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Animals should definitely not wear clothing
With apologies to Judi and Ron Barrett
- ... because it would be disastrous for a porcupine... because a camel might wear it in the wrong places... because a snake might lose it... because a mouse could get lost in it... because a sheep might find it terribly hot... because it could be very messy for a pig... because it might make life hard for a hen... because a kangaroo would find it quite unnecessary... because a giraffe might look sort of silly... because a billy goat would eat it for lunch... because a moose could never manageAll the No points
Animals should definitely not wear clothingYes because... No because...
... because it would be disastrous for a porcupine
If a porcupine wore a shirt it would wreck it because it would riddle it with holes. Why waste material on clothes if the first time they're worn, they are wrecked?
skin needs to breathe.
many human beings suffer from vitamin D deficiencies because of a lack of exposure to the sun. (as a result of covering up and overuse of sunblock)
Body language is an integral part of communication often covered by frilly garb.
It is unfair that animals be subjected to such cruel unhealthy censorship.
human beings across cultures have been mutilated/damaged and have mutilated themselves all for the quest of looking good(which is a subjective concept); spare the animals please.
The fashion trends of the last 10 years have tended towards ripped jeans and garments. Human beings buy new clothes which have deliberate rips in them. Why then does it seem so ridiculous for a porcupine to give its clothes this ripped effect? The reality is, it is not ridiculous at all for a porcupine to rip its own clothes.
clothes with holes for each one of its spikes will fit; all kinds of netting, frills, maybe non-toxic paint?
Animals should definitely not wear clothingYes because... No because...
... because a camel might wear it in the wrong places
A camel has two humps, and besides the fact that no clothing would fit him, he would look ridiculous wearing two hats, one for each hump.
there is a rug-type saddle(sometimes with a shade) used for camel riding therefore a camel's dress is only a way of stamping servitude.
Camels need to roam free in the sun naked without human beings enslaving them and reducing them to caricatures.
But how do you determine whether they want to wear something or not?
This is assuming that clothing has to be in human format. However, should animals be open to the clothing industry, then the industry would cater for all the animals and all their individual features. It is perfectly possible and feasible for tops to be made with provision for two humps on the back.
Some camels may feel uncomfortable about their nakedness. At the moment, they have no choice in the matter at all. At least we should keep the options open for them.
Body language is a clear indicator of whether a camel is comfortable or not.
However it is difficult to read when the camel is covered.
Which means we should not dress them.
Animals should definitely not wear clothingYes because... No because...
... because a snake might lose it
Imagine a snake with pants. Unless he wore a belt (which would obstruct his movement) the pants would fall off him right away, as soon as he started to slither. Useless.
A sock creates friction making it difficult for a snake to move at all. A snake could opt for a slithery slippery fabric but that would come off(much like its skin does so often)
A snake's skin is much too beautiful to be covered by anything.
A snake`s skin functions are clothing, since a snake sheds its skin at different time during the year. A snake doesn`t need or want to wear anything over it. You try dressing a snake without being bitten the first time; before the poor thing is subdued...
A snake can't move in a sock; there's too much friction to allow slithering, or comfortable slithering; at least.
A snake would fit comfortably in a very long sock.
the pulchritude of the skin only warrants its protection.
a snake could wear a snake-skin pattern sock. then it wouldn't make much aesthetic difference.
Animals should definitely not wear clothingYes because... No because...
... because a mouse could get lost in it
We wouldn't want a mouse to get lost/trapped inside a hat, just because it is human size, not rodent size, would we?
the hairs on a rodent's body are used for many reasons covering those hairs can have fatal consequences.
A trip to Iran,Saudi Arabia or Afghanistan might answer that question.
Doll's clothes would fit on a mouse.
Clothes would not necessarily completely cover the mouse's body. How often do people actually dress to completely cover their bodies except in the depths of winter?
but in the Middle-East white clothes that cover everything are used for protection from the sun/heat/sand. White surfaces(case in point what Arab Sheikh`s wear) reflect heat of a person much better than skin-color; whatever it may be.
Animals should definitely not wear clothingYes because... No because...
... because a sheep might find it terribly hot
Sheep are already equipped with quite a lot of wool. If you supply a sheep with a sweater and a scarf, if he wouldn't faint at wearing his own hair, he would faint of heat!
shave/shear the wool and dress the sheep in a T.
Better yet anything the sheep`s comfortable in.
sheep have all genders;they're not all masculine. Maybe the distinction would be easier for you to make if Sheep dressed according to natural sex or gender(though it would be difficult to figure out which sexual category a sheep wishes to be included in).
You don't say; that's an awful lot of fainting for a sheep.
I've never even heard of fainting or dehydrated sheep!
Perhaps just boots"?
Animals should definitely not wear clothingYes because... No because...
... because it could be very messy for a pig
It is a well known fact that pigs are very messy eaters. It is also well known that pigs like to roll in the mud. Can you imagine how hurt the feelings of a tailor will be when he sees his newly maid shirt stained by slop and mud?
Pigs roll around in the mud to cool off. Putting clothes on them would make them more needy to being in the mud. The ideal would be to keep the pig cooler and clothes do not provide that.
I know people who eat like pigs. I know people who like to roll in mud. We do not discriminate against these humans; we allow them to wear clothes. The treatment of pigs should be much the same.
We all wash our clothes.
Animals should definitely not wear clothingYes because... No because...
... because it might make life hard for a hen
How would you like it if you were trying to hatch an egg, and it just stayed in your pants? It's almost as uncomfortable as diapers!
and what will natural predators feed on haven`t we done enough harm to nature, we`re still describing cutting off the food supply of other animals as innovation/revolutionary?
This could actually be a revolution in the art of laying eggs. Hens could wear pants that were reinforced. The reinforcement would catch the egg and the hens could carry the egg with it at all times. This will result in the safer keeping of eggs, ensuring that predators are kept well at bay and their eggs will be safe.
Maybe hens need a little toughening up they'll live longer.
Animals should definitely not wear clothingYes because... No because...
... because a kangaroo would find it quite unnecessary
What a waste of cloth for a pocket, when a kangaroo already has one!
A female kangaroo needs access to her little ones in her pocket, if she`s covered up it will be difficult for her to reach down and taken them out when she needs to.
The fundamental problem with dressing animals is that they cannot undress or dress themselves when they feel like it and unlike babies with soiled diapers they can`t cry either.
Why have one pocket when you can have many more? The Kangaroo obviously likes having a pocket having evolved to have one so they would surely be very enthusiastic about getting more!
Animals do cry, furthermore whats wrong with a shirt? It wouldnt cover the pocket and they might even have an extra one :)
Animals should definitely not wear clothingYes because... No because...
... because a giraffe might look sort of silly
A giraffe, with it's long neck, would have to wear about eight ties to compete with the rest of the animals, thereby making it look quite ridiculous.
long necks in humans; have long been considered symbolic of handsomeness.
What do you think of tribal women who wear multiple golden necklaces to lengthen their necks? they probably think 'you' look ridiculous.
A tie doesnt go up and down the neck, but rather around the base line, Whether its a giraffe or a horse it wouldnt make much of a difference
Animals should definitely not wear clothingYes because... No because...
... because a billy goat would eat it for lunch
Again we must examine the poor tailor watching his clothes being ruined so soon after they are made by a hungry goat.
Clothes would not be economically viable food for goats and also wouldn't be particularly healthy for it.
A baby cannot actually devour its clothes. Its teeth aren't sharp enough. We would take an item away from a baby if it could devour it and it wasn't suitable food.
And what is wrong with feeding a goat?
or an item being bi-functional?
babies put everything in their mouth and all over their clothes , do we stop dressing them? no
a baby might not be devouring its clothes, but they sure do ruin them! Diapers for example are disposal clothes, but we still provide them with diapers
Animals should definitely not wear clothingYes because... No because...
... because a moose could never manage
Let's say it this way: antlers and suspenders don't work well together.
counter-to-counter bone marrow in humans produces blood, antler marrow may serve the same purpose. Antlers are used to survive and fight and then mate. How will these animals pass on their genes without Antlers?
have you yet not learned that tampering with the natural order of things has dire consequences?
Also who are we, to impose our definition(as if the human race has one existing unanimously agreed-upon definition/standard) and values of what is civil upon these poor animals?
In France dueling was and perhaps is; thought to be very cultured; indeed!
How would you like it if someone put you in a cage and mated you with a donkey, horse,lion and/or a tiger? I certainly don`t find that at all civilised/civil/civilized!
rare instances and attempts to repeat those instances...
The antlers would make handy coat and hat racks.
How about pants/shorts/skirts/bottoms?
or shoes/boots.
counter: the marrow in deer antlers is a delicacy in Taiwan why not chop those off and then dress the animal?
These animals (not just moose and deer) can adapt to and evolve in civilized conditions. When we take them out of the wild; we give them some culture; an understanding of etiquette; they must understand the importance of clothes and civility. Do we not get haircuts,clip our nails, wax/shave/bleach our body hair?
chopping off those awful things is not a high price to pay to be in-vogue/dapper.
they don`t need to tussle to get a mate; we`ve bred donkeys with horses and lions with tigers without allowing any wild uncultured dueling whatsoever.
we don`t force them to mate; just that there have been instances of crossbreeding.
Animals should definitely not wear clothingYes because... No because...
... because it would always be wet on a walrus
A walrus would always slobber on his clothes, which, we all agree, is no small matter.
it would still get wet from the mucky water a walrus splashes about in.
The walrus could wear a raincoat. Alternatively swimwear. Or else a wet-suit could be very useful in the cold waters in which they live.
A hat would look perfectly dandy on a walrus :D
how about a swim-cap or goggles?
Babies slobber, spit up, throw up all over their clothes, yet we continue to put clothes on them
Animals should definitely not wear clothingYes because... No because...
all the yes points are horrible
You completely avoid animals that you normally see clothing on
ie. Dogs
ie. Monkeys
ie. HUMANS!
yes, humans are animals. Whoever made hits needs to rethink and rewrite this whole debate. Not to mention my dog has a sweater. Why? Because his fur is very thin and winter is too cold for him. This keeps him warm enough to go play in the snow with the other dogs. Your arguments are horrible and are based off of fictional thoughts that are just sillyDebates > Animals should definitely not wear clothing


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BEIJING -- North Korea's young dictator Kim Jong Un had his uncle executed for treason and attacked by state media last week as a womanizing, drug-taking gambler who squandered millions of dollars. This week, Kim welcomes back his friend Dennis Rodman, the basketball legend who has admitted to similar tendencies - aside from the treason.
The U.S. State Department advises Americans not to travel to North Korea. A U.S. tourist and Korean War veteran, Merrill Newman, was detained there last month and deported December 7, and another detained U.S. citizen, missionary Kenneth Bae, is serving a 15-year sentence in a North Korean labor camp.
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Rodman left for Pyongyang from Beijing airport Thursday afternoon, and stays there till Monday. He said he will return to North Korea next month with 12 American basketball players, whose names he will reveal on this trip, to play an exhibition game on 8 January, Kim Jong Un's birthday.
"I hope this game brings a lot of countries together. Sports is so important to people around the world," Rodman said at the airport of his self-appointed 'basketball diplomacy' mission. "I hope this is going to engage American people, especially with Obama, he has to try to talk to" Kim.
U.S. State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf stressed Tuesday that Rodman is not a representative of the U.S. government, which appears to have no immediate plans to open dialog with Kim. "I know he's waiting for me to come back, so hopeful to have a good conversation about some things that's gonna help the world," said Rodman.
The U.S. travel warning does not faze the former NBA star. "I'm not worried, if something happens, it's out of my control," he said. "I'm just trying to help the situation, because we're friends, that's the reason why I'm going back." It seemed unlikely Rodman would raise the issue of Bae's detention. "That's a touchy subject right there," he said.
The former Chicago Bulls star and self-styled "Bad Boy," who markets a vodka brand by that name, Rodman has become a fast if unlikely friend with Bulls fan Kim Jong Un, age about 30, the third generation of North Korea's ruling Kim dynasty.
A highly secretive authoritarian state, North Korea regularly threatens military action against South Korea and its main ally, the USA, and carries out nuclear tests in defiance of the international community. Despite that pedigree, Rory Scott, spokesman for Irish bookmaker Paddy Power, which is sponsoring the January game and Rodman's trip this week, sounds bullish about the January plans.
"This is a sporting, cultural and historical first. Sport can rise above the news agenda and current affairs," he said, like late South African President Nelson Mandela's use of the 1995 rugby world cup to promote national unity, and soccer played between British and German troops during the First World War.
"This is nothing to do with high-level politics. It's just sport," said Scott, on the eve of his first visit to North Korea.
The state "is an entity that permeates everything there," cautioned Simon Cockerell, a veteran traveler to North Korea and general manager of Koryo Tours, a Beijing-based travel agency. "But sport offers a universal language to engage with North Korean people," he said. "North Korea and the United States share very little, but they do share a love of basketball."
In 2012, Koryo Tours took a group of American basketball coaches, Coaches Team International, to North Korea, and Koreans were "overjoyed," said Cockerell. The firm has already sold out its tour to accompany the Rodman team in January. "People want to see something truly different, and history in the making," he said.
Kim Jong Un's actions may appear bizarre, but his regime sees no contradiction in showing "dual signs" to the outside world, said Ahn Yin-hay, an international studies professor at Korea University in Seoul. "He has one hand for the terror of execution, and one to wave at Westerners, as a gesture of reconciliation," she said.
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"Kim Jong Un just does as he pleases. One of the few facts known about him is his liking of basketball," he said. "He seems oblivious to the impact on his image."
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Four from Lexington Indicted for Enticing Women to Travel to Kentucky for Prostitution
|U.S. Attorney's Office March 02, 2012
LEXINGTON—Four individuals living in Lexington, Kentucky were indicted today for recruiting and enticing women from other states to come to Kentucky so they could solicit them for prostitution.
A Lexington grand jury returned the indictment charging Marco Antonio Flores-Benitez, 38; Roxana Serna-Olea, 36; Adrian Lezama-Ruiz, 26; and Roberto Salinas-Rivera, 35, with persuading, inducing, and enticing an individual to travel in interstate commerce to engage in prostitution.
According to the indictment, from September 2009 through January 2011, the defendants managed a business that offered prostitution delivery services in Louisville and Lexington and operated a brothel at Cross Keys drive in Lexington.
As part of the conspiracy, the defendants allegedly recruited Spanish-speaking women from North Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and Maryland to become prostitutes. Customers allegedly paid the defendants $30 for 15 minutes of sexual activity and the women were expected by the defendants to engage in sexual intercourse with multiple customers per day. The defendants delivered the prostitutes to customers in Fayette, Woodford, Oldham, and Jefferson Counties in Kentucky.
The indictment alleges that the defendants advertised services in Spanish-speaking publications using code words for prostitution.
It's also alleged that in October 2011, Salinas-Rivera drove one of the females to Keenland Race Track to offer prostitution services.
All the defendants were charged with one count of conspiracy to persuade, induce, and entice an individual to travel in interstate commerce to engage in prostitution and four counts of persuading, inducing, and enticing an individual to travel in interstate commerce to engage in prostitution. Flores-Benitez is charged with one count of sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion; one count of conspiracy to commit sex trafficking; and five counts of transporting an individual in interstate commerce for the purpose of engaging in prostitution. Flores-Benitez and Salinas-Rivera are also charged with illegal re-entry into the United States by a previously deported alien. Serna-Olea and Lezama-Ruiz are also charged with being an alien who entered the United States at a time and place other than as designated by immigration officers and who eluded examination or inspection by immigration officers. All four defendants were charged with their immigration offenses last month.
Kerry B. Harvey, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Kentucky; Mike Kaste, acting special agent in charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation; John R. Korkin, supervisory deportation officer, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Detention and Removal Operations; and Ronnie J. Bastin, chief, Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government Division of Police, jointly made the announcement today after a federal grand jury in Lexington returned the indictment.
The investigation preceding the indictment was conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government Division of Police. The Indictment was presented to the grand jury by Assistant United States Attorneys Hydee R. Hawkins and David A. Marye.
A date for the defendants to appear in federal court has not yet been set. If convicted of sex trafficking, Flores-Benitez faces a prison sentence of not less than 15 years and up to life imprisonment. If convicted of the offenses with which they are charged, Serna-Olea, Lezama-Ruiz, and Salinas-Rivera face a maximum prison sentence of 20 years. However, any sentence following conviction would be imposed by the court after consideration of the United States Sentencing Guidelines and the federal statute governing the imposition of sentences.
The indictment of a person by a grand jury is an accusation only, and that person is presumed innocent unless proven guilty.


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Rehoboth Beach — An 18-year-old Pennsylvania man is facing DUI and vehicular assault charges after a three-car crash that closed Route 24 for nearly three hours just after midnight June 15.
Tanner Schultz, 18, of Barto, Pa. was driving his 2003 BMW 325xi westbound near the Lewes/Rehoboth Beach Fire Station 3 on Route 24 when he drifted into the eastbound lane and struck a 2008 Honda Odyssey driven by Stella Chow, 50, of Camden-Wyoming. Chow was traveling with three teenagers.
A third car, driven by Jaime Parker, 25, of Millsboro, crashed into the rear of Chow's Honda, leaving all three cars in the eastbound lane. A 21-year old female was a passenger in Parker's car.
Rehoboth Beach Volunteer Fire Department firefighters came across the crash while returning from another call and were the first on the scene. All seven people involved in the accident were wearing seat belts and treated for nonthreatening injuries at separate hospitals. Schultz, Chow and the teenagers were taken to Beebe Medical Center; Parker was taken to Nanticoke Memorial Hospital in Seaford. Delaware State Police spokesman Cpl. Gary Fournier said no update is available on their condition.
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text: LEXINGTON, Va., Nov. 15, 2012 – A ceremony yesterday marked the completion of a project to recognize the 71 VMI alumni who are recipients of the nation's second-highest award for valor through a display of citations in Kilbourne Hall.Kilbourne Hall houses ROTC detachments from all of the services.Forty-four alumni received the Distinguished Service Cross for service in the U.S. Army, five received the Air Force Cross, eight received the Navy Cross, and 14 Marines received either the Navy Cross or the Distinguished Service Cross.The project, which took six years to complete, was funded and organized by John Bolling Williamson '60, who received a citation for his efforts and then addressed those gathered for the ceremony. Col. Keith Gibson '77, executive director of the VMI museum system, worked closely with him to complete the display."This project required an enormous amount of research on the part of Bolling Williamson," said Col. Mike Strickler, assistant to the superintendent. "Each individual plaque has a replica of the medal with either the full citation or information regarding the act of heroism which led to the honor."Three of the eight living recipients, Arthur B. Nunn Jr. '43, Norman M. Bissell '61, and Robert S. Beale '55, attended the ceremony, and both Bissell and Gen. J.H. Binford Peay '62 III, VMI superintendent, spoke.Each of the three received a photograph of the display honoring his award.


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Having recently submitted my personal demands in the form of a political manifesto I am beginning to think that this approach, if carried out countrywide among eligible voters, may actually prove to be a more meaningful and trustworthy method of finding political satisfaction for the majority of us who are clearly disillusioned with the current set up.
Let me explain. At present we look at the Manifestos of the political parties setting out their respective programmes for economic and social change to decide if any appeal to us and for whom we may then vote. As we know Manifestos are not promises specially in the case of Coalitions.
My approach is that six months before an election, every potential voter submits their own Manifesto to the newly appointed Commissioner for Political Change. All the demands, however daft or extreme, preferably in English, would be carefully scrutinised, listed and collated to create a true picture of the peoples main demands and priorities. In effect creating the Peoples Manifesto.
The main political parties would then be able to determine if their ideologies were best able to meet the demands of the people or indeed if new parties might arise to provide the missing links.
This seems to me a far more sensible and democratic approach in actually discovering what the majority of people want rather than half-baked compromises foisted upon us in the name of fairness and equality, environmental and industrial strategies.
Of course you wouldn't get all of your demands but the key issues that impact us most days of the week would be more clearly identified and it should be so much simpler for politicians to put in place legislation that was requested by the majority of the people of this country.
It's different, it's new , you want change so what's wrong with this approach unless you don't trust the majority to come up with right answers?


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A bird's flight is a universal symbol of ethereal life. Look further into the representation of birds with the work of painter Maria Kozak, a New York-based artist who examines the relationships between man and nature. During her recent residency at PlatteForum, Kozak visited the Rocky Mountain Wildlife Conservation Center and the Denver Museum of Nature and Science to study an array of animals and birds—including seagulls, hummingbirds, and ostriches—in order to exemplify the movement of animals with the stroke of her brush. Don't miss the flock of paintings she's created. Tue-Sat noon- 4 p.m.


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New York Comic Con has been over for more than two weeks and I'm still suffering from the post-con depression (i.e. that listless, nostalgic feeling you get when you've just returned from Disneyland). However I'm still going through all the photos I took from the event. To my surprise, I saw quite a few yarn crafts and couldn't help but share them with you.
They were all impressively creative because the majority required no pattern, just a lot of imagination.
|This girl crocheted her entire
Ruby Rose (RWBY) cosplay.
|Doctor Who wristwarmers
found on Etsy.
|An adorable Boo costume from Monsters, Inc.
|This needle felted R2D2
took at least 6 months to make.
|She just started to learn crochet and wanted to show off her skills with
this Magikarp (Pokemon) hat.
|She said she didn't know how to sew, and crocheted her props for
her Little Sister cosplay (Bioshock) instead.
Ever tried to crochet or knit an entire costume? Or ever seen one that totally impressed you? Tell us!
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My daughter loves octopuses (or is it octopi?) and is almost never caught without holding one of her 7 stuffed octopuses or wearing one of her growing closet of socks and tees. When I saw this pattern for an octopus costume there was no contest as to what she wanted to be. She got so excited and immediately asked that it be made in her favorite colors: purple and "lellow" (yellow) with pink spots.
Crocheting the entire thing would be a feat that would've taken more than a month's planning. And while I could quilt, the pattern was beyond my skill level. Thankfully Jackie, our Technical Editor, was an expert seamstress and offered to help out. Since I love creating new things using yarn, I wanted to add some personal handmade touches.
But I also didn't want it to be just handmade – I wanted it to sparkle and glitter.
When I first saw the pattern I immediately wanted crocheted medallions for the suckers and the spots.
Vanna's Glamour fit perfectly with what I wanted, and her mustard gold yarn went well with the deep purple velvet fabric. Soon I was swept up in a creative moment and started picking out more colors like light gold and pink, which would give the costume a cool, colorful, and textured look. Even Michala, our Design intern, found it so adorable that she also wanted to assist. Since I knew she was fast crocheter, I asked if she could make some medallions whenever she had free time.
By the time I looked away, I found a pile of medallions of varying sizes already on the table. She even had extra time to crochet the eyes and a pink bow too!
Then I saw Martha Stewarts CraftsTM/MC Glitter Eyelash yarn and it all came together. The sparkly polka dots, the giant eyes with purple eyelashes, even the pink bow on its head. When I showed my daughter the finished product she couldn't wait to get it on her.
|Michala crocheting away
|The growing pile of octopus spots
|Sewing it altogether.
The only bad (or good) part will be trying to take it off her once Halloween's over.
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Jeremy and Jessica Mills of Fort Barnwell announce the birth of a daughter, Amelia Evelynn Mills on Aug. 21, 2013, at CarolinaEast Medical Center.
The baby weighed 7 pounds, 13 ounces and was 20.5 inches long.
The mother is the former Jessica Newell of Fort Barnwell.
Grandparents are Susan Mills, Roger and Patsy Heath, and Bill Newell.
Great-grandparents are Amy Newell, Nora Dixon, and Ledrew and Marietta Mills.
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American Idol: Jennifer Lopez Announces New Fashion Line as Idol Announces More Changes
November 21, 2010 02:00 PM by Shayla Perry
As the producers of American Idol announce new changes for the Fox reality show's tenth season, including a new night, judge Jennifer Lopez has an announcement of her own–a new clothing line for Kohl's department store, and we've got all the details! Keep reading!
Don't think for a second that being a judge on the tenth season of American Idol is going to slow down Jennifer Lopez. While the producers of the show spent the past week leaking new changes to the show's format, like the elimination of the top 24, and even a new night (instead of Tuesdays and Wednesdays, the show will now air on Wednesdays and Thursdays), Jennifer and her husband, singer/actor Marc Anthony, announced that they're both developing new clothing collections for Kohl's department stores.
"One of the exciting things about it is that they wanted something new," Lopez told UsMagazine.com on Thursday in West Hollywood. "They need other things that are a different style, a different sensibility and that's why they came to us."
Lopez–not a novice in the fashion industry by any means–will focus on a new collection for women featuring dresses, sportswear, sleepwear, bags, jewelry, and ladies' shoes.
For the men, Marc Anthony's collection will include a selection of sportswear, dress shirts, suit separates, sports coats, neckwear, accessories, and shoes.
The two also have plans of introducing a signature home goods collection for the store as well.
And when it comes to her new "day job," 41-year-old Lopez is reportedly having a great time. In a recent interview with Access Hollywood she said, "[Judging Idol] has been like sitting there and watching the show for five hours a day, which, hello, how else would I want to spend my days except in bed watching American Idol all day?"
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@DeathByVisualStudio: I would think he would have to include all the $14.95 and $40 upgrades and hope that Apple does something really stupid. There is a staggering amount of greatness in the toaster-refrigerator that is Windows 8, along with a healthly dose of fail.
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WHEELING - Sen. Joe Manchin could be in office for a very long time, as Public Policy Polling of Raleigh, N.C. now rates him "unbeatable."
Manchin, D-W.Va., has seen his approval rating grow since taking office in Washington, D.C., and his popularity with Republicans "makes up for his somewhat middling numbers with Democrats," the poll released Thursday indicates.
The approval rating for Manchin is now at 59 percent - up from 52 percent in January and 55 percent in April, according to data compiled by Public Policy Polling.
"If Manchin had to stand for re-election this year, he'd be close to unbeatable," the agency states within its polling results.
Manchin's approval rating upon leaving the office of West Virginia governor for the Senate in November 2010 was 70 percent, the company said. "Sen. Joe Manchin still can't quite match the popularity of Gov. Joe Manchin - but he's getting there," Public Policy Polling said.
The company conducted the poll of 708 likely West Virginia voters Sept. 1-4 while also polling the West Virginia governor's race.
While 59 percent said they approved of Manchin as U.S. senator, 26 percent said they disapproved and another 14 percent said they were not sure.
The polling results place him as the fifth-most popular senator among the 87 in which the organization has data - behind Democrat Daniel Inouye of Hawaii, Republicans John Barasso and Mike Enzi of Wyoming, and Independent Bernie Sanders of Vermont.
What stood out with Public Policy Polling, however, was Manchin's 68 percent approval rating with Democrats, and 20 percent disapproval.
Manchin's approval number "actually isn't that great for a senator within his own party," the group's statement said. "That's due to voters on the left not being terribly enthralled with him - he's at only (50 percent approval/38 percent disapproval) with folks describing themselves as 'very liberal,' and that's the ideological group he does worst with.
"It's safe to say Manchin is the only Democratic senator in the country who's more popular with very conservative voters than very liberal ones. ... There are few senators who meet with more approval than disapproval across party lines."
Manchin was elected last year to the U.S. Senate term left vacant by the death of Robert C. Byrd, and Public Policy Polling believes the recent numbers should translate positively for Manchin as he prepares to seek re-election to a full six-year term in 2012.
The firm asked participants in their poll who they would be most likely to support in a race for Senate in 2012 between Manchin and three potential Republican challengers - Rep. Shelley Moore Capito, Rep. David McKinley and Republican John Raese, whom Manchin defeated in 2010.
Capito would fare best in a potential match-up, according to Public Policy Polling, but Manchin would still hold a 16 percent lead over her in the contest.
Capito's approval rating is a strong 51 percent, according to the data, but only 36 percent of respondents said they would vote for her over Manchin, with 52 percent indicating support for Manchin.
McKinley's approval rating was listed at 23 percent, with 25 percent giving him an unfavorable rating and a large 52 percent "not sure." He received only 24 percent of the vote in a potential match-up over Manchin.
Just 27 percent of those polled had a favorable opinion of Raese, while 43 percent were unfavorable. There were 23 percent who said they would vote for him over Manchin in a potential 2012 rematch.


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May 31, 2016
Police Chief James Lee comes to Meridian at a time when the Queen City is facing crime outbreaks on a regular basis. Newscenter 11 spoke with him on some of those issues.
Chief Lee says residents often forget all that Meridian has to offer. Lee compared his police department to the city, saying both are full of potential. He recently unveiled his new "See Something, Say Something" plan as a tool to fight crime, and he has high hopes for its success.
"The position of this police department is to do what Theodore Roosevelt told the American Indian," Chief Lee said." "We must endeavor to persevere. And we shall persevere."
Chief Lee says while it is a serious issue, crime in Meridian is not as bad as the numbers appear when examining the size and traffic of the city on a daily basis. On the Record with Chief Lee airs Sunday at 5:30 p.m. on WTOK-TV.
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Firefighter, civillian hurt in Baltimore fire
Two people, including a firefighter, were injured after a fire broke out in Baltimore home early Tuesday morning.
Around 1:49 a.m. fire crews were called to the 5900 block of Cedonia Avenue, the Baltimore City Fire Department said.
The fire was placed under control around 2:35 a.m., but not before two people were hurt.
One civilian and one Baltimore firefighter were taken to Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center for treatment of minor injuries.
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The Saving Is the Hardest Part
Workers are stashing away cash. It just may not be enough to feather the nest egg for long once they retire.
There's no doubt that America is saving for retirement. Today, nearly 80 million workers have $5.6 trillion in defined contribution plans alone. But whether workers are actually participating in sufficient numbers, saving enough and investing correctly — all to retire comfortably — well, that's another story.
The National Institute on Retirement Security claims the typical working-age household only has a few thousand dollars saved for retirement, and about 45 percent of the workforce has no retirement account funds. The institute's research in June 2013 calls America's abysmal retirement savings rate "staggering," and says the American dream of retiring comfortably will be more like a nightmare for workers and potentially employers.
"Our findings confirm that the American dream of retiring comfortably after a lifetime of work will be impossible for many," said Nari Rhee, author of the National Institute on Retirement Security report, "The Retirement Savings Crisis." "Even when counting their entire net worth, 65 percent [of working Americans] still fall short."
How U.S. workers save today for retirement is clearly the issue for those hoping to enjoy their senior years as well as for employers wanting a workforce that doesn't overextend its stay — often referred to as the employee life cycle. And even though individual retirement accounts are available to everyone through various financial institutions, U.S. workers prefer to use what's available at work: primarily defined contribution plans.
Digging Out of a Hole
America's retirement savings rate appears to be pretty measly with the average worker contributing only 6 percent. But like many companies today, Tiller Corp. is steering participant results by making hefty company contributions and introducing comprehensive education sessions for workers.
"We have auto enrollment, but I've never had to use it," said Steve Sauer, Tiller's 401(k) plan administrator. After new employees go through the benefits primer, Sauer said they almost always join.
Tiller, a Maple Grove, Minnesota-based industrial sand and gravel provider, matches each dollar a participant contributes to the company 401(k) plan, up to 5 percent. Then it adds an extra profit-sharing component of 5 percent at the end of the year.
Consulting group Callan Associates' 2014 Defined Contribution Trends Survey showed 1 in 10 plans either increased or restored their matching contribution last year. Plus, 6 percent say they will increase the match this year.
The typical Tiller worker is 45 years old and makes an average of $63,915 a year, Sauer said. There are about 170 participants in the plan, and the average account balance is $130,000, well above the 2012 reported average of $86,000 by Vanguard Group.
Ten years ago, Tiller hired an adviser to revamp fund offerings and educate workers on new options. At the time, the average account had 75 percent in bonds and cash and 25 percent in stocks. Today, the average worker has 32 percent in fixed income and 68 percent in equity, Sauer said.
—Patty Kujawa
Within the defined contribution arena, Americans held $4 trillion in 401(k) plans in the third quarter of 2013, according to the Investment Company Institute's latest report.
It's a lot of money, but is it enough for retirees to last throughout their retirement? There are plenty of skeptics who say 401(k)s, which were primarily designed to supplement employer-driven defined benefit plans, are not a strong enough savings tool. But 401(k)s are the primary way workers save for retirement today, and they are getting a lot of attention from the industry to make sure these worker-funded accounts will create optimal results.
"For those plan sponsors who have their goals established, and match their plan design to it, they can definitely get as many people as possible over the finish line as well as reach corporate goals," said Catherine Peterson, director of retirement insights at J.P. Morgan Asset Management.
So how are U.S. workers with 401(k) accounts doing?
Using a model that assumes workers would have at least 30 years in a 401(k) plan and Social Security benefits would remain the same, the Employee Benefit Research Institute simulated final payouts for segmented incomes and found 86 percent of low-income earners would get at least 60 percent of their pay in retirement at age 64. The three higher groups of wage earners would see similar bottom-line results.
"I think that's pretty good," said Jack VanDerhei, the EBRI's research director. "The analysis shows that even without a traditional [defined benefit] plan, a very large percentage of employees who are fortunate enough to work for 401(k) sponsors for most of their careers should be able to replace what many financial advisers consider to be a sufficient percentage of their pre-retirement income when combined with Social Security."
Meanwhile, Fidelity Investments recently created its Retirement Preparedness Measure, a tool that gauges whether workers are saving enough today to cover retirement expenses tomorrow. Fidelity surveyed 2,200 households and ran through planning models to see where Americans stood. Overall, despite a rebounding economy, 55 percent of people with 401(k) plans are in fair or poor condition, and 45 percent are in very good or good shape.
Red Zone
Fidelity results show millennials are in the red zone, estimating that this group, born between 1978 and 1988, according to the study, would be able to cover just 62 percent of retirement expenses, under their current savings and spending rates.
Gen Xers, born between 1965 and 1977 fare better, covering 71 percent of retirement expenses. Baby boomers, those born between 1946 and 1964, are in good shape, and will be able to cover 81 percent of senior expenses.
John Sweeney, executive vice president of retirement and investment strategies at Fidelity says a large part of the problem is that America saves too little. Survey results showed 40 percent of respondents are saving less than 6 percent of their salaries today. Sweeney added that only about 10 percent are contributing to the Internal Revenue Service's contribution ceiling, which is $17,500 for 2014.
Today, about 24 percent of 401(k) participants have taken a loan or cashed out early from their account, according to Purchasing Power.
"We want people to establish a lifestyle that incorporates savings," Sweeney said. Action from all age groups "needs to be taken."
Another drain on retirement savings is loans. Today, about 24 percent of 401(k) participants have taken a loan or cashed out early from their account, according to Purchasing Power, an employee purchase plan provider based in Atlanta. Nearly 40 percent of the loans go to general household expenses.
"If someone gets in the habit of borrowing from their 401(k), it isn't going to be an effective tool to help them save for retirement," said Elizabeth Halkos, chief marketing officer for Purchasing Power.
Installing an employee purchase plan steers workers away from snatching dollars that need to grow in 401(k) accounts. Workers are able to create payment plans to cover household items or other needs. "We see ourselves as the alternative to the 401(k) loan," Halkos said.
Plan sponsors are the final decision-makers of 401(k) design. Over the years, plan sponsors have evolved their thinking as to what makes a successful plan. Things like participation rates, diversified investments or well-educated workers used to be top factors.
Today, outcomes or results are the buzzwords. For the first time, 18 percent of employers considered plans successful when they generate enough retirement income for participants, an October 2013 Aon Hewitt survey showed. The question has become: How do plan sponsors design a 401(k) so its workers participate, contribute as much as possible, increase that contribution and invest appropriately so, in the end, they can have a comfortable retirement?
"Increasingly, it is the plan sponsor who is driving how people save," said Lori Lucas, executive vice president and defined contribution practice leader at Callan Associates.
Lucas said changes in thinking began in 2012 after the U.S. Labor Department required plan sponsors to get fee information from providers and to report certain costs to participants using 401(k) plans. This move caused lots of plan sponsors to look deep into their 401(k) design and figure out whether its components were worth the costs.
As a result, plan sponsors did their homework in 2012, reviewing investment policy statements, evaluating, and sometimes replacing managers and their investments, according to Callan's 2014 Defined Contribution Trends Survey.The survey showed that, in 2012, 84 percent of plan sponsors made sure they were in step with the new regulations, 63 percent reviewed investment policy statement and 41 percent replaced managers or funds.
In 2013, the Labor Department stepped in again. It issued tips on how to select a target-date fund, a highly popular investment for automatically enrolling workers into 401(k) plans. Armed with better plan design knowledge and the tips, many plan sponsors moved from using a target-date fund from their record-keeper's offerings to one that better suited the plan and its participants.
'Increasingly, it is the plan sponsor who is driving how people save.'
—Lori Lucas, Callan Associates
Callan's survey showed only 46 percent of plan sponsors used their record-keeper's target-date fund last year compared with 59 percent in 2012. Plus, about a third of respondents say they plan to make a change to this investment in 2014.
"It has definitely been an evolution with target-date funds," Lucas said. "There are more sophisticated tools today from even a few years ago." Going with a target-date fund will be directly related to how much participants will be able to save for retirement, she added.
Auto Tools
Automatic tools are also on the rise, which will help more workers get into plans. Callan's research shows the practice of automatically enrolling participants in defined contribution plans has almost doubled to 58 percent in 2013 from 32 percent in 2006.
But dovetailing this feature with automatic increases to workers' contributions still seems to be stuck, experts say. For the past two years, only 43 percent of companies that have automatic enrollment combine it with automatic contribution increases, Callan's study showed.
That can mean trouble for many workers because federal law says plan sponsors can automatically enroll workers using 3 percent of their pay to open accounts. Many studies have shown that most workers that enter the system at that rate stay there unless someone comes in and increases it for them. Even with a matching contribution from the employer, workers won't save to the magic 15 percent of pay most industry experts say is necessary to retire comfortably.
A third of plan sponsors to J.P. Morgan's 2013 Defined Contribution Plan Sponsor survey said they are in that holding pattern because they think employees don't want an automatic increase in contributions each year. That isn't surprising considering 80 percent said they consider employee satisfaction a critical factor in determining a successful plan.
Many plan sponsors have it wrong because J.P. Morgan's survey also talked to participants. Sixty percent said they were either neutral or OK with employers bumping the pretax salary payment to their retirement accounts.
"It always goes back to the concern of the participants' reactions," J.P. Morgan's Peterson said. "Employers don't want to get complaints from employees."
Another way employers are trying to improve worker retirement savings results is through re-enrollment. Today, employers are taking a harder look at where employees are investing their 401(k) assets. Through re-enrollment, plan sponsors tell participants that they plan to override their investment decisions (unless told not to), and then typically re-enroll workers into an age-appropriate target-date fund.
"Re-enrollment has become more of a best practice, as opposed to the anomaly it was a few years ago," said J.P. Morgan's Peterson.
Patty Kujawa is a writer based in Milwaukee. Comment below or email firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow Workforce on Twitter at @workforcenews.


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I LOVE the blue nail polish/varnish trend. I am ALL over it like a…Blue nail polish rash!
I not only wore it during its emergence in the Summer fashion trend of 2011, I wore it before then, and I wear it after.
(Janet Jackson sporting a metallic blue polish, Summer 2011)
(Kendall Jenner fashioning light blue, Spring 2011)
Just like Eva Mendez who was sporting it in Mid-Feb of last year, I like to wear polish whenever I feel I like the shade, not only when it's 'on-trend':
I wear it in different shades – including pale blue, and dark blue – nice and shiny; but I love the superman tone of blue. Blue is flattering for most skin tones, looks pretty on pale and vibrant on tanned.
I noticed it was becoming a 'thing' again recently whilst watching E!'s 'Fashion Police'…My dirty little secret, along with 'Hoarders', 'Come Dine With Me', and 'How Clean Is Your House'…Aaaah **feet up with a mug of vegan coffee**, love them.
Joan Rivers was wearing a gorgeous shade of blue on her nails, and she looked really cool.
That was a couple of weeks ago now, and she's still into blue!
In the Daily Mail today…(Yes, nicely noticed – another dirty little secret of mine, I read it without question, every morning at my desk with a green tea and a quarter of a punnet of blueberries with strawberries). Beyonce was wearing a beautiful blue polish with a statement orange dress, looking amazing, daring and healthy…Considering she's just had a baby! – cheeky mare, eh?! ;)
According to the Daily Mail, it was her first public outing since giving birth and they reported that she did it in honour of her baby, Blue Ivy', in NYC lastnight.
Reportedly, Bey's manicurist Lisa Logan tweeted today: 'Check out Beyonce's blue nails called Baker Street by Nails Inc. I love this color!'
(Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2097993/Beyonce-honours-baby-Blue-Ivy-Carter-bright-polish-1st-outing-giving-birth.html#ixzz1llloDJJ2
Whether your shade is baby blue, or Royal blue, give it a go – it's fun, bright and always makes me smile if I see them whilst typing, they liven the work day up, and look great with a suit! ☺
Hey! If Johnny Depp says it's alright, then it's alright:
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Dancing With The Stars: Kelly Osbourne Is Rooting For Bristol Palin
September 24, 2010 10:00 AM by Lisa Princ
ABC's Dancing With The Stars season nine runner up, Kelly Osbourne definitely knows a thing or two about the show. During a recent visit to The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Kelly reveals that she is rooting for Bristol Palin. Keep reading for all the details!
Kelly Osbourne and her partner in season nine, Louis Van Amstel, were the fan favorites during the their stay on ABC's Dancing With The Stars and she made it all the way to the finale just coming short of winning the mirror ball trophy. Kelly recently revealed to Ellen DeGeneres that she is rooting for Bristol Palin to win. Kelly Osbourne said "I have a real soft spot for Bristol Palin. I really do. I think she's going out there and trying, and to not have a family member in the audience is the hardest thing in the world. Half of that show is family support, and to go out there that first week and not have anyone there, and having everybody looking at you the most – I give her so much credit."
Kelly Osbourne admits she still a bit obsessed with Dancing With The Stars and while she may be rooting for Bristol Palin, she has no predictions yet on who will win this season. Kelly said she feels like Bristol should definitely be getting more family support, even if Sarah Palin's presence there is distracting as she goes on to say "Anything not to have them look at me. Look at my mom!" So the question remains, will Sarah take that advice and make an appearance? A little family support may help Bristol to loosen up a bit in my opinion.
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Part 3 is spitting out data base errors.
So what I'm doing is starting a fresh thread.
Part 3 is spitting out data base errors.
So what I'm doing is starting a fresh thread.
It's bound to be the fault of vB4 Beta. IB doesn't like us.
Get a bicycle. You will not regret it if you live. ~Mark Twain, "Taming the Bicycle"vBulletin: snafu
The title is spelled wrong...
I had to buy a power cord for my portable DVD player from Ebay. Ugh. Anyway, late now, nite Foos...
I'm staring at the screen on ebay trying to decide if I want to buy a porkpie hat or not. Ahh decisions.
Two is one and one is none.
I think it's funny that there are so many SQL people on the forums. We need at least one on the server side now.
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Laughing at the weather forecasters who said Sacramento could get a trace of snow. No snow out there this morning...
Let me just point out that this morning's coffee is particularly good.
It's snowing.
Quit that nerd speak.... Nerds.
Scientist couldn't do half the stuff they currently do without computer nerds.....
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Between SoCal, Twospoke, and my all time favorite - brianforums.net, this site is becoming the secondary choice for many people.


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Status: Completed
Organization(s): USGS, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center
Funding Program(s):
Principal Investigator(s): Kathryn Scanlon Catanach
Affiliate Investigator(s): Andrew Shepard, NOAA/NURC, Wilmington, NC
Information Specialist(s): PARTNER
Data Type(s): Sampling: Biology, Sampling: Geology, Imagery: Photo, Imagery: Video
Scientific Purpose/Goals: Characterization and biological studies of Oculina deep water coral habitat using ROV, sediment grab, and listening devices. This is a NOAA cruise on a NASA ship. No USGS participants were on board, but sediment grab samples were taken and shipped to K. Scanlon.
Start Port/Location: Port Canaveral, FL
End Port/Location: Port Canaveral, FL
Start Date: 2003-04-28
End Date: 2003-05-09
Equipment Used: Grab sampler, ROV
Information to be Derived: Grain size analysis; Habitat maps;
Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Because of ship problems, the operation was switched from R/V LIBERTY STAR to R/V FREEDOM STAR half way through the cruise. 39 sediment grab samples were collected. Samples were collected by Leslie Sautter for Kathy Scanlon and were analyzed in Woods Hole.
Affiliate Staff:
Notes: No USGS personnel will be on board the ship, but sediment samples will be taken for K. Scanlon. Data Curator: Leslie Sautter, College of Charleston.
Oculina Bank, Florida, United States, North America, North Atlantic;
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These are interesting times for patent lawyers.
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has proposed new transparency rules and will soon run a pilot program to introduce glossaries to patent specifications. Plus, the Supreme Court has heard six patent cases this term. These include blockbusters like Alice v. CLS Bank, with the court considering the patentability of computer-implemented inventions, and Nautilus v. Biosig Instruments, to determine when a patent is invalid for being overly vague.
To appreciate how unusual this is, the Supreme Court has more patent cases this term than during the entire 1980s. Congress is also active. In December, the House of Representatives passed the Innovation Act by an overwhelming 325-91 margin. The Senate is currently hashing out its version of patent reform and President Barack Obama has said he is eager to sign a bill.
How did we get here? Advocates for patent reform like the Electronic Frontier Foundation would like to believe we sparked this movement. But the reality is patent trolls themselves deserve most of the credit. By filing so many suits and threatening so many end-users of technology including burger joints, cafés, funeral homes, podcasters and supermarkets, patent trolls created a crisis that demanded a response.
Opponents of reform insist that the rise in patent trolling is a 'myth.' They are wrong. Multiple studies, such as those from professors James Bessen and Michael Meurer, Brian Love, Colleen Chien, and Robin Feldman, confirm that the last decade has seen a massive and sustained rise in trolling. Unified Patents recently released a snapshot of February's patent litigation data that confirmed trolls are bringing more than 50 percent of patent cases, with 82 percent of the suits against high-tech defendants. The patent troll explosion is real, and it won't go away on its own.
So how should we respond? Recent legislative proposals have focused on procedural tweaks to the litigation system. It is very cheap to file a bare-bones patent complaint. Under current Federal Circuit law, plaintiffs are not even required to specify which claims they are asserting or which products allegedly infringe. Yet a defendant can easily burn through a million dollars defending the suit. So, even if the underlying case is weak, trolls can use the cost of defense to pressure defendants to settle.
The Innovation Act passed by the House attempts to fix this imbalance through heightened pleading requirements and fee shifting. The bill would also reduce discovery costs by limiting requests to certain core documents. And it provides some relief to end-users by allowing them to stay their cases if the manufacturer is willing to step in. We hope that any Senate bill will include similar provisions. These kinds of procedural reforms should make patent trolling a less attractive business model. They would be especially effective against the bottom-feeder patent trolls bringing weak cases to extort settlements well below the cost of defense.
The main drawback with current legislative proposals is that they fail to address the root cause of problems in the patent system: the flood of low quality software patents. Patent trolling is fueled by poor quality patents with vague claims.
This explosion of software patents is also behind a wasteful and counterproductive arms race between operating companies. In 2011, both Apple and Google spent more on patent litigation and acquisitions than on research and development. Patents are supposed to promote R&D, not supplant it.
There are many reasons why software patents tend to be of low quality. First, the PTO does not have the time and resources to adequately determine validity. With only a few hours to spend on each application, it is impossible to expect examiners to find the most relevant prior art. Massive repositories of software—like GitHub—are mostly ignored.
The patent office also does not have the resources to confirm basic facts like whether the applicant really did the work he or she claims. It recently awarded a patent for a method of preparing stem cells even though the underlying work was widely known to be fraudulent; the purported inventor had even spent time in jail. As James Grimmelmann, a law professor at the University of Maryland, observed: "The USPTO is an armory handing out legal howitzers on the honor system. What could possibly go wrong?"
The second major problem with software patents is vague claims. Software lacks the universal lexicon of other fields. A chemical molecule can be described in a way that will be instantly understood by all experts in the field. But a computer program can be described at many different levels of abstraction.
Even worse, software patents often claim functions rather than specific solutions (e.g. "a computer processor configured to do X"). We would never tolerate pharmaceutical patents claimed this way (e.g. "a molecule configured to treat disease X"). The lax standards applied to software has led to a huge number of patents that are both overbroad and vague.
To fix patent quality, we need reform in the courts, legislature and at the USPTO. First, to deal with bad patents that have already issued, Congress should expand opportunities to challenge software patents more cheaply at the patent office; the original draft of the Innovation Act included such a provision. And Congress should empower the PTO to reject low quality applications.
While more resources for examination would help, it will not be enough to simply throw money at the problem. We also need to remove the incentives—like the fact that applicants get unlimited do-overs in the form of continuation applications—that make it hard for the USPTO to police bad patents.
The judiciary can do its part simply by diligently enforcing the Patent Act's existing provisions. When applying section 112(f)'s limits on functional claiming, courts should look at the reality of how software is claimed, rather than checking to see if the claims include a few easily avoided magic words. And the Supreme Court has an opportunity right now in Nautilus v. Biosig Instruments to demand far more clarity in patent claims. In the other major case of the term, Alice v. CLS Bank, the Supreme Court should hold, at the very least, that adding 'on a computer' or 'on the Internet' to otherwise abstract ideas is not enough to confer patent eligibility.
All three branches of government have a role to play in fixing the patent system. Only a combination of reforms—ranging from improving the PTO's prior art searches, to legislation clamping down on litigation abuse, to judicial decisions promoting claim clarity—will bring meaningful change.
Daniel Nazer is a staff attorney and Mark Cuban Chair to Eliminate Stupid Patents at the Electronic Frontier Foundation.


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'Working people'
"I never believed in running over working people in order to benefit those who don't need the benefit."
That statement, made by former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean on CNBC's Squawk Box, began a short debate between him and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker about the changes Walker made to collective bargaining in his state's public sector. But who are these "working people"? Politicians, both Democrats and Republicans, use the term but no one really defines it.
To Dean, they were the union public employees of Wisconsin, and only them. One immediately wonders: Are they the only "working people" in Wisconsin? What about the 2.7 million private-sector workers who pay the salaries of those public "working people? Or the non-union public sector workers? Or retirees living on pensions? Are they not also "working people?"
To Dean, Wisconsin's other working citizens must not figure into the equation. What he implied was that he believed in running over one group of "working people" to benefit another group of "working people" who were more suitable to him. That at least would be accurate.
"Working people" must be a term thoroughly tested in focus groups, because my mailbox is filled with mailers from politicians using the term or something similar. The well-vetted phrase is supposed to mean you, the recipient, everyone. But let's be clear. Rhetorically it refers to only blue-collar workers earning wages. It seems to leave out any number of people: small business owners, corporate executives, doctors, lawyers, politicians, investment bankers, lenders, and people over a certain income level. Why the omissions? Aren't these folks "working people," too?
Have you ever spent a day with a practicing physician, shadowed a resident on late-night 12-hour shifts, or put in the hours of an associate lawyer or investment banker? Eighty-hour weeks would be a vacation for these young people?
As a former small business owner, my wife would have thought we'd gone bankrupt if I ever came home before 6 p.m. Even on vacation the business issues do not stop, nor the risk, the responsibility, the interest payments, or the payrolls.
The point here is simple: The "working people" of the United States are all the folks at every level who make this great country work. They drive school buses, teach our children, run the local 7-11, build our homes, finance them, make the appliances we use, keep the peace, guard our nation, etc. Each has an important role, so let's not let politicians use such terms to divide us into warring classes.
Especially as Christians, our churches should be shining examples of organisms where CEOs and auto mechanics of every color can join together as equals at the foot of the cross and celebrate our appointed callings. I praise and laud all the "working people" of America. Keep it up-all of you!


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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR ST. JOHNS COUNTY, FLORIDA PROBATE DIVISION File No. CP07-496 Division 55 IN RE: ESTATE OF Eleanor P. Hutchins Deceased. NOTICE TO CREDITORS The administration of the estate of Eleanor P. Hutchins, deceased, whose date of death was May 21, 2007, is pending in the Circuit Court for St. Johns County, Florida, Probate Division, the address of which is 4010 Lewis Speedway, St. Augustine, Florida 32084. The names and addresses of the personal representative and the personal representative's attorney are set forth below. All creditors of the decedent and other persons having claims or demands against decedent's estate on whom a copy of this notice is required to be served must file their claims with this court WITHIN THE LATER OF 3 MONTHS AFTER THE TIME OF THE FIRST PUBLICATION OF THIS NOTICE OR 30 DAYS AFTER THE DATE OF SERVICE OF A COPY OF THIS NOTICE ON THEM. All other creditors of the decedent and other persons having claims or demands against decedent's estate must file their claims with this court WITHIN 3 MONTHS AFTER THE DATE OF THE FIRST PUBLICATION OF THIS NOTICE. ALL CLAIMS NOT FILED WITHIN THE TIME PERIODS SET FORTH IN SECTION 733.702 OF THE FLORIDA PROBATE CODE WILL BE FOREVER BARRED. NOTWITHSTANDING THE TIME PERIOD SET FORTH ABOVE, ANY CLAIM FILED TWO (2) YEARS OR MORE AFTER THE DECEDENT'S DATE OF DEATH IS BARRED. The date of first publication of this notice is Aug. 3, 2007. Personal Representative: Paul S. Hutchins 15199 Cape Drive North Jacksonville, Florida 32226 Attorney for Personal Representative: Larry D. Marsh Florida Bar No. 0333611 Brashear & Assoc., P.L. 926 N.W. 13th Street Gainesville, Florida 32601 Telephone: (352) 336-0800 L2063-7 Aug. 3, 10, 2007
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