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Lady Gaga has come clean about her addiction to marijuana.
The singer, 27, said that she smoked marijuana to deal with the mental and physical challenges of her career, including a recent hip injury that forced her to cancel a large portion of her Born This Way tour.
"I have been addicted to it and it's ultimately related to anxiety coping and it's a form of self-medication and I was smoking up to 15-20 marijuana cigarettes a day with no tobacco," she said on Elvis Duran and The Z100 Morning Show.
"I was living on a totally other psychedelic plane, numbing myself completely, and looking back I do see now that some of it had to do with my hip pain. I didn't know where the pain was coming from so I was just in a lot of pain and very depressed all the time and not really sure why," she said.
The pop star said that over the years, she has experimented with various drugs to avoid difficult emotions – particularly challenges that arise from being in the public eye.
"I've been addicted to various things since I was young. Most heavily over the past seven years. A friend gave me this term, 'I lily pad from substance to substance,' because I get to a point where I can't go any further with one substance so I move to another."
"But, the truth is that it is very hard to be famous," she added. "It's wonderful to be famous because I have amazing fans. But it is very, very hard to go out into the world when you are not feeling happy and act like you are because I am a human being too and I break, and I think there is an assumption . . . that I cannot break because I am an alien woman and I am unstoppable."
"The truth is that I can break, and I did. I was not very good at breaking. I lost everything that I love. I was in a wheelchair for six months. I did a lot of drugs and took a lot of pills," she admitted.
But Gaga said she plans to "fight" her addiction, and challenge herself to create music without the aid of mood-altering substances.
"I do put that pressure on myself; I have to be high to be creative. I need that, that's an error in my life that happened for over 10 years. Can I be brilliant without it? I know that I can be and I have to be because I want to live, and I want my fans to want to live."
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I'm just curious to see what others think about who is the best anime villains of all time and why.
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We received a great response to our first-ever spring photo contest! After serious deliberation, we've narrowed it down to five images that stand out from the rest. Here are the judges' comments on why these five photos made it into the finals.
Spring Flowers by Kristin Burchsted
The unexpected focus in this composition caught our attention right away. Not showing the traditional, expected angle makes the shot more graphic, bold and colorful.
Old Orchard Pier by Moe Chen
We are definitely suckers for black and white photos (2 made the surprising cut for our spring contest), and we love the composition of this shot. Utilizing a long exposure gives this shot a dreamy fine art quality. It doesn't portray spring in the conventional way, but it does make us think of the upcoming beach season and the promise of what summer on the boardwalk holds.
Salty at the Nantucket Daffodil Festival by Charlotte Carey Photography
We love the composition of the classic splash of Nantucket red pants on the right as well as the red dog leash winding through the frame. And who can resist a puppy?
At the Dock by Jessica Vescera
We were drawn to the artistic touches that give this digital image a hand printed quality. Here in New England, we know that melting ice and mud are as much a part of spring as flower buds and baby birds.
The Reading Bench by David Stone
This feels like a breath of fresh spring air. The architectural element of the bench surrounded by spring blooms is a nice addition in terms of visual interest and composition.
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became the highest
grossing film ever when it hit theaters last year. The film drew
huge crowds and while it lined the coffers of 20th Century Fox and
the wallet of James Cameron, the movie drew lots of interest to 3D in
theaters and homes. Even though the film garnered lots of fans, it
also had a few critics including
the U.S. Marine Corps.20th Century Fox has announced that
Avatar is the best
selling movie in America on both Blu-ray and DVD. The film
is also the best selling Blu-ray movie of all time with 2.7 million
copies sold in only four days on store shelves in North America
alone. The previous record was 2.5 million units. In
all, Avatar
has sold 6.5 million copies (DVD + Blu-ray) since it launched on Thursday of last
week. The downside to the popularity of Avatar
Blu-ray is that some buyers of the movie are finding that the Blu-ray
disc won't play on some players on the market.The specific
player cited
in reports is the Samsung BD-UP5000. The reason the player
reportedly can't play Avatar
is because of a firmware update that is missing and needed by the
device. Other Samsung Blu-ray players are also facing the same issue.
Presumably, Samsung will be rushing the update out for the players
since the Avatar
is so popular.
users are claiming that it's not a firmware issue, but some sort of
DRM issue with the movie itself pointing the finger at 20th Century
Fox rather than Samsung.
quote: Uber liberal message?
quote: That they and the military will do whatever they want to get what they want.
quote: Name one movie with better CG.
quote: The story is nothing original, but who cares?
quote: My opinion of this movie is based almost entirely on its technical merits alone.
quote: Thats the whole point of a movie, a summer movie , like Avatar is:
quote: most jungles are chalk full of color
quote: You also have to remember, Avatar came out, when really, no action movie was really out to compete against, nothing on its scale.
quote: Colors. Ones besides green and blue.
quote: The animals in Avatar were full of amazing colors.
quote: Epic fail. That, in of itself, is NOT a justification for paying to watch a movie. You have got to be a teenage kid. No doubt about it.
quote: Let me guess, you thought the Star Wars prequals were awesome too didn't you? WOW lots of CG !!! It must be good.
quote: LOL Blade Runner is one of my all-time favorites, but certainly not because of its effects .
quote: people like yourself went into this movie with these huge expectations
quote: TLDNR
quote: You have formed your opinion based solely upon the sensationalized reports in the media.
quote: The plot really isn't bad, though it is predictable and a bit silly.
quote: That makes no sense. The "Media" sensation of Avatar has all been overwhelmingly positive.
quote: The Na'vi are way too peaceful and harmonious for a primitive culture.
quote: The Military was way too simplistic and destructive for an advanced culture
quote: crewcut wearing racist white man
quote: After 200 years and human evolution...
quote: ...story and characters are stuck in one dimension.
quote: Because Avatar did NOT look real. Not at all.
quote: and is the most impressive Blu-Ray I have seen to date.
quote: I saw this movie and I still don't understand why it made/is making so much.
quote: what else was there? Did I just miss something? Did I not recieve the subliminal messages that told me I have to watch this several times and give all my money to James Cameron?


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Timon of Athens; Director, John Schlesinger; Designer, Ralph Koltai; Photographer, Tom Holte (ahds.ac.uk/performingarts); Royal Shakespeare Company, July 1965
"Ralph Koltai's sets make the most of contrast between the splendour of the first part and the gloom of the second. To suggest the magnificence of Timon's feasting he uses splashes of colour in the evocative way his 'Jew of Malta' sets use expanses of texture. The hollow in the outdoor scenes - the size of a small swiming pool - serves simultaneously as treasure trove and symbolic grave for Timon." Peter Roberts, Plays and Players 9.65
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Northeast District police arrested a Kerns Avenue man Wednesday night and charged him with beating a woman June 27 and robbing the same woman at knifepoint Wednesday.
Melvin Bell, 47, was charged with first-degree robbery, second-degree assault, second-degree menacing, fourth-degree grand larceny, aggravated criminal contempt and second-degree harassment.
The woman, who had obtained a restraining order against Bell, told police that Bell allegedly kicked her in the face and stomach with a steel-toed boot June 27, causing a concussion.
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"I think [I've lost] probably a little over 20 pounds, something like that," the actor, 32, told PEOPLE Monday on the red carpet at the Hollywood Film Awards, where he looked noticeably thinner as he was honored for his role in Prisoners.
While he may look different, his approach hasn't changed as he prepares for Nightcrawler, Gyllenhaal said.
"It's not different than getting into character for anything. It's more about believing where you are and being present where you are," he said. "Who's to say what the process is? I have a strange one … but I love what I do."
Meanwhile, fellow honoree Matthew McConaughey continues to put the weight back on after his memorable transformation for Dallas Buyers Club. The actor, 43, told PEOPLE that the five pillars of his life – career, parenting, love, friendship and health – are all nicely in sync at the moment.
"I've got a great wife and family who support what I go do," he said. "Everything's at a good level right now, and I've been trying to keep it that way."
Sandra Bullock, Julia Roberts and Harrison Ford also stopped to chat with PEOPLE, and to reflect on their good fortune in Hollywood.
Asked how her Hollywood experience has changed since becoming a mother, Bullock, 49, replied, "I don't know if the roles have changed, but the person in the roles has. You know, I don't look at anything the same anymore. I can't imagine what it was like before, because I don't remember. I don't know if the roles have changed, but I have. A lot."
Roberts, 45, gushed about working with Meryl Streep in August: Osage County, calling it "a lifelong dream" and saying Streep was "more than I could have ever wished for as a castmate and a friend."
And Ford, 71, said he was looking forward to more modest yet rewarding roles going forward. "I lucked into this leading-man business," he said. "And look, it's been very, very good to me. But I've always wanted to be a character actor. And I'm looking forward to those opportunities as my career, such as it is, progresses."


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For this BioPerspective originally posted on November 1, 2011, GEN spoke with George Church, Ph.D., about cloning a Neanderthal.
I recently talked to George Church, Ph.D., a geneticist from Harvard Medical School, about cloning a Neanderthal in the not-too-distant future. You can listen to our conversation on GEN's Video Channel. This type of discussion has become increasingly popular ever since last year's announcement by Dr. Svante Paabo, Ph.D., and colleagues at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany that they had sequenced the Neanderthal genome.
Assuming that the technical issues involving Neanderthal cloning will eventually be overcome (Dr. Church thinks this might be possible in about ten years), he explained the advantages of carrying out such an undertaking. He said that by comparing the genome of a living Neanderthal to that of Homo sapiens, scientists might be able to learn something about potential resistance to human-specific pathogens.
In other words, the study of the Neanderthal genome might highlight the cracks in our own genetic makeup that make us susceptible to a host of diseases. This suggestion by Dr. Church is both insightful and important.
Yet, further discussion with him revealed an even more interesting benefit. Dr. Church thinks the cloning of a Neanderthal would encourage us to have a greater appreciation for and sensitivity to what he terms "neural diversity." He believes that by listening to the thoughts of a cloned Neanderthal, who might seem foreign and unusual to us, greater anti-discrimination and de-stigmatization efforts on behalf of those people whose actions are usually considered outside the range of "normal" human behavior might result. These would include individuals diagnosed with dyslexia, narcolepsy, autism, and bipolar disorders.
I second Dr. Church's point of view. However, I am not particularly sanguine about the automatic acceptance of a cloned Neanderthal in modern society, no matter how novel and amazing such an event would be. Despite the fact that 2–4% of the DNA of every living human of European or Asian ancestry comes from Neanderthals and that Neanderthals are members of our own genus (Homo neanderthalensis), the last time one of our evolutionary cousins walked the earth was 30,000 years ago.
Neanderthals looked different from us. They actually had larger brains and were much more robust than modern humans. Nevertheless, some scientists maintain that Neanderthals were close enough to us that one could be brought up by a modern family and wind up functioning well.
I am of the opinion that if we are able to one day clone a Neanderthal, extraordinary, and I mean extraordinary, care will be required to ensure that this individual be treated with respect. Chicago-Kent College of Law Professor Lori Andrews has stated unequivocally that Neanderthals should be accorded all forms of human rights.
Yet, who knows how the genetic wiring of a being from another time will respond to the demands of modern society. More significantly, how will 21st Century human beings react to this time traveler?
It seems that humans are tribal by nature, as so eloquently pointed out in 2005 by science writer David Berreby in his book, "Us and Them: Understanding Your Tribal Mind." We are often uncomfortable with those who in some way(s) are just not like us. This uneasiness can be expressed in our uttering derogatory remarks about "their" looks or ways of behaving. Or, taken to the extreme, it can manifest itself in brutal ethnic cleansing, long a behavioral hallmark of humanity.
I would hope that a cloned Neanderthal would not suffer the fate of Ota Benga, a Congolese Mbuti pygmy born in the late 19th Century. Benga was brought to the United States by American businessman Samuel Verner and put on exhibit in a cage at New York's Bronx Zoo in 1906. Two years earlier he had been part of an anthropology display at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition (aka St. Louis World's Fair).
The St. Louis Republic, a local newspaper, noted that Benga "represented the lowest form of human development." I like to think that we ourselves have evolved from adhering to such blatant forms of racism.
History has clearly demonstrated how badly we can treat members of our own species. That's why my excitement about cloning one of our Paleolithic relatives is tempered with a good dose of concern.
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Brazil Nightclub Blaze Kills More Than 200
Cellphone Cameras Record Grisly Scene Apparently Ignited by Performers' Flare
SÃO PAULO—A blaze apparently accidentally ignited by performers swept through a crowded nightclub in the small town of Santa Maria in southern Brazil early Sunday, killing at least 232, mainly college students.
On Saturday night, hundreds of mostly students of agronomy and other subjects at the nearby Federal University of Santa Maria had packed into a nightclub called Kiss to hear a popular group called Gurizada Fandangueira play a raucous version of Brazilian country music that features the accordion. The students were heading back to class at the end of their school break.
Around 2 a.m. Sunday, according to several witnesses who spoke on local radio programs, at least one performer lit what they described as an emergency traffic flareor a piece of firework and waved it around to the beat.
"We were in the middle of the second band, and someone started waving this artifact, doing a show, when someone yelled, "It's catching fire!" " said one female witness who spoke to Radio Estadão.
Members of the band, which promoted its use of pyrotechnics, weren't immediately reachable for comment. At least one member of the band was reportedly killed.
The disaster ranks among Brazil's deadliest fires in decades, and plunged the South American nation into mourning. President Dilma Rousseff, who launched her political career in the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul where the fire took place, cut short her stay at a summit of Latin American and European leaders in Chile to travel to the scene.
"It's a tragedy for all of us. Who needs me now are the people of Brazil and it's there that I need to be," said Ms. Rousseff, who appeared to fight back tears during a brief news conference in Chile before flying to Brazil. Ms. Rousseff visitedwith survivors at a local hospital late Sunday.
Images of the aftermath—some recorded on the cellphones of survivors and many unprintably gruesome—brought the awfulness of the scene into sharp relief. In one photograph, the camera peers in through a broken wall on a macabre scene of intertwined bodies, some shirtless, piled together so thickly that the nightclub floor is all but covered. The bodies seem to fill the frame from the foreground all the way to the dark, far recesses of the nightclub.
Several shots show mobs of concertgoers outside the nightclub trying to tear metal siding off the club walls in order to open an exit. Another depicts a young screaming man as he runs away from the club, carrying a limp body in his arms.
A rescue worker told reporters there were so many bodies it was hard to reach the back of the club. Cellphones in the pockets of the dead inside the club rang eerily as rescuers searched the venue, officials said.
"I saw many people trampled in their desperation to get out," Michele Pereira, a 34-year-old office assistant, told the Folha de S. Paulo newspaper.
The owner of the nightclub couldn't be reached.
The tragedy adds to a chilling list of nightclub disasters that appear to follow an eerily similar script: Fire transforms a crowded nightclub celebration into a terrifying deathtrap, where dozens of youths perish in the smoky chaos of a cramped and darkly lit room, dying either crushed in a stampede or suffocating searching for a way out in the darkness. In the largest of them, 309 died after a fire spread in a nightclub in Luoyang, China, on Christmas Day in 2000.
Improvised pyrotechnic performances inside nightclubs were to blame in at least three other such tragedies, including one that killed 194 in Buenos Aires in 2004 and another that killed 152 in Russia in 2009.
In one of the deadliest nightclub fires in the U.S., a pyrotechnics display during a 2003 performance by the rock band Great White at a Rhode Island nightclub set a blaze that killed 100.
Brazilian officials are expected to investigate key issues that have figured in past blazes such as whether the exits were clearly marked and whether the nightclub had exceeded capacity.
In the heated aftermath of the deaths, there were conflicting reports about whether exits were open. According to some witnesses, security guards tried to prevent people from leaving, thinking they were trying to avoid paying their bill in a country where concertgoers settle up at the end. Other survivors interviewed on the radio said that the exits were unimpeded.
Police said only that the accident was being investigated.
The overnight fire was among the deadliest in Brazil since some 500 died in a fire at a circus near Rio de Janeiro in 1961.
In what passed for good news Sunday, authorities lowered the death toll to 232 after earlier reporting that at least 245 had perished. At least 116 were injured, many from inhaling smoke, and the Brazilian military used helicopters to transport grave cases to hospitals in the state capital Pôrto Alegre.
—Loretta Chao contributed to this article.
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A Purple Cat from another dimension, a.k.a. the Future, in the Sonic Series. She loves to set things on fire and has some kind of relationship with Cream the Rabbit.
"Dude, do you see Blaze?"
"I saw her with Cream".
"I saw her with Cream".
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smoke weed
to light up the pot .smoke the joint . toke the weed . etc.
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(Verb)to smoke weed.
Yo you wanna go blaze this L
by Dominick February 03, 2004
(v) The act of packing a bowl of marijuana and setting fire to it with the intent of inhaling the resulting smoke
"DP's got that crazy shit, we keep the chronic up; John blaze that shit!"
by OlSpazzy April 03, 2003
To Blaze to toke up, to smoke the reefer, to hit the bong, to smoke a blunt,
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you know
Yo Jon lets go blaze this J
by T_G April 23, 2006
smoke weed
puff the magic dragon. light a doobie. give me a pound of your sweetest cheba.
by It's time to bomb Saddam November 17, 2002
-to spark some bud
-to be hot
-to be hot
-i blazed the blunt
-u got some blaze
-that track is blazin'
-u got some blaze
-that track is blazin'
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other word of saying ''wanna get high''
yo guyz wanna blze i got a fat blunt right here.
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The act of a guy peeing in a girl's butthole and then proceeding to suck the entire contents of her ass out.
"Last night Jimmy was squeezing the lemon with sally. It was hot!"
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When driving, accelerating through the yellow light in the five seconds before it turns red. Not technically illegal.
Quit squeezing the lemon, bro, you're scaring me.
I had to squeeze the lemon twice to get to work on time.
I had to squeeze the lemon twice to get to work on time.
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Nekromantix counts as one of the wilder bands working in psychobilly. Kim Nekroman (bass, vocals) quit an eight-year career as a submarine operator in the Royal Danish Navy to found the band in 1989; Peter Sandorff (guitar, vocals) and Kristian Sandorff (drums) joined him in the trio soon after. After performing live on two occasions, the band immediately gained an enthusiastic following, not only in Denmark but also in Germany, where they made their first festival showing in Hamburg. That performance led to a record deal for the first Nekromantix album, Hellbound. With a sound once described as "Elvis meets the Wolfman," the band toured extensively throughout Europe in 1991, releasing Curse of the Coffin, their classic second full-length album, that same year. The Brought Back to Life EP appeared in 1994, and two years later Nekromantix offered up Demons Are a Girl's Best Friend. A tour in Japan followed, as well as a 2000 live set for Kick Music. Nekromantix signed with Hellcat Records, a vanity label of the respected punk indie Epitaph, for 2002's Return of the Loving Dead, their U.S. debut. The guys stayed with the label through 2004's Dead Girls Don't Cry, which appeared after Nekroman's relocation from Copenhagen to Los Angeles (the Sandorff brothers stayed put in Denmark). Brought Back to Life Again followed a year later, which was actually a reissue of the by then out of print 1994 release. The Nekromantix lineup did see some turnover over time, and backing up Nekroman's signature coffin-shaped bass and vocals in 2005 were guitarist Trouble Tony and drummer Wasted James. By the April 2007 release of Life Is a Grave & I Dig It!, however, he was instead joined by guitarist Tröy Deströy and drummer Andy DeMize.


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Walk or wear
"AY man lets go bop", or, "Thats a tigth shirt ima bop this tommorow."
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A name to call a female who gives head to anyone. They call them a bop because when they give head they bop there heads.
That lil bop was messing with my man last night!
by Eyebis June 11, 2005
Also means give head (blowjob)
She said she waas going to bop me today
by Sarah April 04, 2005
A dance usally seen at parties or fiestas. Also seen when a person is turning up. Known regulary in Chicago, IL
by turn_up_child July 17, 2013
when someone recieves/gives oral sex
by Anonymous October 18, 2003
"Bops" A Word Do Describe A Young Female.
Dawg Iam not Trying To Hang Out With Them "Bops",All They Are Is Trouble!
by Finger Pop'n Paul June 14, 2006
im from the by and being a bop means u basically are a slut and known for being one.also known as a hoochie.
yeaa.....you know that one girl....she a bop.
by iknowbops July 10, 2008
a long or short walk to a certain destination
"a yo dats a long bop from north ave. to charles st. You mine as well catch da bus my nigga."
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INCLINE VILLAGE, Nev. - For the past 17 years, North Lake Tahoe Fire Protection District and Tahoe Nordic Search & Rescue have collaborated together to teach the fourth-graders at Incline Elementary School about Winter Wilderness Survival, better known as the "Hug-A-Tree" program.The program focuses on teaching children what to do should they ever find themselves lost in the wilderness. This year the program will be held at the Incline Elementary School on Wednesday, Feb. 6The program starts with an indoor assembly reviewing the purpose and outline of the curriculum, followed by outdoor teaching stations covering how to dress properly, food and fuel and the "3 Ws" (Where am I going, Who am I going with, When will I be back?). The outdoor stations are interactive, encouraging the students to learn hands on about each survival topic. The first station is the "S.T.O.P" station, standing for Stop, Think, Observe and Plan. Stop to take a minute and pause, don't panic. Next, Think. Use your head to gather information, for example, does anyone know where you are, what do you have with you? What time is it? Next, Observe - use your eyes and ears. Pay attention to the weather (wind, snow, sun, and clouds) and particular landmarks such as hills, streams, roads and rocks. Are you with anyone? How are they feeling - tired or cold, weak or strong? Can you hear dogs, cars, people - signs of civilization? The second station focuses on shelters. The goal of this station is to stay warm and dry. The kids learn how to build a shelter with any available materials such as branches, surrounding trees, rocks, and/or ski equipment they may have with them.The third station teaches the children about using signals and how to make one. Once a shelter has been built, it is important make an effective signal to get attention. What can be used and what can they do to let people know where they are? Making themselves big and obvious, using a whistle and making an "x" in the snow with skis or rocks and branches are some ideas to create an obvious appearance that calls for attention."Hug-a-Tree" started in San Diego after a search for a nine-year old boy ended in a tragic death. In March of 1981, just one month following the incident, a group of people that were involved in the search, put together an assembly program for children focusing on winter wilderness survival tips, targeted to children ages 5-12.The Tahoe Nordic Search & Rescue Team has been teaching Winter Wilderness Survival since 1976 and collaborating with North Lake Tahoe Fire Protection District since 1996. For more information on this life-saving program, log onto www.tahoenordicsar.com.
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On 7th October 2010 at the Odeon Cinema in Manchester, UK, a community event dedicated to Windows Phone 7 development took place. All the session were recorded. This session is:
Session 4: "Raising the dead: Programming Silverlight Apps that survive Tombstoning" with Andy Wigley
"Application Lifecycle and Using the Phone. A look at the execution model on the phone, and how to create applications that give a great user experience in the face of phone calls, termination, switching to a different app or termination due to the lock screen displaying. We show how to respond to events to make your application give the appearance of being "always on" and the data persistence facilities that you will need to make this work."
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There is growing use of three-dimensional (3D) cell culture models to attempt to reproduce cell-to-cell and cell-to-matrix interactions occurring in vivo. The goal is to create model systems for experimentation that more closely predict what happens in living organisms. It has been appreciated for decades that growing cells in 3D arrangements enables expression of differentiated phenotypes not possible in cultures of cells grown on a plastic surface.
Although creating cultures of cells in 3D arrangements is more complex, the desire to use physiologically relevant model systems to better predict in vivo biology justifies the increased investment of using more complex systems. There is a wide variety of approaches that have been developed to support creation of 3D cultures of cells. The approaches can be generally classified as those that provide a scaffold to support the 3D arrangement of cells and scaffold-free approaches. Each approach can offer specific advantages or present disadvantages depending on the particular application.
One feature in common with all 3D culture models is the increase in thickness of cell layers compared to cells grown as a single layer on a plastic surface. Most commercial cell-based assays were developed using two-dimensional (2D) monolayers of cells and have not been validated for use on various 3D cell culture models. A major problem is effective lysis of all cells in large 3D spheroids.
There is an unmet need for assays validated for use with 3D culture models. To address that need, the first approach we took for validating assays was to combine the hanging drop method to generate 3D spheroids and the ATP assay to measure cell viability. The hanging drop method forms 3D spheroids of cells at the liquid-air interface of a suspended drop of cell culture medium.
Spheroids can be generated using a 96- or 384-well arrayed format. Their size can be controlled by the number of cells added and is very reproducible well-to-well. The reproducible size of multiple replicates of spheroids was important to our work to determine how size affects the performance of different assays.
Our initial experiments included a direct comparison of ATP assay reagent from two commercial sources. To visualize the lytic process, we combined a DNA binding dye (CellTox™ Green Cytotoxicity Assay) with the ATP detection reagent. The DNA binding dye is not permeable to live cells, but becomes fluorescent when it binds to DNA in cells that have lost membrane integrity. We could view spheroids treated with that combination of reagents to see which cells became stained after membrane disruption. As expected, we observed a substantial difference in the lytic capacity of different commercial reagents and, even though the CellTiter-Glo® Assay was superior, the results suggested the need to further characterize and improve assays applied to 3D culture models.
Additional experimental work led to development of a new reagent formulation (CellTiter-Glo 3D Assay) that more effectively lyses cells in large 3D spheroids and extracts ATP. The new formulation contains a higher detergent concentration, which was enabled by the properties of a recombinant form of luciferase that is stable to harsh reagent conditions. The protocol incorporates better mixing and longer exposure to the lytic reagent.
The Table illustrates a comparison of the recovery of ATP from different sizes of 3D spheroids using different reagents. Acid extraction of samples and comparison to ATP standards was used to measure the efficiency of ATP extraction. We also have confirmed improved performance of the new CellTiter-Glo 3D Assay with other models that use hydrogel and inert scaffolds.
Reformulating reagents to contain more detergent will not work for all cell-based assays. In some cases, simply modifying the assay protocol can accomplish the desired result. If the marker being measured is not stable to harsh detergent conditions, an alternate approach must be used to extract the marker from the inner cell layers of spheroids. For example, although the luminogenic caspase-3 assay reagent (Caspase-Glo® 3/7 Assay) contains the stable form of luciferase, increasing detergent concentration results in limited recovery of caspase-3 enzymatic activity.
If the marker is unstable, the logical approach to improve assay performance is to apply a form of physical disruption of the spheroid or to increase the incubation time to aid penetration of lytic reagents. Figure 1 shows improved lysis of cells by extending the period of mixing the lytic reagent using a plate shaker.
We are continuing efforts to validate the use of other assay chemistries with 3D spheroids, including RNA extraction, glutathione content, reactive oxygen species, and expression of luciferase reporter genes (Figure 2). For example, expression of a constitutive luciferase reporter follows the pattern of ATP content over a range of spheroid sizes whereas expression of an HIF-1 driven luciferase reporter shows an increase in larger spheroids, suggesting hypoxia-induced expression in the larger structures where oxygen diffusion is limited.
Figure 2. HCT116 cells expressing NanoLuc® luciferase under a constitutive promoter (A) or an HIF-1 promoter (B) were cultured in the InSphero GravityPLUS 3D Cell Culture system for four days to form ~200–700 µm diameter spheroids. An equal volume of Nano-Glo® Reagent or CellTiter-Glo® 3D Reagent was added to each well; the plate was shaken for 10 minutes; and the luminescence was recorded after a total of 30 minutes of incubation.
The expanded use of 3D cell culture model systems has outpaced the development of assay methods to measure the biology in large spheroids of cells. There is a significant risk involved with assuming commercially available products developed using monolayers of cells will work efficiently with 3D cultures. There is a clear unmet need for validated assays for interrogating markers in large 3D culture models. We recommend validating assays with each 3D model system and each cell type used. The challenges of interrogating cells in the center of 3D spheroids may require reformulating reagents to have increased lytic capacity.
In situations where the desired marker cannot withstand increased detergent concentrations to achieve lysis, altering assay protocols to incorporate more vigorous physical disruption steps and/or increasing incubation time in the presence of lytic reagents are logical first steps to achieve release of markers from large 3D spheroids.
Terry Riss ([email protected]) is senior product specialist, Mike P. Valley is senior research scientist, Kevin R. Kupcho is research scientist, Chad A. Zimprich is research scientist, and Dan Lazar is senior research scientist, all at Promega. Wolfgang Moritz is head of R&D at InSphero.
Terry Riss ([email protected]) is senior product specialist, Mike P. Valley is senior research scientist, Kevin R. Kupcho is research scientist, Chad A. Zimprich is research scientist, and Dan Lazar is senior research scientist, all at Promega. Wolfgang Moritz is head of R&D at InSphero.
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When I decided to babysit, I started by asking myself if I enjoyed being around children enough to take care of them. Luckily, the answer was "yes!" If I didn't really love kids, it would be obvious to the parents that I didn't enjoy the job or the kids.
I remember having babysitters when I was younger and a couple didn't seem to enjoy babysitting very much. Sometimes they didn't really want to interact with my brother, sister, and me — they may have been more worried about their payment than taking care of us!
But most of my sitters were fun. As I begin babysitting myself, I remember many of the activities they did with us. It helps me come up with ideas for the kids I'll be babysitting.
At first, I joined my older sister and a friend to observe their interactions with the kids they were looking after. I was especially interested in how they entertained them. From them, I learned that entertaining kids is all about the age group.
One great activity I learned from my sister was "Movie Night." Instead of just putting a movie on, she planned ahead and made tickets for the movie as well as popcorn. The kids loved this little extra touch. It taught me how much kids enjoy imagination and creativity.
Before I started babysitting on my own, I worked as a mother's helper. This type of job is usually after school, not in the evening. It's a good way to get started because the child's mom is home when I am there, so not all the responsibility falls on me. I'm taking care of the kids, but I can still ask their mom for advice and answers to questions as they come up.
I also get to see how the kids' mom interacts with them. It helps me learn what the kids like to do — and how they respond to things they don't like! Also, the kids get to know me and aren't afraid of me when I come over to babysit.
One of the best things to do in preparing to be a confident babysitter is to take a babysitting course. A number of parents and babysitters have recommended that I do this. Now that I will be doing more babysitting, I plan to enroll in a class soon.
All this preparation taught me that I shouldn't expect too much of myself at first. After all, I don't have much experience. Talking to my sister and other babysitters has helped me realize that, with time, I'll feel more comfortable and get more confident about babysitting. Just knowing that I won't always be this nervous gives me some extra confidence!
I decided to start my first job in my own neighborhood. That gave me the comfort of knowing my parents and sister were close by so I could call with questions if I needed to. It also helped that the parents left their numbers by the phone (along with a list of emergency numbers). I haven't had to call parents while I'm babysitting yet. But it's good knowing I can.
My first time babysitting alone, I felt nervous. I tried not to show it because I didn't want the kids to sense it. Kids can feel it if their sitter is uncomfortable, and I didn't want my nerves to make the kids anxious too. After all, it can be more work to look after kids when they are upset! I tried to be friendly, smile a lot, and ask the kids lots of questions about themselves.
I was more comfortable starting my first babysitting job with just one child to watch. I also decided to start out taking care of a child who was at least 3 years old. I figured I could work up to babysitting for more kids (or babies) gradually.
The worst thing I could do is be late or forget a babysitting job. Being late could make parents question my interest and whether I am responsible. So I have a calendar just for dates and times I'll be babysitting to help keep my schedule organized.
I set an alarm on my cell phone for about 15 minutes before I need to be at the house. That way I won't be late and I'll have time to grab anything I might need.
Asking for money can be hard! It's never easy to discuss my hourly rate with a child's parents. As a way to justify my rate, I asked around to see how much other babysitters close to my age are making per hour. I also take into consideration that I am a less experienced sitter and my hourly pay won't be the same as a seasoned babysitter.
I plan on increasing my rate as I get older and gain more experience. Once the families see that I am capable they may want to give me a raise! However, I try not to focus on the issue of money because in the end it's about the kids and whether or not they enjoy our time together.
We all remember our favorite babysitters (as well as some of our not-so-favorite ones!). My goal is to be that fun, helpful, caring babysitter who makes a difference in a child's life.
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One month on since the first earthquake hit Nepal, Oxfam is working with mountain guides and porters to deliver life saving aid to the most remote communities before the imminent monsoon hits the country. Mountain guides and porters are assisting Oxfam with its relief delivery in the Gorkha district, one of the worst hit by the earthquake.
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Patching Leaks in the Diversity Pipeline to Law School and the Bar
Charles R. Calleros
Arizona State University (ASU) - Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law
California Western Law Review, Vol. 43, 2006
This essay is based on the author's reflections as a member of the planning committee and a participant in the November 2005 conference co-sponsored by the American Bar Association (ABA) and the Law School Admissions Council (LSAC), entitled Embracing the Opportunities for Increasing Diversity into the Legal Profession: Collaborating to Expand the Pipeline. It discusses the future of diversity in legal education and the bar, focusing on the issue of diversity in the educational pipeline to college and law school. It argues that if the legal profession and law schools want a healthy flow into the law school end of the diversity pipeline, those working for law schools must take a long-term view and pay attention to the beginning of the pipeline. This essay suggests the need for lawyers, members of the law school community, and educators within K-12 and college educational institutions to collaborate in creating and implementing mentoring and other outreach programs for students throughout each major segment of the diversity pipeline to law schools, including ones that reach students as early as elementary school, while students still have time to make fundamental choices that may dictate which educational path they may take.
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A 29-year-old Greeley man faces a felony charge after police traced pornographic images of children to his computer.
Greeley police arrested Brian Langhoff on Thursday after the Loveland Police Department tipped them off, according to an arrest affidavit. Investigators in Loveland were tracking child porn being sent through a person-to-person file sharing network, and they traced an internet address to Langhoff's residence.
Langhoff told officers he had been viewing child porn for about two years, and he would download images from the file-sharing network and would delete them "when he was bored with them," the report states. He told police he had pornographic images of children on his computer, which only he accessed.
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While it didn't officially become part of the Williamsport Area School District until 1923, its role in the community has remained steadfast, through its many physical changes, as a neighborhood home for educating children for the past century.
And even though it is scheduled to close at the end of the school year in June, the faculty and staff of Sheridan Elementary School are busy planning its 100-year celebration, scheduled for 1 to 5 p.m. May 18.
"This is not related to the school closure," said event co-coordinator Deborah Briel, who also is the school library aide and a 30-year employee of the building. "This is about the school's 100th birthday."
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Children leave Sheridan Elementary School Thursday afternoon, walking home. The school, in the city's East End, will celebrate its 100-year anniversary in May with an event that will feature dignitaries.
The event marked with speeches and attendance by local dignitaries, Superintendent Dr. Kathleen Kelley, board members, local politicians - and possibly some who may have graduated from the school.
Also planned are tours of the building, led by fifth-grade students, as well as displays of the school's history, old newspaper clippings and headlines from its opening year.
"We're looking for anyone who attended Sheridan, or former teachers or administrators, who can recount their experiences here," Briel said. "We're also looking for anyone that may have Sheridan memorabilia they can share for the celebration."
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A CENTURY of SHERIDAN
April 4, 1911 - Loyalsock School District acquires land on Sheridan Street for $1,000.
January 1913 - An eight-room school is erected and ready for occupation.
1923 - Ten years after its erection, Sheridan becomes part of the Williamsport school system.
Aug. 8, 1957 - After years of studying an overcrowding problem in the East End, the school board agrees to modernize and enlarge Sheridan.
June 16, 1958 - Work begins on the expansion of Sheridan.
Aug. 15, 1959 - A 12-classroom Sheridan, complete with a kitchen, multipurpose room and kindergarten, is ready for occupation.
July 17, 2012 - With dwindling enrollments and rising costs, Sheridan is one of two schools that the Williamsport Area School Board decides to close as part of a consolidation plan.
SOURCE: Williamsport Area School District
The event will be held in conjunction with the PTO's Spring Fling.
"As a former Sheridan student, a former Sheridan parent and a current Sheridan educator, to me the school has meant a lifetime of developing family, friends, learning and love," said fifth-grade teacher Elizabeth Lyons.
Parent Vicki Haussmann described Sheridan as a "small school with a big heart."
It has "wonderful teachers, challenging curriculum, inclusion for all, learning coupled with fun and a caring community," she said. "We are very thankful all three of our children had the opportunity to begin their educational careers here at Sheridan."
Perhaps one of the most special pieces, according to Briel, will be Sheridan T-shirts sold to raise funds for the school's Orville W. Mitstifer Award, so that Sheridan students may continue receiving that scholarship through the Class of 2025. Mitstifer taught at Sheridan from 1923 to 1954. He died in 1956.


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Hi, welcome to Take Zer0! We are Sean Michael Duran and Peter Bryan Men. We met in 7th grade and knew we shared a passion to make movies. But Hollywood is a tough business, and the internet didn't fully have the info for people who wanted to start out. So we started our own film group in the garage, tried to learn the process on our own, and thought to welcome others as we grew.
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After high school we wanted to make movies, and what better than to make them together? We studied, shot skits, went to college, and finally decided the best way to learn was to share our experience with others. On May 4th, 2007, Take Zero was born. At first we were a little camera shy and hardly knew what we were doing. But over time we developed our own style, a way of presenting information that everyone could enjoy.
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When we started TZ back in 2007, we were shooting with a Panasonic DVX-100a. About a year later we upgraded to a Sony PMW-EX1. A year after that we decided to switch to D-SLR filmmaking and purchased a Canon 5D Mark II. Continuing with the trend, we traded our Mark II for a Canon 7D. Next up, RED Scarlet S35.
Back before we knew any better, we bought an awful, unusable ATR-55. Not long after, we bought an AKG Perception 100. Now we use a Sennheiser MKH-60, which we plug into a Zoom H4n.
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Now in their third season together, USA's Chelsea Liu and Devin Perini have shifted their focus to the junior level, and are preparing to qualify for the 2013 U.S. Championships in Omaha, Neb.
Now in their third season together, USA's Chelsea Liu and Devin Perini have shifted their focus to the junior level, and are preparing to qualify for the 2013 U.S. Championships in Omaha, Neb.
Nice article and they seem like nice people. But this team really looks awkward - almost illegal, immoral or something. He is almost 20 and she is not even a teen. I get the size difference is a big help for throws and perhaps lifts but because of her youthfulness - no childness it is not pretty yet. Maybe when she fills out and grows it will not scream awkward or something is wrong but right now it just looks, well wrong. I also think looking at his body type he could fill out too. But she has that little pony look - spindly and a bit awkward. Yes she is feisty but the look still is somehow a bit disconcerting. It is hard to believe they have been competing to gether for a few years. The age gap well seems odd - maybe not when he is 29 and she is 22 but right now all sorts of bells would go off. Like a little sister chasing after her big brother gone off to college. It may be a bit stereotyped or judgemental or even a lot but they look super awkward - maybe cute but somehow there looks something off.
Did you mean to post in their article thread? (ETA that the mod. has since moved the post, thanks!)
I wonder if Liu/Perini will represent Chinese Taipei (Taiwan) internationally down the road?
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Thanks for the heads up, Sylvia.
I don't know -- it there something "illegal or immoral" about a "little sister chasing after her big brother gone to college?"
True, they are handicapped in that they cannot take on romantic-type themes, but as long as they stick to demonstrating technique they should be OK.
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A male in his early to mid twenties with a pre-pubescent girl is common in pairs. 'course, lots of them break up because the girl grows up or wants to go to college or whatever. I guess pairs men would rather work with little kids than work on their overhead presses.
Well I guess it is pairs skating not play with a rag doll or throw around the kid I am babysitting. It isn't illegal skating together with a child but it just does not look aesthetically pleasing or correct for whatever reason. Their music selection is going to be very limited right now.


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TAMPA, Fla. — So you were staring at your TV in disgust trying to stomach the Buffalo Sabres' performance Tuesday night? You weren't alone. Ron Rolston had the same emotion standing behind the bench.
Jaws clenched, the team's interim coach was economical with his words but didn't mince many either after a lifeless 2-1 loss to the Tampa Bay Lightning before 19,204 at Tampa Bay Times Forum.
The Sabres had seven shots on goal through two periods and finished with a season-low 14. They generated basically no offense against a team on a three-game losing streak that was two days removed from firing coach Guy Boucher.
It was a snoozer of the highest order. One not acceptable on so many levels but not unusual for this group, either.
"There wasn't a lot of urgency in anything tonight," Rolston said cryptically.
Asked why, he bristled and shot back, "It's a good question. Did you ask the players? What did they say?"
When told the players don't usually offer any real answers, Rolston said, "They don't have it? Well I don't either. Can't help you on that one."
What were the issues? The power play went 0 for 4, failing to score for the first time in five games and doing almost nothing on its final three chances. Passes were sloppy. The neutral zone battle was lost most of the night. There was no traffic in front of the net, not many shots getting through.
Other than that, everything was great.
To make matters worse, leading scorer Thomas Vanek left the game in the third period with what appeared to be an aggravation of his sore hip and will be evaluated today. Vanek is clearly laboring and had to pull up on a second period breakaway because Tampa defenseman Victor Hedman caught him from behind. Vanek slammed on the brakes as Hedman streaked by to create some room but slid his shot wide of the net.
Tampa goaltender Mathieu Garon – who was pulled in his last two starts while giving up six goals on 29 shots – was hardly challenged in this one until Jordan Leopold beat him with a slap shot from the left point with 3:08 left.
Until then, Garon had things so easy he may as well have been at the tiki bar across the street from the arena with his favorite umbrella-topped beverage. The Sabres gave him quite the vacation.
"We were on a roll there too," mused Leopold. "Three games without a loss and get something rolling there and you go out and have that. … They carried most of the play puck possession wise. We didn't create much."
Garon came into the game with a 4-8 record and .901 save percentage in his career against the Sabres but he made only one high-quality save all night. That came in the second period on a Jason Pominville one-timer from the right of the crease.
Tampa Bay went up for keeps at 16:01 of the first period when Steven Stamkos ripped home his NHL-high 23rd goal on a Martin St. Louis feed. The Lightning then capitalized on a five-on-three power play with St. Louis' one-timer at 8:15 of the second period off a beautiful cross-ice pass from Teddy Purcell.
After Leopold's goal, the Sabres did basically nothing in terms of pushing for an equalizer with goaltender Ryan Miller out of the net in the final minute.
The Sabres fell to 2-8 against the Southeast Division, a grouping so weak that it's possible only the champion will make the Eastern Conference playoffs.
The Lightning entered the game 14th in the Eastern Conference but evened the season series at a win apiece. The Sabres, who are 12th, play Thursday at last-place Florida before hosting 11th-place Washington on Saturday.
Buffalo slipped to five points out of eighth – and much closer to what appears to be a necessary flushing of the roster.
"No one is going to help us," said Miller, who had little chance to stop either goal. "We've got to get two points every night. Tonight's first two periods didn't speak to what we've been trying to do lately. It goes to show. We lose a game because of it."
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Chris attended his neighborhood cupcake party, and his fragile ego was systematically warped after hours of freaky dehumanizing sex.
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The glass door of another AT&T store is broken Wednesday morning after thieves broke in to steal electronics.
It's the second Orlando-area similar robbery in as many days.
Orlando Police Department detectives said a witness told them two thieves broke into the cellphone store along the 4000 block of Conroy Road. They were seen fleeing in a light-colored vehicle, but had no description of the robbers.
Store managers will take inventory of what's left in the store to determine what was stolen.
Officers will check video surveillance to see if they can obtain a description of the thieves.
On Tuesday, thieves smashed their way into a South Orange Blossom Trail AT&T store and made off with cellphones and tablet computers.


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Thursday, July 10, 2014
According to Governor Nikki Haley, the American Dream is alive and well in South Carolina.
And all she had to do was drive through Moncks Corner to see that.
Driving through Moncks Corner today, I am so proud of the small town beauty you have created here, the governor said at the beginning of her Moncks Corner Rotary Club address at Gilligans on Thursday, July 10. Small towns are the backbone of the American Dream and it is alive and well in South Carolina.
Haley came to town around noon on Thursday, and took a quick tour of downtown Moncks Corner before heading to the Tail Race Canal and a lunchtime address with the Moncks Corner Rotary Club and a packed dining room of elected officials, and civic and business leaders.
I am hearing constantly, the question about the American Dream, that it is dead, she said. When I hear it I take it personally.
In 2011 when Haley took office, unemployment in the state stood at 11.1 percent.
We were coming out of a recession, she said. When I took office I decided we had to get South Carolina in the customer service business.
Haley said her efforts have paid dividents in the three-plus years shes been in office. Unemployment sits at 5.3 perecent, an all time state low.
More people are working in South Carolina than ever before in the history of the state, she said. To improve South Carolina you have to take care of all of South Carolina and that includes the rural areas.
Haley touched on several topics during her 45-minute address, discussing the competition between the Palmetto State and Georgia as to who has the most efficient sea port; education and the need for all students to be able to read before entering fourth grade; the hidden catch with the local penny sales tax, and the five-year old Berkeley County hospital dispute, DHEC and the Certificate of Need program.
On which is better for shipping, Charleston or Savannah, Haley said, While I love the spirit of competition, our port is just better. Were deeper, we can service a larger variety and volume of ships, and we just do it better than they do.
On healthcare, specifically Obamacare, Haley remained adamant.
Healthcare should be state based and not federal based, she said. We will continue to resist and say, No, to Obamacare.
On welfare, Haley said it is about finding out how to put welfare recipients to work.
Before, you filled out the application and waited on your check. What we need to do is to find out what kind of skills these recipients have and find them jobs. They want to work. They want to make their families proud. Then you can take the 20,000 people off welfare and make them part of the workforce.
On education, the governor said children need to learn to read by the fourth grade if they want to continue progressing toward a diploma.
More than 800,000 people in South Carolina dont have a G.E.D. and there are only 4.5 million people in the state she said. We have to teach these kids to read.
If a child cant read by the end of the third grade, they will not advance to the fourth grade. Statistics show if a student cant read by the fourth grade they are four times more likely not to graduate.
Haley warned about what she called the hidden evils of local option penny sales taxes, saying to be careful what you wish for when approving them.
Once theyre here they never go away, she said.
Haley is also not a fan of the Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) or the Certificate of Need (CON):
Im not a fan of the CON. I think it is a wishing well for hospitals. Government needs to back out of this and let the businesses compete for their customer base. Hospitals are businesses, and when businesses compete, quality goes up while costs go down.
Haley concluded her remarks by saying South Carolinas success is always going to be about jobs, Because people want to work. That is the heart of the American Dream, and when they say the American Dream is dead in South Carolina, we can proudly raise our heads and say, No, we are just getting started.
Haley will face Democratic State Sen. Vincent Sheheen in Novembers general election.
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"Patent trolls" or patent-assertion entities (PAEs) impede innovation
What to do about the "patent troll" problem
A new report titled An Overview of the "Patent Trolls" Debate [PDF] is a balanced but ultimately devastating indictment of "patent trolls." It was prepared by the Congressional Research Service for members of Congress, who could actually do something about the "troll" problem. It's a useful primer for those new to the area.
First, apologies to any who are offended by use of the word "trolls." As the report points out, the problem is that the term is not only pejorative, but also somewhat vague. It notes the common use of the more polite term "non-practicing entities" (NPEs), but favors using instead "patent-assertion entities" (PAEs). These are entities that speculate by buying patents with a view to asserting them against parties that usually have independently invented, produced, and marketed the technology at issue. I'm fine with "PAE," which really is clearer, and also points toward an irresistible pun: all a PAE does is make you pay.
The report recognizes the case that "PAEs impede innovation, undermine the patent system, and wreak havoc on businesses that play a vital role in the American economy." It also notes that PAEs contend they provide benefits by compensating small inventors and managing the risks of investments in research and invention. These benefits may exist, according to the report, but they "are significantly outweighed by the costs."
The Congressional Research Service report does a good job of quickly explaining the dynamics of ordinary PAE cases. "[P]atent litigation is expensive, and there is no quick or affordable way to get rid of a patent suit except to settle. Defendants frequently find settlement the most cost-effective option, even if they are certain that they are not infringing." In addition, "[u]nlike most patentee-plaintiffs, PAEs pursuing infringement suits 'do not risk disruption to their core business' because 'patent enforcement is their core business."
One fresh point of the report is research that indicates "that PAE activity could harm competition to the extent that operating companies use or 'sponsor' PAEs as a means of imposing costs on rivals and achieving other anticompetitive ends." That is, real companies are promoting PAE attacks on rivals. In my view, the PAE model is basically coin-operated (think "show me the money!") and indifferent to any other social objective. The fundamental amorality of that model is disturbing, but the nascent expansion and corporatization of that model is even more so.
The report lists without endorsing various possible legislative options for addressing the PAE problem. Currently pending is the Saving High-Tech Innovators from Egregious Legal Disputes (SHIELD) Act, which would provide for the possibility of requiring that a losing plaintiff pay defendant's legal costs in cases involving computer hardware or software patents. This could discourage some PAE suits, although it could be criticized both for leaving some PAE lawsuits untouched and discouraging some non-PAE suits.
Among other potential reforms noted in the report is strengthening enforcement of the definiteness and disclosure requirements of Section 112 of the Patent Act. This could result in invalidation of abstract or ambiguous patents. Congress could also decrease the period for IT patents to less than the current 20-year period.
Another interesting idea is a rule that failure to practice a patent for a number of years could be treated as evidence of abandonment. In such cases, the plaintiff would be required to show efforts to undertake commercial activity in order to proceed. Because most PAE cases are based on older patents, this could stop many such cases.
As the report points out, the law could be changed to eliminate the presumption of validity applicable to existing patents. Under current law, this presumption is rebuttable only by clear and convincing evidence, rather than the more common preponderance of the evidence standard. This standard makes it difficult to invalidate the patents of patent aggressors.
Another possibility is changing the method for calculating damages in a patent case. Software products may involve hundreds of potentially patentable components. A reform could address the risk under that a finding of infringement relating to only one minor component could result in disproportionate damages.
What about a change in the law to eliminate patents for software? The report touches on this possibility, noting that the proposed SHIELD Act would treat software as a special category of invention. It also notes that the old argument that such an approach might be barred by international treaty (the TRIPS agreement) is not decisive. Although many consider this approach too radical to be viable, it's good to see that the Congressional Research Service is not prepared to rule it out.
These and other reform ideas are worth much more discussion. Given the impending election, it's unlikely we'll see any legislative activity addressing the PAE problem in the near future. But the report furnishes data that will be useful in future debates. In the meantime, we've got some presidential debates coming up. Maybe somebody can ask the candidates what they plan to do about the problems of software patents and PAEs.
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Get rid of all patents. Patents are a privilege, not a right. Since they are being abused, get rid of them.
Software patents are bad, however there are still many legitimate hardware patents that are used in the correct way and without patents then inventors have no legal action if a company decides to just up and steal their idea.
As part of the employment, employees must give their patent to their employer or they don't get hired. Independent inventors are ignored by companies. If they want to make money from their inventions, they must have their own company to market it.
The idea that inventors benefit from patents is a myth.
"The idea that inventors benefit from patents is a myth" is not really a true statement.
Yes, it is true that if you work for a company you get little benefit (recognition, nominal award), and yes, it is difficult to sell an independent patent to a large company.
However, there are a good number of people who have become very wealthy independent inventors because of patents. There are several in my community which is a small town.
I would say it's a myth that a patent brings instant glory and money. It takes much more work to make a patent pay, not to mention considerable risk of a law suit.
Name one. Small inventors do not benefit from patents since they can't afford to enforce them. When small inventors benefit from their inventions, it's because they did it through marketing and sales, not patent protection. Patents do not benefit small inventors.
Of course there's marketing and sales. A patent sitting in a drawer like an award is unlikely to do you much good by itself. A patent is just a tool, and like other tools sometimes used properly and sometimes not. . Lots of stuff gets patented both by company's and inventors that shouldn't be, because of "common knowledge" that you should patent things. As a result there is a lot of junk, and the patent office approves the patent for it anyway.
I'll leave those I know out of it, with 1 degree of separation of less to the local inventors I'll keep the relationships. It's really not hard to find examples via Google. I suspect though you've decided the answer and are pretty immutable.
Have a nice life,
There is wide spread agreement that the existing software patent system is a mess. Rob Tiller describes several of the proposals to rationalize the software patent system into a workable framework.
Lawyers fight for their clients best interests with the existing framework of laws and court procedure. The tenacity of hard fighting lawyers drives them to turn every possible pathway through the legal system into an advantage for their client which is why the current software patent legal system is an expensive quagmire. If you rationalize the software patent system to some extent with even more rules and perhaps removing a few of the more odious rules then the lawyers will treat this a reset. They will then begin the game anew from the fresh starting point. The software patent mess will be different after reform but it will still be an expensive, irrational drag on the software industry. No matter how the software patent system is reformed it will still be a less than zero sum game with everybody a loser. As time goes on lawyers will make it more expensive. A well done reform will simply temporarily lessen everybody's losses.
The optimal solution for the software patent mess is the one where nobody loses anything. Abolish software patents.
Steve Stites
I wouldn't say nobody loses. After all, the patent trolls will (hopefully) be out of a job. :)
The only reform that makes sense is abolish software patents! If a law is incredible wrong, why "a balanced reform" between the good (abolish) and the very evil (current situation)? Is non sense!
Software is protected by copyright, that's all what it needs. If you want to "reform" something, then reform copyright, since it lasting 70 years after the death of the author is something ridiculous.
Sorry, markit, but copyright has even worst problems. Do you realize that not a single musician has gotten _any_ money from a record company in decades? Copyrights, like patents, should be abolished.
I don't think the copyright sector is as bad off as software patents. The reason being muscians don't get money because copyright is broken but because they sign their rights away for publishing, same with games for the most part however kickstarter is hopefully fixing that. Software patents are a different beast as the companies actually making the patents are abusing them.
That's right, they can't get a contract without signing away all rights. Then the record label does some shyster accounting to prove their not making and money, so the musicians don't get paid. And this attitude is entering the publishing industry. Writers must sign away all rights or their book doesn't get published.
The idea that copyright benefits artists is a myth.
This is an obvious untruth/misstatement of facts.
When Michael Jackson outbid Paul Mcartney for the Beatles catalog Paul was outraged and very soon after Beatles songs heard in commercials, cirque de soliel, ect.
Your statement of "not a single musician has gotten_any_money from a record company..." deals with only the performance rights of a particular performance not performance rights granted to other performers, nor publishing rights of the copyrighted song. Radio stations are performance, sheet music is publishing. itunes, pandora ect are again performance but the negotiated fees didn't really involve the artists/musicians and payments/royalties are lower than radio rates in most cases.the owner of the beatles catalogue didn't like the rates so you didn't see the beatles on itunes for a really long time, or until the ownership transfered at least due to death.
When some rich dude outbid another rich dude... And how much money did the original artists get for this transaction? Nothing. Copyright does not benefit the artists, only the rich.
1. Abolish software patents. Software is not by the original definition of patents a patentable entity. Nothing should ever be covered by both copyright and patent.
2. The recent addition of a prior art registry should help fix a lot of the bogus patents. Anyone can freely register 3 prior art examples per patent, no matter the status of the patent.
3. Set guidelines for legal interuptation for trademark, copyright, and patents. Apple should not be able to use design patents to slow competition. Design patents were allowed to prevent companies from trying to rip each other off. So a company that makes fake Rolexes and sells them as Rolexes would be in violation. Samsung's tablet which they clearly market as their own device, would not infringe the iPad.
#2. Won't work. Lawyers will find a way to force the Patent Office to ignore any prior art pertaining to their application. It's only a question of time.
#/. Won't work. Lawyers will find ways to get their interpretation to have presidence over any other.
"#2. Won't work. Lawyers will find a way to force the Patent Office to ignore any prior art pertaining to their application. It's only a question of time."
The lawyers have already done that. It is called "first to file". "First to file" says that the Patent Office is to ignore any prior art not already patented.
Steve Stites
The US is not a first to file country. We believe in first to invent. Prior art is always relevent as long as it is legitimate.
As for lawyers, they don't make the decisions. Judge's do. And judges very often have to follow case law and legal precedent in these matters. Many cases get over turned by prior art in software patents. This is often due to the fact that software was written without it being copyrighted and the fact that many never applied for patents on the software they did right.
Lawyers successfully lobbied the U.S. Congress to pass the America Invents Act which changes the U.S. to first to file on March 16, 2013.
Steve Stites
I predict a flood of patents of formerly "free" software. Imagine hijinks that will ensue when Apple claims ownership of A = A + B.
"This is often due to the fact that software was written without it being copyrighted"
If software is published or distributed then it is copyrighted.
"the fact that many never applied for patents on the software they did right."
Currently unpatented prior art will invalidate a patent. Under first to file unpatented prior art will not invalidate a patent.
Steve Stites
@steve, that's not what "first to file" is about at all.
Its' purpose is the probability of a evolutionary invention being created simultaneously by multiple entities. Whomever applies for [FILES] a patent First is percieved as the first creator and therefore granted patent rights---IF they met all other requirements. Such as "working model" not just conceptual idea. e.g. I could file a patent for a garbage powered flying car and no matter how good my designs are if i don't submit proof of a prototype or working model--i shouldn't be granted a patent for the device.
Lowering the evidence standard required to challenge a patent or eliminating the presumption of patent validity altogether would provide a very meaningful check on the power of the patent office and that of patentees. This isn't just with law. Ars Technica published a very interesting article that demonstrates how the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals went rogue on patents. See here: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/09/how-a-rogue-appeals-court-wre...
The best hope we have is the elimination of all patents so that we stop splitting hairs and get to work.
I little while ago I read this legal opinion: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2117302
It seemed a very plausible and well laid out argument for a good solution to software patent issues. It also included a number of potential downsides and how to avoid.
Here's the paper abstract:
Commentators have observed for years that patents do less good and cause more harm in the software industry than in other industries such as pharmaceuticals. They have pointed to a variety of problems and offered a variety of solutions.
While there is some truth to each of these criticisms, the real problem with software patents lies elsewhere. Software patent lawyers are increasingly writing patent claims in broad functional terms. Put another way, patentees claim to own not a particular machine, or even a particular series of steps for achieving a goal, but the goal itself. The resulting overbroad patents overlap and create patent thickets.
Patent law has faced this problem before. The Supreme Court ultimately rejected such broad functional claiming in the 1940s as inconsistent with the purposes of the patent statute. When Congress rewrote the Patent Act in 1952, it adopted a compromise position: patentees could write their claim language in functional terms, but when they did so the patent would not cover the goal itself, but only the particular means of implementing that goal described by the patentee and equivalents thereof. These "means-plus-function" claims permitted the patentee to use functional language to describe an element of their invention, but did not permit her to own the function itself however implemented.
Most software patents today are written in functional terms. If courts would faithfully apply the 1952 Act, limiting those claims to the actual algorithms the patentees disclosed and their equivalents, they could prevent overclaiming by software patentees and solve much of the patent thicket problem that besets software innovation.
I read that and found it to be of interest, but they sort of lost me. All software is math, therefore, a law of nature, and is therefore unpatentable. With regard to software patents, we need a good showing on this point. Functional claims ignore this very important fact, indeed, they seek to divert our attention from it.
I would like to see a software patent defense that fully flushes out the "software is math" argument to the Supreme Court. Hopefully the SCOTUS will see the folly of the software patent mess and put a cap on it.
All software is algorithms. This is proven by Alan Turing and John von Neumann. It's too bad the US judges don't believe in facts. :(


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Research firm iSuppli released its global
statistics for the processor market. According to iSuppli, Intel holds a
massive 79.7% of the world's processor revenues leaving AMD with 10.9% of the
global processor revenue.
When the revenue numbers are compared to Q1 2007, Intel's revenue share in
the processor market has dropped by 0.7%. At the same time AMD has been able to
grow its share of the processor market revenue by 2.2%. According to iSuppli,
AMD's gain is a sign that consumers are responding better to AMD products.
ISuppli estimates that about half of AMD's growth in revenue market share
came at the expense of Intel and that the remainder came at the expense of the
smaller processor makers. ISuppli also says that average selling prices from
both Intel and AMD didn't decrease in the first quarter of 2008 signaling that
price wars between Intel and AMD have stopped.
Between Intel and AMD the two firms hold 92.7% of the total microprocessor
market worldwide estimated to be worth about $286.5 billion in 2008. Despite
the weakened U.S. economy, computer sales are still going strong.
ISuppli reported recently that PC
shipments in Q1 2008 increased by 12.1% globally.
quote: In complex CAD systems you have a lot of complex 3D rendering to do, so it benefits from GPU quite a lot.
quote: Many older media production suites are CPU bound, but newer software like PowerDirector move from CPU to GPU in order to dractically increase media encoding speed. Do you use MS-DOS based software a lot so that you can criticize quad-core CPUs for not supporting your MS-DOS code properly? Think about it.
quote: Elaborate on server apps? Sure, no problem. nVidia sells GPGPU cards just for those servers. So if you wanna do computational heavy lifting on your servers - use CUDA with nVidia GPUs. You'll do your computations much faster on those GPUs compared to traditional quad-core CPUs.
quote: CPU horsepower is very beneficial as well
quote: Vegas
quote: that's as obviously easy of a choice
quote: So if Vegas supported only single-core CPUs, you'd criticize dual and quad-cores now, right? ;-) Just because Vegas doesn't understand what is multithreading?
quote: You're right, it's always easier to stay back and don't upgrade your hardware/software for as long as you can, but this somehow does not slow the progress down.