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Posted at 01:24 PM in Books | Permalink | Comments (0)
Shuji Nakamura was one of three who shared the Nobel in Physics this week.
Prof. Nakamura, who now teaches at UCSB, was also the plaintiff under Article 35 of the Japanese Patent Act against his former employer Nichia. Article 35 provides a right to reasonable compensation for inventors. The court of original jurisdiction awarded almost $200 million to Prof. Nakamura before the case settled while an appeal was pending for $8 million. See the excellent summary here.
In other news, former patent lawyer Craig Gentry took home a MacArthur Genius Grant this year for his work on fully homomorphic encryption.
Posted at 12:37 PM in IP Ownership, Science | Permalink | Comments (0)
To finish what we started and build an actual Nikola Tesla Science Center...And Musk says yes!
@Oatmeal I would be happy to help— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 14, 2014
Posted at 01:02 PM in Social Networks | Permalink | Comments (0)
To most people, capital means a bank account, a hundred shares of IBM stock, assembly lines, or steel plants in the Chicago area. These are all forms of capital in the sense that they are assets that yield income and other useful outputs over long periods of time.
But such tangible forms of capital are not the only type of capital. Schooling, a computer training course, expenditures on medical care, and lectures on the virtues of punctuality and honesty are also capital. That is because they raise earnings, improve health, or add to a person's good habits over much of his lifetime. Therefore, economists regard expenditures on education, training, medical care, and so on as investments in human capital. They are called human capital because people cannot be separated from their knowledge, skills, health, or values in the way they can be separated from their financial and physical assets.
- Gary Becker on "Human Capital" at the Library of Economics and Liberty
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Social media is, in effect, the administration and organization of people, similar to what businesses, governments, institutions, and religious organizations do in worlds offline. The software industry has, however, been generally skeptical of comparing its work with anything that might resemble a political, cultural, or spiritual process, due to its self-image as a secular and "scientific" enterprise.Recently, Larry Lessig and others have compared law to source code. The analogy is compelling for a variety of reasons. But one not necessarily emphasized is that the analogy may actually be exact when run in reverse — i.e., code is law. The analogy works not merely because when organizations carry out procedures and implement rules embodied in law they are like machines processing source code, but because the procedures and rules codified (!) in law reflect the culture of an organization. That is not a new idea. In The Common Law (1902), Holmes recognized that "The life of the law has not been logic: it has been experience." But it is a profound and deeply subversive one in a world being eaten by software.
Posted at 09:28 AM in Regulatory Systems, Social Networks | Permalink | Comments (0)
Two years ago, we did a program about a mysterious business in Texas that threatens companies with lawsuits for violating its patents. But the world of patent lawsuits is so secretive, there were basic questions we could not answer. Now we can. And we get a glimpse why people say our patent system may be discouraging, not encouraging, innovation.
NPR did a good job here overall, although the story is told from a naive and skeptical view of the patent system. There were a couple of things hinted at in the story, which I really like. First there is the suggestion (made express in a few places) that license terms ought not to be so private. I agree with this, and Nathan Myhrvold and Mark Lemley even suggested that more public disclosure would be necessary for a thicker market in patent rights to develop. Historically, corporate charters and patents have the same origin. Corporate charters that have a wide public impact are subject to also sorts of reporting requirements now (SOX, SEC, etc.). Why shouldn't patents that have such a wide public impact be subject to the same disclosure requirements? It's no answer to say that this would put licensors at a competitive disadvantage so long as the same rules applied to everybody. Too bad IV isn't leading in this regard instead of getting dragged kicking and screaming into more transparency.
Second, there is the suggestion (again made express in a few places, especially in description of the cotton gin) that patents enable dissemination of knowledge in ways beyond simply public disclosure of their specification. Critics of the patent system are after a red herring when they focus attention on the dubious quality of specifications as enabling. The social value of a specification is primarily found in what it provides as evidence of what was known by inventors (and their employer) as of a certain point in time. This aspect of the social value of patents is best understood within the asset partition theory framework advanced by Paul G. Heald (within the larger theory presented by Hansmann and Kraakman).
See also the official public response from IV here.
Posted at 11:18 AM in IP Valuation, Macroeconomics, Microeconomics, Patents, Regulatory Systems | Permalink | Comments (0)
I'm intrigued by the way crowdsourced funding is upsetting the balance of power in financing new films, and companies. The basic trend is toward less and less friction (or what Coase calls "transaction costs") in obtaining financing. At the limit, we have perfectly efficient financing in which ideas receive funding up to the opportunity cost of capital (i.e., up to the next best startup or film that could have been funded). Five years ago, things looked grim thanks to the costs of SOX and the resulting shift of new listings overseas. Technology to the rescue! Gives warm fuzzies to those who tend to be more pessimistic.
But is there less friction for inventors and patentees? Maybe a little, but not the dramatic shift we've seen in private equity financing. And why not? Here things get murky. Looking at equity financing, we can see that at least part of the reason crowdsourced financing has taken off is because of the new "exit" opportunities it offers. At least in relative terms, people prefer what they get from contributing on kickstarter to watching their money go down the tubes in a Facebook IPO. Are there new exit opportunities for inventors and patentees? Nope. It's the same exit opportunities that have always been there. So is there less friction? Maybe a little less. But without the new exit opportunities, it's unclear whether what appears to be reduced friction for inventors and patentees is, in fact, improved allocative efficiency, or whether instead it's an opportunistic redistribution of wealth. We shall see.
Regardless, it's worth asking: if we could dramatically reduce the friction for inventors and patentees, would the public at large view the patent system as more effective or less effective at its goal of promoting innovation? The answer, I think, depends not on whether friction is reduced, but how. It seems to me that there is simply no (lasting) benefit to any stakeholder in the patent system to reducing the friction in reallocations of ownership until the friction in exits can be reduced even further. Universities avoid the problem by limiting the intake to their pipeline, which is wiser than clogging it up with inventory that goes stale. What's the new exit? That's the billion dollar question to be answered by anybody with an interest in seeing the patent system evolve.
Posted at 11:13 AM in Blegs, Broken Symmetries, Competition, Current Affairs, Endogenous Growth, Macroeconomics, Microeconomics, Private Equity, Public Equity, Venture Capital | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
we have explicitly proposed a novel physical connection between adaptive behavior and entropy maximizationThey get some pretty interesting results from some parsimonious assumptions. See also this earlier post linking to the work by Kaila and Annila on the Principle of Least Action and the Second Law.
Posted at 09:12 AM in Broken Symmetries | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
I have to say that as I look at the plots above, I'm struck by their similarity to plots for physical processes like chemical reactions. It's as if all those humans, with all the complexities of their lives, still behave in aggregate a bit like molecules—with certain "reaction rates" to enter into relationships, marry, etc.
Posted at 12:48 PM in Digital Networks, Facebook, Nature, Social Networks | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
This paper provides a tractable theoretical framework for the study of the economic forces shap- ing the relationship between the structure of the financial network and systemic risk. We show that as long as the magnitude (or the number) of negative shocks is below a critical threshold, a more equal distribution of interbank obligations leads to less fragility. In particular, all else equal, the sparsely connected ring financial network (corresponding to a credit chain) is the most fragile of all configura- tions, whereas the highly interconnected complete financial network is the configuration least prone to contagion. In line with the observations made by Allen and Gale (2000), our results establish that, in the more complete networks, the losses of a distressed bank are passed to a larger number of counterparties, guaranteeing a more efficient use of the excess liquidity in the system in forestalling defaults.
We also show that when negative shocks are larger than a certain threshold, the second view on the relationship between the structure of the financial network and the extent of contagion prevails. In particular, completeness is no longer a guarantee for stability. Rather, in the face of large shocks, financial networks in which banks are only weakly connected to one another would be less prone to systemic failures. Such a "phase transition" is due to the fact that, the senior liabilities of banks, as well as the excess liquidity within the financial network, can act as shock absorbers. Weak interconnections guarantee that the more senior creditors of a distressed bank bear most of the losses and hence, protect the rest of the system against cascading defaults.
The model of cash-flow among the banks (see equation 1 at section 2.4) has at least some superficial similarities to a 2-D Ising Model, and the authors could probably capture the dynamics they're modeling with an even more parsimonious model than they've given in this paper. But it's encouraging to see economists moving in this direction. See An Economy Made of Glass.
On a not unrelated-note, they solve for equilibrium here with Brouwer's Fixed Point Theorem. I am aware of a historical explanation for this, but it still surprises me to see models being set up to be solved this way given the instrumental challenge of testing the same models with empirical data. I have an ongoing and unfulfilled wish to see folks like Acemoglu et al. take the time to meet and discuss their models with folks like Jon Kleinberg and Steve Strogatz at Cornell. Economists just don't seem to be getting enough leverage out of the more recent applied math on networks or glass transitions.
Posted at 09:05 PM in Macroeconomics | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack (0)
From William H. Press and Freeman J. Dyson
The two-player Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma game is a model for both sentient and evolutionary behaviors, especially including the emergence of cooperation. It is generally assumed that there exists no simple ultimatum strategy whereby one player can enforce a unilateral claim to an unfair share of rewards. Here, we show that such strategies unexpectedly do exist. In particular, a player X who is witting of these strategies can (i) deterministically set her opponent Y's score, independently of his strategy or response, or (ii) enforce an extortionate linear relation between her and his scores. Against such a player, an evolutionary player's best response is to accede to the extortion. Only a player with a theory of mind about his opponent can do better, in which case Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma is an Ultimatum Game.Personally, I kind of enjoy living in a world in which a fundamental "truths" about things as abstract and oversimplified as the prisoners' dilemma can turn out to be incorrect for so long. Still trying to understand and wrap my head around these results.
Posted at 10:11 AM in Broken Symmetries, Cultural Norms, Evolution (BVSR) | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
A key assumption of today's standard account of patents is that, absent patent protection, all products would generally be purchased in a competitive market. However, the first regularized patent system appeared during the Renaissance in the Venetian Republic, which was a highly regulated economy. In the Venetian economy, many types of products - particularly, artisanal or technological products - could typically be produced and sold only by artisan and merchant guilds. One important exception to the guilds' monopolies were 'patents,' which initially provided non-guild members - particularly foreigners - the privilege of being able to sell products and practice methods that were otherwise within the sole province of the guilds. Directly contrary to the view that patents tend to diminish competition, patents in the Venetian Republic enabled a new kind of competition from outside of the guild system. This article explores the role patents played in promoting competition in the Venetian Republic. This exploration is important for understanding not only the historical genesis of the patent system, but also in gaining a deeper understanding of the patent system today.
SSRN link here.
According to their account, the patent system in Venice was setup initially to give talented foreigners a chance at competing with the entrenched guilds. The same agency responsible for immigration was also responsible for examining and granting patents.
Meanwhile, in Silicon Valley, we're sending talented immigrants home after we're done educating them.
Posted at 10:06 AM in History, IP Ownership, Private Equity, Regulatory Systems | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
As a culture, why shouldn't we be equally concerned with answering a related question -- i.e., have corporations, and especially their R&D groups, gotten close enough to Universities? I take it nobody would have any concern if corporate R&D groups were to become more open in publishing their results, disseminating their knowledge, and even teaching new engineers and scientists.
The poorly kept secret is that there aren't anymore corporate R&D labs like that. Bell Labs is gone. IBM labs are not what they used to be. So Stanford has stepped in to fill the gap. Should we be mourning the loss of its pure curiosity-driven culture -- a culture that probably never existed at Stanford anyway? No there are other universities that do that better. Note that Gerhard Casper, quoted in a few places in the article, hails from Chicago.
It's not wise to pass judgement on Stanford's culture without considering how it fits within the larger ecosystem.
Posted at 12:46 PM in Endogenous Growth, Regulatory Systems, Science | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
So a typical company in manufacturing might do 8 inventory turns. Samsung does 17. Dell, which practically invented hardcore electronics supply chain management, does 36. Apple is doing 74!Click through to Gartner to get the full report.
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The time has come to enact national legislation that provides clear record title to patent applications and patents. The value of patents is too great to continue with the present system. Moreover, patents are a federal right and should be addressed at a federal level. A national system would harmonize U.S. law with those of other countries, which generally have a national system for recordation of patent rights. Recently, the Patent Office proposed rules that would require disclosure of any assignee of patent rights. But these rules simply do not go far enough. Legislation is necessary in order to provide a comprehensive internationally recognized system that assures the recordation of patent title, security interests, and other encumbrances through filings solely in the Patent Office.See also Patent Reform through the Creation of Economic Facts. A few years ago, I suggested here that an econometric analysis of patented features that focused on frequency-averaged measures of sales and manufacturing might be useful as a mechanism for valuing patents. That is way too complicated to be workable right now at least. But with reliable information about ownership and prior licensing of a portfolio available, comparable-based patent valuations would become more feasible for the many market participants who do not come with their own private database of such information.
Posted at 11:13 AM in IP Valuation, Patents, Regulatory Systems | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
The last bit brings to mind Franklin's reply to the woman who asked him, immediately after the Constitutional Convention adjourned, what kind of government had they had given us. I guess we've done alright by Franklin so far.
But here is the irony. All this high‐toned government, the unelected and long‐termed Governors of the Federal Reserve, supported by Senators and Representatives serving for decades these establishment figures are the ones who have created the current mess. They did nothing to curb budget deficits or to reform entitlements when it might have been done less painfully. They wallowed in earmarks and budget gimmickry, set unrealistically low interest rates, borrowed ever‐increasing sums of money to satisfy current expenses, and made promises that are unsustainable but somehow never get contained. And it is the placard‐waving, Jeffersonian common horde flocking to town halls and filling town squares, who have become the champions of Hamiltonian concern for the long run: "Spend less, tax less and borrow less," they say. Bring back the Hamiltonian dream, where penniless bastards from nowhere can rise by the sheer force of intellect, hard work, and audacity to succeed in an America that prefers opportunity to entitlement, that lets losing businesses fail, and winning businesses make serious money.
How ironic it will be if Hamilton's dream of a national blessing were restored by the very low‐toned, democratic, unruly politics that he thought incapable of it.
Posted at 09:40 AM in History, Macroeconomics | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
How much would you pay to play a game in which a coin was flipped, and each time it landed heads the payout was doubled from a starting value of $1? The expected value of this game is not finite, and yet most people are not willing to pay more than a few bucks for it, much less borrow to play.
This is the so-called St. Petersburg Paradox. The earliest solution was proposed by Bernoulli, who suggested that the value people attached to their wealth went as a logarithmic rather than linear function of increasing wealth. Given that assumption, he calculated the amount a person should be willing to wager as log(change in wealth due to payout from lottery) - log (wealth - wager).
But this calculation is not quite correct even though it resolves the paradox by explaining why most people won't wager much: People won't wager much because that logarithm runs off to infinity fast as the wager approaches even a fraction of wealth -- producing a zero in the denominator.
One way to see that this calculation is incorrect is because it treats the wager as a static cost, existing independent of how the payoff increases with increasing flips. Another way to say the same thing is that the wager has time-value in the form of interest. So the expected value and the wager should be treated together in the utility function in successive flips of the coin. What you should wager depends not just on how much, but when the payoff comes.
Ole Peters tells the full story of the St. Petersburg Paradox, including the errors in its analysis later introduced by economist Karl Menger, and propagated by Arrow and Samuelson, in glorious detail here.
I am grateful to Rick Bookstaber for pointing me to the paper.
"So what?" you might ask. Well, if one gets into the habit of treating economic variables as time-series rather than ensemble averages -- as the correction demands -- then one immediately is forced out into the realm of non-equilibrium statistical mechanics and dynamics.
Ole Peters and Alexander Adamou have already proposed a correction to EMH. According to them, it is not prices that are efficient and cannot be arbitraged, but rather the use of leverage to produce larger than logarithmic gains.
I'm completely drowning in patent litigation right now, but eventually I would like to offer some thoughts on what these papers mean for competition and innovation policy. What should be considered analogous to leverage in intellectual property markets?
The potential implications for investors are also interesting and need to be thought through. Do we now have a quantitative insight into how and why so many of the investors who have consistently beat the market over the past few decades have advised against leverage. Buffett, in particular, is famous from eschewing leverage and advising others to do the same.
Posted at 01:49 PM in History, Macroeconomics, Mathematics, Microeconomics | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
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Section 3. First Inventor to File
Amends 35 U.S.C. § 102 to redefine prior art as anything patented, published, on sale, or in public use before filing, or any patent application filed by another before the effective filing date of the claimed invention.
Eliminates most interference proceedings. (Derivation proceedings for allegedly copied remain available.)
Effective Date
18-months after the date of enactment, applying to any patent filed or claiming priority to a patent filed thereafter
Practice Notes
Clients have six months after enactment to educate inventors about the elimination of the 1-year grace period, and need to get a patent application on file.
Section 4. INVENTOR'S OATH OR DECLARATION
Amends 35 U.S.C. § 115 to permit applicants to make a "substitute statement" in lieu of an oath or declaration when an inventor is deceased, under legal incapacity, or cannot be found or reached after diligent effort."
Amends 35 U.S.C. § 118 to permit applicants to apply on behalf of inventors when "the inventor has assigned or is under an obligation to assign." Until now, applicants were permitted to apply on behalf of an inventor only when the inventor could not be found or reached after diligent effort.
Effective Date
One year after the date of enactment, applying to any patent application filed on or after that date
Practice Notes
Section 4 will streamline the process of obtaining oaths or declarations, a process which under the current rules has been a hassle, especially in locating former employees upon the filing of continuations or divisionals of an original application.
Section 5. Prior COMMERCIAL Use DEFENSE
This section expands the prior user defense under 35 U.S.C. § 173, currently is available only for business method patents, to all patents.
The prior user bears the burden of showing a prior use of the claimed invention more than a year before the priority date of the claimed invention. Such prior uses would be a valid defense even if kept confidential.
The defense is personal to the prior user and non-transferable except for transfers of an entire enterprise or line of business, and then only for prior uses at the same site.
The defense is unavailable to prior users when the invention was owned by or under obligation of assignment to a university at the time the invention was made. There is an exception to this exception for when federal funding was required to reduce the invention to practice.
Effective Date
Date of enactment, applying to any patent issued on or after.
Practice Notes
We expect the prior user defense could be valuable to defendants in software patent litigations, although the defense is available only to patents issuing after the date of enactment, and we have some concerns with how such a defense would fit within overall case strategy.
Section 6. POST-GRANT REVIEW PROCEEDINGS
Creates a European-style opposition proceeding, whereby third parties may challenge the patentability of an issued patent in an inter partes proceeding before the PTO within one year after a patent issues.
Like inter partes reexaminations, these post-grant review proceedings will have a preclusive effect on the party who brings them — i.e., that party may not assert either in a civil action or ITC action a defense of invalidity on any ground raised or that could have been raised during the post-grant review proceeding.
Effective Date
One-year after date of enactment, applying to any patents issued before, on, or after that date.
Practice Notes
Based on experience with inter partes reexamination proceedings, we do not expect post-grant review to provide much help for defendants in patent litigation. Many venues do not grant stays pending reexamination, and in general the PTO is more friendly to patentees than the district courts. Nonetheless the procedure may be useful in narrow circumstances, such as when a European counterpart has already been rejected in an Opposition proceeding and a U.S. patent issues.
Section 9. VENUE
Changes venue from appeals of PTO decisions that are now filed in the District of D.C. to the Eastern District of Virginia, which is closer to the new PTO headquarters.
Effective Date
Date of enactment, applying to any civil action filed on or after
Practice Notes
We generally recommend that appeals be made to the Federal Circuit when that alternative is available, and the PTO has recently taken the position that many issues that have been appealed to the D.D.C. (such as appeal of B.P.A.I. decisions in reexamination) are now subject only to appeal in the Federal Circuit.
Section 10. FEE SETTING AUTHORITY
Gives PTO fee-setting authority and control of fees subject to limited Congressional oversight. Please contact us for additional details if you would like to know more about these provisions.
Also gives universities micro-entity status and hence reduced filing fees.
Effective Date
Date of enactment
Practice Notes
Along with Section 22, this was one of the most contentious sections in the bill, since the House Appropriations Committee has never given plenary authority to an Executive agency to manage its own budget. H.R. 1249 represents a political compromise, which was approved by PTO Director David Kappos and the Obama Administration
Section 14. TAX STRATEGIES DEEMED WITHIN THE PRIOR ART
Deems tax strategies "insufficient to differentiate a claimed invention from the prior art," and not indistinguishable from other information available to the public that is relevant to a patent's claim of originality.
Software that enables individuals to file their income tax returns is specifically excluded from this section — i.e., such software patents would not be deemed invalid merely as a result of this section
H.R. 1249 would also permit the PTO to seek advice and assistance from the Department of Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service to ensure that patents to do not infringe on the ability of others to interpret the tax law and that implementing such interpretations remains in the public domain.
Effective Date
Date of enactment, applying to any patent application that is pending on, or filed on or after, that date, and to any patent that is issued on or after that date
Practice Notes
Clients should contact us if they have concerns about whether particular claims might be deemed invalid under this provision.
Section 15. BEST MODE REQUIREMENT
Removes as a defense to patent infringement the patentee's failure to comply with the best mode requirement. (The "best mode" is currently required in patent applications to describe how an invention should be used)
Effective Date
Date of enactment, applying to proceedings commenced on or after that date.
Practice Notes
Best mode defenses are rarely successful, and this Section merely codifies the practical reality that has existed for some time under Federal Circuit common law.
Section 16. Marking
Allow a manufacturer to write the word "patent" or "pat." on a product, along with a reference to an internet website that the public can access free of charge to learn more about the specific patent.
Eliminates most liability for false marking
Effective Date
Date of enactment, applying to all cases, without exception, that are pending on, or commenced on or after, the date of the enactment of this Act
Practice Notes
Gives statutory approval to a practice already common among patent owners. Puts a damper on cottage industry of qui tam litigation for false marking
Section 17. ADVICE OF COUNSEL
Codifies holding of In re Seagate Technology, LLC, 497 F. 3d 1360 (Fed. Cir. 2007), which held that failure to obtain advice of counsel may not be used to prove willful infringement.
Effective Date
Not clearly specified
Practice Notes
MWE represented Seagate in the appeal that resulted in this holding. Please contact us if you'd like additional details.
Section 19. JURISDICTION AND PROCEDURAL MATTERS
Includes general prohibition against joinder of multiple defendants in a single lawsuit for infringement of the same patent by different accused products
Effective Date
Date of enactment, applying to any lawsuits followed on or after that date.
Practice Notes
Could bring end to what is now a common practice by NPEs.
Section 23. SATELLITE OFFICES
Requires the Director to establish three or more satellite offices within a three-year window, subject to available resources, to carry out the responsibilities of the PTO
Section 26. PRIORITY EXAMINATION
Requires that the PTO establish regulations that prioritize examination of applications for products, processes, or technologies that are important to the national economy or national competitiveness without recovering the aggregate extra cost of providing such prioritization
Creates a "Track I" fee of $4,800 that would allow an inventor to receive a "prioritized" examination of his or her patent
Posted at 06:09 PM in Patents | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
The patent pledge doesn't fix every problem with patents. It won't stop patent trolls, for example; they're already pariahs. But the problem the patent pledge does fix may be more serious than the problem of patent trolls. Patent trolls are just parasites. A clumsy parasite may occasionally kill the host, but that's not its goal. Whereas companies that sue startups for patent infringement generally do it with explicit goal of keeping their product off the market.
I like the idea of introducing private solutions. I've personally worked on a few. An underlying problem is that the economics of innovation are quite different for different technologies, so even if the law applied the same way (which is doesn't; claim construction is rarely an issue in claims to chemical compounds), the balance between stronger and weaker patent rights would be different.
It's worth noting that the pledge wouldn't affect any of the litigations I currently work on, or even any litigation I have ever worked on. Patent infringement lawsuits against startups (not founded by non-former employees) are a very recent development, which can be linked to the large-scale aggregation of patents by non-practicing entities over the past ten years.
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Suppose you're allocating computer memory to local variables associated with a host of objects (maybe millions). You need to free up that memory when an object is no longer needed. So you need a way to be able to tell whether the memory still has any local variables still in use pointing to it.
This can be visualized as a directed graph. The set of nodes with only outgoing edges are the variables still in use. The nodes with no incoming edges represent the memory no longer in use.
And it appears that at any given moment, the set of nodes with no incoming edges will always form a cycle -- eddies in the directed graph that represents your memory allocation.
For some reason, I find that aesthetically satisfying.
Posted at 10:38 AM in Digital Networks, Turbulence | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)
The basic premise is simple. Provide people with information about their actions in real time (or something close to it), then give them an opportunity to change those actions, pushing them toward better behaviors. Action, information, reaction. It's the operating principle behind a home thermostat, which fires the furnace to maintain a specific temperature, or the consumption display in a Toyota Prius, which tends to turn drivers into so-called hypermilers trying to wring every last mile from the gas tank. But the simplicity of feedback loops is deceptive.Via Farnam Street.
I hadn't heard about Bandura's work in the 1960s, although I find that he was cited in Csikszentmihalyi's Flow in passing. It was unclear from the citation how much of an influence he was on C.'s own theory. Although C. does not emphasize flow as a feedback loop, from a systemic perspective that is pretty much what one observes when people are in a state of flow. The topologies get complicated since many experiences of flow involve other people. Think of a jazz quartet and its audience -- live and for its recordings. Or of Congress and the stock market.
I like how this dovetails neatly in with Dweck's mindset theory also. The fixed mindset interrupts any feedback loop, and hence disrupts learning. But too little self-criticism and introspection and there is no feedback.
One of C.'s observations in Creativity is that creative individuals often lose a parent early in life. It seems to me that one would have to develop a capacity for self-criticism earlier on in that instance. Perhaps such individuals have a better capacity for self-generating feedback than do the rest of us, who are looking to others -- especially family -- for queues as to whether we are doing well at this ambiguous assignment that is our existence.
Posted at 11:50 AM in Flow, Neural Networks, Regulatory Systems, Social Networks | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Mea Vita offers interesting insight into Apple's development procees:
Before writing any production code, we'd write our unit tests. All software engineers should be taught to write their API unit tests first – it's a good discipline to learn. Next, we coded using WebObjects/Java with Eclipse/WOLips and we always ran the app in debug mode with key break points so that we could step through the code. I've frequently seen too many software engineers, elsewhere, who just code away as if they're throwing something against the wall to see what sticks.
Here's what wikipedia says about unit testing:
Each unit test can be seen as a design element specifying classes, methods, and observable behaviour. ... It is true that unit testing lacks some of the accessibility of a diagram, but UML diagrams are now easily generated for most modern languages by free tools (usually available as extensions to IDEs). Free tools, like those based on the xUnit framework, outsource to another system the graphical rendering of a view for human consumption.
Can any BS readers offer a view on whether or not a claim to units would be easier to construe to determine patentability, validity, infringement than a single-English-sentence claim?
More generally, I often wonder how the practice of claiming chemical structures was first adopted and approved by the PTO. What would it take to get the PTO to require software to be claimed in a new way?
Posted at 09:59 AM in Patents | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Since 1790, the patent law has operated on the premise that rights in an invention belong to the inventor. The question here is whether the University and Small Busi-ness Patent Procedures Act of 1980—commonly referred toas the Bayh-Dole Act—displaces that norm and automati-cally vests title to federally funded inventions in federal contractors. We hold that it does not.
As noted in the Sotomayor concurrence, footnote 2 on page 5 expressly reserved the questions that would have been raised by consideration of the Federal Circuit's precedents regarding interpretation of patent assignments. Thus, the guidance on choice of law that seemed possible after oral arguments have been reserved for future consideration. It is notable, however, that even the dissenters (Breyer and Ginsburg) who addressed the Federal Circuit precedent were silent as to the choice of law question.
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|INTRODUCTION: Activation of renal sympathetic nerves is associated with the development of hypertension. Catheter-based renal sympathetic denervation with radiofrequency energy ablation is a new promising treatment option for resistant hypertension. We here report the first Danish experiences and results with this technique.
MATERIAL AND METHODS: Nine patients with resistant hypertension and a day-time 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure (BP) of 152/89 mmHg ± 10/10 (standard deviation) mmHg despite treatment with 5.4 ± 1.4 anti-hypertensive drugs underwent catheter-based renal sympathetic denervation with the Symplicity catheter.
RESULTS: No periprocedural complications or adverse events during follow-up were observed. Seven patients received complete ablation and two patients only partial ablation. Five patients responded to the treatment with a reduction in day-time 24-hour ambulatory BP from 158/94 ± 13/9 mmHg to 139/82 ± 10/8 mmHg (p < 0.05) at the one month follow-up and a reduction in the number of anti-hypertensive drugs from 5.4 ± 1.6 to 3.4 ± 0.9 (p < 0.05). BP in the remaining four patients was not significantly changed and antihypertensive therapy was not changed.
CONCLUSION: Catheter-based renal sympathetic denervation is a feasible and in several cases also effective treatment option for patients with resistant hypertension. Adequately designed controlled trials are needed to assess the long-term safety and the full potential of this treatment.
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I really only need the top half of this cabinet. Would it work that way? The space I have is not high enough for the entire thing and I can't find others.
I love it had no problem putting it together, everyone that comes to my house tells me that it looks beautiful....
ITEM#: 10389122This McCoy lighted display cabinet features a mirrored back that adds striking visual depth to your knickknack collection. Boasting five shelves and two doors, this corner display cabinet offers an array of easy ways to show off your changing collectibles collection. The golden oak finish of the cabinet goes with both traditional and contemporary interior design styles.
Display your treasured heirlooms and collectibles in style with the Golden Oak Lighted Curio Cabinet. This classically designed oak-finish cabinet offers five shelves to hold items you want to display to your guests. With lighting to highlight your top-shelf treasures, this cabinet is perfect for statuettes, awards or a special china collection, or you can use it to store the glassware you pull out for special occasions. Adjustable shelves make the cabinet eminently practical, and its small footprint lets you use it in any room.
- Materials: Oak, MDF, 5mm Glass
- Finish: Golden Oak
- Number of shelves: 5
- Upper cabinet inner dimensions without shelves: 36 inches high x 10.5 inches W x 13 inches D
- Upper cabinet has two adjustable glass shelves; can be adjusted two inches up or down
- Lower cabinet inner dimensions without shelves: 24 inches high x 10.5 inches W x 13 inches D
- Lower cabinet has one adjustable glass shelf; can be adjusted two inches up or down
- Light bulb: One (1)
- Bulb type: Cabinet light F101-02, 25 watt
- Cord Length: nine feet
- Clear tempered glass
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- Doors: Two (2)
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I love it had no problem putting it together, everyone that comes to my house tells me that it looks beautiful.Read More
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Ordered for mom for Mother's Day- looks beautiful- like other reviews it was what I expected! My husband put together took about 2.5 hours- only c/o is top door doesn't close completely- just a small gap- impressed with how much real oak there isRead More
I purchased this cabinet to display my "I Love Lucy" dolls...It had a whole lot of pieces however, the manufacturer made it so easy to put together...Everything was either numbered or lettered...I put it together myself... It's a very nice cabinet for the price...Read More
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My wife enjoys displaying her ceramic dolls.Read More
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Very nice piece but bottom back mirror was cracked , it was easier than sending back but I like cabinetRead More
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I was skeptical about buying something this expensive on-line - but it was packed to perfection. Shipped with no problems in two boxes. Each piece was very carefully packed. Also, each piece was identified perfectly. Screws and hinges, etc. each in their own bag with a number. Drawings were fairly easy to read for someone like myself who is so drawing challenged. The wood was a good quality - the glass and mirrors were not flimsy. Every piece that should have been there was - and almost all the screws fit into the pre-drilled holes (I may have been off trying to get them in - but it's hard to see the holes when you have the backing and the glass covering the holes and you have to pretty much hope they are where you are screwing them in). I only had one hinge that broke when I tried to screw it in. Fairly easy to put together - but if you have arthritis in your hands - find someone to help you. Doesn't take very long to put together and it's beautiful when complete. Nice size and nice and sturdy. I hope for many years to look at its beauty. It's the perfect touch for a corner or an entrance into your home.Read More
Not excellent, but good.
For the price of this curio this peice is a bargain. We ordered the curio and it arrived in 2 days. Overstock is great with their shipping times.On to the curio it self. It came in 2 boxes and ready for assembly. The instructions with pictures were easy to follow and every piece was easily labeled with A,B,C etc. The only complaints I had werewith the Cap Locks and the back cover sheet. The Cap Locks easily broke off if you tighten them too hard. I found that this was caused by the end screw being to close to the base wood. When the cap lock tried to lock itself with the end screw it had no space to turn and instead the friction between the end screw and the cap lock forced it to break off. Just be very careful with the cap locks, because they are the ones which hold the curio piece together. We have a small gap from the top piece to the side board because the Cap Lock broke and it is not as sturdy as it should be.With the back cover sheet/board, it did not fit flush to the opening, THe back cover sheet holds the mirror in place. So be very careful when placing in the screws make sure you are screwing into the edges of the wood and no where the mirror is. You can possibly crack the mirror.Definitely take your time when installing, dont need to rush into it. There are alot of pieces and small parts to consider so read the instructions and follow them and you should be fine.This is a good looking curio and made of solid wood. Besides some assembling problems this is a great product for the price.Read More
Golden Oak Lighted Curio Cabinet
The curio cabinet is well constructed and is very nice in appearance. The only additional feature I wish it had was another light to display the lower half. It took a couple of hours to put together. The instructions were fairly easy to follow. The problem we ran into was that there was strips of tape and a sticky substance on the mirrors and the sticky residue was very difficult to remove. I would recommend this to someone who has moderate collectables to display.Read More
Beautiful Curio!
This is a really nice piece of furniture...heavy and solid. It took about 2 hours to put together but once together it turned out to be beautiful. It has a light in the top half but the bottom half is unlit, which I do wish were different. It is difficult to even see what is in the bottom half. Overall, however this was a great purchase!Read More
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It takes a little effort, to put it together. I give it a 4 instead of a 5, only because there should be a light in the bottom section of the cabinet. You can always add a light which is what I am doing. Very dark in the lower section especially if you place the cabinet in a dark corner of the house. other than that it's a great piece of furniture. Solid.Read More
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I ordered this cabinet and there was no shipping charge. I love this cabinet!!!
Is the back of the cabinet flat?
The cabinet is in a triangle shape to fit in a corner.
How much does this item weigh? Also, is there an estimate as to how long this product will be available? I would like to purchase this item but not for another 3 weeks as a gift for someone.
This item weighs approximately 30 lbs. and we should have enough available stock in three weeks for purchase.
I bought my first one 4 yrs. ago and just got my second one last month. I had no problem with it being in stock.
Can you add more glass shelves? Also, is the shipping $2.95? I live at 36117. What is the cost of shipping? thank you
The customer could possibly have custom glass cut for the unit. We do not provide the additional shelves or hardware to hold the shelves. There are 3 height choices for each shelf. The image shows the glass shelves in the middle setting. There is an additional adjustment 2 inches up and down for each shelf. If the customer added shelves I'm not sure the 4" between the highest and lowest setting for each shelf would gain them much.
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aaawesome! :)
Grey's life has been nothing but a struggle. A constant downward spiral, and it seems even reality has turned against him. Grey awakens to find that the world has gone quiet, the streets empty. You must find help. Explore the grim world Grey lives in a completely new and unique world, and find clues to his shattered past. Grey is a total conversion Half-Life 2 horror modification where the player must solve puzzles, fight to survive, and find out what is happening to the world around you. We have made a lot changes to the base Source engine and have added countless new mechanics in the mod such as the objective indicator, portable medkit, donator based extras, pickup animations, failed reloads, new picture based GUI elements and much, much more!
aaawesome! :)
So cool, good job.
this is a scary hospital, nice :-)
But it would be GREAT if those windows where actualy models, not just textures...
I mean, I think it's just that.... it feels unusually flat...
Yea. Kind of sucks, because it's a little too obvious.
Hope this gets polished a bit.
Anyway, thats great looking.
even if they just indent the windows and keep the texture, it will atleast give it some depth.
Actually you'll see the hospital from outside in a short cutscene. But yeah, maybe i should make a nice brush based mesh to it like the windows in L4D.
Or just simple cubemaps.
OR make the windows props and then put them on. That way you can may detail on them in 3DS Max. Unlike in hammer you can only go so far with detail in 3d mesh.
Good job, looks cool.
DO I have to go in there?! D:
I like the mood around this hospital.
It's wickedly lit and the " grey " shade base continuity is fantastic. Fine work sir !
Just like what's been mentioned, the whole problem of this scene is the windows. Fix 'em, and you got a great map!
good work!
Looks great. As the camera gets nearer, I'd like to see one of the curtains part slightly - pause - and then move back.
Spot-on :)
Beautiful, I already survived so many hospitals of horror in my life, and I am always glad when I am through with one... Only to open the exit-gate and find a new one in front of me. The hospital nightmare will never end.
Definitely a nice looking building. Thankfully it is not as high as some others (seriously, thank god, closer to street level).
I guess any refusal to go inside will be ignored. Yaaaaaaay...
Great work dude and all the custom content is amazing!
Fog is very dark...
Ace work, bro, keep it up. This is reminding me more and more of Afraid of Monsters... and that's a good thing!
this is why i dont like going to hospitals...
This is really cool.
Yeah, the lighting looks great. I think it's very atmospheric. Maybe you could post tips on mapping for hammer-editor neophytes.
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David Rakoff, essayist and actor, dies at 47
Published August 10, 2012 10:38 am
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That's when Hildebrand, the father of text messaging, was working on a new way to send text messages to phones. Limited by the bandwidth and clunky entry systems, his team set out to find the correct number of characters for a text message. After determining that most comments and questions were fewer than 160 characters, they chose it as their text message length, and thus set the standard for text messages, known as SMS, or short message service.
Rather than greed motivating cell phone companies to split that 161st character into another 20 cents of profit, it's simply the limitation of technology. To lift the 160 character cap, companies would need to alter the delivery method for text messages and draft new industry standards which could easily be used as an excuse to raise prices.
Ultimately, text messages are what they are; short messages meant to be sent and responded to in a handful of letters and punctuation. Whether cell phone companies are raising the prices unfairly or not, customers still have a choice.
Consumers can choose to purchase a text message plan which makes per message cost practically negligible, or they can choose a provider like T-Mobile or Sprint, which lets them block all chargeable text messages. While Verizon and AT&T both offer some text message blocking, they either don't allow for a blanket text message block, or make it enough of a hassle that many subscribers, myself included, cannot find the option. If Senator Kohl really wants to make a difference, he should push all carriers to offer an easy means of blocking all text messages, instead of focusing on the cost per text.


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Parents Hate Your Partner? Blame Evolution
Stay with us here, because it gets very complicated. The authors assert that, evolutionarily, it is in the best interest of parents to distribute resources (money, support) to all of their children in any way that leads to as many grandchildren as possible. Those children, however, must compete with each other to get a greater amount their parents' resources.
The researchers built a computer model to simulate this process: Women were given a genetic preference for a male with an ability to invest resources in raising children. Their simulated offspring inherited both the preference for a partner with resources and the ability to provide those resources.
Then they threw a wrench in the model, allowing the parents of females to interfere with her choice of a male and distribute resources to their children. As a result, the parents invested more in daughters who chose males with little to offer, resource-wise, because it would then put them on equal footing with their better-off sisters and thus produce more babies.
And then it gets even more interesting. Females in the model evolved to be more likely to choose bad mates because it meant that they would get a disproportionate share of parental resources. But because that is clearly not in their best interests, parents also developed a stronger preference for sons-in-law that could provide more for their daughters.
Basically, parents may be evolutionarily predisposed to hate your deadbeat partner.
It's important to note that this is all theoretical. The authors acknowledge that many other motives come into play when choosing a potential partner. This paper is not suggesting that men are naturally meant to have more "resources," or that women only exist to have babies, or that daughters are money hungry; it's more or less a math equation, not a reflection of current gender politics. But just in case your parents do look less than approvingly on your partner, you can always blame evolution. (NYT)


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The latest true-life sports film tells the story of Vince Papale (Mark Wahlberg), a working class South Philly schmo who--with only a year of high school football under his belt--in the mid-'70s tried out for, and made, the Philadelphia Eagles.
Big question: Does "Invincible" have the same uplifting power as "Remember the Titans," "Miracle," "The Rookie" and "Glory Road"?
Catch it: To the tune of classic '70s music, "Invincible" stays low to the ground and tells its tale of one man's success through the lens of a neighborhood with nothing going for it but cheap beer and football.
Skip it: If you'd rather see former Eagles coach Dick Vermeil playing himself than the always likable, but not exactly sturdy Greg Kinnear trying to become him. The casting director fumbled that one.
Bottom line: "Invincible" does get a bit sappy at times, and the usual inaccuracies that come with an "inspired by a true story" movie can be a downer when you discover what's been embellished. (For example, Papale was actually invited to a private tryout with the team; "Invincible" presents him attending a tryout open to any average Joe.) But the film features a fun performance from Elizabeth Banks as the new, Giants-fan woman in Vince's life after his wife leaves him, and the movie reminds us that from the bitter rivalries to the torn jerseys worn in pickup games to the dreams of gridiron glory, sports teams belong to the fans.
Bonus: "Invincible" was an obvious title for a story about a guy named Vince, but try to figure out what the movie would have been called if Papale's first name were Seymour!
Matt Pais is the metromix movies producer.
Directed by Ericson Core; screenplay by Brad Gann; cinematography by Core; edited by Jerry Greenberg; production design by Sarah Knowles; music by Mark Isham; produced by Gordon Gray, Mark Ciardi and Ken Mok. A Walt Disney Pictures release; opens Friday. Running time: 1:39. MPAA rating: PG (for sports action and some mild language).
Vince Papale - Mark Wahlberg
Dick Vermeil - Greg Kinnear
Janet - Elizabeth Banks
Frank Papale - Kevin Conway
Tommy - Kirk Acevedo


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Wearing a short skirt, Gwyneth Paltrow was spotted out walking in NYC, giving a nice smile to the paparazzi as she ventured out for dinner.
The Academy Award winning actress is currently staying in the Big Apple while filming "Two Lovers" with Joaquin Phoenix.
She's married to Chris Martin from Coldplay, and has two amazingly cute kids, but Gwyneth Paltrow isn't satisfied to rest on her laurels. She recently began filming a new movie, and it sounds like a good one.
The "Shallow Hal" actress began working on "Two Lovers" two weeks ago in New York City, despite the fact that she's become really picky regarding which projects she'll agree to.
It's been four years since Gwyneth Paltrow and Coldplay frontman Chris Martin got married. And two kids later, we rarely see the pair out together.
Earlier this week, Paltrow was spotted in Barcelona, Spain. She was hamming it up at El Corte Ingles department store on behalf of Estee Lauder's Pleasures Fragrance. And Chris was nowhere to be found.
Never marry a rockstar. Just don't do it! They're egomaniacs who have an insatiable appetite for excess and women. Well, maybe it's not that bad, but Gwyneth Paltrow is definitely finding out how fickle musicians can be.
There are reports that her marriage to Coldplay frontman Chris Martin is headed for trouble. The "Yellow" singer hasn't been spotted with his "Shallow Hal" wife for quite some time, and it's starting to look like more than just a coincidence.
Gwyneth Paltrow made a big splash in Chicago on Friday (August 17), in town to do a little work for Estee Lauder.
The Shakespeare In Love leading lady was recently named the famous perfume brand's newest spokesperson. And Gwyneth's first task was to do a little publicity work for the Pleasures Delight line at Macy's.
The votes have been cast and the results are in! Carrie Underwood has been voted "World's Sexiest Vegetarian" by activist group PETA.
The former American Idol joins Tonight Show guitarist/band leader Kevin Eubanks at the top of the sexy vegetarian list, reprising her appearance back in 2005. Eubanks is new to the title, though.
No, Chris Martin hasn't gained a lot of weight and grown a beard. Oscar-winning actress Gwyneth Paltrow was spotted out Thursday night laying a smooch on another lucky fellow while picking up some food in LA.
Happy to be back in in the States while filming her new movie 'Iron Man', Gwyneth made a dash from her Santa Monica childhood home - which she's currently renting - over to local pasta joint Mozza for some carryout.
There's just something about your first house; the place in which you grew up, played Legos, watched your famous parents party with celebs…? Yeah, for Gwyneth Paltrow, her childhood home is so appealing, she's renting it while she films her new movie.
The Oscar-winning actress almost completely lost it when her mom sold the house, located in Santa Monica, for almost $9 million. According to US Weekly, "Gwyneth couldn't talk about it. She was very upset." She lived there until she was 11 years old, and it evidently held some important memories.


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Wild was about the best way to describe the action that dominated the return of the Advance Auto Parts Monster Jam to Raymond James Stadium in Tampa. The torrid Saturday night action set the stage for the return in two weeks as many of the trucks will get another chance to wow the crowd.
No one knew what to expect for certain, but an all-star lineup that included several world champion trucks started the day at a huge pit party that rivaled any stop on the circuit. As the Monster Jam trucks paraded back to the arena, the cheering fans let the drivers know they were there for the action.Monster Jam trucks hit the lanes for qualifying, bringing two trucks to the line at a time. El Toro Loco posted the early fast time that held until Son Uva Digger lowered the mark to 19.724. Competitor after competitor tried to beat the mark with Max D coming closest with a 19.746 run. After 14 trucks had played their own version of beat the clock, Hooked could not go, leaving Morgan Kane in Iron Man for a solo pass. When the stop button was hit, the fastest qualifier was announced as
Iron Man was able to trim the time back to 19.684. Morgan Kane, in his second Tampa appearance, now can claim a fast qualifier to his credit.With the Hooked crew still working to fix the ride, Iron Man ended up with a bye run. The rest of the field didn't get off as easily. Grave Digger, with Rod Schmidt subbing for an ailing Dennis Anderson, took care of Stone Crusher. Gunslinger powered past Monster Mutt Rottweiler and El Toro Loco got the best of Razin' Kane.
Max D took out War Wizard and Ice Cream Man stunned Wolverine as both trucks ventured off course, but Ice Cream Man recovered quickly to gain the win. Advance Auto Parts Grinder returned Zombie to the netherworlds while Son Uva Digger took out stadium first-timer Brandon Derrow in Bad New Travels Fast.With eight trucks earning a spot in the next round, the action would get even tighter. Iron Man beat Grave Digger when Digger rolled on approach to the final turn. Ice Cream Man could not come back, which opened up the opportunity for Wolverine to return. The unfortunate part of that was that Wolverine had to face Max D, who won the race, but blew a left rear tire in the process. Son Uva Digger prevailed over Advance Auto Parts Grinder with El Toro Loco winning a close one over Gunslinger.
The semi-finals pitted El Toro Loco against Ironman and the fast qualifier's winning run ended there. El Toro Loco would face Son Uva Digger, who knocked off Max D, who made it back into the arena with time to spare, thanks to the hard working Max D crew.
El Toro Loco has been to victory lane in Tampa when Nathan Weenk won the event five years ago. Now, "the crazy bull" was poised to repeat, b ut just couldn't beat Son Uva Digger to the finish line. In his first appearance at Raymond James Stadium, Ryan Anderson and Son Uva Digger earned a racing win. In 2012, the Tampa winners were Dennis Anderson and Adam Anderson. Now, Ryan Anderson has taken his place with the rest of the family.
Ryan vowed to put himself in position for the double down by taking Advance Auto Parts service is Our Best Part freestyle. The weren't kind with the truck not due on the floor until late. Sub driver Chris Lagana in Monster Mutt Rottweiler started the action with a solid 18, considering it was his first time in the truck. Bad News Travels Fast came close to dethroning the dawg, falling a point short. War Wizard had an abbreviated run, which led into Tampa stalwart Gunslinger. The drive to take the lead resulted in a tie with two trucks sitting at 18. Bryan Wright was able to bring Hooked from the pit area and his desire to compete was clear, taking the lead with a 22. Ice Cream Man posted a solid 18, but Wolverine tore to the floor. After eight years of serving as crew chief for Dennis Anderson, driver Dustin Brown wanted to show that he learned something and it was obvious. The truck ended up on its lid and Brown ended up on top with a score of 25. Iron Man had a 47 second run that didn't threaten the leader. Zombie and Stone Crusher had solid efforts, but couldn't change the leaderboard. Grave Digger hit the floor and body parts started flying. After the right front fender disappeared, the rest of the body except for the driver's door ended up on the stadium floor. The impressive effort brought a 26 and the new lead. He was joined at the top by El Toro Loco, who mixed in tail-dragging wheelstands to the delight of the crowd. Grinder came up a few points short, but racing winner Son Uva Digger smelled a double down. A score of 27 would be enough, but not for Ryan Anderson. He made a statement with a 30 and dared the rest of the field to knock him off. A solid effort by Max D saw the truck end its runs halfway through bonus and claim second place with a 27. Earlier in the show, Tom Meents thrilled the crowd with a backflip out of intermission. A field of local democross drivers saw Bill Hindman pick up a heat win and the main with Dillon Jackson claiming a heat. Mark Bibeau took the main in Legends cars.
Fast Qualifier: Iron Man 19.684
Round One – Grave Digger def. Stone Crusher, Gunslinger def. Monster Mutt Rottweiler, El Toro Loco def. Razin' Kane, Max D def. War Wizard, Ice Cream Man def. Wolverine, Grinder def. Zombie, Iron Man (bye run), Son Uva Digger def. Bad News Travels Fast
Round Two – Iron Man def. Grave Digger, Max D def. Wolverine (Wolverine returned when Ice Cream Man could not), Son Uva Digger def. Advance Auto Parts Grinder, El Toro Loco def. Gunslinger
Semi-Finals – El Toro Loco def. Iron Man, Son Uva Digger def. Max D
UTI Championship Round – Son Uva Digger def. El Toro Loco
Service is Our Best Part Freestyle
Monster Mutt Rottweiler – 5-5-6-2 = 18Bad News Travels Fast – 5-5-5-2 = 17War Wizard - 4-5-4 = 13Gunslinger – 6-7-5 = 18Hooked – 7-7-7-1 = 22Ice Cream Man – 6-5-6-1 = 18Wolverine – 8-8-8-1 = 25Iron Man – 4-4-4 = 12Zombie – 7-7-7 = 21Stone Crusher – 7-6-7 -2 = 22Grave Digger – 8-8-8-2 = 26El Toro Loco – 9-8-7 – 2= 26Advance Auto Parts Grinder – 8-7-7-2 = 24Son Uva Digger 9-9-8-4 = 30Max D 9-8-8-2 = 27
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Shoshanna would burst into a fit of a thousand omg's and wtf's if she saw Zosia Mamet in this look.
We realize the HBO star is nothing like her TV counterpart, but she might want to take a cue or twenty from the show's wardrobe closet. Apparently, left to her own devices, the New York native ends up shopping at a thrift store for a costume fit for six totally schizophrenic events!
VIDEO: Zosia Mamet knows how to be fancy sometimes! Check out her gorgeous, red carpet nails!
We're sorry to say that the only slightly cool component of this set is the scarlet leather jacket. It had a very Johnny Depp feel, and the shape is nice and slouchy. But those red and white patterned pants: way too much! The giant black top: not adding anything. Dirty ankle boots: we know this Glamour columnist can afford a new pair. And that hat...oh that hat... We're better off not commenting.
We know that this free spirit knows good style. We've seen her stun on the red carpet! Apparently this is an example of her taking a day off, from life.
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Female changeling stupid??
I watched the final episode last night and thought it was mostly good.. I thought the Pah Wraith story line was a bit of an anti climax tho and was disappointed that they dealt with that story and the final battles with the dominion completely separately. would've thought they were going to make them intersect in some way.. Anyway..
One thing made no sense to me though.. Why did the woman shapeshifter order the destruction of the Cardassian city when they were depending on the Cardassian military in order to have any chance of defeating the Federation/Klingon/Romulan Fleet. Surely that is a monumental blunder, and if she/it hadn't given that order it's likely that battle (and the war) would've had a totally different outcome..
I mean they were concerned about a full on Cardassian uprising and then they go and do the one thing that absolutely guarantees that every Cardassian is going to turn on the them.. Surely they know that the Cardassians are so proud they'd never allow an atrocity like that committed against their people to go unpunished. The result is the Cardassian Fleet turning on the Dominion and the Cardassian guards killing the Jem'Hadar that are about to execute Kira, Demar, and Garak.. Nice one!
Why didn't she hold off until after the all important battle. Once they'd repelled the invading fleet she could've dealt with the Cardassians however she pleased...
I can remember one other instance when she ordered the Breen/Jem'Hadar to not attack and destroy all of the escape pods after the battle where Defiant #1 got destroyed.. the escape pods containing Sisqo, Worf, and other high profile targets.. I mean i get the idea behind it, let some survive so they tell others of the horrors of the Breen and the Dominion.. but at least kill the crew of the Defiant while you have the chance! Sisqo has been responsible for all the Dominion major defeats to date and they know that.. yet they pass up an easy opportunity to kill him..
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Human Resources mentor Robert Hoffman responds to the following question from an inc.com user:
After an employee resigns, and you're clearing out the e-mail on his computer, you find that he has bad-mouthed you and the company to other people. He has even sent copies of internal correspondence to others critical of the company. Can my company take any legal action against this person? Can a memo about this behavior be included in his employee file?
Robert Hoffman's response:You mention several issues that we can address:
- Do companies have a legal defense against employees who bad-mouth the company?
First, I recommend that you seek legal counsel to offer a professional analysis that takes into account the specific facts of your case. I am not offering a legal opinion, but the situation you describe may be legally actionable. The terminology that is usually given to describe this behavior is either slander (if spoken) or libel (if written, which includes electronic versions). The key factor in determining whether the company has been damaged is the veracity of the information being communicated. If the information is true, the law most likely has not been broken.
In my experience, the solution to this kind of issue is to develop a policy that defines how the company may be represented to outside parties. The policy should make clear that employees are prohibited from publicly communicating negative opinions about the organization. The policy should also outline the consequences of such behavior and the enforceability of the policy.
- Can documentation of such an action be included in the employee's file?
Yes, you can and should note in the employee's file that certain behavior was observed. Many actions indicative of employee performance should be included in the file. I suggest that care should also be taken to record accomplishment of objectives, overall performance, and positive recognition, in addition to keeping track of inappropriate behaviors and poor performance.
- How should companies address employees' use/abuse of e-mail?
Companies should have a written and well-communicated policy on the appropriate use of computers, e-mail, and the Internet. In the particular situation you have described, I believe that a clearly stated e-mail policy would have helped deter employees from abusing the system.
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One person was injured when a car crashed through a gas station in Mosinee Saturday afternoon.
A man crashed into the R-Store on Western Avenue just after 3 p.m., injuring the store clerk, Mosinee Police Officer Jeff Sutherland said. The clerk was transported to Aspirus Wausau Hospital for minor injuries.
The crash damaged some cabinets and computer equipment inside the store.
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As usual, the article is short on details like advantages/shortcomings of individual software packages. It's also written by an architect (not that there's anything wrong with that).
<<Plant and piping software has reached an evolutionary, rather than revolutionary, stage. With much of today's industry dependent on processes involving the movement of liquids and gases, there's an ever-increasing need for this type of software to design the infrastructures that carry these commodities. Plant and piping software developers were early adopters of 3D modeling. These software offerings fall into two broad groups—2D schematics, such as P&IDs (piping and instrument diagrams) and instrument and electrical diagrams, and the physical design comprising 2D and 3D deliverables. What's notable is that more 3D-based design packages at all price levels are available, and they automatically produce the 2D deliverables, reports and BOMs (bills of materials) that were available only in high-priced offerings in the past.
Although most of these design applications run on either AutoCAD or MicroStation platforms, other offerings from AVEVA and Intergraph use their own graphics engines and output to either the DWG or DGN drawing formats.
This "AEC in Focus" column discusses some of the latest developments for this area of engineering.>>
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Walmart is ? fairly or unfairly ? always under the microscope for its pay scale and working conditions.
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Maybe it was penance for something wrong I did a while back.
Maybe I was just looking for some live theater.
Whatever it was, I found myself at a local Walmart a few weeks ago late on a Saturday morning, not to buy anything, but to sit down for about 45 minutes with a small bag of almonds and a Gatorade to "people watch." ...


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Heikki Kovalainen has admitted that he is surprised to be facing the probability of being left without a drive for the 2013 Formula 1 season.
Heikki Kovalainen has admitted that he is surprised to be facing the probability of being left without a drive for the 2013 Formula 1 season.
Kovalainen raced for the Caterham team from 2010 to 2012, but the outfit looks set to hand its remaining seat for the coming season to either Vitaly Petrov or Giedo van der Garde.
"It was slightly surprising," the Finn said. "I thought after last season and the last couple of years … I'd be in a better position on the market."
Kovalainen is far from alone in believing that he did fine work for Caterham. However, if the team is to wave goodbye to the former McLaren man, he will be left in a difficult position.
He explained: "Of course we're working flat out to see if we can do something about it, but the problem is the results that I've had over these last two or three years have not been enough to get in a top car, and then the average teams are in a situation now where they have to take pay-drivers, and (for me) that rules out the second half of the grid.
"It's a tricky situation that I'm in now, although people say you've driven well, you've done a good job, the fact is that 15th or 16th or 17th on paper that is not as good as someone who's been sixth or seventh or eighth."
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