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text: RAND: Tamara Dubowitz 2016-02-12T15:05:49Z Copyright (c) 2016, The RAND Corporation RAND Corporation http://www.rand.org/about/people/d/dubowitz_tamara.html Stakeholder Perspectives on a Culture of Health http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR1274.html 2016-01-14T08:45:00Z 2016-01-14T08:45:00Z RAND engaged stakeholders to support development of an action framework and measurement strategy for Robert Wood Johnson's Culture of Health vision, in which "everyone in our diverse society leads healthier lives now and for generations to come." Diet and Perceptions Change with Supermarket Introduction in a Food Desert, but Not Because of Supermarket Use http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP50935.html 2015-11-10T16:45:00Z 2015-11-10T16:45:00Z Trends were compared in two households in two Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania neighborhoods by survey in 2011 and 2014, one of which received a new supermarket in 2013. A New Supermarket in a Food Desert http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9874.html 2015-11-03T13:30:00Z 2015-11-03T13:30:00Z The Pittsburgh Hill/Homewood Research on Eating, Shopping, and Health study found that a new full-service supermarket in a food desert led to improvements in the quality of neighborhood residents' diets, though not in obesity rates. Using a Grocery List Is Associated with a Healthier Diet and Lower BMI Among Very High-Risk Adults http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP50695.html 2015-05-12T10:15:00Z 2015-05-12T10:15:00Z Shopping with a list may be a useful tool for low-income individuals to improve diet or decrease body mass index. A Natural Experiment Opportunity in Two Low-Income Urban Food Desert Communities http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP50663.html 2015-04-14T11:30:00Z 2015-04-14T11:30:00Z A growing body of evidence has highlighted an association between a lack of access to nutritious, affordable food (e.g., through full-service grocery stores [FSGs]), poor diet, and increased risk for obesity. Associations Between Depressive Symptomatology, Diet, and Body Mass Index Among Participants in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP50827.html 2015-03-11T09:45:00Z 2015-03-11T09:45:00Z This study examined the relationship between depressive symptomatology, dietary quality, and body weight among a sample of SNAP participants (n=639). Store Impulse Marketing Strategies and Body Mass Index http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP50562.html 2015-01-07T12:00:00Z 2015-01-07T12:00:00Z In-market displays encourage consumption of low-nutrient foods. Healthy Food Access for Urban Food Desert Residents http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP50544.html 2014-12-09T09:30:00Z 2014-12-09T09:30:00Z Increased geographic access may not be enough to change food purchasing practices, diet or weight. Location, Location, Location: Does the Food Desert Narrative Hold Up? http://www.rand.org/blog/2014/10/location-location-location-does-the-food-desert-narrative.html 2014-10-28T18:00:00Z 2014-10-28T18:00:00Z There's little rigorous evidence to support the notion that 'food deserts' are driving the U.S. obesity epidemic. But this narrative has nearly become conventional wisdom. In response, stakeholders have poured hundreds of millions of dollars into bringing supermarkets to these neighborhoods. 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Are Our Actions Aligned with Our Evidence? http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP51416.html 2013-03-01T12:00:00Z 2013-03-01T12:00:00Z Recent debate about the role of food deserts in the United States has prompted discussion on policies being enacted, including efforts that encourage the placement of full-service supermarkets into food deserts. Food Policy Research http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP51431.html 2013-01-01T12:00:00Z 2013-01-01T12:00:00Z The authors' findings support restricting the development of fast-food outlets and attracting grocery stores, and are committed to additional research that overcomes the limitations of large studies. 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mahippos Jan 16, 2010 10:31 AM
in response to Steve GallisdorferJust for the record, I have the same problem as posted by Steve. The music popup for slide shows doesn't show any available music. There are at least three songs available, but these seem to be selected at random by iPhoto. None are in my iTunes library. Does anyone know where they are hiding?
I think the problem is in iPhoto itself, not iTunes. I can turn off the music in a slide show, but if I then change its style the music is automatically turned back on. The undead as it were.
I got my MacBook Pro last month at Christmas. The software is up to date and permissions are OK as far as Disk Utility can make them. The music bug was probably introduced recently.
(reposting as requested)
jdnell52 Jan 16, 2010 4:01 PM
in response to mahipposI have exactly the same problem as Steve (above) and have done the same "fixes" as identified in this thread. Still no luck.
Geesshh, I was hoping someone had a solution by now...I was beginning to think I'd have to report it, when I found this thread. But, this is EXACTLY the same problem I'm having.
I'll be watching for a solution....hopefully soon!
Using iPhoto '09 Version 8.1.1 (419)
Using iTunes 9 Version 9.0.2 (25)
Mac OS X 10.6.2
Steve Gallisdorfer Jan 16, 2010 5:03 PM
in response to jdnell52Maybe the Apple Genius Bar is will have the answer. I have an appointment next Tuesday. I will post the results of the visit one way or another!
Steve Gallisdorfer Jan 20, 2010 5:44 AM
in response to Steve GallisdorferOK, can I say here first of all that the people at the Mac Genius Bar are great? I have never had a bad experience at one, and the Arden Fair Mall location in Sacramento is no exception. They resolved my music issues, and all is great now. Here is what they discovered, and how they resolved my problem...
The iLife Media Browser Plug-ins that are installed aren't working correctly, as several suggested solutions have eluded to. These files are stored on your Mac at:
YourHardDrive /Library/Application Support/iLifeMediaBrowser/Plug-Ins
There is no version number for the set that was installed, but when he replaced them with the earlier version, 2.1.3, it all started working just fine again. The Apple Store maintains a set of external drives there with various Apple software on them, and he just copied it over, replaced it the files, restarted and VOILA!
I have a zipped archive of these plug-ins that he created and suggested I could upload them here for the others of you that are having the same trouble I was having, but I see no way to do that. If someone can point out a way to upload a file here, I will. I also see nothing in Apple's downloads for version 2.1.3, so that may be out as an option, too. If there is not a way for me to put the archive up here, I would suggest one of two things to you:
1) Make an appointment at the Apple Genius Bar and tell them what is going on with your Mac, and what the solution was for me. (It took quite a bit of hunting & discussion between 4 of them to figure this out, so be sure to let the guys there know what the solution was that resolved it.)
2) Send me an email, and I will send you back the archive. At 922k, it is not very big. Be sure to unzip it before you use it.
As always, back-up your computer before replacing the files, and save the old version of the plug-ins until you are sure the replacement ones work correctly.
Message was edited by: Steve Gallisdorfer
Steve Gallisdorfer Jan 20, 2010 5:48 AM
in response to Steve GallisdorferThis problem is now completely resolved. This post is just to get it posted as 'answered'.
jdnell52 Jan 20, 2010 5:33 PM
in response to Steve GallisdorferSteve -
I would like to obtain the archive from you, since I have an iMac, and it's not as easy to tote into the Apple store! But, I couldn't find you email address anywhere to PM you. If you wouldn't mind, please forward it to me via email@example.com. (without the xxx's for the robots)
Thanks for your efforts and sharing the results! Hopefully, it will resolve my problems, too!
Chris CA Jan 20, 2010 5:47 PM
in response to jdnell52You can get it here -> http://support.apple.com/downloads/iLifeSupport_9_03
Steve Gallisdorfer Jan 20, 2010 5:53 PM
in response to Chris CAPerfect, Chris... THANKS!
John... let me know if that works or not, OK? If it doesn't, I'll send across the files when I get home (next week).
mahippos Jan 20, 2010 6:38 PM
in response to Steve GallisdorferI downloaded the iLife package and installed it, but nothing changed with the music. I still cannot access anything in iTunes from iPhoto. I checked the date/time of all the plugs-in in the directory /Library/Application Support/iLifeMediaBrowser/Plug-Ins afterward; and they were all Jan 1, 2010 11:39AM. These obviously are not the old plug-ins. Did you get something else?
Steve Gallisdorfer Jan 20, 2010 7:26 PM
in response to mahipposThat must install the 'new' non-working plug-ins then. I will email you the files on the 28th, when I have access to my Mac again. I would do it right now, but am away on a business trip, harnessed to a PC.
jdnell52 Jan 21, 2010 6:19 PM
in response to Steve GallisdorferSteve / Clint -
I had done the iLife support 9.0.3 updates already, too. Nothing changed for me, either. I'll wait until you can forward the archive before trying anything else. Thanks again for all your legwork and sorry to hear you're tied to a PC while on-the-road! I understand such things. Been there myself!
68vette Jan 24, 2010 8:41 AM
in response to Steve GallisdorferI'm also a victim of this plugin atrocity. I would definitely appreciate the 2.1.3 file you have provided an Apple Store is a 2 hr. drive. blairb(xxxx)@fasnap.com. No (xxxx)'s... of course. Thanks Steve.
Silversorcerer Jan 27, 2010 4:50 AM
in response to Steve GallisdorferHi Steve, same problem exactly, tried the above download, nothing changed. Send it to all of us at once, please. :>)
David Powell
Silversorcerer Jan 27, 2010 1:55 PM
in response to Steve GallisdorferI figured out a work around to fix mine. I still have iLife '06 on my Macbook, so I:
created an airport network, computer to computer
looked in the flolder.../Application Support/referred to above and
verified with get info that the plugins' versions were indeed 2.1.3.
Then copied a folder called iLifeMediaBrower, its' subfolder "Plugins" and the plugins inside.
and pasted the whole folder "iLifeMediaBrower"into the same flolder.../Application Support/ on my newer iMac where iLife 09 is original equipmemt;- where the problem is.
I noted that in this process, this folder replaced no existing folder at all.
The folder and the plugins were simply missing from the program. There apparently are no new versions of them.
If you have a way by network to access a computer still running iLife'06 you can borrow the files. I might be able to e-mail them as well. In my case, this completely fixed the iTunes integration with slide shows in iPhoto '09.


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Posted 15 November 2011 - 09:24 PM
I have a fully modded 1.6xbox with an executer 3 im hoping this may help me out as this just aint working.
I have 2 other boxes which i decided to just softmod. Both boxes are currently running stock 10gb hdds and softmodded and working.
I just want to upgrade the hdds, so i had my x3 chip format them, i copied the data from the softmodded partions c: e: to the new drive. So next step just lock the drive right?
Now, i how downloaded this package, i have copied my dash files to c: and some files to e: and i have copied my backed up eeprom file to linux/eeprom, created the boot cd.
Disconnected all my drives but the xbox drive from the pc, boot the cd, i get to the menu, so far so good.
Now all i really need to do i think is just lock the hdd, so the xbox will boot?.
This is where it just keeps going wrong!!
I have tried 2 options, Option 1 full rebuild, it gets to the point where you type xboxhd and press enter, then i get a screen with loads of lines saying lynux cd not found blah blah blah
?????????????????????, how can it not be found if im booting from it?
I have tried going to just the linux hdd lock unlock screen, where upon loading, i get a line like this __________________________________________________ just moving down the screen constantly and cant enter any commands.
Posted 15 November 2011 - 10:29 PM
If your PC has only one IDE port then you have to use xboxhdm 2.2, which scullc has kindly just repaired - again, there is a pinned thread on this.
If neither of those works then you can use HeXEn (Google Heimdall's Xbox Engineering Disc) which implements ldotsfan's lxhdm and builds and locks the new disk on the Xbox.
Posted 16 November 2011 - 01:37 AM
Ill check out the other stuff ..
Posted 16 November 2011 - 01:45 AM
xboxhdm 2.2 addresses that limitation.
Posted 16 November 2011 - 02:11 AM
Ignore created, ill try it tomorrow when im a little more clear headed.
Edited by Roden, 16 November 2011 - 02:22 AM.
Posted 16 November 2011 - 02:35 AM
Posted 16 November 2011 - 04:11 PM
So tried the lxhdm thing using the hexen disc, this also just kep failing on the hdd formatting stage, all of a sudden i started getting error 21 and all sorts.
Turns out the 250 hdd was bad
So found a 80gb lying around, and the lxhdm trick worked, i used that as i seemed to be getting somewhere with it.
So all modded, running unleashx, latest XBMC and my most used apps.
Just one lickle problem, i have changed the video mode to NTSC, Tried enabling 480P and 720P in XBMC which i can, but whenever i switch to a higher mode than standard i just get a black screen.
What i do wrong?
Edited by Roden, 16 November 2011 - 04:12 PM.
Posted 16 November 2011 - 04:43 PM
Edited by Heimdall, 16 November 2011 - 05:01 PM.
Posted 16 November 2011 - 06:15 PM
You need two IDE ports because that's how xboxhdm 1.9 was designed to work.
xboxhdm 2.2 addresses that limitation.
i only need 1 ide port for 1.9.. You do need a ide ribbon cable with master and slave capabilaties though.. Hard disk master and the cd drive slave.
I can do this on either my amd setup "that has 2 ide ports but i only use 1" and on the dell system "that only has 1 ide port"
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Great for use on sore, dry or cracked skin. It is very soothing. Works great on feet that have been exposed to urine for long periods of time. (Just like a human babies bum) Make sure to check with your vet before you use it.
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Eeyore has sore feet because of a linoleum flooring he was hopping on before I changed it out. Now that I have been putting this stuff of his little feet and they are definitely improving. Eeyore says THANKS! Great product.
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I use this product on my bottle baby kittens. Sometimes they'll suck on one another and get raw hineys. The A&D ointment sooths their skin and also keeps their siblings from sucking again! It's been around forever. Just a great product that you can find everywhere and is inexpensive.
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I used this for years when my kids were babies to prevent diaper rash. I found that it also kept my skin nice and smooth. You need to rub in or wipe off the excess, as it is greasy. Just don't keep it on your bathroom sink and mistake it for toothpaste like I did..
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this product is great for any rough skin or dry spots on cats, dogs, and rabbits. As a vet tech, I especially like to use it on dogs on their dry "elbow" patches.
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A thought about "patent reform" April 1, 2015Posted by Brian Schar in Federal Circuit.
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To the extent that there is a perceived problem in the business community regarding patents, a perennial complaint has to do with uncertainty. If a manufacturer gets sued, it's expensive, and damages can be huge.
However, isn't this more of a problem with damages than a problem with patents themselves? Having just attended a very information CLE class centered on the VirnetX case and its progeny, the Federal Circuit has inserted a lot more rigor into the damages analysis – which is something that reduces damages uncertainty. Still, if a legislative solution to the uncertainty problem is sought, it would seem more productive to come up with a statutory formula for patent damages, rather than yet another set of statutes that deal with patents themselves.
A reference that teaches away from X isn't "capable of" X December 11, 2014Posted by Brian Schar in Patent prosecution, USPTO.
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One of the more frustrating rejections to receive from the USPTO is one in which the Examiner waves his or her hands around and states, "the disclosure of this reference is capable of X, so, 103." There is usually very little technical reasoning that accompanies such a rejection. Instead, there are quotes of random sections of the disclosure strung together, with no analysis accompanying that. While these rejections are frustrating, at least they tell you the end is in sight, because if that's the best the Examiner can do, you can just win on appeal and go to issue.
That is exactly what happened in Ex parte Henry. Henry claimed a blood flow monitor that included, among other elements, a display configured to show a visual indication of blood flow rate between a threshold frequency down to a zero flow rate. (Probably it's important to know when a patient has a zero blood flow rate!) The claims were rejected under 103 based on modifications to a US patent to Moehring. The problem was that, as the PTAB pointed, out, "Moehring expressly excludes displaying low- and zero-frequency data." This didn't stop the Examiner, who whipped up a word salad to justify the rejection: "one of ordinary skill in the art would have found it obvious to try a method of visually displaying data from a threshold frequency down to zero while 'refining efforts to reduce the negative effects of tissue/probe motion and noise not indicative of blood flow' that are described in Moehring, thus providing a 'display of raw/unfiltered data from zero frequency to a defined upper threshold frequency.'" Further, the Examiner found that "the low-frequency data deemed to be noise by Moehring are 'not representative of blood flow but instead tissue motion, and therefore, the signal present fully represents blood flow.'"
The PTAB made short work of this. "Moehring's system…excludes all low-frequency signals, regardless of source," and thus teaches away from displaying such signals. The PTAB did not expressly hold that the Examiner provided insufficient technical reasoning, but it didn't have to; the teaching away argument was sufficient. Nevertheless, the PTAB did point out that the Examiner provided no support for certain aspects of the argument.
The rejected claims included functional language. The PTAB pointed out that the "presence of functional language in an apparatus claim does not excuse the absence of a prima facie case of obviousness." Rather, "the prior art apparatus must be capable of performing the claimed function." Where the reference "teaches away from those very functions," then there can be no valid rejection of the claim based on its inclusion of functional language.
To me, the first key takeaway of Ex parte Henry is that an solid "teaching away" argument demolishes a bad 103 rejection with poor or no technical reasoning. It has to. If the reference expressly says that the invention doesn't include X, then no amount of technical reasoning can show that the reference taught an invention that required X. The second key takeaway from Ex parte Henry is that a solid "teaching away" argument directed to a function in the reference obviates any "functional language" objection to the claims.
Carefully review the cited art when you receive a 103 rejection. The "teaching away" argument is a powerful tool, when you can use it.
The house loses all pushes October 24, 2014Posted by Brian Schar in General, Patent prosecution, USPTO.
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Ex parte Lucas is an interesting example of a situation that you don't see that often – although it's probably a situation that should arise a lot more often than it does.
Lucas claimed a "double throat pulsation dampener for a compressor." The PTAB opinion is short and does not go into detail about what, exactly, that is. I used Google to find a web page from Flowguard USA that describes such a thing, in case you, the reader, are interested. (I have no commercial or other relationship with Flowguard USA and did not even know they existed until I searched "pulsation dampeners.") Lucas claimed a dampener that, among other things, had airflow reversed compared to the prior art.
The Examiner rejected the claims under 102 and 103 on particularly flimsy grounds, and cited art; the PTAB found that the Examiner provided no evidence or technical reasoning for either rejection.
However, the PTAB also found that the Applicant provided no evidence or technical reasoning to demonstrate why the cited device may or may not work with the air flow reversed.
As a result, the PTAB held that "at most, the issue is in equipoise. As the Examiner bears the burden of establishing patentability, the Examiner's rejection cannot be sustained on the record before us. See In re Warner, 379 F.2d 1011, 1016 (CCPA 1967)"
This PTAB decision is nonprecedential. However, I think it would behoove appellants to essentially cut and paste the holding of Ex parte Lucas into their reply briefs, as a reminder in case of a push, the house loses.
A refreshing view of software patents October 1, 2014Posted by Brian Schar in General.
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This is probably the best thing I've read on software patents lately: David Stein's "Disrespecing Software."
My personal view is that Big Software/EE simply doesn't care about IP. They'd rather compete on size than on novelty or IP, so for them they'd rather IP just not exist instead of going to the trouble of patent things and perform freedom-to-operate analyses. Another key benefit for Big Software/EE is that they don't have to worry about competition or pay a premium valuation to acquire a smaller upstart competitor, if that competitor isn't able to assert any IP.
On the one hand, I wouldn't worry about this as much if it were limited to software/EE. However, many of the anti-software-patent people have a stated goal of blowing up the entire patent system. See , for example, http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/09/the-case-for-abolishing-patents-yes-all-of-them/262913/
I suppose in that case we'll see which Silicon Valley company will be the first trillion-dollar corporation, as there will be nothing stopping any of the Valley giants from stealing code or anything else from their competitors outright. Goodbye, startup culture.
The shortest PTAB opinion yet? July 30, 2014Posted by Brian Schar in General, Patent prosecution, USPTO.
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Ex parte Daimer may set a record for the shortest PTAB opinion to date. The actual opinion is a single paragraph and occupies about half a page of a document that is only 3 pages long.
Mr. Daimer claimed a carbothermic reduction furnace that has a "lining structure having a low Fe content of less than 0.1 % by weight." The Examiner cited a reference that was completely silent as to the presence or absence of Fe in a lining structure, so he interpreted that silence as meaning that Fe was present at a 0% level – "less than 0.1% by weight."
In response, the APJ cited a single line from a precedential Federal Circuit case, which is also a logical truism: "Of course, the absence of evidence is not the same as evidence of absence." Porter v. Secretary of Health and Human Services, 663 F. 3d 1242, 1264 (Fed. Cir. 2011) (O'Malley, J., concurring-in-part, dissenting-in-part)(internal quotations and citations omitted). Therefore, the rejection was not supported by a preponderance of evidence, and was reversed.
This is a very useful opinion (as it its cite to Porter), because it provides another tool to use in those situations where an Examiner stretches a prior art reference too far to obtain a rejection. Where a cited reference is silent as to a claimed term, that silence cannot be used against the applicant.
What "substantially" means July 29, 2014Posted by Brian Schar in Patent prosecution, USPTO.
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Sometimes in the course of prosecution, either the applicant or the Examiner will proffer an argument about a claim term that is manifestly absurd. This was certainly the case in Ex parte Brosske. I am not even going to try to make the German "SS" letter or the umlaut on WordPress, so my apologies to him if he ever reads this.
One of the claims in Ex parte Brosske required that a blank be "substantially flat." The Examiner cited prior art that showed a blank having a 90 degree angle in it, and argued: "MPEP 2173.05 (b) states that the term 'substantially' is a broad term; therefore, the phrase 'substantially flat' is considered to include a blank that is not completely in a horizontal or vertical orientation. That is, a curve or bend in the blank still meets the claimed limitation."
Fortunately, the PTAB applied common sense, and held that "a blank bent at a 90 degree angle does not constitute a "substantially" flat blank." I am a little surprised that the PTAB did not make note of the fact that the Examiner's interpretation read the term "substantially" completely out of the claim. I would be hard pressed to think of anything that wouldn't be "substantially flat" if something bent at a 90 degree angle is considered "substantially flat."
North Korean patent law June 6, 2014Posted by Brian Schar in General, Patent prosecution.
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Apropos to my post a long time ago about North Korean patent law, I stumbled on this last night quite by accident. It's the Invention Law of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. It's current as of 2011. Enjoy!
Google Patents down? May 8, 2014Posted by Brian Schar in General.
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Google Patents is hosed for me. If I get any results at all, they are exceptionally slow to come up, and the thumbnails on the search result page all show as broken. (I'm also having problems with Google Maps and Google image search – no non-Google sites are a problem.)
Am I just a special snowflake, or is anyone else having difficulty with Google Patents today?
A de facto patent registration system May 2, 2014Posted by Brian Schar in General, Patent prosecution, USPTO.
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Somebody explain to me how it is that we don't effectively have a patent registration system in the US.
After 3 or more years in USPTO hell, winning appeals, and obtaining a patent that is supposed to be presumed valid, the owner might want to assert it. However, the infringer against whom the patent is asserted will immediately throw that patent into IPR for more examination, sending the patentee's purportedly-valid patent back to USPTO purgatory. A whopping _92 percent_ of the time the claims will be amended or canceled! How is this not a slap in the face to the examining corps, and the entire idea of patent examination? If patentees are losing patent rights 92 percent of the time, what was even the point of initial examination? Doesn't this process negate on a de facto basis (1) the entirely of the examination process, and (2) the presumption of validity?
What is really happening on a de facto basis is that you have to open "real" examination, with adult supervision, at the time you assert the patent. That is the basic characteristic of a registration system – there is no examination, and no presumption of validity.
In my view we now live in a patent system with the worst of all possible characteristics, which of course is the American legislative way. Patentees have to endure the expense and time of a normal examination process, as in examination-based patent systems, but then have to have their claims confirmed in a later proceeding, as in a registration-based system.
Why not abandon the entire idea of examination as it currently stands, and simply allow registration of utility patents? Or at least give patentees that money and time saving option?
Non-analogous art April 18, 2014Posted by Brian Schar in Patent prosecution, USPTO.
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A bane of inventors, particularly in the mechanical field, is non-analogous art. You know you're going to go to appeal when in the first office action you get a 5-way 103 rejection where one of the references is an 1890 vintage carpentry tool, when your invention is related to a surgical tool.
Ex parte Bezek provides a concise summary of obviousness law, and also provides a great template for arguing bad 103 rejections to the PTAB. Quoting Bezek, "A reference is analogous art to the claimed invention if the reference is from the same field of endeavor as the claimed invention, even if it addresses a different problem, or it the reference is reasonably pertinent to the problem faced by the inventor, even if it is not in the same field of endeavor as the claimed invention….In order for a reference to be reasonably pertinent to the problem, it must 'logically have commended itself to an inventor's attention in considering his problem.'" (citations omitted).
Bezek was directed to a container for storing potato chips to minimize their breakage. The Sardam reference was an IV container for reconstituting antibiotic. The PTAB found that these were two different fields (that's a slam dunk) and that the Sardam reference was directed to a different problem as Bezek, and as a result was not "reasonably pertinent" to Bezek. Therefore, the rejection was reversed.
The practice takeaway relative to non-analogous art is to argue the problem solved by the prior art reference is a different problem than that solved by the claimed invention.


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Prior rumors about his love for the Queen.
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A torn heart, making its way out the door.
He caresses the image of her in his mind.
This man, this bard, sang a song for the blind.
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Forgetting the ferocious rage of the king.
The man kneels with the light flashing in his face.
He drinks with his eyes, one moment of glee.
His headlands under the moon's winter space.
Never again, will he spend his days thinking.
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Never will he know, he was the tune that eased her thirst.
A man's tale always ends under a woman's spell.
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Suicide Masterpiece
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I am loved a lot
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Soul blown
Cry all day
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Dead plot
Suicide stop
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Insanity or Death
Life begins with insanity~~
~Your soul is kicking and screaming,
Ready to exit with the touch of human hands.
Insanity rides on a gallant stallion ready to pant.
Hides in the mind, mourning its captive soul.
Ready to breach over holding its breath.
Projecting in and out without a guide.
Bites away at the feast, enchants for freedom.
From the lips……….....
Taking length against a world of dilemmas,
Contrasting to a never happy end.
The epidermis cover every wall of insanity.
To live, to eat, and to suffocate it determination without air.
Dramatically hallucination against its will of no wells.
Until it realizes it can drink without water.
No further needs a slumber.
The mind-bends and unfolds to ordinary jolts,
When left to human consummation.
Insincerely bidding and cutting to die in the sleep.
Is how it pleads!
Graves where dreams have no meaning.
Caves where goodness can be redeemed.
A temple of misguided fortune.
All respect lost to this infection,
The patients' weight distracted from an antidote.
The madness begins too finds admiration-
That makes catastrophe go on and on.
The psychosis of the mind and mockeries of them will never be gone
Dictating in everything wrong,
Layers of cramped bricks, level the isolation.
Death drags its feet off into this infinite helix world.
A source of light breeding out of darkness.
"Sanity is no friend of mine!"
Insanity is earth herself,
Where there is life, there is a reason,
Where there is reason, there is madness,
Where there is madness, there you are,
Feeling nothing………………...
Lost in darkness................
~Your soul is kicking and screaming
Life ends with death~~
When my final shadows cling on desperately
Where I fight formidable battles
to merely hold the light
I send you loving vibrations
and soul sustenance
Deep from the cathedral
of one heart to another
where today no choirs sing
nor symphonies play
Yet it is here where we meet
in spiritual solace
here to surrender
and exchange inestimable treasures
recollecting memories
like unopened letters
Galaxies are stretched
over chronicles of shared history
Nebula birthing stars
will be exposed
in forth-coming conversations
bringing short-lived fulfillment to you
Hungry to feast
now will be the time
to approve your blood art vision
and with my own haunting surrender
as dappled shades ink stain your chest
I will reside with you and share, mesmerised
pens - by branding
as this will be your written reams to me
your artist's pallet or brushed canvas
no need for words
and yet creating
mysterious magical moments
Bitter-sweet the music
that dances taut guitar strings
but now blood approved
please go kick your heel up
return to your laughter
and ride on the breeze
for not all are lost
change not
for I am with you always
to love, listen and comfort as one
with you in me and I in you
as masterpiece
Copyright © Anna-Marie Docherty | Year Posted 2013
There was no doubt I was seeing double
Vinny poured another glass
I actually think it was whiskey
There we sat, at the back of the Angelos Steak and Kill
The joke wasn't lost on many
The joint was dark and filled with smoke
Each booth offering up its own unique privacy
Never an evening went by
That some devious plot or plan wasn't being hatched
Tonight was no different
Vinny laid it all out on a napkin
He told me revenge is bitter sweet
Tomorrow night we would feast on the bitter and the sweet
I had no doubts
I was ready to prove my worth
I was ready
Well the next night came faster than a hangover
Eight of us left in two cars
We had a shot of grapa, only that
The Capone said we needed all are wits about us tonight, and then some
Now no one could argue that, and no one would
Laughter and bravado go hand in hand
We arrived on the side street, where one lone doorman
Was smoking his life away
Little did he know, how soon that fag would be his demise
One shot to the head, and blood spurted
The water fountain of death
Began its dance
In went Vinny in the lead and me right on behind
One doesn't waste time with fancy introductions
We were there to deliver the red blood of revenge
Sweet death served to order, and we followed orders
The dinnerware and glasses shattered, wine became blood
Made men fell, bullets tangoed uniting the living with the dead
A blood bath
There are no other words to explain
The dead danced with our bullets and fell onto the now red carpet
Revenge was served, they said bitter sweet
Me, I fell to my knees
Vinny he looked over with an uncomprehending stare
The waitress serving drinks
Was shot right through the heart, it was my bullet
That murdered my finance
For me this revenge was to be only bitter
Dazed I lay, in a pool of blood, hers
Sirens in the distance
Vinny yelling, get the hell up, get the hell up
There was no heaven or up for me
I was as good as dead
They left
I crawled over to her
Tears clouded my vision
I laid my head upon her breast
Entwined in agony, within the grasp of reaper
I caressed her soft hair, I kissed the sour blood of my sins
My enemies in death, served me my own poison
She put a finger to her lips
She whispered shhhhhhhh
I whispered back, with my now black heart
Be my
Funny valentine
She smiled softly and died
Copyright © arthur vaso | Year Posted 2015
Where cradled canyons sing
Of ebony wood in the forest
There lies a gurgling spring
Where cockcrows sing their chorus
To the melody of singsong birds
There I've concealed my sensuous words
Filled with befitted signs
The saccharine whiff of my designs
Come to me my mortal youth
To the wild realm of your truth
Where nymphs and gnomes abound
For the earth is filled with weeping
And only your tears be found
Where the fogs of night are fountains
Spills of glistened moon ignite
By distant silhouette mountains
We dance with passion of fight
Entwining ancient stance
Mingling hand in hand we dance
Till the mountains smile on high
Near and far we spring
To pursue the realest of dreams
While the world cries at its seams
Anxious in trouble to cling
Come to me my mortal youth
To the wild realm of your truth
Where nymphs and gnomes abound
For the earth is filled with weeping
And only your tears be found
To where the ridges merry make
From the beaks of wooden bright
In sparkly pools the ghouls awake
That scarce to stir our night
We watch for seekers down under
Muttering secrets in their soul
We bid them lucks of shivers
Dipping gently in
From reeds that hide a tear of a foal
Under the gentle rivers
Come to me my mortal youth
To the wild realm of your truth
Where nymphs and gnomes abound
For the earth is filled with weeping
And only your tears be found
Far away she shall ever churn
The taciturn eyed
She'll listen no more to turn
To the working mills beside
Or the scrubbing of the barn
May peace weave in her song
She shall wave in the yarn
To a haven known as Belong
Come to me my mortal youth
To the wild realm of your truth
Where nymphs and gnomes abound
For the earth is filled with weeping
And only your tears be found
For she comes, the mortal youth
To the wild realm of her truth
Where nymphs and gnomes abound
For the earth is filled with weeping
And only her tears be found
Copyright © Laura Breidenthal | Year Posted 2013
Susan Boulet was an artist 1941-1997
Her paintings are famous for their layered effects which she started later on in her artistic career. She loved fantasy which is easily seen in her paintings. This is my fantasy poem as I look at this beautiful picture painted by Susan Boulet.
The old man sits quietly on the hillside, knowing his days as one
Spirit would soon be coming to an end. He stares blankly at the heavens where the pale blue sky is the backsplash for Cumulus clouds now filling in, the horizon. He chants his prayer over and over again calling his brothers to come receive his spirit and be one with him for all eternity. Brother bear, cloak me with the warmth of your coat that we may walk through each winter and never be cold again. We will stand together as one, never again will we know fear. Brother wolf fill my heart with your loyal spirit that we may rise to heights of a love greater than any human could possibly achieve. His prayer seems to rise more intensely as he continues. Mighty cat, share with me your speed that we may be faster than the wind, jumping through the clouds as one. Wise and good owl, become one with us that we shall have wings to fly as eagles and wisdom to find eternal peace. Now the old man whispers, together we shall hold the secrets of the universe in our hands. Soon his chin drops down on his chest as a smile crosses his face, and the old frail body crumbles to the hard rocky ground. Then the cry of a wolf, the hoot of an owl and simultaneously the roars of a sabre-toothed and bear echo through the valley. As darkness fills the sky and the moon is high, the silhouette of a young warrior stands proudly on the bluff.
Written by Brenda Meier-Hans
For Debbie Guzzi's Contest:
Free Verse, Prose Poetry, Haibun
Copyright © Brenda Meier-Hans | Year Posted 2014
Bent forward on his wooden chair,
inside his shack, with not a care,
he sits where fast to sleep he fell.
The old man's sleeping long and well.
Companions waiting to be fed
or have their master pat their head,
wait at his feet, but they can tell
the old man's sleeping long and well.
One spotted mutt with doggie grace
extends a tongue to lick the face
of him whose form is but a shell. . .
The old man's sleeping long and well.
Bent forward on his wooden chair,
the old man's sleeping long and well.
A Kyrielle Sonnet for the Briton Riviere Poery Contest
Link for the painting: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Riviere_Briton_The_Long_Sleep.jpg
Copyright © Andrea Dietrich | Year Posted 2013
When I am Colder,Older and then alone...
I will collect the sky on my own...
When the art has faded and the days then fade-
when everyone has gone away...
I may finally see what never was saw
.....ahhhhhhhhhhhhh............... the quiet sky
The unlit room which bares my end...shows the flashes of my pains my joys and sins.
This life has been a strange one since the curtains were drawn
These paper and plastic figures have clouded the dawn
I was once younger,foolish,and obsessed with truth
Now I am bitter,sour,dour faced with my heart under shoe
The children were all searching or lost in a crowd
All weeds in a garden...growing vile and foul
Though beauty was sold it never came true
Obsessions and vanity have traveled safe through
Materials and poison and everything lost
have been burned in the fires or lost in the frost
I stand face to mirror tearing my being apart
Winding thoughts of love,pain,god,and art
As the sun sets and the darkness grows
I too shall follow this pattern in tow
Death has a friendly hand and a pretty face
She has given me comfort as I leave this place
The wars have occurred,humanity's lost
Souls have been burnt in the fire or lost in the frost
Day was Life,Night is Death
And the latter has given counsel on my final steps
Copyright © Winter Wallace | Year Posted 2009
Another song written in middle school - edited of course. ;)
[Verse 1]
I'm trapped within these walls
Never to leave at all
I am the prisoner inside my own home
My spirit is broken
I do not believe
I'm locked in this chamber which I cannot leave
The needles that break the skin
The anger that runs within
I'm giving it all away
Just to stay alive
The needles that pierce my veins
It will never be the same
We're on pins and needles now
It's how we survive
[Verse 2]
They say he'll find me soon
Got to get out of this room
The blood will spill and he'll take what he wants to
I'll never let him through
He whispers in darkness, "I'm not who I seem…"
[Verse 3]
The four walls around me
They start to close in
I know I'm too late now
I know I can't win
So just tell me I'm crazy
It's all in my head
You're not the killer
And I am not dead
Don't tell me it's impossible
To start it all over again
Infection sinks through your pale skin
You'll curse the day that I'm dead
Copyright © Laura Breidenthal | Year Posted 2011
He was always so happy
strong and bold.
He'd give you the shirt off of his back.
He had a rough life
growing up through the depression,
but like he always does,
he got through it.
He has two boys, of whom he is so proud.
Moved from Regina, to Victoria.
He had the best life anyone his age could have wanted.
But ever since his wife died,
he has not been the same.
But like he has always done,
he got through it.
Mind slipping,
just a little forgetful.
That's how it always starts out...
But like always, he powered through it,
until now...
He is not the same person that I used to know.
He been sentenced to the prison in his own mind.
Possessed by the thoughts of his dogs ashes.
He likes to play the blame game,
but we know he doesn't remember that it was him.
He wakes up in the night
shaking with pain,
tears streaming down his face.
There is nothing we can do,
Oh well...
Two more tylenol.
Hold on to hope
for as long as you can,
It's only a matter of time now.
He gets vocal, a very loud tone.
He'll block you in your room
and make false accusations
But we know that it's the pain induced monster in him.
Tick tock, tick tock...
You can't handle the stress anymore
you have to leave.
Just hope for the best,
maybe it will get better.
Surprise, it doesn't.
Your denial is foolish, everyone knows
what happens next.
All results of
Copyright © Laura Hamilton | Year Posted 2013
All my friends have..... gone
Underground ....... they rest at my bare feet
Leaves blowing sequestered on this barren earth
Grey skies melodies of wistful sad notes
Lovers too... have died on me
.....underground they lie
The heart is a terrible cavern of loss
Alone, I amble to and fro
Knowing full well
I too have died
Infinite is
My judgment soon to arrive ............underground
The sweetest sounds of burning trees
A gentle stroking in the breeze
The calm has lasted past the storm
Cloudy visions, Satan's roar
Too many sights have passed my way
A time found only in the haze
The softest screams are running bare
My aching bones creak as I stare
You walk a distance towards me
The fall's eternal, can't you see?
I'm a memory in your heart
I whisper to you in the dark
The battle's started at the end
No one is coming to repent
The sinners grab their wine from prey
No judgment calling here to stay
The sport is reckless to be told
The one is laughing at his souls
It falters nowhere to be sure
The power grows forevermore
Like a spirit in the wind
I have no say in where you've been
But cross the line to come to me
And pay the price for ecstasy
You walk a distance towards me
The fall's eternal, can't you see?
I'm a memory in your heart
I whisper to you in the dark.
Copyright © John Paluszek | Year Posted 2013
Look deep into yourself my friend,
if then, you need to look to me,
and deep enough to see the end,
beyond your end is where I'll be.
Into the love someday you'll see,
becoming all the things you'll know,
before your very eyes, I'll be
already where you want to go.
I'll be your long and blinding light,
of which all life is awed,
the thread that reaches through the night
in search of what is God.
And in a while, if love is right,
and hope is not just more pretend,
though you have sought what e'er you might,
'tis me you'll find, beyond your end.
And I will love your death away,
removing from your mind
what'er your death might seem to be,
with love impossible to find.
Û © RON WILSON aka vee bdosa
Copyright © Vee Bdosa | Year Posted 2012
Lou Reed , Mistral of his time
so you walked this road on the wild side
unique in music , never selling out
believing in Art instead of commercialize
Lou Reed the musician never compromised ~
Sweet Jane not enough for our crowd of eccentric rockers
still will live forever with the many that left before you
one can imagine from John Lennon to Johnny Ramone
a party in Heaven of the finest rock bestowed
no text , no MTV when they pursued a dream
New York, hotel Chelsea an age of Renaissance
ragged jeans and leather jackets ,Art on stage
No, your Rock not ever fade away , it will stay sweet Jane forever ~
For the fine Man with words , ode to Lou Reed .
Copyright © Shanity Rain | Year Posted 2013
The Tumid River of Acheron (the journey) Part 1
Dark the tumid, rushing waters flow
where man most wisely fears to go
Liquid blackness sings of epic pain
torture, misery and cries of insane
Echoes of evil Eperius in the West
shadow realm where evil never rests
Black ship of Kharon eternally sail
into the sunless land of a dark hell
Land those lost , family and friend
exists for all wicked women and men
Black abyss where Apollo never walks
lost souls ripped by screeching hawks
Forever filled by rowboat conveyed
miserable, crying souls are relayed
Crossing the tarn of Acheron then
cursing future torments for all men
Seething waters set to ever separate
those lost into future tortured Fate
Father of evil waters from which sprang
the Styx of which man's curses rang
Flowing stream holding back evil foul
where tortured spirits scream and howl
Acheron, into a lake of scorching heat
where demons play with souls they eat
Delivered shadows fall on prayers cast
vanity briefly soothes, forever lasts
Prayers sinking like river cast stones
dreams birthed from dead skin and bones
Waters that wrap around Haides evil realm
with Daimon, the dark Lord at the helm
Gushing forth from the bowels of rock
mighty blackened waters rise to shock
Upon its moving mass of wretched stink
poison so lethal no mortal man may drink
Kharon, the ferryman awaits at the oars
to deliver the lost upon evil's shores
Far below the path of Mariandyni coast
the Acheron ferries victims to its host
Loaded with spirits of cries and moans
Kharon laughs at all the misery groans
From the south shore of the black sea
in sun's light never again will they be
Many are the tales of Acheron's fame
its victims steeped in sin and shame
Anguish rises as dark waters deliver
the wretched lost to painfully quiver
In this dark abhorrent , torturing Hell
those embracing lustful sin into evil fell
Robert J. Lindley, 09-13-2014
note: This is part one. The journey into HAIDES
by way of crossing the Styx. The river Styx is
actually an off shoot of Acheron that splits into
the Styx and the Cocytus.
Part two now has two lines written. It will be titled ,
Haides and Tormented Souls (the Dwelling)..
I have no preset limit to the second part, may be
longer or shorter. I suspect it will be even longer.
I hope the readers enjoy this write. I wanted to do
something dark and move away from all my love, romance
and Nature writes. A bit of variety to stir my
Copyright © Robert Lindley | Year Posted 2014
There is a house on the cliff's edge,
Around a quiet, unmarked shoreline
At night, the tide lifts high against a foggy moon
In the morning, gloomy clouds settle with the sea
At times, not even the birds are seen or heard
The house is left to nature's caress
Home-crafted seashell chimes sway and sing with the wind
Crushed sand dollars lie together on the back porch
The shells were once whole, collected by the former owners
Long gone are they now, smiling with the moon
The owners are the very sound of the ocean spray,
Striking the rocks, announcing the cool dawn of day
They are not the dark, empty rooms,
The rooms that nobody thinks of as they go about their lives
The quiet owners are long gone—thought of only by one
A stillborn legacy about as tiresome as the sun,
When the clouds crisp out its beams . . .
A seawater puddle is in the middle of the dining room
Nobody knows it sits there, sinking in the floorboards
It used to be a far larger puddle after a storm,
Stealthily leaking into the house
But now it is small—so small—and the boards are moist,
Moist with its only companion amongst the instilled silence
Nobody thinks of empty, abandoned rooms
Nobody remembers the former owners
They were not much for socials and gatherings
They always lived their quiet, happy lives
Without a care of the outside world,
Far from anybody's thought
Miles from the nearest home
Where the next generation comfortably lives
He never finished fixing that leak . . .
Sometimes the puddle gets bigger after other storms
And when it does, there is almost life there again
You can see the chandelier reflected on the unperturbed water
As a crystal dangles and falls from on high
The dark silence following the drop is as deep as thought . . .
Nobody thinks of empty, abandoned rooms
Nobody remembers the former owners
There is merely a house on the cliff's edge
Around a quiet, unmarked shoreline
-March 21, 2013-
BURIED IN WOODS ON A SNOWY EVENING (With apologies to Robert Frost)
Whose woods these are, mox nix to me,
both dead and buried, she must be,
to bother me, not one more time,
but sleep forever; endlessly.
Though thought of still, as perfect crime,
(it made my life a downhill climb,)
tis none the less, I must admit,
the joy of me, all of the time.
And smile I must, with thought of it,
the slicing of her throat a bit,
and struggling, oh! how she tried!
whilst I enjoyed her dying fit.
Her eyes now crossed, as if she spied,
her life and death on either side,
and so I gouged them both in fun,
for every time she ever lied!
She begged for mercy--there was none!
Her legs were dead, she couldn't run,
and with her throat cut, couldn't cry,
nor could I, whilst I had such fun!
Her pleas are still my lullaby,
I've lots of time to wonder why,
and years to go before I die.
and years to go before I die.
by © ron arbuthnot
Copyright © Vee Bdosa | Year Posted 2014
As I lay me
down to sleep
I pray the lord
my soul to take
if I shall die
before I wake
please watch me God
all through the night
and wake me and my loved
at morning light
please help me
become successful
with the endeavors I seek
please send me a soul mate
in which I can keep
everlasting love
passionate heat
please grant me the serenity
to know right from wrong
and be able to lead
by example
strive to overcome
any downfall
please keep my spirit strong
through the issues
that toil in my soul
I aspire for diamonds in life lord
and all around me
I see coal
I aspire to turn things around
for I feel my wishes have fallen
upon deaf ground
my heart has no voice
they struggle to hear my sound
I pray to be taken
away from my daily
battles, that humble
although compared to others
in the world
its not much trouble
to me, I feel
my spirit is caged
and yearns to be free
King of all Kings
in your image, you
made me
you already know
each single step
my individual thought
you divinely bound me
in mothers womb
my existence you sought
bless me with the
chance to be
the person in which
you hoped for me
to soar like an eagle
dipping my talons of success
in life's sea
grant me an optimistic attitude
for that is the key
Amen to Thee
Copyright © Heather Hill | Year Posted 2010
hands lifted
Losing control
My world was once whole
now a
black HOLE
consumes my soul.
I choose you, but you turn away.
man-i-cal la-u-ghter
Blue stains my day,
Melancholy madness,
Shat.t.e.r.ed bliss.
Poetic kiss.
Where for out thou Romeo?
I Don't Know How To Live With Out You,
so I die with you.
Sweet tears of mOURning dew.
I remember when
...I loved you..
if under
remember when
you had loved me then.
Date: April 10, 2015
I learned this form called Dirty Pretty from poets on Allpoetry, it is unique and artistic in form as the words themselves. Give it a try :)
Copyright © Casarah Nance | Year Posted 2015
Imagine lakes of dreams
Blood contained streams
Imagine oceans that behold undiscovered beings
Imagine human life depended off of cheers and games
Man design's umbrellas
And eventually would play a part in acid rain
Imagine not wanting to smell another rose
Or touch another soul
Because of despair and shame
Imagine in the mist of your demise
You have the passion to rejoice and sing
Imagine driving pass shattered glass
The interior is soaked with blood stains
Your mind can't comprehend the fact
that it's a dead family in the next lane
Imagine dreaming for freedom
As a result by your neck you hang
Imagine for the sake of progress
You whip a man on his back and call him a slave.
Rage, Pain, Fortune, and fame
You don't have to imagine this
Because that's what life brings.
Copyright © Andre Sanders | Year Posted 2012
Forgotten you
As your mind collects the memories of yesterday
Forgotten You
Epiphanies tie into knotty strings of realization
That very moment. . .
You merely exist
Back then. . .those smiles
Those. . .distant laughs
Some you remember by name
Gone now maybe
Like the exhalation of the wind
Others dispersed in the world of arbitrary happening
Like leaves from falling, man-made trees
There is no doubt that they have
Forgotten you
Activate the bomb
Ignite the fuse
And you're on next year's history book
Never forgotten
But drained of all remaining good
That smile you gave
That happiness
The warm embrace so long ago
Salt-coated with piles of rubbish
Over last remaining mental spurts of comfort
Evil, evil, evil, evil, EVIL. . .
Always absorbed and remembered
. . .though never forgiven. . .
All good and gracious sentiments
Packed up in a box set nonchalantly in Downstair's storage
. . .that chair with the broken leg in the corner of the room
That mangled cobweb holding a dangling, lifeless spider
A drowned sailor's hat drifting through the current of the ocean
The single tear from a soldier's vigilant, memory-stricken eye
The frustrating thoughts of a mute
The unchanged. . .HATED deformations
Forgotten you. . .
One soul brings to light weary, unthought-of happenings
Wedged deep into what she can only imagine
With not even a hint of understanding
. . .of the pain. . . .of the bewildering distortions
Of the ugly. . .
One soul merely vomits sickly verse after verse
As humanity embraces its downfall
The poet hangs onto her unjustifiable, forgotten. . .
Some night you'll wake before morning
Sweatin to the oldies she will sing.
She'll make you think you're in Heaven...
Long enough to tell you ANYTHING...
And you'll believe her.
Some night you'll wake up hearing voices
Sweatin to the oldies of here life.
She'll never say you're in Heaven.
Or tell you you've been sleeping with the Devil's Wife.
She'll never tell you, you've been sleeping with the Devil's wife.
But you will KNOW.
You will know.
That's when you'll need her.
That's when you'll love her the most.
That's when you will die.
Sleeping with the Devil's wife.
That's when you will die.
© ron wilson aka vee bdosa ---hear the song and First take Video on Youtube, search for vee bdosa then select SLEEPING WITH THE DEVILS WIFE. One of my personal favorites, more poetry than song.
Vultures -----
-----------passing over dying shadows
nothing to feast on
the wind came and carried them away
Copyright © Sandy Ivy D | Year Posted 2013
I was laid to rest,
my death keeps getting better.
If you find me here, you know, I'm yours to keep.
I could try to say
I love you in this letter,
or pretending you are here, sing you to sleep.
If the world was mine,
I find it quite amusing,
I would give it all away, to see your eyes,
I would save your life,
and everything you're losing,
all because you never see who's telling lies.
I am just as dead
as is your heart each morning.
If the wind has blown, you know I will be there.
I will touch your life,
without much of a warning,
never look for me, just know I'm everywhere.
I'm a summer storm,
my hope is crashing thunder.
I'm a lightning bolt, my love is five alarm.
if I rain all night,
it's just a spell I'm under,
you should know I'm dead, and won't do any harm.
I'm a little boy.
An old man getting younger.
All I have is how I know how things should be.
We still want the world
to live in death and hunger,
yet I love your eyes, when your eyes look at me.
Death, A Mystery So Dreaded
What light will shine upon my demise
perhaps a lone candle burning low
Penny for your thoughts sounds so wise
will that light burn truly to glow!
Will light shadows dance upon the wall
a lively jig, complete with shouts
Will I still hear my beloved ones call
or even know to have such doubts?
Can I wander back, check on my friends
just a quick glimpse just to see
Shall death have twists, turns and bends
or deep blackness merely engulf me?
My love, my life- will it not be missed?
If so, I await our sweet eternal tryst?
R.J. Lindley
Oct. 17th 1979
Note-- Eileen Manassian mentioned in a
blog comment that she thought my sonnets
quite good. So I now break out this sonnet
from my private journal written 36 years ago
when I was 25 years old(wild as a mustang).
I dedicate its public showing to her, my friend.
Copyright © Robert Lindley | Year Posted 2015
' In general, quantum mechanics does not predict a single definite result for an observation. Instead, it predicts a number of different possible outcomes and tells us how likely each of these is. '
Which side of the Wolf-coin are we looking at
the red or the green
nothing then is certain
not even death but the life one endures
quarks protons neutrons electrons bosons
particles like men and beings in general
bathe not necessarily in the same lifeless soup
great teachers or rather teachers with great followings
those that always attract those who prefer to let others do the thinking for them
especially through transcendentally transmitted interstellar telegraphy
would want us believe
there's just This One
and all comes and goes to That Only ONE
If only it were just as simple as that
Then what is it that This One wants
Or is It caught up in its own caveat
And must of needs come apart
on the seed that It alone plants
and do what we may
nothing goes wrong
whatever the explanation
everybody is right
right from the start
Big Bang from a tight-fisted unfurling hand
Big Crunch to a crushing tightening stranglehold
and out again
for the Brahma Day
and after aeons the Brahma Night
And at the stillstanding blackhole singularity
neither space nor time
squeezed in and out
Birth as in Death
An eventual point of total extinction
if ever there was one
Yet always the two extremes
and the ever-changing in-betweens
Matter versus Anti-Matter
Here the Yang is not lkely to be set againt the Yin
Though matter itself is neither
Is nor Is-Not-ness
And the 96% Dark Matter
And the infinite number of parallel universes
Does it really matter
' … if you meet your antiself, don't shake hands !
You would both vanish in a great flash of light.'
Vanish into what
Dark matter
or just non-dark matter
Still the duality of matter
Still the ever-changing conundrum
Everything moves jostles couples alters reproduces destructs
'Sex is emotion in motion.'
Emotion erupts
into thin air
into where
Dark air
Motion disrupts
and roots one here
tied to the lunar year
why should it matter
if we cannot know the reason why
ego id libido
drive faith fame femme father future
if super/alter ego connects the ego
to the collective unconscious
why drown the self in the Great Self
by wilful act
when the Ultimate One
is the sum of all the little ones
Is the Original One incapable of absorbing all the ones
each of whom must move to eat drink sleep
copulate make money grow roots in a society
get and fight to keep a job
make love marry raise children
struggle to keep one's wife one's children
one's house if one can get one
one's career one's future
and helter-skelter race to cheat death
If it's the self-same thing that's being born anew
What does it matter if it keeps changing in view
Of the desperate haste with which everything
We see smell hear feel intute sense
Keeps hurtling away from the Ding an Sich
And leaves us with a parochial Milky Way
Bastardised stealthily by grandiose Andromeda
Left retrograded entwined within measely galaxy clusters
Through some trillion cataclysmic light years
What's the impulse to keep moving
Is the yogi's stilled-centre
The death of all action
Which cannot call for a reaction
Or is the art of keeping still
Merely the art of making belief
'…actors act out the pun that life is the art of acting
until your performed role becomes your normal character.
Then you are safe inside your character armour.'
As soon as you have thought It out
It turns around and re-structrures Itself inside out
and you know just why
don't you now
References to the quotations
Stephen W. Hawking, A Brief History of Time : From the Big Bang to Black Holes, London-New York, 1988.
Attributed to Mae West.
Eric N. W. Mottram, « Men & Gods : A Study of Eugene O'Neill », Encore (London), 1963.
I'm not sure the « re-structuring » bit at the end comes from
Steven Weinberg or John Gribbin, or perhaps even from Fred Allan Wolf ?
© T. Wignesan – Paris, 2005 ; rev. 2012. From the collection : Poems Omega-Plus, 2005.
Copyright © T Wignesan | Year Posted 2012
The flood of human remains plummeting downwards. Horizon blackened, jolted from the sky. Towering waves of obscure aftermath swarm to the heavens. With a slight endeavor, kingdoms turn to squander.
Ravaging paths meet and become hordes of ailment. God's hand has erected the retched bowels of man's mass burials.
An avalanche of skulls,
Rain down the exhumed past of lost ancestry. Prophecies fulfilled to our graves of dispersed dead.
Copyright © Pauly Plaster J.R. | Year Posted 2014
your velvety blossoms
slowly withers away
once tender roots
have now decayed
at the thought i cringe
such insidious disease
gradually infects
each and every leaf
moldy black spots
crinkled stained edges
your magnificent growth
gradually suppresses
your unsurpassed beauty
now fuzzed up and gray
crinkled debilated stems
a dull distorted array
shoots barely opened
leaves now curled and bent
such unforgettable moment
your petals soon descend
your spicy scent has drifted
such sickly brittle vein
Flowers now discolored
and left to thrive on pain
after months of nurturing
your once marvelous display
the thought of you slowly wilting
has left me in dismay
*My theme is taken from Constance's Poem "in Memory of a rose"*
Copyright © Rashana King | Year Posted 2010
As death creeps out of the darkness,
A mother becomes the rope in a (Tug of war.)
A child reaches to help its' mother in her weakness,
And stares death in the eye with abhor.
The rope falls limp in sure defeat,
Yet the child pulls on the strength of heart.
Against the evilness and deceit,
Fighting with the will to not be apart.
The hooks of death on weary knees,
Shackling the arms, exposing vulnerability.
Screaming and crying the words of "please"
The mother rests with peace and tranquility.
A child left to battle life's groans,
Preparing for the encounter and all its' lour.
For one day she will meet Mr. Bones,
And she'll be the rope in her child's (Tug of war.)
Inspired by Brian's Picture Poem's Contest
Käthe Kollwitz, Death and the Woman (Tod und Frau), lithograph, 1910.
Copyright © Abe Lopez | Year Posted 2009