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Marisha Pessl's new literary thriller — arriving seven years after her splashy debut novel, Special Topics in Calamity Physics — captures something true about the viral, jumpy, surface-skittering way we live now. In an age of the infinitely reproducible, Pessl strives for innovation through remix rather than originality. Clichés and too-familiar tropes are prized playthings for her, and the more the merrier. Nothing is new in Night Film except for the abandon with which the author piles on references to movies and magazines and websites and other books; yet by mimicking the frantic hypertexture of contemporary life, the novel keeps reminding us just how much has changed.
Night Film's narrator is Scott McGrath, a New York City–based investigative reporter who was sued for defamation in 2006 while probing too closely into the activities of a reclusive, Oscar-winning director named Stanislas Cordova. In the wake of the lawsuit, McGrath's marriage went kerflooey, his high-flying career tanked, and he's been left to brood in his Perry Street apartment, alone with his memories and a forlorn movie poster of Alain Delon on his office wall.
Cut to October 2011, with breaking news that Cordova's beautiful twenty-four-year-old daughter, Ashley, has been found dead in the elevator shaft of an empty Chinatown warehouse. Was it suicide or murder? Was she troubled by inner demons, assaulted by someone she knew, or stalked by strangers? And how involved was her father, the sinister, shadowy Cordova — a grand master of horror flicks, notorious for blurring the line between appearance and reality? Intrigued, McGrath grabs the opportunity to restore his reputation by pursuing the case. Along the way, he picks up two helpful young sidekicks: a nineteen-year-old coat-check girl named Nora and Hopper, a small-time drug dealer with a heart of gold and a vague personal history that just might have included an association with Ashley Cordova.
A brash stylistic maneuver energizes the novel's opening pages, in which Pessl presents facts about Ashley's life and death through a series of website simulations, newspaper and magazine clippings, and other realistic-looking documents. In a faux NewYorkTimes.com article, Ashley (or, more accurately, an uncredited stand-in for her) stares challengingly in an accompanying photo, looking a bit like a sulkier young Amanda Peet, while a Time.com slideshow clicks through the particulars of Stanislas Cordova's life, including his three ex-wives and the 300-acre Adirondacks estate that has been his home since 1976 and has served as the location for most of his films.
It's not the content of these simulations that feels new here: some of it's cheesy, and all of it looks conventional. Instead, what's revelatory is the way it draws the reader into the story, precisely mimicking the way one would conduct an Internet search if Cordova actually existed, and thus making the reader complicit with McGrath in searching for clues to Ashley's death. Even more clever is the fact that some of the more fawning profiles of Ashley — a page from the Amherst College newsletter, for example, which slobbers over her teenage years as a piano prodigy — recall the amped-up media attention Pessl herself received when her first novel was published in 2006. Cheeky, playful, meta, twee: love it or hate it, this apprehension of our current moment — at least as it exists for the readers most likely to pick up this book — is as accurate as any contemporary novel could hope to be.
Pessl more or less abandons the visual aids about halfway through the narrative, but she sustains the atmosphere of ceaseless replication in other ways. Everything here, in fact, is a hologram, a spectral presence that purposefully suggests a thousand other things. (Not for nothing is Pessl's favorite figure of speech the simile, comparing like with like: the simile for her is as the footnote was for David Foster Wallace, a signature and a manifesto.) Cordova recalls a bit of Kubrick and Polanski here, a touch of David Cronenberg and Karl Atticus there. His creepy sprawling estate, called The Peak, brings to mind The Shining and Mark Z. Danielewski's alt-novel House of Leaves. There's a nefarious priest straight out of The Exorcist, sophisticated Manhattan witches like those in Rosemary's Baby, a high-end secret sex club like the one in Eyes Wide Shut, ash circles and weird piles of twigs borrowed from The Blair Witch Project, and on and on. Ominous totems are everywhere. Ashley's red coat, "that blood red stitch in the night," tries to conjure the same fear as the red plastic raincoat in Don't Look Now, while other portents include a compass, a locked box, a disfigured baby doll, a man's herringbone jacket, a child's bloody shirt.
Night Film, as these lists suggest, is all MacGuffins and no Jimmy Stewart. Scott McGrath isn't a credible enough tour guide through this world: he's slick and flat as a pop-up ad, and other key figures in the book sound too much like him. We follow him down a lot of random roads both urban and rural, some of them imaginatively atmospheric, but none of them particularly scary or thrilling. For a story about the titillations of horror, this has virtually none. It's too episodic to maintain any suspense, and there is, even in the secret sex club, zero sex.
But I don't believe that Pessl set out to satisfy the conventions of a traditional novel, and so to argue the effectiveness here of character or plot is to miss the point of the book. I think Pessl is setting up a mirror to show us our distracted, entertainment-drunk culture, where there's a precedent for every pop-culture reference, an information link for every personality, an Echo for every Narcissus. She's blithely unconcerned, as she was in her first novel, with any suggestion of depth. Speed and volume are her articles of faith, as they must be ours. "Life was a freight train barreling toward just one stop, our loved ones streaking past our windows in blurs of color and light," McGrath intones at the novel's end, with a timeless cinematic flourish. "There was no holding on to any of it, and no slowing it down."


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It's not what you say it's what people hear that counts. In New Zealand 31% of employees believe that there is not effective communication in their workplace. This workplace explores how people naturally communicate and how to adapt in order to avoid misunderstandings and miscommunication
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Have you ever had fresh, hand kneaded, hand cut soba? If not, get to the Common Grains soba pop-up shop at Breadbar while you can, because it is nothing like other soba you've ever had.
Sonoko Sakai is one of LA's soba masters, but you'd normally only be able to taste her soba if you take one of her soba making classes (which I have and highly recommend). Now, as part of a Japanese educational program, Common Grains, she and another soba chef, Mutsuko Soma are serving up soba at BreadBar in Century City until January 22.
I recommend trying either the zaru soba ($12) or juwari soba ($13.50, pictured above) so you can fully taste just how much better the soba is here, but understandably it is still cold out and you might want a bowl of something warm. Get one of the seiro soba, served with a bowl of warm soup that you can dip your soba into.


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Fact: Pregnant teens didn't exist before the 1990s.Posted in New Zealand, sex, sex ed on September 20th, 2011 by steph – 6 Comments
Naturally, with such a salacious topic as sex education being the scandal du jour, everyone has a very important and very, very correct opinion on the issue. It is about sex, after all. And to all those people who have taken this oppourtunity to shout about how modern sex ed is causing more teen pregnancies than it prevents, and how back in the day teens weren't just getting knocked up willy-nilly, so obviously modern sex ed is responsible for teen pregnancy, I've got two words for you: Magdalene Laundries. Or how about Bethany Homes, for that NZ flavour? Yeah, that's right, we did actually have "fallen women" and "unwed mothers"; but maybe the reason you don't think we did (aside from the fact you were probably not alive then…) is that we packed the dirty hussies off so respectable people didn't have to see them or know about them.
So continue on with this revisionist history bullshit (BTW, did you know that we've always treated indigenous people in this coutntry really super well, for reals?), and go back to your sad little fantasies of the good old days with black and white TV and pies cooling on windowsills, back before the country was awash with young sluts. Really, please tell me more about how things were in a time back before you were born and where the reality of the situation was hidden from many people. I'm sure you are 100% correct and know all the facts about how things were back then.
The idea that comprehensive sex education is responsible for a rise in teen pregnancies is laughable, and the claim that 'back in the day' young girls didn't get knocked up and now they're doing it like it's going out of fashion is just ignorant: statistics show that back in the day, teen girls did get knocked up at a pretty decent rate , and that now the rate of teen pregnancies is much lower than it was back in those glory days when teenage girls apparently didn't get pregnant .
In the early 1970s, 70 out of every 1,000 teenagers had a child in any year. By the mid-1980s the figure had fallen to 30 per 1,000. Subsequently, it varied between 30 and 35 per 1,000 until 1997. There has been a general downward trend in the last five years, and in 2002 the fertility rate for teenagers was at a historical low of 25.6 per 1,000.
So that's two strikes against the theory that the way people did it back then meant fewer pregnancies than the way we do things now (comprehensive sex ed). The fact that our teenage pregnancy rate is high when compared to other OECD countries isn't the point: we aren't making cross-country comparisons, but comparisons across time. And a comparison across time leaves the ways of the glory days of yore not really looking so shiny and fabulous. People trying to claim that we should revert back to how things were back then (don't talk about it, and if you do get up the duff we might pack you off to "stay with an aunt" for a few months) because that was much more effective than the way we do things now are dreaming. Well, I guess part of the appeal is the shaming of young women for being sexually active, and in that case the good old days a probably a great model for that kind of attitude, and in that case maybe we should mimic how things used to be. Going back to the old ways isn't going to make anything better because the new ways aren't a problem. People may argue that having parent units in schools and not ostracising young mums is just promoting and encouraging girls to get pregnant at young age, but look at how things used to be compared to now: back then we hid and shamed, and the rate of teen pregnancy was higher than now when we are generally more open, and at least grudgingly accept things. That seems like basically the exact opposite to what is being claimed, really. I think the word 'encouraging' means that you're getting people to do it more, and the idea that these days we promote teen pregnancy isn't borne out in statistics showing a falling rate. But anywho, logic and statistics are for heathens anyway, so whatever.
Oh, and if you want a nice picture of how young girls in New Zealand never ever used to get pregnant back in the days before modern sex ed, maybe check out Piece of My Heart. Nope, no pregnant teenage girls being hidden away and used as slave labour before their babies were snatched away from them or anything like that. Ah, the good old days.


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WASHINGTON, July 11 (UPI) -- If the sequester extends into fiscal year 2014, the Pentagon would be forced to impose a series of draconian moves, U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel warned.
In a letter to the Senate Armed Services Committee, Hagel estimated the sequester would remove $52 billion from defense spending in FY 2014 in addition to the $37 billion eliminated in FY 2013, drastically reducing "the size, the readiness and the technological superiority of our military," Military.com reported Thursday.
"This outcome is unacceptable as it would limit the country's options in the event of a major new national emergency contingency," Hagel said in his letter to Chairman Carl Levin, D-Mich., and Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., the panel's ranking Republican.
The two senators had asked for the department's initial estimates about the effects of another year of sequester.
If extended, the Pentagon would be forced stop recruiting, freeze promotions and impose layoffs on civilians, as well as be forced to buy "fewer ships, planes, ground vehicles, satellites and other weapons," Hagel said.
Hagel called on Congress to end sequester and support President Obama's proposed FY 2014 budget, which includes provisions to slow the growth in military pay, raise fees for healthcare programs for military retirees and start another round of military base closings.
"If Congress does not approve these proposals, even more cuts in combat power, readiness and modernization would be needed," Hagel said.


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Manchester United fans are currently enduring the longest trophy drought in recent memory, having failed to win the English Premier League or any other major accolade since 2013. For Everton fans, their drought has been even longer, with no meaningful silverware to their name since the 1995 FA Cup.
Both sides now have their best opportunity in years when they meet in their FA Cup semi-final on Saturday 23th April. Ultimately, the winner will face a potentially beatable opponent in Crystal Palace or Watford, who are set to play on Sunday.
Everton were forced to swallow their tenth league defeat of the season when they lost 1-0 to Man Utd on 3rd April. Adding to the disappointment of losing 3-0 at home back in October, Everton were totally unable to make up for their previous shortcoming.
On balance, Everton were unlucky to lose that match, having restricted their opponents to just two shots on target. Centre-back Phil Jagielka came agonizingly close to leveling the game on two occasions, but one hit the bar and Man Utd goalkeeper David De Gea saved the second.
Following the defeat, Everton have neither collapsed nor excelled, drawing three successive games against Watford (1-1), Crystal Palace (0-0) and Southampton (1-1) respectively. Manager Roberto Martínez can draw confidence from the improved performances in defence, but the downside is the struggling attack.
Fortunately for Martínez, he has a midweek Merseyside derby to correct the issue against Liverpool on Wednesday night. But an 11th league defeat of the season could damage their confidence before playing Man Utd. Given the potential pressure, Paddy Power Sports has priced Everton as the underdogs at 23/10, while Man Utd are favourites at 5/4.
If Louis van Gaal manages to win this weekend, he would deliver the club's first FA Cup triumph since 2004 and perhaps buy himself another season in charge. For months, van Gaal has been forced to endure intense media speculation that José Mourinho will replace him, but somehow the Dutch manager keeps doing just enough to avoid a full collapse.
Man Utd looked free and clear after going 2-0 up in their FA Cup sixth-round replay against West Ham, but were forced to suffer through a tense finish after conceding at 79 minutes. On the following Saturday, Man Utd fans had to endure a nervy second half against 20th-placed Aston Villa when their team were unable to kill off the game at 1-0.
In fact, they almost dropped two points when Aston Villa striker Rudy Gestede hit the post with five minutes left. Man Utd's indecisiveness has already cost them in a number of games and it could hurt them once more against Everton.
After 33 league games, Man Utd's 40 goals average out as a mere 1.21 average, while their 30 goals conceded works out as 0.91. Comparatively, Everton's 53-goal return over 33 games averages at 1.60 goals per game, so the Toffees could pose a threat if their opponents snatch the lead and choose to sit back.
Paddy Power considers Man Utd (5/4) the more likely to beat Everton (23/10), but a draw in 90 minutes is a definite prospect at 11/5. Everton have played out three-straight low-scoring draws, while Man Utd have a short variance between the goals they score and concede.
Given the risk of a draw, it's worth considering that Man Utd and Everton are available at 4/7 and 5/4, respectively, to qualify for the next round. Effectively, this allows punters to back their preferred winner and also cover the draw if the game goes to extra time or penalties.
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Police identify man shot near Lutherville light rail station
Police believe multiple people involved in light rail station shooting
Baltimore County police have identified the man shot near the Lutherville light rail station Friday.
Harold J. Blandon Jr. was taken to Shock Trauma in serious condition with multiple gunshot wounds.
Police said they're looking for multiple assailants.
Police said the shooting happened in the 100 block of Ridgely Road around 4:15 p.m. People in the area at the time said they heard multiple shots.
"Right now, we're not sure if the victim was on the train or getting off the train, or just walking through the area, but at some time, the victim was approached by the suspects," Baltimore County police spokesman Officer Shawn Vinson said.
Police brought in the aviation and K-9 units to investigate.
"We do believe there are multiple suspects involved in it, but we continue to investigate to try to determine what exactly happened," Vinson said. "Hopefully, we'll be able to speak to witnesses to determine what exactly happened, to be able to bring this case to a conclusion."
Officials said the incident affected light rail service between the Falls Road and Timonium stops for about two and a half hours. Light rail trains moved past the Lutherville stop, but did not stop there as police continued to investigate.
"As soon as we got word that we had to halt operations at the light rail station, we began notifying our customers via email alert messages. Then, we also started the process of setting up bus bridges so that we could accommodate passengers who are on the system," Maryland Transit Administration spokesman Terry Owens said.
No arrests have been made. The circumstances surrounding the shooting were not immediately clear. Police said they did not know whether the shooting was random or whether Blandon was targeted.
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Sometimes You Need a Microwave, or Lessons Learned From Taco Bell's Latest Desserts
The last time I got talked into trying some new dessert items from Taco Bell, I came away pleasantly surprised by two out of three. And as we all know, two out of three ain't bad.*
*Note: Anytime I get the chance to work in a Meat Loaf reference, I take it. And good luck with getting that chorus out of your head for the rest of the day.
Now the Bell is back with two add-ons to their after dinner menu. Each is a little head-scratching in its own way. And while one of them is an utter waste of time, money, and calories, the other has me secretly plotting my next run for the border.
The Brownie Sandwich ($1.29) is a clone of the Cookie Sandwich that the chain tried out in late 2012. (I see management once again waited until they were actually filling out the patent office paperwork to come up with a name...) Only now instead of chocolate chip cookies, they're BROWNIES! And instead of vanilla frosting, IT'S CHOCOLATE! (Oh, the months and months of R&D that must have gone into this.)
Just as with the cookie version, this thing is unceremoniously pre-packaged in a cellophane sack with a sticker sealing it shut. Still looks like it came off an end cap at your local Gas-N-Sip. Out of the bag, it's no better. The "creamy fudge frosting filling" (so dry mine was cracked) can't even glue the two wedges of brownie together; the whole room-temperature thing can be picked apart cleanly.
Tastewise, the brownies were chalky and bland and thoroughly uninspired. The frosting wasn't terrible—but is frosting ever terrible? The Brownie Sandwich's only saving grace was the ice-cold glass of milk I used to wash it down with.*
*Thankfully, this was a to-go order and I was at home. No telling what I would have done at the restaurant had my only option been whatever radioactive-rad-dude flavor of Mountain Dew slushee they're pushing these days. Remember when Mountain Dew looked and tasted like Mountain Dew and wasn't also called something ridiculous like Midnight Glacier Avalanche?
I ate the Brownie Sandwich, but I didn't feel good about it. Right about now, you're saying, "But, Todd... It's Taco Bell. That's not where I would go for a dessert I expected to be any good." To which Meat Loaf and I both would reply, "You took the words right out of my mouth."
And then I would add, "I wish you had taken the Brownie Sandwich, too."
Taco Bell's second new dessert is a four-pack ($1.49) of something called Cinnabon Delights. Wait, what?! Yeah, the two brands have teamed up (or, more accurately, one is totally co-opting the other) on donut-hole sized pastry balls.
They're dusted with Cinnabon's "famous" Makara cinnamon sugar and filled with the chain's telltale frosting right from the mall food court. After their recent let's-mix-things-up-and-do-something-wacky menu items, I was admittedly skeptical about liking any Cinnabon item that actually came from Taco Bell.
Dear God, was I wrong. Now to be fair, if you're hoping to bite in and see an overflowing gush of that heavenly white cream cheese, you'll be disappointed. I'd suggest just popping these in your mouth—the trademark Cinnabon flavor is all there. Best of all, they're served warm. And there are four of them per order, making them the perfect guilty-pleasure chaser to that Extreme Steak Nacho Gordita Crunch that seemed like such a good idea at the time.
After posing for photos, my Cinnabon Delights had become less than lukewarm. In what I knew would be a brilliant idea even as it was still formulating in my head, I nuked them for 8 seconds. This is how they were meant to be enjoyed: almost dangerously hot to the touch and with a molten lava middle, mindlessly munched in rapid-fire succession while sprawled on the couch wearing fuzzy bear slippers watching late-night HBO and half-thinking about all the productive things you should be doing instead.
Cinnabon Delights from Taco Bell... for crying out loud, you know I love you.
About the Author: Todd Brock lives the glamorous life of a stay-at-home freelance writer in the suburbs of Atlanta. Besides being paid to eat cheeseburgers for AHT, pizzas for Slice, and desserts for Sweets, he's written and produced over 1,000 hours of television and penned Building Chicken Coops for Dummies. When he grows up, he wants to be either the starting quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys or the drummer for The Gaslight Anthem. Or both.
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1. Day 1. Can you believe that was 3 months ago already? I mean, it wasn't that long ago... but I look so young and naive!
2. Scene Hair. I can't figure out why this one is so popular... but I'm fairly certain that most of the people who end up clicking on my site are looking at how to do it... which means we're sort of after different things, here. #1) I
3. Bantu Knot-Out. That was BY FAR my worst hair day of this 365-day project yet. OOF-dah it was bad.
Oh wow... of all the posts in the past couple months that I really like... it seems your favorites are 3 of my least favorite. Maybe in 2012 my most popular posts will be ones like the Holiday Updo, my Chignon, or the Braided Bun... only time will tell!
Oh-- and P.S. If you're visiting today from Heather's blog-- you rock! So happy to have you!
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Who wants a possibly washed-up wide receiver on the wrong side of 35 and still carrying plenty of baggage? Burress didn't actually have a bad season with the Jets, his first post-prison. It was just underwhelming, with major drops in catches, yards and scores—and football players are not one of those things you can expect to get better with age.
Burress may have to settle for a deal mostly made up of incentives this season, and we can't think of a team better suited to take a flyer than the Panthers. They've got their franchise QB, but not much in the way of targets, especially after the departure of Legedu Naanee. And Burress already declared himself all aboard the Cam Newton train. In an interview with a local radio station, Burress was asked if Carolina was his preferred destination:
"No doubt about it. My brother lives right there in Charlotte, my cousin lives there in Charlotte and all my family is there in Columbia, South Carolina. It would just be a great situation all the way around and being close to everybody. Not just that but playing with Cam who I think is one of the top five quarterbacks in all of football and as long as I can remember Steve Smith has been one of my favorites. I just think it's a great situation."
Slow your roll. A Panthers team official, though anonymous, wants to make it clear that the team has no interest in signing Burress. Why not is anyone's guess, as there seems to be no downside to giving him a low-risk contract. Beyond, of course, the retarded development of younger wideouts, or fears of piercing Cam Newton's hermetically sealed trouble bubble. Which are two pretty good reasons, actually.
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Visiting Artist Workshops
Christian Korab's Master Printing Workshop
November 16, 2012
After training, Carls can reserve time to print beautiful large-format prints at the IdeaLab.
Photographer and Master Printer: Christian Korab, came to the IdeaLab to hold three identical workshops on Friday November 16th, during reading days. Session One was held from 12:00pm - 2:00pm Session Two was held from 2:15pm - 4:15pm and Session Three was held from 4:30-6:30pm.
Christian Korab's Master Printing Workshop
April 13, 2011
Bidou Yamaguchi Mask Making Workshop
February 16, 2011Boliou Woodshop
Workshop with Bidou Yamaguchi, Noh Mask maker, in residence. A part of the Visualizing Japanese Theater festival. Photography by Linnea Bullion '13.
Eiko Otake's Delicious Movement Workshop
January 25, 2011Cowling Dance Studio
Eiko Otake led a two-hour Delicious Movement workshop, attended by Carleton students, staff, faculty, and members of the Northfield community including current and former St. Olaf students. Participants were invited to visualize and move, on the floor and standing, alone and with a partner. A part of the Visualizing Japanese Theater festival.
See more at the Eiko and Koma website.
B-Boy Master Class
October 1-2, 2010East Gym
Breaking or b-boying (breakdancing) is an integral part of popular American culture in larger cities. The artists pride themselves on their fancy footwork and acrobatic style. The battle--the competition between a half dozen "crews" from the Twin Cities, Carleton, and Northfield--was judged by 3 world-class b-boys from New York City: Kid Glyde, Whorah, and Gravity. In 2009 Kid Glyde was one of only 16 b-boys in America to be selected for the Red Bull BC1 competition; in 2010 Gravity was selected. These b-boys are members of Dynamic Rockers, one of the original b-boy groups from the 1970s. They regularly take part in international competitions, and in November 2010 they represented the United States at the b-boy championship in the United Kingdom.
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Newswise — Fifteen states plus the District of Columbia strengthened their gun laws in the year following the Newtown school shooting, accounting for roughly half (44 percent) of the U.S. population.
This finding is one of many in a new publication from the Johns Hopkins press, Updated Evidence and Policy Developments on Reducing Gun Violence in America.
The publication is a one-year update to Reducing Gun Violence in America: Informing Policy with Evidence and Analysis, and provides new data, research and developments on many gun policy topics, such as background checks, handgun purchaser licensing and personalized or smart guns. Other critical issues addressed include ways to curtail gun trafficking and expanding firearm prohibitions for domestic violence offenders, persons convicted of violent crimes, substance abusers and those determined to be a danger to others or themselves as a result of mental illness. Chapters were written by the leading experts in gun policy and research.
"Contrary to popular belief, the tragic loss of life at Sandy Hook elementary school led to a number of significant policy developments, particularly stronger gun laws at the state level," said Daniel Webster, ScD, MPH, director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research, and an editor and author of Reducing Gun Violence in America: Informing Policy with Evidence and Analysis and the new updated version.
"While Congress failed to pass a background check bill, eight of the fifteen states that strengthened their gun laws made fairly substantial changes, including Colorado, Delaware, Illinois and New York, which expanded background check requirements for gun sales, and Maryland, which enacted handgun purchaser licensing with fingerprinting of applicants."
Noteworthy advances in 2013 chronicled in Updated Evidence and Policy Developments on Reducing Gun Violence in America include measures to improve the capacity of the U.S. Department of Justice to enforce federal laws against gun traffickers, and legislation at the state level to reduce intimate partner violence offenders' access to firearms.
"States such as Utah and Minnesota were wise to adopt policies designed to restrict or further restrict batterers' access to guns, given what we know from research about the lifesaving benefits of laws that prohibit persons under restraining orders for domestic violence from having a firearm," said April Zeoli, PhD, author of the chapter on intimate partner violence and an assistant professor in the School of Criminal Justice at Michigan State University.
"In fact, a key takeaway of this publication is that a data-driven approach to firearms policy whereby individuals with a history of violence or other seriously dangerous behavior should be disqualified, even temporarily, from owning or purchasing firearms will reduce gun violence."
The publication cites research from Johns Hopkins that focused on individuals who had been incarcerated for crimes involving firearms in the weakest states for legal gun ownership. The researchers found close to sixty percent (59.7%) of the subjects were not subject to firearm prohibitions when they committed their crimes; this would have been reduced by nearly half had the states (or the federal government) enacted additional prohibitions such as establishing 21 as a minimum legal age for possessing a handgun and prohibiting serious juvenile offenders, violent misdemeanants, and those with multiple drug- or alcohol-related convictions from possessing firearms.
"A data-driven approach should also extend to the way we think about mental illness and gun violence," said Jeffrey Swanson, PhD, a professor in psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Duke University who co-authored a chapter on mental illness and gun policy.
"Policies should recognize that a history of any kind of violence—particularly with court involvement—is a better predictor of future gun violence than mental health history."Earlier this year, The Consortium for Risk-Based Firearms Policy, a consortium of the nation's leading experts in gun violence prevention and mental health law and policy, of which Dr. Swanson and several other chapter authors are members, crafted state and federal policy recommendations calling for temporary restrictions of up to five years on the purchase and possession of firearms by individuals convicted of violent misdemeanors, domestic violence, or more than one drug or alcohol conviction within a certain period.
"These recommendations are very much in line with what the vast majority of the American public -- including gun owners -- want in terms of keeping guns away from high-risk individuals," said Jon Vernick, JD, MPH, co-director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research, and an editor and author of Updated Evidence and Policy Developments on Reducing Gun Violence in America.
New research in Updated Evidence and Policy Developments from author Dr. Garen Wintemute, MD, MPH, Director of the UC Davis Violence Prevention Research Program finds gun dealers, too, support policies to broaden denial criteria for owning guns. He reports on a survey he led of federally licensed firearm retailers in 43 states: Nine of ten retailers (90.1%) supported a firearms prohibition for persons with alcohol abuse and repeated cases of alcohol-related violence; seven in ten (70.7%) favored prohibiting sales to people who have been convicted of multiple DUI convictions.
"Unfortunately, the handful of states that have listened to their constituents and enacted laws intended to prevent high-risk individuals from accessing guns are undermined by the gaping hole in Federal law which gives criminals and other high-risk groups the option of going to private sellers at gun shows, on the Internet, or elsewhere to buy guns," said Wintemute.
Federal law requires that individuals seeking to buy a gun at a licensed dealer pass a background check to prevent criminals and other dangerous people from purchasing firearms. But federal law and laws in most states exempt these regulations when the firearm seller is unlicensed.
In 2013, U.S. Senators Joe Manchin and Pat Toomey put forth a bill expanding criminal background checks to gun shows and Internet sales.
For Updated Evidence and Policy Developments, Johns Hopkins researcher Emma McGinty and colleagues examined public opinion data and found that in states where one Senator voted against the Manchin-Toomey federal background check bill, 88 percent of respondents support universal background checks. In states where both Senators voted against the bill, 87 percent support the policy.
"Mobilizing and increasing the political participation of gun owners who support policies like universal background checks is a critical next step," said Webster. "Right now, politicians who are influenced by the gun lobby are not being responsive to the majority of their gun-owning constituents."


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Al Qaeda has developed a new tactic that allows suicide bombers to breach even the tightest security, as CBS News correspondent Sheila MacVicar reports.
Inside a Saudi palace, the scene was the bloody aftermath of an al Qaeda attack in August aimed at killing Prince Mohammed Bin Nayef, head of Saudi Arabia's counter terrorism operations.
To get his bomb into this room, Abdullah Asieri, one of Saudi Arabia's most wanted men, avoided detection by two sets of airport security including metal detectors and palace security. He spent 30 hours in the close company of the prince's own secret service agents - all without anyone suspecting a thing.
How did he do it?
Taking a trick from the narcotics trade - which has long smuggled drugs in body cavities - Asieri had a pound of high explosives, plus a detonator inserted in his rectum.
This was a meticulously planned operation with al Qaeda once again producing something new: this time, the Trojan bomber.
The blast left the prince lightly wounded - a failure as an assassination, but as an exercise in defeating security, it was perfect.
The bomber persuaded the prince he wanted to leave al Qaeda, setting a trap.
Al Qaeda has an animated movie showing the meeting between the bomber and the prince. Asieri says more senior al Qaeda figures want to surrender and convinces the prince to talk to them on a cell phone.
In the conversation recorded by al Qaeda, you hear a beep in the middle of two identical phrases that are repeated by the bomber and his handler.
Explosives experts tell CBS News that beep was likely a text message activating the bomb concealed inside Asieri.
The Trojan bomber hands the phone to Prince Mohammed. He's standing next to him, and 14 seconds later, he detonates.
"This is the nightmare scenario," said Chris Yates, an aviation security consultant.
On a plane at altitude, the effects of such a bomb could be catastrophic. And there is no current security system that could stop it.
"Absolutely nothing other than to require people to strip naked at the airport," said Yates.
And al Qaeda says it will share its new technique via the Internet very soon. There is nothing that can stop that either.


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Buy uppers and then buy a cool attitude pack which has good chances of hugo
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Do not buy Hugo first. You need to have a deck first, without a leader. So I suggest you get some cheap playable cards and some wins. Just like what 0-L suggested. That's how I started, and that's how I got my Uppers, except Jackie. LOL
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If you starting a uppers deck make sure you have Samantha she is ideal for any uppers deck


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Knowing how, where and who grew your food is virtually impossible these days. Now that is possible if you become a member of our co-op. Farmers Markets are a wonderful source but they are seasonal. CSAs are great but not flexible. Suwanee Whole Life Co-op is offered year round, there are no contracts and no weekly commitment. We have a growing list of local farmers and businesses that we work with to provide you and your family real, clean and healthy foods and products.
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Economics for Dummies
In trying to understand the economic meltdown of 2008 what we need to accept is a simple truth no single cause shall ever be found(1). Scholarly hairsplitting on the Great Depression of 1929 has not yet settled what caused it.The school of Milton Friedman and of Joseph Maynard Keynes have their adherents and their positions are deeply entrenched so any of these more or less expresses itself in the economic thinking of nations. Those who believe in a large role for the state in the economy believe it was mostly a failure of the free markets and those who believe in free markets believe it was mostly a failure of government that compounded the problem. This being the case one cannot rest assured a single cause made it happen. Such inexactness rules the market forces just as supply- demand can never match without pricing coming into the play. Thus there are many factors that caused the meltdown of 2008 or depression of 29..
One law was set in place as a result of the Depression of 29.
Glass- Steagall Law of 1933 divided banks into commercial and investment banking. This law resulted in Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation for insuring bank deposits.Rediscounting is a way of providing financing to a bank or other financial institution. Especially in the 1800s and early 1900s, banks made loans to their customers by "discounting" their customer's notes.
Such a note is a paper document, in a specified form, in which the borrower promises to pay a certain amount at a specified, future date. For example, assume that a customer wants to borrow $1000 for one year. In exchange for giving him $1000 today, the bank might ask him to sign a note promising to pay $1100 one year from now. The bank is "discounting" the note by giving the customer less than the note's $1100 face value. The extra $100 is the bank's compensation for providing the $1000 to the customer before the note matures,The Federal Reserve System in turn provided financing to the bank by rediscounting this note by giving the bank $1050 in exchange for this note. This Federal Reserve System was the bugbear for certain financiers who vilified it as state intervening in the free market.
Why should these financiers castigate FRS if they were set in place to oversee an orderly transaction between supply and demand factions across the counter?
Naturally for those who wanted to take risks and self aggrandize the law was an obstacle. Gramm-Leach Bliley act of 1999 was enacted precisely to cut the ground from under the feet of FRS from effectively functioning. This was done to give unfair advantage to Citicorp a commercial bank holding company.
Citicorp-a commercial bank holding company merged with an insurance company in 1998 to form Citigroup, a corporation combining banking, securities and insurance services.This combination, announced in 1998, would have violated the Glass-Steagall Act and the Bank Holding Company act of 1956 by combining securities insurance and banking. The law was passed to legalize these mergers on a permanent basis.
Also note the curious fact: the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act was passed in November 1999, repealing portions of the BHCA and the Glass-Steagall Act, allowing banks, brokerages, and insurance companies to merge, thus making the Citigroup/Traveler Group merger legal.Top Citigroup officials were allowed to review and approve drafts of the legislation before it was formally introduced.
Also noteworthy is this:After resigning as Treasury Secretary and while secretly in negotiations to head Citigroup, Robert Rubin helped broker the final deal to pass the bill. He later became one of three CEOs that headed up CitiCorp.
Was Citigroup for serving the nation or for serving the vested interests?
Two years ago (2007)Citigroup was worth $273bn. Now it is worth just 20bn. This loss was not incurred in the pursuit of giving service to the clients fairly and responsibly as was expected of a commercial bank according to its original avowed principles. In the climate of reaganomics and unfettered risk taking to give heavy profits to a chosen few, the CitiCorp outplayed itself. The citiCorp was in trouble It tried to cover its credit crisis by brazenly trying to do just the opposite:Citigroup suffered a significant setback at the end of September, when its deal to buy regional bank Wachovia was trumped by an offer from rival Wells Fargo.(If the deal had gone through, it would have given Citigroup billions in additional deposits, boosting investors' confidence and possibly preventing the steep share price sell-off.)
It has been battered by the meltdown in sub-prime mortgages – made to people on low incomes or poor credit ratings.
Citi has lost heavily, and its share price has fallen from over $55 in 2006 to less than $4, on par with lows last seen in late November when the US Treasury announced a $45bn rescue plan accompanied by a $306bn guarantee for Citi's most risky loans.
If the bank had been allowed to collapse, it could have caused financial havoc around the globe, seizing up fragile lending markets and causing untold losses among institutions holding debt and financial products backed by the company.
Citigroup's operations stretch around the globe with 200 million personal bank accounts in more than 100 countries.
In 2007, the bank's total revenues topped $159bn, not far off the GDP of Chile.
Recent creation
Citigroup itself as a unified institution is relatively new. It was formed in 1998 through the $140bn merger of the bank Citicorp and the financial conglomerate and insurance firm Travelers Group.
However, the history of the bank dates back to the earliest years of the United States, with the foundation of the City Bank of New York in 1812.
Ever since, the bank has played a central role in the financial history of the US.
By 1895 the National City Bank of New York, as it had become, was the largest bank in America.
In 1918 it was the first American bank with more than $1bn in assets, and by 1929 had become the world's biggest commercial bank.
In 1955 the bank altered its name to the First National City Bank of New York, and then in 1976 became Citibank – while its holding company changed its name to Citicorp.
In the 1970s, the bank was one of the first to pioneer the use of ATM machines, and by the 1990s it had become the world's largest issuer of credit cards and charge cards.
Through a series of big mergers, Citi then built itself into a financial giant – offering customers everything from personal bank accounts and credit cards, to investment banking and wealth management.
The idea behind these mergers, with banks such as Mexico's Banamex and Poland's Bank Handlowy, was to create a financial group which would be big enough to deal with any crisis.
However, critics say that crucially Citi failed to control its expenses, and as it grew it became unwieldy and unfocused.
The losses that Citigroup built up as as result of the credit crisis have exposed some of the bank's problems that critics claim had been hidden by profits during the years of booming house prices.
Group profit soared from $17.8bn in 2003 to $21.5 billion in 2006.
But as the crisis intensified, Citigroup's fall has been equally dramatic, culminating in the $8.29bn loss during the October to December quarter in 2008.
Without such a deal, Citigroup had few options but to go cap in hand to the US government.
Ack: wikipedia, BBC News16 January 2009 -tim bowler- business reporter/ citigroup)
(1)In relation to the 1929 downturn, historians emphasize structural factors like massive bank failures and the stock market crash, while economists (such as Barry Eichengreen, Milton Friedman and Peter Temin) point to monetary factors such as actions by the US Federal Reserve that contracted the money supply, and Britain's decision to return to the Gold Standard at pre-World War I parities (US$4.86:£1).


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Turkey prices gobble up more of Thanksgiving bill
- It will cost almost $50 to feed 10 people
- Turkey prices are up 4 cents a pound from last year
- Some comfort: Inflation-adjusted price would have been $60 in 1986
Blame the bird.
The cost of a classic Thanksgiving dinner edged up slightly, but it could have been lower this year had it not been for the meal's traditional centerpiece, the turkey.
The American Farm Bureau Federation estimates it will cost $49.48 to feed 10 people turkey and all the fixings this year, up only 28 cents from last year's average of $49.20. But much of the 3% increase came from the big-ticket item on the table, the turkey.
A 16-pound turkey will cost about $22.23 this year, the AFBF said. That is roughly $1.39 a pound, an increase of about 4 cents per pound, or 66 cents for the turkey.
"Most Americans will pay about the same as last year at the grocery store for a turkey and all the trimmings," said John Anderson, AFBF's deputy chief economist. "A slight increase in demand for turkey is responsible for the moderate price increase our shoppers reported for the bird."
Turkey farmers also saw higher costs for grain due to this summer's drought.
Luckily, many shoppers may not even feel the pinch from these higher prices as stores often price their turkeys competitively to drive traffic into their stores, or they use free or discounted turkeys as a customer promotion.
"Anyone with the patience to wait until the last minute to buy a turkey for Thanksgiving could be rewarded with an exceptional bargain," Anderson said.
Still, the cost of this year's meal will be the highest in the survey's history on an absolute basis. However, if you look back to 1986, when the AFBF estimated a Thanksgiving dinner would cost $28.74 and adjusted it for inflation, this year's meal is a relative bargain.
The inflation-adjusted price for the 1986 dinner is equal to $60 today.
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Our Digital Dental X-Ray Reduces Radiation
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Consistently invested in our patients' health and experience, we have the latest
technology and state-of-the-art techniques in order to make it an experience that is safe and comfortable. A paperless office and networked treatment rooms, we are able to share files, photography, communications and any medical information between the treatment room and doctor instantaneously, making your first visit and every visit after more convenient and efficient. We strive to be the highest quality Family and Pediatric Dentists in the area.
iTero Scanner
Dentistry has never been at a more exciting time when it comes to the rise of technology to help service the needs of the patient. One of the best technological developments is the iTero digital scanner.
iTero enables doctors to take a 3D digital scan of a patient's teeth and bite so adjustments can be made digitally for the use of several important dental procedures.
With the use of a small, handheld scanner, a dentist scans your teeth and makes sure to capture every angle possible. Once completed, the images are sent to the computer and rendered to create the composite image, which combines all angles to create a 3D model of your teeth. Once the image has loaded, doctors can use this to create everything from an Invisalign mold to crowns, bridges and full tooth implants.
Dental X-rays or radio graphs allow the dentist to see so much more. From cysts (sacks of fluid that form on the roots of teeth), cancerous and non-cancerous tumors, to invisible decay that occurs between teeth, and the location of teeth that haven't grown in completely.
This digital format has numerous advantages when compared with old-fashioned, film-based machines, including:
- Reduced radiation exposure (up to 90% less than traditional systems)
- Enhanced ability to refine image quality
- Instant viewing (no waiting for films to develop)
- Environmentally friendly (no toxic chemicals)
Our office provides the highest level of sterilization available today. Our state-of-the-art sterilization center ensures that patients experience a clean, safe environment during their visit.
Every step in the multi-stage cleaning and disposal process is kept separate in safe holding areas to prevent cross-contamination. Instruments are disinfected, cleaned ultra-sonically and heated to extreme temperatures to kill any potentially harmful microbes. Once this multi-step process is completed, instruments are then stored in a separate sterile environment before use.
Safety, in all steps of your treatment, is our top priority. In earlier days, the only method to remove tarter from above as well as below the gum line had been by scraping with a hand tool. Aided by the Cavitron Ultrasonic Cleaner, our own hygienists can gently and comfortably eliminate tarter with high frequency vibration. The Cavitron Ultrasonic cleaner is known as a harmless, highly effective and pain-free alternative to regular cleaning approaches. Because it works at the speed of sound, you hardly experience any kind of movement, making deep cleaning a more pleasant experience.
The Intraoral Camera is a diagnostic tool which allows us to detect potential problems within the mouth, early on. By taking pictures of your teeth, gums and the inside of your mouth and displaying the images on a computer screen, it gives us a fast, easy way to really look at what's going on. Using the Intra-Oral Camera saves time and makes problems easily visible to both you and the doctors. Because they are instantly transferred to the computer, you, as a patient, are able to see the problem areas for yourself and discuss treatment with your dentist.


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Nov-25-08 Governor Corzine, Senator Menendez, Commissioner Doria, Mayor Torres Unveil Neighborhood Stabilization Program Action Plan
Governor Corzine, Senator Menendez, Commissioner Doria, Mayor Torres Unveil Neighborhood Stabilization Program Action Plan
$51.4 Million in Funds to be Secured Through HUD
PATERSON – Governor Jon S. Corzine, Senator Robert Menendez and Paterson Mayor Joey Torres today joined Department of Community Affairs (DCA) Commissioner Joseph Doria in unveiling the Neighborhood Stabilization Program (NSP) Action Plan. The Plan, which will secure $51.4 million in federal funding, will be submitted to the Federal Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) for approval.
"During the past two and a half years, the number of home foreclosures in New Jersey skyrocketed, leaving some of our neighborhoods devastated. We must stop the bleeding now," said Governor Corzine. "This Plan will go a long way in keeping our residential communities stable by curtailing the downward spiral of property values and public safety when homes become boarded up and vacant. I commend the efforts of Senators Menendez and Lautenberg in securing funds that will help preserve the sanctity of our neighborhoods."
As a component of the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008, the NSP is specifically intended to stabilize neighborhoods experiencing the negative effects of the subprime mortgage crisis and the general economic downturn. These localities are identified as those hard hit by foreclosures and are statistically at high risk of continued market deterioration. Funds from the NSP can be used for property acquisition, demolition, rehabilitation and for the creation and operation of land banks, in any combination, to spur neighborhood recovery.
"Foreclosures have left millions of families facing a padlock on their front door and our nation facing an economic crisis. If we are going to get out of this economic mess sooner rather than later, we need to address the housing crisis sooner rather than later. The Neighborhood Stabilization Program is an important part of that effort," said Senator Menendez. "In these tough economic times it's important to protect the homeowners that see the house next door boarded up and their neighborhoods deteriorate because of the foreclosures around them. I am proud to have been part of the effort in Congress to make a real investment into this program, which resulted in more than $62 million for our state. We were fought by the Bush administration, but these foreclosures have been devastating our communities for too long not to act."
The DCA will receive $51.4 million after HUD approval of the program Action Plan. Additionally, five Community Development Block Grant entitlement areas will receive funding directly from HUD: Newark - $3.4 million, Union County - $2.6 million, Paterson - $2.2 million, Jersey City - $2.1 million, Bergen County - $2 million.
The State's Action Plan focuses on neighborhoods with existing community planning infrastructure, relevant economic assistance and counseling programs. These areas include those that are participating in the State's Neighborhood Preservation Program, have plans and private invest through the Neighborhood Revitalization Tax Credit, have ongoing CDBG investment or have been a target for other state, county or local investment. Local availability of foreclosure prevention programs and other community based assistance will be weighed in the selection process. DCA will publish an RFP within the next two weeks that will be open to local governments, for-profit and non-profit developers and non-profit organizations. Applicants must develop and propose a set of interventions that are both allowable under NSP regulations and appropriate to the local circumstance.
"These funds would not have been possible without the hard work of Senators Menendez and Lautenberg," said Commissioner Doria. "Governor Corzine has made a commitment to directly assisting New Jersey residents and municipalities during these difficult economic times. The NSP Action Plan mirrors that dedication."


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There are many inexpensive PCB services around. Seeed Studio (our preferred) and ITead Studio make two-sided PCBs with the works starting at $1 per 5x5cm PCB. Both use the same prototyping PCB factory in Shenzhen China. Turnaround is fast, shipping starts at $3.
There are many inexpensive PCB services around. Seeed Studio (our preferred) and ITead Studio make two-sided PCBs with the works starting at $1 per 5x5cm PCB. Both use the same prototyping PCB factory in Shenzhen China. Turnaround is fast, shipping starts at $3.
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There are many inexpensive PCB services around. Seeed Studio (our preferred) and ITead Studio make two-sided PCBs with the works starting at $1 per 5x5cm PCB. Both use the same prototyping PCB factory in Shenzhen China. Turnaround is fast, shipping starts at $3.
Others like DorkBotBox, BatchPCB, etc. pool up multiple orders and send them to the fab. Laen at DorkBotPBX offers purple PCBs that have been quite popular.
We wanted to write a tutorial on how to get your PCB manufactured using these cheap services from source Eagle files.
Check for airwires
First check if all yore connections are on the board. To do this you'll need the zoom-unrouted script.
- Download the zoom-unrouted.ulp
- Run it. (File > Run... > zoom-unrouted.ulp)
- Connect the air-wire, if any is found.
- Re-Run the script, and keep repeating until no air-wires are found.
Polygon fill isolation
Picture by Sebastian CC-BY-SA.
A common error with cheap PCBs is when the ground fill crosses to a trace. If you have filled polygons on your board, be sure to increase the isolation to at-least 12mils(16+ recommended). This is done by right clicking on a polygon's edge and going to Properties > Isolate.
Design rule check
Before sending your files to be manufactured you have make sure your design is within the specifications of the PCB service you will be using. To help you with this, the associated PCB service provides Design Rule Check files for Eagle. Grab a design rule file from your prefered PCB maker:
To run a DRC follow these steps:
- Open your PCB layout in Eagle
- Go to Tools > DRC... A DRC window will open from which you can load the manufacturers .dru file you previously downloaded. From this window you can also make adjustment to the various design specifications like minimum trace width (Sizes > Minimum Width), and trace clearance (Clearance). It is usually a good idea to increase these two settings a few mils if your board doesn't require absolute minimum the board house can produce.
- Once you've set it up just click (Check).
The DRC will scan your board and log all the errors on your board that go outside the scope of the specifications. By clicking on various log entries the portion of the board where they occur will be zoomed in, and the error in question highlighted. You go through them one by one. Once you've fixed all the errors you simply re-run the DRC again and check if everything is alright.
Generate gerbers
Once you are sure your board is electrically sound, and that it falls within the manufacturing specifications of your PCB service you need to generate files that the manufacturer can use for production. These files are called Gerbers. To generate them PCB manufacturers provide a .CAM file.
Grab the CAM file for your preferred PCB maker:
Follow these steps to build gerber files:
- Start the CAM processor (File > CAM Processor). A CAM Processor window will pop-up.
- Go to File > Open > Job... and point to the previously downloaded .cam file.
- Once it is loaded, just click on the process job button.
- The gerber files will be saved in the same directory your source Eagle files are.
The generated files are representations of various layers the manufacturer requires for building PCBs. The files you need to manufacture your boards are:
|Top Copper
|Top Silkscreen
|Top Soldermask
|Bottom Copper
|Bottom Silkscreen
|Bottom Soldermask
|Routing and Drill
Preview gerbers
Check the files before sending them to the PCB house. To view them you'll need a Gerber viewer. Here are some free ones:
We use ViewPlot, and here is how to set it up to view your files.
- Start it up.
- Go to File > Load Files, select the 7 above mentioned files, and click "Open".
- A window with a list of the files will pop-up, click "OK".
- Another pop up screen will show up, here you need to select the "Leading zero suppression" radio button, and select "2 4", and then click OK.
You should get a similar image to the one below. From there you can scroll through the layers in the lower left corner drop down menu.
Look for any errors in the board you can spot. More common ones are:
- Problems with the footprint, the solder pad is sometimes buried by mask.
- Drills outside board or flipped.
- CAM didn't export expected silkscreen layers.
- Evaluating not only whether a silkscreen is present, but if it's legable (size, location, etc).
- Quickly seeing whether all of the vias on a board are tented or not.
- One last doublecheck to make sure soldermask is on the correct side for the correct component (PCB's that have components on both sides).
Zip up the files
Put it in an archive. We include a readme.txt with some basic information about the boards, here is an example.
"Name, email, service , PCB color, gerber format(2.4 leading)"
For Seeed Studio, Itead order the PCB online and email the files. BatchPCB has a web interface, while for DorkBotPCX you need to send them an email as described by their instructions.
Get your boards
In our experience, services take about this long from order to your hands:
- Seeed Studio, from 2 to 4 weeks
- ITead Studio, from 2 to 4 weeks
- DorkBotPBX, around 2 weeks
- BatchPCB, from 2 to 4 weeks
Seeed and ITead offer cheaper boards if you only test 50% of them. The tested boards will be wrapped in masking tape and/or marked on the side with a marker.
Before you build the first PCB, spend five minutes looking it over. E-tested PCBs will nearly always be good. If a PCB is untested then you absolutely must inspect the board, or risk a broken or shorted trace under a chip that you'll never be able to find.
Here are three common problems that can cause hours and days of debugging headaches.
Under etching leaves extra copper that connects traces together.
Avoid this by:
- Use larger traces and increase the distance between them
- Check your board house production limits, avoid working with the smallest traces and spacing
Broken traces
Over etching removes too much copper and breaks traces.
Avoid this by:
- Use larger traces
- Check your board house production limits, avoid working with the smallest traces
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Misaligned vias
The hole that connects two layers can be drilled outside the via. This can break the connection between layers, or short a trace to another nearby trace.
Avoid this by:
- Using larger vias and larger annular rings (the copper pad around the via hole)
- Check your board house production limits, avoid working at the smallest sizes
- Increase any ground plane isolation so slightly miss-drilled holes don't short the trace to ground
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Britain confirms plans to privatize Royal Mail
Britain's coalition government has confirmed plans to privatize the country's 500-year-old Royal Mail this fall, a move opposed by postal unions and condemned by the opposition as a "fire sale" of a lucrative state asset.
Business Secretary Vince Cable said Thursday that an initial public offering of a majority stake in the postal service was scheduled for the coming weeks.
Officials say the expected stock sale will be open to members of the public as well as to larger institutional investors. The minimum investment will be set at 750 pounds ($1,185) with 150,000 Royal Mail employees getting a slice of the stock offering.
Plans call for 10 percent of the stock to be given to UK-based staff, with at least 41 percent to be sold to the public, including institutional investors.
"These measures will help ensure the long-term sustainability of the six-days-a-week, one-price-goes anywhere universal postal service," Cable said, predicting a "healthy future" for the company.
The government said the stock sale would allow the Royal Mail to tap investment that it needs to modernize and to compete in areas such as parcel delivery - which is becoming a major source of revenue as letter volumes decline with the growing use of email.
Business minister Michael Fallon said the privatization would "give Royal Mail the commercial freedom it needs to succeed in a fully liberalized, competitive market."
The government did not provide details about how the stock would be priced at the initial public offering. It added that the Post Office, which runs the nation's network of postal counters and was split off from the Royal Mail last year, was not for sale.
Opponents of the Royal Mail's privatization say the economic case is not compelling. Ian Murray, business spokesman for the opposition Labour Party, accused the government of a "politically motivated fire sale."
"The Royal Mail is a much-cherished national institution," he told lawmakers in the House of Commons.
"The case for privatization has not been met. With recent annual profits of over 400 million pounds, we should be allowing it to flourish in the public sector."
Even as the announcement of the IPO was made, the Communications Workers Union was planning to ballot workers for possible strike action. The union is opposed to the stock plan because of fears of potential job losses.
There are concerns the threat of industrial action may damp demand for the stock.
The privatization spells a major change for the long-established mail service.
Its familiar red pillar boxes will be protected by law, but tampering with a service so central to public life is also a delicate matter.
Even the late Margaret Thatcher, who championed the sale of state-owned companies such as British Telecom and British Gas, backed away from privatizing Royal Mail during her tenure as prime minister in the 1980s.


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Video import and export
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Synchronized video recording
The video recording feature allows you to record audio at the same time as video. Recording can be done on any available recording device present in the system. For example, a reference video track can be recorded in order to document additional stage sound for editing and mixing later.
Independence sampler workstation
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All Vita Solo Instruments can be used in Sequoia. These virtual instruments offer impressive sound design, intuitive controls and a huge range of modulation options.
Timecode track
Now you can display the SMPTE timecode of a timecode track using the time display in Sequoia. This is most relevant to post-production projects, so that a recorded timecode can be displayed as a reference when editing in Sequoia
AAF/OMF import and export.
Sequoia offers integrated OMF/AAF support, making it possible to exchange projects between programs and platforms. AAF is the preferred exchange format due to its larger feature set and open documentation.
Sequoia has been one of the leading software solutions for professional audio productions for decades. Sequoia 15 is specifically designed to meet the requirements of professional users and represents a further milestone in the area of audio production, broadcasting and mastering.


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Cache Coordination
If your application is primarily read-based and the changes are all being performed by the same Java application operating with multiple, distributed sessions, you may consider using the EclipseLink cache coordination feature. Although this will not prevent stale data, it should greatly minimize it.
The need to maintain up-to-date data for all applications is a key design challenge for building a distributed application. The difficulty of this increases as the number of servers within an environment increases. EclipseLink provides a distributed cache coordination feature that ensures data in distributed applications remains current.
Cache coordination reduces the number of optimistic lock exceptions encountered in a distributed architecture, and decreases the number of failed or repeated transactions in an application. However, cache coordination in no way eliminates the need for an effective locking policy. To effectively ensure working with up-to-date data, cache coordination must be used with optimistic or pessimistic locking. We recommend that you use cache coordination with an optimistic locking policy (see Configuring Locking Policy).
You can use cache invalidation to improve cache coordination efficiency. For more information, see Cache Invalidation.


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