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Industry, elected leaders meet, talk about natural gas' potential
By Matt Mikus firstname.lastname@example.com June 18, 2013 4:30PM
Updated: July 20, 2013 6:41AM
HAMMOND — Industry leaders and local elected officials met Tuesday at the Horseshoe Casino in Hammond to talk about the potential and challenges facing an alternative energy that's gaining momentum: compressed natural gas.
Sponsored by a grant from the Indiana Department of Energy Development, the meeting was held by South Shore Clean Cities to encourage government officials to consider natural gas for municipal vehicles.
Compressed natural gas is often considered as a strong potential to replace gasoline. With lower greenhouse gas emissions, lower cost compared to diesel and an abundance of natural gas produced within the United States, transit companies are paying closer attention.
"The event was designed to start a conversation with decision makers to start using natural gas," said Donna George of South Shore Clean Cities. "We got a lot more business people than we expected, but we just want to start the conversation."
South Shore Clean Cities asked cement company Ozinga of Chicago to talk about its transition from diesel to natural gas.
Ozinga's co-owner and communication director Tim Ozinga said the concrete and materials company began the switch from diesel to compressed natural gas in 2011. Ozinga started to look at alternatives to power their fleet.
"Natural gas came out as the clear winner," Ozinga said, "it exceeds current and future emissions standards, we save a lot on fuel, and it's an American energy source."
The company purchased its first two trucks running on natural gas in spring 2011. In summer 2012, they opened their own fueling station for their fleet and third-party vehicles they contract for at their operations in Chicago and Mokena, Ill.
Ozinga said the company sees more than 40 percent in savings over conventional diesel, and has an 80% reduction in carbon emissions and 23 precent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions.
The fuel has also inspired the company to expand its own infrastructure. By the end of 2013, the company plans to install a compressed natural gas fueling station in Gary and Des Plaines, Ill. Those stations will also be open for public fuel services.
They hope to convert the entire fleet of 500 vehicles to natural gas by 2020.
Randy Niemeyer of Cedar Lake said he was interested about natural gas as both a business owner and a local government official. He serves on the Cedar Lake Town Council, but asked more questions from a business perspective.
His company, Niemeyer Milk Transfer Inc., is considering new trucks that would run on a mixture of diesel and natural gas simultaneously. While he's interested in the potential of natural gas, he said the infrastructure just isn't there yet to support a complete switch.
"The reason diesel worked so well is it's been cheap and widely available," Niemeyer said, "I can see the network start to happen with natural gas. I think we're at a critical point."
He added that with so many changes in recent years, he wants to be involved with its potential now.
South Shore Clean Cities plans to continue to host educational conferences about the possibility of natural gas for transportation.


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I've never seen Woody printed papers, but a good one that you can use for a cowboy page is K and Company's Cowboy collection.
He is what it looks like:
You can use some of the paper and add a Woody sticker to it.
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Located a block west of Central Park, Lincoln Center spans over 16 acres and is home to a dozen performing arts organizations, among them the Metropolitan Opera, New York Philharmonic, and New York City Ballet. All together the complex features 29 separate performance venues, where the 12 institutions present thousands of performances, programs, and events each year. Guided tours of the campus begin in the David Rubenstein Atrium and include visits to the Metropolitan Opera House, Avery Fisher Hall, David H. Koch Theater, Vivian Beaumont Theater, and Alice Tully Hall.
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First off Joshua has been silent on this matter. Both internally amongst the trustees and now on list. Instead of Joshua defending his own actions or lack there of. Everyone else is rushing to his defense. Just like his actions as treasurer. He is where during all this? MIA On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 17:07 -0700, Chrissy Fullam wrote: > > > I was of the impression that tsunam was to remain acting treasurer, is > > > that deprecated? > > > > A the upcoming meeting I will be putting a motion on the floor calling for > > a vote of no confidence. > > See below for details but I hope that all involved will reconsider the > notion, there seems no solid ground for such a vote. I have resigned I won't be there to put such a motion to a vote. > > But presently he is MIA. > > He has the lowest meeting attendance. > > Not sure how this is accurate. Reference: > http://www.gentoo.org/foundation/en/minutes/index.xml > The meeting logs only list from March to May but tsunam is present in each > meeting. On March 10, ~10 minutes late. On March 16, bit over 10 minutes late. On April meeting I had to call him and he showed up ~20 minutes late. On May 11th meeting he left the meeting before it was concluded. On May 18th meeting, he was only able to attend for 30 minutes and missed half the meeting. On June 22 meeting he claimed to be there in spirit only. Reporting no progress on bank account. When I offered to take over. On July 13 he was there for the meeting. Talking about the banking situation on his own. When I was doing the leg work at the time. I was in an out during that meeting. But when I showed provided info on where things were at. On August 18 several of us including myself missed the August meeting. Tsunam showed and said he would be MIA. At several meetings there has been mention of reports or accounting on donations. Information that was supposed to be presented to the board and then the community on g.o. That has never happened. In fact so far as treasurer exactly what has happened in 6 months? > This does not seem accurate. Wltjr offered to help tsunam with tasks and > when he complained about doing it tsunam said he'd take back the work then > wltjr made light of the work remaining, essentially declining the offer. All > in the lengthy attached file though excerpts are below: I have read what you included several times. I see now were I am declining anything. Plus the last bit of leg work I did. On August 12th I said we could proceed with Capital One and what has happened since? Over 2 weeks ago, when all that is required is ~30 minutes now. Plus why does it take 6+ months to open a bank account. Or produce any financial accounting that hasn't happened. etc. This is not past years, the IRS requires tax returns and other filings for 08 regardless of size. So let's just sit and wait for problems with IRS like we had with NM. So again in 6 months as a treasurer Joshua has done what exactly? -- William L. Thomson Jr. Gentoo Linux Developer
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A belter of an action flick. Refreshingly, it's not a standard superhero film, but mixes all manner of faux-mystical legends – with just about every Nazi myth ever invented – into its own world. Hellboy, a grown-up demon working secretly for the CIA, is a world-weary behemoth with the obligatory heart of gold, and actor Ron Perlman's portrayal is just right.
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A100* Human Gross Anatomy ReviewsAnatomical review of selected regions of the human body at an advanced level in preparation for residencies in surgically-oriented specialties as well as diagnostic imaging and radiology. Students are required to participate in daily morning dissection laboratories. Regions of the body covered in different modules are: A100A Human Gross Anatomy-Back, Thorax & Abdomen Module 3B onlyA100B Human Gross Anatomy-Pelvis & PerinemModule 4A onlyA100C Human Gross Anatomy-Head & NeckModule 4B onlyA100D Human Gross Anatomy-Upper & Lower LimbModule 5A onlyTodd R. Olson, MD (718) firstname.lastname@example.com Maximum: 10 Students
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The word doctor is derived from the Latin verb docere, meaning to teach. At many points during a physician's career, from medical school through residency and into practice, he or she will be expected to educate peers, students and faculty. This elective seeks to provide fourth year medical student-teachers (STs) the opportunity to gain and develop pedagogical knowledge, skills and attitudes. We will accomplish this through three approaches: a standard didactic curriculum, opportunities for practical application of theoretical learning and, finally, the expectation to work with a faculty member of their choice on a curricular enhancement project (discussed below).
It is important to point out that as recently as a few years ago Dr.Richard Hayes directed a Student-as-Teacher elective that, unfortunately, discontinued after his death. Currently, many opportunities exist for fourth year students to teach at Einstein. Between electives assisting in the anatomy labs to leading small group case conferences as part of the MCFM course, students who are interested in education can find opportunities to teach. This elective seeks to consolidate these opportunities. Additionally, this elective will create a didactic curriculum for interested students to learn about educational principles in adult education as well as learning environments specific to clinical medicine (i.e. precepting). The didactic curriculum also utilizes currently-existing opportunities such as lessons from the ongoing Resident-as-Teacher program in the Montefiore department of Internal Medicine.
The product is an elective that rekindles a discontinued Einstein tradition, materializes learning objectives that are stated within the Physician as Educator curricular sub-competencies, and provides the framework for the growth of medical education innovation at Einstein.
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RABAT - The imminent arrival of a Dutch boat to promote abortion in Morocco is inviting condemnations in the Muslim-majority kingdom for running against the religious identity of the country.
"Moroccan law forbids abortion, lawyer Abdelmalik Zaza told Al-Tajdid newspaper, the mouthpiece of the ruling Islamist party JPD, reported Agence France-Presse (AFP).
Moroccan religious identity says it is forbidden and so does Islam. So the government cannot allow this ship to come to Morocco.
'Abortion Ship' Stirs Morocco SensitivitiesAbortion from an Islamic Perspective
A Dutch boat is set to arrive in Morocco on Thursday, October 4, to raise support for the legalization of abortion in the kingdom.
The boat, championed by Women on Wave non-profit organization, says it was invited by a local Moroccan organization, the Alternative Movement for Individual Liberties (MALI), to promote abortion in the country.
But the Moroccan government says the Dutch boat did not have permission to enter the country.
In a statement on Thursday, the health ministry called for preventing the ship from docking in Moroccan territorial waters.
It said abortion is a medical procedure governed by specific legal provisions that define the case of legal abortion.
Abortion is banned in Islam unless for health reasons.
While Islam permits preventing pregnancy for valid reasons, it does not allow doing violence to it once it occurs.
Muslim jurists have agreed unanimously that after the fetus is completely formed and has been given a soul, abortion is haram.
It is also a crime, the commission of which is prohibited to the Muslims because it constitutes an offense against a complete, living human being
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Moroccan activists also opposed a proposal by the Dutch NGO to perform abortion aboard the boat.
"It's true that the initiative is symbolic, to defend the rights of women to have abortions," Chafik Chraibi, the head of a Moroccan NGO that promotes abortion, told independent Moroccan daily Le Soir.
"But to practice abortion at sea, in international waters, is for me a way of circumventing the law and is something clandestine.
The Dutch non-profit organization alleges that between 600 and 800 abortions take place every day in Morocco.
"The problem is that only about 200 cases are done properly, by women who have money," Rebecca Gomperts, the founder of Women on Waves, said.
She insists that the rest resort to dangerous methods because they are unable to afford the expensive treatment.
This leads to the deaths of 78 Moroccan women each year on average, Gomperts claimed, citing statistics provided by the World Health Organization.
But Moroccan pro-life groups deny the figures.
"The figures on abortion are not right," Hannan Idrissi, a member of a Moroccan pro-life group, was quoted as saying by Al-Tajdid.
"The MALI movement that invited the ship is known for its disrespect for ethics and the dignity of Moroccan society.The abortion ship has already visited Ireland, Poland, Portugal and Spain, sparking protests in each country from pro-life groups.
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Zoe Saldana and Alice Eve prepared for the release of Star Trek 2 in BerlinZoe Saldana (in Calvin Klein) and Alice Eve (in Reem Acra) prepared for the release of their upcoming film Star Trek Into Darkness in Berlin. The sequel arrives in theaters May 17.Read MoreLess


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Krasnodar-Little Paris. The city is located on right to river bank Kuban, in 1350 km from Moscow, on border with Adygea. A city territory — 840 sq.km. Population of the city - 710,7 thousand inhabitants (2009) (18-th in Russia). -
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If you are tired of your job, of routine and everyday running, you need a vacations and good rest? Well then this location is write thing for you. Elunda - it's a small fisherman village located in Crete island. I have heart that lot of tourist love that place and now I understand why: -
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Spinalonga is a Spinalonga island - tiny dot of land and Cretan sea guarder! It's an island situated in the Bay of Elounda. The history of the name 'Spinalonga' is in itself subject to conjecture but it is widely accepted that its roots lie somewhere in the Olous, Olondi, Elounda location and the words meaning long and thorn. Spinalonga is actually the name of the sizeable but slender peninsula and on maps the small island is identifiable by the name Kalidon.


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FEMA Employee Pleads Guilty to Embezzling over $143,000
Greenbelt, Maryland - Sheila Ann Howard, age 56, of Capitol Heights, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to embezzling over $143,000 from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
The guilty plea was announced by United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Rod J. Rosenstein and Special Agent in Charge Michael Dawson of the Department of Homeland Security - Office of Inspector General, Washington Field Office.
According to her plea agreement, Sheila Howard began working at FEMA in 1986 and beginning in June 2008 was employed as a Human Resources Specialist. As part of her responsibilities, Howard processed payments through FEMA's Special Payroll Processing System, which handles payments that cannot be processed through the normal payroll system, such as cash awards and special bonuses, compensatory time payments and restored annual leave. Howard admits that between December 7, 2009 and March 31, 2011, she processed 28 fraudulent payments, totaling $143,414.39, in the names of 18 former FEMA employees, and one current FEMA employee. The payments were purportedly for compensatory time, restored annual leave, or cash awards and special bonuses. Each of these payments was deposited into one of four bank accounts associated with Howard. The FEMA employees were not aware of Howard's misuse of their names and other personal identification information in order to conduct the scheme.
Howard faces a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison and a fine of $250,000. U.S. District Judge Peter J. Messitte has scheduled sentencing for February 1, 2013.
United States Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein praised DHS Office of Inspector General for its work in the investigation. Mr. Rosenstein thanked Assistant U.S. Attorney Hollis Weisman, who is prosecuting the case.


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On Wednesday, October 21st at 10:00am the second annual Get Linked Conference gets started in Rainey Fine Arts Center. The conference is designed to get you (yes , you!) connected with a solid camp or missions organization this summer. Why sit and eat Hot Pockets on the couch when you can be trekking with shepherds in India or wakeboarding in Seattle? Plus you get paid! Camp life and mission trips around the world are breeding grounds for personal growth and change in your life. Yes, you can work at the local ice cream shop and date your girlfriend on the weekend, but is that really changing your life or even better- are you changing anyone else's life? Do not miss this opportunity to Get Linked to some of the best camp and mission sending organizations in the country. Pick up an application and some info from the tables in Merritt lobby following chapel and have brunch in the cafe. Come back by if you have questions at dinner. Let's go beyond! If you have questions visit our website.
Are you looking for quality camp staff or excited mission-minded students?
If you are a student, are you looking to do something with your summer besides sleep late and veg?
Then you do not want to miss this year's Get Linked Conference at Anderson University on October 21st. The Get Linked Conference at Anderson will connect you to camps and mission sending organizations that can help you develop as an adult and follower of Christ. The conference is free to our sponsors and our students. We understand that the 140+ students who served this past summer have been CHANGED. Do not miss out on this opportunity.
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This recipe has been featured in a post on The Recipe Girl blog: King Arthur Flour's Superdoodles.
Yield: 6 dozen cookies
Prep Time: 25 min
Cook Time: 10 min
This recipe makes a ton, so be prepare to gift them to friends!
1 cup shortening
1 1/2 cups granulated white sugar
2 large eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 3/4 cups (11 5/8 ounces) all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons cream of tartar
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 cups (12 ounces) cinnamon chips
cinnamon sugar (just sugar mixed with a little cinnamon)Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 400°F. Lightly grease (or line with parchment) two baking sheets.
2. Make dough: In a large bowl, use an electric mixer to beat together shortening and sugar until smooth, then add eggs, again beating until smooth. Beat in vanilla. In a separate bowl, whisk together flour, cream of tartar, baking soda and salt. Add the flour mixture to the wet slowly and mix just until combined. (If you overmix, the cookies may turn out a little tough.) Stir in the chips.
3. Shape cookies: Place cinnamon sugar in low flat bowl or cake pan. Roll dough into smallish (heaping teaspoonful) ball and put into the pan with the sugar. You can do about 6 balls at a time, roll them in the sugar and then place them on the prepared cookie sheet. Leave about 1 1/2 inches between each cookie (they do spread). Using the bottom of a glass, flatten each cookie until it's about 1/4-inch-thick and 1 1`/2-inches in diameter. Repeat until you've used up all of the dough.
4. Bake cookies for 10 or 11 minutes. They should be set and just starting to turn golden. Remove cookies from oven and cool on a rack. As they're cooling, very lightly dust them with ground cinnamon (a fine sieve or tea strainer both work well.)
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text: Okay, so I have been exercising now for 8 months at the "old" way of figuring heart rate...you know, the 220-your age. I then read about how it was important to figure in your fitness level by subtracting your resting heart rate. So, I did that. 220-40=180-53=127x70%=88.9+53=141.9 (142). That is the low end for my "cardio" work. Well, at 142 I can barely speak, sweating alot, and my legs are very tired. So, my question is has anyone else found this method to be totally off or am I, in spite of my lower resting heart rate, still in a lower fitness level? What ways do you use to measure heart rate and would you suggest I keep trying with these rates or go back to the old ones? It is important to note that I have a few symptoms of overtraining as well...inability to sleep, sore muscles, resting heart rate was 48 and went to 53.


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Teen Tied, Bottom Severely Spanked
This naughty teenager has misbehaved and when her teacher comes along to give her a spanking punishment to set her straight, she struggles against him.
She apparently does not appreciate all the time and effort her teacher is investing in her.
So for her own good, the teacher binds the wrists of this bad teen together and puts her over her pillow.
Now that she's calmed down a little, the teacher can finally administer a well deserved teen spanking.
Not too many Girls Boarding School spanking videos show teens bound and spanked. So this one was extra interesting!
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Hi all,
The toilet on the ground floor of our house has been backing up 3-4 times a week for a month now. This Sunday , it would not unclog and we noticed that when we flushed the two toilets on the upper level, the lower level toilet would fill up with brackish water. We called a plumber, but the soonest they can get to us is tomorrow afternoon. Tonight, the toilet exploded waste water over a 8 ft diameter area. My husband keeps flushing this backed up toliet, in hope of "clearing it". He's flushed it twice since the explosion. So, what is going on? Main line issue? Also, should we cease using any toilet in our house? Is my husband "1 beer short of a six pack" for repeatedly flushing a broken toilet? I keep telling him to leave it alone, as it looks like a big problem and flushing won't fix it, but he's being stubborn. Thanks,
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Unfortunatly this problem will probably only be solved with a hands on approach. Sounds like there is a clog in the main downstream from the three toilets. Waste water is backing up in the lowest toilet. Take Care, Dan |
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School: Enterprise Charter School
Type: Urban
Address: 275 Oak Street, Buffalo, NY, 14203
Phone number: 716.855.2114
Website: http://enterprisecharter.org/
Principal: Heather Lyon
Course #: EDU 201, EDU 311
Instructor: Leslie Day, Maria Ceprano
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The Enterprise Charter School offers an innovative school program based on supporting every child's knowledge, skills, and dispositions to grow and problem solve, giving them the resources to succeed in the school and become active in the community. Enterprise Charter School offers its students instruction based on the New York State Learning Standards and taught in multi-age classrooms. Enterprise Charter School has over 400 registered students. Level 1 will have two classrooms, while levels 2 (1st and 2nd grades) through 4 (7th and 8th grades) will have three multi-age classrooms each.
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DNA bar-coding the Welsh flora
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Small samples are removed from the herbarium specimens then sent to the University of Aberystwyth for the DNA extraction.
Staff: Tim Rich
The flora of Wales contains approximately 1,200 native and archaeophyte (i.e. introduced before 1500) species of higher plants. In collaboration with Prof. Mike Wilkinson of Aberystwyth and Dr Natasha de Vere of National Botanic Garden of Wales, we are currently undertaking a project to DNA barcode the Welsh flora.
DNA samples are taken from voucher specimens in the Welsh National Herbarium whose identification has been verified. DNA is extracted from the samples and sequence data collected for the two plant bar-coding genes matK and rbcL. The bar-code data can then be used for a range of applications including pollination studies.


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Founded in 1998, privately held IASIS Healthcare owns and operates community-focused hospitals in high growth urban and suburban markets. IASIS owns and operates 16 acute care hospitals and one behavioral health hospital throughout the U.S., including in Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Louisiana, Texas and Utah. In total, we have more than 3,800 licensed beds and employ more than 13,000 dedicated professionals.
Opened in April of 2005 with all private rooms and a commitment to make the patient experience as pleasant as possible.
Health Choice Arizona is a managed care organization that provides healthcare to people in Arizona's Medicaid Program, AHCCCS.


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Two months have passed since Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez left for Cuba, has not yet been seen
After 2 months absent, still no sign of Chavez
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -
Two months have passed since Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez climbed the stairs of the presidential jet, blew kisses to supporters and flew to Cuba to undergo cancer surgery.
Chavez hasn't been seen or spoken publicly since that departure to Havana on Dec. 10, and the mystery surrounding his condition has deepened even as the government's updates have remained optimistic but have lately offered few specifics.
Foreign Minister Elias Jaua said on Saturday that Chavez is recovering slowly but that he is convinced he "is also going to win this battle."
Some analysts say they expect that sooner or later, Chavez's delicate health could make necessary a new presidential election. Chavez's allies, however, insist the 58-year-old president remains in charge and they express optimism he will be able to return home.


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Nothing tempted me at crochetpatterncentral.com. Can anyone help me with a rectangular pattern? I want something that will breath over over Summer strappy cotton dresses for day, so openwork of some kind is called for. My yarn color is pink One Pound Caron. I have far too many capelet shaped and V-shaped shawls. Need a rectangle. Thank you. |
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Why not pick a pretty shell pattern and just make a rectangle the size you want? Maybe look thru a stitch pattern book and pick a new stitch that catches your eye and try that in a rectangle. For what it looks like you want, that's what I would do. Tami |
I made one of these a few months ago -- not with Vanna's yarn so you could use the yarn you have. Pattern calls for 21 oz but you could make it shorter - Caron has the Perfect Match in 7oz that matches the one pounder. It's pretty but may not be as open as you'd like. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Lion Brand - Sweet Scallops Shawl
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Posted on June 11, 2010 at 09:35 AM in Just plain silly, Patent-of-the-Week, Sports | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)
From: "Smith, Jeffrey A. (AU3625)" Greetings, You were recently invited to attend this year's annual Business Method's Partnership Meeting to be held on July 15, 2010. Regretfully, we must postpone this event. We recognize and appreciate our community's profound interest in Bilski v. Kappos currently before the United States Supreme Court, and inasmuch as we still await a decision in this case, we find it best to postpone this meeting to a future time when more guidance will be in place for this decision. We apologize for any inconvenience the postponement of this meeting may have caused. We will provide notice to you once we determine the best possible date for the rescheduling of this event. Sincerely, Jeff SmithSupervisory Patent Examiner A.U. 3625 Knox, Rm 5D05 |
On the positive side, if you were planning on making the trip from out-of-town, you are now spared one dose of D.C. humidity this summer.
Posted on June 11, 2010 at 08:43 AM in Bilski | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack (0)
U.S. Patent No. 7,680,786 Optimization of targeted advertisements based on user profile information Assignee: Yahoo! Inc. Issued: March 16, 2010 1. A method of targeting based on user information, the method comprising:identifying a set of keywords associated with content information requested by a user over a network; retrieving advertising information corresponding to said set of keywords; retrieving user profile information associated with said user, said user profile information comprising a user matrix, said user matrix comprises, for said set of keywords and said corresponding advertising information, click-through-rates associated with said user and a bid price for said advertising information; filtering said advertising information to select advertisements based on said bid price for said advertising information and said corresponding click-through-rate associated with said user identified in said user matrix for said set of keywords; and providing said advertising information selected to be displayed for said user in connection with said content information. |
In other words, an advertiser pays more to present its online ad to you when it knows you historically have a higher rate of clicking-through to presented online ads. That, of course, can only happen if somebody is keeping track of your click-through rate. While this may not be so different from other forms of targeted advertising based on user profiles, something about it feels closer to the "evil" end of the Google-motto-scale. (The University of Chicago part of me sees this as a kind of double price discrimination: a) the advertiser willing to pay the most gets the slot; and b) the price is further determined based on traits of the specific users. Of course, the users here are the real "product" being sold to the advertisers, so it's not quite the same. But still interesting.)
From the patent prosecution angle, there are two additional things to note. First, there was no Bilski rejection. Looks to me like the "network" is the only machine-like element explicitly mentioned.
Second, this patent is the first I've seen that went through the First-Action Interview Pilot Program. This program, which expired just last week, was set up for certain art units to allow applicants an opportunity to receive search results and interact with the examiner prior to a first action on the merits. Here's how that played out for Yahoo!:
- 10/30/06 - Yahoo files application
- 6/4/08 - Yahoo enrolls in pilot program
- 9/10/08 - PTO gives a "Preinterview first office action"
- 10/10/08 - Yahoo proposes amended claims
- 11/18/08 - Yahoo and PTO have interview to discuss proposed amendment - no resolution
- 12/9/08 - PTO issues "First Action Interview Office Action" rejecting claims
- 1/9/09 - Yahoo amends claims
- 4/1/09 - PTO issues Non-Final, "first" action on the merits
- 7/7/09 - Yahoo amends
- 10/28/09 - Allowance
By participating in the pilot program, Yahoo got two extra bites at the apple (by proposing amended claims after the "Preinterview" action, and again amending after the "First Action Interview" action), PLUS the interview. And all before a true "first action on the merits." It also appears that the examiner may have accelerated the examination of this application (though this was not an advertised feature of the program).
The pilot was extended once, to 4/1/2010. But there's been nothing about it being extended again. If anyone has seen statistics relating to the program, please feel free to share.
Posted on April 09, 2010 at 01:10 AM in Accelerated Examination, Bilski, Yahoo | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBack (0)
For searching purposes, the USPTO classifies patent applications according to their general subject matter. If you're the type to read the Patent Act cover-to-cover, you may already know that there is actually statutory authority for classification in 35 USC Section 8, which authorizes the Director to maintain a classification system "for the purpose of determining with readiness and accuracy the novelty of inventions for which applications for patent are filed." Currently, there are over 400 classes, and you can find them on the PTO site if you really are curious (or really are bored...) See MPEP 900 et seq. for more information.
One class that is worth watching, and is part of my weekly scan, is class 705, titled, "DATA PROCESSING: FINANCIAL, BUSINESS PRACTICE, MANAGEMENT, OR COST/PRICE DETERMINATION." Class 705 contains most of the so-called "business method" patents. Over the past couple years, a typical week would see about 45-65 patents issue from Class 705. Today that number jumped to 111. And, as shown in the chart below, it appears to be the latest point in an upwards trend.
The trend is highlighted by focusing on the 60 patent mark. From January through July 2009, only three times did the number of weekly issuances from Class 705 exceed 60. But from August 2009 through today, there have been only five weeks when the number was below 60.
This data runs counter to the CW that there would be a post-Bilski drop in the allowance of business method patents. (Potentially, anyway...it may be that there was a surge in non-business method applications from 705.)
Theories? Could it simply be more examiners being hired in the Art Units that deal with 705-type applications?
Posted on March 23, 2010 at 01:36 AM in Bilski, Trends | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBack (0)
Today, the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences responded appropriately in its Ex Parte Haines decision:
Section 101 rejection of claims 21-27 Appellant alleges that the USPTO has issued patents to others that contain "propagated signal claims." Appellant contends that the § 101 rejection of the instant claims is a violation of Appellant's rights under the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. App. Br. 14. However, Appellant has not cited any authority in support of the novel legal argument. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is not part of a state (or local) government, but an agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce. Cf. U.S. Const. amend. XIV, § 1 ("No State shall . . . deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."). We are not persuaded that the USPTO has violated Appellant's rights to equal protection of the laws under the Constitution.[FN1] [FN1]: Absent showing that the agency acted pursuant to some impermissible or arbitrary standard, an argument based on the equal protection component of the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment would also fail. See In re Boulevard Entertainment, Inc., 334 F.3d 1336, 1343 (Fed. Cir. 2003) (TTAB decision that affirmed the refusal to register marks containing the term "jack-off" did not violate equal protection principles, even though the USPTO had previously registered similar marks for other applicants). |
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U.S. Patent No. 7,672,868 Creating an incentive to author useful item reviews Assignee: Amazon.com 1. A method in a computer system for evaluating a creator of item reviews, comprising:causing the display of one or more item reviews submitted by the creator to a plurality of viewers; |
This application contains claims directed to the following patentably distinct species: Species I: Directed toward determining an author score based on a net number of positive and negative indications received for each of the reviews submitted by the author. |
"Independent and distinct," eh? Regardless, Amazon chose to not traverse, and now has two patents for its user review system (which I admit to finding very useful).
Speaking of user review systems, it is interesting that Internet recommendation engine Yelp appears to have no patents or published applications to its name. Do you think it could have avoided some of its recent troubles if its approach and algorithm for reviews were "patent pending" and publicized? Perhaps that would, as the WSJ blog suggests, let Yelp "find a way for [its] sales team to more clearly express to business owners how its filtering process works." Just sayin'.
[Actually, it looks like Yelp really should know about such patents. U.S. Patent No. 7,590,562 for the somewhat-related, "Product recommendations based on collaborative filtering of user data", is assigned to Google. But the inventor is listed as Michael Stoppelman, brother of Yelp founder Jeremy Stoppelman. A former Google employee, Michael apparently has now joined forces with brother at Yelp.]
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Thus begins the intriguing prosecution history of a patent that issued on Tuesday. (Yes, even three feet of snow and the PTO being shut down could not stop the weekly arrivals of issued patents.)
Here are the basics:
U.S. Patent No. 7,658,935 Methods and compositions for stimulating the immune system Inventor: Samuel Bogoch Filed: May 15, 2001 Lineage as filed (and published in U.S. Pub. 2002/0045187): Lineage as issued: |
Of course, there's more to
the story. By cutting the chain, all the previous links theoretically
become available as prior art under 102. Why only in theory?
Because the first severed-off application ("621) was abandoned and
unpublished -- and thus is unavailable as a 102(b) reference. And the
'621's parent, which blossomed into the '957 patent, issued in December
1990 -- less than one year prior to the August 1991 priority date of this
week's patent. (Surprisingly, the Applicant did not raise the
unavailability of the '957 patent when it was cited in a 102(b) rejection
along the way, instead choosing to argue on the merits.) And 102(e)
does not apply since the inventive entity is the same (not "by another").
In other words, a reference filed twenty years earlier (July 1981)
and not in the priority chain is unavailable as prior art. To this,
my brother would say, "Only in America. (or was that Don King...)"
But wait.. there's more. Late in the prosecution, the Applicant was
hit with a 112 written description rejection. The response?
Amend the specification to import language from the grandparent '649
application, thus giving the needed support to the claims. On the
surface, that seems fine -- the '649 application is in the priority chain,
after all, and it was incorporated by reference. [Note, however, that as of
October 2004, such an incorporation of "essential" material from an
unpublished application is not proper. 37 CFR 1.57(c).] The peculiarity here, however, is
that the '649 application and the '957 patent--not in the priority
chain--essentially share the same specification.
Talk about having your cake and eating it. In beating back the 112
rejection, the Applicant relied on language from a twenty-year old document
to provide support for his claims; yet the Applicant distanced himself from
that same document in order to avoid early expiration.
And it all
appears to be legit. Fascinating.
Posted on February 12, 2010 at 04:00 PM in Expiration dates, Lengthy Prosecutions | Permalink | Comments (6) | TrackBack (0)
In addition to various sessions with judges of the Board, the conference will feature a panel discussion with Chief Judge Michel and Judge Rader of the Federal Circuit, and a luncheon speech from Director Kappos.
This sounds like it could be an excellent event.Posted on February 08, 2010 at 02:16 PM in BPAI | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
So what are the odds that only the 23rd patent granted to a Punxsutawney inventor in the last 35 years just so happens to issue on Groundhog Day?
Coincidence? You decide.
Could it be that Mr. Manners is trying to upstage Phil on his big day?
Conspiracy theorists, chime in, please.
U.S. Patent No. 7,655,109 Floor covering lifting and removal hand tool Inventor: Herbert C. Manners, Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania Issued: February 2, 2010
Posted on February 02, 2010 at 06:00 PM in Just plain silly | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)
U.S. Patent No. 7,654,265 Condom valve Inventor: Attila Mady Issued: February 2, 2010 1. A condom having a valved geometry, said condom comprising a first layer and a second layer of a material that is capable of providing a barrier to the passage of bodily fluids, microorganisms and viruses, with said first layer and second layer configured in an overlapping fashion to form a plicated membrane valve at a distal portion of the condom, with said first and second layers further configured such that they are tightly apposed to the glans penis, with said condom further including a reservoir for retaining ejaculate at a distal tip of the condom, and wherein said plicated membrane valve is configured such that the aforesaid first and second layers may separate and the membrane valve may open under pressure provided from the urethra to transmit ejaculate therefrom, permitting emission of semen from the reservoir to an area outside of the confines of the condom in the region corresponding to and physically approximated to the introitus of the urethra, to prevent build-up of fluid at the tip of said condom and to permit impregnation of the female partner engaged in sexual intercourse. |
I won't post all the details here (you're welcome), but it is worth reading the specification for entertainment (example: this is probably the first patent to use the words "surgically affixed", "Crazy Glue", "condom" and "shaft" in the same sentence. Ouch.)
You have to admire the patience of the examiner, though. Consider this snippet from the first of four interview summaries:
Applicant notified examiner of his displeasure stemming from his experience during prosecution of a different pending utility application. Examiner alerted applicant that he was not the examiner of record in the other pending application. Applicant maintained that his experience thus far with the PTO may be due to his lack of representation by an attorney. Examiner informed applicant that it is his intention to assist applicant throughout prosecution. Applicant maintained that examiner's rejections based on the prior art...were spurious.Really?? An attorney might help? Ya' think? And recall that this is the inventor who actually did hire an attorney for a quick hit to respond to a messy 112 rejection in his previous patent...only to revoke the POA shortly thereafter.
We'll keep an eye out for more of Dr. Mady's patents in the future. Fun stuff.
Posted on February 02, 2010 at 01:56 PM in Accelerated Examination, Just plain silly, Patent-of-the-Week | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack (0)


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Thanks for the offer, just too big for me.
I'm wanting it for a summer board. I have a baked potato now that is great but it's ruining me for my high performance board. Just too easy and it makes me soft. When the real swells start coming at the end of the summer/fall I have to blow several sessions to get back into the swing of things. I figure if I work a little harder in the summer it will pay off in the winter.
Definitely the quad. All of my small wave boards I ride the quad set up. They seem way faster without that center fin drag, at least to me.
Well I suck backside so I don't know if it's the board, the fins, or just me. It will be interesting this summer because my winter board is a quad but last spring I busted a fin box. After the repair I didn't trust the fix and started riding it as a tri and have ridden that board that way all winter. It should be fun to feel the quad again and see if it is as fast as I remember.


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Last fall I purchased number of things at the Native Plant Society sale. I am excited about the climbing hydrangea but after reading about it's robust growth habits I am uncertain where to put it. I don't want it to climb on the garage, house or deck, since we need to paint or powerwash regularly. I saw a mention online where it can grow on a tree. Would that eventually kill the tree? We do have one tree right in the yard that would be in sight, get good sun etc. Another tree option is a healthy pine, near edge of the woods, where we could still see the flowers. The only other option is at the water's edge there is a stone retaining wall, with rip rap going to the waters edge. It's not MY wall, although it does cross our property line. I think a flowering vine would enhance the ugly wall. But I wouldn't want to be responsible for damage to the wall. The neighbor isn't in residence. And because we've had some previous disagreements about the wall being on my property, I don't want to ask. If it won't do much harm, I'd just go ahead and give it a try.
Any thoughts or suggestions of where to place this beauty ? |
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First off, I find it unnerving that someone selling at a "Native Plant Society sale" is calling it climbing hydrangea!?! It creates a false aire of nativity (since the unresearched will assume both showier-flowering Asian species are American natives.) That rant aside, I presume your "climbing hydrangea" is Decumaria barbara (aka woodvamp). This vine is better in partial sun to partial shade (or on the north-facing side of a tree). Avoid planting it on the pine, since the pine prospers in natural soil without lots of wetness and the vine is better in moist to wet soils. And yes, avoid any potential riff-raff with the neighbor and property line stuff for sure. The other tree (the one you say is "in sight") may be the better choice, as long as it's already tall and the trunk is open/exposed for the bottom 15 feet to help get the vine established over these first five to 10 years. You can let woodvamp grow like a groundcover, but it won't bloom gorwing that way. Vertical growth (hormone production and distribution in the plant) causes flower production. One last idea is to go get a 20-30 foot wood "telephone" pole and erect it on your property specifically for the woodvamp vine. Doubt it's practical. :( |
Dear gusolie, I'm sure you must feel better after taking that little snort at the Native Plant Society; however, I must say that if you took a moment to investigate _Decumaria barbara_ on the Internet, you would find that one of its common names is "native climbing hydrangea." Why, then, should there any more horticultural confusion than normal--among the researched and the unresearched? Are the researched and the unresearched a subset of the washed and the unwashed? |
From the professional perspective...yes, if you have a large tree with fairly smooth bark a climbing hydrangea would be an interesting addition to your landscape. At maturity blossoms cascade from the tree top. An interesting sight. No comment on your neighbor/wall problem. As you know, the climbing hydrangea clings to a support or rock wall by rootlets, similar to ivy. This network of roots is very visible during the dormant period. Some time ago I visited a large estate on the Hudson River cared for by a dedicated gardener. There was a granite stone wall about 4' in height surrounding the property. Much to my amazement this gardener had carefully trained one climbing hydrangea single branch along the top of the flat wall to a distance of at least two football fields. A labor of love covering many years of trimming and training and an example of how some of us in the horticultural world challenge ourselves with interesting projects. |
- Posted by lakemurrayfish 7a SC (My Page) on Mon, Mar 12, 12 at 20:48
Thanks for your thoughtful answers. I'm excited to try the tree. I mostly have container plants, so I'm really steppin out by setting this lovely free. hmmm, now what to do with the Pipevine? That can be my next post. |
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