential elements behind the answers:
The medium is the message. The interviewer cares less about your answer to this question and more about the confidence, enthusiasm and passion with which you answer it.
The speed of the response is the response. The biggest mistake you could make is pausing, stalling or fumbling at the onset of your answer, thus demonstrating a lack of self-awareness and self-esteem.
Next time you're faced with the dreaded, "Tell me about yourself…" question, try the following suggestions from TheLadders. Keep in mind that these examples are just the opener. The secret is thinking how you will follow up each answer with relevant, interesting and concise explanations that make the already bored interviewer look up from his stale coffee and think, "Wow! That's the best answer I've heard all day!"
Ultimately, it's about answering quickly, speaking creatively, and breaking people's patterns.
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Through its 21 Technical Committees (TCs), the Vertical Flight Society has gained a reputation as an organization to which the government, industry, academia and the general public look for assistance, direction and leadership with respect to vertical flight technology.
The TCs are comprised of the Society's most dedicated members from around the world and who are experts in their technical field. The committees develop timely, high quality technical information that is disseminated to the vertical flight community through our Annual Forum; technical conferences, workshops, short courses and chapter meetings which take place throughout the year. In addition, they develop and judge annual competitions such as the Student Design Competition and the Micro Air Vehicle Student Challenge.
Committee members also serve as Associate Editors and Reviewers for the prestigious AHS Journal, our quarterly technical publication covering theory and practice on a full range of vertical flight topics.
Serving on a Vertical Flight Society Technical Committee is an excellent way to stay current on the state of the art advances in your specific discipline, while interacting and sharing your expertise within the same professional field. Any member of the Vertical Flight Society is eligible to serve on a technical committee — if you are not currently a member, go to our Membership page to join.
Interested in joining a committee? Log in using your username and password to notify the chair of the committee of your interest or to find out more about the committee. Fresh insights are always welcome!
Vertical Flight Society members can access the committee full rosters including email and phone numbers when logged in by clicking on the committee name before the description. Click here for PDF of the Technical Council Ops Guidelines & Committee Charters.
This committee studies component and full-system noise generation and propagation. Methods of internal and external noise alleviation through active and passive control are also investigated.
Advanced Vertical Flight Committee
This committee's purpose is to broaden the vertical fight technology base with emphasis on V/STOL concepts beyond the conventional rotorcraft area.
Aerodynamics Committee
This committee studies lift and external propulsion components and systems and their interaction; airframe aerodynamics; noise mechanisms; overall performance; and air loads.
Aircraft Design Committee
This committee coordinates Society activities on (a) overall aircraft, subsystem, and component design; (b) design technology, design criteria, and design synthesis; (c) interdisciplinary design considerations including performance, reliability, maintainability, weights, and economics; and (d) vulnerability and crash safety considerations. The Aircraft Design Committee also oversees the activities of the Icing ITT.
Avionics & Systems Committee
This committee studies avionics, armament, and other mission equipment, and human engineering subsystems synthesis, integration and design relating to aircraft missions.
Crash Safety Committee
This committee studies all aspects of rotorcraft crashworthiness technology including human tolerance to crash impacts, in-flight obstacle strike, cockpit delethalization, crashworthy fuel systems, ditching and post-impact flotation, energy absorbing components such as landing gears, subfloor structure, seats and restraint systems with associated design criteria formulation, analytical model development, testing, and system integration into a crashworthy rotorcraft design.
Crew Stations & Human Factors Engineering Committee
This committee studies operational environments and mission requirements for identification of the aircrew and maintainer vehicle interface issues that impact workload and mission success. This will include the study of integrated crew station design; control concepts; information transfer; display methodology; symbology and formats; automation and artificial intelligence concepts; prototyping of crew systems; and the interdisciplinary interface of crew systems with other vehicle systems.
Dynamics Committee
This committee studies aeroelasticity; mechanical stability, vibration characteristics and isolation; structural response to steady and unsteady aerodynamics and other loading, including: noise, gusts, landing, and criteria.
Handling Qualities Committee
This Committee studies flying qualities, stability and control, response modeling criteria, control systems, and ground and water handling.
Health and Usage Monitoring Systems (HUMS) Committee
Studies the application and benefits of helicopter Health and Usage Monitoring System technology. The emphasis is focused on the application of helicopter monitoring systems, and monitoring system technologies, that have the potential of providing reduced helicopter direct operating costs and enhanced safety.
History Committee
The purpose of this committee is to document and preserve the history of the theoretical and practical discoveries that led to the achievement of vertical flight.
Manufacturing Technology and Processing Committee
This committee studies advanced manufacturing and quality assurance methods as applied to production of vertical lift aircraft hardware; new processing techniques, nondestructive evaluation, or unique methods used to produce high quality hardware; design assurance disciplines used to assure design producibility.
Modeling and Simulation Committee
This committee provides focus on the use of manned simulation in support of rotorcraft engineering design, test and evaluation, and aircrew training. The primary orientation of the committee is toward effective scientific and engineering applications of manned flight simulation as opposed to facilities, per se.
Operations Committee
This committee works to enhance the effectiveness of civil and military vertical flight operations.
Product Support Systems Technology Committee
This committee strives to influence the industry to implement product support enhancements by recognizing the diversity of requirements in new and existing fleets. It promotes compatible design concepts that will contribute to the operators' supportability, safety, and economy of operation.
Propulsion Committee
This Committee studies powerplant and power transmission design and criteria including their interaction, airframe interface, operational environment, related accessories and subsystems with primary emphasis on the disciplines of thermodynamics, internal aerodynamics, dynamics and drive-system technology.
Safety Committee
This committee studies the application and benefits of technology and operational procedures in order to negate the safety critical hazards to commercial, private and military rotorcraft in worldwide operations. Safety is considered both at the component reliability level and integrally at the level of the helicopter and its operations.
Structures & Materials Committee
This committee studies structures and structural research, analysis, and testing; design criteria and position loads; material and processing technology.
System Engineering Tools/Processes Committee
This committee seeks a better understanding or communication implementing Systems Engineering elements within the AHS International community. This includes management, application, processes, tools, or results which illustrate the precepts of Systems Engineering integration across the AHS technical areas. Specific topics of interest can range from understanding and documenting of customer requirements and design through manufacturing and field support.
Test & Evaluation Committee
This committee studies testing of all operational aspects, e.g., availability, survivability, economics, interdisciplinary tests and procedures for aircraft and components--small scale, full scale or simulation.
Unmanned VTOL Aircraft & Rotorcraft Committee
The committee seeks to focus on new technologies for UAV systems with a balanced consideration of five broad areas: autonomy and operability; reliability and robustness; payloads, sensors and data links; performance; and survivability.


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November 2014: About Microsoft's patent licence for .NET core
Sitemap • Countries • Why abolish? • Law proposals • Studies • Case law • Patent office case law • Lawsuits
Software patent quality worse than all other fields
Quality problems can happen in any category of patents, but the quality of software patents is particularly bad. This is probably a fundamental problem that can't be avoided in a domain as abstract as software.
The main cause is probably that software is too abstract, making and applying examination rules is just too difficult.
[edit] Evidenced in Allison's 2010 study
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If we consider just patent owner wins and defendant wins on the merits, non‐software patent win 37.1% of their cases across both the most‐litigated and once‐litigated data sets, owners while software patentees win only 12.9%. If we include default judgments, non‐software patent owners win 51.1% of their cases, while software patentees win only 12.9%. Each of these results is highly statistically significant. (...) Once settlements are included, non‐software patent companies win judgments in 4.0% of their suits, while software patentees win judgments in only 1.4% of their suits. Adding default judgments changes these numbers to 7.2% for non‐software patent owners and 1.4% for software patentees.
[edit] Possible reasons
- Abstract algorithms can be described in so many ways.
- Jargon and lack of tangible components can make a mundane software idea sound technical.
- It's impossible for a patent examiner to judge obviousness. Software developers use so many ideas during their work, only a tiny percent ever get submitted to the patent office or otherwise published.
[edit] Examples
- Unbelievable software patents
- FFII's webshop which uses 20 ideas patented in the EU
- Microsoft developer's internal comments about his own patents indecipherable by anyone but a patent attorney
- Some Kodak patents
[edit] Related pages on en.swpat.org
- Raising examination standards wouldn't fix much
- Silly patents
- How to read patents
- Why software is different
- Software patents produce legal uncertainty
- The disclosure is useless
[edit] External links
- Why are Software Patents so Trivial? other version (possibly identical), by FFII
- Is software too abstract to be patented?, 18 Nov 2010, Rob Tiller (Red Hat)
- Why Software is Abstract, by PolR, 7 Oct 2010, Groklaw
- An Open Response to the USPTO — Physical Aspects of Mathematics, 26 Sep 2010, Groklaw
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Chris Braun '81 Named Best Lawyerby Media Release • September 29, 2005 Share:
Four partners at Plews Shadley Racher & Braun – George Plews, Sue Shadley, Peter Racher, and Christopher Braun (Wabash '81) – have been selected by their peers for inclusion in the 2005-2006 edition of The Best Lawyers in America. All four partners were selected for their practice in the field of environmental law.
Attorneys included in The Best Lawyers in America have been selected on the basis of a survey of 15,000 leading attorneys throughout the United States who recommend those lawyers in each state who are among the very best in their fields. Plews Shadley Racher & Braun has offices in Indianapolis and South Bend.


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Molecule stops MERS spread among cultured human cells
A lab-developed protein fragment has stopped the spread of the MERS virus among cultured human cells.
MERS, or Middle East respiratory syndrome, is a viral respiratory illness that has infected 180 people, killing 77.
The newly developed molecule interacts with the protein that the MERS virus uses to enter a host cell, researchers report January 28 in Nature Communications. Whether the molecule can effectively block the spread of MERS in animals and humans is not yet clear.