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Live-Blogging Apple and Samsung's Hearing
The global patent battle between Samsung and Apple has swung back to Australia.
Having already won a case in Germany upholding a ban on sales of Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1, the U.S. tech giant is hoping to consolidate that gain in the Federal Court in Sydney by preventing its South Korean rival from launching its product at Australian stores without modifying features it says infringe its patents.
Samsung on Friday offered Apple's lawyers a deal that could get their tablet out to market earlier, but after a public holiday long weekend it's still not clear yet whether Apple will consider the offer sufficient.
David Fickling and Ross Kelly are reporting live from the court.
For background on the case and the Apple vs Samsung global dispute, see our story here.
The court room on level 18 of the Federal Court in Sydney's CBD is starting to fill up.
The Samsung legal team arrives first, wheeling in five trolleys carrying dozens of folders of legal documents. Apple's contingent arrives shortly after. They have six trolleys.
Justice Bennett has arrived. We are underway.
Justice Bennett says she's not confident the proceedings will finish today. Samsung's attorney David Catterns says Samsung will delay the launch until there is a ruling on the injunction. Bennett says she expects to rule next week, if not today.
They're now debating how many patents will be disputed in the final hearing.
Justice Bennett says there are complex patent construction questions to get through. "It's not for us to crack the whip for you, your honour," says Samsung attorney Catterns.
The case comes down to two patents after Samsung gives an undertaking to drop its "selective rejection" feature. "We can live without that feature, your honor. I told you it was trivial," says Catterns.
Quick explanation: "selective rejection" refers to the ability of the tablet to recognize and ignore accidental touches on the screen.
They're discussing how easy it would be to modify the Galaxy Tab. Apple attorney Steven Burley says "our friends have sliced and diced their product up so much" they can do it again and take the patent infringements out.
Apple attorney Burley says we'll soon hear evidence from a senior director of Apple Inc. who has been working with the company since 2001 and has held a senior executive role on the chief patent council.
For anyone wondering about iPad sales Down Under, Credit Suisse estimated in June that Apple has sold more than 500,000 iPads in Australia. In comparison, Apple in July reported 9.25 million sales of the iPad world-wide in the second quarter, up from 3.3 million a year earlier. For more, see our story here.
You can also follow this live-blog in Korean here.
Apple attorney Burley is taking the court through some of the affidavits made by witnesses in the case.
Attorneys for Samsung object to sections of a submission that refer to the Galaxy Tab's packaging. Attorneys for Apple argue it is relevant because it makes product attractive to consumers and could impact on Apple's goodwill and distinction by promoting something that looks similar to the iPad.
Apple tenders an iPad 2 as evidence. "I should note that exhibits will be returned," Justice Bennett says.
Apple attorney Burley tenders the Australian Galaxy Tab 10.1 and asks Justice Bennett to turn it on to explore the features. "If I spend too much time playing with the two exhibits, I might not get the judgement written," she says. Justice Bennett is able to access the tablet without a password. Burley says that for future reference, if there was a password, it would be 0000.
Level 18 of the Federal Court has a lovely view of South Sydney, taking in the Sydney Cricket Ground and Football Stadium as well as St Mary's Cathedral. Several people are admiring the vista as the case turns to the technicalities of "heuristics".
If you're scrambling for a dictionary, here's the Merriam-Webster definition of heuristic: "involving or serving as an aid to learning, discovery, or problem-solving by experimental and especially trial-and-error methods"
Apple attorney Burley says the patents in question relate generally to HCI, or Human Computer Interaction, which is how a product reponds to human gestures on a touch screen interface. He refers in particular to heuristics where a precise outcome can be achieved from imprecise data. Exciting stuff.
Apple attorney Burley notes that Samsung has made changes to the touchscreen technology of the U.S. and Australian versions of the Galaxy Tab 10.1. Justice Bennett says that just because one aspect of the touch screen technology can be easily altered, we can't assume all methodology can be easily altered.
Apple and Samsung each have a legal team of about a dozen people sitting in rows of desks directly behind their attorneys. Contingents from both companies are behind the legal teams. There are quite a few men in suits on the Samsung side. On Apple's side, there are a couple of guys wearing jeans. One is wearing a funky striped jumper. The other has glasses with thick light side frames with a modern hip platinum look.
The parties continue to discuss which evidence will be submitted in the case, mostly affidavits from a range of experts.
Justice Bennett says she can see strong factors for both sides in the case.
Justice Bennett says that an injunction preventing Samsung from introducing its product could mean the company is robbed of the opportunity of taking market share as other Android-based tablets are introduced.
Much of the discussion seems aimed at culling the amount of evidence Justice Bennett needs to wade through in order to minimize the time needed for her deliberations.
Justice Bennett seems keen for Apple attorney Burley to get through his long list of submissions before lunch.
Burley has finally finished his submissions, which have taken up most of the morning. Now Samsung attorney Catterns is up.
Justice Bennett is asking about the availability of the parties tomorrow, raising the possibility of reconvening Friday instead of after lunch. Catterns says he'd prefer to come back today. "We'd like to bat on," he says, adding he thinks he can get through his evidence.
Catterns says there's no evidence Samsung redesigned its screen between launching in the U.S. and Australia. "There's no evidence that it can be easily done… I may have missed an ocean liner but I've never seen this argument before that we could easily redesign our touch screen. There is evidence we redesigned our software. Of course we redesigned our software."
The court breaks for lunch. We're back at 1415 local time, or 0415 GMT.
Here's a quick recap of the morning: Justice Bennett has heard attorney Steven Burley and Apple witnesses make Apple's claim that Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1 is in breach of two Apple patents for touch-screen technology. Samsung has agreed to drop the technology for a third alleged patent breach. Samsung attorney David Catterns is in the process of making his rebuttal. Justice Bennett has said she's not confident the proceedings will finish today and a ruling may come next week instead. Catterns says Samsung will delay the planned Friday sales of the Galaxy Tab until there is a ruling on the injunction. Bennett says she can see strong factors for both sides in the case.
And…we're back. It looks like the case will continue tomorrow.
"Our client wanted us to finish today," said Samsung attorney David Catterns. "We offered to pay our court officers fees at triple rates but we think we'll be able to be here by 2.15 pm tomorrow."
Mr. Catterns seems a little flustered as he rifles through documents to make his submissions. Is he feeling the pressure to get this wrapped up quickly?
"Sorry your honour, I tore the affidavit in half," says Mr. Catterns, who seems to be having a bit of trouble with his evidence.
Mr. Catterns is arguing against Apple's suggestion for an early final hearing of the broader case, saying more time is needed to prepare Samsung's case. "Next year it has to be your honor. These cases, we all know what they're like."
Mr. Catterns is trying to submit evidence that other products in the market with similar features have already been distributed without legal challenge. An attorney from Apple is disputing the relevance of this information but Justice Bennett says "they're entitled to say there are other products in the market that have the same features" noting that Apple has complained about the similarity between its product and Samsung's.
The senior director of Apple Inc. from its patent council, Richard Lutton, takes the stand to be cross examined by Catterns. His plane leaves tomorrow so the court was keen to fit him in.
Mr. Lutton says that then Apple CEO Steve Jobs contacted Samsung directly last year to discuss concerns about patent breaches in its smart phone. Mr. Jobs however wasn't involved in discussions beyond first contact. Samsung is an important supplier to Apple and Mr. Lutton says this "deep relationship" was the reason they contacted Samsung "to give them a chance to do the right thing."
When Mr. Lutton is asked whether the Galaxy tablet became part of the discussions, he raises the issue of confidentiality and Justice Bennett asks anyone not covered by the confidentiality regime to leave the court. We have to go.
It's over…for today. We've been called back in but they've moved onto another case. The Apple-Samsung matter has been adjourned until 2:15pm Australian time tomorrow. Thanks for tuning in, and we'll return tomorrow for more live coverage.
We're about to get going again … and earlier than planned. The hearing has also been moved to what's known as the "big court," which also takes up level 21 of the Sydney Court House. Samsung, which had originally planned to launch its tablet in Australia today, wants the temporary injunction case wrapped up as soon as possible and Justice Bennett has been urging the parties to move quickly.
The legal teams are now assembling. The two-storey courtroom is dominated by the kangaroo and emu of the Australian coat of arms behind the judge's dais. With 5 minutes to go before the start, Samsung's legal team has seven people on hand and Apple has 8.
Justice Bennett arrives and proceedings kick off. To get the case decided next week, she says the parties are going to need to summarise their "balance of convenience" statements explaining how they will be affected by the ruling.
Justice Bennett is questioning Samsung's insistence that it has no time to prepare for an early final hearing. (Samsung wants the final hearing next year; Apple wants it as soon as possible.) Bennett notes that there are similar cases in several other jurisdictions now, adding that Samsung should be quite prepared for Apple asserting its patent rights. "You've known about that for some time," she says.
Samsung's principal attorney today is Neil Murray, taking over from David Catterns. Let's see if Mr. Murray has better document handling skills than Mr. Catterns, who managed to tear an affidavit in half yesterday.
Justice Bennett and Mr. Murray are still in tense discussions over the timing of a final hearing. "These are two big players in the marketplace," she says. "They would have experts (to provide testimony in support of their cases) at their fingertips." Mr Murray cuts her off: "With respect, even multinational companies don't have guns for hire ready to be rolled out." The debate is important because an early date–likely little later than November–might see Justice Bennett opt to keep Samsung's tablet out of the Australian market pending the final ruling.
Samsung's principal attorney David Catterns has entered from another courtroom and is now in discussion with Justice Bennett.
A reminder that you can follow this live-blog in Korean here.
Both parties are now putting their cases to Justice Bennett about how much Samsung's coming to market would affect Apple. Samsung has provided a chart from Apple's S.E.C. filings purporting to show that iPad sales have continued to rise rapidly globally despite the introduction of the Samsung Galaxy Tab in other markets. Apple is arguing that the graph, which is for global sales and includes the period when the iPad 2 was introduced, muddles the more local and specific impact of the Galaxy Tab's introduction.
The different devices are starting to confuse the Court. Justice Bennett has just referred to the "Samsung Galaxy iPhone."
The court breaks for lunch. We're back at 1415 local time, or 0415 GMT.
The Court is readying to start again after a break for lunch. A large flat-screen to one side of the judge's dais–normally used for visual testimony–is out of use. The screen reads: "Attention: PC not connected." Which sums up the case pretty well.
Sorry your honour, I was trapped in the lift," says Samsung's Mr. Catterns after sweeping in a few seconds late.
Sorry your honour, I was trapped in the lift," says Samsung's Mr. Catterns after sweeping in a few seconds late.
The discussion now turns to the presence on the market of other touch-screen tablets with similar design aspects to those Apple is contesting in relation to the Samsung Galaxy. Apple's counsel argues that it's "common ground" between both parties that these haven't been very successful, a point that Samsung's Mr. Murray eventually concedes. "There has been, we say, a singling out of Samsung and that, we say, could jeopardise our relationships with telecommuncations providers," says Mr. Murray.
Finally we move to cross-examinations. First up, Samsung Australia's Vice-President of telecommunications, Tyler McGee. There's a fumble and laughter as he's being sworn in: he's initially been handed the wrong affirmation oath to read out.
Analysts hoping to glean details of Samsung's Australian sales performance will be disappointed by what's just happened. When the local unit sales of Samsung's Galaxy S smartphone come up as a point of evidence, Mr McGee is allowed to write the number on a slip of scrap paper which is shown to Justice Bennett and kept confidential as Exhibit 4.
"We will be ready to launch a device once we have a ruling," says Mr. McGee.
Mr Burley is pressing for him to be more specific, and he says it would take seven days from a ruling to launch the device, assuming it can be released 'clean.'
But what if the 'zoom bounce' and 'selective rejection' features — which Apple says infringe on its patents — are removed, Mr. Burley asks?
Mr. McGee says he doesn't know how long removal would take: "I'm not an engineer."
Mr. McGee has finished his testimony and steps down from the witness stand.
For those struggling to keep up with all these tablet features, 'selective rejection' was explained in a post during yesterday's hearing.
'Zoom bounce' describes some whizzy animation that is set off when users zoom in on the Galaxy's touchscreen. Samsung has already agreed that it's happy to remove these widgets before putting the tablets on sale.
It looks like there may be grounds for some sort of a deal between the parties. The details haven't been laid out in front of the Court, but the discussion suggests some sort of interim agreement that could allow Samsung to get its products to the market in some form ahead of a final ruling. "One way or another they don't get a final answer…which Mr. McGee says is what they need for Christmas," says Justice Bennett. "Our friend's inconvenience would be minimised and we would be comforted," counters Apple's Mr. Burley.
There's been a flutter of excitement that this could end quite rapidly after Samsung's lawyers' proposal — not yet laid out to the court — to make a deal.
Apple's Mr. Burley suggests they could break proceedings to take instruction from his client on how to respond, but Justice Bennett decides to finish hearing the rest of the evidence first.
The hoohah around this case could be a bit of an own goal for Apple. The company's lawyers are presenting confidential evidence of Samsung's planned marketing spend as evidence of the harm the company expects to suffer from the Galaxy coming to market. But Samsung's Mr. Catterns counters: "In light of the publicity this case has attracted, Mr. McGee says he will not need to advertise so much."
We're onto a long discussion between Samsung's Mr. Catterns and Justice Bennett on the technicalities of how Samsung's touchscreen detects and distinguishes between different finger touches. It's highly technical stuff: Mr. Catterns sounds like he is losing his voice a little — which doesn't help him get through evidence rich with references to 'trans-capacitance' and 'sandwich integers' — while Justice Bennett is rubbing her forehead and asking him for paragraph references to make sense of it all.
Mr. Catterns is now laying into Apple's lawyers, saying they are trying to run out the clock on the proceedings by dragging them out while the injunction is keeping Samsung's product off the shelves.
"It should take a day" to hear the case, he says.
Justice Bennett says she doesn't blame either party for the length of time it has taken.
More evidence that legal students rule the world: As we get past 4 p.m., Justice Bennett is hurrying the counsels along.
"We have to be out because there's a moot"– a mock court for law students — she says.
The court has broken up and will resume at 10:15 local time Tuesday, after a public holiday Monday.
There's some hope that the two sides could come to an agreement, with Samsung's lawyers offering a deal that could get their products out ahead of a final hearing in November. But any decision would depend on whether Apple agrees to drop its interim injunction.
It's 1015 am on a slightly gray Tuesday morning in Sydney and we're off again. Justice Annabelle Bennett is in discussion again with the companies' attorneys.
It sounds like the deal mooted on Friday is going nowhere. "No agreement has been reached," says Samsung's attorney Neil Young. "The parties are a considerable distance apart."
Apple's Stephen Burley is up and puts the blame for the lack of a deal squarely on Samsung. "There is no problem whatsoever, your honour," he says. The correspondence between them, which Samsung takes as knocking back their offer, "were requests for details, not a rejection of the offer." This is a classic courtroom battle: both parties are trying their best to appear most open to compromise, while simultaneously giving as little ground as possible.
Apple is again well ahead on the lawyer and document count. Apple's team numbers nine today, with six trolleys of legal papers. Samsung has six lawyers and three trolleys, and their principal Neil Young is the third to have been leading their case so far, including Neil Murray's stint in David Catterns' absence on Friday morning. By contrast, Stephen Burley has been leading Apple's team since the start.
Burley is now turning last week's deal offer from Samsung against them. If they were happy to have a limited early hearing on the case, as they suggested as part of the offer, why only offer that hearing date in return for concessions on the injunction? Either they're capable of preparing for an early hearing or not, he says: "It's the desire of Samsung to have their cake and eat it too," he says.
Burley's manner and language is mild, even a little languid, but there's an iron fist inside this velvet glove. Samsung's deal offer last week is "no more than a tactic to maximise the chances of Samsung launching what we would contend is an infringing product," he says, "to ensure that Your Honour is placed in as difficult a position as possible".
Deep in the weeds now with an abstruse discussion of the meaning of the word "disposed", as used in the description of the iPad touchscreen in Apple's patent filings. Samsung, in Burley's account, is reading the term to mean that Apple's patent only covers the techniques for manufacturing its touchscreen; Apple's view, he says, is that it covers the very structure of the touchscreen, regardless of how it's assembled. It's extraordinary that multimillion dollar disputes can turn on the interpretation of such details.
This is getting like that old rhyme about how "Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em. And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum." Burley is now dealing with a patent for the Synaptics Clearpad–another touchscreen device. This, Samsung says, is 'prior art' that could invalidate some of Apple's own patents, since Synaptics came up with the idea first. Burley contests that idea: the screen touches descibed in the Clearpad patent are different to the ones used in the iPad.
It's worthwhile remembering, with all this discussion of prior art, that Apple has been on the receiving end of these sorts of cases in the past. In 2006, it paid Creative Technology Inc. $100 million in a licensing deal to settle a suit that Creative had brought alleging that the menu function on the iPod copied patents owned by Creative for its own MP3 players.
We're still deep in a discussion of heuristics: how touch-screens interpret the various swipes and taps they receive from users' fingers. There's no way now that this will be wrapped up by lunch.
Burley is now on to the reason Apple thinks it would be hard to quantify damages: the iPad isn't a standalone product, but part of an ecosystem that encompasses other Apple profit centres, such as iTunes, the App store, the iPhone, and conventional Apple computers. People buying Samsung tablets will be encouraged in future to buy products that synchronise with its Android-based operating system, rather than Apple's iOS. This gets to the heart of the dispute. Samsung is in some ways a proxy for Apple's real foe: Google, whose Android operating system and desire to keep functionality on the Web where it can sell adverts is a direct rival to Apple's "walled garden" approach to the internet.
Laughter as m'learned friends admit that, despite all their wise discussion of capacitance and semiconductor sandwiches, they might be outgunned by their offspring as far as using technology is concerned.
"Someone's children might teach her how to download apps," says Apple's Mr Burley.
"She can learn herself, can't she?", says Justice Annabelle Bennett, appearing to slip into the third person.
"I'm sure the children would have to teach their father as well," Mr Burley concedes with a laugh.
We're back and waiting to start up again. One thing that's notable in this case is that, for all the cutting-edge technology under discussion, the court still largely does its business in dead-tree media. Indeed, a significant chunk of this morning's discussion centred on which colour of marker pen had been used to mark up portions of the evidence.
Samsung's attorneys are up now; Apple will get five minutes to reply at the end of the day. So there's a chance that the hearings, at least, could finish today. No word yet though on when the ruling could come down.
Those who feel that this morning's discussion didn't contain quite enough hair-splitting about the meaning of the word 'disposed' will be thrilled. Samsung's attorney Neil Murray is taking the court back through Apple's patent arguing that the context shows the patent's use of the term describes the manufacture of a specific structure that Samsung hasn't used in its touch-screens. It's a useful lesson in how careful people need to be when writing out patents: a large part of this case could come down to whose interpretation of 'disposed' the Court goes with.
It's fair to say that Justice Bennett is giving a tough stress-test to Samsung's interpretation of Apple's touchscreen patent. That doesn't say which way she'll ultimately decide–but she's picking up their attorneys on numerous points, which suggests she won't be easily convinced by what they're arguing.
Justice Bennett introduces another hypothetical wrinkle to Samsung's Mr. Young: "What happens if I go one way on one patent (infringement claim) and one way on the other patent?"
Samsung's Mr. Young is fighting back on a point raised by Apple's attorneys, that the innovation cycle is so fast in the tablet market that Samsung's Galaxy would already be superseded by new models by the time a final judgement came down sometime next year. "If products have a life cycle of 12-18 months then there's going to be minimal damage to (Apple's) goodwill or brand image" in the long term, he says.
The discussion is back on the timetable. Samsung's Mr. Young is arguing that they would be unable to prepare a full case before March 2012, by which time the Galaxy 10.1 would be "commercially dead."
Mr Young is pouring cold water on Apple's claim that they couldn't calculate their expected loss from the Galaxy going on sale. Both products are already available in the U.S., and Apple ought to have very detailed sales figures. "They would be able to make a very well-substantiated submission about loss if our produc goes to market," he says. "They've pleaded no evidence about (loss), it's simply assertion." There's no reason to believe that working out such a figure "is beyond the wit of Apple", he says.
Mr Young is pouring cold water on Apple's claim that they couldn't calculate their expected loss from the Galaxy going on sale. Both products are already available in the U.S., and Apple ought to have very detailed sales figures. "They would be able to make a very well-substantiated submission about loss if our produc goes to market," he says. "They've pleaded no evidence about (loss), it's simply assertion." There's no reason to believe that working out such a figure "is beyond the wit of Apple", he says.
Justice Bennett is interrogating this line of argument pretty rigorously. "I just want to understand: if you haven't got a judgement by mid-October you will walk away from the product? Is that what you're telling me?" Voices are rising and the discussion has become quite heated.
It looks likely that the testimony will finally wrap up today. It's late in the day and Justice Bennett has had to consult the court officers whether they can stay an extra 30 minutes to hear the rest of Mr. Burley's testimony for Apple. But they've agreed to stay on, so we're within sight of the end.
The court officer is gazing forlornly at a clock on the wall as Apple's final evidence ticks over 30 minutes.
"I hope there's not much left, Mr. Burley," says Justice Bennett.
Apple's Mr. Burley begs "Your Honour's indulgence" for just one last point.
Justice Bennett nods, tight-lipped.
It's a final submission about the way touchscreens interpret finger swipes, a subject that has already taken up large stretches of the testimony in this hearing.
And with that, finally, we're done. No word yet on timing for a ruling, but Justice Burley finishes up saying "it's going to take me a little time".
She's previously suggested she'd go for a decision this week, but there was no mention of a timetable today.


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Some of these crazy sex positions require a certain level of flexibility and athleticism that you may not currently have. But don't let that discourage you! Trying these crazy sex positions will be half the fun! Continue Reading
Make These 4 Sex Positions Even Better with These Simple Sex Tips!
Is your sexual repertoire getting stale by performing the same sex positions over and over again? You're on top. Then she's on top. Then you're on top again.
If your sex life needs a shot in the arm, follow these simple sex tips to make these 4 common sex positions EVEN BETTER!
5 Reasons Why Curvy Girls Are More Fun In Bed
We've been really feeling curvy girls for the last…28 years? Has it really been that long? That's not the point. The point is, if you're not down with curvy girls, you're missing out big time.
Today, we're taking it upon ourselves to impart some knowledge onto you. Specifically, the knowledge that curvy girls are more fun in bed.
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4 Ways To Last Longer In Bed
There are two things that every man is insecure about when it comes to sex:
- Dick size.
- Premature ejaculation.
And while you'd have to go to great lengths to increase your dick size, learning how to last longer in bed is easy if you're willing to put in the time and effort to train yourself to control your orgasm. Unfortunately, this training regiment to last longer in bed will mean that you'll have to cum. A lot. If you feel like you can take some time to make yourself cum over and over again in order to some day last longer in bed, then keep reading and you're on your way to becoming a God of Sex! Continue Reading
The 6 Most Common First Date Turn-Offs
"What the heck went wrong during the first date?" is a question we've all asked ourselves too many times when waiting up all night waiting for a reply to a series of overly apologetic messages while we refuse to believe that our phone number has been blocked.
The people at Match.com asked 150 willing New York City participant between the ages of 21 and 35 "What the heck went wrong on the first date?" and found some interesting answers.
Without further ado, the 6 Most Common First Date Turn-Offs according to Match.com. Continue Reading
Top 5 Safe Words to Avoid in Kinky Sex
As the 50 Shades of Grey movie continues to dominate the box office, we're inclined to believe that movie-goers will be tempted to try kinky sex despite of the fact that what they saw in the 50 Shades movie is more like two chemistry-less cardboard cut-outs pressing against each other rather than real kinky sex.
To have good kinky sex, you need accessories. But even more important than sex accessories are safe words!
Because kinky sex can often toe the lines of physical, emotional, or moral boundaries, it's important to establish a safe word to respect the three tenants of BDSMN relationships: safe, sane and consensual. Whenever the action strays away from any of these three tenants, shout your safe word and it essentially flips the switch off.
However, you need to choose a safe word that would not normally be uttered during sex so that there's no confusion that might lead to mishaps.
To ensure your forays into kinky sex aren't as disastrous as watching the 50 Shades movie, here are the Top 5 Safe Words to Avoid in Kinky Sex. Continue Reading
5 Reasons Why No One Wants To Suck Your Dick
When was the last time you had a hot babe's lips wrapped around your dick?
If your answer to this question was further in the past than, "Yesterday" then it's been far too long since someone sucked your dick. And we're going to need to correct that A$AP (RIP Yams).
Before we begin, I'd like to remind you that some women just aren't into blowjobs. Truly terrible but there's nothing you can do but respect that.
But there are some women that absolutely love giving blowjobs, the problem might be YOU!
That's right. There are things you could be doing (or not doing) that could be totally turning off your girl from going down and sucking your dick. So pay close attention to the 5 Reasons Why No One Wants To Suck Your Dick. If any of these apply to you, please correct it immediately and get ready to have babes lined up on their knees trying to suck your dick! Continue Reading
What Does Your Favorite Sex Position Say About You?
Do you have a favorite sex position? If so, why is it your favorite? Because it gives a great view of the booty? Because it lets you get deep inside that pussy? Because it doesn't make you cum in less than five minutes?
There are lots of reasons to have a favorite sex position. But besides the practicality and physical/visual pleasure of certain sex position, it's also possible that your favorite sex position says something about your personality.
Carrying on reading and maybe you'll find out something about yourself from your favorite sex position. Continue Reading
How to Improve the Taste of Cum
I think we can all agree that blowjobs are awesome.
Men like them because they feel great and some women like them because they're in control (note: this may not be the reason why, but it's Camille Crimson's reason and she's the blowjob master so it's good enough for me).
By in large, men prefer it when women swallow their cum rather than spit it out. Even though women know that men find swallowing cum extremely hot and we've told our gals time and again that swallowing cum can cure depression, there are still some women out there who refuse to swallow cum because it tastes bad.
If you're desperate to get your girlfriend, wife, or casual sex partner on board with swallowing cum, there is one thing you can do…
You can improve the taste of cum!
The taste of cum is determined by your diet. That's why they say, "You are what you eat." If you eat nothing but junk, chances are when your lady gets a taste of cum she's not going to be happy. Everyone's cum tastes different. That's because we're all different. The consensus on the taste of cum though is that it tastes bitter or salty. How can we fix this? By making the tase of cum sweeter obviously!
Science has been working very hard to find out which foods sweeten the taste of cum. So let's find out what you should be eating to sweeten the taste of cum and get your girl swallowing that sweet, sweet semen.
First things first, if you really serious about improving the taste of cum, you're going to have to cut alcohol, caffeine, nicotine, and any recreational drugs you're doing out of your diet. I know that sounds absolutely impossible but they are all serious toxins that really pollute the body and make the taste of cum bitter and salty. It's a huge commitment to make. First you need think if having your cum swallowed is more important than alcohol, caffeine, nicotine, and recreational drugs.
If sweet tasting cum is more important to you than alcohol, caffeine, nicotine, and recreational drugs, then we are ready to continue.
Now that you've cut out alcohol, caffeine, nicotine, and recreational drugs from your diet, you're going to want to drink lots of water. Drinking 1 to 2 liters (0.264172051 to .528344102 gallons or 4 to 8 cups of water a day) will help your body flush out all the toxins you've accumulated in your body from your alcohol, caffeine, nicotine, and recreational drug habits.
I'm now going to list the food that will sweeten the taste of cum for you:
- Pineapples
- Papayas
- Cranberries
- Melons
- Mangoes
- Apples
- Grapes
- Parsley
- Wheatgrass
- Celery
- Cinnamon
- Cardamom
- Peppermint
- Lemon
The fruit on this list are all high in natural sugars that should off-set the bitter taste of cum. Parsley, wheatgrass, and celery are all high in chlorophyll, which is also said to sweeten the taste of cum. Anything with lots of zinc or selenium that doesn't taste too strong is also good.
The foods you should avoid because they make the taste of cum bitter or salty are:
- Dairy products
- Red meat
- Cauliflower
- Broccoli
- Asparagus
- Garlic
- Onions
- Fish
- Junk food
- Food with lots of preservatives
Now I'm not saying that you should avoid these foods completely. Maintaining a healthy diet is more important than sweetening the taste of cum. It's just a matter of striking a balance between these two food groups: good for the taste of cum and bad for the taste of cum.
Instead of having that second helping of steak and asparagus, cut up some papayas and pineapples.
What you put in your body takes anywhere from 12 to 24 hours. That means you can plan cum-sweetening diet on days you're more likely to have sex than not. For example, on Monday you can eat all the fish, garlic, junk food, and cauliflower you want because you're probably not getting a blowjob on a Monday evening (though you should try). But when Thursday rolls around, you should be loading up on cranberries for all blowjobs you're going to get on Friday.
Make sense?
Even with the taste of cum sweeter than usual, swallowing is not a guarantee. Swallowing cum is a very intimate act. If you're hooking up with someone for the first time, you shouldn't expect a swallow. But you never know. In my experience, even if they don't swallow on the first go, they usually say something like, "Why does your dick taste so much better than any other one I've had before?"
Good tasting dick and sweetened taste of cum means two things for you:
- You will feel invincible.
- She will be more inclined to give you blowjobs in the future (with swallowing).
Now get off the computer and get yourself to a grocery store before it's too late!


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Saturday, December 6, 2008. (AP) -- Harrison Frazar has shot a 59 in the fourth round of the PGA Tour qualifying tournament, the first player in eight years to hit golf's magic number at Q-school.
Frazar, winless in 300 starts on the PGA Tour, ran off seven straight birdies on the back nine of the Nicklaus Tournament course at PGA West and closed with a par.
The last player to shoot 59 at Q-school was David Gossett in 2000, who failed to earn his card. Frazar is in much better shape, at 24-under 264 and leading by four shots two rounds to go.
It will not count in the PGA record books because the tournament is not an official event. Al Geiberger, Chip Beck and David Duval are the only players with a 59 in official play. Annika Sorenstam also did it on the LPGA Tour.
ASU grad Major Manning is tied for 58th, at 9-under. Manning triple-bogeyed the 18th hole, to finish with a 2-under round of 70.
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AbstractThe relationship between meanings of words and their sound shapes is to a large extent arbitrary, but it is well known that languages exhibit sound symbolism effects violating arbitrariness. Evidence for sound symbolism is typically anecdotal, however. Here we present a systematic approach. Using a selection of basic vocabulary in nearly one half of the world's languages we find commonalities among sound shapes for words referring to same concepts. These are interpreted as due to sound symbolism. Studying the effects of sound symbolism cross-linguistically is of key importance for the understanding of language evolution.
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Should we all start praying for Mitt Romney? The GOP presidential hopeful from Bain Capital has become a walking, talking object lesson on how our plutocracy works - and why we desperately need to end it.
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The Republicans conveniently forget that they started the class war - and they've been winning it for years.
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While Gingrich won, the concerns of the American people were the biggest losers.
Marines in Afghanistan and Republican hate culture
The scandal that broke last week over U.S. Marines urinating on dead Afghanis is not simply a case of a few "bad apples," or "bad management" up the chain of command.
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Sen. Mark Kirk, R-Ill., has carefully cultivated the image of a political moderate. It was that image that allowed him to get elected in 2010 in the first place.
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Cody Thompson put the LaRue County Hawks on his back Friday and carried them to a much-needed win.
Thompson accounted for more than 250 all-purpose yards and scored four touchdowns to lead the host Hawks to a 38-24 win over the Nelson County Cardinals at Hawk Field.
Thompson rushed for a game-high 150 yards and three scores on 27 carries and returned two kicks for 113 yards and another touchdown to help the Hawks (2-3) snap a two-game losing streak and extend the Cardinals' skid to five.
The 2012 Regular Session of the Kentucky General Assembly is scheduled to begin on Jan. 3 and will last 60 days, the maximum number allowed by the state constitution.
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The entire universe and every molecule, atom and electron were created by Jesus Christ. Everything we cannot see with our physical senses is called the invisible realm and has been created by God.
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Hayden Williams of Sonora has enrolled at Centre College, joining Centre's largest-ever first year class and largest overall enrollment. Academically, more than half were in the top 10 percent of their high school class, and the average ACT score is nearly 29. Both represent the strongest new-student profile of any Kentucky college or university.
Williams is the son of Edward and Jane Williams of Sonora and is a graduate of Elizabethtown High School.
In the Sept. 13 meeting of LaRue Fiscal Court, LaRue County Judge/Executive Tommy Turner gave second reading to a reapportionment ordinance that calls for no change in magisterial districts until the next Census, and to a planning and zoning ordinance that updates the current regulation. The lot size for an in-family conveyance will raise from 25,000-square-feet to 30,000-square-feet. The change affects only new lot creations.
Hosparus needs patient support volunteers and will host free trainings in Elizabethtown and Leitchfield.
The Elizabethtown session will be 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Oct. 5 at 105 Diecks Dr. Lunch is included.
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The Northeast Nelson Historical Harvest Homecoming will be Sept. 23-25 in Bloomfield.
A parade begins at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, with floats, antique tractors and old cars.
Vendors and craftspeople will have booths on Depot Street, and a Meet and Greet will be held at the Masonic Building all day Saturday. People are invited to bring artifacts and photos to show and share, but they should not leave any items unattended.
LaRue County High School students received the loan of a computer last fall through the Laptops of LaRue initiative.
Each student has a Dell laptop that can be used for homework assignments, taking quizzes or online research.
However, one of the more popular networking sites, Facebook, has been off-limits on student computers until now.
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How antibodies to a ubiquitous cytoplasmic enzyme may provoke joint-specific autoimmune disease.
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Skip to comments.Mom, When I Grow Up I Really Want to be a Bureaucrat
Posted on 06/27/2010 9:08:06 AM PDT by GVnana
Mom, When I Grow Up I Really Want to be a Bureaucrat
Thats because when the entire country is hurting and the private sector continues to lose jobs, bureaucrats are being hired.
The following chart makes that case. Since the beginning of the recession (roughly January 2008), some 7.9 million jobs were lost in the private sector while 590,000 jobs were gained in the public one. And since the passage of the stimulus bill (February 2009), over 2.6 million private jobs were lost, but the government workforce grew by 400,000.
Plus, as you know, according to the latest numbers from Bureau of Economic Analysis, the average federal civilian worker now earns double what private-sector workers earn when factoring in wages and benefits ($119,982 vs. $59,909). And the gap is increasing. According to Chris Edwards of the Cato Institute, in 2000, the average federal worker earned 66 percent more in total compensation than the average private-sector worker. By 2008, that ratio had risen to 100 percent.
Thats serious money.
(Excerpt) Read more at biggovernment.com ...
Does California still have a private sector?
Does anyone know how many productive, tax paying, private sector jobs are required to support just one non-productive, bureaucratic government job?
Speaking as a California sole proprietor, it's like living off road kill out here...
I've read that before, and I'm saying it is BS. I am not for runaway hiring of federal civilians, but there is no way that the AVERAGE salary is $119,982.
This is the GS pay scale.
For this snippet of "$119,982" IN AVERAGE SALARY that the group is throwing around, there would have a huge majority of people making more than GS-15s in the highest step rank.
The average GS rank is a GS-10 overall, including every federal agency and employees. Their salary (step 1, no locality pay adjustment) is $45,771.
If they didn't mean "salary" when they said salary, but want to throw out some "well, that includes benefits too!" argument, then I can inflate anyone's total compensation package and sell it as they are 'really' making $250,000 per year.
The folks that made that stat up would be much more effective if they didn't "pad" their data.
Or, they could just tell us that 39.8% of all statistics are made up. It would be just as effective.
Keynesians obstinately refuse to challenge the government intervention that is responsible or mass unemployment, and an insistence that the problem of unemployment be dealt with by means of still more government intervention.
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One of my favorite songs.. I think of it often!
LOL, I said something like this long ago, though in different words.
Salary + benefits, but then that would mean reading the fricking article.
Parasites all of them.
Mark Steyn wrote an especially good column recently about how the highest ambition for the young and the talented in socialist paradises such as Europe and Canada is to nail down a cushy gummint job, even if it's in sanitation or ticket-taking.
And to think that just a few years back the young all wanted to start their own internet-based business and were talking about making one's first million before age thirty...
Months later, I was asked the same question by another one of my Mother's friends, and my answer was the same: I want to be an actor. And yet this persons reaction was the same as the first: get a civil service job and in twenty years, I get a pension.
And then it happened a third time, my mothers friend would ask me what I want to be when I grow up, I told them an actor, and the friend tried to steer me towards thinking about a civil service job with a pension.
After the third time of getting this same reaction, I was stunned. Why was I getting that same advice over and over again? I didnt realize it, but apparently the economy was so bad at the time, that the adults saw government jobs as the only thing with a future, steadiness, and real job security.
After the third time getting that same "get a civil service job" responses from my Mother's adult friends, I got tired of it and stopped telling them what I wanted to do. Instead, after being asked what I wanted to do when I grew up, I would shrug my shoulders and say "I dont know". I just didnt want them to put down my dream again. If they werent going to be supportive of my desire to be an actor, I didnt want to hear it.
Eventually I didnt become an actor, but I didnt become a government bureaucrat either.
Bureaucrats are yes-men hacks who go along to get the big wage and perks they feel entitled to due to their elitist status. In other words, their useless. The only thing they've created is the crease that runs down their suit pants. And they don't even do that. Unions protect them and they can prance around like the intelligentsia. Obama provides the perfect cover where the bureaucrats and the oppressed social welfare "poor" will out vote the real producers. It will be a land of parasites.
If you add salary, benefits,(including regional colas), plus retirement contributions(actual or needed)..it is way over 100k for govt jobs.
We have two sons in the application process and the reason they are applying..no jobs even at half the pay as govt.
You did play Al Bundy in Nigeria.
That would make them part of the problem
doesn't matter. We can just keep raising the taxes on productive people....or print more money to save their jobs
I suspect that there are many Federal workers, even at ICE and the DHS, that are sympathetic to THE CAUSE, but they dare not speak or they will be $hit canned swiftly. The one has eyes and ears everywhere.
That government job paycheck never fails to show up. And they Gotta get in that 20 years. A government retirement is a ticket to PARADISE.
The little Fed workers keep their head down and eyes averted and cower in tiny little cubicles like scared bunnies.
They're worse than useless; they're harmful parasites.
Yes, indeed!
The work of DMV employees does not create new services or goods in a market and thus is non productive in the economy. While it could be argued that DMV employees are consumers with jobs that add consumption in the GDP, the source of their wages is taken from the economy in the form of taxes which means less disposable income thus less savings and consumption by everyone else. Again no economic growth can result from adding DMV or any other government employees.
I was pleased that at one of my students e-mailed me and said how his eyes had been opened.
Congratulations and keep up the good work!
Adults can kill a child's aspirations so easily...
There are certain things which a society generally agrees that it needs that a government is best suited to do, and these activities are legitimately paid for out of taxes, but it is folly to grow the scope of government thinking that this is going to grow the size of the economic pie. The number of police, firemen, etc. that most people want quickly comes to a plateau.
It is still BS.
When I was active duty military, I was sent a "Salary + Benefits" number from the Dept of Defense Finance Agency every year.
As a 2nd Lt, I earned almost nothing. My first assignment was in a high cost area, and the Variable Housing Allowance rate for a 2nd Lt was almost nil, so I lived had to live on base, in a dorm single room, with water stained smelly carpeting, two burners to cook on, and a "bathroom" that had a sink and nonworking toilet. I used a shower down the hall, and a hall toilet in the adjacent building. For that privilege, the government took my pitiful housing allowance away, that was calculated as part of my salary. I had to purchase new uniforms (including a mess dress that cost hundreds), and they deducted that directly from my paycheck. Every two weeks, I got a pay stub (after taxes) for about $200.
At the end of each tax year, the government sent me some bogus dollar figure of what I was "really" earning - which was something like twice was my paper salary was. I actually called them up about it, and waited on hold for an hour to get the answer. That number included all my "benefits" (being able to shop in the commissary saved me on toilet paper dontchaknow), and my medical benefit was included. So was everything else they could think of.
What is included in this calculation of "Salary + Benefits?"
Who knows?
Do they break it down and explain it?
Hell no.
It is just a bunch of crap, published to get press and media attention.
I could take your salary, and dress it up whatever way I wanted - and tell you the difference was "benefits."
If the group that keeps putting this $120K a year average about fed employees just argued facts, instead of garbage rhetoric and made up statistics, their argument would be much more persuasive.
But that wasnt a paid gig ;-)
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Two distinct devices on the dashboard include the automatic headlight dimmer (which is a feature found on cars today), and the plastic lens 'Traffic Light Finder' used before traffic lights were put on poles. When the lights were mounted on wires directly overhead, you could not see them without laying your head on the dashboard. This car was purchased in 1988 wîth a rebuilt engine. The owner's neighbor Richard Feltman has also assisted wîth the restoration wîth extensive knowledge of Lincolns from this era.
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Lincoln produced 1,487 Capri Convertibles in 1955 and this example is powered by a 341 cid V8 engine offering 225 horsepower. It has a 'Turbo Drive' automatic transmission and four-wheel hydraulic drum brakes.
The upscale Capri was introduced in 1952 and it was meant to capitalize on the decline of Packard and to become a stronger challenge to Cadillac. By April of 1955, Lincoln enjoyed new status as a separate division with the formation of Lincoln-Mercury, and the success in the Carrera Panamericana during 1952, 1953, and 1954 brought many engineering improvements to the marque.
This car has had just two owners from new. It is in original condition with white painted steel wheels, full wheel covers and a recent set of reproduction B.F. Goodrich Silvertown tires. The interior features white and aqua blue leather upholster, and there is a clock and an optional AM radio and heater.
In 2010, this Capri was offered for sale at the Vintage Motor Cars of Meadow Brook event presented by RM Auctions. The car was estimated to sell for $65,000 - $85,000. As bidding came to a close, the car had been sold for the sum of $57,750 including buyer's premium.
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The Lincoln Capri was powered by an eight-cylinder 430 cubic-inch engine which was matted to a three-speed automatic gearbox. The Life Magazine hailed the Capri as the safest vehicle produced in 1955.
The Lincoln Capri was entered in the grueling Mexican Road Races and was able to sweep the top five places in the International Standard Class. The following year, they captured the first four spots. In 1954, they claimed the first and second spots.
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Replacing the Cosmopolitan as Lincoln's top of the line series, the Lincoln Capri debuted in 1952 with modern squared-off styling. Available in three body styles, the design was similar to the Mercury models at the time. A full-size model, the Capri rode on a 123.0-inch wheelbase, had an overall length of 214 inches, a width of 77.5 inches and a height of 62.6 inches. Designed to compete with the Packard Series 400 and the Cadillac Series 62, the Capri hit the automotive market with a bang, selling 14,342 models in its first year. The following year it nearly doubled sales with a total of 26,640 sales in 1953. The Capri quickly sold out its sibling, the Cosmopolitan each year until the end of that model. Today these Lincolns are highly regarded, especially for their excellent performance in the grueling Carrara-Panamericana (Mexican Road Race).
The Capri could hit 0-60 mph in 14.8 seconds, and achieve the quarter mile in 21.3 seconds according to the 1952 issue of Popular Mechanics in the fall. Fuel economy was recorded at 21mpg at 40 mph. The two-door hardtop Capri coupé weighed 4,305 pounds, the two-door convertible weighed 4,415 pounds and the four-door sedan tipped the scales at 4,275 pounds. Lincoln contracted Earle MacPherson, the father of today's strut-type suspension, to improve the control-arm front suspension. The Capri featured newly designed ball joint front suspensions, jumbo drum brakes and recirculating-ball power steering. The result was reduced steering effort, quelling brake drive and improved tracking of the front wheels. Lincoln's top-of-the-line Capri was priced between $3,331 and $4,031.
The Capri had the distinction of being one of the first vehicles ever to offer an optional automatic headlight dimmer. The output increased to 205 for 1953 thanks to a higher compression ratio, larger intake valves and a four-barrel carburetor. This increase allowed Lincoln to earn the title as the first manufacture to offer more than 200 hp in a volume-production sedan. Lincoln rolled out a new 225 hp 341 cu in (5.6 L) Lincoln Y-Block V8 engine in 1955. This new engine had greater displacement and at 8.5:1 it had a higher compression than before and a four-barrel carburetor joined to a standard 3-speed Turbo Drive automatic transmission. The Lincoln V8 pumped out more horsepower per cubic inch (0.64) than any of its competitors. Extensive sound deadening enhanced refinement and for the first time air conditioning was finally an optional blessed relief.
Sales for 1954 peaked at 29,552, then fell slightly to 23,673 models in 1955, amounting to 87% of Lincoln's total output for the year. During 1952 and 1953, Lincolns claimed the top four spots in the Stock Car category of the Pan American Road Race thanks to the 317 cu in (5.2 L) Lincoln Y-block V8s. winning driver Chuck Stevenson used the Ferrari team's road markings, to direct him through the curves and straightaways and achieved 91.2-mph average over 1938 miles in Mexico. Lincolns took first and second place in 1954 with four Capris. Some enthusiasts dubbed the Capri the 'Pullman of the highway', and other claimed that driving the vehicle was 'the nearest sensation to flying'.
The second generation of the Lincoln Capri rolled out in 1956 with an entire division-wide revamp. A new 285 hp 368 cu in (6.0 L) Lincoln Y-Block V8 engine and a brand new 12-volt electrical system was introduced this year. The electrical system was introduced to handle the array of new power accessories introduced. The Capri became Lincoln's entry-level model while the Premier moved up to the upper level model. The convertible was removed from the model range at this time. Sales took quite a hit in 1956 and the number swooped dramatically to 8,791 units, but thankfully returned in 1956 with total numbers of both Capri and Premier models rising to 50,322 units sold.
New this generation was the option of four-way power seats. Boosting output to 300 hp was a new camshaft and higher 10:1 compression. Despite the introduction of a 4-door landau hardtop, sales fell once again to 5,900 units. 1957 brought with it a face-lifted design that featured more dramatic fins. Total production for 1957 was 41,123 units with both Capri and Premier models.
In 1958 Lincoln introduced the third generation of the Lincoln Capri. Much like the Lincoln-Zephyr and the original Continental, these first Lincolns were constructed on a unibody platform. They were produced at the new Wixom, Michigan plant. For this year Lincoln's shared its body with the Continental, though they were still a separate make. The higher-model full-size Continentals featured differences in trim level and roof treatment along with a reverse-angle power rear 'Breezeway' window that retracted into the rear of the backseat. Unfortunately Lincoln was hit hard in 1958 through 1960, losing over $60 million, and was even further impacted with the economic recession in the U.S. and the 1958 full-size model selling poorly in all models.
Even larger than Cadillac's at the time, the '58 Lincoln Capri was one of the largest cars ever made. Even though this era was the time of excess styling, some considered the scalloped fenders and canted headlights to be somewhat flashy. The longest Lincolns ever produced without federally mandated 5 mph bumpers, the 1958 landau sedan measured 229 inches long and 80.1 inches wide. Everyone applauded the arrival of the all-new 375 hp 430 cu in MEL V8 engine. Setting a record that continues to this day, the front of the Capri measured 63.1 inches shoulder room, and 63.0 inches rear.
Well-received, sales of the landau sedan made up nearly half of 1958 sales at 3,014 models produced. Optional extras included the AM radio priced at $144, seat belts for $25 and heater and defroster for $110. Even though sales rose to 7,929 units for 1959, the Capri was put to rest for 1960.
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