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According to a bulletin sent out by the Eagle Police Department last week, there has been a recent surge in the use of financial scams in Colorado, and specifically here in the town of Eagle.
Scammers prey on people who are susceptible to quick money schemes, people who are in debt or have had past collections, the elderly, people who might believe they are guilty of something when they are not, and sometimes even random targets.
"Scams can sound very tempting and some of the threats and promises seem very real. They are designed that way," reads the police release. "But people can protect themselves by being alert and informed, and using good judgment."
These scams are committed by national and international criminals, using fabricated personal and organizational names and credentials. Every day, all day, most of them do nothing but scam people out of money and possessions.
"In essence, they are good at what they do. These predators have no concern for you or your personal situation, and they prey on people's vulnerability," noted the release. "They are likely many states away, even overseas, very difficult to find, and almost impossible to hold accountable in most cases. Some of the scammers will even dare you to contact the police because it is so difficult to find and stop them. That does not make such calls or contacts more legitimate, just more suspicious."
The Eagle Police urge residents to hang up or disregard callers who:
• Offer something that's too good to be true. Generally, if it sounds too good, it probably is. If it sounds too good to pass up, play it safe and hang up.
• Use personal identifying information by threat or deception. These scams normally revolve around obscure or unknown collections/debts. They demand payment for something you do not owe and threaten legal action, contact you at your work or even show up at your home. As intimidating as these tactics might sound, they are not legitimate. If you are not guilty of something, and you know you aren't, hang up.
• Make official sounding requests for personal identifying information. Banks, credit card companies, or other financial institutions do not ask you for your personal information. If the call claims to be from one of your institutions, and they ask you for personal information, hang up. Call the company back on the number provided to you through official documentation (such as your bill or the back of your officially issued card) and make your own inquiries. Never use a number provided to you during suspect spam calls. Those numbers call back the scammers.
• Request emergency personal identifying information. Calls will be emergent, indicating a breach or hacking attempt, and that your financial/personal information is compromised. Requests will be made for you to provide personal identifying information. Hang up. This also includes calls from service providers (satellite television or Internet service provides, for example). Scammers pretend to be affiliated with providers you subscribe with and offer upgrades or other services. Use caution as most of these calls are high pressure, and always hang up and contact your provider yourself if it seems suspicious.
The Internet can be a very dangerous place. Online scams are very in-depth and appear very real.
Some sales/web pages using official names can be faked and links go directly to the scammer's computers, not to the advertised pay site. Always use caution with any financial transactions and try not to use any "provided links" via email. Always use trusted sites/sources and always look for secured web pages.
Locally reported scams
Calls from the "Federal Crimes and Investigations Unit" or other official-sounding organizations are connected with scams.
Scammers may try to intimidate potential victims into compromising their personal financial information with these types of calls. Voicemails/phone calls are threatening in nature and attempt to get people to reveal information essentially through bullying, profanity and threats. The scammers will have some correct personal information (last 4 digits of SSN, phone numbers), but normally don't have your full personal information or credit information. Callers often have foreign accents and use common names (Joe Smith), even some movie star names.
These scams are mostly focused on the elderly or persons who have some debt collection in the past.
They first offer loans at ridiculously low rates or payback schedules ($1,000 or less). These are very attractive offers for people in financial trouble. If accepted, they ask you to pay via money card (purchased at grocery or convenience stores). If paid, then the loan now cannot be offered because of an outstanding debt and they provide a number to call. When that number is called, the scam continues by offering a quick "payout" for the false collection, also to be paid by money card. If that is then paid, you are directed to call the first number back, now with no answer or placed on hold, indefinitely. Be wary of such unsolicited calls; only deal with legitimate financial institutions.
These are often phone calls but can also come by email, text and social media. The scammer claims to be a friend or family member who needs money wired to them immediately for injury/medical reasons/broken down vehicles/some other emergency.
They will always revolve around quick money exchanges and extreme circumstances. Be suspicious with any communication like this, and investigate further.
These "too good to be true" offers are almost always fraudulent. Better technology regarding checks/cashing of checks has made this more difficult but it is still a concern.
If someone offers you money for getting them money, hang up. If you make a sale of personal items and are paid in advance of sending them, and told to "keep the rest," a scam or fraud might be lurking somewhere in that transaction and might cause you to lose money.
Some Basic Ways to Protect Yourself from scams include:
• Review all of your financial account information on a regular basis.
• Check your credit history regularly.
• Maintain strong passwords for online activity and change them often.
• Use good judgment.
• Be suspicious of any request for personal information
• Don't hesitate to hang up.
• Awareness is the key to not being victimized by scams.


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The potential significance of the decision by the English prosecution authorities to arraign for
trial a number of very senior figures of News Corp's UK division (News International) cannot be
underestimated in terms of company compliance laws in the United States. As the Guardian
newspaper reported on Tuesday, if senior News International executives Andy Coulson and Rebekah
Brooks are found guilty of having made illegal payments to police and public officials, they will have
also have been found to have contravened America's "Foreign Corrupt Practices Act".
The fact that this case, which also involves a senior Ministry of Defence employee and other News
International employees, is now set for trial places a restriction on any reference to the defendants,
but it in general terms it has been established beyond doubt that Rupert Murdoch's News
International subsidiary indulged in corrupt practices involving cell phone and computer hacking and
the payment of bribes for information. The question now is simply how far this went up the chain
of command. There is, however, one huge element of News International's illegal and unethical
behaviour that has been completely ignored so far and this can be summed up in one word: Ireland.
Why has News International's reckless and corrupt behaviour in Ireland been forgotten during
all the coverage stateside of the News International bribes and hacking scandal? Have American
commentators forgotten so quickly that Martha Pope, one of the most respected civil servants in the
Senate and senior aide to Senator George Mitchell was smeared in December 1996 via a concocted
story about a love affair with former leading IRA man Gerry Kelly? This story, which the New York
Post ran with the headline "Sex Scandal Perils IRA Truce" almost derailed the peace process and
Senator Mitchell described it as one of the most despicable things he had ever experienced as a
More significantly still, it is clear that the smearing of Martha Pope (and by extension Senator
Mitchell himself) was no aberration; no one off event. For it follows a pattern of Irish smear, libel
and hacking exploits produced by Murdoch titles based in the UK and Ireland that had the overall
effect of casting suspicion on the peace process and those who sought reform of both the security
forces in Northern Ireland and its once staunchly pro-British and anti-Catholic institutions.
Lest we forget, in 1988, a young woman called Carmen Proetta made the mistake of honestly
reporting what she saw from her kitchen window as a unit of Britain's elite SAS executed 3 unarmed
IRA members on the island of Gibraltar. Ms Proetta's graphic account of the coup de grace shots
to the head being administered to the already stricken IRA members completely undermined the
official version of events, dutifully asserted by a gung-ho British media - that the SAS had fired
in self-defence. However, News International newspapers then began to question not only Ms
Proetta's ability to recall these events properly but also her personal character. The tabloid "Sun"
newspaper described Ms Proetta as 'The tart of Gib', but it is more useful to look at the approach
used by the 'A market' Sunday Times to besmirch Carmen Proetta's reputation because this late
1980s style "personality hack" carried important pointers for the future journalistic approach of
News International titles.
Carmen Proetta eventually won a string of libel awards from Murdoch newspapers and other titles
but the use by Times newspapers of a drug criminal and secret service "agent", Joseph Wilkins to try
and smear Carmen Proetta as an escort agency Madam in its libel trial was not given wide coverage,
partly because Ms Proetta's libel settlement was not reached until a few years after the initial
traducing of her name and reputation.
The judge in the Carmen Proetta v Sunday Times libel trial, Mr Justice Drake, was scathing about the
attempt by Times Newspapers to use Wilkins as a witness in its defence:
"It is conceded that Wilkins is a man with an appalling record, and it appears from documents
that I have seen that Wilkins asked for payment in return for giving the statement and that the
defendants, after the statement was given, did pay £2,000 to Wilkins's sister at his request,
which they falsely described as a consultancy fee."
In the sake of fairness, it should be pointed out that certain Sunday Times journalists like Rosie
Waterhouse were appalled at the way her newspaper had covered the Gibraltar killings and their
aftermath. Ms Waterhouse resigned her post over the affair after accusing her own paper of
having left itself - "wide open to accusations that we had set out to prove one point of view and
misrepresented and misquoted interviews ..."

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OAKLAND -- The day after Houston Astros manager Bo Porter had plenty to say about A's shortstop Jed Lowrie bunting with his team leading 7-0, Porter had little to say about the incident Saturday.
"I'm going to say the same thing I said (Friday) night: nothing happened yesterday," Porter said before Saturday's game.
Porter apparently took umbrage with Lowrie bunting, presumably because the A's had such a sizable lead. Hence, reliever Paul Clemens threw at Lowrie on back-to-back pitches in the third inning.
After Lowrie flew out to end the inning, Porter rushed out of the dugout to confront Lowrie near the first-base line.
"I don't understand the reaction," Lowrie said Saturday. "He just blew his top. For him to run on the field like that, point at me and yell at me like that. I don't get that.
"If you're going to give up, OK. If you have plans of scoring runs, we're going to try to score as many runs as we can."
Athletics manager Bob Melvin said he expects both teams to move past the incident without there being any residual effect.
At the same time, Melvin said, he can see where Porter might have taken exception with Lowrie bunting.
"I can understand, they're down 7-0 and if I'm on the other side, maybe it perturbs me a little bit," Melvin said. "But it's still the first inning. So, that one's probably the in between, where you understand both sides of that."
The Astros placed a shift on Lowrie in the first inning, playing Lowrie to pull the ball to the right side.
Lowrie bunted toward third base, where Clemens fielded the ball and threw in time to get Lowrie at first.
"It's the first inning, you're playing a shift. Isn't that what you're asking me to do by doing that?" Lowrie said. "So, I didn't understand the reaction."
Oakland second baseman Eric Sogard said he and his teammates constantly walk a fine line between what's considered acceptable and what is deemed as a no-no.
"It's kind of that weird unwritten rule where you don't really know where the line is," Sogard said. "Especially that early in the game, it's tough to tell. I guess people feel differently about that. But now we can go back to playing ball."
Follow Steve Corkran on Twitter at twitter.com/CorkOnTheNFL.


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Let's play BINGO
Of course, the gridiron action is important, but Super Bowl Sunday is about more than football. It's about the creative commercials, the halftime show, good beer and great food.
So when you throw that grand game-watching party next weekend, bring out the Super Bowl bingo boards so your guests can track everything from commentator cliches to nacho sightings.
Here's one board to get you started. Download the rest at www.mercurynews.com/eat-drink-play.
-- Jackie Burrell and Joan Morris
Commentator verb-izes a noun
"They came here to play football."
Reference to frigid weather
A touchdown dance
Red-hot chile peppers in your food
Red Hot Chili Peppers
"That turnover is going to cost them."
A butt pat
Crazy fan in the stands
Chicken wing sighting
"A circus catch"
Halftime wardrobe malfunction
"The refs are letting them play."
"The play is getting chippy."
John Madden name drop
"That was a good non-call"
Shot of any player's hot wife
Player crying on the sidelines
Any mention of last year's game when the lights went out
Coach having a conniption
Gatorade shower
Shot of an owner pouting or cheering in their luxury boxes
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I've been using DVDFab for sometime to rip my media into MKVs. Problem: standard DVDs are super glitchy, unless I tweak PS3MS to play JUST the MKVs ripped from DVDs. BUT, then my BDs ripped to MKV are flaky.
And then I tinker with BDs ripped to MKVs, and then the the DVDs stop working. Which doesn't make any sense yet again.
So, I converted all my DVD MKVs to MP4. WOW. Play super fast, the Go To works far better, and there's no quality lost.
But now...I'm using a subjunk build and I'm having problems with some BD MKVs doing Go To, but...I'm wondering if it's my router that's causing that problem. New thing to look at.
MP4 just seems like a nicer format all around for video playback. Am I wrong in that thinking? What does everyone else think? What's your experience?


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CORPUS CHRISTI – The Texas A&M - Corpus Christi men's and women's tennis teams both picked up sweeping victories over Maryland Baltimore County today in the home opener. The men's team cruised to a 5-0 victory while the women's team clinched all six singles matches to win 6-0 in front of a strong crowd at the Thomas J. Henry Tennis Center.
"We have been waiting a long time for our first home match and I think the team showed tremendous spirit in the way they competed," Director of Tennis Steve Moore said. "To see that many people out Sunday on a match that we had to move so early really validates the hard work these players have put in. I love the Corpus Christi Tennis Community and I know this team loves competing in front of them.
"Our captains did a great job of leading. I thought Stefania Nicolae and Sandra Burges really came out and set the tone for the team. I'm also incredibly impressed with our freshmen, Judit Vives and Kerry Galhos. They showed a lot of courage and toughness in their first match and really played with a lot of heart. I thought Peter Nagy and Matt Westmoreland also did a great job of making a statement at the beginning of the match with their footwork and energy."
The women's team (1-0) tallied their first win of the season, breezing past the Retrievers (1-1) 6-0. A&M - Corpus Christi jumped out early with a 2-0 lead after Nicolae downed Olga Baikulova 6-0, 6-1 in the No. 1 spot. Galhos followed suit with a straight-set victory in her first match as an Islander. The freshman edged Madlena Kurasz 6-4 in the first set before capturing a 6-2 win in the second on court five. The Islanders kept things rolling with Burges sealing 6-1, 6-4 victory in the No. 3 slot over Isabel Aldunate, and Vives clinching the match in the No. 6 position. The freshman overcame nerves and excitement in the first set to squeeze out a 7-5 win before defeating Josefin Stange-Jonsson 6-1 in the final set.
Celia Rodriguez padded the Islanders lead to 5-0 with a 6-1, 7-5 victory over Mariami Dolashvili in the No. 4 spot. Maider Martin posted the Islanders sixth point of the day in the No. 2 spot. The sophomore topped Kim Berghaus in the first set 6-3, before falling 6-1 in the second set. In the final set, Martin held off Berghaus with a 10-5 victory.
After opening its first eight matches on the road, the men's team (6-3) returned to the Thomas J. Henry Center for its home opener against UMBC (1-1). After falling in the last meeting to the Retrievers, the Islanders came out with spirit and energy to power their way to their fifth-straight win including their sixth victory of the season. Much like the women, the men's team built an early lead 2-0 after Westmoreland and Guillaume Rauseo tallied straight-set victories. Westmoreland breezed past Daniel Gray 6-0 in the first set, before cruising to a 6-2 win in the second set in the No. 5 position.
Rauseo battled Alex Drean in the No. 3 slot and edged out a 7-5 win in the first set. In the second, the sophomore answered with a 6-3 win to post the second Islanders point of the day. Ricardo Mayagoitia won his third singles match of the year with a 6-1, 7-5 win over Melker Svard in No. 2 singles before Javier Pujol clinched the match for the Islanders in the No. 4 spot. Pujol propelled his way to a 6-3 victory in the first set before notching the Islanders fourth point of the match 6-3 in the second set. Freshman Philipp Kuehnen and Kamal Patel were in the middle of the second set in the No. 6 slot when the match was clinched. Kuehnen garnered the first set 6-2 and was leading the second set 2-1 when Pujol won.
In No. 1 singles, Peter Nagy and Justin Carter were deadlocked at 5-5 in the second set when the match was clinched so they played it out. Nagy downed Carter 6-1 in the first set before forcing a second-set tiebreaker. The two stayed even in the tiebreaker until Nagy responded with back-to-back points at 8-8 to win 10-8. With the singles win, the junior improves to 6-1 in the No. 1 spot and has won five straight.
"We have a lot we have to improve on, but I thought we did a good job today with the things we could control," Moore added. "I like the character and toughness that our team is choosing to be about right now."
The women's team will now embark on a four-match road swing. First up is a pair of matches in Houston against Southern Mississippi (Feb. 1) and Houston (Feb. 2). The men's team will return to action along with the women on Feb. 4 at Prairie View A&M.
For all the latest on Islanders Tennis, like the team on Facebook (IslandersTennis) and follow them on Twitter and Instagram (@IslandersTennis).
Men's Tennis Match Results
Maryland Baltimore County vs. Texas A&M - Corpus Christi
1/26/2014 at Corpus Christi, Texas
Texas A&M - Corpus Christi 5, Maryland Baltimore County 0
Singles competition:
1. Peter Nagy (AMCC) def. Justin Carter (UMBC) 6-1, 7-6 (10-8)
2. Ricardo Mayagoitia (AMCC) def. Melker Svard (UMBC) 6-1, 7-5
3. Guillaume Rauseo (AMCC) def. Alex Drean (UMBC) 7-5, 6-3
4. Javier Pujol (AMCC) def. Eliott Loubatie (UMBC) 6-3, 6-3
5. Matt Westmoreland (AMCC) def. Daniel Gray (UMBC) 6-0, 6-2
6. Philip Kuehnen (AMCC) vs. Kamal Patel (UMBC) 6-2, 2-1, unfinished
Match Notes:
Maryland Baltimore County 1-1
Texas A&M - Corpus Christi 6-3
Order of finish: Singles (5,3,2,4,1)
Women's Tennis Match Results
Maryland Baltimore County vs. Texas A&M - Corpus Christi
1/26/2014 at Corpus Christi, Texas
Texas A&M - Corpus Christi 6, Maryland Baltimore County 0
Singles competition:
1. Stefania Nicolae (AMCC) def. Olga Baikulova (UMBC) 6-0, 6-1
2. Maider Martin (AMCC) def. Kim Berghaus (UMBC) 6-3, 1-6, 10-5
3. Sandra Burges (AMCC) def. Isabel Aldunate (UMBC) 6-1, 6-4
4. Celia Rodriguez (AMCC) def. Mariami Dolashvili (UMBC) 6-1, 7-5
5. Kerry Galhos (AMCC) def. Madlena Kurasz (UMBC) 6-4, 6-2
6. Judit Vives (AMCC) def. Josefin Stange-Jonsson (UMBC) 7-5, 6-1
Match Notes:
Maryland Baltimore County 1-1
Texas A&M - Corpus Christi 1-0
Order of finish: Singles (1,5,3,6,4,2)


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So it's New Year's Day and I'm making breakfast for the in-laws. I crack an egg and it freakin' explodes all over the place - including my new Green Day tee. Sorry, Tre, but I got egg on your face.
hell ... tré ... where did you get that picture??? xD
Well.. Hay new year
How true... Happy New Year, Tre!!!
Happy new year Tre!!!!
HAHAHAH, happy new year Tré! Good luck!! When they start their tour in March, come to Argentina! please!♥ I love you !!
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I'd like to shoot them (the unicorns, not my parents).
A little BG: My EXH and I split right when my ODS was born. He decided he didn't want children (while I was in labor) so yeah, he got kicked to the curb at light speed by myself and my large-breasted charge nurse. He did tell his parents everything, so they decided they wanted a relationship with my ODS. OK, Fine. Whatever. I hadn't had a problem with them before. I thought my Ex-MIL was a twatwaffle, but nothing harmful, and Ex-FIL was beat into submission by Ex-MIL (the biggest wuss I have ever met). They only saw him once in a while. 11 times in 5 years, about 3 hours at a time. Not a lot. My ODS can't even remember them. Then they dropped off the face of the earth for 9 years. I heard nothing. Fine with me. I re-married, we have a new LO, we're a happy family.
Last week my parents had a message from the EX-ILs. "How is ODS? What's he up to? Will you call us and let us know how he is? We haven't heard from you in so long! Also, Ex-MIL is very sick." Ah - the reason for the call. Memorial Day Measles. Enter stage right: My parents' unicorns.
My father, King Unicorn, wants to call them back and let them know how ODS is. I shot that down. He jumped all over me how they have the "right" to know about him. Especially since they're at the end of life. Again, I shot that down. It's their regret, not mine. They're problem entirely. I decided to leave it up to ODS (he's 14 and mature for his age, so I thought it was important to let him make the choice) if he wanted to see them or have my father call them and give them an update. ODS is NOT happy with my father and doesn't want the ex-IL's to know anything about him. Dad told him he was bitter. I took the phone back and let him have it. (I'm an extreme mama-bear nearing menopause - don't fuck with my kids). Mom got him to shut up.
I get the feeling my father will do what he wants, regardless of my ODS' wishes. He is the "patriarch" of the family and FM Extraordinaire. What should I say or do if he does go against what my son wants? ODS is very smart. He told me "I have two sets of GP's. And the Ex-ILs arent one of them." He loves my DH's parents who are fantastic people. Also, what the hell do I say to the two morons who decided to pop up like a damned weed after 9 years?
FTR: I did tell my dad to shoot his unicorn. Mom laughed. But he didn't get it.


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Watonwan County Library St. James branch celebrated the 10 year anniversary in a new building Saturday Nov. 3 with events like P.J's Magic Show and a visit from Vicki Myron, author of "Dewey: The Small-town Library Cat who Touched the World."
The community joined in the celebration. Members both young and old enjoyed the event, entertainment and meeting the people who made the construction of the new library possible. It also provided a moment to thank the library staff for all they do throughout the year.
The tenth anniversary open house was sponsored by the Friends of the St. James Library – the same group that was so pivotal in the resurrection of the building.
"The Friends of the Library worked so very hard to raise money for the construction of this building and continue to support the library," said Cheryl Bjoin, Director of the Watonwan County Library St. James branch.
In conjunction with a $1 million grant from the state of Minnesota and $500 thousand raised at the County and City level, The Friends of the St. James Library raised $300 thousand for the new building ten years ago.
Friends of the St. James Library is a group organized 20 years ago with the specific goal of improving the library. Ten years later the library was built.
As a result of the reconstruction of the library, there is room for activities and supplies. Space that was much needed in the cramped library of 10 years ago.
"There are places for people to sit and study and just use the library," said Bjoin. "Enough space to display what you've got."
The library now has sections for children, teens, adults and individuals who just want a quiet place to study and a full section of Spanish books. There is also a group meeting room, where various library activities and other groups meet – and a technology lounge.
St. James is fortunate to have a library with over 51,800 books and 5,000 movies and audio books. Any books that can't be found in the Watonwan County Library St. James branch can likely be found and ordered from the Watonwan County Library system.
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— On Saturday, March 9, SullivanArc presents an afternoon screening of the short documentary film The Collector of Bedford Street, followed by a question and answer session with director Alice Elliott.
The screening starts at 1 p.m. at the Delaware Valley Arts Alliance, Krause Recital Hall, 2nd floor, 37 Main Street, Narrowsburg.
Directed by Sullivan County part-timer Alice Elliott, The Collector of Bedford Street (2002) is an Academy Award® nominated 34 minute documentary about Alice's West Village neighbor, Larry Selman.
Every year, Larry collects thousands of dollars for charities while living at the poverty line. Larry is a community activist and a fundraiser who has an intellectual disability.
When Larry's uncle becomes unable to care for him, his New York City neighbors come together and establish an adult trust fund to ensure that he continues to live independently in his own apartment.
On January 20, 2013, Larry passed away at Beth Israel Hospital in New York City. His very big heart stopped. He was 70 years old.
Alice Elliott is an Academy Award® nominated director, writer, producer, university level teacher, advocate for the disabled, cinematographer, and the recipient of a 2012 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship.
This screening of The Collector of Bedford Street is presented in conjunction with the opening reception of SullivanArc's "Expressions 2013," an exhibit of paintings by individuals with developmental disabilities. It is open to the public. Admission is free.
For more information, call 845-252-7576.
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Visible inspection is an essential component of a cleaning validation program and a requirement for compliance with good manufacturing practice (GMP). The use of inspection as the sole means of determining equipment cleanliness for pharmaceutical facilities was initially proposed by Mendenhall and Leblanc (1, 2). FDA's 1993 Guide to Inspection of Validation of Cleaning Processes, however, indicated that its use should be limited to batches of the same product, which has led to its limited exploitation to date within the industry (3). Nevertheless, this topic continues to be a subject of discussion; for example, a risk-based approach supported by visible residue limit (VRL) data has been proposed for R&D pilot plants, in conjunction with validated cleaning procedures (4–9).
Potential benefits of the use of visual inspection alone include significant time savings compared with the commonly used techniques of swab or rinse analysis, as well as the fact that visual inspection, in principle, has the capability of testing 100% of the equipment surface. The risks associated with factors that have been demonstrated to affect VRL measurements, however, need to be managed. These factors include observer subjectivity, lighting level, distance, viewing angle, and inspection methodology (4, 6, 8, 9).
Data published previously on VRLs have largely focused on evaluating limits on stainless-steel metal plates. For this study, using a small number of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs), a range of plates was assessed of different surface types typically found in API and drug-product manufacturing plants. In addition, the potential for variance in the VRL with metal-surface roughness was investigated.Method
Surfaces examined comprised borosilicate clear glass (QVF), white polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE), Pfaudler World Wide Glass white (9125) and dark blue (9115) Glasteel, and stainless steel S316. Metal plates of different surface roughness were examined, with the range selected to encompass actual measured values for items of equipment in the manufacturing facilities, typically between 0.0 to 0.7 µm. Additionally, a 1.1-µm surface roughness was examined to determine the consequence of any deterioration in condition of the metal. The surface roughness was measured using a Surtronic Duo instrument (Taylor Hobson), and the variation in roughness across the plates was within 10% of the stated mean.
The method was designed to minimize variables of subjectivity, environment, and solvent effects, in accordance with the conclusions reported in previous studies. The VRL evaluations were conducted under the controlled conditions of an analytical-science laboratory, determined as representative of a typical manufacturing room, with ambient lighting of approximately 300 lux. Solutions of APIs to be tested were prepared by dissolution in methanol, which was selected because the solvent leaves no surface residue and dries to a more even coverage, with minimal sample rings. APIs known to be stable to aerial oxidation were selected.
The solutions were applied dropwise to 10 x 10 cm flat plates of the various materials of construction, with concentrations set to ensure complete, even coverage of plates. A starting coverage of 10 µg/dm2 was used because it met the minimum requirements to enable useful application in actual plant equipment. Each plate was left to dry naturally before visual examination. If the API was not visible, the loading operation was repeated to increase the amount of material on the surface in a stepwise fashion until it could be visually detected on the plate. Four observers, trained as cleaning inspectors, viewed each plate independently, from a distance of between 6 and 50 inches before comparing findings. The observations were all conducted in the same location in the laboratory to minimize any variability due to lighting conditions as well as to ensure that every possible viewing angle was assessed. Each examination was conducted first in ambient laboratory lighting, followed with additional aid of a portable spotlight source. The angle and distance of the spotlight and observer were varied each time to maximize the capability to view any contamination, taking into consideration surface reflectivity. The clear glass plates were viewed from both upper and lower sides (i.e., looking directly onto and through the glass) by means of one, independent person manipulating the plate with a second person performing the role of inspector.


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North Face Surgent Men's 1/4 Zip Jacket
The North Face Surgent Men's 1/4 Zip Jacket is designed for warm ups, cool downs and everything in between. The men's jacket will keep you comfortable, and if you need more protection pop the collar to keep air out and your neck warm. The stylish two-tone jacket can easily be dressed up or down so it's sure to match your wardrobe.


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Copyright by Brenda Joyce Jerome, CG
One of the many little villages dotting the western Kentucky countryside is Lola, in Livingston County. As a child I often visited my cousin and her family and remember several businesses, including my aunt's grocery store, home of the famous Mustard Jar.
A recent visit to Lola shows a different picture. The stores are all closed and the only activity was centered on a house where a woman was moving out. The post office has been closed for several years and my aunt's store, which adjoins the post office, is also vacant.
Melva's Store and Post Office
Just across the road is the store once operated by Tommie May. This brick building was built in 1896 from bricks made from material taken from a nearby slough.
Tommie May's Store
Traveling down Hwy. 838, Lola Baptist Church is on the left. This neat, well-kept church fairly glistened in the bright sun.
Lola Baptist Church
The destination of this trip came as we turned off onto New Union Church Road. Many of my Vaughn ancestors are buried in the cemetery adjoining New Union church and my great-grandfather, David Vaughn, lived just over the hill. While the church is now called New Union Church, my family never called it anything but Ditney. In addition to Vaughn, other names found on the tombstones are Wright, Belt, Dalton, Curnel, Champion, Singleton, Damron, Tabor and many others.
New Union Baptist Church
Several members of my aunt's Fisher family are buried here, but most do not have tombstones. Among those buried here with no tombstones are the following:
Martin Van Buren Fisher born 19 May 1835, died 21 April 1926
Horace Greely Fisher born 15 May 1882, died 1 January 1916
Mary Fisher Hosick born 20 Dec 1841, died 19 June 1919
Katharine Fisher Smith born 19 Dec 1844, died 19 May 1926
The information on these folks comes from their death certificates.
It was a beautiful day for a trip to Lola and it brought back many memories of times past.


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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Feb. 5, 2016) – Marvin Askew bought his Datsun 1600 truck on November 30, 1971 at Hippodrome Datsun in Nashville for about $2000. "This was his baby," said Dan Tito, the second owner of the Datsun truck. "Marvin didn't ...
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The Puma Roma LP Men's Casual Shoes are made for the streets! The modern looking shoe dates back to the 60's, so you know the look is timeless. Perforated leather upper offers superior durability while the traditional lace-up front gives you a personalized fit. Classic Puma Roma foil detail completes the casual shoes.


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Bazaar Bizarre SF – Saturday December 1st & Sunday December 2nd
Come to the Bazaar Bizarre on Saturday December 1st & Sunday December 2nd 2012 11-6PM at the Concourse Exhibition Center East Hall, 620 Seventh St. (at Brannan), San Francisco, CA, Free to attend, and collectable tote bag to the first 200 people at the door each day! Join Bazaar Bizarre San Francisco as they celebrate our sixth year as a locally produced art and craft show. At Bazaar Bizarre San Francisco expect to find a Quality Handmade Market, DIY Workshops, a Crafty raffle, and more. Shop with over 200 of the best indie artists, designers and craftspeople, from designer plush to modern pottery, they have it all under one roof!


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Every year when the members of the Eagle Flight Days Committee sit down to write our thank you letter to the newspaper we look back at the previous year's letter as a template. So many times the letter sounds the same. The same people help organize the events, the same public entities and employees help make the events happen, the same businesses and people buy at the auction, the same donors give their much appreciated donations, the same volunteers give of their time.We could go on and on but we think you have probably caught on. Our first thought was "Are we in a rut?" but, then we looked at it from our ever optimistic points of view and said "No, we aren't in a rut, we have a beautiful summertime celebration that is a tradition and is treasured by young and old a like."As a committee we treasure the fact that we can rely on each and every one of these same people, businesses, government entities, volunteers and participants to help us make Eagle Flight Days the success it is year after year. We would like to thank the following businesses, entities and individuals who gave of their time, money, donations or services to make Eagle Flight Days 2012 happen:General Flight Days assistance Town of Eagle Police Department, Town of Eagle Public Works, Town of Eagle Board of Trustees, Eagle Fire Department, Eagle County Commissioners, Eagle County Facilities Department, Western Eagle Valley Rotary ClubPet ShowCastle Peak Veterinary ClinicBaby ContestMary Lou YeikParadeNancy Powell, Kathy Heicher, John Boyd, Anne McKibbin, Ron Beard, Holly Gruber, Eagle Valley Chamber of CommerceHorseshoesMark SilverthorneTalent ShowDawn Poff, Pat Sheehy, Nancy Spigener, Jillian Kiss, Zoe Thrasher, Elizabeth Chicoine, Sheryl EssexPancake Breakfast and Town Park activitiesEagle Lions Club, Luann Conrad, Western Eagle County Metropolitan Recreation District, Eagle Valley High School Devils Dancers, EVHS Girls Basketball Team, Eagle County Historical SocietyBlooperballSheryl Staten from Western Eagle County Metropolitan Recreation DistrictRun for the FutureEVHS Foundation, Laurie Asmussen, Lisa Hildred, Brandon Montag and the employees at The Montag Group – Farmers Insurance, members of the Western Eagle County Rotary Club, Rachel Overlease Gerlach, Debbie Darrough, Julie Stoxen, Claudia Wells, Carole Bukovich, Jim Kinser, Bill Douglas, Marilyn and Vern Brock, Erin Vega from Eagle RanchAuctionRick Beveridge, LaVina Beveridge, Remy Beveridge, Joey Beveridge, Alan Asmussen, Brooke Asmussen, Jim Kinser, Bill Douglas,, Eagle Fire Dept.Auction DonorsSHC Nursery & Landscape Company/Mike Stevens, Charter at Beaver Creek, Alpine Laser ClinicEagle Valley Medical Center, NRC 360/Holly Snyder and Amy Ramunno, Vogelman West Masonry, Spiegel Construction/Chris Spiegel, Eagle River Anglers/Bob and Kim Nock, The Red Lion, Site Resource Management/Chris Fedrizzi, Silpada Designs/Shannon Fedrizzi, The Ritz Carlton Bachelor Gulch, The Charter Beaver Creek, Adam's Mountain Country Club, Vail Resorts, Eagle Ranch Golf Club, The Nearly Everything Store, Michael Rawlings Photography, The Antlers at Vail, Eagle Valley Autobody, Steammaster, The Gallegos Corporation, Vail Daily, Zip Adventures, Western Eagle County Metropolitan Recreation District, All Outdoor Consignment, Vail Valley FoundationAuction Buyers Pam and John Boyd, Beveridge Real Estate, Yeik Flooring, Emily Large, Dr. Ed Dent, Jill Smirl, Beth Reilly, Carol Blevins, Matt Johnson, Barb Lodge, Jen Songe, Kelly Paulsen, Dustin Hanson, Ariana Burkley, Kim and Ron Denning, Sonja Beasley, Max Schmidt, Landmark Environments, Valley View Hospital, Tambi Katieb, Spiegel Construction Thanks to all of you from the Same Ol' Flight Days Committee:
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I've been trying to piece together the answer from lots of posts, comments, etc, but I just can't work out the current situation. Is Zotero able to import and handle patent (and patent application) references from the main databases? I imagine directly accessing one of the 'umbrella' search engines (e.g. SumoBrain, FreePatentsOnline, PatentLens, Google Patents, etc.) would be a way to solve this. It is not useful to have US patents handled one way, PCT applications handled another way, etc.
- CommentAuthorpaulkaye
- CommentTimeJan 10th 2012
Can anyone help me with this question?
Zotero definitely supports Google Patents and FreePatentsOnline, at least. I think it has some more too. Just install Zotero and see what works for you. If there are inconsistencies between the databases, post and we'll see what can be done.
- CommentAuthorajlyon
- CommentTimeJan 10th 2012
Some of us are working on uniform support for legal resources, with experimental versions of the CSL citation language schema and the Zotero client, over on the CitationStylist site. This is development work, and so not perfectly stable at this point, but it's intended for eventual adoption (in some form) by the main projects.
- CommentAuthorfbennett
- CommentTimeJan 10th 2012 edited
With those caveats, it might be worth a look going forward; we're aiming for a standard layout of data in Zotero law-related items that will render correctly across a range of legal styles (OSCOLA, the Australian Guide to Legal Citation, the New Zealand Law Style, the McGill Guide [French and English], and that thing with the blue cover managed by the Harvard Law Review).
I've now installed Zotero (I uninstalled it about a year ago), and have tried, but still can't make it work with patents.
To test, I picked one patent, and tried to add it to Zotero using 4 methods (I'll list them in the order they appear in the screenshots):
1) FreePatentsOnline, added via the "save to Zotero" icon in the Firefox address bar
2) Google Patents, added via the "create new item from current page" icon in the Zotero pane in Firefox
3) Google Patents, added via the "save to Zotero" icon in the Firefox address bar
4) FreePatentsOnline, added via the "create new item from current page" icon in the Zotero pane in Firefox
(three out of four methods created a sub-item, too, so these three have two screenshots)
As you will see, very little data was brought into the Zotero items. Method 1 was the best, but still didn't import something as basic as the Patent Number, let alone the abstract! Can anyone offer any advice on what I'm doing wrong, or why there is so much inconsistency?
Thank you in advance for your time,
All "Create New Item from Current Page" does is save very basic metadata (title, URL) from a web page (any web page)—that's why it's a separate function from the address bar icon.
The address bar icon should save better quality data, but Zotero's site translators for the sites you're using might need to be updated or improved.
And on Google Patents Zotero is just using its Embedded Metadata translator, which also saves pretty generic data (varying by the site, but limited to a few basic fields), rather than the dedicated Google Patents translator, which is probably out of date if it's not being triggered. You can hover over the address bar icon to see what translator Zotero is using.
- CommentAuthorDan Stillman
- CommentTimeJan 11th 2012 edited
We could probably do a little better on Freepatentsonline - the data isn't great, but patent number is definitely possible
- CommentAuthoradamsmith
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I just pushed out an improved version of FreePatentsOnline-- update translators in the Zotero preferences to get it immediately.
Google Patents might be broken-- it used to work quite well.
I just went through and fixed Google Patents as well. Update from the preferences to get the fixed version. Thanks for bringing this to our attention.
I must say, I'm really impressed by the responsiveness of this forum!
Ajlyon - FPO is working better now, although "filing date", which is very important in the patent world, is not coming through. I tried it on a US patent application, and a PCT (WIPO) patent application, too. I've noticed that publication date is being saved as "issue date", which is incorrect in all cases, and additionally, makes no sense in patent applications, which are never "issued" (as opposed to granted patents). However, that's probably not as important as a reliable and consistent filing date.
Purely FYI, because Google Patents only has US patents, I'd suggest that it is less useful that FreePatentsOnline.
I'm getting a "could not save item" error when using Google Patents, even though I updated the translators.
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Please provide sample URLs to make sure I get this right.
FPO is updated to do filing dates as well. The Google Patents link is working for me. Have you tried restarting Firefox? That may help with the Google Patents one, since I changed its target expression.
FPO is not giving me filing date, even though I updated translators.
I've now restarted FF, and Google Patents still gives me an error.
there is something wrong with the translator repository so you're not actually receiving updates anymore.
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- CommentTimeJan 11th 2012
It's probably best to just wait until tomorrow (or later today if you're on Asian/Australian/European/African time)
The repository should be working again now.
Still no change with either of these issues, although the update button did switch to 'updated' (as opposed to just 'up-to-date'
I'll try again in 12 hours or so, unless someone has another idea...
Did you reload the FPO page after updating? That one is working for me.
I get an error for Google Patents:
Error: doc.evaluate("//h1[@class=\"gb-volume-title\"]", doc, null, XPathResult.ANY_TYPE, null).iterateNext() is null
Actually, you might need to update again to get FPO, depending on when exactly you updated.
FPO seems to be working now! To the right of the filing date and issue date, appears "y m d", which I assume is meant to be the date format. However, the issue date is the US format of "09/28/2004". Any comments about this?
(yes, Google Patents still appears to be broken)
The "y m d" label to the right of the field content just shows which elements of it have been parsed out and recognized. It isn't related to the format shown on screen.
- CommentAuthorfbennett
- CommentTimeJan 11th 2012
There was an EspaceNet translator, but it has been broken for a while. Metadata quality on that site might be relatively high, though, so it might be worth looking into reviving the translator.
- CommentAuthorRintze
- CommentTimeJan 11th 2012
Thought I'd try again, but no luck with Google Patents. However, there's not really any need to use GP, as FreePatentsOnline has everything that GP has, plus more - and the translator is working really well.
Ajlyon - thank you for fixing it. I think that my main concern with Zotero is that translators seem to work intermittently - I'm always concerned that I won't notice that the 'grabbed' data is not complete/correct, and that, when I go back to use them, I'll find many refs to be problematic.
we're in the process of implementing a systems that will alert us to such problems.
- CommentAuthoradamsmith
- CommentTimeJan 12th 2012
In most cases, though, translators will break rather than get worse, so you wouldn't just get a little less data, you'd get an error message. I don't think that should be a major concern (also, just in general it makes sense to check the data Zotero imports - there are very few databases you can trust 'blind' and the patent ones certainly aren't among them.)
What I would want to flag as a major concern for anyone working with patents is that at this time, citation output for patents is severely lacking. Frank is working on this as noted above and a less ambitious fix is in the works, too, but right now csl doesn't have variables for several of the most basic patent fields, so they cannot be cited - see the table here:
All fields with "none" in the right hand column can currently not be cited.
adamsmith - thank you. I recently moved from academia into patent law, and have been very surprised at the lack of consistency and structure in patent documentation.
One thing I would say about that table, and I mentioned it above, is that the Zotero label for "number" should be "Patent/Publication number", as the publication number for patent applications (which are therefore not "patents", at least not yet) appears in this field.
Maybe "Pat./Pub. num." to save UI space?
- CommentAuthorfbennett
- CommentTimeJan 12th 2012
Without intending to hijack this thread, is there any development on the patent referencing issues as mentioned here:
As far as I understand it, there is little advantage in working site translators as long as Zotero doesn't output the information correctly in a reference. Maybe I'm missing something.
Using the built-in CMS Note with bibliography style, I get a reference that looks like this:
Author. "Patent Name", Issuing date. Website link (!).
Clearly, not quite right.
Thanks in advance!
- CommentAuthorfbennett
- CommentTimeJan 12th 2012 edited
The formatting of patent cites varies between styles, so we'll need some concrete guidance here. What style are you using (edit: CMS Note, sorry for missing that), and what form does it specify for a reference to a patent (if you can provide a link to the style guide that would be helpful) (edit: CMS incorporates The Bluebook by reference; shall we assume that the examples below are correct for your context?).
The Bluebook diverges from other styles in most things, but it is the base on which citation styles of US courts are built. The 19th edition (thanks Sean!) provides this example in Table T1.2 at page 220:
U.S. Patent No. 4,405,829 (filed Dec. 14, 1977).Also this:
Cryptographic Commc'ns Sys. & Method, U.S. Patent No. 4,405,829 (filed Dec. 14, 1977) (issued Sept. 20, 1983).And this, to cite a specific "field" (sorry for the quotes, I'm not a patent lawyer, and I've never seen this category of documentation):
U.S. Patent No. 4,405,829, at [75] (filed Dec. 14, 1977).And this (to cite a "specific portion of patent text":
U.S. Patent No. 4,405,829 col.2 l.30 (filed Dec. 14, 1977).It needn't be this detailed, but we'll need some specific indication of how you expect citations to look, and what style you want them coded into.
Thanks in advance.
Thanks for your swift reply! I would think it should comply with the Chicago Manual of Style, which states on p.748 of the 16th edition:
"14.230 Patents. Patents are cited under the names of the creators and dated by the year of filing."
As an example it gives:
"Iizuka, Masanori, and Hideki Tanaka. Cement admixture. US Patent 4,586,960, filed June 26, 1984, and issued May 6, 1986."
Note that there are two dates, both are important. Also the issuing authority, in this case U.S. patent, is crucial.
Further, on page 808 this is added:
"Patents or other documents cited by more than one date. Cite patents and other documents that include more than one date as follows (note that the year of issue is repeated to avoid ambiguity):
Iizuka, Masanori, and Hideki Tanaka. 1986. Cement admixture. US Patent 4,586,960, filed June 26, 1984, and issued May 6, 1986."
I've been trying to modify the Zotero style definition, but was painfully reminded of my limits in xml comprehension..
It would be much appreciated if this could be implemented!
That's clear, thanks. In the short term, the mappings needed for several things (issuing jurisdiction, filing date, other things in the right panel that might be relevant to a cite) are not yet mapped to CSL (that is, the data is not sent to the citation processor, so there is no way to render it in a citation). That's a bit of a sticking point.
- CommentAuthorfbennett
- CommentTimeJan 12th 2012
If you're willing to test things for development, the legal style extensions that I'm working on in the MLZ project will be able to handle this (the cite forms would need to be implemented, but that's not much trouble). With some adjustments to a site translator or two, the system should work to grab patent records and cite them correctly into a document. If that sounds interesting, let me know; I'm looking at adapting one or more of the Chicago styles to the MLZ version of the style language (it's broadly compatible with the official version, but fussier about some details). If there is active interest, it will raise the motivation to do the work.
tnemeth - what Frank says - see also my last post in the Chicago-Author date thread you link to. I'll be happy to help implement patents once we have the necessary variables and mapping. This is not trivial not least because it involves csl, which in turn affects multiple reference management programs, so it won't happen tomorrow.
- CommentAuthoradamsmith
- CommentTimeJan 12th 2012
@Paul - changing that label is relatively easy, on the other hand, I'll see if we can get this started.
Yes, I am definitely interested in testing this - as long as it is reasonably stable. I'll install the client and will try to familiarize myself with the differences. Though unrelated, OSCOLA is also something I have use for so I'm following these developments too.
Thanks for that, for the time being I am quite happy to work around manually as I don't have a large number of patents, but I'll follow the developments here.
Wow - a lot of movement since I last checked in! I'm not sure about formal styling for citations in a bibliography, but a typical shorthand style used by patent attorneys would be (the brackets are my explanation, not the formatting):
US 1,234,567 to Smith
(the patent number of a US Patent - i.e., granted)
US 2011/1234567 to Smith
(the application number of a US Patent Application)
WO 2011/1234567 to Smith
(the publication number of a WIPO (PCT) Patent Application)
US 60/123456 to Smith
(the application number of a US Provisional Application - perhaps don't worry about this type at first)
Note, the 'punctuation' of the numbers above are often done differently for technical reasons. For example, although the USPTO uses forward-slashes (/), this causes a problem in file systems, so people often replace the slash with a hyphen (e.g., US 2011-1234567), or with nothing (e.g., US 20111234567). Also, commas in the number (e.g., separating thousands) are sometimes included and sometimes not.
I look forward to hearing your progress! Thank you for putting in all this effort!
I would like to work out support for patents. The coding itself won't be too much trouble, but it sounds like references might adopt a variety of styles. These will need to recombined with various general styles ... I wonder if we can work out a typology, to help keep things straight with the naming of styles, and the tagging of styles for functionality.
- CommentAuthorfbennett
- CommentTimeJan 13th 2012
So far we seem to have a Bluebook variant, the CMS style, and a shorthand style. Are there any gateways in legal process involving patents that have strict and well-defined standards for formatting (court filing requirements, reporting standards to national or international bodies)? Also, in general terms, is the field controlled (or afflicted) by strict citation standards, or do practitioners adopt a rule of reason, swinging with the author's chosen citation form so long as it fits common conventions closely enough to be easily interpreted?
Before starting to code this into styles, I'd like to work out a picture of the overall pool of facilities we're trying to build.
A question: are assignees relevant to a citation? If so, should they simply be subbed in for the inventor, or should they be noted separately in the cite in some form?
- CommentAuthorfbennett
- CommentTimeJan 14th 2012
I see that the Inventor field is not yet mapped. I'll come up with a way to work around that in the short term, so we can get started building a style that supports this material, but in the meantime guidance on the use of the Assignee info will be good to have.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK7260/ shows inclusion of the assignee in the reference.
- CommentAuthorRintze
- CommentTimeJan 14th 2012
Great, we now have four possible citation formats. :) I guess the simplest way to move forward will be to incorporate patent cite support into a particular style when someone makes a specific request, and kind of wing it elsewhere. The notes on Chicago above are clear, and it looks like assignee info can be spliced into the samples more or less gracefully. I'll start there. More and better particulars when something emerges ...
- CommentAuthorfbennett
- CommentTimeJan 14th 2012
Hello there.
Don't want to sound rude at all, but what is the status?
Specifically I need to export the patent info in bibtex format. Any citation format could work me: I need them for my PhD thesis so I'm pretty free with regard to the style.
This will take a good amount of time until it's implemented in Zotero for citation style purposes - but have you checked actual bibtex output?
Since bibtex is a translator and not a citation style it has access to all Zotero fields. Even if the current translator doesn't map the files, it can be customized with some very basic javascript.
Yes, I did check it.
Even though in zotero all the info are nicely present, after exporting in bibtex most of the fields are missing:
title -> title
inventors -> authors
abstract -> abstract
url -> url
year -> year
and that's it.
The biggest issue, I think, because it is exported as @misc instead of @patent which has the proper field to fill.
I found the bibtex.js file, but I have no javascript knowledge. Any help would be appreciated about this.
Could you provide a full mapping of Zotero fields to bibtex fields? I can have a look then.
Do you need something like this? Where the first is the bibtex fields and this is {labelofzotero}
nationality = {Country},
number = {Patent Number},
year = {YYYY},
yearfiled = {YYYY},
author = {inventor and inventor and inventor and...},
title = {Title},
language = {Language},
assignee = {Assignee},
day = {DD},
dayfiled = {DD},
month = {MM},
monthfiled = {MM},
url = {URL},
abstract = {Abstract},
yes, thanks. This won't happen today - ask me in a week if you haven't heard back.
Do note that @PATENT is not one of the types enumerated in BibTeXing:
- CommentAuthornoksagt
- CommentTimeJan 24th 2012 edited
It is reasonably common (it is in JabRef & was introduced into BibLaTeX, for example). But the only BibTeX styles I presently have installed that refer to it are achemso, IEEEtran, rsc, and vancouver.
I'm not necessarily opposed to including it in Zotero, but I would want to be much more methodical in choosing the fields to export to ensure the best compatibility with most BibTeX styles.
sure - I would have asked about that before submitting this for general use.
But putting in a couple of extra mappings isn't a lot of work, I was going to just do a quick custom version for drago and then see how/if we can use some of those more generally.
An excellent summary of the state of the art:
- CommentAuthornoksagt
- CommentTimeJan 24th 2012
I fully agree on the idea to have a more strict methodology to map fields.
- CommentAuthordragoshenron
- CommentTimeJan 25th 2012
I'd like also to highlight that even though @patent isn't an official type, it starts to be a standard 'de facto' (i.e. it is included in JabRef & Co.).
I think that mapping the fields as suggested in the link proposed by noksagt will make most of the user happy (and my PhD thesis a lil' less painful) :)
Have a nice day


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Mismatch a house of horrors at The Oaks
Published: Friday, March 29, 2013 at 8:26 p.m.
Last Modified: Friday, March 29, 2013 at 8:26 p.m.
OSPREY - Stephen King sat quietly, high in the stands, at The Oaks Club on Friday and watched Kristyna Pliskova's personal misery play out before his eyes.
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Should the master of the macabre ever need inspiration for another hellish tale, he could have gotten it from the horror show he saw as Spain's Estrella Cabeza-Candela routed Pliskova in the quarterfinals of The Oaks Club $50,000 Women's Pro Circuit Event played here.
The Spanish Inquisition was probably less painful than what Pliskova endured at the hands of Cabeza-Candela. At least it was quick, with the 6-1, 6-0 mismatch lasting less than an hour and the second set taking just 21 minutes.
"I expected a hard match," insisted Cabeza-Candela. That might have been because she had lost to Pliskova at Brisbane, Australian.
That battle was on hard courts, in January. But Cabeza-Candela was in her element on the clay courts Friday.
Pliskova won the first game of the match. Then it was all Cabeza-Candela. The finish was particularly brutal. Pliskova won just three points combined in the final four games of the match.
"I am very happy with the way I play and the win," said Cabeza-Candela, who lost here a year ago in the qualifying tournament. Though she reached the quarterfinals of three WTA events last year, Cabeza-Candela said Friday's win may have been her best, coming against a player ranked No. 111 in the world.
"I want to enjoy it making the semifinals," said Cabeza-Candela, who is 26 and reached a career-high ranking of No. 108 this year.
She is joined in the semifinals by 16-year old Katerina Siniakova, Jana Cepelova and Mariana Duque-Marino, another clay court specialist.
Duque-Marino looked like she would deliver the worst beating of the day when she swept past Julia Cohen 6-0 in the first set of their match. But Cohen, the last American in the draw, would not go quietly and Duque-Marino had to settle for a more pedestrian 6-0, 6-4 win.
"In the second set Julia started to play better and put more balls into the court," said Duque-Marino. "It was tougher. But I am happy the way I played and at the end I win."
The 26-year old player from Colombia has shown in the past that she can withstand obstacles thrown her way. In her first experience in a Grand Slam tournament, Duque-Marino made a run all the way to the final of the French Open Junior Championships, despite having her rackets stolen before her first match.
Without any money to buy new rackets, she played, and won, a pair of matches with rackets she borrowed before new ones could be shipped to her by her sponsor.
Duque-Marino's biggest moment on the women's professional stage came three years ago when she won a WTA event in her home town of Bogota.
"I am very happy because I am playing good," said Duque-Marino, who also lost here in the qualifying tournament last year. "I hope tomorrow I will play better than today."
She will find out today at 1 p.m. when she plays Siniakova, a 16-year old from the Czech Republic who was the lowest-ranked player in the draw and got into the tournament with a special exemption. Siniakova has quickly shown she has a bright future with her run to the semifinals.
Cabeza-Cadela, meanwhile, will play Cepelova in the match that follows and figures to have a much tougher time than she had with Pliskova.
At least King, who says he loves tennis and tries to play once a week at his home on Casey Key when he can, seemed impressed as he sat at Court No. 3 and watched Cepelova beat Sharon Fichman, the 2009 champion at The Oaks.
"Would you look at that. This is insane," he said after one point. "If I had to play against one of these girls and had to receive that serve, I would cry."
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By RickRamsey-Oracle on Feb 11, 2014
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Garage nuts like me always enjoy a truce in the perennial Class War because it lets us enjoy the impressive automobiles the super rich get to drive. Or perhaps their chauffeurs get to drive. When the original Bugatti Veyron was launched in 2006, it had 1001 horses. The base model of the 2006 Honda Accord had 166 horses and cost around $20,000. If the cost of increasing horsepower were linear, going from 166 horses to 1001 horses would only increase the price by a multiple of 6. So, looking only at power, the Bugatti Veyron would cost only cost $120,000.
According to the Jalopnki blog, it costs $1.7 million dollars. Some of that is due to its luxury appointments, but most of it is due to the non-linear increase in cost that invariably accompanies a linear increase in power.
Lucky for us geeks, that's not true of hardware. Well, it was for a while, but that's changed. As these three video interviews explain.
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Deploying clusters of small systems used to be the most economical way to get compute power because you had to pay a premium to get all that power on a single system. That's no longer true. Renato explains why that's no longer true. And he has charts.
Horizontal vs Vertical Scalability
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Is Oracle's approach to large vertically scaled servers at odds with today's trend of combining lots and lots of small, low-cost servers systems with networking to build a cloud, or is it a better approach? Michael Palmeter, Director of Solaris Product Management, and Renato Ribeiro, Director Product Management for SPARC Servers, discuss.
Like Getting a Ferrari for the Price of a Toyota
Interview with David Lawler
Is buying hardware today like getting a Ferrari for the price of a Toyota? Yes, says Senior Vice President David Lawler, because Oracle has re-engineered the way we develop systems from the hardware side and the software side. You get tremendous performance AND low cost. David, who knows his numbers, explains how Oracle does it, and why our competitors aren't doing the same thing. Sound quality is poor, but content is worth it.
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Paul McCartney is sticking up for Miley Cyrus.
While doing publicity for his new record, the former Beatle was asked by Sky News what he thought about Cyrus' controversial tongue-wagging, butt-shaking performance at the MTV Video Music Awards last month.
"Come on, we've seen worse than that," McCartney said.
Well ... yes. But enough about Yoko's singing.
OK, that was a cheap shot. I apologize. I blame the Internet.
The 71-year-old McCartney said he had no problem letting his 10-year-old daughter watch Cyrus' twerking routine because, in his view, it was rather tame.
"I watched it as an experiment to check, but you look at it and you say, 'What's everyone shouting about?'" he said. "I think it was only mildly shocking ... it wasn't explicit at all."
Cyrus, of course, has come under attack from all sorts of people -- including five open letters from Irish singer Sinead O'Connor, who believes Cyrus' behavior is degrading to woman and making her a record company tool. Among other critics, indie rocker Sufjan Stevens criticized Cyrus for her supposedly bad grammar in one of the tracks off her "Bangerz" album.
Right. It's a good thing all those other musicians pay attention to their industry-mandated English classes.
Since he was talking, McCartney talked about One Direction and the Beatles comparisons some insane people make. "I always think it's unfortunate for a band to be called the new Beatles because it can be the kiss of death."
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- Dont be fooled!This is the UTG MK96! My goodness this gun is a monster. This is truley a sniper, amazing FPS and longer barrel than the M324. When buying consider these things:
This is a UTG gun not the one of the dozens of other guns that only look like this
Real like weight
Amazing FPS
Sturdy and well built
Good Acuraccy
Comes with neccsary Bi-pod
Easy ajustable hop-up
No iron sights
Does not come with scope
Please Remember that other websites are selling similiar models of this gun that are cheaper but they are not UTG. Also many of those websites dont have the extra mag and bi-pod so Shortys is still the best deal.
For the customer, buy this plus:
1X bag of KSC .25g bbs
1X bag of KSC .3g bbs
Scope (doesnt need to be super fancy)
Side arm (If you dont have one)
Use one mag for .25 bbs and the other mag for .3 bbs. Coordinate the bb weight with the hop-up system to perfect each shot
For Shortys, please try to:
Lower the price of the UTG M324 if possible
Bring back the ghillie suit
Sell extra mags if they come out
- this to all of you who says utg isnt goodkinda long but true and pretty helpful with real facts. i actually have this rifle and also an aps 2, first of all this gun stock is shooting just as fast,but futher and more accurate with phx .28s than what my maruzen type 96 is with a laylax 150 spring. so just because it is cheap by no means means that isnt isnt good oh and sniperm, 450-480 fps, i chronoed it at an average of 475 fps out of a whole clip with .2g bbs, and 418 fps with .28g bbs and also, if your using hi prescision bbs with consistent weight, and its a spring, it cant put out more than all of a sudden less velocity, physics, it will always push out its maximum force with out being checked, the velocity CANT change that much, and no, the higher the velocity the round or lighter even at slow velocity is more effected by wind than a heavier round, so a heavy round at slow velocities is much more accurate than the same round or lighter weight at higher velocities perfect example is m 16, or 5.56mm, is more susceptible to wind than the larger slower 7.62mm or ak 47 round. plus mine never curved like that or had to take a second shot at a human target from 180 feet. so maybe its just your rifle if you have one, and not basing it off what you heard.
- It's UTGI will start with the Price. With 165 dollars, you could buy a high end sniper rifle (TM for example...) that will last 1000000X longer. But wait!!! "T3H UTG SHOOTS 450-480 FPS" So it must be better!!! Wrong. There is a saying among many veteran players thats states "FPS does not make the gun". And it's 100% correct.
According to Shorty, it shoots from "450-480" FPS. Thats a 30 fps difference on average. Thats a difference a spring upgrade would have! In case you don't understand what I'm getting at, that means this gun is pretty inaccurate. Let me explain:
Lets say you are being sniper. And you have targets at 190-210 feet (as Shorty says). You fire off one shot. It is about 477 fps. So you will get good distance and if lucky a hit. Next target. You shoot. It drops to 449. Suddenly range drops drastically and is more affected by wind. So you shoot again, and aim higher to compensate for the lower range, but suddenly is boots to 483! So it goes right over your target because of the variety in Fps. And then when these targets you couldn't hit start closing in on you, have fun trying to evade them with an 8.5 POUND SNIPER RIFLE.
In addition you must also take into consideration this. This is a powerful gun. And from what I have read from many reviews on this site, many are not responsible enough for this power. In addition, anyone who buys this is obviously not a hardcore/serious airsofter who goes to national events, but rather someone who plays with others in backyards or (hopefully) safe and secluded areas (such as me). This FPS is not very necessary for these situations. But I HIGHLY RECOMMEND the use of heavier bb's AND SETTING A MINIMUM ENGAGEMENT RANGE OF 100 Feet. If you cannot do that, you're not a good marksman/sniper.
Enjoy what ever you choose.
- Great Overall Rifle I got this gun today from shorty and right out of the package i was very impressed. the gun seems very solid.. my only concern is the bipod attachment shifts side to side when moving, its nothing to troublesome tho.
Next we come to the actual shooting of the gun. with the hop up on its max setting this gun shoots very wild with .20s. i would reccomend some heavier BBs for this gun to get the maximum distance without losing accuracy. after that i proceeded to make adjustments to the hop up with the included allen wrench and got the gun shooting fairly accurate with .20s. with the correct weight bbs this gun is a monster. get your self a scope and some scope mounts and you should be all set.
UTG has thrown in a rifle sling, a speed loader, an extra magazine, and the allen wrenches needed to assemble the gun. the included tools are also used to add spacers to the stock of the gun, or raise and lower the cheek rest.
I myself am not a hardcore airsofter. i enjoy the casual game and some target practice. this gun will definitley appeal to collectors looking to save some cash.
this gun would also appeal to shooters who arent sure how to internally modify or upgrade there guns. if your looking for a high FPS sniper rifle with out upgrading anything. this gun is for you
Right out of the box this is a great weapon... its just not perfect..
4 out of 5 stars..
- Good stationary sniperThis gun is awesome. I got it and it rules. I can hit a millk jug easily from around 200 feet with .3 ammo and there is a LOT of metal. The reason why my title says stationary is that you wont be moving around with this. You will be in one place due to the 10 pounds when fully loaded. 10 pounds is not heavy, but you WILL get tired after a while. The mk96 is a long range sniper, the super nine is a close range shooter, and m324 is a medium shooting tactical rifle in my opinion. Awesome long range gun, get the following:
5th gen scope
Another bi-pod
.30 gram sniper ammo
Get this gun if you stay in one spot under cover when sniping in a game.
- Wow!This is incredible! Definitely a sniper rifle for a pro airsoft player. At 480 fps with .2 the mk96 boasts almost as much power as the Dragunov SVD, but is way more affordable. Over half the gun is metal, and that means durability. Utg's guns just keep getting better and better! Personally, I think the black version is a lot cooler looking than the green one. Anyway, if you are looking for a next-level sniper rifle, but don't want to break the bank, this is definitely a gun for you.
There simply isn't a gun this cheap that packs this much power.
The only problem with it is that none of your friends will play with you after you shoot them! Also, you will have to purchase a high-quality scope for it.
- No need to buy other sniper riflesThis is all you need. It comes with a lot of goodies. Paul denton, metal does not mean durability. treade, why would you complain that it doesn't come with a scope? No gun does here except in package deals. I would use either .23g or .25g BB's. Also get a 5th gen 3-9X50 scope.
- best sniperthis is the best sniper for the price out there.you're getting a really nice looking gun with great fps and accuracy for a incredable price.for a nice sniper you could get the dragunov and go bankrupt or you could get this for a fraction of the price.i use this as my primary sniper because of the price it was at and its accuracy and range.i got the black one(i regret not getting the olive drab one because we play mostly in a forest)and it looks like a gun from the future.cocking the bolt back is pretty smooth to.this is the best sniper for the price you can get.buy this gun.
speed out.....
- omgthis is the best sniper rifle on the market. I own it personally and no other gun can beat it for the price and the preformance
- lots of FPS Pretty good. For all your paying its not that bad cause you get quite a bit of accissories.


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This is the first UN Inter-agency publication on Communication for Development (C4D)that illustrates the diverse C4D approaches adopted by UN agencies. C4D approaches are shown to be useful in everything from promoting media pluralism to improving the participation of marginalized people in decision-making. The publication is jointly produced by FAO, UNDP, UNESCO, UNICEF, UNAIDS, ILO and WHO. It is available in English and French.
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Following our 2008 forward looking assessment and, the 2009 transition to a new OGC mandate, 2010 has been a year of consolidation and innovation in the Oslo Governance Center. From our work in Governance Assessments, to our new series on lessons learned from the Democratic Governance Trust Fund programmes and projects, the OGC has fully delivered on its four mandated areas of work.
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This report presents the findings of the assessment of five citizen security projects, funded by the Democratic Governance Thematic Trust Fund (DGTTF), in Nicaragua between 2002 and 2007. The report is also available in Spanish.