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New England Patriots
Tom Brady - #12 - QB
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Kraft still optimistic about football in 2011
Patriots owner Robert Kraft released a statement on Saturday showing optimism that football will be played in 2011 despite the current NFL lockout.
Light moves up Patriots' priority list
When a new Collective Bargaining Agreement is struck and free agency can begin, the Patriots have one notable player left to attempt and re-sign: OLT Matt Light. And we hear the veteran could get more than a one-year deal.
Report: Patriots S Meriweather accused of being involved in shooting
Two shooting victims have accused Patriots S Brandon Meriweather of allegedly shooting them in Florida during a fight on Feb. 27.
Supreme Court won't review 'Spygate' case
The Supreme Court will not review a decision to throw out a lawsuit stemming from the Patriots' 2007 "Spygate" scandal.
Patriots positional analysis: specialists
This is the last in a series of position-by-position looks at the Patriots' personnel entering the 2011 offseason. Today, we analyze New England's specialists.
Patriots positional analysis: Defensive backs
This is the eighth in a series of position-by-position looks at the Patriots' personnel entering the 2011 offseason. Today, we analyze New England's defensive backs.
Patriots tender Green-Ellis, Page and Arrington
The Patriots made their tender offers official on Thursday, offering contracts to restricted free-agent RB BenJarvus Green-Ellis and S Jarrad Page, as well as CB Kyle Arrington, an exclusive-rights free agent.
Patriots OG Neal files retirement papers
Patriots OG Stephen Neal has retired, ending his 10-year career.
Report: Green-Ellis receives second-round tender
The Patriots tendered RB BenJarvus Green-Ellis at a second-round level, his agent Roosevelt Barnes told PFW correspondent and Boston Herald writer Ian Rapoport.
Patriots positional analysis: Linebackers
This is the seventh in a series of position-by-position looks at the Patriots' personnel entering the 2011 offseason. Today, we analyze New England's LB situation.
A person familiar with the contract tells The Associated Press that Brady has received a three-year extension from the New England Patriots worth about $27 million.||||||| The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the extension has not been announced. The 35-year-old two-time league MVP was signed through 2014, and has said he wants to play five more years. By redoing his contract Monday, Brady also has cleared nearly $15 million from New England's salary cap. Brady currently has a four-year, $72 million deal with $48 million guaranteed.
The NFL has fined New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady $10,000 for an "aggressive slide" in Sunday's AFC championship game against the Baltimore Ravens. The fine was announced on NFL.com.||||||| On a first-and-goal near the end of the second quarter, Brady was forced out of the pocket to his left. He ran for 3 yards but slid before he could be tackled. In the process, he raised his right leg and kicked defender Ed Reed in the thigh. Brady reportedly apologized to Reed in a text message. The Ravens won 28-13 to advance to the Super Bowl.
Brady was 29 of 54 for 320 yards but threw only one TD and was picked off twice in Sunday's AFC championship game loss to Baltimore.||||||| Brady is 5-3 in his eight games against the Ravens, including the playoffs, but his statistics against them are among his worst against any team. The Ravens are the only team he's thrown more interceptions against (10) than touchdowns (eight). Brady's 49.1 rating in a 33-14 playoff loss to Baltimore on Jan. 10, 2010, was among the lowest in his career.
Brady was 22 of 36 for 284 yards and two touchdowns in New England's win in its regular-season finale against Miami on Sunday.||||||| Brady moved into second place in NFL history with a touchdown pass in 48 consecutive games, breaking a tie with Hall of Famer Johnny Unitas. And Brady became the first player to throw at least one scoring pass in all 16 games for three straight seasons.
Brady threw for 443 yards Sunday night, his second-highest total in one game, but the Patriots couldn't finish off a 28-point comeback in a 41-34 loss to San Francisco.||||||| Brady, who had 517 yards in a win over Miami last season, threw a touchdown in a 46th consecutive regular season game but was also picked off twice. If he throws a TD in his next game, Brady will tie Johnny Unitas' former NFL record of 47 consecutive games. New Orleans' Drew Brees holds the current mark at 54.


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Ron Paul Picks Up Key Delegates at Caucuses
Ron Paul continues to outmaneuver his rivals, and may play a big role at the GOP convention.
Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul's forces are making more gains in delegate-selection contests around the country as they prepare for the GOP national convention in Tampa this summer.
What's becoming clear is that even though Paul has virtually no chance to overtake frontrunner Mitt Romney and supplant him as the Republican nominee, he will be a force to be reckoned with at the convention. Paul and his supporters could make inroads in placing libertarian planks in the platform and could embarrass Romney in a number of ways, such as shutting out some of his delegates.
[See pictures of Ron Paul on the campaign trail.]
That's what happened in Massachusetts over the weekend. Paul forces out-muscled Romney supporters at caucuses around the state and displaced several Romney delegates with Paul backers, according to media reports. It wasn't clear how many Romney delegates had been excluded, but they apparently included former Lt. Gov. Kerry Healey. Most of the state's delegates still pledged to support Romney on the first ballot, but Paul's surge over the weekend served notice that, even in the state where he was governor, Romney might have some trouble holding onto his dominant position as Paul's forces increase their pressure.
It was a similar story at Alaska's nominating caucus last weekend. A strong and raucus contingent of Paul backers made headway in gaining more delegates for Paul than expected as they pursued their goal of taking over the state party.
[Read Ron Paul is Still Racking Up Delegates.]
The Paul supporters succeeded in winning the state party chairmanship for one of their own, Russ Millette, but failed in their effort to change party rules and capture all 24 state delegates to the national convention for Paul.
It appears that Alaska will send only six Paul delegates to Tampa. He finished third in the popular vote at the state-wide caucuses in March, behind Romney and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, who has since dropped out of the GOP race.
Paul has not won the popular vote in any state, but continues to pick up delegates at the grassroots level by out-maneuvering rivals in the often complex delegate-selection process.

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The beat reporters such as LaVelle have been supportive of these guys.
Its the commentary guys such as Phil Mackey and Jim Souhan who feel that their private domain is being invaded.
Souhan has been the Cheap Shot Artist. Below are some of his comments.
"Wow, I make fun of Bloggers and lose three followers. Existential question:
Did they get off couch in Mom's basement to unfollow me?"
"They're also afraid of players, and think the Moneyball A's won bc of Chad Bradford, not Chavez-Mulder-Hudson-Zito-Tejada"
You show a lot of class Souhan
I'm a Twins fan in Pittsburgh, PA so -- When the Strib was "free" (not the 15 articles a month then needing a paid subscription) and clean (before the horrible ad layout, especially the rollover ads), I'd go there to get the majority of my Twins news (along with mlb.com). I always enjoyed the Twinscentric articles/blogs published/linked on the Strib. With the combination of TWINS DAILY's existence, the annoying Strib issues mentioned above, and the quality of writing and information from all available Twins sites, I'm not at all surprised with the popularity of this site and the jealousy of the Strib. But you make the bed you sleep in. For the last couple weeks I've been hoping that the Twins Daily would get economic independence and sustainability --enough anyway-- to get a "beat" writer for this site with access to the club and following at least some games. Looks like this won't be happening because they won't be granted access though, which is really too bad. I think the Club execs would be surprised to find that open and more transparent coverage of their team would create more buzz and excitement -- increased dollars. Until then, I hope the Strib doesn't become any more of a propaganda tool for the Twins, and I don't use that world lightly.
I found it fascinating when the STrib changed the way they handle comments, and when Howard actually said they don't want the site used for game commentary during a game. The Strib had a great opportunity to keep eyes and minds on their site, yet they told us they didn't want that. Since people want that, it is only logical that someone would take up that space. Since people want detailed analysis of the Twins' minor league system, and the STrib and ESPN1500 won't give us that, it is only logical that someone else will provide that. Since people want opinions and analysis that are more in depth than a paper will allow, it is only logical that someone else will provide that. If Mackey or anyone else thinks that the masses should not go to where the product is, I'm not sure what Mackey really knows about economic theory....It's clear that there is an appetite for what this site and others provide. As long as that appetite is not met through the mainstream media, sites like this will exist, thankfully.
I remember a Star Trib writer speculating that Joe Mauer was "depressed" based on his access, though that access didn't include Mauer. I also remember another Strib commentator criticizing Twins for not playing hurt and praising those that did. However, I took 10 minutes, unpaid out of my day, to fact check his article with statistics. player for player those that he praised as playing hurt were horrible when they played hurt (worse than replacement value). Finally, and more recently, take a look at what access gained with regard to Jason Marquis. Ryan told the reporters he was a guy who throws strikes (paraphrasing). I didn't see anyone but bloggers fact-checking this statement, which can be done literally in one minute, to find out he in fact has the same career walk-rate as Liriano.
In the end, I really like Nick's take on the whole thing, too, that there really shouldn't be an argument as both are valuable. I can't expect paid sportswriters, who are covering many different avenues, to go as in-depth as the bloggers. However, those bloggers do require the initial access and reporting that comes from the paid outlets.
The biggest concern I have with blogging comes in the way bloggers and posters like us police ourselves. The people who do most of the writing for this site I'm sure have standards and integrity...no one really wants to look dumb. If indeed factual information is posted by a writer on this site, I would like to believe they have checked those facts to the best of their ability. If opinion is offered, I would like to believe that those who read it and respond to it do so with decorum and in a responsible way.
As for the regular press and media, it's a new age, and the sense of ownership and distribution of the information they feel privileged to seems threatened. I get that. There is room for all of us to write and enjoy the inner journalist within ourselves.
So I would like to know more details about this spat.
I think one point that Mackey may have been trying to make and that John seems to have missed is the accountability factor. John seems to think that if a blogger didn't supply "reliable information," no one would read them. I think that is a fantasy. The internet is full of very successful websites that cater to viewpoints based on crazy opinions, with no accountability. If a blogger wanted to write that Valencia is in Gardy's doghouse, or Punto is starting at short b/c he has pictures of Gardy, he'd find a audience regardless of the truth of that statement. Generally, I think the Twins bloggers and professional writers are pretty good, I enjoy reading most of them. But simply b/c a number of people read a free blog doesn't mean that the blog is giving reliable information.
It's not the same accountability, to be sure. But to say there is no accountability is silly. It's definitely more long-term - occasional mistakes are tolerated whereas they might be smacked down by a corporate overseer. But I would submit that longer leash has been earned because the indy writer built it. The same thing happens for a radio host or corporate writer, too. If they greatly increase their following, their audience (and boss) are a lot more forgiving of missteps.
I'd also suggest that if the only audience that follows a writer are the crazies, it doesn't matter if the audience is big - that viewpoint is still going to be viewed as suspect by the mainstream. It might annoying, but it isn't threatening.
Wow, I regret missing this (sort of).
As a blogger, the best test for accountability and the quality of the product is when I put out a post and no one reads it.
That's pretty good incentive to step it up next time. Just because there's no boss overseeing the work product, I think most bloggers try to do a solid job, if for no other reason than to avoid embarrassment.
John, I read the City Pages article. Thanks for holding your own there!
I think you crushed PMAC on twitter last nite. The "journalists" are so biased towards the club to make sure they can stay on the "inside". They are afraid to criticize if it means they potentially lose their job.
Bottom line: the journalists are concerned that bloggers are doing their jobs BETTER! I appreciate the honest assessments we get on this site and other blogs where the Twins aren't just always applauded when at times they should be booooed.
Keep up the good work.
Best laugh I had all day is this quote from the article cited by admin at 4:26: 'Mackey, for what it's worth, said in an e-mail this morning that "if I could go back in time, I would have presented my points with a less condescending tone." '
He is almost always condescending. It is why I stopped following him on twitter months ago. The irony, for me, is that I generally think his reporting is more insightful than that of the Strib writers and various columnists.
But he is a snotty twerp. So while I read what he writes on 1500ESPN, I unfollowed him a long time ago.
Honestly, this kind of thing is why I don't like Twitter. I could get drunk as a skunk and start saying stuff and then . . .
I finally got to get to read pretty much the whole thing and I think that I have somewhat crystallized an opinion about this whole thing...
- I think that it is unfortunate that this started by Phil because a. I think that he is a nice guy (unlike his co-workers on ESPN - Doogie aside) and b. he was a blogger once (and kinda still is, only now he spoon feeds the same canned club-provided information fed by the others with "Access")
- "Access" is over-rated. "Access" is as good as what you access is worth. The truth is that the Twins' organization is not one of those that is very open with what is going on, even to people with "Access". On the other hand, the last 3-4 years, information about Twins' transactions, including the Sano and Willingham signings, a few trades and other discussions with other clubs has broken not by the ones with the Press Cards and "Access", but by alternative sources with access to people who are willing to talk or willing to give them a call or a text if they hear of something happening. And I know that this does not sit well with the mainstream media
- That said, being a reporter is like being muzzled when you hear something that you are not supposed to hear. You are just not suppose to print it. Otherwise "Access" would be lost. I feel their pain. Case in point. This morning at Fort Myers before the Twins game. The bench players were taking batting practice. On one of the far dugout cages, Gardenhire and Tom Kelly had a very animated conversation that got pretty loud about certain players. I heard it. It will probably affect cuts. Will I say what they said? No. But I will speak between words. Someone with a reporter's card and "Access" would not even hear that because as soon as he/she showed up there, the conversation would had turned the other way...
Lesson? Nothing really... just live and let live.
I like Mackey and think he does a helluva job. But, I also like Twins Daily and the bloggers. Everyone does a great job whether they have Access or not so who gives a ****. Let's all be buddies again.
Just imagine if there were no bloggers. We'd have four outlets mostly reporting the same thing with their access. We'd also be stuck with Souhan and a couple other commentators rehashing tired jokes (less jokes if there were no bloggers in the first place). With more bloggers than i have time to read, i peruse as many stories as i can, I check out a few of the paid writers takes , I use sites like fangraphs, milb.com and many other to formulate some opinions without reading anyone and most importantly, I never need to bother with Souhan. Imagine Twins fan reading without Gleeman, Geek, Seth, Nick, Parker, Thrylos, Topper, kbro and many others with opinions, analysis and fun stuff. I enjoy Lavelle and Mackey usually has good stuff, but they are more replaceable than the best bloggers.
To be honest, when Mackey started on 1500 ESPN, I liked his work and the new voice. He used Sabermetrics and sounded like a blogger (he was one before, still is to some extent). But it very quickly went to his head, and working with Reusse has further sent him down the path of the darkside. Striving to be a "heel" is one thing, but this isn't "professional" wrestling. If you're a heel here, you're actually a heel in real life, which is another way of saying you're a [redacted]. I can't listen to him anymore on the radio, but I'll still read his work for about the only reason that he gets quotes from players, etc... and can form a readable post. But he's got to realize that's not the same thing that's done by bloggers, who largely analyze and offer opinion, and can speak freely for a fanbase that feels the same way a good majority of the time. He's just a mouthpiece to me, really. It's also very rare he acknowledges a good counter-point to his own views, instead resulting to name calling, or telling you to get out of your mother's basement. Newsflash Mackey: there are many, many, many more successful "bloggers" who are also very successful in their professional lives, than there are not. Four of them run this site, several others contribute here and elsewhere. The platform is as big as it is because of the content that is produced. Quality content. It's very easy to recognize crap, and that doesn't get read. If the readership is shifting to the form of blogs instead of mainstream media outlets, I think that tells a lot more about what the audience wants to see/read instead of the accountability associated with the source. They want opinions. They want their team called out if they're struggling. They want someone to say what they're all thinking. And that's not guys like Mackey. Be who you are, recognize the differences between platforms, acknowledge the good things each one provides, and coexist.
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The Charlottesville community came together during a public session to help bridge the gap between black and white students. They tried to make sense of the recent unrest surrounding the Charlottesville school board.
The focus was their children, as members of the Charlottesville community packed Pilgrim Baptist Church on Friday, February 18th for what the local NAACP and many others are simply calling a gap in achievement.
According to the NAACP, the gap between majority and minority students is there because some parents are not.
Many sitting in the pews wonder if there is another problem that's not so clear, but instead an issue of black and white.
In recent weeks, Charlottesville's school board has been under some harsh criticism; for everything from budgets to allegations of racism. Friday's informative session was not to place blame, or to give testimonials, but to empower.
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Nassau County Legislative Majority Leader Peter Schmitt died Wednesday after suffering a heart attack, a spokeswoman for the Legislative Majority said.
Schmitt, 62, who had a health scare last year, had a heart attack in the office of County Executive Ed Mangano.
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Upon learning of the audit's findings, the Mangano administration
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education and training of employees that will result in improved
checks and balances, monitoring and oversight. According to a release
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dollars in federal money for various programs on an annual basis.
Compliance by the county is a major factor in determining whether
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Cobb Commission Chairman candidates have been making the rounds, attending several forums throughout the county. The questions usually asked at the forums have to do with Transportation Investment Act or TSPLOST and economic development or redevelopment.
Here are the answers they've given on both the TSPLOST and economic (re)development, along with their thoughts on backyard chickens:
On TSPLOST/Transportation Investment Act
- Bill Byrne, former Cobb Commission Chairman from 1992-2002: AGAINST "It's as important to me to defeat this TSPLOST as it is for me to be reelected as chairman."
"The TSPLOST is a proposal to raise your sales taxes for 10 years that would generate a billion dollars for Cobb COunty to build programs and projects that have no usefulness at all in Cobb County, let alone Mableton.
- Larry Savage: AGAINST "The major flaw in the TSPLOST, it isn't about transportation. It isn't about moving people... It is a permanent tax. That tax will never go away...We'll spend more than our lifetimes ever trying to get the thing built. It's a lot of tax expense for all of us and benefits for very few."
- Incumbent Chairman Tim Lee: SUPPORTS He encouraged voters to do their research about the transportation projects on the TIA list. "Make your own mind. Do your own research and determine whether or not it's in the best interest for Mableton, Cobb County, the region."
- Retired Marine Mike Boyce: AGAINST "Would anybody in this room give somebody $689 million unless you know what you're getting for your money? Would you give anybody that amount of money for anything unless you knew what you were getting for your money, and especially tp the government?... This is not going to go to the benefit of everybody, not even close."
On Economic Development
- Byrne: He said he has a five-point economic development program to work with the Cobb Chamber, not to replace it. "My focus would be to provide incentives to grow new businesses that are here, not necessarily bring in new businesses that want to come here. " He would roll back property tax increases. He said "Cobb is a big business," and more contracts should be awarded to Cobb businesses first.
- Savage: He said the county's economic development department and Cobb Chamber should resolve any conflict. "One of the things we need to do is get a grip on what's wrong with that relationship and get it under control."
He said he agrees with the Chamber's Competitive EDGE Initiative, but thinks "they missed the boat in one area. They have ignored or overlooked the need and the desirability of attracting manufacturing companies." Savage said he had a successful 40-year career in manufacturing and could bring those skills to the Cobb County government.
- Lee: He said he worked with the Chamber to establish a new plan to recruit businesses and to help grow existing Cobb businesses. He said the county is also working with Cobb Works, Southern Polytechnic State University and Chattahoochee Technical College, to have job training and retraining of Cobb residents so they are better prepared for jobs in the future. The county is also focused on retention of businesses in the county, he said.
- Boyce: "Let's just fixate on one plan and for heaven's sakes, let's just finally do it. No more studies…Let's just do it. Let's see what happens. No more talking… This is not going to be a one- or two-year plan. This is going to almost be generational." He also said having more support in South Cobb from code enforcement would help as well.
To hear more of what the candidates had to say Thursday night, watch the attached video clips.
Which of the four chairman candidates has your vote and why? Tell us below in the comments.


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Archive for February, 2009
Marketing Medical Device Patents in the US
Hi, Rabbi, Dr. Yosef Freedland, Surgeon and Patent Attorney on Medical Devices here.
Appelfeld Zer Fisher is a patent firm that provides patent drafting, filing and prosecution of patent application. Additionally, Appelfeld Zer Fisher provides a unique service of providing good business advice on how to find investors and/or strategic partners for your unique inventions. As a part of this additional service, which happens to be highly important to all of our clients, I dedicate these next few posts.
Many fledgling medical device firms or inventors are posed with the question as to where it is best to introduce technology. For example, firms or inventors have the option to begin production and advertising in the United States. Alternatively, there are many other countries where such devices can be introduced.
Of course there are many factors that affect these decisions, but I would like to bring to your attention one very important issue in this blog with respect to product introduction.
The United States physicians and surgeons are exceptionally keen on writing articles about medical devices. Such an article may be an analysis of the efficacy of the product, which draws on a survey of several hundred uses of the product including clinical trials of several hundred patients.
Such a survey is of course fair and competent and can do your medical device a great service. This is particularly true if your medical device is a unique solution to a well known problem.
On the other hand it is often the case in the US that a reviewing physician or surgeon will publish an article regarding one surgical or medical experience in which the reviewer found a flaw in your device. The article may enhance the reputation of the surgeon for finding "flaws" in your invention. But the article will spell the doom or your technology – no matter how "off base" the author is.
In other words, the US market is exceptionally sensitive to "untoward", even completely unanticipated results that result from misuse of your devise. It can be highly problematic to introduce an award-winning device in the US, only to have your success destroyed by a "renegade" article by a lone, perhaps incompetent, surgeon who failed to follow the guidelines of the instructions you included with your device.
OK, so this is Rabbi, Dr. Yosef Freedland, Surgeon and Patent Attorney signing off with the advice that a great way to lose weight is to eat while you are naked and in front of a mirror. Restaurants will almost always throw you out before you can eat too much.
What is Obviousness?
Hi, this is Rabbi, Dr. Yosef Freedland, Surgeon, and Patent Attorney on Medical Devices at Appelfeld Zer Fisher.
So exactly how bad is this new ruling about obviousness?
Of course, as usual we need a little bit of background that may be "obvious" to those familiar with patent writing, but may not be "obvious" to the inventor reading the AZF blog.
First: Exactly who determines whether something is obvious? Traditionally this was a person who knows everything but has no creativity. However, one of the ways that the Supreme Court has made obviousness stricter is by alluding to the fact that a person who combines invention A with invention B may in fact possess some creativity.
Going back to our example of the orange juice squeezer on the pump: Let's presume that you made a very unique formula comprising, for example, an epoxy. This epoxy is very efficient in securing a plastic orange juice squeezer to a wooden handle on an air pump. In this case, you might be able to apply and obtain a patent for this unique formula epoxy, but claiming the combination of an air pump and orange juice squeezer with the epoxy, might be deemed obvious, and hence would not be granted a patent. (I say "might" because there may be other "unique" issues involved AND I would not like to be cited in a decision that invalidates your invention of an orange juice squeezer and tire pump.
Second: how bad is it going to be for software patents?
Take a patent you've ever heard of which 'does X over the internet'. Let's say that X is an program that can unite accounting calculations that take place in multiple offices. So now it turns out that doing X, namely uniting multiple accounting calculations from a variety of locations has been known since the days of the horse and buggy. For example, on a given day the first stable only has two horses to attach to a four-horse buggy. So the first stable owner goes to a second stable to borrow two more horses.
On another day, the second stable only has one horse for a six-horse buggy so the second stable owner goes to the first stable and borrow five horses.
The accountants at both stables like to horse around and they calculate the amount of time and the number of horses that have been exchanged. In fact they compare their books and they combined their list together in a single accounting sheet.
Therefore, it turns out that combining accounting calculations from two separate locations has been around long before the Internet. So you come forward with a tremendously great software package that combines accounting calculations from separate locations by utilizing the Internet.
Based upon the new ruling of the Supreme Court, it may just be obvious that to utilize the Internet to combine accounting; even if you're accounting package does more than calculate the number of horses exchanged between two stables. You might say that we are not in a very stable position because we don't know the extent that the Supreme Court will apply this new ruling of obviousness.
For example, we may end up having some problems related to software. Let's say that combining accounting software modules and physical machines like printers and monitors is not very easy; at least according to the complexity of your wonderful invention.
However, it may just be that the new ruling will be used to decide that the biggest nerd in the world who happens to know how to use a hand-held calculator may just have enough creativity to put together everything that you put together in your new invention.
The extent of the Supreme Court ruling intake in KSR versus Teleflex with respect to software patents will become more and more defined as time goes on and there are more rulings regarding software.
OK, so this is Rabbi, Dr. Yosef Freedland, Surgeon, and Patent Attorney signing on how "Obviously" bad obviousness can be for invention.
KSR and Medical Patents – Explaining Obviousness
Hi, this is Rabbi, Dr. Yosef Freedland, Surgeon, and Patent Attorney on Medical Devices at Appelfeld Zer Fisher.
KSR v. Teleflex, one of the Supreme Court patent decisions, has implications which are fairly far-reaching, affecting the "obviousness" of many patents.
A patent is granted to something we will call "a device" that is both novel and is not obvious.
A novel device means that the device has never been seen before in the world, nor described before anywhere in the world, and that it has industrial application. A device that is not obvious means that it does not combine two or more previously existing inventions.
I give an example of a novel device that is obvious and hence will not be granted a patent. Let's say you take a hand pump to pump the tires on bicycles and or cars. And what you do is you attach an orange juice squeezer to the handle of the pump. Of course, this can be very useful because if in the middle of pumping up a tire, you get thirsty you can take a break and squeeze some orange juice and have a refreshing drink.
This combination of a pump and orange juice squeezer may be very useful in third world countries where pressurized pumps are not readily available. Someone who pumps tires all day, for example looking for air leaks, applying patches, and then pumping the tire to the normal pressure may have tremendous benefit from your combination pump and orange juice squeezer.
Your pump and orange juice squeezer is actually quite novel because you look throughout all the magazines and patents throughout the world and you see that nothing exists that allows a manual tire pumper to receive organic and fresh orange juice throughout the day.
So if a patent could be granted to just on the basis of describing a "novel" invention, your pump and orange juice squeezer would be granted a patent, at least in the US.
The problem is that there is an issue of obviousness, which means that it would be obvious to someone who knows about tire pumps tires and orange juice squeezers to combine a manual air pump with a manual orange juice squeezer. In fact, the way you have combined the two objects is by taping the orange juice squeezer to the handle of the air pump. So there is nothing novel in the way that you have combined these two objects.
Since your orange juice squeezer and air pump represent an obvious combination, unfortunately you will not be granted patent.
In terms of legal implications of KSR versus Teleflex, the Supreme Court decided that when you combine invention A with invention B, to make invention C, the level of obviousness that will now exist is much stricter.
For example, if you have a distance sensor associated with an airplane and you modify it to work with an automobile, even if you make a few specific changes in the way the sensor attaches to the automobile over the way it attaches to the airplane; it may be an obvious invention.
OK, so this is Rabbi, Dr. Yosef Freedland, Surgeon, and Patent Attorney signing on how "Obviously" bad obviousness can be for invention. Stay Tuned.
Patent of Selection – What's That?
Soooo, let's say you find a fiber that has a diameter that is significantly smaller than the diameter of an endothelial cell. The endothelial cell will adhere better to the tissue on the blood vessel wall on either side of the fiber. Endothelial cells that adhere better to the artery wall don't break away easily from the polymer fibers.
No break aways – no embolism.
In other words, your stents gets rid of those streaks in the skies – meteorites that burn up on hitting the atmosphere; at least those that might have been generated by the old type jacketed stent.
Specifically, you found that a polymer fiber having a diameter of between 5 and 10 microns completely eliminates instability in endothelial cells. Eliminate endothelial instability! Hmmm – Great idea.
In fact, this thinner fiber thickness allows all the patients with your jacketed stent to live without ANY Plavix for whatever life time is left after the roto-rooter cleans out the cardiac arteries and the NEW jacketed stent is in place.
Now there are plenty of patents out there that deal with stents that have jackets. Some patents claim that the jackets have a certain fiber diameter.
To be on the safe side, such patents give plenty of leeway as to the diameter of fiber.
So now you go take a look at some of the patents out there. Or maybe even a patent you wrote some time ago.
You find that some patents claim stent jackets made with polymer fibers having a diameter of between 2 and 40 microns in diameter.
Now "between 2 and 40 microns in diameter" includes your new discovery of between 5 and 10 microns. You know, like the math formulas we wrote a few years back (a few?):
2< (5-10) <40
Our middle set of numbers, (5 to 10), is greater than 2, but less than 40.
This creates a problem because your smaller-ranged fiber diameters have already been included in patents claiming broader-ranged fiber diameters.
Important: You gotta "think or thwim" or you won't have nothin', no matter how thwell the invention thounds.
And you find out that you still have an IP option — file a Patent of Selection.
Patent of Selection
Hmmmm. Patent of Selection. What's that?
Glad you asked.
In our case, a Patent of Selection means that you have found that a limited range of numbers are patentable for a very special reason — even though they're contained within a broader range of numbers in claims of a another patent.
The description of your Patent of Selection revolves around the totally unexpected novel results of no embolism generation by using polymer stent jackets with fibers between 5 and 10 microns in diameter.
Your Patent of Selection acknowledges that there are patents that claim jackets with fibers between 2 and 40 microns in diameter, but you carefully describe your invention, and include experimental data, that only this specific range of 5 to 10 micron fiber sizes results in stable endothelial cells.
After writing your description and including a section devoted to experiments that prove your thesis, you write a claim in your Patent of Selection that might read:
"A method of stenting, comprising implanting a stent assembly in a vessel of a subject, the stent assembly, including a stent jacket, comprising an expansible mesh structure, formed of fibers of a diameter between about 5 microns and about 10 microns, the diameter having a property of forming a substantially stable layer of endothelial cells, covering the fibers, thus reducing platelet aggregation…"
And guess what? You might just have a patentable new stent jacket.
And you can buy an island in the Bahamas and wait for a martini served by a French waiter coming in on a surfboard.
Of course the above-noted claim is not the only claim in your patent. In a future Blog, we may explore ways to expand the claims (and description) to get stronger protection.
OK, so this is Rabbi, Dr. Yosef Freedland, Surgeon, and Patent Attorney signing off with one last sentence about a new flag invented by a newly-named banana republic, comprising:
A white stripe on a white background.
Jacketed Cardiac Stent – Suggested Invention
Hi, this is Rabbi, Dr. Yosef Freedland, Surgeon, and Patent Attorney on Medical Devices at Appelfeld Zer Fisher.
Everything is still OK at the OK corral, and this is Post number 2 on stents.
To avert the problem of embolism in jacketed stents, many people are given a drug for life which reduces platelet aggregation, for example Plavix. Less platelet aggregation means that when the endothelial cells separate from the polymer stent jacket, the platelets don't tend to aggregate around the endothelial cells. No aggregation, no clumps — no clumps, no embolism.
The endothelial cells that break off generally do not gain the mass that becomes dangerous to your organs. Sort of like streaks of light that are evidence of tiny meteorites burning up in the atmosphere; endothelial cells without the combination of platelets generally "burn off" and do no harm to you.
Without Plavix, those tiny meteorites may clump together somewhere "out there" and form into an earth-killing planetoid or maybe even "The Eggplant that Ate Chicago".
So the solution is to get a jacketed stent and take Plavix for life?
Not so quickly, Dicky!
Plavix is not a foolproof treatment for preventing an embolism because there may be a high percentage of Plavix receivers who do not develop sufficient reduction in platelet aggregation; and some of these people may end up with an embolism.
Then there are Plavix side-effects which include skin rashes, ulcers, loss of consciousness, and bone marrow disease.
So getting a jacketed stent and taking Plavix for life?
Si, Senior.
So it would be great if YOU
– yes YOU, the person in the front row; with the plaid pants, polka dot shirt, striped bow tie, and fourteen pens in a shirt pocket plastic pocket protector –
could invent a jacketed stent that gets rid of the need to take Plavix for life.
If YOU could invent such a stent, physicians would throw out:
i) bare metal stents, which have high chances of restenosis; and
ii) jacketed stents which cause embolism,
and switch to YOUR new jacketed stent.
If the doctor doesn't like to throw things like stents out, the old stents can be recycled as Chinese hand cuffs for grasshopper legs so the children of the physicians can be amused by watching the grasshopper hop (or not hop) with their hopping legs encompassed by the stent.
For all those who are animal rights activists, I apologize. However I have not yet heard any opposition to placing heart stents on grasshopper legs; at least not to date. Please correct me if I am wrong.
OK, so this is Rabbi, Dr. Yosef Freedland, Surgeon, and Patent Attorney signing off just before YOU find out the best invention since Pepsi Cola.
Up Next: Post 3, Almighty willing.
A Patent of Selection for a Jacketed Cardiac Stent
Hi, this is Rabbi, Dr. Yosef Freedland, Surgeon, and Patent Attorney on Medical Devices at Appelfeld Zer Fisher.
Let's get down to some specific medical devices, for example cardiac stents, and how to write a patent on an invention in crowded terrain.
Before continuing, I must apologize to Ze'ev Fisher, of Appelfeld Zer Fisher, for writing this Blog in several posts; which is not the way Ze'ev Fisher prefers. However, this is the only way to go, in my humble opinion, in order to provide appropriate background related to the heart.
C'mon Ze'ev, have a heart.
Stent Background
Everybody, besides people in Kazakhstan like Borat Sagdiyev, are aware about stents.
For the sake of Borat, we will examine a bit about stents and specifically Cardiac Stents.
A stent is a mesh in a tubular configuration that is expanded in a hollow passage to open up an area that is blocked, usually by tissue. Cardiac stents are expanded in a heart artery to open up a partially blocked area of the artery.
There are two major types of cardiac stents as of this post: bare metal stents and jacketed stents.
Jacketed stents include a tubular stent frame covered by a jacket. The jacket often comprises a dense mesh of polymer fibers which prevents tissue from growing between the large holes in the stent frame.
Jacketed stents usually prevent restenosis but result in other problems.
These tissue cells, referred to as endothelial cells, can break away from the polymer fibers. Mobilized endothelial cells attract platelets, and form a large clump of dangerous cells, referred to as an embolism.
An embolism is a very nasty creature that can lodge in a blood vessel that feeds an organ with nourishment from blood and cause a portion of organ tissue to die.
Up to 2% of all jacketed stents eventually result in necrosis of vital organs as a result of mobilized endothelial cells that have formed into an embolism.
It is not very good to have dead tissue in an organ, particularly in the brain where the dead tissue causes a stroke. Then again, an embolism isn't very good when it lodges in the heart, kidneys, or lungs, either. So the best idea is to stay away from things that can cause an embolism.
No Good Options
And this doesn't leave a stent recipient with many good options: If you opt for a bare metal stent, you can get a re-blockage of the vessel.
OK, so this is Rabbi, Dr. Yosef Freedland, Surgeon, and Patent Attorney signing off just before we finish explaining how bad the problem is that YOU are going to solve.
Basic Principles of Patent Drafting – Summary
Greetings inventors, investors, patent drafters and anyone interested in patents! This is Rabbi, Dr. Yosef Freedland, surgeon, and patent attorney; leader of the medical device team Appelfeld Zer Fisher writing to you from the beautiful border of Ramat Gan, at the border of Bene Brak.
Getting back to your invention of the ultrasound probe that finds foreign bodies in people:
Alternatively, you have other suspicions about this fetal ultrasound probe. You suspect that even if the fetal ultrasound probe beams can be focused, the beams are limited to focusing at a maximum distance that is greater than your foreign body ultrasound probe.
Other ways to handle an unknown invention such as the fetal ultrasound probe is to add description and claims about how your invention can be focused to reflect off one object at a very short range and then modified to focus of a second object at a longer-range.
So in summary you write claims starting with the slug and then developing claims to the snail shell. you hope for the best, meaning that the first claim in its broadest form remains unchallenged. However you prepare for the worst meaning that you make plenty of backup claims supported by detailed description. With this hard shell protection, you are provided with multiple back up positions to allow us to protect your wonderful invention using items that are part and parcel your patent application, just like the snail shell that is part and parcel of a snail slug. So that winds it up for snails.
The Importance of a Broad Specification With Many Variations
Greetings inventors, investors, patent drafters and anyone interested in patents! This is Rabbi, Dr. Yosef Freedland, surgeon, and patent attorney; leader of the medical device team Appelfeld Zer Fisher writing to you from the beautiful border of Ramat Gan, at the border of Bene Brak. Before we get into snails, we'll consider something faster, a 2009 Bugatti Veyron 16.4
A hip young man goes out and buys the best car available: a 2009 Bugatti Veyron 16.4. It is the best and most expensive car in the world, and it sets him back $1.24M. He takes it out for a spin and, while doing so, stops for a red light. An old man on a moped (both looking about 90 years old) pulls up next to him. The old man looks over the sleek, shiny surface of the car and asks, "What kind of car ya' got there, sonny?"
The young man replies "A 2009 Bugatti Veyron 16.4. It cost $1.24M."
"That's a lot of money" says the old man, shocked. "Why does it cost so much?"
"Because this car can do up to 320 miles an hour!" states the cool dude proudly.
The moped driver asks, "Can I take a look inside?" "Sure," replies the owner.
So, the old man pokes his head in the window and looks around. Leaning back on his moped, the old man says, "That's a pretty nice car, all right!"
Just then, the light changes, so the guy decides to show the old man what his car can do. He floors it, and within 30 seconds the speedometer reads 320 MPH.
Suddenly, he notices a dot in his rear view mirror. It seems to be getting closer! He slows down to see what it could be and suddenly, whhhoossh! Something whips by him, going much faster!
"What on earth could be going faster than my 16.4?" the young man asks himself.
Then, ahead of him, he sees a dot coming toward him. Whoooooosh! It goes by again, heading the opposite direction! And, it almost looked like the old man on the moped! "Couldn't be," thinks the guy. "How could a moped outrun a Bugatti?"
Again, he sees a dot in his rear view mirror! Whooooosh Ka-BbblaMMM! It plows into the back of his car, demolishing the rear end. The young man jumps out, and good grief, it is the old man!!! Of course the moped and the old man are hurting for certain. He runs up to the dying old man and says, "You're hurt bad! Is there anything I can do for you?"
The old man groans and replies "Yes. Unhook my suspenders from your side-view mirror!"
BACK to our patent writing:
It was only after the patent was in its first draft that the client suddenly found an article about a "new" fetal ultrasound probe, perhaps without specific information on how it works. And since the patent for the fetal probe was unpublished, you couldn't get any information on how the fetal probe works.
Just in case the fetal probe uses an array of transducers that produces and interprets beams having a short reflection, you decided to add claims about detecting hard objects AND, equally important, to add description about how your foreign body ultrasound probe makes this distinction.
It just so happens that your ultrasound probe includes a device that works similar to a durometer which is defined as "an instrument for measuring the degree of hardness; especially, an instrument for testing the relative hardness of steel rails and the like."
We made sure that the description includes a definition of a durometer and a description of your durometer works in conjunction with out ultrasound probe. You also included figures that show how your ultrasound beams focus can be focused to cross at very close range or a farther range. This provides us with two backup positions by which to protect your invention. Of course the fetal ultrasound probe does not include a durometer. Additionally you suspect that the beams associated with the fetal ultrasound probe either cannot be focused.
Drafting Claims of Various Scopes – A Good Strategy!
Greetings inventors, investors, patent drafters and anyone interested in patents! This is Rabbi, Dr. Yosef Freedland, surgeon, and patent attorney; leader of the medical device team Appelfeld Zer Fisher writing to you from the beautiful border of Ramat Gan, along the border of the holy city of Bene Brak; so named because of the many pot holes in the streets. LOL
Before getting into snails, I would like to relate a story about an investor:
Sitting next to each other on a long flight are a young investment banker and an elderly investor, who made money long ago on investments and retired. The young investment banker is thinking that the elderly investor isn't all that smart and she could easily pull one over on him, possibly as an introduction to derivative mortgage investments that were very popular some time ago when the story took place.
So the young investment banker asks if the elderly investor would like to play a fun game.
The elderly investor is tired and just wants to take a nap, so he politely declines and tries to catch a few winks.
The young investment banker persists, and says, "The game is a lot of fun. I ask you a question, and if you don't know the answer, you pay me only $5; you ask me one, and if I don't know the answer, I will pay you $500."
This catches the elderly investor's attention and to keep the young investment banker quiet, he agrees to play the game.
The young investment banker asks the first question. 'What's the distance from The Earth to the Moon?' The elderly investor doesn't say a word, reaches in his pocket pulls out a five-dollar bill, and hands it to the young investment banker.
Now, it's the elderly investor's turn.
He asks the young investment banker, "What goes up a hill with three legs, and comes down with four?"
The young investment banker uses her laptop and searches all references she could find on the Net. She sends e-mails to all the smart friends she knows, all to no avail. After one hour of searching she finally gives up. She wakes up the elderly investor and hands him $500.
The elderly investor pockets the $500 and goes right back to sleep.
The young investment banker is going nuts not knowing the answer. She wakes the elderly investor up and asks, 'Well, so what goes up a hill with three legs and comes down with four?'
The elderly investor shrugs, reaches in his pocket, hands the young investment banker $5 and goes back to sleep.
OK, so much for investment bankers.
So what you've been doing is to provide backup positions that allow you to patent your invention. Initially you write broad claims and then you add on claims that provide more and more limitations. In this manner if there are inventions out there that you don't know about and they are used to challenge your ultrasound probe for finding foreign bodies in a human being, you can combine claims to create a shell that protects your invention.
The reason I use the example of the snail is because the snail carries around its shell and the shell is part of the snail. Similarly a claim set first defines the slug and includes extra claims that can be used to define a protective shell that is part and parcel of our slug, i.e., your broadest claim.
Problem: it turns out that the fish probe actually reflects ultrasound off bones inside the fish, rather than off the fish scales. So in actuality the ultrasound passes through a living body and is reflected from a hard object inside a living body. So in addition to citing the fish probe the examiner disqualifies use of your invention to locate objects in a body.
Solution: you add dependent claims that can be used to distinguish your invention from a fish probe used in lakes. One way to do this may be to describe how your probe includes an array of transducers that are arranged in a way that causes resulting beams that cross. In distinct contrast to fisherman probe uses an array of transducers that produce beams that spread out through the lake.
Another way to go is to include claims that define the invention as having transducers that register the reflected beams following a short period of time. In distinct contrast to fisherman's probe, it has transducers that register beams following a long period of time.


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A female teacher has been charged with four sexual offences against a teenager.
Kelly Ann-Marie Burgess, 26, of Newport, faces four counts of adult abuse of a position of trust - sexual activity with a boy aged 13 to 17 years.
The incidents are alleged to have happened between January 1 and August 28 last year.
A spokesman for Avon and Somerset Police confirmed: " Kelly Ann-Marie Burgess, aged 26, of Newport, has been charged with four sexual offences against a teenager.
"The incidents happened between 01.01.2013 - 28.08.2013.
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When Google announced Wednesday night that it was shutting down its Reader product, it was met with a reaction that was not only furious but personal. Many angered Reader-ites took to Twitter, looking for some outlet to express their anger, with some shouting "Save Our Reader!" in the hope that Google would hear their cries and keep their product alive.
Within the root of that protest, however, lies the problem. Google Reader was never anyone's Reader but Google's and, by virtue of ownership, Google was always free to do with it what it wanted. On Wednesday night, the company announced plans that made that fact painfully clear and, being that Google evidently weighed the decision beforehand, it is unlikely that any protest, no matter how long it trends on Twitter, will get Google to change its mind. Google Reader, for all intents and purposes, is dead.
The death of Google Reader reveals a problem with the modern Internet that many of us likely have in the back of our heads but are afraid to let surface: We are all participants in a user driven Internet, but we are still just the users, nothing more. No matter how much work we put in to optimize our online presences, our tools, and our experiences, we are still at the mercy of big companies controlling the platforms we operate on. When they don't like what's happening, even if we do, they can make whatever call they want. And Wednesday night, Google made theirs.
What makes the loss of Reader so painful for so many is there's a sense when products get shut down, they generally deserve it. The vast majority of startups fail, and the tech companies that do succeed generally spend their time worrying how to stay relevant and interesting to their users—just ask Facebook. So, for many users of Google Reader, this comes as a shock. It feels unjust.
It is possible that Reader's users were lulled into a false sense of security stemming from the belief, that because Google got Reader so right for them, it could never go away. As it turns out, not enough people felt the same way. "While the product has a loyal following, over the years usage has declined," wrote Google in its blog post. "So, on July 1, 2013, we will retire Google Reader."
Even though Google – at its core a search and advertising company — didn't feel it worthwhile to sustain Reader, the void it will leave behind might spur others to create companies focused on a Reader substitute alone. "I think RSS is so important that I'd take a job (leaving MeFi) at any startup aiming to make an improved Google Reader (w/ social features)," wrote Matt Haughey, the founder of MetaFilter.com, in a tweet following the announcement. "I'm serious," he added, "and feel free to email me. MetaFilter can continue with the employees running things."
If there's one thing the tech world does right, it's finding problems and fixing them. There is hope, Reader-ites. This is not the end.
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That's why Jimmy Wales keeps wikipedia as an open platform and never put any ads, running the site based on individuality contributions. Hats off to Great Jimmy.
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where does forbes find these writers ?
its "for all intents and purposes" not "for all intensive purposes"
I thought forbes was supposed to be a top level news mag? what in the world happened to you guys ??????
Don't worry folks…There is an amazing RSS Reader cum Search Engine which will be going live within next 2 months..Its a next generation media kit which was in development for the last 2.5 years….So don't bother about the g reader ..Also the main reason why G reader is being Decommissioned is because Google wants Google Plus to act as feed for all living beings..:) Ironically all Big wigs are trying to tie up their services (i.e twitter ,facebook etc..) with the objective of having internet users only to visit their site and not sneak around…this actually will make People move away… Make way for new entrepreneur & Innovators like me..
nice alternative http://www.totally.me brings all your social media together and your RSS feeds
This is why I'm not a huge fan of the cloud. In principle it's great but it makes you rely so heavily on companies that don't actually care about the individual. At the end of the day it's much safer to have things stored locally and not have to worry about the company that made your software going under or stopping a service.
Alex, what's your plan for coping with the loss of Google Reader?
I cannot, for the life of me, understand why Google Reader was not rolled into Google+. Give people more things to read = giving people more to talk about and post about. Talk about missing the forest for the trees….
The real reason that Google Reader is dying is apathy. Now, I cannot claim to know whether Alan Green was the head engineer on Google Reader. I also do not know what all-important, self-driving clown car Alan's boss may have forced him to work on. All I do know is that Alan Green, Software Engineer, was the last person to post on the Google Reader Blog.
Alan is also the first person at Google to post to the Google Reader Blog in over a year.
So, Google, how do you expect a project abandoned for a year to succeed? How do you expect to find new and informative ways to use it (like adding it to Google+)?
What would happen if you let Google search languish for a year, with no updates…not even any posts to its blog?
Were there gigantic, life changing features that could have been added to Reader? Was the Reader blog flooded with interested readers itching to see the next big thing in RSS? Was there "buzz" in the media about how great Reader was, or how it could be made better?
The answers to all these questions is no.


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Ariel Edwards added 15 of the bench for the Lady Lions (13-2, 3-0), who won their seventh straight. Emily Cady scored 17 to lead the Huskers (12-5, 2-2), who shot just 31 from the field.
After a choppy start, Penn State pulled away with a 14-4 run over the final three minutes of the first half. Bentley hit a three to start the run before finishing it with a heave from just beyond the half court line for an improbable three just before the buzzer and a 40-27 lead.
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WENATCHEE, Wash. -- No one would ever mistake Wenatchee for a major metropolis. Surrounded by fruit orchards and rolling brown hills, downtown is home to the landmark Owl Soda Fountain and the nearly 108-year-old Mills Brothers clothing store.
For a long time the city has seemed very set in its ways, but some in this apple town are hungry for a bite of the big apple.
"We're trying to put Wenatchee on the map," said businessman Darren Reynolds.
Apparently, that starts with a suitable New Year's Eve party. Reynolds approached some guys in the welding program at Wenatchee Valley College, and they decided to design their own version of a Times Square New Year's Eve.
"This is a new tradition," he said. "It's a little different than New York City."
Where New York calls itself "The Big Apple," Wenatchee actually has one.
"We're the apple capital of the world," said Reynolds. "It just seems appropriate that if we're gonna drop something in Wenatchee it should be an apple."
"When they came to us about building it, we immediately jumped at the chance," said Zack Jacobson, Program Coordinator of Industrial Technology at Wenatchee Valley College.
Over the course of just a few days they built a 4-1/2 foot tall aluminum apple that will drop at the city's new Pybus Market to welcome 2014. It's covered with lights and at its core is a spinning disco ball.
"I just can't wait to put it up, light it up and drop it on New Year's Eve," said Jacobson.
Reynolds says Wenatchee has never really had much of a citywide celebration for the new year, but he hopes the new apple tradition will hang around for a long time.
"This means a lot to me and all the people who have made it possible," he said. "We're hoping it's something people will come to see and celebrate."
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After last year's event was panned by viewers, the pressure was on for BET to step up its game for the 10th Annual BET Awards. The black star power was bright at L.A.'s Shrine Auditorium as Prince received the Lifetime Achievement Award, Chris Brown shed tears for the King of Pop, Kanye West and T.I. returned to the stage, and newcomers Drake and Nicki Minaj won big.
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The following is information released by Hennepin County:
The Hennepin County Board of Commissioners, on a vote of six to one, approved a 2013 county budget of $1.78 billion – a 2.85-percent increase over the 2012 budget, and a .93-percent increase in the net property tax levy over 2012.
Hennepin County Board Chair Mike Opat said, "Hennepin County residents can be proud of this budget. It protects core services, continues innovations in health care delivery, and makes investments in important public infrastructure. We have dealt with significant challenges, held the line on property taxes and kept the county a model for financial stability."
In addition, the board, acting as the Hennepin County Regional Railroad Authority, approved an HCRRA budget of $26.6 million (on a vote of six to one), with a proposed property tax levy of $21 million – a $3-million increase over 2012. The HCRRA seeks to improve rail modes of transportation to reduce traffic congestion and improve mobility.
The board, acting as the Hennepin County Housing and Redevelopment Authority, approved an HCHRA budget of $14.7 million (on a vote of six to one), with a proposed property tax levy of $6.4 million – an increase of approximately $820,000 over 2012. The HCHRA authorizes strategic planning and community engagement to serve the housing and economic development and redevelopment of Hennepin County.
Approximately 36.9 percent of the county's annual budget is supported by property taxes; the remainder comes from federal and state dollars, fees for services, and other sources.
Hennepin has maintained a top triple-A credit rating from all three rating agencies for 37 years. The top rating reflects strong county management overall, as well as sound financial condition.
Board appoints David Hough acting county administrator
The county board appointed Deputy County Administrator David Hough to serve as acting county administrator, effective Dec. 29, due to the retirement of County Administrator Richard Johnson. The county is conducting an executive search to fill the position, for which Hough will be a candidate.
Hough has served as deputy county administrator since 2008. Before that appointment, he was a deputy county attorney in the Hennepin County Attorney's Office where he served as the board's chief legal counsel as well as representing the county in both civil and criminal matters.
HHS/HCMC 2013 budget approved
The board, which has certain reserved powers over Hennepin Healthcare System (HHS), Inc. – the public corporation that oversees operational governance of Hennepin County Medical Center (HCMC) – also approved the 2013 HHS/HCMC budget with $774.4 million in revenues and $769.6 million in expenditures.
A few highlights of the budget include:
· This is the first year in which activities of Hennepin Faculty Associates (HFA – the private nonprofit physician practice contracted to provide most of the physicians to HCMC, which merged with HHS Jan. 1) were fully integrated into HHS.
· Because 45 percent of HCMC patients are enrolled in state programs, HHS revenue historically doesn't keep pace with expense inflation.
· The budget includes funding and support for key 2013 priorities critical to continued growth in the number of patients and improvements in quality and patient safety, including improving patient access to all clinics and improved efficiencies in patient care.
· The budget assumes the hospital will experience patient growth even higher than historically planned for.
· Revenue in 2013 is expected to increase by 8.1 percent. But given the high dependence on governmental funding and external pressures, that revenue stream has a high degree of risk.
· The budget includes $24 million in revenue from the county for uncompensated care, which has further increased primarily because of state changes in Emergency Medical Assistance.
Construction contract approved for 911 Emergency Communications Facility
The board approved a $21.6-million contract award to Stahl Construction for construction of the new Hennepin County 911 Emergency Communications Facility on the Adult Corrections Facility (ACF) campus in Plymouth.
The new 911 facility will address space, program and facility shortfalls at the existing facility in Golden Valley, which was built in 1948. The Hennepin County Sheriff's Office has provided a countywide public radio communications system and dispatch of police, fire and emergency medical service calls for the past 70 years.
Total projected budget for the new facility is $33.7 million. The facility will significantly increase communications system reliability, improve operational efficiencies and optimize operating expenses by collocating three principal functions – the 911 Public Safety Answering Point, Critical Infrastructure Radio and Data Network Center, and Radio Systems Operations and Technical Services.
The new 59,200-square-foot facility will accommodate all of the Sheriff's communication units, as well as facilities to support 911, providing 21 dispatch consoles, with a maximum capacity for 30 consoles. The facility will include a 9,500-square-foot radio installation and electronic mobile equipment storage garage. The site will maximize the use of an existing communication tower on the ACF site.
The facility is expected to be completed in late 2014.
Public safety dispatch services approved for Golden Valley when 911 facility opens
The board authorized public safety dispatch services for the City of Golden Valley, to be effective when the new 911 facility opens in late 2014.
The Hennepin County Sheriff's Office currently provides safety dispatch services for 23 law enforcement agencies and 19 fire departments. The services are funded by countywide property taxes. Golden Valley is the only city in Hennepin without its own Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP) that is not dispatched by Hennepin.
Golden Valley is currently under contract with Edina for dispatch services, and is required to give a 12-month notice of intent to terminate.
Funding reserved for recommendations from service center study
The board directed that $250,000 in contingency funding be placed in reserve for the Service Center Division for additional staff and other improvements that may be recommended in a study underway to improve service and reduce wait times at the county's six service centers. Release of the funds will require making a business case for the need in 2013 once service evaluations are completed.
The county's Eden Prairie Service Center closed last January, and cuts in staff in the past year have increased wait times at the service centers. Additional staff were hired on a temporary basis last fall at the Brookdale, Southdale and Ridgedale centers.
New mandates from the federal government, including proposed legislation in 2013, on issuance of passports and other issues are changing the way the service centers do business.
Ecologically significant area to be preserved in Greenfield
The board approved an agreement with the Minnesota Land Trust to add and co-hold a conservation easement for a 21.4-acre property on the Crow River in the City of Greenfield. The agreement includes funding up to $21,500 for appraisal and stewardship fees and other costs associated with acquiring the easement.
The property is located within a high-priority natural resource corridor that contains ecologically significant natural areas, including a very rare old-growth oak savanna, floodplain forest and wetlands that are important habitats for a variety of wildlife species. This portion of the Crow River is identified by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources in Minnesota's Comprehensive Wildlife Conservation Strategy, and is a state-designated Wild and Scenic River and important water trail. The easement prohibits activities that would significantly impair or interfere with existing natural resources and critical habitat for plants and animals provided by this site.
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WATERTOWN, Mass. -- The manhunt for the remaining Boston Marathon bombings suspect left much of the city shut down on Friday, hours after the other suspect was killed in a shootout with police.
President Obama was briefed on the situation, officials said.
Police directly linked the two suspects to Monday's marathon bombings, which left three dead and more than 170 wounded.
As police went door to door in Watertown, where the suspects were tracked after a Thursday night carjacking near MIT, residents were told to stay inside and not to open the door except for a police officer.


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COLUMBIA — Time is running out to claim a Powerball ticket worth $10,000 sold in October at Kangaroo Express No. 3968 at 4044 Charlotte Hwy. in Lake Wylie.
The ticket purchased for the Oct. 13 drawing is worth $10,000 and must be claimed no later than 4 p.m. Friday, April 12, at the Columbia Claims Center.
The ticket matched four white ball numbers and the red Powerball number. The ticket holder did not purchase PowerPlay, which would have increased the $10,000 prize to $40,000.
Powerball from Saturday, Oct. 13, numbers are 2-5-25-26-49; Powerball: 18.
If the prize is not claimed, the $10,000 winnings will be deposited in the Education Lottery Account to support educational programs in South Carolina.
Players have 180 days from the date of the drawing to claim their prizes. For complete information on claiming prizes, visit sceducationlottery.com.
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|A sad day
Aurora's community flag flies at half mast this week in honor of Godfrey Brokenrope.
The Aurora Chief of Police died Saturday from injuries sustained in a Thursday motorcycle accident, ending his life at the young age of 50.
Brokenrope spoke with passion about his life's work, sharing his insight and experiences often with local groups. He truly cared about Aurora and worked hard to protect and to serve its citizens.
The South Dakota native was honored recently, being chosen to attend the FBI National Academy in Virginia. In his last interview with the News-Register he said he came home inspired with a new sense of leadership and responsibility.
"I had to do 16 term papers while I was out there, and I've never done a term paper before," he said in May. "I completed the (6.1 mile) Yellow Brick Road (obstacle course) also. That was something I really wanted to do."
The 24-year police veteran said he was rejuvenated by the FBI training and looked forward to sharing what he learned with his staff and community.
Sadly, he will not get that opportunity.
Law enforcement personnel from around the state have tipped their hat in respect to this fallen public servant. We offer our thoughts and prayers as well to his wife, Deb, and three children.
It's a sad, sad day for Aurora.
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Feb. 23- Wichita police are searching for a man who tried to kidnap a young girl from Adams Elementary school at 1000 North Oliver.
The incident happened today around 2 pm. According to police, a man walked into a classroom, and tried to grab a girl sitting close to the door. The girl screamed, and school employees chased the man out of the building.
Police officers are searching the area near the school for the man. He's described as a black man wearing all black. He was last seen leaving the school going east on 9th street.
A note will go home to Adams School parents tonight, to explain what happened.