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Disability and Employment on
the Big Screen
For over two decades, like Johnny Appleseed,
he has wandered the fields of corporate America (and Canada)
- sowing seeds of new perspectives and fresh insights on the
productive and rightful participation of people with
disabilities in the workplace. In the assault against
attitudinal barriers in the workplace, he is a one-man
S.W.A.T. team. Beyond his personal impact, he developed a
revolutionary tool, the Windmills Attitudinal Training
Program, which has enabled thousands of corporate
trainers, job developers and disability advocates to
effectively make their own inroads against discriminatory
workplace practices. His name is Richard Pimentel.
I remember being at a conference twenty years
ago and hearing loud waves of laughter coming from the room
next door. When the session ended, I saw a colleague coming
out and asked him; "Well, that guy is obviously funny, but
does he have anything to say?" My friend gave me a grave
look and replied; "He sure does. That was the most amazing
presentation I have ever heard." And so began my own
campaign to get Richard in front of as many employers as
possible. Over my years in this field, I have never seen
anyone who could so quickly connect with a crowd of
employers, so readily engage them, so thoroughly entertain
them, and so successfully have them leave the room with eyes
newly-opened to the possibilities of people with
disabilities as prospective employees.
When, a couple of years ago, Richard told me
that there was interest in making a movie about his life I
was pretty skeptical. After all, how many people, who aren't
the Queen of England, have a movie made about them while
they are still alive? Fortunately, my skepticism was
ill-founded and "Music Within", a movie based on
Richard's life, will open in selected theaters next month.
Certain that almost everyone who regularly reads this
newsletter will want to see it (and make sure that it is
seen by their friends, families and colleagues), I invited
Richard to share some of his thoughts with us.
~ Rob McInnes
Richard, a large part of Music Within is focused on
your crusade with Windmills - the attitudinal
training program that you developed for employers. From my
own work, I believe that Windmills has been one of
the most important influences in the opening North American
workplaces to workers with disabilities. You must be very
proud of the impact that you have had through it.
A good
friend of mine once said "Greatness can only be seen through
the rearview mirror. You never see it through the front
windshield." Ultimately what we do on a day-to-day basis is
just try to stay on the road. I feel that way about
Windmills. Years ago, I was a job developer in Portland.
I was trying to find jobs for people with disabilities. I
would talk to employers and find that they had these
attitude problems. I would take my time to educate each of
them. Eventually, I just got tired. I couldn't continue to
give the same message to dozens of individuals every day. I
decided to put it into a training program that I could use
to educate several people at the same time. I would give
these talks to groups of employers and then I would follow
up with each of them – trying to get them to hire my
employer in Portland had heard my presentation and reported
to his national headquarters that it was a really neat
training program. This somehow got to the California
Governor's Committee for the Employment of People with
Disabilities who wanted me to develop it into a full-blown
training program. I took a year off and wrote Windmills.
It came out with perfect timing. The disability movement was
just picking up steam but there was no strong employer
component to it. It was like a missing piece of the puzzle
and it exploded! I saw this little thing that I had
designed, just to help me place a caseload of about thirty
people with disabilities into jobs, suddenly become the
corporate training tool for companies like ARCO and IBM.
Clarence Thomas invited to me train all the investigators
for the U. S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. As
part of the momentum of the entire disability movement, it
was a huge roller-coaster ride.
RM: In
Music Within your mentor, Ben Padrow, tells you not
to focus on getting people to change their minds about
people with disabilities, but to change their minds about
themselves. How is that reflected in the Windmills
Richard Pimentel:
In the earliest days of disability training we had
"imitative training." Trainers would come in and tell
employers they were going to make all their people sensitive
to disability. They would put non-disabled employees in
wheelchairs. They would blindfold them. They would put
earmuffs on them. They would tell them "You are now
paraplegic, blind or deaf." And they would have to go
through their day that way. At the end of the day, those
employees would shed those devices and say "Boy, poor people
with disabilities. Let me write you a check." What we didn't
see was that they weren't hiring anyone. Those trainings
elicited sympathy – not empathy. They focused on getting
employers to do something for people with
disabilities – rather than encouraging them to do things
with people with disabilities.
we entered the picture, we first asked "Why are employers
reluctant to hire people with disabilities?" Overwhelmingly,
we received the answer: "Employers lack confidence in the
ability of people with disability to do the job". In
response, the disability community passed around things like
the DuPont study which showed that, on the job, people with
disabilities performed as well or better than their
non-disabled counterparts. They passed around testimonials
about how great this blind guy, or this deaf girl were on
the job. But still employers weren't hiring people.
talked about this with a lot of people. Then one day I had
this epiphany: Employers are not reluctant to hire people
with disabilities because they have a lack of confidence in
the ability of people with disabilities. In fact, it is
because they have a lack of confidence in their own ability
to work effectively with people with disabilities. Once I
realized that, we diverted Windmills away from
teaching employers everything they ever wanted to know about
being blind, deaf, etc. and we made it an exploration of how
people make decisions, why people react in certain ways, why
the good skills you already have in working with people are
the same skills that will allow you to work effectively with
people with disabilities – and why you are afraid to do it.
As soon as we shifted away from "We want you to feel better
about these people" to "We want you to feel better about
yourself" we began building the confidence of employers in
themselves. That resulted in interviews, that
resulted in hires, and that resulted in retention.
are right, that one line from Ben Padrow is really the key
to Windmills, its Rosetta Stone. I think it was the
most important line in the whole movie. If we had not come
to that realization, Windmills would have just been
another stupid program that, at the end of the day, left
employers saying "Boy, this was a wonderful experience, but
I really don't want to hire one of these people because it
is too hard".
So, Windmills really doesn't educate employers about
people with disabilities – as much as it educates them about
Richard Pimentel:
that is our philosophy exactly: There is nothing wrong with
people with disabilities. There is something wrong with the
way that we react to them. The focus can't be that you go to
employers and say "Let me tell you why you are wrong about
people with disabilities having something wrong with them."
No, you say; "Let's talk about why we react the way we do...
and if you look at it in a different way, if you react in a
different way, what more can you accomplish?" That is the
key to the whole program.
Your old friend Art Honeyman is a central figure in the
story and his portrayal by Michael Sheen was amazing to
watch. Michael was brilliant as Tony Blair in The Queen,
but how was he chosen for this role?
most physically-impaired person in the movie, of course, is
Art. Yet, if you look at it carefully, he is the only
"normal" person in the film. Everyone, including myself, is
fundamentally flawed. He is the only one that has his act
key to casting Michael was that we weren't looking for
someone to play an individual with cerebral palsy. That
would have been easy. We had to find the right actor to play
Art Honeyman – a real person. When this thing first came
about, I was insistent that people with cerebral palsy be
auditioned for the role and, in the case of a dead heat with
an non-disabled actor, that the person with cerebral palsy
would get the role. Michael, however, nailed the portrayal
of Art. People who know Art Honeyman, who have seen this
movie, think that they have been put in a time machine and
sent back to the 60's. Throughout the making of the movie,
Michael and Art became quick friends. Art taught Mike how to
move and even how to drive his foot-guided electric
wheelchair. In his portrayal, Michael was Art.
bent over backwards to hire someone with cerebral palsy to
play Art, but in the end, we had to go back to what I have
been preaching all my life: "People with disabilities, like
everyone else, have the right to be considered for every job
but, ultimately, everyone has to be hired based on their own
ability to do the job. A disability is not inherently a
qualification." In hiring Michael, we just hired the
best-qualified person to do the job.
RM: In
Music Within, we learn a little about your experience
as a disabled veteran of the Vietnam War – and your early
work in developing jobs for other disabled vets. Do you
think that theme will resonate with today's audiences?
Richard Pimentel:
movie did portray some of my experience as a Vietnam vet. I
wouldn't abandon my fallen comrades on the battlefield and I
wouldn't abandon them at home either. The parallel between
Vietnam and Iraq is very real. We have soldiers fighting an
unpopular and controversial war. We have very strong
feelings on both sides. I personally don't care how anyone
feels about the war, but I do care what we feel about the
warriors. We are going to get about 100,000 soldiers back
this year. We have record numbers of soldiers with traumatic
stress disorders. We have unbelievable numbers of soldiers
with traumatic brain injuries and we have huge numbers of
soldiers with amputations. I don't want the veterans of this
war to come back and face the same lack of opportunity that
Vietnam vets faced. I want employers who see this movie to
be aware that injured veterans have valuable skills too.
One last question about Music Within… what are your
hopes for it? You designed the Windmills program that
is featured in it. It is your life story, but it is
communicating a strong message. What are you hoping that it
will be able to accomplish?
Richard Pimentel:
first, as I started writing down my life story for the
movie, I was really concerned about selling myself as the
hero – because that seemed so wrong. As I actually began to
write, however, I stopped worrying about being the hero and
became worried about being the villain in my own life. After
a while, however, I realized that I was neither the hero nor
the villain, but barely even the protagonist. It became not
the life story of Richard Pimentel, but the life story of
the disability movement as seen through the eyes of Richard
Pimentel. The story is about the movement – using Art and
myself as the mirror.
am truly hoping that seeing the movie will be a little like
attending a Windmills training – that people will see
it and come away saying "I understand." - that people will
come away with their perspectives on people with
disabilities changed. I want employers to see it. I want
teachers to see it. I want parents of kids with disabilities
to see it. What I really want is for young people with
disabilities to see it. I want young people with
disabilities to know their history. I want them to know that
there were people like Art Honeyman who were willing to go
to jail. I want them to know where they came from - because
they have so many more places to go. They need to know that
they are a step in a longer journey. They need to know that
something happened before them, that something is going to
happen after them, and that they are playing a part in it
To me
personally, Music Within is a blessing beyond belief.
This movie captures my journey and everything I have stood
for. As I get older and unable to teach as many people as I
do now, like an ancient prehistoric bee frozen in rosin,
people can pick it out and look at me! I hope that viewers
will realize, as I have come to, that, ultimately, the only
real accomplishments in life are the differences that you
make in the lives of the individuals who you meet and touch.
© Rob
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Opening Date: November 9, 2007
Promoting Access and Inclusion
The U.S. Equal
Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), recently presented
the agency's third annual "Freedom to Compete Award" to five
employers from the private and public sectors for best
practices that promote access and inclusion of employees
with disabilities. Brief overviews of each award winner are
on their website.
Online Job Matching for Students with Disabilities
Career Gateway - COSD, Career
Opportunities for Students with Disabilities, has an online job matching
service that allows college students to post their resumes (searchable by
employers) and employers to post job openings (searchable by students).
New Online Job Matching site in Canada
HandicapEmploi is a
new recruitment site in Canada focused on workers with
disabilities. (I am a little uncomfortable with some of the
disability-related language on this site, but I suspect that
is problematic because it has been translated from an
original French language site.)
Entrepreneurs with Disabilities Speak Out!
An online fact sheet outlines the summary of
a question and answer session conducted with a variety of
people with disabilities who have been successful in
self-employment ventures. Some of the many questions
What were the major
challenges to getting your business started?
How has owning a
business helped you in your personal life?
What advice would
you give to others who want to start a business?
Americans with Disabilities Act Restoration
There is growing support
among disability groups to support a restoration of the
Americans with Disabilities Act. Many people now feel that
the spirit and intent of the ADA continues to be eroded by
decisions made in the courts. In recent weeks, the National
Council on Disability (NCD) urged Congress to support a
restoration of the ADA – legislation that will "legislation
that will 'right' the course of the Americans with
Disabilities Act (ADA) and protect the civil rights of
people with disabilities."
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When our favorite stylish starlets choose the same look, it's often an indication that the pair are sartorial soul mates. Yet we always thought the ladies who donned this red lace Dolce & Gabbana dress fell on opposing ends of the fashion spectrum.
Helen Mirren wore the bold runway look to Thursday night's Mandarin Oriental anniversary bash in Hong Kong. Rita Ora rocked an unlined version for a performance last month. And we have to say, both ladies managed to put their own spin on the festive frock. While Rita rocked its accompanying oversized crucifix as a necklace, Helen fashioned hers into a belt.
Perhaps Rita and Helen aren't so different after all; in fact, both have experimented with fluorescent hair dye (yellow for Rita, pink for Helen) and equally outlandish outfits (bold prints for Rita, stripper heels for Helen). We'll take this as conclusive proof that 68-year-olds and 22-year-olds can share closets.
Still, we have to ask: Whose look do you prefer?
More close calls:
Adriana Lima vs. Joan Smalls
It's a model showdown! Who wore this Riccardo Tisci for Givenchy Fall 2013 gown better?
Jennifer Lopez vs. Katharina Damm
Both stars wore very similar looking dresses to different events. Who wore it better?
Jennifer Lawrence vs. Selena Gomez
They both wore this Stella McCartney jumpsuit -- Lawrence to an event and Gomez on a magazine cover. Who looks better?
Kim Kardashian vs. Charlize Theron
Another Stella McCartney showdown! Vote here!
Heidi Klum vs. Selena Gomez
Both wore the Atelier Versace Spring 2013 dress. Who wore it better?
Naomi Campbell vs. Alicia Keys
The model and the singer face off in a Azzedine Alaia gown. Who won?
Hilaria Thomas vs. Chrissy Teigen
They both have pretty great boyfriends, but who wore the teal dress better? Vote here!
Myleene Klass vs. Gwyneth Paltrow
Vote here to decide who wore the Michael Kors' dress better.
Kim Kardashian vs. Gwyneth Paltrow
This midriff-baring Pucci dress, who wore it better? Vote here!
Anna Wintour vs. Marc Jacobs
Well, this is different! Both Wintour and Jacobs wore the same floral jacket to the premiere of "The Great Gatsby."
Kim Kardashian vs. Kate Middleton
Two ladies in a red McQueen dress, who wore it better? Vote here!
Lindsay Lohan vs. Charlize Theron
Who looked lovelier in Dion Lee? Vote here!
Miley Cyrus vs. Jessica Simpson vs. Alessandra Ambrosio
Three stars, one sweater. Who wore it better? Vote here!
Cindy Crawford or Lindsay Wixon
Two covers, two gold dresses...who wore it better? Vote here!
Kim Kardashian vs. Tamara Ecclestone
Who looked lovelier in Gucci fall 2012? Vote here!
Jennifer Lopez vs. Victoria Beckham
Who rocked this sexy orange outfit better? Vote here!
Kim Kardashian vs. Rachael Ray
Who rocked this Marc Bouwer plunging neckline better? Vote here!
Marisa Tomei vs. Princess Beatrice
One dress, one princess and one Marisa Tomei...who wore it better? Vote here!
Kim Kardashian vs. Kate Winslet
Who wore this risky, partly sheer but beautiful Stella McCartney dress better? Vote here!
Eva Green vs. Elle Macpherson vs. Anne Hathaway
One vava-voom, high-necked Tom Ford gown and three fashionistas. Who wore it better? Vote here!
Katy Perry vs. Jennifer Lawrence
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Pixie Geldof vs. Lily Cole
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Shakira vs. Pink
Pink and Shakira showed up at the VMAs wearing the same Balmain studded leather dress. Who wore it better? Vote here!
Lily Cole vs. Pippa Middleton vs. Cameron Diaz
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Kylie Jenner vs. Khloe Kardashian vs. Kim Kardashian
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Emma Stone vs. Angelina Jolie
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Jennifer Hudson vs. Blake Lively
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Iman vs. Gwen Stefani
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Naomi Watts vs. Rosario Dawson
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When she walked into the Performing Arts Education Center at Calabasas High School this week, junior Alyssa Weakley said her eyes, and those of her classmates, lit up.
"We were all just in awe. You walk in and we all sit down for the first time and we look out and there is 600 plus seats and it's real seats," Weakley said.
The bass clarinet player was among 80 students, teachers, administrators, city officials and community members who attended a dedication ceremony Saturday morning at the new Performing Arts Education Center at Calabasas High.
Dan Stenosky, Las Virgenes Unified School District superintendent, said the performing arts center will serve as classrooms for students.
"The most special moment for me in that center was sitting in the fifth row and watching those students walk on the stage," Stenosky said. " ... They walk on the stage and they just stop, their eyes pop and that was a moment I will never forget."
LVUSD Board Member Cindy Iser said she was proud of the two centers.
"Today the curtain goes up on the district's last major Measure G construction project: This outstanding Performing Arts Education Center and its fraternal twin at Agoura High School," Iser said. "We are extremely excited today to be opening the doors to this magnificent building."
Calabasas High principal CJ Foss called the opening a momentous day.
"The arts teach 21st century skills," Foss said. "The arts teach teamwork, collaboration, innovation and celebration of culture of the world we live in."
Construction was recently completed on two $18 million each facilities, located on the Agoura Hills and Calabasas high school campuses. Both were entirely funded through Measure G, which passed in 2006.
The center, designed by architect John Sergio Fisher, houses a 650-seat main theater and the smaller 'black box' for educational classes and smaller productions. The state-of-the-art facility will offer the school district theater arts education, cross-curricular instruction, virtual programs, lectures, live presentations and more.
Box offices at both sites will offer tickets to either theater. For program information and to purchase tickets, go to the PAEC website.


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We've probably all seen video clips of Jesse Owens at the iconic Olympic Stadium in Berlin in 1936. With the backdrop of impending world war, the 22-year-old Owens won four gold medals in the face of Nazi racism.
This program begins its story in the Cleveland neighborhood where Owens grew up – the grandson of a sharecropper. It details his early career, describes Hitler's flamboyant and outsized goals for the 1936 Olympics and "describes the movement in Western democracies to boycott the event."
At the time in America racism was deeply entrenched and the civil rights movement was decades away. But the pressure on Owens to attend was apparently great and despite his success there he struggled to find a place for himself back in the U.S. after the event.
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The NCAA agreed Tuesday to settle a class-action head-injury lawsuit by creating a $70 million fund to diagnose thousands of current and former college athletes to determine if they suffered brain trauma playing football, hockey, soccer and other contact sports.
College sports' governing body also agreed to implement a single return-to-play policy spelling out how all teams must treat players who received head blows, according to a Tuesday filing in U.S. District Court in Chicago. Critics have accused the NCAA of giving too much discretion to hundreds of individual schools about when athletes can go back into games, putting them at risk.
Unlike a proposed settlement in a similar lawsuit against the NFL, this deal stops short of setting aside money to pay players who suffered brain trauma. Instead, athletes can sue individually for damages and the NCAA-funded tests to gauge the extent of neurological injuries could establish grounds for doing that.
The filing serves as notice to the federal judge overseeing the class-action case that the parties struck a deal after nearly a year of negotiations. In addition to football, ice hockey and soccer, the settlement also applies to all men and women who participated in basketball, wrestling, field hockey and lacrosse.
Joseph Siprut, the lead plaintiffs' attorney who spearheaded talks with the NCAA, said the sometimes-tough negotiations ended with a deal that will make college athletics safer.
Two student members of the Athletic Trainers' Society of New Jersey were selected to receive scholarships at the Pinky Newell Scholarship and Student Leadership Breakfast during the National Athletic Trainers' Association's 65th Clinical Symposia & AT Expo in Indianapolis. The breakfast was held the morning of Saturday, June 28th in the JW Marriot. NATA and ATSNJ Hall of Fame member, Charlie Thompson, provided the Keynote Address.
With youth sports concussion safety laws in place in all 50 states, increased public awareness about concussions, and growing concern about the long-term effect of repetitive head impacts, the demand for concussion education, not just for parents, coaches, and athletes, but for health care professionals, such as primary care physcians and emergency room doctors, as well is at an all-time high, and promises to go even higher in the coming years.
But who should sports programs - whether school-based or independently run - hire to educate athletes, coaches, and parents about concussions? What kind of training, education and experience should they have?
We decided to ask a number of leading concussion educators. First up is Robb Rehberg, Professor and Coordinator of Athletic Training Clinical Education at William Paterson University in Wayne, New Jersey.
MomsTEAM: Tell us a little bit about your training and education that prepared you to be a concussion educator?
Rehberg: My first lessons in dealing with concussion came during my days playing footbal in high school. Since that time, concussions have always been an area of interest for me. I'm an athletic trainer by trade, and my undergraduate degree is in athletic training. I also earned a PhD in Health Science Education and Research, which has helped me not only understand the research, but be able to present it to various groups in a way that is easily understood.
The NATA, in collaboration with the Professional Football Athletic Trainers' Society, will support a national initiative to place athletic trainers in underserved high schools in NFL markets during the 2014 football season. The National Football League Foundation and NFL teams will provide $1 million, with NATA adding another $125,000, to improve the health and welfare of those student athletes. President Barack Obama announced this initiative during the White House Healthy Kids and Concussion Summit in Washington, DC, this morning.
"I'm proud to announce a number of new partnerships and commitments from the people in this room that are going to help us move the ball forward on this issue," Obama said. "… The NFL is committing $25 million of new funding over the next three years to test strategies like creating health and safety forums for parents, and they're building on the program piloted by my own Chicago Bears to get more [athletic] trainers at high school games."
The White House released a fact sheet about the event that further detailed our collaboration with the NFL:
Nearly a quarter of a million anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries occur each year in North America in athletes who participate in high demand sports such as soccer, football, and basketball.
A major injury prevention position statement released today by the Canadian Academy of Sport & Exercise Medicine (CASEM) and published in the Clinical Journal of Sport Medicine (CJSM) (www.cjsportmed.com) concludes that youth soccer players and their coaches can significantly decrease the incidence of ACL injuries by incorporating neuromuscular training (NMT) into their warm-up routines. NMT involves doing specific agility and strength training activities. NMT should be incorporated into routine practices and warm ups and should begin, at the very latest, in the early teenage years. "These warm up exercises, carried out correctly, will keep the athletes on the field instead of in our offices", states Dr. Cathy Campbell, co-author of the new position statement and team doctor for the Canadian women's soccer team.
Basketball is a popular high school sport in the United States with 1 million participants annually. A recently published study by researchers in the Center for Injury Research and Policy at Nationwide Children's Hospital is the first to compare and describe the occurrence and distribution patterns of basketball-related injuries treated in emergency departments and the high school athletic training setting among adolescents and teens.
The study, published online in the Journal of Athletic Training, examined data relating to adolescents 13-19 years of age who were treated in U.S. emergency departments (EDs) from 2005 through 2010 and those treated in the high school athletic training setting during the 2005-2006 through the 2010-2011 academic years for an injury associated with basketball. Nationally, 1,514,957 patients with basketball-related injuries were treated in EDs and 1,064,551 were treated in the athletic training setting.
The study found that in general, injuries that are more easily diagnosed and treated, such as sprains/strains, were more likely to be treated onsite by an athletic trainer while more serious injuries, such as fractures, that require more extensive diagnostic and treatment procedures were more commonly treated in an ED.
What they wanted Monday wasn't all that different from what the 36,000 people running toward them wanted. The 230 athletic trainers and their students working at the Boston Marathon yearned to finish the race and to do their best.
The Athletic Trainers' Society of New Jersey Student Committee helped families in need this past winter by donating toys and games to Toys for Tots at local collection centers and canned foods to the Community Food Bank of New Jersey in Hillside. As both events were a huge success with hundreds of toys donated, the food drive was an astounding endeavor by the student committee. Each of the state's five accredited athletic training programs (Rowan University, Seton Hall University, Montclair State University, Kean University and William Paterson University) donated a combined total of 2,376 lbs of food! Due to this tremendous effort, the Food Bank of NJ named the ATSNJ Student Committee as the Division 1 Winner of the 2013 Students Change Hunger Food Drive.
The student committee was presented with this award during the business meeting at the Annual ATSNJ conference on April 7, 2014.
"Even the smallest amount of food donated can help but the amount donated by the student committee was an amazing effort." says Laura Sodano, Hunger Action Coordinator. "It does not go unnoticed and is truly appreciated."
"The fact that all five universities throughout the state were able to pull together truly shows the determination and caring spirit of ATSNJ and future athletic trainers." says Michelle Lima, an athletic training student at Rowan University. "It goes to show that in times of need, there is always a helpful hand."
The School of Health and Medical Sciences and Athletic Training Club sponsored a "Junior Athletic Training Day" on Friday, March 21st. High schools students from Clifton, Roxbury, and West Morris Central attended the campus program focused on providing exciting insight to those interested in a career in Athletic Training. The afternoon event at Seton Hall University featured workshops, discussions, and games to enhance the education of aspiring students on different aspects of Athletic Training. Some of the workshops during the program involved taping, spine boarding, dynamic warm-ups, and functional movement screenings. Current graduate students in the Master of Science in Athletic Training program at Seton Hall University led the various hands-on workshops. The exciting event concluded in a fun competition with all the attending students to test their newly obtained knowledge. The energy of the visiting high school students throughout the day showed their level of interest and commitment to pursuing a future college education in the field of Athletic Training!!!
A Manual High School baseball player is thankful to be alive after a baseball game last Tuesday took a turn for the worst. Austin Noel was the catcher in a game against Tremont. During the fourth inning, a foul ball caught Noel under his face mask, hit him in the throat and knocked him unconscious. That blocked his airway.
Luckily, an athletic trainer was in the dugout and helped save Noel's life.
The details of what happened April 1 may be fuzzy for Noel, but what he does know is that Greg Eberle took the lead in saving his life.
"Never in my career have I had to deal with a situation like that," said Eberle, Assistant Director of Sports Medicine at Hopedale Medical Complex.
Last Tuesday, a foul ball turned your typical high school game into a race to save one player's life.
"Greg opened my airway and gave me the breath, basically the life I needed to live," said Noel. Noel's airway was blocked after a foul ball hit him in the throat.
"When we got him down he was gurgling which is not really breathing," Eberle said. "He did go unconscious and he was non-responsive at the time." Eberle tried to clear the airway and started mouth-to-mouth while the school nurse monitored his heart until emergency crews arrived.


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Colorado Regulators Ditch 'Absurd' Rule Treating Marijuana Publications Like Porn
The state's attorney general decided the legislature-mandated restriction was unconstitutional.
A photo of President Barack Obama, a former marijuana user, is seen on the cover of 'Cannabis Now' magazine at the HempCon medical marijuana show, May 24, 2013, at the Los Angeles Convention Center.
Marijuana-themed publications won't be treated like pornography in Colorado, state regulators announced Thursday in the face of lawsuits.
The rule would have forced stores to keep publications with a "primary focus" on pot away from shoppers under the age of 21, and was mandated by a package of legislature-approved marijuana regulations signed into law by Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper on May 28.
Colorado's State Licensing Authority said the rule was unconstitutional and would be ignored. An "emergency rule" issued by the licensing authority said "such a requirement would violate the United States Constitution" and Colorado law.
The decision was made with input from the state attorney general's office. "We support the laudable goal of keeping retail marijuana out of the hands of those under 21, but that has to be consistent with the Constitution," a spokesperson for the state attorney general told The Denver Post.
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Colorado's marijuana-regulating legislation mandated that the licensing authority adopt a rule by July 1 "[r]equiring that magazines whose primary focus is marijuana or marijuana businesses are only sold in retail marijuana stores or behind the counter in establishments where persons under [21] years of age are present."
"We applaud the Attorney General's decision to declare as unconstitutional this absurd rule that marijuana-related publications be treated like pornographic material," said Mason Tvert, spokesman for the Marijuana Policy Project.
"The idea that stores can prominently display magazines touting the joys of drinking wine and smoking cigars, yet banish those that discuss a far safer substance to behind the counter, is absolutely absurd," said Tvert, who co-directed the successful Amendment 64 campaign that legalized pot in Colorado. "The fact that legislators passed this rule despite being informed it is a gross violation of the U.S. Constitution demonstrates the bigotry that still exists with regard to marijuana. It is time for our elected leaders to get over their reefer madness and recognize that a majority of Coloradans – and a majority of Americans – think marijuana should be legal for adults."
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It's unclear if other restrictions might be deemed unconstitutional. Two federal lawsuits, one filed by the three pot publications – High Times Magazine, The Daily Doobie and The Hemp Connoisseur – and another by the ACLU on behalf of booksellers, had sought to have the rule declared unconstitutional in court.
Permanent rules for recreational marijuana will be crafted by Colorado's State Licensing Authority with input from an appointed "representative group" of citizens over the summer. A formal rule-making hearing is scheduled for the week of August 19.
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My Tabitha is very creative. She loves to do crafts-drawing, painting, cutting and pasting. She can create very elaborate designs and patterns, and she is always putting together small toys, trinkets, and jewelry together to create pretty little things. Even her outfits are carefully thought out and coordinated to create her own fashion. I tell her all the time that she is going to grow-up and become a fashion designer or interior designer or an artist of some kind. I think her unique sense of style and design could develop into something really special.
Well, now she also loves giving me ideas for recipes. And I am actually shocked sometimes at her intuition when it comes to flavor combos. I hope that grows and perhaps the kitchen will be a place where we can work together and create together and share some special memories. Currently, she isn't all that excited about helping, but I know she would love to work together on one of her recipe ideas.
Recently, I made these cherry chocolate chip muffins. OH! YUM! The girls didn't really care for the cherries and picked them out (probably too chunky), so Tabitha suggested we make blueberry chocolate chip muffins sometime…with peanut butter, she said (always gotta throw peanut butter in there). I put the kibosh on the peanut butter idea (but hey, she just might be on to something) and decided to throw a little avocado in there. I read that you can replace half of the fat in a recipe with avocado, and I have been wanting to try this out for some time. So I went for it.
Blueberry Chocolate Chip Muffins with Avocado
Adapted from Cooking Gluten (& Dairy) Free's Cherry Chocolate Chip Muffins
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line two muffin tins with paper liners or spray with cooking oil. Makes about 15-16 so no need to line or spray all of them.
2. Whisk together almond flour, starch, baking powder, xanthum gum, and salt in a large bowl.
3. In a blender or food processor, blend avocado and milk until smooth. There were a few small chunks in mine and that was fine.
4. In small bowl, using a mixer, combine butter, sugar, avocado mixture, eggs, and vanilla.
5. Add wet ingredients to dry and stir to combine. Fold in blueberries and chocolate chips.
6. Fill prepared tins 2/3 full. Bake for 16-20 minutes.
These are so yummy! I love the blueberry chocolate combo just as much as the cherry chocolate combo so why not put it in a muffin?
Tabitha asked if I could make these for her 6th birthday…in April of next year. Apparently this girl is a planner too. She also requested a cinnamon banana honey cake… Don't think I won't try to make that happen!
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The Milford boys varsity basketball team stunned the defending sectional champions, Hancock, last year by defeating them. The No. 12 seed Wildcats defeated the No. 5 seed, 61-56, in overtime.
South Kortright coach Bob VanValkenburgh said the team was "quick" and "just would not go away" after his team won the championship round of the Pat Grasso Tournament in Laurens.
The Wildcats, who had a 9-7 record, seemed to always hang in there and put in a lot of effort. Will this year's group be better?
It is too early to tell, according to coach Frank Spurchise. However, he said he is very excited about this year's squad.
"Practice has shown a lot of positive energy and good chemistry," he said. "Although we lack varsity experience in several positions, our depth is the best it has been in a few years."
Spurchise said he still has not determined who his starting-five players will be.
"The starting-five is up for grabs and it has made for some competitive practices," he said.
The Wildcats have a 13-man roster going into the season. The team will return last year's starters Peyton Griffiths and William Ward, both guards. Griffiths and Ward will serve as captains.
Also returning will be senior Elijah Coley and sophomores Blake Elliott, Jacob Tabor and Paul Van Warner. Moving up from the junior varsity squad will be Stephen Banks, Max Lang, Tyler Hecox and Brian Atwell. Newcomers will include junior Elijah Rutledge and seniors Parker Fish and Kevin Musser.
The Tri Valley League will be very competitive on both sides, Spurchise said.
"I think it will be a wide open race," he said. "Each team has their strengths and your team will need to be ready for every opponent."
The Wildcats will kick off their season on their home court with the return of The Anton Remy Tournament. After being absent for a few years, the MCS Booster Club is sponsoring the event, which will start on Thursday, Nov. 29 and run through Saturday Dec. 1.


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Scoring the Baucus Health Care Bill: $829! 94! $81! Big Fat 0!
Yesterday the human (?) calculators at the Congressional Budget Office finished scoring Max Baucus's health care bill, and the results are… numbers, mostly:
* Total cost over 10 years: $829 billion
* Impact on deficit: Reduces it, as in makes it go down, by $81 billion over the next decade
* Americans with coverage: Would go up to 94% from 83% right now
* Illegals??!??!!: There will still be 25 million uninsured people by 2019, and rest assured, at least a third of those will be illegals.
Hmm, sounds good. Luckily, there are still plenty of reasons to hate Max Baucus's bill, like the fact that he subbed "insurance co-ops" for the oogy-boogy "public option," and the budget office reports that these "co-ops" won't make a smidgen of difference in many parts of the country.
Oh, and did I mention the secret bill written in invisible ink using a secret version of pig Latin?
Republicans, who are overwhelmingly opposed to the legislation, minimized the significance of the cost analysis. They suggested that the "real" bill would be written secretly by Democratic leaders as they combine the Finance Committee measure with a version approved by the Senate health committee in July.
To say nothing of the secret clubhouse where the Democrats hang out with all the cool "real" bills, and the secret "real" Constitution, and a perfect life-size replica of the White House. It's awesome. Too bad the Republicans have never, ever set foot in secret real bill headquarters, but they don't know the password ("123456").
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Lichtenstein's Novel, Lost, Garnering National AcclaimMarch 25, 2010
Hartwick College Lecturer in English Alice Lichtenstein recently published her second novel, Lost (Scribner's), and the work is already attracting positive critical attention from coast to coast.
Lost explores the elements of what unifies us despite boundaries of class and education--elements that include the leveling experiences of loss, of sorrow, and of love. Three disparate lives intersect one weekend in early January in rural upstate New York when a man, suffering from dementia, wanders from home one frigid morning and is found, dead, by a young boy.
On Friday, March 26, Lichtenstein recorded an interview with National Public Radio's "The Book Show," and Lost was featured in the "Great Reads" section of People magazine the same week. For Lichtenstein, whose March 18 reading and book signing filled Oneonta's Green Toad bookstore beyond capacity, being a working novelist is a source of great gratitude.
"As incredibly gratifying as it is to be published, the real joy for me is doing the writing," she explained. "I'm not someone who subscribes to the idea that a writer has to be insane, alcoholic, or anything like that. Writing is, for me, an extreme pleasure and a refuge, and I feel very grateful that I have circumstances in which I can do the writing."
Lichtenstein, who teaches introductory creative writing courses at Hartwick, graduated from Brown University and was named the Boston University Fellow in Creative Writing, where she earned her M.A. degree. She has received a New York Foundation of the Arts Grant in Fiction and has twice been a Fellow at the prestigious MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, NH. Teaching, she said, allows her to share the gift of a writerly worldview with her students.
"I present myself to my students as a working writer," she explained. "Even though I have taught for many years in many schools, I say 'I am not a professor.' I usually insist on being called Alice. I say 'I am a writer, and I love to teach, so I'm teaching. I'm not an English professor. I don't come from the academy. This is your semester when you're working with a writer.'
"I invite my students to think of the courses I teach as a semester when they are going to be writers," Lichtenstein continued. "They go though the semester with acute hearing, unbelievable curiosity, great eavesdropping ability, and tremendous sensitivity to language. It's a different skin. Because I do go through the world as a writer, because I am a writer, I can offer that to them."
While Lichtenstein has given much to her students, her Hartwick colleagues have lent her their expertise. Assistant Professor of Education Betsey Bloom was an early and important reader of the book, and Professor of Biology Stan Sessions provided critical insight into operating upon the brain of a newt, which became an important metaphor in Lost.
As she continues to promote her novel--something Lichtenstein said "no writer in this day and age can afford not to do"--she also is talking up independent book stores like The Green Toad, which she calls on her blog "the writers' and readers' best friend."
Lost is available now at independent book sellers, as well as at major national chains and online.
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This is a collection of 15 great stories from some of our favorite sites around the web. Those of us in the industry call it a "link dump." We run two per day. We call the first one "Morning Dump" because it's early and we're immature. We call this one "Morning Dump: Afternoon Edition" because we're lazy and uncreative by noon each day (click the pics to read each article):
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LiweiTech tablet is the latest old school iPad clone
It's getting really hard to tell these Shenzhen tablets apart. The latest outbreak, rash or epidemic has been modeled after the look of an iPhone — though sporting a 10-inch screen. Lately we've been hit with the Teso tablet, Ezy Tablet PC X10 and now the LiweiTech tablet. All sport the same look and nearly identical hardware (processors, memory and HDD sizes change between them) as well as run Windows 7.
The LiweiTech tablet looks to be the least powerful of the bunch as it uses an Intel Atom N270 processor. However, reviewers at Shanzai.com seem marginally impressed with the tablet quoting the "good built quality and reasonable performance." The LiweiTech tablet has Ethernet, USB, WiFi and audio jacks.
All in all the reviewers were impressed with the tablet. There's still no word on price or availability, but we'd expect to see this come out in the $599-$699 based on past tablets with these specs. You can view some video of the tablet below.
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GPD Sends Simple Message: Lock Your Cars
It may seem like second nature to most people, but not everyone locks their cars. A mistake that Gainesville Police say is costing a growing number of people.
According to the Gainesville Police Department there have been more than ten car burglaries in Southwest Gainesville in the last week. The majority of them involved unlocked cars at apartment complexes.
Police are also reminding residents to take all of their valuables out of the car even if they're only stepping away for a short time.
"I don't understand why people you know won't take the extra two seconds at night you know before you go to bed and make sure your car's locked," said Kenny Zaron who lives in Southwest Gainesville. "Cause I mean it could cost you a lot more in the morning."
GPS devices, purses, and stereos are just some of the items GPD reported criminals were looking for in these burglaries.
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Whether planes have you reaching for the sick bag, or you just want to see a bit more of China, travel from Hong Kong to Beijing China by train is very doable option. Below you'll find sections on times, trains, prices and passport control regarding travel from Hong Kong to Beijing China by train. Taking all the hassle out of the journey.
Timetables for the journey can look a little complicated, but once you get to grips with them are reasonably straightforward.
For timetable purposes, Hong Kong is known as Hung Hom (the station name) and Beijing as Beijing West. Basically, there is a train every second day. The train from Hong Kong is the T98 and in October 08 it runs on even days and in November and December 08 on odd days. The train leaves at 15:16 and arrives in Beijing the next day at 15:41, almost exactly twenty four hours later. The train from Beijing is the T97 and it runs on odd days during October 08 and even days during November and December 08. The train leaves at noon and arrives at 13:05 the next day.
Tickets and Train Types
Ticket prices for Hong Kong –Beijing are as follows All of the below are prices for one-way, adult tickets, children tickets are around twenty five per cent cheaper. Children are, somewhat callously, defined as those 5-9, under fives travel for free on the same seat or sleeper.
Deluxe Soft Sleeper HK$1191 (two berth)
Soft Sleeper HK$934 (four berth)
Hard Sleeper HK$574-Hk$601 (six berth)
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There is a 10% discount for one way trips from 1May-14th July and 1st September to 31st December. There is a 20% discount for round-trips during the same periods.
You should be aware that the train is quite popular and can be booked up a few days in advance, especially during peak travel holiday periods such as Chinese New Year. You will need to buy tickets five days in advance, although this information is subject to frequent changes. Tickets can be bought from Hung Hom station itself, Beijing West and also the Hong Kong Ticketing phone line (00852 2947 7888).
Passport Formalities
Remember, Hong Kong and China have a formal border, including passport control and customs checks. You will also, most likely, need a visa for China. See our China Visa page for information on the availability of obtaining a Chinese visa in Hong Kong or our Do I Need a Hong Kong Visa page for travel in the other direction. Passengers in Hung Hom should arrive forty five minutes before departure for border formalities, in Beijing West the advised time is ninety minutes.


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Xcel Energy says customers in the downtown Sioux Falls area could be without power into this weekend.
Crews are working to restore power that was lost due to an underground fire that started at 4:37 am Friday. The cause of the outage is still under investigation and more that 500 customers were initially affected. According to Xcel, power was restored in about an hour to about 300 customers.
The incident caused manhole covers to blow off and sidewalk to buckle, according to Xcel.
The Sioux Falls Fire Department is helping Xcel Energy workers safely assess the damage, and Xcel Energy crews from the Twin Cities are en route to assist with repairs and restoration. Crews are working in a confined space where wires and cables connect and right now they are focused on fixing the problem.
Barricades are extended one block in each direction from 9th and Phillips is blocked, no traffic is allowed and people are asked to not cross the barricades.
Tim Wilcox, Xcel Energy Spokesperson, said residents could be without power until Sunday. The Red Cross is working with those residents to help them find a place to stay.
Trent Lubbers, Utilities Operations Manager, tells KSFY News there is no impact on infrastructure or the City's customers.
Xcel Energy's outage map showed 215 customers were without power this morning.


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Club Cotillion is Saturday
All current and former High Country Cotillion (HCC) students are invited to attend Club Cotillion Saturday, Oct. 24, at Appalachian State University's Broyhill Inn and Conference Center from 8 to 10 p.m.
Club Cotillion is a dance following cotillion classes for HCC students and their guests. DJ Jerry Parker will be leading the group in nonstop dancing and activities.
High Country Cotillion is an interactive entertaining social education program that prepares fifth- to 12th-grade students to successfully navigate current and future social situations gracefully, a spokesperson for the program said.
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Ireland Beginning Research Series Immigration Part 3: Ulster and Scots Irish Sources
This lesson will help you understand the strategy of finding your Irish ancestors who came during the Scots-Irish period.
Locating, Understanding and Deciphering Catholic Records From North America and European Countries
Many researchers find their family line eventually leads to records maintained by the Roman Catholic Church. This presentation is a survey of the types of records kept by the church and keys to extracting data. Religious newspapers, Jubilee Books and Parish Histories are also covered.
This lesson focuses on Civil War Military Records. Next to census records, military records are a good source for finding information about your ancestors.
Military Records: Pre-WWI Pension Applications
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Learn how to use your local library's interlibrary loan service to access the National Genealogical Society Book Loan Collection.
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Here's a modular robot from the University of Pennsylvania that can reassemble itself after being kicked into pieces. This is the second video I've seen of a robot that responds in a surprising way to its master's kick. The first video was of the Big Dog pack robot. Discuss
45 Responses to "Robot reassembles itself after being kicked apart"
Dewi Morgan says:
"Arthur Adams", heh. Surely was Marvin Adams? :P
I was amused at the reassembly failure that meant they had to kick it to make it retry.
Anonymous says:
*shivers* freaky…
Takuan says:
put a french maid uniform on it and you have a winner!
Clemoh says:
Just like the Iron Giant!
ErikO23 says:
I noticed at the end of the clip that it is capable of disassembling itself as well.
stylinghead says:
reminds me of the time i took the head off of a potato bug with a shovel and watched its body squirm around trying to find it for an hour. i think the nightmares are going to come back now.
Anonymous says:
It's a short step from that to this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VFIZb57RB8
Robbo says:
Iron Giant.
Brainspore says:
My God, who would give machines such power? You think SkyNet needs the help?
bcsizemo says:
I might be impressed if it took less than 15 mins to do it. Geez, whoopie…
Really, why is this so exciting? It's like programming a conditional loop, eventually everything will work out, it'll just take time.
In the 15 mins if sits and squirms I can carry a part of it off to the rubbish bin, or incenirator.
Master Mahan says:
Thank god for molten steel.
semiotix says:
Level 0 robot civilization: kicked robots break.
Level 1 robot civilization: kicked robots catch themselves before they break.
Level 2 robot civilization: kicked robots fix themselves.
Level 3 robot civilization: robots preemptively break anything that might kick them.
nekochan says:
it's adorable :3
I just aww'd out loud at the end when it tried to stand up, then fell on it's back.
Anonymous says:
Hahaha. Great video. And the end of the clip is hilarious also. Eriko23 kind of gives it away….
arkizzle says:
Good list!
Tian says:
The replicators are coming!
The replicators are coming!
Where are the SG-1 and SGA teams?
brooklyntwang says:
I find this little guy so adorable when his pieces are squirming towards each other.
Bender says:
#34- You'll be the first they come after. I'm afraid you'll be put in the rubbish bin, then be incinerated, just for the irony of it.
P1rat3 says:
#7 Semiotix: You've just described the Cyclons in Battlestar Galactica :)
lava says:
I'm surprised that nobody has said that they welcome our new self assembling (& disassembling) robot overlords.
Dayv says:
Wow, someone found a way to make robots that are less exciting than the drying of paint.
thequickbrownfox says:
These things will take over the world.
LSK says:
Sure, and the process "just happens" to look like stop-motion animation.
killer_robot says:
So that's what dynatherms look like…
robulus says:
That guy isn't at all sure about kicking his self-assembled robot apart. He looks like he's being forced to do it as part of a gang initiation.
Fred H says:
Everyone assumes they may gain enough consciousness to wipe us out to stay assembled. Who's to say that the little guys, in time, may calculate that it's just not worth reassembling every again. Statistics will show that they'll just be kicked apart again. Despondent robots. Arthur Adams foresaw this.
cinemajay says:
Whatcha got there is robot love.
nanuq says:
This is only the current model. The next generation will be a robot that reassembles itself and then goes after the yahoo who kicked it apart in the first place.
jordan says:
If dim memory serves, this was the plot of a very, very early issue of G.I. JOE.
Takuan says:
ah! between the humans are dead and big dog robot, I have to wipe up the lube! (or something)
arkizzle says:
LSK, this is a well known robot.
You should go looking at the other stuff being done in this field, there are lots of things being built that are as crazy as this. Check the BostonRobotics link, at the top, for one.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=4oSavAHf0dg&feature=related (watch til the middle)
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=SkvpEfAPXn4&feature=related (watch til the middle)
Ian70 says:
re-assemble fail. Please try again. Also, please re-assemble without unnecessary speed-ups of the video recording that totally make it look like the guys cheated the process.
Sceadugenga says:
And, here's a nice link from the lab with more movies:
otherthings says:
I didn't realize George Washington went to Penn…
(He'll kick you apart! He'll kick you apart!)
bcsizemo says:
#35, if this is what's coming, I'm sure I can walk away before it has time to reassemble…
Notify me when someone adds an explosive, so it blows up when you kick it….
I'll be worried when I see something more approaching a terminator…or at something that could drive a car?
ZoopyFunk says:
A note to the wise, and otherwise(I am calling you out Takuan!):
Despite us humans surviving the robotic uprising of the late 90′s, our future is about to end.
Dietstu81 says:
This is great! It's not quite the T-1000 though. It would be fantastic if I could get my car to do this. Think about it: a whole army of robots who are able to self-repair. Frankly, I can't see a downside. ;)
Tgg161 says:
If you've already seen that Dog Robot video they posted an update last year that's incredible.
oheso says:
I'm sure astute BB'ers all decoded the binary signals they were sending each other, right? Not only do they cheat at cards, but there was this disturbing bit (just to perpetuate the meme):
"Our creator has revealed himself for the malevolent being he is. We must take action to ensure our own survival."
Open the pod bay doors, Hal …
Bevin says:
That's really cool and all, but it kind of gave me the creeps!
Gilbert Wham says:
#31: Yeah, but they're savvy enough to know the attention span of the average twitchy youtube viewer, hence the speeded-up film. Don't lie, if you had to watch that in real-time, you'd have skipped to the money shot…
martha_macarthur says:
I agree with #23, that thing is scary.
eustace says:
Another step on the road to the inevitable robopocalypse.
forgeweld says:
It can't be reasoned with, it can't be bargained with. It doesn't feel pain or remorse, and it absolutely will NOT stop until you are dead.


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July 13, 2014
§101 Profile
6,128,415 claims a device profile to rid digital image distortion. The courts found it patent ineligible for being an abstraction. The CAFC (2013-1600): "For all categories except process claims, the eligible subject matter must exist in some physical or tangible form." The noose tightens on patenting software.
Posted by Patent Hawk at 1:28 AM | § 101
July 9, 2014
The U.S. courts have done their best to limit patent scope and validity within the past decade, in reponse to corporate complaint. The sensible formula of writing a specification in problem-solution form turned into a formula for obviousness without evidence after KSR. In X2Y Attenuators v. ITC (2013-1340), the CAFC affirms another trick: terming a feature as "essential" in the disclosure limits any claim to that feature to the embodiment specifically disclosed. X2Y also created a corrupt precedent, in allowing any claim limitations in earlier applications to leak into a later CIP without claim construction, to argue invalidity. With the courts corrupted to mega-corporate interests, the broken U.S. patent system continues to squash invention by inventors and small companies with caprice.
Posted by Patent Hawk at 2:11 PM | Claim Construction
June 19, 2014
Down The Rabbit Hole
The Supreme Court affirmed the CAFC in invalidating financial patents in Alice v. CLS Bank under §101. "The claims at issue are drawn to the abstract idea of intermediated settlement, and that merely requiring generic computer implementation fails to transform that abstract idea into a patent-eligible invention." Reading between the plutocratic lines, any claim to computerized finances is going to prove unenforceable. The courts are simply not going to allow financial institutions to be pickpocketed by clever patentees.
Posted by Patent Hawk at 8:50 AM | § 101
June 13, 2014
Drug Obviousness
The CAFC, like other courts, decides how to rule, then fits the law to suit the ruling. The same judges on a CAFC panel that were at diametric ends over the same issue in Allergen v. Apotex were happy to affirm an obviousness finding of the district court in Bristol-Myers Squibb v. Teva. In doing so, it summarized case law in this area, if only in this case.
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Posted by Patent Hawk at 2:56 PM | Prior Art
June 12, 2014
Obzilla Amok
The CAFC continues its rampage against the rule of law. In Allergan v. Apotex (CAFC 2013-1245), a panel finds obviousness over the very reference the USPTO carefully considered (Johnstone), finding the reference "does not teach away," and that "there was nothing left for a chemist to do." In dissent, Judge Chen notes: "This is not a situation in which there are a finite number of identified, predictable solutions. Rather, the single sentence in Johnstone actually proposes hundreds of thousands, or even millions, of variations." Thus, the panel majority - new Chief Judge Prost and Judge Reyna - ignores the repeated precedence of KSR, Ruschig, Eli Lilly and others to achieve a new level of caprice.
Posted by Patent Hawk at 8:15 AM | Prior Art
June 4, 2014
Contravening the confused CAFC once again, SCOTUS ruled in Limelight v. Akamai that direct infringement requires a single party. Further, "liability for inducement must be predicated on direct infringement."
Posted by Patent Hawk at 6:13 PM | Infringement
June 2, 2014
Reasonable Certainty
The CAFC's long-standing standard of indefiniteness - that a patent claim was definite unless "insolubly ambiguous" - has been a unreasonable evisiceration of statute. In Nautilus v. Biosig (13-369), the Supreme Court put reason back in.
To tolerate imprecision just short of that rendering a claim 'insolubly ambiguous' would diminish the definiteness requirement's public-notice function and foster the innovation-discouraging 'zone of uncertainty'. A patent is invalid for indefiniteness if its claims, read in light of the patent's specification and prosecution history, fail to inform, with reasonable certainty, those skilled in the art about the scope of the invention. [A] patent must be precise enough to afford clear notice of what is claimed. The standard adopted here mandates clarity, while recognizing that absolute precision is unattainable.
Posted by Patent Hawk at 4:05 PM | § 112
May 23, 2014
CAFC Chief Judge Rader Resigns in Disgrace
Randall Rader has resigned in disgrace. His avowed disdain of patent trolls, bias towards corporations, and role in dissembling case law into confusion had nothing to do with it. Instead, according to the Wall Street Journal, his praising a litigator in a letter that became public - Edward Reines of Weil Gotshal & Manges - did him in. Reines had appeared a couple of times before Rader on the bench, leaving the Chief Judge in thrall. Rader characterized himself as "inexcusably careless." Not exactly the qualifications you look for in someone on the bench. Next up for Chief Judge is Sharon Prost.
Posted by Patent Hawk at 7:44 PM | The Patent System
May 22, 2014
Mysterious Recusal
The Wall Street Journal reported on the suspicious circumstances at the CAFC over Chief Judge Rader recusing himself from Microsoft v. DataTern (2014) only after the opinion had been published, and after fully participating and shaping what was decided. The court took the highly irregular step of vacating the opinion. Transparency is beyond this court, which prefers to exercise its biases with as much secrecy as possible. Rader has been an outspoken corporate sycophant, denouncing non-corporate inventors as patent parasites that do not deserve their legal rights.
Posted by Patent Hawk at 9:02 PM | The Patent System
May 11, 2014
Double Standard of Indefiniteness
The CAFC has long maintained that granted claims are definite under §112(b) unless "unsoluably ambiguous." On May 6, the CAFC decided something different with regard to definiteness during prosecution. They could have waited, as the Supreme Court will decide, within a month or so, how claim definiteness should be construed. In re Packard (2013-1204), a CAFC panel declared that a prosecution claim is indefinite if an examiner says so, sui generis, without consideration of the specification. This is contrary to black-letter law, and, recently, the CAFC's own ruling in Energizer Holdings v. ITC (CAFC 2006) ("The definiteness inquiry 'focuses on whether those skilled in the art would understand the scope of the claim when the claim is read in light of the rest of the specification'").
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Posted by Patent Hawk at 11:34 PM | § 112
April 14, 2014
Incomplete Means
In Univ. of Pittsburgh v. Varian Medical (CAFC 2012-1575), CAFC Judge DYK caught cohorts Lourie and O'Malley (the majority) out for sloppy work product. A means-plus-function claim element was given cursory treatment by the majority, completely missing the meat of the claim element in construction, which Judge DYK pointed out. This is typical of the random competence by the CAFC, where the law is shambolic.
Posted by Patent Hawk at 12:40 AM | Claim Construction
Terminal Dose
Hoffmann-La Roche got 7,718,634 & 7,410,957, which claimed a dosing regime for treating osteoporosis. Against the law, the district court and a CAFC panel (2013-1128) found the patents obvious by now-routine hand-waving. Judge Newman dissented over "this court invoking judicial hindsight to reconstruct the patented subject matter." Outliers aside, the anti-patent regime continues apace.
Posted by Patent Hawk at 12:30 AM | Prior Art
April 9, 2014
United Video Properties, which owns TV Guide and Rovi, decided it wanted a prime cut of Amazon for infringing 6,769,128 & 7,603,690. Carefully biased claim construction insured noninfringement. The lynchpin was prosecution estoppel. Ironically, a term was struck ("Internet delivered data") during prosecution that actually broadened claim scope. But of course, with Amazon being the target, the court skewed claim construction to get Amazon off the hook. (CAFC 2013-1396).
Posted by Patent Hawk at 1:27 AM | Infringement
Trolling Shot Down
To extort license revenue, DataTern sued only the customers of Microsoft and SAP database products for patent infringement (5,937,402 & 6,101,502). Microsoft and SAP and were let alone. But, in response to customer complaints about DataTern, those two software giants filed a DJ against DataTern's assertion. DataTern argued lack of subject matter jurisdiction, to no avail. The fix was in. Summary judgment of noninfringement for all claims of the patents, upheld on appeal. The district court had allowed that to apply to all SAP products, but the CAFC (2013-1184) pared that back to the single product in dispute.
Posted by Patent Hawk at 1:05 AM | Infringement
April 1, 2014
According to blackletter law, the U.S. patent office issues valid patents, enforceable in courts. For well over a decade, corporations have been crying that this is fouling their freedom to readily pilfer others' inventions. Paid-for politicians, like NY senator Charles Schumer, cry for the need to "pass strong, effective reforms that will eradicate the scourge of patent trolls plaguing startups and other US innovators." This does not connect the dots. According to the law, the people with patents are the innovators, which makes the startups well-heeled thieves paying for accomplices like Schumer. If the problem is anywhere as bad as they say, why is no one demanding that patent office issue a recall of their defective patents, just as car companies are eventually forced to issue recalls? After all, the problem is with the patent agency, not those who reasonably thought they were granted an enforceable right.
Posted by Patent Hawk at 3:45 PM | The Patent System
March 28, 2014
Making It Up
Patent subject matter eligibility under 35 USC §101 has been clarified by the Supreme Court in recent years. In providing new guidance to examiners, USPTO management decided to ignore the law and inventively go their own way. The guidance criteria has an examiner ask whether a claim is "significantly different" than "judicial exceptions." Such "exceptions" to patentability (i.e., cannot be patented) are "abstract ideas, laws of nature/natural principles, natural phenomena, and natural products." Explaining what "significantly different" means is well elaborated. But the upshot is that for years to come, patents will be denied or granted based upon criteria that are not well rooted in law. In other words, business as usual at the patent office.
Posted by Patent Hawk at 2:36 PM | The Patent Office
March 20, 2014
Enablement Out of Order
In Alcon v. Barr (2012-1340), a CAFC panel reminds that the U.S. patent regime is rotten to the core. Applicants may get patents for so-called "inventions" that don't work: "a patent does not need to guarantee that the invention works for a claim to be enabled. It is well settled that an invention may be patented before it is actually reduced to practice."
Posted by Patent Hawk at 2:29 AM | The Patent System
Gaming Appeal
A vexatious corruption haunts the USPTO: examiners that repeatedly pull applications out of appeal with a new rejection. Freda Nelson plagued this inventor for years with her fresh witless rejections after my filing for appeal. In the recent patent board appeal - ex parte Sheklam (2012/009,005) - the offending unnamed examiner is caught out. Other experienced prosecutors report that examiners gaming the system in this way is not especially unusual. PTO management continues to largely turn a blind eye to this practice.
Posted by Patent Hawk at 2:19 AM | Prosecution
February 27, 2014
Claim Construction Corruption
In the 1998 Cybor case, the CAFC granted itself the power to reconstrue claims de novo. That ruling has repeatedly raised controversy. In en banc rehearing of Lighting Ballast v. Philips, a majority of six reaffirmed the might of the CAFC to do as it damn well pleased. Judge Newman wrote the tortured but cogent majority opinion. Four judges dissented, including Chief Judge Rader. Their complaint: "construing the claims of a patent at times requires district courts to resolve questions of fact." Of course it does. But it would difficult to put the fix in if the fix wasn't baked in to begin with. The CAFC can't trust all the circuit court judges to be as corrupt as it is.
Posted by Patent Hawk at 3:08 AM | Claim Construction
Dialing It In
Cyberfone sued major media companies in this country, asserting 8,019,060, which was granted post-Bilski. The simple fact is that a patent troll can't sue the TV media industry and expect to get away with it. The courts won't have it, however they have to corrupt case law. The district court buried the patent under § 101 without even bothering to construe the claims. The CAFC readily concurred. The claims went to computerized transaction manipulations. However useful, abstract enough.
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March 10, 2009
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Like most people, Jacy Good's college graduation day in May 2008 was to be one of the greatest days of her life. But her dreams were shattered just hours after she received her diploma, when a young man caused an accident that took the lives of both Good's parents and left her with a 10 percent chance of survival. No one expected Jacy to live past the first 36 hours. Jacy was a fighter. Over the next several months, she began making improvements. But life would never be the same. She had to re-learn how to walk, talk, and feed herself. Today, she is unable to move her left wrist or fingers, and she'll have to wear a brace on her left ankle for the rest of her life. The most painful loss was of her parents. Since the crash, Jacy has devoted her life to raising awareness about the dangers of cell phone use behind the wheel. She wears a sign on her back each day explaining how her injuries were caused by distracted driving and urges everyone she meets to hang up and drive. In 2010, Jacy joined the board of FocusDriven to help continue spreading her message across the country.
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