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- Hearings center on men accused in Torrez home invasion
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- Investigators search for Joe Torrez's brother, who was apparently at the scene of home invasion
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- Family to honor slain suspect in Doña Ana home invasion
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- Officials arrest alleged intruder, two women in connection to deadly New Year's home invasion
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- Las Cruces fighter Joe Torrez preparing for legal defense in deadly home invasion
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- One man dead after New Year's home invasion in Doña Ana
LAS CRUCES >> The three men arrested for their alleged role in the deadly New Year's Day home invasion were indicted this week by a Doña Ana County grand jury. And as investigators continue to examine the incident, they obtained a search warrant for a brother of the mixed martial arts fighter who fended off the attackers.
Nathan Avalos, 20, Leonard Calvillo, 22, and Raymond Garces, 19, each face the same four charges -- aggravated burglary, conspiracy, attempted aggravated battery and criminal damage to property, court filings show. The burglary and conspiracy charges are felonies.
All three are jailed at the Doña Ana County Detention Center, where they've been since their arrests earlier this month. They were indicted Thursday and are scheduled to appear before 3rd Judicial District Chief Judge Fernando Macias on Jan. 27.
Calvillo, Avalos and Raymond Garces were among a group of gang members who allegedly barged into a home in the 600 block of King James Avenue, near Doña Ana, just after 2 a.m. They reportedly threatened to kill the mixed martial arts fighter living at the home and his young son. An ensuing altercation left 25-year-old Sal Garces, another alleged assailant and fellow gang member, dead.
Torrez still in limbo
Key details -- what led to the home invasion, how the fatal fight unfolded, who was involved and how they knew each other -- remain unclear.
Those are some reasons why, officials say, Joseph Torrez stays in legal limbo.
Torrez, who was living at the home, stopped cooperating with Doña Ana County Sheriff's investigators Jan. 2 because his attorney felt they were too focused on Torrez's actions and not the home invasion itself.
The 27-year-old construction worker and MMA fighter has said through his attorney he was defending himself, his home and his family that night. Torrez's 2-year-old son, fiancee and three other women were also in the home at the time.
Torrez has not been charged, but he has not been formally cleared either.
His attorney, C.J. McElhinney, has said adamantly that Torrez used "justifiable" force. But McElhinney has not provided a thorough account of the fight, saying that it happened quickly and Torrez does not recall how Sal Garces received his fatal injuries.
Dispatchers' notes released this week revealed Sal Garces suffered stab wounds to the face and neck. Sal Garces allegedly had entered Torrez's home armed with a "shank" -- a small souvenir baseball bat with a sharp edge -- authorities said. He was found in the road, more than 100 feet from Torrez's home, then died shortly after emergency responders arrived.
DNA search warrant
Investigators this week planned interviews with Torrez's brother, Victor Orquiz.
DASO investigators obtained a search warrant to collect a DNA sample from Orquiz. Torrez reportedly called Orquiz, asking him to come to the King James Avenue home around the time of the home invasion, according to the search warrant.
Investigators found a blood smear on Orquiz's white car. Orquiz told investigators he did not know who bled on the car.
It took DASO some time to find Orquiz, a process that stirred some criticism from McElhinney.
Deputies had detained and questioned Orquiz, 19, during their initial investigation at the scene. He was reportedly in a white car seen in front of Torrez's home near the end of the attack.
Investigators tried to contact Orquiz multiple times days later by phone and at an address he provided but were unsuccessful, said DASO spokeswoman Kelly Jameson.
DASO officials believed Orquiz was evading them, according to a news release issued Tuesday afternoon.
That night Orquiz left a message on an investigator's phone but officials again weren't able to contact Orquiz with the number he provided.
Early Wednesday morning, DASO received a fax directing them to Orquiz's attorney, Margaret Strickland.
"Victor Orquiz was willingly interviewed the night his brother was attacked," Strickland said in an email to the Sun-News. "He continues to cooperate with law enforcement and has been in contact with the case investigator over the last few days."
She said Orquiz was not evading DASO, something McElhinney echoed this week on a Facebook account he created to garner support for Torrez. McElhinney also criticized DASO, saying that investigators knew Orquiz was represented by an attorney.
Wrote McElhinney: "Making statements to the media that Victor was 'eluding' authorities is inaccurate and intended to prejudice public opinion against both Victor and ... Torrez."
McElhinney is also fighting DASO in civil court. Thanks to donations his firm has received, McElhinney hired a private investigator to work on Torrez's case. Through open records laws, they have requested incident reports and other information about evidence DASO has obtained. But DASO declined, citing a law enforcement exception to the Inspection of Public Records Act.
Civil lawsuit
In his lawsuit, McElhinney said DASO is misapplying the law enforcement exemption. He hopes a judge will review the case file privately, then determine what can be released to McElhinney and to the public.
Posts related to the lawsuit, and nearly everything else McElhinney writes on the "Support Joe Torrez" Facebook account, draw dozens of encouraging comments from people from all over the globe, especially those in the community.
As of Friday, the page had more than 23,000 "likes," a measure of how many people are tracking the account.
Elsewhere online there is a petition asking 3rd Judicial District Attorney Mark D'Antonio to exonerate Torrez. That had more than 43,000 signatures as of Friday.
A company called Fit or Die Clothing is printing T-shirts that read "I support Joe Torrez."
McElhinney wrote about that support this week.
"Joe and his family cannot move forward because the State of New Mexico refuses to exonerate him, despite overwhelming public opinion being against them," wrote McElhinney on Facebook Friday.
During his tenure, D'Antonio has repeatedly said that public sentiment doesn't sway his legal opinion, and that he's not hesitant to make an unpopular decision in cases "if it is in the best interest of justice."
Ultimately, it will be up to the DA's office to charge or clear Torrez.
D'Antonio has offered few public comments on the matter. During a news conference last week, he said his office is unable to clear Torrez because DASO is still uncovering details in what is a complex case.
Jameson said this week that investigators are still trying to determine who was responsible for Sal Garces' death and whether that person's actions were justifiable.
State law does not require a confronted person to retreat before engaging attackers. But that force must be no more than "reasonably necessary," the law states.
Avalos, one of the alleged attackers, was hospitalized for a broken jaw reportedly sustained while trying to flee from Torrez. Avalos reportedly armed himself with a knife once he entered Torrez's home, and made death threats.
D'Antonio last week promised a thorough investigation.
"At the end of the day, I'm confident we'll have the right answer," D'Antonio said.
Cylver Pearl Betancourt, 18, and Rachel Carrillo, 19, have also been charged in connection to the home invasion. Investigators say they were in the car with the four alleged attackers. The women bonded out of jail shortly after their arrest and have yet to face grand jury.
Meanwhile, authorities are still looking for a man and woman seen that around the time of the attack in a red, four-door sedan.
Home invasions rare
Sheriff's spokeswoman Jameson said home invasions are uncommon, and cases where attackers select random victims are especially rare. Statistics were not available.
Typically, the assailants in home invasions know their victims, she said, and the crime is drug-related.
In the 911 audio released this week, Torrez's girlfriend told dispatchers she knew Calvillo. She is also Facebook friends with Raymond Garces and Avalos.
Calvillo, of the 1600 block of La Fonda, has a previous drug-related conviction, court records show. He also has a pending drug trafficking case.


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The Regulatory Court
The D.C. Circuit takes center stage, one more time
Aug 26, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 47 • By ADAM J. WHITE
But in the years that followed, the D.C. Circuit's most controversial decisions were found not in its constitutional cases, or its regulatory docket, but in its continued role as the local court of appeals. Amidst the crime wave of the 1960s, Chief Judge David Bazelon and Judge J. Skelly Wright issued a series of decisions staunchly supporting and expanding the rights of criminal defendants, including the right to counsel, the inadmissibility of defendants' incriminating statements, and increased use of the insanity defense. Judge Warren Burger was their most prominent critic, charging in one dissent that his colleagues' eagerness to suppress confessions "now becomes an end in itself, dominating the administration of the criminal law and making law enforcement more and more difficult." District Judge Pine, who had blocked Truman's seizure of the steel industry, declared that the court's liberals were on "a quest for 'error' in order to find grounds for reversal" of criminal convictions, creating "a climate hospitable to the belief that punishment of the guilty is far from certain and may be avoided by technicalities in the law." Such decisions exemplified the law-and-order controversies that Richard Nixon campaigned on in 1968; after just months in office, President Nixon signed the Court Reform Act, which stripped the D.C. Circuit of its 150-year-old jurisdiction over criminal law in the District. By then, Nixon had already appointed Judge Burger to be chief justice of the United States.
Having lost its jurisdiction over local matters, the D.C. Circuit now became, above all else, a regulatory court. And that, too, promptly became a matter of persistent political controversy. Here, Judges Bazelon and Wright were again prime movers, as the court pressed strongly against regulatory agencies that the judges saw as being too lenient in their regulatory efforts. This era is perhaps best remembered for a pair of cases later known as Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corporation v. Natural Resources Defense Council (1978). Chief Judge Bazelon's opinions for the court substantially increased the procedural burdens on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's licensing of the Vermont nuclear power plant. But the Supreme Court delivered a swift and unanimous rebuke, especially to Bazelon's conclusion that the NRC needed to further prolong the years-long review process:
The D.C. Circuit had thus accomplished the rare feat of aligning the conservative Justice William Rehnquist (who wrote for the Court) with two liberals, Justices Thurgood Marshall and William Brennan.
And in the same way that the D.C. Circuit became a major focus of the newly elected President Nixon in 1969, so it became a major focus of the newly elected President Reagan in 1981. Weeks before the inauguration, the New York Times's Stuart Taylor reported that "the D.C. Circuit's reputation for liberal activism has grown out of countless decisions over the years that have been applauded by advocates of vigorous enforcement of government regulation," so much so that liberal activists had come to see the D.C. Circuit as their "home court advantage"; "given the court's record, it seems only a matter of time before it clashes with the Reagan Administration."
It certainly did clash—not just with the administration, but with the Supreme Court, which took up cases from the D.C. Circuit three times faster than from other circuits, and reversed the D.C. Circuit four times faster than the other courts, according to a 1984 study in the New York Law Review.
"We were, if you will, a trustee for the ghosts of Congresses past," Judge Patricia Wald, a Carter appointee, later reflected. In 1982, after the court had ruled against the administration in several cases, a public interest lawyer would tell the Times's Taylor that the D.C. Circuit had become the federal government's "last bastion of liberalism," and he hoped that it would stay that way.
It didn't. In 1986, the same public interest lawyer would tell another Times reporter, "Mr. Reagan has taken the most liberal court in America and turned it into the most conservative. . . . If you were on their side, you'd be cheering. For us, it's tears."
By then, Reagan had appointed five judges to the D.C. Circuit, including future Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia and Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork; he would eventually appoint two more, to be joined by President George H.W. Bush's three appointees (including future justice Clarence Thomas).
The D.C. Circuit's transition away from the Bazelon Era spurred liberals to press the Clinton administration to respond aggressively with prominent progressives. In 1995, when Chief Judge Abner Mikva, a Carter appointee, left the bench to become President Clinton's White House Counsel, the New Republic's Jeffrey Rosen criticized the White House for considering a Health and Human Services official for the vacancy instead of other "promising legal scholars." (The administration considered nominating then-U.S. attorney Eric Holder for the job, according to the Washington Post, precisely because it saw him as "a candidate who is scandal-free and more acceptable to Senate Republicans" than HHS's Peter Edelman. "They say he probably would sail through the confirmation process, because his tough-on-crime approach would resonate with Republicans.")
Senate Republicans, well aware of the D.C. Circuit's role in government, scrutinized President Clinton's nominations. The Senate confirmed three of his nominees (two by voice votes, the third by a vote of 76-23 ), but the Senate took no vote on a fourth nominee, and the Senate Judiciary Committee declined altogether to proceed on a fifth nomination—that of future solicitor general and Supreme Court justice Elena Kagan.
In the subsequent Bush administration, Senate Democrats took even stronger action against D.C. Circuit nominees. They successfully filibustered the nomination of Miguel Estrada, and they delayed the nominations of Janice Rogers Brown and Brett Kavanaugh for several years before the Senate ultimately confirmed them by narrow margins. The Senate did confirm John Roberts, who later was appointed chief justice (and who had previously been nominated to the D.C. Circuit by the first President Bush but had failed to get a Senate vote), and Judge Thomas Griffith, but it declined to act on a seventh nominee. (Senator Obama voted against confirming Brown and Kavanaugh but for confirming Griffith.) Furthermore, the Bush administration's nominations occurred against the backdrop of still greater expansion of the D.C. Circuit's day-to-day role in national policy, as the court became the venue for all manner of Guantánamo detainee appeals.
Having played an influential (and occasionally controversial) role in national politics for nearly two centuries, the D.C. Circuit might have been expected to be an early focus of the Obama administration—all the more so in light of President Obama's own 2005 speech on the D.C. Circuit's "special" role in regulatory policy. But in fact, his first term included no substantial effort to reshape the court.
Indeed, the first word of a possible nomination was particularly inauspicious: In 2010, Newsweek's Jonathan Alter reported that President Obama had offered a seat on the D.C. Circuit to White House counsel Gregory Craig, simply as a means to remove him from the West Wing. (If such an offer actually occurred, Craig deserves great credit for declining.)
Later that year, the president finally made two nominations for the court—former New York solicitor general Caitlin Halligan and respected Supreme Court litigator Sri Srinivasan—but he made no substantial effort to secure their confirmations before the 2012 election. After his second inauguration, the Senate unanimously confirmed Srinivasan; the White House withdrew Halligan's nomination, at her own request.
Just two weeks after Judge Srinivasan's confirmation, the White House took a much bolder step, simultaneously announcing three more nominees—Supreme Court litigator Patricia Millett, district court judge Robert Wilkins, and law professor Nina Pillard. The president's supporters welcomed the nominations eagerly: Within hours of the president's Rose Garden announcement of the nominations, the New York Times editorial board demanded that if the Senate failed to "provide its advice and consent on them soon," then Senate majority leader Harry Reid should use the so-called nuclear option to change Senate rules, preventing filibusters of judicial nominations.
The left's fierce urgency owes largely, if not entirely, to a handful of judicial decisions that attracted widespread criticism among activists. First and foremost, in July 2011, the D.C. Circuit vacated the Securities and Exchange Commission's "proxy access rule," a regulation requiring corporations to provide information to shareholders regarding shareholder-nominated corporate directors. The court held that the SEC had failed to respond adequately to public comments on the rule's costs and benefits, as required by an SEC statute. That decision, Business Roundtable v. SEC, spurred the New York Times's Floyd Norris to bluntly declare that the D.C. Circuit was "controlled by judicial activists who seem quite willing to negate, on technical grounds, any regulations they do not like." Just days later, the Times called the court Wall Street's "backup on the bench."
In addition to Business Roundtable, a few other decisions attracted political criticism: Noel Canning v. NLRB, a decision holding unconstitutional President Obama's unilateral assertion that he could appoint officials without Senate confirmation based on his unilateral decision that the Senate had been in "recess"; EPA v. EME Homer City Generation, in which the EPA exceeded its statutory authority, and failed to conduct required public processes, in regulating interstate pollutant emissions; and R.J. Reynolds v. FDA, holding that the FDA violated the First Amendment by requiring cigarette companies to place on packaging graphic depictions of the effects of smoking. The Washington Post's Steven Pearlstein concluded that the D.C. Circuit's "new breed of activist judges are waging a determined and largely successful war on federal regulatory agencies"—a "judicial jihad," according to the headline.
The partisan criticism of these decisions is vastly exaggerated. In Business Roundtable, for example, the court merely applied longstanding administrative-law standards governing all agencies' obligations to respond meaningfully to public comments and to substantially administer statutory standards governing an agency's regulatory initiatives, such as the SEC's requirement to analyze regulations' costs and benefits. By no plausible stretch of the imagination did Business Roundtable's judges impose strict new cost-benefit requirements, "to negate," as the Times's Norris put it, "any regulations they do not like." Indeed, in subsequent cases the D.C. Circuit has repeatedly affirmed agency regulations against similar cost-benefit challenges, finding the cases to be "plainly distinguishable" from, or "in no way comparable to," Business Roundtable, because the agencies did carry out their straightforward obligations under the relevant statutes. One of those unanimous decisions included a majority of judges appointed by Republican presidents; the other decision was written by the very same judge who wrote Business Roundtable. Whether one agrees or disagrees with the D.C. Circuit's latter decisions, they disprove the preposterous notion that the D.C. Circuit's judges are antiregulatory "judicial jihadists."
Similarly, those who seize on the court's rejection of a single EPA rule, in EME Homer City, as evidence that the D.C. Circuit "has morphed into a hotbed of activist judges" (as a blogger for the liberal American Constitution Society put it) lack any sense of perspective. The same D.C. Circuit has affirmed the vast majority of the Obama administration's greenhouse gas regulations, a regulatory program that far exceeds the cross-state air pollution rule at issue in EME Homer City in terms of cost and scope. Again, whether one agrees or disagrees with the decisions, they offer no plausible basis on which to suggest that the D.C. Circuit is reflexively, ideologically antiregulatory.
The critics' attacks on these regulatory decisions rarely grapple with the substance of the cases. This is not particularly surprising: The decisions involved complicated technical subject matter and administrative-law legal standards that lay audiences would probably find mundane—the types of issues that Judge Bork had in mind when he told reporters, "You remember those last lines in The Heart of Darkness: 'The horror, the horror'? I kid friends that my last words will be, 'The trivia, the trivia.' "
Nevertheless, the court's decisions in those cases were well justified by the standards that the court applies under the Administrative Procedure Act of 1946 (APA, the primary statute governing the court's review of agency actions) and the deep body of precedents developed under that act. The critics' rhetoric strongly suggests that they are disappointed not by the technical merits of the cases, but rather by the mere fact that the court's judges decided to rule against the administration's actions in implementing the Clean Air Act or the SEC's statutes. This aversion to meaningful judicial review of agency action per se calls to mind Professor Jeremy Rabkin's own response to Judge Patricia Wald: "What about the will of the Congress that enacted the APA? The ghosts of 1946, what about them? Do they not deserve to have their will upheld?"
Ironically, no judge on the D.C. Circuit has rebuked this type of ideological criticism more sternly than Judge David Tatel, one of the nation's most prominent Democratic-appointed judges. In 2009, Judge Tatel addressed an Environmental Law Institute symposium on "An Agenda for the New EPA." In remarks palpably at odds with the event's otherwise triumphant tone, he offered that "from my D.C. Circuit vantage, I sometimes wonder whether administrative agencies, as well as the organizations and citizens who appear before them, really care about the fundamentals in the way that courts do." Citing a case in which he joined the court in striking down an EPA water regulation, he observed:
"This is not just about satisfying the D.C. Circuit," he concluded. "It's about being responsible public servants." While "the 'New EPA' that you are discussing today may have excellent programs it is eager to execute, . . . those programs will be legitimate—and will be sustained in court—only if their implementation conforms to the rule of law."
And Judge Tatel is not the only Democratic-appointed judge on the D.C. Circuit who has stood athwart the very sort of politicized criticism that the liberal critics now launch against the court. Judge Harry Edwards, a Carter appointee, has repeatedly spoken and written against those who attempt to paint the court's work as political and unprincipled. In a 1998 paper titled "Collegiality and Decision Making on the D.C. Circuit," Judge Edwards noted that "the public today is constantly treated to rhetoric and innuendo about the purported politicization of the judiciary." But while critics "might have one believe that judging is entirely political, I maintain, and always have maintained, that appellate judging is fundamentally a principled practice." Far from being a battleground between warring partisan factions, "the D.C. Circuit is today blessed by 'the collegiality that is indispensable to judicial decisionmaking.' That is, we deliberate with one another, and are affected by that deliberation in valuable ways." He repeated these themes in a speech in 2006.
If any party to the debate is blinded by ideology, it is Norris, Pearlstein, People for the American Way, or other critics who pay far too little attention to the substance of the court's opinions, and who conveniently ignore the myriad decisions in which the court—including Republican-appointed judges who participated in Business Roundtable and the other "radical" cases—affirmed controversial regulatory and constitutional decisions of the Obama administration. These cases include Seven-Sky v. Holder, in which Judges Laurence Silberman and Brett Kavanaugh (both popular liberal targets) declined to strike down the Affordable Care Act, and Sherley v. Sebelius, in which three Republican-appointed judges (including another popular target, Judge Janice Rogers Brown) affirmed the administration's policy on embryonic stem cell research.
In announcing his new nominees, President Obama did not expressly join the chorus of voices denouncing the D.C. Circuit's work on partisan or ideological grounds. Rather, he justified the nominations strictly in terms of the court's workload. "There are 11 seats on the D.C. Circuit. When I first took office, there were two vacancies. Since then, two more judges have retired. That means there are four vacancies that need to be filled. . . . If we want to ensure a fair and functioning judiciary, our courts cannot be short-staffed."
His explanation was factually wrong. No judge has "retired" from the court since Judge James Buckley in 2000. Since then, no judge (other than John Roberts, who took a promotion) has left the D.C. Circuit at all. Instead, six judges have taken "senior status." All of them—including Judges Douglas Ginsburg and David Sentelle, the two who took senior status since 2009—continue to hear cases. Indeed, as the D.C. Circuit's chief judge, Merrick Garland (a Clinton appointee), explained recently to the Senate Judiciary Committee in a letter summarized by the Wall Street Journal, "of the six senior judges who hear oral arguments, one carries a full case load, one carries 75 percent of an active case load, two carry 50 percent and two 25 percent." Furthermore, according to Carrie Severino in National Review Online, several of Judge Garland's colleagues anonymously informed the committee that "the Court does not need additional judges" to handle its workload. "If any more judges were added now, there wouldn't be enough work to go around."
The judges' anecdotes are confirmed by the federal judiciary system's official data. Since 2001, the court has added four judges (to "replace" four who took senior status). In that same period of time, the court's workload has remained virtually constant: 1,319 pending cases in March 2001, 1,315 in September 2012. The nation's courts face many genuine personnel shortages; the federal judiciary formally designates some courts as "judicial emergencies," a list published on the judiciary website (and linked by the Justice Department's own website). The D.C. Circuit is nowhere among them; with 17 judges now hearing cases, it has by far the lightest "per capita" appellate caseload in the country.
The D.C. Circuit does not "need" President Obama to appoint more judges. President Obama wants to appoint more judges. As a matter of presidential prerogative, that is a perfectly fine reason to nominate judges—but it is no reason for the Senate to accelerate its own review or confirmation of nominees.
As it happens, the reason that President Obama gave for nominating three new judges is precisely the reason the Senate should act with great deliberation and thoughtfulness in reviewing the nominations. "The judges on the D.C. Circuit routinely have the final say on a broad range of cases involving everything from national security to environmental policy, from questions of campaign finance to workers' rights. In other words, the court's decisions impact almost every aspect of our lives."
They surely do, just as they have since the New Deal, if not the very beginning of the court. The D.C. Circuit has sparked controversy over the years, precisely because of the singular role it plays in our constitutional government.
Adam J. White is a lawyer in Washington, D.C., and a former clerk on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
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The one weakness of the movie though was I felt the 'Kruger' character and his assorted goons were very one dimensional and cartoonish. I dunno for some reason , I like to root for my villains or at least see where they are coming from.
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Jodie Fosters character was cold, but she at least had a couple of lines where you could see where she was coming from.
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The Sulston score is a well-established, though approximate metric for probabilistically evaluating postulated clone overlaps in DNA fingerprint mapping. It is known to systematically over-predict match probabilities by various orders of magnitude, depending upon project-specific parameters. Although the exact probability distribution is also available for the comparison problem, it is rather difficult to compute and cannot be used directly in most cases. A methodology providing both improved accuracy and computational economy is required.
We propose a straightforward algebraic correction procedure, which takes the Sulston score as a provisional value and applies a power-law equation to obtain an improved result. Numerical comparisons indicate dramatically increased accuracy over the range of parameters typical of traditional agarose fingerprint mapping. Issues with extrapolating the method into parameter ranges characteristic of newer capillary electrophoresis-based projects are also discussed.
Although only marginally more expensive to compute than the raw Sulston score, the correction provides a vastly improved probabilistic description of hypothesized clone overlaps. This will clearly be important in overlap assessment and perhaps for other tasks as well, for example in using the ranking of overlap probabilities to assist in clone ordering.
Fingerprint mapping continues to play an important role in large-scale DNA sequencing efforts [1-5]. The procedure is challenging in terms of both its laboratory and computational demands. Indeed, most of the computational steps involve non-trivial algorithmic aspects. While reasonable solutions have been found for many of these, one task that remains particularly problematic is assessing postulated clone overlaps based on their fingerprint similarity.
The "overlap problem", as this is often referred to, basically involves examining all pairwise clone comparisons in order to identify overlaps. For a map consisting of λ clones, there are Cλ, 2 = λ (λ - 1)/2 such comparisons. In each one, the number of matching fragment lengths between the two associated fragment lists is established. A case having μ > 0 matches indicates a possible overlap because the mutual length(s) may represent the same DNA. Lengths are not unique, so such matches are not conclusive indicators of overlap. Instead, the problem is largely one of probabilistic classification. One or more quantitative metrics are used to evaluate the authenticity of each such case. For example, an apparent overlap might be judged against its likelihood α of arising by chance. Methodologies of varying degrees of rigor have been proposed for this task [6-11]. However, the so-called Sulston score, or Sulston probability PS has emerged as a de facto standard [12], in part because of its integration in the widely-used FPC program [13,14]. A liability of a number of these methodologies, including PS, is they assume fragment length comparisons are independent when, in fact, they are not [10,15].
Recently, the exact distribution characterizing the overlap problem was determined [16,17]. Comparisons reveal that the assumption of independence is usually a poor one and that the Sulston score systematically over-predicts actual overlap probabilities, often by orders of magnitude. Consequently, a bias arises in projects that utilize PS (Table 1). One chooses the significance threshold α to minimize erroneous decisions according to what is presumed to be the actual probabilistic description of the problem, PE. The alternative result using the Sulston score is an overall increase of false-negatives (Case 1). Clones having significant overlap will still be correctly detected (Case 3). Moreover, false-positives would not be increased because PS errs on the conservative side with respect to non-overlapping clones (Case 6). Miscalls can obviously be expected when poor values of α are chosen (Cases 4 and 5). However, if α is set too high, there will still be circumstantial cases where the correct decision is made (Case 2). These will presumably be more than offset by a higher rate of false-positives (Case 4). In summary, PS is not an especially good discriminant for the overlap assessment problem.
Table 1. Types of decisions for the biased Sulston score
The drawback of PE is that it is rather difficult to compute and cannot be used directly in most cases. For example, current resources are not sufficient to evaluate it for most BAC comparisons or for capillary-based fingerprinting [18]. A suitable method of approximating PE is therefore required. Here, we propose a straightforward correlation-based approach that derives correction factors for the Sulston score. This procedure dramatically increases accuracy without incurring much additional computational effort.
The overlap problem is formally cast in terms of two clones having m and n "bands", respectively, where m ≥ n. Each band represents an individual clone fragment, with its position on a gel image providing an estimate of the fragment's length. Multiple bands of roughly the same length often appear. Finite measurement resolution ± R allows an image of length L to be subdivided into t = 0.5 L/R discrete bins. The Sulston score PS = PS (μ, m, n, t) is taken as a provisional estimate of the probability that at least μ fragment matches between the two clones arise by chance. Note here that the variables (μ, m, n) correspond to (M, nH, nL), respectively, in notations used by the FPC program [14]. The corresponding exact probability is PE = PE (μ, m, n, t), as given in refs. [16,17]. We formulate a corrected value, PC, that can be both efficiently calculated and that gives substantially better estimates of PE than the Sulston score, i.e. |PE - PC| ≪ |PE - PS|.
The simple log-log plot in Fig. 1 shows good correlation (Pearson's coefficient of ρ ≈ 0.9938), suggesting that standard regression might be a reasonable basis for correction. Note the characteristic over-prediction of PS. (Points representing the exact probability consistently fall below the hypothetical line of agreement between PS and PE.) These particular data are computed for t = 236, which describes traditional settings for fragment length measurements and comparisons, i.e. ± 7 pixels over a 3300 pixel gel image [13,19]. Considerations of coverage usually dictate a large number of clones in a map [2], so that values substantially above 10-7 are not usually of interest [20]. The data range over 0 ≤ μ ≤ n for a number of different fingerprint comparison sizes: 2 ≤ n ≤ m for 5 ≤ m ≤ 12, 2 ≤ n ≤ 10 for m of 13 and 14, 2 ≤ n ≤ 9 for m of 15 and 16, 2 ≤ n ≤ 8 for m of 17 and 18, and finally 2 ≤ n ≤ 7 for 19 ≤ m ≤ 25. The exact solution becomes difficult to evaluate beyond these ranges using readily-available resources. Specifically, the computational effort increases according to a factor that exceeds m!/(m - n)! [17].
Figure 1. Sampling of exact probability versus Sulston score for t = 236.
Correlation in Fig. 1 is clearly not perfect. Specifically, the points show some amount of lateral scatter. Accuracy of the correction can be further enhanced to the degree that dispersion within the window can be minimized. Here, we can apply a simple power-law data reduction model to obtain a transformed Sulston score
The four power values can be chosen empirically such that the data locally collapse into a more highly correlated set. For example, selecting (v, ξ, η, ζ) = (1.2,4,0.8,-3.4) in Eq. 1 leads to the curve-fit
and the associated Pearson's coefficient ρ ≈ 0.9980.
We propose Eqs. 1 and 2 as a correction to the standard Sulston score for typical fingerprint mapping conditions [13,19]. Although shown as two separate equations so as to clarify the concept, these can clearly be combined into a single equation for actual computations. Pearson's coefficient is not especially sensitive to the parameters in Eq. 1 and there are many combinations of (v, ξ, η, ζ) that elevate ρ into the ~0.998 range. Other methods for reducing the data do not perform as well as the model in Eq. 1. For example, standard dimensional analysis [21], which involves correlating variables such as PE/PS, m/n, and μ/n, cannot adequately resolve the fact that values of the individual variables relative to one another remain important.
Accuracy assessment
Eqs. 1 and 2 are obviously straightforward to compute, leaving the question of just how much error reduction is actually realized over the un-adjusted Sulston score. This can be quantified with a simple metric. For the Sulston score, the error is taken as ES = |PE - PS|/PE. Error for the corrected result, EC, is calculated similarly.
A size-selection step is part of most library-construction protocols, meaning that the variance of clone sizes will be limited to some degree. Consequently, many clone-clone comparisons will involve similar, though not necessarily equal numbers of fragments. Fig. 2 shows a comparison of error rates for the raw Sulston score and the corrected score in Eq. 2 for m/n ≤ 1.3. That is, we compare clones whose numbers of fragments in their respective fingerprints are within 30% of one another. The figure also shows the error rate for the un-reduced data, i.e. for a regression equation that does not use the preliminary processing given by Eq. 1.
Figure 2. Error characterization for clones with similar numbers of fingerprint bands.
The Sulston score shows an increasing error as the acceptance threshold is tightened (lowered). Maximum values for the threshold are typically in the neighborhood of 10-7 [20], for which PS over-predicts by about one order of magnitude. For threshold parameters around 10-19, Sulston over-prediction is about 4 orders of magnitude. While Eq. 2 shows significant local variation, the overall trend is much more constant and its error is appreciably smaller. Correction on un-reduced data also shows better accuracy than the raw Sulston score, being roughly as good as Eq. 2 up to about 10-12. It diverges beyond this point and eventually shows about the same level of error as the raw Sulston score. The combined correction procedure of Eqs. 1 and 2 appears to provide the best fidelity over the widest range.
Comments on uncertainty
A simple correction of the type we propose here obviously cannot capture all the complexities inherent in the exact distribution. This results in a scatter of the data that cannot be completely eliminated, for example as illustrated in Fig. 1. This scatter is a primarily function of m/n, rather than individual values of m and n. For instance, log-log regression of data restricted exclusively to m = n returns a Pearson's coefficient of ρ ≈ 0.9998 without any sort of preliminary data reduction. Of course, such a correlation would not be generally applicable to realistic clone libraries and maps.
Eq. 2 is based on the limited set of data described above. Applying it outside this set necessarily involves a degree of extrapolation, which raises two types of uncertainty. First, large m/n ratios contribute to scatter, but such extrema only emerge for cases involving sufficiently large differences between m and n. Eq. 2 accounts for data up to m = 25 with a maximum ratio of m/n of about 4. In the context of averages, this implies a comparison of two clones whose sizes differ by a factor of four. While there is the possibility of even greater disparities, such cases will be comparatively rare in general because of size-selection steps executed during the library-construction phase. For example, in the Human Genome Project RPCI-11 library, about two-thirds of the BAC clones were concentrated between 150 and 200 kb [22], for which the maximum m/n would be roughly 1.3. Most comparisons would be somewhat closer to one. Only about 2.5% of the library resided in each of the < 100 kb and > 250 kb ranges. This means that fewer than 0.1% of the comparisons will involve uncharacteristically large m/n ratios. Consequently, we do not view this type of uncertainty as being particularly significant.
The larger issue in our opinion arises for comparisons that extend beyond (lower than) the 10-19 threshold tolerance. While minor extrapolation of a few orders of magnitude is probably not worrisome, some projects utilize substantially lower tolerances. For example, Luo et al. [18] and Nelson et al. [23] report values on the order of 10-30 and 10-45, respectively, when using capillary electrophoresis. Other techniques, such as the traditional double-digest, can also generate higher numbers of fragments, which may require reduced thresholds. The fidelity of Eq. 2 for such cases is not clear. For example, in the data set shown in Fig. 1, larger m/n values are under-represented at the lowest scores. Because loci for larger m/n values do not slope as steeply as those for smaller ones, the trend shown in the figure may not continue in the exact same manner for values well below 10-19. We can only observe that the corrected score will still be the significantly more accurate choice as compared to the raw Sulston score because the assumption of independent fragment comparisons is increasingly untenable. Characterizing the exact solution in this range requires computations considerably larger than what can readily be made at present.
We have calibrated Eq. 2 according to the traditional parameters used in the FPC mapping program [13]. Similar corrections can readily be constructed for different parameters. For example, protocols and software sizing methods now allow for band resolutions higher than the customary value of t = 236. Table 2 shows correction parameters for several such cases. Similarity of the correlation coefficients suggests that results would be comparable to that shown in Fig. 2. Although the accuracies derived from this approach are probably acceptable in the correlation range, they could, in principle, be further increased by using multiple corrections calibrated for specific "bins" of the m/n parameter.
Table 2. Correction parameters for various gel resolutions (bin numbers)
Clone overlap assessment is sometimes framed as a statistical testing problem [10]. Here, α is the probability of erroneously concluding that two clones overlap, when in fact they do not. (This casually implies that α Cλ, 2 false positives can be expected for a project containing λ clones.) Consequently, corrections are most immediately relevant in the neighborhood surrounding α (Table 1). The overlaps here are the most valuable to detect in the sense that they are the smallest, and consequently contribute most effectively to a minimum tiling path [8]. A large fraction of the comparisons will be either far above or below the threshold, so their assessments will not ultimately be affected. However, correction is still important for these cases. For example, Branscomb et al. [8] have pointed out that the ability to accurately rank all overlaps according to their associated probabilities is useful in the assembly phase of mapping.
Ascertaining the degree to which a particular mapping project would actually be improved by using Sulston score correction is difficult. Aside from the usual factors that complicate comparisons [24], there are special considerations for this kind of evaluation. For example, established Sulston-based mapping projects may have obtained their best results using threshold values that would not necessarily be considered "correct" from the standpoint of the exact probability distribution (Table 1). Biologists have historically viewed selection of the Sulston threshold to be a non-trivial, library-dependent problem and often resort to empirical sampling and iteration [25,26]. Consequently, one probably cannot obtain an objective comparison by just replacing PS with PC for these cases. Another avenue, perhaps more pragmatic, would be to assess corrections on a simulated project. For example, digesting finished sequences in silico [27] enables one to use the resulting simulated fingerprints to see how well a map could be reconstructed. Several variations on this method are possible [28,29]. Of course, use of correction for new projects is certainly recommended.
Other issues remain unresolved. With the exception of the conditional nature of match trials, the correction in Eq. 2 is based on the same set of assumptions as the Sulston score. Neither consider, for example, possible non-IID distribution of fragment lengths or length-dependent measurement accuracy. Consequently, we feel that the simple correction procedure proposed here represents a reasonable, though admittedly provisional advance in DNA mapping methodology.
Parameters in Eq. 1 were chosen empirically to minimize dispersion (maximize Pearson's coefficient) over a scoring range of roughly 10-7 to 10-19. The former is often the maximum value used in a mapping project and is dictated by the need to limit false-positive overlap declarations for the associated libraries, which are typically quite large [20]. The latter is set by computational limitations.
Correction of a probability score PT is implemented as a so-called "power-law" algebraic expression
where φ and β are regression constants. Eq. 3 can be transformed into log-log form as
Standard linear regression [30] can be used to determine φ and β in this equation. Specifically, we analyze the transformed system (x', y') = (ln PT, ln PC) to obtain the slope s and y-intercept yo of the straight-line equation y' = sx' + yo. The desired correction in Eq. 3 is then recovered by substituting φ = s and β = exp(yo).
The author is grateful to Dr. John Wallis of Washington University for discussions of DNA mapping and its associated computations.
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Solr + Tomcat: I have read guides such as this one, which outline the setup. However I am now getting this error. The whole setup seems very fragile, but if this method is best I will persevere. Any help / advice with that error would be much appreciated?
Re-using the Solr example jar This method seems much easier, just starting the example jar in the background. Does this completely replace the need for Tomcat? Is it poor performance wise?
I have a tiny bit of experience with Java long ago, so this is all very new.


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Warriors may be the dominant group in the Klingon Empire, but they aren't the only ones. In fact, the warriors probably got that way by standing on the shoulders of the scientists, engineers, etc., who develop and build their technology. It doesn't matter if the warriors scoff at them or whatever because the Empire probably wouldn't have gotten anywhere without them too.
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Gravity T-Shirt Contest!
This months Gravity Components contest gets you entered to a win an Andrew Taylor Signature Series bar, stem, and post.
This months Gravity Components contest gets you entered to a win an Andrew Taylor Signature Series bar, stem, and post.
The Gravity Components crew took off from the NW to meet up with the Gravity Team riders attending Rampage. Gravity had a great showing at the event with Team Riders such James Doerfling, Garett Buehler, Mike Hopkins, Kelly McGarry, Casey Groves and Logan Binggeli.
Doerf and Buehler waiting to drop in for Justin's camera.
Justin Olsen was on hand to film the final episode if "I Ride Gravity" at Red Bull Rampage.
Skye Schillhammer is from Darrington, Washington and is currently residing in Spokane where he is studying at Eastern Washington University.
Check out his most recent video shot by Lush Cinema.
"Thanks guys for putting on such an awesome contest. I am from Ontario and I am absolutely can't get enough of DH riding. So much so me and my buddy's are doing a second annual road trip in August-Sept, from Toronto to BC to ride Panorama, Fernie, Kicking Horse, and Mt 7. This trip pretty much bankrupted us last summer but it was so amazing and so worth it so we are doing it again.
You may have noticed Diamondback and Gravity share a lot of the same team riders. This is because we are both Northwest Companies, and the Northwest Crew sticks together! Kelly McGarry, Eric Porter, Kyle Thomas, Charlie Sponsel, and Simon Lawton all ride for both Gravity and Diamondback.
This last weekend Eric Porter kicked off the 2013 DB line-up in his back yard in Midway, UT. The DB team was in the house all weekend having a blast!
Win a 2013 Diamondback Scapegoat! on Pinkbike
Double Firsts at Moelfre as Gee and Rachel Atherton smash the British National Champs
Both delighted with wins on their home track
Gee and Rachel Atherton triumphed in the Men's and Women's Elite races at Moelfre yesterday in front of an enthusiastic home crowd.
An exultant Gee said "What a great day, sunshine, fantastic crowd – I'm really stoked to take the win here, just 8 minutes from our home."
The Moelfre track is a super fast, rolling track with many high speed corners, off camber sections and fast straights. It falls from 545m to 238 m over a 2.3 km run.
Weather conditions were dusty despite recent downpours and strong winds up top meant that most competitors kept jumps to a minimum.
Gee seeded first in the Elite Men's section less than half a second ahead of Josh Bryceland but in the final Gee extended the gap to 2.2 seconds clocking a final time of 2.25.94
Bryceland took second place with 2.28.14 and Steve Peat third with 2.28.59.
In the Women's Elite seeding run Rachel led by 2 seconds at the first split but lost time on the bottom section to come in second to Manon Carpenter by 0.5 secs. In the final though Rachel really turned it up to beat Carpenter by 7.4 seconds with a time of 2.39.01 to Carpenter's 2.46.42.
Rachel said "We love racing here, up at Jac's place, with all our friends and family here. I've had a brilliant time."
"Farmer Jac" who owns the Moelfre track presented the prizes and paid tribute to organizer Si Paton and to the Atherton family who had started the Moelfre track. Congratulating Gee and Rachel on their win he also announced that elder brother Dan had taken third in the Megavalanche event in France – a vintage weekend for the Atherton family!
Check out Gravity Team Rider Kevin Aiello aboard his new KHS 650B!
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Kevin rides Gravity 7050 Cranks, Gravity Light 800 Bars, Direct Mount Stems, Light Posts, FSA Orbit Option Angle Adjust, Gravity Light Pedals.
Would you like a free weekend of riding at Whistler Bike Park? Need a sweet place to stay? Want a hot meal after a long day at the park? Maybe a hot tub to cap it all off? Then this is contest for you!
All you have to do is write a short paragraph in the comment section of this page explaining why you and a guest should win a free stay at the infamous Bear Back Biking Chalet, just 1 mile from Whistler Village. You and lucky friend could be shredding in style this September for Gravity and Bear Back Biking's "Whistler Weekend" giveaway.
Bear Back Biking (Website, Facebook) has been running their Whistler Mountain Bike Chalet since 2000. Their main package dubbed "The Whistler Experience" is a catered, guided, week long mountain biking holiday package based in a luxury chalet near the shores of Alta Lake, a short ride from the village, bike park and Whistler's trail network.
Bear Back's guides are fully kitted out with top of the line Gravity Light Components and offer some of the best coaching available. They will help you better your cornering, dropping, jumping, and psyche you up to ride everyday. Whether it is Cross Country, Down Hill, Dirt Jumping, working on your bike, or just plain old chillin' at the Chalet after a long day, the guides will always make you feel comfortable.
In addition to their amazing Chalet, they guys at Bear Back have all the tools you need to service your ride.
So write your best reasons for us to select you as the winner in the comment section below, and get ready for the trip of lifetime!
Four Days Rain from David Peacock on Vimeo.
It's Mid-June and if you are a fortunate resident of the fine province of British Columbia, you will know it's been a fort night or two, since we last saw the sun. Words to describe the past month would line up something like this… Rainy, pounded, poured, soaked, saturated, soggy, pruned, pickled, to put it bluntly wet became an understatement two weeks ago. "Spring 2012″ has officially been retitled "Monsoon Season". But like most weather woes, one hits a point where he accepts the soak, spins wheels, splits puddles, and has smashing good time. I teamed up with Gravity and my buddy Dave Peacock set out to have some fun in natures sweat lodge. Four days, two days of digging, two days of filming, and one hell of a good time amidst a sky full of soggy assailants. Boom! Monsoon Season ain't so bad. Love the Soak.
Kelly is from Nelson New Zealand and lives part time in Whistler, BC.
Mike Hopkins is a Professional Mountain Bike Athlete bred from Canada's B.C. Interior. He grew up amidst the outdoor driven community of Rossland,
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(1904-96). Alger Hiss, the former United States diplomat who was accused of spying for the Soviet Union throughout World War II and the postwar restoration, was convicted of perjury in 1950 for having denied he passed Department of State secrets to a Communist courier. Hiss's espionage trial placed him under the international microscope, and he remained until his death one of the most enduring icons of the Cold War.


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The Originals Preview: Can a 'Reckless and Fearless' Tyler Get the Upper Hand on Klaus?
Vampire Diaries resident Tyler is coming to The Originals with revenge on the brain and a darker attitude.
No longer just the dutiful minion of his sire Klaus, Tyler is armed with some strategic intel on the Original. And he's not the only one who may be on the receiving end of Tyler's wrath.
Not to be outdone, Klaus has some feelings about a certain break-up back in Mystic Falls.
Here's what you need to know about The CW's first Originals/Vampire Diaries crossover, airing Tuesday at 8/7c — and who may be traveling between the series next.
RELATED | The Originals Season 1 Spoilers — Tyler to Shake Up New Orleans
MAN ON A MISSION | Tyler arrives in New Orleans with one main objective: "Revenge against Klaus, which is a reoccurring theme," Michael Trevino previews. "With this second act of revenge against Klaus, it's going on his territory." But how does one go about getting payback against a centuries-old, powerful hybrid, especially when his demise could lead to the death of your friends and loved ones? "Whoever wants Klaus out of the picture, he'll probably be coming to join up with them, to make friends with them," teases Joseph Morgan. For example, "Marcel might be one" of the new faces Tyler teams with, Charles Michael Davis hints. "He'll shake things up and definitely have interactions with multiple characters."
FILLING IN THE BLANKS | Although we won't see flashbacks of Tyler's time in the Appalachian range, "We will find out that he's been, like you could imagine, roaming around with different wolf packs all around the mountains, and that's how he's been gathering his information," Trevino says. "With that, he comes fully loaded with information not only to give to Hayley, but to back-stab Klaus – not in a physical way, but in a threatening way."
RELATED | The Originals Bosses on Elijah and Hayley's Bond, Marcel's Strategy and Witch Woes
A DARKER TYLER | "I feel like he's a little different," Joseph Morgan says of Klaus' former siree. "They've really turned him into this guy with nothing to lose. And the tone of our show, anyway, is more adult. … So [Tyler] really comes into this absolutely reckless and fearless [as] someone who's lost everything." Trevino also describes his Originals appearance as echoing "Tyler from [Vampire Diaries] Season 1" when "he wasn't really a nice guy." So could he be considered the villain of the episode given that he's interfering with the show's "hero"? "It depends on how you look at it," concedes Morgan, noting that Originals viewers who haven't watched Vampire Diaries might see him as a bad guy. But for his part, Morgan says, "I don't think Tyler's necessarily the villain, but he is as layered a character as Klaus or Marcel. They've given us reasons to root for him."
RELATED | The CW Orders Additional Scripts for The Originals, Tomorrow People and Reign
WOLFY COMPLICATED HISTORY | Having played a part in the murder of Tyler's mother, Hayley's "probably not on his good side right now," says Trevino. So he sets out "to make her realize it." And Hayley being pregnant with the baby of Tyler's biggest enemy doesn't help matters. Says Phoebe Tonkin: "We realize he's a little disappointed in Hayley and the situation that she's in." Meanwhile, the mystery of the wolf that saved her life will also be addressed. "We learn a bit more in the coming episodes exactly who that wolf is, why that wolf is following Hayley and why there are werewolves when it's not a full moon," Tonkin teases.
GIRL IN THE MIDDLE | The fact that Tyler broke up with the object of Klaus' affection, Caroline, will likely come up during their confrontation. "You would figure that Klaus is going to take a jab or two," Trevino previews. "He's going to be a smartass and… ruffle Tyler's feathers, so to speak."


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I want to get multiple different types values (time, pressure, name, ...) from user. and I want to customize my inputbox. But it take only one value.
Are there any way to solve this situation, or any component to use?
I want to get multiple different types values (time, pressure, name, ...) from user. and I want to customize my inputbox. But it take only one value.
Are there any way to solve this situation, or any component to use?
François is right. You've reached the limit of the tool you've been given.
The page you linked to in your comment has an example, but it's presented rather poorly, so I don't blame you for misunderstanding it. It took me a few reads to get, too. At its core is the
Call it like this:
That's a terrible interface for the user, though. There's no way to go back, there's no way to cancel, there's no indication of how long the interrogation is going to last, and there's no way to enforce formats for certain data types. You'll really be much better off if you design a custom form that gets exactly the information you need. You're using a tool that makes designing a form about the easiest thing in the world. Don't resist that.
If you need to get the time, the pressure, and the name, then make a form with three input controls. Use a
To use it, simply create it, populate its initial values, show it modally, and read the new values out when it closes.
Notice also how I check the result of the
Don't worry about this new form class weighing down your project. The two things that have the biggest impact on project size are the SysUtils and Forms units. You've already included those, so the worst of it is already past. Adding a form to a project that already has at least one form doesn't affect the project size much at all, especially not the form I described above, which only has eight controls.
What exactly do you mean by "inputbox" - a TEdit? There are many different kinds of components for input, which can do many different things. For a name, TEdit is very good - but for time, you may want a calendar control, and for pressure you may want to use a control that looks great for numbers.
Yes, design a Form!
Dialogs.InputBox is designed to get 1 string from the user, quick and simple.
If you want the real deal, you have to dig in and code a real Form.
Rob's Kennedy is right.. An input box is NOT a good option... What exactly are you trying to save ? Exe Space, ressources or source code? Or you just want to save the environment with your "green" code?
If you take a look at the InputQuery function you'll see that what it does is create a TForm and it create somes TButtons/TLabels/TEdit, position and show modal the form.
Exactly what you would do with a new form that you would add to your project.. beside you can validate, customize the controls and position them and even add hints...
Go with the new form...
You don't have to set every form to auto-create, after you create your form go into project options, select the forms option and move all forms you don't want auto-created to the right.
The pattern I most generally use for these non-auto-created forms is something like the following:
the GetValues/SetValues methods populate the dialog from a record or class which holds the values that are used in the routine. I never try to manipulate controls on a form from outside the form but instead write routines to do it in the form itself.


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Robertet welcomed Kent Swan, who recently joined the team as vice president, purchasing, Robertet US. Kent is responsible for sourcing all raw materials and MRO (Maintenance, Repair and Operations) purchasing for the Fragrance, Flavor and Ingredients divisions, working closely with company headquarters in Grasse to align all sourcing strategies and coordinate sourcing programs whenever appropriate.
Kent comes to Robertet most recently from Symrise, and he brings more than 30 years of experience in leading sourcing programs around the globe.
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One week from Tuesday we celebrate across the globe - a little drum roll, please - World Toilet Day.
November 19's commemoration, according to the World Toilet Organization, is to "raise awareness of the struggle" that 37 percent of the world's population face without access to clean sanitation.
In light of the day, and without discounting the seriousness of the issue, the time is right to address what Muncie Mayor Dennis Tyler has raised about the 100 percent of the city's downtown patrons without access to a public restroom. ...


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Google releases Field Trip, a virtual-tour and discovery app
A brief testing of the device suggests that it's quite comprehensive – on top of the expected local haunts the app discovered an unmarked(!) historical site in a local public park that we weren't aware of. The app allows you to give each find a thumbs up or down rating, and it uses that information to better tailor its discoveries for you. In a way this app is like a specialized Google Now implementation, although the app interface itself feels like a nicely hand-crafted UI rather than the one-design-fits-all white background of Google Now.
If you're the adventurous type and want to find the unique out of the way points of interest on your next trip, or even just around town, hit up the source link to give Field Trip a shot (or put yourself on the iOS notification list). Google also released a promotional video for the app, which is shot with a lovely sentimental feel, but is somewhat short on the details of the app:
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1. ayephoner (Posts: 849; Member since: 09 Jun 2009)
downloaded. i cant wait to use this!
4. PhenomFaz (Posts: 1217; Member since: 26 Sep 2012)
Innovative and awesome as usual...
Take a few bows google, you really keep outdoing yourself :)
A certain rival company can learn a lot from this instead of crying like a little girl and doing crap iMarketing...
9. urth_key (Posts: 14; Member since: 25 Dec 2011)
Meanwhile in Apple's world:
downloaded. i cant wait to sue this!
2. jmoita2 (Posts: 930; Member since: 23 Dec 2011)
Gotta take my hat off to Google...this app rocks!!!
3. DaNTRoN (Posts: 135; Member since: 23 Jul 2012)
I like the idea. Downloading. Google has been really amping up their play store.
5. pikapowerize (banned) (Posts: 1869; Member since: 03 May 2012)
is this the same with nokia city lens? or completely different?
7. pokharkarsaga (Posts: 380; Member since: 23 Feb 2012)
Much better than Nokia city lens.google you are a genius.
6. MeoCao (unregistered)
Thank you Google.
8. soshi (Posts: 154; Member since: 08 Mar 2012)
Not available in my country, Indonesia. Google better adding better detail map of Indonesia, there are many great place to explore here. And there will be more people start using android here


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Idena Ward
Nov. 21, 1914 — July 14, 2013
Idena Ward of Milton-Freewater passed away July 14, 2013, at the age of 98 years, surrounded by her family. A celebration of life will be held on Friday, July 26, 2013, at 2 p.m. at the Munselle-Rhodes Funeral Home Chapel in Milton-Freewater with Pastor Jeff Beazley officiating. Interment will be at the Milton-Freewater Cemetery followed by a reception at the Bethel Baptist Church, 209 SW 1st, Milton-Freewater. In lieu of flowers, the family would appreciate memorial contributions be made in Idena's memory to donor's choice through the Munselle-Rhodes Funeral Home, 902 S. Main, Milton-Freewater, OR 97862.
Idena was born on Nov. 21, 1914, the daughter of Clarence Cox and Emma (Starr) Cox in McPherson, Kan. Idena attended school in Towanda, Kan., where she moved as a little girl in a covered wagon.
She met Leland Ward at a picnic in 1932 and they were married Feb. 25, 1933. She loved to go on picnics, to dances and to visit friends and relatives. Idena and Leland spent the first several years they were married farming. They then worked their way west working in Idaho and then on to Oregon. Idena and Leland worked day and night building by their own hands their home, where she lived independently for the remainder of her life.
Idena worked at Mac-Hi for 27 years with most of that time as a cook and then head cook. She is fondly remembered for starting the cinnamon roll program that students enjoyed on their morning breaks. Her pride and joy were her children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren as well as many "adopted" grandchildren in her life. In addition to family, she took a lot of pride in her vegetable garden and many flower beds. She received "yard of the month" numerous times.
Idena is survived by 10 grandchildren, Casey Hahn, Detricia Hahn, Jolene Riggs, Cynthia Wagner, Frank Ward, Sheri Rychtarik, Shirley Bruner, Jeff Ward, Kenneth Ward, Ron Ward; and 27 great-grandchildren; and 14 great-great-grandchildren; and her son-in-law, Ray Hahn. She was preceded in death by her husband; and her sons, Dean and Robert Ward; and her daughter, Norene (Ward) Hahn; as well as her parents; and her sisters, Julia (Cox) Nelson, Irene (Cox) Richey and Dorothy (Cox) Sheperd.
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Crying Crying, difficult as it is to hear, is a normal way babies communicate hunger, discomfort, distress, or a need for your attention.
Most newborns reach a crying peak at about 6 weeks. Then their crying starts to decrease. Based on a typical crying pattern, babies usually only cry for about an hour a day after 3 months. But some babies cry more than average and/or may be very difficult to soothe and settle, due to their temperament or developmental stage.
There is not just one right way to soothe a baby. Some babies love to be rocked when upset. Others find that too stimulating and prefer to be walked slowly while in a baby carrier, snuggled close to a parent's chest. And some babies are calmed by being put down in a safe place where they can take a break from the intensity of the world.
There are many reasons that may cause the crying. Talk, talk, to your child...and listen.


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Tiger Woods Parties With "Scantily-Clad" Women After Tournament
Easy there, Tiger.
Tiger Woods -- he of the epic 2009 to 2010 cheating scandal -- seemed up to his old tricks during a post-tournament night out Saturday, Dec. 1.
The 36-year-old golfer hung out at California's Westlake Village Inn following his 14th Annual World Challenge Golf Tournament, where he partied the night away with some help from attractive female partygoers.
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"Tiger was dressed in jeans and a beige sweater as he danced the night away," an eyewitness tells Us Weekly. "At one point he was surrounded by a group of six women on the club's dance floor!"
Continues the witness, "Tiger was the man of the hour. He requested that the DJ play, 'Tonight I'm F---ing You' by Enrique Iglesias."
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According to Woods' fellow clubgoer, the ladies "loved" his racy pick.
"The scantily-clad women surrounding him loved it," the witness says. "They danced for hours!"
As Woods continues down his former party-boy path, his ex-wife Elin Nordegren is keeping herself occupied with a more domestic hobby -- constructing her dream home.
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The 32-year-old former model (and mom to daughter Sam, 5, and son Charlie, 3, with Woods) is building a multi-million dollar beachfront mansion in North Palm Beach, Florida, with a portion of her $100 million divorce settlement.
This article originally appeared on Usmagazine.com: Tiger Woods Parties With "Scantily-Clad" Women After Tournament
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Robert Francis "Buddy" Skiles went to be with the Lord, Saturday, Dec. 11, 2010 at Shore Life Care at Parksley.
Robert was born in New Jersey on Aug. 12, 1948, the son of the late James Skiles and Eleanor (Eaton) Skiles.
He is survived by his wife of 30 years, Bonnie Skiles, of Chincoteague; five children, Vivian Daisey of Chincoteague, David Grant and wife, Rebekah, of Atlantic, Chuck Grant and friend, Wendy Bowden, of Atlantic, Kay Keim and husband, Dave, of Gastonia, N.C., and Cindy Skiles of New Jersey; seven grandchildren, Jerry, Brittany, Lindsay, Sarah, Megan, Katie and Mia; two sisters, Barbara Daisey and Vida Jones, both of Florida; and several nieces, nephews and cousins.
Memorial service will be held at Christ United Methodist Church, Chincoteague, on Sunday, Dec. 19, at 2 p.m. with the Rev. Travis Deloach officiating.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations be made to Hospice of Eastern Shore, 165 Market St., Onancock, Va. 23417; or Christ United Methodist Church, P.O. Box 687, Chincoteague, Va. 23336.
Services entrusted to Salyer Funeral Home Inc., where condolences may be made online at www.salyerfh.com.


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Holding a diploma in hotel management from a prestigious college in New Delhi, India, Sandeep served an internship at the Leela Kempinski, before moving on to spend three years with Taj Hotels as Chef de Partie at various locations throughout India.
Most recently he worked with the Carlson Rezidor Group launching food and beverage operations at the Park Inn Muscat as Executive Chef.
In his new role at Holiday Inn Dubai – Al Barsha, Sandeep is responsible for a team of 51 members, eight food and beverage outlets and six meeting rooms with a capacity of up to 400 people, as well as outside catering services.
A senior member of the Emirates Culinary Guild, and founding member of the Oman Chefs' Guild and Oman Food and Beverage Guild, he has received several awards for his restaurant concepts, according to the General Manager of Holiday Inn Dubai - Al Barsha, JS Anand.
"Sandeep is a very welcome addition to our team," Mr. Anand said. "Under his direction, we look forward to expanding our culinary menus and enhancing the reputation of the hotel as a dining destination with unique food and beverage concepts to suit a wide range of tastes."
For more information about the hotel please visit www.holidayinn.com / www.hialbarsha.com
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£100/year for insurance? Think you need to shop around more.
£200 for servicing/battery changes every 2 years is only spent by tossers who like to say their watch is serviced by "craftsmen" meanwhile letting the watch company cash in on your stupidity.
A decent independent local jeweller can replace a battery for a few quid and a watch shouldn't need serviced for years and years. Especially if it's Quartz.
I agree that a watch is there to tell me the time rather than act as a fashion statement but I still much prefer wearing my Tag than wearing my Casio (which I wear at work).


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I was wondering what type of wireless encryption the PSP supports... such as WPA-Preshared Keys, TKIP, etc.
I'll probably buy one in the next few days... so just wondering.
I was wondering what type of wireless encryption the PSP supports... such as WPA-Preshared Keys, TKIP, etc.
I'll probably buy one in the next few days... so just wondering.
It supports WEP
...and i think that's only 64 bit wep...
not true i have a 128 bit wep and it is working on the psp
yeah but as far as I can tell it only wupports one WEP key at a time...
ahh - i stand corrected!
hopefully someone will come up with a new firmware that will add WPA or TKIP support as well as an overall better network console.
So I have no wireless internet in my house but my neighbor does and its encrypted. I mean I forgot my WEP Key and I need a wireless sniffer on my PSP. lol. are there any WEP Sniffers on PSP yet? I mean how hard can it be to make one? I think I might start learning PSP programming just to make one since I dont have a laptop or anything.
Seeing as no homebrew using wifi capabilities @ moment as all code is in the legit SDK to make it work.. but why not use wifi card on PC and get WEP.
yeah i want that to!!
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• WebMAN Mod Plugin Updates
• Yutolio's PSN Database Updates
PS3 MFW (Modified Firmware)
• PS3 CFW Creator / PS3MFW UI
• PS3MFW Builder / Our MFW Updates
• Ideas or Suggestions to Add?