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Clarifying Booker's application to Section 3582(c)(2)
Patrick Scanlon is a summer associate at Akin Gump.
In a decision that potentially precludes sentence reductions for thousands of individuals convicted of federal crack cocaine offenses, on Thursday, the Court held that the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines are binding in hearings held pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(2), which permits courts to reduce the prison term of a defendant sentenced under a Guidelines range that was retroactively amended by the U.S. Sentencing Commission. In so holding in Dillon v. United States (No. 09-6338), the Court rejected the petitioner's contention that its decision in United States v. Booker "" holding that the Guidelines are advisory, rather mandatory, in sentencing "" applied to proceedings under Section 3582(c)(2). [A preview and recap of oral arguments in the case are available here and here.]
In 1993, petitioner Percy Dillon was convicted of a crack cocaine offense which subjected him to the then-mandatory applicable Sentencing Guidelines. The district court imposed the lowest possible sentence under the then-current Guidelines range but did not grant him a downward departure from the Guidelines sentence. In 2008, the range was retroactively lowered; it was accompanied by a policy statement which provided that a revised sentence should not include a downward departure other than the one imposed in the original sentence. However, Dillon filed a motion for a sentence reduction under Section 3582(c)(2) in which he requested not only the reduction sanctioned by the 2008 amendment, but also an additional sentence reduction based on his conduct during incarceration. Dillon argued that he was eligible for an exception to the Guidelines range, and that the court was authorized to grant such an exception because the Court in Booker had treated the Guidelines as advisory, rather than mandatory.
The district court reduced Dillon's sentence to the fullest extent possible under the revised Guidelines range, but it denied any further reduction. It reasoned that it lacked the authority to adjust a sentence in a manner inconsistent with any Commission policy statement, and that Booker did not apply because the sentencing proceedings at issue in that case were clearly different from Section 3582(c)(2) proceedings. On appeal, the Third Circuit affirmed, reiterating the distinction between Section 3582(c)(2) proceedings and general sentencing, as well as the binding nature of the Commission's policy statement regarding Section 3582(c)(2) proceedings.
In an opinion by Justice Sotomayor, the Court emphasized the fundamental difference between sentencing and sentence modification proceedings and explained that Section 3582(c)(2) embodies a narrow exception to the general rule that a prison sentence imposed under the Guidelines range may not be modified. Sentence reductions under Section 3582(c)(2) are constrained by provisions promulgated by the Sentencing Commission: the text of the statute, the Court noted, explicitly limits courts' authority to modify terms of imprisonment to cases in which "such a reduction is consistent with applicable policy statements issued by the U.S. Sentencing Commission."
The Court characterized proceedings under Section 3582(c)(2) as a two-step process. First, courts considering a potential sentence reduction must adhere to the instructions (i.e. policy statements) issued by the Commission. In taking step two "" considering whether the reduction is warranted, based on the factors outlined in Section 3553(a) "" courts are limited to the universe of those instructions.
The Court found further support for its conclusion in the history of sentencing rules and regulations. Under the Sentencing Reform Act, Congress explicitly provided the Commission with the power to determine both whether to amend the Guidelines and the extent to which any amended Guidelines may be retroactive. Thus, the Court concluded, Congress had clearly delegated the authority to oversee sentence modifications under Section 3582(c)(2) to the Commission.
Based on these findings, the Court reasoned, Booker's constitutional holding did not apply to Section 3582(c)(2) proceedings. Unlike the Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial implicated in Booker, Section 3582(c)(2) proceedings are not constitutionally compelled, nor do they threaten any other constitutional rights. The Court similarly declined to extend its remedial holding in Booker "" that the Guidelines be treated as advisory "" to Section 3582(c)(2) proceedings, emphasizing that such proceedings are different from, and significantly more constrained than, the kind of general sentencing at issue in Booker.
In a lengthy dissent, Justice Stevens conceded that Dillon has no constitutional right to a sentence reduction under Section 3582(c)(2), but he would have held that Booker's remedial holding does indeed apply to Section 3582(c)(2) proceedings because Booker abolished a "fixed, determinate sentencing regime based on mandatory Guidelines." And although neither party had previously raised the issue, Justice Stevens also suggested that the Court's holding ran afoul of separation-of-powers principles, arguing that the scope of the Commission's authority under the decision represents a "forbidden delegation of legislative power."


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Verdicts & Settlements
The law firm of Girardi | Keese has successfully recovered in excess of three billion dollars on behalf of our clients. Thomas V. Girardi has been proclaimed "The Billion Dollar Gentleman" by the Los Angeles Daily Journal for having achieved more than $1 billion in verdicts and settlements over a two-year period. The following cases are just a small sampling of the many successful verdicts and settlements Girardi | Keese has achieved over the years:
- $4.85 billion settlement with Merck for personal injuries to consumers of the drug Vioxx.
- $1.9 billion settlement with Sempra Energy on behalf of California consumers who were defrauded by the manipulation of natural gas prices.
- $1.7 billion settlement with El Paso Gas on behalf of California consumers who were defrauded by the manipulation of natural gas prices.
- $785 million jury verdict against several chemical manufacturers for toxic tort personal injury claims.
- $333 million settlement with PG&E for toxic tort personal injury claims by residents of Hinkley, California (made famous by the film Erin Brockovich).
- $300 million settlement with PG&E for toxic tort personal injury claims by additional residents of Hinkley, California (also known as Erin Brockovich II).
- $200 million settlement with Farmers Insurance for homeowners whose property had been damaged by the Northridge Earthquake.
- $90 million settlement with Lockheed, after the initial 25 plaintiffs in the case were awarded verdicts in excess of $10,000,000.
- $68 million settlement with a major pharmaceutical company for personal injuries to consumers of a prescription drug.
- $46 million settlement with Rent-A-Center for class action alleging overpricing of rent-to-own products.
- $45 million jury verdict against the Ford Motor Company in a product liability case, for a 12-year-old boy who was paralyzed due to a defective seatbelt.
- Multi-million dollar settlement with a California amusement park for 4-year-old boy who was seriously injured on an attraction.
- $35 million settlement with major supermarket for 11-year-old girl who suffered extensive brain damage after an improperly maintained light pole fell and struck her on the head.
- $30 million settlement with international insurance company for committing bad faith against a major hotel/gaming corporation.
- $25 million jury verdict against B. Braun for theft of trade secrets involving a patented medical device.
- $13 million settlement with Chevron USA for contamination of water wells in New Mexico.
- $12.5 million jury verdict against the Masonic Home for negligent supervision of counselors who committed child abuse.
- $3.55 million verdict in San Bernardino County for a young woman killed in a head-on collision on Highway 62
- $2.3 million verdict for a Long Beach resident run over by a Parks & Rec truck.
If you would like to learn more about the settlement and verdicts we have obtained, please contact Girardi | Keese

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Modder Runs SimCity Offline, Maxis Remains Silent
Two days ago, RPS published an article in which a Maxis insider revealed to us that SimCity does not, in fact, require the servers to run its non-regional game. Maxis reps had repeatedly insisted to the press that the game had to be online as it ran local computations on their own servers – a feature our source told us doesn't exist at all. Extraordinarily, we've still yet to receive a statement from Maxis on the matter. Nor indeed have any of the rest of the games media who contacted EA for comments at the time of our story.
And now, if any further proof were needed, a modder has hacked the game to run entirely offline, and even play outside of the game's ridiculously small borders.
Here it is:
Obviously this hack doesn't allow saving, loading or regional features when playing offline, but he has found a way to have unlimited offline play. However, when connected to the servers, it still remembers the road placement outside of the boundaries. This all amply demonstrates that the game can very easily be modded to run offline, rather than the "significant amount of engineering" Maxis repeatedly claimed. A local save is now all that's required.
This whole affair feels like a clumsily written morality tale, where someone's unrealistic hubris gets them into trouble. "Sure, like anyone would be that brazen!" you'd say as you watched. We are still waiting for a response from EA/Maxis, to our queries as to why they were claiming the game was dependent on the servers to run.
Cheers, Reddit.


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Freedom Of Creation supported UK based design company Cohda with its innovative Binary Furniture Collection. The binary table is the first result of an interactive project that expands the principles of the 60's engineering toy 'Spirograph' into 3-dimensional objects. FOC 3D printed the first table in the series, designed by Cohda Founder Richard Liddle.
Launched as live event at the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art in the UK, the public was encouraged to create their own digital furniture by drawing directly into Cohda's Binary desk via a Wacom tablet. A newly developed programme tracked the speed and pressure of the pen then extruded the spirals into a third dimension determining the surface configuration, structure and leg height.
In addition to an image of individual designs (which the creator could download from www.cohda.com), the programme also stored the unique CAD data files ready for 3D Printing. This gave users the option to either take ownership of the image and 3D product file, or to print a version of their creation through Cohda and FOC.


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Considerable research is taking place with research articles, books, conference papers etc.
1) Conference papers
2015 Bangkok Conference Abstracts
2016 Online Conference Abstracts
2016 Online Conference Papers
2) VM Academy Research Articles
VM Academy Online Journal Articles on this website
3) IAVM Webinar Series
1st Webinar: "A New Approach to Teaching Calculus" 16th June 2016 (Kenneth Williams)
2nd Webinar: "A New Approach to Teaching Areas on Graphs and Trigonometric Identities" (James Glover)
3rd Webinar: "A New Approach to the Teaching of Proportion" (James Glover)
4th Webinar: "Geometric Explorations in Yantras" (Vinay Nair)
5th Webinar: "Astronomy and the 9-Point Circle" 19th February 2017 (Kenneth Williams)
2018 October: "Calculating HCF and LCM Mentally" Kuldeep Singh
2018 November: "Vertically and Crosswise-the short version" Kenneth Williams
4) Research Books
See our Bookstore: books numbered 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 14
You are invited to join the LinkedIn Group: Vedic Mathematics Research Group.
6) Miscellaneous Videos
Number Bases - K Williams
Number Patterns - K Williams
Cumulative Binomial Probabilities - K Williams
Sums of Powers of Roots of Polynomials (India Conference 2018) - K Williams
Factorisation and Differentiation (Online Conference 2019) - K Williams
Building High Degree Polynomials - N Annenberg
Practical Mathematics (Hyderabad Conference 2019) - K Williams
Multiplication by Nines and its Astronomical Uses (Hyderabad Conference 2019) - K Williams
Expressing a Number as a Sum of Two Square Numbers - K Williams
Arcs and Chords of Circles, Angles and Sines of Angles - K Williams
The Earth's Rotation on its Axis and Revolution around the Sun - K Williams
These researchers are listed in alphabetical order by surname. If you would like to be added please let us know. We support those who are doing research into Vedic mathematics and can put up material on research currently in progress and/or publish in the Vedic Maths Newsletter.
Dr D K R Babajee
Obtained a PhD in Numerical Analysis in 2010. His research interests are Vedic Mathematics, Iterative Methods for solving nonlinear equations, fractals and Pythagorean Triples. He is fascinated by new and fast methods. He recently proved that the excess of the sum of the smaller sides of a right angled triangle over the hypotenuse is always even and using this property he derived the old two-fraction method for generating Pythagorean Triples. He also developed a general method for squaring and extended Tirthaji cross-multiplication method for solving systems of linear equations.
Stewart Dickson
Visualization Research Programmer, Illinois Simulator Laboratory at Urbana, Illinois, USA.
This is still pretty well the definitive statement on Tactile, Vedic Maths
And the video.
Make: Online : Vedic math machines and 3D zoetropes at Makerspace Urbana
Vitthal B. Jadhav
B.E. ( Computer engineering), Maharashtra, India.
Fascinated by mathematics since from childhood. Left two job offer to pursue research in mathematics. Invented one new multiplication method, universal divisibility test and efficient algorithm / method to compute any root of number or polynomial in single line.
Ashish Joglekar, Ajinkya Kale and Shaunak Vaidya
Research on speeding up programming time using Vedic techniques. See Issue 60 of the newsletter.
See also another article - here.
Dr S K Kapoor
Dr Kapoor has written many books on Vedic Mathematics. His work is profoundly geometric involving the understanding and use of multi-dimensional spaces. He is involved with the dissemination of Vedic Mathematics in India and is a prolific writer and teacher.
Brian McEnery
Vedic Mathematics and Natural Computation Research and Development in Ireland includes a diverse range of topics, from developing a multimedia approach to teaching using animations to exploring the language of computation using natural language, to developing a deep correlation between aspects of gaelic knowledge, modern computational physics, and vedic knowledge. Recent research reveals that the integration of these three great traditions of knowledge will point in the direction to develop the Theory of Everything in Physics, with implications for the Continuum Hypothesis in Mathematics, Completeness in Computation, and a realisation of the goal of a simple and complete approach to Knowledge.
Further information including contact details is available at this link: http://bit.ly/bfeaBB
Andrew Nicholas
Interested in the special theory of relativity, the foundations of geometry, the solution of ordinary and partial, linear and non-linear differential equations, evaluation of determinants, inversion of matrices.
Himanshu Thapliyal
Currently working toward the Ph.D. degree at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of South Florida, Tampa. For one year, he was a Research Assistant in the School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, where he was engaged in reversible/adiabatic computing at metal-oxide-semiconductor level. His current research interests include reversible logic, conservative logic, emerging technologies, Vedic mathematics, design of efficient arithmetic units, design of field-programmable gate array (FPGA) architectures for emerging nanotechnologies, and FPGA-based system design.
Kenneth Williams
Interested in promoting all aspects of Vedic Mathematics.
Specific research includes:
Unifying and simplifying arithmetic methods
The sixteen Sutras and sub-Sutras
Applications of Pythagorean Triples
Applications of Vedic Mathematics in Calculus, Trigonometry, Astronomy


text: Korean Job Discussion Forums :: View topic - 3 billion years a second, aka Star Wars actually happened Speak Korean Now! Korean Job Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in 3 billion years a second, aka Star Wars actually happened Korean Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Off-Topic Forum View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message mithridatesJoined: 03 Mar 2003Location: President's office, Korean Space Agency Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2005 8:25 am Post subject: 3 billion years a second, aka Star Wars actually happened I wrote this last night on my board and realized that it doesn't get much traffic. Anyway, here's why Star Wars already happened somewhere: Quote: Now onto the next topic: Star Wars actually happened. The long time ago in a galaxy far away line is what got me thinking, and I checked the number of stars in the universe. How many stars does an average galaxy have? The answer is about 400 billion, if we are to take our galaxy as an example. 400 billion, that's a hell of a lot of stars. To picture the number 400 billion, luckily I have a picture: This is a hundred billion pennies stacked up right next to each other, on a football field for comparison. It measures 38 metres each side. Take this and multiply it by four, and you have the number of stars in *one* galaxy. Now, how many galaxies are there in the universe? In the visibile universe, there are estimated to be about 240 billion of them. Each one of those has 400 billion stars. That gives a total of 96 000 000 000 000 000 000 000. I calculated that a few days ago, and here's what I found: This is one quadrillion pennies. That black tower there is the Sears Tower. Now, let's multiply it by a thousand: Now we have one quintillion of them. The previous towers are tiny blips in the corner. Now, take 96 000 more of these blocks and you have roughly the number of stars in the universe. But we're not done yet. Each of those stars has a number of planets. Our sun was supposed to have nine but it looks like a lot of minor planets lie out in the Kuiper Belt and then the Oort Cloud, stretching all the way out to about 2 light-years or halfway to the nearest star. It would be safe to say that an average star has about the same number, some five to twenty planets and a whole lot of other stuff beyond. Then there are binary stars and other weird systems as well. Most of them are supposed to be too radioactive to support life, but there are beetles deep in the ground that thrive on an environment way more acidic than battery acid and creatres in the deep that live next to volcanic vents that should boil them alive, but they love it. It's safe to say that life is tenacious and not necessarily limited to the kind we know. But in addition to that, there's also the matter of time. The universe has been around for 15 billion years, and that's a lot of time for civilizations to grow and die and things to change. There's also no indication of when the universe is going to end, and for all we know it's not going to end for at least another trillion or quadrillion years. If we have 96 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 stars, and we assume that only one in a million has had life and civilization, that still means that every second of every day, three billion years of history is happening as we speak. Three billion years every single second, and that's being very conservative. In the time it's taken me to write this mail that would mean that the universe has seen another 900 billion years of history. With those odds, I am of the opinion that whatever has happened has happened before, and will happen again somewhere at some time. Though probability dictates that the exact same motion or event can't happen again, in reality people become more predictable the larger a group they become. People as individuals are hard to predict, but as a group it becomes easy. Life isn't all that chaotic and random when me, just one person, can not only know with near certainty the date of an upcoming election a few years in the future, but also who is likely to win it. When looking at probability models it's also important to recognize the value of historical force, culture, and peer pressure. Anyway, that's why Star Wars already happened exactly as we saw it last week, just a long time ago. When I wake up in the morning I think I'll read this post again and check for clarity, if any. The one thing that's impossible to calculate is the longevity of civilization. Earth has been around for ten billion years or so, and has only seen civilization during the past few thousand. It could either be a blip on the radar screen, or the start of something eternal, and we haven't seen enough to know which of the two it is. That's the biggest problem in the calculation that I found after waking up and thinking about it some more. Back to top SmeeJoined: 24 Dec 2004Location: Jeollanam-do Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2005 9:23 am Post subject: Well, I read your message board sometimes, so I'm contributing to the traffic as best I can. Anyway, as far as we're concerned there's the barrier of the speed of light. That's why our space exploration programs are, and probably will be for a while, handcuffed. I wonder if, for other civilizations, general relativity does not apply. (Like, how people say a society doesn't have a concept/thing if there's not a word for it.) I think the answer will end up lying in string theory. Realizing the restrictions on three or four dimensions will create opportunities in the other six or twenty-two. Back to top Ya-ta BoyJoined: 16 Jan 2003Location: Established in 1994 Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2005 9:55 am Post subject: Quote: and has only seen civilization during the past few thousand Judging by the level of discourse on this site, I'd say civilization is still more than a wee bit in the future. But back to topic. Cool illustrations. Nietschze had something similar to say about this topic. My question is: What are the odds that I will live long enough and be in the right place to meet Chewbacca, the coolest of the Star Wars characters? Back to top HyalucentJoined: 16 Jan 2003Location: British North America Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2005 1:41 pm Post subject: Ya-ta Boy wrote: My question is: What are the odds that I will live long enough and be in the right place to meet Chewbacca, the coolest of the Star Wars characters? But if he has a longer lifespan, does that make it more probable he would live to meet you? How's that for a paradox. Back to top endofthewor1dJoined: 01 Apr 2003Location: the end of the wor1d. Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2005 5:21 pm Post subject: what's even cooler to think about was that it is infinitely more likely that something similar to star wars happened... exactly replicating it in all ways except for jar jar binks. Back to top blunder1983Joined: 12 Apr 2005 Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2005 6:08 pm Post subject: Chewie died in the extended universe. So the probability is 0. I THINK he got squashed by a moon :S Lets see how much of a star wars geek i am, I'm gonna go hunting for the link Chris Yep I'm right: Quote: Solo and Chewbacca have had many close calls in the past, and have executed countless last-second escapes; Sernpidal was not to be one of them. As the moon rushed closer to the surface, Chewbacca was cut off from the Falcon. Anakin was faced with a terrible decision. The Falcon could not wait any longer. Rather than endanger everyone aboard, Anakin piloted the ship away, leaving Chewbacca behind. Chewbacca stood his ground, howling defiantly at the immense moon as it crashed into Sernpidal's surface, killing the mighty Wookiee instantly. Anakin is Han Solo's son. Read more at: http://www.starwars.com/databank/character/chewbacca/?id=eu Back to top mithridatesJoined: 03 Mar 2003Location: President's office, Korean Space Agency Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2005 9:43 pm Post subject: Ah. Well, I should say that anything physically possible has already happened. Then again, we have no proof that the laws of physics operate in the same way on the other side of the universe, and it looks like black holes give out matter as well as suck it in, and there's quite a bit (huge understatement) that we don't know about. Writing this thread makes me feel very small. Back to top pollyplummerJoined: 07 Mar 2005Location: McMinnvillve, Oregon Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2005 6:00 am Post subject: Re: 3 billion years a second, aka Star Wars actually happene mithridates wrote: The one thing that's impossible to calculate is the longevity of civilization. Earth has been around for ten billion years or so, and has only seen civilization during the past few thousand. It could either be a blip on the radar screen, or the start of something eternal, and we haven't seen enough to know which of the two it is. That's the biggest problem in the calculation that I found after waking up and thinking about it some more. Must we see in order to know? If you're looking for small poisons to ingest, the laws of physics should do nicely. The problem is that too much of it may inoculate you against revelation. Your patience for calculation eludes me. Then again, if you're onto something, I'd better live long enough to meet this guy ... 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A design student in the UK has decided to revolutionize traffic, fitness and alternative energy by combining sweating and driving in a concept he calls the GYM Car.
Da Feng, a design student at Coventry University, was responsible for designing this clever though somewhat impractical twist on alternative energy. The GYM concept car's carbon fiber frame incorporates a miniature version of Bally's into the single-seat concept car. Equipment includes a step machine, rowing machine, bench press, pull-up simulator and arm weights. And so all this energy used up while the rider is stuck in traffic doesn't go to waste, this concept is a plug-in electric vehicle and when you're running low you can just plug yourself into the rowing machine and make some more juice.
We only see like a dozen problems, but this one sticks out in our minds: most single-seat vehicles like motorcycles qualify for High Occupancy Vehicle lanes, meaning the car would never get stuck in traffic and therefore you'd never have a chance to use the fitness aspects of the concept. Still, if they built it everyone in Houston would lose 20 pounds by the end of the week.
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CES 2014 has come and gone, and with it scads of new TV announcements -- many of them with 4K resolution. Toshiba itself bowed a promising line of 4K sets that include full-array local dimming, a technology that, in my experience, goes much further toward improving picture quality than a few million more tiny pixels.
Toshiba's L9300U series is still for sale, though, at least in the 65-inch size we reviewed (the 58-incher is getting scarce), but you shouldn't buy it. It's more expensive than many other 2013 4K TVs and doesn't perform as well. In fact, despite its high price, the L9300U doesn't even perform as well as some budget 1080p TVs we've tested.
So yes, this review is late and its subject basically obsolete already -- as well as impossible for me to recommend to anyone -- but still instructive. It serves as another piece of evidence that, as we found on previous 4K TVs from Panasonic and Samsung, the extra resolution is well-nigh invisible from a normal seating distance, especially with 1080p sources. It also provided me my first in-depth look (so to speak) at how great passive 3D can look on a 4K TV. I look forward to testing more 4K sets in the near future, including Toshiba's own. I expect most of them to run circles around the L9300U, and cost a good deal less.
Update February 26, 2014: A software update released February 3 and available via the TV's online update feature allows the L9300U to accept 4K sources at 60 frames per second, a component of the HDMI 2.0 specification. We have not tested this capability since we don't yet have access to any such sources, but we have updated the review text to reflect this additional capability.
Series information: I performed a hands-on evaluation of the 65-inch Toshiba 65L9300U, but this review also applies to 58-inch screen sizes in the series. Both have identical specs and according to the manufacturer should provide very similar picture quality. It does not apply to the 84-inch 84L9300U, however, because according to Toshiba, its innards are too different.
|Models in series (details)
|Toshiba 58L9300U
|58 inches
|Toshiba 65L9300U (reviewed)
|65 inches
The Toshiba L9300U is a style throwback that lacks the ultramodern panache of many 2013 4K sets marketed by competitors. It reminds me of nothing so much as a slightly dowdier version of Vizio's 2013 M series. That's not such a bad thing -- we praised the M for its atypically-for-Vizio upscale looks -- but somehow it just doesn't seem upscale enough when you're talking about a TV this expensive.
The silver lining around the L9300U's
playbook frame provides relief from the all-black of many HDTVs, but the rounded corners and plasticky feel are a step in the wrong direction in my book. The stand is pretty generic too, with its prominent stalk and open silver-colored foot, although I do like that it allows a swivel.
The remote is worse. The action of the central button array is stiff and emits a loud, old-school "click" with every press. There are simply too many buttons (but none to control aspect ratio), the layout forces a lot of stretching to reach far-flung keys, and the central keys aren't backlit.
The menu system is similarly disappointing for a high-end TV, with soft, ancient-looking icons and text, no explanations, and plenty of cryptic selections and messages. It also seems buggy. At one point a "No signal" pop-up persisted despite an image onscreen, and it took toggling inputs to make it disappear. The first day the TV simply wouldn't connect to Wi-Fi, although on subsequent days it seemed to work fine. A final annoyance: the response for power-off is laggy, so often I would hit it again, causing the TV to turn off then on again. Responses for other commands were also a step slow at times.
|Key TV features
|Display technology
|LED backlight
|Edge-lit with local dimming
|Screen finish
|Smart TV
|Internet connection
|Built-in Wi-Fi
|3D technology
|3D glasses included
|4 pair
|Refresh rate(s)
|Dejudder (smooth) processing
|Other: Includes wireless USB keyboard with touchpad; optional Skype camera (FreeTalk 7291; $130)
Toshiba obviously aimed to make the L9300U as "kitchen sink" as it could, but the set is still missing some of today's flagship extras: a touch-pad remote, built-in camera, and voice and gesture control, to name a few. But for what matters -- picture-affecting features -- the L9300U ticks the requisite boxes.
Chief is edge-lit LED backlight offers local dimming, which Toshiba calls "DynaLight." The L9300U also has a 240Hz refresh rate according to the company's specs, although according to our testing it behaves more like a 120Hz TV (see below). Toshiba talks up its "CEVO 4K" upconversion technology of 1080p and other lower-resolution sources.
This is also the first 4K TV with passive 3D we've reviewed. Toshiba throws in four pairs of glasses.
Beyond the picture Toshiba does manage to one-up its competitors by including an external wireless keyboard, complete with touch pad. It paired easily with our review sample, and certainly made using the Web browser more satisfying. Other Smart TV systems work with keyboards, but no other maker includes one.
Another cool extra not found on other sets is IR pass-through. A pair of included wired IR blasters can be placed in front of any two components, and commands beamed at the TV will be passed on to them. It's designed for use with devices hidden in cabinets, out of sight of standard IR commands. I didn't test this feature.
Smart TV: Toshiba calls its smart TV feature Cloud TV, a slightly desperate-sounding grasp at futurism. In fact it's one of the most archaic smart TV suites I've seen.
The first thing I noticed is that the graphics on the page again seem soft, particularly on a 4K screen this large. Navigating around, each page took inordinately long to respond. And the design makes little sense. The main portal is dominated by the date, an events calendar you'll never use (no, it won't interface with your actual Google or iOS calendar), a seemingly random collection of TV clips, a "messages" section you'll never use, an ad, and a window showing what's currently playing on your selected TV input. A series of tabs on the bottom provides access to still more services.
If Netflix is all you care about, then you might not mind the clunky, slow design because that app gets a dedicated remote button to skip the main interface. Otherwise, the quickest way to get to anything worthwhile is to navigate to a subpage called "my page" (perhaps because you can superficially customize it by deleting and shuffling icons around) and choose an app. Toshiba is missing Amazon Instant, but otherwise the big names are accounted for: Netflix, Hulu Plus, Pandora, Skype (additional external camera required), Vudu, YouTube, and Facebook (but no Twitter). There's also a third page called "contents" that just repeats much of the content from the other two.
The Web browser is OK as these things go, mainly owing to the included touch-pad-equipped wireless keyboard. Yes, it's clunky and slow to load and I immediately ran into a frustrating time trying to enter a simple URL (ahem, cnet.com, ahem), but at least the touch-pad tracking was decent. Nonetheless I quickly longed for the relative ease of a phone, tablet, or computer-based browser.
Picture settings: Toshiba includes the kind of wide selection you'd expect at this price, with a 10-point grayscale control, full color management, and a few dubious processing settings like "Resolution+," "Fine Texture Restoration," and "Brilliance Restoration" that I left turned off. There are three settings of dejudder, dubbed "ClearScan," as well as a toggle for DynaLight, which engages local dimming.
Connectivity: As mentioned at the top of the review, Toshiba has made public a software update that allows the TV to accept and display 4K signals at 60 frames per second, one of the hallmarks of HDMI 2.0. It is available as a standard downloadable software update, and brings the L9300U up to the same level of connectivity as TVs like the Panasonic WT600.
Unlike most 2014 4K sets announced at CES, the L9300U lacks HEVC decoding, so it won't work directly with upcoming 4K streaming services from Netflix and others. Toshiba told us "HEVC cannot be added internally later."
Meanwhile the set's other connectivity is more than ample, with four HDMI inputs, one component-video, two USB, and an SD card slot. The set also includes that oh-so-rare port these days, a VGA-style analog PC input. It can accept signals up to WXGA+ (1,440x900 pixels).
Picture quality
The Toshiba L9300U might have 4K resolution, but its other picture-quality issues make that extra sharpness, however difficult to discern, moot. It delivered lackluster, grayish black levels far short of even the less expensive 1080p TVs to which I compared it. Uniformity and blooming were below par, as well as off-angle and bright-room performance. Video processing was a mixed bag, while color represented a strong suit.
It's 3D performance is a revelation however, at least to those sick of the compromises inherent in active 3D and passive at 1080p. The combination of 4K and passive 3D provides, as I saw before on the $25K, 84-inch Sony XBR-X900A, the ultimate in 3D picture quality and comfort so far. Of course the Toshiba's other picture-quality problems persist with 3D sources -- I'd still rather watch a 3D movie on another TV with deeper blacks, for example -- but it overcomes the artifacting and line structure issues inherent in 1080p passive 3D sets beautifully.
4K sources testing
Video sources with true 4K resolution are very rare these days, but I was able to test a few for this review. As before I conducted all of these tests from a relatively close seating distance for 65-inch TVs: 77 inches (6.4 feet). The most important 4K test I performed on the L9300U employed the same pair of Redray players I used in the Panasonic WT600 review.
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Written by Jeff Dahn on April 5, 2014 | Perfect Game
Sarasota sails to Showdown crown
FORT MYERS, Fla. – The JetBlue Player Development Complex and JetBlue Park where the Boston Red Sox hold their Spring Training camp and play their Grapefruit League games are state-of-the-art in every way imaginable.
OK, maybe the big manual scoreboard embedded into the left field wall that was rescued from Fenway Park is a bit of throwback, but that just adds to the exceptional feel the modernistic ballpark that has seating for nearly 11,000 Grapefruit League fans exudes.
It has been dubbed "Fenway South" by both Red Sox and Lee County, Fla., officials, and has become a Perfect Game favorite when it comes to hosting tournaments and showcases. JetBlue Park is the venue of choice for both the 2014 Perfect Game Junior National and National Showcases scheduled for the second week in June.
It has also become a favorite venue for the Sailors from Sarasota (Fla.) High School, which sits not all that far north of the facility on I-75. The Sailors won the 2013 PG WWBA Florida Qualifier on jetBlue Park's perfectly manicured field in October and on Saturday won the championship at the 2nd annual Perfect Game High School Showdown on the same field.
The rosters compiled by Sarasota High head coach Clyde Metcalf for the Florida Qualifier and again for the PG HS Showdown were nearly identical, and produced a pair of PG tournament championships.
"This is the same group and we're starting to hope that with Fenway South we've got a little something going here," Metcalf said with a broad smile after his Sailors got past DeSoto Central High School (Miss.), 4-2, in Saturday afternoon's championship game.
"We've played really well in this park and when we won that one (the PG WWBA Florida Qualifier) in the fall we told the kids the next trip is the Showdown and then the next trip is the (Florida Class 7A) state tournament that's held here."
It was a great weekend all-around for Metcalf and the Sarasota program he has captained for 33 seasons. He not only won the Showdown championship after a loss in the tournament-opener, but he watched his nationally No. 9-ranked team improve to 18-2 this season while also capturing the 800th and 801st wins of his long and illustrious career just on Saturday alone.
"He's definitely the best coach I've ever had and he always will be," Showdown Most Valuable Pitcher Jordan Gubelman said. "There's a reason why he's a hall of fame coach."
The Sailors (3-1 at this event) were matched against a very strong DeSoto Central team in the championship game. The Jaguars were 3-0 at the Showdown coming in, having beaten their pool and playoff opponents by a combined 16-1.
A four-run Sarasota second inning ignited by an RBI single from senior Sam Carillo – the three other runs that came around in the frame were unearned – put the game out of reach very early. Carillo finished 2-for-3 with the RBI and a run scored while Evan Mendoza and Dylan Busby delivered doubles in the Sailors' four-hit attack.
DeSoto Central's Keegan James was 3-for-3 with two doubles and an RBI in the title game.
Due to some sort of glitch in PG's online statistics system, complete championship game stats were not available Saturday night. It is known that Gubelman, a 6-foot-4, 220-pound junior right-hander, pitched a complete game and gave up two earned runs on six hits with nine strikeouts and no walks through six of those seven innings. The performance led to the MV Pitcher Award.
"This has been a very good experience," the soft-spoken Gubelman said. "We have a bond like no other. We'll come out here and play our hardest and either way, win or lose, we're still a team."
Sarasota's senior catcher Brandon Chapman, a George Washington University recruit, was named the Most Valuable Player after a tournament in which he hit .333 (4-for-12) with four doubles, four RBI and three runs scored. Those numbers are also unofficial.
"It's been kind of hectic with a lot games in a short amount of time, but we fought through it," Chapman said. "I think we had some momentum coming in (to the tournament) – we had some big wins against some pretty good teams and some pretty good pitchers – and I think we just carried on with that."
Sarasota lost its Showdown opener to Allatoona High School (Ga.), 1-0, despite a seven inning no-hitter from senior right-hander Evan Mendoza. He struck out seven and walked two but his defense let him down with four errors resulting in Allatoona's only (unearned) run. Buccaneer senior right-hander Cooper Murphy scattered five hits over seven innings and struck out five.
"I like the way they rebounded. I really did," Metcalf said of the way his team bounced back after the bizarre setback. "I think the loss was good for us. I think it changed the way we approached the game and the way we approached a lot of our at-bats and a lot of the things we do defensively. You don't like to lose but it might have worked out (for the best). We bounced back really, really well; I was very proud of them."
The Sailors did manage to come right back with a 10-3 pool-play win over Lowndes High School (Ga.), with Chapman smacking three doubles and driving in four runs.
"I think it woke up our bats," he said. "Losing that game just woke us up and we just kept going off of that; we really started hitting. This has been a great experience."
The four-team semifinal field was set late Friday, matching the Venice Indians (2-0) against the DeSoto Central Jaguars (2-0) and the Sarasota Sailors (1-1) against the IMG Academy Ascenders (1-1).
Senior Mason Dancer hit a one-out single, moved to second on a sacrifice bunt, to third on a wild pitch and then scored on a wild pitch in the bottom of the seventh inning to lead Sarasota a wild 6-5 win over IMG Academy in a semifinal Saturday morning.
It was Metcalf's 800th win in 33 seasons as head coach at Sarasota High (the championship game victory would become his 801st). He just recently announced his retirement as the school's athletic director after 22 years in that post.
"It's a great milestone," Metcalf told PG before Saturday afternoon's championship game. "I think it's something that as time goes on I'll look back and I'll relish a little bit more. … It's a nice milestone and I'm very proud that I did it all at Sarasota High School. It's my alma mater, I was born and raised in that town and I'm very proud to have been allowed to coach there for 33 years; it belongs to the guys that played for me and the guys that coached with me."
The Sailors jumped to a 4-0 lead in the bottom of the first on a sacrifice fly from junior Cody Brickhouse, and RBI double from Busby and a two-run single off the bat of Carillo. IMG pushed across a pair of runs in the top of third before Sarasota added a single run in the bottom of the inning for a 5-1 lead.
The Ascenders got two more in the top of fifth and tied in the top of the sixth on an RBI single from junior Ryan Karstetter. IMG senior Luke Bonfield, an Arkansas signee, stroked two doubles and a triple and drove in three runs and Karstetter was 3-for-4 with two RBI. The Ascenders out-hit the Sailors, 11-7.
The Central Jaguars moved into the championship game with an unusual 3-1 win over Venice in the semifinal round. They scored all three of their unearned runs in the top of the third on the strength of two walks, two errors and a dropped third strike; DeSoto totaled only four hits, including a pair of singles from junior Colin Coates.
Senior left-hander Drew Crosby, a Memphis recruit, worked the first five shutout innings for the Jaguars, and allowed four hits with two strikeouts and two walkouts.
Venice, which totaled six hits, scored its only run when Rylee Buckmaster walked with the bases loaded in the bottom of the sixth. Indians' junior left-hander Kade Hunkapiller didn't allow an earned run in five innings, and gave up four hits with seven strikeouts and a pair of walks.
Venice (3-1), the defending PG HS Showdown champion, came back from its unusually untidy semifinal loss to top IMG Academy, 3-1, in the third-place consolation game. IMG went 1-3 at the tournament.
The Indians scored all three of their runs in the bottom of the first when Dalton Guthrie hit a leadoff single and eventually scored on a fielder's choice groundout from fellow Florida signee Michael Rivera. The other two runs – and all three were unearned – came across on the strength of two errors, a walk and a hit batter.
The Ascenders scored their only run in the top of the sixth when Andrew DiLacqua led off with a double, moved to third on a single from Taylor Lane and scored on a fielder's choice groundout.
Venice right-handers Ryan Miller, Buckmaster and Colin Cristello combined on five-hitter, striking out four. IMG senior right-hander Stephen Hueber might have actually been a little bit better, not allowing an earned run on three hits and striking out five in five innings of work.
DeSoto Central showed off its over-powering array of arms right from the get-go at the tournament with a 10-0, six inning win over IMG in its Thursday opener and a 3-0 win over Montverde Academy (Fla.) on Friday. Impressive junior right-hander Riley Austin threw a six-inning two-hitter at IMG, striking out nine and walking five; he also doubled and drove in a run.
Venice, too, got great pitching in its two pool-play wins, both 6-0 triumphs over Lowndes (Ga.) and Allatoona (Ga.). Junior lefty Kade Hunkapiller, sophomore righty Buckmaster, senior left-hander Ryan Ahern and junior right-hander Colin Cristello combined on a 10-strikeout, one-walk, no-hitter against Lowndes. Senior righty Brandon Elmy pitched 5 2/3 innings of one-hit ball with 10 strikeouts against Allatoona.
After its unexpected 10-0 loss to DeSoto Central, IMG rallied with a 7-0 win over Dwyer (Fla.) behind an eye-popping complete game no-hitter from junior lefty Logan Allen. A South Carolina commit, Allen struck out 14 and walked three.
The 2nd annual Perfect Game High School Showdown was deemed a success by all, especially by the coach who has now won 801 games and likes to call Fenway South his home away from home.
"This is a well-run tournament, the facilities are exceptional and the talent was really, really good," Sarasota's Metcalf said. "There were some very good teams here and you had to go out and grind every game. At this time of year, as a high school coach, that's what you want to do.
"We look forward to coming down here (for the Showdown) – really a great tournament and really, really some quality ballplayers. There were some good baseball players here.".
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Lowry, Kristol march in 'lox' step
William Kristol, The Weekly Standard editor, and Rich Lowry, The National Review editor, are two highly influential conservatives in charge of their own highly influential publications. So the decision to co-author and co-publish a joint editorial calling on Congress to kill the Senate's immigration bill shows just how much of an impact they wanted to have on House Republicans.
"We both felt strongly about something and we were hoping to move conservatives on it," Lowry told POLITICO on Wednesday.
By joining forces, Kristol and Lowry saw a chance to make a bigger impact on House Republicans than either of them could have alone. And indeed, the joint byline made headlines around Washington. It was no longer Kristol or Lowry making an argument, but "top conservative pundits" teaming up ahead of a crucial House meeting Wednesday to plot strategy. Lowry is also a columnist for POLITICO.
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Red State editor Erick Erickson said both men are "two of the most influential thought leaders" in the GOP who often don't see eye to eye.
"That they do agree and have the ear of separate groups within the congressional GOP makes it pretty clear that the stars are aligned against passage of the legislation in its present form," Erickson said in an email to POLITICO. "The counter strategy by those who favor the Gang of 8 bill will be to divide and conquer, i.e. hoping to get one of them to like some compromised form of the legislation."
The idea to join forces was Kristol's. The plan to go in on a joint byline was hatched over breakfast at The Astro Diner in midtown Manhattan.
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"Bill had lox, onions and eggs, because you can't get those in Northern Virginia, and I had pancakes," said Lowry, who is based in New York. "Then we lamented how our wives don't like homey run-down diners." Once "favorably disposed" toward the immigration bill, as he wrote in the op-ed, Kristol had come to believe as Lowry did that it was "a comprehensive mistake."
"Bill had evolved on the bill," Lowry explained. "We discussed where we were at breakfast, and it was basically the same place. Then it was Bill's brainstorm: he sent me an email, I expanded on it, then we edited and edited until it was done." (Kristol, who is traveling in England, was not available for comment.)
In the piece, published in both The Weekly Standard and The National Review, the authors argue that the bill "doesn't solve the illegal-immigration problem" and that its "changes in legal immigration are just as ill considered."
( Also on POLITICO: GOP reaching out to Dems on immigration)
Republicans "can be pro-immigrant and pro-immigration, and even favor legalization of the 11 million illegal immigrants who are here and increases in some categories of legal immigration—and vigorously oppose this bill," they write.
This was not their first op-ed together. Kristol and Lowry have known each other since the mid-1990s (Lowry described them as friends), and in 2006 co-authored a piece for The Washington Post calling on President Bush to send more troops to Iraq. In that instance, the roles were reversed: Lowry initially opposed a troop surge, then came around to Kristol's view.
"I'd been skeptical about need for more troops, then realized I was wrong and moved to Bill's direction — it was similar circumstances," Lowry said.
Coming together this time was another chance to make waves across Washington, something that was especially important at a time when conservatives were split over the immigration bill. On Wednesday, The Wall Street Journal editorial board wrote its own piece urging House Republicans not to walk away from the bill and instead "consider and pass the parts [of the bill] that are pro-growth and that most Republicans support."
"House Speaker John Boehner… and his colleagues face a fundamental choice: kill immigration reform, or try to pass constructive and pro-growth measures that have broad public and business support, including from millions of conservatives," the editorial board wrote. "The first option would be a policy blunder and perhaps a political disaster… To fail to fix any part of an immigration system that everyone agrees is contrary to U.S. economic interests, and after the Senate has passed a bipartisan reform, would play into Democratic charges that House Republicans are mere obstructionists."
Lowry told POLITICO, "I don't have a problem with the House passing stuff that makes sense. But it should be pretty far from the Senate version, and it shouldn't go to conference."
But as the House met on Wednesday, even the smaller, popular pieces of reform looked like they would fail House approval, and top Republicans are now predicting that comprehensive immigration reform will die in the House.
Now as in 2006, Kristol and Lowry seem likely to get their way.


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Hiya. My name is Brenna, and I'm an archaeologist, with a PhD in dead people's teeth. You can normally find me on the twitter at @brennawalks or in tl;dr format on my blog passim in passing .
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So many shiny things! Turns out archaeology really suits people with rather wide and varied interests; on any given day you might find yourself with a synchrotron smashing particles or a mattock smashing soil. In my case, I had planned to go in and look at some of my research material in the scanning electron microscope over at UCL. In my 'real' academic life, I study teeth, and I study them very, very close up. You could call what I do 'bioarchaeology' or 'dental anthropology' … I'm not fussy. But I study the development of teeth from people who died in the past in order to look at the record of growth that is trapped in the structure of their dental enamel. Your teeth carry chemical and physical signatures of things that happened to you during childhood, while the the teeth were growing. What I look at in particular are signs that growth shut down briefly during childhood, a condition called 'enamel hypoplasia'. These are (ish) grooves on your teeth that can be evidence of a childhood fever or other unhappy event. By looking at different patterns of these markers in teeth, we can compare aspects of health across different groups. Did rich kids have a better time of it than poor kids? Did sedentery agriculturalists do better as kids than more nomadic groups?
To study stuff like that, you get to do some cool science with machines that go 'ping' and or 'whop'. My favorite lab machine is the gold sputter coater; it turns my tooth casts into art:
You can see a big groove in the tooth above. That's from some sort of growth disruption episode while the kid was still a toddler. Go on, check your own teeth now. You know you want to.
Of course, I haven't ended up in the lab at all. One of my newer interests is something called augmented reality (for an example, check out the awesome new Museum of London roman app: The Only Way is Londinium). I'm really interested in applications for public outreach (particularly web-multimedia and smart-phone based stuff) and I'm totally enamoured of anything shiny and/or techie. So instead of being good (hey, it's Friday!) I went and made a 3d object hover over a piece of paper. It's a poor screen capture, but hey, I should be working on publications and actual research, right?
Check out the easy, totally free-ware possibilities though. This is brought to you by Google Sketchup running the ARmedia plugin; it's practically idiot proof and the results are pretty cool. Anything more involved and you're looking at developing some serious modelling skills, but who needs sleep…?
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Sports Trading Club Golf Savant has Betting Exchanges Running Scared and Shaking in Their Pants After Another Successful Multi-Million Dollar Prediction
20 Jan, 2014, 10:42 GMT
LONDON, January 20, 2014 /PRNewswire/ --
The "human computer" known as the Sports Trading Club golf savant has betting exchanges running scared and shaking in their pants after again successfully predicting Zach Johnson at 12-1 the winner of a PGA tour event.
Zach Johnson won the Tournament of Champions after rolling in seven birdies en route to a bogey-free 66 in the final round at Kapalua Resort.
The 37-year-old American tied Billy Horschel for the low round of the day to win the USPGA Tour tournament by one shot.
Last September the Sports Trading Club Golf Savant predicted the 37-year-old American, then a 48-1 outsider, to win the US PGA's $8 million BMW Championship.
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In August 2013, the Sports Trading Club announced that American Jason Dufner was their standout to win the US PGA Championship at the price of 42 - 1. He did win, and the golfing world is now in awe of the savant.
Her five extraordinary successes have stunned the sports betting world, who fear the consequences of her accuracy.
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"Her success has betting exchanges worldwide running scared and shaking in their pants," he said.
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"Let me say up front that the STC savant project is highly innovative and one of the most rewarding and interesting research endeavours of my career," Dr Snyder said.
The Sports Trading Club, which operates as a private investors group in England, recently allowed the general public to become associate members in Australia and is expanding throughout Asia.
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Governor Cuomo Announces Commissions to Improve New York State's Emergency Preparedness and Response Capabilities, And Strengthen The States Infrastructure to Withstand Natural Disasters
Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced the formation of three commissions charged with undertaking a comprehensive review and making specific recommendations to overhaul and improve New York States emergency preparedness and response capabilities, as well as examining how to improve the strength and resilience of the states infrastructure to better withstand major weather incidents.
The recent major storms to hit New York State, including Hurricanes Sandy and Irene, and Tropical Storm Lee, have revealed major weaknesses in the states transportation, energy, communications, and health infrastructures. In addition, the storms have exposed needs in emergency response capabilities at all levels of government and in the preparedness of the energy, health care, transportation, water, fuel, communications and other sectors. The three commissions, established today through Executive Order by the Governor, will help prepare and equip New York State for future natural disasters.
Over the past two years, New York State has been hit by some of the most destructive storms in our states history, causing untold damage and the tragic loss of many lives, Governor Cuomo said. Regardless of the cause of these storms, New York State must undertake major reforms to adapt to the reality that storms such as Sandy, Irene, and Lee can hit the state at any time. For this reason, I have charged these three commissions to seriously examine existing systems and present a comprehensive blueprint so we can bring our emergency preparedness and response capabilities into the 21st century and ensure our infrastructure is built to survive major weather incidents.
Each of the three commissions is outlined below:
NYS 2100 Commission
The NYS 2100 Commission is tasked with finding ways to improve the resilience and strength of the states infrastructure in the face of natural disasters and other emergencies. The Commission will be co-chaired by Judith Rodin, President of the Rockefeller Foundation, and Felix G. Rohatyn, former Chairman of the Municipal Assistance Corporation.
Specific areas the Commission has been charged to review and make recommendations on include:
- Strategies to protect existing transportation, energy, environmental, and other infrastructure systems to withstand natural disasters and other emergencies;
- Priority projects to replace damaged infrastructure or to diversify or make more resilient our infrastructure;
- Long-term options for the use of physical storm barriers and natural protective systems;
- Opportunities to integrate infrastructure planning, protection and development into New Yorks economic development strategies; and
- Reforms in the area of insurance and risk management related to natural disasters and other emergencies.
Co-Chair Judith Rodin is President of the Rockefeller Foundation. Judith Rodin was previously president of the University of Pennsylvania and provost of Yale University. Since joining the Foundation in 2005, Dr. Rodin has recalibrated its focus to meet the challenges of the 21st century and today the Foundation supports and shapes innovations to strengthen resilience to risks and ensure more equitable growth around the world. The Foundation accomplishes these goals through initiatives to address climate change in poor communities, strengthen global health systems, catalyze the field of impact investing, mobilize an agricultural revolution in Africa and shape smart, sustainable transportation policies in the United States. In addition to President Rodins leadership and expertise, the Rockefeller Foundation will provide both staff expertise and other assistance in developing the Commissions report and recommendations.
Co-Chair Felix G. Rohatyn is the former Chairman of the Municipal Assistance Corporation. Mr. Rohatyn is currently Senior Advisor to the Chairman and CEO at Lazard and the Co-Chair of the Governor's NY Works Task Force on statewide infrastructure planning and finance. He returned to the company after enjoying a nearly 50-year career at the company, both as Partner and Managing Director. He departed in 1997 to serve as US Ambassador to France under President Clinton, and went on to head his own private advisory firm, Rohatyn Associates. Mr. Rohatyn is a trustee of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and serves on multiple boards, including the Boards of Directors of Publicis Groupe SA and Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy. He was chairman of the Municipal Assistance Corporation (MAC) of the State of New York from 1975 to 1993, where he successfully restructured New York Citys debt and resolved its financial crisis in the late 1970s. He also served as a member of the Board of Governors of the New York Stock Exchange from 1968 to 1972.
The State University of New York will also contribute to the NYS2100 Commissions work not only through the participation of Dr. Timothy Killeen, SUNYs Vice Chancellor for Research and an atmospheric studies expert, but also with the assistance of University of Buffalos Transportation Systems Engineering Lab and UB2020s Strategic Strength in Extreme Events, and SUNY Stony Brooks School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, two of the nations top research centers in this area.
The Commissions preliminary recommendations are due January 3, 2013.
NYS Respond Commission
The NYS Respond Commission is tasked with finding ways to ensure that New York State is ready to respond to future weather-related disasters. The Commission will examine and make recommendations to improve the planning, training and resource commitment that must occur before the next major weather event in order for the appropriate deployment of people and resources to take place during and after the emergency or disaster occurs. The Commission will be co-chaired by Thad Allen, Senior Vice President at Booz Allen Hamilton, and Admiral (US Coast Guard, Retired), and Brad Penuel, Director of the Center for Catastrophe Preparedness and Response at New York University.
Specific areas the Commission has been charged to review and make recommendations on include ensuring that:
- sufficient trained personnel can be activated for emergency response and recovery efforts
- the health and safety of hospital patients and other vulnerable persons are protected during an emergency
- the public is provided with reliable and timely information
- every locality has planned and is prepared for a disaster
- emergency responses are effectively coordinated across all levels of government
- adverse events are rapidly responded to and post-emergency needs such as shelter, food, water, electricity and essential appliances are identified and met
Co-Chair Thad Allen is Senior Vice President at Booz Allen Hamilton, where he supports the firms work with the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security. He leads the development of thought leadership and client engagement regarding the future direction of law enforcement and homeland security. He is known for his expertise in bringing together government and non-government entities to address major challenges in a whole of government approach designed to achieve a unity of effort. Mr. Allen completed his distinguished career in the US Coast Guard as its 23rd Commandant. In 2010, President Barack Obama selected Mr. Allen to serve as the National Incident Commander for the unified response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Working closely with the US Environmental Protection Agency, DHS, the Departments of Defense, Interior, Commerce, and Health and Human Services, state and local entities, and BP, he sought to bring a unity of effort to response operations. Prior to his assignment as Commandant, Mr. Allen served as Coast Guard Chief of Staff. During his tenure in that position, in 2005, he was designated Principal Federal Official for the US governments response and recovery operations in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita throughout the Gulf Coast region.
Co-Chair Brad Penuel is the Director of the Center for Catastrophe Preparedness and Response (CCPR) at New York University (NYU) where he also serves as the Assistant Vice President for Health Initiatives. Previously, while with Chemonics International in Washington, DC, he consulted on initiatives for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the World Bank. He has also served as a civil/environmental engineer for Gresham, Smith and Partners, in Nashville, TN. Mr. Penuel received a BS in Civil Engineering from Auburn University and a Masters degree in Urban Planning from New York Universitys Wagner School of Public Service. He is also the co-editor of the Encyclopedia of Disaster Relief (2010, with Dr. Matthew Statler).
New York University will also contribute to the NYS Respond Commissions work through the Center for Catastrophe Preparedness & Response and other faculty and staff expertise.
The Commissions recommendations are due to the Governor by January 3, 2013.
NYS Ready Commission
The NYS Ready Commission is tasked with finding ways to ensure critical systems and services are prepared for future natural disasters and other emergencies. The Commission will be co-chaired by Ira M. Millstein, Senior Partner, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, and Dr. Irwin Redlener, Director of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness at Columbia Universitys Mailman School of Public Health.
Specific areas the Commission has been charged to review and make recommendations on include:
- addressing vulnerabilities in the States health care, energy, transportation, communications and other systems
- ensuring that new, modified and existing construction is resilient
- ensuring the availability of adequate equipment, fuel, food, water and other emergency supplies
- ensuring that first responders and other critical personnel are able to communicate efficiently and have access to adequate resources
- ensuring the availability of reliable real-time information for decision-makers
- ensuring that lines of authority are clear and officials have the authority to react rapidly to emergency situations.
Dr. Irwin Redlener is a recognized national leader in disaster preparedness and the public health ramifications of terrorism and large-scale catastrophic events. He and his team have developed major programs to enhance public health and health systems readiness with respect to disasters. He has written and spoken widely on the response to Hurricane Katrina, U.S. readiness for pandemics and the concerns of children as potential targets of terrorism. Dr. Redlener has also had more than three decades of experience providing healthcare to medically underserved children in rural and urban communities throughout the U.S. As founder and president of the Children's Health Fund, he is a renowned advocate for access to healthcare for all children. Dr. Redlener served as a principal developer and president of the new Children's Hospital at Montefiore in the Bronx. He has been a formal and informal adviser to the president and various cabinet members since 1993, over the last few years working with key members of the U.S. Congress on disaster preparedness and child health access. In 1993 & 1994, Dr. Redlener served as special consultant to the National Health Reform Task Force for the Clinton White House. He has taught medical students in rural Honduras and has led or assisted in international disaster relief in Central America and Africa. Dr. Redlener has also created a series of direct medical relief programs and public health initiatives in the Gulf region ravaged by Hurricane Katrina.
Ira M. Millstein is a senior partner at the international law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, where in addition to practicing in the areas of government regulation and antitrust law, he has counseled numerous boards on issues of corporate governance, including the boards of General Motors, Westinghouse, Bethlehem Steel, WellChoice (fka, Empire Blue Cross), the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS), Tyco International, The Walt Disney Co., the New York State Metropolitan Transportation Authority, The Ford Foundation, The Nature Conservancy and Planned Parenthood Federation of America, among others. In addition to his active legal practice, Mr. Millstein is Chair of the Ira M. Millstein Center for Global Markets and Corporate Ownership at Columbia Law School. He was formerly the Senior Associate Dean for Corporate Governance and the Theodore Nierenberg Adjunct Professor of Corporate Governance at the Yale School of Management. Mr. Millstein, appointed by former Governor George Pataki as Chairman of a New York State Commission on Public Authority Reform, which led to the 2009 Public Authorities Reform Act.
Columbia University will also contribute to the NYS Ready Commissions work through the Mailman School of Public Healths National Center for Disaster Preparedness and other faculty and staff expertise.
The Commissions recommendations are due to the Governor by January 3, 2013.
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Female Professors Program of Federal and States Governments I and II
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In the German science system the percentage of women drops gradually from the start of studies towards the professorship. This phenomenon is often described as the "Leaky Pipeline". Women make up currently 50% of the students, but only 45% of doctoral students. Only 25% of habilitations are completed by women. On the level of professorships, about 20% are women. This program wants to work counteractively against this development.
Women Professors Program I
From 2010-2014 the Federal Ministry of Education and Research and the Federal States supported the appointment of women through the Women Professors Program I, in order to increase the percentage of women among professors. Within this framework, two regular professorships were sponsored at the RWTH Aachen University. For this cause, 1.3 million Euros were provided to support numerous measures that promote equality.
Women Professors Program II
The Women Professors Program continues: within the framework of Women Professors Program II, three regular professorships will be supported until end of 2019 at the RWTH Aachen. This time 1.27 million Euros are available to finance measures that promote equality at the University.
Measures that promote equality at the RWTH Aachen
The individual measures for the three professorships are conducted in cooperation with Gender Denomination, the Division of Career Development, the Equal Opportunity Office's Family Services, the Prorectorate for Personnel and Junior Researchers, as well as IGaD.
Following measures will be realised:
- Project "Equal Opportunity Career Paths"
- Reorientation of the Programs TANDEMplus (mentoring) and FEMTEC (careerbuilding)
- Proactive search for women in the context of appointment procedures
- Re-Auditioning as a Family-Friendly University
- Promotion of habilitation of women through networking in medicine (Keep Track)
- Project BuildING: Gender perspectives for constructional engineering and
- The Development of a toolbox "Teaching gender equality policy" for technical universities


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PATRIOTS: Danny Amendola highlights the nine new wide receivers on roster
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. >> Tom Brady dropped back and threw a pass. Danny Amendola ran to where he expected it to be.
It was a painful connection.
"He darted me in the chest with one ball," the Patriots receiver said Tuesday. "I was like, 'wow, this guy can really wing it."'
Amendola and New England's eight other new wide receivers better get used to it. They're among 12 players at that position on the roster for the team's organized team activities, a three-day session that ends Wednesday.
Gone from last season are Wes Welker, Brandon Lloyd and Deion Branch. Welker led the team with 118 catches then signed as a free agent with the Denver Broncos. Lloyd was second with 74 receptions then was released. Branch wasn't re-signed after catching just 16. That leaves just Julian Edelman as the only wide receiver who caught passes from Brady last year, and that total was only 21.
Moving forward, none of the newcomers will catch very many if they can't learn New England's complex offensive system.
At least Amendola has a head start. He played under current Patriots offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels when McDaniels held that position in 2011 with the St. Louis Rams. So he said he's "familiar" with the system, although the one the Patriots use is more "intricate."
Besides, Amendola was limited to just one game that season because of injury.
"That's the most important thing, the vocabulary of the offense," he said. "I'm learning day in and day out, and studying at night."
Three other veterans signed with the Patriots as free agents. Michael Jenkins spent the past two of his nine NFL seasons with Minnesota. Donald Jones was with Buffalo for his three seasons. Lavelle Hawkins was with Tennessee for all five of his pro seasons.
"You ask questions in meetings. You kind of thrive off each other. It's definitely a group atmosphere, a group effort," Amendola said. "We have some guys coming from other teams with a lot of experience and it's exciting to see what we're going to be able to do."
The questions go beyond just the wide receivers.
Tight end Rob Gronkowski had his fourth surgery on his left forearm on Monday. He broke it on Nov. 18 while blocking for an extra point against Indianapolis, then broke it again in New England's first playoff game, a win over Houston. He's also been bothered by back problems.
"We expect this to be the last surgery on his forearm and he should make a full recovery, according to the doctors I met with," said Drew Rosenhaus, Gronkowski's agent. "The surgeons said it went as well as they could have hoped for. Rob was in good spirits after the operation."
But just when he'll be able to get back on the field is uncertain.
Meanwhile, the jockeying goes on for roster spots at wide receiver. Two draft picks figure prominently in that competition -- second-rounder Aaron Dobson of Marshall and fourth-rounder Josh Boyce from TCU.
For Amendola, establishing a relationship with the other receivers and Brady is a constant process.
"It's very important," he said. "It's something that you work on every day in the meeting rooms. Outside of the building, forming a relationship (helps) you play better on the field."
After signing with the Patriots, Amendola worked out with Brady in California.
"Any time you get a jump and you get to work with each other is good," Amendola said.
Brady and Welker did that for five years, not counting 2008 when the former suffered a season-ending knee injury in the opener. In those five seasons, Welker caught 443 passes.
Amendola has caught 196 passes in his four pro seasons with a high of 85 in 2010. Last year, he had 63 receptions for 666 yards while Welker had 118 for 1,354.
Amendola figures to take over from Welker as slot receiver but said he's not concerned with comparisons between them.
"That's not something I need to worry about," he said. "I'm worried about the playbook and getting the reps down and getting on the same page with my teammates and the good thing is I don't have to worry about that stuff."


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Genealogy at Torrington's Newsroom Cafe Feb. 5, sign up now
TORRINGTON >> Have you been working on your family tree for a while, but you project is stalled?
Have you heard stories from your grandparents about a famous relative and want to find out more?
If you have, or if you have questions on how to get started on exploring your family's history, it's a perfect time to sign up for an individual session with Genealogist Richard Pope.
Pope will be at the Register Citizen Newsroom Cafe on Tuesday, Feb. 5 from 7 to 9 p.m. He's offering 15-minute sessions for individuals. There are 8 openings, so interested persons should register soon before the spaces are filled.
Pope has over 30 years experience in genealogy, with a strong grasp of American records. He is also familiar with Irish and German records. He is a member of the Connecticut Professional Genealogists Council, the New England Historic Genealogical Society, and local groups such as the Torrington Historical Society.
The class is free and open to the public. The Newsroom Cafe is equipped with two microfilm machines and has the paper on microfilm dating back to the Wolcottville Register in 1894. One of the microfilm machines has the capability to print out articles.
To register for the class contact Jenny Golfin via email at email@example.com or call 860-489-3121, ext. 357.
For more information about Pope, check out his Facebook page Genealogy by Richard Pope at www.facebook.com/Richard.M.Pope.Genealogy.
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Healthy & Delicious: Pork Roast en Cocotte with Apples and Shallots Recipe
Healthy and delicious recipes from Serious Eats
Editor's note: On Mondays, Kristen Swensson of Cheap, Healthy, Good swings by these parts to share healthy and delicious recipes with us. Take it away, Kristen!
When you're trying to eat healthier, having dinner at friends' homes can be a bit of a minefield. Do you ask them to prepare something special? (Too fussy.) Do you bring your own food? (Too impolite.) Do you throw caution to the wind and dig in to that macaroni and cheese? (Too ... no, there's actually nothing wrong with this.)
That's why it helps to know people who'll indulge you. I recently attended a small dinner party at a friend's new apartment. He's an experienced cook, and worships Christopher Kimball. A brief glance at his bookshelf reveals dozens of America's Test Kitchen guides, quite a few Cook's Illustrated cookbooks, and a plethora of other Kimball-associated paraphernalia.
Knowing my preferences, he sunk a few hours into Pork Roast en Cocotte with Apples and Shallots from ATK's 2010 Light and Healthy book. Happily, it was well worth the effort. The pork was incredibly moist, and the apples lent a light sweetness that never became cloying. Served with garlic mashed potatoes and green beans, the meal felt like an indulgence.
Looking forward, I can only hope to be as accommodating to my friends. And if they want the mac and cheese, I'm all over it.
- Yield:6 to 8
- Active time: 40 to 50 minutes
- Total time:100 to 110 minutes
- 1 tablespoon Herbes de Provence (or 1 teaspoon each dried thyme, dried rosemary, and dried marjoram)
- 1 (2 1/4 lb) boneless center cut pork loin roast, trimmed and tied at 1 1/2-inch intervals
- 2 tablespoons canola oil
- 8 shallots, peeled and quartered
- 1 pound Golden Delicious or Granny Smith apples, peeled, cored, and cut into 1/2-inch wedges
- 1/4 teaspoon sugar
Place the oven rack in its lowest position and preheat to 250°F.
In a small bowl, mix together Herbes de Provence, salt, and 1/4 teaspoon pepper. Rub all over roast.
In a Dutch oven, heat oil over medium-high heat. When hot, add roast and brown on all sides, 7 to 10 minutes. Remove roast and place on plate.
Lower heat to medium and add shallots to Dutch oven. Sauté 3 minutes. Add apples and sugar. Sauté 5 to 7 minutes.
Kill burner heat and add roast back into pan, along with any shed juices. Cover the pot with a layer of foil, and place the cover on top of that. Cook 30 to 50 minutes in the preheated oven, or until the inner temperature reaches 140°F to 145°F.
Remove roast from Dutch oven. Place on a cutting board, tent with foil, and let it sit for 20 minutes. Meanwhile, add some salt and pepper to the apple mixture, stir, and cover to keep warm.
Slice up pork and serve with shallots and apples spooned over it.
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