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Location. Old and filthy!!!!! Would never recommend and will never stay again. Very disappointed. Thought search sites would only have quality hotels on it.
The hotel is a great location and has beachfront access. It is right on Gulf Shore BLVD near the 688 causeway. There are a couple of restaurants and bars across the street. A CVS is also nearby which is convenient. Room had a brand new ceiling fan which worked well. Front desk attendant was nice. The overall cleanliness of the hotel is very sub-par. The hallways look like an abandoned insane asylum with low tile ceilings, rusted sprinkler heads, and old wood doors. Some of the room number signs were faded or failing off. Upon entering the room we were greeted with a musky smell, but we proceeded to turn on the lights and investigate the room. Filters on the AC were actually clean, but in the vents there was mildew buildup contributing to the smell. The room had a door that gave direct access to the beach and shared back patio. The room furniture is dated and the "kitchenette" is original to when the motel was built. There is a metal sink with two burners attached which seems like a dangerous combination. The counters were a mustard yellow with duct tape holding it down. The kitchenette was mildly stocked with cups, plates, and flatware. There was also a mini-fridge and microwave. The television was a tube TV from the 90's. The comforters had some holes in them and there were only 3 small pillows per bed. If you wanted ice you had to pay for it. The carpet was a dark forest green, so you cannot see how much build up is really on them. The bathroom smelled like smoke as we think it was coming in from the unit next door. The bathtub was dirty and bathroom poorly stocked. We booked this last minute and mainly for the location, but would not stay there again. We read reviews ahead of time and expected it to not be great, but it was far below 2.5 stars. We brought Lysol and Clorox cleanup to be safe! Wish we would have packed sleeping bags to be honest.


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The impostor syndrome is on everyone's lips recently, especially in the programming world. Ever had a terrible feeling that you aren't good enough? That what you are doing is not sufficient? That everyone else know more than you do? You're not alone.
The impostor syndrome is a persistent feeling that it's a matter of time till you will be exposed as a fraud. It usually affects high-achieving individuals who find it hard to be proud or happy about their accomplishments. They feel like they don't deserve a success they achieved. What's interesting, they attribute good timing, luck or ability to fool others, as reasons why they succeeded.
It happens that despite our knowledge, me and my teammates have such negative thoughts about our skills from time to time. The scale of the problem might be discouraging. Impostor syndrome has affected approximately almost 70% of population and we're not talking about developers only! What's more difficult though is actually fighting the impostor syndrome. That's why we've gathered few tips which are working for us!
1. Cooperate
Contributing to a developers' community is something that works wonders while coping with impostor syndrome. Our teammates mentioned that doing code reviews for other developers is their rubber duck for low self-esteem. What's really important here is a positive attitude towards code review. Don't be scared of doing it! It helps you and the community, what could be wrong with that?
Pair programming is another really helpful invention. Paired developers are less likely to make mistakes in their code, which results in a higher quality code. Not to mention that everyone can share their knowledge in a painless way. Pair programming can also increase morale, which is a relevant part of fighting impostor syndrome.
2. Work hard, train hard
Work hard! And we're not talking about your gym achievements. Remember to constantly learn new things and broaden your horizons. You can attend supplementary trainings or tech talks. Reading insightful newsletters or watching tutorials on YouTube might help. Whatever works – possibilities are endless! Just don't stay still. Evolve. If you have problems with being productive check out one of our previous posts about it 6 Tips How to Be More Productive Every Day. You will see that constant self-development can help you believe in yourself. Of course, if you're a perfectionist, you will never be 100% pleased with yourself. But you have to try, right?
3. Take your time
Junior developers in particular have problems with being content about their work. There are many questions that are troubling their thoughts. When do I stop being a junior? How much do I know? How much can I offer? We have to calm you down. It's completely natural to have such doubts.
Impostor syndrome tends to hit junior developers, but it affects seniors as well. Is it possible that in the world full of professionals, everyone is a fraud? We don't think so. It means that impostor syndrome can happen to anyone, but… it gets better with time. While it sounds like a Paulo Coelho quote, it's true! Your experience as a developer and time spent on self-development matter a lot. Is it comforting that it won't always be like that? We hope so!
4. Find a good place of work
Your workplace has a huge impact on your well-being. What projects are you working on? Is your team supportive and friendly? Does the atmosphere there suits you? Do you have work-life balance and possibilities to develop your skills? Answer those questions and try to look for a workplace which will help you have a fulfilling and happy life.
At Sunscrapers, we put a big emphasis on our team's well-being. We know how much it means to work in a cheerful and enriching environment. That's why even if one of our teammates is struggling with impostor syndrome, we are here to comfort them. Our support blended with a chunk of laughter helps with any low self-esteem issues!
5. Share your knowledge
We are sure that you're thinking right now: "Yeah, right. How can I teach others if I lack knowledge?". You couldn't be more wrong. Obviously, if you take part in pair programming or code reviews, you already noticed that you don't know everything. But you know SOMETHING. Try to recall situations where you knew a solution for your partner's problem. It could be a small thing like a tiny bug that was hiding between the code lines. But you helped him. Teaching others might be a solution for overcoming the impostor syndrome. Go to Quora or Stackoverflow and look at other people's questions. Try to answer them. You will be surprised how many issues you can solve! Maybe you're not that inexperienced as you think?
We know that it's not easy to overcome the impostor syndrome. There is no golden rule that will work for everyone, neither fast nor easy way to do this. Hopefully with our tips and some positive attitude you will be able to fight your low-esteem demons. Believe in yourself, take your time and remember – you are awesome!

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Thesis Supervisors: Michael Hilker and Adriano Agnello
Massive galaxies reside in massive Dark Matter (DM) halos. Constraining the density profile of the dark halos, as well as the orbits of visible matter within them, is key to reconstructing the assembly history of massive galaxies and its interplay with their host halos.
For nearby massive galaxies, we can exploit halo populations of Globular Clusters (GCs) extending out to ~100 kpc, probing regions beyond the reach of starlight observations. The GC systems of massive galaxies have typically multiple populations with different chemistry and radial distributions, probing different regions of the same halo. The study of GC chemo-dynamics has received considerable impetus since the advent of spectroscopic datasets, counting hundreds or thousands of CGs, yielding for each host galaxy a wealth of kinematic information over diverse lengthscales.
A robust separation of multiple tracer populations enables the study of dark matter halos as well as reconstructing the orbits of GCs, whence information on the mass accretion history. Different techniques have been devised to separate multiple GC populations and perform dynamical analyses. Despite the success of some of these in reproducing the results of independent observations, such as extended starlight profiles from very deep observations, none of them has been functionally tested by itself. This may introduce considerable bias when inferring DM profiles and GC orbits, especially for large datasets where the uncertainties are limited by systematics, an effect that has not been quantified yet.
Within this project, the PhD candidate will examine mock models of multiple GC populations around massive galaxies, devising `blinded' functional tests and comparing the possible sources of bias in different techniques. This is expected to set the standard for future analyses of large kinematic datasets and can be considered as the preparation of a wider PhD project on the evolution of massive galaxies across cosmic time.


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Suppose that a household's monthly water bill (in dollars) is a linear function of the amount of water the household uses (in hundreds of cubic feet, HCF). When graphed, the function gives a line with a slope of 1.75. If the monthly bill fro 24 HCF is $47.72, what is the ...
1. The main purpose of a legislature, whether it be the Indiana General Assembly or the US Congress, is to MAKE laws. True False 2. Indiana's two US Senators are Richard Lugar (R) and Dan Coats (R) True False 3. Currently in the US House of Representatives, There are 246 ...
a carpenter divides a board that is 3.5 inches wide into 4 pieces of equal widthby cutting 3 places. if the width of her saw blade is 1/8 inch, what is the finished width of each piece? What percent of the board length is actullay used?
HF hydrolyzes according to the following equation: HF(aq)+H2O(l)<-> H3O+(aq)+F-(aq) When 0.0300 mol of HF dissolves in 1.0 L of water, the solution quickly ionizes to reach equilibrium. At equilibrium, the remaining [HF]=0.0270 M. a.) How many moles of HF ionize per ...
john is three times as old as Greg, and Greg is half the age of Bob, Steve is two times the age of John and Bob combined. if Steve's age is 60, how old is Greg's older cousin Jane, who is two years older than Greg?
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I'm still a little bit confused. Can you please help me with my question?
How are litotes different from understatement, but also related to it?
Write the half reactions and the balanced equation for the galvanic cell Hg(ℓ)| Hg2(+2)(aq)|| MnO(−4)(aq), Mn2 (aq), H(+)(aq)| Pt(s). What is the smallest possible integer coefficient of Mn(2+)(aq) in the combined balanced equation?
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what is the electron configuration of lithium after making an octet
200 oranges were purchased for $53.40. How much would 100 oranges have cost?
Force of Gravity
How far from Earth's surface would you have to travel to be 1/4 your weight. Give your answer in Earth radii. I know you have to travel twice the distance or 1 Earth radii... I just don't know how to mathematically show it. Please help.
.037x.15 0.00555
estimate 6.9 x 3.67 2.800
2.800 ?
estimate 6.9 x3.67 25.323
You have 17fourths of pizza. Show with math or pictures how many pizza you have. 4 pizzas with 1 slice left. 4
35.6 g of Zn reacts with 87.1 g of Br to produce ZnBr2, the only product, with no reactant left over. How much ZnBr2 could be formed by reacting 156 g of Br? 1. 538 g 2. 45.4 g 3. 382 g 4. 220 g 5. 0.0156 g 6. 0.00262 g
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A theatre production company donated free tickets for their show to the local Boys & Girls club. They claimed that the ticket value was $306. A child's ticket cost $5.25 and an adult ticket cost $9.75. If there were three times as many children's tickets as adult ...
Is it possible to identify a metal in a fragment if you only know the specific heat?
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Just did this test on Connections Academy. The answers are, 1. ball and socket 2. finger and elbow 3. hypodermis, dermis, epidermis 4. sunscreen 5. two bones meeting at a joint I am 100% sure these are correct (I just did it and got a perfect score with these answers.)
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If 15.0 mL of a 1.5M HCl solution at 22.5 degrees C is mixed with 25.0mL of a 1.5M NaOH solution at 21.5 degrees C that is in a calorimeter, and the final mixed solution temperature ends up at 28.5 degrees C, 1.)what is the balanced equation for this reaction? 2.) what is the ...
Since the car rents for $22.50 per day and you are charged $.15 per mile, how many miles could you drive and not spend over $50.00
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find the value for (m) that makes each number sentence true a. 2/3 x 4/5 x m =1/3 b. 4/5 x 2/3 x m =1/3 c.2/3 x 4/5 = 1/3 / m
Kalin walks at a steady rate of 3 2/3miles per hour. The beach is 4 1/4 miles from his home. How long will it take Kalin to walk from his home to the beach and back to his home?
A swimmer wants to cross a river, from point A to point B, as shown in the figure. The distance d1 (from A to C) is 200 m, the distance d2 (from C to B) is 132 m, and the speed of the current in the river is 1.0 m/s. Suppose that the swimmer's velocity relative to the ...
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solve the equation: log base 10 of x - log base 10 of (7-4x)=2 Please help i have been stuck on this for awhile!
I really need help with this question so can anyone please explain to me how I can solve this question and please explain to me how you found the answer to this question step by step.
Which is an equation of the line that passed through ( 2,-5 ) and ( 6,3 ). A. Y= 1/2X - 6 B. Y= 1/2X C. Y= 2X + 12 D. Y= 2X - 9
two identical brass balls mounted on wooden posts initially have different amounts of charge, one plus 3 uC and the other plus 15 uC. The balls are allowed to touch and then separate again. What is the final charge on each ball?
I've tried this problem again and again using conservation of momentum and energy but I am not having any luck: A ball of mass 0.300kg that is moving with a speed of 8.0m/s collides head-on and elastically with another ball initially at rest. Immediately after the ...
(0.3 mol/1L)*(1L/1000mL)*(40.0mL) = 0.012mol K2O
After 10.3 s, a joggers displacement is 360 m. What is the average velocity in m/s? Answer in units of m/s part 2 What is the average velocity in km/h? Answer in units of km/h
If Joe rides south on his bicycle in a straight line for 29 min with an average speed of 14.8 km/h, how far has he ridden? Answer in units of km
How much time would Simpson save by in- creasing his average velocity to 65.8 km/h to the east? Answer in units of min
Simpson drives his car with an average veloc- ity of 49.7 km/h to the east. How long will it take him to drive 150 km on a straight highway? Answer in units of h
A car makes a 288 km trip at an average speed of 31.3 km/h. A second car starting 1 h later arrives at their mutual destination at the same time. What was the average speed of the second car for the period that it was in motion? Answer in units of km/h
A 2000kg car rounds a curve of 65m banked at an angle of 11∘ How much friction force will be required? I know how to find frictional force on a normal flat surface but I don't know how to apply it with a curve. Any help with work would be great!
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You do the top minus the bottom, so 6-9 is -3 so the answer is y^-3
The square root would be two of the same numbers multiplied to give the answer 64 so 8*8=64 The cubed root would be three of the same numbers multiplied to give you the answer of 64 so 4*4*4=64
Consider the indefinite integral (6x^3+3x^2-19x-10)/(x^2-4)dx Then the integrand decomposes in the form ax + b + (c/(x-2)) + (d/(x+2) I found b and c to equal 3 and d to equal 2, but I'm having trouble finding A and finding the final integration by integrating term by term.
A car rounds a curve with a radius of 25 m at a speed 30 m/s. What is the centripetal acceleration of the car?
Steve is right. That is the only answer it gives you. So yeah. lol :)
A stone is dropped from the roof of a building; 1.60s after that, a second stone is thrown straight down with an initial speed of 26.0m/s , and the two stones land at the same time. part a. How long did it take the first stone to reach the ground? part b.How high is the ...
A herd of wildebeests led by Roger is charging down the hall on the way to lunch. They start out at 10 m/s and accelerate at a constant rate for 5.35 s to reach 34 m/s by the time they reach the stairs. How quickly did Roger's velocity change?
During a head on car crash, the car is designed to slow down as its front end crumples. If a person can survive an acceleration of -33 m/s how far must the front end crumple if the car was initially traveling at 28 m/s?
Given that f(x)=x^8h(x): h(−1)=5 h(−1)=8 Calculate f(−1)?
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Sara walks at 1.50 m/s. She notices Emily is standing at the coffee shop ahead so she accelerates at 1.55 m/s ^2. How far is emily ?
An electrolytic tin-coating process gives the coating 30 millionths of an inch thick. How many square meters can be coated with one kilogram, density 7.30 g/cm^3?
72 square feet
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A model of a boat is 1 3/8 feet long. How long is the model of a ship that is 3 times as long, I'd the models are made to the same scale?
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gamerforever wrote:Will check this strength routine out, but want to persevere with the machines for a month to see how strong i can get as well as if i can see any improvments in my overall body and fitness.
Personally i cant recommend HIIT enough. Id definitely look into something like that too. When i started trying to get fit i was overweight by about 4 stone and had zero muscle definition. I started doing a boxing class that incorporated alot of HIIT training (in fact the boxing would take up maybe only half a class, the rest was HIIT), and i credit that with what absolutely obliterated most of my flab and gave me pretty decent overall muscle definition (bi's, shoulders, back, chest). HIIT gives you insane amounts of cardio fitness too. I remember before i got fit i couldnt run for anymore than about 10 minutes without wanting to die. I can do a 5K now in about 28 minutes which feels great I also couldnt do a single pull up which was strawberry floating embarrassing. Most workouts now is tart off doing about 30 of them! So yeah id definitely recommend a HIIT class if you can find one. It annihilates fat, gives great cardio, and (for me at least) gave me a better physique than i ever had in my life.
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But it was to "Six Sigma" standards…
Six Sigma Blog: Fire alarms: The Dell notebook scare and Six Sigma defect control
I'm sure you've heard of the cases of Dell laptops catching on fire and the resulting recall.
Sony, the manufacturer of the batteries, offered this explanation:
"It's a number you can count on two hands," [Sony spokesperon Rick] Clancy said, adding that it is inconsequential "when you look at it by Six Sigma standards." Six Sigma is a measure of engineering quality that ensures a process will not produce more than 3.4 defects per million opportunities.
Ugh. The goal is not to "only" have 3.4 defects per million, especially when the failure mode could result in such severe consequences. Do you want the guy sitting next to you in 13F to have his laptop suddenly catch fire? I don't! The goal for quality should be ZERO defects. I guess this is a difference between Toyota (the zero defects goal) and other Japanese companies (they all aren't like Toyota). When it's YOUR laptop that catches fire, you don't care that yours was a rare and limited case. It's not "inconsequential" to you.
Now is Toyota perfect? No, they've had plenty of recalls this year. But, I wouldn't expect them to say "it's OK, it's only a few vehicles." Toyota seems to really apologize for quality problems when they occur.
That's why one of the lean principles is "Continuous improvement in the pursuit of perfection." If you reach "Six Sigma" quality levels, don't stop! Keep improving, the goal really is zero defects, not 3.4 per million.
The Sony/Dell fires are caused by what has been described as a manufacturing defect.
The defect was caused by a short circuit that happens when microscopic metal particles break through the lithium ion cell wall and contact a battery anode, said Sony spokesman Rick Clancy.
"You try to eliminate that in the manufacturing process, but to eliminate them 100 percent is very difficult. Usually when you have a short circuit, it might lead to a battery powering down so you'd have a dead battery, but other times it could lead to incidents including flaming," Clancy said
The chances of a short circuit depend on the design of each PC, such as whether the battery cells are aligned in parallel or perpendicular, and their proximity to heat sources like the processor and power supply. But ultimately, the odds are against the engineers, since any given particle can create a short, just as any given sperm can make a baby.
I'm not sure how good this Sony spokesperson is, considering this analogy he drew, seems somewhat unprofessional:
"It's kind of like impregnating someone. It only takes one, so the more of them there are, the more likely that you'll impregnate someone," said Clancy.
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The breathtaking beauty of New Hampshire's Presidential Range has long captured the public's imagination. Plymouth State University will present a wide-ranging presentation about the geology of the iconic mountain range Feb. 23, as part of the Environmental Science Colloquium Series.
Dykstra Eusden, professor of Geology at Bates College, will present 'Bedrock Geology of New Hampshire's Presidential Range,' Friday, Feb. 23, from 2:30 – 3:30 p.m. in Boyd Science Center, Room 001. The talk is free and open to the public.
For the last 15 years, extensive field work and mapping has been underway to better understand the story of plate collisions in the Paleozoic Era to form the ancient Appalachian Mountains. The results of this work have been compiled in a new bedrock geologic map of New Hampshire's Presidential Range, to be published this spring by the New Hampshire Geological Survey under the auspices of NH State Geologist, David Wunsch. This talk will feature the map, cross sections and description of the 400 million year old bedrock and tectonic history of the Acadian Orogeny which includes the stratigraphic, deformational, metamorphic and plutonic events that have shaped the Granite State's most famous mountain range.
Dykstra Eusden, or Dyk for short, lives in South Paris, Maine and spends most of his time doing fieldwork as a geologist. He is a professor of geology at Bates College and enjoys teaching a variety of field-based courses; his two favorite being "Geology of the Maine Coast by Sea Kayak" and "Katahdin to Acadia: Exploring Maine Geology". He loves maps, map making and explaining to people the stories that rocks and landscapes can tell. In an effort to stay within a 50 mile radius of most of New Hampshire and Maine's finest natural attributes, he went to Bates for his B.S., then University of New Hampshire for his M.S. and finally Dartmouth College for his Ph.D., all in geology.
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i never liked oro either but i prefer him over kabuto. i don't hate kabuto though, how can i when i barely know the guy? he has no back story, no goal that we know of, save to continue or surpass oro. he intrigued me once but now it seems he's just a pupil who wishes to surpass his master. it would have been nice to find out a little more about kabuto's past. i find him bland compared to oro or tobi. unless kishi gives us an interesting back story for kabuto (which i think is a little too late at this point), i won't change my mind.
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Man who took part in violent disturbance at halting site avoids jail
A man who took part in a violent disturbance at a halting site and threw items at a garda van has been given a two year suspended sentence.
Joe O'Donnell (23), of Meakstown Close, St. Margarets Road, Finglas, Dublin pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to violent disorder and damaging a garda Ford Transit van at St Philomena's Park in Blanchardstown on February 9, 2013. He has seven previous convictions.
A co-accused John Mongan, received a two and a half year sentence for his role in the incident in November 2015. A third accused, O'Donnell's brother Anthony, has died.
Judge Martin Nolan had remanded O'Donnell in custody after hearing evidence in the case last week. He remarked that O'Donnell had "made life miserable for the gardai."
He noted O'Donnell had not been in prison before. "He should observe his surroundings because that may be his future if he does not behave," he warned.
Judge Nolan imposed a two year sentence which he suspended on strict conditions.
He said that he was giving O'Donnell a second chance, which he should take advantage of. "If you don't, it's your problem," the judge said.
Sergeant John O'Donovan told Gerardine Small BL, prosecuting, that gardai on mobile patrol in a garda van observed a blue space wagon driving at speed towards St Philomena's halting site.
The vehicle cut out just before the entrance and three males got out. They pushed it to get it going and then sped into the halting site. The garda van drove in after it to check it out.
Gardai pulled in and observed the now empty space wagon parked in one of the bays. The garda van was reversing out of that bay when three males began throwing glass and other items at the front window of the garda vehicle.
As one of the gardai exited the van the three males continued to throw items and one of them shouted "get the gun" so the garda got back into the van for safety. No gun was produced during the incident.
The garda van reversed out and they called for assistance. The three males went into a caravan.
When assistance arrived gardai approached the caravan and shouted for the door to be opened. One male, Anthony O'Donnell, came out swinging a crutch. Joe O'Donnell then exited and violently resisted arrest. The third man, John Mongan, remained inside hiding in a bedroom.
Sgt O'Donovan said there was tension between the three men and gardai. Joe O'Donnell was shouting at gardai and became very aggressive. He was physically restrained by gardai, put to the ground and handcuffed, after which he became very passive.
The court heard one of the gardai was bitten by Mongan during the incident. The front windscreen of the garda van was smashed and a front light was hanging off.
Sgt O'Donovan agreed with Peter Le Vert BL, defending, that the men had been mourning the suicide of Anthony O'Donnell's twin brother and were drinking heavily that night.
Mr Le Vert said the O'Donnell family had been visited several times by tragedy and Joe O'Donnell himself had lost a child. Two of his brothers were in psychiatric care and he helped his mother care for an older brother with Down syndrome.
He said he had advised his client to speak to a doctor and O'Donnell now accepted he needed counselling.
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When our IT Director logs in to Spiceworks, it says that his login failed. I tested his account on my computer, and it worked fine. After his computer reboots, he can log in, but once he tries to access a ticket, it tells him he is not authorized and that his login failed.
This only happens on IE8. If he runs Spiceworks in Chrome it seems to work fine. What could be causing this? I thought that the login status was saved, so once you're logged in, you stay logged in until you manually log out--am I missing something?
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Check his browser settings and make sure it is not set to clear cookies on close.
Apr 28, 2010 at 1:47 UTC
Have him try clearing his cookies and temp files.
I've had the issue where I'll be in the community and go to a page and it'll then show me logged out.
Apr 28, 2010 at 1:48 UTC
But I would clear them this once to clear out any bad cookies.
(heh heh heh) no pun intended.
Apr 28, 2010 at 1:51 UTC
You could also try changing his password in Spiceworks to see if it sticks.
Apr 28, 2010 at 1:52 UTC
Browser doesn't close, so cookies deleting on close shouldn't be an issue. I'll check though.
Password has already been changed, does the same thing.
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Keep IT Simple Technology Group is an IT service provider.
What AV or endpoint security solution you have on that station?
Apr 28, 2010 at 2:06 UTC
McAfee, same as the other computers.
May 3, 2010 at 3:37 UTC
Apparently, the issues just stopped.
I think the issue stemmed from saved passwords. I am going to unmark this as a question for now; if things start acting up again, I'll be back on.
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A roller-coaster ride in a tea cup
The brand journey of Tata Tea has been nothing less than a roller-coaster ride, especially in the recent past with the brand taking the platform of Jaago Re. The advertising of Tata Tea earlier relied heavily on talking about maintaining the freshness of tea gardens in its pack and bringing to its consumers the same freshness. Later, this was tweaked to highlight the 'taazgi' and physical and metal rejuvenation brought about by consuming a cup of Tata Tea.
The company then came up with this 'mega idea', where they moved from the premise of just mental and physical rejuvenation to intellectual awakening, hence the 'Jaago Re' campaign.
Sangeeta Talwar, Executive Director, Tata Tea Ltd, explained, "With the changing times, the brand has also grown manifold. There has been a constant urge and search to do something new, which will help us in building the brand value. We moved from the trajectory of garden-packed freshness to physical and mental rejuvenation. During 2004-06, we took the platform of 'Taste Kamyaabi ka', which featured Sania Mirza and talked of the taste of success."
She continued, "We had become the largest tea company by volume in India and the survey revealed that tea was the largest beverage being consumed after tap water. Taking this as an insight, we wanted to move to a larger platform. In October 2007, Tata Tea joined hands with Janaagraha, a Bangalore-based not-for-profit organisation that has been doing pioneering work in the areas of urban advocacy and governance, thus embarking on the 'Jaago Re' platform."
Waking up to Jaago Re
Tata Tea took on the premise of Jaago Re with the sole idea that the morning cuppa is synonymous with waking up every morning, so why not use this metaphor of awakening in a larger sense. Talwar said, "The entire Jaago Re campaign is about waking up to the apathy that surrounds us and then do something to bring about a change. We were looking at inviting people to engage in a meaningful way and not just stop at giving the idea. Thus, an entire support programme was designed, where people could go on the website and get details on voting and also facilitate online voter's registration." The success of the campaign can be gauged from the fact that in November 2008, the campaign received phenomenal response with over 100,000 registrations on the website. This was in just over two months since its launch! The success can also be understood by the fact that Jaago Re and Tata Tea managed to etch themselves in the memory of people and have a high brand recall today.
The agency's take
Tarun Singh Chauhan, ECD, Lowe Lintas, said, "The Tata Tea campaign is about liberation and empowerment. The insight was to make tea more appealing to the young generation, who frequent the coffee joints. The whole idea of awakening is integral to tea, as that is how people look at it. We made this concept more relevant by using the awakening in a broader sense, thus making the brand more interesting and relevant. A lot of credit goes to the client as they have been extremely open to the ideas."
The first phase of Jaago Re focused on getting people, especially the youth, to exercise their right to vote, hence enabling them to be the change agents. The campaign was really visible much before the general elections this year and got many to stand up and notice. The campaign now has already moved to its second phase and the focus this time is on making India a corruption free country. 'Aaj Se Khilana Bandh, Pilana Shuru' – that's the tagline of the new campaign. The campaign aims at not just creating awareness about corruption, but communicating to the people that 'You should be the change you seek'.
Said Talwar, "One of the single largest deterrents of the speed at which public and private investment and sectoral and social reforms can impact the life of 'Aam Admi' is corruption. Corruption is a malaise that is endemic to our everyday life. It is the largest tax on India's future. Corruption extracts a tremendous cost on entrepreneurial activity, economic opportunity and prosperity. If we are to create an open access society, leverage India's diversity, its demographic dividend, its social and intellectual capital, ameliorate poverty and work towards the progress of the masses, we must do something quick and drastic to remove corruption."
What next?
Tata Tea is looking at a re-branding process, which Talwar dubs as more of a strategic imperative. Though the time frame could not be ascertained for the change, but one thing is clear that it would be more of an innovation-led transformation.
She further said, "Tea is a low interest category, but the key learning for us with the success of Jaago Re is that if one is able to reinvent an old brand and bring enough value to the brand, then there is no looking back. The idea is to look beyond the transaction value of a brand."
"The consumer landscape is constantly evolving, so the need is to allow engagement and not just an emotional connect. Make the brand experience larger so that it becomes poignant, important and continuous," Talwar added.
An onlooker's perspective
Thomas Xavier: Chairman and National Creative Director, Orchard Advertising, observed, "I think Tata Tea has done an excellent job of taking a cause and linking it to the brand space. For cause marketing, one needs to be careful to be not exploitative in the sense that it is not sales centered, and once that is achieved, the cause is given a cold shoulder. This has not been the case with Tata Tea, and it has acted as an activist beyond advertising. Also, the brand recall is very high as the platform of Jaago Re is appropriate as the name signifies what tea is supposed to do – awaken people."
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JT, Robert "So You Think You Can Dance" Video: Mirror Dance Gets Standing Ovation
JT and Robert performed a stunning mirror-inspired dance during the Top 9 competition on Monday's "So You Think You Can Dance." Check out the video below.
As Gossip Cop has reported, 10-year-old JT Church and his All-Star partner Robert Roldan already amazed with a contemporary routine earlier in the "SYTYCD" season. Robert admitted they had to now had to "raise the bar." Thankfully, they had beloved choreographer Travis Wall to create an emotionally-challenging routine for them that had JT showing the alum that he still had "purpose."
The two faced off as if reflections in a mirror, though Gossip Cop won't spoil how it unfolded from there. It did, though, lead to a standing ovation from the entire panel. "Wow, wow, wow," Jason Derulo exclaimed afterward, going on to tell JT, "Man, week after week, you're just going to keep doing this to us. You're making a grown man a little emotional. Bravo."
Nigel Lythgoe said, "You, JT, I think you and Robert are my favorite couple. You've just bonded so well… It shows in your dance routines… You are a very special young man."
"Applause, I believe, was created from moments like that," said Paula Abdul. "It's beautiful to watch. Poetically stunning. That little face of yours becomes larger than life and it tells such beautiful stories. I'm most proud of you."
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Glenn Frey Dead at Age 67
Eagles guitarist Glenn Frey has died today (Jan. 18). He was 67.
The band posted a statement on its Facebook page, listing "complications from rheumatoid arthritis, acute ulcerative colitis and pneumonia" as the causes of death. Frey had disclosed the problems back in November, when the band were forced to pull out of attending the Kennedy Center Honors ceremony because he required major surgery.
Frey's longtime Eagles collaborator Don Henley issued a statement to Billboard, crediting his friend as "the one who started it all" for the band and saying, "I know that crossing paths with Glenn Lewis Frey in 1970 changed my life forever, and it eventually had an impact on the lives of millions of other people all over the planet."
Born on Nov. 6, 1948, Frey began playing in bands in his native Detroit in the mid-'60s. Shortly thereafter, he moved to Los Angeles in the late-'60s, when he met J.D. Souther and Jackson Browne. When Souther's then-girlfriend, Linda Ronstadt, needed a new backup band, she hired Frey, drummer Henley, bassist Randy Meisner and guitarist Bernie Leadon. The chemistry was so good that, after their 1971 tour, the four of them broke out from under Ronstadt and called themselves the Eagles.
The band were successful from the get-go. Their first single, the Frey-Browne co-write "Take It Easy," reached No. 12 and set the template for the band mix of country-rock with pitch-perfect harmonies. Frey's smooth voice contrasted perfectly with Henley's rasp, giving them the same vocal blend that made the Beatles so successful.
From 1972 to 1979, they released six albums and had 16 Top 40 hits. In addition to "Take It Easy," Frey sang lead on "Peaceful Easy Feeling", "Already Gone", "Lyin' Eyes", "New Kid in Town" and "Heartache Tonight." But by 1980, personality conflicts broke up the band.
Frey moved on to a solo career in the '80s, which resulted in two No. 2 hits, "The Heat Is On" and "You Belong to the City," as well as Top 20 placements for "The One You Love," "Sexy Girl," "Smuggler's Blues" and "True Love." He also tried his hand at acting, with bit roles on Miami Vice (on which "You Belong to the City" and "Smuggler's Blues" appeared), Nash Bridges and the film Jerry Maguire.
By 1993, the wounds from the Eagles' breakup had healed long enough for them to appear in a video for country star Travis Tritt's cover of "Take It Easy." Six months later, they reunited to record an MTV special, which resulted in the Hell Freezes Over album and tour. From that point on, the Eagles toured fairly regularly, with their only new material being 2007's Long Road Out of Eden.
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Platetone Printmaking, Paper and Book Arts
Platetone is a non-profit community studio in East Nashville, TN. Our mission is to inspire and promote printmaking and all paper and book arts!
Book arts
The bindery at Platetone supports all types of adhesive and non-adhesive book structures. We provide a large, clean work surface to accommodate editioned books along with board shears, paper trimmer, paper drill press, sewing frames, cradles, bookbinding supplies including threads, adhesive, binding tools, knives, etc. We also offer workshops in both origami and adhesive structures along with special tutorials from trained members on historical binding, sewn structures, and sculptural books, boxes, and enclosures.
Paper Arts
Paper making is an ancient practice, starting in Japan and working its way west. Having a paper mill available within a printshop is not only crucial but sustainable. Paper is sculpture, it is an object that can be held and because of that, it transcends 2D. Printmakers spend hours of their time fine tuning their image, but to just go out and buy paper from a chain store discredits the final form of the print. Our mission at the Platetone Paper Mill is to create a dialogue between the image and the properties inherent in the paper. All fibers vary in their look, strength and process, all of which can further drench a printed/drawn piece in conceptual metaphor. We make paper from cotton, mulberry, kozo, hemp, abaca, recycled materials, and found plants. We imbed paper, make large scale sculpture, pulp paint, and of course classic sheet forming.


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[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-3946?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ] Hoss Man updated LUCENE-3946: ----------------------------- Attachment: LUCENE-3946.patch patch that updates the ivy-availability-check to include: * a mention of --noconfig * a link to the wiki (where we'd need to add some content) * an echo of the classpath ...i'm using ${java.class.path} here because from what i can tell doing testing with "-nouserlib" that's the right classpath to look at -- but i'm a little worried based on Shawn's comment in LUCENE-3930 that when he added an echo of ${java.class.path} he did in fact see the ~/.ant/lib jar in there. I'm hoping Shawn and McCandless (who also mentioned being able to reproduce this with a stock Fedora install of ant) can verify that they get consistent/useful behavior when running things like... * "ant --noconfig resolve" (should work for anyone using default ant) * "ant resolve" (should work for most, but expect to fail on these fedora systems because of packaged /etc/ant.conf, but our failure message should show a classpath that clearly indicates ~/.ant/lib/ivy.jar isn't in there) * "ant --noconfig resolve" (should work for anyone) * "ant -nouserlib resolve" (should fail for anyone, our failure message should show a classpath that clearly indicates ~/.ant/lib/ivy.jar isn't in there) > improve docs & ivy verification output to explain classpath problems and mention "--noconfig" > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: LUCENE-3946 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-3946 > Project: Lucene - Java > Issue Type: Task > Affects Versions: 3.6 > Reporter: Hoss Man > Assignee: Hoss Man > Fix For: 4.0 > > Attachments: LUCENE-3946.patch > > > offshoot of LUCENE-3930, where shawn reported... > {quote} > I can't get either branch_3x or trunk to build now, on a system that used to build branch_3x without complaint. It > says that ivy is not available, even after doing "ant ivy-bootstrap" to download ivy into the home directory. > Specifically I am trying to build solrj from trunk, but I can't even get "ant" in the root directory of the checkout > to work. I'm on CentOS 6 with oracle jdk7 built using the city-fan.org SRPMs. Ant (1.7.1) and junit are installed > from package repositories. Building a checkout of lucene_solr_3_5 on the same machine works fine. > {quote} > The root cause is that ant's global configs can be setup to ignore the users personal lib dir. suggested work arround is to run "ant --noconfig" but we should also try to give the user feedback in our failure about exactly what classpath ant is currently using (because apparently ${java.class.path} is not actually it) -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com For additional commands, e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
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Hey Creeps,
Been awhile I know. Some of you know me well, some of you newbies don't. That's ok, we can't all be badassess. For those of you who know me, "Hey, just poppin' my head in, saying what's up". For those of you who do not know me yet, I created the first huge contest here on the wikia. Blacknumber1's Freestyle Contest. Since then, contests have been appearing left and right. So much so, that the mods had to put limitations on them. You just cannot re-create that same magic that the first one had. Even if I did it again. It's lost it's luster so-to-speak. Our God, ClericofMadness also featured 5 of my pastas in the 3rd volume of "We Go Bump".
I've changed careers (temporarily). I'm no longer a loss prevention detective or Director of Security. I'm actually a substitute teacher (for now, it pays the bills - barely). I still teach close quarters combat and martial arts. I will do that until I no longer can. Also just celebrated my 40th birthday (I also founded the Creepypasta Wikia Old Farts Club).
I've neglected my duties as a creepypasta wikia writer, blogger, son of a bitch and all around badass here for awhile now... hehe. The only real activity as of the last few months has been posting a story,
"Sisters of Mayhem"
Newbies, feel free to check out my other stories on my profile page and welcome to the family. To all my friends and aquaintances, Humbolt, Jay, Banning, Shawn, Raidra, Empry, miss you guys and gal. I'm still here, I'm still kickin'.
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Samsung Galaxy S II will be launched to the stratosphere on July 15th, just to prove a point
The Samsung Galaxy S II will be tied to a space balloon and sent to the stratosphere as part of the promotional festivities for the handset in Japan, proving once again that Samsung is all-out marketing its finest example of cell phone making. Our own editor Basil Kronfli was literally hanging off a cliff while trying to unbox the dual-core goodness as part of an Extreme Unboxing event in the Snowdonia mountain range in Wales, so we know extreme marketing when we see it.
This, however, takes the Galaxy S II promotion to a whole new level, many miles above ground, and it will be broadcasted live on Ustream, plus it will be showing tweets and messages live. Google tried something similar with the Nexus S, excusing itself it was for scientific purposes instead of pure unaltered fun, so we might be having some pictures from the Galaxy S II, while floating 20 miles above ground next month as well.
via SamsungHub
14 Comments
1. dahs (unregistered)
when i glanced at this and saw july 15th and galaxy S2 i got all excited thinking it was an ATT announcement or something for the US...=[
2. tmetaylor (unregistered)
I thought the same
8. TreyTreyTaylor (Posts: 709; Member since: 21 Dec 2010)
me too. thought it was an official announcement of the attain, function, and within. God what awful names.
3. AndroidOS (Posts: 100; Member since: 21 Jun 2011)
There better be some multitasking going on here.
My upgrade is coming up and it's going to be the LG Thrill (HTC Holidy maybe)
or the SGS 2.
9. Lucas777 (Posts: 2137; Member since: 06 Jan 2011)
get the thrill... it is nice... and didnt the iphone just do this... really samsung?
12. Bob (unregistered)
Oh god, here comes the copying from Apple thing.
This is a promotional festivity that they do in Japan all the time
4. pandamaja (unregistered)
Ha, I love how space is getting this phone before the US.
5. Bob (unregistered)
Ha, and I love how other countries are just getting getting this as tests so it will be perfect when it comes to America.
10. pandamaja (unregistered)
hey, maybe it'll LAND in the US!
11. Bob (unregistered)
It'll LAND here when it's been tested in the less important countries.
Since it will obviously sell more here.
6. Synack (unregistered)
@pandamaja - Yeah that's kind of insulting.
7. r2212xx (Posts: 41; Member since: 18 Apr 2011)
This proves there are really aliens in the space and this is Samsung's strategy to advertise their device to them.. lol.
13. wishywash (unregistered)
f**k that give me the phone!
14. Watercycle (unregistered)
that thing, is just never going to make it to the US =(
and maybe i read it wrong but that comment from bob sounded really ignorant/ass-hat-ish


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I have an idea that is a way to do business online or through an app that I was unable to find any evidence of being done before (through both an online search and brief patent search) . I'm fairly serious about obtaining a patent to protect me if I implement my idea and bigger/other companies end up copying it and are in a better position to execute it. Most of the exact business process has been done in person and sometimes done online for major companies, but the business process hasn't been done with the likely ease and convenience of doing it for everyday consumers online. Examples, especially of websites that have business process patents would be very helpful. Thanks so much in advance for any help.
The law of business method patents and patent eligibility (35 USC 101) is still in flux, even after two Supreme Court decisions (i.e., the Bilski and Prometheus cases). More recently, the Federal Circuit in CLS Bank International v. Alice Corp. Pty. Ltd., 685 F.3d 1341 (Fed. Cir. 2012) addressed a claim regarding a computer system for reducing settlement risk for business transactions. Two judges found the claim to be patent eligible because the computer limitations "play a significant part in the performance of the invention." One judge dissented, arguing that the claims merely consist of a well-known and abstract idea that is implemented using a computer.
Nonetheless, a general rule of thumb is that if you can performed the claimed method using your head with a pencil and paper, it is probably too abstract to be patentable. Implementing the claimed method via a computer is not a magic patent-eligibility card. You need to have a patent attorney sit down and analyze what you want to claim as your invention.
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You should speak to a patent attorney and discuss your idea with that person and get the feedback you'll need. It won't really be possible for get more detail here.
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Unless your reading and learning includes law school and many years practicing law and even judging cases, you're not going to be able to make any determination about anything like this. Patents for business methods are a hot issue now due to the Supreme Court's opinion 2 years ago in In re Bilski ruling, and that decision hasn't been in place long enough for there to be a clear guideline on how patentees and their lawyers should proceed. Please see the link below on the Bilski line of cases and their arguments.
One thing's for sure -- you can't do this without professional help, and you shouldn't even try. This site doesn't count as "professional help" --you need to hire your own patent lawyer.
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You can't do this without retaining intellectual propety counsel to conduct a patent clearance analysis. Further, you should not assume that patent protection is the best and most efficient way to protect your invention. Finally, you should not assume that your idea is patentable---we do not provide intellectual property for mere ideas----we provide intellectual property rights for tangible inventions or works of art, music, film, authorship----you have to do the hard work of showing how your invention works and showing that it is viable before you can get a patent. Quite obviously, you need to retain intellectual property counsel. Otherwise you are spinning your wheels.Ask a similar question
Part of the new law changes requires the director to implement a Transitional Program for Covered Business Method Patents. They are going to enable a special "post-grant review
proceeding" in order to facilitate the challenge of business method patent claims.
I have much to say about the sudden history of business method patents, far too much to exceed the "characters remaining" here.
Needless to say BMP's will be under attack.
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Attorney Koslyn is right. The Bilski decision of the Supreme Court in June 2010 put a new perspective on what kinds of business-related methods are eligible to be considered for patenting, regardless of how novel and non-obvious they might be.
And the foes of such patents have gotten a bit of headway in Congress, which passed the America Invents Act ("AIA"), signed by Pres. Obama last September 16. Since "business method" patents seem to be especially suspect, Congress created a special interim procedure to challenge such patents under the AIA, which happens to go live starting this Sunday. Says the US PTO's website:
"The transitional program for covered business method patents (TPCBM) is a new trial proceeding conducted at the Board to review the patentability of one or more claims in a covered business method patent. TPCBM proceedings employ the standards and procedures of a post grant review, with certain exceptions. For example, for first to invent patents only a subset of prior art is available to support the petition. Further, a person may not file a petition for a TPCBM proceeding unless the person or the person's real party in interest or privy has been sued for infringement of the patent or charged with infringement under the patent. The procedure for conducting TPCBM review will take effect on September 16, 2012, but only applies to covered business method patents. The program will sunset for new TPCBM petitions on September 16, 2020."
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The Bilski case established that business methods are still entitled to a patent if they meet the "machine or transformation" test, meaning that the business method has to be tied to a machine (e.g., a special purpose computer) and/or some transformative steps have to be involved. Thus, if the budget permits and the business method appears to have commercial value, it is still generally wise to apply for a utility patent and possibly for a design patent (e.g., user interface), even in this somehow uncertain environment. Hope this general info helps.
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At present, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office will allow a patent application (assuming there is novelty) as long as there is some hardware in the claim, such as a processor. Having hardware should mean that you pass the "machine-or-transformation" test that the Supreme Court in the Bilski case said was one possible test, but not the only test. Lower courts are holding invalid many cases that should pass this test. The best solution is to come up with a hardware block diagram. Most software can also be implemented in digital logic circuitry and the courts will have a hard time saying that digital circuitry is not capable of being patented.
On the other hand, if you have designed a website to implement a well known manual process, you may have a hard time convincing the patent examiner that you have done something that is non-obvious.
Also be aware that by merely obtaining a patent, nobody is going to be beating down your door to try to license your invention from you. Obtaining a patent only gives you the ability to sue infringers. That is not a trivial or inexpensive project.
You certainly need to hire someone to help you with your specific situation.
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What Deepak is discussing in paragraph 1 is a strategy in seeking to address the barrier to patentability arising from the "patent-eligible subject matter" requirement of sec. 101 of the patent law. He helpfully points out that it may not be sufficient just to convince the Examiners at the patent office, because a granted patent can nevertheless be challenged in court. And as I pointed out in my separate answer, there is a new procedure available starting today, wherein a granted "business method" patent may under certain circumstances be challenged at the patent office as well. Then, in paragraph 2 of his answer, he reminds us of another hurdle to patentability. Even if the claim is written to define patent-eligible subject matter, the claimed invention must also be determined to satisfy section 103 of the patent law, namely that it would not have been obvious, at the time the invention was made, to a person having ordinary skill in the pertinent field, with access to all the prior art.
Thank you both for your helpful insight. I do have the means and intention to hire an attorney if the time is right to file the patent, but as a small business, I'd like to figure out the patent-ability of my business idea because it does not seem to make sense to proceed with this time and expense of a patent if I really don't have a case at all for one. Unfortunately it doesn't clearly pass the hardware/machine test, but I believe that doesn't exclude me from getting a patent. My idea would allow customers to order a specific service anonymously for free through the software/app/website that they were only previously allowed to get by calling someone, going through a lengthy process, and often paying for it. While I'd probably try to emphasize the software portion and "digital logic circuitry" that Deepak said, the prior sentence doesn't seem to pass Derek's paragraph #2 on non-obviousness; however, my case for non-obviousness is that the idea has never been done online. The process is sometimes done, but my implementation of the idea would be a change in the industry from the way the process and business is done. Any help will be very appreciated. I do want it to be patentable but I don't want that to get in the way of seeing the truth of my case and don't want to be seduced incorrectly believe it will be. Do I just have a business idea or do I have a patentable business idea?
It would be nice if the answer could be a binary YES or NO. But these days, the results from the patent office are not clearly predictable, and for those matters that pass that hurdle, the further hurdles of an administrative agency trial and then three layers of potential court litigation (federal district court, Court of Appeals, and Supreme Court) mean that the question is a mystery wrapped up in an enigma. Think of it as a matter best addressed by "fuzzy logic." Find one or more patent attorneys you can communicate with and feel you trust, disclose the invention confidentially, and have a discussion about strategies for drafting claims and the odds of succeeding at various levels of pushback. Get estimates of how much the work at each of the stages would be likely to cost. And estimate the value to your business of the rights provided by such a patent. Then make a business decision based on expected present value.
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to have acquiesced in it "Members of private societies and associations must exhaust the remedies given them by the rules of the society before appealing to the courts for relief." Jeane v. Grand Lodge (Me.) 30 Atl. 70. The decided weight of authority is that a member of a mutual benefit society must resort for the correction of an alleged wrong done to him as such member to the tribunals of the society, and, when the proceedings are regular, the action of the society is conclusive, and cannot be inquired into collaterally. State v. Grand Lodge (N. J. Sup.) 22 Atl. 63. The method of suspension or expulsion, as provided by the laws and rules of the society, must be strictly complied with. But if the suspension is irregular and illegal (which we do not find to have been the case here) the remedy for such irregular and illegal suspension is a writ of mandamus. State v. Grand Lodge, supra; 5 Am. & Eng. Enc. Law, 688, 689, and note; Society v. Weatherly, 75 Ala. 248. As said by the supreme court of Maine in the case of Jeane v. Grand Lodge, supra:
"It is just and reasonable to hold that when a member of such society has a remedy, under the rules of !lis order, from any supposed erroneous action injurious to himself, he should first exhaust that remedy, before appealing to the courts for relief. It is qUiL0 apparent that the efficiency of such organizations cannot be maintained H a member may, at his pleasure, remove such controversies into the civil courts, to the exclusion of the tribunals which have been established for their adjudication."
The court erred in instructing the jury to find for the plaintiff, and in refusing to charge them to return a verdict for the defendant. The judgment is therefore reversed, and the cause remanded. Reversed and remanded.
HUPFELD v. AUTOMATON PIANO CO. et al. (Circuit Uourt, S. D. New York. April 6, 1895.)
FOREIGN CORPORATION-AuEN PLAD1TIFF-ApPEARAKCE-JUHISDICTION.
The complainant, an alien, brought suit against the defendant company, a foreign corporation, and joined with it as defendant a resident ancillary receiver of said company, to restrain the infringement of a patent. No notice of appearance was filed by the defendants, but they applied to the court, and obtained an extension of time to plead, answer, demur, or take such other action as might be advised. On motion to dismiss the complaint as against the corporation on the ground of want of jurisdiction, held, that the obtaining of such extension of time was the equivalent of a general appearance. The suit against the receiver was being prosecuted without the consent of the state court appointing the receiver. Held, that the general rule that a court will not entertain jurisdiction of a suit against a receiver appointed by another court until the appointing court has given its consent, does not apply when the jurisdiction of the court in which the receiver is sued is conferred by federal laws, and when such jurisdiction is exclusive.
In a suit by the owner of a patent to restrain the infringement of the same by a receiver, the federal courts will entertain jurisdiction of such suit, without leave of the state court first obtained, to enjoin individuals, even though they be officers of a state court, from acts of infringement.
HUPFELD V. AUTOMATON PlANO CO.
This is an action by Ludwig Hupfeld against the Automaton Piano Company and Abram B. De Frece, as receiver of said company, to restrain the infringement of a patent Goepel & Raegener (Thomas M. Rowlette, of counsel), for complainant. S. O. Edmonds, for defendants. LACOMBE, Circuit Judge. This is a bill in equity for infringement of United States letters patent No. 429,419, with the usual averments. Complainant is an alien, the defendant piano company is a New Jersey corporation, and the defendant De Frece a citizen of the state of New York, and an inhabitant of the Southern district thereof. The present motion is to set aside the service of the subpoena ad respondendum, and to dismiss the bill on the ground that this court has not jurisdiction of the defendants, or either of them. The defendant piano company has obtained extension of time to plead, answer, demur, or take such other action as it may be advised. This is the equivalent of a general appearance, and the motion to dismiss, as to it, is therefore denied. The defendant De Frece was appointed receiver of the defendant corporation by the chancery court Jersey, and subsequently was appointed ancillary receiver by the supreme court of this state. Motion'to dismiss as to him is made upon the ground that complainant has not obtained leave to sue him from either of the courts appointing him. Leave was obtained from the New York court, but the order giving it has since been vacated. The general rule undoubtedly is that a court will not entertain jurisdiction of a suit against a receiver appointed by another court until the appointing court has given its consent that he be sued. This rule rests on principles of comity, and is considered essential for the protection of the receiver as an officer of the court appointing him against unnecessary and expensive litigation touching controversies wherein it may often be within the power of the appointing court to give ample relief to any person aggrieved. But the rule has its qualifications, and the case at bar does not fall within it. This suit is one under the federal laws, involving questions as to the v.alidity and infringement of United States letters patent, which the state courts have no jurisdiction to determine. Store Service Co. v. Clark, 100 N. Y. 370, 3 N. E. 335. The federal courts cannot assent to the proposition that they have no jurisdiction, without leave of the state courts first obtained, to enjoin individuals, even though they be officers of state courts, from infringing upon the rights of the owner of a patent. To do so would' be to abdicate functions which, under the federal constitution, are confided to them, and to them exclusively, by the federal laws. Such a refusal would leave it within the power of the state courts to exclude the holder of rights granted to him by the United States from the only tribunals which have jurisdiction to vindicate those rights. The reasoning in Barron Y. Burnside, 121 U. S. 186, 7 Sup. Ct. 931, and other similar authorities applies perfectly to such a case as this. The motion is denied.
PULLMAN'S PALACE-CAR CO. v. WASHBURN. (Circuit Court, D. Massachusetts. March 8, 1895.) No. 336.
A statute of Massachusetts (Pub. St. c. 161, § 24) provides that "orig· inal writs, ... ... ... in which the plaintiff is not an inhabitant of the commonwealth, shall, before entry thereof, be indorsed by some sufficient person who is such inhabitant," who shall be liable for costs. Held, that the in9,orser of a writ, under this statute, is liable for costs incurred in a federal court after removal to it of a suit commenced in a state court, as well as for the costs in the state court.
2. FEDERAL C0URTS-JURISDICTION-ANCILI,ARY PROCEEDINGS. Helll, further, that a writ of scire facias to enforce, against such indorser
of a writ, a liability for costs under a judgment of a federal court, is not an original but an ancillary proceeding, of which the federal courts have jurisdiction without regard to the citizenship of the parties or the amount in controversy.
JUDGMENTS-COLLATERAl, ATTACK.
A judgment, rendered in a federal court, in an action removed from a state court, cannot be collaterally attacked for want of proper jurisdictional allegations in the petition for removaL A judgment cannot be collaterally attacked merely because erroneous and voidable on a writ of error as between the parties to it. The indorser of a writ is privy to a judgment against the plaintiff in such writ, and cannot, upon scire facias against him, dispute the validity of such judgment.
This was a writ of scire fadoas sued out by the Pullman's PalaceCar Company against Frank L. 'Washburn to enforce against him a liability for costs as indorser of the writ in an action brought against the Pullman's Company by one Maggie l\:1. Harrison, in which a judgment had been rendered against the plain. tiff for $813.94, costs. Johnson & Underwood, for plaintiff. Freedom Hutchinson, for defendant. PUTNAM, Circuit Judge. The pith of the statute by virtue of which the indorsement of the writ in the original cause was made by the defendant in this suit, as found in Public Statutes of Massachusetts (chapter 161, § 24), is as follows:
"Original writs, ... ... ... in which the plaintiff is not an inhabitant of the commonwealth, shall, before entry thereof, be indorsed by some sufficient person who is such inhabitant. ... ... .. Every indorser, in case of avoidance or inability of the plaintiff, shall be liable to pay all costs awarded against the plaintiff, if the suit therefor is commenced within one year after the original judgment."
The present suit is by scire facias, issued out of this court against the indorser. The original writ was brought in the state court, and removed to this court on the petition of the Pullman's Palace-Car Company, the present plaintiff, and defendant in the original suit. 'l'he petition for the removal was filed in the state