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Sometime soon after Netflix's streaming service launched, Jeff Thompson found himself watching episode after episode of Law & Order. It was so easy. An episode would end and he'd click "next." We've all been there. You can watch a lot of Law & Order that way.
But Thompson's approach was different than your average binge-TV viewer's. Thompson brought an archivist's flair to his hours watching. As he'd go, he'd screenshot "oddities": scenes taken from a first-person perspective, or those portrayed in an unusual split-screen fashion.
After a bit, most of the oddities melted away and just one thing—one single thing—kept popping out of the frame to grab Thompson's attention: computers. There's a computer. There's another. And there's another. He kept screenshotting them. "It didn't take long," Thompson wrote to me, "to realize this should be extended to an exhaustive project."
So in 2012 Thompson applied for, and received, a commission from Rhizome, an organization in New York City that supports work at the intersection of arts and technology.
And that's when his work really began.
Thompson set out to document every single computer that appears in Law & Order over the course of the series' run. He ended up finding about 2,500 of them. He took five screenshots of each instance, which means that, all told, Thompson collected 11,000—yes, you read that right: 11,000—screenshots. Which, he admits, "sounds pretty insane." (The best of those screenshots, one per computer appearance, will eventually be published to Thompson's Tumblr http://
To understand just how "insane" this undertaking this was, let's begin with the basics: Law & Order ran for 20 years. It is tied with Gunsmoke for the longest-running live-action show of all time. There are 456 episodes. When Thompson received the complete DVD box set he ordered from NBC (Netflix's quality was too unreliable), it weighed in at 20 pounds. Thompson suspects that NBC hadn't mailed all 120 DVDs together too often: "They shipped it to me and they seemed to have no idea how to pack it, because it came with all the boxes all torn up and stuff," he told me. (The complete set, which cost $700, was purchased with funds from the Rhizome commission.)
Now, each Law & Order episode is around 45 minutes long. To watch all of them would take about 319 hours, or about two straight months of watching 40 hours per week.
But that's not how Thompson did it. Thompson parsed out his Law & Order consumption over a one-and-a-half-year period, during which time he watched about an episode a day, and sometimes five or six on a weekend. He watched these episodes, not like a casual Law & Order viewer (Thompson, after all, is no casual viewer) but at 150 percent speed, reducing each episode to a mere 30 minutes, "which," Thompson admits, "sounds kind of crazy but it's totally watchable that way. It did drive my wife crazy, in the background, but ... it saved me over 100 hours of watching time. So it was kind of obvious that that was the way to go."
Looking back, Thompson says that for the first 10 seasons or so, the project was new and exciting. "After that, it became more and more of a drag," he told me. "By the end it was really just work."
Law & Order, Thompson says, is in some ways a perfect artifact for exploring the history of our relationship to computers. For one, the show's run covers what is perhaps the significant period for this relationship, the two decades during which computers arrived at and gradually became central features of our lives. But Thompson says that the show's value is more than that. It's "also the format of the show: It's ripped from the headlines. It's meant to mirror things that are happening right now, to be really reflective of culture."
Additionally, unlike other crime procedurals, Law & Order, in contrast with CSI, tends to give a pretty realistic portrayal of our technological capabilities. Thompson said there are really only two exceptions to this: the classic "zoom and enhance" trick, which works way better on TV than in reality, and the elegance of software such as facial-recognition programs. "The real thing often is really boring looking, or really technical," Thompson says. For the show, they hire a designer who makes software that looks like what your "mom might think facial-recognition software would look like."
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Another clear sky forecast tempted me out to the Tebay road again last night. I have a list of zenith targets that will keep me going for a few sessions. It is important to understand the limitations of your setup in astrophotography. I avoid nebulae, as the red light they emit is mostly filtered out before … Continue reading
Patience and perseverance…
The forecast for the night of the 26th of September looked very promising, so I packed the car and set off for my Tebay Road site about at about 7.30 pm. Full darkness was due at 9pm, so that would give me half an hour to drive and set up, plus a full hour for … Continue reading
Looking south west for darkness
Several locations around Kendal are dark enough for good astrophotography, but the one direction that causes problems is south west, where the lights of Morecambe Bay fill the horizon with their orange glow. About an hour's drive away is the West Cumbria coastline. To the south of St. Bees it runs in a straight line … Continue reading
NLC timelapse experiment
Around midnight last night, my EAS colleague Stuart tweeted that the noctilucent cloud ("NLC") season had kicked off at last, so I grabbed the camera and tripod and headed out. The cloud bank in front of the NLC was a disappointment, but it was a good opportunity to experiment with time-lapse. This is about a hundred frames of … Continue reading
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Over the first few days of May, comet C/2102 K1 (PANSTARRS) flew past galaxy M51 (The "Whirlpool" Galaxy). On the night of 2 May, I was out on the Tebay Road until the very late early hours of 3 May, making just about every mistake in the book as I tried to assemble a three-frame mosaic of … Continue reading
Third clear night in a week!
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So Fall is here and the apples are ripe. My girlfriends aunt has an apple farm and an apple press. so we decided to go up there and fill up a carboy. I was gonna make plain old hard cider but i heard somewhere about apple jack and decided to give it a try. So to make the apple wine i used about 4 gallons of that super sweet and fresh homemade cider. Then i added about 4 and a half cups of raw sugar from whole foods. For the yeast im using champagne yeast. and i probably gonna let it ferment and age for about 3 weeks, at which point i will bottle some and put the rest outside in upside down plastic gallon jugs, in order to make the apple jack. What do you guys think?
Also its been a little more that 24 hours and bubbling is sparse. There is a pretty thick layer at the bottum that i cant tell if its sugar or yeast. I just poured the sugar in. should i have boiled it down into a syrup before adding it, or is it fine to just pour in regular course sugar. I just hoping the layer at the bottum isnt all sugar.
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oh i forgot i dumped some cinnamon (about 1 tbsp or two) and a little lemon juice in. Also 2 teaspoons of pectic enzyme and t teaspoons of yeast nutrient. decided to skip on the campden tablets
I think that putting the sugars in, in granule form, is actually beneficial to the process. Basically you end up with a lower gravity through the duration of the ferment, but as the sugars are eaten, more are dissolved. At least that's my theory. After a few days all of the dextrose was fully dissipated.
do you speak from experience hex? I was planning on following rukus' advice and shaking it up a good bit, any other opinions?
I just started an apfelwein last saturday according to the "official" apfelwein thread. I shook the dextrose in the half empty gallon jugs and when all was said and done a lot settled to the bottom of the better bottle. In less than a week it had all been eaten though.
I'd be afraid of oxidation from shaking, but if you had a way to stir it without any extra O2 getting in there, I doubt it would hurt. My theory on the sugars dissipating is from my small bit of gastronomy experience (2lbs of dextrose in 5 gallons of apple juice would be above room temperature dissolving ratios, but as that sugar is converted to alcohol you'll have more capacity for the rest to disolve), but I don't know how having the "raw" sugars at the bottom might effect the yeasts health (mine seem healthy though).
so how long do you guys think i should let it ferment and sit. should i bottle right after it stops bubbling, should i wait a week. Should i carbonate some of it? any thoughts ideas?
oh and im turning at least half of it into apple jack hopefully. so i wont bother bottling or carbonating that. any tips on that process?
be careful of fusel concentrations. The manner you describe making the high octane hooch will lead to high concentrations of fusel alc and also... lead to blindness. This is why this method isn't used anymore. You can't separate out the good from the bad, so you get concentrated bad with your concentrated good. I wouldn't recc this, or drink much of it.
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- Use liner brush and Black to paint words "of the week" on star.
- Use end of paintbrush dipped in Tuscan Red to dot on tips of star; let dry.
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As with the book, the focus is entirely on the characters. There is no explanation as to how or why they are in the situation they're in, which is always a brave move, and it really works well here.
I find myself drawn to, and affected by, father & son stories and this one packs a profound intensity unlike any I've seen before. The performances from the always-reliable Mortensen and newcomer Smit-McPhee are terrific. Even with such small supporting roles, Robert Duvall & Charlize Theron also leave their mark.
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Bretazenil has a more broad spectrum of action than traditional benzodiazepines as it has been shown to have high affinity binding to alpha 4 and alpha 6 GABAA receptors in addition to acting on alpha1,2,3 and 5 subunits which traditional benzodiazepine drugs work on. The partial agonist imidazenil does not, however, act at these subunits. The approximate equivalent dose of bretazenil is 0.5 mg of bretazenil is equivalent to 10 mg of diazepam. The elimination half-life of bretazenil is 2.5 hours and is rapidly absorbed after oral administration. Contrary to the results found in animals, no indications for a dissociation of the sedative and anxiolytic effects of bretazenil were found in man. In fact. bretazenil has a more pronounced psychomotor-impairing effect than diazepam. Bretazenil produces marked sedative-hypnotic effects when taken alone and when combined with alcohol. This human study also indicates that Bretazenil is possibly more sedative than Diazepam. The reason is unknown, but the study suggests the possibility that a full-agonist metabolite may be generated in humans but not animals previously tested or else that there are significant differences in benzodiazepine receptor population in animals and humans.
In a study of monkeys bretazenil has been found to antagonise the effects of full agonist benzodiazepines. However, bretazenil has been found to enhance the effects of neurosteroids acting on the neurosteroid binding site of the GABAA receptor. Another study found that bretazenil acted as an antagonist provoking withdrawal symptoms in monkeys who were physically dependent on the full agonist benzodiazepine triazolam.
Partial agonists of benzodiazepine receptors have been proposed as a possible alternative to full agonists of the benzodiazepine site to overcome the problems of tolerance, dependence and withdrawal which limits the role of benzodiazepines in the treatment of anxiety, insomnia and epilepsy. Such adverse effects appear to be less problematic with bretazenil than full agonists. Bretazenil, also has been found to have less abuse potential than benzodiazepine full agonists such as diazepam and alprazolam, long-term use of bretazenil would still be expected to result in dependence and addiction.
Bretazenil alters the sleep EEG profile and causes a reduction in cortisol secretion and increases significantly the release of prolactin. Bretazenil has effective hypnotic properties but impairs cognitive ability in humans. Bretazenil causes a reduction in the number of movements between sleep stages and delays movement into REM sleep. At a dosage of 0.5 mg of bretazenil REM sleep is decreased and stage 2 sleep is lengthened.
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In a study in rats cross-tolerance between the benzodiazepine drug chlordiazepoxide and bretazenil has been demonstrated. In a primate study bretazenil was found to be able to replace the full agonist diazepam in diazepam dependent primates without precipitating withdrawal effects, demonstrating cross tolerance between bretazenil and benzodiazepine agonists, whereas other partial agonists precipitated a withdrawal syndrome. The differences are likely due to differences in instrinsic properties between different benzodiazepine partial agonists. Cross-tolerance has also been shown between bretazenil and full agonist benzodiazepines in rats. In rats tolerance is slower to develop to the anticonvulsant effects compared to the benzodiazepine site full agonist diazepam. However, tolerance developed to the anticonvulsant effects of bretazenil partial agonist more quickly than they developed to imidazenil.
Bretazenil was originally developed as an anti-anxiety drug and has been studied for its use as an anticonvulsant but has never commercialised. It is a partial agonist for GABAA receptors in the brain. David Nutt from the University of Bristol has suggested bretazenil as a possible base from which to make a better social drug, as it displays several of the positive effects of alcohol intoxication such as relaxation and sociability, but without the bad effects such as aggression, amnesia, nausea, loss of coordination, liver disease and brain damage. The effects of bretazenil can also be quickly reversed by the action of flumazenil, which is used as an antidote to benzodiazepine overdose, in contrast to alcohol for which there is no effective and reliable antidote.
Traditional benzodiazepines are associated with side effects such as drowsiness, physical dependence and abuse potential and have become increasingly unpopular in the general publics eyes. It was hoped that bretazenil and other partial agonists would be an improvement on traditional benzodiazepines which are full agonists due to preclinical evidence that their side effect profile was less than that of full agonist benzodiazepines. For a variety of reasons however, bretazenil and other partial agonists such as pazinaclone and abecarnil were not clinically successful. However, research continues into other compounds with partial agonist and compounds which are selective for certain GABAA benzodiazepine receptor subtypes.


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California (STOCA1) tax revenue trailed forecasts in February for the third consecutive month, coming in $146.3 million or 3.2 percent below projections in Governor Jerry Brown's budget, the state controller's office said.
Controller John Chiang, in a press release, attributed much of the shortfall to a "large increase" in early tax refunds issued in February.
Monthly revenues in the most-populous state have trailed Brown administration projections since November, according to updates from Chiang's office. The controller said state officials have developed short-term measures such as internal and external borrowing to prevent California from running out of cash in March.
"While revenues continue to track below projections, the cash conservation measures that were quickly and decisively adopted last month will ensure that the state will be able to pay its bills for the remainder of this fiscal year," Chiang said in the press release.
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From 'Cookbook' to Evidence-Based Medicine
You won't find too many physicians who will debate that point anymore. According to results of the HealthLeaders Media Industry Survey 2011, senior healthcare executives ranked quality and patient safety among their top three priorities. But it's still difficult to gather the large amounts of information necessary for best practices to be developed. At least it has been.
Paul Grundy, MD, is hoping that will change quickly. He leads a massive effort by his employer, IBM, and the Premier Healthcare Alliance, to integrate healthcare data from hospital and non-hospital care sites to measure performance and improve population health.
Grundy, who is IBM's director of health care transformation, says the effort will involve more than 2,400 hospitals and thousands of other sites of care (physician practices, outpatient clinics, etc.) Those participants will share their data about outcomes to gain insight, measure performance and improve population health. The project, they say, will support hospitals, doctors and other health providers in working together to enhance patient safety while reducing the overuse of procedures, readmissions, unnecessary ER visits and hospital-acquired conditions.
"We're moving to a place where we'll have data—and actionable information--for the first time," he says. "This is beginning to help build the tools and solutions to make use of that data."
The key, though, outside of the data, is physician direction and accountability, he says. In addition to the data component, the effort is meant to provide this information to physicians so that they set standards for themselves by which they will be held accountable. Contrast that with the old-time utilization reviews that HMOs used to employ and it's a quantum leap forward.
Regarding the purchase or use of clinical technology, healthcare leaders rated high quality care and physician alignment as their top priorities, according to the 2011 HealthLeaders Media Industry Survey.
By using cloud computing, the system is aimed at providing physicians clinical decision support, analytics, data, and a quickly accessible dashboard, so that they have much more information about the patient.
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Evidence-based outcomes have been discussed for decades with virtually no progress [INVALID] for many reasons but one common theme, the greatest impediment and most absurd myth: adoption requires physician consensus. If evidence-based outcome tools are to be accepted, there must be a re-prioritization of stakeholder "buy-in". Employers pay for all health care costs (either directly or through taxes) so their approval trumps all other stakeholders. In that respect, the ROI to employers of evidence-based outcomes is the key driver to adoption. Make evidence-based outcomes transparent on a provider-specific basis in employer health plans and watch the stampede of consumers flocking to the best value providers as the poor performing providers scurry to improve efficiency and quality. Practice pattern and price disparity will virtually overnight; while quality will improve. Let's eliminate this artificial barrier that stymies evidence-based outcomes. And let full transparency and market forces apply to health care just like every other sector of a free-market economy. Employers, transparency and free-market competition are the answer. Michael Cadger, CEO Monocle Health Data, LLC www.monoclehealth.com
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Chicago Blackhawks' annual summer convention likely includes players who will be cap casualties
by George Malik on 07/18/14 at 09:35 PM ET
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The Chicago Blackhawks are holding their annual summer fan convention--something I wish other teams would emulate--in the Windy City this weekend, so the warm fuzzies have begun in earnest.
Capgeek will tell you that there's a $2.216 million elephant in the room, however, an elephant that will ensure that not every player who attends the convention will start the season with the Hawks, and NHL.com's Brian Hedger discussed the Hawks' cap overage with GM Stan Bowman on Friday:
"We certainly have to be ready to go by October, that's the goal," Bowman said Friday at the annual Blackhawks Convention at the Chicago Hilton. "A lot of things change between now and then. You have to display some patience."
Bowman is setting a good example, but fans and media aren't as willing to wait. The fact one, or more, players won't be with the organization much longer will be a storyline for the Blackhawks until something happens.
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Tipping my hat to the Blackhawks as the team prepares to 'reload'
by George Malik on 06/02/14 at 01:16 AM ET
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Having a 2 AM-conversation with Franklin Steele on Twitter, I had to amend my take as to why the Chicago Blackhawks weren't able to defend their Stanley Cup championship. As a Red Wings fan, I would argue that a team needs Vladimir Konstantinov and Sergei Mnatsakanov-sized motivation to repeat, and I would point out that the Blackhawks played until June 24th of 2013--and sometimes forget that 90% of the players who didn't make the Conference Final are already beginning their summertime workouts to prepare physically and mentally for the next season.
Chicago played so very late into the lockout-marred 2013 season that the mental and physical challenges the speedy Hawks faced had to feel insurmountable, and then Franklin reminded me that on top of having perhaps nine weeks to re-focus, TEN Blackhawks participated in the 2014 Olympics in Sochi.
Even as a Wings fan, I have to applaud the hell out of the Hawks for getting to Game 7 of the Western Conference Final given the challenges they faced.
ESPN's Craig Custance penned an Insider-only entry as to what the Blackhawks need to do to "reload for 2014-2015," and while I'm sure that you'd argue point 1 of 3, inking Jonathan Toews and Patrick Kane to contract extensions ahead of the pair qualifying for unrestricted free agency next summer, is job #1, I'd suggest that Custance's second point may matter more than the guaranteed first occurring:
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Teuvo Teravainen Arrives In Chicago
by Paul on 03/21/14 at 03:29 PM ET
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from Scott Powers of ESPNChicago,
A lot of events needed to happen between June 22, 2012, and Friday for Teuvo Teravainen to be on the verge of making his NHL debut for the Chicago Blackhawks.
First, the Blackhawks needed Teravainen to fall to No. 18 in the first round of the 2012 draft. He was expected by many to go in the top 10. But after nine teams ahead of the Blackhawks addressed defenseman needs, Teravainen was still on the board.
"We weren't targeting him because we had him as one of the top players in the draft," Blackhawks general manager Stan Bowman said Friday. "We certainly liked him. We never thought he would slide to us that far. As the draft went on and on, that was the year all the defensemen were taken one after another after another. So we started looking at one another when it got to 13 or 14.
"We said, Wow, he might be there. And we talked to our scouts, and they said: 'No question. If he's there, we've got to take him. He's such a talented player.' For whatever reason, that happens sometimes. We're fortunate. We're not going to complain about the fact he slid down to us."
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From Amanda Marcotte published in Slate on Monday:
The shocking case of Ariel Castro, charged with kidnapping three young women and holding them for years as rape and torture objects, fascinated the nation when it broke last month. But Cleveland has had a problem with residents living in fear of sexual predators for a while now.
As Phillip Morris of the Plain Dealer reported in April, the discovery of serial killer Anthony Sowells collection of corpses in 2009 created a climate of fear that only escalated as other serial rapists terrorized residents. Clevelanders have been repeatedly reminded of how many monsters live among us, attacking women under the radar, and understandably they are worried.
But there is one item of good news: Cuyahoga County, where Cleveland is located, has decided to go Eliot Ness on rapists. The Plain Dealer reports:
Cuyahoga County prosecutors and investigators are revisiting decades-old unsolved rape cases, using DNA evidence to connect serial rapes, tracking down victims and sending cases to grand juries for indictment often racing against a 20-year statute of limitations.
The Plain Dealer rightfully takes credit for this, having turned the pressure up for years on authorities. Efforts escalated in 2011 at the request of Ohios Republican attorney general Mike DeWine, and the result has been a factory line of indictments, often against men who are accused of spending decades attacking women without repercussions. Now the newspaper has created a clearinghouse page so readers can follow the stream of indictments since March, as well as other stories about the DNA testing, in one place.
Many of these indictments open up multiple cold cases at once, which is to be expected, as most rapists are serial rapists. Cleveland set aside about 3,000 untouched rape kits to be processed, which is a massive amount of work, but its hard to argue with results like this.
Law enforcement nationwide has been responding to pressure to process their backlogged rape kits, often with mixed results due to poor handling of the kits in the first place. The relative success in Cleveland should serve as a reminder of how effective rape kits can be in getting justice for victims, but only if theyre handled properly and law enforcement bothers to use them.
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The Scottsdale Fire Department marked a smooth first year on Saturday, improving response times by at least 13 seconds over its predecessor and experiencing no fatalities caused by blazes.
Integrating its fire response simultaneously with Professional Medical Transport ambulance service in February, average response times are 4:17 minutes, Fire Chief William McDonald said.
Scottsdale's previous fire service provider, the privately owned Rural/Metro Fire Department, had an average response time of about 4:30 minutes last year in Scottsdale, said Alison Cooper, Rural/Metro spokeswoman.
City Manager Jan Dolan said she is pleased with how the city has handled the transition and implementation of its own fire department.
"The transition of having our own fire department and the first year has gone very well," Dolan said. "There have been no serious problems, well, no problems. O ur response times are down, our training is up, and we're going to continue to make improvements."
Saying goodbye to Rural/ Metro was a big step for Scottsdale, which had used the company's service for more than 50 years.
The company became a target of a voter initiative launched in 2003 by firefighters funded by their unions. Voters in the city rejected the proposal to oust Rural/Metro, but six months later, Rural/ Metro announced it no longer could accommodate the needs of fast-growing Scottsdale.
When Rural/Metro's contract expired at midnight on July 1, 2005, a new era in firefighting began in the city. And Rural/Metro continued to serve much of the northeast Valley.
Scottsdale already owned 13 fire stations throughout the city as well as pumper and ladder trucks, but it spent $6 million for protective equipment and improving radio dispatch systems, McDonald said.
McDonald answered the call to come to Scottsdale after working in Fremont, Calif., as that city's fire chief.
"We knew a year was coming up on us, and it happened quick," McDonald said. "Our No. 1 goal was to transition on time, and following City Council's goals, we wanted to enhance our services and improve our response times. When I left Fremont, I just didn't want to come here and duplicate services. I wanted to make sure we were creating a department of our own. We've been lucky."
The fire department is operating on a $26.7 million annual budget, which mostly comes from the city's General Fund. As of May 31, the department came in under budget by 21 percent, McDonald said.
More improvements lie ahead, he said, including a new fire station at East Indian School Road near Miller Road, which should be completed by early 2007.
About 200 of Scottsdale's 259 fire positions were filled with Rural/Metro personnel, said Dave Cieslak, department spokesman.
"The new employees have integrated very well. People are now positioned strategically around the city to increase the level of service," Dolan said.
In the fall, a recruitment process will begin to put 20 more firefighters in place by next year, and on July 20, the city's Development Review Board will discuss plans for a $3.5 million station at 7552 E. Indian School Road.
McDonald said the City Council on Sept. 26 will begin to review the fire department's new station location study.
Between two to four new stations are proposed as part of the strategic goals for the department's future.


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U.S. Patent Office Grants Syntroleum's Reexamination Request And Rejects All Claims Of The Neste Oil 344 Patent
TULSA, Okla., Sept. 21, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- On September 14, 2012, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office ("PTO") issued an Order granting Syntroleum Corporation's (Nasdaq:SYNM) August 17th request for inter partes reexamination of U.S. Patent No. 8,187,344 and also issued an Office Action rejecting all claims of the patent as obvious in view of the prior art. The '344 patent is the subject of a patent suit filed by Neste Oil Oyj against Syntroleum on May 29, 2012 in the District of Delaware. The '344 patent is related to and shares the same inventors as a prior Neste patent (U.S. Patent No. 7,279,018), and both are directed to a fuel composition for diesel engines. The PTO's recent Order is consistent with a prior finding on March 22, 2012 by the PTO's Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences affirming the Examiner's rejection of the '018 patent's claims because "the evidence of record as a whole supports the Examiner's conclusion that the fuel composition as claimed would have been obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art ...". Neste declined to appeal this ruling and on July 31, 2012, the PTO issued a Reexamination Certificate canceling all claims of the '018 patent.
Syntroleum's Answer to Neste's First Amended Complaint regarding the '344 patent is due on September 24th, and Syntroleum's Motion to Stay the district court action in view of the PTO reexamination proceedings is pending. Syntroleum has not infringed any of Neste's alleged patent rights and Syntroleum will continue to vigorously defend against the complaint's allegations. Syntroleum will also pursue invalidity of the '344 patent via the PTO reexamination proceedings, and is confident that its position will be vindicated.
About Syntroleum (Nasdaq:SYNM)Syntroleum Corporation owns the Syntroleum® Process for Fischer-Tropsch (FT) conversion of synthesis gas into liquid hydrocarbons, the Synfining® Process for upgrading FT liquid hydrocarbons into refined petroleum products, and the Bio-Synfining® technology for converting renewable feedstocks into drop-in fuels. Syntroleum has a 50% interest in Dynamic Fuels, LLC, which operates a 75 million gallon per year renewable fuels facility located in Geismar, Louisiana utilizing its Bio-Synfining® technology. For additional information, visit the Company's web site at www.syntroleum.com The Syntroleum Corporation logo is available at http://www.globenewswire.com/newsroom/prs/?pkgid=5984 This document includes forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, as well as historical facts. These forward-looking statements may include statements relating to the Fischer-Tropsch ("FT") Process, Syntroleum® Process, the Synfining® Process, and related technologies including, gas-to-liquids ("GTL"), coal-to-liquids ("CTL"), and biomass-to-liquids ("BTL"), our renewable fuels Bio-Synfining® Technology, plants based on the Syntroleum® Process and/or Bio-Synfining®, anticipated costs to design, construct and operate these plants, the time of commencement and completion of the design and construction of these plants, expected production of fuel, obtaining required financing for these plants and our other activities, the economic construction and operations of Fischer-Tropsch ("FT") and/or Bio-Synfining® plants, the value and markets for products, testing, certification, characteristics and use of Plant products, the continued development of the Syntroleum® Process and Bio-Synfining® Technology and the anticipated capital expenditures, expense reductions, cash outflows, expenses, use of proceeds from out equity offerings, anticipated revenues, availability of catalyst, our support of and relationship with our licensees, and any other forward-looking statements including future growth, cash needs, capital availability, operations, business plans and financial results. When used in this document, the words "anticipate," "believe," "estimate," "expect," "intend," "may," "plan," "project," "should" and similar expressions are intended to be among the statements that identify forward‑looking statements. Although we believe that the expectations reflected in these forward‑looking statements are reasonable, these kinds of statements involve risks and uncertainties. Actual results may not be consistent with these forward‑looking statements. Syntroleum undertakes no obligation to update or revise forward-looking statements to reflect changed assumptions, the occurrence of unanticipated events or changes to future operating results over time. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ from these forward-looking statements are described under "Item 1A. Risk Factors" and elsewhere in our 2011 Annual Report on Form 10K. ® "Syntroleum" is registered as a trademark and service mark in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
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