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Next year, the Supreme Court's Daubert decision will turn 20. The decision, in interpreting Federal Rule of Evidence 702, dramatically changed the landscape of expert witness testimony. Still, there are many who would turn the clock back to disabling the gatekeeping function. In past posts, I have identified scholars, such as Erica Beecher-Monas and the late Margaret Berger, who tried to eviscerate judicial gatekeeping. Recently a student note argued for the complete abandonment of all judicial control of expert witness testimony. See Note, "Admitting Doubt: A New Standard for Scientific Evidence," 123 Harv. L. Rev. 2021 (2010)(arguing that courts should admit all relevant evidence).
One advantage that comes from requiring trial courts to serve as gatekeepers is that the expert witnesses' reasoning is approved or disapproved in an open, transparent, and rational way. Trial courts subject themselves to public scrutiny in a way that jury decision making does not permit. The critics of Daubert often engage in a cynical attempt to remove all controls over expert witnesses in order to empower juries to act on their populist passions and prejudices. When courts misinterpret statistical and scientific evidence, there is some hope of changing subsequent decisions by pointing out their errors. Jury errors on the other hand, unless they involve determinations of issues for which there were "no evidence," are immune to institutional criticism or correction.
Despite my whining, not all courts butcher statistical concepts. There are many astute judges out there who see error and call it error. Take for instance, the trial judge who was confronted with this typical argument:
"While Giles admits that a p-value of .15 is three times higher than what scientists generally consider statistically significant—that is, a p-value of .05 or lower—she maintains that this ''represents 85% certainty, which meets any conceivable concept of preponderance of the evidence.'' (Doc. 103 at 16)."
Giles v. Wyeth, Inc., 500 F.Supp. 2d 1048, 1056-57 (S.D.Ill. 2007), aff'd, 556 F.3d 596 (7th Cir. 2009). Despite having case law cited to it (such as In re Ephedra), the trial court looked to the Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence, a resource that seems to be ignored by many federal judges, and rejected the bogus argument. Unfortunately, the lawyers who made the bogus argument still are licensed, and at large, to incite the same error in other cases.
This business perhaps would be amenable to an empirical analysis. An enterprising sociologist of the law could conduct some survey research on the science and math training of the federal judiciary, on whether the federal judges have read chapters of the Reference Manual before deciding cases involving statistics or science, and whether federal judges expressed the need for further education. This survey evidence could be capped by an analysis of the prevalence of certain kinds of basic errors, such as the transpositional fallacy committed by so many judges (but decisively rejected in the Giles case). Perhaps such an empirical analysis would advance our understanding whether we need specialty science courts.
One of the reasons that the Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence is worthy of so much critical attention is that the volume has the imprimatur of the Federal Judicial Center, and now the National Academies of Science. Putting aside the idiosyncratic chapter by the late Professor Berger, the Manual clearly present guidance on many important issues. To be sure, there are gaps, inconsistencies, and mistakes, but the statistics chapter should be a must-read for federal (and state) judges.
Unfortunately, the Manual has competition from lesser authors whose work obscures, misleads, and confuses important issues. Consider an article by two would-be expert witnesses, who testify for plaintiffs, and confidently misstate the meaning of a confidence interval:
"Thus, a RR [relative risk] of 1.8 with a confidence interval of 1.3 to 2.9 could very likely represent a true RR of greater than 2.0, and as high as 2.9 in 95 out of 100 repeated trials."
Richard W. Clapp & David Ozonoff, "Environment and Health: Vital Intersection or Contested Territory?" 30 Am. J. L. & Med. 189, 210 (2004). This misstatement was then cited and quoted with obvious approval by Professor Beecher-Monas, in her text on scientific evidence. Erica Beecher-Monas, Evaluating Scientific Evidence: An Interdisciplinary Framework for Intellectual Due Process 60-61 n. 17 (2007). Beecher-Monas goes on, however, to argue that confidence interval coefficients are not the same as burdens of proof, but then implies that scientific standards of proof are different from the legal preponderance of the evidence. She provides no citation or support for the higher burden of scientific proof:
"Some commentators have attributed the causation conundrum in the courts to the differing burdens of proof in science and law.28 In law, the civil standard of 'more probable than not' is often characterized as a probability greater than 50 percent.29 In science, on the other hand, the most widely used standard is a 95 percent confidence interval (corresponding to a 5 percent level of significance, or p-level).30 Both sound like probabilistic assessment. As a result, the argument goes, civil judges should not exclude scientific testimony that fails scientific validity standards because the civil legal standards are much lower. The transliteration of the 'more probable than not' standard of civil factfinding into a quantitative threshold of statistical evidence is misconceived. The legal and scientific standards are fundamentally different. They have different goals and different measures. Therefore, one cannot justifiably argue that evidence failing to meet the scientific standards nonetheless should be admissible because the scientific standards are too high for preponderance determinations."
Id. at 65. This seems to be on the right track, although Beecher-Monas does not state clearly whether she subscribes to the notion that the burdens of proof in science and law differ. The argument then takes a wrong turn:
"Equating confidence intervals with burdens of persuasion is simply incoherent. The goal of the scientific standard – the 95 percent confidence interval – is to avoid claiming an effect when there is none (i.e., a false positive).31"
Id. at 66. But this is crazy error; confidence intervals are not burdens of persuasion, legal or scientific. Beecher-Monas is not, however, content to leave this alone:
"Scientists using a 95 percent confidence interval are making a prediction about the results being due to something other than chance."
Id. at 66 (emphasis added). Other than chance? Well this implies causality, as well as bias and confounding, but the confidence interval, like the p-value, addresses only random or sampling error. Beecher-Monas's error is neither random nor scientific. Indeed, she perpetuates the same error committed by the Fifth Circuit in a frequently cited Bendectin case, which interpreted the confidence interval as resolving questions of the role of matters "other than chance," such as bias and confounding. Brock v. Merrill Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc., 874 F.2d 307, 311-12 (5th Cir. 1989)("Fortunately, we do not have to resolve any of the above questions [as to bias and confounding], since the studies presented to us incorporate the possibility of these factors by the use of a confidence interval.")(emphasis in original). See, e.g., David H. Kaye, David E. Bernstein, and Jennifer L. Mnookin, The New Wigmore – A Treatise on Evidence: Expert Evidence § 12.6.4, at 546 (2d ed. 2011) Michael O. Finkelstein, Basic Concepts of Probability and Statistics in the Law 86-87 (2009)(criticizing the overinterpretation of confidence intervals by the Brock court).
Clapp, Ozonoff, and Beecher-Monas are not alone in offering bad advice to judges who must help resolve statistical issues. Déirdre Dwyer, a prominent scholar of expert evidence in the United Kingdom, manages to bundle up the transpositional fallacy and a misstatement of the meaning of the confidence interval into one succinct exposition:
"By convention, scientists require a 95 per cent probability that a finding is not due to chance alone. The risk ratio (e.g. '2.2') represents a mean figure. The actual risk has a 95 per cent probability of lying somewhere between upper and lower limits (e.g. 2.2 ±0.3, which equals a risk somewhere between 1.9 and 2.5) (the 'confidence interval')."
Déirdre Dwyer, The Judicial Assessment of Expert Evidence 154-55 (Cambridge Univ. Press 2008).
Of course, Clapp, Ozonoff, Beecher-Monas, and Dwyer build upon a long tradition of academics' giving errant advice to judges on this very issue. See, e.g., Christopher B. Mueller, "Daubert Asks the Right Questions: Now Appellate Courts Should Help Find the Right Answers," 33 Seton Hall L. Rev. 987, 997 (2003)(describing the 95% confidence interval as "the range of outcomes that would be expected to occur by chance no more than five percent of the time"); Arthur H. Bryant & Alexander A. Reinert, "The Legal System's Use of Epidemiology," 87 Judicature 12, 19 (2003)("The confidence interval is intended to provide a range of values within which, at a specified level of certainty, the magnitude of association lies.") (incorrectly citing the first edition of Rothman & Greenland, Modern Epidemiology 190 (Philadelphia 1998); John M. Conley & David W. Peterson, "The Science of Gatekeeping: The Federal Judicial Center's New Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence," 74 N.C.L.Rev. 1183, 1212 n.172 (1996)("a 95% confidence interval … means that we can be 95% certain that the true population average lies within that range").
Who has prevailed? The statistically correct authors of the statistics chapter of the Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence, or the errant commentators? It would be good to have some empirical evidence to help evaluate the judiciary's competence. Here are some cases, many drawn from the Manual's discussions, arranged chronologically, before and after the first appearance of the Manual:
Before First Edition of the Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence:
DeLuca v. Merrell Dow Pharms., Inc., 911 F.2d 941, 948 (3d Cir. 1990)("A 95% confidence interval is constructed with enough width so that one can be confident that it is only 5% likely that the relative risk attained would have occurred if the true parameter, i.e., the actual unknown relationship between the two studied variables, were outside the confidence interval. If a 95% confidence interval thus contains '1', or the null hypothesis, then a researcher cannot say that the results are 'statistically significant', that is, that the null hypothesis has been disproved at a .05 level of significance.")(internal citations omitted)(citing in part, D. Barnes & J. Conley, Statistical Evidence in Litigation § 3.15, at 107 (1986), as defining a CI as "a limit above or below or a range around the sample mean, beyond which the true population is unlikely to fall").
United States ex rel. Free v. Peters, 806 F. Supp. 705, 713 n.6 (N.D. Ill. 1992) ("A 99% confidence interval, for instance, is an indication that if we repeated our measurement 100 times under identical conditions, 99 times out of 100 the point estimate derived from the repeated experimentation will fall within the initial interval estimate … ."), rev'd in part, 12 F.3d 700 (7th Cir. 1993)
DeLuca v. Merrell Dow Pharms., Inc., 791 F. Supp. 1042, 1046 (D.N.J. 1992)("A 95% confidence interval means that there is a 95% probability that the 'true' relative risk falls within the interval") , aff'd, 6 F.3d 778 (3d Cir. 1993)
Turpin v. Merrell Dow Pharms., Inc., 959 F.2d 1349, 1353-54 & n.1 (6th Cir. 1992)(describing a 95% CI of 0.8 to 3.10, to mean that "random repetition of the study should produce, 95 percent of the time, a relative risk somewhere between 0.8 and 3.10")
Hilao v. Estate of Marcos, 103 F.3d 767, 787 (9th Cir. 1996)(Rymer, J., dissenting and concurring in part).
After the first publication of the Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence:
American Library Ass'n v. United States, 201 F.Supp. 2d 401, 439 & n.11 (E.D.Pa. 2002), rev'd on other grounds, 539 U.S. 194 (2003)
SmithKline Beecham Corp. v. Apotex Corp., 247 F.Supp.2d 1011, 1037-38 (N.D. Ill. 2003)("the probability that the true value was between 3 percent and 7 percent, that is, within two standard deviations of the mean estimate, would be 95 percent")(also confusing attained significance probability with posterior probability: "This need not be a fatal concession, since 95 percent (i.e., a 5 percent probability that the sign of the coefficient being tested would be observed in the test even if the true value of the sign was zero) is an arbitrary measure of statistical significance. This is especially so when the burden of persuasion on an issue is the undemanding 'preponderance' standard, which requires a confidence of only a mite over 50 percent. So recomputing Niemczyk's estimates as significant only at the 80 or 85 percent level need not be thought to invalidate his findings."), aff'd on other grounds, 403 F.3d 1331 (Fed. Cir. 2005)
In re Silicone Gel Breast Implants Prods. Liab. Litig, 318 F.Supp.2d 879, 897 (C.D. Cal. 2004) (interpreting a relative risk of 1.99, in a subgroup of women who had had polyurethane foam covered breast implants, with a 95% CI that ran from 0.5 to 8.0, to mean that "95 out of 100 a study of that type would yield a relative risk somewhere between on 0.5 and 8.0. This huge margin of error associated with the PUF-specific data (ranging from a potential finding that implants make a woman 50% less likely to develop breast cancer to a potential finding that they make her 800% more likely to develop breast cancer) render those findings meaningless for purposes of proving or disproving general causation in a court of law.")(emphasis in original)
Ortho–McNeil Pharm., Inc. v. Kali Labs., Inc., 482 F.Supp. 2d 478, 495 (D.N.J.2007)("Therefore, a 95 percent confidence interval means that if the inventors' mice experiment was repeated 100 times, roughly 95 percent of results would fall within the 95 percent confidence interval ranges.")(apparently relying party's expert witness's report), aff'd in part, vacated in part, sub nom. Ortho McNeil Pharm., Inc. v. Teva Pharms Indus., Ltd., 344 Fed.Appx. 595 (Fed. Cir. 2009)
Eli Lilly & Co. v. Teva Pharms, USA, 2008 WL 2410420, *24 (S.D.Ind. 2008)(stating incorrectly that "95% percent of the time, the true mean value will be contained within the lower and upper limits of the confidence interval range")
Benavidez v. City of Irving, 638 F.Supp. 2d 709, 720 (N.D. Tex. 2009)(interpreting a 90% CI to mean that "there is a 90% chance that the range surrounding the point estimate contains the truly accurate value.")
Estate of George v. Vermont League of Cities and Towns, 993 A.2d 367, 378 n.12 (Vt. 2010)(erroneously describing a confidence interval to be a "range of values within which the results of a study sample would be likely to fall if the study were repeated numerous times")
Correct Statements
There is no reason for any of these courts to have struggled so with the concept of statistical significance or of the confidence interval. These concepts are well elucidated in the Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence (RMSE):
"To begin with, 'confidence' is a term of art. The confidence level indicates the percentage of the time that intervals from repeated samples would cover the true value. The confidence level does not express the chance that repeated estimates would fall into the confidence interval.91
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According to the frequentist theory of statistics, probability statements cannot be made about population characteristics: Probability statements apply to the behavior of samples. That is why the different term 'confidence' is used."
RMSE 3d at 247 (2011).
Even before the Manual, many capable authors have tried to reach the judiciary to help them learn and apply statistical concepts more confidently. Professors Michael Finkelstein and Bruce Levin, of the Columbia University's Law School and Mailman School of Public Health, respectively, have worked hard to educate lawyers and judges in the important concepts of statistical analyses:
"It is the confidence limits PL and PU that are random variables based on the sample data. Thus, a confidence interval (PL, PU ) is a random interval, which may or may not contain the population parameter P. The term 'confidence' derives from the fundamental property that, whatever the true value of P, the 95% confidence interval will contain P within its limits 95% of the time, or with 95% probability. This statement is made only with reference to the general property of confidence intervals and not to a probabilistic evaluation of its truth in any particular instance with realized values of PL and PU. "
Michael O. Finkelstein & Bruce Levin, Statistics for Lawyers at 169-70 (2d ed. 2001)
Courts have no doubt been confused to some extent between the operational definition of a confidence interval and the role of the sample point estimate as an estimator of the population parameter. In some instances, the sample statistic may be the best estimate of the population parameter, but that estimate may be rather crummy because of the sampling error involved. See, e.g., Kenneth J. Rothman, Sander Greenland, Timothy L. Lash, Modern Epidemiology 158 (3d ed. 2008) ("Although a single confidence interval can be much more informative than a single P-value, it is subject to the misinterpretation that values inside the interval are equally compatible with the data, and all values outside it are equally incompatible. * * * A given confidence interval is only one of an infinite number of ranges nested within one another. Points nearer the center of these ranges are more compatible with the data than points farther away from the center."); Nicholas P. Jewell, Statistics for Epidemiology 23 (2004)("A popular interpretation of a confidence interval is that it provides values for the unknown population proportion that are 'compatible' with the observed data. But we must be careful not to fall into the trap of assuming that each value in the interval is equally compatible."); Charles Poole, "Confidence Intervals Exclude Nothing," 77 Am. J. Pub. Health 492, 493 (1987)("It would be more useful to the thoughtful reader to acknowledge the great differences that exist among the p-values corresponding to the parameter values that lie within a confidence interval … .").
Admittedly, I have given an impressionistic account, and I have used anecdotal methods, to explore the question whether the courts have improved in their statistical assessments in the 20 years since the Supreme Court decided Daubert. Many decisions go unreported, and perhaps many errors are cut off from the bench in the course of testimony or argument. I personally doubt that judges exercise greater care in their comments from the bench than they do in published opinions. Still, the quality of care exercised by the courts would be a worthy area of investigation by the Federal Judicial Center, or perhaps by other sociologists of the law.


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The attempt was made just after the plane took off from Hotan in southern Xinjiang for the regional capital of Urumqi and the six suspects were detained after the plane returned safely, the Tianshan regional government's news portal said.
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The Evolution of Anonymous
A worldwide network of hackers has managed to gain access to the most secure networks on the Internet. The leaderless and faceless group, known as Anonymous, has infiltrated networks of the CIA, Interpol, email accounts of presidents, and has taken down the major web properties of global corporations. During its near-eight years of existence, Anonymous hackers have exposed a huge network of neo-Nazis in Germany and a stealth online child pornography ring.
No one knows how wide the Anonymous hackers' network stretches across continents, nor how many people belong to the Internet-based group. All activity takes place on mostly secure networks and on social media. Anyone can carry the banner of Anonymous.
The rise of social media has proliferated the threat of attacks from people who claim to be a part of the elusive group. Though many times these highly publicized threats are not carried out, they nevertheless garner significant publicity.
Anonymous has claimed responsibility for data breaches, information leaks and website crashes. The group uses YouTube to upload voice-altered messages, Pastebin to upload documents about operations, the Tor Project to encrypt links — making click paths untraceable — and other online tools to protect identities.
Most missions are carried out in response to current events or in the fight for human rights. Anonymous often claims to be fighting for the defenseless. Whether Anonymous is an organization of vigilantes working for good, or simply cyber-criminals, that's up to you to decide.
Origin: From Lulz to Political Action
Anonymous took form in 2003 on the online message board 4chan (think yesteryear's Reddit, which proliferates meme culture). The anonymity of the website spawned a group of pranksters, from which the politically geared Anonymous of today has evolved. Users on 4chan could post images and messages under the name "anonymous" or "moot" (nickname of 4chan's then 15-year-old founder Christopher Poole).
Cole Stryker, author of Epic Win for Anonymous: How 4Chan's Army Conquered the Web has been following the evolution of Anonymous since its inception. "I was interested in this whole culture of Anonymous that tracks down people and harasses them," Stryker told Mashable. "And from there, Anonymous as a political activist group evolving away from the little more trollish activities. They were attacking the Church of Scientology and starting to go after Sony and a couple of other huge companies."
The amorphous group shifted gears in 2007 with the plot against the Church of Scientology. Stryker calls this attack on what members perceived to be an "evil" organization as a rebranding for Anonymous. "Basically a group of Anons realized, 'Well, we have this ability to harness the power of thousands of strangers through the Internet to pull all those resources in making someone's life miserable. Why don't we take that power and use it for good?'"
Anonymous is still misunderstood, says Gabriella Coleman, an anthropologist studying hacker culture and digital activism. Though recent attacks have been politically influenced, it's not accurate to label Anonymous as a group with any sort of agenda.
Anonymous missions can have a direct action that may be "coy and playful, sometimes macabre and sinister, often all at once, Anonymous is still animated by a collective will toward mischief — toward 'lulz,' a plural bastardization of the portmanteau LOL (laugh out loud)," Coleman states in an article published in Triple Canopy's Issue 15.
The one thing to take away about Anonymous is that it is extremely malleable. Stryker suggests thinking of Anonymous as a brand instead of a group. Anyone can claim to be Anonymous at any time.
"Anonymous means something different to everybody, that's a part of it. The guy who is protesting economic reform in Greece has very little in common with the guy who is terrorizing 11-year-old girls on YouTube in the U.S.," Stryker said, referring to the 4chan attack on Jessi Slaughter.
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Anonymous is a household name partly because of the extraordinary events that took place in 2011. Social revolutions occurred in Bahrain, Tunisia, Yemen and Egypt, proliferated by Facebook, YouTube and Twitter. The air of political uprising spread to the United States, where Anonymous members picked up on these causes.
Anonymous and other "hacktivist" groups were responsible for over 58% of all the world's compromised data last year, according Verizon's 2012 Data Breach Investigations Report. Activist groups account for stealing over 100 million records. The researchers noticed that online hackers weren't just acting for bragging rights or out of boredom. Hacktivists were working for more fiery publicity. "The major shift that occurred in 2011 was that activist groups added data breaches to their repertoire with much-heightened intensity and publicity," the report states. "In other words, 2011 saw a merger between those classic misdeeds and a new 'oh by the way, we're gonna steal all your data too' twist." The annual report is conducted by Verizon, along with international police and security forces.
"The anti-Scientology protest was the first time they did it for political reasons," says Stryker. "Since then it has grown increasingly political, especially since they integrated with the Occupy Wall Street protests."
Anonymous has used the cartoon Guy Fawkes mask, worn by the main protagonist in 2005 movie V for Vendetta, as the main image for the movement. OWS has also adopted the icon in the pursuit of change.
Anonymous actively spread the word about the Occupy Wall Street movements, which took root in downtown Manhattan and spread to encampments of activists worldwide. "When Occupy Wall Street started, Anonymous spread the word online," says Stryker. "It drove more members to get involved. OWS was about physical protest, and Anonymous added an activist element in tandem."
Watch this video message, announcing Anonymous' adoption of the Occupy Wall Street movement, then located in lower Manhattan's Zuccotti Park on Sept. 17, 2011. [via AdBusters].
Ten Hacks That Helped Define Anonymous
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Before the U.S. Department of Justice announced an investigation into Albuquerque police, city leaders said they made changes to curb the number of officer-involved shootings.
The PERF Report is key part of the swirling debate on whether Albuquerque police are doing enough to keep citizens safe. City leaders ordered the report from the Police Executive Research Forum back in 2010. It came back with nearly 40 recommendations for police, ranging from a new stun gun policy to stronger use of force training.
So far, 92 percent of the recommendations from the report have been implemented. Since city leaders are quick to point to the report to show progress, Action 7 News asked the DOJ if it knew about the report and its recommendations.
"Yes, I'm very familiar with the PERF report," said Thomas Perez with the DOJ. "We would be disappointed if the chief were just sitting there waiting for the conclusion of our investigation before implementing reforms."
Albuquerque Mayor Richard Berry said the city has gone beyond the PERF Report recommendation in an effort to keep citizens and officers as safe as possible.
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City leaders said they've also implanted a majority of DOJ recommendations made to other cities like New Orleans and Seattle.
DOJ officials said they'll take a hard look at the PERF Report to see what works well and what needs to be added.


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Also: suppose $g$ is locally conformally Einstein. Can we produce similiar estimates on the largest geodesic ball around a given point that we can make $g$ Einstein on?


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Now that Arnold Schwarzenegger is coming back for Justin Lin's Terminator 5, could the rest of the cast be far behind? According to one of the Latino Review's sources, Arnold's quarry may be in tow as well:
Or should I say "Terminator 2012" which is the title the pitch is going under right now. It involves time travel back to the present day, and - the exciting and mind-bending part of it all - is that it has the "entire original cast" attached to it, not just Arnie.
Disclaimer time: This is from a real source, I'm not bullshitting you. I don't know what "entire original cast" means, but it's safe to assume that AT LEAST means Linda Hamilton is coming back to re-establish herself as the face of Sarah Connor. At best, we somehow get Michael Biehn as some sort of old Kyle Reese..
Should this come to fruition, I hope "entire original cast" means "everyone who ever starred in every installment of the Terminator franchise." I'm talking five John Connors (including Michael Edwards), Kristanna Loken, and punk rock Bill Paxton!
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NHL, union talking but not negotiating
While the NHL and the players' association are keeping the lines of communication open, they don't seem to be moving any closer to getting back to the bargaining table.
For the second straight day, representatives on both sides of the lockout had telephone conversations Sunday. None of those talks have yet led to concrete negotiations that could lead to an elusive collective bargaining agreement and get the delayed hockey season going.
''We had a conference call today to answer some of their questions,'' NHL Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly told The Associated Press in an email Sunday. ''No bargaining. And no bargaining meetings scheduled.''
Daly and NHLPA special counsel Steve Fehr also had discussions on Saturday. NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman and union executive director Donald Fehr didn't take part in Sunday's conference call, Daly said.
The lockout entered its 36th day Sunday.
Both sides said they made proposals this week that could provide the basis for an agreement.
''There are multiple frameworks for a deal on the table,'' Steve Fehr said Sunday. ''We gave them three good ones on Thursday. Each moves toward a 50-50 split of (hockey-related revenue) that the league wants. Each allows the contracts in place to be honored.
''Unfortunately, after considering these proposals for about 10 minutes the league rejected them and essentially said that they are not moving off their last proposal.''
On Friday, the NHL canceled all games through Nov. 1. The league said in its most recent proposal to the players that a deal must be reached by Thursday in order for the season to start on Nov. 2 and for each team to play a complete 82-game season.
A total of 135 games have been called off and are in danger of being canceled for good if an agreement isn't reached during the upcoming week.
More games could also be in danger soon, including the annual New Year's Day Winter Classic that is slated to pit the Detroit Red Wings against the Toronto Maple Leafs at outdoor Michigan Stadium.
Negotiations broke off quickly Thursday in Toronto after the NHLPA made three counterproposals that were rejected by the NHL. That came two days after the league's latest offer to the union.


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Scientists say they have detected the brightest stellar explosion ever recorded, a new breed of supernova that may well be repeated sooner than they previously thought.
The violent explosion was observed by ground-based telescopes as well as NASA's orbiting Chandra X-Ray Observatory in a galaxy far from our own Milky Way. But the observations hint that an erupting star in our own galaxy, called Eta Carinae, could be close to the same kind of blast, astronomers say in a paper to be published in The Astrophysical Journal.
For years, scientists have been looking for a blast this big, but never found one until last September. After months of analysis, the research team discussed their findings at a news conference Monday here at NASA Headquarters.
"We discovered a supernova that stands out as far and away the most powerful, the brightest supernova that has ever been observed," the head of the research team, Nathan Smith of the University of California at Berkeley, told reporters.
"Now that alone is not reason to make it so exciting," he continued. "The reason we're excited about it is that the supernova is so powerful we think it may require a new type of explosion mechanism, that has been predicted theoretically but has never been actually observed before."
The brightness of the supernova, which has been designated SN 2006gy, wasn't that obvious to earthly observers because the star that blew up was 240 million light-years from Earth, in a galaxy called NGC 1260.
But when astronomers took that vast distance into account, they figured that the supernova was 100 times more energetic than usual. Such a phenomenon would require the violent destruction of a star 150 times more massive than our sun — which is near the theoretical limit for a single star's size.
A new twist for theorists
Theorists had thought that stars that big were more likely to collapse into black holes, sucking all their mass into gravitational sinkholes. Another possibility was that the stars might blow away much of their mass, leaving behind a superdense neutron star.
However, the observations of SN 2006gy hint that the biggest stars can go off like giant thermonuclear bombs at the end of their lives. As the star blows up, some of the energy is converted into pairs of matter and antimatter particles, leading to a runaway thermonuclear reaction rather than a black hole.
"This is Einstein's famous equation E=mc2 put into practice," said Mario Livio, a senior astrophysicist at the Space Telescope Science Institute. Livio was not part of the supernova research team but said the team's conclusions were plausible.
This process would be completely different from the typical supernova blast, which involves material ejected from the star's core slamming into surrounding hydrogen gas and creating a violent shock wave.
To make sure that the shock-wave mechanism wasn't at work in SN 2006gy, the astronomers compared the observations from ground-based telescopes with Chandra's X-ray readings. They found that the X-ray readings would have had to have been 1,000 times stronger to fit the usual pattern. That's what led the astronomers to conclude that the blast was powered by the runaway thermonuclear process.
A supernova nearby?
Astronomers think many of the universe's first generation of stars were this massive. Thus, SN 2006gy could shed light on how the first stars lived and died.
But the findings also raise the possibility that Eta Carinae, the most massive and energetic star observed in our own galaxy, could blow up in the same way. Smith and his colleagues noted that Eta Carinae is roughly the same size as the star behind SN 2006gy, and at roughly the same stage of its life. Eta Carinae, like the star that exploded in the distant galaxy, appears to be shedding huge clouds of hydrogen gas in preparation for a blowup, the astronomers said.
For all its similarities, Eta Carinae is markedly different from SN 2006gy in that it's much closer. Eta Carinae is only 7,500 light-years from Earth, or about 45 quadrillion miles away — which may sound like a long way in earthly terms, but isn't all that distant for a cosmic supernova.
If Eta Carinae were to blow up like SN 2006gy, we'd definitely notice it, said David Pooley, the Berkeley astronomer who was in charge of Chandra's observations.
"It would be so bright that you could see it during the day, and you could even read a book by its light at night," Pooley told reporters.
Scientists had thought that Eta Carinae would have to puff away all its shells of hydrogen before blowing up, a process that could take 100,000 years or more. But Livio noted that the newly proposed mechanism would allow for an explosion at any time.
"This could happen tomorrow or it could happen 1,000 years from now," Livio said.
Astronomers have said a stellar explosion in Earth's celestial neighborhood could touch off a mass extinction — in fact, some scientists have proposed that just such a scenario could explain an extinction that took place 440 million years ago. But Livio said that a supernova catastrophe involving Eta Carinae was "not very likely" because the energetic jets emanating from the star did not appear to be pointing toward Earth.
"I think we can sleep quietly tonight for Eta Car not extinguishing life on Earth," he said. "However, this particular supernova and all the questions that it brings about will keep us awake for quite a while."


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Because I want to deliver a personal message to you all I am, for this post, abandoning my usual journalistic use of the first person plural. Those of you who know my background, know I got my journalist credentials long before the internet came into being. I have, somewhat naively, allowed all readers to participate in comments on the blog. Until a few weeks ago I had never rejected any comments coming on the blog. Unfortunately, the trolls have recently arrived here at Dog Show Poop and must be eradicated. I don't tolerate fleas on my dog and I won't tolerate trolls on my blog. Because of the limits imposed by my host, Google, I cannot wholesale reject all anonymous comments.
I have earned a reputation for being unbiased and unwilling to participate in dog show politics, a reputation which I wish to maintain. However in recent weeks I have been accused of publishing "fluff" and being in the pockets of the dog world's power brokers. Conversely, I have been chastised for providing a forum for rabble rousing character assassins interested only in bringing down the canine establishment. Partly because I allow some limited advertising on my blog, partly because I have attracted a sizable readership, many people assume I am earning an income from the blog. I once heard someone say to an experienced exhibitor, "I hear there's a lot of money in the dog show game" to which the old timer replied, "Absolutely! I should know. I have put a lot of my money into it." I accept no advertising from breeders, owners, or handlers and none of the photos appearing on this blog are paid advertising.
All of which leads me to this point. This is a personal blog, created and executed to promote the sport of pure bred dogs and to entertain my readers. I am very happy that so many people have found the blog enjoyable. I am the sole author of the content and the only person who has a say on editorial content. From that position, I am declaring this blog a TROLL FREE ZONE. I will post a permanent notice on my front page stating such. Because nearly 90 percent of the comments I receive are anonymous, I have decided to continue to allow anonymous comments with the following Provisos.
- I will reject all personal attacks on individuals and/or their dogs.
- I will reject all comments on a judge's knowledge or abilities
- I encourage comments on AKC policy, but will reject all personal attacks on AKC officials.


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7 a.m. Exhibition baseball: Toronto vs. Tampa Bay (d.).--MLB Net.
9:30 a.m. Golf: Trophee Hassan II first round (in Agadir, Morocco).--Golf
9:30 a.m. Basketball: Feb. 2006: Bethel boys vs. Kecoughtan.--LSC 48
10 a.m. Exhibition baseball: Cleveland vs. Chicago White Sox (d.).--MLB Net.
11 a.m. Basketball: Jan. 2006: Kecoughtan girls vs. Hampton.-- LSC 48
12:30 p.m. Soccer: April 1999: Kecoughtan boys vs. Phoebus.-- LSC 48
1 p.m. Exhibition baseball: N.Y. Mets vs. Washington.--ESPN
1 p.m. Tennis: Sony Open (likely a men's quarterfinal and women's semifinal).--ESPN2
2 p.m. Baseball: April 2009: Kecoughtan vs. Hampton.-- LSC 48
4 p.m. Golf: PGA Houston Open first round.--Golf
4 p.m. Exhibition baseball: Miami vs. St. Louis (d.).--MLB Net.
4:30 p.m. Basketball: Feb. 2010: Menchville girls vs. Hampton.-- LSC 48
6 p.m. Basketball: Feb. 2009: Kecoughtan girls vs. Phoebus.-- LSC 48
7 p.m. Basketball: NCAA East Regional semifinals: Marquette vs. Miami at 7:15, then Syracuse vs. Indiana at 9:45.--CBS: WTKR 3, WTVR 6
7 p.m. NHL: N.Y. Islanders at Philadelphia.--CSN
7 p.m. Tennis: Sony Open (likely a men's quarterfinal and women's semifinal).--ESPN2
7 p.m. Exhibition baseball: Minnesota vs. Boston.--MLB Net.
7:30 p.m. Baseball: Texas A&M at South Carolina.--ESPNU
7:30 p.m. Basketball: Feb. 2009: Kecoughtan boys vs. Phoebus.-- LSC 48
7:30 p.m. Basketball: NCAA West Regional semifinals: Arizona vs. Ohio State at 7:47, then La Salle vs. Wichita State at 10:17.--TBS
11 p.m. Talk/highlights: Cox 11 Sports Report.--Cox 11
11 p.m. College highlights: Duke basketball.--MASN
11 p.m. Exhibition baseball: Oakland vs. San Francisco (d.).--MLB Net.
2 a.m. Exhibition baseball: L.A. Dodgers vs. L.A. Angels (d.).--MLB Net.
NOTE: (d) = delayed
The NCAA round of 16 begins with games at 7 p.m. on CBS and at 7:30 on TBS.
3 p.m. Talk: Coach Merrill.--1490AM, 102.1FM
4 p.m. Talk: Nick Cattles Show.--94.1FM
TBA p.m. Talk: Sonny Randle, followed by Mike Tirico, ESPN "Xtra Point," NFL Minute, Monarch Minute.--94.1FM
6 p.m. Talk: NCAA Tournament Today.--950AM
7 p.m. Basketball: NCAA regional semifinals whiparound coverage.--950AM, 1490AM, 102.1FM
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This car may have started life as a 1953 Triumph Mayflower, but after being heavily modified there aren't many clues to the car's humble English beginnings. These days it's named Ruby and it doesn't look like a humble Triumph, or really any other car we've ever seen.
At some point this West Coast custom found its way out to Iowa where it's been sitting idle for several years. Now the car is listed on Ebay giving someone else a chance to own and enjoy this one of a kind custom.
According to the auction listing not only was this custom Triumph inspired by the Blastolene Brothers, it was partially constructed by them as well. The Blastolene Brothers aren't actually related, but they are well known for creating unbelievably original and usually oversized custom cars that more often than not end up in Jay Leno's massive garage.
It was Los Angeles based artist Baron Margo who finished the car, and we must say we like what he's done with it even if the finished product isn't quite Blastolene quality. The modifications performed on the car—from the chopped carson top to the custom aluminum body work—have done quite a bit to transform a run of the mill vintage British car into an interesting and unique automobile.
We wish we could say we were as enthusiastic about the price of this custom car as the vehicle itself. Although we aren't exactly up on the art car market the $25,000 buy-it-now price seems a little steep. With a little over 6 days left on the auction, there has already been some bidding activity, but the current sub $4,000 bid is still a distance away from the buy it now.
We hope this unique custom Triumph finds a new home by the end of the auction where it will driven and enjoyed. To us, the more custom vehicles like this one there are keeping the roads and highways of America a little bit weird, the better.


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So strange, my pictures are just linked on imgur, one of the most popular image hosting sites here in the U.S.
Most of reddit uses imgur.
"NoB's acquisitiveness is Zanshin like" - Dougie
"USA is 50 separate countries" - doof (tadpole farmer extraordinaire)
"I actually believe, nay, know that NoB's ass and innards are spotless." - Lilith


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2K Boston
Sky's the limit: Levine debuts new BioShock Infinite demo
In Internet Time, it's been infinity years since we last saw Levine's second BioShock. Has it been worth the wait? We ventured to LA to find out. New screens inside.
2K Boston headlines
Ken Levine says reverting back to Irrational was for the community
Ken Levine has explained why going back to the Irrational name was so important for its community, and reveals that Take-Two was supportive of the developer's decision.
2K Boston reverts to Irrational Games
Mr Levine must be pleased. As you can see from IrrationalGames.com, 2K Boston's breathed its last.
2K Boston's next game is definitely a shooter
Oh job listings, you just keep making our job easier.According to a job listing over at 2K Boston, the original big daddies of BioShock are currently working on an "unannounced shooter."Big Bioshock, we know, but it's still nice to at least have a tiny morsel of concrete info on the game. Click the link for […]
Levine's new project is "more ambitious than anything we've ever done"
Ken Levine has said that he and his team at 2K Boston are hard at work on a new project that's "more ambitious than anything we've ever done.""I think that when we think about a project now… When we thought about this project, we accounted for the fact that hiring the staff that we needed […]
Ken Levine: "We've never had a layoff in the history of our company"
According to 2K Boston head Ken Levine, hiring the right people for your studio creates not only stability, but does away the need to hire loads of employees to finish a job, only to let them go afterward."We've never had a layoff in the history of our company, and I'm very proud of that," he […]
2K Marin: There's no "dead weight" on BioShock 2 team
2K Marin creative director Jordan Thomas has claimed there are no weak links in his BioShock 2 team. You'd kind of hope so."We started to very slowly, and through a very stringent interview process, bring in the top talent in the Bay Area, and cherry pick, essentially," he told Gamespot, talking of the process of […]
Rumor: 2K Boston to be renamed Irrational Boston
2K Boston may be changing its moniker to Irrational Boston.This speculatory information is thanks to both a trademark filed by Take-Two,and t-shirts sported by GDC attendees plastered with "email@example.com" on the back.Joystiq contacted 2K Boston for verification earlier today and the official response was "no comment" with more to be revealed "very soon."
Levine: We won't show new game for "some time"
BioShock legend Ken Levine's said there won't be a sniff of his new, super-secret project for a while yet."Our new project is something we're champing at the bit to talk about," he told Gamespot."But we're not showing it to anybody and won't be for some time. In fact, the only way to get a look […]
Job listing calls BioShock developer's next game a "AAA multiplayer title"
According to a job listing posted on Gamasutra, 2K Boston's next game will be a huge departure from its single player-focused descent into madness, BioShock. Pulling a complete 180, the game will instead be an "action-packed AAA multiplayer title." "The BioShock team is betting big on multiplayer and plans to stay at the top of […]
IGN gives BioShock PS3 a cool 9.4/10 (update)
Update: EG's given it a 10.Update 2: PSM3, via CVG, has given it 9.3/10.IGN's BioShock PS3 review is up, and it's glowing. The 9.4/10 score says "buy it": the closing comments say, "Buy it if you haven't played it before." See:If you never experienced the halls of Rapture and have been waiting for its appearance […]
BioShock PS3 gets launch trailer
After the break. Despite a bunch of ignorable whinging to the contrary in the past few days, there's nothing shabby about the PS3 port of Ken Levine's flawed masterpiece as far as we can see. Now you can see too. The new version's out on Friday, and if you haven't played it already you really […]
BioShock PS3 gold, demo this week
According to this press release, the PS3 version of BioShock is now gold, and the game's demo will release on Thursday.That's it. It's out in the US on October 21 and "elsewhere" on October 17.
BioShock PS3 launch website may be the coolest ever
Here. This really is a piece of work. It's a kind of rip off of the game itself that works in your browser. We were impressed, anyway.BioShock's PS3 version is out on October 21 in the US.
Levine: "I got some nasty fucking threats" over PC BioShock DRM
Ken Levine's revealed that the security measures for the PC version of BioShock got him into very hot water with some of the more avid gamers in the audience."When we had the copy protection issues come out, I was out there talking about the product, I didn't run away from that. And frankly I got […]
Hands-on with BioShock PS3, new movies posted
Gamespot's posted up a hands-on with the PS3 version of BioShock, out on October 24. Snip:Outside of the proper single-player experience, we had a chance to try the Survivor mode, which offers a greater level of challenge that forces you to be smarter about how you play the game. Enemy behavior has been tweaked, and […]
Levine on System Shock 3: "Would I turn my nose up at another round with Shodan? No"
2K Boston's Ken Levine has told VG247 that he "loves" the world of System Shock and would be interested in a third game in the EA-owned series if the opportunity arose."Would I turn my nose up at another round with Shodan? No," he said.When asked specifically if he would ever make System Shock 3, Levine […]
PS3 BioShock trailer released
After the break. Watching it genuinely did want to make us play it again. We may even finish it this time. Game's out later this year.
BioShock movie won't be "Kate Hudson hunting for pirate treasure," says Levine
Big-shot Hollywood film guy Gore Verbinski "gets" the BioShock franchise. Ken Levine told us so last week. So don't expect pretty blondes with unsmudged make-up impaling themselves on muscle-bound dunderheads in the screen adaptation of the 2K Boston game."You're always going to be worried that in that first meeting they're going to be, like, 'OK, […]
Bioshock PS3 boxart released
See it here. Big Daddy plus Little Sister is good enough for us. The PS3 version should be a good excuse to go back and look at this again. Game's out at the end of October.
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2K Boston latest
Ken Levine says reverting back to Irrational was for the community
Levine's new project is "more ambitious than anything we've ever done"
Ken Levine: "We've never had a layoff in the history of our company"
Job listing calls BioShock developer's next game a "AAA multiplayer title"
Levine: "I got some nasty fucking threats" over PC BioShock DRM
Levine on System Shock 3: "Would I turn my nose up at another round with Shodan? No"
BioShock movie won't be "Kate Hudson hunting for pirate treasure," says Levine
2K attempts to put kibosh on Bioshock 2 multiplayer rumor, only stokes fire
Ken Levine: BioShock gameplay innovates well compared to Portal, Call of Duty and Medal of Honor
Ken Levine: BioShock PS3 came later due to "corporate decision," additional content is "2K thing"
Ken Levine: "Maybe I am an asshole," but rumour doesn't matter
Ken Levine: My "crazy ambitious" game is out of the blue-sky period
BioShock was supposed to be the most integrated porn film of all time, says Levine


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Wanted: High-Quality Jobs and a Skilled Workforce
Report Calls for Federal Program to Ramp Up Productivity, Competitiveness
As the United States slowly recovers from the Great Recession, it needs to focus on creating not just more jobs but more high-quality jobs and providing workers with the skills necessary to perform those jobs, according to an article in the Winter Issues in Science and Technology.
Because too many U.S. workers lack the education and skills required for high-paying jobs, employers often choose to compete based only on low costs rather than on better worker performance, writes Harry Holzer of Georgetown University. He argues that the federal government should make it easier for employers to create and fill good jobs with highly productive workers.
"To do so," Holzer writes, "it needs to create and fund more-coherent and more-effective education and workforce-development systems. These systems should place their primary emphasis on providing more assistance to at-risk youth, both in school and out, and also to adult workers who are disadvantaged. Furthermore, these programs should take advantage of the latest evidence on effective training to maximize their impact."
Also in the Winter Issues in Science and Technology, Stephen Ezell of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation in Washington, D.C., outlines a strategy for revitalizing U.S. manufacturing, which suffered a precipitous decline during the past decade. Key to a reversal, he writes, will be greatly expanded government efforts to support the competitiveness of small- and medium-sized (SME) firms.
Other industrialized countries, Ezell writes, have recognized that because SME manufacturers account for more than 98 percent of manufacturing firms in almost all economies, they form the backbone of a nation's industrial supply chain. They have also recognized that despite their importance, SME manufacturers lag behind larger manufacturers in adopting new technologies, increasing productivity, and exporting. Accordingly, an increasing number of countries have introduced and robustly funded a broad array of policies and programs to support their SME manufacturers.
Unfortunately, Ezell says, the United States is trailing badly in these efforts. Indeed, a major reason that U.S. manufacturing has declined so much is the lack of support for SME firms, he says.
The Winter Issues in Science and Technology also includes articles on reducing oil use in transportation, California's pioneering transportation strategy, the promise of high-performance homes, and improving spent-fuel storage at nuclear reactors.
Issues in Science and Technology is the award-winning journal of the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine, and The University of Texas at Dallas.
Media Contact: The Office of Media Relations, UT Dallas, (972) 883-2155, [email protected].


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Modern Cobble Stainless Steel With White Glass Tile for Wall & Backsplash (EMT_W1144-MIX-CB)
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- Model Number / SKU: EMT_W1144-MIX-CB
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That's pretty much the way I feel. When I read the Apocalypses (I read them both before reading either Exegesis), I must admit I was almost disgusted. The one thing I've grown so very fond of in Perl is the relation between %hash, @hash{@list} and $hash{$scalar}. My world broke down when I read that this is going away.
But then, though I wasn't around then, I imagine that when people went from Perl 4 to Perl 5, they must have found themselves in an odd world too.
That is what I think it's going to be like to move from Perl 5 to Perl 6. Perl 6 will have its own idioms. We will all have to change the way we think and get accustomed to them. For what price? Well - I doubt anyone would nowadays say things were better, back in Perl 4, without all the newfangled stuff.
Perl 6 is going to have newfangled stuff as well - I predict that eventually we'll get used to it and will look down on Perl 5 as an inferior stepstone from the past, the same way we look down on Perl 4 now even if we remember it fondly.
The hyper operators are one of the things I also am every excited about. Part of Perl I immediately fell in love with is map and grep. Now come to think about them - aren't they are basically "poor man's hyper operators"? And guess what - we will have dinner with silver cutlery in the future.
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Transaction Trends in Small Multifamily Assets
- A high percentage of U.S. multifamily inventory is in small properties, and a significant percentage of multifamily renters live in small properties. In the capital markets world, investment in and financing of smaller assets is very active.
- Small assets (five to 50 units each and $10 million or under in sales price) represented a moderate 9% of total multifamily sales volume in 2018 (through August), but 39% of all transactions.
- Sales volume for full-year 2018 is expected to exceed the nearly $12 billion annual average of the past three years.
- Total transactions volume year-to-date is 4.5% higher than last year.
- Small assets tend to be older properties that generally have high occupancy levels.
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