text: If you're waiting for desktop additive-manufacturing technology to move closer to professional-level results, be prepared to wait for a very long time. The past year was a breakout for desktop 3-D printing. MakerBot released two new models, Formlabs debuted the first prosumer 3-D printer to use high-accuracy stereolithography, and a slew of innovative, printed projects lifted awareness and desirability of additive manufacturing for the general public. But the year ended with a legal hiccup. Formlabs will be dealing with a patent infringement lawsuit brought against them by 3D Systems, one of the biggest players in the industry. The hobbyist segment of the industry has been built on the back of expired patents, but as the Electronic Frontier Foundation has pointed out, many patents that will be required to advance the state of the art will not expire for years or even a decade. We've uncovered 10 patents that could severely stifle innovation in the low-cost segment of the 3-D printing market and keep you from making colorful, smooth-finished figures and precise, articulating parts. These patents cover core technologies and ease-of-use features, and could take momentum from the upstarts and return it to the entrenched companies. Above: High temperature modeling apparatus Patent Number: 6,722,872 Date Issued: April 20, 2004 Assignee: Stratasys Who Should Be Worried: Anyone who makes a "Fused Filament"-style 3-D printer (e.g., MakerBot, RepRap projects, UP!, Cubify) Manufacturing with plastics, whether injection molding or 3-D printing, is a tricky business. As plastic cools, it shrinks, and that shrinkage can cause deformation. High-end printers combat this by keeping the build chamber at a high temperature throughout the build process to mitigate warping. Stratasys received the patent for this feature in 2004. Popular home-based 3-D printers have open build chambers, meaning an errant breeze can chill plastic and destroy hours of print work. The photograph above shows several experiments a maker had to run in order to deal with the effects of temperature variability on his parts. This patent means RepRap derivatives won't be able to incorporate a warming chamber and reduce this kind of experimentation until 2021. While not a deal breaker now, as we move beyond the "gee whiz!" phase of 3-D printing in the home, it will become increasingly important. Photo: Zheng3 Photo: Thingiverse Smoothing method for layered deposition modeling Patent Application Number: 8,123,999 Date Published: Feb. 28, 2012 Assignee: Stratasys Who Should Be Worried: Any company that makes a printer that produces plastic parts with a rough texture. One of the drawbacks of fused filament fabrication, the process used by RepRaps, MakerBots, and most hobby-grade machines, is a rough, ridged surface that looks more like a kindergartener's clay pot than the future of manufacturing. This substandard surface can be removed by hand with sandpaper and hours of effort. Or parts can be smoothed out effortlessly with a chemical processes that reduces the ridges uniformly, leading to higher-quality parts. Stratasys has patented a method to achieve this slick surface finish by submerging parts in a liquid bath that melts the plastic — basically, anti-wrinkle cream for 3-D printers. Photo: Stratasys Soluble material and process for three-dimensional modeling Patent Number: 6,790,403 Date Granted: Sept. 14, 2004 Assignee: Stratasys Who Should Be Worried: Four words. Anyone. Who. Makes. Plastics. This particular patent covers soluble print materials that can be used to support a plastic part during the printing process and removed chemically after the fact, revealing a product that would be unprintable otherwise. Stratasys takes materials seriously and has many other patents that protect their plastics, including on the optimal design of filament. Photo: Sandboxr Three-dimensional printing techniques Patent Number: 5,387,380 Date Granted: Feb. 7, 1995 Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Who Should Be Worried: Anyone who wants to print full-color models. MakerBot and the RepRap project have utilized expired patents on fused filament fabrication techniques to launch the consumer 3-D printing revolution. Formlabs believes they are working within the scope of expired core stereolithography patents to continue the trend. ZCorp's full-color printing patents (which were licensed from MIT), filed in the early 1990s and on the brink of expiration, would seem like the next logical target. Entrepreneurs in this space will have to tread lightly. Not only has ZCorp continued to file patents on their full-color powder/binder technology, many of their printers utilize HP printheads. This means hackers will have to contend with the giant 2-D printer maker's broad swath of patents as well as its 3-D printer counterpart. Since this is the only technology that enables full-color 3-D printing, it will create limitations for anyone who wants to make their Minecraft realms, or any videogame characters, real. Photo: Objet Preparation of building material for solid freeform fabrication Patent Application Number: 12/327,857 Date Published: Nov. 1, 2012 Assignee: Objet Geometries Who Should Be Worried: No one. Yet. Objet has a patent that covers the dynamic production of plastics for 3-D printers. Their "Digital Materials" allow designers to create new composite materials with varied structural and aesthetic properties. These machines can produce parts that feature hard plastic, rubbery elastomers, and transparent forms, all in the same piece, produced at the same time. No low-cost 3-D printer manufacturers are trying anything so ambitious, but this patent could serve to keep upstarts from trying. On the other hand, this patent has yet to be granted, and the 32 claims enumerated in the application describe a very specific embodiment that leaves plenty of room for alternate approaches to the problem. Image: Shapeways Distributed rapid prototyping Patent Application Number: 11/818,521 Date Published: Dec. 18, 2008 Assignee: 3D Systems Who Should Be Worried: Shapeways, Ponoko, FigurePrints, etc. Patents don't just cover hardware — business methods are fair game as well. In that regard, 3D Systems filed a broad patent that attempts to cover a system that accepts 3-D CAD files, queues them up for production, load-balances the machines, and reports analytics on the entire setup. The patent describes the invention that follows: The three-dimensional modeler receives, via a network interface, a build including information for use in generating a physical representation of a three-dimensional model. A queuing mechanism is used to determine the order in which builds are processed by a three-dimensional modeler. Processing of the build includes instructing hardware of the three-dimensional modeler to create the physical representation of the three-dimensional model. The network interface of the three-dimensional modeler may include a web server. The network interface may also be used to send diagnostics and receive feedback such as calibration data based on the diagnostics. The network interface may also be used to receive software code or data upgrades. The network interface may also be used to order supplies for the three-dimensional modeler." Essentially, a system that works just like every 3-D printing service that has launched in the past few years. If granted, this patent could crush the hopes of companies looking to turn 3-D printing into a service business. Photo: Stratasys Filament container and methods of use thereof Patent Number: 8,157,202 Date Granted: April 17, 2012 Assignee: Stratasys Who Should Be Worried: Any maker of printers that extrude plastic from a coil. Stratasys has developed filament spools that keep plastic protected and prepared for the 3-D printer, a very helpful feature from a technical and sales perspective. Not only that, but they've also created systems that automatically switch spools of filament when one is empty or when a different color is required. One of the major strengths that the large 3-D printer manufacturers possess are decades of understanding and responding to user needs. They've seen what power users need from these machines, they have the engineering resources to pursue multiple solutions (from the printer itself to the humble spool that holds the filament) and the capital to file applications to protect as many embodiments of the invention as possible. For instance, in addition to their liquid smoothing process from the last example, they've also patented a similar process that replaces the liquid bath with a vapor chamber that achieves the same effect. They've found multiple ways to reduce print time, fixed small problems like hiding the seams that form in filament based 3-D printing, and and of course, filed patents to safeguard these inventions. These companies that have built the market for 3-D printing over the last decades have also built fortresses of patents that will be challenging for startups to surmount. Photo: 3D Systems Support volume calculation for a CAD model Patent Number: 6,907,307 Date Granted: June 14, 2005 Assignee: 3D Systems Who Should Be Worried: Customers who value usable software. While it may be horrifying to some in the tech world, 3-D printer companies have filed and received patents on many software features. One example is the ability to see how much support material a model will require — a feature patented by 3D Systems, unavailable to others until after 2018. Another example is a software feature that automatically places multiple models on the same build platform, maximizing the space, patented by Stratasys and locked up until the roaring 2020s. Photo: 3D Systems Apparatus and method for aligning a removable build chamber within a process chamber Patent Number: 7,357,629 Date Granted: April 15, 2008 Assignee: 3D Systems Who Should Be Worried: 3-D printer manufacturers who care about user experience. As 3-D printers become more popular, the raw speeds and feeds will start to take a back seat to creature comforts. For instance, the new Cubify 3-D printer from 3D Systems touts a Wi-Fi connection and plug and play cartridge system as key selling features. The system described in this patent is made up of an external support frame, a variety of alignment features and connections, and a build chamber that can be easily taken out and relocated to a workshop where the 3-D printed part can be removed, cleaned, and finished. Like rubber grips on a toothbrush the goal isn't to do the job better, just more comfortablyPhoto: MakerBot Automated 3D build processes Patent Number: 8,226,395 Date Granted: July 24, 2012 Assignee: MakerBot Who Should Be Worried: Fans of open source. MakerBot Industries famously started out open source, but have since revised their ambitions and begun filing patents of their own. The one pictured above is a conveyor belt that ejects printed parts from the build platform, allowing it to run without any human interaction for longer periods of time. This particular patent won't do much to stifle innovation, but the industry may be reaching a point where so much is spent on R&D that the white space available to startup firms is severely restricted. This should lead to more professional products for consumers, but also a less freewheeling environment for hackers. All Patent Illustrations: United States Patent & Trademark Office


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The Preeclampsia Foundation announced today that Drs. Ödül "Laurie" Amburgey (University of Vermont), Daobin Ding (University of Chicago), Jonathan McGuane (University of Florida), and Alexander Panda (Yale University) are the recipients of its 2008 Vision Grants. These prestigious awards will be presented to at the Foundation's annual benefit gala, "Saving Grace: A Night of Hope" on Saturday, September 20th at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, DC. "Preeclampsia has been known since Biblical times – yet we still don't understand its root causes, "said J. Thomas Viall, the Foundation's Executive Director, "our goal is to inspire the next generation of investigators who will make the breakthroughs that will save moms and their babies from the all too often tragic impact of preeclampsia." Dr. Thomas R. Easterling, Professor of Maternal Fetal Medicine at the University of Washington and Chair of the Foundation's Medical Board stated, "This year's submissions were the strongest I've ever seen and I can't thank my review committee enough for their good work - we have a robust grant review process and I am confident that we have identified exceptional young talent."
About the Vision Grant Award Recipients:
Ödül "Laurie" Amburgey is a native of Ankara, Turkey. She received a BS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Cincinnati in 1993. After a year in industry, she returned to the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine where she received the Obstetrical and Gynecological Award for excellence. She completed a residency in Ob/Gyn at the University of North Carolina, and was twice recognized for excellence in teaching. She continued her training at the University of Vermont where she is currently a Maternal-Fetal Medicine fellow. Dr. Amburgey's research seeks to determine if some women have certain blood factors that make them more susceptible to edema, or swelling of the brain.
Daobin Ding, a Shandong University Medical School graduate in China (1994), received his PhD in Molecular Biology at Wayne State University, Detroit, MI (2001), completed his Ob/Gyn residency at the University of Toledo, OH (2007), and is currently a Maternal-Fetal Medicine Fellow at University of Chicago. His research interest is on the function of mitochondria in the earliest stages of preeclampsia. With help from Dr. Marshal Lindheimer, he met renowned geneticist Dr. Carole Ober who agreed to mentor his studies that aim to identify mitochondrial mutations linked to preeclampsia. Dr. Ding's research suggests that these mutations cause the placenta to increase production of proteins known to be associated with signs and symptoms of preeclampsia.
Jonathan McGuane hails from Victoria, Australia, and holds a Bachelor of Science with Honors from Deakin University and a PhD from the University of Melbourne. During his recent doctoral studies (2002-2007), Dr. McGuane accepted awards from the University of Melbourne, the National Heart Foundation, and the Society for Reproductive Biology. He was also the recipient of a postgraduate PhD Scholarship from the Jenny Ryan Scleroderma Foundation (Melbourne, Australia). Relatively new to the preeclampsia field, his research interests have to date centered on the physiology of the pregnancy hormone relaxin and cardiovascular adaptations during gestation.
Alexander Panda attended medical school at the Alexander von Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany and earned a Masters in Public Health from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. He is a board certified infectious diseases specialist and is currently in the final stages of his fellowship in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine. He is also a Clinical Research Fellow in the Investigative Medicine Program at Yale University School of Medicine. Dr. Panda's research focuses on the possibility that "toll-like receptors" (TLRs - which are part of our immune systems) activate inappropriately in some pregnancies and contribute to the development of preeclampsia.

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All of the physicians employed by the Detroit-based Wayne State University Physician Group will report to the same clinic building when the group's $53 million ambulatory care center opens in Midtown in 2016.
The planned five-story, 153,000-square-foot ambulatory center, at 3750 Woodward Ave., will house all of the nonprofit academic group's more than 15 specialty clinics in about 100,000 square feet, said Ken Lee, executive director of WSUPG and vice dean of business affairs for the medical school.
WSUPG has 2,255 physicians in its group practice.
"We are going to lease space and consolidate all our clinic offices in Detroit into one building," said Lee, adding that the group had considered acquiring and developing its own building.
"We talked about it, but I don't like owning real estate." he said. "We are health care" providers.
Consolidation of the clinical practice also is expected to help WSUPG increase revenue by generating operating efficiencies and greater internal patient referrals, Lee said.
"We don't get the advantage as does (University of Michigan Faculty Group Practice and Henry Ford Medical Group) of having people in a central location," Lee said. "We will have one-stop shopping, an increase in referrals. We won't have the leakage" of patients going elsewhere.
Lee said WSUPG projects a 10 percent to 20 percent increase in patient revenue as referrals between specialists become more fluid and new patients seek the academic group. If revenue increases 10 percent, Lee said, WSUPG could generate an additional $10 million in annual revenue.
John Ferchill, chairman and CEO of the Cleveland-based Ferchill Group, is developing the building for Southfield-based Midtown Project LLC, a group of local investors who have owned the building for more than 12 years. Midtown is represented by Southfield attorney Gary Novara.
Other tenants in the building, formerly called the Professional Plaza, could include one floor leased by theDetroit Medical Center, Ferchill said. He said the building will be rounded out with other medical, pharmacy, eye care, retail and food services.
"We intend to start clearing the site later this month, start demolition (in July) and open in 18 months," Ferchill said.
Jim Bieri, president of Detroit-based Stokas-Bieri Real Estate, said the tenants best suited for the space depend on its configuration, but a drugstore and food are good options.
"That area is always good for fast casual" dining, he said.
Over the past two years, the physician group has been consolidating about 160 office locations in Southeast Michigan into its four main buildings in Troy, Dearborn, Southfield and now Detroit, Lee said. In 2012, WSUPG opened a corporate administrative office in Troy that also has physician offices and an outpatient surgery center.
Some WSUPG physicians, including its obstetrics and gynecology group, already have an office at 3750 Woodward, just north of Mack Avenue and next to the new Whole Foods Market. Other tenants of the building include Comerica Bank and a Subway sandwich shop.
Lee said other physician group practices include family medicine, internal medicine, surgery, neurology, dermatology, ophthalmology and oncology.
Combining the offices isn't expected to directly save on real estate costs, Lee said.
"We will have a lot more efficient operation and a lot nicer place for patients to come," he said. "There will be cost savings from the fact we will cut down on front-office staff because of the combined lobbies. We will continue to expand, so we will have the same number of employees. We will have opportunity savings."


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Art of Elan performing Ljova's music at first concert at Lux Art Institute
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When: 7 p.m. April 4
Where: Lux Art Institute, 1550 S. El Camino Real, Encinitas
Admission: $25 ($20 for members)
Phone: (760) 436-6611
Sometimes, it's just a matter of finding your instrument.
Consider the enterprising musician Lev Zhurbin, who composes and arranges under the name Ljova. He seemed destined for a career as a violin soloist.
"But I couldn't stand the pressure," said Zhurbin, whose "Vjola Suite" will be featured on Art of Elan's April 4 program at the Lux Art Institute (the ensemble's first North County venture). Zhurbin is also writing a song cycle based on the poems of Bert Meyers for Art of Elan's April 30 concert at the San Diego Museum of Art.
"It's a funny thing," Zhurbin said. "When I was a kid violin player, the way I grew up studying violin in Russia — at least with my teacher — was all about putting you down.
"It was all, 'You can do better; you are using one ounce of your talent; you are doing so badly — look, your classmates are doing so much better than you ...'
"It really didn't work for me."
When he arrived in New York from Moscow with his parents (composer Alexander Zhurbin and writer Irena Ginzburg), the discouraged 11-year-old was ready to give up music and pursue a dream of becoming a screenwriter. But as it turned out, father knew best.
One of Zhurbin's uncles had also not taken to the violin, but when he switched to viola, he was transformed. Uncle Yuri (Gandelsman) went on to play with the Israel Philharmonic, the Moscow Virtuosi and the Fine Arts Quartet.
So the father quietly traded his son's violin for a viola.
Lev Zhurbin entered the Juilliard School of Music (where he was a classmate of Art of Élan founder Demarre McGill), and his new instrument changed his life.
Zhurbin now arranges for Yo-Yo Ma's Silk Road Project and the Kronos Quartet, among other elite ensembles; he's written dozens of film and documentary scores; he composes for his own group Ljova and the Kontraband; he performs ethnic music with his wife, singer Inna Barmash, in Romashka; and he frequently plays viola with several New York ensembles.
His original pieces somehow combine all of the above. Or, in the words of Art of Élan cofounder and San Diego Symphony violinist Kate Hatmaker: "What's so interesting about his music to us is the way he's able to seamlessly weave a variety of different styles, textures, and colors into each piece he creates."
And he owes it all to the viola.
"It worked for my uncle and it worked for me too," Zhurbin said. "I was miserable in the back of the second violin section, then I switched to viola. I couldn't even read the clef, and people were asking me to play chamber music. 'Wow, a viola player who can play in tune but doesn't know the clef, that's no big deal.'
"So it was very encouraging. And encouragement makes miracles — at least for me."


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Former Watseka Principal Roger Eddy to Become New IASB Executive Director
A central Illinois lawmaker will resign his seat to become the new Executive Director of the Illinois Association of School Boards. Roger Eddy, currently a State Representative in the 109th District, will assume his new job on July 1st.
The Hutsonville Republican has suspended his re-election campaign. Eddy's opponents – Brad Halbrook and Kevin Garner – in the new 110th District, welcomed the news but noted Eddy's name will still appear on the March 20th ballot.
Eddy says he is very honored to be chosen to represent the IASB. ''This is a great opportunity and challenge for me,'' said Eddy in a news release from the IASB. ''This is a great association and I look forward to serving in this capacity,'' he added.
Eddy has spent the last 15 years as the Hutsonville School District Superintendent. His career includes 31 years in education as a superintendent, principal and teacher, including a stint as Watseka High School Principal. Since 2003, Eddy has served five terms in the Illinois House of Representatives.
Redistricting placed Eddy in the new 110th District, which includes all or parts of Edgar, Coles, Clark, Cumberland, Crawford and Lawrence counties.
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CHICAGO, Ill. (February 4, 2010) — In a study to be presented today at the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine's (SMFM) annual meeting, The Pregnancy Meeting ™, in Chicago, researchers will unveil findings that show that acupuncture may be an effective treatment for depression during pregnancy.
"Depression during pregnancy is an issue of concern because it has negative effects on both the mother and the baby as well as the rest of the family," said Dr. Schnyer, one of the study's authors.
About 10% of pregnant women meet criteria for major depression and almost 20% have increased symptoms of depression during pregnancy. The rates of depression in pregnant women are comparable to rates seen among similarly aged non-pregnant women and among women during the postpartum period, but there are far fewer treatment studies of depression during pregnancy than during the postpartum period.
Dealing with depression is difficult for pregnant women because the use of anti-depressants poses concerns to the developing fetus and women are reluctant to take medications during pregnancy.
In the study, an evaluator-blinded randomized trial, 150 participants who met the Diagnostic & Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th edition (DSM-IV) criteria for Major Depressive Disorder were randomized to receive either acupuncture specific for depression (SPEC, n=52) or one of two active controls: control acupuncture (CTRL, n=49) or massage (MSSG, n=49). Treatments lasted eight weeks (12 sessions). Junior acupuncturists masked to treatment assignment needled participants at points prescribed by senior acupuncturists. Massage therapists and patients were not blinded. The primary outcome was the Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression, administered by blinded raters at baseline and after four and eight weeks of treatment. Data were analyzed using mixed effects models and by intent-to-treat.
The results showed that the women who received SPEC experienced a significantly greater decrease in depression severity (p<0.05) compared to the combined controls (d=0.39, 95% CI [-1.31, 1.65]) or CTRL acupuncture alone (p<0.05; Cohen´s-d = 0.46, 95% CI [-1.24, 2.31]). They also had a higher response rate (63.0%) than the combined controls (44.3%; p<.05; NNT=5.3, 95% CI [2.8, 75.0]) or CTRL acupuncture alone (37.5%; p<0.05; NNT=3.9, 95% CI [2.2, 19.8]). Symptom reduction and response rates did not differ significantly between controls (CTRL 37.5% and MSSG 50.0%). Mild and transient side effects were reported by 43/150 participants (4 in MSSG; 19 in CTRL, 20 in SPEC). Significantly fewer participants reported side-effects in MSSG than the two acupuncture groups (p<0.01).
"The results of our study show that the acupuncture protocol we tested could be a viable treatment option for depression during pregnancy" said Dr. Schnyer.


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Web Radio Royalty Battle Takes New Turn
The battle over radio royalty rates will likely continue into 2009, with the latest issue tackling how and when cable, satellite, and Internet stations should report their playlists to copyright holders in order to determine payment.
The Copyright Royalty Board, a government body that sets royalty rates, released a notice on Tuesday that suggests altering the reporting requirements for stations.
CRB wants any entity that pays royalties under sections 112 and 114 of the Copyright Act, including Internet radio, satellite radio, digital cable radio, and any other radio-like services delivered by digital means to report every single song they play on the air to SoundExchange, which governs the music industry's royalty rates. Under current rules established in 2004, they are only required to report their playlists for two weeks every quarter.
Pure Internet radio stations like Pandora will not really be affected by this type of "census reporting" because they already agreed last summer to report all activity electronically.
CRB also noted that satellite and cable could have difficulty actually calculating how many users are listening to a particular song, and might have to come up with an alternative means of payment.
"Where this change is likely to have the most impact is in connection with the operations of broadcasters who also stream their programs on the Internet," David Oxenford, a partner with Davis Wright Tremaine, wrote in a blog post. "Noncommercial broadcasters, such as college radio stations, have repeatedly complained that their small staffs to not have the ability to maintain these electronic records, especially where the stations are volunteer-programmed by DJs who select their own music on the spot."
Comments on this proposal are due to the CRB by January 29.
The board also questioned whether it was feasible for SoundExchange to set up a Web site for receiving playlist data to make it easier for smaller operations. SoundExchange has thus far resisted this idea for security and financial reasons. At this point, SoundExchange accepts data via FTP, e-mail attachments, CD-Rom delivery, or via floppy discs.
Though Internet radio already abides by census reporting, royalty payment status is still up in the air. Under a bill signed into law in October, Internet radio and copyright holders have until February 15 to come up with a royalty agreement or the decision will be handed back to the CRB.


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As the head of the "Twilight" Cullen household, you would think Peter Facinelli would knock some vampire heads to get his onscreen children to sign up for the final "Twilight" saga "Breaking Dawn."
Two Cullen kids, Kellan Lutz and Ashley Greene, have reportedly been trying to score paydays of about $1.5 million for the final "Twilight" chapter. While most every other actor is on board, as well as new director Bill Condon, these holdouts are attracting a lot of attention.
Facinelli told PopcornBiz at the StepUp Inspiration awards on Friday that's he's signed up for "Breaking Dawn" but he is not using his fatherly influence to work with the other kids.
"I haven't spoken to them about this," he says, adding that he doesn't plan to either.
"Their deals are their deals. I respect whatever they decide to do. Every actor has to do their deal."
Don't you hate hippie Vampire father-figures?
The two actors' holdout could lead to vampire-fan trauma and a possible replacement for the actors if a proper deal cannot be reached. But Facinelli was very serene about the prospect and even claimed not to know whether the final "Twilight" chapter will be one movie or two.
"I don't think it's been decided," he says. "I respect Summit's ability to decide when they get to the cutting room floor to see if it warrants one movie or two. If it doesn't they'll make one."
"The decision will be made at some point, but it won't be my decision."


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MN QSO Party
Twenty-Second Annual Minnesota QSO Party
Saturday, February 1st, 2020
Presented by the Minnesota Wireless Association
Here's where to find us in the Minnesota QSO Party!
Note: Please be courteous and respect nearby users of these frequencies.
Please visit our Sponsors page to see the groups and individuals that make the Minnesota QSO Party possible.
We are encouraging the participation of Minnesota ARES stations. These stations will use "ARES" as their name in the exchange. See the MN ARES page for information on a new certificate that will be awarded for the top ARES station.
Many of the mobile stations will be using APRS. You can track them with links on the Activity Map page or the Mobile Operations page.
We encourage the use of spotting networks. In addition to the normal DX Cluster sites you may want to try the County Hunting Spots site and the Reverse Beacon Network.
The Resources page contains links to tools to make your contest experience better.
For N1MM users we have a new Mult Chaser add on written by Pat, NAØN. It will track your multipliers on a map. See the Logging Programs page for more information.
The Minnesota QSO Party is always the first Saturday in February.
Future dates for the Minnesota QSO Party
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There are few things that make my week better than getting a visit from my nasty little neighbor girl Violet. This 4′ 11″ petite young mom is one of the cutest teenagers in my neighborhood and just the thought of her sucking on my throbbing old cock gets me all fucking hard. On this visit, Violet had just broke up with her boy friend and was in need of a good fuck and she wasted no tome at all dragging me to the bedroom. Within minutes this hot teen was slobbering all over my cock. Soon she had my cock buried between her huge teen titties and was giving me one of the best titty-fucks I have ever had.
But we're not here for a titty fuck we came to watch little Violet cum – and this little teen loves to cum……. Besides, I wanted to feel her wet little cunt on my throbbing cock so I put the little whore on top and let her do her thing. To be honest, it was real hard for me not to cum right away when little Violet slid down on my cock and started riding me like a cowboy on a wild bronc – but then it was my job to get this little teen to cum first so I held back as she started to work my throbbing cock like a pro.
Violet soon picked up the tempo and was soon fucking me so hard I thought I was going to fill her tight little pussy with my hot cum before she was ready – but somehow I managed to hold back. Then the little cunt arched her back, held her breath, rolled her eyes, and came all in a huge shuddering orgasm…..
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Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield posted a detailed video on what it's like to make and eat a peanut butter and honey sandwich in a zero-gravity environment. Normally, watching somebody make a sandwich should be low on your to-do list, but make an exception for the charming Hadfield.
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I was at the Musikfest show and it was clear the storm was moving directly toward the concert site - had been for the hour leading into the show. So it wasn't surprising when the show had to be called, but damn, you guys were playing hot. When I got the email the following Tuesday that tickets from the Musikfest show would be honored at the Mann, I was stunned. And ready. Thanks to all who made that shining bit of goodness happen, because the Mann show was phenomenal. It made my top five concert list and I'm old enough to have an awfully long list ;) The energy of that show was just amazing. I don't know how many Lehigh Valley fans were able to make it, but those of us who did won't forget it...
Thanks for honoring our tickets guys. Mr. Parks from Musikfest took to the media to blame you, stating "You got paid." He didn't expect that you'd be listening. He probably often blames the person "not in the room" to defend themselves. Well, you were listening.
Aug. 9th was my birthday so I appreciate the gesture of seeing you at The Mann.
Makes me laugh that he portrays musicians being all about the money. Musicians often work for free (as they build their careers). I wonder how many days in corporate America, Mr. Parks went to work and didn't expect to get paid.
Hope to re-arrange some plans and catch your show at the Mann.
Even though I am not one of those fans that was unfortunate to be rained upon at the concert it is so nice to know that there are still good people out there working for music artists and working with the fans trying their best to make the fans happy. Obviously "mother nature" and events open to the outside are something that you can't forsee but everyone should give the Promoter for Jane's Addiction and the people at The Mann Center big props for doing what they did because I would say that's a pretty huge deal to pull off what they did in the short amount of time that they did!! Props from me!! :D


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I don't know JC, you might be the one trolling here. People have come up with a number of well-received, popular examples and you've dismissed them all as not fitting into the FPS genre or not counting for some other tenuous reason.
All I've got are tenuous reasons. By design...
Most examples are not modern FPS games. Let's clarify and say 2009 and later. That eliminates BioShock and Half-Life 2.
To even offer Portal or its sequel as an FPS is silly. Furthermore, you talked about paying $60 for Portal 2. It hadn't been out 2 weeks, and it was reduced to $39.99 for a month, IIRC. Actually, that's still the price on Amazon. How do you feel about that? Keep in mind that Portal 2 is a full-fledged game, not a remake of a 10-year old game. I think $40 for Portal 2 is an amazing value. I also think that it's probably what the price point should have been initially, making a "sale" of it unneeded.
Niterider came closest with Metro 2033.
So, I'm illustrating why "Perfect Dark isn't Halo" isn't a valid argument by using "________ isn't Halo" when applicable. In this case, Metro 2033, which has been the only decent example offered up as a modern FPS with no multiplayer component.
In closing, I'm pulling out my last card in this whole debate of just why multiplayer is being left out:
I give you Marathon: Durandal.
A port of Marathon 2 to the Xbox Live Arcade was announced at the 2007 E3 Conference by Microsoft. The Xbox Live Arcade version of the game was developed by Freeverse Software, and presents a revised HUD and provides support for both 4-player split screen play on the same console and 8-player Xbox Live gameplay. Since the old Marathon network code could not handle reliable internet play, the ReplicaNet middleware was used which also allowed coop play with up to eight players. The game also supports 16:9 screen resolutions, high-definition output at 60 frames per second (compared to the original 30) as well as upgraded models and graphics, support for 8-player co-op mode over Xbox Live, several international versions, and a new game mode called "Survival" where the player is given a large amount of weapons and ammo and must defeat endless waves of enemies, earning points for effectiveness and taking minimal damage, with high scores shared over Xbox Live.
The original game did not support WAN multiplayer:
Like Marathon, multiplayer can be played with eight players over a LAN connection.
So, little iOS app developer Freeverse can handle it, but the strain on resources at 343 was just too great. Not buying it.


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Oil in New York dropped for the first time in three days as European policy makers met to discuss aid for Greece and Japan's economy shrank.
Futures fell 0.6 percent as euro-area finance ministers gathered in Brussels after Greek lawmakers passed a 2013 budget needed to unlock bailout funds. Japan's economy contracted last quarter at an annual rate of 3.5 percent, the most since the earthquake and tsunami in early 2011.
"As long as there is no resolution to the Greek crisis, markets will remain under pressure," said John Kilduff, a partner at Again Capital LLC, a New York-based energy hedge fund. "The 3.5 percent contraction of the Japanese economy speaks to demand concerns. This will have an impact on other Asian economies and we will see an impact on consumption."
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The finance ministers probably won't approve 31.5 billion euros ($40 billion) in fresh loans to Greece and will agree to prevent the country from defaulting on 5 billion euros of bills that mature on Nov. 16, a European official said last week. The European sovereign debt crisis began in Greece three years ago and has spread to Ireland, Portugal, Italy, Spain and Cyprus.
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Thank you to the Footnote Maven for sponsoring this year's Blog Caroling event. We are invited to blog our favorite Christmas Carol, but instead, as a genealogist, I'm writing about a connection between the family tree and a well known Christmas song. It is also the story of a family divided by politics and geography.
James Lord Pierpont was born 25 April 1822 in Boston, Massachusetts, and died 5 August 1893 in Winter Haven Florida. He served in the First George Cavalry during the Civil War, and wrote patriotic hymns for the confederacy. This is ironic because his father was a well known Massachusetts abolitionist. However, it was more common than not for families to be divided in opinions on the war, even in New England. His father was a Unitarian pastor, and served as chaplain for the 22nd Massachusetts Regiment.
James and his brother, The Rev. John Pierpont, Jr., removed to Valdosta, near Savannah, Georgia in 1853. John was the pastor of a Unitarian church, and James the organist.
James Pierpont missed the New England winters whilst living down south, and he wrote the popular Christmas song "Jingle Bells" in 1857. During his childhood in Medford, Massachusetts, where his father was a pastor, sleigh racing took place on High Street between Medford and Malden, Massachusetts, and the memory prompted his song
Massachusetts and Georgia both say they are the birthplaces of Jingle Bells. There is a plaque on the side of a building at 19 High Street in Medford, Massachusetts commemorating the "birthplace" of Jingle Bells. It was first recorded on an Edison cylinder in 1898, showing how popular this tune was even right after its inception. It has been recorded by pop stars, bands and orchestras all over the world in countless languages. It was the first song performed in space on 16 December 1965 when astronauts Tom Stafford and Wally Schirra sang it on board Gemini 6. The simple, catchy tune is probably the first Christmas carol you learned as a child, too.
For genealogical reasons, it is also interesting to note that James Lord Pierpont was the uncle of the famous banker J. Pierpont Morgan. James's sister, Julia, was Morgan's mother. Another interesting coincidence is that the popular Christmas carol "Over the River and Through the Wood" was written by Lydia Maria Child, who was born in Medford. Both were Unitarians.
In researching my Wilkinson, Gore and other Boston ancestors I was repeatedly looking up cousins and in-laws in the 2007 Pierpont compiled genealogy by NEHGS's Helen Schatvet Ullmann. It was through this book that I read about all the fascinating Pierponts in history.
The original 1857 lyrics to Jingle Bells:
Dashing through the snow, In a one-horse open sleigh,
O'er the hills we go, Laughing all the way.
Bells on bobtail ring, Making spirits bright,
Oh what sport to ride and sing A sleighing song tonight.
: chorus :
Jingle bells, jingle bells, Jingle all the way!
O what joy it is to ride In a one-horse open sleigh.
A day or two ago I thought I'd take a ride
And soon Miss Fannie Bright was seated by my side
The horse was lean and lank, misfortune seemed his lot
He got into a drifted bank And we got upset
: chorus :
A day or two ago, the story I must tell
I went out on the snow and on my back I fell
A gent was riding by in a one-horse open sleigh
He laughed as there I sprawling lie but quickly drove away
: chorus :
Now the ground is white. Go it while you're young
Take the girls tonight and sing this sleighing song
Just get a bobtailed bay,two forty is his speed
Hitch him to an open sleigh and crack! You'll take the lead.
: chorus : [from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jingle_Bells]
For more information:
Reverend John Pierpont's papers (father of James L. Pierpoint) are archived at the William L. Clements Library, The University of Michigan.
J. Pierpont, "One Horse Open Sleigh", Boston: Oliver Ditson & Co., deposited 1857 in the Library of Congress
http://www.valdostamuseum.com/pdf/nov_dec_2008.pdf "The Man Who Wrote Jingle Bells" by Albert S. Pendleton for the Valdosta, Georgia Museum newsletter "YesterDay and Today" Volume XXXVIII, page 6.
The Pierponts of Roxbury, Massachusetts, by Helen Schatvet Ullmann, Boston: Newbury Street Press, 2007
Last year I wrote about the less well known song "Christmas in Boston" for the 2009 Blog Caroling event, you can read about it here at http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2009/12/blog-caroling-christmas-in-boston.html
Copyright 2010, Heather Wilkinson Rojo
Saturday, December 11, 2010
Blog Caroling – James Pierpont and Jingle Bells
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Fascinating story Heather!ReplyDelete
Agree with Marian, fascinating.ReplyDelete
That makes three of us! Loved reading this one, Heather.ReplyDelete
What a great story. And the full lyrics. I have a good friend in Medford and can imagine the original scene. And Pierpont wrote patriotic hymns for the Confederacy and moved to Georgia? Whoa. And I'm learning for the first time that the Unitarian Church goes back to the 1800s. Probably further. Our madrigral group sang all our concerts in the Unitarian Church of Westport, CT. Very small world!ReplyDelete
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Greg L / Terra Nova: The Bandwidth of Big Hair
Mark Cuban / Blog Maverick:
I know you are, but what am I Jeff ? Is this Journalism ? — I usually try to stay away from Blogwars. You know where one blog calls out another for any number of reasons, but primarily its to try to generate more interest and traffic to their blog. — I get enough traffic here …
Discussion: DealBreaker.com, Mathew Ingram and BuzzMachine
John Carney / DealBreaker.com: Jeff Jarvis Bodyslams Mark Cuban and Sharesleuth
Mathew Ingram / mathewingram.com/work: Jeff and Mark try to define journalism
Todd Bishop / Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
Software Notebook: Microsoft in buying mood — Spending spree takes aim at smaller companies — Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer was quick to reply when recently asked why the company wasn't pursuing acquisitions more aggressively. — "We are buying more companies than we have ever bought …
Discussion: Don Dodge on The Next …, WebMetricsGuru and digg
Abbey Klaassen / AdAge:
Marketing Reality Check: Blogs, Pods, RSS — The Reach Most Marketers Crave Still Comes From TV, Print and Internet Ads — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Digital properties may be VC darlings, hot on Wall Street and coveted by advertisers. But try telling that to Dave and Jean Bretzlauf …
Discussion: Publishing 2.0, Micro Persuasion and Marketing Profs Daily Fix
Scott Karp / Publishing 2.0: A Eulogy for Old Media
Steve Rubel / Micro Persuasion: AdAge Takes a Reality Check on Blogs, Pods, RSS
Marshall Kirkpatrick / TechCrunch:
SocialPicks enables collaborative investment research — There's no shortage of stock market oriented communities coming online, it's almost hard to tell them apart, but today's entrant is particularly interesting. SocialPicks is focused on reputation building and small group collaboration.
Discussion: Information Arbitrage, Dominic Jones and Oliver Thylmann
Roger Ehrenberg / Information Arbitrage: Social Networks for Stock Picking? - Give me a Break
Oliver Thylmann / Thoughts: Collaborative Investments — TechCrunch writes about socialPicks …
Marguerite Reardon / CNET News.com:
Cisco buys video-on-demand start-up — Networking equipment maker Cisco Systems is set to announce Tuesday that it will spend $92 million to buy a small software start-up called Arroyo Video Solutions to ready itself for the new age of on-demand TV viewing.
Discussion: paidContent.org, Greg Galitzine's VoIP … and Mark Evans
Greg Linden / Geeking with Greg:
Seattle internet startups ordered by traffic — About a week ago, John Cook at the Seattle PI posted a great list of Seattle area internet startups. — I thought it might be fun to see a version of this list ordered by web traffic. With much thanks to John for the original …
Discussion: John Cook's Venture Blog, CNNMoney.com and Mike Davidson
Dan Farber / Between the Lines:
Enterprise 2.0 = Next Generation IT — After Wikipedia deleted the "Enterprise 2.0" entry, the Enterprise Irregulars swarmed, responding to the critique of the term by a Wikipedian editor as a "neologism of dubious utility" and taking a crack at defining it.
Discussion: TechCrunch, Enterprise Web 2.0, deal architect, Venture Chronicles and Semantic@BlogMatrix
Marshall Kirkpatrick / TechCrunch: Salesforce Dives Deep into Google Adwords
Jerry Bowles / Enterprise Web 2.0: Picking Up the Pieces of Enterprise 2.0
Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
FTC chief critiques Net neutrality — ASPEN, Colo.—The head of the Federal Trade Commission on Monday expressed sharp skepticism toward proposed laws that would levy extensive Net neutrality regulations on broadband providers. — Deborah Platt Majoras, the FTC's Republican chairman …
Discussion: Werblog, GigaLaw.com Daily News and digg
Kevin Werbach / Werblog: NET NEUTRALITY AS CONSUMER PROTECTION