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A 1997 graduate of the Stetson University College of Law, Higgins was hired as Assistant Director of Athletics for External Operations in December of 2012. His duties at Stetson include overseeing the Hatters' Athletics marketing efforts as well as ticketing, corporate sales and development.
"We had an outstanding field of candidates to fill this position, which demonstrates the strength and success Stetson athletics has enjoyed over the past," Director of Athletics Jeff Altier said. "I want to thank the members of the search committee for their assistance during this process.
"While there were a number of very qualified applicants for this position, Jeff's combination of experience at UNLV and with the NCAA, along with his obvious passion for Stetson University, moved him to the top of the list. His record of success on both the academic side and in marketing at UNLV is very impressive and I am looking forward to having him continue that level of success for the Hatters."
Higgins is a native of Gainesville, Fla., and attended the University of Florida as an undergrad, receiving his Bachelor's Degree in Sports Management in 1995. He moved on from there to the Stetson College of Law, earning his Juris Doctorate in 1997. He was admitted to the Florida Bar in 1998 and spent five years as an assistant public defender in Lake County before venturing into college athletics as an Assistant Director of Enforcement at the NCAA Office in Indianapolis from 2002-07.
"I'm very happy to be coming back to Florida and thankful for the opportunity to work at Stetson," Higgins said. "I am looking forward to working with President Wendy Libby and Director of Athletics Jeff Altier, along with the group of coaches and administrators they've put together.
"Of course it's special to come back to where I have so many roots, but this is a really exciting time for the university and the athletic department as well. I'm looking forward to helping everyone – students, alumni, faculty, staff, fans and local businesses – understand what's being built at Stetson. I want to make sure they know how vital their support is to the success of the program, and I want to get them as involved as possible."
Higgins was previously employed at UNLV from 2007 to 2012, serving in a variety of capacities.
In April 2011, he was named Associate Athletic Director for Marketing. In that capacity he managed the marketing unit, worked closely with the Rebel Athletic Fund and IMG College, and oversaw many of UNLV's branding and revenue-generating efforts, including ticketing, licensing and the recent restructuring of UNLV's merchandising operations.
Those efforts helped lead to increased attendance for seven of UNLV's eight ticketed sports, a 27 percent gain in Rebel Athletic Fund membership and a significant increase in licensing revenue for UNLV in the 2011-12 academic year.
Prior to his move into marketing, Higgins was promoted to Associate Athletic Director for Student-Athlete Academic Services in September 2010. In that capacity he had general oversight of UNLV's student-athlete academic services (SAAS) unit, and administrative responsibility for women's volleyball.
During his time overseeing the SAAS unit, Higgins led the charge to rejuvenate that unit to ensure all student-athletes at UNLV have the resources they need to graduate. He also worked in conjunction with other campus leaders at UNLV to develop the Rebound Initiative, a program dedicated to the success of first-year and academically at-risk student-athletes at UNLV. That program has been so successful that many of its measures have been adopted as part of the academic advising model for the general student population at UNLV.
A 2015 graduate of the Sports Management Institute, Higgins is a father of four (Alexa, Austin, Nolan, and Delaney), and also works as a high school football official. He has previously served as a volunteer for American Legion baseball and YMCA basketball, and as a Teen Court judge.


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Could an open ecosystem in aviation produce a superior aircraft?
Could open source build a jetliner?
I know this might sound like an odd question. It first came up in a conversation I had with Gary Hamel, the eminent business thinker and one of the first people to recognize the importance of distributed co-creation and that it will change management in the 21st century. We were discussing how the power of participation could replace traditional management for purposes of coordination and what it's limits might be. We ended up using the analogy of building a jetliner as our best example of where tight coordination is required. This question has been nagging on my mind ever since.
Airplanes are truly modern marvels of tight coordination on a massive scale. A well designed airplane is the result of tens of thousands of small design tradeoffs that are perfectly balanced and tightly managed. The end product is an engineering marvel that is a modern jetliner.
Design to manufacturing introduces a myriad of new coordination challenges. Hundreds of thousands of components must come together with minute tolerances. Indeed, the design and manufacture of an airplane represents the pinnacle of what modern top-down coordination can produce.
Which brings me back to the question. Can a bottoms-up, participative system develop something as complex as a jetliner, considering it requires such close coordination amongst the various parts? The more I think about it, my answer is both no and yes. Here's my thinking and I would very much like to hear your thoughts.
My knee-jerk answer to Gary was no. That's not what participative systems are good at. Upon further reflection, I would more clearly say, "In the very short term and in the strictest sense of the question, my answer is no." While open source has shown an amazing ability to develop highly complex systems, it's power is the distributed nature of the innovation process. Look no further than Linux.
Think about how Linux is created. Those closest to individual components are able to drive optimized solutions to those problems. In these self-emergent systems, the underlying detail and complexity of the components can be far beyond anything a top-down, centrally planned system can muster. However, if those components must be tightly coordinated to work together, I'm not sure participative systems have a way to do that.
The more I thought about the problem, the more I realized that IT'S THE WRONG QUESTION. It is asking whether a participative system stuck into the middle of a traditional command-and-control ecosystem, can outperform it. And to that question, I still say no. The right question to ask is, "Could an open ecosystem in aviation produce a superior aircraft over time?" And to that question, my answer is "yes."
The power of participative systems in the bottoms-up innovation comes from having those closest to the problems involved in solving them. Linux is successful not because Linus Torvalds specified his requirements for each component, but rather because he did not. He allowed others, with different skills and expertise to drive the various components of the system, and ultimately the whole has benefited. If the various parties involved in the myriad components of aviation were allowed to drive their own designs forward, would the benefits of the individual components being superior offset the fact that they are not as tightly optimized to work together?
Let's again look at x86 and Linux as an analogy. For many years, tightly coupled RISC/Unix systems represented the ultimate in computing performance. They dominated high-end computing. Today, the performance mantle has moved to x86 and Linux. Red Hat Enterprise Linux alone, runs over half the world's equity trading volume—and those are systems bought for performance, not price. Why?
Simply, no single engineered system can keep up with the mass of innovation that is happening in an open system. Intel can drive it's microprocessor roadmap without worrying about "breaking" applications that are tightly joined to hardware. Application vendors can drive their own roadmaps without worrying about optimizing it for hardware. And Linux operates at its own pace. Each of these systems have innovated faster because they are not encumbered with the need to coordinate across the entire system. And together, open systems based on x86 and Linux now represent the gold standard for performance in computing.
What is the lesson learned from our experience with Linux and the jetliner question? An open system could not create the tightly coupled, highly coordinated system that is a RISC/Unix computer. Instead, it created something better, faster, and cheaper. Why would aviation be any different?
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I think the more appropriate question is: Can you build a jetliner for 2000$? Linux took off because everybody could afford a PC and had a strong incentive to make their PC work better by improving Linux.
The same thing is happening right now with do-it-yourself drones and there is already stuff popping up like OpenSource UAV autopilot software.
It will probably will take a couple of decades and maybe a new generation of engineers, but I'm sure a lot of this stuff will be used in the jetliners of the future.
This is a fascinating concept. In the computer/tech world, we have the 7 layers of the OSI model that helps "coordinate" some of this effort. Projects/companies can work on the physical, data, network, appliation layer, etc. without impacting other layesr. Open standards also play a role in this.
I wonder if there is an equivalent to this in aviation that would help foster this type of collaboration.
This is an interesting topic, but there's another interesting question, which you only tangentially touched on. Specifically, the level of systems integration in the manufacturing of a plane is enormous. Open source's greatest strength, and sometimes it's greatest weakness, is that everyone can (and sometimes does) fork and splinter projects, rather than cooperate and work together.
Note that I'm not saying that this can't be done, but it might be interesting to ponder who is the ultimate 'Benevolent Dictator for Life' (ala Linus) when it comes to the overall systems integration of components for an airliner.
Thanks for a great article to spark an interesting discussion.
There is a clue in the current world of Open Source goodness:
Wonderful, complex software, pffft for hardware.
That'll change some as 3d printers do more and more of the work, but Open Source seems to work best when:
1. There are common elements that do not confer competitive advantage -- like operating systems -- and cost savings leverages work on other components.
2. Enough people with skills, interest, and resources exist to make it happen -- a la the GIMP and the original Firefox web browser
That "resources" angle is a biggie. Whether its a fab, autoclave, test rigs, etc, most of us don't have the kind of resources to do the things a jetliner requires. Heck -- most of us don't have any actual need for a jetliner.
Open source is great for a lot of things. Probably good for lots of the things that go into a jetliner. The plane itself?
Hard to imagine.
I suspect an open design approach could work well for a jetliner and many other pieces of large hardware, but it would require industry investment and a radical shift in ideology. If carriers were to invest in design engineers and form a consortium dedicated to the design of planes, they could drive costs down on new planes - instead of Boeing and Airbus each designing a new plane, investing 100% of the time and money in TWO new planes, the end users could design one plane to their specs and take the lowest bid on testing and, eventually, production. As with open source software, smaller players (smaller carriers or other interested parties) could offer their voice and input to the design process, benefiting themselves and their larger competitors at the same time.
Now of course I've glossed over much detail here - nothing is as simple as one paragraph. But I could see an open design philosophy allowing the end users of large goods to drive the design process and create cost savings. You end up with a product which directly reflects the needs of the users rather than being 1 step removed and those users can compete on their ability to provide service, driving costs across the design and use chain down in the process.
I think the analogy of Linux and construction of an airliner is a bit flawed. Linux was successful because Linus had a vision, and had the will and tenacity to drive that vision. When it took root, he also had the intelligence to let it go and grow with the aid of many others.
For an open source airliner to be successfully built, it would need an initial visionary, a champion to lead it through the initial phases. Once it had been accomplished (or nearly so), secondary players (like the many branches of distro's of Linux that exist) would come forward and start their own open source aero companies. We're lacking the brave (foolish?) individual that can start that process.
But I look forward to seeing that person try.
Complexity is not the issue with this analogy. It's the cost of the tools. The tools and equipment needed for airworthy commercial aircraft design are *way* beyond 99.99% people's budget. So your development community will be a hand full of Elon Musks, John Carmacks. The Linux kernel is very complex indeed, but almost every individual in the western world has access to the tools to contribute.
Spot on, Joe. The difference between creating software (Linux for example) and an airliner is the barrier to entry for "participants".
The risk for Linus Torvalds was his time or rather passing up the opportunity to do something else with it. The risk for an open source manufacturer to propose a new wing design would be in the tens, if not hundreds, or millions of dollars.
Torvalds' work, stunning as it was, had no warranty attached to it, which is the case for open source software. I might be very willing to risk a couple of days and some CPU cycles on an interesting piece of open source software, but I'm not risking my life flying in something where no one entity has legal responsibility for its design and manufacture.
Open source brings a wealth of creativity and function that most of us, myself included, could never hope to produce on our own or afford to buy. But it always comes with the inherent risk that if something goes wrong, you're dependent upon the kindness, of which there is much, of others or your own potentially inadequate resources to fix it.
At 35,000 feet, I'd rather not have to post to a mailing list if the wing looks like it's going to come off.
Yup, yup, yup.
The linux kernel cost millions to develop if you consider the value of the programming talent required to get it to its current state. However, that talent was provided by thousands of people who had the time and talent to offer. There was, arguably, some opportunity costs incurred, but not major out-of-pocket outlays.
Hard to build a jetliner without some major out-of-pocket outlays.
"Open" doesn't have to mean "massively distributed development" though.
An Openly Transparent development process for an airliner, led by air carriers, would drive production costs down due to increased competition to build the finished product and reduce vendor lock in. It's about reducing duplication of effort - why should two companies create essentially the same technology, with associated costs, when they're going to produce the same amount of goods in the end? (To clarify: certainly, let them create competing products, but, like with Linux, let them re-use existing "code" in doing so)
Instead, let them compete to produce the airliner that an open process has decided is the best airliner. The ability of a competing carrier to make improvements to this open blueprint would be the impetus for innovation and goad to make the product the best possible.
That is essentially the airplane manufacturers are doing with subcontractors. They create a design and then let others bid on producing pieces of it. Without doubt, some of those suppliers have come up with innovative solutions the primary manufacturer hadn't considered. This is the same thing that happens within the diverse contributor community to open source.
If we had to pay all of the great people who have created the open source software we rely on today, the cost would be staggering. They do it because of they have a communal spirit and it's fun. Otherwise, they'd stick to their day jobs.
I'm certainly grateful to all of them.
The reason I think it won't work in the medium term is vested interests protecting themselves through buying regulation. This can be anything from patents over inspections to no matter what. Free and open source software were a historical accident with a spectacular evolution moving more quickly than those buying laws could react.
Not sure who the vested interests are, but the FAA sort of likes to know who's building things and who's accountable for them, particularly when hundreds of live are at stakes.
Open Source software is rarely used, without exhaustive, proprietary testing in life-safety applications. At least not by responsible practitioners.
The jetliner example is ambitious, and as many have already cited, the tools and materials needed to make a prototype let alone scale up to production does not lend itself to an open source or crowd sourced project. Jetliners with the inherent liabilities and safety issues trigger a response in customers and regulators that they need a single "throat to choke" if somehting goes awry. Starting smaller, there are a number of aviation projects that have been supported by entusiasts and the EAA (Experimental Aviation Association) for years. Kit built or plan built experimental aircraft have a lot of the positive qualities of the open source community. Most of these start with one person or a small group with a vision to build a lowest cost flying machine, or in some cases a machine that does something nothing else does. Along these lines FAA came up with an unlicensed category of aircraft. The FAR part 103 ultralight. Most of these are flying lawn chairs, but you can look them up online and see an insane variety of designs from powered parachutes to carbon fiber speed demons. This is also an area of contention because the part 103 rules are so restrictive that there are very few truly legal planes. most are heavier, or faster, or carry more fuel than the rules allow. in computers, this is called innovation, in flying, innovation usually means breaking rules that carry weight of law.
If your computer crashes, no problem.
In a previous life, I made parts for planes. There is a reason they do it the way they do. In fact, the current process of making planes is not arbitrary, it has been a process of evolution. The important issue of safety, for example, has created a chain of liability.
If I don't use the right type of teflon insulation on my wires, or the gold plating is too thin on the connector pins, the company I worked for might be put out of business if the plane crashes.
If I contribute a subroutine that induces a buffer overflow on line 5436885 in the linux kernel, no biggie.
What most people don't know is that there are extremely rigid requirements for producing any software for use in commercial aircraft. The DO-178B document details criteria that should (or must) be considered for any software used in airborne systems. Few of us, myself included, have ever labored under the level of scrutiny it imposes.
But as Bob Jones points out, there are reasons for these design criteria. Hard experience, purchased with human lives, has determined a software development model that not only assures accountability, but also provides a consistent analysis process that permits precise fault analysis.
How often have you heard of a airplane crash traced to software? The answer is, none that I can think of.
That said, NASA, the real rocket scientists and progenitors of these types of development processes, managed to crash the Mars lander into the planet because they got their measurement units mixed up.
Anyone else notice the plane in the wire-frame diagram of this article has blades rotating in the same direction. Is this the first bug report?
Why start with aeroplanes - seems like the endpoint (or near endpoing - star trek being the endpoint) rather than the startpoint.
I have been toying with the idea of the open source car - there are already initiatives out there but getting that going would be a first step. Establish the processes and thinking around open source design (think Arduino) that any manufacturer can pick up. Design it on a lego type system so you can mix and match to your requirements (parts and connections are universally compatible) and make it electric / hydrogen based. That is an achievable goal - and it will lay the ground work for more ambitious projects so that one day - open source aircraft might be a viable option
The rise of 3D printings, particular those that use materials appropriate for load bearing structures, mean an open source car may be closer to reality than an airplane. In this case, assuming certain critical safety systems are assured (brakes, steering, crash protection), a user designed car may be in our future.
One of the major auto manufacturers had a "skateboard" concept where they used a common chassis and powertrain that could be mated to a variety of bodies. That concept would provide the public with the opportunity to design a body that met their practical and aesthetic requirements, while reserving the truly capital and engineering intensive aspects of the vehicle were produced to strict, tested standards.
Riversimple is developing an open source urban car powered by hydrogen. The development is principally by Riversimple because of the complexities of dar design and the difficulties in enabling distributed working on such difficult items (no realistic open source CAD systems or affordable collaborative proprietary systems). It is open source to encourage others to make using the same components thereby reducing costs to everyone and increasing efficiency. Well worth taking a look. Legals are certainly entertaining. http://www.riversimple.com.
I get the feeling we are getting bogged down by complexity. If we look at the cars on the road today and try and opensource that - no chance. But that is not how open source works.
Didn't Ferrari start in someone's garage?
Start with a basic design using available parts where possible - use existing engines => V .01
Then let opensource methodology take over.
If Torvalds had aimed at current linux at the start unlikely it would have gone anywhere.
Ultimate goal: a car that can be built from standard non-proprietary parts sourced from preferred supplier. Car either assembled by specialist outfit or DIY.
Will it compete with BMW, Merc, Porsche etc - probably not - but then that is not the point.
Disclaimer: I have no automotive experience at all - couldn't tell you the difference between a diff and a cam belt - so could be talking rubbish.
Riversimple are not looking at the cars on the road today. That is exactly the issue. They have taken a long look at who an environmentally friendly urban car should be and how it should be financed etc and have come up with something quite different. You won't be buying a Riversimple vehicle but leasing it. Although the design is open source, you won't be tinkering with a Riversimple car but there will be nothing to prevent you looking at the designs or building your own as a hobby project (if you can!) or even setting up your own plant and entering manufacturing.
Current automotive manufacturers have minimal interest in changing their world. It's too complex an area for someone to break into the traditional automotive industry without huge huge backing. Open source makes an alternate viable.


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The Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 10624 recently hosted a dinner for the three local winners and their families of the Patriots Pen Essay Contest.
This year's theme was "What I would tell America's Founding Fathers." Of the 46 local entries, the three winners are all from Christ our King - Stella Maris School – Sandra Bruno's eighth grade class. Winners were Brian Privett, first place $100; Natasha Tirpak, second place $50; and Rhetta Moore, third place $50. They each received a certificate with their checks.
Several Ladies Auxiliary members as well as some of the Veterans of Post 10624 were there to listen to these young students read their winning essays. "It was really wonderful to hear three young people talk about how great our nation is," says Kathy Thomas, scholastic chairman and member of the Ladies Auxiliary. All three students wrote about how our nation is one that our founding fathers can be proud of, and how lucky we are that we have the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
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"The development of antibiotics has been stalled for several decades and many infectious microbes have become drug-resistant," says the study's senior investigator, Dr. Kyu Y. Rhee, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of medicine in the division of infectious diseases and associate professor of microbiology and immunology at Weill Cornell Medical College. "We must restock the antibiotic pipeline, and our study findings provide a powerful new approach for doing just that."
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In the study, published in the latest online edition of Science, Dr. Rhee's research team exposed TB to para-aminosalicylic acid (PAS), which was developed more than 50 years ago and is still part of the multidrug regimen used to treat resistant TB. The drug was thought to work by inhibiting an enzyme used by bacteria to synthesize folates, an essential class of nutrients. "Many thus believed that the drug interfered with folate synthesis in the TB bacterium by functioning as an occlusive plug that blocked this pathway," says Dr. Rhee.
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LOCKPORT – Leaders of the Niagara County Legislature's 12-member Republican majority issued a statement Monday declaring that they will continue to vote against Nancy L. Smith's renomination as Democratic elections commissioner.
Minority Leader Dennis F. Virtuoso, D-Niagara Falls, said they won't have the chance, because Democrats have decided to simply let the 30-day time limit for Legislature action on Smith expire. After that, the Democratic legislators alone are allowed to confirm Smith.
County Democratic Chairman Nicholas J. Forster said the Republicans are trying to distract attention from the property tax increase in the tentative 2013 county budget, the subject of a public hearing at 6 p.m. today in the County Courthouse.
The GOP statement, issued by the county Public Information Office, attacked Smith for allegedly lying about why former North Tonawanda Mayor Lawrence V. Soos was fired Oct. 2 from a part-time job with the Board of Elections.
"Now the Republican supermajority, the 'Dirty Dozen,' think they can dictate who the Democratic election commissioner will be. It'll be a cold day in hell before that happens," Forster said. "This is a distraction and a deflection from the Republican mismanagement of the county. [Today] is a big day for them. They're telling the people of the county they're going to raise taxes 3.5 percent."
Soos filed a notice of claim to prepare to sue the county after the state Labor Department denied his application for unemployment benefits. The Labor Department, apparently quoting from a form submitted by the county Human Resources Department, accused Soos of violating orders through his conduct at the Democratic Party reorganizational meeting Oct. 1.
Soos spoke out against Forster's candidacy for chairman at that meeting and was fired the next day. The Labor Department finding said Soos was instructed to attend the meeting as a county employee but was told not to indulge in personal attacks.
Soos said Monday night that a Labor Department hearing officer reversed the decision and granted his jobless benefits last week. The county did not send anyone to the hearing to contest the matter, he said.
The Legislature's Administration Committee questioned Smith about the ethics of the issue behind closed doors last week. Afterward, Legislator Paul J. Wojtaszek, R-North Tonawanda, said Smith's responses might have put the issue to rest.
But Monday's statement made clear that the 12 GOP and allied legislators aren't backing down.
"I wanted to give Nancy Smith the benefit of the doubt in this matter," Wojtaszek said in the statement. "At the [Administration Committee] hearing, she stated that her decision to terminate Mr. Soos was in no way influenced by his actions at the Democratic Party organizational meeting. However, a subsequent review of her signed statement on file at Human Resources revealed the explanation she offered at the Administration Committee hearing was diametrically opposed to her earlier written statements. In one instance or the other, Mrs. Smith was not truthful."
He and Majority Leader Richard E. Updegrove, R-Lockport, did not return calls Monday evening, nor did Smith.
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The willingness to collaborate brought us free and open source software. Now we continue to see that willingness to collaborate permeate our government agencies. A prime example is the Peer To Patent program developed at New York Law School by Prof. Beth Noveck. First presented as an idea on her July 2005 blog Peer to Patent: A Modest Proposal, Peer To Patent has become an early success story in actively engaging the public to improve the quality of government decision making.
Peer To Patent works by posting patent applications that have been voluntarily submitted by their owners to the Peer To Patent review process. Once posted, any member of the public may come to the Peer To Patent website, www.peertopatent.org, and participate in a discussion about the merits of the patent and what might constitute prior art, documentary evidence that someone had previously invented the same device or process (novelty) or that the device or process is merely a combination of previous devices and processes and does not include an inventive step, i.e., anyone knowledgeable in the subject matter would have seem the logic in creating the combination (non-obviousness).
The collaborating peers then search for the prior art to document their views and post it to the Peer To Patent site. Importantly, both the posting peer and others may then annotate the posted prior art to note why it is relevant to the pending patent applications. After a few months of this give and take, the posted prior art and related annotations are compiled by New York Law School students into an information disclosure statement that is then submitted to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Patent examiners then have this information available to them to assist in their determination of whether a patent should be granted.
To date New York Law School's Center for Patent Innovation and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office have run to one-year pilots. Over 200 patent applications were submitted for review, and in about 15% of the cases the Peer To Patent prior art made a meaningful contribution to the examination, particularly by identifying non-patent prior art (patent prior art consists of issued patents and pending patent applications; non-patent prior art consists of journal articles, documentation, and other similar material). While 15% may not seem like a lot, this represents only the improvement made by Peer To Patent; in many more cases the patent examiners were, on their own, able to find the same prior art as the Peer To Patent reviewers. Peer To Patent has been recognized by the White House as part of the Open Government Initiative.
In addition to the U.S. pilot projects, IP Australia has run a Peer To Patent - Australia pilot project in conjunction with Queensland University of Technology with technology assistance from New York Law School. The results of that pilot are now being compiled, but it appears the results will be quite similar to those in the U.S. Later in 2010 the Institute of Intellectual Property in Japan plans to run a Peer To Patent pilot in conjunction with the Japan Patent Office.
Since the conclusion of the second U.S. Peer To Patent pilot in October 2009 the USPTO and New York Law School have worked together to evaluate the program and plan its future. The evaluation concluded that the program has merit, but questions of best implementation remain. In the long term it is likely that the USPTO will incorporate the collaborative aspects of Peer To Patent into standard practice. In the short term it is likely that the USPTO and New York Law School will run a third pilot to commence some time later this year.
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I am a European Patent Attorney. While it is often assumed that my professional is against any action of this kind, I am actually strongly in favour, once a fair working system is developed.
As Attorneys we need to be able to tell our clients whether their ideas are worth prosecuting within the patent system. We don't advise that $$$s should be spent if there is clear evidence that the idea is within, or obvious from, the prior art. On the other hand, if we have a spectrum of prior art before us and the idea (or an amended version of the idea) still shines then any granted patent is stronger and more enforceable. However, all we have typically to go on is the knowledge of the inventors, Patent Office searches and possibly third party searches. Such information is not perfect and also comes along in stages; when drafting a patent you cannot predict all the prior art that may be raised. By using mass collaboration we can obtain better evidence of what is known and obvious to prevent patents of dubious quality and worth.
I do have some implementation worries though. Hundreds of thousands of patents are applied for every year, the pilot scheme managed to review 200. I am afraid that the selection of patent applications to comment on is open to political or commercial hijack: e.g. Apple or Google patent applications may be singled out and/or clever PR by one company may highlight to the bloggosphere a competitors patent applications. Secondly, the quality of evidence and comments must be high: it would be easy to fake a website article or "expert" opinion and online communities can also be hijacked (see Justin Bieber's upcoming North Korean tour). Also the pilot scheme relies on hard-working Law School Students effectively working for free; would the scheme work without these volunteers?
Overall though I think the implementation worries are kinks to be ironed out in the journey from pilot to full-scale program; who knows, the overlap (see the 15% figure) between Patent Office review and the community's involvement may foster a deeper understanding and acceptance of the patent system.
It's great news to hear that Peer to Patent may be up again later this year.
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"(If) we didn't put a charge on paper, there's some concern that people would just all of a sudden start switching to consuming paper," said Nichole Dorr, town recycling coordinator. "It really wouldn't achieve the desired result of the reduction of single-use bag consumption."
Stores would keep money generated by the fee to help offset the cost of buying paper bags. Businesses also would be required to itemize the number of paper and reusable bags sold on a customer's receipt, while keeping track of the total number of those bags sold over three years.
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So I Met Some NHLers Yesterday
Posted 23 February 2012 - 01:02 PM
-Gordon "Gordie" Howe-
Overall 3 Gordie Howe hat trick 113 points
2011 playoff pick game
Posted 23 February 2012 - 01:12 PM
Pavel Datsyuk - "Pasha" - #13
"Got no fun if you got no puck"
'"I like ladies" - Towards the Lady Byng trophy
"Okay $5 now"
I'm Don Cherry and Danny DeKeyser is my Kadri.
Posted 23 February 2012 - 01:16 PM
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Posted 23 February 2012 - 01:18 PM
Johnathan Ericsson walked by us while we were walking the other way I looked him square in the eye and said the only thing I could think of "Hey whats up Johnathan" lol
unfortunitly he didn't respond at all, wasn't a big fan of him before that now definitly dislike him even more lol
glad you had a better experience
Posted 23 February 2012 - 01:21 PM
"Mess up tomorrow, don't mess up now".
- Harry James Benson, CBE.
Posted 23 February 2012 - 01:31 PM
I'm surprised Steve Ott wasn't sitting with them.
Posted 23 February 2012 - 01:43 PM
Burish and Ribeiro are both little punks, and Jamie Benn is the idiot who spotpicked Kindl and ran Conklin last week.
I'm surprised Steve Ott wasn't sitting with them.
He's still trying to find his way into the Winged Wheel
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Pavel Datsyuk - "Pasha" - #13
"Got no fun if you got no puck"
'"I like ladies" - Towards the Lady Byng trophy
"Okay $5 now"
I'm Don Cherry and Danny DeKeyser is my Kadri.
Posted 23 February 2012 - 01:43 PM
-Gordon "Gordie" Howe-
Overall 3 Gordie Howe hat trick 113 points
2011 playoff pick game
Posted 23 February 2012 - 01:46 PM
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2011 playoff pick game
Posted 23 February 2012 - 02:18 PM
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Posted 23 February 2012 - 02:18 PM
Oh and Benn asked who I pulled for if not the Hawks, so I told him the Wings. Then he said I was a fair weather fan since they have won, "24 at home," so I showed him my Winged Wheel on my inner arm, and then Eriksson? (If that was him,)said, "Well maybe not," and laughed. Again, I really don't know my Stars players.
I guess we know one team that's super jealous
Posted 23 February 2012 - 06:35 PM
I work downtown at Bestbuy (don't make fun) and Leafs come in pretty regularly. First guy I met since working there was Ron Wilson. He bought the nicest Mac laptop we have from myself and we just conducted business regularly. When he was skimming through his wallet I asked "What do you think of the team this year?" (this was my first indication I gave as to knowing who he was) He responded, "Best team Toronto has had since Sundin has been gone-what kind of discount can I get?" He seriously didn't take a breath between sentences. I offered him the 'student' discount which is to say $100 off in lieu of buying a service plan for $450. He said "Do I have to do anything?" and I let him know that I'd take care of it. He then asked for my card and he gave me his along with some nice gold seat tickets for the second home game of the season. The best NHL souvenir I now own is Ron Wilson's business card.
Ron Wilson
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Since then he referred JM Liles and Lupul to the store and they got in touch with me. They were furnishing there new condos with home theatre stuff. Both were nice enough guys and Lupul brought tickets to the store. He also left tickets on his counter for the installers.
After I helped them out I texted Ron about the Wings game in TO and let him know they were my favourite team and he made some comment about them "being a good, but easy choice to cheer for". He had someone drop off the same Gold seat tickets to the store in an envelope with my name on it.
Funniest thing about all this is how badly I wanted Wilson to be fired before I started getting hook-ups lol.
Posted 23 February 2012 - 07:10 PM
My goal in life is to meet Pavel and Bert.
"Everything he does is exciting to watch." -Holmstrom describes Datsyuk
Posted 23 February 2012 - 07:22 PM
HankthaTank - Squirrels, they hate to be thrown. / Why is the magical unicorn named Brian... Jedi - I just downloaded the "kids" book, "Go the F--k to Sleep" as narrated by Samuel L. Jackson on my kindle. I am now ready to be a daddy. / *Checks Router* No, I'm positive I didn't hit the "Wings Defense Sucks" button. Electrophile - I'm just glad the Wings were able to win despite the Curse of Brian. ACallToArms - I think Trey needs to put something about payroll tax and deferred income in his sig... Edicius - I'd rather [have] a soundbite of me saying "I like (man sausage)" rather than "I like Crosby".
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Posted 23 February 2012 - 08:51 PM
I played against the Wings alumni in a charity game and was lined up against Mickey Redmond for most the game. We chirped a lot and I gave him a little friendly little hack or two. Great guy. Scored on one of the Wings goalies from the 80's.
I seen Mikael Samuelsson at Ikea (ironic, I know). Didn't talk to him though. Pretty sure I seen the majority of the Wings management at Iridescense in Motor City. They walked right by my table. I think it was Yzerman, Nill, and a few more. Didn't get to talk to them though. That would of been a dream.
Hung out at a party with Andy Greene, currently with the Devils. Cool guy, told me about how much of a tool a certain NHL'er is.
Funniest experiance though...seen a kid at 12 Oaks that I would have swore was Abdelkader. Asked him his name and said he looked like Abby. He looked at his gf and said "I told you so". I was puzzled, he said that he told her that people kept thinking he was Abdelkader. The ironic part is that he is actually a Boston prospect who played at Northern Michigan, Zach Trotman. I think he was the last player taken in his draft year.
I have a bunch of photos in the water cooler from when I got drunk with a few of the guys during training camp last year at a local bar up here. Then this past training camp I was in charge of them at their place of stay during training camp. Great guys, Nill and Holland were my favorite though since I talked to them the most.
That's sweet man. I think I messaged you during that time about possibly coming up there and where to hang out. Sounds like it would of been a blast.
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Posted 24 February 2012 - 12:39 AM
He looked like an athlete...he is super fit looking and i thought, "this guy is a pro tennis player or something." A male steward starts talking to him in French for like 5 minutes, before the plane takes off...kind of like he knew him. Took a picture with him.
So i look over and ask him straight out before the plane takes off, "Are you like a pro athlete or something?" He looks at me and says, "Yeah." So i ask him, "So who are you?" He says, "I'm Vinnie Lecavlier."
So now i'm thinking, "Holy sh@t, i'm going to be sitting next to Vinnie Lecavlier for the next f'in 3 hours!!!...unbelievable."
So i start talking to him about how i love the NHL and am a big Wings fan...how i have the Center Ice package and watch all the Wings game in Orlando...i also tell him Tampa is my favorite team in the East. I start talking about how Yzerman was just hired to run Tampa and how great that is....blah blah blah. He puts a little knee wrap on and i ask him what's up with that...just had a clean up scope on his knee 2 days ago. So then i give it a rest and the plane takes off.
Vinnie watches some TV or a movie...chows down on some food...falls asleep. Later on we get drinks and peanuts...i offer him my peanuts and he accepts. I'm thinking, "This guy signed a $80 million contract a few years back...his name is on the cup...he was the number one pick in the draft !"
Vinnie naps a bit...then he wakes up in a panic looking around...I go, "What's a matter?" He says, "My phone!! Where's my phone?" I tell him, "Well, you put it right on this arm rest in the middle...". He then looks at me kind of weird...like he's thinking i took his phone!!! But then i tell him, "Well, maybe it fell on the floor." He looks...and sure enough, it's under the frickin' seat !! Jeez, i thought he was going to punch me there for a brief moment before he found his phone. Realize i am about 5'7" and pretty wiry...i don't think he would have hit me...it would be like him picking a fight with Huds.
Anyways, then Vinnie starts rotating his right shoulder and kind moving his neck around...as if he's in pain...well, i'm a doctor and a bit curious..."you got a neck problem?" He says, "No, it's my shoulder..." He was moving his neck and rt shoulder for half the flight...like it was super annoyed. We talk about it a bit...
As the flight nears the end, i start asking him about how he thinks Tampa will do this year. He was excited that Tampa had picked up Dan Ellis for goal (turns out they got rid of him later that year) and Simone Gagne. His face lit up about Simone Gagne...I think Tampa had picked him up from Philly that year. He was super excited about the year coming up...and you could tell he had a passion about his work...very cool.
As we're on the last 45 minutes of the flight, i start blabbing about the Wings again...and also reassure him that Tampa is my favorite team in the East...he then says (unprompted i may add), "Detroit should be in the East...it's a BIG disadvantage...". Well, now i'm thinking, "Sh$t, like we always thought...all that travel is really a BIG disadvantage...". It really struck me that he would bring that up absolutely unsolicited...and that he would see it as a big impediment for a success of a team...this from a player's perspective, just shooting the breeze on a long plane flight.
Anyways, the flight ended and we kind of walked out and in the airport he was kind of looking around for his ride which wasn't there yet or something. I headed to my hotel.
I didn't bug him too much on the flight...no request for pics or an autograph...or tickets to a Lightening game. Tried to be respectful for the most part and let him rest and relax. But i did chat him up a bit about the NHL and found it really fascinating to hear his perspective on some of these things...it was a somewhat surreal experience really.
Posted 24 February 2012 - 12:46 AM
He's still trying to find his way into the Winged Wheel
Man don't get me excited.. oh if we got Ott i'd crap a golden harp and play it in approval.
At one point I worked for a legit sports collectables store and got a lot of personalized autographs from players that I still have. I'd compile a list of guys i've met but due to lack of photographic evidence i'll spare myself the lashing. I do have a pic of me with Datsyuk right outside the wings locker room in another thread.
I will put it out there that former NY Giant Jason Sehorn is one of the nicest guys i've ever met, and that includes non-athletes. Again no evidence but the man was a complete class act.
In memory of Steve Shoen, Rest in peace.
Posted 24 February 2012 - 01:08 AM
Panger is a nice guy and was extremly friendly. Very Cool experience
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Day 01 → Something you hate about yourself.
Day 02 → Something you love about yourself.
Day 03 → Something you have to forgive yourself for.
Day 04 → Something you have to forgive someone for.
Day 05 → Something you hope to do in your life.
Day 06 → Something you hope you never have to do.
Day 07 → Someone who has made your life worth living for.
Day 08 → Someone who made your life hell, or treated you like shit.
Day 09 → Someone you didn't want to let go, but just drifted.
Day 10 → Someone you need to let go, or wish you didn't know.
Day 11 → Something people seem to compliment you the most on.
Day 12 → Something you never get compliments on.
Day 13 → A band or artist that has gotten you through some tough ass days. (write a letter.)
Day 14 → A hero that has let you down. (letter)
Day 15 → Something or someone you couldn't live without, because you've tried living without it.
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Day 17 → A book you've read that changed your views on something.
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Day 20 → Your views on drugs and alcohol.
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Day 22 → Something you wish you hadn't done in your life.
Day 23 → Something you wish you had done in your life.
Day 24 → Make a playlist to someone, and explain why you chose all the songs. (Just post the titles and artists and letter)
Day 25 → The reason you believe you're still alive today.
Day 26 → Have you ever thought about giving up on life? If so, when and why?
Day 27 → What's the best thing going for you right now?
Day 28 → What if you were pregnant or got someone pregnant, what would you do?
Day 29 → Something you hope to change about yourself. And why.
Day 30 → A letter to yourself, tell yourself EVERYTHING you love about yourself.
I wish I had had a Ferris Bueller day.
Yep. That's right. I want a day just like the day that Ferris Bueller had, parade float and all.
My senior year of high school my two best friends and I wanted to go to Chicago for spring break and do it up Ferris Bueller style. Of course, supposedly there's no possible way to do everything that Ferris did in te movie in one day. Not to mention the odds of there being a parade and us actually managing to get on a float and singing Danke Schoen are probably not so great. But still, it would have been fun.
Unfortunately, one of my friend's parents decided that three 18 year olds wandering the street of Chicago on spring break was not the world's best idea. And so instead we used the money we'd been saving for the trip to go on a shopping spree instead.
Still. How fun would it have been to be Ferris for a day?
P.S. If you don't know who Ferris Bueller is I am very disappointed. Go rent the movie right now or we can't be friends anymore.


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Authorities were searching for a young girl who disappeared with her father on Saturday night.
Officials said an arrest warrant was issued for Archie Yobnovich on a kidnapping charge after the disappearance. Yobnovich failed to return Miley George, 2, to her mother after an evening walk.
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Let's get religious here, and then shuffle our way back to the humor column.
Christmas is about giving - unless you're a kid. Then it's usually about receiving. But I can tell you for a fact that I received a gift right around Thanksgiving, and it was from none other than the good Lord above.
When you are driving your mini-van down Route 22 in Hollidaysburg and your brakes give out and you have your feet almost down through the floorboard trying to stop the car so that it won't crash, and you don't crash, well, you feel blessed.
That's what happened to me, and I survived.
Of course, the van wound up needing repaired at over $200. My wife tried to cheer me up by telling me that I should be happy that I am alive. I hate it when she tries to make me feel better with reason. I want to wallow in the misery of the situation. It was how I was raised.
I told her God saved my life because he knew I couldn't afford to die!
I was kind of disappointed that my life didn't flash before my eyes, though, since that is what you always hear happens to people who think they are about to make reservations for that big hotel in the sky.
I've had the past month to reflect on what I wanted to see flash before my eyes. Here is what I didn't see (or hear):
But that's not how my mind works. You know what went through my mind - our savings account, checking account and how much money this is going to cost us right before we start our Christmas shopping. But I guess I should be gratetful, and thankful that I am alive to write this column for you this holiday season.
Oh, by the way, did I mention my wife hit a deer on Dec. 11 with our mini-van? Ho! Ho! Humbug!
Scott Franco is a member of the Altoona Mirror sports staff, a husband and a father of four. His column appears monthly. He can be reached at 946-7528 or sfranco@ altoonamirror.com.


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Name: Brad Esposito
Age: 36
Residence: Altoona
High school: Hollidaysburg
College: Penn State
My favorite sport: Football, but hockey is growing
I usually attend games with: My family.
Favorite high school team: Hollidaysburg, but probably going to change to Altoona because of my daughter.
Favorite college team: Notre Dame
Favorite pro team: Philadelphia Eagles
My favorite sports memory: I saw the Chicago Bulls with Michael Jordan in Chicago at their old arena.
The local athlete I've most enjoyed watching while growing up: Bob Jenkins
My all-time favorite local coach: John Kutz
The most famous athlete I ever met: Clay Harbor of the Eagles.
My most prized autograph/memorabilia or picture is of: A signed Donovan McNabb photo.
If I have a claim to fame as a fan, it would be: My football jersey collection. I have 20 Eagles jerseys and counting.
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Durangoans broke out umbrellas Monday afternoon as thunderstorms moved through Southwest Colorado. The National Weather Service expects a 30 percent chance of rain in town today and Wednesday, with a decreased chance of rain in the forecast for Thursday and Friday. Silverton has more than a 60 percent chance of snow today and a continuing but decreasing chance of snow through the week. �It spit a little today but it wasn�t much,� said Leann Maisel, owner of The Bent Elbow Hotel and Restaurant in Silverton. She added that it�s not unusual for tourists to board the train in Durango in shorts and arrive � unexpectedly � in snow.


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ORLANDO -- The Stetson University softball team took one of two games at the UCF Tournament, Saturday, thanks to a two run, one out rally in the seventh inning of Game 1.
The Hatters defeated UT Martin 2-1, with a walk-off bunt single from third baseman Brittany Hawn earlier in the day before dropping the night cap, 6-5 to SIUE.
In the first game, senior pitcher Sarah Read cruised through seven innings, surrendering just three hits on one run and striking out five UT Martin batters as Stetson headed to the bottom of the seventh down 1-0. With one out in the final frame, catcher Jessica Griffin singled down the left field line and advanced to second on a bunt single by first baseman Kayla Drury. Griffin was pitch ran for by freshman Lydia Kinney who came around to score on a Courtney Brandt RBI single to center to make it 1-1. Drury advanced to third on the game tying hit, setting the stage for Hawn, who with one out laid down the perfect bunt in front of Skyhawks pitcher Taylor Jerrick, allowing Drury to score and Hawn to be mobbed with congratulations from her teammates for her second career walk-off winner.
Reed was credited with the win and improved to 4-0 on the season. Stetson out hit UT Martin 7-3 as Brandt led the Hatters' offense with two hits and an RBI.
In the second game, Stetson dug itself in an early 5-0 hole to SIUE after committing three errors in the second inning, but surged back, plating two in the third and three in the fifth to tie the game up at 5-5, heading into the sixth.
Junior Taylor Cochran came into the game in the third, relieving starter Meredith Owen and pitched well in her first appearance of the season, surrendering a run on three hits with three strikeouts in five innings of work. That run would come in the top of the sixth after a double and a single by Cougar batters gave them back the lead at 6-5. The slim one run margin held up as Cougar pitching retired the Stetson offense in the bottom of the seventh, giving SIUE the victory.
Grimaldo and senior Chrissy Morello were the offensive stars for Stetson in the second game, both collecting a pair of hits as Griffin was credited with 2 RBI. Despite her stellar relief appearance, Cochran was tagged with the loss and moved to 0-1 on the year.
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The case began when Tim Nicholson, former head of
sustainability at property firm Grainger PLC was laid off in July
2008 for his criticism of management on the basis of climate change
beliefs. Mr. Nicholson, who renovated his house to be greener and
refuses to fly by air, was upset that Rupert Dickinson, the firm's
chief executive, had an employee fly to him in Ireland to deliver his
When Mr. Nicholson began to gripe and express his
environmental sentiments, he was later dismissed. He took his former
employers to court, contending that the same laws that protect
religious freedoms protected his "philosophical belief about
climate change and the environment."
His employers contended
that climate change was a scientific, not a religious or
philosophical belief, and thus not legally protected. Mr. Nicholson,
however, insisted that climate change was a philosophical belief as
"philosophy deals with matters that are not capable of scientific
proof." His lawyer, Shah Qureshi, head of employment law at
Bindmans LLP, added that to not grant AGW beliefs the same
protections as religion would mean "that the more evidence there is
to support your views, the less likely it would be for you to enjoy
protection against discrimination."
That theory was put to
the test in an unusual court case and in the end Mr. Nicholson
prevailed. Justice Michael Burton who delivered the ruling,
ironically had used the same logic to hand a victory to climate
skeptics over advocates of anthropogenic global warming theory
seeking to show
school children An Inconvenient Truth by Al
Gore. The court, which Justice Burton served on, ruled that
the move was a political, not a scientific work, and was unfit for
the classroom.
Mr Nicholson lauded the verdict,
stating, "I believe man-made climate change is the most important
issue of our time and nothing should stand in the way of diverting
this catastrophe. This philosophical belief that is based on
scientific evidence has now been given the same protection in law as
faith-based religious belief. Belief in man-made climate change is
not a new religion, it is a philosophical belief that reflects my
moral and ethical values and is underlined by the overwhelming
scientific evidence."
His employers have vowed to
appeal the decision. If it stands, however, it could have major legal
affects in Britain and beyond. Affording environmental beliefs the
same status as religion opens companies to suits from employees
complaining about lack of recycling facilities or offering low-carbon
travel. It also prevents employers from dismissing employees from
their environmental beliefs, even if they seem radical.
the U.S., similar protections exist for employment and
religion/philosophy. The laws are certainly worded differently, but
the British decision could embolden those seeking similar protections
in the U.S. At the end of the day, the ruling forces society to be
accept and cater to a variety of opinions on climate change and
environmentalism, while at the same time making it harder for
organizations, particularly government funded ones, to voice views on
such topics.
quote: Telling us not to give you any of "that Macroevolution/Microevolution crap" is not making a counterargument. It is insulting the opponent and then sticking your fingers in your ears.
quote: The former has been observed in nature. The latter has not.
quote: Ah, but you do. Nobody has ever observed evolution, and observation is an important part of the scientific method. "Ah, but people have observed evolution," you say. But you're wrong, they've seen natural selection, a very different, and very normal development of life.
quote: And no, predictions and theorizations about the fossil record don't count either.
quote: You need faith (or belief, since faith isn't a very palatable word for scientists) to make the leap and fill in the millions of years worth of missing evidence.
quote: Why are we even arguing about this? We should be complaining about making Al Gore a billionaire through global warming alarmism. Blast Al Gore, he's cleverer than we thought! o_O


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A Warm Welcome to Summer Safety & Fun
After a chilling winter, summertime is here! School is over, the weather is warm, the grill is hot and the pools are cool. Time to make sure our children and family members remember to have fun and be safe at the same time. As part of its "Teach, Learn, Care" TLC campaign, Safe Electricity urges parents and other caregivers to make sure children know how to stay safe during outdoor play.
Children often do not understand the dangers of electricity. Take some time to get down and view the surroundings from a child's vantage point to locate possible hazards.
For safety outdoors, Safe Electricity recommends that children and adults follow these rules:
Be careful using electrical appliances outdoors. Whether it is a bug zapper, an electric charcoal lighter, or a radio caution must be exercised. Be sure you use outlets that have weatherproof covers and ground fault circuit interrupters (GFCI) to prevent serious shock injuries. Use portable GFCIs for outdoor outlets that don't have them.
Keep electrical appliances and tools at least ten feet away from pools, ponds and wet surfaces. Electricity and water are a dangerous combination even wet grass can create a hazard.
Supervise the use of extension cords outside. Check them carefully for exposed wires; make sure they are in good shape, and not frayed or cracked. Use only extension cords that are rated and marked for outdoor use, and are large enough to handle the current needed for the device you are using. Check that the prongs on the extension cord plugs are clean, not broken or bent. Make sure the ground prong is intact in a three-prong plug, and avoid use of adapters.
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Before being drafted into the Army, Richard H. Lacey remembers making music with the band at LaSalle Junior-Senior High School in Niagara Falls.
He played clarinet, but his heart struck romantic notes as his eyes drifted from the sheet music to Doris Nelson, another clarinet player.
Almost an entire lifetime would unfold before Lacey, just five years ago, officially became her boyfriend.
And at age 87, the World War II veteran says he might never have lived to see that day had he not been so fortunate during his time as a soldier. Thrice he was wounded, and each time he was awarded a Purple Heart.
A machine-gunner, he suffered his first wound Oct. 12, 1944, just outside of Aachen, Germany.
"They were shelling us with mortars. We had just finished digging a foxhole, and I was standing outside it when I was struck with shrapnel in the right hip," Lacey recalls . "I was among the walking wounded. A medical Jeep came and took me. I ended up in a Belgium hospital. They took the shrapnel out and put me on a train to Paris."
From there, he was flown to England for recuperation.
"I was there a month, and then we crossed the English Channel in a British ship on Thanksgiving," he says. "I slept in a hammock and ate cold canned turkey. I was on my way back to the front."
The journey included two days inside a "40-and-8" boxcar, which he said could accommodate 40 soldiers or eight horses.
"We had no food, and the train would stop and we'd run out into the fields and get whatever food we could from farms," Lacey says.
"The train would start to move, and we'd run up to it. I don't know if you want to know this, but one fellow fell under the wheels of the train and lost his legs."
He recalled an officer at a replacement camp asking him if he was eager to get back to the front lines.
"I thought to myself, 'Are you crazy?' but I said to him I was anxious to be returned to my outfit, the 30th Infantry Division. It was nicknamed 'Old Hickory' after Andrew Jackson."
During the Battle of the Bulge, Lacey suffered his second wound, but this time he was only out of commission for a day.
"I was hit by a tree burst. When the shells hit the trees, pieces of the tree came down, and a limb hit my left side, but it was nothing serious," he says. "I got treated at company headquarters. There were a lot of other guys worse-off with frostbite, losing toes. We were fighting in snow 2 feet deep."
His third Purple Heart was earned back in Germany.
"It was another minor injury, and, to be honest with you, I can't even remember the circumstances," he says. "It's on my discharge papers. The company clerk was very thorough."
In civilian life, Lacey pasteurized milk for 33 years at Wendt Dairy in Niagara Falls and returned several times to Europe to visit the old battlefields.
"Each time I go back, I feel great, except when I see the different cemeteries with hundreds of the dead from the 30th Division," Lacey says. "I feel bad that those guys are there. It's sorrowful."
Last September, he was back in Europe for his sixth visit and participated in a documentary about the 30th Infantry. Efforts are now being made to sell the documentary to the History Channel.
But there is more to Lacey's life than war memories.
He sings all over Western New York in the Retired Men's Service Club Chorus of Niagara Falls and plays golf at Hyde Park. When his second wife died five years ago, he renewed a friendship with Doris Nelson, whose spouse also had passed away.
"We have our own homes, but we are only a mile and two-tenths away from each other," Lacey says. "We shop together, we have dinner together every night, and we play cards."
And occasionally they remember the good old days when both played clarinet for the school band.
Richard H. Lacey, 87
Hometown: St. Petersburg, Fla.
Residence: Niagara Falls
Branch: Army
Rank: Private first class
War zone: Europe
Years of service: 1943-1945
Most prominent honors: Three Purple Hearts, four Bronze Stars, five battle stars
Specialty: Machine gunner


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Three little red ladies
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We recently received a note from Scott Crandell, a dairy nutritionist in Mifflintown, Pa. One of his clients, Centerview Farm also of Mifflintown, experienced a remarkable delivery this fall.
Shown below are Macey, Lacey, and Stacey — triplet heifer calves. What's more remarkable is that they are Red and White heifers. According to our A.I. columnist Jeff Stevenson, the frequency of having twins is around 4.2 percent of all births.
The odds get much more rare for triplets, which is 1 in 105,000 births. However, with multiple births, the chance for survival is much more of a challenge with only 44 percent of triplets born alive. So, the odds of triplets, all heifers, all born alive is one in 5 million. We won't even begin to calculate the chances that all are Red and White! Here are some snapshots of these little red ladies who certainly beat the odds.
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The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has rejected further appeals in the case of a Tyrone man serving life plus 24 years for the murder of a 6-year-old boy.
It was seven years ago Wednesday that Nathan Shaw, 32, killed Jared Klein in the home of the boy's mother, who was estranged from Shaw.
Shaw was residing in a pre-release center in Johnstown, where he was completing a prison term for the physical abuse of Jared's mother, Christine Muoio.
On the night of Dec. 26, 2005, Shaw visited Muoio at her Tyrone apartment as a way to make up with her. He sexually assaulted Muoio and stabbed the child.
Shaw fled the Tyrone home in Muoio's car and was on the run for several days, finally being arrested in Oklahoma.
Shaw was sentenced to life without parole plus 24 years for the boy's murder and subsequent crimes.
Another two years was added for assault of a Blair County corrections officer.
Shaw has twice appealed his conviction and sentence.
In 2008, the Pennsylvania Superior Court rejected his appeal for a new trial, noting the verdicts "were based on overwhelming evidence."
Shaw's latest appeal raised 11 questions.
Shaw complained that his first appeals attorney devoted only 60 words of a 10-page appeal to the argument that Shaw's conviction was "against the weight of the evidence."
He challenged the photographs used against him and questioned the effectiveness of his trial attorney's cross-examination of Muoio, who took the stand to dramatically describe Shaw's brutality the night of his visit to her home.
Shaw, through his appeals attorney, Tim Burns, asked the Supreme Court to review the issues of his case.
On Wednesday afternoon, the court denied Shaw an allowance of appeal from the Superior Court decision rejecting the Shaw appeal.
Shaw is being housed at the State Correctional Institution at Dallas.


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We took the weight up for Willie Manson's opinion and he felt that the canes were Paul Ysart and not Vasart, said he recognised the yellow ones in particular. The other two we showed him are definitely Vasart according to him, which what was what we thought anyway.Bought some more of his own weights can't resist!Hopefully Kev H will be up and running soon and he can give his opinion on this one as well. We would value it as well.Sorry came in as a guest by mistake!!Carol/tubitha
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quote: With Google knowing they'd give it away for free and make their money off the app sales and advertising; so they built Android off the works of others.
quote: Google maintains that Oracle deserves no damages."Zero is ridiculous," said Alsup, who rejected Google's argument that its ad sales should not be included in estimating damages from the Android system."They're totally wrong on that," Alsup said.


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