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The investigation focuses on whether the Company and its executives violated federal securities laws by failing to disclose that: (1) aggressive expansion of Gold Resource's underground mining operations during the first quarter of 2012 had created operational difficulties in the mine, which were lowering mine production; (2) Gold Resource was mining in lower grade zones of the deposit; (3) significant operational efficiency improvements would be needed before the Company could mine from higher grade stopes; (4) decreases in long-hole stoping were forcing the Company to process more diluted development ore and mine from areas of the deposit with lower metal grades; and (5) during the third quarter of 2012, a dispute had arisen between the Company and the buyer of its metal concentrates, with the buyer claiming net reductions to the Company's provisional third quarter 2012 invoices.
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I'm currently having an appearance problem with Firefox 12.0 on Fedora 15. Its visual appearance leaves a lot to be desired.
In case it helps, I'm using an NVidia Geforce FX5200 with 256MB onboard memory and the Firefox 15 Noveau driver.
The symptoms on Firefox 15, using the Google home/search page as an example, are as follows.
The boxes that should be in black along the top of the page are actually white. Each box is separated from the next by a vertical line which projects beneath the shared horizontal line along the bottom of those boxes.
The Google title graphic appears only sometimes.
The flashing cursor in the mid-screen search box projects down across the bottom of the search box.
The two buttons labelled "Google Search" and "I'm Feeling Lucky" have their labels "written" right on the bottom inside edge of their respective buttons.
Has anyone else seen this sort of behaviour from Firefox 12.0 ? If so, do you know if it can be fixed and if so, how ?
The curious thing is, I regularly use Firefox 9 on MS Windows 7. On that platform, this earlier Firefox displays just fine. No sign of the symptoms mentioned above.
I would have thought that as Firefox originated on Linux, the Linux-based Firefox would be the one to show up best. Oh well.
Any help that anyone can give with this would be very much appreciated.

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Teacher resources and professional development across the curriculum
Teacher professional development and classroom resources across the curriculum
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"I decided to teach high school. The only way I could
move here was to teach world history and economics. And I
thought, 'I can do it. I'll get through a couple of years
and then I'll get rid of the economics and I'll be left with
the world history.' And once I started teaching economics
that's what I ended up loving. And so now I'm trying to get
rid of the world history so that I can have all economics."
Classes presented in The Economics Classroom:
Floors (Workshop 3)
Ceilings (Workshop 3)
Interest (Workshop 4)
"Teaching ninth graders economics is a difficult challenge
because they haven't had a lot of real world experiences.
They don't drive, most of them have never worked, they're
still in that transition period from their parents giving
them allowance to knowing more about how to work with money.
But ninth graders are enthusiastic and they're spontaneous
and they like activities … they really enjoy them and don't
look at them as being beneath them."
Classes presented in The Economics Classroom:
Rights (Workshop 3)
"Historically, social studies teachers hate to teach
economics. You have very few teachers on the faculty in any
high school, who have a masters degree, let alone a bachelors
degree in economics. It's always a course that's farmed out
to somebody who has the least seniority. And here I had an
opportunity, I thought, with a passion for the subject, to
really go into depth and give these kids a top-notch education."
Classes presented in The Economics Classroom:
Advantage and Specialization (Workshop 5)
Grenawalt's students are generally very committed and academically
oriented. He notes that even those students who are "sort
of in the middle of the pack" get swept up by the interest
and the enthusiasm that many of the students have.
"Too many American texts present economics from the American
perspective only and we really do live in a global economy
today. I try to find as many curricular materials that perhaps
take us out of our own boundaries and look at it more in terms
of how the Europeans might view it or the people in Asia or
what have you …"
Classes presented in The Economics Classroom:
Trade (Workshop 1)
Trade (Workshop 5)
From Trade (Workshop 5)
Makes Countries Rich? (Workshop 8)
Classes presented in The Economics Classroom:
(Workshop 6)
(Workshop 6)
of Inflation (Workshop 6)
"It's important for all the students, not just AP-level
students, to know about basic economic indicators … They have
to be able to put those into context and understand what that
tells them about the performance of the national economy.
So they can understand what the politicians are saying to
them and political candidates, and what that means in terms
of policy - fiscal policy and monetary policy. I think every
citizen needs to have an understanding of those indicators
and what they mean and what those numbers are telling them."
Classes presented in The Economics Classroom:
Inflation (Workshop 6)
Policy (Workshop 7)
Money Works (Workshop 7)
and Finance (Workshop 8)
"A very good young social studies teacher said, 'what
were you guys doing?' I told him they were filming the economics
course as kind of a 'how to' economics. 'You know,' he said,
'you could throw me into any social studies class - anthropology,
psychology, sociology, history, geography -- and I could handle
them all except for economics. I wouldn't feel comfortable
there.' So the challenge is how do you get these guys, who
have avoided economics in the past, how can you get them up
to speed with economics? And I'm convinced the answer is through
strong state councils offering courses that are non-threatening,
friendly, and I think we need to attack it in two ways: a
content base, so they really have some economic understanding.
Then help give them some lessons and activities and things
that they can do. I don' t think one is good without the other.
You know, there are demands on teachers to bring their literacy
training up to speed … and … econ is one more thing stacked
on top of that."
Classes presented in The Economics Classroom:
and Wages (Workshop 4)
(Workshop 4)
Pays Off (Workshop 4)
"This course is strictly an economics course. It's not
a financial management course and it's not a consumer education
course. It's teaching microeconomic concepts. These students
will become smarter consumers and make better decisions when
it comes to finances down the road."
Classes presented in The Economics Classroom:
and Competition (Workshop 2)
"I definitely try to use a lot of local examples. In
fact when I started teaching classes at the University - I
had come from Utah - so a lot of the examples that I had had
to deal with parkas and skiing and snow. I've definitely switched
and become more accustomed to using examples that have to
do with surfboards and Spam musubis, some of the local foods
here. It helps the kids to understand."
Classes presented in The Economics Classroom:
Controls (Workshop 3)
"It's not just starting and owning your own business,
it's empowering young people and giving them the ability to
see an opportunity and act on it and to improve their lives.
And I think if young people get that message, that's the key.
That's what I'm hopefully trying to do."
Classes presented in The Economics Classroom:
(Workshop 8)
"It's hard to make a case for the kids about the importance
and the value of learning history and learning politics and
government. It just doesn't seem to catch on. But with economics
and finance they can see the relevance and the immediate effect
on their own lives."
Classes presented in The Economics Classroom:
and Copyrights (Workshop 8)
"Economics has been called 'the dismal science' and there's
a reason for that. Most of us go to college and - and we just
have someone stand up and talk to us about it. But I think
students, especially in high school - and even in elementary
and middle school - if they can have some hands-on experience
it just makes a world of difference. I don't want students
to be afraid of economics. I want them to embrace it because
it will make them better citizens, better consumers, better
producers, and that's going to make our economy better for
all of us."
Classes presented in The Economics Classroom:
and Demand (Workshop 2)
Simulation (Workshop 2)
"I think economics is an extremely important subject.
It's a life-long skill that should be learned sooner rather
than later. It is critical to get a handle on what makes our
economy tick early on in your life and to understand the importance
of decision-making. After all, economics really is about decision-making.
Every decision you make doesn't just have benefits. It has
costs as well. And to weigh the costs and benefits - to think
critically about those decisions - is going to make a person
make the right decisions. I think it's important to know economics
on a personal level. I think to be an informed voter economics
is extremely important."
Classes presented in The Economics Classroom:
in Supply and Demand (Workshop 2)
Years teaching in all: 18
Years teaching this course: 17
Number of students in your class: 14
Steve Reich is an experienced teacher, with over 17 years
presenting economics and personal finance. While he had some
minimal college course work in economics, he, like many teachers,
had to learn on the job.
"When I first started teaching economics I had only taken
one class in economics and I was basically reading the textbook
and trying to figure out what it was I was going to teach
the next day. I was just out of college and I think they were
looking for a large male who was also schooled in football.
I was a social studies teacher. I had a history and an English
degree. Economics was the job and they said, "can you
teach it?" And I said, "absolutely," and went
right to it and did it."
Classes presented in The Economics Classroom:
(Workshop 1)
and Public Policy (Workshop 3)
"It was 1980 and we wanted to implement an economics
program. Our department chairperson came to us and said, 'who
wants to teach economics,' and nobody knew anything about
economics. They offered us some money for writing the curriculum
and here I was, I was a young father needed a couple of bucks
and so I said to him, 'hey, I'll write the curriculum.' And
we sat down (it was one other person and myself) to write
the curriculum and we had no idea where to begin. We looked
at the State of Oregon's economics curriculum, and we said,
'well, this looks pretty darn good. We can't really find any
areas to improve upon.' So we said, 'we found this great curriculum
out in Oregon and we think it looks pretty good,' and we implemented
the Oregon economics program and it stuck."
Classes presented in The Economics Classroom:
Market (Workshop 4)
(Workshop 6)
Market Operations (Workshop 7)
Challenge Team (Workshop 7)
"I perceive economics to provide a fundamental outlook
for all of us in our personal lives, at work and as voters.
And with that in mind - with the idea that decisions always
involve tradeoffs, that people respond to incentives, that
people go and they trade - they buy when they think they're
going to get individual gain. All of these basic ideas are
at the heart of what thinking economically is about. I perceive
economics as a critical, critical area for students to learn
about when they're at the high school level."
Classes presented in The Economics Classroom:
Cost (Workshop 1)
(Workshop 1)
(Workshop 5)
"When we start the class I'm getting some of the basic
economic principles down, so they have that as a core foundation
- a key vocabulary for them - for them to go with. The responses
in the beginning are mixed. Some of them take an interest
to it. Others think it's boring. But I noticed as the class
progresses they seem to take more of a stock in what they
do and they become more interested in what we're doing in
class. As the year progresses they start to see the relevance.
It's not something that I can teach in one forty minute class
or one eighty minute class to show them the relevance. It's
something that I have to build upon, with the hope that by
the end of the semester they come to see that."
Classes presented in The Economics Classroom:
Policy (Workshop 7)
"When a new teacher is starting out with hands-on activities
it can be difficult. One of the first things that you have
to accept with hands-on is you don't have complete control
of your classroom. Most beginning teachers are not equipped
for that. When you're a new teacher you're not real confident
so it makes you want to be more in control of everything.
Another thing is you have to have confidence in yourself and
listen to the students if you really want to make it interesting
and make it good. Because I found that when I first started
doing some of these things that my students had a lot of good
suggestions, which improved my program. That confidence takes
a couple of years of teaching to develop."
Classes presented in The Economics Classroom:
Domestic Product (Workshop 6)
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ATLANTA — It's normal for property owners to squawk about a hefty tax increase, but Georgia politicians see the one they're getting from a South Carolina county as another salvo in the battle between the states over deepening harbors.
County officials say it isn't.
It began three weeks ago when Georgia's commissioner of transportation briefed the House and Senate appropriations committees about his budget increase, noting that $235,000 needed to be added to the current year's appropriation to cover an unplanned property-tax increase. Normally, governments don't pay taxes, but they do if they own land in another state.
Georgia's Department of Transportation owns 9,000 acres in Jasper County where it dumps spoils, the mud dug up from dredging the Savannah harbor. Georgia wants to add more spoils to the site by deepening the Savannah River's shipping channel further to accommodate bigger ships.
Boosters of the Charleston harbor that competes with Savannah want the federal government to fund their deepening project instead of the Georgia one. So far, Washington hasn't decided to fund either.
Politicians from both states have traded words as various state and federal bureaucracies have considered the issue. That's led to the suspicion that the tax hike stemmed from an ulterior motive.
"It's not totally unexpected," said Sen. Buddy Carter, a Republican from the Savannah suburb of Pooler. "I don't want to get into a sandbox argument with them, but I guess they're showing us how they feel."
When the transportation budget has been discussed in the Georgia legislature, several comments come up every time about the motives behind the tax increase and ways to get even, except South Carolina doesn't seem to own any property in Georgia that can be taxed.
Rep. Ron Stephens, R-Savannah, is the chairman of the House Economic Development and Tourism Committee and is as frequent a booster of deepening the Savannah channel as Carter is in the Senate. Stephens, though, is among the Georgia officials hoping to calm the waters, so to speak, that divide the two states.
"I didn't see anything sinister," he said. "As good Georgia citizens, we'll pay it."
The Transportation Department didn't appeal the tax notice. The county values the land at $3,500 per acre, the same as the previous year but 40 percent higher than five years earlier.
What's changed recently is the millage rate that jumped more than 20 percent. Plus, the county now levies the rate on a greater portion of the assessed value, essentially adding another 20 percent to the tax owed.
Georgia's parcel wasn't singled out. In fact, most officials in Jasper County want the Savannah River deepened because they hope the two states will follow through on plans to jointly develop a port on the Jasper side of the river. It is seen as the salvation to a struggling economy and high unemployment rate there.
"That tax increase for the county was mainly for the new buildings that were built and tax-anticipation notes that came due," said Henry Etheridge, a Jasper commissioner who opposed the tax increase.
Jasper's other property owners are steamed about the tax jolt, too. The commission held a special meeting last month to try to soothe tempers.
The Georgia officials will pay the tax, but it's just more evidence of how contentious the harbor-deepening battle has become.


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Fun at the Dog Park (Video)
For any dog owner who has not yet taken their beloved canine to the Bangor Dog Park, you should check it out! It's great to teach socializing skills to your dog...and to give you the chance to talk about dogs with other Mommies and Daddies! We took Pernicus on Sunday and he loved it!
This was our second trip to the dog park on Watchmaker Street. There were many more dogs this time, which made it more fun for Pernicus...and for us! Jim and I adore dogs of all sizes and so we have almost as much fun as our little guy.
Because there were more dogs, the chance for scuffles increased, and there were a couple. But they were short-lived, no one got hurt, and the owners were great about it. No anger or animosity, just an acceptance that, hey, they're DOGS. They'll do that!
Little Pernicus was joined by his cousin Remington and Remy's sister Sophie. They all had a blast! And this time, Pernicus didn't cry on the way home. He was too tired!
If you haven't gone by yet, you should check it out with your dog. It's on Watchmaker Street, off outer Essex, by the P.A.L. Center. There are two fenced in areas, one for small dogs, and one for medium to large dogs. There are a few rules that are just common sense. Enjoy! It's fun!


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DeKALB — When Northern Illinois' Orange Bowl bid became official Sunday night, Sean Evans had to turn his phone off.
The junior cornerback, who hails from Fort Walton Beach, Fla., kept getting a flurry of phone calls, texts and emails. Eventually, he just had to click the "off" button.
Three days after it was announced the Huskies were making their first BCS appearance, the attention hasn't stopped.
Wednesday evening, the team was honored at a pep rally during the NIU men's basketball team's 65-54 win over SIU-Edwardsville.
The game was just one more stop on the ride the Huskies' Mid-American Conference championship football team has experienced since Sunday's announcement.
"It's like a dream. It's like a daze I've still been in, can't really believe it," Evans said during halftime of the Huskies' victory. "It's all been pretty surreal."
NIU's Orange Bowl experience also means the Huskies are in the Chicago – and national – media spotlight. Something the players certainly have learned these past few days.
"Busy, busy busy. News reporters being here every day, have to give interviews," junior safety Jimmie Ward said. "It's a fun experience. Something new."
Each player gets six tickets to give to family or friends. Evans said he's up to about 30 names who want tickets. He's also got a Florida State connection, as both his father and aunt are FSU alums.
"I never really thought I would have the chance to play at the collegiate level in my home state. The biggest stage, the biggest game of my life," Evans said. "It's like a dream come true to come back home in front of friends and family, and play against a team that I grew up watching in my home state."
Wednesday, the NIU basketball team got its first win over a Division I team, improving to 2-5 playing in an atmosphere its not used to. The lower bowl of the NIU Convocation Center was mostly full, and students actually showed up to fill the student section, at least for the first half. The 2,750 fans who showed up equaled NIU's largest crowd of the season.
NIU head coach Mark Montgomery even coached the win over the Cougars (2-4) with an orange tie.
"I'll have to wear my lucky orange tie for maybe the rest of the month before we play in that Orange Bowl game," Montgomery joked after the game.
Playing in front of a big crowd, NIU used the atmosphere to its advantage.
"I think the whole team fed off the crowd," said freshman forward Sam Mader, who had 11 points for the Huskes. "We knew that we had to start off strong if we wanted to win, so we all fed off the crowd."
Aksel Bolin led NIU with 15 points, and freshman point guard Travon Baker added 10.
After the win, Montgomery said he hopes to have junior guard Antone Christian (leg injury) back next week, while he hopes suspended forward Abdel Nader will be back before Christmas.


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Codemasters announces new Skirmish DLC will be released tomorrow for Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising along with a patch for the military first-person shooter. The console versions will be patched as well as the Windows edition (here is the PC Patch Full Fix List - thanks Shok), and the DLC will be free for Windows users, but will cost 400 Microsoft points for Xbox 360 and £3.19/$3.99/€3.99 for the PS3. The announcement is accompanied by a batch of Skirmish screenshots and there's a new Skirmish trailer on the Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising Website. Here's a bit on the new content:
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The cold weather will push many of us inside for the winter, and the plan might be to retire the bike to a spot in the corner of the garage.
But don't let your ride collect rust.
While indoor cycling classes and stationary bikes are common at your local gym, is there anything better than getting on your own ride and getting a workout in?
More: Mixed-Intensity Workouts for the Indoor Trainer
If not, it might be time to invest in an indoor trainer. There are several different types of trainers on the market and the rapidly improving technology is making trainers better and better.
Not sure what product is right for you? Here's a very basic rundown of the most common types of indoor trainers:
More: 8 Options for the Indoor Trainer
This trainer uses a fan that is powered by the bike's back wheel. The resistance increases as the cyclist's power increases. These are often called "fan trainers."
Pros: The progressive resistance is similar to road cycling. This is the cheapest option for trainers.
Cons: The noisiest of all trainers. The resistance can top out if you're going really hard.
More: 2 Hill Workouts for the Indoor Trainer
These trainers replaced the loud fan with a magnetic flywheel to offer resistance.
Pros: Extremely quiet, and the resistance is adjustable though you have to dismount to tweak it. Reasonably priced compared to fluid trainers.
Cons: The resistance is fixed, so it doesn't get harder the faster you go.
More: Beat the Indoor Doldrums With These Killer Workouts
Fluid trainers combine everything that's good about the fan and magnetic trainers. The resistance that makes fan trainers ideal is a strength of fluid trainers, too, since the fluid within the trainer provides resistance the faster you go. However, fluid trainers aren't noisy at all.
Pros: Offers resistance the faster you go, yet isn't loud. Increasing in popular as a trainer option.
Cons: Perhaps the priciest of all trainers, due to its best-of-both-worlds features. Fluid trainers can occasionally leak.
More: Miracle Intervals on the Indoor Trainer
In short, rollers are a type of trainer that you plop your bike on top of and start pedaling--if only it were so easy. A roller typically has three cylinders (two on the back wheel, one on the front) that the bike rides on top of.
Pros: Probably the best at simulating being on the road. Works your pedal stroke better than any other trainer. Used by the pros.
Cons: Very difficult to get comfortable with. You have to be smooth and fluid and balance yourself consistently. For the inexperienced, this could lead to a lot of falling off.
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The Mio 168, a Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) on base of Windows® Mobile for Pocket PCs has the full range of personal information and entertainment features: Outlook synchronisation, Contacts, Calendar, MP3 and MPEG 4 support, games, eBooks, Pocket Excel and Pocket Word. In addition, it features precision navigation with visual and spoken instructions that takes users across countries and through busy city centres. A car charger connection and mounting cradle ensure the Mio 168 can be neatly positioned to give guidance at a glance, with clearly audible speech to supplement driver information.
Because of its integrated design and a large-capacity battery, it can also provide guidance for pedestrians and cyclists.
Digital map data provided by Tele Atlas, the reference in digital mapping, brings a combination of accuracy with a wealth of detail. Accuracy in the data enables the Mio 168 to guide through complex traffic systems featuring one-way roads and multi-entry junctions, leading drivers directly to their destination. The wealth of detail in the Tele Atlas 2004 data adds significant usability to the PDA with valuable information on Points Of Interest (POIs) such as hotels, restaurants, cash machines, entertainment venues, shopping and sports centres — as well as the information on the locations of service stations, hospitals, railway stations and many more.
As a pioneer in digital mapping, Tele Atlas has twenty years of experience. Its digital library contains the largest seamless database of Europe in existence, covering some 17 European countries, including 350,000 urban centres and extensive house number data. The maps are continuously updated through a combination of survey teams and close links with urban authorities.
Rapid route recalculation means traffic jams and blocked roads can be efficiently avoided. Should a driver take a wrong turn, the Mio 168 will quickly recalculate the route and still guide the driver to the destination quickly and efficiently.
"The accuracy and up to date character of Tele Atlas digital map data makes Tele Atlas an excellent partner for this exciting development," says Piet Deschuymer, Sales Director of Mio. "We can be confident of providing our customers with a product based on reliable information and with an opportunity of upgrades."
"The Mio 168 is an ideal medium for bringing digital-map-based navigation conveniently and affordably to a much wider consumer market," adds Laurent De Hauwere, Vice President Corporate Marketing & Aftermarket Europe for Tele Atlas. "The combination of Tele Atlas data with Mio Technology devices will enable people to make journeys without anxiety about losing their way and to explore unfamiliar regions."


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When the phone rings at midnight, it is almost never a good thing.
It's a double whammy when that phone call happens to come from a police officer. In one case, however, Amboy football coach Gary Jones was happy to receive one particular call.
On Tuesday, Aug. 7, on the eve of the beginning of football practice, Jones received a call from Illinois State Trooper David Nelson, father of Clippers halfback Cooper Nelson. The Nelsons used to live in Amboy, but had moved to Galena before Cooper's junior year.
"I got a phone call at 12 o'clock at night from the Illinois State Police," Jones said. "I'm going, 'Oh my God, what did I do? I was home. What did I do wrong?' His father works for the Illinois State Police, and he called down to the Amboy police department to get my phone number. He said they were moving back. That was Tuesday night and practice started Wednesday."
David and Laura Nelson have two homes, in Amboy and Galena. They lived in Amboy when Laura was the Amboy High School superintendent when Cooper was a sophomore. She took a job as a professor at Wisconsin-Platteville before Cooper's junior year, and the family moved to Galena.
When Laura accepted another job before the current school year as superintendent of an elementary school in Steward, just outside of Rochelle, it was back to the home in Amboy.
Cooper registered for school the morning of two-a-day practices on Aug. 8, and was on the practice field that afternoon. He tried to keep it hush-hush that he was returning.
"I just showed up," Nelson said, "and everybody was like, 'Oh, he's back.' "
Nelson is accustomed to a heavy workload in the backfield. He was the primary ball carrier for a 7-2 Amboy fresh-soph team in 2010, then he rushed 97 times for 592 yards and seven TDs for a 5-4 Galena squad a year ago.
This season, the 5-foot-8, 170-pound Nelson shares duties with fellow halfback Spencer Johnson, and they have emerged as an effective tandem. Nelson has 54 carries for 533 yards, while Johnson has 74 rushes for 518 yards.
"You really can't key one side of that or the other," Jones said. "When we run out of the I-Formation, we can alternate those guys. It's been a big plus for us. Now we've got two backs to run either direction out of."
Nelson likes sharing the backfield with Johnson, and he's enjoying being a part of a football team that has already sewn up a spot in the postseason. It's been a comfortable fit, on and off the football field.
"I left mostly because I just like Amboy more," Nelson said. "It's the whole school district. It wasn't just football, even though Amboy's very successful in football and I did miss my old teammates. It's just good to be back."
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Mission Impossible
Tom Cruise ignites the screen in this runaway smash hit that "holds you on the edge of your seat before blasting you out of it" (Howard Rosenberg, Los Angeles Times). Cruise stars as Ethan Hunt, a secret agent framed for the deaths of his espionage team. Fleeing from government assassins, breaking into the CIA's most impenetrable vault, clinging to the roof of a speeding bullet train, Hunt races like a burning fuse to stay one step ahead of his pursuers... and draw one step closer to discovering the shocking truth.
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The world's greatest spy returns in M:I-2. Top action director John Woo brings his own brand of excitement to the mission that finds Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) partnering up with the beautiful Nyah Hall (Thandie Newton) to stop renegade agent Sean Ambrose (Dougray Scott) from releasing a new kind of terror on an unsuspecting world. But before the mission is complete, they'll traverse the globe and have to choose between everything they love and everything they believe in.
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Disk Brake Swap Problems
Posted 19 December 2007 - 08:28 PM
1: I can't remove my left-side drum brake:
A. I removed the axle castle nut & flat washer, but cannot remove the cone washer from the axle; I just bought a brass punch and it did me no good (I went to 5 stores to find one).
B. It was really hard to remove the right-side drum/hub (I had to turn the adjuster screw all the way to release it). I sheared off the adjuster screw on this side with it fully turned in; does anyone have a suggestion of how to remove the drum?
2: On the right-side, I have the drum off and the new backing plate bolted up. I'm experiencing a bunch of problems here:
A. The new backing plate contacts the disk rotor slightly.
B. The axle won't turn when I tighten the castle nut down on the rotor.
C. The caliper doesn't seem to fit. The backing plate is spaced (1/2") back from the rotor and I can't seem to figure out how to make the caliper fit. Is there a separate piece (bracket) that I don't know about?
- Noah
Posted 19 December 2007 - 10:20 PM
I had to use a BIG hammer to remove drums before
try knocking IN, ON, the drum which may spook the cone washer enough to scare it off it's seat
Posted 19 December 2007 - 11:20 PM
Howdy, I had another thread going but it lost momentum and I have a new line of questions regarding my rear disk brake swap on an EA81.
1: I can't remove my left-side drum brake:
A. I removed the axle castle nut & flat washer, but cannot remove the cone washer from the axle; I just bought a brass punch and it did me no good (I went to 5 stores to find one).
- Noah
To remove the cone washer, get a nice stout flathead screwdriver. Wedge it into the gap on the cone washer and hammer it in. This spreads the cone and pops it out.
To pull that drum off use a 3 jawed puller. You aren't going to break anything you'll still need.
Posted 20 December 2007 - 03:37 AM
Posted 20 December 2007 - 02:23 PM
Is there a separate bracket that goes between the caliper and the backing plate? I don't seem to be able to make the caliper bolts line up w/ the backing plate's. Plus, when I try to align them it places the brake pads too far inboard of the rotor. (!?!)
Posted 20 December 2007 - 03:18 PM
Posted 20 December 2007 - 03:21 PM
which way is that facing for you.inboard or outboard...those lips should be inboard.
Posted 20 December 2007 - 03:47 PM
Graphically represented: (passenger side)
differential = 'O'
axle = '----'
backing plate = '('
rotor = '|'
So, I have it backwards ?!? Thanks.
Posted 20 December 2007 - 05:52 PM
Posted 21 December 2007 - 11:26 AM
another good way, is to loosen the castle nut a bunch (not even finger tight....but definitely leave it on) and drive the car a bit (slow speeds. up and down the alley/driveway, something like that). the weight of the car will usually pop out the cone washer pretty easily.
Posted 21 December 2007 - 02:48 PM
The brass punch was expensive and did me no good. The screwdriver trick to pop out the conical spacer worked perfectly. I read somewhere about that driving trick, but that was not an option with one side disassembled.
I just bled my brakes and drove around, man these brakes feel great! Time for a highway trip in the wagon!
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Not quite sure about Qt. It indeed looks good on the outside. Code is pretty tidy, too. However, it has non-standard nature in its core. Licensing would definitely be a problem as well. In addition to that, adding another layer of C++ interface o top of a full-blown C++ framework would not make much sense. We should aim for a really thin layer on top of native GUIs that works out-of-the-box on a given platform. There should be a unified front-end, with platform back-ends - much like Data library and connectors are designed. You start with one back-end (probably Win32 first) and add others later.
Qt will add LGPL from 4.5 release,Qt is attractive,Qt has Qtcore,which is the base of QtGUI,QtCore has function which POCO has,if POCO does have GUI part, then I prefer POCO than Qt,if using both POCO and QtCore,they are competitive,I do want to only choose one, I think people who knows POCO would like it very much,like me.
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Marlins may be interested in dealing for Bourjos
By Joe Frisaro / 12/17/12 11:40 AM ET
MIAMI -- Major moves elsewhere may cause a ripple effect that reaches the Marlins.
Since trading Yunel Escobar to the Rays at the Winter Meetings, the Marlins have openly said they are in the market for a third baseman.
But their shopping list isn't exclusively limited to just one position. If the opportunity presented itself, Miami would pursue center field candidates. One name that has caught the club's attention for months, may now be on the market.
The recent signing of Josh Hamilton with the Angels has created a surplus of outfielders in Los Angeles.
A player who may end up being on the move is Peter Bourjos, a 25-year-old who saw his playing time reduced last year.
Miami has long had its eye on Bourjos.
Before the July 31 non-waiver Trade Deadline, the Marlins were exploring outfield options, and Bourjos' name popped up. At the time, the Angels' asking price was high, and they showed little interest in moving the speedy center fielder.
The landscape in Los Angeles has changed with the arrival of Hamilton and the emergence of Mike Trout. Suddenly, Bourjos could be expendable.
"Obviously, this game's a business, and you know that going into it that you can eventually be traded," Bourjos told MLB.com's Alden Gonzalez last Thursday. "If you have an opportunity, from a management standpoint, to sign Josh Hamilton, I think you do it. And then, wherever the pieces fall with me or whatever they do, you handle that aspect."
The Angels are looking for an established starting pitcher. Miami's Ricky Nolasco is set to make $11.5 million in the final year of his contract.
But the chances of the Marlins trading Nolasco before the start of Spring Training are slim. Still, there is growing speculation that the right-hander could be on the move close to the July Trade Deadline if Miami is not in contention.
For Bourjos, the Marlins may not have to part with Nolasco. The team might be able to put together a package of prospects. From an organizational standpoint, there is more Minor League pitching depth through recent trades and First-Year Player Draft picks.
So there are more pieces now than in recent years to make moves that could immediately help the big league club.
If the Marlins stand pat, they would go into Spring Training with Justin Ruggiano as the frontrunner to play center field. Gorkys Hernandez and Bryan Petersen also will be in the mix.
Hernandez, obtained from the Pirates in July for Gaby Sanchez, is out of options, so he will have to either make the Opening Day roster or risk being lost to another team. A Venezuelan native, Hernandez is enjoying a strong season of Winter Ball. In 50 games, he's batting .346, scored 36 runs while adding 12 stolen bases.
After finishing 69-93 in 2012, the Marlins have dramatically turned over their roster. In the process, they've scaled down their payroll from about $100 million to roughly $40 million. The team is planning on reinvesting back into its payroll the $5 million that would have gone to Escobar, if he wasn't traded.
Working with a tighter budget, the club is surveying the market for bargains.
In the past, its had success signing players like Jorge Cantu and Greg Dobbs to Minor League deals. Both paid off and became solid contributors.
Miami is hoping to cash in on a few more under-the-radar signings.
In December, the club has already made some low-profile Minor League free agent pickups.
On Dec. 3, it signed outfielder Jordan Brown, who had 26 games of big league experience with the Indians in 2010.
And on Dec. 10, the Marlins officially signed free agent pitchers Amaury Rivas and Jonathan Albaladejo.
The 26-year-old Rivas threw 67 innings of relief for Milwaukee's Triple-A Nashville affiliate last year. Albaladejo, 30, is a 6-foot-5 right-hander who appeared in 10 games with the Yankees in 2010.
Three weeks ago, lefty Zach Phillips came to terms on a Minor League deal. Phillips picked up six innings of relief with the Orioles last year.
Miami's search for a third baseman remains ongoing.
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The Nikiski Bulldogs' found the exit to the ASAA Class 3A State volleyball tournament on Friday at the Curtis Menard Sports Complex in Wasilla, by way of a 3-0 sweep from Monroe Catholic.
According to Nikiski head coach Stacey Segura, the 'Dawgs were unable to find their rhythm in a 25-17, 25-19, 25-20 contest.
"We've been down that road before, and I don't know if it's just tournament jitters or what, but they weren't competing as well as they could be," Segura said. "I felt like I did everything I could do, but these girls were just not competing the way they should."
Setter Rachel Thompson led Nikiski with 29 assists, Rebekah Krogseng caught 13 digs, Sienna Wallis had six kills and four blocks, and Taylor Calderwood and Bailey Buchholz each had six kills. Nikiski ended its season with a 11-3 regular season record, but was 0-2 in the state tournament.
Monroe charged to a 9-1 lead in Game 2, which was enough to withstand a 7-2 point run from Nikiski late in the game. It was more of the same in Game 3, as Nikiski suffered from inconsistency to come up short 25-20.
Segura reasoned that since the Bulldogs have not competed in the state tournament in five years, the lack of experience likely was the determining factor.
"It's been five years since Nikiski's been to state, and I'm a first-year head coach, so it's not too big a disappointment," Segura said. "I feel like this group of girls broke down the wall, as far as accomplishing our goals, and I'm proud to coach them."


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Local Baseball Field To Be Re-Named After Dave Hall
The Texarkana Texas City Council meets tonight at City Hall.One of the items on the agenda is to re-name the Field #3 at the Swanger Baseball Complex at Spring Lake Park in honor of Dave Hall. The long time Texarkana Emergency Management Director passed away in December of 2012.
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NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Ashley Casiano, a two-time all-conference goaltender for Marist who helped the Red Foxes to the NCAA Tournament in 2010, has joined the Yale women's lacrosse staff as an assistant coach. She joins returning assistant coach Tanya Kotowicz to form the staff under Anne Phillips, Yale's Joel E. Smilow, Class of 1954 Head Coach of Women's Lacrosse.
Casiano joins the Bulldogs after earning her B.A. in communications with a concentration in sports communication from Marist, where she earned MAAC All-Academic Team recognition as a senior and made the Dean's List twice. Last season she was ninth in the country in saves (149) and 13th in save percentage (.461). That helped her earn second team All-MAAC honors for the second season in a row. She started every game except one for the last three seasons of her career, leading her team in ground balls each year.
As a freshman Casiano helped the Red Foxes earn an NCAA Tournament berth by beating Fairfield 9-7 in the MAAC Tournament championship. She was named to the all-tournament team for her efforts, and over the course of her career the Red Foxes make a total of three MAAC Tournament appearances. She was a two-time all-tournament selection.
A native of South Windsor, Conn., Casiano lettered in lacrosse and basketball all four years at South Windsor High. She has worked as a coach at various camps, including Yale's camp this past June, and has also volunteered with Special Olympics.
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NSW captain Danny Buderus is shocked Queensland overlooked "an abundance of great fullbacks" to select Canberra bolter Adam Mogg for next week's State of Origin II at Suncorp Stadium.
With Melbourne winger Greg Inglis ruled out yesterday with a back injury, Buderus is surprised the Maroons opted for 28-year-old centre Mogg instead of experienced stars like Canberra's Clinton Schifcofske, Penrith's Rhys Wesser or North Queensland's Matt Bowen, who was dumped after the first game loss.
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Yeah right NV Vet, must have been the illiterate Reflubs that gave us W. Bush& co.The illiterate people of this country are bringing us down fast. Be sure, that they vote Democrat. That is the party of the uninformed voter, the folks that want freebees for doing nothing while wanting to deprive the ones that earned it(mainly the disabled vets).
Iraq War Cost $2.2 Trillion and 190,000 Lives
Cost could eventually top $6 trillion.
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(CNN) -- FBI agents on Friday morning arrested a 62-year-old man who, they say, tried to extort Paula Deen by threatening to divulge "true and damning" information about the embattled celebrity chef -- unless he was paid to keep quiet.
Thomas George Paculis was taken into custody without incident in Ithaca, New York, by FBI agents and deputies from the Tompkins County Sheriff's Office, the FBI said in a press release.
There was no answer later Friday to a phone number linked to him in the FBI's criminal complaint, nor was there an immediate response from an e-mail address in that same document.
The former Augusta and Savannah, Georgia, resident appeared before a federal judge Friday in New York before being released on bond at about noon, said Stephen Emmett with the FBI's Atlanta office.
He is scheduled to appear the morning of July 16 at a federal court in Savannah, where the criminal complaint was filed.
That coastal Georgia city is also where Deen built her business and brand into what many consider the folksy face of Southern cooking.
But she's been on her heels in recent weeks after admitting, in a deposition related to a lawsuit brought by a former employee, that she's used the "N word" in the past.
Lisa Jackson alleged Deen and her brother Bubba Hier committed numerous acts of violence, discrimination and racism that resulted in the end of her five-year employment at The Lady and Sons and Uncle Bubba's Oyster House, two Savannah restaurants run by Deen and her family.
In the media firestorm that followed, Deen lost at least nine lucrative endorsements and her Food Network cooking show, while the publication of her eagerly anticipated cookbook was canceled.
So how does Paculis fit in?
According to a criminal complaint, he interjected himself on June 24, five days after details of Deen's deposition became public.
On that day, he sent an e-mail to Deen's lawyer vowing that he was "about to go public" with information about the chef's use of the "N word" at Lady and Sons, according to a copy of the e-mail cited in the criminal complaint.
"The statements are true and damning enough that the case for Jackson will be won on it's merit alone," Paculis wrote, according to the FBI. "As always ... there is a price for such confirmation.
"You can contact me here if you feel it is necessary," he said, referring to his e-mail address, the criminal complaint states. "Or I can go public and we will see what happens then."
Greg Hodges, Deen's lawyer, exchanged e-mails with Paculis and the two talked over the phone two days later, according to the FBI. It was then that Paculis allegedly asked for $250,000 "net" -- or total, with taxes having already been paid -- in exchange for not talking, the criminal complaint states.
The two conversed a second time by phone June 27 when, "at the direction of the FBI," Hodges negotiated the hush money payment down to $200,000.
The next day, Deen told FBI agents that she didn't recognize Paculis's name or face, based on photographs.
Hodges declined comment on the alleged extortion arrest.
Nancy Aldridge, who was married to Paculis for four months around 1986, told CNN on Friday that he once had his own restaurant in Savannah though she hasn't had much direct contact with him in recent years.
Meanwhile, according to the FBI's criminal complaint, Paculis had also reached out to Jackson's lawyer. In fact, the agency alleges that the 62-year-old first reached out to Matt Billips by e-mail and phone on the same day -- June 24 -- that he contacted Deen's lawyer.
Billips said his staff conducted its own investigation of Paculis.
Paculis asked Jackson's lawyer how much he'd pay for derogatory information about Deen, the complaint claims.
"I have pushed the opposing firm to (give) me an amount of money, in cash to never been heard of again and to never utter Paula Deen's name in public or private ever again," Paculis allegedly wrote, according to an e-mail to Billips excerpted in the FBI complaint.
"Now the burning question is," he purportedly added, "do you want in."


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South Africa: The Dream of a Rainbow Nation - Under apartheid, interracial marriages were forbidden and contact between whites and blacks was prosecuted by the state. Thousands of people were found guilty of violating the Immorality Act, which could result in a long prison sentence. The provision of the act prohibiting interracial marriages wasn't repealed until 1985. Its effects are still felt today: interracial relationships are still the exception to the rule. Nelson Mandela's call for a Rainbow Nation has not been realized for many people here. Pippa Tshabalala and her husband Sekwa have been together since their school days. Although they have good jobs, they still have to fight prejudice across society. Brazil and the Environment - Biomass in Capela - In the northeastern part of Brazil, Capela is a center of the energy-intensive brick making industry. Until recently factories fueled their kilns by cutting down trees from the Caatinga -- a virgin forest that covers much of the region. But some have recently made the switch to biomass. New fuels range from wood chips that are byproducts of the furniture industry to bamboo and eucalyptus trees that are sourced from sustainable plantations. The factories also re-use the heat generated by their kilns to dry their bricks -- and use ash as compost. That makes production significantly more climate-friendly than conventional methods. Some are also investing in social projects, including literacy programs and environmental education for children. Social Entrepreneur: Christophe Chevalier - Romans-sur-Isere is a town in the French Alps that has been a traditional center for shoemaking. But most of the big shoemakers have left; well-known brands have moved their production to China or Turkey. But entrepreneur Christophe Chevalier is fighting the trend.
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A group that didn't invent it shouldn't even be able to patent it. Fuck you, "StemCells", fuck you to the grave.
Nobody should be able to patent it. The original inventors could just as well be the patent trolls keeping stem cells out of hospitals.
Didn't RTFA?
One of the doctors complaining is one of the doctors that invented the process.
Knowingly leaving out the real inventors will get them more than just a slap on the wrist...
Yes, but only after years of legal battles. They'll need the first court to overturn the patent before they would be able to go back after them for damages. That's the problem here... Patents are being blindly issued, only looking to see if it was patented before. Then, it's up to the courts to determine the validity of the patent... That's horrible for the little guy, who chances are doesn't have the money to pay for the legal fees. So the only people the current patent system helps, are the big companies and the courts.
So the only people the current patent system helps, are the big companies and the courts.
Perhaps, but it would appear that the real problem is the incompetent assgobblins holed up in the US Patent and Trademark Orifice. I think a good first step would be to introduce compulsory IQ testing at the USPTO and lay off employees scoring below seventy, confiscating all of their square pegs and round holes. The remaining six patent analysts should be offered early retirement with full benefits and a conciliatory "years of service" plaque.
How patently fair. The intellectual property laws are out there for everyone to see and play by, and the public has benefited from this.
The process was apparently invented independently and simultaneously by two groups, only one of which (StemCells) filed a patent for it. If Schwartz had merely published his work first (or filed a patent for it first, which is tantamount to publishing), he could have blocked StemCell from obtaining a patent.
Schwartz chose instead to keep his technology secret. He lost his b
and the public has benefited from this.
Bullshit. The method was easy enough that multiple people have independently discovered it and it is now locked down so that nobody else can use it, at least without paying a worthless person who didn't even invent anything.
A simple, usable method for something was easily available and in use, now it is not. The public lost, and big.
People worldwide can now build on that technology, either through licensing of it or by trying to find work-arounds.
What kind of retard are you that you think it's going to be easier? The easy method is now taken, to work-around it they're going to have to needlessly complicate what should be
So you could say that the company StemCells
::puts on sunglasses::
is causing division in this new industry?
Let's just hope this phenomena of patents preventing stem-cell research becomes
Well, all you true cell biologists out there appreciated that. Understood it a least. Look, it at least sorta made sense. [wikipedia.org] Don't judge me!
Will someone please explain this "sunglasses/yeah" meme?
Do a quick Google/Youtube search for David Caruso One Liners
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mznsEcZlM2I [youtube.com]
It's a recurring thing from CSI:Miami.
Dead child brains?
Advanced medical research?
Idea-stealing profiteers and soulless lawyers, deserving of comeuppance?
I smell zombies!
I was actually thinking that it's the sort of research that could go incredibly wrong after they realized that they used the brain of somebody named Abby Normal.
Dr. Frankenstein: [To Igor] Igor, may I speak to you for a moment?
Igor: Of course.
Dr. Frankenstein: Sit down, won't you?
Igor: Thank you. [Igor sits on the floor]
Dr. Frankenstein: No no, up here.
Igor: Thank you. [Igor sits on a chair]
Dr. Frankenstein: Now... that brain that you gave me... was it Hans Delbruck's?
Igor: [Crosses arms] No.
Dr. Frankenstein: [Holds up hand] Ah. Good. Uh... would you mind telling me... whose brain... I did put in?
Igor: And you won't be angry?
Dr. Frankenstein: I will not be angry.
Even better, I found a youtube clip of it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOe_4mgmyyA [youtube.com]
I know this is a serious topic, but... I... can't resist....
They still have to go to court to get it invalidated, though.
I saw a similar story (though of a much smaller scale). A tow-truck towed the wrong car, badly, and then abandoned it ruined on the side of the road when the error was discovered. By the time the owner found their vehicle a few hours later the towing company was dissolved. When the show investigated the owner had had many such companies.
This is why I advocate removing the so-called corporate veil. I feel that unless you actively pursue honest dealings in your company (forward all transactions to auditors, a
StemCells is part of Stanford and were the first to create this technique
The article implies that it was lack of initiative by Salk Institute that allowed StemCells to secure a patent on the technique
You have to know that patenting a process internationaly costs around $100K
This may seem obvioud to you and me, but many people don't get it. Stem cell research has the potential to CURE many medical problems. That's CURE, as in permanently fix them. Most of "Big Pharma" makes most of their revenue from the boat load of maintenance medications that they ship out every day to TREAT THE SYMPTOMS of the many "chronic" and "incurable" diseases that are out there. My dad has taken a handful of pills every day of his life for the last 20 years to keep the prostate cancer that he go
Where in the article does it say that?
Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine Institute at Stanford != Palo Alto biotech company StemCells
Sure, Dr Weissman is a member of the Board of Directors and Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Boards of StemCells.
Sure, Dr Weissman is the Director of the Institute of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine.
But, they aren't mutually inclusive.
It would seem that Salk Institute can prove that it is prior art (i.e. that they published this technique prior to any patent filings by StemCells), invalidating the patent claim by StemCells.
Two small changes from what you wrote, but critical. Prior art must be public and predate patent filings (not necessarily predate claims).
This could probably be resolved by publishing the names of those responsible for StemCells far and wide.
http://www.stemcellsinc.com/company/management.html [stemcellsinc.com]
http://www.stemcellsinc.com/company/executiveofficers.html [stemcellsinc.com]
http://www.stemcellsinc.com/company/scientificfounders.html [stemcellsinc.com]
A guy with a Barret M107, a handful of
Every time I read about scumbags like this, I'm more and more convinced that this is indeed the only way.
This is a great example of why defensive patents are necessary. The inventor can obtain the patents, then grant anyone a free, perpetual license to use the technology. Hopefully, the doctor will win the lawsuit based on his work in creating the process but it's pretty crazy that it's not certain that he can win unless his creative process was public enough to constitute prior art.
Perhaps. But that would require a comprehensive change of the patent laws of the United States. Over-patenting can be done without getting all the politicians together.
The roots of the conflict go back several years. While at Salk Institute, Schwartz created a new application out of an existing technique: deriving neural stem cells from post-mortem brains, then growing them in culture. At the same time, StemCells was doing similar things.
So it seems that both inventions were made at the same time, independently. In that case, either party may file for and be awarded the patent in the US [wikipedia.org].
The solutions here
The solution here is not to allow monopoly rights at all. If there is a desperate desire to divert money towards specific fields or specific holders of certain papers, then just outright pay them from whatever public purse whose politicos they control, and leave the actual economy and business of getting jobs done alone.
Patents and other IPR seems like a good idea to some because their costs are not accounted for, but there is no macroeconomic difference between the privatized taxation rig
A 20 year patent seems ridiculous when product lifecycles and discoveries are moving much more quickly.
Definitely. In some industries -- practically anything electronics-based, for example -- a five year patent would probably be excessive. Patents would be a lot more productive if they were scaled to the rate of change in their industry, and perhaps more importantly, could be invalidated if it was shown that a particular patent was causing irreparable harm to individuals, as might be the case where someone is denied medical care as a result.
How nice that they're allowed to spend ten to twenty thousand dollars applying for a patent that they don't intend to use. All in an effort to prevent what is basically being blackmailed by a company that has not only stolen your ideas from you, but also from everyone else who would do work in the field. What a wonderful, effective system we have.
That's modern patent law for you. There's a reason why most patent-holding trusts are owned by lawyers.
"Hey nice idea there, it'd be a shame if something unfortunate happened wouldn't it?"
Coincidentally, the Salk Institute was founded by Jonas Salk [wikipedia.org], the saint-like figure who developed the polio vaccine in the 1950s and then intentionally did not patent it.
When news of the vaccine's success was made public on April 12, 1955, Salk was hailed as a "miracle worker", and the day "almost became a national holiday." His sole focus had been to develop a safe and effective vaccine as rapidly as possible, with no interest in personal profit. When he was asked in a televised interview who owned the pat
Salk sells stem cells by the sea shore?
Research is a noncommercial endeavour, and as such patent infringement cannot occur.
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Research is a noncommercial endeavour, and as such patent infringement cannot occur.
You are not a lawyer (and neither am I). Granting patents is one of congress's 18 enumerated powers. Congress can grant patents that have nothing to do with commerce. In fact, patent law spells out four exclusive rights the patent holder has. A patent holder can stop other people from:
the product or process that is described in the patent claims. There does not need to be any co
I've been publicly flagellating myself for years. And it WORKS. Since I started, we have had ZERO hurricanes here in Iowa.
Well the Embryonic Stem-Cell debate (which isn't what this is about) is what there is debate about, because in order to get these stem-cells you need to terminate the fetus, which is a valid moral debate without thumping the bible, because the PEOPLE who wrote the bible never even considered about thinking things to that detail. Terms of Patents just because they are protecting their patient it doesn't mean they are a Patent Troll. A lot of this type of stuff we really need a good debate on it, without fi
I used to think statements like this were hyperbole but now it seems an unavoidable conclusion. There was a time when America, and "the West" in general, were animated by a respect for science in and of itself.
Now there is something deeply broken in our country, it's as if there has been a kind of fundamental rejection of the concept of progress as one of the central aspects of our national identity. The idea that together we can make the future better than the present has seemingly been supplanted by autho
Double edged sword. It can take decades of time and millions upon millions to spit out one thing useful. Patents give return on investment.
I'd love research done for research's sake too, but pragmatism has this nasty habit of beating the snot out of idealism.
Besides, if you didn't invent it, screw off.
Damn right. StemCells needs to be staplegunned to the wall for this crap...as well as the Patent Office being held liable too, since someone didn't do their prior art research.
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As for the people that donated their dead child's brain to research, those valuable stem cell cultures have been kept in storage instead of being disseminated to research labs (who desperately need them) across the country.
Gotta love some good hyperbole. Not only are they evil corporations, but they are after the brains of dead children!
Executive summery, fourth paragraph:
"We have over forty issued U.S. patents, plus foreign equivalents to some fourteen of our U.S. patents and applications, for a total of over one hundred and seventy individual patents worldwide."
This company is clearly a patent troll, NOT a technology company. Shame shame shame.
What about the one where you had to create a physical model of it to fit in a 1'x1'x1' cube?
This patent troll has over-extended itself: the researchers will be able to prove their prior-art research and at the end of the day, the StemCells inc. patent will be invalidated - and they have nobody else but themselves to blame.
Which is all well and fine, but in the meantime research is put on hold and the fraudsters (let's be blunt, that's what these guys are) may lose the patent but will suffer nothing else from what amounts to the IP equivalent of forging bad checks. This company is hardly the first. Probably the most famous patent con artists were Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Edison, both of which have, ironically, come to represent the towering achievers of the modern patent system.
I have been told to document all inventions we come up with at work, even if they are something we would prefer one of our vendors to implement, because if we don't, another vendor could claim it is their IP and keep our vendor from using it.
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The Scot believes his side have many more facets than initially suggested by Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard after last week's Merseyside derby. Gerrard described the Toffees as "playing like Stoke" before later retracting his comments.
Moyes believes the statistics speak for themselves and Everton would not be fifth, one point off the Champions League places with only one defeat all season, had they not more to offer. He said: "Your style is whatever suits yourself. Neutrals who have watched Everton would say our style is exciting and entertaining; you are seeing chances and goals."
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The black dwarf porcupine that lives in Brazilian rainforests south of the Amazon River is a species I seldom talk, write, or even think about.
The black dwarf porcupine that lives in Brazilian rainforests south of the Amazon River is a species I seldom talk, write, or even think about.
Then again, neither do scientists who study porcupines.
An authoritative book on porcupines states that "nothing is known of their life in the wild" aside from the limited knowledge that these little porcupines have a long prehensile tail that is useful for holding onto limbs as they climb through the trees.
This is only one of the world's 26 or more different kinds of porcupines, some of which have been well studied by behaviorists and ecologists. "Porcupines: The Animal Answer Guide" (Johns Hopkins University Press; 2012; paperback, $24.95) by Uldis Roze provides a wealth of information about this intriguing group of animals.
In the typical format for this outstanding series of books, more than 100 questions on basic biological topics such as porcupine colors, behavior, reproduction, and ecology are asked and answered. For example, "Porcupine Behavior" includes such questions as "Do porcupines bite?" "Do porcupines play?" and "How fast can porcupines run?"
Porcupines are near the top of my list of animals with admirable character and other fine qualities. They don't pick fights with other animals, and they aren't bullies. But they are not pushovers either. Porcupines are usually the victors, as long as they stay away from highways. Porcupines are slow-moving mammals. After all, what's the rush? Even if a predator overtakes you, it will soon find it should have tried to eat something else.
According to Roze's book, North American porcupine males will engage in combat with other males during the mating season in the fall. A porcupine fight sounds like a dreadful event, with the two contestants using their quills and teeth. The loser is often the one that gets pushed off a limb at the top of a tall tree, a common arena for such fights. The savage biting among males during combat is a conundrum to scientists who study them, because when picked up by humans they "almost never bite."
What are the biggest and smallest porcupines? The largest, the crested porcupines, are found in the Old World, including Africa, Europe, and Asia, and can weigh more than 50 pounds. All are terrestrial.
The single porcupine species found in the United States and Canada (and the most thoroughly studied species) is the so-called North American porcupine. It will travel overland but is very much at home in trees. Although this is the largest porcupine species in the Western Hemisphere, few weigh in at more than 20 pounds. The several species of dwarf porcupines of South America are small creatures that may weigh only a couple of pounds as adults.
In answering the question "what do porcupines eat?" the author notes that all species of porcupines are herbivores. Leaves and bark are staples throughout the year, whereas buds and fruit may be focused on seasonally. One dietary phenomenon among porcupines, a liking for sodium, can create a problem both for humans and for porcupines. In areas where salt is commonly used for snow and ice removal, many road kills occur when porcupines go out on to highways to acquire sodium.
On the other side of the ledger, the adhesive materials used to make plywood are high in salt content. Porcupines chew the wood to consume the sodium, behavior that is not popular with people who have outdoor wooden structures. Electrical wiring on the underside of northern vehicles has high sodium levels from being coated with highway salt during winter snow removal. Salty wires, highly desirable to a porcupine on a high-sodium diet, can take a beating from the animal's strong teeth.
The porcupine question-and-answer book is full of interesting facts about these unusual animals. But the last question in the book, "what don't we know about porcupines?" makes the point that with porcupines, as with other animals and plants, many of Mother Nature's mysteries remain just that — mysteries.
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It works fine.
Android tablets are going for under $90 new on ebay (average price for 7" tablet appears to be £55). However combine something like the Raspberry Pi with the plastic eink display by LG that Slashdot was covering a couple of days ago and I don't see why it wouldn't be possible to halve that. Forward-wind into the future where those printable solar cells could be put on the back of the eReader to make them totally self-powered and we have the perfect educational delivery device for developing countries. It takes time to build up a library of good quality content so it makes sense to start now. In a few years when the library catalogue has filled out then technology might have caught up at the same time.
The article doesn't mention for which e-book reader the textbooks will be available. I hope this is not part of someone's marketing strategy...
Free textbooks in Europe is not new, however. E.g. the Greek state has been giving away dead-tree textbooks for all classes for free since decades now.
yeah since they are available as CC-BY with sources that means any reader
from the site with the books http://wolnelektury.pl/
PDF to print
EPUB for an e-book reader
MOBI for Kindle
TXT for advanced usage
Source of the book
Source XML file
Book on Editor's Platform
Mix this book
Yeah, I have to wonder if this was in America... it would be Apple pushing this hard so they can sell an iPad to every student for $500-600/pop and get them addicted to app store crack...
But, since this is Europe, I'm fairly sure it will be an open format that can be used on many different e-readers and tablets and not locked into a single vendor.
Free textbooks are the norm in Europe, we have a strange system where textbooks that are mass printed for education are cheaper than regular textbooks, and educational systems negotiate a discount and get it
Unlike the Free Market system in the USA where the manufacturers make specific books for Education, unsuited to the requirements of the curriculum, massively overcharge for them, and make sure they change from year to year so new ones have to be purchased
You're obviously thinking about university.
K-12 textbooks in the USA are issued by the school, and returned at the end of the year.
from the article (in Polish):
all these resources will be available under CC BY [creativecommons.org], which is compliant with the Definition of Free Cultural Works.
Use Polish notation?
Then they can program with a Lisp.
Use Polish notation?
Then they can program with a Lisp.
Wouldn 't that be Polith nothathion?
'Rekrutacja' guy is in reality Jarosaw Lipszyc, which is also author of wikipedia article about the subject, is mentioned as the guy proposing entire programme to the government and seems to be the 'owner' of the foundation itself. It is official 'charity' foundation registered in Poland, so it is eligible for 1% tax donation - and we still have till 30th of April to decide where 1% of our tax goes to.
April is month where charity organizations in Poland fight for their lives. While I applaud the idea of fre
That is so true! I feel really bad because now you exposed all my dirty secrets. I lobbied governement all those years to accept this program exactly yesterday, because i want to advertise on Slashdot, and win all those 1% donations. I will use this money for champagne, caviar and orbital trips. I'm also a member of Majestic 12, and work for New World Order, for full disclosure
Polish Government To Deliver Free Textbooks
Don't elementary schools provide free textbooks, not only in Poland, but pretty much the wold over?
"Polish Elementary Schools switching to e-books" would be more accurate.
...if you give it free early on.. it looses its importance.
My daughter, sixth grade, can get to a few of her textbooks online right now. It would be nice if they offered them in a non-proprietary format to load them on her Kindle. Sounds like the Polish Government is onto something here.
0.01$ Socialism never works.
0.01$ Polish people I know are very unhappy about their government; they say it the worst one after communism was overthrown; they have also had a lot of bitter remarks about public education. (Actually some people in Poland are on hunger strike now protesting against the removal of history lessons.) So this "free" stuff looks like the goverment is trying to improve their PR.
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Athey to face manslaughter charges
A Fritch man will face manslaughter charges in the death of his three-month-old son.A Hutchinson County Grand Jury met yesterday afternoon to consider evidence in the April 19, 2011, death of a three and a half month old infant.At approximately 8:20 p.m. on April 19, 2011, Fritch EMS was dispatched to 9625 Fritch Fortress Road in Hutchinson County just outside of Fritch. Upon arriving, EMS found an unresponsive infant, who was pronounced dead at the scene by the Justice of the Peace. A Lubbock Medical Examiner determined the child died of asphyxiation.Late yesterday afternoon, the Grand Jury returned an indictment charging the infant's father, 26-year-old Johnathon Frank Athey, with manslaughter. The indictment alleges that he recklessly caused his child's death.If convicted of manslaughter, Athey could be sentenced to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice - Institutional Division from two years to 20 years. Athey could receive probation from a jury.84th Judicial District Attorney Mark W. Snider said he is very pleased with the thorough investigation conducted by both the Texas Rangers and the Hutchinson County Sheriff's Office.This indictment was returned in the 84th District Court for Hutchinson County and Judge William D. Smith will preside over the matter. Athey is being represented by Borger attorney Curtis Hinshaw.Athey remains incarcerated in the Hutchinson County Jail on a $200,000 bond.


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Below are season previews for local Lenawee County Athletic Association softball teams.
BLISSFIELD: The Royals enter the 2014 campaign with their expectations set high.
"We have a talented group of both upper and lower classmen," Blissfield coach Chad Abbott said. "If they blend together, we should have an exceptional season. We expect to compete for the LCAA title and to make a run in the state tournament."
Senior pitcher/outfielder Kelsie Abbott headlines the returning Royals. Her performance last year included a no-hitter against Addison.
Additional returners for Blissfield will be sophomore catcher Bryce Yeager, sophomore outfielder Ronnie Amador-Vansteenkiste, sophomore first baseman/pitcher LeeAnn Seidl, senior outfielder Kaytlin Martinez, senior third baseman/outfielder Megan Sheldon and senior infielder Hannah Williams.
Freshman infielders Kelsey Wyman and Brooke Henning will look to make an immediate impact.
"Our season will depend on the ability to play fundamentally sound both offensively and defensively," coach Abbott said. "If we do that, the rest will take care of itself."
HUDSON: The Tigers bring back almost the entire roster from a team last year that went 18-21 (5-9 LCAA) and advanced to the district finals. Hudson looks to ride its talent and experience to a successful 2014 season.
"We have 11 returning players," Hudson coach Gary Pfund said. "Very talented group. Looking forward in seeing what our pitching can do for us this season."
Hudson's top returners include: senior outfielder/pitcher Emily Wayer; senior infielder Kelly Wohlgamuth; senior outfielder Ali Anderson; senior infielder/outfielder Brittany Johnston; senior infielder Elisabeth Walter; junior pitcher/infielder Paige Darr; junior catcher/infielder Shian Beekel; sophomore infielder Madison Weaver; and sophomore pitcher/infielder Lauren Valdez.
Junior outfielders Rhianna Middleton and Kelsey Bloomer, along with freshman pitcher/infielder Riley Hough will also be key contributors.
ONSTED: Tony Aiken returns to coach the Wildcats. He previously coached Onsted for four seasons, compiling a 55-80 record.
Onsted will have six returning players, but with limited experience.
"The new coaching staff is very excited to see the hard work begin put in by all the players," Aiken said. "With a refocus on quality fundamentals, solid defense and small ball, Onsted hopes to regain its confidence and play well this season."
Returning letterwinners are senior outfielder/catcher Sydney Myers, junior first baseman Chelsee Pelham, sophomore pitcher/outfielder Megan Short, junior third baseman/outfielder Naomi Stump, sophomore outfielder Kylee VanBrundt and senior second baseman/catcher Kassidy Warner.
Newcomers will be freshmen pitcher Kennedy Amsdill, junior infielder/pitcher Maddiline Chesser, junior utility Hanna Jordan, junior third baseman/pitcher Gabrielle Kisor, junior utility Mariah Lienau, sophomore catcher Kelsey Mullen, senior outfielder Ashlee Seeburger and junior catcher/outfielder Brittany Toman.
"Pitching will be young and inexperienced," Aiken said, "so the coaches are hoping good defense and timely hitting can keep them in games."
LCAA softball teams look for strong seasons
Below are season previews for local Lenawee County Athletic Association softball teams.


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On a piece of CE equipment that cost 300 notes! Do Panasonic actually want to sell the thing?
Panasonic returns to the UK DVR market after an abortive early foray, with a 3D-enabled, media-streaming TV recorder. Rather more convincing than the brand's first generation model, the DMR-HW100 offers access to the online VieraCast portal, has jukebox functionality and is only slightly bonkers. Panasonic DMR-HW100 3D- …
On a piece of CE equipment that cost 300 notes! Do Panasonic actually want to sell the thing?
Erm, http://www.reghardware.com/2011/07/02/review_panasonic_tx_p65vt30_3d_tv/page2.html, looks like space for EPG adverts on a 4.5k 65" plasma.
Think a 10% penalty is too light, to be honest.
Regards, Iain.
Needed to get true digital surround through most (all?) AV amps.
I have a "Dual" brand freeview PVR that cost me £80 from Asda 5 years ago.
It has a full-width program guide with NO ADVERTS and a handy vertical red bar that tells me at a glance what is just about to start/finish, plus a thumbnail description of the program I am flicking past.
SONY/PANASONIC et al - pay attention to this.
I am ready to buy a freeview HD recorder.
I want it to be at least as slick as the Turkish PVR that sits under my Japanese telly.
I haven't bought a Radio Times in 25 years.The obtrusive ad on the left-hand third of my screen is not *ever* going to coax me to change my mind!
So, you can connect to Viera and view what they want you to. Big * deal.
If I am going to plug in the internut I want to be able to run a browser and watch everything I can on my computer, otherwise no deal.
Good on ya for knocking the points off, but could you make it more like 100 points next time? -15 is surely a score to make people sit up and take notice.
FYI, when you set one of these up, ignore the invitation to put in a postcode. That way you won't get any adverts. You'll still have the annoying blank boxes wasting space on the left of the EPG but at least you'll be doing Gemstar out of a tiny bit of revenue.
On a Samsung D7000, when you enter the post code, the set knows which region you are in - I'd guess this would be the same on the Panasonic ?
Oh, and on a Samsung you get the choices of their (slower) EPG or Rovi.
-> and no adverts on either <-
Not sure how that can deprive anyone of revenue, on a one-way broadcast connection (i.e. no feedback possible to determine number of views etc). If it works at all (postcode entry sounds more like a Freesat-ism, in order to get correct regional variations) it will just be to hide the blighters.
"It has advertising slots - which Rovi, rather than Panasonic, benefits from - and doesn't offer much of a view when you want to scout for upcoming shows"
Does not benefit Panasonic ? So, why are they doing it ?
This one issue is putting me off buying a £2500 55" Plasma TV from them. I might just have to buy a Samsung 51" TV out of principle.
I agree with the other commentors - I'd knock them 15% at least - you'll use the EPG every day on this product - they really need to be penalised for it.
I was recently going to buy a Panasonic Freeview HD recorder for my parents but was put off by all the people complaining about the adverts being displayed on the programme guide. It put me right off.
Also, if you look on their website you'll discover that the only way to contact Panasonic is to write to them by post. Why would you want to do business with such a company. There are better options. I went with a Humax eventually and my parents are really pleased with it.
I agree with your comments on the EPG. Their web site (http://www.panasonic.co.uk/html/en_GB/Support/Contact+us/220263/index.html#anker_222505) does offer the option of more modern method rather than post - using the telephone to call 0844 844 3899