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Live Singing and Sound Mixing in Les Mis
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Miami Connection "Friends" Music Video
Michele Atkins Acceptance Speech
Mojo Nixon and The Toadliquours – Mr. Grinch
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Patrick Osborne's Food Video that Inspired Feast
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Ryan Gosling and Harrison Ford discuss the accidental punch Ford threw on set
RZA chats about The Man with the Iron Fists
Sam the Eagle sings "American Woman" by The Guess Who
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Tween the Ropes – Nicholl Live Read 2016
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Visual Effects on The Walking Dead
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Watch Alive in Joburg – the short that inspired District 9
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Watch Beth's final scene on The Walking Dead + behind the scenes stuff!
Watch Breathing Lessons
Watch Brian Wilson perform "Love & Mercy"
Watch Brophy & Miles' 2014 Nicholl aceptance speech
Watch Bryan Lee O'Malley chat about "Seconds" on Google
Watch Bryan Lee O'Malley talk about "Seconds" at NY Comic-Con in 2014
Watch Carl Gottlieb discuss the "Indianapolis Speech" from Jaws
Watch Carl Gottlieb discusses writing around the mechanical shark problems
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Watch clip from the Napoleon Dynamite animated series
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Watch clips and an our selection of classic David Lynch interviews
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Watch great 2015 Sundance Film Festival Q&As
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Watch Heder's dance scene from Napoleon Dynamite
Watch how the Pixar Story Process Works
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Watch Jared Hess and Jon Heder unveil the Napoleon statue at Fox
Watch Jared Hess and Jon Heder unveil the Napoleon statue at Fox
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Watch Live Forever as You are Now with Alan Resnick
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Watch more clips from Napoleon Dynamite
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Watch Nash Edgerton's short film Lucky
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Watch Nicholl Live Read: Free Agent
Watch Olaf perform his hilarious song "In Summer" from Frozen
Watch PEARL
Watch Peluca, the short film that inspired Napoleon Dynamite
Watch Peluca, the short that inspired Napoleon Dynamite
Watch Peter Jackson's Production Diaries from both Hobbit films
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Watch President Obama introduce Cosmos
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Death notices for April 25, 2014
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Friday, April 25, 2014
Kevin M. Clifford, 56, Delavan, died Tuesday at Aurora St. Luke's Medical Center, Milwaukee. Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at St. Benedict's Catholic Church, Fontana. Visitation will be from 9:30 a.m. until the time of services Saturday at the church. Monroe Funeral Home, Delavan, is assisting the family.
Charles E. Johnston, 74, Beloit, died Thursday at home. Arrangements are pending with the Brian G. Mark Funeral Home, Beloit.

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Britney Cross' family, friends: Slain woman was peaceful, loving
INDIANFORD—Tyler Cross, 15, the younger brother of slain Indianford resident Britney Cross, said his sister was his best friend.
Britney had watched over Tyler his entire life. She hung over him as a shadow of protection, even during the last few years while she fought the dark shadows of her own substance abuse problems.����
But lately, Tyler and Britney hadn't been getting along, he said. He said he'd been arguing with her about recent times he'd seen her at the family's mobile home in Indianford, passing out from drinking alcohol after partying with friends.�
Tyler said his family feared Britney was backsliding into substance abuse even as friends say she was going through a drug and alcohol abuse treatment program.
"I was being a little bit of an a__hole to her. It was over the people she was with; the choices she made. I think she was using alcohol in place of her other drug," Tyler said Tuesday outside the mobile home that he, his mother, Tracy Cross, and Britney shared.
The last time family or friends at the mobile home park say they saw Britney Cross alive, she said she was hopping a ride to Janesville on Sunday afternoon to party with friends.
Monday, police found Cross' body a few blocks from the Rock River just north of downtown Janesville. Police say they suspect Clayton Courtney, a Janesville man Cross' friends say was her "boyfriend" or "ex-boyfriend," of killing Cross.
She died from a blow to the head from a blunt object, police said.
Courtney is in custody for trying to stab another friend to death Sunday night on North Pontiac Drive in Janesville. He was found covered in blood and mud, had a rock in his pocket, and told police he'd killed three people, police said.
Witnesses said they knew Courtney was meeting Cross on Sunday under the Memorial Bridge near downtown Janesville to drink and do drugs with her, police said.
Police don't have a motive for the killing, but Courtney is the only suspect, and they haven't ruled out drug use as a factor in Cross's killing.
"I didn't know this would happen," Tyler Cross said. "If I did, I know what I'd have told her. I'd have said, 'I love you.'"�
Cross' family and friends on Tuesday mourned a young woman they say was a steadfast friend, a free spirit who wore a peace-sign pendant and called people she loved "groovy."���
Craig Russell, a neighbor at the mobile home court, said he remembers a few weeks ago, on Easter Sunday, watching Cross release balloons in the air to honor her late grandmother.
It was something Russell said Cross and her mother, Tracy, did every year.
Russell said he knew Cross had problems with substance abuse, but that side of her seemed outweighed by her kind and loving spirit.
"She had a big love. If you were her friend, you had her whole heart. Total," he said.
Other friends say they were aware of Cross and Clayton Courtney's relationship. One friend is former Evansville resident Maria Gorces, who lived with the Cross family in 2010. Gorces now is a recovering substance abuser and a counselor at The Watershed, a drug and alcohol rehabilitation center in Boynton Beach, Fla.
Gorces, who said Cross was "like my sister," said she'd known Cross had struggled with opiate and alcohol use in the past. Gorces said more recent Facebook postings made it evident Courtney and Cross were doing drugs together.
"I knew when they (Courtney and Cross) were together officially on Facebook, I knew Britney was not doing well. In pictures with him (Courtney) on Facebook, she'd look messed up," Gorces said.
Gorces said she felt helpless dealing with the situation from Florida, but she had reached out to offer support to Cross and to Courtney, who Gorces said she doesn't know.
Indianford resident Nick Shumway, 22, said he'd met Cross about five weeks ago and was "kind of a boyfriend" to her. He said he believes Courtney was Cross' "ex-boyfriend," someone she'd dated over the last year.
Shumway said based on social media postings, Courtney seemed "obsessive."�
Shumway said he would pick up Cross at home some nights after he got off work. Shumway said Cross liked to sit with him on the beach at Lake Koshkonong late at night and look at the stars.
He said Cross seemed one of the most peaceful, kindest people he'd met.
"I just want to wake up out at the beach at Koshkonong and see her next to me, looking at the sky," Shumway said.
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Hey guys I was wondering if you could give me some help in answering a couple questions. I honestly have no idea where to start and how to do it. much appreciated
Pea pod shape is controlled by a one gene - two allele genetic system. Full pod shape is completely dominant to constricted pea pod shape. Pea plant size is also controlled by a one gene – two allele system with tall size being completely dominant to dwarf size. Given a plant was heterozygous for pod shape and homozygous recessive for plant size
a. What is the phenotype of this plant?
b. If this plant was crossed to a dihybrid (heterozygote), what would be the phenotypic ratio of pod shape among the progeny?
c. What would be the phenotypic ratio of plant size?
d. What would be the phenotypic ratio of pod shape and plant size together?
Q2: A pure breeding, tall pea plant white flowers is crossed with a pure-breeding short plant with red flowers. The F1 plants are tall with red flowers. When allowed to self-fertilise themselves, these F1 plants produce the following F2: 326 tall, red; 104 tall, white; 117 short red and 29 short white. Explain these data; indicating genotypes of the parents and the different F2 phenotypes. What is the expected numbers in the various F2 classes? Test the goodness of fit between the data and your hypothesis using χ2.
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You can start by answering question 1A. If you are unable to tell phenotype of that, I think no one will be able to help you. I don't mind helping, but you need to show that you know at least something...
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Note: This recipe is suitable for those following a vegetarian (meat-free) diet. However, it may include ingredients such as dairy or other animal-based products that may not fit in with vegan or some other vegetarian diets.
This is a scrumptious and easy recipe. If you have leftovers, consider serving the beans on a salad the next day.
Prep time: 30 to 40 minutes
Serves: 4
Serving size: ¼ cup rice and 1¼ cup beans
Nutritional analysis (per serving):
307 calories
15 g protein
3 g fat
2 g sat. fat
55 g carbohydrate
12 g fiber
8 mg cholesterol
765 mg sodium
157 mg calcium
3.4 mg iron
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Are we headed toward spring or fall?
I took our cairn terrier, Molly, for the usual predawn mile walk today but not before I strapped on ice cleats. I'm pretty sure if I hadn't done so, I would have fallen at least once before reaching home.
Maybe we should call this coming season fall instead of spring because if you're not careful, that's what you'll do.
We enjoyed our first thaw in a month on Tuesday. That, however, left sidewalks slick as temperatures dipped overnight. In some spots, walkways were glare ice.
I went out about 9:30 last night and tossed sand down along slick spots on our sidewalks. But it was obvious this morning that few people in my neighborhood bothered to apply sand or salt to their walks overnight.
We might be done shoveling snow this season, and we could only hope that's the case. That doesn't mean property owners can ignore their sidewalks, however. All the snow piled up along sidewalks, or even narrowing the walkways, will be melting in the coming weeks, and each time we have a thaw, water will be trickling across the concrete. Freezing temperatures overnight can leave dangerous spots for any unsuspecting walker or jogger, say nothing about tonight's forecast for possible mixed precipitation.
Sure, most of us who walk or jog regularly realize the risks are high on days like this. But here's the thing. You can be caught off guard. About two weeks ago, the air never got above 32 degrees one day, but the sun was just enough to melt a tad of snow. The next morning, Molly and I started our walk, going down our slanted driveway, and I stepped onto the sidewalk and—bam—down I went. I wasn't hurt but quickly retreated and retrieved my bucket of salt from the garage.
Spring might be coming, but this isn't the time to ignore slick sidewalk and icy hazards that could befall your loved ones, neighbors, mail or newspaper carriers, school children, or anyone else walking or jogging.
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Update: Milton woman killed in Highway 59 crash identified
TOWN OF LIMA—Authorities say a Milton woman was killed and a man was seriously injured in a two-vehicle crash that shut down Highway 59 east of Milton on Wednesday afternoon.
The Rock County Coroner's Office on Thursday identified the woman as Teagan Kathleen-Jee Nolan, 19, of 5837 N. Violet View Drive, Milton.
According to a release from Rock County Sheriff's Office, sheriff's deputies and medics from Janesville and Whitewater fire departments were called to a two-vehicle crash about 12:48 p.m. Wednesday at Highway 59 near East Gould Road in the town of Lima.
Police said a Chevrolet Lumina car and a Ford Econoline Van had collided in the roadway, and the car's driver, Nolan, was dead at the scene.
A 56-year-old Whitewater man who was driving the van was flown by emergency helicopter to Mercy Hospital and Trauma Center, Janesville, where he was listed in serious condition late Wednesday, police said. A passenger in the van, a 63-year-old man, was treated at a hospital for minor injuries.
The sheriff's office is no longer releasing the names of those involved in traffic accidents for fear of violating federal privacy law.
A crash reconstruction by the sheriff's office showed Nolan's car was eastbound on Highway 59 and on a curve at East Gould Road when she lost control and began to slide into the ditch, then spun back onto the road and into the westbound lane. Nolan's car was then struck by the man's van, which was traveling west on Highway 59.
The woman was not wearing a seat belt during the crash, and speed and road conditions appear to have been factors in the accident, the sheriff's office said.
The crash left Highway 59 closed in both directions for several hours while crews worked at the scene.
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U.S. Sen. Johnson talks manufacturing, minimum wage hike
JANESVILLE—As U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson sold ideas to rein in government spending Friday in Janesville, he also pushed ideas to boost technical college programs but eschewed the idea of a federal minimum wage hike.����
While a few residents mused on the 1950s and 1960s as an era of prosperity they wish the city could repeat, another wondered whether low-income earning parents could use a hike in the minimum wage.
Johnson, a Republican from Oshkosh, was in town to meet with the economic development group Forward Janesville.
In a talk before about a dozen residents, Johnson hit on such topics as the growth of the federal debt through discretionary spending. He also discussed trends he says show current federal spending in Social Security, Medicare and social welfare will put social programs trillions of dollars in the red in the next 20 years.
Johnson also talked about how student debt, college tuition and fees costs for college students are serving to shackle young adults with debt that outstrips their earning ability in the job force.
The latter talking point served as a segue for Johnson's ideas on emphasizing technical college programs as an alternative to four-year degree programs and a way to train workers for trade careers.
Johnson is a former CEO of an Oshkosh-based plastics manufacturing company.�
"We've got to stop communicating to kids that there is a first- and second-class road to potential. The thought that you have to get a four-year degree to not be a second-class citizen—that's wrong," Johnson said. "We need those mechanics."
He pointed out the 18,000 welding jobs in the state that now are going unfilled because there are too few trained workers.
Johnson also touched on a subject he admitted was touchy, drawing parallels between the upswing of unmarried parents and spending for social welfare programs. He showed numbers indicating children born out of wedlock have climbed 30 percent since the start of President Lyndon Johnson's war on poverty in the 1960s.
Johnson blames a welfare system he says doesn't give single parents enough incentive to work or get married.
Janesville resident Debra Griffith, a schoolteacher, said she talks weekly to local families that include parents who work. She said many have two parents working full-time, minimum-wage jobs. Some even work a second part-time job and still don't earn enough to rise from poverty.
"How can we help the bottom end who do want to work who are trying really hard to raise themselves up?" Griffith asked. "Wouldn't it be better if we raised the minimum wage?"
Johnson told Griffith he doesn't support a federal push to raise the minimum wage from $7.25 to $10.10 an hour. Instead, he said tax breaks, some for corporate entities and corporation heads, would keep capitol costs cheap and prevent corporations such as major fast-food chains from further automation and job cutting.
Johnson said that some analysts predict a minimum wage hike would cause the economy to shed 500,000 to 1 million jobs.
Johnson said the only minimum wage legislation he'd support is an immigration tax reform. He said it would create a minimum wage tax that would discourage companies from hiring migrant workers, which he argues lowers pay overall for lower-wage earners.
This story was updated April 28, 2014, to reflect the following correction:
An earlier version of this story reported an inaccurate number of projected U.S. job losses that could stem from a federal minimum wage increase.
At a town hall talk in Janesville on Friday, U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson said a minimum wage increase could prompt the loss of 500,000 to 1 million jobs.


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Addressing signal electromigration (EM) in todays complex digital designs
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Electromigration (EM) is a phenomenon that has been well researched and understood by the design community. At mature nodes, its impact on digital integrated circuits, particularly signal interconnects, has been minimal, making signal EM analysis and fixing an optional design step. At 28 nm and beyond, this is no longer the case. Interconnects are getting thinner, running longer and switching at gigahertz speeds - all of which amplify the effects of EM. Signal EM analysis and fixing is turning into a design requirement that must be met during place and route.
This article discusses the importance of signal EM and ways to address it in todays complex designs. It also highlights the EM capabilities in IC Compiler with results from Alteras successful adoption of the solution for its 28-nm high performance IPs.
Electromigration 101 - A refresher
Electromigration (EM) is the gradual displacement of metal atoms in a semiconductor. It occurs when the current density through the conductor is high enough to cause the drift of metal ions (Fig 1).
While EM and its impact on designs have long been understood, in mature technology nodes the effects were minimal and were not a big concern. Due to wider interconnects, lower operating speeds and smaller design sizes, manual methods or a conservative approach of oversizing wires for EM served as plausible solutions. However, at 28 nm and beyond, scaling trends in advanced technology nodes along with stringent and complex EM rules make designs more susceptible to EM particularly on clock and data interconnects. As a result, signal EM and its effects can no longer be ignored.
Advanced technology trends
Metal widths are shrinking because of geometry scaling, resulting in thinner interconnects. Interconnect lengths are also increasing to meet the complex device integration demands. These thin and long interconnects are switching at gigahertz speeds due to the push for higher performance. When combined, these factors result in higher current densities, which amplify the effects of signal EM at advanced technology nodes.
A clear indication of this trend can be seen in the chart below that plots EM violations seen on a sample block across varying technology nodes and clock frequencies (see Fig 2). At 28 nm, there are significantly more EM violations on signal interconnects compared to those at 65 and 40 nm.
In order to reflect the effects of advanced technologies, EM rules have also become more complex. EM rules are foundry-provided limits that specify allowable current densities for every metal layer. In the past, the limits provided were primarily width and junction-temperature based (as shown in Fig 4).
At 28 nm and below, we are seeing the addition of more dependencies, such as interconnect length, via dimensions and delta temperatures (metal line temperature increase over junction temperature when current passes through it).
EM analysis is a complex task that requires a significant amount of data interpretation and is compute intensive. With an increasing number of interconnects exposed to EM effects, fixing techniques must be automatic, accurate, and timing and design-rule check (DRC) aware. A stand-alone post place and route step would not be ideal as it would be iterative, require user expertise and can adversely affect performance.
For todays complex and challenging designs, the only way to effectively analyze and fix signal EM is to address it during P&R.


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Janesville man's memorial honors veterans year round
JANESVILLE--John Hacklander wove slowly among the white crosses as a cold wind wrestled his coat.
Skillfully, he steadied himself with a walking stick in each hand. By every solemn marker, the World War II veteran paused to read out loud a name, rank, military unit and war.
"This is my brother-in-law," Hacklander said. "He was in Patton's Army. He never talked about it …"
The rumble of cars and a semitrailer truck drowned out his voice.
In front of his home on Highway 14 east of Janesville, the retired farmer has created a tribute to the deceased veterans in his family and to all veterans in general.
"This one did not return from a bombing mission over Germany," Hacklander said, stopping again to pay respect.
The memorial with 11 white crosses includes a big sign that says what is in Hacklander's heart: "Our Veterans—Not Forgotten."
The idea to honor and remember those who have served began several years ago with a simple flag pole. But in recent weeks, the display has grown to include the crosses, information about the veterans attached to a large boulder and a dusk-to-dawn light so the sentiment never dims.
Hacklander will not have a Veterans Day ceremony to dedicate the tribute.
"I just walk out there and tell those guys that they are not forgotten," he said.
For decades after his service in World War II, Hacklander did not talk much about what he did or saw.
Five years ago, he experienced an emotional turning point.
Hacklander was speaking to young people when they sensed he was a veteran. They thought he had served in Vietnam. When he shook his head, they guessed Korea.
"No, the war before that one," Hacklander responded.
"Who did we fight there?" a boy asked.
Even now, the disappointment is visible on Hacklander's face.
"That blew the lid off me," he said, "when a new generation does not know what we did to save their freedom."
In response, Hacklander set up the lighted flag on a pole in front of his home. He joined other veterans on a tour of their memorials in Washington, D.C. He bought two WWII veterans caps to wear regularly.
Hacklander does all this because the memories never die.
No one prepared the 18-year-old farm boy for what he was about to experience after enlisting in the U.S. Navy. In the early 1940s, he became a hospital corpsman and was assigned to Naval Air Training stations in Florida, where he became a regular witness to pain and death.
"I was the medic who went out with an ambulance when they were learning to fly," he said. "My duty was mainly on crash detail and in the treatment room."
The Navy placed newly trained flyers into the single cockpits of F4U Corsair fighter planes. These were no ordinary planes. Each flew with an 18-cyclinder, 2000-horsepower, radial engine. The engine was 6 feet long and had a 4-blade propeller 11 feet in diameter.
"They were monsters," Hacklander said. "But, skillfully tamed, the planes were fighting beasts."
He called the student pilots the cream of America's young men, ages 20 to 22.
"This age group, with that teenage go-go spirit, made the best fighter pilots," Hacklander said. "They had no instructors with them, only an instructor with a radio in a chase plane. We lost from one to three young men, on average, every week."
Thousands of casualties occurred just in air-training exercises in the United States, more than those lost in air combat, he said.
"Those of us on the crash crew carry the memories of each crash event with us for the rest of our lives," Hacklander added, pausing. "In my case, I filed the details in a locked closet in my mind's memory bank …"
Then a young man's question prompted him to begin telling his story.
Hacklander explained the horror of his duty:
"Have you ever had to identify a body after it has been in the ocean a few days or burned so badly you can't identify the mouth and teeth?"
Once, a plane crashed into a lake in the Everglades, and he had to retrieve the body. He did not understand why they gave him a gun until he realized the lake was full of alligators and snakes.
"These young men gave God and this country the greatest gifts they had—their lives," Hacklander said. "Have we honored them? No!"
With his homegrown memorial, he hopes to create awareness.
Neighbor Gary Kraus built the crosses that stand straight and reverent. Two are bigger than the others and carry the names of men who died in combat.
"I look on it as an honor to be able to help John," Kraus said.
Earlier last week, Kraus put finishing touches on the lighting.
"It's quite impressive when you drive by at night," he said.
He called Hacklander a man with a lot of determination.
"I probably never met anyone who loves his country any more than John does," Kraus said. "His memorial will be up for as long as we can keep it going. It's important to honor our veterans, not just one or two days of the year, but every day."
Anna Marie Lux is a columnist for The Gazette. Her columns run Sundays, Tuesdays and Thursdays. Call her with ideas or comments at (608) 755-8264, or email firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Firebug Research
- 1 Academic papers related to Firebug.
- 1.1 Breakpoints
- 1.2 Domain-Specific Language Debuggers
- 1.3 User Experience and Studies
- 1.4 User Studies
- 1.5 Breakpoints integrated with graphics
- 1.6 Diff, Debugging with diffs
- 1.7 Tracing-based Debugging
- 1.8 Digital Signatures for User Assurances
- Please add to this bibliography.
- Please add mini-review comments in italics with your signature. --Johnjbarton 21:55, 30 October 2009 (UTC)
- Usually you can get copies of these papers by looking them up on Google Scholar
- The funky @entries below are BibTex entries.
- Often you can get the BibTex entries by looking up the title in Google then going to the ACM or IEEE sites where the document abstract, title, and bibtex entries are available but not the paper.
Sorry for the lack of formatting, I'll come back and clean up as soon as I can.
Domain-Specific Language Debuggers
As a specialized debugger, Firebug resembles debuggers for domain-specific languages\cite{Wu04DomainEclipse}. However, the breakpoints we introduce here support higher-level graphical and network abstractions, not higher-level source-code abstractions. Firebug has domain specific breakpoints but when they hit, you are in general purpose source code. On the other hand, the extensive integration of Javascript and HTML/CSS in the Document Object Model combined with Firebug's integration of debugger views and the Web page blurs the line. We think it unlikely that debugger generation techniques\cite{Wu05weavinga} could produce a Firebug-like user experience.
Framework for debugging domain-specific languages Full text PdfPdf (126 KB) Source ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes archive Volume 25 , Issue 1 (January 2000) table of contents Page: 45 Year of Publication: 2000 ISSN:0163-5948 Author Premkumar Devanbu University of California, Davis, CA
@INPROCEEDINGS{Wu05weavinga, author = {Hui Wu and Jeff Gray and Suman Roychoudhury and Marjan Mernik}, title = {Weaving a Debugging Aspect into Domain-Specific Language Grammars}, booktitle = {In SAC '05: Proceedings of the 2005 ACM symposium on Applied computing}, year = {2005}, pages = {1370--1374}, publisher = {ACM Press} }
@MISC{Wu04DomainEclipse, title = {Debugging Domain-Specific Languages in Eclipse}, author ={ Hui Wu and Jeff Gray and Marjan Mernik} }
User Experience and Studies
Debugging and the Experience of Immediacy
Firebug provides good tools to master ``space, both the 2D space of the Web page and the interface to the network. Our breakpoints help connect these spatial dimensions to the source code that modifies them. But breakpoints are intrinsically ``at the wrong time: developers set them then run the program to hit them at a later time. This limits the kind of immediacy of debugging advocated by Ungar et al.\cite{Unger97Immediacy}.
@MISC{Unger97Immediacy, title={ Debugging and the Experience of Immediacy }, author = {D Ungar and H Lieberman and C Fry}, journal={Communications of the ACM }, }
Locating Features in Source Code
@MISC{Eisenbarth03locatingfeatures, author = {Thomas Eisenbarth and Rainer Koschke and Daniel Simon}, title = {Locating Features in Source Code}, year = {2003} }
Why are Human-Computer Interfaces Difficult to Design and Implement?
@TECHREPORT{Myers93whyare, author = {Brad A. Myers}, title = {Why are Human-Computer Interfaces Difficult to Design and Implement?}, institution = {}, year = {1993} }
User Studies
Architecture of a Source Code Exploration Tool: A Software Engineering Case Study
@TECHREPORT{Lethbridge97architectureof, author = {Timothy C. Lethbridge and Nicolas Anquetil}, title = {Architecture of a Source Code Exploration Tool: A Software Engineering Case Study}, institution = {}, year = {1997} }
We discuss the design of a software system that helps software engineers (SE's) to perform the task we call just in time comprehension (JITC) of large bodies of source code. We discuss the requirements for such a system and how they were gathered by studying SE's at work. We then analyze our requirements with respect to other tools available to SE's for the JITC task. Next, we walk through system design and the objectoriented analysis process for our system, discussing key design issues. Some issues, such as dealing with multi-part names and conditional compilation are unexpectedly complex. 1 Introduction The goal of our research is to develop tools to help software engineers (SE's) more effectively maintain software. By analyzing the work of SE's, we have come to the conclusion that they spend a considerable portion of their time exploring source code, using a process that we call justin time program comprehension. As a result of our analysis, we have developed a set of requirements..
An Exploratory Study of How Developers Seek, Relate, and Collect ...
Studies eclipse users debugging Java code.--Johnjbarton 22:31, 30 October 2009 (UTC)
Abstract: Much of software developers' time is spent understanding unfamiliar code. To better understand how developers gain this understanding and how software development environments might be involved, a study was performed in which developers were given an unfamiliar program and asked to work on two debugging tasks and three enhancement tasks for 70 minutes. The study found that developers interleaved three activities. They began by searching for relevant code both manually and using search tools; however, they based their searches on limited and misrepresentative cues in the code, environment, and executing program, often leading to failed searches. When developers found relevant code, they followed its incoming and outgoing dependencies, often returning to it and navigating its other dependencies; while doing so, however, Eclipse's navigational tools caused significant overhead. Developers collected code and other information that they believed would be necessary to edit, duplicate, or otherwise refer to later by encoding it in the interactive state of Eclipse's package explorer, file tabs, and scroll bars. However, developers lost track of relevant code as these interfaces were used for other tasks, and developers were forced to find it again. These issues caused developers to spend, on average, 35 percent of their time performing the mechanics of navigation within and between source files. These observations suggest a new model of program understanding grounded in theories of information foraging and suggest ideas for tools that help developers seek, relate, and collect information in a more effective and explicit manner.
@ARTICLE{Ko06anexploratory, author = {Andrew J. Ko and Brad A. Myers and Senior Member and Michael J. Coblenz and Htet Htet Aung}, title = {An Exploratory Study of How Developers Seek, Relate, and Collect Relevant Information during Software Maintenance Tasks}, journal = {IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering}, year = {2006}, volume = {32}, pages = {971--987} }
An Examination of Software Engineering Work Practices
@MISC{Singer97anexamination, author = {Janice Singer and Timothy Lethbridge and Norman Vinson and Nicolas Anquetil}, title = {An Examination of Software Engineering Work Practices}, year = {1997} }
Breakpoints integrated with graphics
ZStep 95: A Reversible, Animated Source Code Stepper
@MISC{Lieberman_zstep95:, author = {Henry Lieberman and Christopher Fry}, title = {ZStep 95: A Reversible, Animated Source Code Stepper}, year = {} }
Bridging the gulf between code and behavior in programming
@INPROCEEDINGS{Lieberman95bridgingthe, author = {Henry Lieberman and Christopher Fry}, title = {Bridging the gulf between code and behavior in programming}, booktitle = {CHI'95: Human Factors in Computing Systems}, year = {1995}, pages = {480--486}, publisher = {ACM Press} }
HotWire: a visual debugger for C++
We argue that visualization is essential in a modern debugger. Instead of inserting debug statements throughout the code, it should be possible to easily define visualizations while running the program under control of the debugger, resulting in what might be called "visual printf's". A visualization of a C++ program can provide exciting insights. Bugs that cannot be found that easily with non-visual techniques are now found, just by watching the visualizations. However, the mechanisms to define the visualizations should be easy to understand, easy to apply and cause only minimal overhead to the programmer (who is the end-user of the visual debugger). HotWire is not only equipped with a couple of standard visualizations, but also with a small declarative script language (using constraints) that can be used to define new custom visualizations. This paper addresses user interface aspects of debugging tools. Specifically, the user interface of HotWire, a debugger for C++ and SmallTalk on AIX and OS/2 is described.
@inproceedings{1267981, author = {Laffra, Chris and Malhotra, Ashok}, title = {HotWire: a visual debugger for C++}, booktitle = {CTEC'94: Proceedings of the 6th conference on USENIX Sixth C++ Technical Conference}, year = {1994}, pages = {7--7}, location = {Cambridge, MA}, publisher = {USENIX Association}, address = {Berkeley, CA, USA}, }
Diff, Debugging with diffs
Guard: A Relative Debugger
@ARTICLE{Sosic97guard:a, author = {Rok Sosic and David Abramson}, title = {Guard: A relative debugger}, journal = {Software Practice and Experience}, year = {1997}, volume = {27}, pages = {94--21} }
A signifcant amount of software development is evolutionary, involving the modification of already existing programs. To a large extent, the modified programs produce the same results as the original program. This similarity between the original program and the development program is utilized by relative debugging. Relative debugging is a new concept that enables the user to compare the execution of two programs by specifying the expected correspondences between their states. A relative debugger concurrently executes the programs, verifies the correspondences, and reports any differences found. We describe our novel debugger, called Guard, and its relative debugging capabilities. Guard is implemented by using our library of debugging routines, called Dynascope, which provides debugging primitives in heterogeneous networked environments. To demonstrate the capacity of Guard for debugging in heterogeneous environments, we describe an experiment in which the execution of two programs is compared across Internet. The programs are written in different programming languages and executing on different computing platform.
Isolating Cause-Effect Chains from Computer Programs
@MISC{Zeller02isolatingcause-effect, author = {Andreas Zeller}, title = {Isolating Cause-Effect Chains from Computer Programs}, year = {2002} }
Consider the execution of a failing program as a sequence of program states. Each state induces the following state, up to the failure. Which variables and values of a program state are relevant for the failure? We show how the Delta Debugging algorithm isolates the relevant variables and values by systematically narrowing the state difference between a passing run and a failing run---by assessing the outcome of altered executions to determine wether a change in the program state makes a difference in the test outcome. Applying Delta Debugging to multiple states of the program automatically reveals the cause-effect chain of the failure---that is, the variables and values that caused the failure.
Debugging with Dynamic Slicing and Backtracking
@ARTICLE{Agrawal93debuggingwith, author = {Hiralal Agrawal and Richard A. Demillo and Eugene H. Spafford}, title = {Debugging with Dynamic Slicing and Backtracking}, journal = {Software Practice and Experience}, year = {1993}, volume = {23}, pages = {589--616} }
this paper we present a debugging model, based on dynamic program slicing and execution backtracking techniques, that easily lends itself to automation. This model is based on experience with using these techniques to debug software. We also present a prototype debugging tool, SPYDER, that explicitly supports the proposed model, and with which we are performing further debugging research
Tracing-based Debugging
Omniscient Debugging
Dr. Dobb's article by Bil Lewis
Implementing a Backward-In-Time Debugger
@MISC{Fakultät_implementinga, author = {Der Philosophisch-naturwissenschaftlichen Fakultät and Der Universität Bern and Christoph Hofer and Leiter Der Arbeit and Prof Dr and Stéphane Ducasse and Dipl. -inform Marcus Denker}, title = {Implementing a Backward-In-Time Debugger}, year = {} }
Practical Object-Oriented Back-in-Time Debugging
Adrian Lienhard, Tudor Gˆrba and Oscar Nierstrasz ı
Abstract. Back-in-time debuggers are extremely useful tools for identifying the causes of bugs. Unfortunately the "omniscient" approaches that try to remember all previous states are impractical because they consume too much space or they are far too slow. Several approaches rely on heuristics to limit these penalties, but they ultimately end up throwing out too much relevant information. In this paper we propose a practical approach that attempts to keep track of only the relevant data. In contrast to other approaches, we keep object history information together with the regular objects in the application memory. Although seemingly counter- intuitive, this approach has the effect that data not reachable from current appli- cation objects (and hence, no longer relevant) is garbage collected. We describe the technical details of our approach, and we present benchmarks that demon- strate that memory consumption stays within practical bounds. Furthermore, the performance penalty is significantly less than with other approaches.
@inproceedings{Lienhard08OOBack, author = {Lienhard, Adrian and G\^{\i}rba, Tudor and Nierstrasz, Oscar}, title = {Practical Object-Oriented Back-in-Time Debugging}, booktitle = {ECOOP '08: Proceedings of the 22nd European conference on Object-Oriented Programming}, year = {2008}, isbn = {978-3-540-70591-8}, pages = {592--615}, location = {Paphos, Cypress}, doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-70592-5_25}, publisher = {Springer-Verlag}, address = {Berlin, Heidelberg}, }
A Dataflow Approach to Event-based Debugging
@ARTICLE{Olsson91adataflow, author = {Ronald A. Olsson and Richard H. Crawford and W. Wilson Ho}, title = {A Dataflow Approach to Event-based Debugging}, journal = {Software - Practice and Experience}, year = {1991}, volume = {21}, pages = {209--229} }
This paper describes a novel approach to event-based debugging. The approach is based on a (coarsegrained) dataflow view of events: a high-level event is recognized when an appropriate combination of lower-level events on which it depends has occurred. Event recognition is controlled using familiar programming language constructs. This approach is more flexible and powerful than current ones. It allows arbitrary debugger language commands to be executed when attempting to form higher-level events. It also allows users to specify event recognition in much the same way that they write programs. This paper also describes a prototype, Dalek, that employs the dataflow approach for debugging sequential programs. Dalek demonstrates the feasibility and attractiveness of the dataflow approach. One important motivation for this work is that current sequential debugging tools are inadequate. Dalek contributes toward remedying such inadequacies by providing events and a powerful debugging language
Configuration Debugging as Search: Finding the Needle in the Haystack
@INPROCEEDINGS{Whitaker04configurationdebugging, author = {Andrew Whitaker and Richard S. Cox and Steven D. Gribble}, title = {Configuration Debugging as Search: Finding the Needle in the Haystack}, booktitle = {In OSDI}, year = {2004}, pages = {77--90} }
This work addresses the problem of diagnosing configuration errors that cause a system to function incorrectly. For example, a change to the local firewall policy could cause a network-based application to malfunction. Our approach is based on searching across time for the instant the system transitioned into a failed state. Based on this information, a troubleshooter or administrator can deduce the cause of failure by comparing system state before and after the failure. We present the Chronus tool, which automates the task of searching for a failure-inducing state change. Chronus takes as input a user-provided software probe, which differentiates between working and non-working states. Chronus performs "time travel " by booting a virtual machine off the system's disk state as it existed at some point in the past. By using binary search, Chronus can find the fault point with effort that grows logarithmically with log size. We demonstrate that Chronus can diagnose a range of common configuration errors for both client-side and server-side applications, and that the performance overhead of the tool is not prohibitive. 1
Digital Signatures for User Assurances
Cryptographic Verification of Test Coverage Claims Premkumar Thomas Devanbu, Stuart G. Stubblebine February 2000
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Volume 26 Issue 2 Publisher: IEEE Press
Volume 72 , Issue 1-2 (June 2008) table of contents Pages 40-51 Year of Publication: 2008 ISSN:0167-6423 Authors Stoney Jackson Premkumar Devanbu Kwan-Liu Ma Publisher Elsevier North-Holland, Inc. Amsterdam, The Netherlands, The Netherlands


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Enjoy a little luxury with a family break at Hayfield Manor. This offer includes two nights of luxury family accommodation with Full Irish Breakfast each morning and Dinner on one evening in the popular Perrotts Garden Bistro for 2 adults and 2 children under 12 years of age. Adults enjoy a 3 course meal in Perrotts Garden Bistro and children choose 3 courses from our healthy options Children's Menu.
Description: Family rooms at Hayfield Manor are all individually styled and designed with your comfort and enjoyment in mind. All Family Rooms are an average of 450 square feet in size. They contain Orthopaedic King-Size or Twin Beds, Air conditioning, Large Marble Bathroom equipped with Elemis Bathroom Products, Complimentary Wi-Fi Access, In-room Safe, Iron & Ironing Board & Trouser Press. Our Evening Turn-Down Service will prepare you and your little ones for a good night's sleep with mini bathrobes, milk and cookies provided for our junior guests. Those who golf will be pleased to find a putter for a little extra practice.
This rate is the total rate per room per night including breakfast. This rate also includes a maximum of two children under 12 years sharing the adult's room.
Kindly let us know your children's' names and ages in the 'Special Requirements' field on your reservation. This will allow us to allocate you the most appropriate bedroom and to make your children's stay a little special.


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Your Views: Wisconsin mine would obliterate Indians' way of life
When the Anishinaabe (Chippewa/Ojibwa Indians) were driven from the eastern part of our country, legend says that they were promised by Manitou (Great Spirit) a new food for their people called manoomin (wild rice), the "food that grows on water."
Now Gogebic Taconite plans to blast a 4�-mile long open-pit iron ore mine in the Penokee Hills of northern Wisconsin. The mine area is at the headwaters of the Tyler Forks and Bad River, which flow north into the Bad River Indian Reservation and empty into Lake Superior at the Kagan Sloughs, the largest wetlands on Lake Superior and source of wild rice for the Bad River Anishinaabe.
Historically, the Native American Reservations in the upper Midwest were often geographically placed near the wild rice beds, a food considered sacred to all Native peoples. Now those beds are in harm's way and will not likely survive the proposed mine project that will, if built, be the largest open-pit taconite mine in the world. For example, in Minnesota downstream from the Mesabi Iron Range, the St. Louis River is contaminated with high levels of mercury and sulfates resulting in fish consumption advisories and a 100-mile long wild rice "dead zone."
Do we as Euro-Americans have the right to obliterate the food source and culture of the Bad River native peoples? For me, the answer is no! Please join the movement to stop this mine and protect the beautiful Penokee Hills and waters of northern Wisconsin.


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Best Redhead Hoodies
"We Wants The Redhead" One of the most quoted lines from the Disney parks Pirates of the Caribbean attraction. The Auctioneer scene was the only completed scene of the attraction that Walt Disney saw before he passed away. Now Disney wants to change the scene to make the attraction more "politically correct" and change the history found in the 1800's. Wear this shirt to support leaving the scene how it was when Walt Disney approved it.
Tags: disney-land, disneyworld, pirate, auctioneer, walt-disney

"Stealing the Scene" is a weekly, year-long series of tees from ShasteenFrey, featuring a moment you know from a film you know. Y'know? [book available here]

Weird Tales have been told of a Thief. Warrior. Gladiator. King. Shirt. Blood red, on a chest as big as your own!

Tags: 80s, conan-the-barbarian, lamentations, best-in-life, thief
Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of my favourite film, this design is a mashup between Bill & Ted and the Van Halen Best of Volume 1 album artwork. "Ted, while I agree that, in time, our band will be most triumphant. The truth is, Wyld Stallyns will never be a super band until we have Eddie Van Halen on guitar."
Tags: bill-and-ted, bill-and-teds-excellent-adventure, bill-and-teds, be-excellent, pop-culture
I'm disrespectful to dirt! Can you see that I am serious? Get out of my way, all of you. This is no place for loafers. Join me or die – can you do any less? I STRONGLY recommend a 1) Pink or 2) Light Blue shirt for this art.
Tags: misuta supakoru, mascot, japanese, dishwashing, detergent
The co-hosts of Best of Friends Podcast are featured in this design and if you didn't want to wear their faces before, you do now! The first of our two designs where you can WEAR us or put us on a sticker or a notebook or a baby onesie!
Tags: friends-tv-show-design, best-of-friends, friends, friendstv, phoebe-buffay
So, my "World's Best Dungeon Master" version of this was taken down by Wizards of the cost on redbubble, for what I assume was the use of a fan-font that emulated the 5th Edition logo, I've gone and edited the font to another free to use font that fits the design, and added a slight modification of adding Star's to make it a bit cuter~ I'm hoping that this will be the last time something like this happens, given redbubble and teespring are currently my only source of income, which does not give a lot, I am sad to say, but given some research and found that "Dungeon Master" is actually also under their copyright, but given the many other designs that use the title, I suspect this should be fine now. However it did spark me to create a "World's Best Game Master" version of the design, since it's apparently more neutral, and also much more widely used, I figured it be a nice thing to add for those that don't just play D&D.
Tags: master, game, game-master, dragon, d20


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Rock, Walworth county fire departments fighting Beloit apartment fire
Tuesday, September 24, 2013
BELOIT—Firefighting crews from Beloit and several other communities in Rock and Walworth counties are fighting an apparent apartment fire in Beloit Tuesday evening.
The fire was reported just after 6 p.m. Tuesday at the Emerson multi-unit apartment complex at 930 Church Street on the city's south side, with flames initially visible initially in one apartment unit, according to reports.
The apartment has been evacuated, according to reports, and families were showing up at the scene to help those evacuated. County officials are asking Red Cross for assistance.
Beloit fire officials have called in several departments to help assist in the fire and to secure their own fire department quarters, according to reports.�


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In a webcast titled "Capital Efficiency in a Volatile Market: Stop Burning Capital," Deloitte asked several polling questions to identify the main working capital challenges in the companies of the webcast's more than 1,500 participants.
When asked how they expect their company's deployment of cash in the second half of 2013 to compare with the first half of the year, more said they expect cash deployment to accelerate (21.8 percent) than decelerate (15.5 percent). However, the largest proportion of respondents (32 percent) said they don't know what cash deployment will look like at the end of the year. (See Figure 1.) Not only that, but more answered "don't know" in response to this question than in response to the survey's other questions, which were oriented more to the present than to the future.
"It's a subtle difference, but this first question is asking respondents to predict the market," points out Charles Alsdorf, director of business valuation for Deloitte Financial Advisory Services. "The fact that the highest number of 'don't know' responses came on this question dovetails with other research we've been doing, which shows that finance executives are cautiously optimistic, but they feel that market uncertainty is higher than it has been in the past few years."
Within this uncertain environment, 40 percent of respondents reported that the most challenging capital planning activity for their company is deploying capital, which the poll described as "maximizing returns associated with capital expenditures and M&A [mergers and acquisitions]; maximizing working capital; effective balance sheet and cash flow planning; and optimizing capital mobility, including international repatriations." (See Figure 2, below.)
"Companies generally have done a good job of improving their cost structure and building up their cash balances over the last couple of years," Alsdorf observes. "Now many are looking at how they can do a better job of comparing the apples and oranges of the uses of capital. More and more are grappling with comparisons of M&A versus capital budgeting, both to grow the company, and then looking at how that compares with the right side of the balance sheet. They're asking, 'Should we also be using our cash to increase dividends, or maybe even look at topping up our pension obligations more quickly? Or is now a good time to refinance our debt?'"
Alsdorf adds that unlike acquisitions or dividends, decisions about capital investments usually involve a drawn-out process. When Deloitte has graphed the movement of these alternative uses of cash at a macro level, M&A activity and cash distributions track very closely with stock prices. "But what you also notice," Alsdorf says, "is that capital budgeting tends to have a 6- to 12-month time lag behind the stock market. That makes a lot of sense to us because some of these decisions—say, dividends and stock repurchase—are treasury decisions where you can get a handful of good, sharp analysts in a room and figure out what you're going to do. Capital budgeting, on the other hand, is an enterprise-wide negotiation, where you have to organize the hundreds of managers, business units, and projects in the company. That is a much harder thing to speed up or slow down."
Companies' biggest challenges within the capital budgeting process stem from difficulties around optimally distributing resources among different projects within the company. More than a quarter of respondents to the Deloitte study cited "capital constraints" as the biggest challenge to deploying capital internally.
"It's a demand and supply balance within most organizations," Alsdorf says. "Capital deployment is most effective when the company has a good governance structure, when it frames allocation decisions before doing a lot of analysis so decision-makers don't get too biased, and when it builds a framework for comparing the different types of projects it's managing. Even when a company has large cash balances, it's generally not going to want to spend more than the industry norm—2 percent, 5 percent, 6 percent of revenue—on capital budgeting. So the business units end up jockeying to win funding for their projects."
The Deloitte poll identified two other major challenges in matching supply with internal demand for capital: a lack of realistic growth and operational targets and unreliable business cases. (See Figure 3.)
Finally, Deloitte asked webcast participants whether they expect mergers and acquisitions at their company to increase in the second half of this year. Although 40 percent said that they do expect M&A to pick up, the majority answered either "no" or "don't know." (See Figure 4.)
"It's a horse race between these three answers," Alsdorf says. "When we ask people what factors are influencing their decision-making on spending capital: Is it the European crisis? The housing crisis? All the budget issues in Washington? Certainly the Washington issues are becoming more dominant, but the overarching issue is economic growth, where executives seem to see increased uncertainty. I think you put all those factors together, and you can see why 60 percent of respondents do not see M&A increasing."


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Pfizer recently decided to move from a DB plan to an enhanced savings plan, which will be completed by 2018. Until then, it needed a sophisticated, reliable model to support planning for pension liquidity and its earnings-per-share impact. The pension world is full of predictive models, but Pfizer wanted something more integrated and customized, so it built its own better mousetrap at a cost of over 500 man-hours.
Pfizer developed the pension liquidity model over several years and implemented it in the second quarter. The model does not produce a single forecast, but instead simulates thousands of equally likely future scenarios with confidence ranges around the scenarios, explains Amit Singh, senior director of capital markets. One big challenge is forecasting interest rates. "Due to their mean-reverting and stochastic nature, interest rates are difficult to simulate," Singh notes. Pfizer chose the Hull-White method to calibrate to current market expectations for interest rates because it is forward-looking instead of historical, unlike most interest-rate models, he says.
Predictions on asset classes and interest rates had to be integrated and internally consistent. Simulating future values for asset classes and correlating them is common practice, Singh acknowledges, but leaving interest rates out of the correlation mix can result in "nonsensical future scenarios where, for example, interest rates decrease in a simulated year but fixed assets perform badly at the same time, something that would never really happen," he says. "We decided that rather than parse through all the simulated paths and weed out the unreasonable ones before using the rest, which would make the model tedious and sloppy, we would create a technique that did not generate any unrealistic paths by making interest rates a part of the asset correlations matrix. This was a breakthrough that made our model efficient."
The project team spent time with members of the controller's group to be sure they understood the intricacies of GAAP accounting and built them into the model. While Pfizer's model is independent, treasury tested its output against those of other models to see if there were any wild deviations (there weren't). The model is built on an Excel spreadsheet loaded with RiskTM, an Excel add-in for Monte Carlo simulations, and uses FINCADTM financial software to build its Hull-White interest-rate model and calibrate it to current market expectations.
While the model's main purpose is forecasting, it also improves asset allocation, which should bolster plan performance in the long run. It is not an asset optimization model, however.
"Prior to this project, we had to rely on actuaries, bankers and investment managers to give us their separate model outputs," says assistant tresurer Neal Masia. "This was an unwieldy hodgepodge of data that we had to consolidate in-house to manage more effectively. Now we can take preemptive actions, plan for future liquidity needs or adjust our current asset allocation to enhance the likelihood of plan success."
See a slideshow of the 2012 Alexander Hamilton Award winners here.
Read about the Google project that won the Silver in the Liquidity Management category here and the Toyota Financial Services project that won the Bronze here.


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Two killed in single-vehicle crash near town of Beloit on Sunday
TOWN OF BELOIT — Two people are dead after a crash early Sunday morning in the town of Beloit.
Pablo Andres Villarreal, 22, of Janesville and Alex J. Nelson, 25, of Janesville were both pronounced dead at the scene, according to Rock County Chief Deputy Coroner Lou Smit.
Villarreal was driving the vehicle, Smit said.
A cause of death has not been determined and toxicology reports will be conducted Monday, Smit said.
"It was a very massive crash," Smit said. "A very tragic situation."
Town of Beloit officers responded at 3:06 a.m. as well as officers of the Beloit Police Department and Rock County Sheriff's Office to a single-vehicle crash on Highway 51 at Briar Lane in the town of Beloit, according to a written release from the town of Beloit.
Deputies found a red Jeep SUV crashed into a utility pole with two people inside who had sustained fatal injuries, according to the release. The Jeep was traveling south on Highway 51 when it left the roadway and struck the pole, according to the release.
According to the Wisconsin Department of Transportation, the crash took more than four hours and thirty minutes to clear.
The cause of the accident remains under investigation.


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William L. Palmer, Milton, WI (1925-2013)
January 11, 1925-December 14, 2013
William L. Palmer, age 88, passed away Saturday, Dec. 14, 2013 at The Heartwarming House in Milton. He was born Jan. 11, 1925 in Milton, WI, the son of the late George and Anna (Lawton) Palmer. Bill graduated from Milton Union High School in 1943. He joined the Marines in 1943 and served to 1945. After returning home he married Shirley Ward May 19, 1946.
Bill was a home builder for 19 years in the Milton area building several homes. He then went to work as an engineer at the Admiral Corporation where he worked for over 10 years. He was a member of the VFW, American Legion, The Moose Club in Janesville, and the Masonic Temple in Milton. Bill and Shirley loved to travel together and they lived the past 20 years in Florida. Bill moved back to Milton after Shirley passed away in 2008 in Florida.
Bill and Shirley are survived by two sons: Wayne Palmer of Milton, and Richard (Linda) Palmer of Janesville; six grandchildren and eleven great grandchildren. Bill and Shirley were preceded in death by their parents; a son, Gary; brother, Charles and sister-in-law, Artis Palmer; sister, Helen and brother-in-law, Henry Pullman.
A joint celebration of life for Shirley who passed away on July 14, 2008 and Bill will be held from 5 PM to 7 PM on Friday, May 16, 2014 at the ALBRECHT FUNERAL HOMES & CREMATION SERVICES, MILTON. A private family committal will be held Saturday at Rock River Cemetery.
Albrecht Funeral Homes & Cremation Services, Milton
828 S. Janesville St., 608-868-2542


text: The management of a delicatessen means more than the preparation of sandwiches for sale to the general market. To successfully run an eatery without running it into the ground, a savvy owner should comprehend the finer aspects of deli supervision. Below are 10 terms which you should be familiar with concerning the functioning of a gourmet delicatessen.


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Paul Sanford Bredeson, Janesville, WI (1967-2013)
June 12, 1967 - December 30, 2013
Paul S. Bredeson, age 46, a longtime resident of Janesville, passed away Monday, Dec. 30, 2013, at St. Mary's Janesville Hospital. He was born June 12, 1967, in Eau Claire, WI, the son of Harold G. and Judith P. (Myszka) Bredeson. He was a graduate of Altoona High School, Class of 1985. Paul was a veteran of the U. S. Navy. On Dec. 16, 1988, he married the former Kimberly J. Ridener in Chaska, MN. Paul worked as an Auto Technician for Anderson Toyota Co., Rockford, IL, until the time of his passing. He had attended Blackhawk Technical College, and received his Associate's Degree in Airframe & Powerplant Maintenance.
His pride and love for his girls was his strength in life. Paul was a trusting person by nature and always saw the good in everyone. He was a true inspiration and role model to his family and friends throughout life and as he faced his health issues. He brought so much joy to all who knew him. He loved working with his hands, always working on some project whether his own or helping friends. He was a voracious reader and a published writer! He enjoyed the Badgers, Packers, and NASCAR. He embraced every moment and had a real zest for life.
Paul is survived by his wife with whom he just celebrated 25 years of marriage, Kim; his two daughters, Nicole Bredeson (Joshua Walhovd) and Chelsea Bredeson, both of Janesville; his mother, Judith Bredeson of Altoona, WI; his two sisters, Renee Smith and Michelle Cunningham, both of DeSoto, TX; and by his extended family of in-laws, nieces, nephews, and many friends and co-workers. He was preceded in death by his father, Harold Bredeson in 1988; and his beloved Black Lab, Clifford.
Memorial Services to celebrate Paul's life will take place at
7 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 3, 2014, at the WHITCOMB-LYNCH FUNERAL HOME & CREMATION SERVICES, with Rev. Jerry Amstutz officiating. Military Rites by the V.F.W. Kienow-Hilt Post 1621 will immediately follow the service. Friends may call on Friday from 4 until 7 p.m. at the FUNERAL HOME. In lieu of flowers, memorials in Paul's name would be appreciated to the Rock County Humane Society, 222 S. Arch St., Janesville, WI 53548.
Whitcomb-Lynch Funeral Home & Cremation Services
21 S. Austin Rd., (608)752-2444