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CLEVELAND (AP) Rob Chudzinski's roots run 44 years deep with the Browns.
As a kid, he buckled on his orange helmet and ran around his backyard in Toledo, Ohio, pretending he was Ozzie Newsome. He sat outside in the snow and watched Cleveland games on TV through the window to make it feel like he was in the Dawg Pound.
He chomped on dog biscuits.
On Friday, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity came true for Chudzinski, who was introduced as the Browns' sixth fulltime coach since 1999. Although he has never been a head coach, ``Chud'' was selected over candidates with more experience and stronger resumes.
Chudzinski, though, stood out. He wanted it more than anyone.
``It's a dream come true, almost unbelievable in a lot of ways,'' Chudzinski said.
There is a segment of Browns fans as stunned as Chudzinski, whose hiring seemed to come out of nowhere.
After interviewing several high-profile candidates, including Oregon coach Chip Kelly, former Arizona coach Ken Whisenhunt and other top coordinators, Browns owner Jimmy Haslam and CEO Joe Banner picked Chudzinski, who spent the past two years as Carolina's offensive coordinator.
Haslam said he spoke with ``nine or 10 of the best coaches in the country'' and insisted Chudzinski was on the team's list of candidates from the outset.
``Rob was always on our radar screen,'' Haslam said of his first coaching hire. ``Rob has been identified as a top, bright, young guy for a long time. I feel very confident we've got the right guy.''
This is Chudzinski's third stint with the Browns. He coached Cleveland's tight ends in 2004 and was the team's offensive coordinator in 2007-08. In his first season calling plays, the Browns went 10-6 and had four players make the Pro Bowl. It hasn't been nearly as good since he left
``Happy to see Chud coming back,'' Browns Pro Bowl tackle Joe Thomas said in an email to the AP. ``We had a good year in 2007. Very smart offensive mind. When he left, I knew he'd be a great head coach someday!''
Chudzinski's first task is to assemble his staff. He'll speak with the assistants still under contract and is confident he'll be able to bring in quality coaches to build the Browns into a consistent winner. Chudzinski would not comment on any specific candidates. There are reports he'll hire former San Diego coach Norv Turner as his offensive coordinator.
Chudzinski was the Chargers tight ends coach under Turner.
Working on an hour's sleep after getting his dream job. Chudzinski would not comment on any players on Cleveland's current roster. He said his philosophy will be to ``attack'' on offense and defense and he feels the Browns have the versatility to run a 4-3 or 3-4 defense.
The 44-year-old Chudzinski interviewed for head coaching jobs last year with St. Louis, Jacksonville and Tampa Bay before returning for his second season with Carolina, where he spent two years working with quarterback Cam Newton.
When he left the Browns for the second time in 2008, Chudzinski always thought he would return to Cleveland.
``I remember the last game walking out of the stadium and looking across the field, somehow knowing I'd be back somehow, someway,'' he said.
The Browns had a whirlwind courtship with Chudzinski. Haslam and Banner spent last week in Arizona, where they spoke to at least five known candidates. They got deep in talks with Kelly before backing away because of the offensive mastermind's indecision about jumping to the NFL.
The team rebooted its search and spoke with several other candidates including Whisenhunt, who was in Cleveland on Thursday for a second interview. Chudzinski met with the Browns on Wednesday at Haslam's estate on Lake Erie, where he laid out his coaching philosophies.
``Rob was very decisive,'' Haslam said. ```This is how I'm going to do things. I'm an offensive guy, but here's my role on defense. Here's my role on special teams. Here are the type of people I would bring in as coordinators, here are the type of coaches.' It was just very definitive.''
Chudzinski received a phone call on Thursday that Haslam and Banner wanted to have dinner with him in Charlotte, N.C. They had been impressed with Chudzinski's thoroughness in the first interview, but wanted to spend more time with him.
``''We felt very positively that Rob was the man,'' Haslam said. ``This organization has had a lot of change in terms of leadership, so it was exceptionally important that we get that right. An hour through dinner, we felt like that definitely this was the right guy.''
Haslam said he wasn't aware of Chudzinski's Ohio background or his love for the Browns.
``It's a great story, but if Rob had been from Plano, Texas, we'd have hired him,'' Haslam said.
Banner has tracked Chudzinski's career for some time as he does with ``the best young people in the league.'' It was Banner who had plucked Andy Reid, a then-unknown assistant from Green Bay, and hired him as Philadelphia's head coach in 1999. Reid spent 14 years with the Eagles before he was recently fired.
Now that they've hired a coach, Haslam and Banner will focus on finding a new general manager to help pick players for Chudzinski, who will be involved in finding the next GM.
Chudzinski has it better than any of his five predecessors in Cleveland. He inherits a young roster with more talent than the team has had in years, and it's his job to develop a team that has lost at least 11 games in each of the past five seasons.
Chudzinski understands Cleveland's passion for football - and its pain.
He knows the heartbreak felt by Browns fans, who are still waiting for their team to make the Super Bowl. He knows it because he's felt it, too.
The Browns have had other coaches, but never one so intensely attached to the team. Chudzinski could have stayed in Carolina and waited for another head coaching job to come along. But there's no other job that could match this one.
To Chudzinski, this was the only one.
``I wouldn't have missed this opportunity for anything in the world,'' he said. ``To bring back the pride, the passion, the success this franchise has had in the past, I want to be part of that.''
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Bud Selig contends his sport is "cleaner than it has ever been,'' and he's right, if only because baseball couldn't be worse than the 1990's and early 2000's after Selig's bunch seemingly to a man at ownership level intentionally looked the other way because chicks dug the long ball.
And Selig is right just as long as you define "clean'' as "still so filled with roided-up players that they're trying to suspend a bunch of them for hundreds of games no matter how flimsy their chances of making it stick.''
Selig told Politico how clean his sport is amid baseball's investigation of the Biogeneis clinic in Miami that is accused of distributing performance-enhancing drugs to a lot of major league players. Selig later told David Letterman a "day of reckoning'' is coming for those players at some point after the All-Star Game.
Question for you: Do you need a "day of reckoning'' if your sport is cleaner than it has ever been?
I'll hang up and listen for continued nonsense.
Baseball apparently wants to nail Alex Rodriguez and Ryan Braun. Cue Jack Nicholson in "A Few Good Men'' telling Tom Cruise "You want me on that wall. You NEED me on that wall.''
The unlikeable Yankee already was busted for steroids and said he quit, but everybody believes he was still lying. Braun was busted for PED use, then got off on a technicality, embarrassing the system that Selig is so proud of, so sure of.
So, A-Rod and Braun are atop the Biogenesis list. It would appear they've been named by the stoolie who ran the Miami drug clinic. Nice character witness there, huh? That's pretty much Selig's source – that guy and his notes. The players have not tested positive for anything except bringing more negative publicity to the game.
No matter. Selig and his gang seemingly will suspend everybody whose name was found inside those walls in Miami. Some players will get 50 games, some 100. The players association will fight this and probably win in a rout.
Why would baseball put itself in a position to fail the way it did when Braun won his case based on mishandling of a urine sample? Baseball looks desperate as it relies on flimsy legal standing.
Obviously, baseball's wonks can't get the players to be as clean as they'd like or they claim. Selig might fight that characterization, but his home-run leader has to answer questions about how clean he is, so his sport's image still needs work. Rules only clean up so much, and that apparently is not enough.
Try this: When a player gets suspended for PED use, his team loses that roster spot for the length of the suspension. If it's 50 games, then a team plays the next 50 games with 24 men.
Seems to me, teams would have an intense interest in keeping their players clean. In fact, it might be so intense that teams would have detectives on staff, and who knows what kind of technology they could use to monitor players.
What's more, denying a team the use of a suspended player's roster spot plants the responsibility in the middle of the clubhouse. Nothing in sports seems to work like peer pressure. Players can police their own better than Selig's wonks.
I don't know if Melky Cabrera would've been as good without PED's last season, but if his Giants teammates knew he was juicing and they might have to play a season short-handed, I think they would've stepped in. And if they wouldn't have confronted Cabrera, then it would've been their own fault and they probably wouldn't have won the World Series with that handicap.
Obviously, the penalty that baseball enforces isn't enough to dissuade players from cheating. The big contract for spectacular hitting is worth risking a 50-game suspension. But if those 50 games linger and affect the rest of the team and ownership, then you've brought in another powerful dynamic.
If you want to make the game cleaner than it has ever been, then place greater responsibility on a greater number of people to clean it up.


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I am solving complex variable and I have solve to one problem that $\sqrt{i}^{\sqrt{i}}$. If I had $i^i$ then it become $e^{i \log i}$ and: $$i=\cos(\pi/2)+i\sin(\pi/2)\implies i=e^{\pi/2}$$ so $\log i=2ni\pi+\log e^{\pi/2}$ it become $i(4n+1)\pi/2$ which shows $e^{i(i(4n+1)\pi/2}= e^{-(4n+1)\pi/2}$ therefore $e^{i \log i}=e^{-(4n+1)\pi/2}$.
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THURSDAY, Jan. 3, 2013 (HealthDay News) -- The blood thinner Eliquis (apixaban) has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to help prevent stroke and dangerous blood clots in people with atrial fibrillation that isn't caused by a heart valve problem.
Atrial fibrillation is a common type of abnormal heart rhythm, in which the heart's two chambers don't contract normally. This may promote the formation of blood clots, which can travel to the brain and elsewhere, the FDA said in a news release.
Eliquis was evaluated in a clinical study of more than 18,000 people. People who took Eliquis had fewer strokes than those who took another anti-clotting drug, warfarin, the FDA said. As with similar drugs, the most frequent serious reaction to Eliquis was significant bleeding, the agency added.
Eliquis should not be taken by people with prosthetic heart valves, or by people whose atrial fibrillation is caused by a heart valve problem, the FDA said.
The drug is produced by Bristol-Myers Squibb, based in Princeton, N.J.
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How long will a keg hold carbonation if it is disconnected from the CO2 tank?
Does the type of keg matter?
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How long will a keg hold carbonation if it is disconnected from the CO2 tank?
Does the type of keg matter?
Indefinitely is right assuming your seal is good, but the beer will need to have absorbed CO2 to the point of "equilibrium", meaning it has absorbed all it can for the pressure you have it set at. If this is not the case, the pressure will drop to zero.
Also, It absorbs faster and reaches equilibrium more quickly when the beer is cold.
As long as all of seals are good, it should hold pressure indefinitely.
Yes, in theory, it should hold pressure indefinitely. If you don't already, perform a "soap bubble leak test" by pressurizing the keg (10 PSI should do it) then brushing or spraying on a water/ soap solution. If there is a leak, large bubbles will form where the leak is. The solution should be mostly water with a bit of dish soap or something similar. If the solution has too much soap in it, it will bubble just from being applied. I do a quick "spray soap" after I've cleaned and assembled my keg for use but before I sanitize it. It's also a good idea to check the keg connections (ball or pin lock connections) and your hose connections at the regulator and any other transition piece (regulator to tank connection, splitters, ect.).


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Darryl Sasser, "The Weather and Theology: The Influence of the Natural World on Religious Thought in Puritan New England" (PhD diss., Union Theological Seminary and Presbyterian School of Christian Education, 2010).
Were the New England Puritans eco-theologians? Darryl Sasser, Visiting Instructor of History at Simpson College in Indianapolis, Indiana, explores this question in his dissertation, "The Weather and Theology." He describes eco-theology as the intersection of God, nature, and humanity, and he finds in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Puritan theology a recurring interest in the surrounding environment. In short, by probing the influence of the physical environment on the Puritans' lived religion through a variety of texts, he argues that both weather and place shaped their religious identity. Sasser specifically follows a thread of discussions about the natural world in five New England Puritans: William Bradford, Increase Mather, Cotton Mather, Samuel Sewall, and Jonathan Edwards.
Bradford represents the early Separatist Puritans who launched Plymouth Colony. They faced unique challenges in an untamed "wilderness," an environment they feared because they were so susceptible to its whims (30). But Bradford also exhibited their corporate confidence in God's providence no matter how it was manifested in the weather.
Increase Mather, Cotton Mather, and Samuel Sewall represent a later generation of Puritans living in a tamer New England and seeking to make sense of nature and weather in light of the emerging ideas of the "New Science" (56, 98, 125). They sought to apply the methods of science in their environment: Increase wrote a book on comets, Cotton penned a treatise on natural philosophy and Christianity, and Sewall devoured almanacs and kept notes on the weather in his diary for business endeavors. All three believed, in different ways, that divine providence could fit together with the New Science, thus representing a shifting landscape in Puritan theology.
With Edwards Sasser marks a significant shift in the Puritan approach to nature. While the other four subjects often found divine judgment in weather, Edwards found God communicating himself positively in nature, and he often met God powerfully on his walks through the woods near his rural home. Sasser argues that Edwards' appreciation for nature and his natural typology led him to elevate nature to the point that he claims Edwards "held nature in equal, if not greater esteem, than the Bible" (164). By making this move, Sasser can cast Edwards as the shifting point toward modern eco-theology. He acknowledges Edwards' moderate path between pantheism and deism, but states that "[e]ven though an anachronism, Edwards can be thought of as an eco-theologian," and that "he easily falls within the modern model" (174, 177).
What Sasser's dissertation does well is remind us that the Puritans lived in a particular place and that that place made an impact on their theology and lived religion. Weather, environment, and nature caused New England Puritans to wrestle with their theology in a world with changing views on science and nature. Insulated from political and philosophical pressures of Old England and influenced by frontier living in New England's harsh climate, their experience shaded their theology in ways that differentiated them from their counterparts on the British Isles.
Sasser also reminds us of the global-local tension. While many historians are exploring colonial New England in the broader context of Atlantic studies, Sasser calls us not to neglect local influences, showing that the weather and environment of Massachusetts gave the New England Puritans a unique experience of faith.
What remains unconvincing to this reader, however, is Sasser's interpretation of Edwards on two accounts. First, to say that Edwards "believed nature was equal and possibly superior to Scripture when revealing God" (163) fails to take seriously Edwards' commitment to the authority of the Bible, which so pervades his work. It is true that Edwards valued God's communication in nature, but he held that Scripture was a tutor that teaches us the "language" of types, so that we can interpret God's communication in Scripture and nature ("Types," WJE 11.150–152). The Bible saturates Edwards' writings, and he said himself that "[t]he Book of Scripture is the interpreter of the book of nature" ("Images of Divine Things," WJE 11.106), a quote Sasser explains away. Yet the Edwards scholars who best understand his engagement with the Bible—Robert Brown, Stephen Stein, and Douglas Sweeney—all agree that the Scriptures held supreme authority over nature in Edwards' mind, against the arguments of Perry Miller, a key source for Sasser.
Second, what Sasser does by making nature equal to Scripture is cast Edwards as a proto-eco-theologian. While he rightly shows that Edwards developed a theology of nature, he burdens it with modern notions of environmentalism that were foreign to Edwards. Yet this misreads Edwards. One example may suffice. In a sermon on Rom 8:22, Edwards states, "Natural man should earnestly seek after conversion." Sasser argues that Edwards defines the "natural man" as "one who seeks conversion and to be in 'alignment' with God and nature," as opposed to the "unnatural man" (173). But for Edwards, the "natural man" is the "unconverted person" who has not yet been affected by the Holy Spirit's gracious influences. The man in a natural state needs God's supernatural grace to be freed from the natural state of original sin. Sasser mistakes an environmental focus for Edwards' perennial gospel-centered revival preaching.
All in all, Sasser is at his best when showing us that weather and place affected the religious experience and thought of the New England Puritans. But his reading of Edwards seems to fit more into his own eco-theological interests than into the thought of Jonathan Edwards, the New England divine.
– David Barshinger, Senior Fellow of the Jonathan Edwards Center at TEDS


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Original Trinity Hymnal, #445
From Psalm 15
Lord, who shall come to thee,
And stand before thy face?
Who shall abide, a welcome guest,
Within thy holy place?
The man of upright life,
Sincere in word and deed,
Who slanders neither friend nor foe,
No idle tales will heed.
Who honors godly men,
But scorns the false and vile,
Who keeps his promised word to all,
Though loss be his the while.
Who loves not usury,
Nor takes a base reward;
Unmoved for ever he shall be,
And stand before the Lord.
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HEMPSTEAD, New York, October 16, 2008 (ENS) - In their final debate of the election campaign, Senator Barack Obama of Illinois, the Democratic presidential nominee, and Senator John McCain of Arizona, the Republican nominee, sparred over domestic issues - taxes, the economy, health care, education - and particularly energy policy.
McCain put the emphasis on nuclear power and offshore drilling to achieve energy independence for the United States and says he would eliminate existing subsidies for ethanol production.
"I opposed subsidies for ethanol because I thought it distorted the market and created inflation. Senator Obama supported those subsidies," said McCain. "I would eliminate the tariff on imported sugarcane-based ethanol from Brazil."
Obama supports clean coal technology, nuclear development as long as it is safe, and U.S. production of solar, wind, geothermal and other renewable energy technologies.
Held Wednesday evening at Hofstra University in Hempstead, the debate was moderated by Bob Schieffer of CBS News. While Schieffer asked one question about controlling climate change, neither candidate addressed climate issues except indirectly by advocating renewable energy sources that do not emit greenhouse gases.
McCain takes an "all of the above" approach to providing energy. "It's wind, tide, solar, natural gas, nuclear, offshore drilling, which Senator Obama has opposed," he said. "And the point is that we become energy-independent, and we will create millions of jobs, millions of jobs in America."
Obama tried to identify his opponent with the failed economic policies of the current Bush administration, saying, "When President Bush came into office, we had a budget surplus. And the national debt was a little over $5 trillion. It has doubled over the last eight years. And we are now looking at a deficit of well over $0.5 trillion."
"So one of the things that, I think, we have to recognize is, pursuing the same kinds of policies that we've pursued, over the last eight years, is not going to bring down the deficit. And frankly Senator McCain voted for four out of five of President Bush's budgets," Obama said.
On the defensive, McCain denied that his direction is the same as that of the Bush administration.
"It's very clear that I have disagreed with the Bush administration. I have disagreed with leaders of my own party. I got the scars to prove it," McCain said, referring to the fact that he was the first to bring a climate change bill to the floor of the Senate.
On October 30, 2003, Senator McCain together with Senator Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, brought the Climate Stewardship Act of 2003 to a vote in the Senate. The measure failed by a vote of 43 to 55, but the vote demonstrated growing bipartisan support for a genuine climate change policy from a body of lawmakers who in 1997 unanimously rejected signing the international climate treaty, the Kyoto Protocol.
To McCain's question on standing up to members of his own party, Obama, who represents the coal-producing state of Illinois, cited his support for coal.
"I support clean coal technology. Doesn't make me popular with environmentalists," he said. "So I've got a history of reaching across the aisle."
"If I occasionally mistaken your policies for George Bush's policies, it's because on the core economic issues that matter to the American people - on tax policy, on energy policy, on spending priorities - you have been a vigorous supporter of President Bush," Obama said.
When Schieffer asked the candidates for "a specific number" of how much they believe the United States can reduce foreign oil imports during their first term, McCain did not actually give a number.
"I believe we can," said McCain, "for all intents and purposes, eliminate our dependence on Middle Eastern oil and Venezuelan oil. Canadian oil is fine."
"We can eliminate our dependence on foreign oil by building 45 new nuclear power plants right away," said McCain. "We can store and we can reprocess."
Then he identified with extremism his opponent's requirement that nuclear power development be safe, saying, "Senator Obama will tell you, in the - as the extreme environmentalists do, it has to be safe."
McCain too said he supports clean coal, among other forms of energy. "So the point is, with nuclear power, with wind, tides, solar, natural gas, with development of flex fuel, hybrid, clean coal technology. Clean coal technology is a key in the heartland of America that's hurting rather badly," he said.
McCain appeared muddled in his response to the energy independence question. "So I think we can easily, within 7, 8, 10 years, if we put our minds to it, we can eliminate our dependence on the places in the world that harm our national security, if we don't achieve our independence from them," he said.
But Obama did not give a specific number for foreign oil import reduction during his first term either.
He did change the time frame, saying," I think that in 10 years we can reduce our dependence so that we no longer have to import oil from the Middle East or Venezuela. I think that's about a realistic time frame."
Calling U.S. energy dependence "the most important issue that our future economy is going to face," Obama said again as he said in last week's debate, "Obviously, we've got an immediate crisis right now, but nothing's more important than us no longer borrowing $700 billion or more from China and sending it to Saudi Arabia. It's mortgaging our children's future."
Obama outlined his plan to wean the United States off foreign oil dependence.
"Number one, we do need to expand domestic production," he said. "And that means, for example, telling the oil companies the 68 million acres that they currently have leased that they're not drilling, use 'em or lose 'em. And I think that we should look at offshore drilling and implement it in a way that allows us to get some additional oil."
McCain jumped on his opponent's words "look at" offshore drilling.
"He said we will "look at" offshore drilling. Did you get that? "Look at." We can offshore drill now. We've got to do it now. We will reduce the cost of a barrel of oil because we show the world that we have a supply of our own. It's doable, the technology is there, and we have to drill now," urged McCain.
"But understand," Obama said, "we only have three to four percent of the world's oil reserves and we use 25 percent of the world's oil, which means that we can't drill our way out of the problem. And that's why I focused on putting resources into solar, wind, biodiesel, geothermal."
"These have been priorities of mine since I got to the Senate, and it is absolutely critical that we develop a high fuel-efficient car that's built not in Japan and not in South Korea, but built here in the United States of America," he said.
Obama said he favors federal loan guarantees for the automakers that are "getting hammered right now" with high gas prices, and the financial crisis forcing car dealerships to close because people cannot get car loans.
"But we do have to hold them responsible, as well, to start producing the highly fuel-efficient cars of the future," said Obama, adding, "And, you know, Detroit had dragged its feet too long in terms of getting that done."
"It's going to be one of my highest priorities, because transportation accounts for about 30 percent of our total energy consumption," Obama said.
"If we can get that right, then we can move in a direction not only of energy independence but we can create five million new jobs all across America," he said, "including in the heartland, where we can retool some of these plants to make these highly fuel-efficient cars, and also to make wind turbines and solar panels, the kinds of clean energy approaches that should be the driver of our economy for the next century."
Going into the debate, the Gallup Poll put Obama in the lead at 49 percent to McCain's 43 percent. "It will be several days before the full impact of this debate can be measured in the three-day rolling average, although its initial impact might be apparent as early as Friday's report," Gallup said in a statement.
But other polls on the debate are out, and they declare Obama to be the winner.
In the CBS poll of undecided debate-watchers, 53 percent say Obama won, only 22 percent say McCain won, and 24 percent say it was a tie.
The CNN poll shows 58 percent of respondents saying Obama won, to 31 percent saying McCain won.
{Photo: The nominees shake hands after the debate while their wives applaud. From left: Cindy McCain, John McCain, Barack Obama, Michelle Obama. (Photo courtesy Hofstra University)}
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Apple has actually had motion-sensing camera technology similar to the Xbox Kinect motion controller since 2005, a source familiar with the software tells us.
The original technology, called "gestures," was built by interns around the time the first iPods were starting to gain real traction, according to our source.
It was originally built as a hack. For example, the interns taught the technology to shut off when it detected someone flipping the camera off, or waving goodbye.
Apple decided it was worth holding. When the original MacBook and iMac computers came with a built-in camera, our source theorized that's what the original intent was.
Apple didn't go that route, but there is still one other route that they can take the technology — the new Apple Television. (We're talking about the actual television, not the hockey puck device.)
Apple has a good incentive to include it, too — its primary competition for the living room, Microsoft, has a motion controller connected to just about every home entertainment device plugged into the TV.
If it wants to go toe to toe with the Xbox 360, which has speech recognition and motion controls, this could be the route Apple takes.
Apple has sat on the technology for several years without doing anything with it, though, so it could also continue to do more of the same.


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A 15-year-old has asked tech giant Apple to change the company's definition of the word gay.
Apple, it seems, is engaging her.
Becca Gorman of Sudbury, Mass., says she has two lesbian parents and was saddened when she looked up the word "gay" in her MacBook Apple dictionary for a school project. Among the definitions she found there: "Foolish; stupid."
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Gorman, a high school sophomore, wrote a letter to Apple, known to be LGBT-friendly. She wrote to CEO Tim Cook, saying that she was disappointed in the company's definition.
Not long after, Gorman got a call back from an Apple representative, who says the company will do what it can to correct the problem.
Gorman says she's happy that she got the response but is still waiting for the change to happen.
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9 April 2013
It was on a January night when she was 14 years old that Lauren Pearce picked up a pen on whim and wrote a short story about a perfectionist pianist. Ever since, she has dreamed of being a professional writer and academic. Being shortlisted for the John Marsden Prize for young writers in 2012 was a promising start.
Yet in the midst of her HSC last year, the gifted wordsmith was forced to overcome more than exam nerves alone. Facing a chronic illness and with her mother diagnosed with cancer, Pearce shouldered academic responsibilities and the need to support her family on top of the already stressful exams.
Now, as a recipient of the inaugural Future Direction Network (FDN) scholarships, the first-year Arts student's aspirations are on track to become a reality.
Pearce joined co-recipients Pita Siganisucu (University of Western Sydney) and Joseph Babana (University of New South Wales) at a special scholarship ceremony last week at the Canterbury Leagues Club, with the prizes presented by the Premier of NSW, the Hon. Barry O'Farrell.
The FDN scholarships provide recipients with $18,000 over 3 years to support their studies, with students also paired with a mentor for guidance throughout their degree. Founded by fellow University of Sydney student and former Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs player, Corey Payne, the FDN was established as a way to encourage students from South-West Sydney to pursue higher education.
"It's just completely taken a load off my mind, the idea of having the money there," Pearce said of the scholarship. "Just being able to work less paid hours and not having to worry about where the money for textbooks is going to come from, that's really helpful and it's made the university experience nothing but enjoyable."
Looking back, Pearce said her journey to university and the pressures of her "rollercoaster" HSC year were eased with the help of the University of Sydney's new Early Offer Year 12 Scheme (E12). Launched in 2012, this scheme assists students who have faced financial hardship during their time at school, helping them to excel through an early conditional offer and special ATAR cut-offs to the University of Sydney. E12 students also receive financial support and help with the application and orientation process, as well as ongoing guidance into the first year of their degree.
After a recommendation by her principal at Macquarie Fields High School, Pearce successfully gained a place as an E12 student to become the first member of her family to attend university.
"I found out just before my mother went into hospital that I had received the E12 scholarship," said Pearce. "Even though I did end up getting a higher ATAR anyway, it was good to know that if things got too hard I had a bit of an easier route into university and things would be alright in the end."
Pro Dean Academic of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Associate Professor Jennifer Barrett, said the E12 scheme recognises that ATAR, while an important marker, is "not the only indicator of potential success at University."
"One of the interesting things we're seeing is a link between our Widening Participation program, working with schools, and the E12 intake for this year," she said.
"Some of the students coming in through the E12 program are arriving from schools that have not previously been represented at the University of Sydney before. All of the dots are starting to connect, and it has been a great program for the faculty."
She also pointed to the expansion of the E12 program for the 2014 intake, to include candidates for the Bachelor of Economics and Bachelor of Arts (Media and Communications) degrees in addition to the Bachelor of Arts, as evidence of the scheme's ongoing success.
Though just a few weeks into her degree, Pearce said her studies in English, History and Philosophy have already been an "incredible" experience.
"I love both my English subjects as I feel they really relate to my writing and I can see myself using almost everything that I'm learning," she explained. "My history subjects are everything I had hoped for, and in my philosophy unit, I'm finding myself asking questions, which I wouldn't have done before.
"I chose to study at the University of Sydney primarily because I'd heard about the fantastic Arts program that we have here. I'm also looking to do postgraduate work within the field and I thought what better place to start than Australia's biggest university and Australia's largest Arts Faculty."
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*Fixed bugs with changes to how sounds are played.
*Updated TOC version for patch 7.2.
*Updated TOC version for patch 7.1.
*Fixed issue where moving random enchant / staged items were treated as base items.
*Fixed some slowness with evaluating prices.
*Fixed error when starting a quick post scan.
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*Added some analytics events.
*Fixed bug with internal logging message.
*Added two new module APIs for third-party addons to use.
*Increase max slider values to 5k for reset scan options.
*Fixed issue with item auctions not properly updating.
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*Added a blacklist option to Auctioning operations.
*Made the item icon at the top of the Auctioning AH tab while posting/canceling clickable.
*Minor visual changes to Auctioning options.
*Fixed reset scan not selecting proper row after buying an auction.
*Scans with large filters should no longer cause interface lag while the results are beeing processed.
*Fixed typo in normal price tooltip.
*Taking advantage of TSMAPI:IsPlayer() for better connected realm support.
*Fixed bug with max inventory quantity not working for reset scan.
*No update. Trying to fix issue with curse.
*Added keep quantity to Auctioning operations (including relationship support).
*Added warning (in chat) for items with min prices below the vendor sell price.
*Added relationship support for "Max Inventory Quantity" reset option.
*The sound for when a post/cancel scan is complete is now defaulted to off.
*Fixed bug with getting battle pet stack size.
*Added the option to select the sound that is played when post / cancel scan is complete.
*Fixed a few bugs in the post scan code.
*Fixed bug with the cancel scan not canceling at the min price when it should to repost higher.
*Auctioning will now the bid as well as the buyout of whitelisted players (when it previously just matched the buyout).
*Fixed a bug with multiple profiles.
*Fixed bug with cancel scan when player's auction was the only one and "above max" price was set to post at max.
*Updating group tree creation API call.
*Fixed bug with the post scan searching for operations which have posting disabled.
*Fixed bug with log tooltips not displaying the lowest buyout.
*Fixed intermittent issue with the post scan not finding an item and throwing an error.
*Added "above max price" dropdown to post options within operations.
*Fixed bug with sorting of log.
*Added reset method to ignore all auctions below min price.
*Enabled sorting of post / cancel log.
*Added "Max Inventory Quantity" option to the reset options of operations.
*Enabled sorting of post/cancel log.
*Added custom filter support for canceling all auctions below/above a buyout price.
*Fixed some 5.4 issues.
*Updated TOC for patch 5.4.
*Fixed bug with cancel scan validating repost higher threshold when not enabled.
*Fixed localization related error.
*Fixed bug related to canceling auctions which the player has undercut.
*Moved operation management to new tab.
*Fixed a bug with posting against whitelist auctions above the max price.
*Fixed bug with cancel scan scanning operations without canceling enabled.
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*The cancel scan should no longer cause UI lag when requeuing items which didn't cancel correctly the first time.
*Made the "___ as a ___" price source dropboxes slightly larger.
*Fixed a global usage of _ which was causing taint in the glyph UI.
*Added basic support for battle pets.
*Added category management buttons for removing all category overrides and for removing all group overrides.
*Many other minor bug fixes and improvements.
*Added Auctioning group creation wizard.
*Fixed some divide by zero issues for patch 5.0.4.
*The maximum price gap setting was removed.
*Fixed a bug with scanning items by itemID.
*Added tooltips to resetscan log.
*Added support for the new TSM design.
*Added feature for creating shopping lists from Auctioning groups / categories.
*Fixed a bug with items at reset price being incorrectly canceled.
*Added quick group creation feature.
*Many other minor bug fixes and improvements.
*Added tooltips to the add/remove items pages for the items in the lists.
*Improved the sorting of the post/cancel log.
*Added an option for items to be added to groups by itemID rather than itemString.
*Added an API to allow Warehousing to get the post num from Auctioning.
*The processing for the reset scan should no longer cause noticeable lag.
*Added group validation back into the addon (never meant to take it out).
*Changed the default fallback from 5g to 1000g.
*Many other minor bug fixes and improvements.
*First Release Version!
**Beta Versions:**
*Fixed an error that was preventing people who hadn't updated in a while from posting.
*Fixed a bug that would cause an error when setting the reset method to "custom" in some situations.
*Updated the TOC for patch 4.2.
*Many other minor bug fixes and improvements.
*A bunch of minor bug fixes and improvements.
*Fixed a bug with Crafting not being able to get fallback data accurately for items with a fallback set as a % of something at the category level.
*Fixed a bug with improper rounding causing items with a stack size greater than one to sometimes not be canceled correctly.
*Fixed a bug with items that are posting at a reset price not getting canceled correctly.
*Fixed a bug where the counts were not updating correctly on items there were canceling due to reset prices.
*Fixed a bug with the undercut editbox not updating / showing correctly.
*You can no longer create a nameless group / category.
*Fixed a bug with posting more than one stack worth of an item.
*Cleaned up a lot of the posting and cancel all code.
*Added a warning message for when somebody moves an item around in their bags while a post scan is running. Don't do it!
*Added group validation to the start of a post / cancel scan. A popup will be shown if invalid groups are found.
*Many other minor bug fixes and improvements.
*Added support for setting threshold / fallback as a percent of values from TheUndermineJournal addon.
*Fixed a bug with the "Don't Import Already Grouped Items" doing the opposite of what it was set to.
*Updated the scanning code to work better with the new version of Auctioneer.
*Made a ton of improvements and tweaks to the bot prevention code.
*Many other minor bug fixes and improvements.
*Fixed a bug where patterns that taught you how to make BOP items weren't able to be added.
*Many other minor bug fixes and improvements.
*Fixed a bug where smart group creation wasn't working for items with "-" in their name.
*Fixed a ton of bugs / annoyances with the Auctioning options.
*Updated the TOC to 4.1.
*Many other minor bug fixes and improvements.
*Fixed a bug where after adding/removing an item/group, the tab was being changed to "Management".
*Fixed a bug where soulbound keys were showing up in the add/remove items tab.
*The "Number of Stacks" label in the post frame will now show the number of stacks remaining to be posted.
*Made the initial post scan processing take far less time (should no longer be noticable at all).
*Added the ability to enter "0.5" into the 2nd box in the Cancel All window to cancel all auctions with short duration.
*Added a "Smart group creation" option to the top "Options" page. Check the tooltip to see what it does.
*Many other minor bug fixes and improvements.
*Fixed a bug with how Auctioning gets info about what the player has in their bags.
*Posting a large number of auctions should no longer freeze the game client for a few seconds after hitting the "Post" icon.
*Fixed a bug with items posted at % fallbacks being incorrectly canceled.
*Added the capability to deal with items on the keyring.
*Many other minor bug fixes and improvements.
*Added a "Show Auctions" button to the post / cancel frame for viewing currently posted auctions the current item.
*Added a "Edit Post Price" button to the post frame for adjusting the post buyout.
*Added a method for importing / exporting groups.
*Added a blacklist feature.
*Many other minor bug fixes and improvements.
*Added a config button to post / cancel frames.
*Fixed a bug with original config button in sidebar.
*Fixed a bug with renaming groups causing an error.
*Fixed a bug with smart canceling not taking into account "disable auto canceling" correctly.
*Added code to hopefully prevent stack overflows when posting large numbers of auctions.
*Added option for ignoring short duration auctions.
*Many other minor bug fixes and improvements.
*Added an option for playing a sound when a scan is complete.
*You can now disable groups to prevent them from posting / canceling.
*Added a "Smart Scanning" option which won't scan for things that are set to not post / cancel.
*Many other minor bug fixes and improvements.
*Fixed some bugs with items with bids on them getting canceled incorrectly.
*Changed the tab order for group / category settings.
*Skipping an item should no longer cause the post frame to bug out.
*Put in warnings for invalid threshold / fallback settings.
*Collapsed categories should now remain collapsed between sessions.
*Many other minor bug fixes and improvements.
*Fixed the localization tags.
*Reverted the posting code back to when it was working. It will post correctly now but may leave some uneven stacks in the player's bags.
*Inlcuded new functions to provide compatibility with the new "Create Auctioning Groups" feature in Crafting.
*Many other minor changes and bug fixes.
*Fixed some bugs with posting multiple stacks worth of one item.
*Randomly enchanted gear should now be posted properly.
*You can now use the link of an item as the name of a group.
*Setting threshold/fallback as a % at the category or default level should now correctly be calculated per group rather than just assigning one value to every group.
*The evaluation of a non-overriden threshold / fallback setting will not show in the fallback/threshold editbox for the group.
*Fixed a bug with the rows in the Log overlapping after a status scan.
*Fixed a bug preventing posting of multiple stacks worth of some items.
*Many other minor changes and bug fixes.
*Fixed the memory leak with the log.
*Fixed cancelall scans.
*Fixed a bug where adding items to Auctioning through Crafting was sometimes causing an error.
*Many other minor changes and bug fixes.
*Settings should now properly transfer.
*Bindings are now saved by character.
*Many other bug fixes
*Fixed a bug with the popups added in 0.1.3Beta
*Added a popup for first time users when you first visit the Auctioning options.
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PICO RIVERA >> The public, for the first time Friday, comfronted the City Council on Friday on how a sheriff's deputy could have shot and killed Frank Mendoza, who was trying to escape from his home after an armed parolee broke in.
At least one resident asked city officials to terminate the contract between Pico Rivera and the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.
"The sheriff's in this city have been out of control for a long time," claimed Richard Ramirez, 63, and said the killing of fellow resident Mendoza, 54, was another example of the sheriff's department overreaching its authority.
Ramirez spoke out against the department at a special council meeting where city officials listened to a detailed description of what happened from Assistant Sheriff Mike Rothans. He spoke of the events that lead to the accidental shooting of Mendoza in the head and leg on Aug. 1, the hostage-taking of Mendoza's wife, Lorraine Munoz, 60, and the eventual killing of wanted parolee, Cedric Ramirez, 24, on Aug. 2.
Richard Ramirez was one of three speakers from the sparsely attended early-morning meeting.
"Why did you hold this meeting when a lot of people are at work?" Ramirez asked.
He called the discussion too important for it not have been set at a time more convenient for the public.
Rothans, who once served as captain of the Pico Rivera station, expressed the department's sorrow and remorse for the accidental shooting.
"The outcome was the heartbreaking death of an innocent man," he said, echoing interim Sheriff John Scott's words during a news conference the day before.
"(Cedric Ramirez) brazenly broke into a home of an innocent family, ultimately taking a hostage," said Rothans, in another instance where he repeated a point made by the sheriff. "He demonstrated a complete disregard for the safety of the Mendoza family, terrorizing them in a way that no one should."
When he first was spotted in Mendoza's backyard, Cedric Ramirez shot at the officers, with at least one of them returning fire and possibly wounding the suspect, according to Rothans.
As deputies went to the front of the house, some family members — Mendoza's son and two grandchildren — escaped through the front door. Cedric Ramirez again fired at deputies from a position in an interior hallway.
The deputies retreated into the front yard from the gunfire before Mendoza stepped through the front doorway, where he was shot by a deputy, believing he was Ramirez, and that his colleagues were in imminent danger, according to sheriff's officials.
Mendoza was pronounced dead at the scene.
"The sheriff's are making excuses, blaming the victim," accused Richard Ramirez.
"The investigation is ongoing and will be for several months ahead," Rothans explained.
"When it comes down to it the tragedy of last week, there's nothing that can be done to prevent it," Councilman Gregory Salcido. "Bad people do bad things."
After a closed session meeting of the City Council, city attorney Arnold Alvarez-Glasman made a statement regarding what officials plan on doing about the matter.
"The City Council recognizes that addressing crime and the violent conduct of those few individuals who engage in criminal conduct, is of the utmost concern, not just today, but for each and every day.," Alvarez-Glasman said.
He called the job of keeping the city safe a collaborative one between city officials and law enforcement agencies.
"There are legal options for the city and sheriff's department that need further exploration," Alvarez-Glasman added, but declined to elaborate.
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Bart Eppenauer grew up in Kansas City, Missouri, and after moving away for college and law school and a first job in Chicago, he came back to his hometown, joining a Kansas City law firm called Shook, Hardy & Bacon. It was there, in the late '90s, that he took a call from a friend who asked if he was interested in joining the legal team inside Microsoft. He was, and he did. Fifteen years on, he's still at Microsoft, serving as the company's chief patent counsel.
Over those 15 years, Microsoft built up one of the world's most valuable patent portfolios, spanning over 31,000 U.S. and international patents and over 38,000 pending patent applications. According to a 2010 study commissioned by Bloomberg BusinessWeek, the patents amassed by the software giant over the previous five years were worth more than those collected by any other company, including the vaunted IBM, and in the last decade, Microsoft has turned its portfolio into an active money maker, systematically working to license its patents to other outfits across the tech industry.
So, it should come as no surprise that Bart Eppenauer believes the patent system pretty much works as it should. "There are a lot headlines about the patent system being out of control and major changes being needed," Eppenauer says. "While certainly there are areas for improvement in the patent system – in terms of what the U.S. Patent [& Trademark] Office can do and what the courts can do and what companies can do – this doesn't mean you need, at least from our point of view, some sort of radical overhaul of the system or a complete change in the approach to certain technologies."
As companies such as Google and Twitter complain that the patent system is horribly broken – bemoaning the quality of patents being issued, the "trolls" that do nothing but try and squeeze money from hardworking entrepreneurs, and the high cost of patent litigation – other big tech outfits such as Microsoft and IBM describe the landscape very differently. It isn't hard to see why. Just look at Bart Eppenauer.
Microsoft's chief patent counsel spent his entire working life in a world where patents are highly valued, and he spent the last 15 years overseeing the patents of a massive corporation that makes billions upon billions of dollars selling software. This place is a far cry from the world occupied by the likes of Google and Twitter. Google and Twitter are much younger companies. They haven't had time to amass a patent portfolio the size of Microsoft's. They've never used patents as a money maker. And they don't sell software.
You could argue that the very nature of the businesses operated by Google and Twitter make them less inclined to value patents. Google and Twitter make their money by selling ads – not software. Software is an enormously important part of their operations, but most of this software is hidden inside a data center. Microsoft ships software to the world at large. It's far easier for outsiders to reverse-engineer the company's trade secrets. With its Android mobile operating system, Google now ships software too. But it provides this software to manufacturers free of charge, hoping to expand its ad-serving platform.
Microsoft's argument is that Google is calling for changes to the patent system because these changes would suit its own agenda. And there's certainly some truth to that. But keeping the patent system pretty much where it is suits Microsoft's agenda. Microsoft has already spent so many years playing the patent game. It has no interest in stopping now.
Microsoft has good reason to criticize the patent system. Just last month, a patent "troll" sued Microsoft, claiming that the Windows Phone and Windows 8 operating systems step on its intellectual property, and this type of suit hits the company all the time. But clearly, the hassle and the money that goes into these suits is outweighed by the benefits that patents bring Microsoft.
According to Eppenauer, litigation is just a "normal byproduct" of the system. "When you enter a period where there are a lot of different technologies that are converging, with many different competitors and companies with stakes in that, you're going to have a period of time where people are sorting things out," he says. "In the end, it will, essentially, move forward and settle out and people will innovate.... The long-term view is that all this is very beneficial."
Microsoft's story is at least worth listening to. The company says that it merely uses patents to protect the technologies it has spent an awful lot of time and money developing, and that this is what the system was designed to do. It was indeed, and this is something that too often gets lost in the ongoing debate over patents. But when Microsoft says the system doesn't need fixing, you have to consider the source.
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Over the past several years, says Elvir Causevic, an analyst with Ocean Tomo, a Chicago outfit that tracks the value of patent portfolios, Microsoft has built a patent operation that is among the world's most sophisticated. According to David Kaefer, Microsoft's general manager of intellectual property licensing, the company started getting serious about licensing its patents in the early aughts. The software giant modeled its licensing business on the practices of companies such as IBM, HP, Qualcomm, and Intel, going so far as to hire away the man who ran IBM's "patent shop."
"A lot of our approaches mimic how [IBM does] licensing," says Kaefer, "and a lot of that approach is frankly pretty consistent with how a lot of other people do it."
In some cases, Microsoft will take calls from outside outfits interested in licensing its patents. RIM or Apple, say, will phone and ask to license Microsoft's ActiveSync technology, a means of synchronizing email, contacts, and calendar entries across phones and other devices. "That's a pretty friendly set of discussions," Kaefer says.
But as he puts it, Microsoft will also "pro-actively" drive licensing deals. "We will go out and look for areas where we see a lot people who are probably using our technology in one form or another," he says, "and we kinda ask ourselves whether it has risen to a level that we care about and we want to have some conversations." Basically, this involves a Microsoft lawyer like Kaefer trying to convince lawyers at other companies that their technology infringes on Microsoft patents – and that they should pay to license those patents. According to Kaefer, these discussions can spans months – or even years.
In recent years, Microsoft has inked licensing deals with a dozen companies that make devices based on Google's Android and Chrome operating systems, including HTC, Wistron, Onkyo, Acer, Viewsonic, Samsung, and LG. Presumably, these deals began with a call from someone like Kaefer, but Microsoft keeps the details to itself. We don't know even know how much money Microsoft makes from licensing its patent portfolio.
Eppenhauer and Kaefer say that typically, Microsoft isn't interested in suing companies for infringement. But the implicit threat of a lawsuit can help drive licensing deals, and clearly, the company is not above filing suit. In March of last year, it sued Barnes & Noble, Inventec, and Foxconn International for allegedly infringing its patents with the Android-based Nook ebook reader sold by Barnes & Noble (the case was later resolved out of court), and in 2010, it sued phone maker Motorola over its Android devices. Motorola also sued Microsoft, and the two are battling it out in court this week.
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As the patent wars have escalated in the mobile market, Microsoft has also sought to bolster its position by acquiring patents and funding outside operations whose patents may be useful to its cause. Last year, Microsoft joined forces with the likes of Apple to acquire about 6,000 patents owned by the bankrupt Canadian telco giant Nortel, and it helped fund an outfit called Rockstar that has told Wired it intends to use about 4,000 of those patents to generate revenue for its stakeholders.
Asked about its Nortel deal, Kaefer says Microsoft was merely interested in acquiring additional patents involving wireless networking standards. "We felt like we didn't have enough assets to negotiate fair deals with other major wireless holders, people like Qualcomm and Nokia," he says. He acknowledges that Microsoft is a stakeholder in Rockstar, but he says this is merely a by-product of the company's effort to land the Nortel wireless patents it wanted. "Unfortunately, being a part of that transaction, we also had to end up being a part of what became the Rockstar entity, which holds the non-wireless assets from Nortel," he says. In other words, he indicates that Microsoft was merely following the wishes of others involved in the deal.
Microsoft also licenses large patent portfolios from Intellectual Ventures and RPX – two operations that have amassed their patents so that they could then sell licenses to others – and it's an investor in Intellectual Ventures, a company founded by former Microsoft CTO Nathan Myrvold. Both Intellectual Ventures and RPX have said they aim to help companies protect themselves from litigation, but IV has filed patent infringement suits against multiple big-name companies, including Motorola, HP, Dell, Acer, Logitech, Kingston Technology, Best Buy, and Walmart.
Google has also learned to play the patent game, and it too is an investor in Intellectual Ventures. But unlike Microsoft, it will tell you that it doesn't like playing the game – and that it wants serious patent reforms so that these games don't escalate even further. At this point, it may even regret its investment in Intellectual Ventures. After all, Google now owns Motorola, one of the companies at the other end of an Intellectual Ventures lawsuit.
Google and Microsoft couldn't be further apart in describing the patent landscape – and yet both say they're trying to protect "innovation." Google says that trolls and patent litigation are hampering progress in the world of software and the net, but then Microsoft will tell you that patents are the only way to foster progress in these same areas. The company says that in inking licenses deals – and suing competitors – it's merely trying to protect the stuff it built over the years.
It prefers not to characterize its patent licensing program as a money maker. "Microsoft has embraced a licensing program that, in its view, provides reasonable compensation for Microsoft's inventions while making its technology broadly available to others," says a company spokesman.
Eppenauer complains that whereas Microsoft spent an awful lot of money licensing patents from others when it entered the business software market, Google failed to license the necessary technologies when it built Android and joined the mobile market. "Android is indicative of Google's approach, where it didn't really have an approach," he says. "And now there are a number of companies that are taking issue with it." Google will say, however, that so many of the patents being waved at Android and other products aren't worthy of the name.
You can certainly argue both sides of the issue. David Long, part of the intellectual property and litigation practice groups at Dow Lohnes, a law firm based in Washington, D.C. and Atlanta, echos Microsoft. "Like any system, the patent system will need to be tweaked and keep evolving with technology," he says, "but it's not broken."
But Julie Samuels, a lawyer with the not-for-profit public advocate the Electronic Frontier Foundation, sits at the Google end of the spectrum. And she notes that the current patent system is set up in a way that makes life difficult for the little guy. "Maybe the system works for Microsoft," she says, "but Microsoft has plenty of money to work with."
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NEW YORK -- So much for the seventh-inning stretch. Right now, the Marlins are going through their share of seventh-inning struggles.
Former Marlin John Buck drove in four runs, including a sacrifice fly in a three-run seventh inning that lifted the Mets to a 7-3 victory on Saturday afternoon in front of 28,474 at Citi Field.
Marlins starter Ricky Nolasco threw 5 1/3 innings, giving up three runs on six hits. He exited with the team trailing by a run, but the Marlins tied it in the seventh, the game-changing inning.
A pattern has developed early where the Marlins run into trouble in the seventh inning. In their last three games, the relievers have allowed nine runs in that frame.
The late-inning woe on Saturday led to the Marlins dropping four of their first five.
"We've just got to keep plugging guys in there and getting them comfortable," manager Mike Redmond said. "We've got some young guys. The weather has been cold. At the same time, guys have to go out there and step up and do their jobs.
"Last night, we had a big lead. We're having to extend guys out further than we really wanted to. We were a little shorthanded today. We'll go back out there tomorrow, keep at it. It's still early."
Ryan Webb gave up an RBI triple to Daniel Murphy, a run-scoring single to David Wright and Buck's sacrifice fly in the seventh. Only two of the runs were earned because catcher Miguel Olivo was charged with two throwing errors on stolen base attempts.
"I think you're trying to get comfortable. It's early in the season," Webb said. "You're still trying to get the kinks out. Not the best pitching conditions, but it's also not the best hitting conditions, either. It's an even playing field. You've got to work through it."
The elements have not been ideal either on the road trip. Saturday was sunny but a chilly 46 degrees, and the Marlins aren't creating any breaks for themselves.
Even the stadium devices aren't going Miami's way, as there was a telephone mishap Saturday.
In the sixth inning, when Nolasco was laboring, there was a glitch with the phone from the visiting dugout to the bullpen. At one point, Redmond called time out, allowing backup catcher Kyle Skipworth to sprint from the dugout to the bullpen to notify Webb to get warmed up. The phone issue eventually was resolved.
"I don't know what happened with that," Webb said. "I just saw Skipworth come running out, saying, 'Get ready!' We knew something was going to get going soon with Ricky at 100 pitches. We got it sorted out, fixed the phone."
Nolasco, the franchise leader in wins with 76, was lifted after 103 pitches. Webb picked him up in the sixth, retiring two batters and stranding two runners.
"I was going pretty well there, and then in that sixth, I made some good pitches and some balls found holes," Nolasco said. "That's what big league hitters do, they find the holes. I wasn't able to get out of that inning at all. I was a little disappointed with the way I finished. But overall, I felt I made the right pitches in the right spots in that inning. The balls just got through there.
After winning 7-5 on Friday night, the Marlins were in position on Saturday to take the series. But they were unable to shut the Mets down in the late innings.
New York padded its lead to four runs in the eighth inning on Collin Cowgill's homer.
Miami is still in a position to win the series, which concludes on Sunday afternoon. Jose Fernandez, a 20-year-old phenom, will be making his MLB debut.
Greg Dobbs had two RBIs for the Marlins, and Juan Pierre added two singles and scored twice.
In the seventh inning, Dobbs' RBI single off lefty reliever Josh Edgin scored Pierre from second to tie the game at 3. The hit also created a bizarre play at the plate.
When Pierre crossed home plate, he collided with Buck, who drifted into foul territory to receive Mike Baxter's off-line throw. Dobbs was ruled out on interference because Pierre made contact with Buck.
"To get the hit and get us tied was the momentum," Redmond said. "With two outs, it was a big hit. I don't think it changed the momentum of the game. We've got to come out. Defensively, we made a couple of mistakes and gave them some extra chances."
Wiping out their chance to prolong the inning underscored the tough stretch the Marlins are going through.
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The Mets have been riding the hot hitting of Buck, who spent the past two seasons with the Marlins. The veteran catcher had a two-run double off Nolasco in the sixth inning, which gave New York a 3-2 lead.
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Costa Rica and South Korea will continue their World Cup preparations with a friendly match at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum on Friday.
After a big 4-0 loss to Chile on Wednesday, the Costa Ricans will be motivated to perform better after spending large periods of time conceding possession to their South American opponent.
It is the second poor result in a row for Costa Rica, with a unimpressive performance in a 1-0 loss to Australia in November.
The Costa Rican squad will again be missing their European based players including Bryan Ruiz and Bryan Oviedo with US-based striker Alvaro Saboria also absent.
This is the first match of three-match US tour for South Korea, with the Asian nation also taking on Mexico and the USA in an eight-day period.
The South Korean squad will also be without their European stars with Son Heung-Min, Ji Dong-Won and Kim Bo-Kyung not named in the squad.
In their last two matches, the South Koreans recorded a 2-1 triumph at home over Switzerland, while they went down 2-1 to Russia in Dubai.
This tour and a subsequent match against Greece on March 4 represent South Korea's final warm-up matches before they travel to Brazil to take on Belgium, Russia and Algeria in Group H.
Costa Rica has a friendly at home against Paraguay, also on March 4, in their last match before meeting Italy, England and Uruguay in Group D at the World Cup.