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Opinion: Yes on 32
October 31, 2012
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When Californians go to the polls this November, they will have to consider eleven ballot propositions on topics ranging from the state's infamous "Three Strikes Law" to the death penalty. But by far the most important is Prop 32, an ambitious attempt to hand control of Sacramento back to the people of California. The essence of the initiative is relatively simple: stop the flood of special interest money to California's politicians. The reality of the law, however, is more complex.
Prop 32 prohibits corporations and unions from contributing directly to politicians' campaigns and prevents them from deducting from employees' payrolls for political activity. Political action committees, or PACs, render the former rule largely ineffectual. Both unions and companies will use PACs liberally to continue to influence state lawmakers. Instead, debate centers on the latter require that paycheck deductions for political activity be voluntary. Unions, who draw much of their political war chests from involuntary deductions, are predictably outraged. They complain that Prop 32 will dramatically reduce their power, but to those who have witnessed unions drive Sacramento and local governments to their knees, this isn't such a bad thing.
Not long ago, public sector unions, and teachers' unions in particular, played a fundamental role in advocating for the rights of women and African-Americans. Unions can still be a powerful force for positive change, but too many have surrendered this role to become arch-defenders of the status quo.
The prisonguards' union has pushed through morally bankrupt and economically demanding bills such as the "Three Strikes Law", which has led to dramatic overcrowding of California's prisons. These laws provide jobs for prisonguards, mainly at the expense of California's minorities (the incarceration rate for African-Americans is nearly 10 times that of the general population). The Supreme Court ruled that the poor care in California's facilities constituted a breach of the rights of its 163,000 strong prison population, and ordered the state to release 30,000 inmates.
Consider two proposed laws: one would have made it easier to fire teachers who molest their students and another that would have allowed teachers to volunteer to have a performance review only they would see. The average citizen would be hard-pressed to come up with any reasonable arguments against these bills. Yet the California Teachers' Association, one of the most powerful state special interests in the nation, spent millions to bury both bills. Arguing shamelessly that any change at all is unacceptable, the CTA has opposed any and all measures aimed at helping California's children.
Alone among countless proposed reforms, a "parent-trigger" bill slipped past the CTA's political machine. This law allows parents to vote to take over failing schools and gives them a powerful tool to advocate for their children. When parents at Compton's McKinley elementary school met and surpassed the required number of signatures, they thought the hard part was over. Blatantly disregarding all relevant law, the district intimidated undocumented parents with the threat of deportation and instituted screening policies reminiscent of the Jim Crow South. These situations will continue to unfold across California unless something can be done to change the pervasive corruption that dominates our political system. Prop 32 promises to be that change.
Unions and their allies have used their enormous funding advantage to argue that the initiative will silence the voices of working class Californians. In reality, Prop 32 will hold unions accountable to their constituents. Middle-class union members would be able to choose whether or not to support their union's political activity, and how much of their money to contribute. Those who wholeheartedly support their unions would be free to continue to do so. Those who don't wouldn't have to. Yes on 32.


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Patch 1.5.9 (believe it'll be rolled out in the next 24 hrs)
* [FIXED] Bodies being deleted immediately (now will stay around for 5 minutes)
* [FIXED] Player profiles sometimes corrupting and causing stuck in loading issues (error handling by engine)
* [FIXED] Temperature listed in percent and not degrees (now displayed in degrees)
* [FIXED] Loosing temperature inside vehicles (now will slowly gain or be static in vehicles)
* [FIXED] ItemPainkillers popup error (no longer happens: thanks Norbert!)
* [FIXED] Spawning in Ocean when switching models (player morphing optimized by TeeTime)
* [FIXED] Wrong M107 is spawning on occasion (Correct one spawns)
* [FIXED] Crashed heli uber-loot not spawning (does now thanks to GhostBear!)
* [FIXED] Wire Fencing Kit caused graphical glitches (new model)
* [FIXED] Tank Trap Kit caused graphical glitches (new model)
* [FIXED] Invisible character models occuring
* [NEW] Hatchet for chopping wood in forests
* [NEW] Wire Fencing kit model by Artyom Troshin
* [NEW] Tank Trap kit model by Artyom Troshin
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I like that we get a hatchet, but I wish bodies hung around longer... I guess the upside is that it penalises death much more now (can't run back to body).
Also hope that temp is listed in C not F.
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Joint Colloquium Distinguished Lecture Series
Energy Efficient Sensor Interfaces
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Chinwuba Ezekwe
Interface circuits are the essential components in electronic systems that translate real-world analog quantities into a format that is understood and processed by higher-level applications. Examples of interface circuits include radio frontends, sensor readout circuits, and analog-to-digital converters. The most important performance metrics for these circuits, signal-to-noise ratio and linearity, impose lower bounds on chip area and power dissipation, which are highly dependent on the system and circuit architecture. In this presentation, I will describe a MEMS gyroscope readout circuit that exploits the secondary properties of the micromechanical sensing element together with an energy-efficient sampling technique in a system architecture that uses calibration and feedback control to achieve order-of-magnitude reductions in noise and power dissipation over conventional implementations. I will also describe an extension of the energy-efficient sampling technique to resistive bridge sensor readout electronics.
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Video: NetBeans Visual Library in Afrikaans!
By Geertjan-Oracle on Sep 01, 2010
However, you need to learn Afrikaans first to understand it! In fact, this is (unless I am mistaken) the first screencast about the NetBeans Platform that is in Afrikaans! (German and Dutch speakers would probably understand the screencast though.)
The whole screencast is less than 5 minutes, it won't take much of your time, so take a quick look:
In summary, Ernest describes an extension to a homework exercise done during the NetBeans Platform Certified Training in Stellenbosch. He drags and drops a Node from a BeanTreeView into a Visual Library Scene (which the students learned to do during the course), shows how to extend that to a multi-drop scenario, talks about creating rules for ConnectionWidgets, and shows the zoom functionality in action.
By the way, the students in the Johannesburg training decided that "koeksister" is the Afrikaans equivalent of the NetBeans "cookie", while the students here in Stellenbosch have suggested "die NetBoontjie Fundament" as the equivalent name for "the NetBeans Platform"!


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ELIZABETHTOWN, Ky. -- On Tuesday at approximately 3:03 A.M. EST, Kentucky State Police Post 04 says it received a call in regards to an altercation at 8738 Bardstown Road.
KSP says Ryannel Braxton, 23, and his older cousin Jeromey Sandlin, 27, got into a physical altercation where Sandlin was hit with a blunt object and suffered cuts to the head.
Troopers say he then left the home and was stopped after a brief chase on U.S. 62.
Sandlin was arrested and charged with the following: Reckless Driving, Speeding, Fleeing or Evading Police 2nd, Operating on a suspended or revoked operators license, Operating a motor vehicle under the influence of alcohol 1st, Possession of open alcohol container in motor vehicle prohibited, Wanton Endangerment 2nd (Police Officer).
He was later transported to University of Louisville Hospital where he is listed in stable condition.
KSP says the preliminary investigation indicates that Braxton was acting in self defense.
The assault case remains under investigation.


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IN 2011–12: Played in nine games... Finished 1-3-0 on the season with 3.42 goals against average and a .871 save percentage... Picked up lone win against Providence (10/28)... Made a season-high 25 saves against Merrimack (10/7) and New Hampshire (11/5).
IN 2010–11: Played in nine games in goal his rookie season, starting eight... Posted a record of 3-3-2 with a 3.18 goals against average and a .862 save percentage... Stopped all 32 shots that he saw in Maine's 5-0 win over Providence (12/4) for his first career shutout... His 32 saves were a career high... Earned Hockey East Rookie of the Week on Dec. 6 for his performance against the Friars... Named Hockey East Rookie of the Month for December... Made 20 saves in 1-1 tie with #16 Boston University (1/29).
BEFORE MAINE: Played for Ryan Miller at Kimball Union Academy... Finished the 2009–10 season with a 1.61 goals against average and a .925 save percentage... Kimball Union finished as the 2008–2009 Lakes Region Champions... Also finished as the Piatelli/Simmons Small School New England Champions... Named to the NEPSAC All-New England Team and earned most valuable player honors... Also played golf and tennis in high school.
PERSONAL: Born Dec. 30, 1991... Plans to major in business... Son of France Gagnon and Alain Ouellette... has a brother, Luc.


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Aggie and Lady Aggie Sports
Scott Puryear, Sports Information Director
Oklahoma Panhandle State University
P.O. Box 430, Goodwell, OK 73939
580-349-1340 firstname.lastname@example.com
statisticians are among the thirty people that it takes to
manage the support functions at an Oklahoma Panhandle State
basketball game. Pictured above (from left) are OPSU students
Austin Elliot, David Pierson and Josh Ward who maintain the
stats. Photo courtesy Aggie Sports
Immediate Release**
Behind the Scenes at OPSU Basketball Games
by Aggie Sports on 12/29/05
Goodwell, OK - It takes
many hard working people to manage a basketball game at Oklahoma
Panhandle State University. While nearly all fans are focused
on the players during game action or on the cheer team routines
during breaks in the game, many others are getting the job
done in capacities not quite as visible.
Nikki Cothran, OPSU softball coach, has charge of the ticket
booth, the sale and distribution of game programs, concession
stands and working with security.
No matter if the game is fast and furious
or in a timeout, the action at "THE TABLE" is usually perpetual
motion. At courtside is the very important scorer's table – the
control room, so to speak. It is there where one can find the
official scorer, the clock operators, the announcer, the statisticians,
the music coordinator, and members of media.
Guymon businessman and OPSU men's golf coach Roger McKinnon
has served as the official scorer for several years. The official
scorer is just that – an official – and McKinnon
works closely with the striped shirts on the court to make
sure that points, fouls, and time-outs are correct as well
as that substitutions are handled properly.
Cla Hammers, an OPSU maintenance employee during the day,
normally handles the scoreboard and Courtney Harris, an OPSU
student, usually handles the shot clock. The clock operators
must stay on their toes through the entire game and watch the
action and the signals from the on-floor officials very closely.
Dr. Wayne Stewart, OPSU's Dean of Education, normally
handles the announcing and keeps fans involved and informed
on the different things that are happening in the game as well
as several announcements that may be necessary. When Stewart
is not handling the announcer's duties, Dr. Wayne Manning,
OPSU's Vice President of Outreach and Academic Affairs
usually is.
OPSU student Tyler Puryear takes care
of the recorded music and works closely with Cheer Team coach
Amber Hollis, as well as cheer co-captains Kenzie Talcott
and Mallory Turlington to assure that the music (piped through
the public address system) is correct as far as pre-game
and halftime along with accompanying the Cheer Team routines.
Puryear and Hollis also coordinate closely with the school's
band director, Jason Berg.
Two spotters and a computer coordinator
work at a rapid pace to make sure that "play-by-play" statistics
are kept accurately and distributed to coaches and the media
eight to ten times during each game. OPSU students Austin
Elliot and Josh Ward are the spotters and work non-stop as
they feed information to another student, David Pierson,
who enters all the data into the courtside computer.
Scott Puryear, Sports Information Director
and Business Teacher, is the "Pit Boss" and may
be seen performing any of the jobs on the table and/or working
with the press or the radio broadcasters.
Preparations for Aggie and Lady Aggie
basketball games normally get started several hours before
the event begins. There are programs to prepare and print,
concessions to make ready and the testing of all equipment.
Shortly before the opening tip, an OPSU student, faculty
member or the band (under Berg's
direction) performs the "Star Spangled Banner" and
then fans hear Stewart or Manning introduce the starting line-ups
for both teams.
After the game's conclusion (and sometimes there is
both a women's AND men's game, one right after
the other), the work is still far from done. The table crew
breaks down all the equipment, and there are faxes to send
to media outlets, e-mails to be sent to other schools and the
Heartland Conference, and game stories to write. In addition,
all spectator areas must be cleaned after the game and that
duty is normally performed by members of the OPSU baseball
team, supervised by their coach Jason Kueffler.
On two-game days, which occur mostly during Conference play,
the process of managing the event may take as long as eight
hours. Not including players and coaches, band and cheer team
members, it usually takes about thirty people to get the job
done on Oklahoma Panhandle State basketball game day.
It's worth it, because fans attending
Aggie and Lady Aggie games usually have a very good time.


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I got a request from the man upstairs to setup Jenkins for Pretested commit (through a build at Jenkins, if all unit tests and other pass then commit it and build a dist). We're using svn here.
Is anyone clear about how this can be done with Jenkins? I am finding next to no information on it.


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The number of scientists who doubt that CO2 changes the climate has diminished considerably. Many scientists are now saying that ocean acidification would be more harmful than a 20-foot sea level rise and frequent superstorms.
When coal is burned it produces CO2. The oceans have nearly unlimited ability to absorb CO2 and become acidic. Increased coal burning will prevent diatoms from forming shells, effectively killing oceans.
There will be a public hearing on coal exports today at 4 p.m. in Gaiser Hall of Clark College at the north end of the campus. There will be a rally at 3 p.m. Overflow crowds are expected and will meet in Foster Auditorium with other hearings officers. Bring a friend and carpool.
The Supreme Court ruled in 2007 that CO2 was a pollutant. Writing for the majority, Justice John Paul Stevens said EPA must regulate CO2 unless it determines that CO2 does not change the climate. The coal industry has found a giant loophole in the regulations: Burn the coal offshore.
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The price of a bag of mangoes dropped 50%. This has severely affected farmers in San Lorenzo Valley (Peru), and favors intermediaries.
According to the statement by the chairman of San Lorenzo Valley growers, Ciro Tito Flores, to support farmers facing low prices, they are trying to implement an associative model to add value to the fruit.
He explained that they are trying to implement a processing plant to process fruit pulp produced in San Lorenzo Valley, and thus prevent intermediaries from imposing the price on farmers.
This way, the new product will be exported and marketed in the country, in order to give new opportunities to farmers, currently "cheated" by intermediaries.
"We have also acquired a mango packing plant because it allows the entry to the international market," pointed out the leader.
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Alabama's 32-28 victory over Georgia on Saturday night in the SEC Championship Game likely means the LSU Tigers will be the Cotton's pick.
Cotton Bowl Chairman Tommy Bain told the Austin American-Statesman on Saturday night that LSU is "the favorite in the clubhouse."
Bowl invitations will not be extended until Sunday night, after the BCS bowl matchups are announced.
LSU's opponent would likely be the Texas Longhorns. Texas was 8-3 entering Saturday night's game against Kansas State.
Kansas State, which played in the 2012 Cotton Bowl, needed to beat Texas to share the Big 12 Championship against Oklahoma.
The Wildcats and Sooners are likely headed to the Fiesta and Sugar bowls.
Numerous media outlets have suggested that the SEC would like the Cotton to protect the SEC Championship Game loser. Alabama could well have been the pick had it lost, but Bain said LSU has made an impression with its fans.
LSU season ticket holders ordered more than 16,500 tickets as of last Monday. Each team is allotted 12,500 tickets.
Earlire there was sentiment for a Texas-Texas A&M Cotton Bowl, but the Aggies appear likely to get snapped up by the Capital One Bowl. Bain also said, "The political truth is a lot of people don't want (a Texas-Texas A&M) matchup. I'm not going to say who pushed hardest."
The Cotton Bowl will be played Jan. 4 at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas. LSU will also open the 2013 season Aug. 31 in Cowboys Stadium against TCU.
This would be LSU's fourth trip to Cowboys Stadium overall. The Tigers beat Texas A&M 41-24 in the 2011 Cotton Bowl and beat Oregon 40-27 in their 2011 season opener.
If the opponent is Texas, it would be the first game between the Tigers and Longhorns since the 2003 Cotton Bowl, a 35-20 Texas win.
LSU is 3-1-1 in the Cotton Bowl all time.
If LSU does not go to the Cotton, the Tigers appear likely to play Dec. 31 in the Chick-fil-A Bowl, with a small chance to play Jan. 1 in the Outback Bowl.


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PANAMA CITY FL- A North Bay Haven athletics coach has been suspended with pay after a student told his parents the coach was taking inappropriate pictures or video of him in the locker room.
Panama City Police are investigating claims that Duane Geradine, a paraprofessional P.E. Teacher at North Bay Haven, used his cell phone to take pictures or video of students in the boy's locker room.
In the police report it says when a student confronted Geradine about his cell phone, Geradine told the boy "he sent the videos to the person that needs to see it." The report also says this has been going on since at least September.
School officials are cooperating with Panama City Police and the department of children and families.
North Bay Haven Principal Meredith Higgins said, "We heard concern from a parent Friday morning and began to look into that complaint, and while we were looking into it the Police department arrived on campus to investigate a different complaint they got on the same issue. So at that point we turned the investigation over to them and are awaiting information back from them."
Geradine could not be reached for comment. He will remain on paid suspension until the investigation is over.


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Article posted on May 2
Finnix development stalled for the past month since the release of 87.0, mainly because there wasn't much to do, so I tended to other things. However, there's been some work in the past 48 hours:
That last line is where all the neat is. Here's a rough idea how current Finnix 87.0 boots its initrd:
Sounds wasteful? Yes, but it worked because it was "good enough". Now, enter pcimodules. This is a nifty little utility that was grafted into the Debian pciutils package. See, in recent 2.6 kernels, each module exports a list of PCI IDs that the module is capable of handling. depmod takes this information, and compiles it into a few files, one of which is modules.pcimap. pcimodules takes this list, compares it against the PCI bus, and spits out a list of modules that should be installed. I used this as the basis of an excuse to rewrite a major portion of the boot code. Here's how it's roughly happening on development builds now:
That's it! Simpler, more automatic, and above all, FASTER. In my development vmware session, 87.0 takes 40 seconds to load. That's with default settings, so no USB/Firewire/SCSI scanning in the initrd. The current development build takes 28 seconds. That's with fully automatic module loading.
This also means that many boot-time options have been removed, because there are now automated. Of the top of my head, I removed nobootide, bootusb, nobootusb, bootfirewire, nobootusb2, bootscsi, nousb, nousb2, nofirewire, noscsi, nopcmcia, and dma. Automatically loading DMA-capable modules makes me worry (see this blog post), but out of the 30 or so different setups I've tested, only one drive has a problem with DMA, and it's a DVD burner that is frankly broken in other respects as well.
Additionally, this means that ISA SCSI CDROM booting is no longer possible without dropping into debug mode and loading modules manually. However, I doubt anyone has ever used that functionality. (If you use an ISA SCSI CDROM drive with Finnix, send me a finnix-hwsubmit report proving it, and I'll send you a dollar for your troubles :) )
Oh, and this also compacted my code considerably. In both the initrd and the autoconfig scripts, module detection/loading was reduced from 200 lines of code down to 15. Seriously.


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Katie Couric
"I could announce one morning that the world was going to blow up in three hours and people would be calling in about my hair!" -Katie Couric
Katie is most famous for her long-running association with NBC's top-rated morning program, Today. After becoming the show's first national correspondent in 1990, she became its coanchor in April of 1991. She can also be seen as a regular contributor to Dateline NBC, and has made cameo appearances in Austin Powers in Goldmember and NBC's Will & Grace (both in 2002), and also provided the voice of Katie Current in the animated feature Shark Tale (2004).
Katie's Today show salary is reportedly an astounding $13 million per year. She's collected many prestigious prizes for her work, including six Emmy Awards, an Associated Press Award, the Society of Professional Journalists' Sigma Delta Chi award, a National Headliner Award, two Gracie Allen Awards, a Matrix Award, and the Danny Kaye Humanitarian Award from UNICEF.
In 2001, People magazine named her one of its 25 Most Intriguing People of the Year. In May 2003, she hosted The Tonight Show with Jay Leno after Leno had hosted Today. She's also been seen on the popular sitcom Will & Grace, and in the films Austin Powers in Goldmember and 2004's animated hit Shark Tale.
In spite of all the awards, the big paychecks and the celebrity profile, Katie's greatest personal achievement has to be the overwhelming success of her personal crusade to raise awareness of colon cancer. Researchers from the University of Iowa and the University of Michigan Health System reported in the Archives of Internal Medicine that the rate of colonoscopies rose by more than 20% following Katie's own on-air screening in 2000. In fact, the results of Katie's campaign were so effective as to prompt researchers to coin the term the "Katie Couric Effect."
In May 2001, Katie was honored with a Peabody award for her series Confronting Colon Cancer, which also contributed to NBC News receiving the Edward R. Murrow award for Overall Excellence that same year. In October 2003, Katie received the Julius B. Richmond Award from Harvard's School of Public Health for her noble efforts.
Katie Couric BiographyKatherine Anne Couric was born on January 7, 1957, in Arlington, Virginia. She entered the University of Virginia in 1975, and graduated with honors in 1979. Following graduation, she was hired by the ABC News bureau in Washington, D.C., where she worked as a desk assistant. In 1980, she became an assignment editor at CNN. After relocating to Atlanta, she became an associate producer and later, producer of a news and information program.
Katie started out as a reporter handling general assignments for WTVJ in Miami in 1984. In 1987, she joined NBC affiliate WRC-TV in Washington, D.C. as a reporter, where she remained until 1989. During that time, she won an Emmy and an Associated Press Award for her work. She married Jay Monahan in 1989.
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In July 1989, Katie became a full-fledged reporter for NBC News, joining the broadcast team as a Pentagon correspondent. Between 1989 and 1991, she substituted for journalists such as Bryant Gumbel, Jane Pauley, Deborah Norville, and Maria Shriver during their absence, either hosting, cohosting or reading the news.
Katie became a national correspondent for Today in 1990 and a permanent cohost in April of 1991, after Norville left to take care of her newborn. Katie herself took some time off after daughter Elinor was born in July of 1991. A second daughter, Caroline, arrived in January of 1996.
In 1992, Katie began working at Dateline NBC, where she collaborated regularly as a reporter. She was also given the opportunity to host several special programs, including 1995's Everybody's Business: America's Children.
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Jay Monahan, Katie's husband of nine years, died of colon cancer in 1998 at the age of 42, despite having led a healthy and active lifestyle. Her loss became a personal crusade to raise awareness of and promote preventive testing and new medical research for colon cancer.
In March of 2000, Katie helped launch the National Colorectal Cancer Research Alliance (NCCRA), and underwent a colonoscopy on live national television. Her efforts made a positive impact on the rate at which Americans get colonoscopy screenings. In 2001, she received a George Foster Peabody award for her series Confronting Colon Cancer.
In addition to her regular gigs on NBC, Katie has made appearances in a few outside projects. She made a cameo in 2002's Austin Powers in Goldmember, where she played a Georgia State Prison guard, and guested as herself on NBC's hit sitcom Will & Grace. In 2004, she provided the voice of reporter Katie Current in the animated feature Shark Tale.


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The Bicycle Days' debut release is a clear departure from their previous sound. Calamitunes proves to be a new direction for the band, but one with similar road-sings.
Weekender 2010 was the first time I saw The Bicycle Days (TBD) live. It was the debut year of the festival and I was pleased with the student-friendly ticket price. With the opportunity to watch nearly 50 Indian bands (including Zero) spread over three days, one couldn't complain. TBD was slotted at the Hard Rock Cafe stage at the festival. Finally, it was time to hear stuff from 42, the band's debut EP, live. The band played a great set; negligible banter and zero stage antics. I remember the guitarist (Rahul Ranganath) being unperturbed by the various n00bs in the audience reacting to the delay pedals in use by the customary \m/ hand-sign. He hid under his hoodie, unfazed.
Weekender served as the initial litmus test. But after the festival, the band gradually slipped into hibernation. With the band's focus shifting towards working on the debut LP, gigs were sparse. Passing time saw the inclusion of Ramanan Chandramouli (ex-Blind Image axe-man) and Abhishek 'Shakenbake' (yes, the Holy Stoked dude) replacing previous members of the band Paul Dharmaraj (bass) and Nikhil Narendra (samples).
42 was released in 2010. TBD have made heavy sonic alterations since they played their first gig at Strawberry Fields (they were runners up). They join the long ranks of rock bands who've embraced technology and the use of sound synthesizing software. Pentagram did it in 2002. Medusa had to rename themselves Sky Rabbit in 2011 as they took to a new direction and most recently, I saw The F16s from Chennai carry out a dedicated dubstep segment in one of their songs.
New material was previewed on a terrace in Bangalore as a part of the Chaiwala Sessions, but it was acoustic. A few months into the new year, 'Hush' was previewed. Well, a glimpse of it was. With an outright "work-in-progress" sign, this proved to be the clearest and most definitive indication of The Bicycle Days' new sound. A trudge through minimal atmospheric electronica, guided by frontman Karthik Basker's calm vocals – "To embrace and give way / You helped me learn / Now let me unlearn / 'cause I've had my fill". This preview tore down all preconceived notions clouding the sonic expectations of the new record.
The Bicycle Days have buffered the blow of a complete makeover in sound on their debut album Calamitunes; remnants of 42 visible, a progression in sound evident.
Basker's vocals lumber through a minimal soundscape on first single 'Crawl (The Human Experience)' (check out the video). 'Hush' is cut from the same cloth. And 'Escape' too follows suit (with the exception of an interesting guitar-hi-hat-bass section, two-and-a-half minutes into the song). Moving away from this new soundscape, more heavier and drowning guitar tones are introduced with 'Conundrum' and a reworked version of 'Circles', titled 'Circles (Information =/= experience)' reinforces this evident evolution in sound on the record. Apart from the synthesized tracks, TBD's music borders on the circumference of alternative psychedelic music. Laced with spots of psychedelia, the tracks on Calamitunes come across as well-constructed arrangements all shaped by the whims of each individual band member. The songs move from one tranquillizing note to another, weaved together with sampling and the band's new muse; electronic soundscapes. The highly cinematic 'Indignation' with a sneering 'good-joke' sample heard towards the end reinforces this newfound love.
However, The Bicycle Days wean off the heavy stuff towards the end of the LP. Having touched both spectrums (electronic atmospheric sounds vs drowning guitar tones), both 'Moulds' and 'Truce' appear to be poems as the musical compositions simply provide a safety net to Basker's chants. The most minimalistic of the lot, 'Moulds' is just two minutes of electronic fiddling. "There's a need to talk / to each other / open the gate /communicate" are the opening lines and as a near stagnant mood is set at the onset, the boundaries of minimalism are pushed.
Calamitunes is a result of the classic trial-and-error method. With an EP to their credit, The Bicycle Days still don't write crowd-friendly choruses, expecting the audience to sing along at gigs. The song arrangements are precise and a song may touch two extremities while cued. On record, the breakdowns and wall-of-sound created by the music overpower the vocals, but as an entire package it comes off as an odyssey of what the band has experienced and imbibed, during their course as musicians. And for a band that's constantly evolving, there's no better way to write a debut album.
Indiecision: B+
PS. 'Conundrum' was incorrectly called the album opener in this review. As pointed out in the comments below, the album opener is 'Vicious'. Our bad.


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my fav bands and songs are
-Mr. Children
1)youthful days
1)Haneuma Rider
2)Music Hour
-Bump of Chicken
1)Sailing Day
2)Tentai konsaku (srry dont know the spelling)
2)My Lover
1)Funky Days
these are all great songs that i like so far. lots more but i dont want to type alot...X3
Oh so many to choose from. Hmmm....
Ayumi Hamasaki - rainbow
Kalafina - magia
Kanon Wakeshima - ennui kibun
Ai Otsuka - Lucky Star
Arashi - to be free
KAT-TUN - right now
ELISA - hikari
capsule - sugarless girl
Hey!Say!JUMP - ai-ing aishiteru
Meisa Kuroki - shock
NEWS - weeeek
Rurutia - Seirios
Saeko Chiba - sayonala solitia
Tokyo Girls Style - Kodou no Himitsu
U - Heart of glass
I'm pretty new to J-Pop so there's not much I can think of. So far I'd say Nami Tamaki - Reason and Heroine. Expect even more when my album arrives through the post in about 5-10 days. Also whoever did the theme song to Neon Genesis Evangelion. I know the songs called Cruel Angel Thesis, no idea who it's by though.
ya i like the evangelion song as well. i also have many other songs i like, but itll take a bit to remember the names....(^^)
Bennie K and Seamo - A Love Story
Exile - Michi
Yui - Rollin Star
Koda Kumi - You
Arashi - Sakura Sake
These are the songs I basically listen to every day. good songs.
well now i have another gav song, its called
1)New World -L'Arc~en~Ciel
Hmmm.... too many to name!! But the songs I listen to practically everyday would be:
1.Yuna Ito - Endless Story (the best Japanese ballad, ever!!)
2. Ayaka - I Believe, Mikadzuki (she has a great voice)
3. EXILE - any song of theirs.
4. YUI - practically all her songs. Especially CHE.R.RY and I Remember You
5. Ketsumeishi - ALL of their songs
6. Fiction Junction YUUKA
7. NewS - boyband they may be... but great songs they have.
and many many more...
Any BoA, Crystal Kay, M-flo, Teriyaki Boyz, and Namie Amuro.
My favorites are any songs by BoA and Exile actually. Any songs from them I'll enjoy listening to 'em.
Are sooo many I more so feel if the song is great it does'nt matter so much who the artist is, but to give you an idea this would be my top 10 artists in order:
2. Boa Kwon
3. Tenjo Chiki
4. Kumi Koda
5. Seamo or Seamo + any artist
6. Foxxi MisQ
7. Yuna Ito
8. Exile
9. Crystal Kay
10.Bump Of Chicken
Others that rate high Mihimaru GT, Bennie K, Namie Amuro, Ayaka, Gackt, Mika Nakashima, Hikaru Utada & Mr Chidren. As I said sooo hard sooo many good artists/songs. Thanks for JPop Asia.
flavor of life-utada hikaru
real face-kattun
boku no kimochi-wat
love so sweet-arashi
la familia-matsujun
those are some of my favorite jpop songs..
the list is so longand still getting longer...
just all the jbands s love
teriyaki boyz
KODA KUMI(most beautiful girl in my book)
oreska band
malice mizer
alice nine
orange range
hi hi puffy ami yumi
pistol valve
tatata moto
danger gang
the 50 kainez
the emeralds
aqua timez
the candy spooky theater
the gazzette
baby vox
Koda Kumi most beautiful girl? Beauty is always in the eye of the beholder. :think:
Some would say Maki Goto others Leah Dizon. :totallylove:
For me the most beautiful JPop female artists would be: Yu Yamada, Namie Amuro and the girls from Foxxi MisQ. tsu:
Meyer-san would say Maki Goto :asd: I would say Leah Dizon. :totallylove:
For me the most Fav JPop songs/bands beside leah-chans' hehe :joops:
1) Chage & Aska - Say Yes, Yah Yah Yah
2) Glay - Be with you, Winter Again
3) Luna Sea - I for you
4) Gospellers - Hitori
5) Greeeen - Aiuta
& lots more hehe :boogie:
1. Mono
2. Envy
4. oranga range
5. otsuka ai
7. pillows
8. aqua timez
yeah dude YUI! does own
hmm.. Depapepe sounds good YUI too..
i like Southern All Star *nice songs*
Chemistry, Skoop on Somebody
and bla bla... there's a lot if i have to list them down
I like Arashi, Utada Hikaru, Ayumi Hamasaki... :lovec: Flavor of life- Ballad ver.is Super We can make it, Part of me... I very love Japan songs. I try to study Japaness to understand all lyrics ops:
I like alot!!!!!, dont know if I have a favorite, but some of the artists that I listen to that i dont think were mentioned,
In no order:
-Morning Musume
-Aya Ueto
-Kinki Kids
-High and Mighty Color
-Fujita Maiko
-Do As Infinity
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hi whitetiger, you know V6 too?? It's lovely boys . I don't know a lot of their songs. I just see in Music Station Honey Beat. I want know more about this bands. When I search, they always write in Japanese :cry:


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I visited McLaren Vale in March of this year, to get a deeper sense of the place and the wines. I had a great time, but the whole while I was there, I didn't really get the sense that I was in a valley. McLaren Vale is indeed a valley, but barely, and is a sort of lumpy one, defined more by the fact that there are some areas of uplift to the North and South, than a real sense of "valleyness" if you know what I mean.
But in the heart of McLaren vale, there is a real valley. Or perhaps more accurately, a gorge -- with steep slopes plunging down to a river that flows to the Gulf of Saint Vincent a few miles away. This fissure in the midst of the McLaren vale is the Onkaparinga River National Park, a 700-acre bit of wilderness in the midst of a world-class wine growing region.
Perched on the lip of this gorge lies a 19th century farmstead, with an old stone barn, and the scrubby stumps of olive trees hinting at the harvests of the past. It was here that a young (and still young) Justin McNamee decided to go out on his own as a winemaker, and where he now practices what he refers to as "feral winemaking" in a building that is a registered historic landmark.
Justin is a great example of one of my favorite kinds of winemakers, whose enthusiasm, energy, and passion for what he is doing simply oozes out of his pores. With his shock-wild head of curly hair and ready smile, he comes across a bit like the Carrot Top of the wine world, not the least of which for his tendency to use the word "booze" instead of wine in almost any context, from fermentation, to the number of bottles consumed with fellow winemakers the night before.
Consequently, his small, rustic tasting room and the front porch of the rehabilitated old barn are about as great a wine country experience as you could hope for. The rock and roll, and often cold beer, mixed with the infectious energy of McNamee, are what make Samuel's Gorge a true gem of the McLaren Vale.
The personality, charm, and what appears to be an uncanny stamina for partying, would mean nothing, of course, were they not backed up by good wine. For all his affable, casual humor, McNamee is a serious and even soulful winemaker. That's where the "feral" part comes in.
Peek around the corner of the tasting room bar, past the tiny closet of an enology lab, and instead of rows of gleaming steel tanks, you will find two large fermentation... boxes, made out of ancient inch-thick slate, each about 120 years old, sitting in the shade of the barn. In these primitive tanks, McNamee makes three red wines each year: Grenache, Shiraz, and Tempranillo, all with ambient yeast fermentations, lots of time "on the skins," no fining, no filtration and an awful lot of sweat. The vineyards, those that are irrigated at all, generally use reclaimed water, and those that McNamee owns are farmed with an (uncertified) regimen that falls somewhere between organic and biodynamic. The amount of new oak barrels used in any given vintage is generally well below 20%
"A lot of people couldn't make wine the way I do," says Justin. "It would frustrate them. It's just too loose -- more grungy than squeaky clean. I call it feral. It's just a willingness to stand back from it all and let things happen. My style is more organic -- I make spur of the moment decisions. The term garagiste or artisan is loosely applied to what I do, but I'm really about culture -- the culture of where wine comes from, the same way that the slow food conventions are about the origins of food. Like churning butter. In the 'old school' is where you find flavor."
"I'm less about trying to be everything to everyone," he says, when asked what he's trying to achieve with his small winery. "I decided I wanted to work with McLaren Vale reds. This place as a juxtaposition between intensity and brightness, driven by sunlight and coastal breezes. The wine is about flavor concentration at the vibrant end of the spectrum. Every glass delivers sunshine. I want to show you... for you to come away from the region knowing some of the quirkiness we've got in the region"
McNamee describes himself as on a journey, and like many feels like the destination is irrelevant. He's now on his 23rd harvest in Australia, with a couple years spent in Napa and three vintages in France.
"For me, this journey was about engrossing myself in other cultures, and making a lot of cockups. It's a journey of figuring out what king of booze I really want to make. I spent 9 years at Tatachilla doing things the big way, and then I was ready to go back to hands-on winemaking. I wanted to dive into a place and a culture. Here in McLaren vale we're blessed with an incredible heritage, as well as such a happy community. It's wine culture."
In keeping with his tendency to do things his own way, McNamee uses real cork in his bottles for his wines, when nearly all of his neighbors have long abandoned it for screwcaps. "I'm very fond of cork," he says, "but we're on the bum end of the world. To get good [cork] product out of Europe is very very hard. You have to be close to your producer and deal directly with them. I get mine from Spain."
Samuel's Gorge makes about 2500 cases of wine a year, and has recently begun producing a Riesling and a Gewurztraminer from Tasmania, about which McNamee is very excited. But that's par for the course for him.
Both McNamee and his wines have a disarming and charming energy to them, and I recommend both the bottles, and the ancient barn they're made in to anyone who wants a taste of Australia's true soul.
Note that several of the vintages I've tasted below, thanks to soft demand, are not currently available in the US.
2009 Samuel's Gorge Riesling, Tasmania
Pale gold in the glass, this wine has a nose of bright stony pears washed by the rain. In the mouth it is crisp and bright with pear and hints of lychee and wet stone. Wonderfully clean and crisp, with a laser-like precision. Score: around 9.
2008 Samuel's Gorge Tempranillo, McLaren Vale
Dark garnet in the glass, this wine has a nose of wet dirt, bright black cherry, and wet wood planking aromas. In the mouth, the wine offers flavors of old leather and cherry and raspberry. Bright acidity and lightly aggressive tannins embrace undertones of wet dirt and a long finish of rich dried black cherry and a hint of black olive savoriness. Distinctive and interesting. Score: around 9. Cost: $40. Click to buy.
2009 Samuel's Gorge Tempranillo, McLaren Vale
Dark garnet in the glass, this wine smells of stony, leathery cherry with some wonderful floral overtones. In the mouth it is lean and bright with cherry, and a fantastic, earthy-leathery note. Good acidity, nice balance, fine tannins. Some lovely dried flower aromas emerge on the finish. Score: around 9. Cost: $40. Click to buy.
2007 Samuel's Gorge Shiraz, McLaren Vale
Dark garnet in the glass, this wine has a nose of bright blackberry fruit aromas mixed with a wonderful, savory umami character. In the mouth the wine possesses rich black cherry and cassis flavors, with great balance and excellent acidity framed by restrained, but supple tannins. Nice long blackberry fruit scents in the finish. Score: around 9. Cost: $40. Click to buy.
2007 Samuel's Gorge Grenache, McLaren Vale
Medium to dark garnet in the glass, this wine has a really bright nose of cherry, raspberry, and english toffee notes that make the mouth water. On the palate the wine is really juicy and bright with cherry, raspberry, cocoa powder and mulling spices. Faint, but persistent tannins hang around the edges of the mouth and a nice hint of vanilla emerges on the finish, but given only about 5% new oak barrels, this aromatic note is coming from the grape. Lovely. Score: around 9. Cost: $40. Click to buy.
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With approval of marijuana usage by Americans at a new high, the government is 'rolling a few' for legal research projects.
The Government's 'stash' sits on a 12-acre fenced garden on the campus of the University of Mississippi in Oxford.
Needless to say, students line up for a chance at accumulating community service hours weeding and tending to the plants.
"Students enrolled in our botanical courses have first dibs on 'anything that falls on the ground in the course of the moving or trimming process" says Dean Wormer, "It's a perk we award to only the highest achievers."
Wormer is former head of legacy admissions at Faber College prior to his position at U of Mississippi as grounds-keeper of the government's high profile plot.
"Since each plant is numbered and photographed each week, the occasional clipping of a bud or two for personal study is frowned upon and will be dealt with 'harshly' and we're talking about a possible 'double secret probation' here.
This does not mean students cannot revel in the overwhelming aroma of a fresh legal 'field of dreams' during their stint in the research garden."
"There's something cool about 'self-medicating' and we think the entire student body should get in on this" said botanical student Jimmy 'Ragahead' Mumford.
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"We're trying to scientifically establish a link between smoking weed and junk food consumption. When we can do that, we'll fund whatever studies they want", said Johnny Herbst, a spokesperson for the snack food industry.


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by Mark Kadzielawa
Corrosion of Conformity is a name associated with hard-core, crossover, speed metal, heavy rock. Call them what you want, but their musical transitions over the years are nothing but impressive. This band is a real chameleon, but all of its colors manage to attract a following.
Formed back in 1982, the band began to make waves. The line ups changed over the years, but the three names managed to reappear as the core of the band. Drummer/vocalist Reed Mullin, bassist/vocalist Mike Dean, and guitar player Woodroe Weatherman. The trio is responsible for one of the genre defining albums, "Animosity," which they released back in 1985. They were hailed as one of the biggest hopes of the 80s. As the time went by, the band progressed musically, and naturally altered their style. Only to peak once again with "Deliverance" in 1994. That version of the band included Pepper Keenan on guitar and vocals.
In 2010, Corrosion of Conformity returned as the original three piece. The band toured around the United States and Europe, and intended to make a studio record. Now in 2012, the self-titled, album is out, and the band is back on the road promoting the new release. The new album, has all the ingredients C.O.C. was known for over the years. It's a release that's very difficult to pin down stylistically. It fits with everything the band has done thus far, without compromising a single era. C.O.C. certainly plans another record with Pepper Keenan, who is currently on the hiatus from the band. Corrosion of Conformity is an American classic, and there is no doubt about it.
Guitar player, Woodroe Weatherman, shares his thoughts on the new album, and the mechanics behind the band.
As a guitar player, what was the biggest challenge for you to go from the way you play as a trio, as opposed to a quartet?
Woodroe Weatherman: Well, you know, it's kind of the same thing for me. I've got my hole to fill there, and make enough noise to do it. The three piece is kind of a little bit of a different animal. But, really Pepper, with the singing, he concentrates on that as a four piece. He takes mostly the rhythms stuff, but we have a few parts where we would do some harmonies, and what not. In general, I just do my thing, and it's kind of the same deal to me.
So, the mindset isn't really that much different.
Not so much. I mean, the writing for the new record, we geared it a little bit towards the three piece band. But, that's what we grew up doing. That was the original incarnation of the band, sort of speak.
The new album isn't really a retro album. In fact, it sounds as if this configuration of players continued on through the years, and naturally progressed.
It wasn't an intentional thing, you see. When we first began writing for the new album, I wanted to do a bunch of fast and heavy tunes that were reminiscent of what we did in the past. But, once we started writing, we just went into a direction that we always do, which is whatever comes out, comes out. It's silly for us to plan anything when it comes to the writing. We never really do any pre-conceived kind of music because once we start messing with it, it all goes out through the window, anyway, you know.
How long did it take you to write this record?
It really came quick because everybody showed up with a bunch of ideas. Reed (Mullin) had several songs that were kind of done. Mike (Dean) had a few, and I had a bunch of stuff that was sort of halfway there. And we just kind of got together, worked on it, and finished them up. The writing went really quick, and the recording would've gone a lot quicker too. We've actually recorded it very quickly, but then we were like doing shows and stuff in between. We were doing some touring, so it kind of seemed like it took a long time, but we actually did it pretty fast.
Now with three tours, and a record under your belt, how are the people responding to the this version of the band?
It seems pretty damn good to me. I just feel lucky we're able to tour successfully, and have a good time still. Of course having a brand new album out makes a big difference. People actually know the new stuff, and sing along, so that helps. We were actually doing several of the new songs on the two previous tours. But it makes a difference when people know the new stuff.
And what's the initial response like?
Pretty damn good (laughter.) As a matter of fact, Mike and I were just talking about it. We need to create a little bit of negativity, just to get a buzz going. You know how it is on the Internet. There is always gonna be people who will say, "hey, it sucks!" But, I think that's good to have a little bit of a sway back on it.
I'm sure everyone who expected a sequel to "Animosity" will be a little bit disappointed that it doesn't sound exactly the same.
And I think that's good to have people from all camps. Have people who love it, people who think it's all right, and some people who think, "they didn't do what I wanted them to do." So, it's good, because we always get that. All through the years, we would do a record, and with every record we always kind of do our own thing. It's never exactly the same thing. And there is always people who go, "that's not what I want my band C.O.C. to be sounding like."
What's so special with the three of you playing together? I mean, even as a four-piece, there is still the three of you that make up the bottom end of the band.
There is some weird rhythms there, you know. Strange timing, and what not. It's just something that we seem to be able to do. Like I've said a bunch of times before, we've just sort of learned how to play our respective instruments together. And that's coming from scratch for the most part, and I think it makes the big difference. Whenever we start playing, we don't have to tell each other what we are thinking, that's already kind of happening anyway.
Despite your music being called hard-core, crossover, or speed metal. There are a lot of odd influences if you listen to the band closely. You can probably track down certain songs to NWOBH bands like Iron Maiden, or so. What is what initially drove you into playing?
I personally grew up in a musical family. My Dad is a musician, so I was exposed to it from an early age. I didn't know that I really wanted to play, but I was exposed to music, and going to the festivals. And I acquired an instrument at a pretty early age. I kind of fell into it, and once I sort of figured out how to play a few things, I went and saw some bands. Bands like Black Flag, and a few others. Once I saw them play, it dawned on me that it was the music I liked, and I'm gonna dive into it, head first, and we did. Next thing I know, we are playing. I think what helped C.O.C. a lot in the early days was that we immediately started traveling. We didn't wait around. Before we even had anything solid out, we were already traveling to other cities and playing shows.
Come to think of it, you did exactly the same thing before the new album came out. There is definitely a pattern there.
That's true. That's our thing. You're probably right, yeah. The history repeats itself.
Now the album is of course out, what are your immediate plans?
Tons of touring. Well, that's it. We got a lot of touring for the new album. We got a lot of stuff already going. We already planning a follow up tour for the U.S. We got a couple of European trips planned, and more after that. And hopefully if we continue to have fun like we do right now, we're gonna dive right in, and start writing some new songs.
There is always the four-piece version of the band that is waiting to happen. How far away is that from becoming a reality?
Well, you know, it all depends. The door is open. We're having a blast now. We'll see where it takes us. Like we keep on saying, Pepper is a good friend, we talk all the time. We'll be seeing him in the New Orleans when we play there. He's gonna be in town, so he's gonna come out and party with us. I mean, who knows? Maybe we'll talk about it then. We'll see what his long term plans are. I know, Down, has some stuff coming out. But, we'll see, the door is open. I think we all want to do it at some point, but there is no rush.
Do you happen to run into some of the former C.O.C. member like Carl Agell, Phil Swisher, or Simon Bob Sinister?
Well, Carl is around in Raleigh. I don't see him much, but Reed runs into him every once in a while. I had an e-mail from Phil Swisher recently. He's overseas, he actually lives in Europe. We saw Simon Bob out in Los Angeles, not too long back. He came to the show. So, we definitely see folks around.
In the past, C.O.C. was a very politically conscious band. How are the recent political developments influencing your lyrical output?
I think its touched upon pretty adequately on the new record. I mean Mike Dean and Reed, and Pepper for that matter, have crafted the lyrical message to be a little bit less in your face and obvious, and leave a little more of it open, to each person to interpret. Which I think is good, and keeps it from being so dated. I think there is always sort of that political undertone to all of our stuff.
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Authorities say 23-year-old Maleah Nowak of Cape Coral died Sunday on the Caloosahatchee River. A tube on the boat she was riding in flew out, and the line attached to it wrapped around her neck, pulling Nowak into the water.
Investigators are examining the boat for clues to shed light on what led up to the woman's death.
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City of Richmond Victory in Racial Discrimination Case
Meyers Nave congratulates the City of Richmond, Police Chief Chris Magnus and now-retired Deputy Chief Lori Ritter on their victory in a racial discrimination case brought by seven police officers. After a three month trial, with Arthur Hartinger and Geoff Spellberg of Meyers Nave representing the City, Chief Magnus and retired Deputy Chief Lori Ritter, the jury unanimously found in favor of the Chief, former Deputy Chief and the City on all 28 causes of action. We are gratified by the jury's unanimous affirmance of the defense position.
We recognize that this trial was complex and lengthy and would like to thank the jury members for their time and we applaud the jury's unwavering focus on the facts in this case.
The City of Richmond is, and always has been, committed to cultivating a diverse workplace and performance-based professional opportunities for its tremendous staff. With this matter reaching conclusion, after years of litigation, the City is now able to devote its energy to the work that matters most: continuing to decrease crime rates and providing vital services for the citizens of Richmond.


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Today Novation has announced another trio of treats – (what shall we call it? a threebie? maybe not?) – 1) an interview with Australian producer M4SONIC, 2) a free M4SONIC soundpack for Launchpad App users, and 3) a remix competition with prizes of a Novation Launchpad S, Launch Control, and M4SONIC master class.
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The Los Angeles Philharmonic orchestra concluded their 2013/2014 season at Walt Disney Concert Hall with three great performances conducted by Gustavo Dudamel. The Sunday afternoon performances of Mozart's Serenatta Notturna and Symphony No. 36, "Linz" bookended Ravel's Piano Concerto in G with Hélène Grimaud at the piano. All of the works were received with enthusiastic ovations including a triple curtain call for Maestro Dudamel and Ms. Grimaud's performance.
Maestro Dudamel unfolded each Mozart with profound richness of detail and warmth of tone. Serenta Notturna captured Mozart's impeccable classical pedigree during the opening movement's majestic March. The minuet and trio were for the percussionless group, while the concluding Rondo reverted to the small orchestra.
The first movement of Symphony No. 36, "Linz" began with a tension-filled slow introduction before Dudamel launched the orchestra into its blazing Allegro. In the subsequent Adagio the trumpets and drums transformed the aria into something, deeper, darker, even ominous. Dudamel's gestures often indicate certain cues and at one point his pompous-like gesture cued the Minuet. His cues for the Trio, with its duet for oboe and bassoon, were regal and elegant. Dudamel conducted the dazzling finale that was filled with a profusion of thematic ideas with expertise and style.
Ravel's Piano Concerto in G is an extraordinary work. From the first opening orchestral chords and Ms. Grimaud's arpeggios, the scope of Gershwin's influence upon the epic concerto was clearly announced. Ms. Grimaud, dressed in a lovely white pantsuit, dazzled her audience from the very beginning with her grace and style. Noted for her technical prowess, she ripped through the first movement with virtuosic playing as she clearly felt the music instinctively. The second movement was so serene the audience was transfixed by its great beauty and finesse of the woodwinds. During the finale, she erupted and at its conclusion, so did the audience. To learn more about the 2014/2015 season at Walt Disney Concert Hall, please visit their website.


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When Stephen Hawking set out to write "A Brief History of Time", an editor told him that for every equation that he had in the book his readership would be halved. So Hawking included just one, E=MC2.
At the risk of losing my readers right now, I'm going to open this article with some straight-ahead sales math:
- Studies show that it takes 12 or more contacts to make the sale to a qualified prospect in the business-to-business sales cycle. The average salesperson makes only 3.
- The average buyer needs 7 quality touches during that process. The average salesperson makes only 1.5.
- Eighty percent of sales are closed after the 5th contact, but only 30% of salespeople make 5 or more contacts.
Sales is a high turnover environment, and the reason is simple: average means you don't make your numbers this year ... or ever.
Are there solutions? Sure there are. For one, great sales people make a lot of contacts on a few prospects instead of the other way around.
Second, why is your salesperson making all of the contacts? A contact can be an email, a tweet, a visit to your website, a white paper download, and so much more. Buyers come in two forms - those interested and those intending to buy. Interest is the domain of marketing, intent is the domain of sales. So when sales people reach out and talk to people who are just researching alternatives, nobody wins. The buyer isn't ready to talk to sales yet, and sales just wasted their precious time on a prospect who was unqualified - as of today. The solution, marketing automation.
Finally, does your salesperson have an aptitude for sales? Studies show that half of a salesperson's performance can be correlated to aptitude - their natural ability to sell - and the other half to factors that include things like product knowledge, skills, motivation, and process. One excellent assessment tool for evaluating sales aptitude is the CPQ. If you can identify the people who score high on outside and inside selling, then you will already be half way towards your goal of finding people who excel at contacting and selling to other people.
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Infamous deaths can make houses especially hard to sell. Think of Nicole Brown Simpson's townhouse or the house where 39 members of Heaven's Gate killed themselves to join a spaceship hiding behind the Comet Hale-Bopp or the house where Charles Manson's followers killed actress Sharon Tate and four other people.
Randall Bell, a property appraiser for Bell Anderson & Sanders of Laguna Beach, Calif., specializes in "stigmatized" properties. Often a property is stigmatized because of an environmental or structural problem -- earthquake damage, contaminated soil, a faulty foundation. But some properties are stigmatized because something horrible happened there.
Bell says it took 2 1/2 years for Nicole Brown's house to sell in a neighborhood where it otherwise would have been sold within three months. It eventually sold at a deep discount. The buyer simply was looking for a good deal. Following Bell's advice, the buyer renovated the façade. Afterward, Bell visited the house "and he had changed it so much that at first I didn't recognize the property."
The house where members of Heaven's Gate committed mass suicide "was heavily stigmatized," Bell says. "The owner tried very hard to sell it. Eventually he gave it back to the bank, and the bank sold it at a very deep discount. The property has since been bulldozed and may be redeveloped in the future." If that happens, it will have a different address. Neighbors changed the name of the street.
The Manson Family's first murder spree, one of the most infamous crimes of the 20th century, happened in July 1969 at the home of Sharon Tate and movie director Roman Polanski. The bungalow in Benedict Canyon was on a prized site in Beverly Hills, with a stunning view of Los Angeles. "It sold in the early '90s for full value," Bell says. "The new owner bought it and tore it down and built a 10,000-square-foot, Mediterranean mansion. That showed that no matter how heinous the crime, eventually, things can return back to normal. It can take many years."
What about ghosts? "If it ties to a real event, where there was a murder in the house, that's a whole world apart from a ghost that has been there since the 1800s," Bell says. "If it's a fun story, it probably has little effect on the house or might bring a small premium."
The Schaibles' house in New Jersey has a fun story. People ask Schaible if he's scared. "No," he says. "You have to live there to understand. It's not like a rattling of chains go bump-in-the-night." Apparitions happen fleetingly, "so fast that it's over before you know it."
His dream is to grow old in the house -- just as all the previous owners did.
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Hong Kong shares fell 0.61 percent on Friday after Chinese data showed growth in manufacturing activity on the mainland had slowed last month.
The benchmark Hang Seng Index slipped 140.05 points to 22,880.22 on turnover of HK$77.69 billion ($10.02 billion).
Chinese shares closed down 0.26 percent. The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index fell 6.08 points to 2,359.51 on turnover of 111.5 billion yuan ($17.9 billion). However, the index gained 1.96 percent for the week.


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Sun Ireland is having a donut day today, to mark yesterday's decent earnings results. There's a bit of a flaw, though... I work at home on Wednesdays, and we weren't given any warning that it would be today (although we knew one was coming). In fact, Sun positively encourages people to work at home as often as possible, so somehow, a donut day doesn't seem like a very inclusive reward scheme any more. If anyone has any better ideas, let me know and I'll pass them on to Scott :)


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COLUMBUS, Ohio -- July 9, 2003 -- State Auto Financial Corporation (Nasdaq:STFC) today announced that it has increased its estimate of May storm losses by $16 million, bringing the total to $39 to $42 million, pre-tax. This will add seven loss ratio points to the previous estimate contained in its May 20 release, bringing that total to 17 to 18 points. High winds, tornados, hail, lightning and resulting fires caused damage in 17 of the company's 26 operating states between May 2 and May 12.
"Based on a current review of June's loss information, we underestimated the frequency and severity of the claims associated with these widespread storms. The numbers are unprecedented. The May storms will rank as the costliest storms of their type in State Auto's history," said Robert H. Moone, STFC chairman and CEO. "We are confident that our core underwriting and pricing strategies remain sound over the long term. Our underlying book of business, absent these storms, continues to perform consistent with the results shown in the past two quarters." Moone added, "I want to again thank our claims associates and independent agents who have provided exemplary service to our insureds following these storms. We've said it before: this is why we're in business, and this is why people choose State Auto."
State Auto Financial Corporation is scheduled to release second quarter results on July 31, 2003.
State Auto Financial Corporation is a regional property and casualty insurance holding company engaged primarily in writing personal and commercial automobile, homeowners, commercial multi-peril, workers' compensation and fire insurance. The company currently markets its products through more than 22,000 agents associated with approximately 3,500 agencies in 26 states. Products are marketed primarily in the Midwest and Eastern United States, excluding New York, New Jersey and the New England states.
Except for historical information, all other information in this news release consists of forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected, anticipated or implied. The most significant of these uncertainties are described in State Auto Financial's Form 10-K and Form 10-Q reports and exhibits to those reports, and include (but are not limited to) legislative changes at both the state and federal level, state and federal regulatory rule making promulgations and adjudications, class action litigation involving the insurance industry and judicial decisions affecting claims, policy coverages and the general costs of doing business, the impact of competition on products and pricing, inflation in the costs of the products and services insurance pays for, product development, geographic spread of risk, weather and weather-related events, and other types of catastrophic events. State Auto Financial undertakes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements.
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Tsugawa Nursery: 410 E. Scott Ave., Woodland. Events are free unless noted. Register: http://tsugawanursery.com or 360-225-8750.
o Wreaths and centerpieces: 1 p.m. Nov. 17. Learn to make Thanksgiving wreaths for the front door or a centerpiece. $35.
o What to do in the garden: 11 a.m. Dec. 1. Covers monthly tasks, including pruning, spraying, general cleanup. Registration required.
Shorty's Garden and Home: 10006 Mill Plain Blvd. Events are free unless noted. Register: 360-892-7880 or http://shortysgardenandhome.com/?cid=998.
o Thanksgiving centerpieces: 10 a.m. to noon Nov. 17. Kellie Sinclair will lead this hands-on class. $25 fee covers supplies.
o Hellebores for the Holidays & Beyond: 1 to 3 p.m. Nov. 17. Join Katie Miller of Skagit Gardens to learn about uses for hellebores in holiday displays.
o Holiday Wreaths and Centerpieces: 10 a.m. to noon Nov. 24, Dec. 1 and Dec. 8. Join Kellie Sinclair in designing, building and creating your own holiday wreaths, centerpieces, door swags and other indoor and outdoor Christmas accents.
Plant propagation: 10 a.m. to noon Nov. 17 at CASEE, Room 205, 11104 N.E. 149th St., Brush Prairie. Learn plant propagation techniques. Class will be indoors with a presentation on plant choice suggestions, the benefits of plant propagation; and weather dependent, a tour of the Wildlife Botanical Gardens. NatureScaping classes are free for members, or $15 for nonmembers. Register: firstname.lastname@example.com or firstname.lastname@example.com.
Fort Vancouver Rose Society meeting: 7 to 9 p.m. first Thursday of the month, Clark County Genealogy Annex, 7165 Grand Blvd. Free. 360-696-1331.
Vancouveria Garden Club: 12:30 to 3 p.m. third Tuesday of each month, Covington House, 4201 Main St. 360-936-6515.
Vancouver Chrysanthemum Society: 2:30 p.m. third Mondays, Heritage Farm, 1919 N.E. 78th St. 360-696-9617.
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Reminiscent of Thursday's game against BYU, the Sun Devils used a one-inning scoring fest to get on the board for a win. The four-run frame came in the bottom of the sixth with a bases loaded situation for ASU. A Bulldog passed ball allowed Katelyn Boyd to advance home for the 1-0 lead to start it off.
What came next was a single to left by Lucy Aubrecht to plate Annie Lockwood. Nikole Afusia made it 4-0 with her two-run single to right that scored Danielle Muniz and Elizabeth Caporuscio.
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Dallas Escobedo earned the win to improve to 10-2 while Haylie Wagner drops to 12-4 with the loss.
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A Georgetown man died Wednesday night after losing control of his motorcycle near Frankford, according to state police.
George R. Landon Sr. was operating a 2006 Harley Davidson Road King Classic motorcycle on northbound Pyle Center Road, just south of Daisey Road, just before 9 p.m. when he failed to negotiate a curve and drove off of the roadway, police said.
Landon was ejected from the motorcycle as it slid into a curve warning sign and a tree.
Landon, who was not wearing helmet, was taken to Atlantic General Hospital in Berlin, Md., but was pronounced dead on arrival, police said.
Pyle Center Road was closed for three hours as police investigated and clear the crash scene.
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Robin R Zappin, Ed.D, PT received her PT degree from Boston University, her Masters degree from New York University and her Ed.D from Teachers College, Columbia University. Prior to coming to Alvernia, Dr. Zappin was Assistant Professor in the Department of Physical Therapy at Long Island University from 1997-2002 where she taught multiple courses and oversaw student research projects. Upon relocating to Philadelphia in 2002, Dr. Zappin was an Assistant Professor at the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia where she taught and coordinated the courses within the Integumentary track of the curriculum.
Dr. Zappin is currently the owner of Zappin Physical Therapy LLC, an outpatient private practice in Spring House, PA and also works as a physical therapist for Abramson Center Home Care.
Dr Zappin's clinical and research interests are in Burn rehabilitation and teaching. Dr. Zappin has seven peer reviewed publications and has presented numerous times at various medical and physical therapy conferences. Dr. Zappin also presented her research internationally to the World Congress of Physical Therapists in Yokohama, Japan in 1999. Dr. Zappin was awarded the Salant Award for Clinical Research from the New York Physical Therapy Association in 1995.
Since 1994, Dr. Zappin has been lecturing on Burn Rehabilitation to physical therapy programs in the tri-state area, and has been teaching continuing education lectures and workshops. Dr. Zappin also provides pro-bono educational workshops to yoga and Pilates teachers. Dr. Zappin is married with two children, studies and practices Asthanga Yoga and enjoys cooking seasonal, local grown produce.
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We have seen her go topless in the odd photo but I want to see her properly nude in all her glory. Will it happen? Not too sure, but until that day we can always indulge ourselves via some very convincing looking faked nudes like these two.
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Every year, a certain group of talent is elected into the WWE Hall of Fame, and 2014 was going to be no exception. With WWE "WrestleMania XXX" on Sunday, it was time to elect seven fantastic individuals into the Hall of Fame on the evening of Saturday, April 5, 2014. It was a night filled with laughter, emotions, great stories, and touching moments. Watching it was fantastic, but being there in person was legendary.
In what was said to be one of the greatest classes to ever be inducted, it was a long night, but a great one. All of the WWE superstars were in attendance, and in a rare situation, that actually means all of them were there.
One of the greatest inductions came from superstar Kane who inducted the late Paul Bearer and his induction was accepted by his two sons. It was what happened after they left the stage that shocked the world.
The Undertaker, who was long time managed by Bearer and who never shows up at events like this so as to keep the persona intact, came out on stage. He said not a word, posed in the fog, and held up the iconic urn in tribute to his late manager, Paul Bearer.
One of the funnier moments of the evening came from Mr. T's acceptance speech. As the celebrity inductee went on and on about his "mama," Kane's music hit and the "big red corporate machine" walked out on stage to essentially tell Mr. T that his time was up.
Diamond Dallas Page inducted a clean and sober Jake "The Snake" Roberts who gave a very moving and heartwarming speech.
Hall of Famer Trish Stratus opened up the evening by inducted her former nemesis and great friend, Lita. The "Queen of Extreme" gave a very good, and lengthy, acceptance speech.
Carlos Colon humbly accepted his induction into the WWE Hall of Fame after being brought in by his three wrestling sons. Yes, even Carlito was there for his dad.
Razor Ramon (Scott Hall) was inducted in by his longtime tag-team partner and one of his greatest friends, Kevin Nash. After giving a short and moving acceptance speech, the rest of the members of "The Kliq" (Shawn Michaels, Triple H, and X-Pac) reunited with Hall and Nash on stage.
Ending the night was Linda McMahon who introduced and inducted the Ultimate Warrior who is now legally known as Warrior. He came out to his heart-pumping music, but calmly gave a great acceptance speech full of awesome stories to finish out the night
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