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Vargas to take on old team in series opener
Royals starter to face Angels for second time since playing for them
Jason Vargas takes on his former team on Friday in the series opener with the Angels.
Friday's opener marks the second straight series for the Royals against a California team, as Kansas City dropped two of three against the Dodgers earlier in the week.
Vargas spent 2013 with the Angels, providing a 4.02 ERA for the Halos, but injuries limited him to 24 starts.
Nearly halfway through this season, Vargas looks like one of the savvier offseason acquisitions in MLB. He has a 3.16 ERA in 108 1/3 innings (16 starts) with Kansas City.
Vargas is coming off a 2-1 loss to the Mariners last Saturday. He logged his longest outing of the season, allowing just two runs on 10 hits and zero walks in 8 2/3 innings.
"His strike-to-ball ratio was three-to-one. Very efficient," Royals manager Ned Yost said of Vargas, who threw 84 of 115 pitches for strikes. "He was really spotting his fastball well, spotting his changeup well and really good curveball all day long."
Vargas kept the game deadlocked at 1 until the ninth inning, when Dustin Ackley smacked a winning single to end Vargas' night.
This will be the second rematch between the Angels and Vargas -- he took a no-decision in a May 25 start at L.A. In that game, Vargas relinquished only one run in 6 1/3 innings, but he also issued a season-high five walks. The Royals lost, 4-3.
The Angels will trot out Matt Shoemaker on Friday. The 27-year-old has not lost a start in seven tries this season, but he was charged with a loss in a relief appearance against the Mets on April 12.
Shoemaker has put together two straight excellent starts -- Sunday against Texas (7 2/3 innings, one run, six strikeouts) and at Cleveland on June 17 (eight innings, two runs, 10 strikeouts).
Manager Mike Scioscia compared the young player to Hall of Famer Nolan Ryan.
"He may be 10 miles an hour short [of Ryan], but he goes out with that attitude, with that makeup," Scioscia said. "He goes out with the idea of a gunslinger. 'I'm going to make my pitches and I'm very, very comfortable in what I need to do out there on the mound.'"
Royals: Davis finally falters
Royals setup man Wade Davis took the loss Wednesday in the team's 5-4 loss to the Dodgers, allowing his first run since April 23.
Davis' scoreless-innings streak had spanned 20 outings and 22 1/3 innings. It came to an end when Davis loaded the bases before hitting A.J. Ellis with a pitch to force in the decisive run.
"We're all human, man," said Royals starter James Shields. "It's going to be tough to not give up runs all year long. He's one of those guys that are so strong mentally and is such a bulldog out there, he's going to go back out in his next outing and do his job."
Angels: Hamilton held homerless
Josh Hamilton returned to the Majors on June 3, but his power has not arrived yet.
Hamilton has not homered since going yard in his first game back, a stretch of 20 games. He has only three home runs this season, which would equate to 17 in 162 games, Hamilton's lowest output since 2009.
"Home runs are just a product of good swings and squaring it up," Scioscia said. "I think that Josh is taking good swings and you're seeing him get a lot of big hits for us. He just hasn't hit the ball with the trajectory to get it out of the park in a while, but it'll be there. He's going to find that swing."
Hamilton sent two balls to the warning track on Wednesday, but both went down as simple flyouts to center.
Worth noting
• Kansas City's Jarrod Dyson clubbed his first home run of the season on Wednesday. It was his fourth career homer and first since June 23, 2013, and it traveled an estimated 404 feet.
• The Angels have won seven of their last eight games against Kansas City and their last five games at Kauffman Stadium.
• Erick Aybar is hitting .348 in his career against the Royals, the best in club history.
Alex M. Smith is an associate reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @asmiff. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.

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very curious what caused it- anybody know specifically?
Phoronix: The Huge Disaster Within The Linux 2.6.35 Kernel
For the past six months we have been monitoring the performance of the very latest Linux kernel code on a daily basis across multiple systems. We have spotted a few regressions -- both positive and negative -- on occasion using our automated daily testing of the Linux kernel, but nothing like what we have encountered the past few days: the Linux 2.6.35 kernel performance has fallen hard. In fact, the performance has fallen very hard in a number of tests and right now, we would consider it a disaster. While the 2.6.35 code has not even seen its first release candidate yet, there are some massive performance drops in a variety of different tests that have yet to be corrected and nothing like we have encountered with previous kernel release cycles especially for a regression that has lived now for about one week.
very curious what caused it- anybody know specifically?
Did I ever post my code for determining whether it was CPU or I/O bound? I'm in the middle of another project at the moment, but meanwhile, here's the algorithm:
you know, i thought that the purpose of kernel regression tracker was not to make 5 pages of graphs and drama but pinpoint the offending commits.
It's almost certainly not io bound, given some of those benchmarks. That's what makes it a lot more interesting than some of the previous "regressions" Phoronix has reported on that were just safer defaults on the file system.
If this was my own software, I'd be looking for a new lock somewhere that's coming under a lot of contention and starving the other running threads, but I suppose with a kernel it could be just about anything.
I agree that this article would have been a lot better if Michael just ran the git bisect and at least narrowed it down a little. It sounds like he's had plenty of time to look into it. That line near the end of the article almost sounds like he's fishing for money from someone to pay him to do it.
What nonsense ...We waited nearly a week to see if these regressions would be organically caught and addressed, but they have not been at least of the Linux 2.6 Git state as of 2010-05-26.
Seriously when you find bugs report them and not just wait and assume that they get magically fixed.
OMG what drama
this is a .35-rc1 kernel for crying out loud!
beside that, the quality of articles here on phoronix has been nose diving for a while now. I'm even beginning to get annoyed.
Michael, you have to do better and you can because it was good in the beginning. Articles like this are total crap and do you and your site no service at all
Exactly. I'm getting sick of these articles boasting "we've found a problem, but we've kept it a secret".
Michael, have you contacted Linus? Have you reported it as a bug? Phoronix would get a lot more credit if the articles were more like: "We found a regression and it's already fixed in Linus' tree thanks to Phoronix".


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Tickets are now available
Tickets are now available
Thank you for topic!
I go
I mean we are trying to organise it, but need a tone of tips for Switcherland (as Bern doesnt have many hotels/hostels) and the ticket prices are a bit ouch, i think they are more expensive than Worlds last year and this time you dont get to choose the event you want but buy a ticket for the whole day. ( i think the consipracy is for me to make me watch ice dance) Good thing is that you can see the practices for free and also you have free return train trip from everywhere in the country the day of your ticket, so you can tour a little
I am definitely right on that conspiracy to force everyone to watch ice dance!
As one who used to not watch ice dance, I agree with Doris that you should watch some ice dance. Sit down close to ice during practice and notice the breeze as the couples skate by really, really fast. I think ice dancers have probably the fastest skaters of any discipline.
Seniorita, I sent you a PM about places to stay hoping that a PM might get your attention faster than when you might check this thread again. For those who are attending with 2 or 3 members in their party, since the competition lasts a week, I recommend trying to get a vacation apartment (Ferienwohnung or abbreviated "FeWo"). When I searched on Google for vacation apartments in Bern, I could not find any in the city (I guess it is not a vacation spot) but there were a lot in the Canton of Bern. There are several in the City of Thun (beautifully situated on the Lake of Thun) and it is only 20 minutes by train from Thun to Bern. One web site to look for vacation rentals is: http://chalet.myswitzerland.com/home/, then click on "Bernese Oberland" and look at the list of cities. You can check for the proximity of the cities to Bern on Google Maps. I notice that Steffisburg, right next to Thun also has some possibilities. You should be able to find an apartment for 100 Swiss Francs per night or less that will sleep 2 to 6 people.
For the entries, I've started a list on my website : http://www.planete-patinage.com/actualites/europe.html
Thanks, I've added them. I've searched the results of turkish nats but don't found them...
I've added the danish team too, Justus Strid will compete for the first time.
Where did you get your information for this list??? Recently there was a Europeans qualifying competition in Hungary and Katherina Hadford was first at this. Pavuk was secon, Padar was third. Borbely did not even skate in the qualifier.. The final decision will be made after Hungarian Nationals in January. But the current entries for the Europeans are 1. Katherina Hadford 2. Viktoria Pavuk. Also, it has not been decided that Nagy/Fejes dance pair will be the second team.
If you read the text before the list, you will see that only "bold" entries are confirmed. For the others, it's just "supposed" entries, based on the results of the beginning of the season.
And you can see that the ladies spots from Hungary are written in "italic", which says that it's just a "probable" entry, often because there is many skaters that have the same level in a country.
So don't worry, I've updated the list with your new informations.
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Eligibility issues due to Tatiana skating for Ukraine previously. Their year of waiting before they can compete internationally for Russia is up in mid-February, too late for Euros. They are apparently skating in one or two smaller competitions to get the necessary qualifying scores for Worlds, so barring any injury or major major screwup at those events, they'll be at Worlds.
Hi I got your pm and thank you for all the effort, but I hadnt have time to check the places cause I have my parents and sister visiting here, so I m working and going sightseeing everyday>drop dead. I have already booked one place months ago, but now there is one possibility that i might not go. But thank you a lot, I will reply as soon as possible.
Slovakia (confirmed entries)
Jakub Strobl
Alexandra Kunova (subs. Karolina Sykorova)
Nikola Visnova/Lukas Csolley
Czech Republic (conf. entries)
Tomas Verner
Michal Brezina (subs. Pavel Kaska)
Martina Bocek
Klara Kadlecova/Petr Bidar
Lucie Mysliveckova/Matej Novak
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Hi folks, following my usual protocol when joining a forum as an FNG, and posting an intro post.
Ive very recently decided to ditch my main hobby/sport of 25 years (pistol shooting) and take up RC modeling, submarines in particular. The shooting hasnt been my only hobby, gokarts, model (surface) boats, model cars, Rallying, hillclimbs, and making stuff in my shed has kept me busy.
Ive had a fascination with Submarines since growing up in the Aussie city of Sydney in the late 70's and early 80's, in a harborside suburb called Neutral Bay. Neutral Bay, at the time was home to the Royal Australian Navy submarine base, HMAS Platypus.
I spent many years of my childhood fishing from the local wharf which was a stones throw away from where the boats anchored, marvelling at what they did when they dissapered, sometimes for months on end. I still recall a friend of mine and I when we were in our early teens fishing from our "tinnie" one day in the harbour, we decided we would venture a bit closer to these wonderful machines.
It was with much bemusement at the time when a couple of the RANs finest appeared on the dock and told us in quite colourful language to "please turn yourself around and paddle back to the wharf" (not quite the language they used).
It was only years later, having worked in various civilian capacitys in a number of Government jobs I finally worked out these amazing machines real purpose, anyway, that in itself is another story.
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As a consultant living and working in NYC, I come into contact with a lot of entrepreneurs and the startups they're trying to get off the ground. They have limited budgets, limited resources, and boundless aspirations. And not one of them has a full-time user experience designer.
Most startups never quite make it, while a choice few rise above to unpredictable heights. So what distinguishes the successes from the failures? Armed with my unwavering faith in the power of UX, I set out to prove that the trailblazers are engaging in user-centered design activities—even if it means doing it on their own terms.
I interviewed three well-regarded New York-based startups and a powerful Silicon Valley venture capitalist to get their definition of what user experience actually is, how to do it, and why it really matters.
- Paul Graham, VC and co-founder of Y Combinator, a seed-stage startup fund
- Nate Westheimer, Co-Founder and EVP of Product & Technology at AnyClip and Gabi Moore, Senior Designer, AnyClip
- Andrew Kortina, Co-Founder, Venmo
- Mike Singleton, Developer, Foursquare
1. What does user experience mean to you?
- Paul Graham
- What it feels like to use something. Design in the sense that's a step deeper than visual design.
- Nate Westheimer
- Before the product lead or a designer puts pen to paper or tries to architect our own visions, user experience means taking a step back from our instincts and doing the research to figure out what the user needs—bringing as much user data as possible into the process before making decisions.
- Gabi Moore
- Designing for the user as opposed to designing for aesthetics or performance or other things that could guide design.
- Andrew Kortina
- It's everything. User experience is every part of Venmo. Anytime you exchange money with someone it can be kind of awkward, especially if you're friends. It can be stressful to think about money when you're with your friends. We want to make your experience using Venmo better, but more than that, we want to make your experience hanging out with friends better because you don't have to think about money.
- Mike Singleton
- User experience is the method by which users interact with the product. Foursquare is a social utility—its role is to be as out-of-the-way and as quiet as possible. For some other products, people take note of its UX. For us, if they're noticing it, it's a failure. We just want them to check in a million times a day at not notice us.
2. When did you first learn the term UX?
- Paul Graham
- Right now, when I realized it must be an abbreviation for "user experience."
- Nate Westheimer
- I probably first learned it from blogs, like the 37signals blog that I read heavily when I was first getting started in the industry. I started to think more about it after meeting you, and reading your blog and folks like you in my circle, hooting and hollering about user experience.
- Gabi Moore
- Probably when I first came to NY, about two years ago. Back in Brazil I'd never heard of it. When I arrived here I first turned to books to learn more about what was going on here [in the U.S.]. It was probably in Jeffrey Zeldman's Designing with Web Standards or Andy Clarke's Transcending CSS.
- Andrew Kortina
- I had heard of user interaction, but only really started thinking about it after seeing Kathy Sierra as the keynote speaker at SXSW two years ago—she talked about making your users feel joy. Making something so easy to use that they just feel good having figured it out.
- Mike Singleton
- I heard of it three years ago, when I started separating design and UX as two different things. It's like being a therapist—asking the right questions and forcing people who think they know everything about their product to answer tough questions and commit to deciding what really matters.
3. How does UX play a role in your company?
- Paul Graham
- It's very important in the first phase [of Y Combinator], perhaps more important than anything else. We encourage startups to build the smallest thing they can as fast as they can and then get it in front of users immediately to test whether they like it.
- Nate Westheimer
- We use it sort of like an alarm bell that anyone's allowed to ring at any time. It's used as a mediation tool—we're deep into it and someone realizes we need to get more data, and it's been helpful to make decisions. There's no better argument than coming to me and saying, "I have this set of user data that says X." I can't argue with that. You need to respond to what people do.
- Gabi Moore
- UX helped us find out who our users were and why they would use the site. It helps us make more informed decisions even if we don't have all the information, and to always go back to the user and determine what they want before we make major decisions on what features to implement and how to design something. More than giving us answers, it sets a foundation for how to make design decisions. One of the challenges for a startup is we don't know who our users are because we hardly have any users. UX makes us think about what we can do with the information we have today, and how to approach finding out more in the future.
- Andrew Kortina
- We're constantly watching behavior, how people use the product and respond to it. I'm always tailing log files to see what actions happen on the website as they happen, calling people up when they have a problem, staying on top of what people are saying on email, and trying to respond to things as quickly as possible. We try things out. If everyone doesn't like it, we'll pull it.
- Mike Singleton
- All of our us use the product ourselves in our own lives, so that helps. We do informal usability testing internally, and send builds to 100 beta testers (friends, family, and a few extended fresh eyes) about once a month. Feedback comes in, and we create a to-do list to talk about what to fix. We'll agonize over small changes and be in a massive debate for weeks, but then user testing will show exactly where that button belongs.
4. What has been the biggest change you've made as a result of UX practice?
- Paul Graham
- I suppose the biggest change of all would be to realize that users just didn't care about the problem [the startup] was proposing to solve, and thus to switch to an entirely new idea.
- Nate Westheimer
- The biggest change we're going to make is splitting up tasks geared toward different personas. For the vast number of users who aren't going to input much data, we're going to do it for them even though we may not be 100% right. Then for the users who really want to the option, it will be on the side. We're splitting up who does the heavy lifting. Through all the testing and data and anecdotes, we realized it was a part of our site that was very frustrating to people. We're accepting we can never get it perfect for everyone, and instead are targeting our users with different toolsets.
- Gabi Moore
- In product discussions we're much more objective about what to do. Before, we were relying on gut and personal experience. Now we have more objective reasons for deciding whether an idea or feature is good or not.
- Andrew Kortina
- Almost every change we make is a result of feedback in some way, either by watching how people use it or by getting emails about it. When we started a weekly SMS to all our users, we made it super easy to turn it off. We noticed that people who turned it off didn't have any money in their account. But people who do have money in their account, really like getting it. So we tweaked the logic to only send it to people with a balance, and now no one complains about it.
- Mike Singleton
- For lots of startups, user experience is a luxury. In the early days, Dennis [Crowley, Foursquare's co-founder] did it all. At some point everyone had to pinch hit for that role. We made a lot of crucial tweaks in the ramp up for SXSW, such as button placement, labels, etc., because we knew we'd gain a lot of users there, and it was important to get it right. But we just hired a head of product and UX, Alex Rainert. Now everything is on the table for change.
5. What advice would you give other companies on integrating UX practices?
- Paul Graham
- Always engage with users.
- Nate Westheimer
- Find your champion. We are a better company for our user experience-based approach, for giving it a high priority, only because Gabi is a champion. She is almost a policewoman on that front. That's been very good for us. We've relied on the generous sharing and knowledge from experts who share on their blogs, publishing best practices. User experience can be adopted in many different ways, but in large part it's going to get adopted in this early stage by the people who are passionate about it.
- Gabi Moore
- For startups, you really can't be perfect, you can't afford all of the specialists that are needed to make a really awesome product. But something is always better than nothing. It's just a matter of what that something can be. If you can't have a user experience person on staff, I really like the idea of having a consultant on a regular basis, once a month for a couple hours, to come in, look at your wireframes, look at the decisions you're making—to get someone else's perspective on what you're doing. That's what we got with Lis Hubert. She helped us bring users into the design process. It's so obvious, but it really wasn't there before Lis came in.
- The one thing we regret is that we didn't share the process with the developers enough. I think they realize that there's a lot more wireframing and a lot more thought is put into what's going to go where on the page and what features we're going to implement, but I don't know if they know what these decisions are based on.
- Andrew Kortina
- Listening is the best way to learn. Most of the time listening to what people say isn't going to bring you to the right answer. You also have to watch the behavior and contextualize the patterns you see. Everything that people are saying and everything they're not saying and all the groups of users you have, that helps.
- Mike Singleton
- There's a certain humbleness everyone needs to have. UX helps you recognize that your instinct is incorrect, and you need to change, and remind yourself, "I don't know everything about everything."
- It's hard. If you're really small, you don't have the resources. Once they become available, start doing UX as early as you can. But when you only have three users, but service doesn't work, you should fix the service first. A coffee shop needs to serve good coffee before optimizing table layout.
Thanks so much to Paul, Nate, Gabi, Kortina, and Mike for sharing their thoughts with us. Hopefully this will help you help small companies better understand the value and role of UX, and encourage them to start doing it today.
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A necessary ingredient for building a great product is empathy - understanding users and connecting with them so that you can provide something of value to them. In one of my earlier web businesses, we were providing personalized menu-planning tools to address the "what should we cook for dinner" problem. After we build the first version of the site (which were quite proud of), we showed it to many moms and realized how far off-base we were in just about everything : from visual designs (which we didn't think were important), to terminology, to the process we were advocating for addressing the problem.
An essential issue is that startups are often created by geeks or technophiles, and if they are providing services to the population at large (of which they themselves are not representative), they can't help but design the site with their point of view, which invariably does not map to the general customer's point of view. (In the engineering geekie world we would call this an impedance mismatch).
That's actually why we created trymyui.com, to make some usability testing available with minimal hassle and cost to other startups.
Many companies and startups that should be doing this really aren't. I recently wrote a post on Why you should be doing product discovery based on UX design.
I think less startups would fail if they took this approach.
I was interested to read one of the interviewees mention that UX research led them to realise that no one needed the solution their product was offering, so they took another direction altogether.
Doesn't this simply highlight how far we've fallen away from the importance of market and user research at regular intervals during the conception stage?
It's interesting how nebulous the term UX still is. In some cases, people think of it as an additional team member "UX helped us find out who our users were", or as an activity "start doing UX as early as you can".
UX is the outcome of a series of decisions and activities, but isn't an activity in itself. Every website, environment, product has UX. Color choice, button placement, messaging, all influence UX, but the decisions aren't "UX", they're just decisions.
One of the challenges for startups is finding who your users are and how they are using your site.
As a startup you may have some preconceived idea about who your quintessential user is and how they would ideally use your site, but sometimes it could end up being the opposite of what you think. That's why surveying your users is so important - to measure your hypothesis against real world results.
My blogazine: UX Movement
It's great to see proponents of UX within Startup community. While working with Startups, realized many challenges. One of them was integrating UCD with Agile. Have been working with a methodology (User Centered Software Engineering - UCSE) which allows us to build UX into the development process resulting in reduction of time to market and release.


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(1) In General. Unless this rule provides otherwise, the defendant must be present at:(A) the initial appearance, the arraignment, and the plea;(B) every trial stage, including jury impanelment and the return of the verdict; and(C) sentencing.(2) Reliable Electronic Means. Presence permitted by contemporaneous audio or audiovisual transmission by reliable electronic means is presence for the purposes of this rule.
(3) Jury Question.
(A) In General. If, after beginning deliberations, the members of the jury request information on a point of law or request to have testimony read or played back to them, they must be brought into the courtroom. The court's response must be provided in the presence of counsel and the defendant.(B) Agreed Manner of Response. In the alternative, after consultation with counsel in the presence of the defendant, the court may respond to a jury's question or request for testimony in a manner other than in open court if agreed to by counsel and the defendant.
(b) When Not Required. If the court permits, a defendant need not be present under any of the following circumstances:
(1) Felony Offense. The offense is punishable by imprisonment for more than one year, and with a represented defendant's written consent, entry of a not guilty plea and the preliminary hearing may occur in the defendant's absence.
(2) Misdemeanor Offense or Infraction. The offense is punishable by fine or by imprisonment for not more than one year, or both, and with the defendant's written consent, the arraignment, plea, trial, or sentencing may occur in the defendant's absence.
(3) Conference or Hearing on Legal Question. The proceeding involves only a conference or hearing on a question of law.
(4) Sentence Correction. The proceeding involves the correction or reduction of sentence under Rule 35.
(c) Waiving Continued Presence. The further progress of the trial, including the return of the verdict and the imposition of sentence, may not be prevented and the defendant waives the right to be present if the defendant, initially present at trial or having pleaded guilty:
(1) is voluntarily absent after the trial has begun (whether or not the defendant has been informed by the court of the obligation to remain during the trial);
(2) is voluntarily absent at the imposition of sentence; or
(3) after being warned by the court that disruptive conduct will cause the removal of the defendant from the courtroom, persists in conduct that justifies the defendant's exclusion from the courtroom.
Rule 43 was amended, effective January 1, 1980; March 1, 1990; March 1, 1998; March 1, 2004; March 1, 2006; March 1, 2008; March 1, 2010; March 1, 2015.
Although Rule 43 does not require the defendant's presence in all instances, the rule does not give a defendant the right to be absent. The court has discretion whether to require the presence of the defendant.
In a non-felony case, if the defendant pleads guilty without appearing in court, a written form must be used advising the defendant of his or her constitutional rights and creating a record showing that the plea was made voluntarily, knowingly, and understandingly.
Rule 37 provides for summary affirmance if the defendant does not appear at a trial anew.
Rule 43 was amended, effective March 1, 2006, in response to the December 1, 2002, revision of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure. The language and organization of the rule were changed to make the rule more easily understood and to make style and terminology consistent throughout the rules.
Subdivision (a) was amended, effective March 1, 2004, in response to amendments to Rule 5 and Rule 10 allowing interactive television to be used for the initial appearance and arraignment. N.D. Sup. Ct. Admin. R. 52, which took effect June 1, 2005, governs proceedings conducted by interactive television.
Subdivision (a) was amended, effective March 1, 2010, to explain requirements for the consideration of questions submitted by the jury after deliberations begin.
Subdivision (a) was amended, effective March 1, 2015, to allow a defendant to be present by contemporaneous audio or audiovisual transmission using reliable electronic means. Any appearance by a defendant by electronic means must be consistent with the standards set by N.D. Sup. Ct. Admin. R. 52, which governs the use of contemporaneous transmission by reliable electronic means in court proceedings.
Subdivision (b) was amended, effective March 1, 2015, to allow a represented defendant in a felony case to waive presence at the preliminary hearing by submitting a not guilty plea in writing.
SOURCES: Joint Procedure Committee Minutes of April 24-25, 2014, pages 12-15; May 21-22, 2009, pages 10-11; January 29-30, 2009, pages 13-17; September 28-29, 2006, pages 8-10; January 27-28, 2005, pages 34-36; September 26-27, 2002, pages 13-14; January 30, 1997, pages 7-8; September 26-27, 1996, pages 8-10; January 26-27, 1995, pages 5-6; September 29-30, 1994, pages 2-4; April 28-29, 1994, pages 10-12; April 20, 1989, page 4; December 3, 1987, page 15; December 7-8, 1978, pages 27-28; October 12-13, 1978, pages 43-44; December 11-15, 1972, pages 41-43; May 15-16, 1969, pages 11-13.
CROSS REFERENCE: N.D.R.Crim.P. 5 (Initial Appearance Before the Magistrate); N.D.R.Crim.P. 10 (Arraignment); N.D.R.Crim.P. 11 (Pleas); N.D.R.Crim.P. 35 (Correcting or Reducing a Sentence); N.D.R.Crim.P. 37 (Appeal as of Right to District Court; How Taken); N.D.R.Crim.P. Appendix Form 17 (Misdemeanor Petition to Enter Plea of Guilty); N.D. Sup. Ct. Admin. R. 52 (Contemporaneous Transmission by Reliable Electronic Means


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A drug developed by Baker IDI scientists could help treat Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD), a severe and progressive muscle wasting disease that affects young boys, according to a study published today in Nature.
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Babies who are born small have a tendency to put on weight during childhood and adolescence if allowed free access to calories. However, an animal model study at UCLA found when small babies were placed on a diet of moderately regulated calories during infancy, the propensity of becoming obese decreased.
Thursday, April 5, 2012 - 16:24
Research conducted by the University of Minnesota's College of Veterinary Medicine could help owners of severely epileptic dogs predict, control and more effectively treat their pets' seizures.
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New figures from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) show autism is on the rise, affecting one in 88 children born. It's a growing health problem. Scientists in San Antonio are using an animal model to help find answers to this mysterious condition.
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Those with type II diabetes are at two to three times the risk of developing primary liver cancer. But new research from the University of Maryland shows that a common drug many patients already take may prevent the cancer. Studies on animals show that the diabetes drug metformin may help prevent liver tumors from growing.
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A new animal model of nerve injury has brought to light a critical role of an enzyme called Nmnat in nerve fiber maintenance and neuroprotection. Understanding biological pathways involved in maintaining healthy nerves and clearing away damaged ones may offer scientists targets for drugs to mitigate neurodegenerative diseases such as Huntington's and Parkinson's, as well as aid in situations of acute nerve damage, such as spinal cord injury.
Friday, March 30, 2012 - 13:54
Researchers may have found a new way to treat pancreatic tumors, one of the deadliest and most drug-resistant forms of cancer. Injecting mice with a molecule that melts the tough structure around the tumor allowed a standard chemotherapy drug to better penetrate and destroy cancer cells. The strategy is already being tested in people.
Monday, March 26, 2012 - 11:37
Last week at the annual meeting of the Human Genome Organization (HUGO) in Australia, researchers from the University of Queensland in Brisbane presented new research about personalized mice "avatars"—mice grafted with a patient's tumor tissue and then tested with various drugs to identify the most effective treatment against that tumor.
Friday, March 23, 2012 - 12:20
The College of Veterinary Medicine is searching for the cure to cancer through research and treatment on animals. The Auburn University Research Initiative in Cancer (AURIC) epitomizes the concept that human and animal health are the same when making discoveries in advancement for treating cancer.
Thursday, March 22, 2012 - 16:02
The mouse hospital at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, Massachusetts, boasts resources rivalling those offered to human patients, including state-of-the-art medical-imaging facilities, round-the- clock nursing staff and access to cutting-edge cancer drugs. The goal is not to cure mice, of course, but to gain insight into clinical trials of those drugs in humans.
Wednesday, March 21, 2012 - 12:24
Researchers believe they have identified why a mutation in a particular gene can lead to obesity.
Monday, March 19, 2012 - 15:51
Researchers at the University of Colorado have found a cure for Type 1 Diabetes– in mice. The research team will determine if it could prevent the disease in humans as well.
Tuesday, March 13, 2012 - 15:52
A newly developed, genetically modified pig may hold the keys to the development of improved treatments and possibly even a cure for retinitis pigmentosa (RP), the most common inherited retinal disease in the United States. The pig model was developed by researchers in the University of Louisville Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences and at the National Swine Resource and Research Center at the University of Missouri.
Friday, March 9, 2012 - 11:07
Many medical studies involve laboratory animals, but when it comes to research on asthma, no creature provides a better model than the horse. Veterinarians at Virginia Tech believe our equine friends might help humans who struggle to breathe.
Thursday, March 8, 2012 - 17:14
New research offers potential insight into the connection between cancer, obesity and longevity in humans by showing that genetically modified mice live longer, skinnier and almost cancer-free lives.
Thursday, March 8, 2012 - 17:13
Dr. Zheng Xiaoxiang of the Brain-Computer Interface Research Team says that she has trained a monkey to control a robotic hand with its brain. What's especially interesting about this story is that scientists claim to have achieved a new level of fine motor control, allowing the monkey to articulate individual fingers, instead of using a "whole hand" approach, as we've seen previously. This is a vast improvement on previous models since the neuronal connections required for fine motor control are significantly more complicated.Just think about the improvements to quality of life that this kind of research can offer. Soon, it will no longer be the stuff of science fiction that people will wear robotic prosthetics
Wednesday, March 7, 2012 - 17:03
Scientists at the Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute have developed a new mouse model for studying a childhood brain cancer called medulloblastoma. The animal model mimics the deadliest of four subtypes of human medulloblastoma, a tumor that is triggered by elevated levels of a gene known as Myc.
Tuesday, March 6, 2012 - 16:02
After 10 years in development, a novel mouse population proves its mettle in complex trait research.
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Take advantage of our dedicated porters, who can help you with your bags when checking in at Departures, or with picking up your luggage from the baggage belt and taking it to your car, bus or taxi on arrival. Look out for porters at the entrance to Emirates Terminal 3 Departures, and after Passport Control at Arrivals. The Concierge Service costs AED 25 per regular trolley and AED 75 per flat-bed trolley.
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monsterjazzlicks wrote:But obviously you need Artist 6 in the first place to upgrade (otherwise you would have to buy Artist 7 from scratch).
monsterjazzlicks wrote:Thanks Jaslan,
i got it now. So its the eLicensor which gets updated. And therefore the Artist 7 software does not replace or borrow from the Artist 6 software.
thinkingcap wrote:It might depend on what upgrade you get - Some download upgrades require the content (HalionSonic SE, Rverence...) of a previousliy installed version 6.
monsterjazzlicks wrote:thinkingcap wrote:It might depend on what upgrade you get - Some download upgrades require the content (HalionSonic SE, Rverence...) of a previousliy installed version 6.
Thanks TC,
i am going for the BOXED version in any case. Much prefer having a hard copy for many reasons.
Strophoid wrote:Good luck with your batch of new acquisitions, been on a spending spree I believe
Luis Dongo wrote:you are allowed to install it in up to 3 computers, but you can only use it on one at a time, since the Dongle has to be connected the whole time.
Strophoid wrote:If you meant Steinberg instead of Sibelius, then yes
If the artist 7 license shows on your USB elicenser then it's fine. The soft licenser is only used for LE/AI/Elements versions of Cubase so if it's empty that's fine.
I'm not at my DAW now, but I guess there should be a shortcut to Cubase on your desktop/in your start menu now. It might be called Cubase 7 instead of Cubase Artist 7.
Else look for it in the folder where you installed Cubase to, it should be there.
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An approachable fruit-forward wine that has rich, expressive flavors of pear, peach, honey, and apple. Soft tannins and notes of buttery pineapple linger on the palette before finishing with a fresh hint of lemongrass. Drink now or cellar for up to two years.
Calen Cellars Vintner's Blend California Red
Dark chocolate and spicy oak notes add depth and definition to the fruit of this California red, while enticing aromas of cinnamon, clove, and brown sugar contribute lively top notes to the wine's charming personality. Concentrated layers of plums and currant precede a smooth finish with precise tannins.
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Got a closer look this weekend at a possible running site that has been on the radar since last year: Landa Park, New Braunfels, Texas. It is a 1.5 million gallon pool fed by the Comal Springs. The spring water keeps the pool a constant 72 degrees year round.
As you can see from these panoramic shots, the pool is quite large and the setting is lush. There is a 20 foot (est.) grassy slope which leads down to the pool which is laid out like a giant "L". The dogleg shown has a kiddie play area and a shallow beach. This shot was taken from the left hand side of the large slide in the center of the pool (shown in next shot).
Here is the reverse angle showing the rest of the pool. There are large open areas on either side between the "Wet Willie" slide and the platforms in the middle.
This is the open area to the right of the main slide. Plenty of room to run boats. The far side has a large shaded grass lawn. The light blue on the water's edge is a concrete ledge which is about knee deep. It runs the length of the pool on that side. The water depth of the pool from the ledge to the near side is 7 feet.
Here is a shot to give an idea of the water clarity. You can clearly see the bottom 7 feet down.
For public use the fee is $4.00. Perhaps we can cut a deal after the summer public use season and have it exclusively for the day. I'm sure we'd have to pay for a lifeguard one way or the other.


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Light-years ahead of its time when it first hit the scene in 1963, the Firebird has long been the choice of adventurous guitarists eager to break the mold for style and tone. This radical "Reverse-Bodied" electric guitar was conceived amid the chrome and tailfins of the Motor City by noted Duesenberg car designer Ray Dietrich, forged on the workbenches of Kalamazoo, and proven on rock and blues stages all over the world, earning its undeniable "classic" status… even after it had been deleted from the Gibson line-up in 1965 for proving just too hot for a conservative guitar scene to handle.
Now Gibson USA introduces the 50th Anniversary Firebird, a glorious gold-on-gold tribute to the revolutionary original 'Bird. The 50th Anniversary Firebird is crafted with all the hallmarks that made the original Firebird unique, including the through-neck construction, versatile contemporary Firebird mini-humbucking pickups, and reversed six-a-side headstock with "banjo" tuners (upgraded to Steinberger™ gearless tuners on this guitar). It's all dressed in a spectacular Bullion Gold nitrocellulose finish with gold hardware and a black pickguard hot-stamped in gold with "50th Anniversary 1963-2013" and the traditional Firebird phoenix, for a look befitting its "Golden Anniversary" status.
To kick it all up a notch in the tonal stakes, Gibson USA equips the 50th Anniversary Firebird with its new breed of re-engineered Firebird Mini Humbucking pickups. Loaded with ceramic magnets and wound with 44 AWG wire in the neck position and 45 AWG wire in the hotter bridge position, these dual-blade humbuckers achieve classic Firebird tone with added punch and clarity. A set of high-tech Steinberger™ gearless in-line tuners offer unparalleled efficiency while retaining the traditional "no keys" look that preserves the elegant "bird's beak" lines of the headstock. The pairing of a Tune-o-matic bridge and stopbar tailpiece offers rock-solid sustain and precise intonation—and with all hardware plated in genuine gold, it's the perfect look for a 50th Anniversary celebration.
Brand: | Gibson |
Model: | 50th Anniversary Firebird |
Finish Color: | Bullion Gold |
Weight: | 7.42 lbs |
Body Wood: | Mahogany |
Neck Wood: | Mahogany/Walnut Neck Through Body |
Neck Shape: | 1960 Slim Neck |
Neck Dimensions: | (.820 1st - .880 12th) |
Fingerboard: | Bound Rosewood |
Inlays: | Trapezoid |
Scale Length: | 24 3/4" |
Width at Nut: | 1 11/16" |
Pickups: | Mini-Humbucking |
Controls: | 2 Volume, 2 Tone, 3-Way Switch |
Hardware : | Gold |
Tuners: | Steinberger Gearless Tuners |
Bridge: | Tune-o-Matic |
Tailpiece: | Stopbar |
Pickguard: | Black pickguard hot-stamped in gold with "50th Anniversary 1963-2013" and the traditional Firebird Phoenix |
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Right At Home - Uniform Franchise Offering Circular/Franchise Disclosure Document
- Language: English
- Published: April 2013
This report is the Uniform Franchise Offering Circular (Ufoc) for Tegg Corp.
What's a Ufoc?
If you appear to be a good candidate for a franchise, the franchisor will send you a Ufoc, or "Uniform Franchise Offering Circular."
This document is required of franchisors by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) so that certain information can be disclosed to a potential franchisee before a contract can be signed or any payment is made.
What Does It Contain?
The Ufoc is a valuable document for prospective franchisees and should be read carefully. It contains 23 items of information.
The item listings of a standard Ufoc:
1 The Franchisor, It's Predecessors And Affiliates
2 Business Experience
3 Litigation
4 Bankruptcy
5 Initial Franchise Fee
6 Other Fees
7 Initial Investment
8 Restrictions On Sources Of Products And Services
9 Franchisee's Obligations
10 Financing
11 Franchisor's Obligations
12 Territory
13 Trademarks
14 Patents, Copyrights and Proprietary Information
15 Obligation To Participate In The Actual Operation Of The Franchise Business
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VEHICLE FBI Rancher | |
(Rear quarter view) | |
Also known as | FIB Rancher (GTA CW) |
Vehicle type | Law enforcement vehicle |
Body style | 4-door Police SUV |
Capacity | 4 (driver and three passengers) |
Appearance(s) | GTA Vice City GTA San Andreas GTA Vice City Stories [!] GTA Chinatown Wars |
Manufacturer | Albany (HD Universe) |
Related vehicle(s) | Rancher Rancher XL Ranger Police Rancher Cavalcade |
For other uses of the term FIB, see FIB (disambiguation). For the police variant of the Rancher in Grand Theft Auto V, see Police Rancher. |
The FBI Rancher is an FBI vehicle featured in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. It also appears in Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars as the FIB Rancher, manufactured by Albany and used by the FIB.
The FBI Rancher exists in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories, but is not found under normal circumstances. It can be spawned in the Playstation Portable version using CheatDevice.
[show]Design Edit
The FBI Rancher is a longer four-door SUV based on the two-door Rancher SUV, additionally sporting only a black body color and a non-visible strobe light on the dashboard, but in GTA Vice City, the FBI Rancher featured a blue strobe light on the right hand side. The FBI Rancher is rear-wheel drive, giving it some good traction and strength, however, being longer in length than the Rancher seems to give it a, somewhat, "slower effect" and it has the tendency to flip on uneven terrain, so it is not suitable for off-road driving, but despite this, the GTA San Andreas version has off-road tires. It resembles a 1981-1991 Chevrolet Suburban, the four door relative of the Chevrolet K5 Blazer. In GTA Vice City, however, the FBI rancher appears to be a pickup truck instead of an SUV, with a rear canopy (this is evidenced by noting a separation when looking at the top and sides of the truck). Therefore, this version would resemble a 1973-1987 Chevrolet K30.
In every GTA game so far, the FBI Rancher can't be repaired at a spray shop, as it is deemed "too hot" to be repainted. In addition, the GTA Chinatown Wars rendition, like most police cars, grants the player five Shotgun rounds.
The FBI Rancher is never used in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories and can only be spawned using cheat devices, as the FBI instead use the FBI Washington at the five star wanted level. In GTA Vice City and GTA San Andreas, the FBI use the FBI Rancher and never the FBI Washington (though in GTA Vice City, the FBI Washington can be found parked behind a music store in Downtown Vice City).
The GTA Chinatown Wars rendition is actually based on the Cavalcade, rather than an actual Rancher, but features "flat" front-mounted bullbars, as well as the standard black body color, a siren and trunk lid-mounted strobe lights (blue and red), and an on-board police computer.
Performance Edit
Despite its size and weight, the FBI Rancher, with its throaty V8 engine, is one of the fastest SUV-based law enforcement vehicles, being capable of high speeds that rival police cars in their respectable game. The FBI Rancher is able to survive being shot, hit, smashed, blown, and burnt without producing the black smoke. Its steering and braking is also competent, with lesser tendency to spin out due to a properly adjusted rear wheel drive. The other benefit of its rear-wheel drive is that it can survive multiple blows and hits from the police. The vehicle's weight is also helpful in vigilante missions, as the job of stopping most smaller cars is made easier. Being equipped with a siren, the FBI Rancher can also be used, with the exception of GTA Chinatown Wars, to clear the road ahead from traffic.
Trivia Edit
- In GTA Vice City, the FBI Rancher shares the same engine sound as the Sentinel XS.
- In GTA San Andreas, the player can change the black paint of the FBI Rancher by using a mod garage hack or a trainer capable of changing car colors.
- In GTA Vice City though, the black paint is a permanent texture of the vehicle (much like the Sabre Turbo's red and white stripe scheme), and is actually "taxi yellow" in-game (this can be seen when the player crashes the car where yellow paint will rub off).
- In GTA Vice City Stories, the FBI Rancher has a fully functioning radio, much like the VCPD Cheetah.
- In GTA Vice City, the secondary siren sound is unique, being louder and higher pitched.
Locations Edit
- GTA Vice City
- The FBI Rancher is not parked anywhere in GTA Vice City. Instead the player has to achieve a five-star wanted level and either jack a pursuing FBI Rancher or one at a roadblock. This is difficult as each FBI Rancher in pursuit carries four agents with MP5 submachine guns. It would be easier to acquire one in the mission Juju Scramble by collecting all the packages in order to get a 5-star wanted level (while driving a civilian car such as Auntie Poulet's Voodoo), then simply drive it into a pay-and spray, steal an FBI Rancher after your wanted level disappears (keep in mind that doing this will give you a one-star wanted level), and drive it to Auntie Poulet's and complete the mission. The FBI Rancher is now yours.
- GTA San Andreas
- In GTA San Andreas, the player is also unable to respray the vehicle in order to eliminate their wanted level, neither is the FBI Rancher parked anywhere. One strategy to obtain it is to hold themselves up at Wang Cars in San Fierro, where multiple civilian cars are available. Once the player gains an FBI Rancher, the player must then switch to a civilian car and respray it (there's a nearby Pay 'n' Spray), thus eliminating police attention and being able to acquire an FBI Rancher.
- Another method is to steal a Rhino from Area 69 and drive it into the hanger at Verdant Meadows. FBI Ranchers will frequently follow the player into the hanger. The player can then make a quick dash to the save point and eliminate the wanted level.
- By using cheats, go to Area 69 and then get an automatic wanted level. Then input the cheat that turns off the wanted level. Then just proceed to steal it (the agents will do nothing and just get out) and the FBI Rancher is yours.
- A simple way to get it is to obtain a heavy vehicle like a Trashmaster or a ladder truck and drive into the naval base and as soon as you get a wanted level drive to the Doherty garage and park right next to the save point. Once you save the FBI agents should get out and walk away and the FBI Rancher is yours. (It is a good idea to have a fairly high driving skill to avoid spinning out).
- GTA Chinatown Wars
- Spawns in a parking lot at an LCPD station in northern Varsity Heights, Algonquin.
- Spawns when the player has a four-star wanted level.
See alsoEdit
- Ranger, another law enforcement SUV based on the Rancher.
- Police Rancher, another law enforcement SUV based on the Rancher.
- FIB Granger, GTA V equivalent.
- Rancher, two-door civilian variant.