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Randomness is not something we usually look upon as a vital natural resource, to be carefully conserved lest our grandchildren run short of it. On the contrary, as a close relative of chaos, randomness seems to be all too abundant and everpresent. Everyone has a closet or a file drawer that offers an inexhaustible supply of disorder. Entropy—another cousin of randomness—even has a law of nature saying it can only increase. And, anyway, even if we were somehow to use up all the world's randomness, who would lament the loss? Fretting about a dearth of randomness seems like worrying that humanity might use up its last reserves of ignorance.
Nevertheless, there is a case to be made for the proposition that high-quality randomness is a valuable commodity. Many events and processes in the modern world depend on a steady supply of the stuff. Furthermore, we don't know how to manufacture randomness; we can only mine it from those regions of the universe that have the richest deposits, or else farm it from seeds gathered in the natural world. So, even if we have not yet reached the point of clear-cutting the last proud acre of old-growth randomness, maybe it's not too early to consider the question of long-term supply.
To appreciate the value of randomness, just imagine a world without it. What would replace the referee's coin flip at the start of a football game? How would a political poll-taker select an unbiased sample of the electorate? Then of course there's the Las Vegas problem. Slot machines devour even more randomness than they do silver dollars. Inside each machine an electronic device spews out random numbers 24 hours a day, whether or not anyone is playing.
There's also a Monte Carlo problem. I speak not of the Mediterranean principality but of the simulation technique named for that place. The Monte Carlo method got its start in the 1940s at Los Alamos, where physicists were struggling to predict the fate of neutrons moving through uranium and other materials. The Monte Carlo approach to this problem is to trace thousands of simulated neutron paths. Whenever a neutron strikes a nucleus, a random number determines the outcome of the event—reflection, absorption or fission. Today the Monte Carlo method is a major industry not only in physics but also in economics and some areas of the life sciences, not to mention hundreds of rotisserie baseball leagues.
Many computer networks would be deadlocked without access to randomness. When two nodes on a network try to speak at once, politeness is not enough to break the impasse. Each computer might be programmed to wait a certain interval and then try again, but if all computers followed the same rule, they'd keep knocking heads repeatedly until the lights went out. The Ethernet protocol solves this problem by deliberately not giving a fixed rule. Instead, each machine picks a random number between 1 and n, then waits for the random number of units chosen before retransmitting; the probability of a second collision is reduced to 1/n.
Computer science has a whole technology of "randomized algorithms." On first acquaintance the very idea of a randomized algorithm may seem slightly peculiar: An algorithm is supposed to be a deterministic procedure—one that allows no scope for arbitrary choice or caprice—so how can it be randomized? The contradiction is resolved by making the randomness a resource external to the algorithm itself. Where an ordinary algorithm is a black box receiving a stream of bits as input and producing another stream of bits as output, a randomized algorithm has a second input stream made up of random bits.
Sometimes the advantage of a randomized algorithm is clearest when you take an adversarial view of the world. Randomness is what you need to foil an adversary who wants to guess your intentions or predict your behavior. Suppose you are writing a program to search a list of items for some specified target. Given any predetermined search strategy—left to right, right to left, middle outward—an adversary can arrange the list so that the target item is always in the last place you look. But a randomized version of the procedure can't be outguessed so easily; the adversary can't know where to hide the target because the program doesn't decide where to search until it begins reading random bits. In spite of the adversary's best efforts, you can expect to find the target after sifting through half the list.
Still another field that can't do without randomness is cryptography, where calculated disorder is the secret to secrecy. The strongest of all cipher systems require a random key as long as the message that's being sent. The late Claude E. Shannon proved that such a cipher is absolutely secure. That is, if the key is truly random, and if it is used only once, an eavesdropper who intercepts an encrypted message can learn nothing about the original text, no matter how much time and effort and computational horsepower are brought to bear on the task. Shannon also showed that no cipher with a key shorter than the message can offer the same degree of security. But a long key is a considerable inconvenience—hard to generate, hard to distribute.
Much of the emphasis in recent cryptological research has been on ways to get by with less randomness, but a recent proposal takes a step in the other direction. The idea is to drown an adversary in a deluge of random bits. The first version of the scheme was put forward in 1992 by Ueli M. Maurer of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology; more recent refinements (not yet published) have come from Michael O. Rabin of Harvard University and his student Yan Zong Ding.
The heart of the plan is to set up a public beacon—perhaps a satellite—continually broadcasting random bits at a rate so high that no one could store more than a small fraction of them. Parties who want to communicate in privacy share a relatively short key that they both use to select a sequence of random bits from the public broadcast; the selected bits serve as an enciphering key for their messages. An eavesdropper cannot decrypt an intercepted message without a record of the random broadcasts, and cannot keep such a record because it would be too voluminous.
How much randomness would the beacon have to broadcast? Rabin and Ding mention a rate of 50 gigabits per second, which would fill up some 800,000 CD-ROMs per day.
Whatever the purpose of randomness, and however light or heavy the demand, it seems like producing the stuff ought to be a cinch. At the very least it should be easier to make random bits than non-random ones, in the same way that it's easier to make a mess than it is to tidy up. If computers can perform long and intricate calculations where a single error could spoil the entire result, then surely they should be able to churn out some patternless digital junk. But they can't. There is no computer program for randomness.
Of course most computer programming languages will cheerfully offer to generate random numbers for you. In Lisp the expression (random 100) produces an integer in the range between 0 and 99, with each of the 100 possible values having equal probability. But these are pseudo-random numbers: They "look" random, but under the surface there is nothing unpredictable about them. Each number in the series depends on those that went before. You may not immediately perceive the rule in a series like 58, 23, 0, 79, 48..., but it's just as deterministic as 1, 2, 3, 4....
The only source of true randomness in a sequence of pseudo-random numbers is a "seed" value that gets the series started. If you supply identical seeds, you get identical sequences; different seeds produce different numbers. The crucial role of the seed was made clear in the 1980s by Manuel Blum, now of Carnegie Mellon University. He pointed out that a pseudo-random generator does not actually generate any randomness; it stretches or dilutes whatever randomness is in the seed, spreading it out over a longer series of numbers like a drop of pigment mixed into a gallon of paint.
For most purposes, pseudo-random numbers serve perfectly well—often better than true random numbers. Almost all Monte Carlo work is based on them. Even for some cryptographic applications—where standards are higher and unpredictability is everything—Blum and others have invented pseudo-random generators that meet most needs. Nevertheless, true randomness is still in demand, if only to supply seeds for pseudo-random generators. And if true randomness cannot be created in any mathematical operation, then it will have to come from some physical process.
Extracting randomness from the material world also sounds like an easy enough job. Unpredictable events are all around us: the stock market tomorrow, the weather next week, the orbital position of Pluto in 50 million years. Yet finding events that are totally patternless turns out to be quite difficult. The stories of the pioneering seekers after randomness are chronicles of travail and disappointment.
Consider the experience of the British biometrician W. F. R. Weldon and his wife, the former Florence Tebb. Evidently they spent many an evening rolling dice together—not for money or sport but for science, collecting data for a classroom demonstration of the laws of probability. But in 1900 Karl Pearson analyzed 26,306 of the Weldons' throws and found deviations from those laws; there was an excess of fives and sixes.
In 1901 Lord Kelvin tried to carry out what we would now call a Monte Carlo experiment, but he ran into trouble generating random numbers. In a footnote he wrote: "I had tried numbered billets (small squares of paper) drawn from a bowl, but found this very unsatisfactory. The best mixing we could make in the bowl seemed to be quite insufficient to secure equal chances for all the billets."
In 1925 L. H. C. Tippett had the same problem. Trying to make a random selection from a thousand cards in a bag, "it was concluded that the mixing between each draw had not been sufficient, and there was a tendency for neighbouring draws to be alike." Tippett devised a more elaborate randomizing procedure, and two years later he published a table of 41,600 random digits. But in 1938 G. Udny Yule submitted Tippett's numbers to statistical scrutiny and reported evidence of "patchiness."
Ronald A. Fisher and Frank Yates compiled another table of 15,000 random digits, using two decks of playing cards to select numbers from a large table of logarithms. When they were done, they discovered an excess of sixes, and so they replaced 50 of them with other digits "selected at random." (Two of their statistical colleagues, Maurice G. Kendall and Bernard Babington Smith, comment mildly: "A procedure of this kind may cause others, as it did us, some misgiving.")
The ultimate random-number table arrived with a thump in 1955, when the Rand Corporation published a 600-page tome titled A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates. The Rand randomizers used "an electronic roulette wheel" that selected one digit per second. Despite the care taken in the construction of this device, "Production from the original machine showed statistically significant biases, and the engineers had to make several modifications and refinements of the circuits." Even after this tune-up, the results of the month-long run were still unsatisfactory; Rand had to remix and shuffle the numbers before the tables passed statistical tests.
Today there is little interest in publishing tables of numbers, but machines for generating randomness are still being built. Many of them find their source of disorder in the thermal fluctuations of electrons wandering through a resistor or a semiconductor junction. This noisy signal is the hiss or whoosh you hear when you turn up an amplifier's volume control. Traced by an oscilloscope, it certainly looks random and unpredictable, but converting it into a stream of random bits or numbers is not straightforward.
The obvious scheme for digitizing noise is to measure the signal at certain instants and emit a 1 if the voltage is positive or a 0 if it is negative. But it's hard to build a measuring circuit with a precise and consistent threshold between positive and negative voltage. As components age, the threshold drifts, causing a bias in the balance between 1s and 0s. There are circuits and computational tricks to correct this problem, but the need for such fixes suggests just how messy it can be getting a physical device to conform to a mathematical ideal—even when the ideal is that of pure messiness.
Another popular source of randomness is the radioactive decay of atomic nuclei, a quantum phenomenon that seems to be near the ultimate in unpredictability. A simple random-number generator based on this effect might work as follows. A Geiger-Müller tube detects a decay event, while in the background a free-running oscillator generates a high-frequency square-wave signal—a train of positive and negative pulses. At the instant of a nuclear decay, the square wave is sampled, and a binary 1 or 0 is output according to the polarity of the pulse at that moment. Again there are engineering pitfalls. For example, the circuitry's "dead time" after each event may block detection of closely spaced decays. And if the positive and negative pulses in the square wave differ in length even slightly, the output will be biased.
Hardware random-number generators are available as off-the-shelf components you can plug into a port of your computer. Most of them rely on thermal electronic noise. If your computer has one of the latest Intel Pentium processors, you don't need to plug in a peripheral: The random-number generator is built into the CPU chip. There are also several Web sites that serve up free samples of randomness. George Marsaglia of Florida State University has some 4.8 billion carefully tested random bits available to the public. And there are less-conventional sources of randomness, most famously "lavarand," at Silicon Graphics, where random bits are extracted from images of the erupting blobs inside six Lava Lite lamps. (Lately the lamps have gone out, although samples remain available at lavarand.sgi.com.)
As a practical matter, reserves of randomness certainly appear adequate to meet current needs. Consumers of randomness need not fear rolling blackouts this summer. But what of the future? The great beacon of randomness proposed by Rabin and Ding would require technology that remains to be demonstrated. They envision broadcasting 50 billion random bits per second, but randomness generators today typically run at speeds closer to 50 kilobits per second.
The prospect of scaling up by a factor of a million demands attention to quality as well as quantity. For most commodities, quantity and quality have an inverse relation. A laboratory buying milligrams of a reagent may demand 99.9 percent purity, whereas a factory using carloads can tolerate a lower standard. In the case of randomness, the trade-off is turned upside down. If you need just a few random numbers, any source will do; it's hard to spot biases in a handful of bits. But a Monte Carlo experiment burning up billions of random numbers is exquisitely sensitive to the faintest trends and patterns. The more randomness you consume, the better it has to be.
Why is it hard to make randomness? The fact that maintaining perfect order is difficult surprises no one; but it comes as something of a revelation that perfect disorder is also beyond our reach. As a matter of fact, perfect disorder is the more troubling concept—it is hard not only to attain but also to define or even to imagine.
The prevailing definition of randomness was formulated in the 1960s by Gregory J. Chaitin of IBM and by the Russian mathematician A. N. Kolmogorov. The definition says that a sequence of bits is random if the shortest computer program for generating the sequence is at least as long as the sequence itself. The binary string 101010101010 is not random because there is an easy rule for creating it, whereas 111010001011 is unlikely to have a generating program much shorter than "print 111010001011." It turns out that almost all strings of bits are random by this criterion—they have no concise description—and yet no one has ever exhibited a single string that is certified to be random. The reason is simple: The first string certified to have no concise description would thereby acquire a concise description—namely that it's the first such string.
The Chaitin-Kolmogorov definition is not the only aspect of randomness verging on the paradoxical or the ironic. Here is another example: True random numbers, captured in the wild, are clearly superior to those bred in captivity by pseudo-random generators—or at least that's what the theory of randomness implies. But Marsaglia has run the output of various hardware and software generators through a series of statistical tests. The best of the pseudo-random generators earned excellent grades, but three hardware devices flunked. In other words, the fakes look more convincingly random than the real thing.
To me the strangest aspect of randomness is its role as a link between the world of mathematical abstraction and the universe of ponderable matter and energy. The fact that randomness requires a physical rather than a mathematical source is noted by almost everyone who writes on the subject, and yet the oddity of this situation is not much remarked.
Mathematics and theoretical computer science inhabit a realm of idealized and immaterial objects: points and lines, sets, numbers, algorithms, Turing machines. For the most part, this world is self-contained; anything you need in it, you can make in it. If a calculation calls for the millionth prime number or the cube root of 2, you can set the computational machinery in motion without ever leaving the precincts of mathland. The one exception is randomness. When a calculation asks for a random number, no mathematical apparatus can supply it. There is no alternative but to reach outside the mathematical empyrean into the grubby world of noisy circuits and decaying nuclei. What a strange maneuver! If some purely mathematical statement—say the formula for solving a quadratic equation—depended on the mass of the earth or the diameter of the hydrogen atom, we would find this disturbing or absurd. Importing randomness into mathematics crosses the same boundary.
Of course there is another point of view: If we choose to look upon mathematics as a science limited to deterministic operations, it's hardly a surprise that absence-of-determinism can't be found there. Perhaps what is really extraordinary is not that randomness lies outside mathematics but that it exists anywhere at all.
Or does it? The savants of the 18th century didn't think so. In their clockwork universe the chain of cause and effect was never broken. Events that appeared to be random were merely too complicated to submit to a full analysis. If we failed to predict the exact motion of an object—a roving comet, a spinning coin—the fault lay not in the unruliness of the movement but in our ignorance of the laws of physics or the initial conditions.
The issue is seen differently today. Quantum mechanics has cast a deep shadow over causality, at least in microscopic domains. And "deterministic chaos" has added its own penumbra, obscuring the details of events that might be predicted in principle, but only if we could gather an unbounded amount of information about them. To a modern sensibility, randomness reflects not just the limits of human knowledge but some inherent property of the world we live in. Nevertheless, it seems fair to say that most of what goes on in our neighborhood of the universe is mainly deterministic. Coins spinning in the air and dice tumbling on a felt table are not conspicuously quantum-mechanical or chaotic systems. We choose to describe their behavior through the laws of probability only as a matter of convenience; there's no question the laws of angular momentum are at work behind the scenes. If there is any genuine randomness to be found in such events, it is the merest sliver of quantum uncertainty. Perhaps this helps to explain why digging for randomness in the flinty soil of physics is such hard work.
© Brian Hayes
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Also, outreach for city budget process planned The City Council Monday adopted interim zoning regulations for medical marijuana "collective gardens" to ensure that such gardens, now allowed by state law, don't harm residential neighborhoods.
The zoning ordinance -- which only allows the gardens in areas zoned light industrial, general commercial and medical institution and prohibits them within 1,000 feet of schools and churches -- gives the city six months to gather public input and consider whether any city codes need to be changed.
The ordinance calls for a public hearing regarding the zoning regulations by July 2. Staff will now develop permanent regulations for the council's approval.
State law has allowed medical marijuana "collective gardens" for qualifying patients since last year. The drug has been found to alleviate pain for people undergoing cancer treatment. However, federal law still prohibits any cultivation or distribution of pot, and statewide regulations regarding the cultivation and distribution of medical marijuana are still unclear.
Bellevue's interim zoning ordinance states that it is intended to prevent "new uses that are incompatible with nearby existing land uses and lead to erosion of community character and harmony."
Several council members expressed support for the interim zoning regulations as a way to keep marijuana collective gardens from emerging in residential neighborhoods before adequate permanent municipal rules are in place.
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Outreach on 2013-2014 budget startingThe council approved outreach planned for the development of the 2013-2014 budget that includes public hearings in May, July and November, two "open house style" forums and presentations to community organizations upon request.
The first hearing will be Monday, May 14, during the council's extended study session, around 8 p.m. Finance Director Jan Hawn noted that the hearings follow the biennial budget survey done earlier this year as well as the annual performance survey.
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For the second time the city will use an "outcomes" approach to assemble the budget, with city services and programs evaluated based on community priorities, or outcomes, rather than city departments.
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Do you "really" see her more feminine than Mao or Yuna? If so, I am now witnessing a real cultural (or personal?) difference! On the internet of some Asian country (I wouldn't tell which), I found she was called as "brother" instead of "sister" in a cute way (no way in a derogatory term). In most of the Oriental eyes, she belongs to less feminine style (maybe because of her muscular body?) than, let say, Alissa, Mirai, Sasha, Caroline, Ashley, Mao, Yuna, Yukari. Miki seems more likely to belong to the category of Joannie, Carolina style. I am talking about general consensus: there are always exceptions.
All this does not mean that I don't like Joannie. To be honest, her style and artistry was just so-so to me until last season, although I liked her power. But I really started to like her after seeing her Tango this season! This seems to bring up more femininity from her and I think It's her best program (at least to me). I wish her all the best this season!
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In Canada she is definietly seen as feminine, strong, powerful and beautiful: I am glad we don't have such narrow views on what is "feminine"
In my view, flexibility is an area where some people's bodies just don't allow for the execution of certain moves - no matter how much stretching takes place. Many skaters can do spread eagles but some can't because their hips don't open up and there is not enough flexibility in their ankles. It's not that it is a problem, it's just not physically possible.
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Caroline seems to have a poor attitude toward the scores she gets, does she not realize that there are serious flaws in her skating that need to be corrected if she ever hopes to be competitive..??
As someone with "pencil arms" with no time to go to a gym (with most classmates in the same boat), seeing Joannie look as fit as she does is welcome, refreshing, and beautiful.
I think Caroline will realize sooner or later that a major overhaul is needed or she will no longer be a factor in senior skating competitions.
If she was actually serious - or willing to recognize her jump flaws - she would have switched to Carroll or Arutunian last season when both had openings.
I don't imagine either would put up with her though as she seems to want to be the one in charge of her own training.
Mao has probably been hurt by a similar attitude, although Mao is a much better skater than Caroline.
If you think it is really offensive and would like me to delete my post, I'll do that. Just tell me.
Actually, I don't find her position in the second picture very good. Obviously, she is more flexible that most people in the world. But she is cheating to get her leg up higher. She's leaning sideways, her hip is lifted, and even though you can see that far down, I can tell her standing knee is bent from the line of her hip.
It's the not the worst I've seen by far but it is not an attractive position.
You are right that skaters don't have to be able to twist their bodies into pretzels to be the best in the world - but they should honor the extension they DO have, and just make the most of it. It's what I always loved most about Michelle Kwan and even Irina Slutskaya's spirals.
I thought Joannie's scores were completely warranted. On the other hand I found Laura Lepisto's placement to be very strange, and didn't think the errors Suzuki made should have put her so far down the list. However, third to eighth place is practically a tie, so it will come down to the long program.
As to Czisny being behind Rochette Czisny does not have Joannie's speed on the ice. It is particularly noticeable live. This does influence how an entire program looks and thus PCS.


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An Arctic cold from will be pushing down into the United States Starting December 12, 2012.
This front will push from the upper northwest down to Florida.
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This is a sustained cold from, and from the models, it will last into January.
This US has eluded most of the cold air this winter, but that's about to change.
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This Saturday, more than 500 public middle school students from New York City will show off more than 300 of their best research projects during a major science expo at the Museum celebrating the successful ninth year of Urban Advantage Middle School Science Program.
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I'm trying to analyze a national data set using Stata 11. However, the
following set up
svyset psu [pweight=weight], strata(stratum);
resulted in no variance estimates because of many strata with only 1 PSU.
When I went back to the documentation it is stated that the study
used a multistage stratified design in which primary sampling units
(PSUs) were stratified according to certain sociodemographic criteria. The
frame for housing units is the Census 2000/2001 Supplementary Survey
(C2SS) and that
for group quarters is the Census 2000 Group Quarters Inventory. The C2SS
sample of
655 PSUs was selected at the first stage, including 401 self-representing
(SR) and 254
non-self-representing (NSR) PSUs. All SR PSUs were selected with
certainty. For the
NSR sample, two PSUs were selected per stratum, with probability
proportional to the
size of the estimated 1996 population of the stratum. NOTE: Sample was
included from each of the 655 PSUs.
However, to prevent potential respondent disclosure, some PSUs were
collapsed so that the final
data file shows 435 PSUs, 305 being SR and 130 being NSR.
So there are 305 strata with one PSU. Final sample is 43,093.
Would I be safe in assuming that one would use weight and PSU, and ignore
strata in this case? No other design variables are provided. Doing
things this way seems to replicate SEs in the published tables -- at
least the few I tried to replicate.
Mike Frone
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In 2003, an unprecedented event took place in Brazil. Ignacio Lula da Silva, a metalworker and union leader, became the first working class President to be elected in Brazilian history. The victory of this left wing candidate was not only a victory for his party the PT (Workers Party) but also for the millions who cast their vote in hope for a brighter future. Many considered Brazil's historic election to have been a popular judgment against the neoliberal economic project that has caused the increased impoverishment of millions of Brazilians.
However, the neoliberal agenda, pursued in the last two decades and backed and promoted by such supra-national global institutions as the World Bank, IMF and WTO, continues to push forward the mass privatization of state-owned industries, the explosion of low-wage factory zones, the wide-scale pillaging of Brazil's natural resources and the tripling of Brazil's international debt. Despite holding the tenth largest economy in the world, Brazilians have seen the rich get richer and the poor get poorer, with Brazil containing the widest disparity of wealth in the western hemisphere.
Regardless, Brazilian social movements are among the strongest and most organized in Latin America in challenging the social, racial, and economic injustices of the neoliberal system. The largest social movement in the hemisphere-- the Landless Workers Movement (MST) [1]-- has succeeded in pressuring for land reform and land titles for more than 250,000 displaced families, and promoting sustainable and rational usage of land and resources. Ten million Brazilians voted in a popular referendum against the Free Trade Area of the Americas [2], despite the Brazilian government's favorable position in renegotiating the treaty with Washington. And Brazil is also home to the World Social Forum, which since 2000 has reunited the world's largest gathering of progressive social movements to make "Another World Possible."
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PlayStation UK boss leaves for Amazon UK
Fergal Gara has left PlayStation UK after four years at the helm to join Amazon UK.
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Sony: No Man's Sky "treated like a first-party release"
PlayStation UK's Fergal Gara has confirmed that indie title No Man's Sky will have the full weight of PlayStation behind it.
Vita's year-on-year growth proves it's "found its niche", says Sony UK's Gara
PlayStation Vita has "found its niche" and is showing growth year-on-year, according to Sony UK MD Fergal Gara.
Sony: we're treating Destiny as a first-party release
Sony's UK MD has said that it sees Destiny as a first-party PS4 title.
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PS4 is still in short supply in Europe, with Sony mourning lost sales as it scrabbles to meet demand.
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PlayStation 4 consoles are expected to remain in limited supply across the UK until April, according to exec Fergal Gara.
PS4 next-gen console war lead because Sony listened to developers - Gara
PlayStation 4 has established and held a lead on the Xbox One because Sony built the console with ease of development in mind, according to Sony UK marketing director Fergal Gara.
Nintendo decline could be detrimental to entire industry, says Sony UK boss
Nintendo's current run of slumping financials could prove damaging to the games industry as a whole, according to PlayStation UK boss Fergal Gara.
PS Vita: difference between new and old screens "relatively imperceptible"
Sony defends switch from OLED to LCD screens, "technology is always full of compromises," says UK MD.
No discount on old Vita model, stock "all but sold out"
Sony won't be cutting the price on the old model PlayStation Vita console in the run up to the PS Vita slim release.
PS4 stock levels in the UK "still not enough," says Sony
UK MD Fergal Gara moves to reassure consumers that demand will be met, global 4.2m sales is a "suppressed figure."
PS Vita: "People look at it as the iPod of handheld gaming," says Sony boss
Second screen for PS4 or console in its own right? UK MD Fergal Gara discusses the future of the PS Vita and why Sony has "done our damndest to do a good job" for gamers.
PS4 was the UK's fastest-selling console in 2013, 3DS top overall
PlayStation 4 was the UK's fastest-selling console last year, while Nintendo 3DS emerged as the nation's biggest-selling machine overall.
PS4 stock available in UK for hardware replacements
PlayStation 4 stock is pretty low in the UK, but Sony has kept a stockpile in reserve to ensure customers unfortunate enough to experience hardware failures can get replacement units as soon as possible.
PS4 is fastest-selling console in UK history, beating PSP record
PlayStation 4 launched last Friday here in the UK, and it has gone on to become the fastest-selling console in the nation's history.
PS4 demand is "phenomenal": Sony's UK boss talks to us at launch
PlayStation 4 is rolling out across the UK and Europe now. Paul Davies spoke to PlayStation UK's boss Fergal Gara to get a handle on just how big today is for Sony, and what comes next for the console.
PS4 UK launch: Sony ready to smash day one sales record, says Gara
PlayStation 4 is launching midnight across Britain, and PlayStation UK boss Fergal Gara reckons the team is poised to smash the company's fastest-selling sales record set by PSP.
PS4: steep store pricing explained by Sony, Killzone & Knack £53 each
PlayStation 4 digital titles have come under scrutiny this week, starting with EA titles FIFA 14, Battlefield 4 and Need for Speed: Rivals each selling for £63 a pop. Sony has now stepped forward to explain why its own titles Knack and Killzone: Shadow Fall cost £53 on the store.
PS4 UK & European launch events detailed, consoles available without pre-orders
PlayStation 4 will launch in the UK, Europe and Latin America this Friday, November 29. Sony has outlined its official launch event plans.
PS4 "economics" closer to PS2 than PS3
PlayStation 4 is likely to break even on manufacturing costs in a similar time span to the PS2, as opposed to the PS3's long struggle to profitability.
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PS4 next-gen console war lead because Sony listened to developers – Gara
Nintendo decline could be detrimental to entire industry, says Sony UK boss
PS Vita: difference between new and old screens "relatively imperceptible"
PS Vita: "People look at it as the iPod of handheld gaming," says Sony boss
PS4 was the UK's fastest-selling console in 2013, 3DS top overall
PS4 is fastest-selling console in UK history, beating PSP record
PS4 demand is "phenomenal": Sony's UK boss talks to us at launch
PS4 UK launch: Sony ready to smash day one sales record, says Gara
PS4: steep store pricing explained by Sony, Killzone & Knack £53 each
PS4 UK & European launch events detailed, consoles available without pre-orders
PS4 consoles available at Covent Garden event on launch night
PS4: we see PlayStation as a brand, not just a box says Gara
PS4 & PS Vita bundle concept, "becoming more real by the week," says Sony
PS4 vs Xbox One: the format war is a marathon, not a sprint, says Sony
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Xbox One's seven day head start over PS4 in Europe is a "moot point," says Sony
PlayStation 4's "potential killer app" might well be remote play with Vita, says Sony
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The last several nights, since the onslaught of the summer rain storms, we've heard the deep croak of the Colorado River Toad at our Tucson Bed & Breakfast. We have several animal ponds on site to which these toads are attracted, undoubtedly looking for a mate. They can weight close to two pounds and most look like they'd be comfortable sitting on a salad plate rather than a small lilly pad. They burrow into the ground as much as two feet deep and wait until the summer rains come when they come out, mate, and lay eggs.
Their only real defense is a chemical substance coating their body which can paralyze and kill small animals. In fact we had a miniature poodle years ago who bothered one. Luckily we were able to hose out our pet's mouth so that she lived. Other animals aren't so lucky. They might also pose a danger to a child who handled one.
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Popcorn time. Later today, thousands of New Zealanders will discover the Discovery Channel for the first time, to gawp with the thrill of amateur anthropologists as Oprah and Lance do it like they do it on the Oprah Winfrey Network.
Watch as disgraced cyclist Armstrong loses himself in his host's deep, trusting eyes. Watch as the tears roll authentically down his contrite face. Watch as the solemn headmistress turns tender nurse, enveloping the reprobate's trembling hand in her own, channelling strength to further breach those emotional dams. And so on.
A weekday afternoon sitting in front of the television watching Americans disgorge their souls. We haven't had a chance to do that since, goodness, at least Monday.
The difference with the Golden Globes, of course, was that we didn't know what was going to happen. Today, in the first of two intense spells of Oprah-meets-Lance, it's a fair bet that it will run something like this.
Approbation. Reflection. Confession. Lamentation. Psychological attribution. Absolution. Redemption.
Oprah's Next Chapter - even the name of the programme evokes some kind of storybook salvation.
If the sacrament-of-penance metaphor holds, then Oprah is the priest, the TV the confessional box, and the viewing public is God.
And the viewing public, in the US certainly, seems almost unanimously furious. It's not just the cheating, and the lying about the cheating - it's the way he's traded off a fraudulent reputation and, especially, the vindictive, ruthless intimidation of those who spoke the truth about doping in cycling.
As Stephen Swart, the New Zealander (and Herald 2012 New Zealander of the year), who bravely blew the whistle on his former teammate back when the American Hero was almost untouchable, would tell you, Armstrong and his team of bullies stopped at little in their efforts to silence or denigrate the "bitter and angry" truth-tellers. Another early whistle-blower, Betsy Andreu, reluctantly recalled this week how "Lance tried to destroy us".
Along with echoes of the confessional, the televised ritual will come with cod-Freudian analysis, and the language of its contemporary stepchild, the self-help book. Expect Lance to lift his gaze after a long breath and say something like, "I didn't love myself enough to tell the truth."
That's precisely what another infamous sporting doper-liar, Marion Jones, said in her pseudo-mea culpa with Winfrey five years ago. She was reading, yuck, aloud from a letter she'd written to her children from prison.
Then, Winfrey's interrogation was about as probing as Captain Feathersword's. We can only hope that this time around she has set out to be more demanding, pushing Armstrong, for example, on the timing of his decision.
Is it a coincidence that the statute of limitations has just freed him from the risk of being done for lying under oath? Will he spill the beans on allegations of complicity within the world cycling body, the UCI? (And, crucially, not in an attempt to get himself off the hook.)
Is his confession really prompted by the burden of "living with a lie" or whatever, or is it a ruthlessly professional calculation: in the wake of the 1000-plus pages of damning evidence compiled by the US Anti-Doping Agency, and the ban it triggered, every reiteration of the Big Lie risked multiplying potential payouts. A burden, indeed.
Perhaps play a clip from a "Driven" ad Armstrong did for poor old Nike, which snarls at those "critics [who] say I'm arrogant, a doper" over shots of people recovering from cancer, all in the cause of selling shoes.
And please, please, do not let him get away with saying that he lied and lied because he could not bear to hurt those who had gained strength from his battle against testicular cancer, and his Livestrong charity.
In a bitterly funny blog post this week, TV3 sports journalist Shaun Summerfield demanded that Armstrong refund him $290 - the cost of two autobiographies and a branded cycling shirt.
Armstrong is facing a host of claims for compensation from large organisations, including a newspaper that paid him thousands to settle a libel claim and a rapidly swelling federal lawsuit, but with an estimated $100 million to his name he is hardly on the brink of penury.
A more meaningful symbol than today's Oprah pageant would be Armstrong spending whatever is left of that $100 million reimbursing Summerfield and every fan who lined his lycra pockets. Every event ticket, every book, every bit of branded kit: all bought under false pretences. Send him a bill. Redemption? Start with reparation.


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High expectations: Cash-rich buyers create seller's market on M&A scene
The cash-rich buyers chasing high-quality deals have created a seller's market in Michigan's M&A world, altering some deal terms in favor of the owners seeking a buyer for their business.
Sellers' expectations of buyers have been raised, particularly if their company is healthy and has a good recent track record.
"Sellers are getting very aggressive in terms of what they're expecting in terms of limited escrows and limited indemnification obligations," said Michael DuBay, private equity practice group leader with Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn LLP in Detroit.
One common tool used a few years ago by buyers now shows up less frequently in transactions: earnouts.
An earnout is a provision that may be used when sellers and buyers cannot agree on the valuation of a business. The seller will agree to have a part of the purchase price come from future sales or profits of the business, if a set target is met.
The deals that Grand Rapids-based M&A adviser John Kerschen worked on two years ago often used earnouts to cover the gap between how the two sides see a company's valuation. That gap can range between 10 percent and 30 percent.
"In today's world, it's most often zero, or maybe 10 to 20 percent or less," said Kerschen, managing director of the The Charter Group, which generally handles deals up to $250 million in value.
"The negotiating leverage or balance of power is firmly in the seller's camp right now," Kerschen said. "Because of the negotiating environment that we're in, sellers have relatively more leverage, and they're demanding a greater percentage of committed purchase price, either in cash or locked in. So they're not as willing to accept the contingency payouts that are somewhat buyer-friendly."
Their decreased use stems from the leverage business owners now have in a seller's market, Koh said.
"The companies that are privately owned, they're getting the valuation they need and that they want," Koh said. "If they don't get the valuation, they just say 'no.' "
Koh's experience represents a small sample of how deal terms are changing in the post-recession economy. Data suggest the use of earnout provisions, although less frequent, haven't gone away across the board.
In the 2013 Dykema M&A survey, fewer respondents reported increased use of earnout provisions across all types and sizes of deals in the past 12 months. The survey showed 30 percent of respondents reported earnouts being used, while 62 percent said it was unchanged. That compares to 36 percent who reported increased use of earnouts in 2012 and 54 percent who said their use was unchanged.
The 2013 Deal Points Study by the American Bar Association found that the use of earnouts had returned to pre-recession levels. They were used in 25 percent of the deals studied in 2013, down from 38 percent two years earlier and comparable to the 27 percent in 2007, just before the recession began. The study analyzes deals for privately owned companies acquired by public companies.
The transition over the past year toward a seller's M&A market has pushed up asking prices and multiples for some deals.
Beyond earnouts, M&A professionals say deal terms for issues such as indemnification, survival periods, escrow amounts and holdback periods in the last year or so have not changed a lot, although "the negotiations are just as hot and heavy on those fronts," Koh said.
Prior to 2013, changes in deal terms were gradual, and terms tended to favor buyers, said Matt Miller, managing partner of M&A firm BlueWater Partners in Grand Rapids.
Miller cites data from GF Data Resources LLC, a firm based in West Conshohocken, Pa., that analyzes middle-market private equity investments. The data shows indemnification periods from 2008 to 2012 actually increased to 20.9 months from 18.5 months. Escrow and holdback periods increased to 16.9 from 16.0 months during the same five-year period for private equity deals, according to GF Data Resources.
As sellers have become more aggressive amid increased market demand, Miller sees post-recession buyers today that are seeking more protections after the recession. Due diligence has been going longer and deeper in a lot of the deals Miller's firm works on, he said.
"It has to do with the perception of greater risk today than years ago," Miller said. "It runs counter to the logic that today there are more buyers than sellers, but I think with the conservative posture of banks and buyers' investors, (buyers) have been disciplined and patient and have insisted on additional protection.
"It's the shock of the recession and aftermath and the slow expansion after the recession. Our memories are vivid at this point."
While the proverbial pendulum has swung to favor sellers of late, Charter Group's Kerschen sees it eventually swinging back as more companies come on the market. The baby-boomer generation is now just beginning to exit businesses and sell, which in time will bring greater equilibrium to the M&A market, Kerschen said.
"That will start to bring valuations back down to more normal, historical levels," he said. "We're in a seller's swing right now, and then as more and more sellers come to market over time, that will absorb some of this capital, and the buyers will stiffen a little bit.
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vs the bills, 1.5 sacks a force fumble and 7 tackles. Pretty good numbers. He has been pretty good.
I think you meant this for the NFL zone.
Yes he played very well om a 4-3. Still don't believe he would make a good 3-4 DE
not worth a first rd pick so far
4 sacks through 13 games is actually pretty good for an interior lineman.
So using this logic, Warren Sapp wasn't worth a first rounder as a rookie.
And judging an interior guy on sacks alone, makes no sense.
Brockers also missed the first 3 or 4 weeks with an ankle. Brockers would be in the top 10 in a redraft.
maybe top 5. Better prospect than Hankins imo.
He hasn't been impressive at all IMO. Definitely not top 5.
if hankins is being talked about going top 5, then there's no reason to say Brockers wouldn't have the same talk.
you are comparing him to Warren Sapp. You do know that.
its not just sacks. He has not done all that much else. But clearly you are just a homer on this guy so who cares?
if what you got from my post was brockers = sapp, then you're clearly the one who's biased on the subject.
FWIW, I don't think it's a coincidence that St.Louis went from allowing 4.8 ypc and 152.1 ypg, to 4.0 ypc and 110.3 ypg.
Brockers isn't soley responsibile, but when you combine the improvement in the run game, and his success collapsing the pocket, there's really no argument to say he's still not worth a first round pick.
Then neither is Claiborne with his 1 interception.
Brockers is and will be a very good DL.
Quinn is also turning into an elite DE and Lauranitis too. Jenkins and Finnegan help too.
depends on what you define as what is worth a first rd pick.
This guy is not a Seymour and that to me is the only one I would say is worth it
I'm thinking you don't really mean Seymour is the only DL worth a first round pick.
One of the best DL I've ever seen doesn't get a lot of 'stats' but he makes his defense much much better....Vince Wilfork.
Would you say overall that he's.. pretty good?
If the purpose of this thread is truly to congratulate a young man on his success in the NFL then I'm all for it. He's been good this season.
If the purpose of this thread is to rue not taking Brockers in the draft then it's completely flawed for numerous reasons.
A.) Draft for talent, not for need... Mo' Claiborne has more potential as a CB than Brockers as a DL.
B.) Would Brockers even be successful as a 3-4 DE? I have a feeling that he wouldn't be.
C.) It's way to early to tell for either rookie.
And so on an so forth.
Wilfork has been pretty trash this year (from A LOT of Patriot fans). Geno Atkins is the best DL in the league and there's no question about it.
Umm.. Patriot fans must be as dumb as most Dallas fans if they think that.


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i have a tbh that swarmed twice. i,m a new bee and i just trying to understand how to stop this from happing. i have read a lot on mr bush web site
my top bar is mr bush design it had 18 bars full out of 32 and they swarmed it was booming with bees i noticed some queen cups being built
did not take action i did not really understand what to do from what i have now read should i have been putting empty bars in the broods nest is this correct.
i have a few caped queen cells in the hive now i guess i just have to wait and see.
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Today, May 22, Governor Brian Sandoval signed important pro-gun legislation, Assembly Bill 118, into law. AB 118, sponsored by Assemblyman Skip Daly, will allow members of the military and those who have received an honorable ...
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This week, Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer (R-MO) reintroduced the Financial Institution Customer Protection Act, a bill aimed at permanently dismantling Operation Choke Point (OCP).
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Tomorrow, Thursday, May 25, at 12:00 pm (PT), NRA's legal team will be hosting a free webinar to discuss the recently submitted "assault weapon" regulations.
Monday, May 22, 2017
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This week, Senator Antonio Munoz filed Senate Amendment 2 to Senate Bill 556.


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In the first televised U.S. presidential debate in history, John F. Kennedy comes off well. His opponent, Richard Nixon, does not. Television instantly emerges as the decisive medium in presidential politics.
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Another not so little difference is the volume at which Czechs speak in comparison that of Americans. It is always simple to see Americans when they are traveling or in the bars because of the attention they draw to themselves, its not that they are doing it on purpose, but rather they are just louder in general because of the way that we are raised. Some of the other things that you notice are the drivers here, pedestrians do NOT have the right of way, and the drivers will only stop at the last possible moment
I am only 3 days into the Czech intensive course that is 9 days long of 5 hours each day, but so far it is going pretty well. It is very similar to Croatian so that definitely helps me with the pronunciation as well as the recognition of words and the numbers are almost identical. My teachers is the stereotypical Eastern European woman, good looking, tall, with dark hair. It isn't hard to pay attention to her to put it nicely ha ha. The Charles University does not really have a campus like we have in the US, but rather has many buildings all over Prague. The building we are taking our Czech classes in looks like an abandoned elementary school from the war, but it has new technology in it, its kinda weird I almost feel like I'm still in the communist era when I am in there.
The food in Prague is honestly my dream cuisine, it has all the good meats with the goulash, dumplings, potatoes, and beer a man would dream of. However, you would think that with all these heavy foods coupled with the astronomical amount of beer that this country consumes that everyone would be morbidly obese; but this is almost the complete opposite in truth. I can not honestly say that I have even seen one truly fat Czech person in my time here. Everyone from young to old walks a great amount here and it helps that there are very few preservatives in their cuisine. From everyone I have talked to that is staying the full year they say that they have lost weight while here despite the large amounts of heavy foods and marge quantities of beer they drink. Remember beer is only about 75 cents here per beer so it is readily available.
I have been exploring the city more and more after class these past few days and I am definitely starting to get a grasp of the place, which is a really nice feeling especially since this is only my 5th day here
This past night I went to U Flecku which is a bar/restaurant that has been in business since 1499. Yes this place is older than the United States and the 2$ beer (which is ALOT here) was definitely worth the price. I also just figured out that on Anthony Bourdains No Reservations show in Prague he went to the Pivovarsky Klub that is on the first floor of my apartment. That was an awesome revelation. I will keep updating this as my exploration and experiences evolve, hopefully you have enjoyed reading it so far.
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On a mission to connect school fire alarms to fire stations, the new nonprofit Ring the Bell Fund collected $20,000 from Facebook on May 1.
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We all owe Virginia Chang Kiraly a great debt of gratitude. She has exposed a fire safety vulnerability and rather than just complain about it she has taken swift corrective action. She is the type of person who should be serving in our State Assembly and when the time is right I hope she runs and if we are smart we will vote her in.


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Indycar and their / our peace of mind
It was a great race. It was entertaining to watch. It was a safe race. It was the perfect race. 5th grade grammar aside (knock on Half Pint), this was everything Indycar and their fans needed after the last 1.5 mile oval at Las Vegas. There were no packs, no pedal to the floor for 2 hours kind of racing, none of it. Drivers were lifting, driving the cars like the old CART days, and for Randy Bernard, Eddie Gossage, and Indycar, it was a win on the track, and off it, as we can now ease off the hatred for 1.5 mile ovals, and maybe see more of them back on the schedule now that a solution has been found.
Justin Wilson and Dale Coyne Racing
Hell of a race by Justin. Kind of surprised by this because of their not-so-hot qualifying effort, but in another way, I am not surprised based off their run at Indy, where Justin was solid. Dale Coyne has got that same recipe for success that he had in back when he won his first race, and look for them to be strong for the rest of the season. Also a great run by James Jakes who finished in the top ten.
Graham Rahal
I tip my hat to Graham. Not often a driver is asked to take the high line by themselves in the name of saving the tires. Easier said then done. We can't ignore the fact that Golden Graham powered his way into P1 even after being a lap down at one point, and he manned up to his mistakes after the race.
JR Hildebrand
JR, like Graham, was also a lap down at one point, but he showed a little Badgerness, shook it off, took what he wanted, and got back to the top five in a great run, especially since the pressure was being put on from Oriol.
Shitty day for Chevy, as they had four failures (Viso, Servia, RHR, Rubens {well I don't know if Rubens problems was Chevy's fault}), but they are on their toes as Honda has brought out the kitchen sink.
Chip Ganassi Racing
I thought Dario was going to win at the start of the race, but then handling went afoul, WRONG. I thought Dixon was going to win, until he forgot what the apron was, WRONG. I thought Graham was going to bring it home until he brushed the wall going for the win, WRONG. We were all WRONGED.
Marco Andretti
So Marco's car was in a dazzling array of flames and fire, and in true heroic fashion, he leaped out of the car, seemingly averting disaster. That was all sarcasm if you didn't catch it. Sample conversation: "MY F*****G CAR IS ON FIRE!! Let me do a quick lap, pit, and jump out of the car instead of stopping like a smart man! (one lap later) Don't worry I am out of the car!" Kyle Moyer (strategist): "Errrr, Marco, the car is fine, get your panzy ass back in the car and drive!" Even worse, it took them six laps to strap him back in. What a fail.
Will Power
At least he owned up to the mistake, but it was a big mistake that could have been a lot worse for Will. He blocked TK harder than my ex-girlfriend did to me on Facebook! (kidding, I've never had a girlfriend "officially") A hit in the points probably didn't feel too good too.
Cone of Shame
Ed Carpenter
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ..... Oh damn, there is a race on? I was too busy not giving a shit about what Ed Carpenter said. Seriously dude, a boring race? What in the hell were you watching? Lauren George agreed with him, making me believe this is another Tony George "breaking up a success" scheme, again, for the 28754935251 time.
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It only occurs when one is being itchy and feeling sleepy and is bored. All three events must occur simultaneously for the triad to be completed. It is generally well known that it is hazardous to be around a person suffering from the Aarti Triad and it is highly advised to take strict safety precautions.
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The Wayne Law Review welcomes Annual Survey of Michigan Law authors, March 4
DETROIT (Feb. 24, 2011) — The Wayne Law Review will host "Meet the Survey Authors" from 5:30-7:30 p.m. on Friday, March 4, 2011, in Wayne State University Law School's Spencer M. Partrich Auditorium. The event provides Wayne Law students, faculty, alumni and friends the opportunity to interact with authors who contributed to the Law Review's Annual Survey of Michigan Law issue.
The Law Review publishes four issues each year. Three issues include articles of general academic and professional interest authored by practicing attorneys and law professors, as well as comments written by the Law Review's student members. The fourth issue, the Annual Survey of Michigan Law, features developments in Michigan law authored by judges, professors and attorneys. It is widely read by members of the Michigan legal community.
According to Law Review Survey Editor Melina Lito, this year's survey issue covers 21 different areas of law and provides analyses of how individual cases are likely to impact Michigan law in the future.
Former interim U.S. Attorney Alan Gershel, author of the survey's lead article on criminal procedure, will be on hand at the event to discuss developments in Michigan criminal procedure during the past year and take questions.
"We are very excited about our Survey issue and this event," Lito said. "Some of these authors have contributed several times, while for others it is their first time. From administrative law to criminal procedure and environmental law to worker's disability, each author offers a unique perspective, helping readers understand the current climate and direction of the law in Michigan."
Authors invited to attend the event are:
- Professor Emeritus John Apol, Michigan State University College of Law
- Deborah Brouwer, Nemeth Burwell PC
- Martin Critchell, Conklin Benham PC
- Jack Dempsey, Dickinson Wright PLLC
- Lynn Gandhi, Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn LLP
- Hon. David Groner, Third Circuit Court of Michigan
- Carl Herstein, Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn LLP
- Nick Krieger, law clerk to Kathleen Jansen, Michigan Second District Court of Appeals
- John Lindstrom, Gongwer News
- Melissa Markey, Hall Render Killian Heath and Lyman PC
- James Mellon, Mellon McCarthy and Pries PC
- Associate Professor Michael Molitor, Thomas M. Cooley Law School
- Patricia Paruch, Kemp Klein Law Firm
- Sarah Prout, Lakeshore Legal Aid
- Tricia Roelofs, Dykema Gossett PLLC
- John Runyan, Sachs Waldman PC
- Todd C. Schebor, Dykema Gossett PLLC
- Bryan Schneider, law clerk to Magistrate Judge Paul Komives, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
- Associate Professor Kevin Scott, Thomas M. Cooley Law School
- Davidde Stella, Kerr Russell and Weber PLC
- Katie Strickfaden Lakeshore Legal Aid
- Stacey Studnicki, deputy defender, Federal Defender Office, Legal Aid and Defender Association, Detroit, MI
- Robert Tiplady, Dykema Gossett PLLC
- Hon. Michael Warren, Oakland County Circuit Court
- Ronald Weiner, Zamler Mellen and Shiffman PC
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What sort of questions are asked during an Infosec Interview?
I'm going through the job seeking process right now due to my relocation to Australia. As such, I've just written an article to help all those out there looking for a job to get better prepared for an interview.
The full article can be found at: http://www.myinfosecjob.com/2010/03/iti ... questions/
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Gary McKinnon (UFO Hacker) Interview
Gary McKinnon, also known as Solo, is a British Black hat hacker accused by one US prosecutor of perpetrating the "biggest military computer hack of all time." He is currently awaiting extradition to the United States. The Decision is due on May 10 2006.
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In the late 1960s, Darryl Kirby's bus would stop right outside the Epsom Post Office building on his way to work.
And every day as a young man in his early 20s, he would look at the striking building and silently say to it: "One day, I will own you", never dreaming that one day he actually would.
Twenty-three years later, when the Government began selling off Post Office properties nationwide, the former advertising agency owner and wife Valerie made the winning bid at auction on the grand old building at 311 Manukau Rd.
After extending and refurbishing the landmark property in keeping with its original design, and naming it "Kirby Building", they moved their advertising agency into it. They even continued to supply stamps, free of charge, to the elderly folk who couldn't get used to the fact that "our Post Office" had moved on and Kirby Advertising and Marketing had moved in.
"In the mid-1990s Paul Holmes did an item about the Government's public property sell-off," says Kirby.
"The cameras were rolling and I had just explained to the interviewer how we were still getting NZ Post customers coming in when, right on cue, a little old lady, completely oblivious to the camera crew and lights, marched up to our reception desk and slapped her money down on the counter.
"She asked for stamps and our receptionist obliged. We used to keep a supply of stamps and give them away as a service. There was a post box right outside and it saved our elderly folk a long walk to the new post office down the road."
Since Darryl Kirby retired, the fully renovated character Post Office building that housed his advertising agency has been leased to a variety of tenants and is now on the market for the first time since he and Valerie bought it in 1990.
It is a part of Bayley's latest Greater Auckland portfolio and will go up for auction on October 31.
The building is being offered for sale with vacant possession through Rachael and Mark Pittaway of Bayleys Auckland. Rachael Pittaway says the property is likely to attract an owner occupier or investor interested in developing the site further because it has a large land area.
The two-storey, 415sq m building is on a 789sq m site which could potentially accommodate up to 17 parking spaces at the rear and up to three levels of office or residential accommodation on top.
With the mixed use zoning, the property could be converted into a mixture of apartments and commercial space, Pittaway says, and concept plans had been drawn up for this type of development.
It is in the Auckland Grammar School zone and has a Historic Places Trust Category 2 classification.


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It's time for auto finance executives to assess the changing regulatory landscape and be prepared for increased oversight from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's (CFPB's) supervisory authority or enforcement agencies. PwC's latest auto finance publication, "Objects in the mirror are closer than they appear: Auto industry keeps its sights on impending regulation", takes a closer look at six areas of focus to meet regulatory requirements on the horizon. These will help you and your organization to develop regulatory oversight, avoid costly penalties and manage reputational risks. This publication includes:
Six areas of focus: Working together to meet regulatory requirements
PwC can help the auto finance industry address the CFPB concerns and bring insight and knowledge to enhance the collaboration between lenders and dealers.


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In new Corvette Stingray, another step forward for composites
Plasan Carbon Composites puts its "pressure press" process, developed with Globe Machine, to work in the manufacture of the hood and roof for the new 2014 Corvette Stingray, introduced last week at the Detroit Auto Show.
Chevrolet introduced the 2014 Corvette Stingray to much fanfare at the North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) in Detroit, Mich., on Jan. 14. The car represents the ongong evolution of the Corvette design brand and features a carbon fiber hood and carbon fiber roof, both molded by Plasan Carbon Composites (Bennington, Vt., USA).
Plasan molded these via its "pressure press," a high-speed thermoset molding process co-developed with Globe Machine Manufacturing (Tacoma, Wash., USA), at a new Plasan facility in Walker, Mich. Jim Staargaard, president of Plasan, and Gary Lownsdale, chief technology officer, told CompositesWorld that the pressure press features a 17-minute "button-to-button" cycle time and represents a major investment for the company as it positions itself for growth in the automotive industry.
Staargaard says the Stingray's carbon fiber composite roof is available in two versions molded by Plasan, one painted and the other with exposed weave. The roof is about six plies (1.2 mm) thick and uses the same resin chemistry and prepreg as Plasan employed in the manufacture of the roof for the Corvette ZR1. The hood, he says, is comprised of two 1.2-mm-thick carbon fiber shells that are hot-bonded together.
What's notable, however, is the information Lownsdale shared about the pressure press process, which he says is not a compression press and not an autoclave. In the pressure press, prepreg is laid up on a one-sided, hot oil-heated tool (made by Weber Manufacturing Technologies) that ramps up quickly to process temperature. The prepreg is covered by a reusable, 0.5-inch silicone canopy that is also molded and conforms to the shape of the part. The tool, with prepreg and silicone canopy, are loaded into Globe Machine's sealed pressure box, says Lownsdale. To consolidate the part, pressure is provided via an air chamber (<150 psi) that surrounds the tool and compacts the prepreg. The result, says Lownsdale, is a part with a high-quality A side molded in just minutes.
Staargaard says the Walker plant has five Globe machines for producing Stingray roofs and hoods; there is room at the facility, he says, for expansion, which is already being planned. Look for a longer report on the Plasan process and the Stingray parts in the March issue of High-Performance Composites magazine. In the meantime, you can add "pressure press" to your composites molding lexicon.


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Middle Child:"I learned to be the spectator and I learned to listen and observe and watch.
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A Midwesterner, Ahrendts grew up in Indiana where she met her high school sweetheart and now husband and attended college. Although she intended to major in fashion design at Ball State University, Ahrendts realized her strengths lied in marketing and merchandising, and her career followed suit eventually leading her to serve as president of Donna Karan International and executive vice president at Liz Claiborne Inc. In October 2013, Ahrendts announced she would be departing from Burberry to take on a new adventure at Apple. She took her new post in April 2014.


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Abbott joins Faith in Action for Cass County board
Dennis Abbott of Hackensack joined the board of directors of Faith in Action for Cass County on Sept. 10.
Abbott begins a two-year term, replacing Jamie Richter, who resigned from the board earlier this year.
Abbott is retired to the Ten Mile Lake area with his wife, Paula. He brings experience in project management from a career in engineering to the leadership of Faith in Action.
The board of directors of Faith in Action for Cass County guides and oversees the volunteer services and activities of the organization. The board ensures that the mission and vision of Faith in Action is carried out and helps promote Faith in Action in the communities throughout Cass County.
Applications are currently being accepted for two to three additional board members to begin in December.
Neighborly volunteers are the heart and hands of Faith in Action. Faith in Action volunteers provide transportation, friendly visiting and respite care, light homemaking, chore and home maintenance services, delivers Meals on Wheels and builds accessibility ramps.
The goal is to help people remain in their home and communities with neighborly assistance. For more information on Faith in Action services, volunteer opportunities or an application to serve on the board, contact Faith in Action at 866-675-5435 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Hey everyone. I have a Rubiles helmet. (I know it's not a good company and I didn't know that at the time I ordered it. I'm still going to keep it cuz the Southern Outpost says they'll accept it as long as it looks good. I need to repaint it a little and put in a new visor. 3 questions.
1.) Which tool should I use to cut out the current t-visor?
2.) Which tool should I use to cut the new T shape for the visor whne I buy a face shield?
3.) Where would I get the tools from?
Thx guys.


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When you have a gangbang with many different races of people in it. Usually consisting of an Asian, a black guy, a white guy, an Indian, a Mexican, etc.
Guy 1: Oh man, that was the best thing of Extra Fancy Unsalted Mixed Nuts I ever had last night.
Guy 2: Eww, dude you do that?
Guy 2: Eww, dude you do that?
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Get ready! Its time for everyone's favorite train to pull into Strasburg Railroad! The annual event runs from Saturday September 17, 2011 -Sunday September 25, 2011. Tickets are $18.00 for ages 2 & up. There are also combo tickets available which include a ride on the Thomas train as... Read More


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One Book, One City for Kids is an annual reading program that encourages all 5th graders in the city to read and discuss the same book. The program also strives to encourage a lifelong love of reading among students, to inspire readers to bring story ideas and themes to life through discussion, and to build collaborative ties between public libraries, school libraries, and area schools. This year the entire city will be reading Out of My Mind by Sharon M. Draper.


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text: hey guys i have a 2006 chevy 2500. sometimes when i go to start it after its already been warmed up i hit the key and it goes to start but dosent. teh starter makes a noise for a second and then you feel a clunk. then you go to start it again and it starts rite up. dosent do it every time but only when i have already ran the truck for a period of time. its doing it more often now so i am thinking its the starter. thanks