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Designing a Digital Portfolio: Delivery and Format
One of a digitally based portfolio's conveniences is its flexibility. The same content can be packaged in a delightful variety of ways, depending on your needs, knowledge, and time constraints. You can begin simply with a selection of work collected in a PDF, design a slideshow presentation for a client pitch, or move to an interactive website or DVD. A well-organized digital file lets you shift elements around for multiple formats almost as easily as you might slide a brochure into and out of a binder. Even nicer, the work you collect in one fairly simple format can become the basis for a more comprehensive and sophisticated portfolio as your technical knowledge and body of work increase.
There is no "right" portfolio solution. Nonetheless, there are preferred media and delivery methods in different creative fields. And there are a few wrong choices—decisions that are inappropriate for your specific market.
Although the options for portfolio format and venue continue to expand, they boil down to one of three delivery categories: portable, email, or online.
Portable media
If you want to make your digital portfolio part of your in-person presentation or need to send a high-resolution presentation to prospective clients or employers, you will need some physical medium to hold it.
CDs and DVDs
Standard-sized discs are familiar, easy to integrate into a traditional portfolio, and fairly sturdy. CDs are an inexpensive way of delivering a variety of types of relatively small files (PDFs and player files, for example). DVDs are the best choice for moving images.
People feel strongly—pro and con—about receiving a disc portfolio. The people who dislike them don't necessarily dislike discs per se, but groan because so many people do a bad job of creating them. Typical complaints range from bad organization to unreadable file formats. Unlike a website, which can be revised as you learn from your mistakes, a badly conceived or executed CD will simply be tossed—or tossed around a shop as an example of "portfolio fail"—Chapter 5, "Organizing Your Work," Chapter 9, "Structure and Concept," and Chapter 13, "Presenting Your Portfolio," address these issues, and will help you create a disc portfolio that won't frustrate an art director.
Although discs are usually welcome in 3D and moving-image disciplines, they are less attractive in 2D specializations, where there are more concise alternatives for delivering a body of work. Graphic design professionals, for example, tend to prefer receiving work via email: PDF attachments or a URL link. A disc is a commitment. Unless someone has thoughtfully provided a table of contents, you don't know how much it contains or how long it will take to look at it. And then there's the problem of where to store it if it's worth keeping.
These are enlarged details from two versions, at different resolutions, of animator Henry Foster's portfolio reel. The lower resolution (360x243) on the left is fine for a quick view, but the higher resolution (720x486) version shows the realistic modeling details of the chicken's eye and the plumage around it.
In contrast, people with positive disc experiences swear by, not at, them. Unlike a website, where you have to consider bandwidth and window size, a disc can be viewed anywhere, anytime, even without wireless access. The disc can hold work at a much higher resolution, so typographic or rendering details become accessible. Plus, if you author a DVD (with iDVD or some other application) rather than simply drag data onto it, the result will work in a standard DVD player, not just on a computer. That consideration is particularly important if you are sending a DVD to a large company where your work is likely to be viewed by people who aren't technically savvy, or who don't have the latest version of your software player on the computer they're using.
In addition, discs have a physicality that can keep your work alive. Websites are great, but they aren't always top of mind. Will someone who is inundated with portfolios and reels recall your name and remember to bookmark your website? Or if they did bookmark it, will they remember why a month later? A disc full of good work, attractively packaged, can and will imprint itself on a visual person's mind. Rather than archive it in a box or file, the disc may find its way to a prominent place on a desk—ready to work its magic when the right position opens up.
One last thing: if you decide to put your portfolio on a disc for distribution, use some type of -R versus -RW disc. Not only are these formats generally cheaper, but you would rather not have someone treat your portfolio as a free storage space.
Besides being an elegant way of transporting large volumes of work, the laptop gives you ultimate control of your presentation. You're less likely to be plagued by technical gremlins because you've tested your environment. You never have to worry about platform issues or care if the people you are presenting to can tell the difference between a DVD and a coaster. There are no surprises in type size or player speed. You can show your work in an intimate setting or hook the computer to a projection system and present it to a filled room. For all these reasons, laptops are a great way to present to a client or prospective employer.
On the downside, walking in with a laptop also requires that you be ready to use it to present under any circumstances. Your VGA adapter becomes a crucial tool if a one-on-one interview suddenly turns into a department-wide command performance. Equally important may be an alternative presentation layout if the projector has a lower resolution than you use as a standard for presentation design. Color shifts between your laptop and the projector can create awkward moments if they affect the audience's ability to see crucial details.
If you present without attaching your laptop to a projector, you'll have different challenges. You may have to dance between watching the screen and connecting with your interviewer or client. The only way around that is to have rehearsed your presentation so frequently that it's practically memorized—not a bad move in any case. You also have to take the flat panel display's limitations into consideration. If your audience is sitting at an angle from the screen they may not see the presentation well.
On Emmanuel Laffon's website (WWW.EMMANUEL-LAFFON.COM), he concentrates on completed, modeled projects that can speak for themselves with little context. His laptop presentation, however, contains abundant sketches: process work that allows him to discuss how he arrives at and develops his ideas.
If you plan to do regular laptop presentations, make sure that your entire computer is backed up regularly. Keep a copy of the presentation and any files it requires on a portable external drive that you carry with you in case Murphy's Law comes crashing down on your keyboard. And remember that a laptop presentation means maintaining at least one other form of portfolio as well, since you won't be dropping your MacBook Pro as a leave-behind.


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I am about to implement A* pathfinding algorithm and I wonder how should I implement this - from the point of view of architecture.
I have the pathfinder as a class - I think I will instantiate only one object of this class (or maybe make it a Singleton - this is not so important).
The hardest part for me is whether the
closedSet and
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I am opened to any hints and critique whatsoever.
What is the best practice considering pathfinding in terms of design ?

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LONDON – Britain's Serious Fraud Office has charged a former trader with conspiracy to defraud in the rigging of a benchmark interest rate.
The UK's official financial crimes investigator says Tom Hayes, a former trader at UBS and Citigroup, was charged Tuesday as part of the investigation into the manipulation of the London interbank offered rate, or LIBOR.
City of London police charged the 33-year-old with eight counts of conspiracy to defraud. Hayes specialized in products pegged to yen-dominated Libor and worked in offices in London and Tokyo.
He will appear before Westminster Magistrates' Court at a later date.
The charges follow an investigation opened last year after Barclays was fined $435 million by American and British agencies for creating false reports on its borrowing costs between 2005 and 2009, specifically related the interbank rate.
LIBOR is the critical rate banks use to borrow from each other. It indirectly affects the cost people pay when they take out loans — such as when consumers buy a home or car.
The British Bankers' Association, a trade group, sets the LIBOR daily after a dozen international banks submit estimates of what it costs them to borrow. Regulators in the U.S., Britain, Switzerland and other countries allege some banks submitted fake numbers on purpose to have the LIBOR set at a rate that better suited them.
U.S. and British regulators have fined two big British banks and Switzerland's largest lender hundreds of millions of dollars for manipulating LIBOR.


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Shawn Pelofsky
This sassy female will blow you away with her physical comedy and high energy. If Dane Cook and Kathy Griffin were to have a love child, then this would be your comic for hire. Shawn will take you on a wild ride with her outrageous impersonations and knowledge of pop culture. Her ability to nickname and work a crowd will blow your mind. Once you "Stretch it Out" with Shawn Pelofsky, you will never stop.
Shawn was born one out of ten Jews in Oklahoma. Performing since the age of eight, it's only natural that Shawn decided to pursue a career in comedy. She attended the University of Southern California and received a B.A. from The School of Theater. During her time at USC, she joined an improvisational group "Comedius Interruptus" which became her motivating force to train at The Groundlings.
By the age of 20, Shawn Pelofsky was performing sketches and improv with comedic giant (SNL's) Will Ferrell'. With a couple years of improv under her belt, she became a member of The ACME Comedy Theater. During her time at ACME, Shawn flourished in the field of stand-up comedy culminating with her current status as a regular at The World Famous Comedy Store. When she's not touring or performing for our troops in places like Afghanistan, Bosnia, Bahrain and Guantanamo Bay, Shawn performs weekly on their infamous Main Room stage. Adding to her many comedic accolades, Shawn has been featured in The Montreal "Just for Laughs" Comedy Festivaland in the all female hit comedy tours Pretty Funny Women, Nice Jewish Girls Gone Bad and The Hot Tamales produced by Eva Longoria. She has opened up for greats such as Richard Lewis, Robert Klein, Bill Maher and the fabulous Margaret Cho.
Shawn has given the comedy competition circuit a run for its money as a finalist for The Funniest Woman in Orange County and in Comedy Central's "Laugh Riots". Her television and film credits includeCommunity (NBC), Lip Service (Showtime), Chelsea Lately (E!), The Gossip Queens (LOGO), Pretty Hurts (LOGO), Comics Unleashed (ABC),The Tonight Show (NBC), Pauly Shore's Minding the Store (TBS), Last Comic Standing (NBC), Playboy Channel and Free Enterprise starring William Shatner. You can currently catch Shawn Pelofsky taking gay male audiences by storm performing with the Atlantis Cruises worldwide, Gay Prides around the USA, hosting HRC events and at The Comedy Store with her new monthly hit wonder "The Bathhouse Show". Make sure to check out her new comedy album: LADY HAHA recently released on i-Tunes.


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Nuance TALKS app for mobile handsets converts text on the screen to highly intelligible speech. Nuance ZOOMS is a sophisticated screen magnifier app. Together they provide blind and low-vision impaired individuals access to the digital world.
In today's world, mobile handsets are used for far more than just talking. You can view web pages, send and receive SMS text messages and access other media content—as long as you can see the tiny screen on your phone. However, for blind or low-vision users, that's not an option.
With Nuance TALKS & ZOOMS, low-vision and blind users can take advantage of most features available on their mobile phones, including contacts management, caller ID and text messages; access to the web, e-mail, calendar application and other screen content; and more.
Nuance TALKS supports a variety of phones from the classic number keypad to full QWERTY. Nuance ZOOMS supports phones with the SymbianTM S60 3rd/5th Edition and with the Symbian^3 platform.
Empowering the vision impaired by providing them access to most handset features.
Introducing a whole series of innovations, including support for a new generation of touchscreen phones brought by Symbian^3.
Screen magnification using ZOOMS and Automation is not supported on Symbian^3 handsets.
Nuance TALKS & ZOOMS Version 5.50 is a free upgrade for all Premium Edition licenses generated after November 13, 2007. In particular, this means that it can be installed by any customer who is currently able to run version 4.11 or 5.x without requiring a new license.
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Thousands of Hallbrook clients did not know they had been mis-sold shares, dating as far back as 20 years
At Hallbrook we've been investigating the share dealings of many stockbroking firms since 2008 and its clear share mis-selling has been a significant problem for at least two decades.
Mis-selling claims can arise for a number of reasons;
Most of the cases we handle at Hallbrook are presented to the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS).
This is simply because the bulk of the claims are related to stockbrokers who have gone out of business. The FSCS is the statutory fund of last resort and effectively steps into the shoes of any regulated firm that has been declared in default.
The FSCS limits compensation to £85,000 per eligible person, per firm for firms which failed on or after the 1st April 2019.
£50,000 per eligible person, per firm for firms which failed 1st January 2010 to 31 March 2019 and for firms which failed prior to this date £48,000.
The FSCS is a free service, therefore you can make a claim for compensation yourself.
In order to make a successful claim to the FSCS the claimant must provide sufficient evidence to prove that a civil liability exists against the firm. You will also need to demonstrate where the liability exists and present this to the FSCS.
Or you can call a Hallbrook expert and we'll do it all for you!
If the stockbroker is still trading any complaint must be made directly to the firm. There are regulatory procedures and timeframes the firm must adhere to when dealing with any complaint.
If you are unhappy with the final decision your complaint can be referred to the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS). You can refer your complaint independently to the FOS at no cost or you can use the services of a Hallbrook expert to assist.
If you are unsure whether you have valid reasons for a complaint to the firm call a Hallbrook Expert today and we will quickly establish if there is basis for a claim.
We are proud to have already helped thousands of clients recover tens of millions of pounds in compensation.
At Hallbrook we ensure the process is simple and hassle free, making a claim with us couldn't be simpler.
The Parliamentary Review is a series of fiercely independent publications. It reviews the latest events in parliament from a non-partisan perspective, but it is wholly independent of government.
Those companies which feature within the publication are not in any way endorsed by the Government, any government agency or regulator.
For more information please visit the Parliamentary Review website www.theparliamentaryreview.co.uk
Hallbrook feature in the 2017 edition of The Parlimentary Review which is available to view here.


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This is a type of soup which I like to have any time of the day, even for breakfast. The method of preparation for this soup is general English style soup but quite thinner than the normal English style soup. According to my understanding English style of soup are made with vegetables, potato, stock and cream, which is then pureed in a blender. The body of the soup is generally a thick consistency, which is perfect with a crusty bread rolls.
Preparation Time: 10 minutes
Cooking Time: 20 minutes
Serves 4
Green peas ( frozen thawed)- 450 g
Potato- 2 medium sized finely chopped
Onion- 1 medium sized finely chopped
Garlic- 3 pods finely chopped
Vegetable stock- 500 ml
Fresh mint leaves- 2 stalk finely chopped
Freshly ground black pepper- 1 tsp
Milk- 3 tbsp
Olive oil- 1 tbsp
Salt to taste
Heat the oil in a pan, add chopped garlic, onion and potato sauté for 2 minutes . Then add the chopped mint and saute for 1 minute. Add the peas and stock. Cover the pan and let it simmer for 5 minutes. Add milk, salt and pepper. Take it off from heat. Let it cool down for 5 to 10 minutes, then puree it in a liquidizer.
Return the mixture to the pan again and let it simmer for 5 minutes. Take it off from heat, serve warm with crusty bread rolls.
This recipe goes to Souper Sundays and AWED-British hosted by Kaarasaram which was originally started by DK of Chef in You.


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Mo. lawmakers eye bill to collect jail fees
Ex-inmates could have tax refunds, lottery winnings seized
A Missouri Senate panel considered legislation Thursday that would divert income tax refunds and lottery winnings to pay off individuals' county jail debts.
State law requires people confined in county jails for state crimes to reimburse counties for the cost of the incarceration. Missouri already taps lottery winnings, but not income tax refunds, for unpaid child support and health care services.
The Missouri Sheriffs' Association estimates unpaid jail boarding fees statewide total about $3 million. Sheriffs' association director Mick Covington said it can cost a county at least $1,000 to hold a person charged with a state misdemeanor offense.
J. Kent Oberkrom, the sheriff in Henry County and the association's president, said his county of 25,000 people has accumulated $105,000 in jail debts since 2003.
"No one is trying to collect this money," Oberkrom said.
The bill also includes provisions requiring people with jail debts to give up their concealed weapons permits and making them ineligible for hunting or fishing licenses.
The bill's sponsor, Sen. Brian Munzlinger, R-Williamstown, said such things are "privileges" that should not be available to those who owe money after being incarcerated.
But the state Conservation Department raised concern about how it would verify who is an ineligible hunter or fisher. The department issued nearly 2 million permits for hunting and fishing in 2011.
An interim House committee met last November to look at issues affecting sheriff's departments. Sheriffs testified then that jail costs have become a growing problem, and one of their suggestions was intercepting lottery winnings to pay off debts.
The Senate committee did not vote on the legislation Thursday.


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Key facts about postal plebiscite on same-sex marriage to make sure your vote is counted
Confused about the postal vote on same-sex marriage? Here's some of the big questions about the survey and the answers you need to make sure your vote is counted.
Who will oversee the postal survey?
The Australian Bureau of Statistics will be responsible for polling the country on whether the law should be changed to allow same-sex couples to marry.
Who will be able to vote?
The voluntary survey will cover all Australians on the electoral roll.
You are eligible to enrol if you:
- are an Australian citizen, or eligible British subject,
- aged 18 years and over, and
- have lived at your address for at least one month.
If you are an Australian living overseas, you must have registered an international address to participate in the postal vote.
You can enrol to vote, or change your personal details, by visiting the Australian Electoral Commission website.
Approx 68,000 enrolment transactions received yesterday compared to an average daily intake of 4,000. Majority address updates #auspol— AEC (@AusElectoralCom) August 11, 2017
When must I be on the electoral roll to take part in the vote?
You must be registered before 6pm on August 24 to participate.
When will I get to vote?
Your ballot papers could arrive as early as September 12.
For your vote to be counted, you have until November 7 to post it back. A result would be returned by November 15.
Read more: Same-sex couples talk marriage equality
Is voting compulsory?
Unlike at elections, where you are legally obliged to vote, you are not required to participate in the marriage survey.
What happens next?
A majority of votes in favour of same-sex marriage is not enough to legislate it.
If the postal survey finds more than half of participants in favour, then MPs would be granted a free vote on a same-sex marriage bill. It is expected such a bill would pass both houses or parliament and become law.
But one of the controversial parts of the postal vote is that MPs will not be bound to vote according to its result.
Read more: Bishop calls for respectful debate
Several MPs have already indicated they would still vote against same-sex marriage even if a majority "yes" vote was returned.
Others have said they will respect the will of the majority of Australians.
If the people vote "no" in the postal ballot, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has indicated no bill would be put before the parliament.


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Texan indie-rockers of plenty o' beauty Midlake (pictured) are to tour the UK in April. The band will be supported by DiS tip for 2007 Robert Gomez.
Midlake's The Trials Of Van Occupanther was one of 2006's most-celebrated albums; if you don't have it, perhaps you'd care to point your cursor here and read all about it. Gomez, meanwhile, released his debut album Brand New Towns earlier this month - listen to 'Closer Still', the album's opener, by downloading our tips for 2007 PODCAST.
Do it. Do it now!
And then buy tickets to one of these dates...
8 Liverpool Academy
9 Glasgow Oran Mor
10 Sheffield Plug
11 London Shepherd's Bush Empire
12 Brighton Concorde 2
13 Oxford Zodiac
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in the shop. I stand behind my work absolutely. If you can find the
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Telluride: 'Under the Skin,' Starring Scarlett Johansson, Fails to Impress
TELLURIDE, Colo. -- Jonathan Glazer hasn't made many feature films, but the two that he made prior to this year were undeniably interesting: Sexy Beast (2001), in which Ben Kingsley plays a violent sociopath (for which the actor earned a best supporting Oscar nom), and Birth (2004), in which Nicole Kidman plays a woman who has a relationship with a 10-year-old boy she believes to possess the soul of her dead husband.
That's presumably why Ralph Fiennes, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu and Alexander Payne, among other notables, came out to the Sheridan Opera House on Saturday for the second screening of Glazer's latest Under the Skin, in which Scarlett Johansson plays as an alien who visits and tries out life on Earth. And that's also presumably why a not inconsiderable number of audience members were bummed -- and walked out -- when the film proved to be a stylish but lacking in substance. (It is still seeking a U.S. distributor.)
STORY: 'Prisoners' Is Well-Made and Gripping, But Is It Academy Fare?
Before the film unspooled, Glazer told the audience that 10 years ago he read the Michel Faber book which loosely inspired the film and decided that it would be interesting to show "what it's like for an alien to see our world." He then adapted the book into a script with William Campbell, got Johansson on board and shot it in Scotland.
But when a film takes nine years to make, from start to finish, it usually means two things: It's a passion project of a somewhat self-indulgent director, and it's probably got some problems. I'm afraid that this film is no exception.
Johansson's character is an alien who inhabits and revivifies a human corpse, and then proceeds to drive around Scotland picking up strangers and making random stops. Along the way, she witnesses and/or experiences, with wide but emotionless eyes, death, desire, sex and assault, among other things that this world has to offer. Only a few words of dialog are spoken throughout the film -- and many of them come from Scotsmen who are virtually incomprehensible.
To me, Under the Skin is a lot like another visually beautiful but plotless and pretentious film from a director who is capable of so much more: David Cronenberg's recent Cosmopolis, starring Robert Pattinson.
In any event, I respect Glazer's ambition and obvious talent for creating arresting images -- a skill he has put to good use in the music videos that he has directed. But I'm afraid arresting images do not alone make for a great film. This one ambles along for only 108 minutes, but it feels a lot longer because so little actually happens during that time, and that which does is not all that interesting or enlightening.
Johansson herself is not the source of the film's problems. She totally commits to the part, to the extent that she even performs several scenes of full-frontal nudity. Unfortunately, many, if not most, of the people who ultimately will check out this film will probably do so solely in order to check out those scenes.
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At the August 21 FLIP meeting, the discussion was primarily about blogs: the good, the bad, the way too wordy. The topic was prompted by the recent release of this 100 Best Blogs for Librarians list, which comes from another blog (of course).
In your opinion, what makes an interesting blog? Do you find that blogs make great professional reference tools, or are they more of a social media outlet, a little of both, or none of the above? Further, do you have any suggestions for this new FLIP blog?
Please add comments, thoughts, links to your favorite blog(s). Let's get this conversation started. Ready….go!


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San Jose Car Accident Lawyers
Insurance Companies Are Not on Your Side After a Car Accident
You have paid car insurance premiums to your car insurance company for years, so you might think that your insurer would show some loyalty when you have been injured in a car accident. You would be wrong. Insurance companies are big businesses whose aim is to make a profit. Car insurance companies make a profit by collecting more in premiums than they pay out in claims. So it is in their interest to delay, deny or underpay your claim.
The car accident lawyers at Needham Kepner & Fish LLP have an insider's view of how insurance companies operate. When you retain our San Jose car accident lawyers, you gain the support of a legal team from a car accident law firm that understands insurers' tactics, strategies and tricks. If you have been injured in a car accident, you should focus on recovering your health. Let us deal with the insurance companies.
Drivers must carry liability insurance
California requires drivers to carry liability insurance to cover injuries to other drivers. Under California law, these are the minimum liability insurance requirements for private passenger vehicles:
- $15,000 for injury or death to one person
- $30,000 for injury or death to more than one person
- $5,000 for damage to property
When you buy car insurance in California, you also get uninsured motorist coverage unless you refuse it. Drivers may also add comprehensive and collision insurance to cover the cost of repairing or replacing their own vehicle if it is damaged or stolen.
Med Pay Car Accident Coverage
Medical payments, or "med pay," coverage is optional in California. Regardless of fault, med pay coverage kicks in when you are in an accident and you or your passengers suffer bodily injury that requires medical attention. Your insurance rates should not increase if you use med pay to cover injuries suffered in an accident that was not your fault. Knowledgeable San Jose car accident lawyers can help you with a med pay claim.
We Help You Find Funding For Immediate Costs
After being injured in an accident, one of your immediate concerns is how you will stay afloat financially while you are unable to work but are being inundated with medical bills. In addition to helping you seek recovery through settlement negotiations or a lawsuit, our San Jose car accident lawyers can help you get financial assistance from other sources. If you have health insurance through your employer, it may cover at least some of your medical treatment. You also might be able to collect from the medical payments coverage in your own car insurance policy. When you need to know what to do after a car accident, our San Jose car accident lawyers can guide you.
We Will Handle the Insurance Companies
In most auto accident cases, your San Jose car accident lawyers negotiate with an insurance company, whether it's your own or that of the other driver. Insurance companies are for-profit corporations with a simple goal: to collect as much as possible in premiums and pay out as little as possible on claims. San Jose car accident attorneys with a track record of favorable trial verdicts can dramatically increase your chances of obtaining a fair settlement with the insurance companies. Most auto car accident cases are resolved through settlement, and the insurer is more likely to offer fair compensation if it is clear that your lawyers have the ability to win if the case goes to trial.
Talented San Jose Car Accident Lawyers
The San Jose car accident lawyers at Needham Kepner & Fish LLP have a record of success in helping car accident victims and their families throughout California's Bay Area. We are particularly experienced in handling serious accidents that cause catastrophic injuries or death. By performing a meticulous investigation, our experienced San Jose car accident lawyers identify the causes of the accident, which can include motorist error, defective parts and dangerous road conditions. We apply our extensive trial experience and negotiation skills to deal with the insurance companies and fight for the compensation you deserve.
If you or a loved one has suffered an injury in a car accident, consult our San Jose car accident lawyers as soon as possible. We also handle motorcycle, bicycle and scooter accident cases throughout the Bay Area. To schedule a free consultation, contact Needham Kepner & Fish LLP today online or at 1-408-956-6949. We handle injury cases on a contingent fee basis, which means that you pay us nothing unless you recover compensation.


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Opinion recap: Limits on new evidence in federal habeas proceedings
Yesterday in Cullen v. Pinholster, the Court clarified the role of new evidence in federal courts' habeas review of state court decisions, while once again reversing a Ninth Circuit grant of relief. The Court first held (by a vote of seven to two) that AEDPA requires federal courts to evaluate the reasonableness of state court decisions on the basis of the record before the state court; federal courts may not consider new evidence developed at an evidentiary hearing in federal court. The Court then held (by a vote of five to four) that Pinholster was not entitled to habeas relief under this framework because the state court's rejection of his claim was reasonable in light of the evidence it had before it at the time.
Scott Lynn Pinholster was sentenced to death after his conviction for murdering two men during a robbery. After exhausting state collateral proceedings, he sought federal habeas relief on the ground that his trial counsel was ineffective because he failed to introduce important mental health mitigating evidence during the penalty phase. After an evidentiary hearing, the district court granted relief on the basis of mental health evidence that had been developed in that hearing, but which had never been presented to the state courts. After a divided panel of the Ninth Circuit reversed, the Ninth Circuit granted rehearing en banc and reinstated the district court's decision, in part on the basis of evidence first adduced in federal court.
Yesterday, in an opinion by Justice Thomas, the Court reversed the en banc court's decision. The Court first held that "review under § 2254(d)(1) is limited to the record that was before the state court that adjudicated the claim on the merits." Because the provision's language is in the past tense, the Court explained, the statute "requires an examination of the state-court decision at the time it was made." This construction comports with the "broader context of the statute as a whole, which demonstrates Congress' intent to channel prisoners' claims first to the state courts." Such a conclusion was also consistent with the Court's precedent, which "emphasize[s] that review under § 2254(d)(1) focuses on what a state court knew and did." Neither Schriro v. Landrigan nor Michael Williams v. Taylor suggest otherwise, the Court reasoned, because both concerned only whether an evidentiary hearing is appropriate assuming that § 2254(d)(1) does not preclude relief.
The Court then turned to, and ultimately dismissed, the suggestion that its construction would render § 2254(e)(2) "superfluous." The Court explained that "Section 2254(e)(2) continues to have force when § 2254(d)(1) does not bar federal habeas relief" as "a limitation on the discretion of federal habeas courts to take new evidence in an evidentiary hearing." For example, it "still restricts the discretion of federal habeas courts to consider new evidence when deciding claims that were not adjudicated on the merits in state court" because such claims are not subject to § 2254(d)(1)'s deferential standard of review.
Applying this framework to the facts of the case, the Court next rejected the Ninth Circuit's alternative holding that Pinholster would have been entitled to relief based on the state-court record alone. Rather, it held, Pinholster "failed to demonstrate that the California Supreme Court unreasonably applied clearly established federal law to his penalty-phase ineffective-assistance claim on the state-court record." Under Strickland v. Washington, a prisoner must establish both deficient performance and prejudice. In the death penalty context, the prejudice prong requires he show "that there is a reasonable probability that, absent the errors, the sentencer . . . would have concluded that the balance of aggravating and mitigating circumstances did not warrant death." In the Court's view, Pinholster had failed to show that the California Supreme Court had unreasonably applied federal law in concluding that his trial counsel performed adequately by pursuing a "family sympathy" strategy that consisted principally of the testimony of Pinholster's mother. The Court rejected the Ninth Circuit's reliance on Terry Williams, Wiggins v. Smith, and Rompilla v. Beard to infer a "constitutional duty to investigate."
Turning to the prejudice prong, the Court held that there "[t]here is no reasonable probability that the additional evidence Pinholster presented in his state habeas proceeding would have changed the jury's verdict," because the "new evidence . . . largely duplicated the mitigation evidence at trial." Considering the extensive aggravating evidence presented by the prosecution, the Court concluded that in light of the "little additional mitigating evidence Pinholster presented in state habeas" here too the California Supreme Court's decision could not be said to be "unreasonable."
Justice Alito concurred in the judgment. While he rejected the Court's construction of the statute limiting the scope of the record in applying § 2254(d), he "would hold that the federal court hearing should not have been held because respondent did not diligently present his new evidence to the California courts." Thus, in this case, he agreed that the § 2254(d)(1) inquiry should be made on the basis of the evidence before the state court, and "that the decision of the state court represented a reasonable application of clearly established Supreme Court precedent in light of the state-court record."
Justice Breyer filed an opinion concurring in part and dissenting in part. He agreed with the Court's conclusion that the Section 2254(d)(1) inquiry should be limited to the evidence that was before the state court, but he would have remanded the case to the Ninth Circuit for it to apply the standards outlined in the Court's opinion.
Justice Sotomayor filed a lengthy dissent, joined in part by Justices Ginsburg and Kagan, in which she disputed both of the Court's holdings. Writing only for herself, she accused the Court of requiring federal courts to "turn a blind eye to new evidence in deciding whether a petitioner has satisfied §2254(d)(1)'s threshold obstacle to federal habeas relief""even when it is clear that the petitioner would be entitled to relief in light of that evidence." The Court's construction of the statute, she reasoned, "ignores a key textual difference between §§2254(d)(1) and 2254(d)(2)" "" that only the latter "expressly directs district courts to base their review on "the evidence presented in the State court proceeding.'" This difference "provides strong reason to think that Congress did not intend for the §2254(d)(1) analysis to be limited categorically to the "evidence presented in the State court proceeding." And in the second half of her opinion, which was joined by Justices Ginsburg and Kagan, she explained that in her view Pinholster had indeed satisfied § 2254(d)(1) on the basis of the state-court record. In her view, "the overwhelming mitigation evidence that was not before the jury" would have "destroyed the [relatively] benign conception of [Pinholster's] upbringing presented by his mother." For this reason, she argued "[f]airminded jurists could not doubt that, on the record before the California Supreme Court, "there [was] a reasonably probability that at least one juror would have struck a different balance.'"
Recommended Citation: Matthew Seligman, Opinion recap: Limits on new evidence in federal habeas proceedings, SCOTUSblog (Apr. 5, 2011, 4:17 PM), https://www.scotusblog.com/2011/04/opinion-recap-limits-on-new-evidence-in-federal-habeas-proceedings/


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Things are going on that y'all would likely take note of. I'd like to catch people over IM at some point to give character-specific updates.
I'm thinking that the main people who might have actually kept up with her were Stephen and Daniel Hyral, the king, Hakaril, Ardam, and Damien. But it's late/early, and I might be forgetting people. So, yeah. I need to talk to people.


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San Francisco said today that it has launched free wireless Internet on a heavily trafficked part of Market Street, "the City's busiest and most economically diverse corridor."
The city has been aiming to make Wi-Fi universally available for years. Nearly seven years ago it announced a deal with EarthLink to bring free Wi-Fi to all of San Francisco. That plan didn't pan out, but last year San Francisco had a tentative agreement with AT&T to supply Wi-Fi along Market Street. That didn't come to fruition either, but the failure helped San Francisco realize that if you want something done right, you have to do it yourself.
The San Francisco Chronicle reported today:
The city had signed a tentative agreement with AT&T in September 2012 to have the telecommunications company provide a free Market Street Wi-Fi network, but it expired before a final deal could be hammered out.
"It was simpler, faster, better to do it on our own," said Marc Touitou, whom [Mayor Edwin] Lee appointed as the city's chief information officer in April. "The quality is higher with the technical design by the Department of Technology. We wanted high capacity... We wanted it to be cool—no strings attached, no ads."
Touitou's team ran fiber-optic cable along Market Street and then connected it to network equipment set up on traffic lights and other city-owned fixtures.
The network was quietly brought online in stages over the past several months, and it was up and running late Friday under the network name _San_Francisco_Free_WiFi.
"Nearly a quarter-million people walk down Market Street every day, and now they will be able to connect to the Internet through our free public Wi-Fi," Mayor Lee said in an announcement.
The deployment cost the city $500,000, but it would have been more if not for hardware donations from Ruckus Wireless and Internet access contributed by Layer42 Networks.
The city already had "free Wi-Fi at San Francisco International Airport, public housing developments, and parts of City Hall," the Chronicle noted. Google has also pledged to provide free Wi-Fi in 31 San Francisco parks for at least two years.
AllThingsD reports that the Market Street network is "built to reach speeds of up to 50 Mbps both up and downstream," although a city FAQ cautions that "the connection speed will vary depending on a number of factors: Numbers of current users, Signal strength, and Device." The FAQ also notes that the Wi-Fi "coverage area is only as wide as Market St and only outdoors."
Reports of free Wi-Fi for everyone in the US, unfortunately, are still premature.


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Thermal Cycler Engineering
Our re-design is based upon the Open PCR system originally designed by Josh Perfetto and Tito Jankowski.
Materials List of Required Materials for PCR & DNA measurements
Contents of each DNA solution
PCR Protocol
Step 1) Download the Open PCR software.
Substep A) Click on the "more options" button.
Substep B) Select the plus symbol next to initial step, and set 95°C and 180 seconds for temperature and time.
Substep C) In the box labeled Number of Cycles, input 30.
Substep D) Set the denaturing temperature and time to 95°C and 30 seconds. (The two boxes in the first row)
Substep E) Set the annealing temperature and time to 57°C and 30 seconds. (The two boxes in the second row)
Substep F) Set the extending temperature and time to 72°C and 30 seconds. (The two boxes in the third row)
Substep G) Add a final step. Set the temperature and time to 72°C and 180 seconds.
Substep H) Set the final hold temperature to 4°C.
DNA Measurement Protocol
Substep A) Disable camera flash.
Substep B) Set the ISO to 800 or higher.
Substep C) Set the white balance to auto.
Substep D) Maximize the exposure setting.
Substep E) Maximize the saturation setting.
Substep F) Minimize the contrast setting.
Note that not all smartphone cameras will have these settings, just disable flash if not all these options are available.
Step 13) Take a picture of the fluorimeter and the SYBR green dye drop, recording the image number and DNA sample.
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Executive Producer of Record-Setting 2012 London Games to Lead Olympic Production Full Time for NBC Olympics Unit
NEW YORK - November 13, 2012 - Jim Bell, who served as the executive producer of the 2012 London Olympics, the most-watched event in U.S. television history, has been named the full-time Executive Producer of NBCUniversal's coverage of the Olympic Games. Bell reports to NBC Sports Group Chairman Mark Lazarus, who made the announcement today.
Bell will have editorial and creative control over NBC's Games and rejoins full time the NBC Olympics Unit, led by Gary Zenkel, President, NBC Olympics.
"There is no doubt that Jim is the right person to be our Olympic production leader into the future," said Lazarus. "His professionalism was unmatched in leading the London Olympics to record levels. Jim has worked with the best in the Olympic television world, and we're excited to have him join us as the full-time executive producer."
"The Olympic legacy at NBCUniversal is long and rich, and Jim has had a role with this unit going all the way back to Barcelona in 1992," said Zenkel. "It will be great to have Jim back full time as part of our incredibly talented and experienced production team."
Bell rejoins NBC Sports Group full time following seven years leading TODAY, the iconic news program that dominated the morning ratings race for 16 years, earned five Emmys, seven Edward R. Murrow Awards and nine Headliner Awards. He served as both executive producer of TODAY and the London Olympics earlier this year.
Prior to joining TODAY in 2005, Bell spent 16 years with NBC Sports & Olympics. He has worked on every Olympic Games NBC has broadcast since 1992 in either sports (1992, 1996, 2000, 2002, 2004 and 2012) or news (2006, 2008 and 2010). Bell won Emmys for his work on the 1992, 1996, 2000 & 2002 Olympics and a Peabody for NBC's coverage of the 2008 Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremony.
His NBC Sports & Olympics career began in 1990 when he was hired to work in the profiles unit for the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games and concluded in 2004 when he served as coordinating producer for NBC Olympics, overseeing all aspects of nearly 100 hours of afternoon and late night Olympic programming during the 2004 Athens Games. \
"The Olympics is one of the signature franchises in television, and for more than two decades they've been a huge part of my life," said Bell. "The London Olympics was especially exciting for me, and I look forward to continuing through future Games working with so many good friends and colleagues."


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Despite the larger working range, the TruMark Station 5000 gives you freedom when choosing the installation location, thanks to its compact design. For integration in a flow line, it offers you the option of workpiece flow using the openings in the side of the housing or with the flexible TruMark Station 5000 without housing (laser class 4).
Adaptable and ergonomic
Due to its intelligent, ergonomic design, the compact TruMark Station 5000 can be used as both a standing and a seated work station. We equip the machine with linear axes in the X and Y direction and rotary axes with various clamping systems, according to your requirements. The marking station offers the possibility of workpiece flow through transfer for integration in a flow line. The openings in the side of the housing offer excellent flexibility so that the TruMark Station 5000 can be expanded in line with your requirements. Its flexibility and its suitability for diverse application scenarios make the TruMark Station 5000 the true all-around solution of the TRUMPF marking systems.
The TruMark Station 5000 can be combined with all TRUMPF marking lasers.
Any emissions are immediately channeled away by the exhaust system that is integrated as standard.
Integrate the TruMark Station 5000 in your flow line or use it as a standing or seated work station.
Use the option of workpiece flow for integration in your production line.
Local heat input is used to discolor the workpiece surface. The annealing color changes depending on the material and the energy input. The surface stays smooth, which means that dirt cannot be deposited.
During engraving, the laser beam removes part of the base material, thus creating a depression. This may have steep or beveled edges.
If the material and laser wavelength are optimally matched, the dye molecules are deliberately discolored or faded. The surface remains smooth.
Structured surfaces
The laser can be used to structure surfaces for a specific function. There are various processes for this. If the surface is structured with tiny melt elevations, significantly higher adhesion effects can be achieved with the same material properties. If interlocking components are structured after the addition of micro-depressions, the running characteristics improve significantly with the same quantity of lubricant.
Laser cleaning
Surfaces are easy and quick to clean with the laser. Rust, oil, or phosphate layers can be gently removed in preparation for subsequent processes without damaging the underlying material.
Ablation partially removes thin top layers of multi-layer plastics which are applied to the basic material and have very different colors. This process can be used for the "day and night design", for example, which is used in the automotive and other industries.
During foaming, the laser heats the plastic to cause a short melting process. During the subsequent cooling process, small gas bubbles become trapped and diffuse the light that falls on them and is reflected. This type of laser marking produces a raised marking.
TruMark Station 5000
|Workpiece specification
|Max. workpiece dimensions (W x H x D)
|680 mm x 500 mm x 700 mm
|Max. workpiece weight
|50 kg
|Available motorized axis
|Traverse path of the Z axis
|500 mm 380 mm with TruMark 5010
|Traverse path of the X axis
|300 mm
|Traverse path of the Y axis
|300 mm
|Traveling speed Z
|1.5 m/min
|Traveling speed X
|6 m/min
|Traveling speed Y
|6 m/min
|Connection and consumption
|Electrical connection (voltage)
|Electrical connection (frequency)
|50 Hz - 60 Hz
|Dimensions and weight of work station
|Dimensions of work station (W x H x D)
|860 mm x 2000 mm x 1310 mm
|Laser class
|Laser class
The technical data of all product versions as a download.
TruTops Mark
The TruTops Mark marking software makes marking with the TruMark lasers as easy as possible. The TruTops Mark program combines the marking software, CAD editor, management of laser parameters and interfaces, sequence programming with QuickFlow, and a diagnostics tool. An intuitive interface puts all the functions at your fingertips. You can easily draw and arrange graphic objects with the CAD editor. The database for laser parameters enables you to re-use optimized parameters many times over. You can use the QuickFlow sequence programming to create "drag and drop" programs that control the complete marking cycle from beginning to end. The diagnostics tool visualizes and analyzes the analog measured values recorded by its sensors.
The TruMark Station 5000 can be combined with all TRUMPF marking lasers and offers the right solution for any application.
Additional options for the TruMark Station 5000 optimize production and improve user-friendliness.
Increase your process reliability with VisionLine, TRUMPF's image processing solution. VisionLine detects the position of the component and ensures that marking takes place in the correct location. It is also possible to read out and check the marked code. The modular structure opens up numerous options. Regardless of whether the camera is looking through the scanner lens
or is laterally installed, whether one or two cameras are being used – everything is possible.
You can implement high-quality markings even on cylindrical workpieces with the help of the optional rotary axes. A rotary axis with step motor enables circumference marking on components with a weight of max. 5.5 lbs. (diameter of the hand-operated chuck: 2.56 in.). Alternatively, a rotary axis that enables circumference marking of components with max. 44 lbs. weight is available (diameter of hand-operated chuck: 6 in.).
In the event of a fault, TRUMPF service experts will remotely access your laser via a secure remote connection. In many cases the fault can be remedied directly in this way, or the configuration of the laser can be modified in a way that permits you to continue manufacturing until the spare part arrives.
Integrate the jog mode option in your TruMark Station 5000 to position the movements of the A, X, Y, and Z axes using the arrow keys on the control panel of the TruMark Station instead of with the operating program. This means that the component can be correctly positioned even if you do not have software access.
A guide carriage installed on the machine frame and operated by a program-controlled drive enables precise positioning of your components up to a maximum weight of 55 lbs. The traverse path is 12 in., the repetition accuracy is ±0.0006 in., the traverse speed is 1181 in/min., and the positioning accuracy is ±0.002 in.
The swivel mechanism with scale can be freely adjusted manually and enables processing of the entire marking field width for the standard focusing lens (f = 163 mm). A clamping lever can be used to lock the swivel mechanism into place.
The exhaust system for particle and smoke emissions is integrated in the machine frame of the TruMark Station 5000 and connected to the work area via a PU hose. The integration in the machine interior does not make the footprint of the marking work station any bigger. The combined filter with activated carbon is monitored via a differential pressure switch and the volume flow rate can be adjusted with a potentiometer.
The work area can be extended with enlarged side walls for processing larger workpieces.
The TruMark Station 5000 is simple and convenient to operate. You can start the marking process easily with the foot switch.
The operating package consists of a monitor, a keyboard, and a mouse to operate the marking laser.
In the version with rotary indexing table, the TruMark Station 5000 enables loading and unloading of the outer half of the rotary plate while the marking process is still ongoing on the inner half of the rotary plate. This means that you can increase productivity and can run set-up and production processes in parallel.
All axes of the TruMark Station 5000 can be controlled using arrow keys on the control panel of the machine.
This product range and information may vary depending on the country. Subject to changes to technology, equipment, price and range of accessories. Please get in touch with your local contact person to find out whether the product is available in your country.


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ASU Electronic Theses and Dissertations
This collection includes most of the ASU Theses and Dissertations from 2011 to present. ASU Theses and Dissertations are available in downloadable PDF format; however, a small percentage of items are under embargo. Information about the dissertations/theses includes degree information, committee members, an abstract, supporting data or media.
In addition to the electronic theses found in the ASU Digital Repository, ASU Theses and Dissertations can be found in the ASU Library Catalog.
Dissertations and Theses granted by Arizona State University are archived and made available through a joint effort of the ASU Graduate College and the ASU Libraries. For more information or questions about this collection contact or visit the Digital Repository ETD Library Guide or contact the ASU Graduate College at email@example.com.
- Edwards, Arthur H
- Kozicki, Michael N
- 1 Arizona State University
- 1 Barnaby, Hugh J
- 1 Oleksy, David Ryan
- 1 English
- 1 Public
- 1 Electrical engineering
- 1 programmable metallization cell
- 1 simulation model
- Reverse Fountain Cytoplasmic Streaming in Rhizopus Oryzae
- Diné Research Practices and Protocols: An Intersectional Paradigm Incorporating Indigenous Feminism, Critical Indigenous Research Methodologies and Diné Knowledge Systems
- Developing an Augmented Reality Solution for Mapping Underground Infrastructure
- Characterization of 2D Human Ankle Stiffness during Postural Balance and Walking for Robot-aided Ankle Rehabilitation
- Using Molecular, Cellular and Bioengineering Approaches Towards Understanding Muscle Stem Cell Biology
Advances in software and applications continue to demand advances in memory. The ideal memory would be non-volatile and have maximal capacity, speed, retention time, endurance, and radiation hardness while also having minimal physical size, energy usage, and cost. The programmable metallization cell (PMC) is an emerging memory technology that is likely to surpass flash memory in all the listed ideal memory characteristics. A comprehensive physics-based model is needed to fully understand PMC operation and aid in design optimization. With the intent of advancing the PMC modeling effort, this thesis presents two simulation models for the PMC. The first model is …
- Contributors
- Oleksy, David Ryan, Barnaby, Hugh J, Kozicki, Michael N, et al.
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Direct from the Alabaster Alcove: Hennessy Youngman on Relational Aesthetics
Today we bring you a special treat, Art Throughtz, from our friend Hennessy Youngman. Direct from the alabaster alcove, Youngman, aka the Pharoah Hennessy, breaks down the concept of relational aesthetics in terms that we all can understand. From time to time, we will bring you updates on the priceless wisdom of Hennessy Youngman. Believe us, you'll be smarter after watching!


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The engineering, grounds and Behavioral Health Unit at Haywood Regional Medical worked together to brighten the hospital community by planting a rose garden.
Research has shown that hospital patients whose windows looked out at landscape scenery recovered from surgery quicker than those who faced a brick wall.
Marty Murray and the hospital's engineering team prepared planting beds at the front entrance to the Haywood hospital. With the help and hard work of patients and staff of the Behavioral Health Unit, the team then transformed the space into a rose garden that will bloom throughout most of the year.


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Your guess is as good as mine. It looks totally horrible and yet also very odd. Not much rhyme or reason to it all if we are to assume the official story is correct. Very successful multi-millionaire with everything to live for goes mega-postal, somehow smuggles scores of rifles and other guns into a ritzy hotel, rains down death upon hundreds of innocent concert-goers. Hotel security seems to be non-factor before and during. Internal cameras are a non-factor. Police and security arrive strangely late. Perp offs himself, as expected. Brother is nuts in interviews. Motive is still complete conjecture.
Other than that, I see there's lots of interesting small details online, as well as the usual wagonload of misinfo/disinfo. But as usual, we're held hostage by what the media and government tells us. I'm sure the real story, whatever it is, has not fully emerged. Or maybe it never will.
I'm kind of retired at the moment from researching these kinds of things. They took a lot of energy to delve into but weren't well-received due to the emotional friction of challenging narratives and 'facts'. That's to be expected, mind you. I'm still confident that the problems I found with certain 'high profile' suspicious mass shootings in the past are still valid. Plus the stories about many other geopolitical events seem even more suspicious and flawed. Maybe the recent Vegas thing has no connection to anything. Organic, random chaos surely happens. It just happens more logically, with the who-what-where-how successfully investigated.
There's enough data and research about past events to suggest that there's a giant covert world dedicated to either causing really bloody mayhem or manufacturing staged events to persuade/divide/confuse/distract popular opinion and obfuscate what's really happening in the 'overt world.' Is that applicable here? No idea so far.
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text: So, here we are – Ukraine, yet without Yushchenko. We are without defense and finance ministers. Ukraine has dire finances and no budget for 2010. What it does have is an empty treasury, horrible debt and a legally validated annual tribute to the Russian Federation, remnant of the gas war. Many hold that he simply trampled the hopes of millions, who believed in changes for Ukraine, reverting to the same old story.


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Hosmer, Moustakas swinging red-hot bats
KANSAS CITY -- What started as a hot streak for Eric Hosmer and Mike Moustakas has turned into a fiery couple of months.
"They both feel very, very confident when they walk to the plate now," manager Ned Yost said. "It's evident when you see them up there now. They're stepping into the box with a lot of confidence. They feel good about themselves. Both of those kids have worked hard to get back to where they're at right now."
Heading into Tuesday night's game against the Twins, Hosmer had lifted his season average from .259 to .293 by hitting .323 in 53 games since June 6. He had 37 runs, 13 doubles, a triple, 11 home runs and 36 RBIs, along with a .359 on-base percentage and a .541 slugging percentage in the two-month span.
Moustakas bumped his average up to .234 from .183 on June 17. In the 38 games since, he'd batted .307 with 10 doubles, six homers and 16 RBIs with a .351 on-base percentage and .511 slugging percentage. He's also been stingy on defense, committing just four errors in his last 52 games.
"If he swings the bat how he's been swinging the bat, I think the results are going to keep coming with Ws," Hosmer said. "The way he's been swinging the bat lately with guys on base, he's been getting big knocks and that's really what everyone's doing."
Entering Tuesday, the Royals were 14-3 since the All-Star break and had gone from six games under .500 to five games over with big performances from Hosmer and Moustakas. In that time, Hosmer hit .329 with three homers and 13 RBIs and Moustakas hit .322 with 15 RBIs compared to 18 before the break.


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I happen to be working on a problem that reduces to solving the following equation:
$$\mathbf{A X B} + \mathbf{B X A} + \mathbf{C X C} = \mathbf{D}$$
where A through D are known matrices ( A, B, D are real, symmetric matrices and C is real and antisymmetric), and X is an unknown square matrix to be solved for.
Is there a name for this equation, and is there any known algorithm for solving this equation? (Without the C X C term this reduces to the continuous Lyapunov equation given either A or B is an invertible matrix. I wonder if anyone working in control theory may have seen such equations before.)


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Interpol helping Iran to track dissidents here
Clarice Feldman
LOS ANGELES, Calif. — The Iranian regime is notorious for cracking down on dissent inside Iran . Now Mahmoud Ahmadenijad and the mullahs are targeting dissidents in other countries — including those in the United States . And they are using an international organization to do it.
The Regime Never Forgets
Shahram Homayoun fled Iran for the United States 19 years ago. He was a marked man in his native country, because of his support for democracy and human rights.
Now the regime has finally caught up with Homayoun: not in Tehran , but in Los Angeles .
"They have managed to keep me here, and it seems like there is nothing the U.S. government can do," Homayoun told CBN News in an exclusive interview.
Homayoun owns a satellite television network in L.A. called Channel One TV. He broadcasts pro-democracy programming into Iran on a daily basis.
Now Iranian officials want to silence him — permanently. A prosecutor in the Iranian city of Shiraz recently issued an arrest warrant against Homayoun on charges of terrorism.
Homayoun explained that he has never called for violence or terrorism of any kind against the Iranian government.
"Never," he said. "Even if the Iranian regime changes, we are encouraging people not to seek revenge. We are anti-terrorism."
Yet Homayoun is now a wanted man, unable to leave the U.S. for fear of arrest.
Marked as a Terrorist
The Iranian regime alerted INTERPOL, the global law enforcement organization, about Homayoun. The organization then issued what's known as a "Red Notice" against him. The Red Notice alerted all 188 INTERPOL member countries that Homayoun was wanted for terrorism.
Homayoun told CBN News that the terrorist charge has made his life extremely difficult.
We contribute funds to Interpol and work closely with that organization on terrorism and other international criminal matters. Interpol cannot operate within the U.S. borders but it appears that it can take actions detrimental to US residents and citizens anyway. In this case, US banks refuse to allow the target or his wife to maintain bank accounts here. The Attorney General has the oversight responsibility for contacts with Interpol and should blow the whistle on this practice.
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Repair or Renovate?
We've already looked at some of the problems, such as odors and leaks, that can send buyers running in the opposite direction. But what about other improvements?
Here are a few rules of thumb:
- If it's broken, fix it: You wouldn't want to buy a car that stalls at stoplights, and you wouldn't want to buy a home that needs repairs. If the roof leaks, the toilet runs non-stop, or you have to jiggle the kitchen light switch to get it to stay on, fix them.
- If it's bad, make it good (maybe): If something isn't broken - just ugly or outdated - think before you improve it. You may love the idea of changing your old vinyl blinds for wooden ones, but your buyers may not love it enough for you to recoup the expense. Consider upgrading areas that can make a difference to buyers, such as replacing worn-out vinyl flooring. Remember, anything you do to your home needs to either help you sell it, or help you get a better price.
- If it's good, don't make it great: It's true that some home improvements, like upgraded kitchens or bathrooms, really do add to the value of your home. And, if you've made those improvements in previous years, prepare to reap the benefits. But it's risky to start an expensive kitchen or bathroom renovation right before you sell your home: This work can be extremely costly, and there's a good chance you won't recoup all of your investment.


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Brad Pitt's hair. Like before it was grazing his shoulders. Now though, as you can see, it's long enough so that he can, you know, if you have it or you've had it, flip it back behind your shoulders with your hand. Are you into it? Brad's looks can be polarising. For the most part, I'm usually pro-Pitt. But this? This I can't get down with. And I'm pretty sure it's universally unappealing, even for the most hardcore Brangelunatic.
I wonder though if that's just Brad Pitt. He seems like the kind of guy who does it more when he knows you hate it and stop doing it if he knows you love it. Can you bring yourself to lie and say you love it?
As for that story about a Brange wedding happening at sea that's circulating today -- it originated with a UK tabloid/paper. So, no, we are not wasting any more words on that.


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Big news out of Dover Air Force Base late Tuesday: the 436th Aerial Port Squadron is Air Mobility Command's 2012 Large Terminal Unit of the Year.
AMC recognized the Super Port for its operational excellence and community involvement. Dover competed against several other bases, including Joint Base Charleston, Joint Base Lewis-McChord and Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst.
Unit leaders are stoked, of course.
"What that means is that we have the most innovative aerial port in the Air Force," said Maj. Jimmy Hendrix, 436th Aerial Port Squadron operations officer. "Our personnel are the best trained. [We are] doing what we do here to ensure that the cargo is moving. Our short-term vision and mission is doing it safely, by the book, on time and with a smile. We love our job, so doing it with a smile is easy."
"I think that one of the things that separated us this year was there were a lot of initiatives that were undertaken to improve efficiencies," said Jim Ewing, AMC Logistics Readiness Senior Civilian of the Year and the 436th's terminal operations manager.
We wrote about this high-performing unit during a late November visit to Dover, and visited with and blogged about deployed unit members at Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan in early December.
The port processes cargo ranging from rations to medical supplies to artillery pieces, feeding it to six C-5M Super Galaxies and 13 C-17 Globemaster IIIs as well as commercial carriers. Seventy percent of all scheduled channel cargo going to Afghanistan transits the Super Port.


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"Nine Names" (九つの名前, Kokonotsu no Namae) is chapter 572 of the original Naruto manga.
As Naruto and Kurama's Tailed Beast Ball collide with those of the opposing tailed beasts, both attacks fly upwards and explode. Using the opportunity to grab the beasts by the throat, Naruto sends clones in the initial Nine-Tails Chakra Mode to grab hold of the black receivers. As they do so, the original enters the consciousness of the tailed beasts who had all been waiting there with their respective jinchūriki and is greeted by Yugito who was pleased he had made it to this level. Welcoming him, Naruto and Yagura — whom the former starts pitying believing the former Mizukage to be a child who looked even weaker than Naruto did — have a brief conversation. After learning of Son Gokū and Rōshi's fate from Fū, he is summoned before the tailed beast and told to stretch out his hand. After Utakata and Han thank Naruto, one by one, tailed beast and jinchūriki alike introduce themselves to Naruto and then "bump fists" with him. Here, Kurama remembers the parting words of Hagoromo Ōtsutsuki and then — as the stakes are removed — asks his fellow tailed beast if they too believed as Son did that Naruto was the one that the Sage had spoken of so long ago. They all affirm them as a shocked Tobi reseals them into the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path. Though stating that nothing had changed because of his worn out condition after the Tailed Beast Mode had ended, Naruto refutes Tobi's claim, stating that he had just learned a bunch of difficult names all at once.


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Auckland house prices are predicted to rise a further 12 per cent over the next year, with the nationwide average jumping almost $40,000 by the end of the year.
And economists say there isn't an end in sight, with panicking buyers and huge housing shortages continuing to drive the prices up.
Average nationwide prices are now 3.2 per cent above their 2007 peak level, according to a report compiled by Crockers Property and analyst company Infometrics.
The nationwide average house price is expected to rise 8.6 per cent by the end of the year, with Auckland's average jumping 12 per cent, putting it close to $600,000.
The Bank of New Zealand's chief economist, Tony Alexander, said the report's predictions were in line with other estimates.
The rise is being mostly driven by domestic factors. "The biggest driving factor now is that people are accepting there is a housing shortage and that means there's a lot of 'catch-up buying' in the market at the moment, Auckland in particular."
Mr Alexander said during the global financial crisis, a lot of people held off buying a house and have been doing so since because they expected prices to fall.
"Now you've got four years' worth of young buyers stacked on top of each other all trying to scramble into the market. You've got investors thinking prices will fall before they made another purchase ... and now they also are catching up on purchases they might have made from 2009.
"So you've got two groups, the first-home buyers and the investors, just scrambling to catch up."
Combined with the housing shortages and low interest rates, these factors have pushed Auckland prices to 31 per cent and Christchurch's 29 per cent ahead of their 2009 low, Mr Alexander said. He expected house prices to continue to rise at a similar pace for the next three years. "We need to build 13,000 houses a year [in Auckland], but there's nil and Buckley's chance of doing that. There's a long, long way to go before they even get to half of the required level and as the shortage gets worse, the prices go up."
The Herald understands there are discussions being held about terms of reference between Auckland Council and the government working party established to tackle the city's housing crisis.
Last month, Housing Minister Nick Smith and Auckland Mayor Len Brown emerged from an hour-long meeting after disagreeing on a council solution to give legal effect to a new planning rulebook to free up land for new homes from September.
Mr Alexander said there was no way Auckland could meet its housing needs because it wasn't "physically possible for Auckland" to build 13,000 houses a year and the Christchurch rebuild would create labour shortages.
"The only thing that will stop the housing [cycle] is interest rates getting pushed to aggressively high levels and that isn't going to happen for quite some time."
The house-price growth meant first-home buyers would have to reassess expectations and needed to realise they'd have larger mortgages and source family and friends for their deposits, Mr Alexander said.
They would also need to look at suburbs further away from the city centre and look at joint-purchasing with someone else or consider an inner-city apartment instead of a house.
The director of Massey University's Centre for Banking Studies, David Tripe, said the interesting question about the housing crisis was whether it meant there should be Reserve Bank intervention and what that might involve.
"The problem there is that it's very hard to design a policy that impacts on Auckland only and that doesn't impact on the rest of the country," Dr Tripe said.
"It would be nice to say, 'This is an awful social problem that has serious implications if we don't stop it', but in practical terms it's not going to be quite as easy as that."


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The other night we went to see Contagion. Despite the strong potential for corniness suggested in this promo poster and tagline ("the world goes viral"? seriously?), it was some good entertaining fun, although I will say that if you're inclined to paranoia and/or hypochondria you'll probably want to run home and take a shower, and you may find yourself resenting anyone who dares to sneeze or cough in the theater. (I made a totally fake cough sound as we were walking out, and totally scared the people in front of me!)
The film does a pretty good job of subtly showing the dangers inherent in industrialized agriculture. The virus that goes pandemic seems to originate, indirectly, as a result of the destruction of one species' natural habitat and the removal of another species to a confined feeding operation. (I'm not getting more specific because I don't want to give anything away.) Add that to the frenetic pace with which people can fly around the planet distributing their germs, and you get a pandemic.
Now, in the film, the epidemic is not a food-borne illness; it spreads from person to person and through indirect (fomite) transmission. However, it illustrates the two aspects of our food system that make widespread food-borne illness an unfortunately strong possibly:
1. CAFOS (Confined Animal Feeding Operations)
To put in in terms that my kids would find hilarious: animal poop is great when animals are on pasture–it fertilizes the soil, which in turn makes the grass that they eat more nutritious, which in turn makes THEM more nutritious when we eat them. That's pretty much what ruminants like cattle and goats are built to do. And when they do that, they're pretty much healthy. But by removing animals who are meant to eat grass from grasslands, and forcing them to live in cramped, filthy conditions while feeding them biologically inappropriate diets laced with drugs, we've created optimal conditions for drug-resistant superbugs to develop, to say nothing of the wholesale cruelty to animals involved in this process (see Proverbs 12:10).
2. Centralization of the Food System
When just a handful of companies do most of the processing and distribution of the food our nation eats, the potential for widespread contamination is huge. A sloppy job on just one production line in one factory has the potential to kill lots and lots of people. And as we've learned in recent years, vegetarians are not safe: people have been killed from drinking apple juice and eating things like spinach and peanut butter. (Once, while pregnant, I got some awful food poisoning FROM A RESTAURANT SALAD that had been contaminated with raw chicken. Ew.) But while this was one isolated incident, centralization means that, as in Contagion, unsafe food can quickly sicken and kill people far and wide before we can even connect the dots and figure out what's making them ill.
Okay, that's scary! So what do we do about it?
One important thing you can do is (surprise) eat local! While this doesn't guarantee protection from contamination, eating local makes it much easier for you to KNOW more about how your food has been grown and handled.
Other things include choosing food carefully, storing it safely, and preparing it properly, not to mention advocating for efforts to tighten regulations on food producers to help ensure better practices–even now, the USDA is not allowed to test beef for the presence of some of the most virulent forms of E. coli until consumers have gotten sick. (That will be changing in March 2012.)
The other thing that Contagion illustrates really well is how selfish interests can block the progress of measures to benefit the common good, and how fear-mongering can get in the way of efforts to protect people. But what could be more basic to "justice for all" than making sure our food supply is safe?


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OCEANSIDE, CA — The much-anticipated Bagby Beer project got closer to realization today when it agreed to terms to lease the property at 601 S. Coast Highway. Co-creators and owners Jeff Bagby (who will also serve as head brewer), and Dande Bagby (Operations Manager) are anticipating construction on the 11,000 square foot brewery and restaurant to begin early 2013.
Bagby is best known as head brewer and Director of Brewery Operations for San Diego county's Pizza Port Breweries from 2005-11. During that stint, he also lead the company to three national 'Best Large Brewpub' titles per the craft brewing industry's annual Great American Beer Festival. Bagby resigned from that role January 1 to begin work on the Bagby Beer project.
Said native San Diegan Bagby, "With true, innovative local craft breweries Ballast Point, Green Flash, Alesmith, and Stone already brewing in San Diego, we are proud to soon be able to add our project to an already esteemed group."
High-level, here's what the next few months might look like (not necessarily in this order):
– Architect renderings and finalize design
– Settle on and order brewing system
– Engineering reports
– City approvals & permits
– ABC Licensing
– Settle on 'F, F & E" (fixtures, furniture, equipment)
– Start buildout
In January 2011, Bagby was named by San Diego Magazine as one of the 'Top 50 People to Watch' in San Diego.


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Last year BMW officially announced that they intend on launching a long wheelbase BMW 3 Series specifically designed for the Chinese automotive market. More than one year has passed since and it looks like BMW is preparing to send the long wheelbase BMW 3 series into mass production. As the launch date gets closer to us, this is a better time than ever to take a look at what the long wheelbase BMW 3 Series has in store for the Chinese market.


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Possible H5N1 family cluster probed in Pakistan
Dec 17, 2007 (CIDRAP News) – The World Health Organization (WHO) has sent a team to Pakistan to investigate at least eight suspected human cases of H5N1 avian influenza in the same general area, including cases in four brothers and two of their cousins, according to news services.
WHO spokesman Gregory Hartl said limited human-to-human transmission in the cases is possible, according to an Associated Press (AP) report published yesterday. However, he told Nature that 40 contacts of the suspected case-patients have tested negative.
If confirmed, the cases will mark the first human H5N1 infections in Pakistan. They also appear to constitute the largest cluster of related infections since eight cases (seven confirmed, one probable) occurred among relatives in North Sumatra in May 2006. Transmission of the disease from a 10-year-old boy to his father was confirmed by laboratory testing in that episode.
In a Dec 15 statement, the WHO said Pakistan's ministry of health had reported eight suspected cases in the Peshawar area, in the wake of culling operations to control poultry outbreaks there. Peshawar is in the country's North-West Frontier province, near the Afghan border, where most of the country's poultry outbreaks have occurred.
Samples from the patients tested positive in Pakistan's national laboratory and were being sent to a WHO reference lab for confirmation and further analysis, the WHO said.
Doctors from the WHO in Geneva and Cairo and others from US Navy Medical Research Unit 3 in Cairo were on their way to Pakistan yesterday to help investigate the cases and combat the disease, according to a Dec 16 Bloomberg news report. The team planned to track down, treat, and test contacts of the suspected case-patients, according to the Nature report.
Details of the suspected cases remained somewhat hazy today, as news reports varied in some respects.
According to the AP, Hartl said the illnesses involved four brothers, two of whom died, and two cousins, all from Abbotabad, a city about 30 miles north of Islamabad. Specimens were never collected from one of the deceased brothers. The two men who died had been students at an agricultural college in Peshawar; they were not involved in culling poultry, but they visited another brother when he was hospitalized, the story said.
Also among the suspected cases were a man and his niece from the Abbotabad area and a person who slaughtered poultry in Mansehra, 15 miles away, Hartl told the AP. He said some of the patients had had only mild symptoms and were never hospitalized.
The Bloomberg News report, also based on information from Hartl, concurred that the suspected case-patients included four brothers. The first case was in an agriculture official who fell ill after culling poultry in the Abbotabad area in late October. He was cared for by two of his brothers, both of whom subsequently died, one about a month ago and the other on Nov 29. A third brother of the first man also got sick, was hospitalized, and recovered, the story said.
The suspected cases also included two of the four brothers' cousins, who had only mild symptoms, plus a man and his niece who were involved in culling poultry in the area, Bloomberg reported. (It was not clear if the cousins were involved in culling.) Another case was in a male farm worker from Mansehra.
Still another brother of the first man to fall ill lives in New York state but flew to Pakistan to attend the funeral of one of his deceased brothers, according to Bloomberg. On his return, he told his physician that he might have been exposed to avian flu and quarantined himself at home, after which his son experienced flu-like symptoms. Samples from both father and son tested negative in state and federal laboratories last week, the story said.
Hartl told Bloomberg it was too early to tell whether the cases all spread from birds or involved limited person-to-person spread. He said some of the patients kept chickens and quail, and it was unclear what kind of protective equipment they used during culling.
The Nature report said Pakistan was slow to inform the WHO of the possible cases, boding ill for the agency's hope of detecting any person-to-person transmission early and quickly providing antiviral treatment to stop a potential pandemic. The story said the first cases occurred in mid-November at the latest, but Pakistan didn't officially inform the WHO until Dec 12.
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James Madison is considered the most influential contributor to the United States Constitution, and he worked vigorously to see it ratified. He also contributed to The Federalist Papers to explain his advocacy for a strong federal government. He served as a member of Congress and as Jefferson's Secretary of State before winning the presidential election of 1808. Madison served two terms in office, losing much of his prestige over his leadership during the War of 1812. During the war, Madison was forced to flee Washington when the British army invaded. His wife, Dolley stayed behind and salvaged national treasures.
James Madison was the smallest U.S. president, standing 5″ 4″ and weighing about 100 pounds… His first vice president, George Clinton, died in office in 1812; his second vice president, Elbridge Gerry, also died in office, in 1814… Madison was the last surviving signer of the Constitution… He was succeeded in office by James Monroe.
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Independence Police have launched a homicide investigation after a woman found her husband dead inside their home in the 800 block of South Jones Road on Friday night.
Police said they were called to the home at about 7 p.m. when the woman came home and found her husband dead.
Neighbor Nita Wait said this isn't the kind of thing she expects in her neighborhood.
"We have never seen anything like this ever in this quiet little community and we've been here about 11 years," she said.
Police identified the man as 65-year-old Charles E. Stephens.
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Elisabeth Hasselbeck is ending her run on The View after nine years. Plus, a ring-less Miley Cyrus has a wild night out with a male friend: See Us Weekly's top stories from Friday, March 8, in the roundup!
1. Exclusive: Elisabeth Hasselbeck Leaving The View After Nine Years, Viewers Found Her "Too Extreme and Right Wing"
Elisabeth Hasselbeck, one of the five cohorts of ABC's daytime talk show The View, will not be returning to the couch next season, following hot on the footsteps of fellow cohost Joy Behar, a source tells Us Weekly.
2. Miley Cyrus Parties With Paul Khoury, Goes Without Engagement Ring for Second Night in a Row
Miley Cyrus spent a wild night out in Hollywood — and the guy on her arm was not fiance Liam Hemsworth. The LOL actress hit up a house party with pal Paul Khoury on Thursday, March 7, and for the second night in a row, she was without her engagement ring.
3. Sarah Jessica Parker: My Feet Are Deformed From Years of Wearing High Heels
Carrie Bradshaw practically lived in Manolo Blahniks, but the actress who played her is trading her heels for flats — on doctor's orders. "I went to a foot doctor and he said, 'Your foot does things it shouldn't be able to do. That bone there…You've created that bone,'" Sarah Jessica Parker says.
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