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Poultry Hawk takes flight: Olar farmer’s invention makes life easier for chicken growers

OLAR — Growing up as a dairy and grain farmer, eight-year Olar poultry farmer Chad Brubaker had many opportunities to work on equipment.His experience on the farm instilled in him a desire to make life a little bit easier for himself and for his fellow chicken farmers.As co-owner of Brubaker Farms, Brubaker owns two poultry houses with a total of 30,000 square feet for the chickens.
The farm, which raises poultry for Columbia Farms, typically has about 72,000 chickens, or about five flocks, a year.Brubaker is well acquainted with the time-consuming daily activity of what is commonly referred to as “walking the birds,” a less than envious task of going through the poultry houses and collecting the dead chickens.”In that first year of farming, the summer was very hot, and we had some pretty high mortality,” Brubaker said. “Right away we were hauling several hundred birds a day out during the last couple of weeks of that first flock.””I began to think there has got to be a better way than carrying buckets outside the poultry house,” he said. “I began thinking then about something to help me with that chore.”What resulted from that brainstorming was Brubaker’s Poultry Hawk.”I began to tinker, thinking a trolley system would work,” the farmer said.In the spring and the winter of 2015, Brubaker began to put a trolley together.”My idea was remote control would really be ideal powered off a battery,” he said. “”One day I had a little rail system and I hit the button on the remote, and the Poultry Hawk came to life.”Brubaker quickly realized he had a piece of equipment from which many other poultry farmers could benefit.”I took the idea to market as fast as I could,” he said, noting that from the time he got the idea to the time it went to market was about a year.

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What the Earliest Texts Say About the Invention of Writing

Early Chinese characters on an ox scapula used in divination rituals (Credit: Wikimedia Commons)
Though we call the last several decades of computational invention the Information Age, we might better look thousands of years in the past to see its true beginnings. That’s when writing, a system that has served as the basis for our collective store of information ever since, began.
This revolutionary idea likely emerged four times in human history: in ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, China and Mesoamerica. In each case, it seems that people with no prior exposure to writing invented symbolic systems that would eventually transcribe anything that could be said.
My last story discussed how these scripts developed through broadly similar stages. To sum it up in one sentence: the original writing systems began with mostly pictorial characters that resembled their referent, and over time became more efficient and abstract, including a greater number of signs that represented sounds and semantic information.
Although the different scripts followed similar patterns of development, the initial causes and contexts of their inventions differed. Here, let’s delve into those differences.
Shopping Receipts from 3200 BC
What we know about ancient scripts is biased by the durability of various forms of media. Early texts written on perishable materials, like parchment or wood, mostly deteriorated over time. Words carved in clay or stone endured. So, to begin, we must understand that archaeologists are working with an incomplete record.
They’ve made the most progress for Mesopotamia because — conveniently — its earliest texts seem to have been inscribed onto baked clay tablets (chapter 4).
Proto-cuneiform tablets discovered at Uruk. (Credit: http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=proto-cuneiform)
Mesopotamian characters, which first appeared around 3200 BC, had a wedge-like appearance, leading later scholars to call the system cuneiform, after the Latin word cuneus for “wedge.” The earliest-known cuneiform (technically proto-cuneiform) texts were discovered in the temple precinct of Uruk,

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Super Blood Wolf Moon Lunar Eclipse Just Another Doomsday Invention?

Is the upcoming super blood wolf moon lunar eclipse just another doomsday invention? According to Ryan F. Mandelbaum, science writer at Gizmodo, it totally is. Mandelbaum has completely debunked the cacophony of voices that are claiming that the approaching lunar eclipses should be actually understood as a super blood wolf moon eclipse.
In Mandelbaum’s most recent Gizmodo post, he states:
They’re called lunar eclipses. Don’t call them “blood moons.” Don’t call them “super blood moons,” either. And a “Super blood wolf moon” is not a thing, so don’t ever utter that phrase. Just call them Lunar eclipses. Please.”
Well Mr. Mandelbaum, the conspiracy theorists at Q106.5 FM radio are not having it as one their online writers is clearly spreading a message that claims their will be a “Super Blood Wolf Moon” eclipse that they will not want to miss. The station’s writers even attempts to explain to his audience that the term “Blood Moon” is a reference that describes the red color that emanates when the Moon invades earth’s shadow during a lunar eclipse.
But that is exactly what Mandelbaum makes clear; and he is quite emphatic with his clarification. He says, “Let’s start with the facts.” Mandelbaum then explains that from January 20 to January 21 a lunar eclipse will occur once the Moon enters the Earth’s shadow. He furthers points out that eclipses exclusively results when the Moon is new or full during its ecliptic cro

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The Battle Over Biotechnology Inventions Part IV: Conclusion by Russell Nugent | Sponsored Insights – Greater Wilmington Business Journal

After Rapid Litigation Management, the Federal Circuit issued two more cases under 35 U.S.C. § 101 that contribute heavily to this discussion[1]. 

In both of these cases, the Court decided the patents passed the U.S. Supreme Court’s test in Alice Corp. The first was Exergen Corp. v. Kaz USA, Inc[2] (”Exergen”). In March of 2018, the Federal Circuit examined claims directed to a body temperature detector and methods of detecting human body temperature. Exergen sold a body temperature detector that calculated core body temperature using measurements taken directly above the superficial temporal artery. 

Both parties agreed that the claims were directed to a law of nature, i.e. the mathematical relationship between ambient air temperature, the temperature of the skin above the superficial temporal artery and core body temperature. The dispute was over whether the claims recited more than well-understood, routine and conventional steps applying the natural law. 

The Federal Circuit Court decided the steps in the patent’s claims were patent eligible even though they were already known in the prior art[3].  The Court elaborated by saying that something is not routine and conventional just because it is known in the prior art as there are very obscure references that qualify as prior art. In addition, earlier cases decided that a new combination of steps that are already known in the field can be patent eligible.    

The Court went on to say that that even though the patent claims were directed to the measurement of a natural phenomenon, they used an unconventional method to measure it[4].  The Court distinguished prior cases, such as Ariosa Diagnostics, Inc. v. Sequenom, Inc. (“Ariosa”) and Mayo Collaborative Servs. v. Prometheus Labs., Inc. (“Mayo”), in which courts invalidated the patent claims by pointing out there was no dispute in those cases about whether the steps recited in the claims were routine or well-known. 

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Scottish nurse weighs in with new invention

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Gillian Taylor (second from right) invented the device out of frustration

The Scottish nurse who invented a revolutionary weighing scale to help hospital patients get life-saving drugs quicker has said it was born out of “frustration”. Gillian Taylor was working as an emergency department nurse when the idea came to her.

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The Patient Transfer Scale is a simple-looking board on the outside but it can weigh someone as they are moved from a trolley to a bed

She says it grew from a need to give medication quickly, which is crucial in conditions like stroke or sepsis. To do that you need to know how much someone weighs.”There’s no quick way of weighing them at the moment,” Ms Taylor says.”What is available takes time and is cumbersome.” She says the new invention allows medics to take the weight of the patient using an already existing process.

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At 21, this aerospace engineering student, former refugee has created her first invention

Published January 3, 2019 Updated January 3, 2019 Shoushi Bakarian, an aerospace engineering student at Concordia University, poses for a photograph with a ventilation device that she redesigned for Cessna Aircraft, at Stratos Aviation in Montreal on Oct. 30, 2018. Bakarian arrived from Syria in 2016. Dario Ayala/The Globe and Mail This is part of Stepping Up, a series introducing Canadians to their country’s new sources of inspiration and leadership. The distance from Aleppo to the lab at Montreal’s Trudeau airport where a young engineer-in-training is perfecting her first invention is 8,580 kilometres, but Shoushi Bakarian’s trajectory might better be measured in light speed. Three years ago, Ms. Bakarian was sitting in Lebanon, part of a family of four Syrian refugees facing an uncertain future with hope of making a new start in Canada. Fast-forward those 36 months: Ms. Bakarian is in her third year of aerospace engineering at Montreal’s Concordia University. She has learned her fourth language, French – in addition to English, Arabic and Armenian. She’s got two part-time jobs with promising prospects in her field: one in the parts department at Bombardier Aerospace and another at Stratos Aviation, a small aviation and flight simulation firm. There, she’s co-created her first invention in the lab she’s building. Oh, and she leads a Scout troop where she hopes to influence her young charges. She’s 21. “I want to reach girls and tell them they don’t have to limit themselves to traditional jobs, like teachers. Especially for girls from my community, they have a very limited idea of what’s out there,” Ms. Bakarian says. “I want to become an example.” Story continues below advertisement On a recent late fall day, Ms. Bakarian tinkers with the tiny generator fan blades of her latest accomplishment: The Ventus, a 5-volt accessory charger for Cessna airplanes that runs off the aircraft’s air vents and as an added bonus cools the air by compressing it.

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