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GEORGE TOWN, June 28 — The Penang Barisan Nasional (BN) today launched a signature campaign as a petition to voice the demand of the people who wanted a free port and monorail in the state.
Its information chief, Tan Cheng Liang, said copies of the petition would be distributed to all BN state assemblymen, state assembly coordinators, organisations and industries in the state.
"The petition will collect signatures for a month before being forwarded to the federal government for further action. Individuals supporting the petition can sign them at the nearest BN service centres," he told reporters after launching a campaign to sign the petition here today.
Tan said, the state BN was confident the petition would be positively considered by the people in the state as it involved economic interests, in line with the National Economic Transformation Plan mooted by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak.
He rapped the action of the state government under the opposition coalition which was against the petition through their blogs, reflecting their worry on BN's capability in carrying out its proposal.
Recently, state BN chairman Teng Chow Yeow was quoted as saying, among the state BN manifestos for the 13th general election was to turn Penang into a free port and the monorail project.
However, Najib, when commenting on Teng's statement said, Penang already had five free trade zones and the concept of a free port in the state no longer existed. — Bernama


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A driver abstracts an underlying entity. For example, a TCP/IP driver abstracts the details required to perform networking and the FFS driver abstracts how the file system blocks are laid out on the storage medium. The kernel architecture controls how kernel drivers run with respect to other system components. Some examples of kernel architectures are the monolithic kernel, microkernel and exokernel. In contrast to the above architectures, NetBSD is an anykernel. This means that some kernel drivers can be run according to any kernel architecture instead of being limited to a single one.
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- Experiment with a rump kernel hypervisor for the Linux kernel (allows rump kernels to run in the Linux kernel)
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- Revolutionizing Kernel Development: Testing With Rump
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- "Fs-utils: File Systems Access Tools for Userland" describes fs-utils, an mtools-like utility kit which uses rump kernel file systems as a backend. The paper is available. Presented at EuroBSDCon 2009.
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- "Kernel Development in Userspace - The Rump Approach" describes doing kernel development with rump kernels. The paper and slides are available. Presented at BSDCan 2009.
- "Environmental Independence: BSD Kernel TCP/IP in Userspace" describes networking in rump kernels. The paper and video presentation are available. Presented at AsiaBSDCon 2009.
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Sounds like this only applied to USA. Apple lost to Samsung in Japan and Korea. ...
7 reasons to file design patents, trade dresses
Rick Merritt
These are the relatively new and still under-used parts of the U.S. Patent System. I'll tell you why they are well worth more attention.
1. They are relatively easy to file. Design patents don't have long, complex claims. Just a few drawings. Fewer experts and lawyers to wait for and pay.
2. They are broad. A design patent, for example, covers "an overall impression" of the look and feel of a product, according to many experts in the Apple vs. Samsung case. That's very subjective and thus broad and subject to how well your lawyers and experts can argue in court.
3. It's easy to understand by a jury of your peers. Anybody can understand what an iPhone or iPad looks like and that the look is kinda distinctive. Not everybody can stay awake when someone argues for a utility patent on the alternate e-bit in the 3G cellular standard—something about which the Samsung's attorneys had to educate the jury. They won no infringement money for their expensive efforts.
4. They make money. A significant fraction of Apple's $1.05 billion damages award was for design patents and trade dresses. These things pay.
5. They protect IP you didn't know you even had. Apple showed its iPhone boxes and packaging as part of its trade dress. Who would have thought these little out-of-the-box-experience details could be intellectual property you could monetize? Go figure, and sharpen your pencil.
6. Everybody else will do it. This is a big lesson from the Apple vs. Samsung case. Other people will get it, if not today someday soon. Don't be left out of the next big IP race.
7. There's a protracted sluggish recovery going on. Too many people have time on their hands and are hungry for new opportunities. File a design patent. Register a trade dress.
Go ahead, scoff. Tell me how stupid it is to have a patent on a black rectangle with rounded corners.
While you are busy laughing, I am busy filing a design patent.
See you in court!
Robotics Developer
I have to agree with the thrust of the article even though it sort of makes me crazy. The lesson learned from the Apple vs Samsung case is just: that if it looks at all different or better than you should file just to protect yourself. While the concept of patenting a rounded black rectangle is crazy, it pays off (at least this time). Again until/unless the law is changed there is a lot of incentive to when in doubt file (or just file anyway). Seems to be a great way to keep the patent office in business but I am not so sure about innovation being advanced by this approach.
"As for the design patents, it's a mistake to think that Apple won a patent for "rounded corners." What they showed wasn't a single infringement, but that Samsung had slavishly copied the physical design, icon design, home page design, and packaging design of the iPhone — and then left behind an email trail showing what they'd done. That's why Samsung lost, not because their phones have rounded corners."
Hey it's all about the user experience these days, right?
How it feels in your hand, and etc.
Well, this looks like a pro-litigation and against progress message.
Use the patent system rather than the church to bring on the new dark ages.
On the contrary, something has to be done to end this foolishness. Because if we don't, any one of us can look forward for being sued for the most ridiculous reasons, even for reasons we never would have imagined.
Netgear makes a rectangular black box, and Linksys is now going to sue?
To me, this message is similar to the President encouraging immigrants to make use of the food stamp program. You're encouraging bad behavior, and you're exploiting the worst aspects of human behavior, i.e. basic greed, to do so.
"As for the design patents, it's a mistake to think that Apple won a patent for "rounded corners." What they showed wasn't a single infringement, but that Samsung had slavishly copied the physical design, icon design, home page design, and packaging design of the iPhone — and then left behind an email trail showing what they'd done. That's why Samsung lost, not because their phones have rounded corners."
If you don't feel foolish for spewing your rubbish opinion on US patent laws, you should after reading this.
Frank Eory
Great points Rick. While many may feel that the USPTO should not allow design patents, or that trade dress should not be protected, the law is what it is and I agree that it's foolish to ignore it.
But I'm an IC designer, so there isn't much for me to think about in the realms of trade dress or look and feel! But for my customer's end product, that's a very different story.
I think I will patent combining two or more elements which result in communication or conveyance of a useful commodity beyond the boundaries of the originator.
So, pipes and hoses, and connectors, and pins, and switches, and data busses, and ... and... will all require a license from me.
If you have lungs and arteries then Pay up!!!
Yes, this is a message for the OEM, the system designer...not for the semiconductor industry.
Why not? There was (is?) a craze to expose the inside of PC's, showing off a geeks impressive hardware. Component manufacturers may want to get in on this too. Who will come out, and patent, the first non-black plastic IC package?
Actually, some light sensors are packaged in translucent plastic packages. In that case, the package involves much more innovation than anything Apple has done with rounded thin form factors.
Can I be sued for using my right hand to eat? Oh well, maybe the way i hold my knife? How about the way i comb my hair?
I support design patent, but these cannot be broad. They can protect against a direct copy, no more.
@rwik78: The problem is the profit that can be made by legal action and the obstruction that can be created when disallowing use/licensing.
Reduce the terms/condition/duration of exclusivity and eliminate obstructive use of patents and I support it too.
Currently the patent system is preventing progress. Fix the above problems and it might have a real value to society and maybe even support progress.
Of course reducing the number of patent-based legal actions will also benefit everyone by freeing those resources for constructive purposes.
In this specific case, there was prior art for at least the rectangular design. It was not subjective like the efidence on scrolling, physical evidence was produced, which the jury chose to ignore. Laws and systems can help if we humans show some common sense to begin with.
You go ahead and do that for your ideas in your country, and tell that to your parliament or village elders, honey. We won't complain.
Meanwhile, US patent laws are what they are if you want to do business in the USA.
I think that most of us are in agreement that this patent the obvious stuff has got to stop. But I would agree with Rick: under the rules of the game as they exist now, the smart thing to do is patent as much as you can. The sad thing is that this system favors the big companies like Apple with teams of lawyers over of small companies and individual inventors.
Design patents are not only cheap but they also issue quickly so you have the protection in place before you're too far into the product launch. Perhaps a simple standard to apply would be if a photograph of your distinctive device with your competitor's name on it would make you see red, it is time to consider filing a design patent.
LG prada phone, first released in 2006..
The LG Prada was more or less dismissed in court as prior art on the iPhone design patent because it was not sold or marketed in the US before the iPhone was announced in Jan. 2007.
@rick.merritt: That is a lame reason to dismiss an item. If one applies this in another country, say... China then we (USA) would whine to the wind and be dismissed as usual when China laughs and ignores us.
hmmm. this whole case increasingly becomes a demonstration of how the U.S. legal system works. one would believe there are minimal standards, but seemingly there aren't.
"The LG Prada was more or less dismissed in court as prior art on the iPhone design patent because it was not sold or marketed in the US before the iPhone was announced in Jan. 2007."
The judge dismissed? The jury dismissed? This should have been unacceptable. Couldn't the jury refuse to dismiss on these grounds?
we come across as such hypocrites.
Foreign prior art is currently not considered for domestic patents. However the inventor does still need to certify they conceived of the invention, to their knowledge. It is very difficult to locate all similar inventions globally, even with the current method of searching internet snapshot archives (a database of snapshots of nearly everything on the internet for a given date). The America Invents Act changes this by putting foreign prior art into play, and prioritizes prior art challenges in the new process of post-grant reviews coming into effect this September.
The general public do not have adequate legal knowledge, especially on the complicated patent law, to really make a sound decision on such high profile case. A company with a troop of aggressive attorneys can normally push around and get what they want. This is not possible for most of the small companies. This is the reality.
Luis Sanchez
This patents topic is giving a lot to talk about! I get some laughs just by reading the comments. Getting a patent that gives me rights over the human body arteries? ha ha :-).
It has been said that the way the USPO is working at this moment will hinder innovation. But, is that so? I think we can see it the other way around. If too many things are patentable, this would enforce companies to know their competitors and find ways to avoid infringing their patents coming out with the own designs and ensuring they are different. This just like a read in another article, the jury foreman said he did benchmarking by reverse engineering the competition's products (hard-drives), and after they knew how it worked, they would come out with another way to do the same for their products. This is innovation! When the going gets tough, the tough get going!
Before you laugh, companies are patenting DNA sequences now. The ability to patent something naturally occuring, based on identifying it, exposes the absurdity of our patent process.
"enforce companies to know their competitors": this is a full time job, i.e. it requires a lot of effort, that may not be affordable by small companies like Start-Ups. Also, you will not be able to track patents requests that have not completed their process, but whose claims are already valid. In this sense, I agree that this is going to hinder innovation.
you are actually at a higher risk for lawsuit if you research patents instead of ignoring them. because you now have knowledge that you might be infringing one.
just one of the twisted ways the patent system is now broken.
the original, constitutional, purpose of patents was to publish the idea, in addition to some economic advantage to the inventor. we have publishing stuff down pat, in many other ways than a patent, and much clearer ... read some patents sometime for light bedtime reading.
a basic problem, esp in sw patents, is "obviousness". the PTO cannot hire folks at a fast enough rate to know what is obvious or prior art in sw.
the US govt had to step into the auto and airplane fields and yank patents before there could be standardization in those fields. not sure they are going to do it in the sw field, where nothing is physical.
Uhmmm, does it mean that if Apple patents a black rectangle with round corners their competitor should make square or triangular screen smartphones to ensure they are different? Who cares about common sense, ergonomic and usability, bring in diversity!! :-)
Now I understand why Motorola designed the Razr and Razr MAXX the way they did... Smart move.
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I have to believe some of these patents laws are going to appear before the Supreme Court in the coming years. This case illustrates that our current patent laws are broke. As the industry devolves into IP chess games, eventually the Congress may realize they need to tackle this one.
Frank Eory
The absurdity of some of the comments about this case is further evidence that many engineers do not understand the concept of a design patent.
Consider a hypothetical unrelated to smartphones. The Chevrolet division of GM has for many years made a rather distinctive looking sports car called the Corvette. Whether GM has design patents on it I don't know, but let's assume they do.
The car has distinctive body curves and styling and other features that make it instantly recognizable as a Corvette, such that it would never be confused with any other car.
Now suppose an Asian car maker creates a very close copy of the Corvette. They do their best to match the "look and feel" of the body styling, they give it a powerful engine and so on. There are differences, sure, but to the casual observer it looks, sounds and drives like a Corvette. Is that infringement?
Some of you I guess would say no, because GM didn't invent curves, and they didn't invent the gasoline-powered internal combustion engine, or rubber tires or the particular shade of yellow paint known as "Corvette yellow" (actually, they might truly have invented that one).
You can argue that combining prior inventions in such a way to create something new and distinctive with a unique look and feel is not an invention and should not be patentable. But the law says otherwise.
Frank Eory
Ok, now this is ironic. I decided to check out my own hypothetical and in about 30 seconds I found a Motortrend article from 2010 about GM suing Mongoose Motors, a company that made unlicensed Corvette replicas.
The Corvette forum that lead me to this article had a long discussion thread about car makers enforcing their design patents, trade dress and copyrights against "kit" car makers. Some kit car makers are able to negotiate a license deal with the OEM, but those who think they can fly under the radar usually get an unpleasant encounter with a law firm.
One user claims that Ferrari in particular has vigorously defended its design patents for over 20 years, shutting down every company that ever tried to sell Ferrari replica car kits.
Now let's review. Ferrari didn't invent the engine, the transmission, or glass windows, or leather seats, or that shade of red paint, or steel, or aerodynamic body styling. But it DID invent the Ferrari Testarossa, and if you try to copy it it without permission, you will be sued and you will probably lose -- and rightly so!
It's not that clear cut by any means, though. Mainly addressing "trade dress" here.
First of all, Samsung has always bragged about their larger screen. And it looks like there was prior art (LG) on other aspects that Apple was claiming were their own invention. So the fact that some jurors couldn't tell the Galaxy, whose entire surface is display, from the iPhone, just shows that they are like those who can't tell two otherwaise totally different silver cars apart. (I knew such a person. Confused a Sunfire with a Firebird.)
Also, take a car like the Mazda M5 Miata. It is as close as it can be to the traditional British sports cars, INCLUDING the fact that the Mazda engineers tuned the exhaust pipe to sound like MGs. They actually had two exhaust system designs, one more efficient (that the engineers worked out on their own time!) and one more deep-throated, like the MG's. Management selected the cooler sounding one.
Also, take a look at cars like the Lexus large car. It's always been a copy of Mercedes Benz sedans, perhaps from a previous generation.
My point being, more or less close copies of competitors' products are the norm, hardly the exception. Maybe identical copies aren't and shouldn't be allowed, but the Galaxy phones are hardly identical to iPhones.
The lesson is to become a patent attorney. They are really the only ones in this sequence who made any money.
Sad, really.
Of course, the irony of Apple winning a suit about stealing look-and-feel almost makes it worthwhile, until one wakes up.
David Brown
The USA has long since lost its leadership in high-tech manufacturing. It is rapidly losing it in design and development. Now with such idiotic patent issues like this, it will not even be able to buy and use the high-tech gadgets designed and manufactured around the world. If this case result sticks, and is followed by similar cases or "trade dress" patents, companies like Samsung will simply stop selling in the USA. The rest of the world provides a much bigger market, with far more sane IP laws (in a similar case in Japan, Apple's claims with thrown out of court).
The USA will be left with whatever home-grown devices their favourite navel-gazers have produced, and whatever exorbitant prices these non-competers decide to charge, while the rest of the world gets choices and progress.
Sounds like this only applied to USA. Apple lost to Samsung in Japan and Korea. Their judgement sounds lots more rational than US.


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When you stop by Spokane City Hall, the front desk receptionist will decide if you look like a first time visitor. If so, she'll tell you to not take the stairs. Those without staff key cards will get stuck inside and it might be awhile until someone finds you.
So we took the elevator up to the 7th floor to chat with Marlene Feist, the city's public information officer. On her desk is an anonymous homework assignment from some elementary student describing their ideal 100-Day Action Plan. The book was given to Mayor David Condon by a city employee on Tuesday morning, but nobody knows who it was.
The child's plan would encompass eating 100 candies, spelled candys in the book. They would wish 100 video games in their possession. They would carry 100 cookies or "cooke's".
The child made it clear though. They would not want to carry 100 crayons or "crayne's". With the summer months approaching, crayons easily melt and make a mess everywhere.
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Like many people I've decided to get rid of my monthly TV cable package and instead moved to an internet only household. It took a little adjusting but its working out really well….until that is the marketing and adverting agencies starting to move into this space.
Why I hear you say is this annoying you Peter?, surely it just the same when you had cable television or newspaper adverts etc. Unfortunately its not, and its an issue advertising/marketing and brand people need to be aware of, and this is why.
Main stream advertising in the past used to be confined to magazines, billboards and TV commercials etc. When reading a magazine article for-instance I can choose to ignore the advert on the opposite page or glance at it if I see value to me. It does not stop me reading the content article. Now the issue for me is that online advertisers think its a good idea to #@*^ me off by popping up an advert right in front of me when Im busy reading content online. Then when I click the little box to remove it they then send me to their product website. Now the old way advertising agencies used to please clients was to say x amount of people saw the advert so we have achieved the goal etc. But this old metric does not work online…what they have achieved is a consumer (me) who is now really angry at the brand for intruding on my reading and channel of focus.
So marketing/advertisers be warned, respect your audience, don't @!*% them off by intruding on their personal space/focus when they are in the zone…there is a time and place. The marketing profession is better than this, but it seems it is really struggling to adapt to the new internet media and that of a more empowered and sophisticated consumer.
The real challenge is to deliver your brand/message content in a timely respectful way that engages your targeted audience. This is where localized /personalized content based on the user persona will come to the fore. (my next blog post expands on this idea)
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40 new specimens added on pages 10-12
A rich, major specimen of the species , nearly solid with Gartrellite. Gartrellite is a mineral that was recently discovered (1990) and its presentation up until now is not that great by common aesthetic standards. Usually it is presented as dull crusts of fine-grained coatings from other locales. This is a good, showy, display-worthy specimen. Minor duftite is in association. Joe Budd photos
A choice, reticulated cerussite showing the adamantine lustre and slightly beige color that these are famous for. The piece is very balanced and, nearly, pristine. For those wanting a fine Tsumeb cerussite this is, I think, a bargain. It has the robustness you normally see in a larger specimen without the cost, and it is a full miniature still in size. Old material, probably from the 1970s or early 1980s. from the Helmut Bruckner collection. Joe Budd photos
Small but sharp iodargyrite crystals, perched on contrasting malachite from this unusual locale! New material, collected recently and sold to an Australian dealer (Rob Sielecki) in 2010. This was one of the richer and more aesthetic of the handful of specimens I saw when visiting Rob in Australia in early 2010 after the find was made. Joe Budd photos
A totally gemmy, 3-dimensional, 1.6-cm garnet crystal crowns this beautiful plate from the classic, now closed locale. The specimen literally formed as a "plate" , coating a wall in situ. So it is minutely crystallized around the back, though it looks flat there. The brightness of the piece , and the size of the garnets, give it a good impact in a case. From an old French Canadian collection, being sold off at Tucson 2011. Joe Budd photos
Glassy, transparent, richly colored garnet crystals to 1.5 cm make this a beautiful plate from the classic, now closed locale. The specimen literally formed as a "plate" , coating a wall in situ. So it is minutely crystallized around the back, though it looks flat there. The brightness of the piece , and the size of the garnets, give it a good impact in a case. From an old French Canadian collection, being sold off at Tucson 2011. Joe Budd photos
This is a relatively large, robust, significant cluster of euclase from the famous pegmatites here. The euclase from this locality are known for their vertical blue "stripes" , and the robust fat nature of the crystals. They are quite distinct. This crystal is undamaged and pristine on the front and display faces, complete except for some contacting at base and back. Euclase means "perfect cleaveage" and sadly, this piece did in fact cleave down the vertical middle at some point in its history (maybe even at the mining or in shipment to me from Brazil) - but the fit is lock-tight and it actually clicked together and held without the need of glue. Nevertheless, i have added a few drops of superglue to repair it stably, and the piece now is repaired - although invisibly so. You would be hard pressed to spot it because again, the cleavage and join are both perfect, without any chips missing. And, in consideration, the price is now reduced to what I myself paid for it in Brazil, although it displays dramatically and looks like it is worth easily quite a bit more. It comes from the private collection of a gem trade dealer I know in Brazil, who sold a few things recently. I have had many smaller examples of euclase from Equador, but this is the largest by quite a bit. Joe Budd photos
Every now and then, you see a large matrix piece which just screams "fake" at you. It just seems too contrived to be real. That is what I thought of this specimen, when I first saw it in a dealer advertisement over 5 years ago. When I saw it in person though, I immediately realized that it actually is the real thing, with three isolated and pristine tourmaline crystals shooting out in 3 different directions. Remarkably, there are no repairs! The piece has been through my preferred preparation lab to confirm that fact. The fact that a single matrix piece can have two totally different habits of tourmaline has always impressed me about how these things form. It is rare, but it happens. Still, usually that exceptional case refers to two tourmalines of the same color, but perhaps different terminations on the same matrix. Here, we have both of the really stereotypical habits of a Paprok tourmaline, totally different in color and symmetries, perched on the same piece. The classic multicolored red-green crystal is 5 inches tall. Again, it is NOT repaired, despite its perch and freestanding nature. The hot pink crystal to the left is fully 2 inches long, and shows a totally different termination. We call this style the "bubblegum pinks" and it is also classic for the locality. I simply am NOT aware of another specimen which combines both of these particular styles of tourmaline, let alone with such pizzazz. This is a major matrix tourmaline, by any standard. Joe Budd photos
A surprisingly aesthetic fluorite from the Aquamarine deposits in Nagar. Pegmatitic fluorites associated with aquamarine are at a premium, both at the source and on the market here. This is an extremely aesthetic combo piece with a sharp , very lustrous and bright octohedral fluorite perched on a natural pedestal of muscovite, and with sidecars of aquamarine in association. The fluorite is complete ALL AROUND and shows beautifully. I have seen few of this quality in this size range - usually the fluorites are stuck on big unwieldy plates of muscovite, making this somewhat of a rarity for its aesthetics. Joe Budd photos
We have all seen innumerable quantities of these aesthetic, dramatic combination pieces come out over the years. BUT, few have ever just stunned me for the sheer beauty and symmetry as this piece. It displays dramatically perched on a custom made lucite base which raises it into the air, to appear floating. Note this is somewhat fragile, and therefore hand delivery is a must for this specimen. Nevertheless, once put on a shelf, or in a drawer, it is safely at home! I paid a bloody fortune for this piece compared to what they usually go for, just because it is so striking, so balanced, and appealed to me when I usually ignore most of them. Joe Budd photos
I first started seeing dribbles of rhodonite cleavage fragments from this mine in 2005. Formerly, the mine had been worked for manganese, then closed fo rdecades. The rhodonite cutting rough provided a new reason to prospect here. The cutting rough came to market first, and only later did a few sporadic pockets yield these giant, cherry red crystals. They were always rare, and to my knowledge no more than half a dozen really fine pockets were found over the last 5 years of hard mining at this very old manganese mine. I obtained 4 of those pockets, myself, with an agent camped out at the source. This particular crystal is one that came out in 2008, and I handled at that time. It is a dramatic piece that is very fat, and thus very juicy with the top cherry-red color. The edges are transparent while the core is translucent. Like most of the crystals mined here, the edges are contacted due to the extremely tight pockets and narrow room to grow. Although contacted on the left and with some breakaway damage on the lower edges to the sides, this crystal displays dramatically from the front, and sits either flat or horizontally showing the longest axis as the top, like an inverted pyramid. Set on its custom display base, it is a very impressive piece, and literally radiates color in a case. Joe Budd photos
At 4.26 carats, this is a relatively large and clean gemstone from the new finds which came out over about 2007-2009 from this old mine. This cut stone is a rare large example for the species by any previous standard, and they are relatively inexpensive now while the mines are producing in Brazil. When this find is finished, there is no reason why the gems (and crystals) shouldn't shoot higher in valuations . By any previous standard, these are world class for the species and are frankly dirt cheap compared to anything even remotely comparable from the older finds in Australia. Stones such as this exist from older finds, only in extremely limited quantities and astronomical prices . Joe Budd photos
A rare example of seemingly octohedral crystals of alabandite, from the Chiurucu Mining area and NOT from the Ucchuchaccua rhodochrosite mine in Lima Dept. The crystal, 2 cm on edge, is complete and sharp, and world class for the species . The piece overall is a "toenail" or small miniature size. Only one dealer had a very few of these specimens at the Tucson 2011 show. What are the odds of two new finds of the best alabandite crystals in the world coming out of different mines in Peru at th same time, after decades of nothing like this? near zero? I am very sure of this locale, though. One of these specimens has a smidge of rhodonite on the bottom of the matrix, confirming its mine of origin. Joe Budd photos
This sharp, pyramid-looking crystal is one of the finest, most geometric thumbnail specimens I have seen form the find. It is a complete floater with mesmerizing, escher-like symmetries and patterning. It is a largeish thumbnail size. It is GEM CLEAN and transparent. It has more patterning, more "dimensionality" somehow, than others I have had, and is thus valued at a premium. I have handled by far the largest number of the specimen quality pieces from this find in 2009-2010, and this is one of my personal favorites. These are not just world class for the species, they are unprecedented and so different from the "normal" phenakite crystals of other locales as to be considered another beast entirely. 10.7grams. Joe Budd photos
ex. American Museum of Natural History ex. Lawrence Conklin
Scheelite from this locale, before the discovery of Chinese material in modern times, was considered by most collectors to be the best of color for the species. Crystals were far and few between, and traded as if they were platinum among sophisticated collectors. This is a large crystal for the locale, bigger than the very few I have seen and handled in the past by quite a bit. Most are on the order of 1 cm or smaller. This is robust in size, form, and has a deeply saturated orange-red color to it. This is a MAJOR locality specimen! ex American Museum of Natural History, by exchange to collector/dealer Lawrence Conklin in the 1980s. Joe Budd photos
ex. Jack Zektzer
This is a relatively large crystal for the species, from a rare and one-off find of this very rare species (circa 1976). You will almost never see a matrix example for sale, let alone one with such a large crystal! They are extremely uncommon today on the market, and ONLY come from this locality in good crystals of note. The crystal has an off-white color, and is translucent. It fluoresces blue under UV light. I purchased this in Seattle from associates of Jack Zektzer who collected the area with him and then hoarded these for several decades. Joe Budd photos
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I get to go to the Instructables HQ!
I am leaving to Yosemite on Thursday, renting a hotel.
Then the next day (Friday), I am going to hike or whatever.
Then we go back to the hotel.
Saturday morning, we start out to San Francisco.
We get there around... I dunno, 3 or 4 or something?
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I am leaving to Yosemite on Thursday, renting a hotel.
Then the next day (Friday), I am going to hike or whatever.
Then we go back to the hotel.
Saturday morning, we start out to San Francisco.
We get there around... I dunno, 3 or 4 or something?
I won't be able to make it to Yuri's Night, but the next day (Sunday), Eric and I are planning on meeting at the HQ at around 11 I guess.
This is gong to be sweet.
Sorry the images lack color...
Nov 14, 2012. 10:11 AMReply
I can't believe this happened when I was just a kid... HOW CRAZY IS THIS?!
Nov 14, 2012. 1:06 PMReply
Hey, when I went, I was about the oldest person there, it was still crazy-fun.
Apr 6, 2008. 5:45 PMReply
WHY does everyone ELSE get to go? What do you have to do? Do you have to bribe somebody? Pay somebody? What??? Oh, I'm sorry, congratulations.
Nov 9, 2008. 7:17 AMReply
:D I was just a newbie back then. Since, I've actually been invited, but couldn't go due to unavoidable scheduling conflicts. Hopefully next summer. Maybe.
Apr 16, 2008. 4:16 PMReply
ah HEM ! everyone else? Does that mean I am a nobody since I don't "get to go?" LOL
Apr 16, 2008. 7:08 PMReply
True enough, except if someone is still a nobody at my age, they are considered pretty much a loser.
Apr 16, 2008. 7:13 PMReply
I'm not a loser, I'm a winner...I've won prizes off the radio many times. I stopped counting at 35. the DJs know my name and address, etc.
Apr 16, 2008. 7:16 PMReply
I didn't say you....I said me (if you get to be my age, as I have, and haven't accomplished things). So much I have wanted to do and have not really accomplished any of them.
Apr 21, 2008. 12:03 PMReply
then you should support my Instructables Awards Idea. Then you'd get the most comments prize and be a winner!!!
Apr 16, 2008. 7:20 PMReply
Trying to steer the conversation to be cheerful...sorry you haven't accomplished everything you want though...
Apr 16, 2008. 7:23 PMReply
Well, I never expected to accomplish everything.....a few things would be nice :-) But I am the one that should be apologizing....I shouldn't be online when I feel depressed. Sorry if I have put a damper on things here.
Apr 21, 2008. 12:04 PMReply
I just noticed ur going through mid-life crisis! which explains why ur always down. Turn that frown upsidedown!!!!! TURN IT!!!! TURN IT!!!
thats right....
thats right....
Apr 21, 2008. 3:35 PMReply
Oh, I am never depressed that long :-) I may be "on and off" for that long, but that is never a continuous condition with me :-)
Apr 16, 2008. 7:46 PMReply
Sugar makes me sleepy, and good pure chocolate makes me mellow :-) It has to do with the upcoming HOPE convention in NYC, it will be the last one at the Hotel Pennsylvania, and it looks like I had a shot at going finally. But my wife doesn't want me away for all three days nor does she want to come along. I was reminded of this moments ago, when I answered a post in the HOPE discussion forum at the 2600 site. And so I got temporarily depressed *sigh*...the depression will pass, as will the HOPE convention it seems.
Apr 17, 2008. 8:35 AMReply
aww that sucks. can i join the people who didnt get to go to ibles hq club? i doesnt look like im going either.
Apr 21, 2008. 12:02 PMReply
I am referring to the HOPE con in NYC....just a few hours drive or by train.
Apr 6, 2008. 10:10 PMReply
First you need to pay me $100. Then you may ask Eric if you can drop by and say hi... ;-)
First you need to pay me $100. Then you may ask Eric if you can drop by and say hi... ;-)
Apr 7, 2008. 12:29 PMReply
Monk had a sex change? Man, he - sorry, she - is even more screwed than I thought! :-D
Adrianna Monk - hmm...
Adrianna Monk - hmm...
Apr 17, 2008. 7:40 AMReply
I remembered at least five, RS remembered 3 more besides Monk, and Patrik got 4 more.....what do you mean there aren't more then six ?
Apr 17, 2008. 12:12 PMReply
Yes, and I feel sad about that. You gals can do just as well as the guys and have a completely different perspective many times that is refreshing and inspiring.
May 20, 2008. 2:00 PMReply
My apologies HK, yes I figured you were probably female but wasn't absolutely sure.
May 20, 2008. 5:50 PMReply
That's OK. But really. My aviator used to be pink, and know it's a Kitty with a bow. I don't know any guys that would be comfortable with either of those :-).
May 20, 2008. 5:57 PMReply
I have run into a few (some hair dressers and a few room decorators...) ....well, you know.....I never assume :-)
Anyways, nice to make your acquaintance Ms Kitty :-)
Anyways, nice to make your acquaintance Ms Kitty :-)
May 20, 2008. 6:38 PMReply
Nice to know you never assume :-) p.s. I was just kidding. I wasn't trying to be mean or rude :-). Please don't be offended at anything that I say, I never mean to be unkind - usually I'm just kidding, all in good humor, right? :-)
May 20, 2008. 6:47 PMReply
I know, I was just "playing along", I hope I did not offend.
Yes, all in good humor (didn't he used to sell ice cream? The Good Humor Man.... ) ;-)
Yes, all in good humor (didn't he used to sell ice cream? The Good Humor Man.... ) ;-)
May 21, 2008. 9:48 AMReply
HAHA LOL! Don't worry, I am rarely offended, pretty much the only thing that offends me is the use of bad words. Usually I find that since there are no hand gestures, facial expressions, etc, people tend to get offended easily because they don't understand that you're just kidding. Just wanted to make sure I wasn't offending and didn't seem rude or mean.:-)
May 21, 2008. 11:18 AMReply
Nope, you were fine.....I actually ask if I have offended others way too often (ask someone that has been around awhile LOL)
May 21, 2008. 11:49 AMReply
:-) another way to say that is that I have been told that the only way I annoy and offend is by asking "if I offend", too often :-)
May 21, 2008. 12:16 PMReply
Yeah - the apologizing for your imaginary insensitivity is really getting on my nerves! Oh yeah: ;-)
May 21, 2008. 3:13 PMReply
Well, it did get on some people's nerves when I started here......it was very excessive back then...
May 21, 2008. 11:59 AMReply
I just have to have a little more confidence and a little less self-disrespect, and not assume I am making everyone miserable all the time ;-)
May 21, 2008. 12:06 PMReply
I think you're right. Actually, you generally manage to cheer me up. I've yet to be offended by you, and (in my experience anyhow) people let you know really fast if they're genuinely upset of offended.
Instructables just wouldn't be the same without you. :-)
Instructables just wouldn't be the same without you. :-)
May 21, 2008. 12:32 PMReply
Wait, no. That's what the car salesman tells him! LOL! That episode made me laugh so hard when I first saw it!
Apr 8, 2008. 1:24 PMReply
Well without thinking hard umm... I know of four (Canida, jessyratfink, threadbanger, and you)
Apr 8, 2008. 3:32 PMReply
Off the top of my head - add "pimp suit" rachel, "squishy breast" donnauwanna, and stinkymum (no epithet required)... ;-)
Oh, and "public enemy #1" Star, of course...
Wasn't there some some "Women of Instructables" forum topic or group at one point?
Oh, and "public enemy #1" Star, of course...
Wasn't there some some "Women of Instructables" forum topic or group at one point?
Apr 9, 2008. 12:23 PMReply
LOL, after I posted I remembered Star, when they were running re-runs of Leno during the writer's strike, she was mentioned.
Apr 8, 2008. 2:14 PMReply
Yup - she even has an 'ible. (Well, a collaboration - she knitted a scarf, and I videoed it). I would let #1 & #2 have accounts, but they aren't 13 yet.
Apr 8, 2008. 2:19 PMReply
Ooo... *dashes off and makes Kitechild 1 & 2 accounts to sell later for $$* LOL, JK
Apr 8, 2008. 2:27 PMReply
Technical site question: can you have more than one account registered to the same email address? We have a "family address", which we all use (it's a subtle way of keeping an eye on what the boys sign up for), which Kitewife uses for her account (I use my own address which saves her having to wade through loads of science and technology newsletters to find her own stuff - it's also our nutter-filter).
Apr 8, 2008. 2:29 PMReply
I don't think you can. The quickest way to find out is just try it. Although you seem to have a habit of breaking the site,
Apr 8, 2008. 9:50 PMReply
The only thing is, it is a pain in the neck having two accounts. Take today. I logged in as Monk, logged out, logged in as -er, well, you know- , logged out, logged out again, then logged back in as monk. This just to log from monk to you know to monk. Phew!
Apr 8, 2008. 12:32 PMReply
Well, guys are the majority around here. The yarn contest brought quite a few (suspected) females, but few stayed.
May 20, 2008. 11:48 AMReply
I stayed! I did originally sign up because of the yarn contest, but now I get on Instructables pretty often, I just don't add much to a conversation, mostly because I'm not a very interesting person.
May 20, 2008. 2:06 PMReply
Aw don't....don't say that to yourself...... You...you're.....you're not......aww
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By Lina • Mar 12th, 2013 • Category: Creative Products, Latest PostsIf you start your morning with a cup of tea or coffee, this post is for you! Following our first selection of creative coffee and tea mugs, here's a list of some fresh ideas of what you could hold in your hands while sipping your favorite drink. Not only can these creative cups make your morning at least somewhat nicer, but they are always a great gift idea for a friend.


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Devil_Rising wrote:@Luigi_Owns
Sorry man, but having grown up in the NES era, I can absolutely say with extreme certainty that the NES had the most profound effect on the video game industry more-so than any other console.
Technology-wise, it innovated the concept of the d-pad, as well as the standard A and B type buttons, which would be copied by Sega and NEC (Turbo Graphx), among others. It also added the start and select button being on the controller.
Super Mario Bros.
The Legend of Zelda
Kirby's Adventure (which was more popular than the original GB game Kirby's Dreamland)
Star Tropics
Punch Out
Excite Bike
Fire Emblem (in Japan)
Mother (also in Japan)
Famicom Wars (the precursor to GB Wars, Advance Wars, and Battalion Wars, in Japan)
NES Open Tournament Golf (precursor to Mario Golf)
Ninja Gaiden
Double Dragon
Final Fantasy
Dragon Quest
Wizards & Warriors
Bubble Bobble
Bionic Commando
Adventure Island
Bonk's Adventure
Star Soldier
Joe & Mac
Mighty Final Fight
Mega Man
Ghosts n Goblins
Gargoyle's Quest 2
River City Ransom
Prince of Persia
Ikari Warriors
Metal Gear
Tecmo Bowl
etc. etc. etc., the list goes on
The SNES was an amazing console, and had/has an amazing library of games, but while it certainly had better looking games than the NES, and was superior at least in it's selection of fighting games and rpgs (two genres that didn't really take off in a big way until the SNES era anyway), I would still have to say the NES was king.
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Dave "Switch" Taylor: Producing M.I.A.
Other promising accidents followed M.I.A. and Taylor in from the streets, where they recorded the voices of children they'd asked to sing hooks, hairdressers they pulled out of a barbershop, and a group of disbanded Cricket players. "We were just there to collect ideas", says Taylor, "but the songs would progress as we'd stumble across something, or something would jump out on us".
Don't Say Workflow
Taylor works at least as hard preparing for these sonic opportunities as he does looking for them by regularly aggregating a library of samples templates, and programmed channel strips in Logic. "I try to spend an hour or so a day just making up patches and having some fun with the ES1 or some other synth, trying to make up my own new sounds as well as weird drum kits", he says. "When it comes time to actually write the music, I have a lot of things there that I already know are going to be kind of exciting".
And while daily preparation is key to his work, Taylor stops short of embracing anything like a standard workflow. "What I try not to do is fall into any particular pattern", he says. "Logic has such a broad array of plug-ins and instruments for manipulating sounds in all sorts of directions that I try to just mix it up all the time and always start from a new idea".
Applied Logic
To achieve the fresh assimilated sound of Kala, Taylor used Logic's host plug-ins to process, tune, compress, and EQ overdubbed vocal samples and multilayered drums, bringing an electronic feel even to the sounds of the indigenous voices and instruments.
When interesting accidents failed to materialise, there was no shortage of purposeful creativity. M.I.A was regular contributor of new beats and ideas. "She programs on a little Roland drum machine with an internal sequencer", says Taylor. And as co-producer, she was an unerring guide to what was working best. "If you get lost going round for an hour listening to a beat loop, you can turn around and look at her and she'll give you an honest judgment. She's really important in the studio".
High Flier
Perhaps the most interesting Kala-related accident occurred months after its release when the single, "Paper Planes", with the unforgettable sonic hook of 4 gunshots and a ringing cash register, was featured in the trailer for the 2008 hit film Pineapple Express. The song caught serious air, climbing to number 5 on the iTunes hit list.
"That was an original idea that Diplo did with her, based on a Clash song", says Taylor. "And it's a good example of how Logic can work in a slightly different way, allowing us to mix everything really quickly and right on the spot".
Taylor explains that after a writing session in New York, co-producer Diplo and M.I.A. joined him in London to mix the song, when they decided they needed some of the samples replayed. So even as they were using the Web to send certain beats and parts to be replayed in the studio in New York, the musicians were recording them and sending them back. Taylor dropped them "straight into Logic", and finished the mix in London.
"In about six hours we took the whole thing from being a demo on a loop to having the new drum sounds and all new guitar and bass", he says. "That was all in Logic".
Crossing Over
Taylor says that the main result of recent successes like "Paper Planes" is more choice about what he gets to work on, including projects with Tricky and Missy Elliott. Recently he and M.I.A. released a new version of "Boys", another single from Kala with an interesting twist. "Jay-Z has done a verse on that", says Taylor. "It's a pretty big thing for us".
Ignoring rampant industry pessimism, Taylor sees more big things, and many interesting accidents, ahead. "All you read is about how badly the music business is doing", he says. "But for people just coming through who are more interested in the creative side than the straight up business side, music at the moment is as exciting as it's been in our lifetime. No doom and gloom here".


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So it's been about 3-4 years since the new generation of consoles. What have been some of your favorite stories this generation? Since I haven't played too many titles this gen, I don't have much of a reference point for favorite stories but I'll show the few I've enjoyed.
There will be some SPOILERS!!
Call of Duty 4: The game itself is an above-average arcadey shooter with a few impressive set pieces and somewhat false pretensions toward realism. It's not bad. However, CoD4 still stands out to me as one of the finer examples of the FPS genre because of a surprisingly good story. The advantage that a video game has in storytelling is interactivity and this is fully realized in CoD4. After the deaths of the President and the Marine in the Nuke scene, I spent the rest of the game terrified that the narrative would kill off my SAS team. I've never felt this in any game and it's what makes the end of CoD4 so wonderfully devastating. I might even go as far as to say that it's one of my favorite endings to a storyline of all time, despite its abruptness.
Okay, it does have its problems. The characterization is a bit thin and the game is completely Black and White in its morality - the story itself is quite "standard" in its "Good guy vs. Terrorist" mentality. These things CoD4's story from being great instead of just good.
Also, this: http://www.destructoid.com/narrative-brilliance-and-social-irrelevance-in-call-of-duty-4-55128.phtml
Bioshock: The game is a wonderful romp through a creepy dystopia with varied combat and beautiful level design. The storyline has beautifully written dialogue and masterfully deals with deep themes. Bioshock, like CoD4, takes advantage of interactivity and does a better job of it. The problems with Bioshock's story are the gameplay demands that the plot points be stretched apart, creating pacing issues, and that the game loses steam after the revelation with Ryan and just sort of dawdles about for 2 hours before ending flatly. Despite that, Bioshock still has a wonderful little story.
Portal: Engaging puzzles and masterful game design aside, Portal doesn't really have too much of a story. It's Chell, chambers, evil robot, end. What little story there is, however, is wrapped up in hilarious writing and a surprisingly sympathetic, if sinister, Glados character. Despite being unsubstantial, the story is funny, engaging, surprising and its only let down is that it ends with no closure or explanation as to what the hell happened.
Super Paper Mario: While the game itself is fun if a bit stale, what with having a weird difficulty curve and bland, flat platforming, I can truly appreciate the storyline. If nothing else, SPM manages to do something I don't see in games very often: romance. Despite the fact that the romance is sometimes "narmy" and melodramatic, it's done well enough to make it believable and it even borders on touching at times, especially with that final scene. Add this to some hilarious dialogue, and you've got yourself a pretty good storyline.
Okay. I've just realized that I need to stop playing so many FPS's.
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The only pokemon that can resist ice and electric without the help of an ability are rotom-h, rotom-F, Magneton, and Magnezone. There are several pokemon that are neutral to it, however. With thick fat, Mamoswine essentially resists ice and gets an immunity to electric. Goldeen and seaking both resist ice, and their lightningrod abilities deal with electric. Lanturn has volt absorb plus its typing to deal with both, but since you said you didn't want it or Magnezone, the rest are up there.
The only ones that I can think of DW Goldeen and Seaking. Their Dream World ability is Lightningrod, and that makes them immune to electric type attacks. If they do, it will draw all electric type attacks towards that pokemon and raise their Special attack by one. They also resist Ice beam being water type.
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7 a.m.—Departing Bogota airport. I like Bogota in May. The rain cools everything off, but not so much that I need to wear socks in my sandals. The city has a bouncy, enthusiastic...
Starting to sour on this whole Icarus thing. It's a bit less personal than the dances I am accustomed to create. I can speak to the Icarus story only so far: I know the reckless giddiness of feeling carefree, driving fast, tumbling through the air in a dance studio. I know how it feels to push too hard, to run into trouble because I couldn't let something go. Yet these are pretty abstract associations with this myth. Icarus speaks universally; I am more interested in speaking specifically.
I now have the idea of a dance set in a bedroom: the marriage dance. It would be a duet for Alex and Amanda. We could explore different aspects of sharing a bed/life with one person: sex, loneliness, getting into each other's space, feeling far apart when we're together, feeling close when we're apart. There's a lot of territory here to which I am personally committed. I wouldn't feel like I were faking a story just to put in a lot of lifts.
It sounds reminiscent of Closet Dances. Come to that, it sounds reminiscent of January Night. I fear that I only have one or two stories to tell. They are stories that I care about, however.
I have so many fears: my work isn't good enough, my instincts are all wrong, I'm just a big, dumb guy who should have been learning accounting instead of wasting all that time in the studio.... It's hard not to listen to them sometimes. But I don't even feel like I have a choice. Making dances has become compulsive. My inner critic is not enough to make me stop. (My lack of money may yet accomplish this one day.)
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