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For my tenth birthday, I got the present of my dreams: a piece of Amelia Earhart luggage. It was a small overnight case made of aluminum, with rounded corners, and covered in blue vinyl. Between the latches was a little plaque with an ersatz, feminine signature. (Earhart's actual signature was loopy and uneven, with a runic-looking "A.") I had nowhere to go, so I kept the case under my bed and filled it with dolls' clothes—a use, I suspect, of which Earhart would have disapproved. Play that prepared a young girl for domesticity was anathema to her ideals. When she lectured at colleges—as she did frequently, to promote careers for women, especially in aviation—she urged the coeds to focus on majors dominated by men, like engineering, and to postpone marriage until they had got a degree. On Earhart's own wedding day, in 1931, the thirty-three-year-old bride handed her forty-three-year-old groom, George Palmer Putnam, a remarkable letter, which read:
You must know again my reluctance to marry, my feeling that I shatter thereby chances in work which means so much to me. . . . In our life together I shall not hold you to any medieval code of faithfulness to me, nor shall I consider myself bound to you similarly. . . . I may have to keep some place where I can go to be myself now and then, for I cannot guarantee to endure at all the confinements of even an attractive cage.
The place where Earhart went to be herself was the cockpit of a plane, and that may have been the place where she died. On July 2, 1937, she became the world's most famous missing person when her twin-engine Lockheed Electra disappeared in the vicinity of Howland Island, a speck in the Pacific about midway between Australia and Hawaii, where the Department of the Interior had built her a landing strip. She and her navigator, Fred Noonan, were attempting to circumnavigate the equator, a feat for the record books, although pilots before them (all male) had rounded the globe at least six times by shorter routes, and commercial transpacific air service had recently been inaugurated. Critics accused Earhart posthumously of embarking on a capricious joyride that ultimately cost taxpayers millions of dollars, the estimated tab for a huge rescue mission authorized by President Roosevelt, Earhart's fan and friend. Even some of her staunchest admirers disapproved of the last flight. Earhart's biographer Susan Butler quotes one of them, Captain Hilton Railey, who had helped to launch her career. She was, he wrote, "caught up in the hero racket."
Earhart, however, was a heroic figure to millions of her contemporaries, and she still counts as one. She achieved fame dramatically, in 1928, as the first woman to cross the Atlantic in a plane, the Friendship, albeit only as a passenger. Railey had recruited her on behalf of Mrs. Frederick E. Guest, née Amy Phipps, a steel heiress and sportswoman who was underwriting the expedition. She had planned to play the starring role herself, until her husband, a former British Cabinet minister, expressed his alarm (three women fliers, including a princess, had recently perished in crashes). Railey was commissioned to find a substitute, and Guest stipulated that, ideally, she should be an aviator but, more important, "the right sort of girl." (The wrong sort of girl was her rival in the race to Europe, Mabel Boll, a flamboyant former actress who was known as the Queen of Diamonds. As Guest later put it to her daughter, "It just wouldn't do.")
Wilmer (Bill) Stultz, the pilot of the Friendship, who had defected from the Boll party, and Louis (Slim) Gordon, the mechanic, had done the actual flying, and Earhart tried to remind a besotted press and ecstatic crowds hailing her as "Lady Lindy" that she had really been just "a sack of potatoes." In 1932, however, she legitimatized the title by flying the Atlantic on her own, becoming the first woman and the second person, five years after Charles Lindbergh, to do so. (Congress awarded her honorary Major Wings that she wore with her pearls.) In 1935, she was the first pilot to solo across the Pacific—from Honolulu to Oakland—and to solo non-stop from Los Angeles to Mexico.
Earhart also made or broke a slew of other records, and few Americans would not have recognized her in the street. Her image was managed aggressively by Putnam, a scion of the publishing house G. P. Putnam's Sons, and one of the first über-agents. He specialized in celebrity true-life adventure stories, and he had signed up Lindbergh to chronicle his flight to Paris for the Times (which paid him sixty thousand dollars), then turned the articles into a book that sold some six hundred thousand copies. Even before Putnam met Earhart, he had caught wind of the Guest project—and his next best-seller. By the time the Friendship took off, he had a ten-thousand-dollar deal for Earhart's firsthand story, and a file of publicity shots that played up her resemblance to Lindbergh. (They were both lean, fair Midwesterners with winning smiles.) Her legend, to a large degree, was Putnam's creation. He brokered her lecture tours, book contracts, columns, product endorsements, and media exposure, and he was so proprietary that a rival of Earhart's described him as her Svengali. She, however, was the real mesmerist. "Amelia Earhart: Image and Icon," a handsomely designed album of their teamwork as self-promoters—portraits, press clippings, ads, and illustrations—was published two years ago, with notes and commentary by the editors, Kristen Lubben and Erin Barnett, and essays by Butler and Susan Ware.
Ware regards Earhart's pose of Lindberghian diffidence with critical amusement. She quotes the great aviator Elinor Smith, who was still flying in 2001, at eighty-nine: "Amelia was about as shy as Muhammad Ali." The abuse of the term "icon" incites iconoclasm, or ought to. Earhart was saintlike only as a martyr to her own ambition, who became an object of veneration and is periodically resurrected—her unvarnished glamour, like a holy man's body, still miraculously fresh. Embraced by feminists, she was featured on a 1976 cover of Ms., which promised a story "BETTER THAN THE MYTH." Read closely, however, Earhart's life is, in part, the story of a charismatic dilettante who lectured college girls about ambition yet never bothered to earn a degree. In the nineteen-nineties, Apple and the Gap both featured her in ad campaigns—the Gap to sell khaki trousers, Apple to promote its corporate image of nonconformity. The slogan that appeared with a gauzy, doe-eyed photograph of Earhart in a white helmet was "Think Different." (She thought of herself not only as different but as a special case to whom most ground rules didn't apply.) Three Hollywood movies, starring Rosalind Russell, Diane Keaton, and Amy Adams, have told a version of her story, and a new one, "Amelia," directed by Mira Nair, with Hilary Swank in the title role and Richard Gere as Putnam, will open in October. The script is based on two biographies, "The Sound of Wings," by Mary Lovell (1989), and Butler's definitive "East to the Dawn" (1997); and on "Amelia Earhart: The Mystery Solved" (1999), by Elgen M. Long, a veteran pilot, and his wife, Marie K. Long. (All three books are being reissued this fall.)
There were, in fact, other famous female aces in the early decades of aviation. All of them were daring—some were said to be better pilots than Earhart—and many of them were killed and forgotten. If Earhart became an "icon," it was, in part, because women who aspired to excel in any sphere, at a high altitude, looked upon her as their champion. But it was also because the unburied come back to haunt us.
Earhart had already tried to circle the globe once in 1937, flying westward from Oakland, but she had crashed taking off in Honolulu. Determined to try again, she coaxed additional funds from her sponsors, and "more or less mortgaged the future," she wrote. The plane, hyped as a "flying laboratory" (it wasn't clear what she planned to test, beyond her own mettle and earning power), was shipped back to California for repairs, and, once Putnam had renegotiated the necessary landing clearances and technical support, she and Noonan set off again, on June 1st, this time flying eastward—weather patterns had changed. A month and more than twenty-two thousand miles later, they had reached Lae, New Guinea, the jumping-off place for the longest and most dangerous lap of the journey. The Electra's fuel tanks could keep them aloft for, at most, twenty-four hours, so they had almost no margin of error in pinpointing Howland, about twenty-five hundred miles away. Noonan was using a combination of celestial navigation and dead reckoning. They had a radio, but its range was limited.
Early on July 2nd, on a slightly overcast morning, about eighteen hours into the flight, Earhart told radiomen on the Itasca, a Coast Guard cutter stationed off Howland to help guide her down, that she was flying at a thousand feet and should soon be "on" them, but that her fuel was low. Although the Itasca had been broadcasting its position, so that Noonan could take his bearings and, if necessary, correct the course, they apparently couldn't receive the transmissions, nor apparently could they see the billows of black smoke that the cutter was pumping out. Earhart's last message was logged at 8:43 A.M. No authenticated trace of the Electra, or of its crew, has ever been found.
After twenty-five years of research, the Longs concluded that "a tragic sequence of events"—human error, faulty equipment, miscommunication—"doomed her flight from the beginning," and that Earhart and Noonan were forced to ditch in shark-infested waters close to Howland, where the plane sank or broke up. There is, however, an alternative scenario—a chapter from Robinson Crusoe. It is supported with methodical, if controversial, research by Ric Gillespie, the author of "Finding Amelia" (2006), which has just been republished.
Gillespie is a former airline crash investigator who is notably unimpressed with his subject. (He describes Earhart as an "average" pilot and has little interest in her life or achievements.) He has distanced himself from the kooks and the conspiracy theorists who have suggested, at different times, that Earhart was on a hushed-up mission to spy on the Japanese, who interned her; that she became Tokyo Rose; or that she returned secretly to America and lived out her days as a housewife in New Jersey. In 1988, he launched the Earhart Project, which is devoted to solving what he calls the "Holy Grail of aviation mysteries." Gillespie recently announced that next May he will lead his ninth expedition to the Pacific island where he believes that Earhart landed, and, for a while, survived as a castaway.
Nikumaroro, formerly Gardner Island, is an atoll about four hundred miles southeast of Howland. At low tide, it is surrounded by a broad, flat apron of coral where a plane could safely touch down. The interior is covered with dense tropical vegetation bordering a lagoon. In 1929, a steamer went aground on the reef, and when its crew was rescued it left behind a cache of provisions. The atoll was deserted until 1938, when it became one of the last outposts of the British Empire to be colonized, and was settled by natives of the Gilbert Islands. (A prolonged drought forced the inhabitants to abandon Nikumaroro in the nineteen-sixties.)
In 1940, a colonial administrator and his work party found a liqueur bottle and some corks, a human skull and some bones, the partial sole of a woman's shoe, parts of a man's shoe, and a sextant box. (Noonan had a mariner's sextant on board.) A year later, the skull and the bones were examined by a British doctor on Fiji. The relics subsequently vanished, but when the doctor's notes came to light, in the nineteen-nineties, they were reviewed by forensic anthropologists. Their verdict, according to Gillespie, is that they probably belonged to a female, about five feet seven (Earhart was an inch taller), of Northern European origin.
Gillespie's case is circumstantial; Butler and the Longs are among the informed skeptics who take issue with it. But it rests on more than a secondhand analysis of missing body parts: unexplained distress calls from the mid-Pacific on Earhart's frequency which have long been discounted as "freak receptions," or as the work of a hoaxer; "signs of recent habitation" seen from the air on July 9, 1937, by a Navy pilot who was searching the area but saw no one alive; artifacts made by the islanders from scavenged material consistent with an Electra; the last line of position that Earhart radioed to the Itasca, which leads straight from Howland to Nikumaroro. But only a DNA sample can lay Earhart's ghost to rest. That, Gillespie hopes, is what the underbrush and the sands will yield.
Had Earhart returned, she would have celebrated her fortieth birthday on July 24th. Only a few intimates, however, knew her true age. She began shaving a year off at twenty-two, when she enrolled in an extension program at Columbia University, to take premed classes, and she later shaved off another. Her birthday was evidently on her mind in Miami, where the Electra was getting a final tune-up from mechanics at Pan Am, and she spoke with an old friend, Carl Allen, the aviation correspondent for the Herald Tribune. He told her frankly, Butler writes, that he judged her chances of success at "fifty-fifty," and she didn't argue, noting that she was worried for Noonan's sake but not for her own: "As far as I know I've only got one obsession—a small and probably typically feminine horror of growing old—so I won't feel completely cheated if I fail to come back." Allen, who had covered her career from its outset, might have reminded her of another obsession: to keep proving her singularity.
That "typically feminine" bit of vanity about her age was atypical of a woman who, from childhood, had refused to let her sex either limit or define her. Even in her late thirties, Earhart looked like an adolescent boy who had chopped off his own hair. She was lanky and nonchalant, with no hips or breasts—no visible womanliness—to speak of. One learns from Butler that she flew wearing men's underpants (they were apparently superior to a woman's for the purposes of a quick pee). For public appearances—at White House dinners, in a ticker-tape parade, on the lecture circuit—her wardrobe was unfrilly but elegant, and for a while she designed and modelled her own fashion label, an undistinguished line of tailored dresses and soft, two-piece ensembles. But in her flight gear—a jumpsuit or jodhpurs ("breeks"); flat, lace-up knee boots; a white shirt and a man's tie; a bomber jacket or a leather coat—she seems, at least by the codes of this century, flagrantly androgynous. Butler doesn't raise the question of Earhart's possible bisexuality, and one has to wonder if she put it to any of her sources. She does, however, make a point of noting that two conspicuously virile men donated their boxers, in one case, and their briefs, in the other, to Earhart's wardrobe: her husband and her lover. The lover was "undoubtedly" Eugene Vidal—an Olympic athlete, West Point football captain, flier, airline executive, frequent house guest of the Putnams, and, largely thanks to Earhart's friendship with Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, the director of a new agency, the Bureau of Air Commerce. (Butler bases her certainty of the affair on suggestions of it in the diary of Amelia's secretary, and on speculations voiced by Vidal's widow, Katharine, and by Gore Vidal, the son of his first marriage.) When the bureau was reorganized, in 1936, and Vidal was fired, Earhart wrote a breathtakingly cheeky letter to Eleanor, withdrawing a promise to campaign for F.D.R.'s reëlection unless her protégé was reinstated. The President was said to have guffawed at Earhart's nerve, but a day later Vidal's job was saved.
As far as one knows, Earhart's secret erotic life was heterosexual. Gender, however, is a bell curve, and on that curve she is an epicene, at least in the grammatical sense of the word: that of a noun that has one form to denote either sex ("doctor" or "friend," as opposed to "heroine" or "aviatrix"). Unlike the cross-dressing sexual rebels of the Belle Époque, whose intention was to be outrageous, Earhart—whose intention was to stay aloft both as a pilot and as a celebrity—projected a confusing mixture of traits with such an aura of virtue and assurance that she disarmed received ideas about femininity, even those of conservatives. Kristen Lubben quotes one of their paeans, published in 1928, which deplores the "decadence" of a generation slipping by stages "from sly gin-guzzling to a calculated harlotry." Earhart, the writer declares, is the antidote to those shameless flappers: "Hers is the healthy curiosity of the clean mind and the strong body. . . . She will become a symbol of new womanhood." Yet Putnam, the press, and, no doubt, Earhart herself were aware that there was something troubling about her appearance that had to be neutralized. Her photo spreads, Lubben writes, were often laid out like a book of paper dolls, in which pictures of the cavalier in trousers and leather were juxtaposed with pictures of the well-bred lady in a long skirt, a fur wrap, a girlish middy, or an evening gown, her arms full of flowers.
Putnam's Barnumesque title for Earhart's first book, published in 1928, was "20 Hrs. 40 Min., Our Flight in the Friendship: The American Girl, First Across the Atlantic by Air, Tells Her Story." Earhart was a "girl" of thirty-one passing for twenty-nine, but no one can argue with her purity as a product of America. On her mother's side, she descended from the Puritans and from Quaker ship-owners who arrived with William Penn. One of her paternal ancestors, Johann Earhardt, survived the winter at Valley Forge. Both branches of the family tree produced pioneers. Their boldness in facing the unknown was part of Amelia's heritage, but so was a patrician confidence of her place in the world.
Amelia was born in 1897, in a Gothic mansion on a bluff overlooking the Missouri River, in Atchison, Kansas. Her mother, Amy, was the daughter of Alfred Otis, a wealthy lawyer, and of Millie Harres, who had grown up in Philadelphia society and never quite overcame her nostalgia for it. Amy defied her father to marry Edwin Earhart, the son of a destitute Lutheran minister, who had worked his way through law school but settled for a lazy practice as what one in-law called "a claims chaser." Otis bought the couple a house in Kansas City and helped with their expenses, yet the Earharts—he a dreamer who tinkered with inventions and became a drunk, she a child of privilege, both incurable spendthrifts—still ran out of money. (In later life, Amelia, like her grandfather, and with some of the same contempt, supported her mother. Accompanying the remittance checks, Susan Ware observes, were "peremptory" letters full of scolding and condescension that betrayed an imperious streak that was well hidden from the world.)
Amelia's sister, Muriel, was born in 1900, and that year Amy sent her older daughter, a precociously self-sufficient toddler, to live with the Otises, in Atchison. That, apparently, is where she learned to finesse the conflicting demands of her own nature for risk and freedom and those of convention and propriety embodied in an anxious grandmother. In 1908, Edwin took a job in Des Moines as a claims agent for the Rock Island railroad. For the next eight years, the Earharts moved from city to city in the Midwest, as Edwin's drinking inexorably destroyed his prospects. ("There are two kinds of stones," Earhart wrote of life with her father, "one of which rolls.") They sometimes lived in unheated rooms, kept a boarding house, or camped with relatives.
After years of litigation with her brother, Amy finally extracted her share of the Otis patrimony, and sent Amelia, at nineteen, to a ritzy boarding school in Philadelphia. Many of her classmates were content to be "finished," but Amelia kept a scrapbook of clippings about self-starting women: a fire lookout, a police commissioner, an engineer. Her plans, after graduation, were to attend Bryn Mawr, but they changed abruptly on a Christmas holiday in Toronto, where she and Amy were visiting Muriel. The city was filled with wounded soldiers. Amelia dropped out of school, enrolled in a nursing course, and volunteered at a military hospital. When Canada was hit by the Spanish-flu pandemic in June of 1918, Amelia caught pneumonia from her patients, and her lungs were never quite cured.
In her time off, Amelia visited a military airfield. "They were terribly young, those air men, young and eager," she wrote in "20 Hrs. 40 Min." "Aviation . . . inevitably attracted the romanticists." Whether or not she saw herself as one of them, she would come to do so. She called herself "a hobo of the air," and described her early flights as "vagabonding." In the meantime, she gave up on the idea of a career in medicine after a year at Columbia, and joined her parents in Los Angeles, in a spacious house on West Fourth Street which, as usual, they couldn't afford. Out of filial duty, or perhaps, as she put it, as a "sunkist victim of inertia," Amelia lived with them for the next three years.
The holy terrors in the annals of fiction and biography—spunky tomboys who, when forced into a dress, hike it up and climb a tree—have often been their fathers' daughters. Edwin encouraged Amelia's exploits, and a sense of their complicity as two profligate rolling stones stirs beneath the clichés of her prose. He had often given her the kinds of present that a man buys his son: a baseball bat, a football, a .22-calibre rifle, which she wanted for shooting rats. A letter that Amelia left for Edwin, in the event of her death, before the Friendship flight, reads like the stoic farewell of a manly boy soldier to his sire: "Hooray for the last grand adventure! I wish I had won, but it was worthwhile anyway. You know that. I have no faith we'll meet anywhere again, but I wish we might."
The dry valleys of Southern California were a cradle of aviation, and it was Edwin who took his daughter to her first air meet, south of Los Angeles, and arranged for her first "trial hop" in a plane. Thoroughly smitten, Amelia was "ready at any price" to take lessons, and after only a few hours in the air she decided to buy her first plane, an experimental Kinner Airster. Amy gave her the two thousand dollars for it, and Amelia made some gestures to defray her expenses. But she quit one job after another—as a clerk at the phone company, as an amateur photographer, and, with a partner in the construction business, hauling gravel. Her spare time was devoted to flying, and, in 1923, having learned to "stunt," she was a featured performer in an air rodeo.
Among the admirers of her bravado was the Earharts' new boarder. (They had lost a chunk of Amy's inheritance in a disastrous mining venture promoted by Amelia.) Sam Chapman, an engineer from Marblehead, Massachusetts, was five years Amelia's senior. They played tennis and discussed philosophy, Butler writes, and he shared her progressive ideals, including, apparently, her notions of equality between a husband and a wife. Before he left California, in 1924, he asked her to marry him, and she accepted.
That year was a watershed for the family. The Earharts' marriage finally foundered, Amelia's lung trouble recurred, and she sold her plane. But, rather than use the proceeds to pay her hospital bill, she blithely bought a roadster nicknamed the Yellow Peril. Back in New York, she reënrolled at Columbia, but early in 1925 she dropped out yet again and moved in with Amy and Muriel, who were living outside Boston. She took a math course at Harvard Summer School, then applied, unsuccessfully, for a scholarship to M.I.T. Next, she found a job teaching English as a second language, and worked at a psychiatric hospital, where, according to Butler, "she lasted only a few months before deciding to leave." At that juncture, typically aimless though atypically depressed, she heard of a vocational-guidance service, the first of its kind, that was run by and for women. In filling out the application, she "lied—extensively" about her experience and credentials.
In 1928, when Putnam and Railey were prospecting for "the right sort of girl" to replace Mrs. Guest, Railey called an acquaintance in the Boston chapter of the National Aeronautic Association, Rear Admiral Reginald Belknap. He told Railey about "a young social worker who flies." She was, he added, "a thoroughly fine person. Call Denison House and ask for Amelia Earhart." Denison was a settlement house in the South End of Boston where Earhart ran night-school classes in English and supervised the nursery and the activities for girls. Two years before Railey's call changed her life, an employment counsellor had sent Earhart for an interview. Denison's director, Marion Perkins, was intrigued, she wrote, by the applicant's "quiet sense of humor, the frank direct look in her grey eyes," and took a chance on her. So, it would seem, did everyone.
It is hard to know whether, or how long, Earhart would have stayed in social work if Railey hadn't offered her a shot at glory. She could, for a while, throw herself into a high-minded endeavor, but she lacked the discipline to see it through. She dallied with Chapman for six years, breaking their engagement when she became famous. (He never married.) She warned Putnam that she was incapable of fidelity, and she apparently made good on her threat. Her flights were feats of courage and endurance, but compared with the achievements of the women in her scrapbook their significance was ephemeral. Her unique experience might have yielded a memoir that would still be read, yet she published only three slight books, one of them posthumous, which were rushed out, for commercial reasons, in weeks. When people asked Earhart why she flew, she liked to say, "For the fun of it," and "The Fun of It" was the title of her second book. Gravity was uncongenial to her, and she made light even of grave things. There was ether in the very sound of her name. Physically, too, she seemed like an airy spirit—Ariel, impatient to be set free.
The Earhart property that, to a layman, seems to have the greatest cinematic potential was not one that Mira Nair did, or perhaps could, acquire. "I Was Amelia Earhart," a best-selling novel by Jane Mendelsohn, was published in 1996. It is a desert-island romance based, in part, on an article by Gillespie, and Mendelsohn imagines that Earhart and Noonan have landed on an atoll like Nikumaroro. Amelia builds a lean-to by the lagoon, and Noonan constructs a shack with a veranda that looks out to sea. In the early days of their ordeal, they bicker and mourn, but solitude and need draw them together. They fish, forage, and survive by their wits. He plays his harmonica and talks to the birds, stoned on a narcotic root. She decorates her hut with parts from the Electra. The past recedes. Then, one night, Noonan seduces her. Their wild, "unencumbered" sex leads to a state of oneness "more precious than love." And, when he spots a search plane, they hide on the jungle floor, because "they know now that there is no difference between being rescued and being captured."
The torrid prose and the fantasy of surrender are almost a parody of the genre, and Amelia, of all people, knew that there were no idylls, especially between men and women. Yet the ending rings true. It is one that she herself tried to write. She abandons everything, and flies away. ♦
An earlier version of this article misidentified the honorary medal presented to Earhart by Congress. It also misstated the location of Denison in Boston.


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I often take screenshots and need to convert them from PNG images to JPGs, in order to publish them on the Web. I usually keep a desktop image editor around so I can crop and edit them when I do the conversion. But sometimes it's a pain having to open a program to do it, especially if the only option is Photoshop. You Convert It allows you to instantly convert virtually any type of file from one format to another. The choice of formats isn't always that great, but the fact that I can convert a WMV to an AVI and an MP3 to AAC at the same Website is amazing.
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No court has more power over patent laws than the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, which handles all patent appeals. In an order released Friday, that court stated its intention to revisit one of the most controversial legal principles in patent law: the "de novo" review of all claim construction decisions.
"Claim construction," the process by which judges decide exactly what patent claims mean, can be one of the more sleep-inducing areas of patent law. It's also critically important. Patent lawsuits cause competing teams of lawyers to argue for hours over the meaning of seemingly straightforward words like "user" or "connected," knowing that such linguistic jujitsu can put an accused product clearly inside or outside the bounds of a particular patent.
High-level patent litigation already has a tendency to be drawn out and unpredictable, but the rules around claim construction tend to exacerbate that fact. This is because studies show a significant chunk of patent cases that get challenged over claim wording get reversed by the patent appeals court. For instance, one 2010 study showed that the Federal Circuit has similar overall reversal rates to other appeals courts, ranging from eight to 18 percent. But when it comes to claim construction, it reverses in 33 percent of cases. Another recent study analyzing patent appeals from 2002 to 2012 found that software patent claim constructions were reversed in 45 percent of cases.
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A big part of the issue is that the Federal Circuit reviews claim construction "de novo," meaning it considers the issue literally "from the beginning," without giving any deference to the decisions already made by the district court judge. "As a result of the de novo standard of appellate review applied to our claim construction determinations, we United States district court judges feel like the late comedian Rodney Dangerfield, because our opinions 'get no respect,'" explained US District Judge James Holderman in a 2007 paper. Since the definition of a word or term in one patent doesn't necessarily have any influence on another patent in another area of technology, there's not a lot of consistency in claim constructions across cases, Holderman goes on to note.
The high rate of reversal on appeal, combined with the high stakes of patent litigation, also tends to make fighting through appeal a good option for parties that lose at district court. Taking a high-stakes patent case through trial can cost from $2 million to $5 million these days. Having already made that investment, the cost of getting a second chance on appeal, with no additional discovery costs and no requirement to spend days or weeks in front of a jury, appears relatively low.
Generally speaking in the US judicial system, legal issues are supposed to be decided by judges while factual issues are left for juries. In a 1995 decision called Markman v. Westview Instruments, the Federal Circuit ruled that claim construction is a legal issue and the Supreme Court agreed. However, the Supreme Court never weighed in on the de novo standard.
That standard has been controversial from the start, even at the Federal Circuit itself. The last time the full Federal Circuit considered this issue was 1998, in Cyber Corp. v. FAS Technologies. Judge Pauline Newman and Judge Haldane Mayer, both of whom are still on the court, objected to de novo review back then. Judge Randall Rader, now the Chief Judge, suggested that claim construction was a mixed issue of law and fact.
A case over light bulbs brought by a "patent troll"
The issue has come up in a case over light bulbs. The plaintiff, Lighting Ballast Control LLC, is a shell company set up to hold patents; it's a unit of Acacia Research Corporation. Acacia is sometimes maligned in the tech sector, since it is the largest publicly traded patent-holding company. Lighting Ballast Control (LBC) sued Philips and Universal Lighting Technologies back in 2009, saying their light bulbs infringe patent 5,436,529, which covers a type of control circuit for electrical ballasts. In 2011 the case against Universal Lighting went to a jury, which found in favor of LBC and awarded $3 million in damages.
Universal kept fighting through appeal, and a three-judge panel found errors in the judge's claim construction to throw out LBC's win. But LBC petitioned for the full Federal Circuit to consider not just their case, but the whole issue of claim construction reviews. The judges agreed. The disputed term was (get ready) "voltage source means providing a constant or variable magnitude DC voltage between the DC input terminals," and the key issue was whether that term described a "rectifier," or a device that turns an AC power line into DC voltage.
The current Federal Circuit had only nine judges sitting on it, down from the usual 12, at the time of this vote. Only five judges would have needed to vote to have the full "en banc" court re-consider the case. The judges voted on the case just hours before new judge Richard Taranto took his seat on the court; getting a case heard en banc will now require six votes. Taranto was voted in by the US Senate on March 11.
Throwing out the de novo standard would certainly help LBC, part of a litigious company sometimes called a "patent troll." But LBC's lawsuit against Universal Lighting is just one case. Overall, a change in the standard would restore more power to district judges in patent cases while lessening the power of the Federal Circuit. In the long run, that could end up being beneficial to patent defendants.


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Companion Animal Organizations
PAWS provides this information as a public service, and does not necessarily endorse or support the organizations and sites listed below. Not all shelters accept stray animals—please contact them individually to learn about their services and policies.
Companion Animal Shelters—Western Washington (adoption and stray services)
Companion Animal Adoption Resources—Western Washington (no stray services)
Animal Control Phone Numbers—Western Washington
National and Other Organizations
Companion Animal Shelters—Western Washington (adoption and stray services)
15305 44th Ave. W, Lynnwood, 425.787.2500
Shelters strays from: Edmonds, Kenmore, Lake Forest Park, Mill Creek, Mountlake Terrace, Mukilteo, Shoreline and Woodinville
Burien C.A.R.E.S.
909 SW 151st Street, Burien, WA 98166, 206.812.2737
Shelters strays from: the city of Burien
Everett Animal Shelter
333 Smith Island Road, Everett, 425.257.6000
Shelters strays from: Bothell, Brier, Darrington, Everett, Gold Bar, Index, Kirkland, Lake Stevens, Lynnwood, Marysville, Monroe, Snohomish, Stanwood, Tulalip and unincorporated Snohomish County
Forgotten Kingdom
914 124th Pl NW, Marysville, 425.210.3807, email@example.com
Shelters stray reptiles, rodents, birds, farm animals and small "exotic" animals.
Humane Society for Seattle/King County
13212 SE Eastgate Way, Bellevue, 425.641.0080
Shelters strays from: Medina
Humane Society for Tacoma & Pierce County
2608 Center St, Tacoma, 253.383.2733
Shelters strays from: Federal Way, Tacoma and unincorporated Pierce County
Kitsap Humane Society
9167 Dickey Rd NW, Silverdale, 360.692.6977
Shelters strays from: All of Kitsap county
Metro Animal Services
1200 39th Ave SE, Puyallup, 253.841.5595
Serves strays from: Algona, Milton, and Pacific
Paws of Grays Harbor
800 W. 1st Street, Aberdeen 360.533.1141
Shelters strays from: Grays Harbor County
Regional Animal Services of King County
21615 64th Ave, S, Kent 206.296.7387
Serves strays from: All of King County except Seattle, Des Moines, Federal Way, Hunts Point, Kirkland, Medina, Normandy Park, Renton, Skykomish, and those King-county based cities served by PAWS (see above)
Seattle Animal Shelter
2061 15th Ave W, Seattle, 206.386.7387
Shelters strays from: Seattle
Whatcom Humane Society
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Companion Animal Adoption Resources—Western Washington (no stray services)
Anacortes Animal Relief Fund 360.293.2865
Best Little Rabbit, Rodent and Ferret House Lake City area of Seattle, 206.365.9105
Cat Purebred Rescue Seattle, 206.782.2616 (voice mail)
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MEOW Cat Rescue Kirkland, 425.822.MEOW
Northwest Organization for Animal Help (NOAH Center) Stanwood, 360.629.7055
Old Dog Haven Arlington, 360.653.0311
Pasado's Safehaven Sultan, 360.793.9393
Purrfect Pals Arlington, 360.652.9611
Seattle Humane Bellevue, 425.641.0080
Seattle Purebred Dog Rescue 206.654.1117 (message phone)
Whidbey Animals' Improvement Foundation (WAIF) Whidbey Island, 360.321.9243
Animal Control Phone Numbers—Western Washington
If you are experiencing an emergency with people or animals call 911. Generally, these are the phone numbers to file complaints about animals, report animal cruelty, and report lost or found pets. For situations involving wild animals, call the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife regional office at 425.775.1311 or PAWS Wildlife Center at 425.787.2500 x817.
If you do not see your local animal control phone number listed below, call your local city clerk, police department or sheriff's office.
King County
Regional Animal Services of King County
Main Information Line — 206.296.7387
KCAS Service Area and Contact Numbers
(link includes both a list of areas serviced by KCAS and a list of phone numbers for those cities not in their service area)
Kirkland Animal Control – 425.577.5656
Seattle Animal Control—206.386.PETS (7387)
Kitsap County
Kitsap Humane Society—360.692.6977 x7216 (911 for emergencies)
Pierce County
Buckley Police (Animal Control)—360.829.3157
Metro Animal Services (Bonney Lake, Edgewood, Puyallup and Sumner)—253.841.5595
Pierce County Animal Control (unincorporated)—253.798.7387 (also lists numbers for cities in Pierce County)
Tacoma Animal Care and Control—253.627.PETS (7387)
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Edmonds Animal Control—425.771.0205
Everett Animal Control—425.257.6000
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From Marta Sansoni's research into accessories connected with the consumption and serving of oil comes Oliette, a bottle holder. In the case of Oliette, the designer reproduces the foliage of the olive tree, a weave of branches and leaves created through the laser cutting and folding of a sheet of steel giving a sense of movement, as if they are being blown by the wind. Oliette has both a poetic and original appearance. Oliette is a sort of mix between a bottle coaster and a glacette, it's evoking a new kind of object, especially for its particular functionality: to hold the bottle of oil emphasizing it and at the same time to avoid grease stains on the table.
Marta Sansoni, an architect and designer living in Florence (Italy), graduated in architecture in 1990. Her thesis work project "A building for worship" was published by the School of Architecture at the University of Florence and was selected to represent the Department of Architectural Design at the 1991 "Salon International de l'Architecture" in Paris. From 1990 to 1996 she has officially and continuously been a lecturer in the course of Interior Architectural Design at the University of Florence. She participated in several national and international design exhibitions and competitions: among these, the 1990 "Memory Containers" with Alessi. In the field of architecture, she has realized projects for new buildings in Florence and many projects of interior architectural design for private houses, shops, restaurants coffee shops, wine-bars and offices in Italy and abroad. In the design area, she has realized for Alessi two articulated families of objects ("Cactus!", "Ba-Rock) and a series of individual objects.


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I have had a busy couple of weeks stitching, my first finish was a box that I made for my tutorial on my tutorials blog, I then designed and stitched this silk dupion strawberry, decorated it with spider web roses and mill hill beads. My third project was a stitch red exchange for the Hooked on Exchanging group, I offered to be an Angel Stitcher for one lady who had not received her gift, obviously I cannot show this yet, however, I send it tomorrow ( Tuesday ) and as soon as it arrives I will show the photo's.
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Here is the box finish, you can see the tutorials for this on my tutorials blog here
A close up photo of the strawberry I made to go inside the box.
After all of that stitching I decided to make some scones today, I added butter and strawberry jam and made a cup of English afternoon tea - bliss!!!!
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Egg Scrapbook Accents to Make with Kids
In the March/April 2010 issue of Creating Keepsakes magazine, we share over a dozen egg techniques to use on your scrapbook layouts. Here are even more ideas for you to try! This "Egg flip book" is filled with a dozen textured eggs that are perfect mini-projects to do with the little ones in your life. To create this flip book, simply trim your egg shapes from paper, and adhere to 8"x 8" cardstock. Embellish as desired. Punch holes in each sheet and attach with jump rings.
Egg flip book by Joannie McBride. Supplies Cardstock: Bazzill Basics Paper and Prism Papers; Patterned paper and rub-ons: Imaginisce; Ribbon: American Crafts, Offray, Making Memories, and May Arts; Letter stickers: American Crafts and The Paper Company Studio; Pipe cleaners and pom-poms: Tree House Studios; Paper flowers: Prima; Tulle: Studio His & Hers; Rhinestone brads: American Crafts and Karen Foster Design; Chick die cut: Crate Paper; Glitter butterfly stickers: Colorbök; Felt flower border strip: Kaiser Craft; Felt stickers: American Crafts; Pen and punches: EK Success; Rhinestones: Gartner Studios; Acrylic paint: Plaid Enterprises; Ink: Clearsnap, KI Memories, and Tsukineko; Brads: The Paper Company Studio; Glitter: Wilton; Dimensional glaze: Duncan Enterprises; Adhesive: Glue Dots International and Kokuyo; Other: Buttons, butterflies, felt flowers, tie dye felt, and vellum.
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Paper flowers: Adhere paper flowers to egg-shaped cardstock and trim excess around edges. Decorate with ribbon.
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Pom-poms: Use assorted sizes of pom-poms and adhere to egg. Be sure to use a heavy duty adhesive so they stay put.
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Tie dye felt with glitter: Cut egg shape from felt and sprinkle with glitter. Shake off excess glitter. (no adhesive used)
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If Hollywood was high school, Darren Aronofsky might be the gothy flirt. It seems like there's no high-profile superhero project that the filmmaker hasn't touched. Ultimately, he's opted to go with his own, bringing the story of Noah and the ark to the big screen this weekend, which has thus far resulted in a sizable hit. But the Oscar-nominated director could have been at the head of one of last year's big superhero pictures as well. That's right. Darren Aronofsky was almost your Man Of Steel helmer.
Aronofsky guested on the Happy Sad Confused podcast when he revealed that he had "a few conversations" in regards to the Christopher Nolan-produced epic, specifically with Nolan and the WB brass. And while he was high on the Snyder version, he claims he would have "absolutely" taken the job. Says Aronofsky:
"I thought Zack was a great choice, and I loved his 'Watchmen' movie. I thought it was great. I thought that as a fan of the comic, you couldn't hope for a better interpretation. I liked the orthodoxy of it. It was interesting to add the pathos that they put into the character. It's a hard one to do. You look at what Christopher Reeve did, and it was perfect, because it captured that 'good old boy' thing. But to try and redo that again and bring that for a modern audience is tough in a post-'Batman' and 'Wolverine' world. It's hard to do that."Of course, this is not the first time Aronofsky has backed away from a superhero project. He probably takes meetings all over town for these things, even though it doesn't seem like he ever has any intention of making one, despite his praise for the Man Of Steel gig. In fact, it's probably just strategy in order to leverage with studios in regards to films he does want to make.
Case in point: Aronofsky's lunatic vision for Batman: Year One, where Bruce Wayne was a homeless kid living in a garage and working for "Big Al." That treatment, written with Frank Miller, was a hard-R re-imagining of the Batman mythos that Aronofsky did for the studio while attempting to get the funding together for passion project The Fountain. After the financial failure of The Fountain, he'd have a short chat with them about Watchmen as well, back before the film fell in the hands of Zack Snyder.
Later, Aronofsky would actually be attached to both The Wolverine and MGM's Robocop for a very long time, and it was likely the belief that those films would give him the ability to finance his dream project Noah. But once Black Swan unexpectedly made $329 million worldwide, suddenly he didn't need that mega-hit. As much of the polite company man Aronofsky tends to be, it does seem like he's basically humoring all these superhero movies. It's not like studios really like dealing with this guy.
Of course, Aronofsky's style, which is grand, operatic and bombastic, would be aces for a superhero film. His take on The Wolverine would have been something of a masterpiece, fueling the soap-opera tendencies and implicit violence of the character with Aronofsky's sleek, feral auteur madness. What superhero film would YOU want Aronofsky to direct?


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It's always interesting — and frequently entertaining — when Lady Gaga comes to town.
The vocalist specializes in flashy, big-budget productions that both impress and perplex — often at the same time.
Her current road show is dubbed Lady Gaga's artRave: The ARTPOP Ball tour. The trek supports the dance-pop diva's third studio album, "ARTPOP," which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 in November.
Gaga performs Tuesday at the SAP Center in San Jose.
Show time is 7:30 p.m. and tickets are $35-$200, www.ticketmaster.com.
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Prince fans have a very good reason to smile.
That's because the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer and Warner Bros. Records have announced a new agreement, which includes the release of long-awaited, previously unheard material.
The agreement also extends the artist's relationship with Warner.
Financial terms were not disclosed.
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Liam Hemsworth is kind of the strong and silent type, who sits and smolders away while we wonder what's going on behind those blue eyes of his, rather than spill any of the truth about his love life to the press.
One person that's not so tight-lipped about personal matters would be his ex-fiance Miley Cyrus. But Liam has finally spoken out about all the rumors surrounding his romantic antics, and had a little message for his ex girl too.
Since splitting from Miley in September, after the pair were together for almost two years, Liam finally confirmed his current dating status, and it seems like he's enjoying life as a bachelor. He's been linked with a few ladies since becoming a free man, most significantly Mexican actress Eiza Gonzalez, who he was spotted kissing on multiple occasions.
However things were obviously short lived, as he admitted to Extra: "I don't have a lady at the moment."
While there's no special ladies on the scene right now, it sounds like Liam's open to trying anything, as when the interviewer asked if he would be into going on a date with Oprah Winfrey, he replied cleverly: "Who knows? I don't want to count anything out. She's a wonderful woman... a very strong woman."
Liam also went on to reveal that he and Miley must have worked things out, as there's clearly no hard feelings. He told Extra that he's proud of her for having such a good response to her Bangerz album, saying: "I'm extremely happy for all of her success".
Well that just made our heart break in two. Can't we just rewind and rekindle the romance? Sigh, the "Liley" ship sails on.
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Recovering from the flu, buried in work, just generally pissed off, I still felt honor-bound to attend last night's Mendelssohn Glee Club concert at the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue on the Upper West Side of New York. My friend Jack Willoughby, a writer at Barron's, is a baritone in what is the nation's oldest independent musical group in America after the New York Philharmonic. So, at 7.30 pm, this nose-honking grump sat down on the temple's balcony, impatiently eyeing his watch.
The moment these mostly gray-haired men filed solemnly on stage in white tie, looking like Yale Whiffenpoofs battered by life, I was transported. They cleared their throats on Ecce Quam Bonum, the simple Latin text of Psalm 133:1 that reads, "Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity," before bringing us to our feet for the "Star Spangled Banner." In no time the men were making the hair on my neck shimmer with "Jubilate!" and a touching pastoral text from Robert Frost's poem, "You Come Too," put to music by Randall Thompson.
A lot of their material was a round-up of popular songs I normally detest, for their treacly and maudlin nature, but such was the understated and controlled performance extracted by conductor Eugene Wisoff, I found myself deeply moved as this tight group of male voices broke off in four-part harmonies and quietly delivered the goods. Delightful were "Cindy", a Kentucky folksong, and the hugely fun "Next to Lovin' (I Like Fightin' Best)" from the musical Shenandoah, and "Day-O" made famous by Harry Bellafonte. But I was amazed to find myself even liking the "Medley" from the musical, Annie, and the oft-belted out "Bring Him Home," Jean Valjean's "prayer" from Les Miserables.
The evening was a classic example of why playing it straight is the most eloquent way to let a piece of music speak for itself. For that's what the Mendelssohn Glee Club did – no light shows, no pyrotechnic arrangements, just fine voices and technically-assured performances turned into something special by a deeply-felt respect for the works.
This donation-only financed two-hour evening, easily one of the "best buys" the city has to offer, was broken into six parts, interspersed with arias from Giuseppe Verdi and Giacomo Puccini performed by the Greek soprano and soloist, Eleni Calenos. There was a rousing joint-performance as the monks, sung by the Glee Club, swore to protect Leonora, sung by Calenos, in a piece from Verdi's La Forza del Destino.
The Mendelssohn Glee Club was founded in 1866 by a group of Gilded Age New York men who decided to stage concerts of European-style four-part choral music for their friends in high society. They quickly became one of the top drawing room acts of the then four-hundred families dominating New York. The Glee Club's performances spawned copycat "Apollo" (all-male) choruses in cities across America, and opened the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1888.
In 1879, Gilbert and Sullivan were in New York preparing the production of Pirates of Penzance. "Went to concert of the Mendelssohn Glee Club. Heard 'The Long Day Closes,'" Arthur Sullivan wrote in his diary for December 16. "Admirably sung and encored." Now, 147 years later, the amateur men's choir is still standing, white of hair, a remarkable feat of endurance reflected in the humble sound of today's performers.
Sometimes the past meets the present. The Glee television show that became such a ratings-hit for Fox can indirectly trace its roots to the men's choir I saw singing last night, since morphed into a non-profit with its own 501(C) 3, and if the show's producers were smart they would book these old boys for their next season – the elderly gentlemen of the Mendelssohn Glee Club would surely give the show's high school stars a run for their money.
But no need to wait for that to happen. The choir's next semi-annual performance usually takes place in early December. Watch for the details on The Mendelssohn Glee Club website. It will be a genuine treat for the entire family.


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Te Roroa, Ngāti Whātua, Ngā Puhi
Since the mid-1980s, Manos has been at the forefront of the Māori ceramic movement. He is co-founder of Nga Kaihanga Uku, the national Māori clayworkers' organization, although his background is in woodcarving and sculpture. (He carved the meeting house at Matatina Marae, Waipoua Forest, on his tribal lands.) His clay works draw on customary art forms and on the Māori cosmological and creation narratives. In 1989, he travelled to the United States on a Fulbright grant to visit Native American potters. A reciprocal visit took place in 1991.
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San Jose, CA, August 24, 2016 – Western Digital® Corporation (NASDAQ: WDC), a global storage technology and solutions leader, today announced that SoftBank Corp. (head office: Minato-ku, Tokyo) has adopted the SanDisk® InfiniFlash™ all-flash storage platform for its software-defined storage solution.
Previously, SoftBank was running an in-house traditional storage system combining hard disk drives (HDD) and solid state drives (SSD) for some of its applications. Today, SoftBank has built a new software-defined, multi-petabyte in-house system using the SanDisk InfiniFlash platform as its core storage engine for real-time data transaction applications, enabling the installation of software in general-purpose servers.
This has allowed SoftBank to integrate operations of complex systems, solve the problem of silos, and eliminate vendor-specific tasks, which has led to higher efficiency. With its scalability and high density, the new system is able to handle a soaring volume of data and has made it possible to reduce the number of racks by 75% and power consumption by up to 83% within the data center, compared to traditional dedicated storage. SoftBank selected the SanDisk InfiniFlash platform after considering compatibility with diverse software-defined storage solutions and costs through a proof-of–concept process. This system is deployed by PS Solutions Corp. a leading provider of IT solutions and IT outsourcing.
The SanDisk InfiniFlash platform offers up to 512TB of recording density in one 3-rack-unit (3U) platform and delivers both the economics of HDD-based storage and performance of flash memory storage to support the needs of mid- to massive-scale environments. With a less-than $1-per-gigabyte price point without compression and deduplication, it delivers unprecedented scale and performance for flash technology in combination with software-defined storage, bringing significant innovation compared to the traditional, proprietary storage market. The SanDisk InfiniFlash platform can be connected to up to eight servers, allowing computing and storage to be added separately while also delivering the reliability and high performance of flash. This helps the company significantly save on capital expenses and operational costs in the data center.
"At the time, we looked into ways of leveraging flash technology in our new in-house platform to optimize the cost and efficiency of our data center operation," said Yasuyuki Kato, director, System Infrastructure, IT System Infrastructure, SoftBank Corp. "We have then decided to implement the SanDisk InfiniFlash platform. This is the first super-large-capacity flash storage platform that the SanDisk brand launched for data centers, based on its rich experience and knowhow in flash development and production. In addition to high-speed I/O capability, it delivers higher density compared to traditional flash-based platforms, which means it does not need to take as much floor space in data centers as in the past, while still being able to scale processing from a few petabytes to hundreds of petabytes of data. Under our IT strategy to support further business growth, SoftBank will build highly competitive IT systems ranging from big data to enterprise systems by using the advanced flash technology of the SanDisk InfiniFlash platform."
"We are delighted for SoftBank's deployment of the SanDisk InfiniFlash platform," said Gary Lyng, senior director of marketing for Western Digital's Data Center Systems Business Unit. "While devices begin to feature artificial intelligence and we are fully entering the connected era of IoT, it is becoming essential to leverage the huge volume of data that is generated at a higher scale than ever. We are excited to support SoftBank's business growth by delivering more value with our flash technology for the high-speed processing of large volumes of data. With a portfolio of platforms and systems that leverage the breadth of our industry-leading flash and disk technologies, Western Digital enables customers to harness the power of their data as it grows in volume, velocity, variety and value."
About SanDisk® InfiniFlash™
SanDisk® InfiniFlash™ is part of the portfolio of Western Digital® Corporation's Data Center Systems Business Unit. It enables the flash-transformed data center through integrated, tested and supported flash solution building blocks for today's enterprise and cloud workloads, including virtualization, tier-1 databases, Big Data Analytics and Digital Media Repositories, for an experience never before thought possible with extreme performance, massive capacity and immediate access to information.
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PS Solutions is a business that continues to create new IT services to achieve the corporate philosophy of SoftBank Group: "Information Revolution - Happiness for Everyone." It operates IT Solution Business, IT Outsourcing Business, and Overseas Marketing Business while also delivering IoT Solution Business such as "e-kakashi" agricultural IoT solution and "Setouchi Karen" using IoT service for mobility. URL: http://www.pssol.co.jp/
About Western Digital
Western Digital Corporation (NASDAQ: WDC) is an industry-leading provider of storage technologies and solutions that enable people to create, leverage, experience and preserve data. The company addresses ever-changing market needs by providing a full portfolio of compelling, high-quality storage solutions with customer-focused innovation, high efficiency, flexibility and speed. Our products are marketed under the HGST, SanDisk and WD brands to OEMs, distributors, resellers, cloud infrastructure providers and consumers. For more information, please visit www.hgst.com, www.wd.com, and www.sandisk.com.
© 2016 Western Digital Corporation. All rights reserved. Western Digital, SanDisk, and InfiniFlash are trademarks of Western Digital Corporation or its affiliates in the U.S. and/or other countries. Softbank and the Softbank logo are registered trademarks or trademarks of Softbank Group Corp. in Japan and/or other countries. Other trademarks, registered trademarks, and/or service marks, indicated or otherwise, are the property of their respective owners.
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This news release contains certain forward-looking statements, including new product offerings and product availability that are based on current expectations and involve numerous risks and uncertainties that may cause these forward-looking statements to be inaccurate. Risks that may cause these forward-looking statements to be inaccurate include among others: need for higher capacity, faster storage solutions may not grow as expected, our product offerings may not be available when we expect or gain customer acceptance in the timeline we expect, and the other risks detailed from time-to-time in Western Digital's and SanDisk's Securities and Exchange Commission filings and reports. This news release contains information from third parties, which reflect their projections as of the date of issuance. All statements made in this news release are made only as of the date of this release. Western Digital undertakes no obligations to update the information in this release in the event facts or circumstances change after the date of this release.


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Thursday, January 20, 2011
GBP/NFC Championship Poster
13 comments:
- MakinDayJanuary 20, 2011 at 8:56 PM
Brilliant use of the Tauntaun. I've been laughing for 5 minutes.ReplyDelete
- A_Lerxst_in_PackerlandJanuary 20, 2011 at 9:04 PM
OMG, that's frickin' awesome!ReplyDelete
Ditto on the Tauntaun, and the TT "lasers" are priceless!
- AnonymousJanuary 20, 2011 at 10:17 PM
Shared out on "Displaced Cheeseheads" FB Page (with attribution, of course!)ReplyDelete
- Soorjo Alexander William Langobard Oliphant ChuckerbuttyJanuary 21, 2011 at 1:26 AM
poor ickle bears. not a chance in the world.ReplyDelete
If you made a calendar and each month had this picture I would buy it.
In fact I would buy it many times over and give it as Christmas presents.
I have never seen anything so cool in my ENTIRE life!ReplyDelete
I have to admit, I am pleased with it as well. No clue what it would look like when I started. It was a challenge, but well worth it.ReplyDelete
Already the wallpaper on my phoneReplyDelete
i love you guysReplyDelete
I'm so proud. Best use of power software ever.ReplyDelete
- RuppertJanuary 22, 2011 at 2:35 PM
Awesome! Whenever I try to do something like that, I can never find the right look on somebody's face, or they're looking in the wrong direction. It's so hard to do, but you got it!ReplyDelete
That is fanfuckingtastic. Well done sir.ReplyDelete
Thanks a lot, Ruppert/David. Finding the right imagery to meld may have been the hardest part.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 6, 2011 at 11:35 PM
from Pittsburgh:ReplyDelete
this wallpaper is effing awesome. you've got your hands full one-upping yourself to immortalize SB XLV in background imagery. one request: please be gentle.
the pain of losing SB XLV was greatly assuaged by the $700-ish Aaron carried me to in my ff league this season. THE CAT IS MONEY.


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Server-side Count Scripts
From UA Libraries Digital Services Planning and Documentation
Before beginning this process, makes sure to check out Documenting_Invisible_Digitization. This process is currently being developed.
At the moment, instructions exist in "TO_DO_MONTHLY_COUNT" in /srv/scripts/stats/monthlyCount on libcontent.lib.ua.edu.
Here's what that document currently says:
1) Run these 4 scripts:
- acumenCount
- shareCount
- archiveCount
- depositsCount
2) Check output in output directory.
3) Then run combineCounts
This will capture monthly snapshot.
4) next will be to run a comparison script that will:
- compare last month's to this months, and output the difference, which should be what was digitized this month
- will look on share drive at 4 files exported into Digital Projects\Organization\Digital_Program_Logs\TrackingOddities\2012-2013\ (or whatever the current fiscal year is) and read those in, incorporating their counts into the totals (corrective, ocr, offline, weeded)
- capture GB counts, and subtract the REVIEW folder count to get it right
- output the snapshot for the month.
Finally, we need to automate this whole process into a cron, and send via email.


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Seeqpod Files for Bankruptcy
Financial times are tough enough without having to worry about a litany of lawsuits. The combination has become something of a critical mass for SeeqPod: The music-streaming site has filed for Chapter 11, in order to stay afloat as the ever-litigious specters of EMI and Warner Music Group loom large.
SeeqPod, which officially filed for bankruptcy last Thursday, is contending with suits numbering in the billions of dollars. The site, like Pirate Bay before it, defends itself as being a search engine for content rather than a streaming service. It may also be protected by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. According to Wired:
[The act] stipulates that copyright holders must issue take-down requests for each search result they deem infringing. Although the site lets you collect music from various servers around the internet into a playlist that can be shared or embedded anywhere (example above), the DMCA does appear to protect the company--although apparently not from bankruptcy.Originally posted to AppScout.


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Who Needs Money?
THE Donegal man who lived without money for three years is planning to expand his project and live with others in a money-free community.
Mark Boyle, from Ballyshannon, lived in a caravan on an English farm as part of an experiment to be self-sustaining and became known as the Moneyless Man.
He grew and foraged his own food and regenerated his own electricity by burning wood in an old gas cylinder.
The 34-year-old has now returned to using money as he plans to expand the project and live collectively with others.
Speaking on BBC Radio 4, Boyle, a business and economics graduate, said that he had never been happier, healthier and fitter after living without money.
"I am looking at scaling up of what I was doing to a bigger level. To show something working not just with one guy in the woods, but with people who are doing it collectively," he said.
He gave up bank accounts altogether during his period living without money so that he had no back up.
"It was really important for me to give up bank accounts. I closed my bank accounts so there was no safety net. I think that's the key," he said.
"I think if I had a safety net I would not have got the benefits that I got from it. It was the fact that I knew I was living moment to moment, day to day."
Boyle said the hardest part was the first three months of living without money.
"I come from a very conventional background. I was used to meeting my needs through money, like everyone else is. I did not have all the skills I needed at the start, so it took me a while to establish new things," he said.
The media attention around the project meant it was not as lonely an experience as he thought it might be.
"I was wishing it was going to be lonelier than it was sometimes. I was wishing for some space," Boyle added.
Donegal Democrat
Seeking Sugar Daddies
NEARLY 500 female students across a number of Limerick colleges have allegedly signed up with a website to find a "sugar daddy" to help fund their studies, those behind a global site have claimed.
Figures released by those behind www.seekingarrangement.com claimed that 30 students at the Catholic-ethos based Mary Immaculate College have signed up in recent years, in addition to 153 students based in Limerick Institute of Technology and 301 students in the University of Limerick.
Representatives of the students' unions in all three Limerick colleges expressed disbelief when confronted with the figures, and struggled to accept that the financial situation of their students has become so dire that they feel compelled to meet an older, rich man to fund their studies. None of them were prepared to comment at this time regarding the statistics.
Figures appear to show that 70 students in UL signed up in 2012, 21 signed up from LIT and five students from MIC signed up with the website.
In total, 4,464 students in Ireland are said to be using SeekingArrangement.com, which is 19 percent of the overall membership population in Ireland, amounting to some 23,500, according to those behind the site.
University College Dublin has the highest number of students signed up, at 399, closely followed by Trinity College Dublin.
The U.S.-based online-dating website pairs off young women with wealthy – and usually much older – international businessmen.
Spokeswoman Angela Jacob said they have seen a spike in Irish students signing up since the recession deepened, and while there are critics of the site she said it is a "lifeline for many students" and "could mean the difference between them finishing college or being forced to drop out."
She insisted the site helps create relationships which are "mutually beneficial" and which give female students the financial means, often through a monthly allowance, to complete college courses.
Membership from Ireland is the seventh-largest in the world, behind the U.S., the U.K., Canada, Australia, France and Germany.
Limerick Leader
Pro-Life Protest
PRO-life campaigners have begun a series of weekly protests outside South Kildare Fine Gael TD (member of Parliament) Martin Heydon's office in Newbridge to urge the deputy to oppose any legislation that would introduce abortion into Ireland.
About 40 protestors from Newbridge, Naas, Sallins and Athy turned up in Newbridge to get signatures for their campaign.
The campaigners said they have begun the weekly gathering at the Moorefield Road offices by way of silent protest. However, they also plan to protest outside North Kildare Fine Gael TD Anthony Lawlor's office in Naas.
Speaking on behalf of the group, Marion Murphy from Sallins claimed the legislation contradicted all the psychiatric evidence available "prescribing abortion as a treatment for suicidal ideation."
"We will be here every Friday at noon until Fine Gael get this message. We also intend on targeting various other politicians in the coming weeks," she said.
"We were out on the street receiving pledges recently when a 20-year-old girl approached us and said that her father was a rapist and that she had been conceived through rape. Then she signed the form."
Heydon said he met with the protestors outside his office, but he is not sure why his office is being targeted.
He said the purpose of the bill is to provide a legal clarity and to give doctors certainty when it comes to saving a life in a medical emergency.
"The purpose is not to bring in any new law in the area of abortion but to put a structure around existing law," he said.
Leinster Leader
Summer Break
A FARMER who was convicted of drunk driving has had his disqualification postponed to allow him to finish his summer's work.
Timothy O'Riordan, 61, of Shanballyshane, Kilnamartyra was charged with drunk driving arising from an incident at Sleveen East last June 23.
The court heard that O'Riordan failed a roadside breath test, and a subsequent urine test showed he was more than twice the legal limit.
O'Riordan had no previous convictions, the court heard. He was fined €150 and disqualified from driving for two years.
Gardai (police) no objection to postponing the disqualification until October to allow O'Riordan drive his tractor for the summer.
The Corkman
Doggone Mystery
MOTHER of two Mary Boyle claims she had no choice but to borrow €500 from a money lender to pay a fine for having no dog license –- when she didn't even have a dog.
The Drogheda woman said that after Gardai called to arrest her earlier this month, she was so scared she borrowed the money, even though she doesn't know how she will pay it back.
"It would almost be funny if it wasn't so serious," said the 51-year-old single mum to Ciara, 18, and Darragh, 10.
"This started almost three years ago when the dog warden sent me a €30 fine for not having a dog license in July 2010 but I told them I didn't have a dog at the time," she said.
"The more letters they sent me, the more I contacted to tell them I didn't have a dog, so I wasn't paying anything."
Boyle said she never received a visit from the dog warden, but the letters kept coming from the council and eventually from solicitors too.
"I was told there was a court case in 2011, and myself and my sister went down to the courthouse to explain I had no dog at the time of the fine but we got the date wrong and it went ahead without us," she said.
The three-year saga came to a head earlier this month when Boyle said Gardai called to her house and said she would be going to Mountjoy Prison.
"I was standing in my pajamas at the door, with my little son beside me, and when the Garda said I would be spending 10 days in jail, that just broke me," she said.
"I live on a lone parent's allowance to support my two children and if I go to prison, my children will go into foster care. I couldn't do that to them – dog or no dog."
Louth County Council dog warden Padraig McKeown responded by saying anyone in a similar situation would have ample opportunity to prove a dog spotted on their property didn't belong to them.
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Having said that I will enjoy myself, it will be wonderful to see the items up close and personal in a way I haven't for years so make the effort I will. It will seem absurd that I will be thinking about and planning tips on A/W wear in March whilst enjoying sunshine an heat in London town. But such is the nature of fashion. And of course I can do some fantasy shopping and be inspired.
Inspiration is key to ones personal style and since I've become petit garcon's personal assistant I have worked hard not to fall into a world of bland and banal day to day dressing. I avoid school run cliches in the most part and today was no exception. I wore a Marni for H&M top with a Topshop jumpsuit and my Prada shoes. I will tweet the look as I'm posting in a rush (again bad relationship habits syndrome). I also finished the look with my favourite Belle Fleur ring and a new item the Odette cuff.
But I do have my little bit of glitz in life to keep me contented. So I will make the most of the press day and I will continue to dress up and keep the style glitz alive on whatever level. Right off to brush my hair and add lippie xx


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