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New Low for Right-Wing Anti-Choicers -- Exploiting the Holocaust to Push Anti-Abortion Propaganda
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"Saying it's OK to choose is the same thing as saying it's OK for Hitler to choose," says a fresh-faced young man. He's talking about choosing an abortion in "180," a 33-minute movie comparing legalized abortion to the Holocaust that has so far gotten over 1.5 million hits on YouTube, thanks in part to heavy distribution by fertilized-eggs-as-people promulgators Personhood USA.
That's precisely the conclusion Ray Comfort, a mustachioed evangelical pastor and sometime Kirk Cameron collaborator, wants from his eight young interview subjects. And with the help of footage of murdered Jews and fully developed fetuses, it's what he wants his viewers to conclude, as well. The New Zealand-born Comfort, who says his mother is Jewish, is by no means alone in making the equivalence: Mike Huckabee, who supported Personhood USA's failed efforts in Mississippi, has often compared the Holocaust and abortion, saying of Nazi extermination, "educated scientists, sophisticated and cultured people looked the other way because they thought it didn't touch them." The day before Phil Bryant was elected governor of Mississippi — at the same time the state's voters rejected the Personhood amendment — he evoked the Jews of Nazi Germany "being marched into the oven," because of "the people who were in charge of the government at that time" as an argument to vote for it.
But Anti-Defamation League director and Holocaust survivor Abraham Foxman has called Comfort's film "quite frankly, one of the most offensive and outrageous abuses of the memory of the Holocaust we have seen in years." His statement didn't take an explicit stand on abortion or elaborate on what made the film so unacceptable, but he did say that in addition to making a "moral equivalency between the Holocaust and abortion," the movie "also brings Jews and Jewish history into the discussion and then calls on its viewers to repent and accept Jesus as their savior."
Obviously, for anyone who supports reproductive rights for women, the comparison is wildly offensive beyond any specter of attempted conversion or co-opting of Jewish tragedy. It requires an unquestioning equivalence between living people systematically murdered for their ethnic, religious or sexual identity and an embryo or fetus dependent on a woman's body for survival. It also raises the question of who the alleged exterminators are. Those making the comparison would like people to cast the government or politicians in that role — but only because it sounds bad to point out who's really making the choice, a woman. And for pro-choicers, reproductive rights are a part of a larger idea of bodily autonomy, which happens to be one of the many things denied to Nazi targets, some of whom were subjected to forced sterilization and abortions or horrific medical experiments.
Comfort starts his film by urgently asking bewildered-looking kids in Southern California if they know who Hitler is ("this guy … he had a mustache"). He inexplicably interviews an unrepentant neo-Nazi, then starts showing video footage of murdered Jews in extermination camps alongside pictures of fully developed fetuses. Having declared that Hitler hated Christianity, he asks his interviewees whether they would drive a bulldozer across the bodies of Jews, and then whether they would murder Hitler or even his pregnant mother if they had the chance. If this sounds like a suggestion that the murder of abortion providers is justifiable, the credits at the end helpfully say they don't condone violence. In that case!
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122 Guidebook for Conducting Airport User Surveys Table 6-1. Sample sizes required for accuracy of better than 5 percentage points in a categorical variable. Total Number of Sample Size Required for Category Proportion: Employees at Airport p = 0.5 p = 0.25 p = 0.1 50 44 43 37 100 80 74 58 200 132 118 82 500 218 183 108 1,000 280 225 122 5,000 360 272 135 Note: Assumes random sampling. For on-site surveys, the number of responses to be collected should be determined in advance. (See Chapter 3 for a discussion on the different sampling methods and required sample sizes.) An estimate of the number of employees at the airport will be required, even if this is only approximate. For random sampling, required sample sizes to achieve an accuracy of better than �5 percentage points27 for a categorical variable are given in Table 6-1 for a range of total num- bers of employees at the airport. As discussed in Section 3.4, the required sample sizes vary depending on the proportion of the population in the category of interest. This proportion will not be known at the time of planning the survey and must be estimated, at least approximately, based on past surveys, experience of other airports, and knowledge of the airport. Required sam- ple sizes are given for three values of this proportion: 0.5, 0.25, and 0.1.28 The largest samples are required when the proportion of the population in the category of interest is 0.5. Because most surveys ask multiple questions with various unknown proportions in each category, the sample size corresponding to a proportion of 0.5 should be used unless the survey sponsor is primarily interested in questions where the proportion is lower. Further examples for determining the required sample size are provided in Appendix B. Note that for categorical questions with a fairly low proportion of respondents in a category of interest, a margin of error of �5 percentage points may not be considered accurate enough. On-site surveys should cover weekday and weekend periods and morning, afternoon, and evening shifts as well as a wide range of locations. The locations should include areas where the employee groups go during their breaks, such as break rooms and public food courts. Given the ad hoc nature of selecting employees to interview, the resulting sample may not be truly representative of the employee population. It is therefore recommended that responses be weighted to match subgroup sizes, for example by employer category, shift schedules, or work location. 6.4 Questionnaire Wording and Length Questionnaire length, format, and clarity, and the use of pre-tests and pilot tests, are discussed in Chapter 4. The questionnaire for employee surveys should be relatively short, as employees are usually busy during work time and value their breaks. The time needed to complete the survey should be no more than 5 to 10 minutes. 27 As discussed in Section 3.2, accuracy to within 5 percentage points is very different and usually much less stringent than accuracy to within 5% of the proportion in the category. 28 For proportions (p) greater than 0.5, the required sample size is the same as for the proportion 1-p. For example, for a proportion p = 0.75, the required sample size is the same as for p = 0.25.


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In this article, we have given an oversight of the Opteron cluster setup at the University of Queensland. We have described how effective large-scale cluster computing can be managed by a few sysadmins looking over the cluster a couple of hours per week. The success of the cluster deployment has been in part due to the quality open-source Linux tools available for cluster operation, such as the SystemImager imaging suite and the C3 package for remote command execution. We believe there are significant advantages by using these simple tools rather than cluster deployment kits. Those advantages are a highly configurable and easily upgradable system. Our cluster has been extremely reliable, and the biggest source of downtime is the power interruptions we get due to storms typical of a Queensland summer.
As for the future, we may be approaching the time when we need to consider seriously the use of some type of parallel filesystem. We have been lucky so far with our NFS file server, but we had to educate our users about file staging and ask them to treat the file server with a little bit of respect. But for now, it's all systems go.
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MEMORANDUM AND ORDER Haberkorn has not satisfied the PSLRA requirements of necessity or undue prejudice and particularity to warrant lifting the automatic stay. Therefore, in light of the findings herein, his motion to serve an interrogatory on the Company and preservation subpoenas on third parties 57 is denied. Signed by Judge Mary Pat Thynge on 2/28/2011. (cak)
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF DELAWARE IN RE HECKMANN CORPORATION SECURITIES LITIGATION : : : : : C. A. No. 10-378-LPS-MPT CLASS ACTION MEMORANDUM ORDER I. BACKGROUND Lead plaintiff Matthew Haberkorn ("Haberkorn") and defendants,1 specifically Heckmann Corporation ("Company"), are currently litigating a class action based on federal securities laws regarding a shareholder-approved merger between the Company and China Water and Drinks, Inc. ("China Water").2 The complaint asserts claims under §§ 10(b), 14(a), 20(a), and Rule 10b-5 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 on behalf of all shareholders who held stock in the Company and were entitled to vote on the merger, and on behalf of investors who acquired securities in the Company during the class period.3 The claims converge upon allegations of fraud and materially false and misleading statements.4 On October 15, 2010, Haberkorn informed the Company of his intent to request the court's permission for partial modification of the PSLRA discovery stay to serve The complaint names the Company, its subsidiary China Water, and six of its current and/or former officers and directors as defendants. D.I. 52 at ¶¶ 31-40. 2 D.I. 52; D.I. 58 at 1-2, 4-5; D.I. 60 at 3. 3 D.I. 52 at ¶¶ 273, 275, 285, 287, 294-95, 297, 300, 308-09, 312, 318-19, 32526, 328; D.I. 58 at 1-2. The class period is May 20, 2008 to May 8, 2009. D.I. 52 at ¶ 1; D.I. 58 at 2. 4 See generally D.I. 52 ¶¶ 135-229, 254-328. D. I. 58 at 3-5. 1 document preservation subpoenas on non-party entities because they are not subject to the obligations of 15 U.S.C. § 78u-4(b)(3)(C)(i).5 This section requires only parties to a litigation during the pendency of the automatic PSLRA stay to preserve documents.6 Haberkorn also advised that he intended to seek permission to propound a single interrogatory to obtain the names and addresses of the third parties to be served with such subpoenas.7 He further requested that the Company stipulate to the service of the subpoenas and voluntarily provide the requested information.8 The non-party entities from whom Haberkorn seeks information include: GHP Horwath P.C.; Ernst & Young LLP; Roth Capital Partners, LLC; Credit Suisse Securities LLC; FTI Consulting, Inc.; and Jones, LaSalle and Solomons.9 They served as financial advisors, primary auditors, or outside investigation firms to either the Company or China Water in connection with the merger.10 On October 26, 2010, the Company responded that it would not agree to the proposal because discovery was not yet permitted by the PSLRA and the Federal Rules 5 6 D.I. 59 Ex. G; D.I. 61 Ex. 1. In general [d]uring the pendency of any stay of discovery pursuant to this paragraph, unless otherwise ordered by the court, any party to the action with actual notice of the allegations contained in the complaint shall treat all documents, data compilations (including electronically recorded or stored data), and tangible objects that are in the custody or control of such person and that are relevant to the allegations, as if they were the subject of a continuing request for production of documents from an opposing party under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. 15 U.S.C. § 78u-4(b)(3)(C)(i) (2010). 7 D.I. 59 Ex. G; D.I. 61 Ex. 1. 8 D.I. 59 Ex. G; D.I. 61 Ex. 1. 9 D.I. 58 at 1 n.2; D.I. 59 Ex. G. 10 D.I. 58 at 5-6. 2 of Civil Procedure.11 The Company maintained that Haberkorn could easily ensure preservation of evidence by sending a letter to the third parties asking them to preserve the documents and put them on notice that once discovery is allowed, Haberkorn will seek documents from them.12 The Company further argued that subpoenas would potentially result in inadvertent production, as opposed to preservation, of the documents.13 Haberkorn filed this motion on November 12, 2010 seeking a limited modification of the PSLRA discovery stay in order to propound a single interrogatory on the Company to ascertain and/or confirm the correct names and addresses of the third party entities on which to serve preservation subpoenas.14 Haberkorn also seeks to serve document preservation subpoenas on the third parties.15 On December 10, 2010, five out of the six individual defendants filed a motion to dismiss the class action suit for lack of personal jurisdiction and failure to state a claim for relief.16 On the same date, the Company and China Water filed a motion to dismiss for failure to prove the required state of mind and causation.17 This memorandum order addresses the request for partial modification of the PSLRA automatic discovery stay and concludes for the reasons herein that Haberkorn's motion for partial modification be denied. 11 12 D.I. 59 Ex. H; D.I. 61 Ex. 2. D.I. 59 Ex. H; D.I. 61 Ex. 2. 13 D.I. 59 Ex. H; D.I. 61 Ex. 2. 14 D.I. 57 at ¶ 2. 15 Id. 16 D.I. 63 at 1. 17 D.I. 69 at 1. 3 II. PARTIES' CONTENTIONS Haberkorn Haberkorn argues that the PSLRA allows for judicial modification of the discovery stay upon a showing of the appropriate statutory standard which he contends has been met; that modification is necessary to preserve relevant evidence in this matter;18 and that the destruction of the evidence would cause severe prejudice to the class.19 He notes that courts routinely grant requests for document preservation subpoenas,20 demonstrating that mere preservation letters to third parties are an inadequate substitute.21 He attests that the case law on which the Company relies is factually distinguishable from the present matter.22 According to Haberkorn, modification of the mandatory discovery stay is necessary because the third parties possess pertinent information regarding the claims, which the Company does not dispute,23 yet they are under no legal obligation to preserve evidence because the PSLRA only requires that parties to the litigation maintain documents.24 Thus, Haberkorn argues, there is a substantial risk that evidence will be destroyed due to routine corporate document destruction prior to a ruling on the Company's motion to dismiss 25 18 19 D.I. 58 at 2-3, 6-13; D.I. 74 at 3. D.I. 58 at 10; D.I. 74 at 9. 20 D.I. 58 at 13-14; D.I. 74 at 1, 3-4. 21 D.I. 74 at 7 n.6. 22 Id. at 2, 4-5. 23 Id. at 2-3. 24 D.I. 58 at 2-3, 8. 25 D.I. 58 at 8-10; D.I. 74 at 2-5. 4 Haberkorn maintains that his requests are sufficiently particularized because they are directed to specific entities and clearly identify and describe the scope of the documents to be preserved.26 Further, Haberkorn is only seeking the preservation, and not production of documents.27 Because the third parties in question are wellsophisticated entities, he observes that confusion of preservation with production of documents is unlikely.28 Haberkorn also claims that modifying the discovery stay will neither thwart the underlying policies of the PSLRA,29 nor impose a recognizable burden on the Company and the third parties.30 The Company The Company challenges Haberkorn's assertions in support of his motion and contends that the requisite standard to modify the discovery stay has not been met.31 The Company maintains that the burden of proof needed for a partial lifting of the automatic stay is substantial,32 and requires a showing that loss of evidence is imminent33 in contrast to the speculative, general contentions made by Haberkorn.34 The Company notes that under Rule 45(a)(1)(A)(iii) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, a federal subpoena may command production of documents: it does not D.I. 58 at 10; D.I. 74 at 5-7. D.I. 58 at 1, 10-11; D.I. 74 at 6-7, 9. 28 D.I. 74 at 2-3, 7. 29 D.I. 58 at 11-12; D.I. 74 at 8-9. 30 D.I. 58 at 12-13; D.I. 74 at 8-9. 31 D.I. 60 at 2-4, 7-9. 32 Id. at 4; In re Fannie Mae Sec. Litig., 362 F. Supp. 2d 37, 38 (D.D.C. 2005). 33 D.I. 60 at 6; Winer Family Trust v. Queen, C.A. No. 03-4318-JRP, 2004 WL 350181, at * 2 (E.D. Pa. Feb. 4, 2004). 34 D.I. 60 at 6-8. 27 26 5 provide for document preservation.35 The Company observes that Haberkorn's arguments hinge upon case law distinguishable from the current matter.36 It avers that his unsupported speculation that the third parties engage in routine document destruction and an assumed high risk of inadvertent loss of evidence are concerns that exist in every securities lawsuit and were considered by Congress when it enacted the PSLRA.37 At best, the Company opines that the risk of inadvertent loss is only marginally increased during the automatic stay period, particularly since the merger was negotiated more than two years ago and one year has expired since the corrective disclosure.38 As a result, the Company submits that Haberkorn's concerns may easily be met through document preservation letters to each third party, thereby providing notice of the litigation and requesting preservation of relevant evidence.39 It further notes that no explanation has been provided as to why publicly available resources are inadequate to obtain the names and addresses of the third parties.40 Thus, the necessity to lift the discovery stay is, at best, minimal.41 The Company further counters that Haberkorn has not sufficiently particularized his discovery requests and applies an improper analysis that particularization is contingent upon whether a request is made for preservation rather than production of documents.42 It argues that an overly broad range of at least ten categories of 35 36 Id. at 1-2. Id. at 7-8. 37 Id. at 7. 38 Id. 39 Id. 40 Id. at 2. 41 Id. at 7-8. 42 Id. at 9. 6 documents has been requested,43 and that Haberkorn failed to provide his proposed interrogatory for evaluation.44 It notes that the proposed preservation subpoenas substantially mimic typical document request subpoenas, thereby creating a high risk of inadvertent production of documents.45 The Company additionally maintains that the only two factors considered under the PSLRA for modification of the automatic discovery are spoliation and prejudice, and not underlying policy considerations or burdensomeness as Haberkorn argues.46 It notes that contrary to Haberkorn's argument, significant resources will be committed by the third parties to search for the substantial documents requested.47 Further, in light of the potential for inadvertent production, the Company reasons that the effect of this motion circumvents the PSLRA and allows discovery of possible claims not previously alleged in the complaint to avoid its motion to dismiss.48 Lastly, the Company avers that Rule 26(d) requires a stay of discovery until after Rule 26(f) case management conference, which has not occurred.49 Conversely, Haberkorn replies that Rule 26 does not prevent the issuance of preservation subpoenas because Rule 26(f) specifically provides an exception for court orders.50 III. STANDARD AND APPLICABLE LAW Congress enacted the PSLRA to address perceived misuse of securities class 43 44 Id. Id. 45 Id. at 10. 46 Id. at 9-10. 47 Id. at 11. 48 Id. at 10. 49 Id. at 3, 11. 50 D.I. 74 at 9-10. 7 actions and to protect all parties associated with the capital markets from abusive securities litigation practices.51 The Act addresses improper discovery methods that may be employed by a plaintiff as "fishing expeditions"52 for potential claims not alleged in the complaint and to coerce defendants into settlement.53 Congress was specifically concerned that these actions were filed "in order to conduct discovery in the hopes of finding a sustainable claim not alleged in the complaint."54 Thus, in order to reduce the cost and burdens of discovery and prevent abusive practices, such as filing frivolous law suits, the PSLRA permits discovery only after the court has determined the legal sufficiency of the complaint.55 The PSLRA, however, provides a limited exception to the H.R. REP. NO. 104-369, at 31 (1995) (Conf. Rep.), reprinted in 1995 U.S.C.C.A.N. 730, 730. The abusive practices in which Congress was concerned included: (1) the routine filing of lawsuits against issuers of securities and others whenever there is a significant change in an issuer's stock price, without regard to any underlying culpability of the issuer, and with only faint hope that the discovery process might lead eventually to some plausible cause of action; (2) the targeting of deep pocket defendants, including accountants, underwriters, and individuals who may be covered by insurance, without regard to their actual culpability; (3) the abuse of the discovery process to impose costs so burdensome that it is often economical for the victimized party to settle; and (4) the manipulation by class action lawyers of the clients whom they purportedly represent. Id. 52 H.R. REP. NO. 104-369, at 37 (1995) (Conf. Rep.), reprinted in 1995 U.S.C.C.A.N. 730, 736. "[O]nce the suit is filed, the plaintiff's law firm proceeds to search through all of the company's documents and take endless depositions for the slightest positive comment which they can claim induced the plaintiff to invest and any shred of evidence that the company knew a downturn was coming." Id. 53 Id.; Friedman v. Quest Energy Partners LP, Nos. CIV-08-936-M, CIV-08-968M, 2009 WL 5065690, at * 2 (W.D. Okla. Dec. 15, 2009) (citing In re Worldcom, Inc. Sec. Litig., 234 F. Supp. 2d 301, 305 (S.D.N.Y. 2002)). 54 S. REP. NO. 104-98, at 14 (1995), reprinted in 1995 U.S.C.C.A.N. 679, 693. 55 Id.; See also, In re Tyco Int'l, Ltd. Sec. Litig., No. 00MD1335, 2000 WL 33565414, at *1 (D.N.H July 27, 2000). 8 51 discovery stay. Only when "the court finds upon the motion of any party that particularized discovery is necessary to preserve evidence or to prevent undue prejudice to that party"56 is the lifting of the stay justified. Modifying the mandatory stay requires a showing of exceptional circumstances,57 that is, where it is necessary either to save evidence from imminent destruction or to prevent undue prejudice.58 Only in those limited situations have courts permitted document preservation subpoenas to be served on third parties who possess relevant information.59 A preservation subpoena to a non-party may be issued "when the non-party does not have actual notice of the litigation or when the non-party is a corporate entity which typically destroys electronic information by `performing routine backup procedures.'"60 To meet the requirement of undue prejudice, the movant must specifically identify "improper or unfair treatment amounting to something less than irreparable harm."61 15 U.S.C. § 78u-4(b)(3)(B) (2010) (emphasis added). In re Refco, Inc. Sec. Litig., C.A. No. 05-8626-GEL, 2006 WL 2337212, at * 1 (S.D.N.Y. Aug. 8, 2006); In re Nat'l Century Fin. Enters., Inc. Fin. Inv. Litig., 347 F. Supp. 2d 538, 540 (S.D. Ohio 2004); Winer Family Trust v. Queen, No. Civ. A. 03-4318JRP, 2004 WL 350181, at * 1 (E.D. Pa. Feb. 4, 2004); In re Tyco Int'l, Ltd., Sec. Litig., 2000 WL 33654141, at *9-10. 58 15 U.S.C. § 78u-4(b)(3)(B) (2010); see Winer Family Trust, 2004 WL 350181, at *2. 59 Koncelik v. Savient Pharm., Inc., C.A. No. 08-10262-GEL, 2009 WL 2448029, at * 4-5 (S.D.N.Y. Aug. 10, 2009); In re Refco, 2006 WL 2337212, at * 5; Payne v. Deluca, C.A. No. 02-1927-WLS, 2005 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 35891, at *15-16 (W.D. Pa. Dec. 20, 2005); In re Nat'l Century, 347 F. Supp. 2d at 540; In re Tyco, 2000 WL 33654141, at * 1; In re Carnegie Int'l Corp. Sec. Litig., 107 F. Supp. 2d 676, 684 (D. Md. 2000). 60 In re Nat'l Century, 347 F. Supp. 2d at 542 (quoting In re Tyco, 2000 WL 33654141, at *3). 61 Friedman, 2009 WL 5065690, at * 2; In re Bank of Am. Corp. Sec. Litig., Derivative, & Employment Ret. Income Sec. Act (ERISA) Litig., C.A. No. 09 MDL 2058DC, 2009 WL 4796169, at *2 (S.D.N.Y. Nov. 16. 2009); Winer Family Trust, 2004 WL 350181, at * 2. 57 56 9 Such prejudice could result if the defendant is "effectively shielded from liability in the absence of the request discovery."62 The inherent delay in the PSLRA's discovery stay that compels "the plaintiff to wait until its complaint has been legally tested before it can conduct discovery is not unduly prejudicial."63 The loss or destruction of evidence must be imminent, as opposed to being hypothetically possible or merely speculative.64 A moving party must demonstrate "circumstances specific to his case," amassing to more than "conclusory allegations about being disadvantaged in relation to other parties" or "contingent possibilities of future prejudice[s]."65 For modification of the automatic stay, the PSLRA also requires that the discovery requested be "particularized." Discovery is sufficiently particularized when it is "`directed at specific persons and sufficiently limits the type of documents to be preserved."66 The discovery request must "identify the `specific types of evidence that fall within its scope.'"67 Preservation subpoenas are not particularized if they are overly broad or all-encompassing,68 or request parties to preserve "`virtually every piece of Friedman, 2009 WL 5065690, at * 2; see also In re Nat'l Century, 347 F. Supp. 2d at 542; In re Tyco, 2000 WL 33654141, at *4. 63 Friedman, 2009 WL 5065690, at * 2-3. 64 Linder v. Am. Express Co., C.A. No. 10-2228-JSR-JLC, 2010 WL 4537819, at * 2 (S.D.N.Y. Nov. 9, 2010); Friedman, 2009 WL 5065690, at * 3; In re Colonial Bancgroup, Inc. Sec. Litig., C.A. No. 2:09cv104-MHT, 2009 WL 4585928, at * 2 (M.D. Ala. Dec. 2, 2009); In re Refco, Inc. Sec. Litig., 2006 WL 2337212, at * 3 (S.D.N.Y. Aug. 8, 2006); Winer Family Trust, 2004 WL 350181, at * 2; In re CFS-Related Sec. Fraud Litig., 179 F. Supp. 2d 1260, 1265 (N.D. Okla.2001). 65 Friedman, 2009 WL 5065690, at * 3. 66 In re Nat'l Century, 347 F. Supp. 2d at 541 (quoting In re Tyco, 2000 WL 33654141, at *4). 67 Id. (emphasis added). 68 In re Carnegie, 107 F. Supp. 2d at 684; Mishkin v. Ageloff, 220 B.R. 784, 793 (S.D.N.Y. 1998). 10 62 paper and every piece of information' regarding Defendants."69 Particularization requires a "clearly defined universe of documents,"70 and "[a] string of requests, even a string of individually particularized requestsis not sufficiently particularized at the outset."71 The necessity to prevent the destruction of evidence or undue prejudice by itself is not sufficient if the particularization requirement is not met.72 IV. DISCUSSION Rule 26 Rule 26(d)(1) states that "[a] party may not seek discovery from any source before the parties have conferred as required by Rule 26(f), except in a proceeding exempted from initial disclosure under Rule 26(a)(1)(B), or when authorized by these rules, by stipulation, or by court order."73 Preservation subpoenas are court orders. Relief from the Mandatory PSLRA Stay of Discovery Necessary to Preserve Evidence or Prevent Undue Prejudice Haberkorn has demonstrated, and the Company does not dispute, that there is a In re Cree, Inc. Sec. Litig., 220 F.R.D. 443, 447 (M.D.N.C. 2004) (quoting In re Carnegie, 107 F. Supp. 2d at 684). 70 In re WorldCom, Inc. Sec. Litig., 234 F. Supp. 2d 301, 306 (S.D.N.Y. 2002) (finding that because plaintiff's request was limited to documents defendant previously produced to certain government entities in connection with other identified proceedings, the particularization requirement was met). 71 Waldman v. Wachovia Corp., C.A. No. 08 Civ. 2913-SAS, 2009 WL 86763, at *1 (S.D.N.Y. Jan. 12, 2009) (although determining that discovery requested was sufficiently particularized because it was limited to a document set already provided to state and federal regulators, the court found that such production could not be used "as a means to identify other materials that would be subject to further requests" and that "[a]llowing seriatim requests would undermine the purpose of the PLSRA."). Id. 72 In re Bank of Am. Corp. Sec. Litig., Derivative, & Employment Ret. Income Sec. Act (ERISA) Litig., C.A. No. 09 MDL 2058-DC, 2009 WL 4796169, at *3 (S.D.N.Y. Nov. 16. 2009) 73 FED. R. CIV. P. 26(d)(1) (emphasis added). 11 69 substantial likelihood that the identified third parties possess relevant evidence because each was actively involved in the merger that gave rise to this litigation. As noted previously herein, these third parties mainly served as financial advisors, auditors or outside investigators to either the Company or China Water regarding the merger. None are under any legal obligation to preserve evidence relevant to the merger because the PSLRA only requires that litigants preserve documents.74 No evidence has been presented that any of these entities are aware of the litigation. These third parties are free to dispose of documents, records and electronic information according to their internal policies.75 Corporations and businesses employ various document retention policies.76 In light of the passage of time since the merger, destruction of relevant evidence may occur through the third parties' document retention policies. Sending preservation letters, contrary to the Company's suggestions, is distinct from serving preservation subpoenas because the latter imposes a legal obligation on 74 In general [d]uring the pendency of any stay of discovery pursuant to this paragraph, unless otherwise ordered by the court, any party to the action with actual notice of the allegations contained in the complaint shall treat all documents, data compilations (including electronically recorded or stored data), and tangible objects that are in the custody or control of such person and that are relevant to the allegations, as if they were the subject of a continuing request for production of documents from an opposing party under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. 15 U.S.C. § 78u-4(b)(3)(C)(i) (2010) (emphasis added). 75 Koncelik v. Savient Pharm., Inc., C.A. No. 08-10262-GEL, 2009 WL 2448029, at * 2 (S.D.N.Y.Aug. 10, 2009); In re Grand Casinos Sec. Litig., 988 F. Supp. 1270, 1272 (D. Minn. 1997). 76 Koncelik, 2009 WL 2448029, at * 2; In re Nat'l Century Fin. Enter., Inc. Fin. Inv. Litig., 347 F. Supp. 2d at 542 (S.D. Ohio 2004); In re Tyco Int'l, Ltd., Sec. Litig., 2000 WL 33654141, at *3; In re Grand Casinos, 988 F. Supp. at 1272. 12 third parties to take reasonable steps to preserve relevant documents.77 Further, the court finds the Company's argument, that the third parties will inadvertently mistake a subpoena for preservation with a subpoena for production of documents, unpersuasive. All third parties identified are clearly sophisticated business entities, with sufficient knowledge, competence and business acumen to be retained by the Company or China Water to provide various services for the merger. To reduce any confusion, along with the preservation subpoena, Haberkorn intends to include a letter clearly explaining that no production is requested or required, and that the subpoena is limited to preserving certain documents.78 Certain cases relied upon by the parties which dealt with requests to obtain or preserve discovery evidenced clear bases for granting the motion to lift the stay.79 Haberkorn, however, has not provided a rationale because he has not adequately shown that the interrogatory and preservation subpoenas are needed and that preservation letters are insufficient. Unlike the plaintiff in In re Tyco,80 Haberkorn has produced no evidence, for example, that entities like the third-parties destroy electronic data by overwriting in the usual course of performing routine backup procedures, or See Caston v. Hoaglin, C.A. No. 2:08 CV-200-NMK, 2009 WL 1687927, at * 4 (S.D. Ohio June 12, 2009) (finding that "an informal conversation asking non-parties to preserve certain documents lacks the force of a subpoena."). 78 Haberkorn failed to attach a copy of his proposed letter for review. 79 See, e.g., In re Bank of Am. Corp. Sec. Litig., Derivative, & Employment Ret. Income Sec. Act (ERISA) Litig., C.A. No. 09 MDL 2058-DC, 2009 WL 4796169, at *3 (S.D.N.Y. Nov. 16. 2009) (document production allowed where "[d]iscovery [was] moving apace in parallel litigation."); Winer Family Trust, 2004 WL 350181, at * 5 (where a critical witness was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer and could not be deposed in the foreseeable future due to diminished physical and mental incapacities). 80 In re Tyco, 2000 WL 33654141, at *3-4. 13 77 standard or typical retention policies.81 He merely asserts that issuing preservation subpoenas is necessary because loss or destruction of evidence is possible due to routine corporate document destruction procedures.82 Thus, the court cannot determine whether the risk of destruction of relevant evidence is imminent based on allegations of possible destruction.83 Although confirmation of whether the third parties are aware of the current litigation has not been provided, preservation letters should furnish sufficient notice. While loss or destruction of relevant documents may prejudice the present class action lawsuit because certain evidence is contained in documents prepared by the third parties, Haberkorn has not demonstrated that the prejudice is undue. Haberkorn has not shown that should his request to propound an interrogatory on the Company or to serve preservation subpoenas be denied, document destruction will occur or will unduly diminish his ability to maintain this action. His arguments are grounded on mere speculation of document destruction by the third parties and "conclusory allegations about being disadvantaged in relation to"84 the third parties' burden of preserving relevant documents. Such "contingent possibilities of future prejudices does not See Applied Telematics, Inc. v. Sprint Communications, Co., L.P., No. 944603, 1996 U.S.Dist. LEXIS 14053, at *5 (E.D. Pa. Sept. 17, 1996) (where evidence was presented that defendant's normal operating procedures was to back up the computer system weekly from the previous week and thus, all historical information was destroyed). 82 D.I. 74 at 3. 83 In re Tyco Int'l, 2000 WL 33654141, at *3; In re Fluor Corp. Sec. Litig., C.A. No. 97-734-AHS-EEX, 1999 WL 817206, at * 3 (C.D. Cal. Jan. 15, 1999). 84 Friedman v. Quest Energy Partners LP, Nos. CIV-08-936-VML, CIV-08-968VML, 2009 WL 5065690, at * 3 (W.D. Okla. Dec. 15, 2009). 14 81 demonstrate that lifting the stay is necessary."85 Furthermore, the type of prejudice that Haberkorn complains of, that is the delay in being able to conduct discovery, is inherent in any PSLRA discovery stay. Therefore, Haberkorn has not met the requirement of demonstrating necessity to preserve evidence or prevent undue prejudice. Particularized Discovery Haberkorn has not provided the interrogatory he intends to propound on the Company. While that interrogatory may be specifically directed to the Company, the court cannot determine whether it is sufficiently particularized. Each proposed preservation subpoena submitted for review is similar and is individually directed to each identified third party. The subpoenas, however, are too broad because they request that each third party preserve documents regarding practically every interaction that it had with the Company and China Water (and generally their predecessors, successors, subsidiaries, divisions and affiliates, any present and former officers, directors, partners employees, representatives or agents), the other defendants, the SEC, and certain third parties for the "relevant time period from January 1, 2008 through the date of production."86 Contrary to Haberkorn's argument, the fact that preservation, rather than production, is requested does not make Friedman, 2009 WL 5065690, at * 3. D.I. 59 Ex. A-F. For example, each subpoena requests a named third party to preserve "[a]ll documents constituting or concerning any agreements, contracts, understandings, engagements, retention or other relationships between [the third party] and [the Company]." D.I. 59 Ex. A-F. Four of the subpoenas request the preservation of the same information concerning a named third party and China Water. D.I. 59 Ex. B-E. Further, the "Definitions and Instructions" section applicable to each request involves 24 separate descriptions or definitions. 86 85 15 the request sufficiently particularized.87 Haberkorn has not satisfied the PSLRA requirements of necessity or undue prejudice and particularity to warrant lifting the automatic stay. Therefore, in light of the findings herein, his motion to serve an interrogatory on the Company and preservation subpoenas on third parties (D.I. 57) is denied. Date: February 28, 2010 /s/ Mary Pat Thynge UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE 87 In re Tyco Int'l, Ltd., Sec. 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(Reuters) – President Barack Obama starts his second term in office facing unprecedented budget constraints that will challenge his ability to implement his economic vision.
Spending caps that Obama signed into law in 2011 will make it difficult to boost investment in education, scientific research, transportation and other areas that he says will help the country retool for heightened global competition and rapid technological change, budget experts say.
Because those caps won't keep pace with inflation and population growth, the government will effectively have 16 percent less to spend in these areas by the time Obama leaves office in 2017, according to White Houseestimates.
That could constrain college loans, preschool education, job training and other programs that Obama says will boost national competitiveness.
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Since taking office in 2009, Obama has tried to balance his belief in an active government with concerns that the nation's finances are on an unsustainable course.
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HOUSTON -- FloaTEC has been awarded certification to ISO 9001-2008 for project management and engineering for the offshore industry.
DNV Business Assurance, a division of Det Norske Veritas Certification B.V., has now completed the process of auditing FloaTEC's business processes and management system.
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Out of 26 million Texans, you may have an idea to change the world. You may have had several ideas to change the world. But only a tiny minority of you pushed through the U.S. Patent office from application to successful patent. We've seen Texans change the world many times over. Jack Kilby did it with Texas Instruments in 1958 with the integrated circuit, causing the start of the digital revolution, which, in part, is why you can read these words over your electronic device.
Over the last few years, Texas Business has brought its feature: Texas Business Patent of the Day. This list is of the ones that were either extremely clever, odd or strange. One thing becomes apparent from these patents and the patent that runs daily in Texas Business—Texans have a unique mind set.
Though the history of the Corn Dog is disputed, the State Fair of Texas claims to have introduced the Corny Dog sometime between 1938 and 1942. As a paean to that invention that now sits in the freezer section of every grocery store in the southwest, here are the fried foods the State Fair of Texas has introduced, or tried to introduce, in the last seven years.
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The S&P-AMG team was one of 21 firms to pursue the competitively bid project. Architectural and engineering services will be provided by STV, Inc. The contract will be administered by the Fort Worth District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
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Advanced Environmental Recycling Technologies Inc. of Springdale said Thursday that it has settled with an international insurance firm in litigation related to 2003 fire at one of its plants.
AERT, which makes and sells composite decking materials, said it has agreed to the terms of a settlement with underwriters at Lloyd's of London. Under the settlement, Lloyd's agreed to pay AERT $700,000 and the parties provided mutual releases to one another.
Lloyd's of London underwriters sued AERT in 2005 over a pending final settlement of AERT's 2003 Junction, Texas, fire claim.
Lloyd's filed suit in the Washington County Circuit Court seeking a declaratory judgment that it was not liable to reimburse AERT for certain costs of rebuilding the AERT plant.
Lloyd's alleged that AERT did not rebuild the plant exactly as it had existed before the fire and that AERT committed fraud in seeking reimbursement for alleged improvements made to the facility. Lloyd's also sought to retroactively cancel its portion of the insurance policy.
AERT said the filing was unexpected because it had "cooperated fully with the claims underwriting process and negotiations toward a final settlement of the claim were progressing."
AERT said it believes the Lloyd's lawsuit is without merit, and it filed a counterclaim Monday denying all of Lloyd's allegations and seeking immediate and full reimbursement for rebuilding the plant. AERT is seeking actual damages of about $1.8 million, plus attorney and court fees and punitive damages.
The fire occurred in March 2003. AERT said an exploding fire pole caused the fire, which was fanned by 40 mph winds and destroyed a large part of the facility.


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21 DaysChulu West climbing, easy trekking peak of Nepal
15 days Trekking and climbing in Annapurna Region
4 days in Kathmandu sightseeing, world heritage sights
Of the two Chulus (East and West), Chulu West is the higher peak. The first ascent to Chulu West in 1952 by a Japanese Expedition team. It is lies in a small valley north of Manang; off the main trail to the Thorong La. Chulu East was climbed by a German Expedition team in 1955 via the North East Ridge. Thus, it is difficult to differentiate between the two Chulus. However, the Chulu group comprises of four peaks; two in the east and two in the west. There are no technical difficulties in ascending these peaks but the progress can be slow as the slopes are vulnerable to avalanches in certain conditions. These peaks are lying together which forms an integral part of the Manang Himal which in turns is included in the Larger Damodar Himal.
Day 01 : Meeting upon arrival at Kathmandu International Airport, transfer to hotel.
Day 02 : Sight seeing around Kathmandu valley, overnight at hotel.
Day 03 : Departure to Bensisahar, overnight at guesthouse.
Day 04 : Trek to Bahundanda, overnight at guesthouse.
Day 05 : Trek to Chamje, overnight at guesthouse.
Day 06 : Trek to Dharapani, overnight at guesthouse.
Day 07 : Trek to Chame, overnight at guesthouse.
Day 08 : Trek to Pisang, overnight at guesthouse.
Day 09 : Trek to Manang, overnight at guesthouse.
Day 10 : Acclimatization at Manang, overnight at guesthouse.
Day 11 : Trek to Chulu West Base Camp, overnight at tented camp.
Day 12 : Rest at Chulu West Base Camp, overnight at tented camp.
Day 13 : Ascent to High Camp, overnight at tented camp.
Day 14 : Summit Chulu West (6,420meter) and back to Base Camp, overnight at tented camp.
Day 15 : Trek to Thorong High Camp, overnight at guesthouse.
Day 16 : Trek to Muktinath after crossing Thorong La pass (5,416meter), overnight at guesthouse.
Day 17 : Trek to Jomsom, overnight at guesthouse.
Day 18 : Fly back to Pokhara, overnight at hotel.
Day 19 : Drive back to Kathmandu, overnight at hotel.
Day 20 : Leisure day in Kathmandu, overnight at hotel.
Day 21 : Transfer to airport, departure onward destination.
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Spectacular trek in Everest region ( the Hinku Valley) and climb the Mera peak for the stunning views & fun. Enjoy world heritage sights in Kathmandu valley.
"Rajan we want to extend our thanks and appreciation to you and all of Earthbound Expeditions that made our stay in Nepal such a pleasant and safe experience that will be remembered by us for a long time. Since I celebrated my 75th birthday with you on Everest Base camp trek, I am leaving my options open and I will try to stay in shape in case my son Mike needs company, he still has quite a few birthdays to celebrate and I know that he is anxious to spend some back in Nepal"..,
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Sex offender claims to be living in homeless shelterMarch 27,2013BENNINGTON A Bennington man, who has been charged in New York for rape, sexual assault on a physically helpless person and sexual contact with someone younger than 11, was arraigned Monday for failing to comply with the requirements of the Vermont Sex Offender Registry for a period longer than five consecutive days.
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Carreau pleaded innocent to the charge in Bennington criminal court Monday.
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Silvestro said he interviewed Carreau on March 18 and said Carreau was not continually staying at the address he provided to the registry.
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Are Open-Source Cameras The Way Of The Future?
Scientists at Stanford are working on an open source camera that could change the world of photography by giving programmers the power to change and add features to a camera via software updates. If the technology catches on, our cameras will no longer be limited by the software that comes pre-installed from the manufacturer.
Nearly all of the features of the "Frankencamera," including focus, exposure, shutter speed, and flash, are able to be controlled by software. According to Marc Levoy, professor of Computer Science and of Electrical Engineering at Stanford, "The premise of the project is to build a camera that is open source."
Graduate student Andrew Adams imagines a future where users could download applications to their digital cameras in a similar way as they currently download programs for the iPhone today. All of this could become possible as early as next year if the camera's operating system is made publicly available. Initially, Levoy plans to develop and manufacture the Frankencamera as a platform that will be available at minimal cost to fellow computational photography researchers.
Marc Levoy, professor of Computer Science and of Electrical Engineering
and graduate student Andrew Adams with the open source camera.
Some of the features that could be enabled by an open source camera include high dynamic range (HDR) capabilities, video enhancement with still photos, and web interaction. Although we've seen the beginnings of some HDR features in cameras today, for the most part, HDR is left to post-processing. The process of HDR imaging is to capture pictures of the same scene with different exposures and then to combine the images into a single composite image with each pixel optimally lit.
Researchers have also considered the possibility of enhancing the resolution of videos using high-resolution still photographs. It's possible that a camera could capture low-resolution video at 30 frames per second and also capture high-resolution still images periodically. The extra information from the still image could then be recombined with the video. Now that would be pretty cool.
It would be neat to be able to individually upgrade pieces of the camera as if they were stereo components, but is this something that is going to matter to the average user? I think it's a safe bet that super-cheap all-in-ones will remain the status quo.
Despite what the professor said, existing camera's can be programmed. CHDK's a few years old, and MAME for DigitaOS has been around for like 8 or 9 years now.
As most of the features they describe are software-based, why not just concentrate on a common distro with builds for the different vendor platforms? That way, you can buy a vendor's modular camera, or buy an all-in-one, and still get most of the benefit of "plug-ins" for the common OS.
It would be kind of like DD-WRT for cameras. DD-WRT rocks, by the way.


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But srs, who did this. Strong boldness.
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This geometric grid of painted panels exhibits the mathematical precision associated with Minimalism, but is in fact an abstract portrait of Kim's son. The work is a touching inventory of twenty-five different colors found on Emmett's body―from his hair, eyes, and lips, to his inner wrist and the heel of his foot. The uniform size of the panels was determined by the span of Emmett's hand when he was twelve months old. This painting is Kim's first use of egg tempera, a medium that gives the painting an appropriately rich and sensual presence, while also connecting the work to a tradition of portraiture from an earlier time.
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Direct Memory Access
Direct Memory Access (DMA) is used by Symbian OS to offload the burden of high bandwidth memory to peripheral data transfers and allow the CPU to perform other tasks. DMA can reduce the interrupt load by a factor of 100 for a given peripheral, saving power and increasing the real-time robustness of that interface.
A DMA engine is a bus master peripheral. It can be programmed to move large quantities of data between peripherals and memory without the intervention of the CPU.
Multi-channel DMA engines are capable of handling more than one transfer at one time. SoCs for Symbian phones should have as many channels as peripheral ports that require DMA, and an additional channel for memory-to-memory copies can be useful.
A DMA channel transfer will be initiated by programming the control registers with burst configuration commands, transfer size, the physical addresses of the target RAM and the peripheral FIFO. This is followed by a DMA start command. The transfers of data will be hardware flow controlled by the peripheral interface, since the peripherals will always be slower than the system RAM.
In a memory to peripheral transfer, the DMA engine will wait until the peripheral signals that it is ready for more data. The engine will read a burst of data, typically 8, 16 or 32 bytes, into a DMA internal buffer, and it will then write out the data into the peripheral FIFO. The channel will increment the read address ready for the next burst until the total transfer has completed, when it will raise a completion interrupt.
A DMA engine that raises an interrupt at the end of every transfer is single-buffered. The CPU will have to service an interrupt and re-queue the next DMA transfer before any more data will flow. An audio interface will have a real-time response window determined by its FIFO depth and drain rate. The DMA ISR must complete within this time to avoid data underflow. For example, this time would be about 160 µs for 16-bit stereo audio.
Double-buffered DMA engines allow the framework to queue up the next transfer while the current one is taking place, by having a duplicate set of channel registers that the engine switches between. Doublebuffering increases the real-time response window up to the duration of a whole transfer, for example about 20 ms for a 4 KB audio transfer buffer.
Scatter-gather DMA engines add another layer of sophistication and programmability. A list of DMA commands is assembled in RAM, and then the channel is told to process it by loading the first command into the engine. At the end of each transfer, the DMA engine will load the next command – until it runs out of commands. New commands can be added or updated in the lists while DMA is in progress, so in theory my audio example need never stop.
Scatter-gather engines are good for transferring data into virtual memory systems where the RAM consists of fragmented pages. They are also good for complex peripheral interactions where data reads need to be interspersed with register reads. NAND controllers require 512 bytes of data, followed by 16 bytes of metadata and the reading of the ECC registers for each incoming block.
Power savings come from using DMA, since the CPU can be idle during a transfer, DMA bursts don't require interrupts or instructions to move a few bytes of data, and the DMA engine can be tuned to match the performance characteristics of the peripheral and memory systems.


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Bezos' drone dream making a lot of noise
Amazon isn't asking you whether you want the company's drones to fill Seattle's skies. Which makes the idea even creepier.
Seattle Times staff columnist
It must have been an oversight, but Amazon's Jeff Bezos did not ask me what I thought of his idea of having fleets of little airborne drones deliver packages to our doors in less than 30 minutes.
Not that I would expect him to ask me. But he didn't come off as all that interested in what you think of squadrons of giant robot dragonflies fanning out across your city, either.
"It will work, and it will happen, and it's gonna be a lot of fun," Bezos enthused to CBS' "60 Minutes."
Not if Bruce Harrell's phone calls are any judge.
"My office has been flooded with calls from people wanting to know: Can you please stop Amazon from flying those things in our neighborhoods?" Harrell, the head of the Seattle City Council's Public Safety Committee, told me Tuesday.
Harrell recalled the public outcry last year when the Seattle Police Department acquired only two drones.
"People just do not like drones," he said. "I don't know how Mr. Bezos could put out that vision and not realize it might bother many, many folks."
You can see this vision for yourself at a website Amazon set up to feature its "Prime Air" drone delivery service. There's a minute-long video of an experimental "octocopter" — a roughly poodle-sized drone with eight rotors — flying through blue skies over a farm and a lake to plunk a package on the back patio of a suburban home.
"Q: One day we'll see a fleet of Prime Air vehicles in the sky?" the website wonders.
"A: Yes," it says definitively. "One day, Prime Air vehicles will be as normal as seeing mail trucks on the road today."
Let's assume Bezos actually plans to push this (some speculate it was all a PR stunt, as the video alone has more than 8 million views). It will be fascinating to watch as yet another test case of who runs society: people or corporations?
Right now, the commercial use of drones is mostly barred by the Federal Aviation Administration, due to issues related to air safety. But Congress ordered the agency to write up new rules allowing some level of commercial drone use by 2015.
Who would you bet will have the most influence on those rules: the companies seeking to fly drones over your house and down your street, or you?
Bezos seemed to act like it was all but a done deal.
"From a technology point of view, we'll be ready to enter commercial operations as soon as the necessary regulations are in place," the Amazon website predicts.
Consider what happened when the Legislature tried to set some modest limits on the use of drones by government agencies this past winter. The bipartisan bill was killed without a vote due to aggressive lobbying from ... you'll never guess who ... Boeing! Which owns a drone company in Klickitat County along the Columbia River.
"We were concerned mostly with putting limits on any potential spying by law enforcement," says state Rep. Roger Goodman, D-Kirkland, a co-sponsor of the bill. "It sailed out of committee. But then Boeing argued that the economic potential of drones was too great to put any limits on them at this time. So that was it for that bill."
Ain't democracy grand? We do have the very best one money can buy.
Both Harrell and Goodman said they aren't anti-technology. There are plenty of good, limited uses for drones. But people want to be consulted first. They want a say. Mostly they want to feel like they still have some sway over the drones and the drone masters.
Google has the cautionary corporate slogan, "Don't Be Evil." A suggested new one for Amazon: "Don't Be Creepy."
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A modeling network has been developed for Ar glow discharges with Cu cathode, consisting of several submodels, i.e., Monte Carlo simulations, fluid approaches and collisional-radiative models. The plasma species described in the models, include the electrons, Ar atoms, Ar ions, fast Ar atoms, Ar atoms in various excited levels, sputtered Cu atoms and Cu ions, both in the ground state and in various excited levels. In this paper, the models are described, and the various input data needed for the calculations are discussed. Typical results of the models include the electrical characteristics, the potential and electric field distribution, the densities, fluxes and energies of the various plasma species, information about collision processes in the plasma and about sputtering at the cathode, optical emission intensities, etc. Some of these results will be presented here, to illustrate the possibilities of the model.
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